The Spider's Curse

Deception

     The old Grandfather's clock ticks in wary, filling the house with its low and heavy noise, every second and every minute feels had passed, still they were on the line chasing time, her head would turn everytime they had pass through the hallways hoping that someone familiar had finally catch up to them

But everytime that she did, there's no one else but her own shadow

That made her worry...

"Where are you?" She whispered, holding the key tightly on her chest her breathing rapidly going up and down from all the chase and countless times of escaping from other creatures that tackled on their way

It's already been an hour and yet, he didn't came back

She couldn't stop thinking about it, all the worst and possible things might have happened, even now, her thoughts was still up worrying about him

Did he manage to escape?

Where is he then?

Did something bad happened?

Those questions bombarded her head, the more she kept thinking about those kinds of ideas the more her anxious grew worse....

But he did promised to them that he'll be back, right?

He promised.

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     From the distant part of the apartment, a large cabinet was slowly moved to the side, it was Wybie, he had finally reached the last part of the tunnel and pushed the large furniture that secretly hid the end tunnel behind it, as he looked through the room the tunnel had leaded him towards Mr. Jones previous working room, he sighed in relief as he was no longer inside that dark and cold mirror anymore

Now he could finish what they had started, he has to find his friends

Only relying to the Other Wybie's newfound spies, the spider crawled its way towards the exit as it was being followed

The last thing he remembered on their plan was to find a way to break the key, only to end up melting it in the process

He was to go to the fire place

Jonesy and the cat must have been there already

He reached towards the hallway just as the large clock ticked in a very unusual way, seeing how the spider had scampered away from the large instrument it must have disrupted its noise sensibility

Something from the clock that made him feel suspicious about it

Though he couldn't figure out what...

Wybie shook his head to dismiss the thought, it wasn't even that important to think about it right now, the only thing what matters is to find Coraline and the Cat

And break the key

"I have to find the Cat and Jonesy..." he whispered in relief as he looked at the spider wriggling helplessly on the floor, as much to his fear of looking ir even touching at them, the feeling of empathy and gratitude for helping still overcome him to boldy grabbed the creature with his trembling hands and gently placed it on his sling bag just far enough from the grandfather's clock that is

He sped up across the hallway hoping that he'll somehow get to meet them along the way, either way, Wybie knew that they'll be going right towards the fireplace, his boots stomped heavy on the red carpeted floor in a hurry when for a sudden, his eye caight a familiar figure with a midnight blue shade of hair ran across the other side of the hallway along with a black feline, he smiled