Chapter One - The Reborn

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*Authors Note*

All rights to Coraline belong to Neil Gaiman and
Laika Pandemonium Films, the only character I own is Cora Jones, I just love the coraline book so much I have Been wanting to write a sequal for a while to sent my own mind at ease, hope you enjoy please leave a comment and like.

Love Kelly
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The lights flickered on and off, casting eerie shadows on the walls of the Pink Palace Apartments. Eight years of silence had shrouded the house, a deceptive calm that concealed the malevolent forces lurking beneath. Coraline, now nineteen, had long forgotten the terror she endured at the hands of the Other Mother. Her parents, successful writers, had built a seemingly ordinary life within the apartment's walls.

But beneath the surface, whispers of the past lingered. Miss Spink and Miss Forcible still occupied the downstairs apartment, their eccentricities a reminder of the bizarre events that had unfolded. Mr. Bobo's Jumping Mice Circus had long since departed, leaving behind only memories of its brief, dazzling presence.

Wybie, Coraline's childhood ally, remained far away, yet his grandma's vigilance had relaxed, allowing him regular visits to Coraline. The Beldam's defeat had brought a fragile peace.

Until..m

On a fateful winter night, the tranquility shattered. The door, once sealed and forgotten, began to rattle and shudder. Beetles, cockroaches, and an unholy horde of insects burst forth from its cracks, their dark bodies swarming up the walls like a living, breathing entity.

With an unnerving purpose, they converged on the front door, slipping down the slick slopes into the forest. The trees, once silent sentinels, now loomed like specters, their branches grasping toward the old well. The insects joined forces, forming a sinister procession down the well's depths.

Inch by inch, they closed in on the bag Coraline had discarded years ago. The air thickened with malevolent intent as they retrieved the bag and began their ominous return journey.

Using the Other Mother's severed hand and key, they unlocked the door, and the blue-black-purple tunnel roared back to life. The door creaked shut, sealing itself behind the wallpaper with an audible sigh, as if desperate to conceal the horrors within.

The insects entered the Other Mother's realm, navigating the spider's web and walls with an unnatural ease. They found her huddled, weeping in a corner, her beauty lost to the ravages of time, her face broken shattered and disfigured

The bundle they brought revived her, restoring her strength. Her face, once a masterpiece of evil, now faded and cracked, began to reform but not entirely she was still weak. Her button eyes, cold and calculating, gleamed with an unholy hunger.

"Coraline..." she whispered, her voice a venomous hiss. As she grasped one of the bugs in her hand. "Coraline, I will get you, I will have your soul and this time there will be no escape..." Her gaze fell upon her dusty crystal ball, and with a gentle, menacing breath, she awakened its power.

"Show me the other side of the door," she muttered, her voice dripping with malice. "Show me Coraline Jones..." The crystal ball's depths swirled, promising revelations, and the Other Mother's eyes burned with an unquenchable thirst.

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