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Author Note: Thank you so much Nico for helping me get through a difficult time in my life, at the time things weren't the best and your videos really helped to distract and make me laugh when it felt like I wouldn't be able to anymore. Thank you so so much for all the amazing content and the years of enjoyment, wishing you all the best in your life and future. Stay Classy ^_^
Author Note: Enjoy the ride everybody! (Ф∀Ф)
Night 1 – 12AM
Nico awoke with a start to the sound of a telephone ringing through the silence, looking around he noticed that he was inside what appeared to be a tiny security room decorated with some very familiar and terrifying pictures.
'Is this…? No fucking way it can't be!' Nico thought to himself as a sense of dread sunk deep into his bones, he recognized those pictures. How could he not know them, after they've been circulating around the internet for god knows how long?
The phone was still ringing, so Nico grudgingly picked up the receiver and spoke a shaky "Hello?" into the receiver, his eyes trained on the pictures in front of him dread continuing to sink into the depth of his bones.
"Yo! What's up partner?" Nico froze. He knew that voice but he just couldn't believe that it was him who was on the other end of the phone.
"Yosuke?! Is that you?!" Nico exclaimed in shock, momentarily forgetting his rising sense of terror in his confusion. "What the fruity fuck is going on?!" He shouted, demanding to know what exactly he had gotten into.
"Well, you see… Naoto figured out what you were doing on Valentine's Day… and when she told the others… they…. Well, they weren't too happy with you, ya' know?" Yosuke explained in a slightly worried tone, "so, they somehow got that blue lady to help set this up to have a little… ya' know, revenge –"
"Wait, you mean they got Margaret's help and put me into the first Five Nights at Freddy's game?!" Nico suddenly exclaimed, cutting Yosuke off as he processed what the other man had just said, "Why would having Bonnie scare me to death make them happy?!"
"Well, you see… you know what? You should probably just turn the camera to the stage and see for yourself, I wouldn't be able to explain this for you." Yosuke replied in an exasperated tone. Taking the other's advice Nico turned on the camera system and saw a sight that almost made him jump back from the screen.
"Holy Fruity Fuck!"
There on the screen before him were three of the four main girls he had interacted with during his Persona adventure, Chie, Yukiko, and Naoto. They were standing on the main stage of the party-room dressed like the characters they had taken the place of.
Chie stood to the far right of the stage (from his perspective) dressed in a deep mauve jacket with a light purple button up shirt, long dark purple trousers, she also had two long purple rabbit ears sprouting from her head, her eyes were closed in what might have been slumber and her light brown hair hung around her head in a calm, if slightly matted mess of golden-brown strands. A red bow-tie was snugly attached to her neck, she had obviously taken the place of Bonnie.
Yukiko stood on the direct opposite side of the stage from Chie and she had also obviously (if the way she was dressed up was anyway to go by) taken the place of Chica, with a few minor adjustments. She wore a cute yellow dress that went down to her mid thighs, the sleeves were wide and also brushed the floor from where they hung limply from her sides. She wore long orange stockings over her legs, and a white apron over her dress and a bid over her chest with the words 'Let's Eat!' printed in big eye-catching letters. To add to the oddness of the situation her arms were covered by a multitude of overlapping yellow feathers similar to that of her original persona Konohana Sakuya. Her dark hair hung around her head in a thick curtain held back by a delicate yellow headband, she had what seemed to be a knitted cupcake in her hands.
Naoto stood between the two girls on the stage in Freddy's usual place wearing a suit very similar to Chie's except with a dark brown jacket, long white sleeved button-up and black trousers with a black bow-tie and top hot. Two soft brown furry bear ears peeked from the top of Naoto's dark blue hair. She held a black microphone in her hand and seemed the most ready to awaken at any moment.
"Yosuke… Why? Just… Why?" Nico asked Yosuke in a stunned tone the dread once again settling into his bones more heavily than ever. Why had he been stuck in this game? Why had this happened to him? Why would anyone… … …
Nico's thoughts slammed to a halt as a soft feminine chuckle, echoed throughout the pizzeria chilling Nico to his very bones. "Yosuke, tell me I'm not going to die. Tell me right this second!"
"Sorry, partner. But those girls scare me more than that bath-house did. So, you're on your own partner, talk to you tomorrow… probably." With that Yosuke hung up the phone and left Nico to his doom at the hands of angry god-like power wielding ladies.
"Dammit Yosuke!" Nico yelled, slamming the phone down in angry rage. He took a moment to take a deep breath and calm himself down before glancing towards the clock to the side of his work desk, the clock face read the time of 1 am. 'Damn, one hour down another five to go, it's night one so hopefully it'll be a little easy'.
Breathing a put upon sigh, Nico booted up the camera system again and turned towards the central stage and almost had a heart-attack from the image that was showing on the screen. All three girls were standing on the central stage and staring up towards where the camera was situated glaring, seemingly able to see Nico through the camera and knowing he was looking at them. Nico was starting to panic from the way the girls were staring at him with such hatred in their eyes.
After a moment of petrified staring the image on the screen was disrupted by static, indicating that Chie was starting to move, a quick glance at the clock showed him that the time had ticked away to 2AM the game for his life had started.
Another two hours had passed with Nico constantly being scared out of his mind by Chie jumping around the pizzeria and seeming to never want to be where Nico had turned the camera but always glaring at him malice and anger evident in her eyes as she slowly moved further towards him.
Nico had just found Chie in the small storage cupboard near his office and she was staring at him with an angry expression before her face seemed to drop and static disrupted and she had moved again.
As he frantically looked through the cameras for her, Nico heard a soft sound echoing through the facility, pausing he listened to the sound and he thought it might be… crying? Was Chie crying?
As Nico continued to listen to the sound in a stunned stupor he suddenly started as the sound became louder and louder until the sounds seemed to be coming from just a few feet away. Looking up he hesitantly pressed the button to activate his left door light.
The light came on, revealing Chie's tear-stained face as she stared at him through the door, Nico quickly slammed his fist onto the door button, closing the door on the brunette on the other side of the door-way.
Even though the door was closed, Nico could still hear the crying girl on the other side of the door, a quick glance towards the clock showed him that he had just reached 5AM another hour and he would be done with the first night.
"Why would you do that?" Chie's voice drifted through the door, filled with a sadness that tugged at Nico's heart, "I thought that you cared about me? I… I t-thought that we were at least friends."
Guilt and despair filled Nico's heart as he recalled the actions he had done that lead to being in this situation, before Nico could open his mouth to start apologizing Chie's sad voice continued.
"I believed in you! I was so stupid, I should have known that –" Chie's voice cut off as violent sobs racked through her body, "… but I thought you were different. I though you actually cared about me . I… I t-thought y-you l-l-loved m-m-me…" Chie's tirade faded out as more sobs violently shook through her athletic frame.
Nico's hearts shattered a little more with each word Chie spoke. By the end of her speech Nico was attempting to him his own tears at bay. "I'm so sorry, Chie. I'm so very sorry. Oh my god I feel so awful about this… I really, really do, god I wish I didn't do that to you… but, god I'm sorry Chie." Nico attempted to apologize to the distraught girl as the clock clicked over to 6AM and Chie left as quickly as she appeared and his own tears fell down his face.
Ring… Ring, the phone rang on the desk. Nico picked it up hearing Yosuke's cheerful "Yo, Partner!" before the other male could say anything else Nico cut him off with a sad tone.
"I'm going to go throw myself off the roof now."
"Too bad, partner. The other girls still have things they wanna do and now, Chie's probably going to be out for your head."
"God dammit no…. I don't wanna do this anymore…" Nico almost sobbed in despair as Yosuke hung up, leaving him alone in the office to wait for the next night.