„Hey, man- okay, I have some awesome news for you! First of all, we found some vintage audio training cassettes! Dude, these are, like, prehistoric! I think they were, like, training tapes for like, other employees or something like that. So, I thought we could, like, have them playing, like, over the speakers as people walk through the attraction. Dude, that makes this feel legit, man. But I have an even better surprise for you, and you're not gonna believe this- we found one. A REAL one. Uh-oh-uh gotta go man- uh, well-well look, i-it's in there somewhere, I'm-I'm sure you'll see it. Okay, I'll leave you with some of this great audio that I found! Talk to you later, man!"
Chris laid down the magazine he had brought here on his first day of work and looked up. What did that stoned guy just say about "A real one"? A real what?
The phone clicked and he heard another voice.
„Uh, hello! Hello, hello! Uh, welcome to your new career as a performer/entertainer for Freddy Fazbear's Pizza. Uh, these tapes will provide you with much needed information on how to handle/climb into/climb out of mascot costumes. Right now, we have two specially designed suits that double as both animatronics and suits. So please pay close attention while learning how to operate these suits-"
He pressed the stop button and leaned back in his chair. He didn't sign up for the job as nightguard at Fazbears Fright to operate with any suits.
The small office he was sitting in didn't offer much. There was a desk with a fan and a few stuffed animals, a box full of old animatronic masks and a few children's drawings on the walls. The chair he was sitting on had seen better days, just like all the other things in here. The window in front of him was for the customers, as the guy on the phone had told him yesterday. He was going to play the Security Guard in this house of horror. But Chris didn't plan to stay here until the attraction was going to open in a week.
„So..." he said and looked at the desk fan.
„You come here often?"
The fan buzzed and Chris nodded.
„Me neither. Actually, I'll be gone after I have found what I'm searching for. You don't know if they found some old paperwork, do you? Or maybe some old bills? Just asking."
*ssrrrrrrr...*
„It's just that...well...I'm convinced they never found the murderer of the children. I've studied the whole story of this Freakshow, and there's too many contradictions in what the media told us. The man they took to court was innocent. And I will prove that."
He stood up and looked at his chellphone. It was 11:50 pm, he was stuck in this place for the next six hours.
What did that guy on the phone say about a boarded up room yesterday? They had just opened it, so chances were high that there was still some paperwork from 30 years ago lying around.
Chris grabbed his flashlight and left the office.
The room was dark and full of dust and dirt. Chris almost tripped over the wooden planks that were lying all over the floor. Those must have been the barricades.
He slowly moved the flashlight over every inch of the room. The same floor and walls as in the other rooms, the same lame posters and children's drawings. Exept for a few arcarde machines there was nothing special in here. He walked around and looked behind the machines, but there was just more dust he whirled up by an accident. Chris coughed and took a few steps backwards before he could breathe again.
„I hate this place..." he said and stepped into something.
It made a crunching noise and he pointed at it with his flashlight. The stuff had a dark shade of red and the consistence of some dried liquid. There was even more of it on the walls and even on the ceiling. Chris backed away and nerviously pulled out his chellphone to take photos. The flash of the camera lightened up the room a few times and confirmed his apprehension. The red stuff all over the room was dried blood.
„What the fuck..." he whispered and dialed his managers number. His hands were shaking and he had to correct it a few times before he hit the call- button.
„It better be urgent if you call me in the middle of the night," a voice answered.
„It totally is, boss. I've found something inside the room they opened today. It looks like there's blood on the floor. And on the walls..."
The manager remained silent for a few secons.
„Are...you sure?"
„I totally am. Should I call the police?"
„No, wait! There's...uhm...no need for that."
He suddenly turned nervous.
„I mean...the team who discovered the room today would have told me if there was any blood inside."
„Maybe they have overseen it. They found something really important here according to the guy from the day shift."
„Oh yes indeed. A whole animatronic with endoskeleton! It has been lying in that room for about 30 years and looks really scruffy, just what we needed."
„I-...I don't understand. We have already found the costumes of all animatronics. Freddy, Chica, Bonnie, Foxy, the toy versions...who was missing?"
„Apparently there was another one. A yellow bunnie. Now please just go back to your office and do your job, we'll talk about that blood thing tomorrow."
He quit the call and Chris looked around.
That hasn't been the reaction he had hoped for.
By the way, where did they even put the new animatronic? He had cameras in every room exept the new one, but he hasn't seen it anywhere.
He looked into every room as he walked back to his office. There was nothing but the usual stuff. Broken furniture, arcade machines, flickering lights, cables hanging from the ceiling... but no yellow bunny.
The screen of his tablet was flickering when he entered the office. All cameras were online and he sat down again to check them.
„Where are you?" Chris muttered as he zapped through the cameras before he froze. The sight of camera number 9 was half blocked by something big. He could see the silhouette of an ear, or at least what was left of it. Cables were hanging out of the costume like worms and there was no fur left on the mask. A white glowing dot inside a circle stared at him. That was the most terrifying animatronic eye he had ever seen.
„Damn. You are ugly," Chris said.