Living a Nightmare
Part I
Introduction: "I like to hunt you in your dreams. Make you scream at night. I like to torture souls within and the reason why you can't sleep. They say I am the devil and I deserved to die after killing those children. You probably want to know who I am. Let me introduce myself to you. I am Freddy Kruger and soon enough I will be strong enough to kill once again. I've heard that wrestlers are fearless, so I think I will pay a visit to some wwe superstars and divas and see what their fear is. When I finish I will be strong again and no one will be able to stop me!" Freddy does an evil laugh.
Two weeks later…. It was a great night for the wwe superstars and divas. Tonight was when they attended the hall of fame ceremony, the night before Wrestlemania, where they honor the legends that have come before them. But what they don't is that this will be the beginning of their nightmares. It was about two hours before the ceremony and everyone was just talking outside Madison Square Garden.
"So Paul what's it like to finally be inducted into the hall of fame this year." asked Shawn. "It's great and the best part is I'm being inducted by my best friend." Paul told him smiling. Shawn nodded his head."Is everything okay you look tired." asked Shawn.
"Yeah I'm fine just tired, I didn't get much sleep last night. I guess I was too excited about tonight." Paul lied. Shawn just nodded his head. He knew Paul wasn't telling him the truth but he let it pass because of that night. He knew eventually Paul would tell him the real reason why he wasn't sleeping well. They continued to have small talk until the ceremony, when they were interrupted by a loud scream.
"What the hell was that?" asked Mark.
Everyone looked at him and followed the scream. "It's coming from the back of the building." said Randy as he pointed to where the scream was coming from. They ran towards what looked like a body ripped to shreds. "Oh my god that's Maria!" yelled Amy holding onto Adam's arm.
"Who did this to her and why?" asked Mark. No one knew how to answer this question because they wanted to know who would kill Maria and what was their motive. After, a few minutes of silence.
Paul finally spoke up, "Whoever did this wanted to leave us a message." Paul told them as he looked closer at the former diva. "What message was that?" asked Cody. "That whoever did this to her wants us to be alert because we're no longer safe." Mark told them.
"What the hell does that mean?" asked Kane. "She was killed in her sleep." Paul told them.
"How do you know that?" asked Randy walking up to him.
"I know because the markings are all over her back, her face looks like it was cut up by five knives, and last but not least her entire body is smashed like she fell or was thrown out of a window." Paul told them pointing up at the broken window of their hotel which was right next door. Everyone was in shock right now on how Paul knew all of that information.
"How did you figure all of that out Paul?" asked Steph.
"Yeah buddy no one could figure that out in twenty minutes." said Shawn.
" I took a criminal justice class in high school and I guess I remembered a few things." Paul told them.
"Wow, that's awesome but who can possibly do this and why." asked Mark. Everyone was wondering the same thing.
"I don't know but I suggest first we check out the room with the broken window after we call Vince and the police." Shawn told them. Everyone agreed and followed Mark to Maria's hotel room that she had shared with Beth. A few minutes later…they arrived at the room. Beth saw that the door was still locked so there was no breaking into the room. So she pulled out her room key and put it in the lock to open it. When she walked in all she saw was blood, but what scared her most was what was written on the wall.
It read" Hello superstars and divas your worst nightmare has come true and you can't stop me I'm back and more powerful than ever before. I will see you all soon sweet dreams."
"Who in the world wrote this on the wall." asked Kelly scared.
"I don't know but we should let the police handle this." Paul told them leaving the room quickly.
Mark saw Paul leave pretty fast and knew that the game knew more than what he was telling him and the others. He was going to find out what it was. As soon as Paul left everyone else did too right before the police showed up. The ceremony was cancelled because of the event that happened. After searching all over the building, Mark finally found Paul in the gym. He walked up behind him and reached his hand out to tap his shoulder. As he did this, Paul nearly jumped out of his shoes. "Come down buddy why so jumpy?" asked Mark looking worried.
"No reason just a little on edge because of what happened to Maria." Paul told him avoiding eye contact.
"Paul come on I've known you for fifteen years something is up. You look like you haven't slept in days and you have bags under your eyes so spill your guts buddy." Mark told him.
"Okay I'll tell you but you're going to think I'm crazy." Paul told him running his hands through his hair.
"Try me buddy." Mark told him.
"Okay here's the story." Paul told him as he took a deep breath.
Paul's nightmare…Two weeks earlier…. The show had just ended and everyone was heading to the hotel for some sleep. Paul had just got back to his room when he heard a noise behind him. "What was that?" Paul asked himself. He turned around and saw that no one was behind him he went into his room. Stephanie and the girls were at her parents for the weekend and were going to meet Paul in the next city.
So Paul got his stuff out of his bag and headed towards the bathroom for a shower. When he got out he called his wife and girls so he could tell them goodnight. He did this whenever they were away from him.
He pulled out his phone and dialed Steph's number, "Hello" she answered. "Hey sweetie you still up?" Paul asked her. Steph just laughed to herself.
"Of course I'm up the girls wouldn't go to sleep until you called. Which meant I couldn't go to sleep either?" she told him. Paul couldn't help but laugh, "Okay put them on the phone please." He told her. Stephanie handed the phone to their oldest daughter Aurora.
"Hi daddy we miss you." She told him.
"I miss you too princess. Don't worry okay I get to see you, your sisters and mommy tomorrow." He told her.
"Yeaaaa" she yelled. Paul started to laugh at how happy she sounded. "Listen RoRo you got to go to sleep so I can see you in the morning okay." He told her hoping she would agree. "Okay daddy I love you. Murphy say goodnight to daddy." Aurora told her younger sister. Murphy ran to the phone, "Goodnight daddy I love you too." Murphy told him. "I love you too now give the phone back to your mom and get to bed okay." They both nodded their head gave the phone to Steph and headed upstairs to bed.
Steph just shook her head as she got back on the phone, "Unbelievable I've been trying to get them to bed for the last two hours and you just tell them to go to bed just like that off they go." She said as she snapped her fingers.
"Well they love their father. I'll see you in the morning love you." He told her. "I love you too honey sleep well okay." She told him.
"I will you too."She nodded her head and hung up.
Paul lay down on his pillow and was sleep within ten minutes. It didn't take him long to realize something was wrong with this dream when awoke inside the ring. "Why am I in the ring and there is no one here." Paul thought to himself. He shook off the thought until he heard someone behind him. "Who's there? Shawn if that's you this isn't funny." Paul yelled out. When he realized that no one was in the arena but him, he took in a deep breath and stepped out of the ring headed towards the back, when he heard someone singing. He turned around and saw three little girls inside the ring playing jump rope and singing a song.
"One, two Freddy's coming for you, three, four you better lock your door, five, six better grab a crucifix, seven, eight stay up late, nine, ten never sleep again." They started laughing at the end. "What kind of song is that?" Paul asked himself. "Who in the hell is Freddy" Paul asked.
"Hey, you must be the great triple h?" Freddy asked him stepping up close to Paul. "Yeah I am who the hell are you Halloween is over you freak." Paul told him laughing. "I'm Freddy Kruger you big nose clown and game over." Freddy yelled as he leaped towards Paul.
Paul saw this and jumped back as he saw Freddy up close, he knew this guy was no joke. He also saw that one of his hands looked like knives. "What do you want with me?" Paul asked him.
Freddy just looked at him and smiled, "Wouldn't you like to know", Freddy told him laughing. He reached out for Paul's face but he fought back with all he could. After a few minutes Freddy had the upper hand and had Paul by his throat. He could feel the knives around his neck. He thought he was going to die right then until he heard someone call his name….
"What happened after that Paul?" Mark asked him.
"Shawn came and woke me up. He said he heard a loud noise and came to check it out. That was when he saw me fighting in my sleep. "Paul told him now sitting down on the bench.
"Oh my god you're lucky to still be alive."No, he just thought I was having a bad dream. Which it wasn't it was more like a nightmare." Paul told him raking his hand through his hair. Mark couldn't believe what he was hearing because this same guy came after him in his nightmare a few nights ago.
"Do you believe me Mark or do you think I'm crazy?" Paul asked him.
"I believe you Paul because this guy has been in my dreams too." He told him.
"What are we going to do if he comes back, I haven't slept in weeks and I can't even close my eyes without thinking that this freak will be back and this time, actually kill me?" Paul told him now scared. Mark could hear the fear in Paul's voice and knew that they had to do something.
"Well first thing we have to do is ask if anyone else has seen this guy or heard about him. Then we band together and go from there." Mark told him giving him some hope. Paul nodded his head as they left the gym and went to find if anybody else had an encounter with Freddy.