DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of the characters in this story.
The Loud House-: © Nick, created by Chris Savino
A Nightmare on Elm Street- © New Line and Warner Bros., created by Wes Craven
Ghostbusters- © Columbia Pictures Industries/Corporation, created by Dan Aykroyd and Harold Ramis.
Special thanks to Flagg1991 for letting me continue the Nightmare on Loud Street continuity, and making this story possible.
(Before the story begins, we see Lola Loud dressed as the 1981-1993 Columbia Pictures Torch Lady, shining the familiar torch in a parody of said 1981-1993 logo.)
DEDICATED TO WES CRAVEN, HAROLD RAMIS, AND MICHAEL C. GROSS, DESIGNER OF THE ORIGINAL NO-GHOST LOGO.
URVANO JARAMILLO JR PROUDLY PRESENTS:
FREDDYBUSTERS
CHAPTER 1: A Warning (Or, Call Today, Help Tomorrow)
"Everybody knows the scene is dead
But there's gonna be a meter on your bed
That will disclose
What everybody knows"
-Leonard Cohen, "Everybody Knows"
(Song choice: "Everybody Knows"-Sigrid, Originally by Leonard Cohen, from Justice League.)
Royal Woods, MI-a peaceful little town which is not too far from The Big City. However, this little town was rocked by mysterious deaths of four of it's citizens. On top of that, these deaths are hard to explain really. That is, unless if you believe in the paranormal, specifically, the Boogeyman. Legend says about the Boogeyman is that he tends to stalk the dreams of children at night when they're sleeping.
One family has been gripped by fear as of late. However, not only once, but TWICE! That family is the Loud family. But recently, another family was haunted by a supernatural force that plagued them. That other family that recently had the same problem is the Santiago family.
Roberto Santiago, or Bobby as he is commonly called, is asleep for the night. Just four weeks ago, he had to bury his younger sister, Ronalda, otherwise known as Ronnie Anne. Since then, Bobby had to work extra hard to help his mother make ends meet by doing various jobs. Especially when it came to pay for Ronnie Anne's premature funeral. However, her death wasn't an ordinary death.
Ronnie Anne was killed in her dreams, and Bobby was the witness to the whole thing. He saw his only sister being dragged to her death in a gusher of blood in her bed. Seeing Ronnie Anne (or Nie Nie, as he sometimes calls her) dying in front of his own eyes haunted him. Each day, he has a candle lit in memory of his sister, next to the family photo of himself, Ronnie Anne, their mother, and their late father.
The same feeling was also felt by Lincoln Loud, who not only lost Ronnie Anne, but two of his siblings, Luna and Luan, and their mother, Rita. Like Ronnie Anne, both Luan and Luna were killed in an unusual way. They were killed in their dreams, very bad dreams to be specific. For you see, an undead serial killer had stalked the Loud family, and Luan was the first victim.
Luna was next, but the other Loud siblings stopped him. However, he came back to try to kill them all. He killed Ronnie Anne, but he was stopped by Rita, the killer's own niece! But, it was not without the cost of her life, Rita died fighting for her children. Since then, Lincoln kept watch on his remaining siblings and father.
Lucy Loud, the resident goth/emo girl in the family, has been trying to contact her family to check up on them from time to time. she mastered how to use automatic writing since the four weeks since the deaths of the Louds' loved ones. She writes poems still to this day, but these poems are more darker than her normal sense of darkness and creepiness. Lucy continues to try to communicate with Luan, Luna, and Rita through automatic writing. But today, this could be the day, or night. Lucy looks at the blank page of college-bound paper and her pen. She breathed in and out, ready to make contact.
"Luan Loud, Luna Loud, Rita Loud, whoever is there. I offer you my arm."
Lucy sighed, much to her dismay. "I know it worked the first time, when he threatened us. But now, it should work to check up on them." the young goth sighed to herself. Just then, Lucy's arm began to jerk around, writing one thing on the paper:
LUCY! YOU HAVE TO WARN YOUR SIBLINGS! HE'S TRYING TO COME BACK!
Lucy gasped at the results in front of her. "Mom? Luan? Luna? Where are you guys?" she asked.
NEVERMIND THAT, YOU HAVE TO WARN LINCOLN AND THE OTHERS, AND YOUR DAD! FREDDY'S TRYING TO COME BACK!
Lucy gasped. She remembered the sibling meeting, the commercial Lincoln saw on TV, the commercial with the men from New York City that catch all sorts of supernatural threats. The Backup Plan they discussed in case the monster who killed their loved ones would ever come back.
"Freddy Krueger? He's trying to return?" Lucy asked.
YES! TELL EVERYONE! HE'S TRYING TO ESCAPE FROM HELL, TRYONG TO KILL THE REST OF YOU.
"But, it's 2 AM, can it wait?"
NO, TELL THEM NOW! HURRY!
Lucy gasped, she has to tell everyone about this urgent warning. The person who contacted Lucy was indeed Rita Loud, her mother. And Rita was right, in the other side of Royal Woods, Bobby was tossing and turning, Bobby gasped, as he is in his house looking around.
It seemed empty, if you don't count the furniture and such inside. What by empty, is that no other people are around. Bobby shivered, as things felt cold. He wondered, "Hey, who turned down the thermostat?" Bobby shivered as he walked across the hallways, he then saw someone familiar to him.
"No, it can't be? Nie Nie?" said Bobby with a shock in his face. He saw his younger sister, the same Ronnie Anne he buried four weeks ago. "Bobby,..Why didn't you save me?" the tomboyish, freckle faced girl asked. "I tried, but the door was locked! Please Ronnie Anne, Nie-Nie, I'm sorry!" answered a panicked Bobby. He gave Ronnie Anne a hug, but his sorrow turned into shock. He backed away from his sister, as one of her hands has a familiar looking glove-the kind with razors.
"Wait, you're not my sister! WHAT ARE YOU?" asked Bobby. "Ronnie Anne" then chuckled a sinister chuckle, "Oh Bobby, afraid of your own sister?" The being posing as Ronnie Anne began to grow into an adult size, raising the clawed glove. "Ronnie Anne said 'Hi', FROM HELL!" said the figure posing as Ronnie Anne, whose voice changed into a more malevolent, familiar tone. The form of Ronnie Anne was fading into an ugly burnt man in a red and green sweater, pants, and a fedora hat. That monster posing as Ronnie Anne is indeed the same monster that tried to kill the other Louds: Freddy Krueger.
He laughs at Bobby, ready to kill him. Bobby screamed just as Freddy was about to kill Bobby, Bobby woke up screaming. Bobby panted, all sweaty and shivering. "It's was a nightmare. Wait, Lori told me about this when Ronnie Anne was killed. That day I buried Nie-Nie..." Bobby said to himself. Out of panic, Bobby texted Lori.
Lori Loud heard her smartphone buzzing at 2 AM. She got up and said to herself, "Who would literally send me a text at 2 AM?" She reached for it and saw Bobby's name on the message. "Boo-Boo Bear? What could he want at 2 AM?" asked Lori to herself, as she answered it.
Lori gasped at the message Bobby sent, her loud gasped woke up Leni Loud. "Lori! I totes need my beauty sleep, what's wrong?" the second youngest Loud asked. "We have to tell everyone else about this! This is literally bad!" Lori replied, as she and Leni got up to tell the other Loud siblings. They knocked on the doors of Lynn Jr & Lucy, the twins, Lisa & Lily, and finally Lincoln. As the girls approached Lincoln's room, Lucy was there with Lincoln, already woken up. "Lucy told me everything." said Lincoln.
"Bobby texted me, he saw...HIM!" Lori told them. Lisa then said, "That's impossible, he was vanquished in the dream world, I was an eyewitness, we all were eyewitnesses, eldest sibling." "If he is really trying to come back to kill us, I think he started with Bobby." said Lincoln, "Fellow remaining siblings I knew this would happen. I think it's time to-"
"You mean?" asked all eight sisters. "That's right, time to start Operation: Payback." replied Lincoln. With a quick dash to the dresser in his linen closet for a bedroom, he took out a phone number he wrote down from the commercial he saw. Lincoln reached for his smartphone and dialed JL5-2020.
New York City, the Big Apple. This city that never sleeps is home to the one team that deals with supernatural activity. That team of four men, three scientists and an everyday man, had saved the city three times. The first time against a Sumerian god, the second time against an evil painting with a river of slime, and the third time against the ghost of a architect who was also a doctor and a cult leader.
Deep in the city, specifically in 110 N. Moore Street, is a deactivated firehouse which is the headquarters of that team that saved the city. Its' hanging sigh is a simple cartoon ghost in the No symbol that glows in the night. Inside the firehouse headquarters is the desk of a receptionist: a woman with interesting hair, reading a magazine, and drinking a cup of coffee. Her phone began to ring when she turned the page of her issue of People Weekly. In a quick dash, the woman picked up the phone, and spoke these words in a Brooklyn accent.
"Ghostbusters, can I help you?"
Freddy Krueger is not the only problem Royal Woods is having. Lately, there have been rumors of ghosts haunting different places. The Royal Woods Mall is rumored to be haunted by the ghost of a young teenager who died in 1986, while the Aloha Comrade fusion restaurant also has a ghost problem. Yup, the attempted return of an undead serial killer is rumored to be causing an increase of hauntings around Royal Woods.
Lincoln Loud is about to avenge the deaths of his family and friends, and he knows the question:
If a undead serial killer tries to come back to kill the rest of your family…
…WHO YOU GONNA CALL?
AUTHOR'S NOTES:
-The opening is inspired by the opening of the Justice League movie that came out this month.
-I also included references to the two Ghostbusters movies and the video game in the near end.
Stay tuned, the call gets answered and those four men will be making a trip to Royal Woods to take care of business...
