A calm morning was announced by birds that cheerfully fled past the roof of Family Grill. While the animatronics were still resting, Dustin was walking around and cleaning a little to do something that would keep him busy until the robots woke up. It was Sunday, the most loved day by everyone, as the restaurant was closed.
Dustin left the broom against the wall and looked cheerfully at how clean everything was. He definitely loved perfection much more than he did before, and it had only been a few months since he got interest on doing the cleaning. Little giggles were heard from a hallway. BB and JJ were also walking around and having a laugh, as always.
"Morning Dustin!" JJ greeted the boy as she and BB walked past him.
Dustin waved at them with a little smile as they continued to walk towards a room, still talking about all the things that had happened at Fazbear's Fright. They did that every day. Dustin rolled his eyes with a playful sigh. After that, he started hearing some really familiar, low clanging noises near him. He looked up at the ceiling, and as he had guessed, Mangle was there.
"Sup, Mangle-chan." Dustin caught his attention. He got that habit of adding '-chan' at the end of the animatronics' names since it was a Japanese expression that Hiro, even though very few times, had been using for the animatronics. It was Dustin's way of having a good memory of him.
"How's it going, Mr. Cleaner?" Mangle sniggered, hopping on a table to come down the floor.
"Haha, hilarious." Dustin said sarcastically. "I'm kinda glad you're here, I needed to ask you something."
"Don't bother. I know what you want." Mangle cut him off. "For the last time, I don't want to be repaired. Get over it. Why is it so important to you all of a sudden?"
Not long ago, Dustin came with the idea of repairing Mangle. And even though the answer had always been a rotund no, he still couldn't get it out of his mind.
"I'm completely fine." Mangle continued. "In fact, if I came to be normal again, I'd feel weird. Do you know how long I've been like this? It would take a long time for me to adapt. And I don't think it's possible to fix me up anyways."
"Well, if we managed to make Spring look new, you wouldn't be the challenge at all." Dustin smiled.
"Don't try to convince me." Mangle said tiredly, yawning.
"You seem sleepy. Did something happen last night?" Dustin asked.
"Just the usual. BB and JJ wouldn't stop talking, the toys were playing a weird game, and Daisuke kept complaining about that new tune of his music box."
"Oh yeah, the music… I thought he would like it by now…" Dustin muttered thoughtfully. The new chime that the music box played was a completely random song, instead of the original one, My Grandfather's Clock. The song changed since the animatronics moved to Family Grill, yet Daisuke never got used to it. It wasn't the fact that he didn't like it, but the fact that My Grandfather's Clock was the music both he and Kai listened together – that was another thing that Daisuke couldn't get used to; stay without Kai and the others.
"By the way, are the others awake?" Dustin then asked, while Mangle yawned again.
"Dai, Spring and Goldie are." he replied.
As they talked, Daisuke and Golden Freddy were looking through a window. Like most of the time, Daisuke held the sleighbell Kai gave him before he departed. "You still didn't get over it?" Golden Freddy asked, watching the environment outside the window.
Daisuke sighed. "It's hard. I've been more time with Kai than without him. Everything feels… weird."
"It's hard for me too. And for the others."
Daisuke glanced down at the sleighbell. Whenever he did so, he could almost see Kai smiling happily at him, and all he could do was give that him warm smile back.
"At least you had happy memories."
The two animatronics turned around as Springtrap joined them. He looked almost new, if the facts that he retained most of his gaping holes and his ear was still half-an-ear were excluded. Even his eyes were back to normal, a cheerful yellow instead of a lifeless gray.
"Oh, here we go…" Golden Freddy grumped.
"What do you want me to say? I had that monster with me for… ages!"
"But now you don't." Daisuke countered.
"Just focus on the positive things. We all are fine and everything is solved. There's nothing to worry about." Golden Freddy tried to cheer him up.
"I know, I know, I just can't stop feeling so bad about everything that happened…"
"You should be happier than anyone. You killed Drago after all."
"Sure. Maybe. Not really…"
Golden Freddy rolled his eyes. "Where's that cheerful robot I used to know? I don't remember having anyone called Mr. Grumpy as a friend."
Springtrap made a sneaky smile.
"Hey guys!" Dustin said as he walked towards them. "What were you talking about?"
"Nothing new. Spring is still complaining about Drago." Daisuke said playfully.
"Still?" Dustin said, surprised. "Have you forgotten that little phrase I told you to remember? 'The children can rest in peace while that jerk can rest in pieces'." Springtrap crossed is arms. "Oh, come on, that always makes you laugh!"
Dustin put a careless expression as he smirked, looking directly at Springtrap. "What are you looking at?" he asked dryly.
"You want to laugh." Dustin grinned.
"I don't."
"Yes you do."
Dustin kept looking at him for a few seconds. "Well alright, yes, it's still funny! Happy?" Springtrap finally fell for it, turning away from the boy. "And stop looking at me that way. You know I hate to be stared at." With a sneaky nod, Dustin walked back to where he was. Springtrap looked over his shoulder, and once the boy was gone, he sighed and walked towards the window. "I can't deny it. He's a lovable person." He simpered. "When he wants to."
"I told you, you would end up liking Dustin as a friend just like we all do." Daisuke told him. "Even if you two didn't get a good start."
Yellooo ;) Missed me? Maybe, how am I supposed to know?
Well, I just wanted to tell you a few things – this story is not about FNaF 4 (obviously). It's, instead, about a completely random idea that doesn't happen in any game. I will indeed make a fourth story, and that one will be about FNaF 4 of course.
And that's it for now. See y'all next chapter!
