And here it is guys! The third story! I don't know at the moment if this will be the last story in this series or not. The entire plot is still being tweaked at the moment. But thankfully I know how I want this story to go already planned out, it's just the events leading to it that I have to work on still. But hopefully I can get a least a good chunk done before I leave on my rescheduled trip. If you are curious about that I mentioned it in the last 'chapter' of Facing our Nightmares.
So yeah. I guess you guys can thank that for this story coming out earlier than I wanted. Also I mentioned at one point (at least I think I did) that this third story will be going off from one of the two endings and I hopefully didn't tell you which one. So which ending is it? Well...I'll let you all just read and figure it out yourself! Ha!
Anyways, I'll shut up now and let you guys read Facing the Darkness! (By the way, I'm not happy with the title, but when I thought about all that's gonna happen in this story, I felt it was the best one that fit. I was very tempted to change it to one of the suggestions a reviewer gave, but I changed my mind at the last minute. So yeah...lame title I know, but trust me when I say I came up with a worst title before...So I shouldn't be complaining too much)
"Hello?" Nick called out timidly. He snapped his head back and forth, praying to find some living thing hidden away. There was nothing though. The rooms were empty, dark, and not showing an ounce of life. Just like his dead heart.
He walked through the pizzeria with tears flowing down his face. "Please? Anyone? Mikey? Shawn?" He paused as a hiccup escaped his throat. "Freddy? Bonnie?"
The silence was deafening as Nick collapsed on his knees in the center of the room. He couldn't believe this. He was left all alone. The animatronics were destroyed or taken away in the Toys' case. The other ghost children had moved on. Mike was dead. And no other human being would ever step foot in this place again.
"No..." more tears fell. "I can't be alone!" With a loud choked sob, Nick rested his head in his hands as he cried out all his sorrows. "Please come back...Don't leave me here alone!"
Heavy footsteps could be heard from behind him and the little boy snapped his head up when he heard them. "But you're not alone Nick." a dark menacing voice called out.
Fear was the first thing the child felt as he slowly stood up and turned around. A tall, bloodstained yellow rabbit was standing behind him at the doorway. It grinned darkly just as...Daniel's voice spoke out. "You're not alone Nick. Because you have me now..." The rabbit's feet began to step forward as Nick backed away in fear. "We get to spend the rest of eternity together. How does that sound Nick?"
"Ge-get away from me..."
"Oh no Nick. I have so much fun things for us to do together now. So let's get along well, huh?"
The ghost child gasped in fright as he turned around and ran for the door. He tried with all his might to push out, but he couldn't. And just as the thought of teleporting away crossed his mind, a heavy paw fell on his shoulders.
"You know kid?" Daniel started, as he moved his hands around Nick's throat and squeezed tightly. "You have to stop running away like that. It just really ticks me off..."
Tears were falling down his face as he choked loudly. Trying to push the man away. "Please..." he managed to say. "Mikey...help me." His vision was fading away. The ghost didn't understand how he was choking to death when he himself was already dead, but it was happening. He couldn't breath. He couldn't think properly. All he could do was stare up in fright at his killer who just squeezed his tiny throat tighter and tighter. "Help...me..."
The last thing Nick could see before passing out was the purple guy's twisted grin.
With a startled yell, Nick shot up from where he was resting. He was gasping for air, which the ghost didn't even need as he looked around.
Mike was resting in his office chair with his feet propped up on the desk. His uniform hat was resting over his eyes as he slept away. With a quiet gulp, Nick turned to look over at the other ghost children who were all cuddled together right next to him.
Despite it being daytime, the ghosts decided to sleep while the pizzeria was open. So the seven ghosts would occupy Mike's office and sleep in or on whatever they deemed worthy enough to call a bed.
Feeling himself shake from his nightmare, Nick stood up and slowly walked over to Mike. "Mikey?" he called out softly. Seeing the night guard not moving an inch, the little boy floated up so he could easily move on top of the guard. He rested his head on Mike's chest and closed his eyes.
"Bad dream again?" the young man asked tiredly.
Nick snapped his eyes opened to look up at Mike who was rubbing his eyes. "...yeah..." he answered timidly.
Smirking, Mike patted the child on the head as he moved to sit up. "What was it this time?"
Nick adjusted his position as Mike moved, now resting his head on the guard's shoulder. "I was all alone in the pizzeria this time. No one was there and just when I began to cry, Daniel showed up. Bu-but Mikey, he was inside Spring still!"
"Really, huh?" Mike said, not showing any emotion as he looked down at the seven year old boy.
"Yeah! He was hurting me!" A tear fell down his face which Mike quickly wiped away. "I was so scared. And you...you couldn't help me.
Still with his stoic face, Mike carefully lifted the boy off of him. He stood up from his chair only to kneel down to be eye level with him. "Listen here Nick. No matter what, I will always be here for you. I want you to always remember that." Finally a gentle smile broke out as he ruffled the kid's hair. "I'm your big brother now, right? And even if Daniel comes back, which he won't by the way, I'll be there to stop him for you."
Nick looked up at him in awe before he smiled happily at the man. "Yeah. I believe you Mikey. I'll remember from now on." He lifted up his hand, his pinky finger pointed out. "Pinky promise!"
"Pinky promise." Mike chuckled as he wrapped his own pinky finger around the child's.
Just then there was a knock on the door. Mike stood up and slowly opened it, being mindful not to wake up the other kids.
Tyler stood at the door, his hands being held by two excited boys. "Hey there Mike."
Nick suddenly pushed past the guard before Mike could even respond to the man. "Tyler!"
"Jeez, you are such a brat Nick. Won't even let Mike here speak."
Before the ghost could talk back, the two boys holding hands with the man quickly wrapped their arms around him. "Uncle Nick!" they sang together.
Tyler sighed. "And apparently my boys are the same way..."
Mike chuckled as he looked down at the three kids who were happily hugging each other. "You're boys sure looked like they had fun here."
The older man smiled and patted their heads. "Yeah, well ever since they saw an add for the place they've been excited to come. So I expected they would be having as much fun as they do. The boy's just love the animatronics, don't you guys?"
"Yeah!" The oldest looking boy spoke up. He looked to be almost ten as he grinned up at Mike. "Freddy is my favorite."
The you nest who looked to be about the same age as Nick jumped up and down. "And I like Chica! She gave me pizza!"
"Uncle Nick?" the oldest boy asked, looking down at the ghost. "Which one is your favorite?"
Nick tilted his head. "Uh...I don't know. I love them all. They are my family. But Puppet has always been the kindest to me the longest."
"Puppet is cool!" the youngest said. "He can do all these neat magic tricks!"
Nick smiled. "I know! I used to help him at times you know!?"
The two boys gasped as they looked at the ghost. "Really!?" they asked together.
"Uh huh! Back at the old restaurant, I would help during the day. It was really-OW!"
Shawn was standing behind him, glaring darkly at the boy, his fist that he used to hit him was still high in the air. "You're too loud Nick."
"Idiot!" the older ghost snapped, punching Shawn hard.
"Am not!"
"Are too!"
Mike sighed as he watched the two fight. "Come on you two." he attempted to pull them apart, but wound up tripping and falling on his back. "Ugh..." he rested his hands over his eyes as he listened to the two ghost boy's continue their fight. "Did Nick get in fights easily when he was alive Tyler?"
"Well, most the time it was with me, but yeah." The man chuckled. "I feel sorry for you Mike...stuck forever with my brother." Tyler shuddered. "I don't think I could handle it."
The guard chuckled as he sat up. "I don't think I can..." he muttered before looking over at Nick and Shawn. "That's enough you two!" he grabbed Shawn by the back of his shirt. "Stop arguing already."
"He started it!" Nick snapped.
"And I don't care! You two are family now so act like one!" Mike snapped back.
Meanwhile Sammy and the others slowly walked forward. The young girl sighing as she stared at her twin brother and the oldest ghost. "Nick, Shawn, do we have to do this everyday?"
"Shut up Sammy!" Shawn snapped.
"Yeah, this isn't your business!" Nick agreed.
Mike grunted as he stood up. "I'm seriously going to regret this..." he mumbled as he eyed the angry children who were still yelling at each other. With a loud sigh he hung his head and turned around. "If you all quit fighting now, I'll give you all a piggyback rid-AH!" in a matter of seconds, all six children were clinging onto Mike as tightly as they could as the guard went flying to the ground. He landed with a loud thump as he groaned in pain. "...I knew I was going to regret that..."
Tyler chuckled as his boy's laughed their heads off. "I salute to you Mike Schmidt. You're stuck as a permanent nanny for six kids."
"Yeah, and at least your kids will grow up..."
The man chuckled again. "Yeah..." he patted the boys on the head. "Though I'll be honest, not looking forward to that." He smiled at the night guard. "Well we have to go guys. It's almost closing time."
His sons groaned as they looked at him. "Please Daddy, can't we stay longer?"
"Yeah!"
"No, you're mother is waiting for us at the table. So we have to go now. Then it's bedtime for you two."
The human children groaned again as they sadly waved at Nick. "Bye uncle Nick."
"Yeah bye-bye."
Nick smiled as he waved back from his position on Mike. "Bye! And bye stupid Tyler!"
The man rolled his eyes at his younger brother. "See ya brat. Bye Mike."
The guard could only wave pathetically as Timmy was pushing his face in the ground and laughing. Once the family was gone, he sighed and pushed himself up, some of the kids falling off of him in the process. "Alright. If it's closing time, we should get ready to go out. What do you guys say?"
"Yeah!" They all shouted together.
Grinning, Mike nodded his head. "Alright, let's get moving!"
Freddy waved the last of the family away. "What a good day."
"Yeah! It was actually peaceful today." Bonnie agreed.
Chica giggled. "It was so fun today! I was able to serve the children pizza!"
"...Chica, ya always be able to serve the little kiddies pizza..." Foxy mumbled as he walked up on the stage.
There was a loud shout from the other side of the room and the four turned to see Bon-Bon yelling at Fred.
Freddy sighed. "What do you think happened this time?"
"Fred said something about Bon-Bon looking like a girl and Bon-Bon snapped..." Bonnie answered.
"Same old, same old..." Chica added.
Golden walked up next to the stage. "Ah, don't worry about them little brother." He spoke to Freddy. "Bon-Bon will walk away to cool off in 3...2...1." And just like that, the blue rabbit stormed away from the other Toys, plopping in a random seat away from them, or really, away from Fred.
"Golden, you know them too well now." Bonnie grinned as he sat on the edge of the stage.
"Well, I've seen this act every night so far. You kind of catch on quickly." The yellow bear grinned.
Fred scoffed from his spot before walking to the stage. "So how was your day?" he ended up asking.
"Just fine Fred." the other brown bear answered.
Chicky sighed as she caught up to her leader. "Fred, you apologize to Bon-Bon!"
"Nope..."
The thin chicken groaned. "What am I going to do with you..."
"That's right. Mangle can't help you as much anymore..." To emphasize his point, Fred pointed to the fixed up white Fox. Scott had finally fixed up the broken fox and thankfully the children haven't torn the white and pink animatronic up yet. Mangle even has a fixed up voice box so the hyper animatronic can now talk as it pleases.
"I'm so sorry Chicky! I can still help someway though. Let me think. OH! I know! Fred you should just stop being so mean and then maybe Bon-Bon won't get so angry all the time! OH! Or how about we all just go and bake a cake! Then we can all eat it together! Oh wait! We can't eat! Oh silly me! I almost forgot! Hehe, that would have been bad if I didn't remember soon, huh!? Oh! Now I know! We can all..."
Everyone tuned out the talkative fox as they looked away from it. They all had forgotten just how much Mangle loves to talk since it was hard for it with that broken voice box it used to have.
"How mad do you think Scott will be if I broke Mangle's voice box?" Fred asked quietly, though it wouldn't have mattered if he screamed the questioned since the pink and white fox just kept babbling on by itself. For some reason it was talking about the ocean right now.
"Don't think about it Fred..." Freddy warned.
"It was just a thought..."
"What was just a thought?" a voice asked. The animatronics turned to see Mike, struggling to carry five children, only Sammy being the nice one and getting off the guard.
Without a word, they all just pointed at Mangle who was still chatting up a storm. The guard nodded his head in understanding as he shook off the other five kids. "Get off!"
"So how was your day Mikey?" Puppet asked, walking up to the young man. Nick instantly ran up to him and began to climb on the tall animatronic's back.
"It was alright. Even though we slept for most of it..." Mike answered, chuckling nervously.
"Ah, that's no fair..." Bonnie complained. "I wish we could rest during the day. Night is so much better."
"You complain to much Bonnie..." Freddy mumbled, smirking.
The purple rabbit just stuck a tongue out at the bear as he turned back to the guard.
Meanwhile Golden happily smiled at the others as they began another conversation. Bon-Bon finally calmed down and joined them. It was nice to have a family again. To have nothing but a loving atmosphere in the air. But still...Golden couldn't help but feel something...someone was missing...
His footsteps were slow and heavy as he struggled up the stairs. It's been days since he finally woken up, but with his busted up mechanics, it took the animatronic forever to move properly. But now he finally gained control of his legs and began to slow journey up the stairs of the basement.
"Damn...since when was walking so hard?" he grumbled as he finally reached the door. "Finally..." he opened it up and slowly stepped out. He looked from one side to the other. Groaning when he saw a long hallway no matter which way he went. "Really! Give an old rabbit a break!"
With a sigh he bent down his head, grimacing at the blood stains that could be seen on his dirty yellow fur. He didn't know what happened while he was asleep. Hell, he didn't even know how long he was out. The last thing he could remember clearly was seeing those five dead children sprawled around the backrooms of the old restaurant. But when he opened his eyes a few days ago, he instantly realized he was in a different building. He didn't know where he was or what year it was. All he knew was that he was even more broken then before.
That's when he heard it. Laughter and talking. He perked his ears up and turned to his left. "Voices? That doesn't sound like kids. Could it be..."
"Alright, so what should now?"
"That is Freddy!" the broken animatronic exclaimed as he slowly turned his body, a rare and wide smile spreading over his face as he began another slow journey down the hall. "I'm coming little brother."
Yes! Spring is back! But I wonder how everyone is going to react when they see him?
So yeah! There was the first chapter! Haha, I bet I tricked you guys in thinking that the bad ending was the one this story was going off of, huh? Ha! But no, this is going off of the good ending, where Mike came back as a ghost and Freddy and the gang were fixed up. So now everything is going to be good, right? ...Wrong! Er...well maybe. I'll keep you guys guessing for now. But I hope you remembered that I said this story will be taking place in Fazbear's Fright! And trust me when I say that part is coming up sooner than you might think. Hehehe
So yeah, that was it. I hope you liked it. I don't have much more to say, so until next time. Bye! And don't forget to review!
(Somewhat important question for any reader interested! So I've been debating on doing something like this for a while, but I kind of really want to do this. What am I talking about you might be wondering. Well I've been really interested in those people who let the people who like their stories to 'ask the characters' stuff. And I kind of want to do that for my series. Problem is, I don't have a deviantart so this won't be drawn out like most people do, so it will be on FanFiction. Also I don't know how popular it will become. So that's why I want to ask you guys. If you want me to create an story where you can ask the characters in my story stuff please tell me. If I don't get enough responses I'll just scrap the idea. Because I don't want to post it and not get any questions for them. Also I'll let you guys dare the characters too. So it will be kind of like a truth or dare game for them. I feel like it would be fun and I already been practicing with a friend of mine. We came up with weird questions and I practiced typing out how everyone would react. So yeah...basically just tell me if you want this to happen or not. And if you do and come up with a question/dare go ahead and tell me in the review or just message me. So yeah, that's basically it. Thanks for taking the time to actually read all this.)