Prologue
The child ran through the diner and out the diner door. This was the best day ever! He turned six years old on this beautiful day.
Fredbear's Family Diner was his favorite place! Freddy Fredbear, the robot animatronic, brought out sugary cake after he finished his cheese pizza. His parents gave him a teddy bear for his birthday, and his grandmother bought him a prize from the prize counter in the diner. It was a huge jack-in-the-box with a really big clown in it. The clown had a huge smile, red cheeks, and popped out when the music stopped. To the young child, it was the greatest toy he had ever received!
There were other people at the diner that day as well, and a lot of them gave him compliments about his new toys. But what made the child happy was the smile on his grandmother's face. His parents had told him that Grandma was going to "go" somewhere soon, and that he had to spend a lot of time with her before she left. She took him to this restaurant because she knew that this was where he loved to eat out at.
Freddy had even given him a big hug! They had laughed together, and they had even played hide-and-seek in the restaurant. Freddy looked really nice too; his body was as soft and fluffy as the teddy bear he had gotten.
As the child entered the fresh air and warm sunlight, he saw a strange figure in the small parking lot. The figure seemed to be a young man; he wore a lot of purple. His hoodie was purple, his pants were purple, and, the child noticed, his gloves were purple… and he was taking the child's jack-in-the-box!
His parents had wanted to put the jack-in-the-box in the car so that it wouldn't crowd the tiny table at the diner. He held onto his teddy bear, suddenly mad at the man taking his jack-in-the-box.
The child ran towards the purple man, who dragged the toy to the alley next to the building. The child shouted at the man, "Stop! That's my toy!"
The man started to drag the toy into the alley at a much faster pace. The child followed, desperate to get his toy back. As the child entered the alley, he suddenly got the feeling that he would never get back out of the alley.
Darkness surrounded the child, and scary sounds echoed throughout the alley. The child became scared; he was always terrified of the dark, but he couldn't let that strange man get away with the special birthday toy that his grandmother gave him. Terror consumed the child, and he started to cry with fear.
At the end of the alley was his jack-in-the-box, but the man was nowhere to be found. The child crept closer to the box to start the music. The music calmed him, and reminded him of the music that his grandmother listened to. The music continued for about a minute, then started to slow down. The music stopped without the clown popping out.
The child curiously went closer to the box, his tears returning. As he lifted the lid of the box, the purple man popped out and screamed. Before the child could react, the man drove a hidden knife into the child's small stomach. The man then drove the knife back into the child with rapid succession.
The child had never felt such pain. He continued to cry, knowing that he was going to die and never see his loved ones again. His grandmother, his parents…
The purple man took the dying child in his arms and proceeded to stuff the child into the clown suit in the jack-in-the-box. The man's hoodie slid back, and the last thing the child saw before dying within the box was his murderer's smile.
The diner was blamed for the missing child, and the parents, after finding the toy his grandmother bought him outside the restaurant, gave it back to the diner, exclaiming that they couldn't look at it without thinking of their little child. The owners of the diner, with the lawsuit of the missing child over their heads, sold the restaurant's name to a bigger corporation. Along with the restaurant's name went Freddy Fredbear the animatronic and the puppet inside the jack-in-the-box, who, after the accident, had tear marks running down its face and dead, empty eyes…