Hey everybody! Like I said, random updates, now for some stuff I need to cover.

Story length: Ten chapters. 13 tops.

Chapter length: A bit random but somewhere between 1500-3000 words.

Well, that's all for now, hope you enjoy your chapter (Fair warning, the feels train may here…)

Chapter 2- Search

So far, Katherina wasn't surprised when she saw her son no longer near the phone booth when she finished talking with her friend on the phone.

In a strange way, she knew it was coming when she didn't know it coming. Like it the time before, and before that, and so on…

This also wasn't very new. She didn't know why, but whenever she spoke with one of her friends, her son would always wonder off. Last time, it was a toy store that was about a block away (She still didn't know how he could have found it if it was his first time there….) and it was beginning to be a rather bad habit of his, one time, her husband had to consider buying a child leash to keep him within a ten-foot radius of her.

But by the third or fourth time he had mysteriously vanished on his own, she had stopped panicking when she had found that her son had a pattern whenever he mysteriously vanished whenever she talked. He usually went to the nearest toy store if it was for a few minutes, The bookstore if it was about five, the candy store or a plushie store if it was about seven minutes, or if he felt like she would be on longer than ten minutes, he would attempt to go to Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria.

She sighed, and noted that next time, she would bring a toy to keep him entertained or if he started throwing a fit, she would stop talking with her friends and give him a lecture about keeping in touch with your friends.

She then walked over to the nearest Toy's R Us, half expecting her son to be standing there, unable to by the toy that he wanted because he didn't have enough money.

"Hey," She asked.

"Yes?" Said the person, who was a girl probably in her early twenties and probably working for college money.

"Have you seen a child about this tall come in here alone?" She said indicating with her arms to about her waist height.

"What color was his hair?" She asked

"Black," She said

The lady shook her hand.

Really? She thought suddenly a bit confused at her response.

"Are you sure?" She asked

"I'm sure," She said "We can check the footage if you want."

"Yes please," She said in a bit of a scared voice. As the employee then led her to the office part of the building, and was in front of a man who was reclining in his leather chair couldn't be that much older than the girl working at the register.

"Sir," She said

"Yes ma'am?" the man in a bit of a weak voice.

"Have you seen a boy about this high on your cameras?" She said indicating with her arms again "He has black hair, he was wearing a blue shirt with some jeans."

"Hold old was he?" The man asked as he stopped reclining.

"Eight," she said.

The man then looked at his monitors.

"Mind if you come here, just to check?" he said.

"Yes," She said as she then looked at the footage from this morning, and after fast forwarding through the footage, she found nothing.

"Do it again," She said hoping that she may have overlooked him by accident as some other child.

And so he did, and had the same result as before.

She didn't understand, where was he?

She reconsidered her options. If he wasn't here, he was at the bookstore probably.

"Thanks." She said as she then left and moved on to the store. Feeling a tad bit of dread as she got nearer and entered the store, and asked the same thing she asked the people at the toy store, and got the exact same result as before.

Okay...she said feeling the dread in her stomach turn from a small weight to a bowling-ball sized piece of lead. Maybe he's eating candy….

She went over to the candy store feeling her heart a bit heavier now. When she had asked, she got the same result as before: they didn't see him at all today. Even in their security footages.

She was beginning to wonder if he was beginning to hide from her. If he was, he was doing a pretty good job considering that she hadn't found him yet.

She thanked them, and moved on to the plush store, which she was sure he had to be in. This time, however, she went at a faster pace than the last time she went, simply because she was now scared, which hadn't happened to her in a long time.

When she had gotten in, she had asked for the same thing from the other two stores, and got the same results as the last two times she had asked this.

She was now panicking for real. He wasn't in any of the stores that he usually went to, so where was he?

She asked that question, until she looked down at the stuffed yellow bear he usually slept with and carried around calling it his one of his "Friends."

She remembered that she had seen that yellow bear before, specifically at Freddy Fazbear's. She also recalled that he wanted to get some more friends for the yellow plushie.

Of course! she thought as she felt a sigh of relief and the ball of lead in her stomach begin to shrink. Why didn't I think of that place first?

She felt like an idiot for not trying out that place first, but it didn't matter, she would see him again.

She then walked out of the store was about to turn the corner at an intersection to the pizzeria, when she saw six police cars wail past her.

Her eyes were open for a little bit. She had never seen that many police cars in one place in her entire life, despite her husband being a deputy of the police force and occasionally throwing a party for his co-workers and associates, and was taken off guard to see let the cars go that fast in a mall.

She didn't know why on earth six police cars would be needed, unless….unless something happened…..

She felt the ball of lead in her stomach grow again as she looked were the police were heading. She saw them take a right after the intersection that led to Freddy Fazbear's pizzeria.

Suddenly, she seemed to be lost in her thoughts. She dreaded the worst. She was worried, since the pizzeria was the last place she had to check for her son, and oddly enough, six police cars had just rushed down the corner that the pizzeria was.

It's okay… she told herself trying to calm down It's probably nothing. Who knows? Maybe a store next to it was robbed or something…

Her thoughts kept her sound, but when she looked over to the corner, she saw something was clearly out of place.

The pizzeria was radiating a light. Now, this was normal for her, she had seen it's neon sign always radiate light. However, the colors were red and blue and the pizzeria was surrounded by police cars and an officer was putting the yellow Police line: Do not cross tape on the doors and around the perimeter.

All she could do was just look at the situation with a dazed look. She wanted to move, but some part of her just...didn't.

Suddenly she remembered: Her son.

He moved to the group of people who were stationed outside of the restaurant and were looking at it similar to that of a burning building. She scanned all across the group and saw that her son wasn't there.

Maybe these people saw him….

"Excuse me," She said "But have you seen my son?"

They shook their heads, all except for one kid.

"What did he look like?" He asked

"About your height," She said "Black hair, blue shirt and pants."

The kid looked around for a little bit and scratched his chin, then looked back at her.

"I think…." he said "The last time I saw somebody like that, he and his group of friends were following Fredbear for a surprise."

She felt her heart flutter for a little bit. He was still here. He could still find him.

She didn't know how to get in, judging from the officers that were surrounding the building with automatic rifles.

She sighed, and broke out of the line anas almost immediately met by an officer.

"Ma'am!" An officer said rushing to her "Please stay away from the restaurant!"

"My son is in there." She said

"Your son?" He said

She nodded. He had to be. He wasn't in the crowd when she had looked. Which only left him to be in that place. Which couldn't be too hard to find him.

She started moving again.

"Ma'am," The officer said grabbing her wrist "We can't let you in there, It's too dangerous!"

"Why not?" She said

"There's a very dangerous man inside the building that could still be in there!" The officer said.

"If my son is in there, I'm going after him whether it's dangerous or not!" She said as she broke the officer's grip and started walking.

"Ma'am!" The officer said as he pulled a taser from his belt "If you do not comply with the law, I will use force on you!"

She was pretty sure that he wouldn't use it on her. Judging that his hand was quivering when he held out his taser. But then again, he had his taser. And her husband was the deputy and could probably order a search for her missing son.

She sighed and was about to turn around to head back to the group when she saw something.

At first, she thought it was a mis-glance, but when she looked up, she knew it couldn't be a lie.

There, looking at her through the window, was her son.

"Stephen!" She said as she then turned away from her previous task and started running to him.

"Hey, Ma'am, Ma'am!"

She was pretty happy to see him. But something was...different about him.

His skin was a bit paler, he had bags and purple streaks under his eyes, and looked faintly….translucent. But when he saw her, he smiled, and started running to her.

She was happy, in fact, she was never this happy before when she had found her son. But suddenly, she saw him trip and fall to the floor.

She knew that her son was a bit of a klutz sometimes, but then she saw him struggling. She didn't know what was causing him to struggle but she saw that on his hands and ankles, there were strings extending from them like he was some sort of life-size puppet.

She was about to wonder what caused the strings, until she saw that the strings all met in one place. That one place led to a clutched hand from a lanky figure that appeared to be made out of black felt with a white smooth mask.

She suddenly saw that her son was trying to escape this thing like a fly from it's web.

"I'm sorry," The figure said in a sad voice "But I'm not done with you yet, there's just one thing I need you to do for me…"

Suddenly, the figure turned around and started dragging the struggling Stephen with it.

"Mommy!" Stephen cried "Help me!"

That response took no conscious whatsoever to know what she had to do. She grabbed the large door tried to rip it open, only to feel some sort of sharp buzz come from her left thigh. Suddenly, the buzz grew around her leg and up her spine until the powerful buzz was too much for her to stand.

She fell on the ground with her seeing the world on it's side.

She wanted to move, but her legs, especially her left one, felt like it was on fire and didn't want to move.

She then felt something drag her away from the pizzeria's doors.

"No…" she whispered as she tried to move, only for the burning pain to come back, a bit weaker, but still strong enough to omak her unable to walk.

All she saw her son do try to claw away from the figure, but he couldn't and was still being dragged by it screaming "No! I Don't wanna be one! I'm not going in a costume!"

She wasn't sure what she knew about costumes, but she wanted to get him away from that thing.

But she then realized that there was nothing she could do.

She was powerless to stop this thing from stealing her son.

I'm sorry my sweet baby… She thought, letting out a few tears, as she then saw the figure drag the child away from he vanished from her view.

"No…" She said as she felt herself being picked up and put into a squad car. "Stephen no!"

She strained her eyes, but she couldn't see her son or the thing that had dragged him away.

"Stephen!" She cried as the squad car door slammed and created a diagonal bar across her vision.

"Let me out!" She said only to realize that the door was locked and was beginning to move away from the pizzeria. "That thing is stealing my son!"

"Ma'am," The officer said "I promise that we will make a conscious effort to find your son, and trust me, we will get to the bottom of what caused this."

She was silent to the officer, and all she could think about was her son, and what had happened to him. And how she had failed to keep him safe from whatever that was.

Suddenly, she found herself giving a new task for ther.

"Stephen…" She said in a quiet voice and letting out a few tears "I promise...I'll find you, even if I have to travel to the ends of the earth."

End of Chapter.

Wow, this story just had gotten really sad all of a sudden….I hope you didn't cry.

Also, this is my first bittersweet story, so expect some story errors you tragedy nazis.

Well, that's all for today, and I hope to see you next time, bye!