Survive Another Night
Ssoooooooo here is another chapter… I feel like I took forever, oh well. Tomorrow or tonight I'll post another chapter. One silly thing to say, I nearly forgot what de hell my account's password was heh. Have a good day and eat something ya like, you deserve happiness!
'(Yawn) Tikki… How much longer do I have to keep walking?'
Marinette looked up at her small red friend with tired eyes, the night had been chaos and the walk back home wasn't helping much. What she first thought was a normal job turned out to be a living hell. She sat down on the sidewalk, her head started to fall heavy as she began to fall asleep on the side walk, Tikki flew over to her, folding her arms
'Come on Marinette, you can't sleep here'
'Why not~ Come on Tikki, I can't take one more step'
Marinette whined not feeling up to walking the rest of the way home, she would have honestly called her parents but felt guilty waking them up so early, plus, they could suspect something had happened. Tikki giggled
'What if Adrien sees you sleeping here? What would he think?'
Marinette jumped up springing back to life one more. Regaining her balance, she continued to walk down the street till she finally reached her house. In reaching the house, Marinette looked back to Freddy's.
'Hm.. Hey Tikki'
She frowned while keeping her voice hushed
'Yes Marinette'
Marinette looked at the ground
'Let's keep this a secret from everyone, okay?'
Tikki's eyes widened, hadn't Marinette said she would contact them before?
'Marinette! You can't go back there alone! You need help!'
Tikki panicked. Marinette tried to calm her down
'Come on Tikki, m-maybe this was all just some sort of crazy hallucination! Maybe I was just hearing and seeing things you know? Plus, you said it yourself that it was okay if I didn't tell anybody'
Tikki looked at Marinette
'Phone guy's messages were giving me the creeps, so why wouldn't I have freaked out? They freaked you out too didn't they?'
Tikki nodded
'So, that combined with your supernatural sense could have just lead to some confusion created by our fears.'
Tikki rubbed her arm uncomfortably, she knew that it wasn't a hallucination, it couldn't be, it was all too real. Either way, this wasn't the time to make Marinette stress out, she was having enough issues handling her new job.
'(Sigh) Alright Marinette, I believe you. Now let's get inside, you need some sleep haha'
Marinette smiled and laughed, she took the key out of her pocket and opened up the door.
'If something bad happens in the next shift, I promise, 100% promise, that I will call the others, okay Tikki?'
Tikki flew pass Marinette
'You better silly'
-—-
7:30pm
Marinette lay in bed sleeping, it only took her seconds to fall asleep. Her body felt like slop thanks to her mind racing all morning. It wasn't much of a night shift really, it was more like a early morning shift since it did start at 12:00 which would technically be morning. But who cares? The animatronics, the night shift, the cursed pizzeria could wait for the Marinette of tomorrow because the Marinette of now wasn't going to wake up anytime soon. Or at least she thought so…
Tikki slept in a little home that was like a box but much more comfortable of course, Marinette had designed it for her, it had a small bed, a little shelf with a lamp, lights hanging all around the house and of course, a curtain she could pull to close off her house. There were even little windows where she could look out of when Marinette would place her home by the window.
Her parents had tried to wake her up when they had woken up themselves but ultimately unsuccessful. In the end, they had decided to let their daughter sleep, she had a long night and they trusted her enough to tell them if something bad was happening.
9:34pm
Marinette shifted uncomfortably in bed, everything felt too hot, her head felt as if it was being held above a camp fire, worst part was she could swear there was someone, something, calling her
'Marinette… Save us…"
She pulled the blankets up to cover her face as a sudden chill swept over her body, everything felt ice cold yet her mind still burnt with fury
'SaVe Us'
The voice became distorted, angry, frustrated. Marinette scrunched up her eyes, she huddled into a tight ball within the sheets. It hurt
'SAVE THEM!'
Marinette woke up startled holding back a yelp that inched it's way through her throat. She sat on the bed for a moment gathering up her thoughts, she placed a hand to her chest…
Her heart was racing faster than any galloping horse could, the beating was constant, loud and pumping adrenaline at lightning speed through her body. Marinette left out a shaky breath, her lungs felt as if they were being burnt with ice as she took a slow deep breath. Placing her hand to her forehead, she immediately pulled back
Her head was boiling, boiling to the point she should have fallen uncurious or gotten heat stroke
Marinette took a moment to relax, slowly but eventually her heart came to a more natural pace but her head still throbbed and boiled. In getting herself back together, at least, to the best she could, Marinette stood up slowly not wanting to wake Tikki and walked down stairs. Like a bat across the head, she remembered that her parents were here too, she wasn't at the pizzeria right now
'I shouldn't wake them…'
She whispered to herself as much as she knew it was the wrong thing to do. The stairway was dark, the only thing that gave some sort of light was the moon outside that shone through the windows, it was enough for her to see straight ahead, yet, not enough to stop her from tripping then plummeting the rest of the way down. Marinette bit her tongue expecting someone to appear, but nothing happened.
'They must be out… or they are just asleep…'
She wiped her forehead in relief, she didn't want to explain what happened at Freddy's to them, it just wouldn't be worth it. All she would be doing is stressing them out, it wasn't like a small little tiny strange dream was going to stop her from heading back to that haunted place. Tip toeing over to the fridge, she opened up the door looking for her water bottle
'Where is it… Ah! There you are!'
Marinette softly cheered pulling the bottle out and closing the fridge. Chugging down all the water on one fell swoop, she sighed in relief
'Ahhh! That was nice. What time is it?'
She walked over to the clock that sat on the counter, it shone the numbers 9:41pm
'Hm… I'll try to get some more sleep…'
Marinette slumped glaring at the stairs, she didn't want to have to walk all the way back! It just wasn't worth the trip! Still, the bed was the best place to sleep, she stumbled upstairs and flopped down onto her bed. Tikkididn't make a sound, but poked her head out to see Marinette awake, she turned away and decided not to ask or say anything for now, they both needed sleep, this wasn't a time for chit chat.
11:39pm
Marinette was roused awake by Tikki
'Owww… What time is it Tikki?'
'Time for your shift'
She chirped. Marinette flopped out of bed, rubbing her eyes
'Well, let's get going then, I have the night guard uniform on anyway'
Tikki laughed
'You were so tired, you just fell asleep the moment your face had contact with the pillow'
11:57pm
Marinette sat down, staring at the blank tablet, was everything really just a dream? Or was it all real? Tikki could feel the same presences as the night before, this time, it was much more aggressive.
'Marinette, something had changed, the energy I could feel yesterday has become more aggressive.'
She gave a worried glance over to Marinette, she looked back at Tikki, this wasn' what she wanted to hear.
'Hey, what could be the worst that could happen? We'll be fine'
She gave her usual big bright smile, this time, it was more forced.
Ring. Ring.
'The phone guy! I didn't think he would have left more than one recording'
"Uhh, hello? Hello?'
Tikki sat on Marinette's shoulder, she glanced down at the recorder. What phone guy said next gave Marinette shivers down her spine
"Freddy and his friends tend to become more active as the week progresses"
Marinette took ahold of the tablet, she wasn't going to take her eyes off any of the animatronics tonight, not a chance. If phone guy's message wasn't enough to creep Marinette out, seeing 3 animatronics staring right at the camera was.
'Eek! Tikki! Look!'
Freddy, Bonnie and Chica all glared at Marinette through the camera, their eyes were empty, glassy, yet there was anger, hate, revenge. Tikki felt as if she had been hit by a wall, a wall of energy to be more precise. They wanted them out, they wanted them dead, she could feel it and she knew it.
'Marinette, we have to get out of here'
Marinette stood her ground, she wasn't going anywhere, she needed the money and was willing to spend another night at Freddy's for it.
'Don't worry Tikki, this could all be just some elaborate prank. I will not fall for it'
Tikki sighed, it seemed that Marinette's determination to get some extra cash wasn't going to be broken by some haunted animatronics that are trying to kill her.
12:49am
Bonnie had disappeared to the hall, Chica was still sitting with Freddy. Meanwhile, Foxy was already sticking his head out the curtain. Marinette had completely forgotten about the fox animatronic since when she first came, she never saw him or heard of him.
'Marinette, have you checked Pirate's Cove?'
Tikki had been checking the doors often incase one of the animatronics decided to show up while Marinette had been checking the cameras so often and was drawing new designs in her journal. She jumped as Tikki scared her
'Wait? F-Foxy?!'
Tikki flew over to Marinette's side as she scrambled through the cameras, looking for Pirate's Cove. There, Foxy was staring at the camera just like the others had been, it's eyes were slightly glowing.
'H-He is starting to leave the cove Tikki'
Marinette's hands began to shake
'Tikki… I'm starting to think that maybe you were right all along…'
1:22am
SMASH!
Marinette slammed her hand against the door button, she had been searching for Chica on the cameras for a while now but was nowhere to be found, of course, that could only mean one thing… Well two if you counted she was already inside the office. She turned on the flimsy light to reveal the large yellow chicken with it's mouth open drooling, staring at her from the window with those hunger filled eyes, hunger for blood
'Tikki, tell me I'm just having nightmares'
Marinette sighed rubbing her face, it was too early for all of this hassle, she wasn't ready for another night at Freddy's. Chica on the other hand, seemed to be mostly enjoying herself, seeing the night guard distressed gave her some sort of sick pleasure indeed. Tikki shifted on the desk stretching her legs, she looked at Marinette who stumbled over back into the office chair
'I wish I could Marinette, I wish I could…'
Tikki mumbled to hself, she approached the animatronic chicken while Marinette went back to checking the cameras for the others, better safe than sorry. Tikki pressed herself closer to the glass, she tapped until Chica's head slightly twitched with a loud click and glassy eyes started at her, she whispered
'Please, tell me, why are you doing this? What happened to you?'
All she could do was hope that the animatronic would be able to understand her, well, what was inside the animatronic. Chica tilted her head down slightly, she closed her mouth for a moment before letting out a horrifying shriek
'HISKSK!'
Marinette looked towards Chica with a horrified expression, Chica opened her eyes up once more meeting with Tikki's, they had gone completely black with two white prickles. The large chicken then turned away not wanting to stay in the same vicinity or at least in view of their enemy. Tikki stayed frozen on the spot, her mind kept repeating that screech… It was just a screech right?…
'It sounded somewhat like a kid screaming? But… Why…'
Marinette felt a cold shiver run up her spine, she could feel someone watching her… Someone was inside the office… But it was only Tikki with her…
'T-That was c-creepy'
Marinette tooted in hoping to lighten the mood, she swallowed back her screams, this wasn't a time to be afraid, this was a time to survive, survive another night at Freddy's.
1:48am
Marinette flexed her hand massaging her hurting fingers, the tablet was rather heavy to hold and she didn't want to lean over it all night since her back was already aching from doing that during her first shift. Sighing, she opened up the cameras again
'Chica is in the kitchen…'
She flicked over to the party room hoping to find that the bunny hadn't moved any further
'Bonnie in the party room…'
She smiled feeling relieved, she clicked on the hallway camera near to her office. Her blood ran cold staring at the tablet
'W-When-n d-d-did th-i-i-s h-happe-en?…'
On the walls on the hallway were paintings, paintings of crying children… They were all coloured the same depressing grey, they had blue tear streaks running down their faces, their eyes wide open, their mouths agape as if trying to scream, yell, cry, yet not a sound came out…
Marinette rubbed her eyes feeling how dry they were, sighing, she shut them tight thinking to herself that this was all just some hallucination. That's right! It was all just a hallucination! Well, she hoped
'Come on Marinette, you can't let fear get the best of you'
She whispered to herself in encouragement, slowly opening one eye she stared at the monitor…
'There gone…'
All that was visible through the monitor was the plain, old, dirty wall. Wait, wasn't this a working pizzeria? Shouldn't it look cleaner? Oh well. Tikki floated by the (left/right?) door staring into the hallway in case anybody would appear. Marinette stood up walking silently towards the other door, she leaned out to look at the hallway
'Still gone…'
Sighing again, she went back into the office to sit down once more looking through the monitor.
2:07am
'Hahaha'
A low deep sounding laughter echoed throughout the pizzeria, Marinette gasped surprised, she turned to Tikki
'Tikki, you heard that too right?'
Tikki nodded as she watched Bonnie who had parked himself by the door, the rabbit had been standing there for 10 minutes already! When was it going to leave!?
'Yeah, it sounded a bit like Freddy'
She pointed out, Marinette bit her lip
'Tikki… I haven't checked on Freddy…'
The girl's pulse began to speed up, her hands reached for the monitor going through almost every camera before reaching the main stage. There it was…
'Nothing…'
Her heart sank into the ground, the big brown fluffy bear was missing, he wasn't sitting on stage anymore. Marinette muttered reassurance, maybe Freddy wasn't showing because the camera was broken? Nope.
After a minute of searching for Freddy Fazebear she found two white prinkles in the darkness of the party room glowing at the back, she didn't know for sure if it was Freddy or not but a part of her told her it was.
Tikki still floated by the door with Bonnie, the bunny finally started to turn away but not without throwing a quick glare at the small red creature, Bonnie made a strange gargaling noise then left.
'krrrrggiiirrlllleeeffrrr…'
Tikki opened the door up
'Killer…?'
2:23am
'Hahaha'
Freddy laughed again moving in even closer to the office, he now was situated in the female toilets with his head sticking out leearing at the camera. Marinette shuddered
'Does he not know those are the female toilets…? They don't even look hygienic…'
Tikki sat on the table looking at the monitor with Marinette, Chica was in the kitchen unmoving, Bonnie was at the party room, while Foxy had part of his body leaning out the Pirate Cove's curtain, is eye stared at the camera, into Marinette soul as if judging her for her every action.
'Marinette, I think Freddy is like Foxy, we have to watch him to keep him at bay'
Marinette nodded agreeing
'Yeah… We have to keep a close eye on those two…'
2:41am
Bonnie had just left the closet, Chica had come by the door but left immediately after getting the door smashed in front of her peak, Freddy was still at the female toilets which Marinette was rather glad about, at least she didn't have to worry too much about him… Foxy on the other hand was already fully out of his curtain with his head twisted in a very er… Peculiar… Position…
Marinette stopped dead on the backroom camera…
'Oh come on'
She mumbled to herself slouching forward feeling her sanity slowly drifting further and further away from her, it would be a shock if she had any left by the end of her five night shift. All the heads inside the backroom were staring at her, even the damn endoskeleton was sitting up with it's head turned to her! How de hell does that even happen!?
Marinette rubbed her face tiredly, she wasn't going to deal with this right now, she didn't care if they all stared at her for eternity, they could go eat poop on a stick for all she cared.
Changing cameras then returning to that one showed that the heads and the endoskeleton were no longer looking at her anymore, it was hard to say if it was a hallucination or if it was reality though… She groaned
'Go eat poop on a stick Fazegang…'
A ghostly figure lingered behind the girl chocking back a laugh, not once had it heard someone say an insult without swearing, if you could call it an insult.
3:18am
'AHHH! TIKKI! HELP!'
Marinette screamed horrified, Foxy the pirate Fox was out of his cove! Marinette stared at the monitor where the sign that usually said "OUT OF ORDER" now stated "IT'S ME"
'W-who? Who are you?'
There was a loud clanging sound, a little more like heavy foot steps as Foxy came sprinting, she changed cameras to see the Fox running down the left hallway. Marinette screamed
'LEFT DOOR!'
It only took her seeing a glimpse of the animatronic Fox for her to see her life coming to an end… She didn't want this… But… She couldn't move… Yet, she wasn't afraid… All she could do was watch, a strange force seemed to give her some reassurance…
Tikki made a mad dash for the door button, her small body slammed against it sending the heavy metal door slamming in front of Foxy's snout, the Fox hadn't moved any further in.
SMASH!
SLAM!
For a moment, just for a second, the Fox animatronic had slightly paused in front of the office, his body glitches out, his mouth opening and snapping closed with a loud clank. He stood there growling.
There was a loud scratching sound as the door scrapped against the Fox's snout, that had been a little too close for comfort. Foxy slammed his body against the door, Marinette held her head, what if the fox got inside of the room?! What if he broke down the door!? WHAT IF HE BROKE THE GLASS!? Tikki glanced over to Marinette, who was having a meltdown, she rested a hand on the shaking girl's shoulder
'Marinette, we WILL get through this, don't worry'
Marinette lifted her head, she gave a small smile and nodded. It didn't matter what was thrown her way, she had Tikki with her, she wasn't alone… Well, even if Tikki wasn't there… She wouldn't have been alone… The energy that coursed through the office vanished
3:33am
This was crazy! This couldn't possibly be happening! Marinette grinned her teeth wanting to bash her head on the desk but retained herself
Power 33%
When the hell had she consumed so much!? HOW!? She glared at the fan
'I bet it's you…'
Tikki looked at Marinette giggling
'Why don't you just unplug it then? It must be connected somewhere'
Marinete nodded leaning under the desk
'Keep an eye on the animatronics for me will you Tikki?'
'Aye!'
Marinette shuffled under the desk while holding her Dad's flashlight to look around and…
Marinette froze… Oh… Oh no… Her eyes darted all over the wall, this couldn't be possible!
'Tikki…'
'Hm?'
'The fan isn't connected to anything… It's not even plugged in…'
Tikki stared at the fan suddenly feeling rather unsettled, Marinette came out from under the desk, she glanced at the fan
'Maybe it uses batteries…'
She took ahold of the fan turning it over but… Nothing… there was no place to put any batteries in, it wasn't solar powered, there wasn't any charging port beneath it… Marinette slowly put the fan back into place then retracted to the chair holding her flash light and monitor close
'Let's keep our distance from that… Thing…'
3:57am
Marinette used the flashlight to see if there were any animatronics at the door, she wasn't going to risk wasting extra power by using the door lights, heck no! The flashlight was useful but the stained dirty glass did make it hard to see Chica, she placed herself on an angel ever since Marinette started using the flashlight. Bonnie was easy to deal with since he didn't seem to care about the bright light shining into his stiff eyes.
Foxy had made another sprint down the hallway not soon after returning to the cove, this time, Marinette had flashed the light down the hall Foxy was sprinting, she knew it was a risk but seeing Chica's reaction it could mean Foxy would react the same way. to her pleasure, the Fox did growl as he slowed down his sprint. At last she knew how to deal with every single animatronic…
That showed them selfs willingly
4:12am
There was only 29% power left, Marinette sat on the swivel chair legs huddled in just waiting for the Chica to leave, she had been staring at Marinette which was freaking the girl out. Tikki guarded the other door and reminded Marinette to keep checking on Freddy and Foxy
'Tikki, I don't know if I can take this any longer'
She tried to get up but struggled to stand, her legs felt cramped from running side to side and jumping in surprise to the animatronics scaring her. Tikki looked at Marinette and smiled
'We are nearly there Marinette, just hang in there'
5:35am
'CRAP!'
Tikki pressed the door button right before Chica could get ahold of her, that was too close! The chicken had reached inside in hopes to capture the ladybug, Marinette half lay on the floor as she had tripped when pressing the door button. Foxy had made another sprint from the cove towards the office and caught Marinette off guard. Foxy glared from the window, Marinette didn't intend to make eye contact but did anyway, Foxy gave a frightening smile and turned away.
'Owww… Come on 6am…'
6am
The bell went off finally, setting Marinette and Tikki free from the hell hole they got themselves into. Marinette took her phone out immediately sending a message to Adrain, Nino and Alya.
"Hey Adrien, Nino, Alya.
Could you please come to the local park at 7am? I need to tell you all something really important and it's urgent. Thanks! See you soon!"
-—-
Adrien poked his head out of bed, his messy hair covered his eyes. His phone was on the floor with a new text message he just received. He reached down to picked it up
'Is Nino already texting? I really should get up ugh (yawn)…'
Adrien squinted his eyes
'Marinette?'
He tilted his head confused, his hair still covering his eyes and making it hard to see anything. He wiped it away and began to read the message.
'Important? Urgent?!'
Adrien flung his bed covers to one side, this wasn't a time to be sleeping, something bad could have happened. Nino would be there so he didn't send him a message
'Plagg! Get up! We have to get going!'
He shouted across the room, Plagg slept in a hidden room within the wall, there was a bed, lights and all Plagg asked for since if Adrien didn't give him the correct thing the cat would complain all day. The black cat awoke, it stared from it's home with sleepy eyes.
'Do we seriously have to go Adrien? Can't we just sleep? (Yawn mixed with a meow)
Adrien gave him a glare
'Yes, we do'
He was serious. Still, he knew Plagg wouldn't be happy unless he was given something more
'(Sigh) Yeah yeah I'm coming Adrien…'
Adrien smiled
'Hey Plagg~'
Plagg looked up annoyed
'What?'
'Who want's some fresh, smelly, delicious, Camembert? I kept it just for you~'
'YES! I'LL GO! GIVE ME THAT CAMEMBERT!
