A FNAF Reality

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Chapter 4: Creepy

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I squeezed Eddie's hand when people began to brush up against me. Eddie held me close and whispered that he was here next to me. I closed my eyes as we entered in. Once we were inside, I felt the crowd move away from me, splitting up into smaller groups. They gasped in awe. I opened my eyes and instantly felt goosebumps run across my arms.

Everyone's shoes thudded against the black and white checkered tile floors as they walked around us. Some of the fans slowed down a bit to take it all in, just like I was. We entered into the dining room. White, confetti covered table cloths covered over each of the six long tables in the middle of the room; five cone shaped birthday hats sat in a line on top.

On the walls were birthday decorations and pictures drawn by kids in crayon. Glittery streamers and colorful balloons filled to their fullest were strung above us, crisscrossing right and left, like a distorted spider web. A huge banner above in said "Welcome!"

The room was pretty big for a pizzeria... unless that was what Scott wanted it to be; big, so we all felt like little kids again.

Suddenly, Shy placed her arm out, making us stop. "What?" I asked. She pointed up to the ceiling and looked at us. "Listen," she said. Eddie and I listened. Gradually, a smile began to grow on my face. Eddie gave me a look. "What is it?" he asked. It was the music. They were playing all the FNAF fan songs; hopefully with permission. They were recently playing the one by the Living Tombstone. I hoped they would also play others by DA Games or TryhardNinja.

On one side of the room were the arcade games, all lined up, blinking and making strange noises to get someone's attention; but no one walked over to play them. Everyone was crowded around the stage and the smaller stage nearby.

I heard Shy gasp. "Woah..." she said. Eddie squeezed my hand back as he stared towards the bigger stage. "Wow...they are bigger then I thought they would be," he said. I looked over to the stage and felt my heart skip a beat. On the stage were the three well known animatronics: Bonnie, Chica, and Freddy himself.

A bubble of excitement rose inside me and I felt a wave of goosebumps crawl over me. I beamed excitedly and took a couple steps forward, but soon stopped because there was already so many people packed, shoulder to shoulder, close to the stage.

Eds was right, they were big. The animal robots looked gigantic. They were not human size at all, they looked more to be seven or even eight feet tall. Maybe it was just how they were on the stage. When I last went to Chuck E Cheeses, the characters on the stage looked like they were ten feet tall. On top of that, I was very tiny and everything looked huge in my eyes.

Everyone crowded at the base of the stage, lifting their phones up and taking pictures or recording video of the animatronics. The animatronics looked exactly like from the games. They stood stiff still, and stared past the crowds of people.

Bonnie the Bunny stood on the left side of the stage, his bluish-purple fur looked stiff and old. His mouth was closed shut, and his eyes were half open. He held his cherry red retro guitar in his hands at an awkward angle. His red bowtie looked like it was slightly faded in dust.

Chica stood to the right side of the stage. She was slightly shorter then the others, but was bigger around the middle. Her bib had the well known "Lets Eat!" saying in yellow and purple letters with a couple pieces of confetti printed on it. In one of her hands was her little pink frosted cupcake. The cupcake, or Carl as some of the fans called it, was bigger than any normal cupcake. It's dark rimmed eyes were open and just stared blankly at the back of the room.

Freddy stood in the middle of the stage with his microphone in his left hand. His fur was short and light brown. The lights that shined on them gave his fur a light pink look. His mouth was slightly open and his small black top hat sat on top of his head.

The smaller stage, to the left of the bigger stage, was crowded around by many people who were huge fans of that certain animatronic. The purple curtain decorated with silver stars was pulled open. Foxy the Pirate Fox's head went right over everyone's else's as he stood stiff still like the others; his eyes half closed. I wanted to see him too, but I was going to have to wait till the crowds died down.

All in all, the workers who built the animatronics did an awesome job making them look just like the robots from the game. The animatronics also looked very grimy and dirty as well, as if they were always here for years and no one knew about their presence until now. I was very happy and excited, I couldn't stop smiling.

Some of the younger kids tried climbing up onto the stage to touch Freddy's feet, but the workers there kept them from doing so. No one was allowed to touch, or even walk on the stage to take selfies with the animatronics. A couple individuals from the crowds were disappointed; but soon after, everyone was shouting excitedly for Freddy and the others to be turned on and to play a couple songs.

Eddie poked me, snapping me out of my gaze at the animals onstage and pointed at one of the tables. "You want to sit?" he asked. I hesitated and looked around the room. It was all so amazing and so much to look at, I really didn't want to sit down. I felt like a little kid being taken to Disneyland for the first time.

"Not really. I want to take a picture of the animatronics," I said with a huge smile on my face. Eddie laughed and shook his head. "Allright. Me and Shy will come with you," he said. I smiled and pulled him towards the huge stage. Some of the people in the crowd had left to look at something else, others were trying to take selfies with the animatronics in the background. One kid quickly tapped Freddy's foot when one of the workers wasn't looking and laughed excitedly as he ran away from the stage.

The stage was four feet off the ground. Eddie gently pushed me through the crowd to the stage. Thankfully people moved away from me as I came up to the stage. The stage came up to my stomach. If I wanted to, I could easily reach over and touch Freddy's leg. I pushed the temptation away and looked up at Freddy, He stared right over my head. I looked over to Bonnie, who did the same. It felt so unreal to be this close to them; it was very exciting, I still couldn't believe this all was real. I smiled up at the robots.

"Hey Ren! Turn around," Eddie told me. I turned around and saw him with his phone up. I blushed and instinctively placed my hand in front of my face. Eddie smirked and lowered it. "Aw come on," he said. I smiled and sighed. "Fine, go ahead," I said. Eddie grinned and lifted his phone up again. I smiled and Eddie took the picture. Right when Eddie took it, a guy shouldered past Eddie and got in front of him.

"Move please," he said as he stood in between us and stared up at the animatronics. My lower back pressed up against the stage as the big, overweight guy stood in front of me. He was a couple inches taller then me, possibly in his late twenties; and was ten times wider than me. He wore a pair of thick, black glasses on the end of his round nose. He wore a dark brown XXL shirt with a stretched out Freddy Fazbear face on it with a pair of green and white shorts. A black baseball cap sat on his head. His hair was dark brown and stuck out from his hat. He had a thick matted beard that looked like he didn't really take care of it that well. I started to scoot to the right along the stage, away from the guy. He just stared up at the robots, not taking out his camera or phone or anything. He just stared.

I went around him to where Eddie and Shy were. They had moved away from the strange guy. Eddie looked a bit irritated by the guy. I touched his shoulder and gave him a quick kiss on the cheek. "It's ok. Let's go over to the arcade area," I offered, trying to keep him distracted and forget about the creepy guy. Eddie turned to where the heavy set guy was and gave him a silent death glare before turning back to us and nodding his head. "Ok," he said. With that, we started going over to the arcade section and looking at the games.

Soon our interest in the games diminished when we saw a new forming crowd in the back. I gasped when I realized why everyone was lining up down the two small hallways past the prize counter. It was the security room. Eddie pulled us both over to the hallway on the left, the East hall, with a shorter line. We waited around for what felt like an hour. We got to the window where Chica usually looks through where there was already a couple teens taking pictures, pretending to be creepy animatronics while the teen inside playing in the security chair acted all scared and took pictures. I took a peek inside. Inside was like stepping into the game.

The room was very small, with a small black desk, a couple fake cobwebs, the striped red and white cup, crumpled up paper balls, and the famous whirring metal fan. There was a couple small little tv sets that were connected to cables and wires that came from the ceiling. The little screens flickered to each camera inside the pizzeria. I couldn't see the screens properly from where I stood.

Lots of flashes from cameras and phones went off since it was dark in the room. The only light came from the one naked lightbulb that hung above the security chair. I started feeling like the walls were closing in on me and had to leave the hallway. Eddie followed with me, Shy took one last look before following with us.

Shy, Eddie and I walked to a table that was to the left of the stage and sat down. A couple parents already sat at the tables, uninterested in the things happening inside the pizzeria.

"So, are you having fun?" asked Eddie. I smiled and nodded my head. "Yeah! This is amazing! It's just like the game," I said smiling. Eddie smiled back and nodded. "Yeah, it's amazing how they did this place," he agreed. Shy nodded too as she looked back to the security office. "I even saw the Yellow Freddy inside the security room."

"What?" I asked, my mouth dropping open. "Where was he? I didn't see him," I said. It was a very small office, crammed with people; I'm surprised they actually placed the Golden Freddy inside the office. "He was behind the kid in the chair," she explained. I nodded. "Oh."

After a couple minutes of sitting quietly and looking around, Eddie spoke up. "You guys hungry? I could buy us all some pizza," he offered. I smiled and nodded. "That would be great, thanks. Can I have a slice of cheese pizza, please?" I asked. Eddie nodded. "What about you Shy?" he asked. Shy waved her hand and shook her head. "No, I'm fine," she said. Eddie shrugged. "Suit yourself," with that, he left to the back, past the arcade games.

I kept looking over to the animatronics. The people came and left, but it was still crowded where the animatronics were since they were the stars of the pizzeria. If they moved I'm sure everyone would go bat shit crazy.

Suddenly, Shy tapped me on the shoulder. I turned to her. She kept her head low as she leaned closer to me. "You want to move?" she asked me in a whisper I could barely hear over the constant chatter in the pizzeria. I gave her a quizzical look, then looked over her head. My eyes widened in realization when I saw the overweight man from before. He sat on the other side of our table with his own box of pizza. I turned back to my sister and nodded. "Yeah," I said.

Right as we were getting up, I saw his head turn toward us at the corner of my eye. I turned my head away and hoped he was just looking at the animatronics again. "Hey, I like your Bonnie sweater," he said. Me and Shy stopped in our tracks and exchanged a quick glance. I looked down at my Bonnie sweater before turning to him and giving him a small smile. "Thanks," I said. He continued to stare at me.

"Is your name Maddie?" he asked. I gave him a look. "Uhhh...no," I responded. His eyes were big and creepy looking. "My favorite game is Five Nights At Freddys," he responded. I smiled again and nodded. "Yeah, that's nice," I said. Shy began to pull me away. The man continued to stare at us, then he opened up his box. "Care for a piece?" he asked. I shook my head politely. "No, thank you, my boyfriend is getting our pizza," I said and started walking away from the table with Shy. I turned away from the guy, but still felt his eyes on me. I shuddered and continued walking. We found Eddie still in line for the pizza. He was surprised to see us both meeting him in the line.

"Hey, what happened?" he asked. I pointed over to our table. "The creepy guy sat at our table," I explained. Shy nodded, "He started asking Ren if her name was Maddie and if we wanted some of his pizza," she said. Eddie's expression changed. "Hm...well there are more places to sit. We'll sit on the other side of the room, away from him," he said. I nodded my head, but I still felt a little scared. The guy made me uncomfortable. I wished that he wasn't a Five Nights At Freddy's Fan, or just didn't come here at all, but he was here, and there was nothing I could do about it. The least I could do was be nice and just stay away from him.

Suddenly the colorful lights began to flash and the music in the room began to change. The dining room lights went out, except for the colorful stage lights. Suddenly a loud voice ripped through the pizzeria from the speakers. "Hello Five Night fans! Welcome to Scott Cawthon's Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria!" the announcer guy said. Everyone whooped and clapped excitedly. The announcer spoke again. "You all ready for Freddy?!" he asked. Everyone screamed and clapped. I winced from the loud noise but clapped my gloved hands together and smiled.

"I can't hear you," the announcer voice said, elongating his words. Everyone cheered and whooped louder. With that, as if by magic, Freddy, Bonnie, Chica and Foxy all "woke up" and began to move. Freddy waved his hand in a choppy motion. "H-hey boys and girls!" he said into his fake microphone, but of course he was barely heard over the screams and shouts from the huge forming crowd. My mouth dropped open in shock as I watched where I stood. Eddie tapped me on the shoulder but I ignored it. Then he grabbed my sleeve and pulled me across the room to the other side of the room. My eyes stayed on the animatronics as they talked over the crowd.

Lots of flashes from cameras were seen, causing me to see spots every time I blinked. I saw Foxy wave his hook over the silhouettes of people at the corner of my eye. A spotlight came on him as he started to speak in his robotic pirate voice. A couple times I heard someone shout, "I love you, Foxy!" or "Sing me a song, Freddy!" I smiled a huge smile and started jumping up and down like a little kid would who just ate a bunch of candy. Eddie held my shoulders, keeping me down. "Calm down," he said, but I could see on his face that he was very amused by my excitement. I looked over to Shy, who was also mesmerized by the quirky movements of the animatronics.

Bonnie and Chica talked as well. Their voices were kind of what I pictured their voices to be. Bonnie's voice slightly higher than Freddy's, Chica's all bubbly and cheerful, and Freddy's a deep booming voice, but still very friendly. Then Freddy turned to the audience and asked if anyone had a birthday today. Eddie jokingly pushed my elbow up, making me raise my hand. I quickly pulled my arm down and gave Eddie a look. Eddie laughed mischievously at me, making me smile.

Most likely the animatronics couldn't really see. I know there were some animatronics now who could recognize people and what color shirts they were wearing. I wondered how advanced the animatronics were.

I saw a couple hands shoot up into the air. Freddy's eyes scanned the audience. "Great! How old are you turning?" he asked into his fake microphone to no one in particular. "Ren turned twenty!" Eddie shouted. I grabbed his arm and told him to shush. Eddie snickered. "He's a robot. He can't hear me," Eddie said.

"Did I hear twenty?" asked Freddy. I felt a wave of heat pass through my body. Did he hear Eds? Bonnie strummed his guitar. "H-h-h-ey Freddy! Let's sing Happy Birthday!" the purple rabbit suggested. Freddy opened his mouth as a way of smiling towards the audience. "Ok! S-s-sing along with us b-b-boys and girls!" he said as they began to reposition themselves onto the stage.

"Everybody ready?" asked Chica, lifting her cupcake high into the air. Everyone whooped and cheered. "Ok! on the count of four! One..." Chica started. "T-t-two..." said Foxy from his little stage. "Thr-three..." said Bonnie as he moved his hand up, ready to strum his guitar. "Four!" Freddy said as he lifted the microphone up to his mouth.

Everyone sang Happy Birthday with the animatronics. I smiled and whispered the words with everyone else. Eddie leaned over and said my name once everyone got to the part where you said the birthday boy or girl's name. I smiled up to him as he gave me a kiss on the cheek.

Finally they got down to the end of the song, and everyone clapped and screamed loudly. I heard a couple younger kids cry from the loud noise. I winced, but clapped. I was having a lot of fun.

Just then I saw a figure come up onto the stage. The figure stumbled from the curtains and out to the middle, in between Bonnie and Freddy. It was the creepy guy from before. People stopped shouting and clapping when they noticed him too. Some shouted for him to get off of the stage. Others chuckled and started recording him on their phones. The creepy guy placed one hand in front of him from the lights. He ducked when Freddy slowly swung his arm towards his direction and started looking for something behind Freddy's back.

The employees came up to the stage and told him to get down. The creepy guy ignored them and continued tampering with Freddy. Finally, two guys in black shirts with the words, Security on the front came up onto the stage and slowly approached him. The creepy guy started ripping wires and parts of Freddy's fur from his back. Sparks flew from Freddy then he made a strange, sharp metallic sound before going still. The crowds shouted for the guy to stop. The two men grabbed the creepy guys arms and began to drag him away.

The creepy guy kicked and thrashed angrily. "No! Stop it!" he screamed angrily, kicking Freddy's leg. The security guys wouldn't stop and continued to drag the overweight guy away as he started spewing out curse words and random nonsense about the animatronics being rip offs and how he didn't see any kids inside of Freddy. "All of you are assholes! It's all a lie! Let go of me!"

He kicked the side of the purple and black curtain close to Bonnie, causing the ends to sway wildly. The creepy guy was pulled out to the back of the stage through an emergency exit and was finally gone. The crowd clapped; happy that the deranged man was gone.

With that, the lights came back on, and the curtain for the main stage began to close. A worker placed a sign in front of the stage that read: Out of Order. I found it somewhat ironic, but reversed at the same time. I exchanged glances with Eddie and Shy, who looked back at me with concerned looks on their faces. "Wow...that was..." his voice faltered for the lack of the right word to describe the situation. "Creepy?" Shy offered. I nodded. "Yes," I agreed. We stood awkwardly in silence for a couple minutes while the crowds dispersed from the main stage.

Finally, Eddie broke the silence and pointed over to the tables. "Go find a spot to sit. I'm going to get our pizzas," he said. Shy and I nodded and made our way back to the tables. We found three empty chairs near the end of one table and quickly sat down. Me and my sister stayed quiet as we waited for Eddie to came back with the pizza.

I looked over to the closed curtain on the main stage and watched the curtain move. Every time it did, the opening in the middle would sometimes open up, revealing the maintenance crew be seen shuffling around Freddy.

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