Living a Nightmare
Chapter 4
In the regular world the guys were all watching with caution as Paul slept peacefully. "Do you think he's okay?" Steph asked Shawn as she watched her husband. "Don't worry Steph I'm sure he's fine." Shawn told her. Steph nodded her head as she like the others waited for any signs of defeat in Paul.
"Welcome to the ring Freddy!" Paul yelled at him as he dragged him into the ring. Paul threw the first punch and made contact with Freddy's face. He fell backwards but came back up and charged for Paul with a spear.
Paul was able to get up and recover before Freddy came towards him with the knives on his hand. Paul rolled out of the ring while Freddy was lying in the middle of the mat and found a gas tank by the entrance way. He found a lighter near by that the staff used for inferno matches.
After he poured the gasoline around the ring he used the lighter and lit it. Before anything could really happened Paul noticed Freddy wasn't inside of the ring in fact when Paul turned around he was standing right in front of him.
"You know you're not suppose to play with fire you might get burned." Freddy yelled as he pushed Paul into the fire. Before Paul could react Freddy had disappeared.
"Paul, Paul wake up bring the fire extinguisher now!" Glen yelled as he used anything he could to take out the fire as he watched Paul scream in pain for help. Mark ran in with the fire extinguisher and blew out the fire. Mark just watched in pain, he knew this was a bad idea but Paul told him nothing bad would happen to him and now he was watching on as the ambulance showed up and took Paul away on a stretcher.
"I can't believe this happened to Paul, now what?" Adam asked Mark as they left the arena. Mark looked up as he saw the looks on his coworker's faces; he didn't know what to say. "First we make sure Paul is okay at the hospital and go from there." Mark told him as he got into his car and headed towards the hospital followed by everyone else.
At the hospital…"I'm so sorry Paul I should've let you do this." Shawn told himself as he watched the doctors help his best friend.
A few minutes later, Mark showed up with Glen, Big Show and Adam while everyone else went back to the hotel. "
"How is he?" Mark asked Shawn as he walked into the waiting room. Shawn didn't hear him at first until he turned around and saw Mark standing right beside him.
"He's unconscious right now and suffered second degree burns. Other than that the doctors say he's lucky to still be breathing on his own considering how much smoke he inhaled from the fire." Shawn told him as he sat back down.
"What about Steph is she okay?" Glen asked concerned. "Yeah I think she'll be fine, she's in his room now, and she hasn't left his side since the doctors brought him out of surgery." Shawn told him. Glen nodded his head as he stood up against the wall.
"Well don't worry Paul is the toughest guy I know he'll be okay and we're not going to leave until he wakes up." Big Show told Shawn as he put his hand on his shoulder giving the older guy some hope. "I agree with show." Mark told him.
Meanwhile…."Why are you doing this to me?" she asked. "The only way for me to live is if all of you die." he told him. "Please don't kill me; I just want to go home please." She begged him.
"All don't worry you won't feel a thing." He told her as he dragged her to the side of a building and held her over the edge, "Please don't do this please don't do this oh god nooooo." She yelled waking up.
Mark and Shawn ran into Paul's room when they heard Steph screaming and saw the look on her face.
"Steph are you okay?" Shawn asked as walked towards her.
"He almost killed me Shawn Freddy's to strong. I'm so scared right now I don't know what to do." Steph told him crying. Shawn just held her in a comforting friendly hug, "Shhhh it's going to be okay. You're going to be fine we won't let Freddy get to you okay, I'll be sure of it." Shawn told her rubbing her back gently.
Shawn and Mark stayed at the hospital with Stephanie while Big Show went back to the hotel to tell the others Paul's Condition. "Will he be okay?" Amy asked him holding onto Adam's hand. "Yeah the doctors said he'll make a full recovery but he won't be able to wrestle again." Show told them. The room was in complete silence, no could believe their ears. "Are you serious?" asked Kofi. Show nodded his head. "Yeah we couldn't believe it either but that's what they told…"He was cut off by a loud scream outside.
As soon as they heard the scream everyone ran outside, that's when Amy, Gail, and the rest of the divas started to scream. Right there lying on the ground was the French blond Maryse. "Oh my god it's Maryse and there's nothing left of her but her intestines." cried Michelle.
"We need to call Mark now!" yelled Randy as he ran back into the hotel. Randy grabbed his phone from his pocket and dialed Mark's number, "Come on pick up!" Randy yelled.
At the hospital, "Hey Mark is that your phone ringing." Shawn asked him. Mark didn't even notice his phone was ringing after everything that had happened. Mark got his phone and answered," Hello." "Mark it's me you have to get back to the hotel now." Randy told him.
"What come down Randy what happened?" Mark asked. "Maryse is dead she was thrown of the roof of the hotel." He told him.
"What was she sleep?" Mark asked. Randy shook his head," No her eyes were open which means she was awake the whole time." Randy told him still in shock. Mark rubbed his hands on his face, another one of his friends were dead and there was nothing he could do until they killed Freddy.
"Alright look I'll be there in few minutes okay. Just keep everyone in the lounge and don't let anybody leave alone understood." Mark told him grabbing his from the table beside him. "Okay" Randy told him as he hung up.
Mark hung his phone up and put it back in his pocket, "Mark what happened?" Shawn asked. "That was Randy; he just told me that Maryse is dead. They found her outside the hotel. Her body was literally cut up. All was left of her were her intestines.
"Oh my god!" said Shawn as he covered his mouth. "Look I have to get back to the hotel, you stay here with Stephanie so she won't be to frighten." Mark told him as he headed towards the exit, he didn't know that Steph had heard everything. "What happened at the hotel?" she asked him scared. Mark looked at Shawn and then back at Steph before he answered, "They found Maryse dead." He told her.
All Stephanie could do was cover her mouth, "What happened?" she asked. "She was thrown from the top of the hotel and killed on impact. All was left were her guts all over the ground." He told her. "Look I have to go the hotel and make sure everyone else is okay Shawn and Glen are going to stay here with you okay." He told her. Stephanie just nodded her head as she watched the dead man leave the waiting area.
When Mark got to the hotel, he ran inside and saw the police there with Vince. "Vince why are the police here, they can't help us?" He asked his boss. "I know but they might be able to give us some insight on why this Freddy guy is after all of you and."" Before Vince could finish, the unthinkable happened. They all watched in horror as they couldn't believe their eyes; Natalya was being dragged across the ceiling.
"Natalya!" yelled all the divas. No one could help the blonde Canadian, "Help me somebody help me." She yelled. "No one can help you now!" he told her as he ripped his knives across her chest multiple times. The superstars and divas could only watch in horror, they couldn't help her.
Before anybody could try to react, Natalya was thrown to the ground, as her coworkers looked in horror. Another one was dead and this time they all saw it happened and no one knew what to do.
"How are we going to stop him now?" asked Adam as he held Amy who was still crying. Everyone was still in shock of what happened to Maryse and Natalya.
"I don't know we can do Paul's plan again but with someone else, like me." Mark told them. "Do you really think that's a smart idea considering what happened to Paul?" Evan asked him. "No, but it's the only plan we have and we got to try something." Mark told them.
At the hospital…..Paul had just woken up and was looking for wife and friends. "Stephanie, are you here?" Paul asked trying to sit up.
Stephanie heard her name and ran into Paul's room, "Paul its okay I'm right here." She told him as she held his hand. Paul looked at her and knew from the expression on her face that something was wrong.
"What's wrong, what happened?" Paul asked her with concern.
"Paul you're in the hospital sweetie, the plan with Freddy didn't turned out very well." She told him.
"What happened?" He asked her.
"When you tried to burn him, he pushed you into the fire and disappeared." She said. "Where's Mark at?" He asked her now scared. She told him what happened to her and what happened at the hotel to Maryse and Natalya. Paul just laid his head back on the pillow and sighed, "This is all my fought, I never should have thought I could kill Freddy on my own." He told as he rubbed his chin. "Paul, what happened in your dream?" She asked him.
Paul told her everything that happened from the beginning where he was in the neighborhood, to when he was in house and Freddy played with his head making him think that his mother was there in the house.
Stephanie couldn't believe what she was hearing, "How did know that woman wasn't your mother?" She asked. "It was just the way she was acting, then I saw her eyes which weren't real and what really gave it away was the color of her eyes. My mother's eyes are brown just like mine." He told her.
All Stephanie could do was comfort him, Shawn heard all of this when he came back from the cafeteria. "Hey Paul your awake, here's your coffee Steph." Shawn told her handing her the coffee. "Hey where's Glen?" Steph asked as she took a sip of her coffee. "I think he went back to the hotel to check Mark and the others.
"How are you doing Paul?" Shawn asked him as he sat down. "I've been better, just ready to get out of here." Paul told him. An hour later Mark came back to the hospital, "Hey Paul I heard you were awake." Mark told him as he came inside.
"Listen me and the guys were thinking that we try your plan again, only this time you all put me to sleep instead." Mark told him.
"Are you sure about this, I mean I barely got out alive?" Paul told him. Mark nodded his head," I know, but it's the only way to kill him."
"Alright do you have any more of that anesthesia to put you to sleep?" Paul asked him. Mark nodded his head as he pulled the needle out of his jacket pocket. "When do we start?" Steph asked concerned.
"We start tonight, and this time we use a weapon to make sure he's dead." Mark told her. "I'm coming with you." Paul told him as he got of bed. Mark turned around quick, "NO!" he yelled in his undertaker's voice. "You can't come Paul; Freddy has already gotten to you before and almost killed you. He knows you're vulnerable right now and you need to stay here where you're safe." Mark told him.
"Look I'll be fine I just can't let you do this alone we're all in this together and I won't sit here while you risk your life understood." Paul told the older man. Mark nodded his head as they all left the hospital heading for the hotel first to tell the others their plan.
Will Mark defeat Freddy, will he have help from somebody, maybe his brother Kane, or will Freddy have the last laugh after all he is the master of nightmares?
Find out in the next chapter