FIVE NIGHTS AT FLIPPYS

Day 2- 8am

Lily arrived at the pizzeria the next morning to find Kid's Cove decorated with a banner advertising a new animatronic and something no larger than a small child covered by a white sheet.

"Good morning!"Giggles said. "We're getting ready to show off a new robot".

"There was a competition a few weeks ago to create a second mascot for Kid's Cove" Petunia added as she walked in. "We're holding a celebration for the winner today, so it'll be busy".

"Ok, anything I should know about?" Lily asked.

"Just make sure no one messes with the robots onstage when go off to lunch today" Petunia replied. "They're fine walking around but we don't know what would happen if someone climbs up onstage".

"Yeah ok" the dragoness said before heading over to her office.

She walked in and found a note on her desk, neatly folded and addressed to her. She sighed and opened it up, expecting either the frantic panic and plea from help from Flaky, or some barrage of death threats or typical villain speech from Evil. While a quick look at the signature at the bottom showed it was from Evil, what she got was surprisingly thought out.

Lily,

Usually I don't get much time to think, I just kill someone and then do whatever I feel like until the town resets itself. I would appreciate it if you would talk with me during the day, I don't like this. I'm stuck here with my own thoughts and I can't do anything! Do you know how frustrating it is to have all these ideas to rip you to pieces and I can't do anything with them!

Lily stopped reading and gave Evil a flat look.

"Let me guess, you wanna kill me 'cause I'm something new right? At least you made my first death here quick compared to what you usually do" She said and returned to the note.

I haven't been in the company of my own thoughts for years, not since the war. While I'm here, with no way of moving and having to use some supernatural horse shit to write this damn thing, I may as well ask you a question.

Why do you seem to have some shred of respect for me? The pansy Cub Scout I can get, but me? If you have noticed, I'm a killer and yet your first instinct is to talk to me.

"Oh yeah, I figured you'd be confused by that" Lily said. "To explain it simply, you're creative when it comes to killing, kinda awesome and, well this is a world where death has no consequence, you can do whatever you want and no one will give a shit because of that. I do have a theory that most of the town is populated by idiots too dumb to truly feel the kind of 'scarred for life' stuff you do to them. Am I scared of you? Yes, but I respect you enough that if you were to stop being a psycho for five minutes and actually talk, I'd go along with it instead getting the hell out of dodge".

"I think that might be the stress of the last week talking though, I dunno, isn't it enough that I think you're awesome?" She stated and looked back at the note.

Such a shame you're not the night guard, the coward of a porcupine is too easy to scare on most days, this is just pathetic now. She reads your note and spends the nights glued to the monitor; things would be more fun if I could move…

Enjoy the peace and quiet while you can,

Evil.

"You're just trying to freak me out now aren't you?" She asked after she read the last line. "Still it's not like you're out and about very often. You like weapons and traps and stuff right? I know a few things from some videogames you might find interesting…"

9am

Lily sat behind the counter as the arcade soon started filling up with customers half an hour into her shift a commotion broke out near the dancing rhythm game. She sighed and walked over to find a group of people watching Disco Bear on the machine, a large pile of tickets that sat near him suggested he'd been on it for a while. The audience he had were split; some just wanted to watch him play, while others were annoyed that he was hogging the machine.

"Um excuse me, sir?" she called out over the noise, her answer was, to put it simply- a pick-up line.

"Hey there babe" The dancing bear said. "Come to watch the man in action?"

"No, I'm a member of staff and I would appreciate it if-" she began.

"Hey if you wanted to ask me out, there's no need to get shy baby" Disco Bear replied.

Lily gave him a flat look and used her magic to lift him off the machine and keep him floating in mid-air.

"You are hogging the machine, other people want to use it, so play fair or get out and if you hit on me again I will report you for harassment" She said flatly and let him drop to the ground.

She returned to her post before he could reply.

12pm

Lily sat in the crowd as the unveiling of the newest mascot was announced, Pop and Cub, the winners of the competition were upfront, the baby bear cheering and laughing at the excitement all around him. It was exciting and the audience whispered theories and speculation to one another until the sheet was pulled back to reveal Balloon Cub, an almost identical robot Cub, with the addition of a balloon in hand and cartoony pink circles for cheeks.

As people moved towards the main stage, Lily took a seat near the front and kept an eye on the various happy tree friends scattered near the stage. She quietly ate her lunch and did a decent job at deterring the few who tried to climb onstage.

Ten minutes into her lunch break she was interrupted by Flaky.

"Um about tonight…any pointers?" the porcupine asked.

"Well I was going to write a note when I was done here, but did everything go ok last night? I can take over if you want me too" Lily replied.

"No I think I'll be ok, some advice might help though…".

"Ok well Cuddles and Flippy tend to go down the left hallway to the office and Lumpy on the right, You should keep an eye on Russel tonight, he might just start running across the building towards you and the only new thing you should look out for is that Balloon Cub, he'll try to steal the batteries in you flashlight…"

As they talked Lily noticed Cub had climbed onto the stage and had somehow gotten up onto Lumpy in an attempt to reach the ice cream sandwich the moose held. Lumpy's head moved to look at Cub and Lily reacted quickly, she could hear Pop shouting frantically in the background, so she pulled Cub away with her magic, the toddler just barely avoided having his head bitten into by Lumpy.

"I'll be right back" She said to a stunned Flaky and went to return the child to his father.

9pm

"I'm really surprised Flaky" Lily said as the two helped clean up before the place closed in an hour. "I didn't think you'd up for the whole night guard thing because um, you know..."

"Because I'm shy right?" Flaky replied. "It's true I'm scared of lots of things, but really it just boils down to what I am. My quills have hurt people in the past so I try to keep out of situations where someone could get hurt because of me, but there's no one I could accidently harm as a night guard".

"Huh I never really thought of that, most people just seem to think you're a coward".

"We do live in a place where death is around every corner; I think I have a right to be afraid…" Flaky admitted.

"I guess so, I'm gonna head home, I left the note in the same place as the last one, most of what's in it is stuff I told you about today, but a refresher couldn't right?"

"Right, see you tomorrow" Flaky replied.

"See ya"

Author's notes- Fixed a typo that I missed! I'm not showing night 2 because we all know what would happen, the scares get worse ect.

Lily prevented the bite of 87', well at least this version of it anyway.

Next chapter- Evil gets put back together and the mascot for the arcade arrives!