CHAPTER 9: Freddy VS Josh

Freddy stood in the middle of the cage, waiting for one or both of the boys to attack. Karen knelt next to him; her sobs had quieted down but were far from stopping. She had just seen 2 people getting killed; she was going to be crying for a long time.

Mike started forward, but Josh put a hand up and said, "Stop, I'll fight him."

"Well I'm glad you want to be a hero, but if we both fight him we'll have a better chance!" Mike said, glaring at Freddy.

"No, you just make sure Karen's alright, I'll fight the bastard. No sense in killing us both" Josh told Mike, and Mike could see the serious look in his eye. He was going to fight, and he wanted to do it alone, and that look told Mike to stay out of it.

Freddy chuckled and clicked his knifes.

"Bring it" Freddy said simply.

Josh ran at Freddy, who threw Karen aside and walked towards Josh. Josh reached him and punched at his face, but Freddy easily dodged it. Mike ran to Karen and knelt beside the weeping girl. Both of them stared at the fight going on.

Josh was kneed in the stomach and pushed away. Josh doubled over for a second before rushing at Freddy again, this time he succeeded in punching him in the cheek. Freddy fell back a step, before righting himself and smiling.

Freddy suddenly drove his claws into Josh's arm, and Josh screamed in pain. Freddy pulled them out, spraying drops of blood on the floor.

Josh fell to his knees, holding his arm. Freddy chuckled, looking down at him.

"You didn't have a chance asshole. And now your friends are going to die, all because you failed. Welcome to my nightmare!" Freddy taunted Josh, raising his clawed hand up for the final blow.

Josh suddenly jumped to his feet and punched up with all his might, connecting with Freddy's chin painfully. Freddy cried out, but more in surprise than pain. Freddy fell back a few steps, holding his chin.

"This is my dream bastard, and I get to make the rules!" Josh yelled, and suddenly a samurai sword materialized in his hands.

Freddy looked surprised for a moment, and then anger spread across his face.

Josh ran forward again and buried the sword deep into Freddy's chest, where his heart would be. Freddy stood there for a moment, a look of complete surprise on his face, before falling to the ground, blood seeping from the wound in his chest.

Josh turned to Mike and Karen, who were just as relieved as he was. Freddy was dead, or at least that's what they thought.

A smile spread across Josh's face, he thought it was over, but it wasn't. As Karen and Mike watched Freddy rose back to his feet, slowly pulling the sword from his chest. A sick grin was on Freddy's face, and a look of horror on both Mike's and Karen's.

Freddy threw the sword away and walked towards Josh, who had turned around and was now backing up, more afraid then ever.

"This may be your dream, but I'm the Nightmare King, and what I say, goes" Freddy said, and stabbed his knife-fingers into Josh's stomach.

Karen screamed and Mike sat in a stunned silence. The tips of Freddy's blades were protruding from Josh's back, blood seeping from the holes his blades made. As they watched Freddy pulled the blades upwards, cutting through Josh's organs and bones as if they were butter. A massive amount of blood was pouring from the cuts as Freddy gutted Josh. Karen and Mike could see bits and pieces of Josh's severed insides inside these cuts.

Freddy pulled his hand back and Josh's limp corpse fell to the ground. Karen screamed again as Freddy walked towards them, a new torrent of tears falling down her face.

Freddy laughed again, looking down at the 2 scared children. I will make them suffer, he thought, I'll make them suffer, that bitch will cry at my feet as she watches me kill that asshole there.


More tears poured down Karen's face as Anna wiped them away, worried for her friend. Billy sat next to her on the bed, staring worriedly at Karen. Corey and his friends stood just in the doorway with guilty looks on their faces.

"Is she alright?" Cory asked cautiously.

Anna spun around, glaring at Cory.

"No, she's not, but why do you care? You weren't too worried about her when you shoved a sleeping pill down her throat now were you?" Anna yelled at him.

Cory looked at the ground, ashamed of his actions.

"I know, but I never meant for this to happen. I only wanted to test the myth, to show everyone it wasn't real. I never meant for it to happen this way…" Cory mumbled.

"Well you screwed that up royally, didn't you?" Anna scolded.

Suddenly they heard another scream from downstairs, and Anna knew that another person had fallen victim to the presence in their sleep, to Freddy Krueger.

Now there were only 2 left, there were 5 people and Karen who took the dare, and 4 were dead. Anna's heart gave a twinge when she realized either Josh or Mike was dead.


Meanwhile downstairs Sara's party was hectic, people had left, others had called the hospital and the police, and others just screamed. There were 3 dead bodies in her house, Dean Keller, Dina Willows and Joanna Turner.

Suddenly Sara heard a shrill and piercing scream from behind her and she knew that the body count had increased to 4. She turned around and saw Josh Matthews with his insides falling out through the cuts in his stomach.

Sara's eyes widened and she suddenly ran out the open door, throwing up in the garden. This was all Corey's fault, she thought, he gave them the pills and the dare. It was Corey's fault her floor was stained with the blood of her peers. It was Corey's fault that so many young lives are ruined.

But little did Sara know that her peers weren't the only people in danger, she didn't know that Karen was crying before Freddy Krueger himself.


Karen and Mike backed away from Freddy, right into the cage wall. They were trapped. Suddenly Karen felt lightheaded, but she didn't feel like she was going to faint, in fact it was like the opposite. She was about to wake up.

Karen looked over at Mike and saw his look of terror had turned into a look of surprise. He felt it too, they were waking up!

But as Karen had this thought Freddy stepped forward and drove his blades into her side. She fell to the ground, screaming out in pain. Mike stepped forward, trying to defend her but Freddy drove his blades into his leg, and Mike fell to the ground in pain.

"Show's over, Mikey!" Freddy taunted.

Freddy raised his hand for another stab, but Karen, despite the heavy pain in her side, grabbed his arm and stopped him from killing Mike.

Freddy growled and tried to push her off, but Karen jumped onto his back and held his arm tight.

Freddy growled and yelled "Get off bitch!" but Karen didn't let go, she held him as tight as she could.

Only a few seconds left, she thought, just a few seconds…

Freddy elbowed her in the ribs and in her wound on her side, but Karen only screamed in pain, she didn't let go. Suddenly Karen found herself thrashing about in a bed.

She was screaming too, and bleeding. She could feel the blood under her back.

Someone grabbed her arms and forced her to stop thrashing.

"Karen! You're alright! You're alright!" Anna's voice cut through Karen's screams.

Karen stopped thrashing around and opened her eyes. She was in her sister's bedroom, and Anna and Billy were sitting next to her. She tried to sit up but fell back down as the pain from her side shot through her body. Karen held her side and it was then that Anna realized she had been bleeding.

"Where is he?" Karen managed to say through the sharp pangs of pain.

"Where is who?" Anna asked, though she had a good idea who it was.

'Krueger. Freddy Krueger. Where is he?" Karen asked again.

"He's not here, you're safe now. It's all over…" Anna reassured Karen, hugging her best friend, grateful that she was alive.

Then Karen saw Cory and his friends and said, "What the hell are you doing here?"

Before Cory could answer Mike shoved past him and fell to his knees beside Karen's bed.

"You saved me…" he said in a weak voice, he was holding his leg were it bled.

"That I did" Karen answered, with a small grin on her face.

Mike opened his mouth, no doubt to make a joke of it all and make them laugh, but before he said anything the door slammed shut. Then, just as unexpected and sudden, a gloved hand came straight through one of Cory's friends' stomach. On the end of the fingers on that glove were knifes, glistening with blood…