After arriving at the first address, Ethan, Lily, Mike, and Foxy waited in the van until the place was closed and locked. Ethan parked the van near the place, and then he got out of the van. No one else was around the streets, and then he gestured for the others to come out of the van. Lily, Mike, and Foxy, who wore a long hooded sweater as a disguise, followed Ethan towards the first address.

It was an ice cream parlor that had one animatronic inside. Although there were no newspaper articles or any other information that showed that the place had a bad reputation, the Midnight Fighters (Ethan, Lily, Mike, Foxy) still wanted to investigate. The building was located in a corner of an intersection, and it was all white with the border sign in various pastel colors saying, "Creamy's Smooth Ice Cream." The Midnight Fighters decided to sneak in from the driveway that was used to deliver ice cream to the place. They stood before the back door, and Foxy was able to slip his hook between the locks and open the double door.

After giving Foxy a pat on the shoulder for his quiet work, Ethan entered the ice cream parlor first with his gun at the ready. Lily, Mike, and Foxy followed after Ethan, and they all kept their guard up.

They were in the backroom, where boxes of plastic utensils and napkins stood on metal shelves, along with two brooms and a mop with a bucket in one corner of the room. The middle of the room was like an empty road, which led to another room that had freezers on each side of the walls with tubs of ice cream inside.

The Midnight Fighters passed through these rooms cautiously, although Lily had to lightly smack Mike's hand since he reached towards one of the freezers with ice cream in it. Then they entered a large room from behind a long counter that held ice cream in it, for displaying to the customers, and the cash register on the far-side of the counter from the door they entered. They passed through one side of the counter, which was able to flip up, and then they stood where the customers would stand.

"Where's the animatronic?" Ethan whispered.

"O-Over there," Mike whispered back, as everyone turned towards the entrance.

Next to the entrance door, there was a wide window, and in front of the window stood a lone animatronic. It had a swirled head, like the top of fresh ice cream, and eyes where the ice cream and the cone met. The body was in the shape of a long cone with a flat bottom, and it had thin legs that had a cone texture with white shoes, and arms with a cone texture with puffy white gloves. The ice cream on the head was in multiple colors that represented the various ice creams available, and even the irises of the eyes were in multiple colors. There was a wire that connected the bottom left side of the cone to an outlet that was close by on the wall.

Lily, Mike, and Ethan were a little nervous, considering that the ice-cream animatronic wasn't moving, but staring lazily outside the gated window, since the gate was closed. However, Foxy started walking towards the animatronic, and he stood next to it. He started to inspect it, and then he slowly poked the animatronic's arm. Lily, Ethan, and Mike cringed for that moment, thinking that the ice-cream animatronic was going to move, but it didn't. Then Lily, Ethan, and Mike slowly approached Foxy and the animtronic.

"I-It's not alive, right?" Mike asked Foxy.

"Me thinks this one is normal. I don't feel another presence in it's system," Foxy said, as he stopped poking the animatronic.

"You can sense if it's alive?" Lily asked Foxy.

"Aye. I can feel if it be alive, but only by contact," Foxy replied.

"Ah man. So you won't know unless your close enough to tell," Ethan said, as he lowered his shotgun.

"Aye. Although, if ye look into the eyes, ye may be able to tell for yerself," Foxy said.

"Is it like how Freddy's eyes turn dark?" Lily asked, and Foxy nodded.

"So you guys are 'alive' too?" Lily asked with slight suspicion in her eyes, and Foxy took a moment before nodding.

"How can you guys even be alive? Your machines," Ethan asked.

Foxy didn't speak for a moment. Instead, he turned away and looked towards the ground with a grim look in his eyes. But he knew that telling them the whole truth may be too much for them to bare at the moment. So he replied,

"Ye be dead, before ye can live in these metal bodies. That's how ye can be alive. But me memory is fuzzy now. I need time to remember."

"Okay, we'll talk more later. For now, let's head to the next place," Lily said, and the other guys agreed.

After leaving the ice cream parlor, the Midnight Fighters made sure that there was no trace of them entering, and they locked the double door behind them. They calmly walked out of the lot towards their vehicle, and then they went into Ethan's van. As they drove on, Mike asked,

"So what do we do now?"

"The next place on the list is called uh..." Ethan tried to think about it.

"Penelope Poodle's Party Doodle," Lily said.

"Yeah that," Ethan said.

"They had to rhyme the title huh?" Mike asked, as he leaned back in the backseat.

"Yup," Ethan replied.

"There's a job opening there for a temporary night watch for one week," Lily said, as she looked through a group of papers about the establishment that Ethan kept in the glove compartment.

"Then we can take it for tomorrow night," Ethan said, as he turned down the road.

"Ye be able to get the job tomorrow?" Foxy asked.

"No one has signed for it yet, and the job is supposed to start tomorrow night. I think they will accept anyone who's willing to come in," Lily replied, as she turned back to Foxy, since he sat in the seat behind her.

"Alright, tomorrow we'll take the job," Ethan said.

"Anything weird about the place? Police reports or whatever else?" Mike asked.

Lily shuffled through the papers she held, and then she replied, "The building used to be a small clothing factory, and there have been incidents of suicide from the workers."

"What? Suicide?" Mike asked, surprised.

"Apparently, at the end of the week or even two to three weeks, the night watchers' bodies would be found in the basement where the factory manager used to watch over the clothing employees from a balcony of some sort... the bodies of the night watchers would be right below the balcony, as if they jumped off... but..." Lily said, as she trailed off, reading a certain police report.

"What?" Mike asked.

"One of the police reports, excuse me, an investigative report by an FBI agent, said that the bodies of the night watchers looked as if they fell from a higher place. Like if someone picked them up and threw them over the balcony. Also, some of the night watchers were reported to have scratches on their bodies, like if someone cut them with a sharp object, or something since there would be three consecutive cuts parallel to one another on the body," Lily said.

"What the what," Mike said, as he rubbed his head.

"So someone or something cut up the night watchers and then threw them off the balcony to make it look like an accident?" Ethan asked Lily.

"It looks like it, although the owners say that it was probably suicide," Lily replied, with skepticism in her voice.

"Aye. It doesn't sound like an accident. If anything, I'm sure one of me kind had something to do with their deaths," Foxy said.

"We'll see when we visit tomorrow. Guns loaded," Ethan said, and the others agreed.

"I think they're willing to hire two night watchers," Lily said, as she read over the job description.

"I'll go," Mike said.

"Then I'll go with you," Lily said.

"Hold up. Lily, Mike, are you two sure?" Ethan asked.

"Aye. Are ye two sure?" Foxy also asked.

"The first night shouldn't be so bad. Usually the deaths start at the end of the week, so we'll be fine the first night," Mike said, and Lily agreed.

"Okay, until tomorrow, let's go rest up," Ethan said, and he continued driving down the road to Ethan and Lily's home, since it was close-by.

In the shed:

"I know you guys can hear me. Don't worry, they're fine. They just started the hunt."

"..."

"You can't speak or move yet, but don't worry, you'll be able to eventually."

'Will you watch over them? Until I can move again?'

'Will you watch them?'

'Will you watch all of them?'

"Don't worry, and of course I'll watch over them... and you guys too. I can sense them coming now."

'Will they really be alright? Will Lily be safe?'

"Stop worrying so much, besides, she's stronger than you think. She has already proven that to all of you. But I'll still watch over her though. I know how much she means to you... Freddy," Golden Freddy said, and then he faded away, leaving the other three to rest for the night.

Sorry if it's shorter than usual. I hope it's alright since I haven't posted a chapter in a while, and I wanted to give you guys something for the wait. I hope you enjoyed this one though. :)