A Nightmare on Elm Street Part 6: The Dream God
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Rated: 15 (Strong Violence, Psychological Horror and Moderate Language)
Chapter 11: To Know the Enemy
Jacob opens the door into darkness, and walks into his mother's bedroom. He turns on the light and a red haze blankets the room. Jacob looks up. The dish-like ceiling lamp is filled with blood. Jacob walks into the room, tears welling. He walks by Alice's vanity, her makeup still sitting there as if she might show up and use it at any moment. He steps up to a wardrobe closet and touches the edges of it lightly. He reaches out and slowly, almost reverently, opens the doors.
He sees the body of a man, hanged. The body was swinging gently left to right. He couldn't see the face as there was a hat covering it.
''Hello''.
Jacob jumps back and screams.
Freddy Krueger walks out of the wardrobe and stands there watching Jacob, before giving him a smile.
''Ah Jacob how you've grown. And I didn't think you had it in you; shame I really wanted to be her first''.
''You stay away from her''.
Freddy then starts to chuckle as if he just stabbed Jacob right in the back ''So she's the Dream God''
''I said stay away from her!'' Jacob shoots electricity from his fingers at Freddy, only for him to disappear as they strike the wardrobe blowing it apart. Jacob starts looking around for him. Still invisible, Freddy's voice booms in Jacob's ears.
''I've been with you your whole life. I'm like the father you never had''.
''You murdered him''.
''Wrong…you murdered him. Wasn't it your dreams that killed them all?''
''Shut up''.
''And it's only made worse cause you were a mistake''.
''Shut up''.
''Did you actually think Alice wanted a child that young, she didn't want you. In fact when she found out it was your dreams killing her friends…she thought about aborting you''.
''SHUT UP!'' Jacob screams at the top of his voice. The force of it blows the whole roof off the house. Soon there is silence, Jacob starts looking around; he can't hear him, or see him.
''I'm still here'' Jacob looks next to him to see Freddy grab him by the neck and chock slam him to the floor, so hard Jacob crashes through the top floor and falls into his front-room. He gets up only to see Freddy next to him and chock-slam him to the floor again.
''It's really unfair; I've been with you since the beginning. I think it's time for vice-versa''.
Freddy lets go and Jacob gets to his feet, only to find himself standing in complete blackness. He takes 2 steps forward.
''AHHHHH!'' A man screams right in Jacob's face, he quickly avoids the man and looks around to see himself in some kind of dungeon, surrounded by hundreds of prisoners. None of them notice him, and casually walk about. Jacob tries to look past them, trying to find Freddy. Then all the prisoners stop moving, Jacob stands on his guard as they all turn…but not to him. Jacob sees what they're all staring at, a young nun cowering in the corner. All the prisoners start to advance on her. Her cries for help falling on deaf ears. Jacob walks forward to save her, but his way is cut off by a prisoner…a prisoner that is looking right at him.
His head tilts to his left shoulder a bit as he speaks ''Better get some of that. Who knows…maybe I'll get lucky'' Jacob recognized that voice, it was Freddy's voice. And the face was Freddy's pre-being burned alive. Could this have been Freddy's real father?
As the Freddy prisoner turns the whole scene around Jacob disintegrates, and underneath it is another setting. Like peeling the wallpaper off, Jacob now finds himself in a hallway corridor, in his school. Jacob starts making his way down the corridor; he looks to his left to see the register for each class and on the 5th grade class and name grabs his attention…his name Jacob Johnson. As Jacob moves closer the name changes…Alice Johnson, and does so again Kristen Parker, and again Nancy Thompson, and a final time…Freddy Underwood. But then the last name is angrily crossed out, replaced underneath by a hastily scrawled KRUEGER!!!
''Did everyone go to this school?''
Outside of the school Krueger stands there, waiting for his next prey the Dream Police. And he didn't have to wait long as a sudden roar fills the air. Freddy looks around for its source. And Sound Cop drops down on him with a smack. The two of them tumble, and then both jump up. Freddy laughs. Sound Cop's body is shaking with fury, and he opens his mouth. The loudest sound yet comes from Sound Cop. KABOOM! A blast of air at Mach 3 smacks into Freddy and sends him sailing back, SMASHING right through the saloon wall.
Freddy flies sideways, right through the bar destroying chandeliers as he careens through and punches yet another huge hole through the opposite wall.
Jacob is shuffling down the stairs, and then the lights go out. Pure darkness for a second, and then a light emits from a classroom. Jacob moves closer, hearing nothing at first. But when he looks into the class, it comes to life. Children playing in their class, no teacher around to stop them from rioting and damaging. Jacob walks in, by now he knows they can't see him; he looks at the back of the class to see a small, young boy sitting in his desk playing with the school pet rat. He is stroking it gently, admiring its fur coat.
Another thing the boy likes about the rat is its hand; the boy seems fascinated by its claws. The design of them, the sharpness of them seems to intrigue him. The boy was brought out of his thoughts when a paintbrush is thrown at him right in his eye. Jacob looks on to see the whole class move over to the whimpering boy, taunting at him.
''Son of a hundred maniacs, son of a hundred maniacs, son of a hundred maniacs…'' The boy's whimpers quickly turn from fear to rage, as he grabs a nearby mallet and kills the rat. The other children start screaming and run away from him as Jacob stands there and watches the young Freddy hold the blood soaked mallet, an evil smirk appearing on his face…enjoying the power of fear.
The dust is just starting to settle in the saloon as a THUD is heard coming from the hole in the opposite wall. Quickly followed by Freddy's soaring body. Krueger SMASHES into some tables and slides across the floor. Power Cop steps through the hole, his fists clenched. Freddy stands up and dusts himself off.
Power bolts over, grabs Krueger, raises him over his head like a wrestler, slams him down on the bar, and shoves Freddy, knocking glasses and ashtrays aside until he SMACKS into yet another poor wall. Krueger barely gets back on his feet when Power Cop is right on him again. Power swings, but this time Freddy ducks. CRACK! Power Cop's punch blows the support column to dust. Freddy twirls around. And the two of them start to punch each other.
It's a barroom brawl between non-humans as Power Cop and Freddy Krueger exchange multiple blows. SMACK! SMACK! SMACK! Freddy nails Power Cop, whose head barely seems to budge from the hits. POW! POW! POW! Power Cop lays into Krueger, sending him spinning and tumbling only to pick him up and start the process all over again. This goes on for a while, and Krueger appears to be losing.
THWACK! THWACK! THWACK! Power Cop is punching Freddy towards the door. Krueger flies out of the double doors and somersaults onto the pavement. Sound Cop is a few yards away, he looks up as Freddy gets back up.
''No more playing around'' Freddy sneers.
Power Cop steps through, looking for blood.
''Kincaid!'' Joey tries to warn him…too late.
BAM! Freddy's fist slams right in Power Cop's face. He's actually forced down into the ground, lying dazed. BAM! Freddy hits him again. Power Cop is sinking into his crater. BAM! BAM! BAM! Freddy pummels Power further into the ground. A rumbling is heard. Freddy looks up to see Sound Cop starting to open his mouth. Krueger telekinetically grabs a rock from the crater and shoots it at Sound Cop.
THUNK! The rock lands squarely in Sound Cop's mouth, stretching it painfully and blocking it completely. Sound Cop reels from the impact. Tries to pull out the firmly wedged plug.
Freddy turns back to Power Cop, BAM! Hits him and as the crater goes deeper, Power starts sinking into the ground. BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! BAM! Like hammering a nail until Power Cop disappears into the ground.
Freddy starts walking out of the crater expecting to finish the struggling Sound Cop off. But instead sees Wizard Cop stand in between them. Wizard brings a pack of cards out of his pocket and fires them at Freddy, on impact they explode in a blast of multiple colours. As the clouds disappear, Wizard's smile is whipped clean of his face as he sees Freddy standing, staring and smiling back at him.
''Told you already kid, I don't believe in fairy-tales''.
Wizard then shoots mystic energy beams from his fingers at Freddy. Again he just stands and smiles. He then raises his hand in the air, and a little sphere of fire is produced. The mystic beams then change course from Freddy into the fireball, and once that happens, it becomes around a 30 feet bigger. Freddy throws it at Wizard. Wizard stands his ground and puts his hands out in front of him, hoping to stop the ball of fire; but he and Sound Cop are consumed by it and BOOM!
Jacob makes his way down some more stairs, and soon the wall disintegrates and changes again. Jacob reaches the bottom of the stairs, and from the looks of it he's in a basement; an old, dusty, sickly basement. But if he didn't know better, it would look like a bedroom; as there was a sleeping bag, a little bathroom, and crisp bags and chocolate bar wrappers.
Jacob then saw a man sitting with his back turned in the corner; he looked in his early or mid 20s. Jacob moves closer to the man, and when he gets a view of his front side, let's just say if Jacob hadn't seen some of the most disgusting things in his life this would make him throw up. The man was using a knife to cut himself in the stomach, deep gashes across his lower boy; yet the man was smiling and not feeling the pain he was causing himself. And despite a younger face, Jacob knew who this man was, Freddy.
''Boy!'' A booming voice is heard coming down the stairs. A man walks down, Mr. Underwood, Freddy's step-father.
''It's time to take your medicine boy!'' Underwood was holding his trouser belt in his hand, and had rolled it up to use as a whip. Freddy gets up from where he was sitting and walks up to the angry senior, with an unsettling smirk on his face. Underwood starts smacking Freddy across the face with the belt, and yet he doesn't flinch…and worse, seems to enjoy it.
''Thank you sir…may I have another?'' Freddy laughs at the old man, Underwood now more confused than angry hits Freddy across the face harder. Freddy is having the time of his life tormenting him, until he grabs his arm, and breaks it in two.
Underwood crumbles to the ground holding his broken arm. Freddy turns back to the table where he had the knife ''You want to know the secret of pain…'' And from the draw of the table, Freddy brings out something and places it in his hand. Once he turns to his father and Jacob sees what Freddy has in his hand, his heart stops; Freddy is wearing his glove. The knife he was using just now was the final one, he has screwed it on.
He bends down to his whimpering step-father ''…If you just accept it, it will become your most powerful ally'' With that said Freddy slashes him across the face. Mr. Underwood is Freddy's first human victim. Just as Jacob can't take anymore the scene seems to change again, except he is still in the same basement, but instead of looking like a child's bedroom…this was more like a mortal version of Hell.
Everywhere Jacob looked, there were weapons of Freddy's; prototype gloves, knives and most disturbing of all…pictures and possessions of young children. Jacob looks ahead to see an older Freddy chanting something, and cutting something. Jacob moves forward to see Freddy dismembering a sheep, and using the blood for paint and his claw for a paintbrush, he is blessing carving on the wall. 3 piranha looking demons…The Dream Demons.
On the street outside the saloon; the dust has settled and despite the explosion the buildings remain undamaged. Freddy looks to see if Wizard or Sound Cop are still standing…they are nowhere to be seen. Freddy laughs and laughs and laughs... KACHUNK! until a knife embeds itself in his back. Krueger spins around.
CHUNK! CHUNK! CHUNK! Three more knives slam into his body as he staggers back in surprise. Blade Cop stands twenty feet away reaching into thin air and whipping out knife after knife, flinging them at Freddy. They sail like flying bullets.
CHUNK! CHUNK! CHUNK! Krueger falls back from the sheer force of the onslaught, at least a dozen blades sticking out of his body. Blade stops. She stands there for a beat, waiting to see what Freddy will do next. Krueger sways, looking like an inhuman pincushion. Then he grins. His body steadies, and he suddenly tenses his body. POP! POP! POP! The daggers shoot out of his torso and limbs, clattering to the ground.
The girl in black steps back and raises her arms. Two-foot-long sabers jut out from her forearms. They're not held by her, they're a part of her, exiting from the tops of her wrists under her clenched fists. She crosses the blades in front of her.
Freddy smiles more devilish now ''Ah... a girl after my own heart''.
Freddy shoots out his finger knives and they extend to double their normal size.
Blade smiles devilish now ''En guard you bastard''
SWOOP/CLANG! A swordfight ensues. Freddy swinging his four long knives. Blade slashing her rapier-arms. They lunge, they parry, they leap, they duck…CLANG! They connect. SCREEEEE. Metal scrapes metal. Blade Cop and Freddy are equally matched. Blade moves to get the upper hand.
CLINK! CLINK! Blades shoot out of the girl's elbows. Now when she takes a swing with her fists, another sword is right behind it on the follow-through. Freddy gets caught off-guard. Gets slashed twice in the shoulder and twirls away. Then starts to move faster. Blade counters with an equally increased intensity. Freddy ducks, swoops out twice quickly. A fold of black cloth drops down on Blade's stomach, revealing naked skin and a little blood.
Blade becomes airborne, twirling her legs up and out as a blade juts momentarily from her right heel, chopping off Freddy's left hand. Krueger stumbles back in astonishment, but quickly, astonishment turns to frustration as the two converge again, swinging away at an incredible rate. An impossible rate.
The basement Jacob is in hasn't changed much, just a few newspaper articles added. As Jacob looks closer he can see the headlines: SPRINGWOOD SLASHER STRIKES AGAIN, MORE CHILDREN FOUND DEAD, and more too horrifying to read without thinking of it. He is brought out of his thoughts when he hears a scream from behind him. A woman stands there screaming at the sight of which she is seeing. She quickly runs up the stairs; Jacob follows her.
Jacob reaches the tops of the stairs and finds himself in a back yard. He looks forward to see the woman groveling to Freddy, a Freddy now maybe in his mid 30s.
''I won't tell'' She keeps saying, but it obviously falls of deaf ears as Freddy proceeds to strangle her. Jacob charges forward and gives the Freddy one of his trademark electric punches…or he would have if he didn't faze right through him. Jacob turns and tries to kick, but again goes through the Freddy. Again and again Jacob tries to stop him, but it is pointless as the life of the woman slips away, and she falls next to Freddy's feet.
Freddy turns to the house and he sees a young girl that has seen the whole ordeal, and Freddy starts moving towards her. Jacob tries again to stop Freddy, using more of his powers; flamethrower, telekinetic, energy blasts, they all just either faze him or disappear before impact. He can't bear to watch as Freddy puts his arms on the girl's shoulders; but he hears a conversation going on with them.
''Don't worry baby, Mummy just had to take her medicine for snooping in daddy's special work''.
Jacob watches as the little girl is quivering under her father's black humor.
''But you won't tell will you?''
''…I…won't tell''.
Freddy smiles at his daughter.
The scene changes again, this time inside a workhouse with Freddy sitting at a table fixing up his claw. Jacob saw a newspaper tumble to his feet; he picks it up to see that Freddy was released from trial cause of an unsigned search warrant. And how his daughter (Kathryn Krueger) did tell about her mother's death and the police found out he was the Springwood Slasher. Jacob looked at Freddy again and realized something about his clothes. He was wearing his brown hat and green and brown sweater. And with his claw now fitted on his hand again, he looked like the dream version.
Jacob could then hear voices coming from outside, Freddy seemed to hear this also; he looked out the window only to have to dive out of the way as the parents throw fiery objects into the workhouse. Soon the whole place is set alight; Jacob appears to not feel the heat, but it sure is getting to Freddy. But then an ear-splitting screech is heard, and 3 black orbs appear in the air and from them the Dream Demons appear.
''Freddy, we know what you want''.
''I want it all'' Freddy pleaded to them.
''Then you shall be…forever'' The Demons then entered into Freddy's body as the flames consumed him.
The flames brought the workhouse down, and the scene changes, but this time like a 360 degree movie screen. Jacob watches as Freddy chases a younger Nancy through a boiler-room, kills each of the Dream Warriors, kills his uncle, kills his father and his mother. Jacob watches the horror of Freddy showing him each and everyone one of his nightmares; killing every child from young to old, singles to multiple victims. The movie screen then tears apart and the scenery is much different, and almost stops Jacob's heart…a nightmare version of New York.
Jacob looks around at the devastated landscape; the ruins of the Empire State Building, Big Ben, half destroyed pyramids. Everything was destroyed, the tallest thing standing; a fire palace standing 1000s of feet high, around it giant scarecrows of Freddy. Suddenly the scarecrows come alive and make their way towards Jacob. Jacob unleashes a large blue flamethrower and set the front scarecrow alight; but as that one falls, Jacob looks behind it to see millions more coming after him.
And at their feet, children of all ages were stumbling towards him singing ''One Two, Freddy's coming for you. Three Four, Better lock your door. Five Six, Grab your crucifix. Seven Eight, Better stay up late. Nine Ten, Never sleep again'' Jacob stands ready for a long fight. Until a blinding light plucks him up and shoots up towards the sky.
''Jacob are you all right'' Kristen asks him.
''Yeah…thanks'' Jacob looks to see his is standing inside a sphere of light being held by Kristen and Nancy. Imagine standing inside a pearl…that is what this is like. The sphere disappears as they land on the ground. The first thing the group see are the battered Dream Police.
''Are you okay'' Nancy asks.
''We'll live'' Wizard replies.
''If we weren't already dead'' Power cuts in.
Jacob then thinks of something ''Wait…what happens if Freddy kills you here…again''.
The group all pull their visors up to reveal their worried faces. Nancy turns to Jacob ''If we were to fall in battle again. Then we can't appear in dreams at all…we will cease to exist''.
Jacob looks around to see the group then shift uneasily. Jacob stares at their wounds; Power's broken arms and legs, Sound's busted mouth, Wizard with his arms burnt to a crisp, and Blade with a large amount of cuts on herself. For the first time, Jacob is worried for their lives…or afterlives.
''Nancy…Kristen, get them out of here and get as far away as possible''.
Nancy grabs a hold of him as if he's just lost his mind ''Jacob…not bringing the Dream God was stupid, but understandable. But we are not running from this…''
''No…I'm not going to let anyone die, not anymore. I don't care if I have to fight until Judgment Day, I'm going to beat Freddy myself, just like mum''.
''Jacob…'' Kristen steps forward ''…You remember the nightmares before your birth, but you don't remember Alice's final fight with Krueger…''
Blade steps forward ''…You helped your mother defeat Freddy. She couldn't beat him alone…''
Now Wizard ''…She also needed all the dream powers of the children Freddy killed. So same again…''
Finally Power ''…Your going to need help taking down this mother-fucker. And if you still refuse…''
''…You're going to have to fight us as well'' Sound speaks.
They all stand in their formation, with Nancy standing in front of them ''We aren't leaving Jacob, you and your mother aren't the only ones destined to face Krueger''.
Jacob can't help but smile; even if he has lost the vote…he's never felt this good in a long time.
''Alright, you win''.
Freddy stands in the middle of the street, waiting to see if the Dream Police had anymore surprise attacks, nothing. He smiles feeling victorious. He teleports from the street and to the nightmare New York, expecting to find Jacob. He flies around, not seeing a thing. His frustration growing. He finds one of his scarecrow giants and flies towards it; he then sinks his claws into the head looking at the memories. He sees Jacob getting dragged away by the blinding light of sphere.
''I thought one of those little pigs were missing…wait, there's two with Jacob, how?'' Freddy looks at the memory even closer to get a better glimpse at the other person.
''Looks like they have someone in charge. Oh well, that just means more meat for the grinder'' He laughs at the thought, he was going to enjoy another little kill, once they were out of the way, the Dream God would be an easy target for him to…
''NANCY!'' He finally sees her standing with Jacob helping him escape. Now it made sense how the Dream Warriors returned. The rage inside Freddy exploded; he clenched his fists so hard, his knives started to sink through his hand. In an instant, the New York wasteland was destroyed as Freddy exploded in a ball of raging hell-like fire and rocketed across the Dream World setting everything alight.
''I'LL GET YOU FOR THIS, YOU WON'T ESCAPE MY WRATH!''
Freddy was in light-speed, everything in his way was destroyed. His voice echoed in horrible rage.
''I GET YOU! YOU'LL ALL MINE!''