Alex felt his heart race as he stood up with a grin and walked to the middle of the room, waiting for The Marionette to jump out and tackle him like before. As much as he didn't want to admit it, he really liked it for the short moment that The Marionette was laying on him. Just thinking about it made his grin grow larger into an ear to ear smile. He had gotten a short moment of bliss out of it. As he looked out into the darkness, he saw the silhouette of the figure that was running towards him. His heart seemed to stop for a moment. He looked on as he could easily tell whatever was running towards him, it clearly wasn't human or human-like. It looked like it was running on all fours, like a dog or a wolf. With each thump of its step, it seemed to be followed by loud scratchings, like claws on the tile floor. Whatever this thing was, it was coming right for Alex and he had not a clue what to do. Alex thought back to the last time he got attacked and how that worked out. All he could do was chuckle to himself.

His thoughts were interrupted by the loud screaming that filled his ears as something big jumped on him with all its weight, knocking him down with great force, slamming his head into the cold tile floor. He looked up as all he could see was a large snout snapping at his face with great speed and power. He knew he had to do something or he really was gonna die to this thing and it was very clear that this thing didn't wanna talk about the situation. He could feel his heart pounding out of his chest and blood running down the back of his neck. As he tried his hardest to keep this thing from biting his face off. He looked around the room for anything to stop this thing from chomping at his face. Underestimating the true power of this thing, it's able to bite at Alex's neck. Alex winced in pain as the pain of everything just kept stacking on top of itself. He didn't know how in the hell he would survive this. Now a with throbbing pain in his head from the leaping tackle, lacking muscle mass, and now with blood pouring out the side of his neck, Alex didn't have many options. With adrenaline being the only thing keeping him from letting this bloodthirsty beast take out the rest of his neck, he had to get this thing off of him. He had one idea that might just work.

Alex pushed the head of whatever this thing was up enough so he had a few seconds of breathing room and when it opened its mouth again to bite down, Alex pushed his right forearm into its mouth making it bite down onto his arm. With nothing protecting his arm from the sharp teeth besides his hoodie sleeve, he needed to work fast. He had stopped allowing it to keep biting at his face, but by giving it a new chew toy that was his arm. It had fully realized this and stopped rapidly biting, but rather began crushing Alex's arm under the extreme pressure of its jaws. Alex could already feel the bones in his arm feel the full strain of its power. This thing was out for blood.

Now that the jaws of the beast had been slowed down at least, Alex was able to get a look at what was attacking him. With its jaws still around his arm, he pulled his arm to him so its face would be looking right at him. What he saw sent a shiver through his spine and shook his very core. It was animatronic. He was sure he hadn't seen before. He wasn't sure what exactly it was only then it had been through a lot. Patches of its fur were missing on its face as it showed the metal underneath. The most interesting part had to be its pure black eyes. THAT is what shook him the most as he remembered the attack with The Marionette was like. She had no sense of control when her eyes were like that. All she did was try and kill him until he knocked her back to her senses. He had to do something to the same effect with this one. He tried his hardest to think of something without the pain of his arm distracting him as he was sure his arm was broken, or at least it sure as hell felt like it.

In a last-ditch effort, Alex pulled his arm from the animatronic's snout and grabbed it, ripping his hoodie and flesh as he did so. Now he had to keep its snout shut, all the while ignoring the throbbing pain in his arm. With the last of his strength, he kept the animatronic still and made it look into his eyes. As soon as he did, he felt all the pain and anger this animatronic was feeling and had felt. The cold emptiness it lived in. The loneliness it had lived all its life.

"Help."

Alex shook his head as he tried to make sure it didn't overwhelm him. With his arm about to give out, he looked back at the animatronic as the darkness in its eyes seeped out of its eyes like tears and was replaced with burgundy red eyes. The animatronic stopped struggling as it blinked a few times before meeting eye contact with Alex once more.

"Hey, I'm Alex," Alex said with a smirk. But with no strength left, he let the darkness take him as he passed out from exhaustion.

"Save us."

I woke up in a small room, my arms strapped to the chair behind me. The only light source in the room seemed to be a single light hung above me. I felt dizzy and weak. Like all of my energy had been sucked out of me to the point just before death. I tried gasping for air as my lungs felt empty. I had to take a moment to fully reconstruct myself before even attempting to do anything else. I hung my head low as I didn't have the strength to lift my body up. After a few moments of panting and recollecting my thoughts, I tried my hardest to pull myself up and look around the decaying room. Nothing seemed to be here except the cold tiled floor, me, and the light. The little sight that the light offered wasn't much. I couldn't even see more than 3 feet in front of me. I felt a cold breeze on my face and neck it made goosebumps run throughout my body. I looked around as I could see or hear anything through the darkness. I felt my head grow dizzy again as I felt like I was gonna be sick. But before I do so, I felt my eyes grow heavy and passed out once more.

Kindest Regards,

E.