Disclaimers are in the prologue.

I have here the second chapter. I've been having a couple of problems submitting chapters to but hopefully you're reading this, which means there aren't anymore problems.

Thanks to AshW23 for being the first reviewer. I hope to have many more soon.

IMPORTANT NOTE: From now on, I will be separating sections within chapters using a row of I's. I tried to do it with stars, periods, and dashes, but none of those show up. So if you see a row of I's, DON'T PANIC! It's just how I roll.

It had been a day since Freddy had invaded the Creeper's dream and recruited him and they had one day left before it awoke. Meanwhile, there was little to do in Hell besides watch and wait. Deep in thought, Freddy sat on a rock until a look of realization passed over his face.

"I know how I can get more power," Freddy said.

Candyman, who had been sitting facing the other way, turned to Freddy. "How?"

"There are these two little shits I know of. I've got this idea..."

"Tell me," he said as he stood up.

"I'll project myself into their dreams."

"You mean, you'll project us."

Freddy whirled around, facing him. "Back off, Candyboy. These are my children."

"No," Candyman said firmly, so much so that Freddy looked surprised. "There are two of them. One for me, one for you."

At first, Freddy seemed about to do something, possibly attack Candyman, but instead he simply smiled and nodded. "Yes. But we won't be strong enough to kill them yet."

"But we will put the fear in them."

Freddy pointed his index claw at Candyman. "You catch on quick."

Candyman smirked at that.

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In his dormroom at Springwood University, Will Rollins was getting ready for bed. He went to the bathroom, brushed his teeth, changed into his boxers, and lay down in bed. He looked over at his nightstand, which had a picture of Lori Campbell looking back at him, smiling sweetly. A few moments later, the phone next to the picture rang. Before he even picked it up, he knew who it was.

"Hey, Lori," he said as he pulled the receiver to his ear.

"Hey," the voice on the other end said. "What are you doing right now?"

"I'm going to bed, it's been a long day. Professor Carpenter sprung two pop quizzes today and then gave us four pages of homework."

"Oh, well, I won't keep you. I just wanted to say hi, and that I love you."

"I love you too, Lori. I'll see you tomorrow."

Will hung up the phone and his eyes were drawn to the little golden box on his nightstand. Lori's father had given it to him after the ordeal with Freddy and Jason, his way of apologizing for keeping him locked up in Westin Hills. The box was apparantly an antique of some kind, Chinese in origin. The design was interesting enough, and it was supposedly some kind of puzzle box. He had never messed with it, though, afraid he might break it. Still, looking at it made him feel the slightest bit uneasy, as if it were more than it seemed.

He rolled over on his side. He closed his eyes and thought of Lori. He felt himself sliding back into sleep when the phone rang again. He turned back toward the nightstand and grabbed the phone, thinking to himself that it must be Lori again. "Do you need a goodnight kiss?" he asked, grinning.

From the phone came a shrill squealing sound of metal on metal. Will winced and held the phone away from his ear. Once the sound stopped, he spoke into the receiver.

"Who the hell is this?"

Silence. He was about to hang up when a raspy and altogether too familiar voice spoke up. "One, two, Freddy's coming for you..."

Will's eyes widened. "Is this...some kind of joke?"

"Heh heh heh...can you guess where I'm calling from, Will?"

Suddenly he heard Lori screaming in the background. Will slammed the phone down on its cradle so hard that it fell to the floor. He jumped out of bed and threw on the nearest clothing he could grab and got dressed. He quickly glanced in the mirror and almost fell on his ass. His reflection was that of Freddy Krueger, but Freddy was not looking at him. He was glaring at something else in the room, something over by Will's bed. A moment later, he looked up at Will and began laughing maniacally. Will turned around and bolted from the room, running into his roommate, Jeff.

"Woah, Will!" Jeff yelled as Will slammed into him, nearly knocking him over. "Where you going this late?"

"I gotta go to Lori's, I'll explain later!" Will responded as he ran down the hall.

Jeff watched him and shook his head. "That boy is whipped."

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Lori was sleeping peacefully when a light tapping noise came from the bathroom. Slowly she opened her eyes and listened. At first, she thought it was just the sink dripping. The tapping continued, and she decided she had better go see what it was. Reluctantly, she pushed herself up and out of bed and headed straight for the bathroom. When she entered and flipped on the lightswitch, the tapping seemed to cease.

"Hello?" she said, but of course, there was no answer. She turned off the light and was about to go back to bed when she heard it again. Turning around, she put the light back on and gasped.

She looked down at the floor and saw the word "CANDYMAN" written under her feet in what looked like blood. She didn't know why, exactly, but for some reason, she read it aloud, questioningly. Further into the bathroom, the word was scrawled across the wall, the bathtub, the ceiling, and finally, on the mirror. With each "CANDYMAN" she found, she whispered it aloud to herself.

The tapping came again. This time, she was able to pinpoint the source of it as the mirror.

Something was tapping on the mirror, from the other side.

She froze as she heard a voice that seemed to come from everywhere at once. "Lori..."

As she watched herself in the mirror, she saw her reflection change to that of a huge black man with a hook where his right hand should have been. Lori tried to run, but she was too stunned to move.

"Be...my...victim!"

With that, Candyman plunged through the mirror hook-first and swiped at the screaming Lori. It was at that point that she awoke in her bed, a shriek escaping her. Once she realized it had just been a dream, she checked over herself to make sure she wasn't hurt.

Suddenly, someone was banging at her door loud enough to give her another scare. Lori was unwilling to go open the door until she heard Will's voice calling her. She jumped out of bed and walked cautiously towards the door.

"Will?" she asked shakily. "Is that really you?"

"Lori! Are you ok? Open the door!"

No longer hesitant, Lori grabbed the doorknob and flung open the door. Will entered and grabbed her by the shoulders. "Are you hurt? Did you see him?"

"Will, what is going ON?"

"It's Freddy. He's back."

"W-what do you mean?"

"Didn't you see him?"

"No...no, I saw someone else..."

"Who?"

"I don't know, but...he was really big and...he had a hook for a hand. And he wrote 'CANDYMAN' in blood all over my bathroom right before he came out of my mirror!"

Will went into the bathroom and came out with a small shard of glass from the mirror. He was staring at it.

"Where did you find that?"

"On the bathroom floor." He looked up at her. "What the fuck is going on here?"

Author's Notes: Yeah, I threw Will and Lori in there. You wanna fight about it? You know, I wasn't really planning on having any human characters in this story, but I feel like I nailed their personalities. Maybe I did, maybe I didn't, but either way, they're in this now and there's no escape. Actually, there is ONE escape: DEATH. But I don't even know what I'm going to do to them yet. All I can say is that I probably won't include any of the survivors from other Freddy movies, I find that's been done a bit too much. But don't worry, plenty of people will die horribly during the course of this story.

Yes, Will is the current owner of the box. Why did Lori's dad give it to him? Well, maybe he knew of its power and hated Will enough to send him to Hell, or maybe it was a sincere gesture for screwing up his life. We'll never truly know, because Lori's dad isn't in this story.

Also, you may have noticed a bit of tension between Freddy and Candyman at the beginning of this chapter. Well, what can I say, Freddy likes to work alone. But he really has no choice but to cooperate and put up with Candyman if he has any hopes of ever escaping from Hell. The idea here is that once Freddy is back on Earth, he will be recruiting more allies to go after Jason, but things may not go exactly the way he plans.