Chapter 8: We have to kill him…again

"Katherine! You're alive!" Stephanie yelled, pulling Katherine into a tight hug.

Katherine felt herself getting faint from the lack of air. "Yes. Apparently. You're choking me!" Katherine gasped. Stephanie let her loose.

"Freddy told all of us that he killed you!" Carmen said.

"What?"

"Yeah. Did he pay you a visit last night?"

Katherine paused. "Yes."

A large loud gasp came from the small group. Passerbies began to stare.

"Did he cut you?"

"Nope. But he said he was gonna kill me next time. And he said we can't beat him."

"He probably even more powerful than before…He's PLAYING WITH OUR MINDS!" Natalie screamed. (More stares)

"Keep your voice down!" Bethany hissed.

RING

"Okay. We have to go. Katherine, don't worry about anything. We will think of something."

With that they all separated to go to first period.

"Okay. We are all here. What are we going to do?"

"Duh! We have to kill him." Carmen blurted.

"Oh, really? How are we gonna do that!" Stephanie exclaimed sarcastically.

"Well, we are involved now. We have to think of something." Jasmine piped up.

"What if he kills us?" Margaret asked.

"That's the risk we have to take." Natalie said importantly.

"Hi, Katherine." Said a familiar voice. The girls all looked at the intruding newcomer.

"Lucas!" Katherine said happily. "Join our conversation!"

"Hi, everyone. My name is Lucas."

"Hi." They all said.

Natalie stared. "What's that on your arm?"

Lucas made to cover a long scratch on his upper arm, but Katherine's hand shot out and stopped him.

"Don't worry, Lucas. They know. We are trying to find a way to defeat him."

"Ha! Are you crazy? You can't beat him!"

"Well, we are going to try." Natalie said, obviously discouraged.

"Good luck." Lucas said bitterly.

"First, let's think about what we need to do…"

"Hey! We can try to find his daughter. Maybe she can help us."

"Don't drag her into this. She has kids." Katherine said, smashing the plan.

"How do you know?" Natalie asked.

"Freddy told me."

The group all talked about what they were going to do. Each time somebody mentioned something, it sounded stupider than the one before it.

"Wait! Didn't you say a few years back a couple of girls found Amanda Krueger's body, and with her good spirit set free, she defeated Freddy?"

"Yeah, what about it?"

"Duh! What if we could find Loretta's body?"

"His wife?" Lucas asked. "How would we do that?

"Well, maybe her trapped spirit will know we are looking for her, and she might come to us." Stephanie suggested.

"Maybe…" Lucas said.

"Lucas, don't you want to kill this bastard before he kills us?"

Lucas stared. "Of course I do." He said blandly.

"What is the matter with you?" Bethany asked.

"Nothing is the matter with me. This just seems impossible…that's all."

"Well, yeah? I think it's a good idea and I think we should try it." Margaret argued.

Lucas shrugged. "Okay."

Everyone was silent. It felt as though they had just sealed some kind of doom. All head snapped to Natalie as she broke the silence.

"Do you think we need to learn more?"

Everyone shook his or her heads. "Nope."

"I think we know enough," Katherine said. "Let's go home and think about what we are about to do. We will tell our ideas to each other tomorrow."

"Okay, see everybody tomorrow."

Everyone divided and went to their bus.

"Hey. Wake up, Katherine."

"Go away." Katherine replied to the voice.

"That's what I tried to tell you. Now wake up and listen to me please."

"Huh?" Katherine opened her eyes to peer into another's. They belonged to a little girl with brown hair put up in two red ribbons. Katherine sat up quickly.

"Katherine Krueger?"

Little Katherine nodded. "Yup. That's me." She said, climbing onto Katherine's bed.

"Are you a ghost?" Katherine asked.

Little Katherine shook her head. "No. I am the young spirit of a living being. Can you believe it? I have kids!" She giggled.

Katherine stared.

"Well, we both can't be called Katherine, so why don't you call me Princess? I love that name." The small girl asked sweetly, hugging a teddy bear she had locked in her arms.

"Okay…Princess, what do you want?"

Little Katherine's face fell. She looked really sad.

"I want you to find my Mommy. I want to see her."

"Can a spirit of the living communicate with the spirits of the dead?"

Princess smiled. "Of course, silly."

"Could you help me find her?"

"No. I wish I could. I'm really sorry." She said sadly.

"It's…"

The two girls closed their eyes tightly as the world around them seemed to shift violently.

Princess gasped and stared at Katherine. "Katherine, do you have any friends to help you kill my Daddy again?" she asked, her eyes wide and fearful.

Katherine's eyes darted around the room. "Yeah. What was that?"

Princess looked as though she was about to cry.

"All I can tell you is that one of your friends just entered my Daddy's world."

A/N: Okay everyone…hope you liked this chapter. I know it's a bit short…but I really want to get to the next chapter…Freddy's in it! Oh…Lady of Nightmares…I'm sorry I havnt been on yahoo…I have no computer, its blocked at school…and we just moved, so I am nowhere near another computer…

Please R&R!