Chapter 10
It was morning and Dave had made the boys pancakes for breakfast. He was watching the news when something caught his attention. "In other news, this morning, a young girl named Ruth Clapton was found murdered in her bed by her parents. Police described the scene as horrific," the news anchor said. "Ruth is dead? Freddy did it! I know it was him!", Alvin exclaimed. Dave said, "Normally I would question that line of thinking, but after what happened to me, I believe it." Alvin then said, "That's 2 victims now! Freddy needs to be stopped before more people die!" Dave then says, "I'm going to say, it will be very hard to stop Freddy because I attacked him with a knife in my dream and he brushed it off like it was nothing." Theodore says with a fearful tone, "I don't know what we're going to do. I don't want Freddy to get me!" Simon then says, "Neither of us do Theodore."
Later on in front of the school, the boys met up with the Chipettes and Nathan. "Ruth is dead, Freddy got her," Alvin says to Brittany. "I heard that on the news, it's terrible!", Brittany replies. "Wasn't Ruth Caroline's friend?", Nathan asks. "Yes she was," Simon says. Nathan then says, "I know you guys told her not to try to fight Freddy but that didn't save her." "Even if you don't try to fight Freddy, if he wants to kill you, he will come after you", Alvin says. All of a sudden, Derek and Bobby come over to the group. "We heard you talking about Ruth and saying some guy named Freddy killed her. How do we know it wasn't any of you?", Derek says. "Don't be stupid. Neither one of us would kill anybody. Besides, we know you and Bobby have been attacked by Freddy," Alvin says. Bobby says, "It has to be a coincidence that Derek and I had the same thing happen." Alvin replies, "I know a burned man in a red and green sweater with a dark brown hat and a knife glove on his right hand attacked both of you. Me, my brothers, the girls, and Nathan saw cuts form on both of you without any reason, just like what happened to us." "How do you know what the man we saw looked like?", Derek asked. Brittany replies, "He just told you; we've been attacked by this creep too!" "What if that blue wearing nerd is making us see this guy with some weird invention of his and is doing something to us?", Bobby asks, referring to Simon.
"You're out of your mind! Simon wouldn't do something like that, even to hooligans like you!", Eleanor says. "Whatever", Bobby huffs. Both he and Derek then walk off. "The nerve of that guy! Accusing you of doing something so horrible!", Eleanor says to Simon. "Thank you," Simon responds. He then says, "Even though those two deserve a great comeuppance, I would never go as far as to do what he accused me of." "We know. You're not usually violent," Theodore says. "Oh boy, we better get going to class or we'll be late", Nathan says. "All right, see you later," Alvin says to Nathan.
Later on in math class, Mrs. Shepherd is saying, "It's horrible what happened to Ruth. I hope the monster who killed her gets caught." Alvin says, "It was a dream man named Freddy. He killed her and Caroline. I've seen him, my brothers have seen him, other students have seen him, he is real!" Mrs. Shepherd replies, "A man that comes in dreams killed her? That's strange coming from you, Alvin, and that is saying something." Alvin says, "I'm telling the truth! What Freddy does to you in your dream happens to you for real! I've experienced it! So have my brothers!" Mrs. Shepherd then says, "Okay Alvin, that's enough. I know it's absolutely terrible that two students over several days have been murdered, but that doesn't automatically mean that what you're saying is true." Alvin realizes that Mrs. Shepherd is not going to be convinced so he doesn't bother continuing his argument about Freddy. "We will hold a remembrance ceremony at lunch for Ruth later today", Mrs. Shepherd then says. She continues, "Now, let's go over more of what will be on the final exam."
In Brittany's drama class, Ms. Baker says to the class, "I know Ruth was Caroline's best friend and it's terrible what happened to her." Brittany said, "This monster absolutely needs to be stopped." Mark chimes in, "I agree. Whoever did this needs to be brought to justice." Brittany replies, "It's a lot easier said than done to stop Freddy." Mark says, "You mean that guy you said attacks people in their dreams? I'm talking about the real killer, not some dream guy." Brittany says, "He is the killer! He is real! He killed Ruth, I know it!" Mark then says, "That sounds crazy! How could someone in dreams kill you?" "This guy can somehow. He needs to be stopped!", Brittany says. Ms. Baker then says, "Okay you two, that's enough right now. Caroline and Ruth dying is terrible, but could you please talk about this weird stuff after school?" Brittany and Mark quiet down for the rest of the class.
At lunch, after the remembrance for Ruth is held, Alvin is talking with his brothers, the Chipettes, and Nathan.
"I'm absolutely sure Freddy is far from done. He'll look for more!", Alvin says. Nathan replies, "Someone needs to stop him before more people die." "How do we even come close to stopping Freddy?", Theodore asks. "I don't know. Everything that's been tried on him hasn't worked. I don't know what we can do," Brittany says. Simon says, "The last thing we need right now is Freddy claiming another victim; but it seems like no matter what we do, we can't stop him right now." Jeanette says, "Well, we need to think of a way to stop him. I know it's hard, Simon, but we need to try or else someone else is going to die. Maybe even one of us!"
"I'm too young and pretty to die!", Brittany exclaims. Theodore then says, "I don't want to die at the hands of this creep!" Alvin says, "I agree with Jeanette, we need to think of a way to stop this monster!" "Couldn't agree with you more," Nathan replies.
The rest of the school day goes by without problems. Later on at the Seville house, Simon and Theodore are playing a video soccer game while Alvin looks on. "I play winner!", Alvin says. The boys seem to have forgotten about Freddy for the moment. Simon winds up winning against Theodore and plays Alvin.
"Come on! Yes!", Alvin exclaims as his team hits the game-winning goal. "The great Alvin Seville wins again!", Alvin then says. Simon rolls his eyes and says, "Okay, you beat me. That's all you just did." "No need to be a sore loser, Simon. Just say the great Alvin beat you again," Alvin says. Simon, deciding to humor his older brother, says, "Fine. I lost to the great Alvin again." "Maybe you'll have better luck next time," Alvin then says.
The Chipmunks later on do some studying for the upcoming final exams as well as any homework they have. Dave later makes tacos for dinner.
"So, how was today?", Dave asked the boys during dinner. "It was pretty average," Simon says. Theodore replies, "Everyone was talking about Ruth and people that really knew her say they couldn't believe something like that could happen." Alvin says, "It was okay. But, like Theodore said, a lot of people at school were talking about Ruth. I'll admit, Ruth was in our math class." Dave, with a surprised look, asks, "You knew her?" Alvin replies, "We didn't know her that well. All we really know about her is she was Caroline's friend." "Oh, okay," Dave says.
At the Miller house, the Chipettes and Ms. Miller were having dinner and talking about the day. "I'm still not completely convinced that Freddy is real," Ms. Miller says. Eleanor says, "Believe us when we say he is real." "I know you are scared by the nightmares that you've had as well as the two students at school dying, but it will take something pretty drastic to fully convince me that this Freddy character can actually kill you when he invades your dreams." "I just hope it doesn't lead to him killing you," Brittany says fearfully. Jeanette then says, "I agree. I don't know what we would do if Freddy took you from us." Ms. Miller replies, "You've got nothing to worry about. I'll be okay, dears. These weird events haven't gotten to me yet. Maybe I'm immune!" Jeanette then says to herself, "I hope so."
It's bedtime at the Seville house and Dave is tucking the boys in for the night. "Goodnight fellas," Dave says. "Goodnight Dave," the Chipmunks reply. After Dave goes to bed, the boys try to stay awake, but fatigue gets the better of all three after awhile.
Alvin is startled awake by guitar playing coming from the living room. He hears various, familiar rock riffs being played as he sneaks downstairs to see who could be playing. Alvin initially was going to ask whoever it was how they got in the house and tell them to stop, but he couldn't help but be impressed by the playing since he played guitar. Alvin walks up behind the figure who is playing and says, "I have to admit, you're pretty good!" The figure says in a raspy voice, "Thanks." He then turns his face to Alvin and asks with a sinister smile, "Want my autograph?" Alvin gasps when he realizes that it's Freddy. Alvin screams and runs toward the back door, but it's locked. Freddy laughs evilly as he comes toward Alvin. Alvin then says fearfully, "I'm warning you, you better back off!" Freddy then says, "You're warning me munk boy?" Alvin replies, "Y-y-y-yes I am." Freddy laughs and asks, "What do you plan on doing to me, little piggy?"
Alvin then sweeps Freddy's feet out from under him, kicks him in the face, and runs up the stairs. Freddy quickly recovers and runs after him. As Alvin is running down the hall toward a window, the floor turns into a lake of blood. As Alvin is struggling through the blood, Freddy, standing at the other end of the hall says evilly, "What's wrong, Alvin? I thought you liked the color red!", before letting out a scary evil laugh.
Alvin gets swallowed by the blood and falls into the boiler room. Alvin looks around and says, "Oh no! This place again!" Alvin hears a screech and turns toward the source of the noise. He sees Freddy walking on an elevated walkway toward some stairs while scraping his knives on the rail. Alvin runs and hides behind a boiler. Alvin struggles to stay quiet when he gets startled by steam shooting out of a pipe. He peeks out from behind the boiler to see if the coast is clear before stepping out from behind the boiler. Freddy suddenly appears behind Alvin and knocks him down. Freddy then tries to stab Alvin with his knives, but Alvin is just able to get out of the way.
Alvin gets up and sees Freddy smiling evilly at him. Freddy then says, "Which do you prefer I play next? 'Stairway to Heaven' or 'Highway to Hell'? Because, you're going to die!" Alvin goes to run again, but Freddy catches up to him before he can get far and grabs him by his shirt. Freddy then slams Alvin into the wall and puts his blades to Alvin's face and rasps, "You're done. Sweet dreams." Freddy raises his knives to slash Alvin.
Alvin wakes up in his bed screaming. Dave runs into the room and sees Alvin shaking in terror. Dave says, "It was Freddy, wasn't it?" Alvin says, "Yes. He almost killed me!" Simon then asks, "Are you okay?" Alvin answers, "Considering I'm not dead, that would be a yes." Dave goes to Alvin's bed to comfort him. "It's okay, it's over," Dave says in a soothing tone. Theodore comes to Alvin and hugs him and says, "Thank goodness Freddy didn't get you." Alvin says, "I'm glad he didn't get me, but it could only be a matter of time before he does get me!" Dave says, "Don't say that Alvin! I know Freddy is trying to kill us, but I won't let him do it." Alvin says, "Thanks Dave. But there really isn't much we can do against Freddy." After Alvin calms down, Dave goes to leave the room and go back to bed. "At least try to get some sleep. I know Freddy is a murderous monster, but you have school tomorrow and you need your rest. Goodnight again boys," Dave says. "Goodnight Dave," the boys respond. While Simon and Theodore are able to get back to sleep, Alvin is too scared to sleep for the rest of the night.
At the Miller house, the Chipettes are asleep and so is Ms. Miller.
Ms. Miller is woken up by a strange screeching noise coming from downstairs and she goes to investigate. Ms. Miller doesn't find anything and is about to go back upstairs when she hears a deep raspy voice say, "Beatrice." She looks around and says, "Okay, this isn't funny!" "Beatrice," the voice says again. Ms. Miller turns around and sees Freddy looking back at her smiling evilly. "Nice to meet the mother of those girls before she is put into eternal darkness," Freddy says. Ms. Miller gasps and says, "Oh my goodness! You're Freddy?!" Freddy evilly grins and says, "None other!", before laughing evilly. Ms. Miller says, "You leave my girls and their friends alone you creep!" Freddy replies, "I doubt you're in a position to give me orders old woman. But you are in a position to die!" Freddy runs at Ms. Miller and tries to slash her. She is able to avoid Freddy's knives and run into the kitchen. She grabs a large knife and waits behind the fridge for Freddy.
Just as Freddy walks into the kitchen, Ms. Miller runs out and stabs Freddy in the neck and cuts his throat. Freddy just smiles at her and waves his hands over his neck. The injuries are healed. "Nice try Beatrice, but not nearly good enough!", Freddy snarls with a wicked smile. Ms. Miller then runs for the front door and is unable to open it due to it being locked. Freddy runs toward her and she runs for the back door. Miraculously, it opens and she is able to get out of the house. She quickly slams the door and turns around, only to realize that she's not outside, she's in the boiler room. The fear in Ms. Miller is growing as she looks around the boiler room. She heads up some stairs onto a walkway and is looking for a way out. She hears a screech and looks around in fear. Just as Ms. Miller is about to continue along the walkway, she runs into Freddy. Freddy manages to slash her shoulder and she falls.
Freddy, while moving his finger knives, comes toward Ms. Miller with a sinister smile on his face. She screams and immediately runs toward the stairs. She is able to get down the stairs and looks for a place to hide. Ms. Miller comes across some children jumping rope and tossing a ball around while singing the ominous song:
One, two Freddy's coming for you
Three, four better lock your door
Five, six grab your crucifix
Seven, eight gonna stay up late
Nine, ten never sleep again.
She is terrified at the song she's hearing and goes to run, only to run into Freddy. Freddy grabs Ms. Miller by her nightgown and says, "Your time is now. Sweet dreams." He then goes to slash Ms. Miller.
Ms. Miller wakes up in her bed screaming in fear. The Chipettes run into her room after hearing her scream. "Ms. Miller, what happened?", asked Jeanette. Brittany catches a glimpse of Ms. Miller's shoulder and exclaims, "It was Freddy! Freddy attacked you!" Ms. Miller looks at her shoulder and sees the cuts in the same place she got them in the dream. She looks at her nails and doesn't see any skin or blood and quickly comes to the realization that Freddy is real. "Yes, it was Freddy. I saw him! He did this to me! You girls were right, he is real!" Eleanor asks, "Will you be okay?" Ms. Miller replies, "It's just a few cuts. I'll be fine, especially knowing that Freddy didn't get me." She then goes to the bathroom to clean and bandage the cuts on her shoulder.
Ms. Miller then gets back to her room and says to the girls, "This Freddy guy is as horrible as you described, maybe even worse!" Brittany replies, "We know he's horrible! He wants to kill us!" Ms. Miller then says, "I attacked him with a knife and he brushed it off like it was nothing! I didn't even hurt him!" Jeanette says, "It's because we can't hurt him!" Ms. Miller then says, "Well I did manage to escape him, so that is a good thing. It was still really scary though." Eleanor asks, "Do you want us to sleep with you?" Ms. Miller answers, "No thank you Eleanor, but thanks for the offer." She then says, "You've got school tomorrow and need your rest so go back to bed, dears. I'll be fine." Jeanette says, "Okay, but we'll sleep with you if you change your mind." "Goodnight again girls," Ms. Miller says. "Goodnight again, Ms. Miller," the Chipettes respond as they go back to their room. Ms. Miller was able to put on a brave act for the girls to keep them from worrying a lot, but deep down, she was still scared and couldn't go back to sleep for the rest of the night.
Ms. Miller has encountered Freddy and witnessed his horrible wrath and Freddy has terrorized Alvin again. Everyone in the Seville and Miller households has encountered Freddy now. Will one of them be his next victim? Find out in the next chapter! Please review!