Greeting: Hi, everybody. It's me again! Electra has her plans but so do the Fazbears. Maybe Electra won't have to go to them after all. Enjoy this, guys!
( Storm Jr. Crocheting at the Circle. After Dust's resurrection)
She was sitting on her bed, it was a calm day. At least mostly.
Their days had become calmer after they had found the window shields. The monsters came to the pizzeria every once in a while.
They tried the shield but it seemed to hold.
Mr. Fazbear had assured everyone that their place was safe. The only problems in their pizzeria had been with adults.
Gretta and her closest friends had become rather aggressive. They had been demanding impossible things, even things that would endanger the children.
The beast witches' offer had taken Gretta with it. She demanded that the animatronics needed to die.
She refused to listen to anyone, even Mr. Fazbear.
He was a human but it didn't affect Gretta. She thought Mr. Fazbear was just trying to protect his job by using lies.
It was a ridiculous claim, even for a panicking parent.
Gretta had been inside for too long, it was just that.
Storm Jr. was not thinking about Gretta a lot. It worried her since she was one of the animatronics whom Gretta wanted dead.
Storm Jr. tried to focus on crocheting and ignore her. It made her feel more positive.
Mr. Fazbear had lowered the temperature in order to save electricity. The kids were cold but Storm Jr. was making them pullovers.
A child was under the blanket, warming herself up. Storm Jr. was almost finished.
It took a minute and then she was done.
Storm Jr. looked at the child happily and showed her the pullover.
" Try this on, kiddo. It is so warm. It's like Springtrap's hug", she smiled at the kid.
The girl tried it on. She had difficulties, putting it on but Storm Jr. helped her.
" There you go. Aww. That looks so cute on you", Storm Jr. looked at the girl.
" Thank you. I'm so much warmer now. I love it!", the girl was happy.
Storm Jr. was happy too, she put her hands in the air. The girl giggled at her, Storm Jr. was so silly and funny.
The girl left and went to her friends.
" Another one down. This is so much more fun than I expected", thought Storm Jr.
It was better than doing nothing. Bonnie's crew had been going around the city but the others had been doing nothing.
Storm Jr. was lucky to have something to do.
Playing with children was fun and all but she needed to rest for a while.
Storm Jr. curled up into a ball and smiled at the sight, in front of her.
The kids were happy, considering everything they had seen. They were in a better condition than Storm Jr. had hoped.
It was a good sign.
" How's my baby doing?", a friendly pair of arms touched her shoulders.
" Hi, mom", Storm Jr. turned around.
Storm was smiling a little bit as she sat down with her daughter.
Storm was worried about Gretta, they had been talking to each other.
" Have you dealt with Gretta yet?", asked Storm Jr.
Storm shook her head sadly.
" No. She is like a bomb. Let's hope she doesn't do anything foolish", grunted Storm.
She was really worried indeed. Storm Jr. looked at her mother.
" Let's hope so. At least nothing else seems to be wrong. The kids have pullovers, it was hard but worth it", giggled Storm Jr.
Storm looked at her weirdly.
" I feel that something is wrong. Something's creeping me out. It's like something bad has just awakened", Storm looked at the floor.
" So now you sense it. I think your sense is a little late, mom. The horror awakened days ago", joked Storm Jr.
Storm chuckled at her joke.
" It could be that but I don't think so. It is something else but I can't figure out what", Storm shrugged.
" It's nothing, mom. You are just tense", assured Storm Jr.
" Perhaps, I am. I can't imagine Gretta actually getting anyone to join her cause. What if she does though? They could hurt you and Willa.
They could hurt my little babies", Storm embraced Storm Jr. and patted her head.
Storm Jr. gently pushed her away.
" You doubt our strength, mom? The two of us are stronger than that. They could never hurt us and no one will join Gretta anyway.
The majority will always be on our side", Storm Jr. told her mother.
" Thank you, baby. I'll try to remember that. If only everyone could be as positive as you", Storm petted her head.
" I'm not positive. I just told you how things were. Plus, I have this feeling that someone will save us", explained Storm Jr.
Storm didn't believe that her daughter was right.
" Is that someone Leslie or somebody else?", asked Storm.
She already knew the answer and Storm Jr. knew that she knew.
" Of course it's Leslie, mom. It must be. Who else could it possibly be?", Storm Jr. looked into Storm's eyes.
Storm was happy that her daughter had delusional fantasies to keep her more positive.
" I don't think he'll come back. You know what! Leslie would never survive out there. He is a scared and frail guy.
Jenner drained all the courage out of him", Storm shook her head.
Storm Jr. was amazed how wrong her mother was.
" Leslie is more than that. He has power which Jenner doesn't know about. He is a lover more than a fighter but there's that side of him too", corrected Storm Jr.
Storm loved the way Storm Jr. spoke of Leslie.
She blushed when she praised Leslie and looked at the sky with glitter in her eyes. She really loved him with all of her heart.
" How could Leslie come back? You killed him, Storm Jr. Getting him back might be impossible", Storm looked at her daughter sadly.
Storm Jr. looked at her and her smile drained away. A tear formed almost immediately and her happiness was gone.
Storm covered her mouth, she shouldn't have said that.
" I'm so sorry, Storm Jr. I..I didn't mean to say that. It just slipped out", apologized Storm.
Storm Jr. couldn't stop herself from sobbing. Her mother was right, she had killed Leslie, murdered him like a pig.
" You are right. He probably won't come back. I betrayed him. Even if he came back, he would be on the beast witches' side", sobbed Storm Jr.
Storm hugged her.
" Hold on, baby. Don't cry. It was not your fault. I didn't mean to sound like I was blaming you", said Storm.
" It's okay, mom. I shouldn't focus on thinking about Leslie. We have problems and those need our attention", Storm Jr. told her.
Storm wiped the tears and let Storm Jr. take a deep breath.
Foxy entered the Circle's stage while Storm was wiping her daughter's tears. Foxy wanted to speak with Storm Jr.
" What are you sobbing for, Storm Jr.? Is everything alright?", asked Foxy when he saw her.
Storm glanced at Foxy who seemed worried.
" She's okay. I just mentioned.. the thing", Storm told Foxy.
" What?", Foxy did not understand that at all.
" You know, Foxy. That thing. The one no one should mention around Storm Jr.", Storm tried to explain it.
Foxy thought for a slight moment and then he got it. He looked at Storm and grinned.
" Oh. That thing. The one where..", started Foxy.
Then he looked at Storm Jr. The poor wolf was looking away from him.
Foxy pointed at his own chest and mimicked dying. Storm glanced at Storm Jr. to make sure she wasn't looking and then nodded to Foxy.
He bent down and placed his hand on Storm Jr. He patted her back.
" There you go. Calm down", Foxy told her as she was calming down.
Storm Jr. had not been thinking about killing Leslie for a while so the sorrow had been building up.
She calmed down once the sorrow had come out.
Storm Jr. turned around and glanced at Foxy. It had been Foxy's idea to make the kids some pullovers.
" So, Foxy. Why are you here? Does someone need another pullover? I just finished one", Storm Jr. asked him.
Foxy shook his head.
" No, no. I actually came here to get you. Apparently, Goldie and Marionette have something they need to discuss with you", explained Foxy.
Storm Jr. got curious.
" Goldie and Marionette. Why would they want to talk to me?", wondered Storm Jr.
Foxy could do nothing but shrug.
" They didn't tell me. They just told me to get you. They claimed it was important. Something about Leslie, I think", answered Foxy.
After hearing that name, Storm Jr. was more than delighted to follow Foxy. Storm came as well since she was curious too.
" Leslie? Let's hope it's good news. I already broke my daughter's happy mood, she doesn't need any more of that", thought Storm.
She hoped Goldie and Marionette knew Storm Jr. didn't like talking about Leslie's death.
Foxy took the wolves to the puppet boxes and then to the left. Storm Jr. watched as Foxy opened a storage room and went in.
She and her mother followed Foxy.
Golden freddy and Marionette were inside, they looked thoughtful.
" Did you get her?", Golden freddy asked Foxy.
" Sure did. She is here just like you wanted", Foxy let Storm Jr. walk past him.
Storm came in and Foxy closed the door. She went to Foxy's side and waited.
They were going to stay in the room and figure out what was so important.
There were no chairs in the room so Storm Jr. sat down to the floor just like Goldie and Marionette.
The bear and the puppet looked like they had just found the cure to cancer.
" So, guys! What's this about? I'm here and I'm listening to you", shrugged Storm Jr.
She was excited.
" Please be something good", she thought.
She had crossed her fingers behind her back. The two animatronics seemed to have good news.
Well, it was good to Storm Jr.
" May we ask a personal question? Have you seen Leslie, Storm Jr.?", asked Marionette.
" Like in your dreams or something", specified Golden freddy.
Storm Jr. found that to be a weird question.
" Be honest with us, Storm Jr.", demanded Marionette.
Storm Jr. told them since it was important.
" I saw dreams about him before all of this began. He was usually a zombie or something like that.
It was like he wanted to warn me but couldn't", revealed Storm Jr.
Goldie and Marionette glanced at one another.
" Have you felt his presence in any other circumstances?", asked Goldie.
" During the battle, yes. His soul was reaching out from the afterlife. Wasn't that how it went?", said Storm Jr.
" And nothing else? You haven't felt him or felt that he was close to you", Marionette was serious.
Storm Jr. didn't like it.
" Sometimes I feel as if he is right here with me", Storm Jr. looked down.
The two animatronics looked at one another and said something in each other's heads.
Storm tried to listen in secret. She could only hear something.
" Then we must be right. He is behind this", said Golden freddy.
Marionette noticed Storm after that. He glanced at Storm a little and banished her from their heads.
Storm felt no pain, it was more like a gentle push.
She got the message even without pain.
Storm went into her daughter's head.
" If you want to leave, I'll take you out. Don't feel bad, they are being creepy", she told Storm Jr.
" No. I'll stay here", replied Storm Jr.
The two males looked at Storm Jr.
" That was important information. Thank you, Storm Jr.", thanked Marionette.
" Could you maybe tell us what this is about?", interrupted Foxy.
Golden freddy had been about to do just that.
" We'll explain, okay? We just wondered if we were wrong. We don't want to give Storm Jr. any false hopes", explained Goldie.
Storm smiled at him, he was responsible.
" So, what have you found out?", Storm Jr. demanded to know the truth.
The two males looked at each other and then at her.
" We might have found Leslie. We could possibly go get him and bring him here", revealed Goldie.
" If he was here, we could bring an end to all this. It's just an idea but it's all we have", said Marionette.
Storm Jr. was astonished.
" Wait! Didn't he die? How could we go get him?", asked Foxy.
Goldie looked at him and explained it all.
" Foxy! Me and Marionette have been wondering how the Apocalypse started", said Goldie.
" I read some witchcraft books and they say there is no other way than the one we knew", said Marionette.
" The Apocalypse has started so Black and Elleroth must have done something. But no one has seen anything unusual since the Grayson hill.
They would have needed a perfect place to do the ritual but they hadn't gone to any of them", explained Goldie.
" That is weird and creepy. Did you figure it out? Please tell me you did", grinned Storm Jr.
Marionette looked at her.
" I discovered something which I hadn't before. The energy flows are all messed up.
We think it might have been caused by the Sorcerer's outburst", sighed Marionette.
" Which means that..?", Foxy wanted a clarification.
" Well..I think the ritual was performed at the home of Elleroth. That's why we missed it", explained Golden freddy.
Marionette looked down at the floor.
" If only I had checked it out earlier, we might have been able to see this coming", he said sadly.
" They performed the ritual and that is why the beasts are here. Well, now we know that at least.
Everything else is still a mystery", Storm Jr. was relieved to hear the answer.
She had been afraid of the tricks that the beasts might have pulled off. It was a relief to hear that it had all been caused by the Sorcerer.
Luck had been on the beast witches' side, that was all.
Golden freddy looked into Storm Jr.'s eyes.
" Now listen up, girl. There is still one thing which we didn't understand", he told her.
Storm Jr. looked at the two males and her ears faced their direction.
Marionette wondered if they should tell her after all. It was nothing more than guessing and hoping for the best.
" We know you miss Leslie, Storm Jr. You say that you have felt him many a time", said Marionette.
" Yes, I have", nodded Storm Jr., waiting for the big revelation.
" He is alive, he is alive", thought Storm Jr.
Storm could hear her thoughts and looked sad. She wished that Marionette and Golden freddy would not let her down.
The two males took a deep breath before starting to talk.
" Storm Jr. Sweetie. Please do not take this as a fact. We are just presuming a lot of things", informed Goldie.
" Yes, sure", smiled Storm Jr.
" Even if they could have performed the ritual at home all this time, they are still missing something.
They would have still needed a key to the afterlife. They couldn't have done it without a conduit of magical energy", said Marionette, staring into her eyes.
Foxy, Storm and Storm Jr. didn't understand his point.
Goldie could speak normal English, luckily.
" Leslie is what Marionette is talking about. He is the key to all that. No Leslie, no..", he started.
" No Apocalypse", Storm Jr. finished it for him.
Storm Jr.'s eyes widened in happiness or in shock, probably a bit of both.
" Without Leslie, all of this is impossible", said Storm Jr.
Marionette nodded.
" I read all books and none of them say anything about a shortcut. There are no shortcuts, they require a conduit.
Leslie is the only one we know", explained Marionette.
That was Storm Jr.'s moment of happiness.
" He is alive, I wasn't crazy", she thought.
" However, you saw him at the bus during the battle. I don't know how that could have worked.
I guess Black, Electra and Elleroth may have found another way. The world is full of mysteries and that has to be kept in mind", Golden freddy told Storm Jr.
She had to be controlled a little bit. That was not a fact but that was the only thing Marionette and Goldie had come up with.
Storm walked closer to her daughter.
" How could he be alive? That's not possible", Storm asked Marionette.
He let out a slight smile.
" Your husband killed a girl, her heart stopped beating. Fang killed her but Crystal is still roaming around", explained Marionette.
Goldie had more to say.
" It seems impossible to bring Leslie back from the dead since he is attached to Jenner's soul.
That is a mystery which makes us doubt our conclusion", Goldie told everyone.
Storm Jr. was not easily brought down. She had already cried all her doubt and grief away.
" But there is a good chance that he is with the beasts right now", she stood up.
" A chance, Storm Jr. Not a good one, just a chance. Him being alive is just as probable as the other possibility.
Do not get too excited!", warned Golden freddy.
He and Marionette stood up as well. Storm Jr. looked at the four animatronics, around her.
" We can find out the truth by paying them a visit", suggested Storm Jr.
Storm was not a fan of that.
" No. They are more powerful than we could ever be. We should be thankful that they haven't destroyed us yet", said Storm.
" They'll come for us sooner or later. Right now, they might be ignoring us but once we are the last survivors, it'll change", Storm Jr. told her.
" I agree with Storm Jr.", said Foxy, looking at Storm.
She glanced at him with a shocked expression on her face.
" It's better than waiting to be killed. If he is there, he could end this. We need him", explained Foxy.
Storm Jr. was ready to go. Storm was not.
" Even if he was there, there are things in our way. I don't think Faith can fly that far, not anymore.
The winds are getting stronger and stronger. We'll die", Storm looked at the others.
" Then we'll die! At least I'll go, protecting what is important to me", replied Golden freddy.
The picture of Springtrap, sleeping with the children, appeared in his mind.
" We have always been about die. Plus, the almighty Storm shouldn't be afraid of enemies.
Is the darkness getting the better of you too? Then we have already lost", Goldie was talking to Storm.
The wolf was staring at the bear. Storm looked angry.
" The darkness will never take me. I just know when we are heading for a suicide mission", replied Storm.
Foxy patted her in the back.
" So far, each and every one of these trips has been a suicide mission. Bonnie's crew has come back over and over again nonetheless.
We can survive our journey into the belly of the beast", Foxy told Storm.
Then he looked at Storm Jr.
" I can assure you that all of us, in this room, will join you. Eclipse too, of course. I think Crystal will want to come as well", promised Foxy.
Goldie and Marionette joined Foxy's idea. Storm looked at them.
" Out of all, you should be on your daughter's side, Storm. Come on. It's for your beloved daughter", Foxy pointed at Storm Jr.
Storm looked into the eyes of her daughter. Storm Jr. was hopeful.
" Please, mom. We will go even if you don't but I want you to come", begged Storm Jr.
Storm sighed and smiled at her.
" Okay, baby. I'll come with you", promised Storm.
Then they hugged.
" Thank you, mom", thanked Storm Jr.
" It's nothing, sweetie. I just feel that we'll find something we wish we hadn't found", replied Storm.
Farewell: To the factory it is. That'll be for the next time. Thank you, guys, so much for joining me today. I has been fun writing this chapter.
Thanks for reading. THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO WRITE.
