Greeting: At the pizzeria, Goldie, Springtrap and the girls have a lot to explain.
Meanwhile, Rachel, Eclipse, Shadow and Faith are on their way to the great pit of doom.
Their job will be dangerous and lethal. Let's see what ends up happening!

( Rachel, Shadow and Eclipse. On Faith's back)

They had left the pizzeria a while before. To Rachel, it seemed like forever had passed.
Shadow and Eclipse were at the front, steering Faith. The two boys were talking to one another in a rather chilly mood.
" I still can't believe we actually ended up coming here. I mean it was obvious but I seriously never thought", Eclipse continued.
They had been talking for a while by then.
Shadow was stroking Faith's neck with his left palm.
" Wish the weather was better though. I expected that we'd discuss this topic with Freddy at some point.
Can't say this is exactly how I imagined our journey to go", Shadow told Eclipse.
The wolf chuckled and a blast of wind hit him in the chest.
" How did you envision this then?", he asked out of curiosity.
Shadow smirked and let out a sneer, he knew how stupid it seemed.
" I don't know. My imagination just thought we'd get nice, clear weather. I can't help it. I got that from Leslie, I think", he answered.
" It could be worse. At least it's not snowing or raining", commented Faith, grinning at the incoming wind.
She was constantly ready for an impact.

The clouds were right above her head and it looked terrifying in a way. The ground was not very close to them.
It loomed below, wrapped in its own dark blanket. That was unnatural and looked like the air was stuck between two equally grim crushers.
The air and Faith could be turned into dust in a second. The boys had gotten used to it but it still looked displeasing.
" Just keep us below the clouds and we won't get moisturized", Eclipse reminded her.
" Yes please! Anything but above the clouds", said a tiny voice behind the two males.
" This is also one thing I didn't imagine. You do hurt our masculine, courageous pride a bit. Don't you, Rachel?", Shadow looked behind himself.

Rachel was in the middle of Faith's back. There was tons of room to go around in and Rachel was at the exact middle point.
She was lying down and curled into a ball like a baby.
" Your masculine pride can go to Hell right now. It's not funny", Rachel said with anger in her voice.
" Whoa! Whoa! Somebody is angry at us because we allowed her to come", Eclipse teased a bit.
" We told you that we could go alone. Just look at yourself. Even children can be sitting on Faith's back", Shadow told her.
" Be a bunny and sit up, Rachel. My back is safe and soft", Faith encouraged her.
Rachel was beyond terrified, the ground was so far away. The wind was doing everything but helping the problem.

The clouds were dark and they were scary up close. Rachel hated it and her teeth were together like somebody had used glue on them.
" I am so not going to sit up. I'll get up when I'm on safe ground again", she told the others.
Shadow stood up and Rachel saw a glimpse of it. Shadow was on two feet and next to the edge.
Rachel closed her eyes.
" We need to get her up. When we go back, there will be children aboard and we need her to stop being a baby.
Hold steady, please Faith", Shadow told his friends.
Rachel opened her eyes as Shadow was standing beside her. The fox felt nothing but fear.
Rachel expected him to be rough and demanding, instead Shadow knelt down and petted her head.
" There, there. Calm down, Rachel. Take a deep breath. I'll help you get started. If you get too scared, I'll let you lie down.
But I won't let you fall off", he told her.
A wave of surprise shot through Rachel's soul. Shadow spoke very calmingly instead of in his certain voice of a fighter.
Eclipse knew that Shadow used the same words as he had with Leslie. Eclipse looked back and could easily replace Rachel with Leslie.

Eclipse could see it in his mind's eye.
The room was messy due to Leslie's telekinetic outburst. He was lying on the floor and being comforted by his only friend.
That fox, in the room, was young and innocent. He would, after many many hardships, become the Shadow that Eclipse knew today.

Shadow patted Rachel on the side of the head and she turned to look at him.
" Would that be fine for you?", he asked her with a gentle smile.
Rachel nodded and took Shadow's hand.
He helped her get up a tiny bit and supported her. The wind blasted at Rachel and she embraced Shadow instantly.
She hadn't even gotten to sit yet.
" Take it easy. You're not made of feathers. I'll hold your hand", Shadow told her calmingly.
Rachel dared to glance towards the edge of Faith. She knew that a long fall would wait her there.
Rachel nodded to Shadow again and he helped her sit up fully.
" Is it that bad? Willa, Storm Jr., Springtrap. Every single one of them has been sitting here. Springtrap wasn't even scared the first time.
He has been on worse dragons", Shadow looked serious.
" Oni ryu. His flying wasn't steady. Just like his sanity", Faith let out.
The picture of Oni ryu's death was clear in her eyes. Shadow ignored her.
" Springtrap is frightened and frail. But he trusts his friends. He trusts Faith to keep him safe. Can you do the same?", Shadow asked Rachel.
The magenta bunny thought for a bit.
She wished she could so she tried.

Rachel put her other hand to the ground and helped herself up. Her legs were shaking and the wind was blasting through her fur.
Shadow's legs were steady and his feet were not moving. He was standing like on normal, solid ground.
Eclipse glanced at them and laughed.
" Well done, Rachel. You are standing on Faith and resisting the wind", he smiled at her.
Rachel sat down again and Shadow sat down next to her. Rachel was breathing heavily for a moment and Shadow gestured her to slow it down.
" That wasn't so bad. You are a Fazbear animatronic now", Shadow congratulated her.
" I still hate it", Rachel corrected.

Shadow took her to the front and held her hand the whole way.
" If you look around for a while, I'm sure you won't hate it anymore", Shadow suggested.
Rachel held his hand since it gave her something to rely on. She looked at her surroundings and her fellow animatronics.
Faith turned her head and smiled at Rachel. The ground was shockingly far away but it didn't bother Eclipse.
Out of all, he should have been scared. There was a huge drop on each side and his legs were hanging over the edges.
The saddle was very small and Eclipse had nothing to grab onto.
He was just holding the reins and the saddle was moving as well.
Rachel had to grin, the saddle looked like it could flip around any second. Faith's neck was rather thin for the saddle.
There he was nonetheless, riding like a professional.
Shadow and Rachel were on safer ground luckily.

The view was amazing at least. It was quite extraordinary to see so dark a day.
No lights were on the ground nor on the sky. Rachel couldn't imagine that they had been driving around in that same darkness the day before.
Only savages lived in that place, and wild animals. Rachel could see the pit in the distance and she sighed quickly.
The shimmer, coming from there, was terrifying. That shimmer was lighting up the clouds, above, and welcoming everyone to the match.
The lights did remind Rachel of a football stadium. Even the pit had been like a football stadium or a volcano, only rounder.
" Almost there", she muttered to herself.
There was a river below and it was flowing towards the pit. Rachel had no idea of how she knew it was flowing that way.
It was almost like the river was leading them to the slaughterhouse.
Deep within, that was what the pit was, a slaughterhouse.
How many kids had already died because Rachel hadn't saved them earlier? She didn't dare to think about it.
" Hopefully there really was no way of saving them the first time. We would have left with an army behind us", she assured herself.
" If only we had seen the faces of those monsters when they realized that Carrie was gone. There were so many of them and we slipped by", Rachel thought.

The monsters had maybe learned something of it.
" Guards!", Rachel exclaimed when that thought entered her mind.
Eclipse accidentally yanked the reins when he looked at her. Faith let out a groan and shot to the left.
" What, Rachel?", Eclipse asked the bunny right after he had fixed their course.
" The monsters must be guarding the pit now. We showed them a lesson alright. Consider going to stealth mode. Just a thought.
If you have another plan in mind, keep on going", she told the others.
Eclipse and Shadow exchanged looks. Shadow nodded and Eclipse sighed.
" Okay, Faith. You heard her. Let's go to extra stealth mode", Eclipse patted Faith's neck.
" Flying like a bat?", Faith glanced at him.
" Flying like a bat", Eclipse confirmed.
Faith stopped flapping and glided all the way to the pit. They started descending but not too fast.
Rachel was nearly terrified of how silent it was all of the sudden.
" What is happening?", she embraced Shadow.
Faith was coming in like a stealth plane. The lamps were shooting their light to the ground and it was reflecting to the sky.
Faith saw where the beams were so she stayed away from them.
Shadow was trying to hide Faith from spying eyes. She was big but she didn't need much energy to stay hidden.
It was already dark enough for her not to be seen.

Eclipse was constantly looking at the ground and saw the guards when they were almost above the pit.
Faith kept on gliding as straight as possible. Their descent was nearly non-existent.
Faith flapped a tiny bit every now and then though. The wind was drowning most of the sound.
Eclipse was happy about the wind not being very strong near the pit.
The noise, coming from the pit, was still deafening. Two animatronics were forced to fight with huge clubs.
Eclipse was able to see the oil, bursting out of the loser.
The winner was beating the corpse.
Rachel had closed her eyes and soon Eclipse found out why. Monsters stepped onto the arena and the winner fell to her knees.
The female voice was so desperate.
" Let me go! I already killed my brother, what more do you want? What more do you want?!", she cried out loud at the sky.
The monsters came and beat her up.
" Too cruel to be watched by kids", Faith muttered.
Eclipse nodded even thought Faith's gaze was fixed on the arena.
" We can only stop this by going down. Let's drop on the guards", Shadow went to Eclipse.
He was on his knees on Faith's neck and his arms were on Eclipse's shoulders.
Eclipse sighed and nodded to him.

Faith started circling the pit and Eclipse dismounted the saddle. He went beside Shadow to the same stance as him.
Both males were crouched on Faith's neck. Rachel came towards them.
" What are you guys going to do?", she asked them.
" Stay there", Shadow extended his arm towards Rachel.
" You will follow us, don't worry. Faith can handle everything. Trust her", Eclipse continued.
Rachel hoped the males weren't going to do what she thought they were.

Faith knew what to do. She descended a tiny bit so that the guys wouldn't break their legs when they landed.
Shadow and Eclipse were going to jump. And so they did!
They jumped off at different times, first Shadow, then Eclipse. The monsters, below, had no idea of what was coming.
The death was coming from above.
Shadow jumped on the monster just like Antonio had once taught him. The katanas came out but the blades remained in.
Shadow used them as knives to stab the monster. Eclipse had no katanas like that so he used his claws to break the monster's neck.
Shadow saw that a guard turned to look at Eclipse. He quickly opened up his left katana and threw it at the monster.
The blade went through and as the monster fell to the ground, the katana got stuck to the dirt.
Eclipse nodded to Shadow and went to grab the katana. He threw it back to Shadow who folded the blade back in.
Rachel followed the show from the air and couldn't even see Shadow half the time.

Wolves were stronger than foxes but those two were very strong together. The plan would work.
Eclipse was the weak link of that attack if there were weak links in the first place.
Shadow was able to be consumed by the darkness but Eclipse had to hide normally.
They took out the guards on both sides of the pit and hid their bodies. It was wondrous team work from both.
Faith waited patiently with Rachel as the males finished their work.
" Can we go to the ground now? I need to see the children so I know they are okay", Rachel asked Faith.
The dragon glanced at her and peered at the ground. She slowed down by turning her wings sideways and they began to descend again.
Faith missed the flat ground above the pit's edge. There was another gently sloping hill just a few feet after the flat ground started.
The flat bit was like a walkway.
Before the ground descended into the pit, it rose. Kind of like the edges of a volcano.
Faith grabbed the outer slope with her claws and latched onto the dirt.
" Rachel. Go to the top. I can stay here where they won't see me", Faith told her passenger.
Rachel dismounted Faith and climbed to the males. The sight shocked her at first.
The view from the ground was bringing back too many flashbacks. They were on the exact opposite side than before.
The edge, on the other side of the pit, was much steeper.
The flat part was wider there and that is where the vehicles had been. Rachel instantly saw the path which she and her friends had taken the first time.
If she peered at it very hard, she could see the cage where Carrie had been locked in.
No one seemed to be there at the moment.

" Are you alright? Do you need to calm down?", Eclipse grabbed her arm to keep her from flopping.
" No. I just remembered that the nightmare was real. Really real", she whispered to the two others.
" You were very brave to come here. Going down from the other side looks like a bad idea", Shadow peered at the pit.
" Once you get close, you realize that the monsters are too focused on the game to notice anything", said Rachel.
The males looked at each other again, Rachel thought it was creepy. So much information was exchanged with one single glance.
" It's smart but in order to save the kids, you almost have to come from this side", Shadow made up a plan.
" Just follow us and we'll take care of everything", Eclipse added quickly.
Rachel followed the wolf and the fox down to the pit. The cries of kids made her cry as well.
Shadow and Eclipse went down and took down a guard fast. They put the corpse back to its original position.
" Smart. To everyone else it looks like nothing has happened", Rachel thought.
Both males had been waiting for a moment like that. The kids and the animatronics at the pizzeria had been afraid for a long time.
Now it was their turn to sneak around and assassinate the monsters.

It took less time to get close to the bottom that time. Rachel followed the males who made no noise as they snuck around.
The monsters were dying left and right, maybe a bit too fast for it to be true. Rachel saw the cages below.
" I'm coming, children. Don't worry. Mommy is here", Rachel thought by herself.
The children gasped as the monster, above their cage, was stabbed to death. The kids backed off from the middle of the cage.
A thick stream of blood flowed down from the corpse. The children had no idea of what was going on.
They had seen too much violence to scream when they saw blood. Rachel suddenly appeared behind the cage and the kids looked at her.
" Who are you? How did you get out?", one brave girl asked her.
She was scared and in agony by the sound of it. That was no tone for a child.
It was no wondrous, amazed tone. She had asked it in fear and terror.
" I'm Rachel, kids. I am not here to harm you. I came here with my friends to save you", she smiled at them, or tried at least.
The kids didn't know what to think. The wolf and the fox that had appeared beside the bunny, had just killed a monster.
The kids seemed afraid of Eclipse who looked strong. He had become a Legend whilst fighting.
" Don't be scared. We won't hurt you", Eclipse told them in a sweet tone.
The kids nodded but they were afraid.
" Are you like that other wolf? The one that haled us from one cage to the next", one kid asked.
That sounded like Okami's doing. Hale was a strong verb in Rachel's ears. It sounded like Okami had been beating them up and dragging them around with force.
The kids looked like it too. They had been hurt.
" I am not. Wait. Do you mean Okami? Did he do that to you?", Eclipse sounded sad.
The kids were wounded and all nodded. Eclipse was sure that Faith could freeze the wounds to stop the bleeding for the time being.
" Rachel. Go to Faith. Prepare the supplies. We'll free these kids and the ones in those other cages.
We can probably take about a two dozen of them", Eclipse told her.

Rachel was uncertain of it but nodded. There were bags on Faith's back, right near her tail.
Eclipse had put blankets and other supplies into them.
The kids required food and warmth.
Also, Eclipse had told her to go because she would cry if she had to leave some of the kids behind.
The saved kids would ask questions and probably cry if their friends weren't among the saved ones.

Rachel went up to Faith and the males began to break the lock.
" Just relax, children. No one has seen us. Remain quiet and trust us", Shadow told them.
Eclipse began to break the lock which was hard steel.
" Where do these things get cages like this?", he asked himself.
" Is that a problem, Eclipse?", Shadow asked his friend.
" Not at all. I just need few more seconds", he answered Shadow.
The kids waited and listened to the game. Shadow told them to keep their eyes on him.
The game was horrible and there was lots of oil. There were three combatants at that point.
Shadow thought that the monsters had invaded too many pizzerias. Who would be left after the Apocalypse?
" And there. You are free now", Eclipse broke the lock.

The kids were about to come out but then they stopped. Their eyes widened and they backed away.
" Come on. Let's go", Shadow told them but they were too scared to speak or move.
" Hello, Eclipse and Shadow! You have become too predictable", Okami greeted behind them.
The two males turned around and were shocked by the sight. Okami was there, in front of their eyes, with two beasts.
Theys tried to fight back but Okami subdued them easily.
His face was messed up. The other half of his face was nothing but the endoskeleton with a red eye.
His leg had no fur or skin either. It was a robotic leg that looked like a nightmare.
" No. How did this happen?", Eclipse asked Shadow when they were forced to the ground.
" A beast, who has been living in your pizzeria, just tipped off the other beasts that you were coming. Don't blame yourselves though.
Smile while you still have jaws", Okami chuckled.
He smiled at the kids with his broken jaw and tried to claw them. The children shrieked and Okami smiled in pleasure.
The animatronics were taken away and locked up.
Rachel could only watch from the edge as her friends were taken away due to her desire to help.
She had helped the monsters surely and not the ones she had wanted to help. Rachel had only gotten her friends into danger.

Farewell: Shadow and Eclipse are caught now. Faith and Rachel have to help them. What will happen next?
Right now, I will move onto other things but write again tomorrow. Of course, it won't affect how often I publish them
See you! THE ONLY WAY TO LIVE IS TO WRITE.