A/N: I am back. long time working in this one, mostly because alot happen in this piece, hopefuly i will have other new for the next week. As always, leave comments and critiques. Reviews helps the work improve.
He could heard only the hot air coming out of the pipes…the dripping of some water and his own breathing as he lay in the corner of the cell where he was. He had stoped sobbing a long time ago; after all…it seems to please his captor, the sounds of despair that he produced. Still, the tears keep on flowing from her eyes, for he knows that everything that this beast, this demon…this monster will or has done to his friends, his family….his loved ones, is his fault. How he didn't see it before, how he ignore the signals that maybe it was connected to him somehow how he was such a fool to not do something about it. But now is too late, he is prisoner, and he….he stops for a moment and he hears it.
A sound that he sometimes heard, that foretells when he is coming to gloat and have some fun at his expense. Small taps…always in four sounds close together, followed very close with the sound of metal scratching against metal. This time, he hears it very slowly. And as he hugs himself tighter, he wishes for everything to be just a bad dream, just a awful dream, that when he wakes up he see pearl who will make him breakfast, to se garnet who will look at him full with love and to hang out with Connie and Amethyst. He hugs himself in the corner of the cell and waits…time passes and nothing. He waits and waits for him to appear, but the time passes and he slowly raises his head and opens his eyes, now read from so much crying. He sees the long corridor of the normally dark place, only illuminated with this red light. In the corridor he can see the vapors of the pipes, some drops of water far into the tunnel. He then begins looking to his left where there is a hole where fire is coming out, and where he has seen him appear once. Turning to the right he just sees thousands and thousands of pictures, that is new…of kids like him, of girls like Connie…of teens, like jenny, like Sadie…
"YOU LIKE IT FATASS!?" said a voice from behind him he quickly scrambled to get as far of the corner where he was sited. Turning he saw him crouching…laughing at him, "what's the matter Steven? Don't you like your new home? HAHAHA" he said as he grabbed the bars of the cell with both hand and began to move it violently. Steven shield himself in the only way he could: he closed his eyes, sunk his head deep into his knees and wished to go away…then he feel a hand touching his hair. Quickly turning just to see Freddy grinning grotesque face he scrambles just to realize that no matter where he decided to go, he will still have Freddy there. Finally he curled in the center of the cell, quietly crying…
"OH KNOCK IT OFF BITCH!" Freddy screamed as he grabbed the cell from one side and tilted complete so Steven slammed square in one side, "today is special day…and you will have company boy, so much company" he said smiling with his sighted teeth's, his hat brim touching the cell bars.
"Company? WHAT COMPANY?" Steven asked in a confused mixture of fear, anguish and hate.
"I won't want to ruin the surprise Stevie…but this day, I will have some fun with Connie's classmates" he said then turning he walked towards the darkness of the tunnel. Steven tried to piece together what he was implying with what he said…he was going to have fun with Connie classmates? Oh no.
Connie sat in a lone chair in the second floor of the beach house, where Steven laid just a few meters of her in his bed, unmoving and non responsive. He had been that way since their last encounter with the bastard. Dr. Priyanka Maheswaran, her mother was looking at the poor boy in the bed from which he had remained since she saw him yesterday. She did not get too much out of the boy's mothers or caretakers, just that there was an emergency and they needed her in the house quickly. After she had arrived the last night, Pearl had been complete broken with the what had occur to her kid, so much that she was curled close to the bed, like a guardian dog just waiting for her owner to come back, she knew for a fact that she was not sleeping, because as soon as she asked or touched her, she just raised her head and looked at the Dr with a sad distant stare. Amethyst for her part took solace in eating as many things that she could, and turning to see down stairs, she could see her sitting in a couch, looking up while she munched of a back of chips. Garnet for her part was alone in her room. Prinyanka thought that she was the calmest and collected. In fact, just as she was turning to face, Connie, she saw garnet coming out of the door where the gem temple connected with the house. She looked concentrated and resolved. Connie also saw it and as she was getting ready to go towards her, her mother had to say the bad news to her daughter.
"Connie, before you go…we leave in 15 minutes",she said knowing that her daughter will not like that.
"WHAT!? But Steven is still gone"she said as a manner of speaking, her mother realized as such, but still.
"Connie, there is nothing I could do, this looks like a coma, but with no other information of exactly what happen to your friend, or why you can't tell me anything, I can't do much",she said packing her medical instruments in her medical bag "today is Monday and you have to go to school in 45 minutes, I am so sorry dear" she said truly sad for her daughter.
-Can we comeback when I had finished school? I mean—she began but her mother knew what she was suggesting, sighing because this was too complicated for her, she then turned to Garnet who was now going up the stairs and before either or the two could speak, they heard her voice talk to both of them in a comforting manner.
-Connie can stay here every afternoon, I have Greg's van and we can get her to school if it's necessary, she just needs to tell me or Pearl where her school is so we can get her there—She finished looking at them with calm.
-Are you sure that we won't be a bother to you?—Asked Priyanka with concern, she had never been this long outside of home and quite frankly, all the thing that had happen had made her very upset.
"I can't ever call Connie a bother; she had been there when Steven needed help and now, after all that has happen, you are still here by her side" she finished smiling at her. Connie just walked towards her and hugged Garnet. For her Part Priyanka just stood there watching the exchange. What the giant woman (that dwarfs her) said sealed it.
"I will take you to school today, but after it finishes we will come back to home so you will make your baggage for this week" she said now with a smile of her own. As Connie celebrated that fact, Garnet just turned to look at Steven and close her fist while Connie and her mother just talked of the preparative's that they will need to do.
After they leave the house with a last goodbye from Amethyst and Pearl, Garnet went to the home phone and getting the number in question she began to mark it. After the second sound a feminine voice answered it.
-Hello! Johnson residence—she said absent minded, she could heard some sounds but probably was homework.
-Alice, this is Garnet—she simply said to the now mature woman, and the only one that was willing to help and had experience with the monster that had entered in their lives. The sound stopped and she only heard silence for a couple of minutes, but not hearing the tone signaled her that Alice didn't hang her out. Finally she answered…
-So...Did you kill the son of a bitch?—she asked with her tone of calm cheerfulness gone, now the tone was ice cold and calculating. Garnet understood that the news that she had won't be meet with any good mood.
"No" the answer as she expected was meet with an exasperated sound but before she could answered back she said "He has Steven" with that she was meet with other long silence and then she said not with coldness but understanding.
"I will help you, that is what my brother, my friends or Dan would have wanted" she said and then she asked "where do you live so I can go there and see the situation as it is" she said as she heard sounds of her moving.
"It won't be necessary for you write my direction, just wait for us today, we will bring you to our home right away" Garnet told her and with some final words she finished the call and she walked up to the stairs where Pearl was now embracing Steven. Thinking that it will be not good idea to separate her from her 'baby' she then just returned where she came from. Leaving a note in the kitchen she then turned to amethyst that was staring into nothing and told her.
"Amethyst, I need you to come with me, I know of someone that can help us get rid of Freddy" she said to a Amethyst that returned to life and sitting back up from where she was in the couch simple asked from her.
"WHOA! And how can be? And more important, why did you not bring her here before?" she said bitter.
"Because I was arrogant enough to think that this problem was still within my grasp, that human matters were simple, but…now I will correct that error" she said as she walked towards the portal platform, Amethyst close behind and as the two stood there she asked one last question to her friend.
"And who is this person? What's her name?" she said looking up to the lady that towered over her.
"She Is Alice Johnson, and she will help us kill Freddy, she had done it before" she Finished.
Connie sighed as she sat in the classroom and the turned to see Eric empty chair desk. She was kind of surprised that everything turned back to normal or at least that the school authorities played everything as a unfortunate incident and all was now workings as if nothing abnormal had happen. Looking to the front she saw again the same class that was left incomplete last time as the teacher draw some graphics to explain better the physics of the book. Fortunately for her and the class the bell rang, signaling that it was time to go to lunch time. Deciding to take advantage that this day there was going to be cake, she packed her things in her backpack and made her way to the cafeteria. As she walked by the corridor she began to hear things. At first she attributed them to misheard words or maybe things that she was just imagining, but then she began to pick up more and more: 'Did you heard about Eric?', 'yeah I heard that he fell asleep and then…he was dead', 'who do you think that Freddy is?', 'I don't know man, maybe someone he knew?', 'I have heard that other boy in beach city died like him'. Suddenly Connie realized that a lot of the kids and teens were talking about either Freddy or people recently dead. She felt unnerved at that, finally she was at the doors of the cafeteria and getting in line she walked slowly to pick up her tray. She then began to look at the 200 or so kids in the cafeteria along with various teachers in a table far away, Mr. Flores was with them as she advanced and then she saw something odd. There in one corner was Allen, one of her classmates from chemistry. He was not talking as he usually did with the chess club, but he was leaning in the wall looking at every kid and teen in the room. While this was unusual this did not get a second thought out of her as she made her way and was getting ready to pick up the cake when the cooker told her something.
"Sorry sweetie, you can't get cake without taking the sup first", the old woman told her putting the soup in her tray along with the big piece of chocolate cake. Connie didn't even have time to protest when she got pushed by a boy behind her to keep moving. Resigning herself to the soup she searched for a table were someone could or would want to eat the soup and not get it go to waste. As she thought about it she hears the sound of someone besides her. Turning there she saw Allen who smiled at her and he then leaned to the front, elbow in the table looking at her.
"Aren't you gone eat your soup like everyone else?", he said but there was something else in his inflexion, it was odd, it sounded a little raspy and not at all like his accent that was more northeast.
"I already eat something in my way here, honestly I just wanted to eat the cake" she said leaving the soup to the side and begging to eat the cake. Eric expression did not change; in fact he looked satisfied with her choice.
"Great, I hope you love the cake, I helped with it, and it has something special" he said giggling a little. As she took her third bite she began to get a little familiar flavor, but she couldn't quite put her finger on it, she was more interested in his classmate weird behavior. Turning to see him she was how he began to whistle a tune, at first she was baffled, then she as he turned to look straight towards her she realized…
"Oh god" she said realizing that her classmate was him! Quickly she got out of the table and looking at him she said "this ends here bastard" as she tried to pick up her backpack and open it but she soon realized that something was wrong…her fingers were to clumsy.
"sorry bitch" Freddy's voice from the body of Allan said as he stood up and walked towards Connie who was trying to get away from him "is nap time for you and for all this fuckers" he said as his right hand rested in his left shoulder while he turned to see the rest of the people in the cafeteria. Connie took it as a signal and turned to see. At least more than half the kids present were looking sleepy or were leaning in the table. One teacher stood up just to wobble his way towards a table and rub his eyes trying to stay awake. The other teachers were also standing and trying to keep up but some of them were beginning to slide to the floor. The people that were not sleeping or in the process, were freaking out. Connie herself was now feeling more and more confused. Finally she opened her backpack and searched for her cell phone. She marked but she could not talk as she fell to the ground.
Walking slowly towards the phone he heard the voice of Pearl and he smiled. Carefully he closed the phone and stood up to look upon the cafeteria where now at least ¾ sleep laughing the figure of Allen collapse in the ground, his eyes unfocused.
Mr. Flores was confused. He remembered clearly that he was with his colleagues eating soup and cake as dessert and suddenly he began to feel tired and barely able to stay awake. And then he saw the dean trying to stand up just to lean in a supporting pillar and slide to the ground…after that she did not remember more. Standing up he walked towards the door of the classroom and open, just to see a giant junkyard. Confused by this he then turned to see that the door of the classroom had banished and that there was just alone in this place. Walking alone in the place he thought that probably there was an explication of this…maybe this was just a dream. Walking slowly by the corridor build of cars on top of cars he was careful to not bump himself in a lot of the sharp steel garbage that was littering the whole place.
It wasn't long before he began to wonder where he was and then he heard it. It was a little song, and he heard something that he only heard in recess sometimes, the sound of a rope being used to play. Following the sound at first of the voices, he suspected that he was getting closer because he now could hear the shoes hitting the ground and as soon as he turned the corner, he saw a group of little blonde girls singing while they jumped rope. As he got closer he realized that the girls were jumping very close to a hole in the ground. Walking close he saw that it was very deep and he then looking at the girls with concern in his voice he told them.
"Eh, girls, could you please play in other place, there is a hole and you could fall", he said but the girls just keep jumping as he spoke. It was then that he heard finally the song '1,2, Freddy is coming for you', his blood feel like ice when he remembered that those were the lyrics that poor Eric said before his death. Walking back he heard a guttural laugh behind him, turning he saw only the cars. Thinking quickly of the girls he turned but they were no longer there. He was no beginning to get confused by all of this when he heard something move. Looking to all sides he finally looked inside the hole and he saw something new, there was a human skeleton. It looked burned and old. Then he nearly screamed. Lose bones began connecting one with each other; juices began covering the bones that began growing muscles, tendon and flesh…but not healthy flesh. The skin looked burned and charred. He without knowing began walking back just to trip with a old rusty fender. As he quickly sat he saw in front of him a thin broad shoulder man. Green and red striped sweater, brown fedora hat and old black pants; but he never would forget his charred face, and then he raised his right hand, sowing horrible knives in a gauntlet of some kind.
"HEHEHE, schools out fucker" he said looming over him and taking him by his shirt and slamming him against a car. He then passed one his knifes on his face.
"WHO ARE YOU?" the Mr. Flores asked fighting to get out of his grip but it was not use.
"Who I am? Oh, did you forget so soon of me? And I leaved a nice gift for all of you" he said as with a violent movement he throw him with his left hand toward a windshield of a card, the impact breaking the glass and leaving the teacher groaning in pain, "Maybe Eric will refresh your memory…SAY HELLO TO ERIC" he said dragging the poor teacher out of the car and then twisting his hair so he was looking a body pin to the cars as it was a flyer.
"OH GOD!" he said as he recognized the mangled body of his alum, but he was not expecting what he did next.
"Teacher…please, help me!" said the strangled voice of Eric turning his head that had and obvious broken neck.
"oh look, Eric remember you, let's go and say hello" Freddy said getting him to get painful close to the body, every cut, every blood stain, even signals of decomposition, he could see it all. He was so horrified that he was crying. So distraught and terrified was that he did not see how the man/monster pulled his right hand back…
"ARRRRRGHHH"he screamed just to feel a slimy hand in his face.
"sssssshs, hehe, one more" he said smiling as a the body suddenly went limp and a white light from Mr. Flores went inside Freddy.
Mary was scared as she turned suddenly as she heard a scream. Hugging herself the girl walked alone in the solitary hospital. Every room that she saw was empty. But sometimes, she could hear the wind whistle a little, as it passed by the windows. Suddenly she saw something in a room. There she could see a boy staring outside by a window without moving. He looked around her age and had red hair like her. She had to ask what was going on.
"Hello!?" the boy did not moved and neither give an answer, she decided to keep walking towards him "where are we? I want to go home" she said sniffing and shedding a small tear. That last phrase got finally a reaction.
"Home? This is my…and your home now" he said as he turned. Mary was paralyzed as she saw the eyeless redhead in front of him. Gone were his eyeballs, and where they should be, there were just scratch marks going deep, he began to walk in her direction. Without more she began to run out of the room and in direction to where she came, so scared she was that she never saw a man in dark trench coat that she crashed into. Hugging him she heard him talk in a raspy guttural voice.
"What happened dear?" she heard as a hand passed over her head and by her hair.
"I don't know where I am and this place is horrible, back there was this by without eyes…I just want to go home with my daddy" finished sobbing. The man then kneel in front of her and then she could see that he was wearing a hat that covered his face, but she saw other thing…his right had had a metal glove with claws.
"Don't worry brat…I will be your daddy here" he said raising his head so she could see his face. Outside the building only a scream could be heard follow suit by a dark laugh.
There was a group of 4 teens that was walking in an abandoned steel foundry or at last that was what they thought it was. At the front was the tallest of the group, a brunette called Elizabeth, behind her, a blond boy, James was walking close, once in a while looking behind him to see anything, stairs, other corridors. And finally there was brother and sister Kyle and Kelly, both black haired. As soon as they came in an empty corridor Kyle just asked.
"Do any of you know what just happen?" asked Kyle stopping with his sister beside him. Both Elizabeth and James stopped and looking at him in silence they began to walk close him "Because we have been follow you since we were in the cafeteria and we are still here, it had been hours" he continued.
"Do you have other idea Kyle? Because you were the one who first asked to us" James said with a little bit of bite in his voice "In fact you were the one with the so great idea to stay in the empty cafeteria".
"And now we are in this place, I think I had the better idea thank you very much" he said as he turned to see his sister "Kelly lets go out of here" not soon he and his sister had turned when they saw behind them a man walking slowly, right hand over his left shoulder, his face hided by the shadows of the corridor and his old fedora hat.
"Leaving so soon?" the man asked amused. Elizabeth feel uneasy in his presence, there was just something off about of him, not helped that the horrible state of his clothes, from his green and black sweater to his hat made him look like a hobo.
"We just…do you know where are we?" asked Kyle trying to step back and glancing back to Elizabeth who was moving slowly to get close to them. He guessed that she wanted to show him their numbers. That last thing eased him a little. They were 4 to 1.
"You are in my world" he said giving a small step, his voice was deep and had a raspy quality to it "My playground and" he said lifting his hand of his shoulder and putting his fingers in front of his face…those weren't fingers. In his right the group saw clearly four blades coming out of metal glove, they shined in what little light there was "you are now…my children" he said laughing, showing the horrible burned face. It showed muscle and tendon. He was a monster.
"FUCK YOU!" James that was now nervous but he was now trying to move to the other side of the corridor to flank him. Kyle understood what they were doing and put her sister behind him as Elizabeth put herself to his right.
"How cute, this is a little lopsided isn't it? Let me correct it" he said as laughter. Then he began to feel something weird. He began to lean more to the front, like he was going uphill. Besides him both Elizabeth and James were now leaning to the front even hi sister was now hugging him at the waist to avoid falling to the front. The whole corridor was tilting. So much was his effort to not slip that he barely heard the steps of the man now in front of him. "HEY BOY…ENJOY THE RIDE!" as he finished saying that, the man who was standing normally kicked him in the face, sending him and her sister both rolling to the other side of the corridor.
"KYLE!" screamed Elizabeth as she saw how he and his sister tumbled their way down.
"Don't worry bitch you will join them soon" he said walking towards her who was barely clinging to the wall.
"SHUT UP BASTARD!" said James who had managed to jump and grabbed him by the waist; this was only met with laughs.
"Stupid little shit" he said grabbing him by the shirt and getting him to face him. James was now looking more clearly at the charred face, at his smiling sighted teeth. He then saw how he moved his clawed hand, like he was going to slap someone. He realized what was going to happen. Closing his hand to brace himself he felt heard the blades crashing with something. But it wasn't his face. He felt himself falling as he opened his eyes to see the amused face of the man. He was hugged by Elizabeth. Turning he saw the long corridor. For what feel like hours he finally crashed in the ground. Getting, bruised and hurt he tried to stand up. He then finally understood as he saw Elizabeth groaning in the ground. The back of her white shirt revealed four deep gashes and it was practically soaked in blood.
"ELIZABETH!? Oh god! Are you alright?" he said kneeling and looking at her back, lifting her shirt to see how bad it was.
"It hurts like hell" she said as she stood up, "have you seen Kyle and…oh no" she stopped as she stared to a point where neither she nor James had seen before. Kneeling in the ground was Kelly with Kyle in her arms. Walking towards her they saw why she was like this. Kyle face was bloodied and one side looked a little caved in, his neck was hanging in a weir angle.
"Kellie…are you, what happened?" asked James unsure to what to say to the poor girl.
"He broke the fall, I was behind him and he tried to be the one who crashed first" she said between sobs.
"Kellie, we have to keep moving" said Elizabeth between grimacing as he feel the open wounds in her back.
"I won't leave him here, I WONT LEAVE MY BROTHER!" she said looking at them
"HE IS NOT HERE!" Elizabeth said losing patience and thanks to the corridor finally getting what was happening.
"What do you mean?" said James looking at her weird, did she snap? Kyle was dead and there he was.
"This is just a dream, maybe Kyle isn't even death" she said pointing at the body of his fallen friend. Then the room where they had fallen became clearer. It an old house, spider webs and boarded windows showed little more than a desolate residence.
"You know you are ¾ wrong" said the voice of the man in the corridor. Turning the three quickly they saw the same man. Elizabeth quickly put herself in front of Kellie but she felt dizzy, touching her back she felt drenched, she was bleeding too much. "This is not a dream…is my nightmare" with one hand he quickly grabbed James and pinned him to the wall. The wall then open and pipes came out bending and twisting, securing him by the neck, hands and feet, "All of this is real, this asshole is pretty death…SAY HELLO TO HIM GIRL HAHAHAHA" he said tearing the front of his sweater to show at least 12 faces screaming in agony. The charred flesh was fussed with the factions of the faces looking like mockery of their former selves.
Suddenly a flash passed as his left hand went flying and he brought the now stump to his face. Between him and Elizabeth was a girl…she recognized her as Connie. The girl was carrying a sword and pointed it towards the man who simply told a single word filled with hate.
"You"
Garnet was walking along sid Amethyst by the semi rural place to the same house that they visited before. And before she could bang the door amethyst turned to see her friend and asked a little confused.
"Are you sure that this Alice girl can help us?" she said looking at the simple two story house not impress.
"She had faced this demon in the past and has survived, not only that but has escaped of that town" she said now bagging the door to let someone inside that they were here already, "And she is also our last option".
"yesssh" Amethyst said as they both heard steps in the house. The door opened to reveal a blond (with slightly graying hair). She was dressed different from the last time that she saw her. Her hair was in a ponytail, she was wearing a white t-shirt and a spiked wrist band. Her pants were secured by a thick leather belt and she was wearing a black jacket. She was around Pearl height and to complete the outfit, she was wearing boots.
"You came fast" she only said getting out of the house and closing the door inher way out.
"It was necessary, did you advice your family?" asked Garnet as he looked at the blonde who was in front of her.
"My father knows…and Jacob is out from college, and if something happened to me, his grandfathers from his father's side were wealthy, they leaved him a strong sum in trust found, even if I do not comeback he will be fine"
"I see, but you" Garnet pushed wondering why she was so light if she came back or no.
"Look, I face this son of bitch when I was in high school, I lost my brother, my friend, saw how the whole town went to shit and got out of there when things were going to get worst…I want to see him death and if that requires my life, then is a great bargain" she finished then she added, "well, where is your car?" she asked.
"We did not come here in a car" Amethyst said walking towards her. To Alice that was odd.
"Follow us" Garnet said simply as they walked outside the town and into a secluded place inside of a cave.
"What is that?" Inquired the woman as she saw some kind of crystal platform and the tall lady and the short one stepped into the platform.
"A portal, that's how we came here, now, if you get here you will come with us were we came from" Garnet said.
Alice looked at both of them and then stepped into the platform and with a flash of light she was gone.
Pearl was so nervous, the phone of the house had ring and she did not know what it mean, she thought that she heard the sound of some kinds in the background noise, but she couldn't leave Steven alone, not this time. Suddenly she saw a bright light and the portal that was inside the home illuminate. Standing there was Garnet and Amethyst, along with them was a middle aged woman. Blond, around her height, slender, she kind of made her remember a young Vidalia (except that Vidalia's was platinum blonde). The lady just had one word out of her.
"Wow" she said walking out of the portal and sitting down, "That was like wake up but a little quicker".
"Miss Johnson, thanks you are here" Pearl began to say but was cut short by the phone. Every single one stopped.
"Where you waiting a call?" asked Alice standing and walking towards the phone with caution.
"No we weren't" said Amethyst pulling out his whip and garnet who looked at the phone with suspicion.
Slowly they walked and Pearl walked toward the phone and picked it up. Once she got it close to her ear, she feel relieved when she heard Connie's mother.
"Pearl? Garnet? Somebody there?" said a very confused Priyanka.
"We are here, we just have been so much in edge" Pearl began relived that it was nothing wrong…
"Pearl, there is something wrong in Connie's school, you have to come here quickly" she said as she hung up.
All 4 just stared each other for a little while, just letting in what was said to them and then Alice said it.
"Krueger"
There was no portal close to the school so they used Greg van. After all it was barely 15 minutes drive. Sitting in the back seat was Alice and Amethyst with Steven laying in the floor. Garnet and pearl where at the front with Garnet driving the van, once in a while Pearl turned to see her surrogated son. Was one of those times when Alice asked her point blank.
"So, you aren't Glam singers" she said half joking half amused. She then looked at the pale skinny woman, the tall one with glasses at the wheel and the short purple one in front of her. In all, it was greatly amusing to her.
"No, we are not" said Garnet in a calm voice as they arrived at the school…and in front of a number of police cars and ambulances.
"what happened here?" said Pearl as she saw how the cops were talking with each other. Then nearly making her scream Connie's mother appeared in her window suddenly.
"PEARL! Thank god you are here, there is something happening here" she said as everyone inside the van got outside and talked to Priyanka. She looked seriously distraught and very tired.
"What is the situation?" asked Garnet looking at the building…it did not look especially fortified so she did not understand why no one had entered already.
"We don't know for sure, the cops tried to enter but the doors won't open, then they tried to ram them down but the door simply did not budge, they had shot to the windows and those just broke to reshape again. But that is not the worst part." She said taking air while they took what she said with certain caution.
"What is the worst part?" asked Amethyst, behind her Alice was looking at the cops, which Garnet noticed.
"The police…the doctors and some people, are beginning to repeat things, some of them had to be remembered what they are doing here, very few I think right now quite get why they are here" she said pointing to a couple of cops who were talking.
"How many Kids are in this school?" asked Alice finally looking at the building and thinking.
"Well, I think there are 750, give or take 50" she said looking at the gems and to this woman.
"THAT SON OF BITCH" she said going back to the van and bringing up her a container.
"What? What is going on?" Priyanka asked feeling out of the loop, as the woman pulled a couple of pills.
"He I growing stronger, when I still lived in Springwood, it began like this, a kid died and the cops came to clean up the mess, then nobody did anything really, of course, there were parents suspicious but then I understood…he was beginning to be powerful enough to control them" she finished taking a couple of pills, "Take this"
"we don't need them really" said garnet opening the van and entering, laying in the back, pearl and amethyst soon follow her, Alice just looked at them and turning to the very confused doctor and mother she said.
"We are going in…but what is causing this is not here, well, not really in this plane" she tried to explain.
"Why do you not tell me what is going on?" Connie's mother asked as the woman entered the front seat of the van and reclined the seat, "and what I am supposed to do?" she asked finally angst.
"Take care of us while we came back" Alice said as they nodded out.
Connie stood there staring down Krueger as she hold her sword and waited for him. He then passed his gloved hand over the stump of his left and like it was never cut it appeared again. He then began to walk a little on his side of the room, always staring at her. He then smiled and showing her his teeth and said mockingly.
"So, did you come here for your boyfriend?" he asked passing his bladed glove to the wall cutting the wallpaper.
"Where do you have Steven?" she asked giving a step to the front as Freddy, and also looking at her surroundings. Behind Freddy was pinned in the wall a blonde boy and behind her where two girls that he knew only by sight.
"Fatass is fine…he still of use hahaha"
That laugh set off Connie. Running she jumped, her sword ready to make a vertical cut towards him. Unlike the other time, he looked calm, even amused. With a fast movement Krueger cached the sword clasping both hands together. Connie surprised by this was then suspended mid air just to be tossed to the side still holding her sword. She just had time to see the grinning face of Krueger as she slammed back first into one wall and then crashing in the floor, a few pieces of rumble fell on top of her. Groaning she staggered to her feet.
"Come on babe, is that all?" he asked making with his hands a come at me motion. She instead saw other thing.
The brunette who just a moment ago was grabbing her back had now jumped at Krueger; in one of her has was a broken shard of glass. Left arm around his neck and right the glass, she began to viciously stab him.
"LEAVE HER YOU SICK FUCK!" said Elizabeth who won't let go him. Connie took this as her chance and ran with her sword pointed towards him. Barely getting out of the way, Elizabeth let him go just to get the sword thru him. He stood there with the sword stuck on his chest. He then raised his head and just moved it side to side.
"I don't understand that worked last time" Connie said remembering how she sliced him last time.
"Before? Did you fight this thing before?" asked now barely standing Elizabeth, he no longer knew how much time she could keep going. Suddenly she collapsed into the ground, only stopping by putting her elbow.
"Are you alright?" asked Connie trying to pick her up only to feel something that she had not seen before, "blood?"
In front of them Freddy just grabbed the blade pulling it out of his body he looked at the scene in front of him.
"The dumb bitch got in my way to save this idiot, but don't worry now we can play here" he said walking towards the both of them…until something crashed against him. Throwing him into the floor, Kellie began punching him out.
"YOU KILLED MY BROTHER BASTARD!" she said as she stood up and with all her strength, ran pushing him against a wall…that collapsed upon impact from them. Connie was shocked by this…how was she that strong?
"WHAT THE…? ARRGHHH" screamed him the girl put a hand on his back and the other on his left hand, his clawed one to far of reach for him. Slowly pulling, both heard sickening rip sounds, "ENOUGH!" he stood up grabbing the girl bi the neck, "So you are strong here?" he said turning to see his limping left arm. The arm slowly raised and put itself back in place, he then turned to see Connie with Elizabeth leaning on her, he smiled "drop the dead weight girl!" he said mocking the barely alive brunette.
"Leave me here" said barely with a whisper Elizabeth, "get James and leave me here" she said to Connie.
Freddy looked at them and was about to say something when he stopped. Pushing violently the girl on his hands he looked up and to the ceilings. Frowning he said only a single thing to then disappear.
"Those bitches got her"
The group walked in a desolated neighborhood. The two stories houses were bolted at the doors, the grass looked like it hasn't been cut in years, covering the moon were the tall pines and elm trees. As they walked by the street very close together, Amethyst felt uneasy, she did not know where to put it or how explain it but she thought that there was something watching her. If she could not see it, it was pretty much a big no for her.
"Where are we?" asked to no one but she got an answer all the same from the blonde woman who stopped.
"This is Springwood" said to surprise of Alice Garnet at the same time that her. Amethyst the saw the place and she kind of saw the similarities…of that night that was. Pearl for her part looked at the windows of the houses.
Then in front of them they saw a dog, it looked like it was a good 20 meters from them, but it was walking to them. Amethyst was relieved to see the dog and was about to go towards it when a hand on her shoulder stopped her. Looking up she saw Garnet who signaled her to wait a little. The dog got closer and closer. She heard Pearl gasp. The body was of a dog but the face was not. It was like someone had taken the skin of Greg's face and grafted it on the head of the dog, it looked misshaped and slimy drops of the decomposing flesh were dropping on the ground.
"What the fuck!" said Amethyst trying to keep distance of the animal? It wasn't long, as the sound of steel connected with the beast and it collapsed into the ground, its head facing up looking at them.
"Pearl, Amethyst…help me!" said the face of Greg. The initial shock and disgust turned to rage.
"Where are you? Show yourself bastard!" said Amethyst to the sky which did not respond to her…at first.
"But I am here" the voice said coming behind the group. Turning quick they saw Krueger standing a block away from then, his long shadow extended by the moonlight. Alice looked at him with deep hatred and he returned the favor with a hiss like a snake. Then something that Pearl barely understood happen. The shadow of Krueger rose from the ground and stood like a dark extension of him. Taking the group by surprise, the shadow lunged towards them. Alice did a quick side jump to roll in the ground and land one knee. Pear barely got out of range, one of the hands from the shadow-Freddy throwing her spear out of her hands and Garnet managed to jump besides Pearl. Not all got so lucky. To their horror they saw how Amethyst was trapped in one of Shadow-Freddy's hands.
"HEY LOOK! AN EGGPLANT" he said as the gem squirmed in his hands getting closer to her.
"NOW!" shouted Alice as she ran towards him, Pearl along with Garnet decided to attack from the other side.
The initial attack was meet with thin air as they found neither Amethyst nor Krueger when they crashed. They quickly got back to back circling the place to see where that was until they saw a lone figure chained in the ground, looking confused. Steven was just barely at 15 meter from them, just in the ground.
"Steven…STEVEN!" said Pearl sprinting towards the boy in the ground before either Alice or Garnet stop her.
"Pearl wait!" Said Garnet but was to late as just barely she had walked a couple of meter when her left foot stepped and sunk in the ground, trying to step with the other she was now stuck in a slimy yet sticky substance, looking up she saw that she was just a couple of steps from Steven who was crying, and to his right was the reason why her friend did not come for her aid. Smiling, kneeling using one leg was Freddy, one arm over the shoulders of the boy, a shining purple gem on his left hand and his gloved one close to his neck.
"I told you chubby…today was going to be so much fun" he said touching with the point of the index blade the boy's chin, doing a light scratch. Pearl knew that she was stuck but not her companions. Twisting a little she threw her spear towards Alice who took it and immediately Garnet bolted towards him. Freddy quickly stood up and catching Garnets gauntlets that were coming down to smash him. He smiled as she put her whole effort on it. With a final push he threw her against one of the houses. Quickly tuning to fight Alice he realized something, he wasn't the target. Alice landed the blade of the spear to one of the chains of the kid freeing one of his hands.
"Oh no, you will not ruin my diversion this time" he said grabbing the spear and stepping and pushing at the same time, he heard behind him rumble moving, turning just to see garnet coming out of the house towards the boy, "Oh gimme a break" he said extending his clawed hand towards Steven. Just before garnet came towards Steven he disappeared. Not soon he had turned when Alice punched him in the face. The punch sending staggering back, he barely stared up when he felt a kick in the gut that sent him crashing into a tree.
"hehe, thank you sir may I have another?" he said mocking toward the two free ones. Garnet was the one to take the bait. She grabbed him by the neck and began to close his hand, "Good one…now my turn" he said as he violently introduced his gloved hand inside her, "Purple bitch was worth for something…information" he said as his hand was still embedded inside her. To Alice surprise there was no blood, but still looked painful.
"AAARRGHHH" screamed garnet as she grabbed with both hands the arm and tried to pull it out of her.
"Garnet!" screamed Pearl trying desperate to get out of the substance. Alice for his part used this as an opening and aimed the spear.
"And I thought you will be…SHIT!" yelled as he let go of garnet and grabbed the spear that was logged in his groin. Garnet used the seconds that she had to back up and pulled out Pearl of the pit were she had slowly sunk to her knees. Freddy was livid…but he was not staring at them, he had his full attention put on Alice.
"So Alice, you came back to wonder land…how is Jacob?" asked him venomous, Pearl was now cautious but apprehensive. Amethyst was in his power, and they still barely fought him to a draw. How powerful was he now?
"He is fine" she said dry. Pearl looked worried that she was going to be edged to fight but she remained calm.
"He won't be, sooner or later, I will come where he lives…now thanks to this whores I have free pass, forever"
"I will kill you first…or die trying to do it" Said Pearl looking at him. He just smiled and raised his gloved hand.
"Oh, you will die...like Nancy, Kristie, Rick, Danny and dear Greg. There are a lot more but hey, who is keeping count?" he said regarding them…fog began to appear.
"come back coward!" said garnet walking along with the three into the point where he was, taking this time the precaution to not get separated from each other.
"HAHAHA, you will find a nice surprise when you wake up" his voice said coming from every place and no one at the same time. Pearl then saw her hand beginning to vanish; she barely got time raise her sight to see garnet vanish. Alice too felt herself wake up.
Alice opened her eyes and saw that night sky and for a moment feared that they were still inside Freddy's nightmare but they were inside the van…minus the purple one. She was now his prisoner. Turning to see Garnet and Pearl wake up to a very shocked Priyanka that had a brown haired girl hugging her, she looked a little like her.
"You are awake, Connie they woke up!" said Pryanka looking at them relived, the girl jumped and hugged pearl who awkwardly returned the hug, but she smiled at the young girl…then she saw that she was drenched in blood.
"Connie! What happened?" asked Pearl looking with horror at her hand that was now red.
"He drug us…The soup, the cake, he planned this" she said to them…and it sunk on Pearl, Drugged us?
"Us?" The white gem said turning to look at Garnet who had let her jaw fall with horror.
"How many…HOW MANY KIDS?" asked Alice moving to get out of the car, she also realized what happen.
"Wait, you shouldn't enter there…it won't be pleasant what you will find" finished her as Alice and the two gems passed her and entered the building.
The sight was at first of a school at night, no sound outside of the one of the police that was talking to some people that looked like teachers. Men, women were talking to the officers, to concentrate in the testimony of those to pay attention to the trio that was making their way to where was more and more people. Garnet noticed the figure of Amanda, walking towards a corridor, turning and looking eyes with her she simply said 'follow me'.
"Here, Pearl, Alice, is this way" she said walking fast as her long legs allowed. Barely keeping up with her the two walked behind her continuously asking her how she knew where to go, but she barely heard them as she walked between officers and keep the pace. She noticed that there was now something different. Hospital beds were being pulled from where Amanda was now standing. Looking up she saw still in light of the corridor 'Cafeteria'.
"Of course, the cafeteria" Said Alice realizing what the words of the girl where: soup and cake.
Entering they saw a truly horrifying and heartbreaking scene: At least a dozen of doctors were walking from one side to the other of the big room looking at kids of different ages. Some looked Steven age, others were close to the age of Sadie or Buck. All looked horrified. Pearl was speechless seen some kids staring into nothing. Some doctors were nursing cuts: some on the neck, others in the back...There was a teen that had cuts on her legs. Then there were the ones who were covered in a white sheet. Pearl was now crying. Garnet had her fist so tight that she could have broken bones. Alice knew that this was their surprise, because it hurt so much to see it.
"How many did he" began Pearl but garnet answered ice cold.
"I counted 29…if the doctors haven't taken some out" she said between clenched teeth, turning she saw Amanda kneeling over one of the covered ones, her hands clasp together and on her knees. She then raised her glare and separating her hands, pointed towards the roof. Garnet turned to see up…and she could have puked if there was some food in her stomach. In red, it was write, as if someone had dipped a hand and crudely used it as a brush: One, two, Freddy is coming for you" down of the first line was a crude drawing of Krueger smiling.
The drive at home was a quite one. Alice was sitting with one legs extended and one bend. Pearl was staring at the wall of the van, with unfocused eyes. Garnet was just driving but it was clear that she wasn't in the mood for talk. Connie's mother said that she and Connie will be on their house in one hour. As they made their way towards the house and they were surprised by Sadie, Buck, Sour Cream and Jenny sitting in the front with a fire going. They looked very somber… must knew of what happened to the school. Garnet said nothing but Pearl saluted every one and to surprise of everyone, she hugged them all. Alice saw the short blonde girl, the two tall boys (one brunette and other platinum blonde) and the black girl be as surprise as Garnet. They follow to the inside of the beach house and sitting in the floor (except Pearl who sat proper in a chair). Garnet began talking.
"We failed today, I did not see this…this massacre happening, we couldn't stop it and we lost Amethyst"
"She is not gone Garnet, only in her gem" said pear trying to give her friend some support. Alice only watched.
"So Steven" began Sadie who turned her stare towards the bed where the body of Steven laid…looking like he slept.
"He is still alive, but, he still is with him and now our friend" she said angry.
"He won't kill him, he still needs him, and he is his living door to the world" said Alice finally talking.
"Who are you" asked Jenny. She had never seen this woman before. Looked middle aged and graying.
"Alice, Alice Johnson" she said and then added, "I have meet this son of a bitch before"
"Have you killed him?" asked buck in a flat tone, but the tap on his foot showed that he was nervous.
"Twice I thought that I vanished him, but he always comes back, but…here I think we have an option"
"Really? What can we do?" asked Sadie. Everyone now looked interested.
"there are two thing that I though this morning: we could pull him out of the dreams and kill him in the real world, he just hijacked Steven, if we kill him outside of Steven mind then he will be gone to Springwood; other way is…killing Steven" she said knowing that it won't be take very well.
"that is not an option" said to his surprise Garnet, Sadie and Pearl at the same time.
"And I agree but…the first option hinges in one thing: That Freddy will be weak as a human to finish him here. I had know that if reaches the point of being able to materialize in the real world we are fucked" she finished.
Garnet silently remembered what Walsh told them. She then knew that possibly know was nearly to late. But she had to try.
"We will try tomorrow. But for today nobody leave this house." Garnet said walking towards Steven bed. Inside everyone thought that this was going to be truly hard for everyone involved.