A FNAF Reality

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Chapter 7: Together

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The office room air suddenly felt cold as we stood inside it, holding our breaths and listening for any sounds. The only sound we could hear was the dull humming sound from the fan; rotating its metal blades inside its cage.

Other than that... Silence.

The minutes passed for what seemed like hours as we all stared at the bloody handprint on the window. At this time, I dearly wished for the minutes to pass as hours. My heart was beating so fast, I was afraid it would leap right out of my body. This couldn't be real, I thought to myself, but it was. We just saw a real murder happen right in front of us. I started to feel very lightheaded and sick, I had to turn away from the blood on the window.

Eddie and Shy stood so close to me, I could feel them shaking against me. Eddie was breathing in shaky breaths. I grasped his hand and he squeezed it tightly. He was scared. Jose held onto Janet where they stood. Tears streamed down Shaina's cheeks, standing close to Stephanie as well. Stephanie had her eyes glued to the screens, her shoulders up and frozen like a statue.

Instinctively, Janet moved over to my side, causing me and Eddie to jump in surprise. She quickly moved over to the right door and punched the button really fast. The door slammed shut. Shaina yelped in surprise, causing Stephanie to snap out of her petrified stare with the screens. Alfredo moved his chair out of the way.

"What are you doing?! We are going to waste power having both doors closed-!" he said angrily, but Janet stopped him right there. "This isn't a game anymore, Alfredo! This is real life! Someone just got murdered outside the office!" she snapped back angrily.

Jose started to cry. Janet picked him up and hugged him tightly. Alfredo gritted his teeth. "I know someone got murdered, Janet! I saw it! I'm just saying that if you don't want to get murdered, you need to conserve power. This is most likely the safest room in the pizzeria; and in order to keep it that way, we need to conserve the power to keep the doors working," he pointed out as he walked around his siblings and punched the door button with his fist, making the door go up.

Janet gave Alfredo an unamused look. "Is that the logic behind the doors in the games? Keep the doors up and you save power? That doesn't make any sense. It takes more power to keep them up then to keep them down, Alfredo...Also, I'm the oldest out of you two; most likely the oldest out of all of us here, so that makes me in charge," she said as she punched the button and made the door come down again and slam shut.

Alfredo looked at each of us, then his eyes landed on Eddie. He pointed at him. "What about him? I'm sure he's older than you!" he said angrily. Eddie turned his head and gave Alfredo a look. "Don't bring me into this. Just listen to your sister," he said to him.

Alfredo narrowed his eyes a bit and turned his head away. I looked over at each one before Stephanie decided to cut in. "I think Alfredo has a point. This room is most likely the safest room. We need to figure out a way to see if the murderer is still here, and leave this place and call the police," she said. Shaina nodded.

Janet pulled out her phone. "Why don't we just call the police now?" she asked as she put Jose down and began to dial 9-1-1. I shook my head. "There's no service in the pizzeria, I've checked," I told her. Janet cursed under her breath and pocketed her phone back into her purse. "Are you kidding me?! What kind of pizzeria is this? It's like they want accidents to happen here!" she complained angrily.

Alfredo shushed her as he punched the button on the side and allowed the right door to come up again. "We are already down fifty nine percent and it's only two thirty." Janet was going to argue back, but Eddie piped up.

"We don't really need both doors down. We can hear the guy's footsteps if he is coming down one of the hallways," he pointed out. Janet sighed and shook her head. "I don't plan staying here till someone finds us. I want to call for help."

Shaina nodded nervously. "Half of us should go out there, and the other half should stay here," she said. Janet hesitated. "I don't like the idea of us splitting up," she admitted. Shy nodded her head, agreeing with Janet. Jose kept his arms tightly wrapped around his sister's legs, not wanting her to leave. Alfredo pointed to the cameras. "Those that are leaving, the ones here can see you on the cameras and tell you if the killer is near you," he said. Janet bit her lower lip.

"...Fine. Who wants to come with me?" she asked. No one raised their hands. After a while, I finally raised my hand. Eddie grabbed my hand and pulled it back down. "No, Ren! I don't want you going out there...please," he asked me, staring into my eyes. I swallowed nervously as I stared back.

"I can't let Janet go alone. She needs someone to go with her," I told him. Shy shook her head to my response to Eddie. "No. We can't split up. We need to all go together," Shaina shook her head. "Truthfully I don't want to leave." Jose agreed and buried his face into the back of his older sister's leg. He didn't want to leave either.

Alfredo crossed his arms over his chest and turned his head away from us. He didn't want to leave as well.

Eddie sighed. "If we are all together, we can out number the guy if he is still here...Also the cameras wont help us since they keep going to static every ten seconds," he pointed out. I looked over to the cameras. Both Shy and Eds were right. We needed to all leave. If we relied on whoever was staying to watch the cameras. The cameras might go out and they wont be able to tell if the murderer was behind us.

"Allright, all of us are leaving the office, whether you like it or not," Janet said. Shaina whimpered, but nodded her head. Alfredo looked down at the ground angrily, muttering something to himself but no one could hear him. With that, Janet began to slowly move towards the East hallway. She stopped for a second to listen. Eddie quickly turned on his phone and brought up flashlight mode. Instantly his phone screen was ten times brighter as he shined it down the hallway, brightening up the darkness.

"We can use our phones as flashlights," he said in a lower voice. Janet nodded and gently nudged him to the door. "Ok, then you can go first and light the way," she said. Eddie went silent. I pulled my phone out and turned it to flashlight. Shy did the same, as well as Alfredo. Stephanie and Shaina turned theirs on too, and finally, Janet did the same and lead the way.

Jose was the only one without a phone, but he stayed really close to his sister as we began to walk down the East hallway. A faint light flickered above us as we shuffled our feet along the polished checkered floor; moving our phones to the right and the left. Cable wires hung down from above us. Silver stars hung from thin string slowly moved as a slight chilly breeze blew through. Freddy, Bonnie and Chica posters were tacked in a neat order along the wall to our right. The posters looked really creepy in the darkness. Thankfully our phone lights were bright enough to make it less scary.

"Do you think the other employees are around? Surely they heard that guy scream and called the police?" whispered Shy to me. I blinked in surprise. I didn't even think of that; but the more I thought, my hopes vanished. I didn't hear any thing in front of us. Most likely they were all gone. We were the only ones in the pizzeria. I didn't respond and continued walking.

"Do you think the murderer is one of the animatronics?" asked Alfredo in a whisper, loud enough for all of us to hear. Janet slowed to a stop and held Jose in her arms. She gave Alfredo a glare. "That's enough, Alfredo. Jose doesn't want to hear this," she whispered. After that, we all walked in silence, listening carefully for any noises and lighting up the area around us.

Soon we were out of the East hallway and were entering the dining room. Janet led us past the prize counter. Eddie and Shaina flashed their lights over to the prize counter and checked behind it. "Guys," Shaina whispered to us. We all huddled around close and peered behind the glass counter. Blood was seen on the floor, streaked in curved lines as if something was dragged across it. Seeing the sight of blood instantly made me feel sick and I had to turn away. Something started to come up from my throat, but I forced it down and coughed. I was feeling very ill. The smell was making it worse. I couldn't breathe. I placed my purple sleeve over my nose and mouth.

Eddie lowered his light and rubbed my back gently. "Its alright," he whispered to me. Truthfully none of this was alright, but I knew he was just trying to help. Jose was crying again, and Janet started to move away from the scene. Eventually, we continued walking through the pizzeria.

The whole pizzeria was dark. With an occasional flickering light to help us see a dark silhouette of an arcade unit or a table to the left of us.

Suddenly there was a loud noise. It went off from across the room, making us all jump and scream. Alfredo cursed and shined his phone light to where the noise came from, as well as Eddie and Shaina. Janet almost dropped Jose, while Stephanie dropped her phone, causing it to make a loud thud noise. Shi stood very close to me to where we were touching shoulders. We all froze where we stood in the middle of the pizzeria.

Suddenly the noise stopped. We all huddled close in our phone lit circle as we listened for any more sounds. Silence. My ears were ringing loudly from the sharp sound, still fresh in my mind. We all waited; full and alert for any other sounds. My heart skipped a beat when the strange carousel music began to play again. I looked over to where the main stage was, but it was too dark to see anything, especially the animatronics.

Janet quickly began to move. We all followed right behind her, now moving in more of a jog, then a run, towards the exit. The exit sign glowed a bright green against the wall, above the door to the outside world. To freedom.

Janet made it to the door first. She pushed against it. It wouldn't budge. We all slowed to a stop and watched Janet try opening the door. The door still wouldn't open. A cold feeling went over me as I watched Janet try to push the door open using all her weight, then tried pulling. Nothing happened. Soon Alfredo and Stephanie were trying. The door still wouldn't open. The two gave up, except Janet. She muttered to herself in frustration as she tried getting the door to open.

Janet's whispers got louder. Soon her voice was loud as her actions got more violent. "Open! Open up!" she shouted as she slammed her palm against the door multiple times. Jose started to silently cry and told his sister to stop. Janet turned to him and hugged him tightly. "I'm sorry, Jose," She said quietly. No one spoke as we all stared at the locked door.

I started to breathe heavily, getting that horrible feeling that I couldn't breathe again. The air started to feel stale and heavy with blood. Eddie quickly wrapped his arms around me. "Its ok. I'm right here," he told me. I fidgeted nervously in his arms. "What's wrong with her?" asked Janet worriedly. Eddie moved one of his arms up to my head and made me rest it against his chest. "I don't know. I think she's just scared," he whispered.

"She's scared? We're all scared! There's a possibility that we will be killed by the murderer in here! We're trapped like rats!" Alfredo said angrily, his face half lit by the phones in our circle. Then he tried using his phone to call. No service. He cursed angrily and chucked his phone to the ground, where it bounced and made a couple thud sounds before it stopped moving. He started to breathe a little faster too.

"Alfredo-" his sister started, but Alfredo interrupted her.

"There has to be another phone around here!" Alfredo screamed and started to run. Janet tried grabbing her brother's shirt, but he was already out of his sister's reach. "Alfredo! Get back here!" Janet screamed. Alfredo didn't say anything as he went over to the prize counter. I heard his hands slam around, blindly feeling his way around the counter and the walls, feeling for a phone.

"Alfredo!" Jose called out.

"Alfredo! We need to stay together!" Janet called out to her brother. She suddenly ran towards the direction to where Alfredo had ran off to. We all followed right behind her. Suddenly, Alfredo's voice was heard back down the hallway. "Guys! Come quick!" he cried out. We all quickened our pace back down the way we came, back to the security room. Alfredo stood in the middle of the small security room. Both doors were open and the floor was tracked with blood.

"Someone was here..." Stephanie pointed out. Alfredo nodded. "Not only that, the Golden Freddy suit is gone," Alfredo said as he pointed behind him. My eyes followed to where he was pointing. He was right. The Golden Freddy suit that was sitting in the back behind the chairs was gone. I had almost forgotten about it. Did the murderer steal it?

Alfredo turned back to all of us. "Now do you all think I was right about not going out there?" he asked. Janet opened her mouth to say something, but Alfredo interrupted her again. "I think we should all stay inside here and not die...You guys have any arguments against that?" he asked.

No one spoke. With that, Alfredo punched the door of the west hallway, blocking out the scent of blood, sat down in one of the seats and looked at the cameras. "Good, and since I know a lot about FNAF, and have played the games countless times, I know how to get through the..." his voice faded as he stared at one of the cameras.

"Alfredo?" asked Shaina worriedly. Alfredo didn't say anything. We all huddled around the teen and looked at the camera he was looking at. On the small screen, on the other side, close to the arcade units, was a young boy. The quality on the tv was poor, so it was hard to see the boy's face. Janet stared at the boy for a moment before turning her head around to look behind her. She gasped and began to look everywhere in the office area. "Jose!" she screamed.

We all looked at her, then noticed that her younger brother was not in her arms. Our eyes darted around the security room. Jose was not with us. Janet turned back to the tv. "Oh my God! Jose!" she screamed. Jose stood near the arcade units, he was staring at something. Suddenly one of the arcade units close to Jose came on. Illuminating the young boy and the thing he was staring at.

It was the Golden Freddy suit.

The Fazbear suit was sitting on the ground, with its head slightly tilted one way. Its mouth hung open as its black sockets stared back at the young boy. Jose stood there, staring at it, he looked scared and confused, but almost curious at the same time. He looked like he didn't know whether to run away from it or to go near it. I couldn't tell if anyone was inside the suit, or the murderer just left it there.

Janet quickly turned around and started to leave the security room. Alfredo got up. "No, Janet! You cant leave-" he started. Janet turned around and shouted at her other brother. "Oh, screw your logic on your stupid game! This is real life! Jose is in trouble and you aren't doing anything about it!" she shouted at him angrily. With that, she ran out of the small room and back down the East hallway to her younger brother.

Alfredo called out to his sister again, then cursed angrily and hesitated where he stood. Stephanie and Shaina did the same thing, they didn't know whether to follow Janet and help her, or stay inside the security room. Fear gripped all of us by its cold hands. It made us think of the murderer. It made us think what he could do to us. It struck us deep in our nerves and hearts, making it difficult to move a muscle or say anything.

The feeling was finally shattered, breaking us from our spell as we heard Janet's scream. We all turned to the dining room camera that faced the arcade units. We only saw three seconds of something move before the camera decided to fizz out and go static on us. Eddie turned on his phone light and quickly moved before all of us could. He bolted out of the security room. I cried out his name and ran after him. I bumped into Eddie as he stood in the middle of the hallway with his light shining down the rest of the way. A strange shuffling of footsteps was heard.

Eddie took another couple steps closer till his light finally hit what was coming towards us. Janet was coming back down the hallway. Her face was streaked with tears and the front of her shirt was spattered with blood. She clutched her left arm as she limped toward us. Eddie and I quickly moved to her sides and helped her back into the security room. Stephanie and Shy came up to us and helped ease Janet into a chair. Her arm she was clutching was bleeding. Alfredo came up to her. "What happened?" he asked as he grabbed a security vest on one of the racks and began to gently wrap her arm up. Janet winced and started to cry again.

"J-Jose...he...h-he has Jose," Janet cried, stuttering. "Who has Jose?" Alfredo asked, tying the ends of the vest. Shaina gave Janet a tissue from her pocket. Janet wiped her eyes and tried explaining again. "The murderer...I... he was in the yellow costume...he...he r-rose up off of the g-ground...and grabbed Jose. I tried to stop h-him, but...he had s-something in his hand...a weapon...and attacked me..." she said as more tears came down her face. Her tears stained her wrapped up bleeding arm.

"She needs to go to a hospital," Stephanie said, looking at Janet, then Alfredo. Alfredo didn't look back as he let his older sister wrap her good arm around him and silently cry into his shoulder. Shaina placed her hands over her mouth as tears came down her face. "We can't...we're stuck here," she said, answering Stephanie.

Me, Shy and Eddie exchanged worried glances. Shy had been quiet for a while. I could tell in her eyes that she was really scared and wanted to leave. Same with Eddie, his arms were shaking. Everyone else was quiet, engulfing the whole room into silence. The only thing that was making sounds were the fan and the buzzing of the light above us. After a couple seconds of looking at them, I moved over to the button on the door and pushed it with my hand. The door closed shut behind Shy and Eddie.

I looked down and found the tablet on the floor. I picked it up. It had a faint crack running across the screen. I stared down at it. On the flickering screen, it said that it was two- fifty in the morning, and we were already down forty five percent...