A FNAF Reality
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Chapter 8: Tension
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Janet cried in Shaina's shoulder as they both sat in the swivel chairs. Shy, Eds, and Stephanie sat in the remaining swivel chairs away from the doors. I stayed standing, close to the East hallway door that was closed shut. It was a terrible idea, but it needed to remain shut, to calm everyone's nerves a little. There was a crazed psychopath outside, who already had kidnapped Jose, Alfredo and Janet's younger brother, and has also hurt Janet with some kind of sharp object, and needed to go to a hospital.
Everyone remained silent. Eddie had his head down, staring at his clasped hands. His shoulders were shaking. Shy had her head down too, her eyes and nose were red from wiping them repeatedly. Stephanie was staring at the cameras, not looking away. Her lower lip quivered as tears streaked her face, but she wouldn't turn to look at us. Shaina trembled, but tried staying still for Janet, who was in worse condition than all of us. We all felt bad for her, and wished that we could have watched Jose more closely for her.
Alfredo's seat was empty.
When Alfredo saw what had happened to his siblings, he went hysterical and bolted out of the security room to go save Jose. We have not heard from him after that. Stephanie tried looking for him on the security cameras, but there's been no luck in finding both Alfredo and Jose. Shaina has been trying to calm Janet down, but so far it hasn't been much of a success.
Janet was losing a lot of blood, and the smell was choking the atmosphere in the room, making everyone feel nauseous. The fan was a little bit of help, but the smell was strong, and I felt like I was going to throw up.
Finally, I couldn't take it much longer and I opened the door. The loud sound caused everyone to jump in their seats and look up at me. I apologized and turned my head to look down the dark hallway. The fresh air blew into the security room. I shivered a bit and rubbed the sides of my covered arms. Even with a sweater on, I was cold. I checked my phone. It was three-o' five. My phone was already down at fifteen percent. I decided to turn off my phone to conserve the power. I sighed to myself as I did.
I wish we could conserve power in this room, I thought to myself as my screen went black. I pocketed my phone and leaned against the wall next to the two buttons for the right side. Stephanie had the tablet in her lap, so I couldn't see how much more power we had in the room. She said she didn't want us worrying about the power.
Just then, Shy slowly lifted her head up. "The vents," she said, quietly. I turned to her. Eddie turned his head to her as well and lowered his hands. "What did you say, Shy?" asked Eddie, wiping his nose with the back of his sleeve. Shy looked over to me, then looked up. "The vents. One of us...could go..." her voice faltered. I looked up. Above us was the ceiling. The ceiling had black wires hanging limply from above, but past the naked hanging light bulb, in the corner, was a small metal square with small slits angled towards us. The ventilation system.
Stephanie moved away from the screens and rubbed her eyes. "What is this about a vent?" she asked. Shy pointed up to the vent me and Eds were looking at. "One of us could fit in there and maybe get out of here," she said. Eds nodded. "Sounds like a good idea, good job Shy," he said, giving her a pat on the back.
Janet had moved away from Shaina, giving her shoulder a rest. She kept her head down, with her hair falling over her face. "Wh..which one of us is able to fit in there?" Janet asked. Eddie, Shy, Shaina, Stephanie and I looked at each other, guesstimating if one of us could fit into the vent. After a couple minutes of guesstimated measuring, it came down to me and Stephanie being small and skinny enough to squeeze through.
"Ren can't go into the vent. She's claustrophobic," Eddie pointed out.
I was about to protest, but Stephanie volunteered to go into the small vent. "I'll do it. It's ok Ren. Someone help me up." Eddie took one step forward and cupped his two hands together, then bent his knees for her. She touched his shoulder as she placed her foot into his hands. Slowly, Eddie lifted her up to the vent. Stephanie looked up and reached up to the rectangular metal vent and tried pulling it loose. It wouldn't budge. "Is there a screwdriver down there?" Stephanie asked from above.
Shy and I looked around the security room for one. Janet pulled out her purse and began rummaging through it. "How about these?" she asked as she pulled out a small pair of scissors. "You can use the end of the blade to turn the screws," she added. Eddie slowly lowered Stephanie back down and gave his hands a rest. "Why do you have scissors in your purse? he asked. Janet handed the scissors to Stephanie. "I have shirts that get loose threads in them. I don't like pulling the threads because its not good for the shirt. So I have a small pair of scissors on me to cut them," she said as she snipped the air with her two fingers.
Stephanie nodded. "Makes sense. I should start carrying a pair in mine," Stephanie waited for Eddie to cup his hands for her again and lift her back up to the vent. Once he did, Stephanie lifted the pair of scissors up to one of the screws that held the vent into place. I listened to the sounds of the tip of the blade trying to turn the screw. I winced when the metal made a sharp high pitched sound. Finally after a couple minutes, Stephanie asked for Eddie to help her back down. "It's not working," she said. My shoulders sagged a bit as I watched Stephanie hand the scissors back to Janet.
"If the blade was thinner, I'm sure it would have worked," Stephanie said. Janet didn't say anything as she placed her scissors back into her purse. I checked through my pockets to see if there were anything that was thin enough. Eddie offered his house keys, but they too were too big. Shaina had a necklace with a flat, thin piece of metal on it, but it instantly broke when Stephanie tried turning it. "Sorry, Shaina," Stephanie said as she handed the broken necklace back to her friend. Shaina accepted her necklace back.
"Is there anything else we can use?" asked Stephanie as she looked at each of us. None of us spoke. There was nothing else we could use. All I had were a couple pieces of paper, my phone, my house keys and the bonnie plush doll from my sister.
Shaina lifted her head up. "Maybe there is a screwdriver in the service parts room," she said. Shy, Eddie and I exchanged nervous glances. Janet's face went pale and Stephanie looked down at her shoes. None of us wanted to go out there.
Shaina saw the looks on our faces and went quiet again, lowering her head back down. "Sorry...I was just trying to help," she said. Janet placed a hand on her back. "Don't be sorry. We need all the help we can get in to figuring out how to get out of here." All of us were quiet for a while. None of us didn't know what to do or say. It was hard to figure out what to do when already two of us were possibly dead...and the employees were all most likely dead.
"Three of us could go out there..." Eddie offered. Stephanie hesitated. "I don't know. I don't another one of us to get hurt." I looked up at Eddie. I could see that he was beginning to get anxious. "We can't stay here forever, and I'm sure the killer knows that. He most likely knows about the power in here and is just waiting till the power goes out in here and finishes us off one by one."
Tears began to form in Shaina's eyes. "Please don't say that," she said, barely a whisper. Eddie didn't hear her and continued to talk. "Our best bet is to go out and look for items to help us get out of here faster. I am not waiting till six am or whenever the murderer comes back around. There might be more waiting around and are outside right-"
"Shut up! Just shut up!" Shaina screamed, scaring us all out of our skins. We all turned to Shaina who was shaking and crying. She placed her hands on the sides of her head and shook it as she cried. "No more! no more!" she screamed. "Shaina," started Stephanie, but Shaina didn't respond. Janet tried calming her down, but Shaina just got up from the swivel chair and punched the button to the door that was open. The door went down fast with a loud slam.
"Stop talking about the murderer!" Shaina shouted. I looked over to Eddie, but he wouldn't look back at me. I turned back to Shaina who was going hysterical. "I can't take this anymore! Stop talking about it! I want to go home! I was this fucking psychopath to be dead already!" she shouted. Eddie placed his hands up. "Ok, ok. Calm down Shaina. You don't need to yell," he said, taking a step towards her. Shaina moved away from him and pushed one of the swivel chairs towards him. "Don't come near me!" she snapped.
I bared my teeth and came up to her. "Hey! He's just trying to help! You need to calm down!" I reached for one of her arms, but she just slapped it away. "Stay away from me! Don't touch me! I'm fine!" she screamed. I growled and was about to give her a piece of my mind, but I felt Eddie's arms wrap around me and pull me away from Shaina.
I fought against Eddie, but his sudden loud voice made me stop. "Everyone just stop it now! We are not going to go crazy over all of this and go against each other! We need to think clearly and go through this calmly. If we go into hysterics now...it will be harder for us to get out of here...Shy and Ren will come with me to look for things that can help us. Keep the doors open. If you hear any footsteps and it's not us, close them," Eddie said. Stephanie, Shaina and Janet were quiet.
After a couple seconds of silence, Shaina broke into tears and pressed her face against Janet's shoulder. Janet wrapped her free arm around her, calming her as tears came down her own face.
Eddie took a deep breath and sighed before releasing me. "I can't take this anymore either, Shaina...but we can't give up...I don't want us to get hurt too." With that, he turned on his phone light and turned to me and Shy. "Coming?" he asked. I hesitated and looked over to Shy. Shy turned on her phone light and pushed the button.
Just as she did, the door opened and the Golden Freddy suit stood in the doorway. I gasped as I felt all my blood run cold. "Shy!" screamed Eddie before I could. Shy screamed as the huge bear wrapped his arms around her. Eddie ran past me and was about to attack, but the yellow bear lashed out something at him, causing him to crumple to the floor. "Eddie!" I screamed as I ran to him. Eddie's arms were folded over his stomach. Eddie brushed me away with one of his hands, that was covered in red stuff. I gasped in horror as some of his blood got onto my sweater.
"N-no...I'm fine...go save...your sister," Eddie said between gasps. I looked up, but the yellow bear was gone. Stephanie was gone as well. "Where did Stephanie go?" I asked Janet and Shaina. Shaina didn't say anything as she stayed in the furthest corner of the room, shaking and crying. Janet was sitting alone on the swivel chair. Eddie gasped and made some groans. He was in a lot of pain. I helped Eddie into a chair, then turned on my phone. It turned on. The power was still at fifteen percent.
My heart was beating really fast. I was panicking. My sister was taken by the Yellow Freddy. I needed to do something.
"No, Ren...Don't..." started Eddie. I turned to him and looked into his eyes. His eyes were filled with fear. I breathed heavily as I stood there, trying to decide what to do. Finally, I took a deep breath and sighed. I lowered my phone to my sides. Here I was, trying to become the hero that was going to go out there and stop the murderer alone. What the hell was I doing? This wasn't a game. This wasn't Five Nights at Freddy's. This was real life. My sister just got captured, Alfredo and Jose were most likely dead, Janet and my boyfriend were injured, Shaina was going hysterical, Stephanie was missing, and now there was only twenty percent power in the room. So far, things weren't looking too good for us...but I was the only one who was still somewhat stable. I have to be strong, and brave. In order to survive this night...you need to do some risks.
I shook my head. "Like you said. We can't stay in here and wait. We need to do something." Eddie shook his head. "You don't have to do this, Ren...You can't go alone," he said, his words wavering. I nodded. "I know...but there's no one else. You two are hurt. Shaina needs to stay here and watch you guys," I said. Of course that wasn't really a good idea since Shaina looked like she needed someone to watch over her too but Stephanie was gone. Hopefully she would come back.
I went down and kissed Eddie on the lips. "I'll be back...I promise," I said. I felt a lump form in my throat. There was a big percentage that I might not come back at all. I could see in Eddie's eyes that he didn't believe me. I saw his eyes starting to become glossy. I felt him grip my hand tightly. I pulled my hand away from his and turned away. I stopped when I realized that my face was wet with tears.
"...B-be... careful, Ren," Shaina said. I turned my head to the side and nodded. "Take care of them..." I responded back; referring to Janet and Eddie. "I'll be back with a first aid kit and other supplies," I added. I turned back and walked over to the left side of the security room.
I pulled my hoodie over my head...which I soon regretted doing since it had the purple bunny ears sticking up. I silently punched the button that opened the door that led out to the West hallway. The air instantly smelled like blood. I pulled my shirt up to my nose so I didn't have to breathe it in as much. I turned back to look at Eddie, Janet and Shaina. None of them looked at me. Eddie's shoulder's shook as he held his stomach. I lowered my head, feeling the tears fall down my face and land onto the sticky, blood patched floor. I reached my arm around and quickly pushed the button. I pulled my arm back just as the door came down.
I walked down the pitch black hallway alone, with only my phone lighting the way...
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