CHAPTER 6: Fate

Dean Keller, the blonde haired boy, ended up in a strange place. He turned when he heard the door he just entered slam closed. He ran to it and tried to pull the door back open, but it wouldn't budge.

Dean turned around to survey where he was.

He was at the dentist. He looked around and saw this was his dentist. He shuddered, feeling afraid. He had always been afraid of the dentist, more than people are normally afraid of it. As a child he had cried every time someone tried to bring him to the dentist, he was just too afraid. So many things went through his mind when he was brought there, the 2 things that appeared inside his head most were the drill slipping and a disturbing image, one of the dentist with a sickening smile, his eyes flashing red.

Suddenly Dean was spun around, and he came face to face with the Nightmare King, Freddy Krueger.

"It's time for your checkup!" Freddy yelled, flashing Dean a sickening smile.

Dean quivered with fear and was forced back into the dentist's chair. Immediately the straps snaked their way over his wrists and his feet, holding him to the chair.

Freddy put his gloved hand under Dean's chin, his blades clicking lightly. Freddy then pushed his other hand on Dean's forehead and forced his mouth open.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk… I'm going to have to do some immediate work here" Freddy said and pulled down a big dentist's drill from apparently nowhere.

Dean screamed and tried to close his mouth, but straps appeared from nowhere and held his mouth open.

Freddy pulled the drill down and let out a long cackle while Dean screamed. Freddy ignored his screams and forced the drill up into the top of his mouth, cutting off the screams.

Billy sat in his sister's room rummaging through her DVD's. She had quite a collection of horror movies. She had been given a DVD cabinet when she was 13, and had since filled it with a variety of horror movies and the odd comedy or romance one.

Billy grumbled as he did so, only a few words were clear, which were, "I'll show you Anna…"

Billy pushed some DVD's out of his way, looking for a scary movie, a really scary movie preferably.

Suddenly one caught his eye right at the back of the cabinet.

It was called The Grudge and had a scary looking picture on the cover. Billy pulled it out and closed the cabinet.

He ran downstairs and put the DVD into the player, sitting himself down on the couch opposite the TV. The lamp beside him was the only thing illuminating the room.

The DVD started and creepy music began to come from the speakers. A red screen came up with what looked like lots of black hair floating around in the middle, as if in water. This was the menu, and Billy was already starting to get scared, but he stayed strong and pressed the play button.

Billy watched the movie the whole way through. He cringed at a lot and even hid his eyes when the lady was crawling down the stairs. He was shaking a lot.

As the ending credits rolled Billy stopped his shaking and calmed down, feeling suddenly sleepy. Billy turned the DVD player and the TV off with the remotes and lay back against the couch.

As he fell asleep he mumbled a single sentence, which was, "I told you Anna…"

Billy opened his eyes and sat up quickly when he heard the TV turn on, it made a click when it came on and the static whine came forth.

Billy rubbed his eyes and looked at the couch, but he hadn't laid on any remote, they were all on the coffee table in front of him.

The static on the screen disappeared and in its place was a boiler room immersed in red light. Billy watched with a frightened sort of curiosity.

A man walked around the corner at the end of the corridor shown on the screen. He had a red and green sweater on and a glove with knives for fingers. His skin was horribly charred.

He stopped a few metres from where the camera should be and clicked his knives in front of it.

"I'm going to kill your sister Billy, and all her friends! And then I'm coming back for you!" Freddy Krueger said. Billy had been teased at school by some kids, they said the boogeyman was coming for him and his name was Freddy Krueger. They described this exact man he saw on the screen.

The boogeyman was coming for him.

Billy suddenly snapped out of his sleep and jumped to his feet. After a few seconds he realized it had all been a dream, but it hadn't just been that, he knew that much no matter how young and frightened he was.

His sister and her friends were in trouble.

Billy ran out of the house and hopped on his bike. He had to save Anna and Karen, and anyone else he could.

The boogeyman was coming.

Anna was weaving through the party guests, looking for Karen. Karen had disappeared shortly after her confrontation with Cory, and Anna was worried for her.

Cory was sitting on the couch with his legs stretched out on the coffee table, Friday the 13th now playing on the TV. The people who had taken the pills were sleeping peacefully on the floor, or so it seemed. Really their faces were in looks of mingled horror and amazement, but nobody noticed. Some watched the people sleeping and the movie.

Anna walked in front of him, blocking the TV.

"Hey! I'm trying to watch the movie here!" Cory yelled at her, motioning for her to move.

"Where's Karen?" Anna said in an angry tone.

"That wimpy bitch? I wouldn't have a clue" Cory lied, moving a bit so he could see the screen.

Anna just moved back into the way.

"I think you do. What did you do to her?" Anna accused.

"I said I don't know, and I don't care!" Cory yelled defensively. Some people nearby turned their heads to watch.

Anna gave him one last glare and walked off.

Anna wasn't convinced at all by Cory's statements. She knew he had done something, and she was going to find out what.

Karen walked through her doorway into a small concrete room, and in the middle of the room there was a desk. There was no way out except the door she had just come through, so she turned back to go out, but the door slammed shut.

Karen tried to open the door back up, but it wouldn't budge.

Karen slammed her fist against the wood and pushed herself away from the door.

Karen turned around and walked to the desk slowly, expecting Freddy to be on the other side. But he wasn't, it was just a desk. Karen slowly slid her hands over the surface. That's when she saw the draw.

Karen slid open the draw in the desk quietly, but the quiet was ruined when she screamed and jumped back. The drawer was full of blood. It was sloshing around inside, sometimes sloshing over the edge and splattering onto the ground.

Karen leant against the wall, eyes wide with shock, for at least a minute, staring at the blood-filled drawer.

Karen slowly crept back up to the drawer and looked inside, not wanting to but still doing it. Hopping it was all not true, that when she looked in it wasn't filled with blood at all.

But it was still filled with blood.

Suddenly she heard knives clicking next to her ear, and a gloved hand came down upon her shoulder.

Karen whirled around, trying to get away from his grasp, but Freddy had already gotten a firm grip on her arm.

"Hello again bitch, visiting old Freddy again?" Freddy mocked, and pushed the tips of his knife fingers into Karen's arm, immediately drawing blood.

Karen screamed and thrashed around to try and get Freddy off, but his grip never faltered.

Freddy let loose a hysterical laugh, scaring Karen even more.

"You can't wake up now, can you? Your mine" Freddy said, and laughed again.

"Kill me then, get it over with!" Karen yelled bravely, though she didn't feel brave, she felt more scared than she'd ever been before.

Freddy shoved her against the wall, clicking his blades menacingly.

"Oh no, it seems you think I'm going to kill you quickly and painlessly. But that's wrong, your going to be screaming in unimaginable pain when you die, and you'll be sobbing at my feet, begging me to kill you to end the pain!" Freddy explained the gruesome details.

"I won't beg for anything, and I'll never sob at your feet!" Karen screamed, "I'm not afraid of you!"

Freddy laughed again, an evil grin spreading across his face.

"Not afraid? You are afraid! I can smell it, I can feel it! You're scared!" Freddy yelled.

"No, I'm not afraid, and I'll never be. You're a pussy! You hide in the shadows and only attack in your dreams! You're the one who's afraid!" Karen said defiantly, a cocky grin spreading over her face, and Freddy felt her fear slipping away.

Freddy growled for a second, but then he smiled, as if a horrible idea came into his charred head.

"You will be afraid, I'll make you afraid. After watching your friends die, you'll be more scared than you've ever been before" Freddy said, and grinned his evil grin.

Karen's cocky smile faded, and now she was afraid, afraid for all of the people who took the dare. Freddy is going to kill them, Karen thought, and I'm going to have to watch.