A/N: Hello all of my faithful readers, here is the next chapter! Sorry for the wait, but I had a little writer's block. I hope you like it! Oh, and this isn't the last chapter, there's still an epilogue which'll be the last. I would also like to thank all of my reveiwers, you've been a big part in me uploading so fast! Enjoy!

CHAPTER 10: I'm Not Afraid

Freddy's hand slid easily from Eddy Ridley and the boy fell to the ground, blood pouring from his stomach and his eyes glazed over.

"I'm back!" Freddy said with an evil grin on his face.

Karen screamed as Freddy stepped forward, burying his blades into Brandon O'Dea's eyes. Brandon's eyes spurted blood, the red liquid rolling down his face like bloody tears. Brandon's body fell next to Eddy's as Cory backed away. Now he stared upon the face of the man he had unknowingly sacrificed a group of his peers to.

"Cory, I was wondering when I'd meet you. You're the one who started it all. You gave your friends to me, and I slaughtered them" Freddy taunted, stepping slowly towards Cory, his blades clicking next to his face, "Now it's your turn!"

Freddy drove his clawed hand straight into Cory's chest. Blood started seeping from not only Cory's chest but from his mouth. Freddy shoved him and he fell straight into the nearby TV screen, which shattered as he collided with it.

In Freddy's hand was Cory's heart, beating slowly. The beats slowed down and stopped abruptly, and Freddy clenched his fist, the heart popping, creating a bloody mess.

Karen screamed again, but this time she was joined by Anna and Billy. Mike didn't scream, though he whimpered a little.

Freddy laughed and flicked his wrist, blood flying from his claws and landing on Karen's face and hair. She felt the sticky red liquid on her face, the blood of her peer. She hadn't liked Cory, but he didn't deserve to die.

"You didn't really think you could beat me? I'm the Nightmare King, and your nightmare has just begun!" Freddy yelled.

Freddy stepped forward suddenly and drove his blades into Mike's stomach, more blood spilling and staining the carpet forever. Karen, Billy and Anna screamed again, but this time they were joined by Mike, who was screaming in pain. He felt the cold touch of the steel inside him, accompanied by the extreme pain of being stabbed.

Freddy yanked his blades from Mike's stomach and smiled. The boy in front of him was not dead yet, though he was just as good as dead. The blood poured from his wound, only mildly stopped by his hands which were clenched over the wound. The blood would have felt sticky to Mike, but he couldn't feel that, he could only feel the pain which stabbed through his mid-section.

Karen started to cry again as she stared down at the bleeding Mike. Karen could see the pool of blood beginning to form under him as he cried, the blood seeping through his fingers.

"You bastard…" She said in a low voice.

"That's me, bitch!" Freddy said, and cackled again.

Karen looked up at Freddy, but it looked more like she was looking through him. She had just thought of something, it had come into her head and must have snapped something else, because she wasn't afraid.

"Are you ready to give up now? Are you ready to die?" Freddy taunted her, clicking his blades inches from her face.

She didn't answer for a while; she just looked up to his face. That thought she had was her only chance of survival, but she knew it would work.

"You're not real…" she said finally.

Freddy laughed at this remark, and said, "Not real? Could I have killed those kids if I wasn't real? Would you be bleeding if I weren't real?"

"You aren't real; you're only in our minds. You thrive on our fear, on our belief in you. But I'm not afraid. You don't exist without our fear, and I'm not afraid. Anna, Billy, are you afraid?" Karen asked.

Anna didn't answer for a while, but her tears had stopped. She thought over what Karen had said, and shook her head, a steely look of bravery on her face. Billy saw that his sister wasn't afraid, and instantly his fear disappeared. If his sister thought Freddy was nothing to be afraid of, then he knew he wasn't.

Mike stopped sobbing, but the tears still rolled down his cheeks. The pain still racked his body, but it had been partially numbed by this new discovery, he wasn't afraid either.

"I'm not afraid of you either asshole!" Mike said.

"You can't beat me! I am Freddy Krueger! I am your worst nightmare!" Freddy yelled, feeling the energy drain from him, "I will kill you!"

Freddy leapt forward to stab Karen, but in mid-air he screamed and disappeared in a blue shimmer. His scream carried on even after he was gone. Unbeknownst to Karen she had just beaten Freddy like Nancy Thompson had done years ago.

Anna, Billy and Mike stared in amazement at the place where Freddy had been, and Karen stared at the same place in relief.

A weight seemed to life from the air, Freddy's frightening aura washed away with that strange blue shimmer, which disappeared only seconds after it appeared.

"He's dead…" Karen said, before passing out, inviting the blackness in gladly.

Mike followed a moment later, passing out because of the mixture of immense relief and the weak feeling because of the blood-loss, but he heard the sirens outside. They had beaten Freddy. They had survived.

But the horror wasn't over, the terror of the experience would live on, and so would the man who caused it…