I pulled into the parking lot an hour before my shift. No way was I going into this whole new cameras thing blind. Plus I wanted to get a good look at these statues before I had to work.
The front building was huge with concrete walls once a pale gray now a tan color from dirt blowing onto it. I liked how it looked now compared to when it first opened. The tan walls made it more appealing rather than like an office building.
I locked my car's doors before setting my mind on getting up the stairs to the front door. I had a separate mindset when I came to work. Almost like what Riley said, I am king of the junk heap. It wasn't a bad thing, but I do have to admit that I am glad I work my shift alone. I walk around the junkyard like I'm stalking prey. It passes the time till I get cold and head back to the guard house for coco.
Like usual I'm greeted first by Macey, Joseph's schnauzer puppy. She was a tiny little thing with a big belly. It wasn't that she was fat…but really she was. Still I couldn't help but be happy to see her and picked her up. "You're such a cute little puppy, Macey. Yes you are." I scratched her chubby belly and put her down to watch her bounce around my feet.
Joseph rushed out of his office then only to stop and stare at me. "O-oh… It's just you. You're here early. Why?"
Awkward as always. He probably thought I was someone in need of assistance. Not his fault. "I wanted to check out the new cameras. Give myself a little head start, ya know?"
The black haired man stared at me. "Uh… Yes. The tablet is on my desk." Then he scooped up his hyper puppy and left toward one of the rooms down the hall. I never bothered to remember what was in every room since I didn't need to go in them.
Joseph's office was very… plain. No pictures of family or pets or really anything. His room had plain white walls with a desk in the center and a comfortable, black rolling chair with a bookshelf behind it. The books on the shelf were obviously never read and just there for decoration because their binding was old and flaking away. The one splotch of color in the room was the blue cased tablet. It almost didn't fit with the rest of the room.
I grabbed it off the desk, taking a moment of vanity to admire my own reflection in the screen – fixing my short, brown hair that was sticking up in the front – before I turned it on. The lock screen picture was of Macey. Finally a normal thing from that guy. Cute picture too.
A sticky note with numbers on it told me the code which I tapped in and flipped straight to the app for the cameras.
I about threw the tablet when Riley's face popped up. "Dammit!" The camera feed on this wasn't smooth. It was slow, glitchy almost. It was one picture every few seconds. Still fast enough to catch someone trying to take those…giant…anima… "What the fuck…?"
Riley had moved out of the way to show four large animals. Animals? They were damn robots! A bear, duck, bunny, and a fox. That last one had seen better days. Even for being dumped, the first three looked fine but that fox was all ripped apart. Creepy as hell.
"I gotta go see these." Keeping the tablet plugged in, I put it down and rushed out of the office and to the back door that leads out to the dump. First thing I passed was section A where the first set of three cameras was that spiraled around to where the now empty dog kennels are. Right after was the guard house and then section B where those animatronics are. I started down there and quickly came to a metal box with a single door.
"Riley?" I asked looking inside the box.
She spun around with a big smile. "You're early!" Then she leaned up against the brown bear. "Like our new friends? They're here for a few days until some guy comes to pick them up. They're going to the furnace to be melted down." We didn't have a furnace here obviously or else we'd of melted them down ourselves.
"Where'd they come from?" I went straight to the fox. It captured my attention from the moment I saw it. Funny, but I felt bad for the beat up hunk of junk.
"Some pizza place for kids. They had a few bugs in them – and by a few, I mean one of them killed a kid – so the place g-"
"Killed?!"
Riley blinked. "Kinda. Foxy there bit some kid's face off."
I jumped away from the machine then. The pity I felt faded fast.
"They're off, stupid. Don't be such a baby." She reached up and pat the bear's face as if she thought it'd calm me down. "And they got names! This one is Freddy, that's Chica, Bonnie, and Foxy."
I sighed. "I swear… How can ANYONE think these are kid friendly? They're just creepy…" I tried to forget about what Riley had said about the fox killing someone, but it was bugging me. "I haven't heard about it on the news. When did the fox… ya know."
"Rip the girl's face off in front of an entire birthday party? It was way back in the 80's."
"And this place JUST shut down? Wow." I backed away from the fox. "Wonder how they got away with it…"
"They didn't. Place was shut down but then they opened it up again. Some night watchman worked there and lost his mind. He messed around with the machines or some shit and vanished before they could fire him." Then she smiled all creepy. "And wanna know something super creepy about it, Mikey?"
I finally gave her my full attention. "And that stuff before wasn't totally freaky?"
"His name was Mike. Just like you~" She made an effort of reaching out to boop my nose.
That rock dropped in my stomach again. "Cut it out."
"No, I'm serious! He went crazy and now he's gone. No one knows where he went, but it's only been a few days since they closed." She then pointed over her shoulder to the camera in the corner. "These things are kinda BIG around the internet so keep a super good eye on them."
"Not just the internet…" I looked up at the purple bunny seeing that the animatronic was noticeably bent over being too tall to stand up in the box. "I wonder what they looked like moving around." I reached out to touch the fox again, flinching when the arm I touched moved slightly. Still I persisted in touching the cold, hard plastic. Again it moved, but it was only because the arm was loose.
Riley crossed her arms behind her head. "Wish I could watch them. They're adorable." The redhead patted the bear – Freddy – again before leaving the box.
How can she think they're adorable? I looked at all of them in turn. The only one really beaten up out of them was Foxy. Shame, he looked like he was pretty chill. Still not child friendly with that sharp looking hook, but cool nonetheless.
I turned my back on them then and left the box, closing the door behind me. Right about now I wished the junkyard dogs were still here. It was going to be creepy staying alone in the dump all night with those four things.
5ive: These chapters are a lot shorter than my normal stuff ^^' I'm still very happy with how things are turning out. Don't forget to review and tell me how you like this! .
