Hello to all the peoples, thank you for deciding that this story was worth reading. I sincerely hope you find interest in it and leave a review of what you thought or what you hope to happen in the coming chapters. I am also exercising my knowledge on gothic literature, which is helpful for this story. Now without further ado, let's begin this story that I pulled from the deep recesses of my mind (yes I thought about this one for a while XD)
"No! Stay back!" Mira cried as the monstrosity grew closer to her. The cold fingers of fear and panic snaked their way into Mira and clutched her rapidly beating heart. Her breathing was rapid, erratic, her need to draw air with what little time she had left overtaking her. The demonic machine's outstretched arms twitched spontaneously and its mouth opened wide, it's two sets of teeth visible to Mira's wide, horrified eyes. Mira let out a scream of terror as the lights flickered out.
(4 days ago)
The car's tires let out a slight screech as seventeen year old Mira Cadera pulled into the pizzeria's parking lot. She turned the car off and pulled the keys from the ignition, grunting slightly with effort.
"Stupid piece of junk." She muttered as she exited the old, rusty red car.
She only needed this job because of this piece of scrap metal her father called a car. She wasn't proud of the thing, it looked like it was pulled out of one of those old car movies and dumped into a river, then pulled out of said river after a month and given to her. Her need for a new car had her working two jobs, one as a babysitter and another as a supermarket employee. This was just an experiment to make a little extra money; as all the usual people that required her to take care of their kids were staying home this week. She looked up at the sign above the pizzeria, Freddy and the gang all animated and smiling. She knew that they didn't look like that entirely, they looked a bit creepier than that. Their fake rosy cheeks and plastic bodies made Mira think of the multitude of dolls her sister had. Oh how she hated those dolls. Every horror movie ever told her that dolls were spawns of satan and were almost always demon possessed. She knew that wasn't true but it didn't matter, it was a rule of thumb in her book. That's why she always locked her room door every night. She pushed through the double glass doorway into the pizzeria and looked about, not entirely sure where she should go.
She spotted an employee that was busying herself with cleaning the smudge marks on the glass prize casings. She brushed a bit of her short burgundy hair from her eyes as she approached the woman.
"Um, excuse me, I'm here to start my shift." She said.
The employee looked up and gave her a smile, "Oh! You must be Mira, Mira Caderi right?"
Mira noticed that the woman spoke with a slightly English accent, "Yes, that's me."
The woman set her cleaning rag on the counter and extended her hand, "Cloe Wilkinson, I'm the janitor if you didn't notice." She added with a slight chuckle.
Mira shook the hand offered to her, "Nice to meet you Cloe. Um, where do I go?" She asked, looking about the room.
The woman walked around the counter to stand beside Mira,"Working the graveyard eh, well come with me, your desk is back here." She led Mira through the party room, past Freddy, Chica, and Bonny and down a few hallways and doors to an open room. A single, dark brown desk sat almost against the back wall, with a small red padded swivel chair. A few items were scattered across the desktop, the ones Mira noticed was the fan, which was nice as it was a hot summer, the pizzeria memorabilia, a flashlight, and most of all, the old, decrepit Freddy head sitting on the corner of the desk.
"Here we are! Your very own headquarters!" Cloe said with over excessive enthusiasm.
Mira stared at the Freddy head and pointed to it, "Um, what's that doing there?" She asked, the feeling in the pit of her stomach tingling as the Freddy head was thoroughly creeping her out.
Cloe looked at the head with the same enthusiasm as before, "Oh that's just something one of the employees pulled from the old storage room. I guess he was just a fan of good 'ol Freddy Fazbear."
Mira wasn't convinced that anyone could be THAT much of a fan to keep a nasty old thing like that sitting on their desk, however there were crazy people out there. She walked around the desk, keeping well away from the head as she sat down in the chair. She noticed a laptop sitting in a partially opened drawer. She pulled it out and set it on the desk, opening it to find that what she was seeing was a video feed of the stage area. Freddy, Chica, and Bonny's smiling, rosy-cheeked faces staring off to the side, away from the camera. Knowing she could keep an eye on the animatronics put Mira's mind at ease somewhat. Cloe stood where she was and maintained her smile, but unbeknownst to Mira, a bead of sweat rolled down Cloe's forehead and stained her collar, her eyes drifting toward the clock.
"W- well I better be going. Trust me, this job is a breeze, enjoy your stay at Freddy Fazbear's pizza!" Cloe said hurriedly as she quickly walked down the hallway, "and may God help you." She whispered as she exited the hallway, leaving Mira all alone.
Mira took a deep breath and let out a long sigh, "Oh great, a breeze, just what I was looking for." She said with a nervous laugh. Though the job itself was pretty straight forward. Keep an eye on the place and make sure nothing gets broken, simple. Mira got as comfortable as she could as she got ready to wait the night out. The lights began turning off one by one throughout the pizzeria as the clock struck midnight, and the hallway itself became ten times scarier.
Mira kept her eyes locked onto that hallway, it's expanse seeming to have no end as it was consumed by darkness after about nine or ten feet. She pulled her navy blue security jacket closer to herself. It wasn't remotely cold in the room, but the cold feeling was present, and it chilled her to the bone. She tried to write this off as just nervous excitement from taking a night job. The dark often played tricks with one's head, and Mira tried all that she could to focus on reality and not let her imagination get the better of her. She was glad for the light she had in the room, it being the only light she had other than the soft glow of the laptop screen. She decided to focus on the one thing that allowed her to view the rest of the pizzeria. She flipped through the many security cameras around the place, stopping once she'd gotten back to the stage cam. She stared at them for a while, studying their designs. She was starting to relax,
"Heh, maybe this won't be so bad."
And then Chica's eye moved.
And that is that for this chapter. Suspense is always fun right? Right? *silence with occasional crickets chirping in background* well you'll have to wait as I work on the next chapter. Hopefully it'll be out by tomorrow. Until then, good day to you all, don't forget to leave a review, it's a real encouragement. Remember to conserve your power. Ta ta!
