On one night, when the full moon lit up the whole pizzeria and the night guard could see everything, Freddy took a different route than normal. He went to the backstage room, then moved a box away from the wall. Behind the box was a hole, big enough for an animatronic's head to stick in. He didn't bother to look around as his eyes lit up. He began to play his jingle, the Toreador Song. But a few minutes into the song, a voice came from the hole, singing the lyrics. Something was slowly emerging from the hole.

When the song was over, the Puppet had appeared from out of the hole. "You wanted to see me?" Freddy asked, his voice showing respect for the Puppet.

"Yes," the Puppet said. "I have been watching everyone over the years as we changed locations. We could never seem to stay in one place, could we? But I noticed lately that Bonnie and Chica have began to act... more unusual than normal as of late."

"Hasn't Foxy been like that as well?" Freddy said.

"Foxy has been like that a long time, since five years after the 'incident,' I believe." the Puppet replied.

"It must have been because of how they locked him away from us," Freddy said. "They treated him like some sort of animal."

"But, aren't we animals after all?" the Puppet said. "Humans will tear each other apart, not caring for logic, letting their fear take hold." Its voice began to rise in excitement. "Oh, but we aren't humans anymore, are we? We lost that a long time ago. And there is my question: what do you think you are, Freddy?"

"Me?" Freddy chuckled. But his attitude quickly became serious. "I am a shell built of pure revenge." The Puppet seemed to frown at that, though its face never changed. "But, I know, inside, I am very much alive. I still have the same feelings as a human, feel the anger, the sadness, the love." Freddy paused. "But the others passed that off as just a glitch when it happened in 1990. I know better."

The Puppet let out a chuckle. "Yes, that is good, Freddy. Make sure to always remember it. Remember your soul. Even if everyone forgets, remind them of your rage."

Then they looked up, at the camera on the wall. It was as though they could see the fear of the one watching them. "No one is innocent." Freddy said, and began his route to the office, laughing on the way. The Puppet went back into the wall, pulling the box back into place.

When the backstage was finally empty, the moon began to cover over. The place was dark again. And within the darkness, something appeared in the empty showstage room. Sitting, slumped over, was the Golden Freddy suit. It was 27 years to the day that the children had been killed, and silently, its soul cried.


Author's Note: This chapter was actually the 5th one I finished for this story, but I decided that the 4th chapter I had written, titled Golden Freddy, contained some... sensitive material. But I will summarize it: The man died in the Golden Freddy suit sometime during the day leading to the 5th night of Five Nights at Freddy's 2. This would have explained why Golden Freddy only appears in the 5th night and beyond, and why it appears to have a dead body inside.

As for this chapter, it takes place a few days before Five Nights at Freddy's. So the night guard mentioned in this is not Schmidt, and probably died once Freddy found him. I wrote this chapter to make it so the Puppet is not gone in the first game, since it had a soul inside it. Also, there's a puberty joke in this chapter. I presumed that the children were 7-9 years old, so around 3 years after they should have been going into puberty, were they alive.