The New Nightmare of Springwood – Chapter 5

Valerie opens her eyes but she is in the same place. She walks around the factory and wonders if her plan worked. "What happened? Why am I still here?"

Just then she hears her phone ringing and answers it. "Hello?"

"Val?! It's Chris. Where the hell are you?!"

"I don't know. I was in a boiler factory place, then I grabbed him and woke up but when I opened my eyes I was still here."

"We woke you up like you said but your body just disappeared."

She can hear Paul in the background. "Boiler factory place? That's the Springwood Plant where my dad works. She must have woken up there."

Then she hears Chris start the car back up. "Hold on, Valerie. We'll be there as soon as we can."

"Ok. But hurry. I think he's here."

She hangs up and then looks around for a bit before her phone rings again. "Come on guy's. Hurry."

But Wesley's voice is on the other side. "The only thing I'm going to hurry up doing is slicing open your throat."

The phone starts to melt in her hand and she drops it in shock. "Where are you, coward?!"

She can't see him but she hears his voice nearby. "Closer than you think."

He drops down from the walkway above and lands behind her. Wes then grabs her from behind and gently rubs the knife on his pointer finger across her throat. "You know what the best part about killing Laurie was? Wondering if you were going to struggle just as much."

Valerie slams her foot down on Wesley's and he lets go of her as he screams in pain. "Ahhh! You bitch! I forgot I can feel pain here."

She runs down the walkway and makes a turn, then another turn, and another until she looks back and notices Wesley isn't following her. She turns back forward and runs right into him. "Where do you think you're going?"

He slaps her with his non-glove hand and she falls to the floor. He waves his glove in the air while taunting her. "Now it's time to see what your insides look like."

All seems lost for Valerie when Chris, out of nowhere, grabs Wes from behind. "You should've stayed dead, freak."

Wes elbows Chris, then turns and throws him over the railing. Valerie screams as she watches her boyfriend fall to the floor below the factory. "Chris!"

Wesley then turns and walks towards Paul who was standing behind them. "What is it, Byron? Surprised? I've changed since the last time you saw me."

"Yeah. I can see that. I love what you've done with your face."

In a fit of rage, Wes backhands Paul with the knives on his gloves and recreates the four cuts on Paul's face. "How does it feel huh?! How does it feel to have your face sliced open?!"

Paul screams and throws a one-two punch at Wes. Wes dodges them and punches Paul in the nose with his glove. Paul stumbles but comes back at Wes with another punch. It's no use. Wes is too fast and just backs away and retaliates by slamming the metal backhand of the glove into Paul's face.

Paul falls hard and then hits his head on a railing. He is instantly knocked out. Wesley and Valerie immediately know what is going to happen next and look at each other in preparation. At the same time, they both run at Paul. Valerie was hoping to stop Wesley so she lunges at him. Wes dives at Paul's head and Valerie just misses hitting him. Wesley hits Paul's head and slips into his subconscious.

Valerie looks up from the ground and sees Paul sleeping against the rail. "Oh no."

She gets up and looks over the rail. "Chris you there? You ok?"

He yells back up from the ground. "Yeah. I'm ok."

"We got to get Paul in the car and get out of here. Now!"

Paul wakes up and he is somehow in full football gear sitting on a bench. He looks around and sees a full crowd of people filling up a stadium. Wesley, who is dressed up as a coach, grabs him. "Listen Paul. This is your only chance. You need this to make it to the big time. Now get out there and show them what you're made of!"

Wes throws him onto the field and Paul somehow gets underneath the center ready to take a snap. Paul looks around and sees the defense ready to blitz.

He startles a bit and calls hike reluctantly. The lineman move aside and the defense runs straight at him. Paul panics and the defense hits him harder than he has ever been hit before. He goes down hard and spits up blood.

After getting up and back into the huddle he sees Curtis. "Oh my God, Curtis? Is that you?"

"Yeah it's me, Paul. And I'm so glad to see you."

"Curtis? What are you doing here?"

"Just repaying my debt to you, 'buddy'."

"What?"

"Don't 'what' me. You think of me as a friend but you treat me as your lackey. I'm on to you. And now….its payback. READY…BREAK!"

Curtis breaks the huddle and all the linemen run up to the line of scrimmage. Paul is left standing in the backfield alone. He slowly walks up to the line of scrimmage unsure as to what is about to happen.

He unwillingly calls hike and the entire offensive line moves to the side allowing the full defense through. Paul tries to back up but it is no use. He is hit even harder than the first time and smashed backwards about thirty yards.

Paul stands up, limps to the sidelines and sits down on the bench in immense pain. Wesley, still dressed as the coach runs over to him. "What are you doing, you moron? You're getting killed out there!"

Paul tries to plead with him. "Please. Stop this. No more."

Wes shrugs his shoulders. "Ok. If you say so."

Then he takes his glove and jams it through Paul's chest.

Chris drives his car as fast as he can towards the hospital. In the backseat of the car Valerie is sitting with Paul. Paul is in a deep sleep and Valerie rubs the sweat from his face. "Hold on, Paul. Hurry, Chris. I don't know how much longer he can last."

"I'm going as fast as I can."

All of a sudden Paul spits up blood and crimson seeps through his shirt onto his chest. Valerie gasps as the sight of her friend dying. "Oh my God. He's killing him!"

Out of nowhere, Paul's body shoots up through the roof of the car and into the sky. Both Chris and Valerie look up at the body as it flies through the air, but the car suddenly slams into a tree on the side of the road.

Valerie wakes up and steps out of the smashed car. She sees Chris standing in front of the hood and walks over to him. "What is it, Chris?"

"I smashed my car. Demolished it. Totally wrecked. We should have died. But you know what the funny thing is. I'm not thinking about that. Instead, I'm thinking about why my body is still in the driver's seat!"

He turns around and still sees his body leaned up against the steering wheel. Valerie looks in the backseat and she is leaned up against a cracked window. She immediately tries to calm down her stressed out boyfriend. "Listen to me, Chris! We're knocked out. Asleep. We're in his world now. He controls it. We need to be alert."

Chris looks around in fear and then slowly drops to his knees crying. "Why is this happening, Val. Why? We don't deserve this."

She turns around and then yells into the forest. "You hear that, Wesley?! Why?! Why you, mother fucker?! Why are you doing this?!"

Wesley's voice echoes out from inside the forest. "You ask why my dear, Valerie. The question isn't why…but how. How could Springwood's children have done this? Done this to me. Done this to every other kid brought into this world different. I was born to a legacy, heir to a legend so I may change what's known in Springwood. I must take the life of every child so that no more are to be born because let's face it, the age of childhood innocence has long been over."

She yells back out to the forest. "You're insane! Stop this, Wesley!"

"Never. Not as long as the children of Springwood live. Especially you. Now die."

A tree falls down right on top of her, but she manages to move out of the way. Valerie grabs Chris and together they run through the forest as tree after tree almost falls on top of them.

They stop running and look around at the forest to see the trees alive and leaning over them. The tree trunks grow eerie faces and laugh at the scared couple. The forest becomes darker and out of nowhere, Wesley drop from atop a tree and lands in front of them.

He kicks Valerie down and punches Chris with his glove. Chris stumbles back, but runs straight forward at Wes trying to tackle him. Wes simple moves to the side and Chris runs straight into the tree.

The branches of the tree move down and pin Chris to its trunk. Valerie tries to break him free but Wes grabs her from behind. "I'm going to enjoy choking the life out of you."

He squeezes her throat as hard as he can. Just when she is about to give out, Chris breaks free from the tree's branches and grabs Wes from behind. "Not today."

Wes lets go of Valerie on instinct and she turns around and faces him. "This time I want you dead."

She grabs a hold of Wes and then slices the palm of her hand with one of the blades on his glove. She closes her eyes and grinds her teeth to deal with the pain. She feels the world spin around her and when she opens her eyes back up the forest is back to normal.

Wes and Chris are still in front of her and they both look around in shock. Wes looks at Valerie with anger. "You brought me out again! You bitch!"

He kicks her and elbows Chris back. Wes turns around and tries to stab Chris with his glove but he dodges and ducks. Finally, Chris catches his arm and trips him to the ground. Wesley punches him with his other hand and slices the side of Chris's ribs with his glove. Chris rolls over off of Wes to the ground next to him, but Valerie kicks Wes in the face while he is down.

Then, while Wes is still startled, Valerie grabs his right arm and shoves all four knives on the glove into his chest. Wes lets out a demonic scream and Valerie simply shoves the glove deeper into his chest. "Now…stay dead."

A blinding light shoots out of Wesley's mouth and eyes and after a few seconds…the light is gone and Wes's body goes limp.

Valerie lets go of Wes and tends to Chris right next to him. She helps sit him up with their backs facing the dead Wesley. She then takes a look at her boyfriend's ribs. "You're hurt."

"It's ok. It's not deep. Is he dead?"

"Yeah. He's dead."

"We did it, Val."

"Yeah. We did it."

They both smile and she hugs him. Just when all seems fine, Wesley, with what little life he has left, takes his glove and stabs Chris through the back. Blood spurts out of Chris's mouth as he falls forward off of the knives.

Wes's arm goes limp again as he finally dies. However, the damage is done. As Valerie cries, she rolls Chris's bleeding body over. "No! No! This can't be happening."

Chris can barely talk as he coughs up blood. "Its ok, Val. I deserve it."

"No! Stay with me, Chris."

"We killed him and now he killed us. We're even."

"No we didn't. Please, Chris. Don't die."

"Val, I…love you."

Those are the last words Chris says as his body goes cold in his girlfriend's arms. As she buries her head into Chris's chest, Valerie cries and cries and cries all alone in the forest until all her tears are gone.