Chapter 17

ONE YEAR LATER.

"Thanks Felix."

"No problem."—Aaron's new friend, Felix Sullivan answered. Polishing off Aaron's car with a clean rag before dumping it in the bin and rubbing his eyes. He then shut the doors of his workshop at 7:30PM, with Patches next to him, ready to go home.

"Thanks again Felix." Aaron nodded. Starting up the motor, which now was a lot quieter and started a lot more easier.

"Remember. You owe me a present. Have A merry Christmas Aaron." Felix waved him goodbye.

"You too." Aaron drove away. Easing down the road. He had a lot on his mind since the passing of his grandmother just after Christmas last year and Ennard died too. Then again, Ennard was always the bad guy. Until he saw Natasha. Such a sweet and innocent girl who had her life taken at such a young age. She looked at lease 5, maybe even 6 or 7. But she reflected such things that didn't exist in Ennard.

Kindness and innocences.

His new job allowed him to work above ground in suitable conditions. His new job was...

The day shift at Freddy Fazbear's, which he shared with a man called Fritz Smith. It made him feel close to the old gang of Baby and her band, especially since around here, Circus Baby's was called the "unknown sister location" since the animatronics and the staff didn't know much about it.

He saw that Marionette person again, who told him about William. Who killed five children years ago. In reality, William was actually dead. Which freaked him out.

He became close with Felix Sullivan, the mechanic and the surviour of William's attack which killed his brother. His brother somehow ended up in Foxy and remembered all his human memories. Their bonding included going to the park with Felix's dog and playing fetch and also getting ice cream at a port they loved.

Aaron joined them on an invite to bar near the bay, where Foxy discussed the fact he wanted to go on a boat to the sea with himself, his brother and their grandmother. Luckily talking to a half foxy, half human and half robot was pretty easy. He shared the same interests to Felix as he preferred Foxy more than the cooking obsessed Chica, the guitar player Bonnie, and the Neat freak Freddy Fazbear.

Maybe he liked Foxy because it reminded him of Funtime Foxy? Speaking of which. They had a simpler person who looked almost like Funtime Foxy, she was called the Mangle and had the abilities to break herself into small parts, but she had a different hair style and dress sense and a different voice. She also crawled onto the cellings from time to time and hugged people a lot.

When he asked Freddy about Baby, he didn't appear to know anything about her or her gang. When he asked Felix about William Afton, he replied in a "nice" manner by swearing intensely and angrily in greek and english about the man. When he asked Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Goldie about William Afton, they all got scared and ran off. When he arose the topic of it to the toys, which included Teddy, BonBon, Chi, Mangle and Billy the Balloon Boy, they all also got scared, just before Freddy told him to knock it off before he was given to the pink slip.

Days ago, he read Circus Baby's rental was torn down because William Afton had been missing for over a year and no staff came anymore to clean up the place or the animatronics. He felt a tinge of sadness. Because he felt connected to them. He wondered, if The gang wasn't deactivated. Where would Baby, Ballora, the Minireenas, Funtime Freddy, Funtime Foxy, Funtime BonBon and Alex go?

He asked his mother about Ennard. Having that feeling. She then explained before the accident back in 1983, Ennard and him were best friends. She had the photos to prove it. He sure did look different with his classy look and neat hair and striped vest. He never did connect any lines between that old Ennard and the one that wanted to kill him until now.

Every night when he went to sleep, every night he worked flashbacked in his mind and he wondered where everyone was. Including Ennard. Who might be rottening away in some dump somewhere.

When Aaron came home, he found a package on his doorstep, so once he opened the door, he brought the brown box inside and placed it on his table, he then sat down on his sofa and turned on the TV to some Christmas Movie on, which he disregarded.

Curiousity got the better of him an eventually he had the box in his lap, rattling it impatiently to find out what was inside. He then torn into the paper and ripped the top open, finding tissue paper along with a christmas card that had a reindeer on the front with a red nose. Aaron was pretty sure it was the one they sung about in those songs, since he didn't really pay attention to christmas songs.

He opened the card open and found a very weird message inside:

"Dear Aaron. Have a wonderful Merry Christmas. We're okay where we are now. We will always remember you. The best hero and tech in the world.

From Circus Baby, Funtime Freddy, Funtime Foxy, Bibybab, The Minireenas, Ballora, Electrobab, Yenndo, Bonette, BonBon and Alex."

"They're alive?" He asked looking for a return address somewhere on the box, but he couldn't find any. Then he dug into the tissue paper again and pulled out a plushie.

It was of Ennard. It was quiet cute.

It had all his details of him before he was damaged. His short hair, his perfect skin, big blue orbs for his eyes and a small vest with a white shirt and black pants on him with a cute Red bowtie around his neck.

But he felt something else in the box also. Which he pulled out. He was startled when it was an animatronic hand. Then he realised.

It was Ennard's hand. And it had a note on it.

"This is what we saved of him. We think you should have it. From CB and the gang"

Aaron placed the plushie on his bedside table along with the animatronic hand. Then his phone rang in the tone he had, a normal ringtone, he found out Freddy wanted him to come back to work right away. So he took the plushie and the hand into his car and went back to Freddy's.

"Welcome back!" Freddy greeted him, "You forgot your present!"

"Okay then..." he looked around and saw everyone had left besides Felix, Fritz and the Nightwatch known as Jeremy Fitzgeneral and a Brown haired man in a police uniform with an orange haired woman and a baby in a highchair.

"Is this Aaron?" The brown haired man asked getting from his seat, "I'm Michael Schmidt. Everyone calls me Mike." He shook his hand firmly, "I'm a police officer. This is my wife Rebecca and my daughter Sarah." He gestured to the woman and the baby.

"Nice to meet you Mr Schmidt."

"I use to work here. Marionette told me your story. Must be rough. You bonded with animatronics. Did the same with Freddy and his gang. I think your lucky you survived. Now you said you met William Afton correct?" He asked as Chica came pass with a tray of Hot Cocoa, she offered them the mugs which they both took.

"Yes. He fired me last year."

"That can't be right. William Afton died in 2016 in the back room long before you ever started work." Mike drank down his cocoa

Aaron's face went white then.

"Oh you talked to a dead man!" BonBon laughed.

"I-I don't understand." Aaron said shaking.

"You wouldn't." Mike shook his head and wiping his lips with his hand "I couldn't understand when Freddy openly admitted he had a corpse of a ten year old boy inside him that died back in 1993. Freddy's is full of mystery. Looks like the Sister Location also is."

"Everything is a mystery." Felix chimed in, "Even I am apparently from what Marionette tells me."

"The point is... Ennard harboured a dark spirit and he chose to set himself and Natasha free of the grief." Marionette came over to him speaking.

"Then why didn't you do it?" Aaron gestured to Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy and Goldie.

"We found family again Aaron." Bonnie explained, "Foxy found his Brother and Grandmother again since both of his parents are deceased. Freddy met his family recently along with his younger sister. Chica found her parents online though their business. Goldie's parents are dead but he found his half sibling. I of course, Have found my mother and father, Lillian and Jason Bernie. They're even more kind than what I previously remember."

"But Ennard... Natasha... wasn't she William's daughter? Why didn't that set her free?" Aaron asked looking at the Ennard plushie in his hand.

"As luck would have it. Since William is also deceased. It didn't have an effect on Ennard. I'm sorry. You must miss him." Marionette explained as Aaron took a drink from his mug, "But I think I can fix that."

"Excuse me?"

"Would you believe that My magic can restore life to machines?" Marionette asked jumping inside his box, he threw a bunch of stuff around before throwing out an animatronic suit.

It looked like Ennard. But different.

He had been sewn up on his face and hand and feet. His clothes were brand new and his hair was cut shorter. But his eyes were black, indicating he was deactivated.

"It took a long time. But it's just in time for Christmas." Marionette smiled at him, "I had to put him back together piece by fragile piece. Since's he's more advanced then us it was a lot harder then fixing our own. But I couldn't find the last part I needed. His missing hand."

"Here. Baby sent it to me." Aaron pulled it out of his pocket and gave it over to the Marionette.

"Amazing. This truly will help. We can bring Ennard back without disrupting Natasha's rest." He walked up and began to stitch the hand back on, then he placed a coat of skin over it and stitched that together. He stood back, he looked completely brand new.

"So you always felt Natasha here?" Mike asked him.

"Yes Michael. I always felt a trapped presences near by. But since the kids were free I couldn't figure out what it was. Until I felt Ennard being a source. He was a light that attracted millions of unwanted pests. The main one being Natasha."

"William killed people. How did he have a daughter?" Freddy questioned feeling strange about the new facts they were learning about their killer.

"She died a decade before you all did." Marionette explained.

"I feel sorry for him now." Aaron nodded, "He wanted to escape into the outside world. But he wasn't running from Baby and William. He was trying to run from himself. He was trying to get rid of those horrible spirits inside him."

"I know the feeling of having voices in my head." Marionette nodded, "It's unpleasant. Very much so unpleasant."

"He had unwanted things. He wanted to get rid of them. Nothing else worked. I see his reasoning for wanting to die." Felix spoke.

"Hopefully It'll work." Marionette spoke as he rubbed his hand over Ennard then fused the last wire in his neck and closed up the panels. Waiting.

He stood back as Ennard's neck moved from his shoulder and he sat up straight. His eyes turned into a bright blue colour. He looked around at everyone in the room, when he saw Aaron, he smiled at him and rose his hand up slowly to wave at him. This was the Ennard he remembered from his childhood.

Aaron wrapped his arms around Ennard, making him speechless until he went along with it.

"Merry Christmas Ennard."

"Merry Christmas to you too. My best friend Aaron." His friendly and soft voice spoke like an angel.

And this was the first time since Rick vanished. That Aaron truly felt happy. His childhood best friend was back, he knew Baby and her gang were alive somewhere, he had new friends. The underground was a dream.

Above ground, was a happier day. A white and perfect Christmas truly a way to describe this moment in time.

So Merry Christmas and A Happy new year to all!

You wanna know my next plans, Here they are!

-Tomorrow I will be spending quality time with my family, having an Christmas Lunch. The next Day I will be with my Grandparents helping them out with chores and having a lunch of left overs from Christmas lunch we had and our grandparents and some of my relatives had.

-I will be wanting to update the FNAF series before 2017 comes.

-I know some people will be disappointed to hear that some of my other stories will not be updated. However I will make up for this by creating some new stories I've been spending a lot of time on. Such as Circus of the Dead, my new Sister Location story.

-I do want all my stories to be updated between now and when I return to school in January.

-I do want to edit this when I have spare time. See if I can extend it (especially on the shorter chapters) and fix any possible mistakes I might have made by rush writing at times. If I ever decide to do this type of thing again I'll start it earlier (Like in late November) and I'll be planning and writing first drafts of all the chapters in early November and late October. To be honest I was going in half blind with this thing and I did get writers block for the ending until the FNAF Sister Location update for the custom night came out.

Also on a side note. An alternate ending will be coming soon. There is also a possibility of a second one. Depends on my ideas and how Far I can extend on them. However it won't be out until at lease between 27th and the 30th. Maybe even later because of the fact My iPad has been playing up and My writing app Pages crashes frequently and I lose my writing. I have found a way to avoid this by writing small paragraphs on notes then copying and pasting it into Pages so I can look over for any editing or spelling mistakes. However I would like to start using Pages again full time, a new IOS update has recently came out and I hope that the new update will fix some problems I've been having. Otherwises I'll have to wait for new pages app update.