At last! The long awaited chapter 86!
Thank you all for waiting :)
There will most likely only be one more chapter after this one... But don't worry, I still have plans for this series... -w-
Anyway, please enjoy and I will try to post the next chapter soon :)
Freddy ran down the hall chasing after the shadow rabbit.
"Bonnie!" He called out, coming around a corner into another maze of halls.
Hearing a clank behind him, the brown bear spun around and saw the shadowy figure vanishing around another corner.
"B-BONNIE!" He screamed, running around the corner and chasing it down a long stretch of hall.
Vincent lifted his head up at the sound of Freddy running down the hall. The sound of metal clanking and echoing throughout the empty halls.
"C-Come on!" He growled to himself, picking up the axe into his hand and shaking his head.
"Come at me..." He whispered to himself, slowly peeking around the corner.
The brown bear ran around the corner and came into the dim room, and scanned around it.
His blue eyes filled with horror as he caught sight of Chica, dead and mangled in the corner.
"C-CHICA!" He yelped out, running over to her and dropping to his knees.
"N-No! No no no no no no!" He sobbed, sliding his hand under her head and staring into her dull eyes.
"WHY?!" He screamed, sobbing hard. The yellow chicken lay limp in his grasp as Vincent watched from the shadows, grinning.
The man edged forward slowly and silently, holding the handle of the weapon tight in his grasp.
Swiftly, Vincent burst out of the room screaming, Freddy's eyes widening upon hearing this.
Freddy went to turn his head, only to have his neck hacked into.
The bear gasped, oil gushing from the wound.
Vincent pulled the axe from his neck and grinned, looking down at him.
"Well well well..." He chuckled, staring at the trembling animatronic.
"Looks like I get to kill ya twice..."
Freddy's eyes darted up at the man, seeing his purple skin.
"V-VINCENT!" He growled out, tears of pain running down his face.
"Ah, So you remember... Hmm?" The purple man grinned as the bear held his neck wound, lying down onto his side, unable to hold himself up.
Managing to weakly hold his weight up with a elbow, Freddy trembled and shook as he felt his warm oil running down his arm.
"H-How could I forget?" He chocked out, barely able to talk.
"The chicken forgot..."
"C-CHICA!" Freddy hissed, baring his fangs.
Vincent scoffed and rolled his eyes, shaking his head.
"Doesn't matter now. That old scrap head is dead!"
Freddy suddenly lunged up at him, knocking the axe out of his hands and slashing him across the face with his claws.
"S-SHUT I-t..." Freddy suddenly fell to his knees, holding his throat and coughing up oil and blood.
Vincent angrily growled and stood back up, picking the axe back up.
"S-STUPID BOT!" He screamed, slashing into the other side of his neck as well.
Freddy's eyes widened in horror as he fell onto his side, coughing up oil and sobbing.
"P-Puppy's gonna f-find you..."
Vincent's eyes widened at the name, but he quickly tried to brush it off and shook his head. "Oh, Shut up!" He growled and stepped onto his head, crushing it.
Freddy's arms went limp as his oil and blood mixed with Chica's.
The purple man wiped his oil stained shoe on the floor, and looked over at the room once more.
"That Puppet will be here any minute... I need to hurry..." He thought to himself, walking into the room once more, clutching the axe tightly in his hands.
In his box, Puppet's eyes shot open as he sensed the pain of his beloved friends.
Absorbed in sorrow, he knew he was too late to save Chica, on the other hand he still felt Freddy's pain very strongly.
"W-What happened?!" He whispered to himself panicked, as he quickly jumped out of his box, tears in his eyes.
As his body began to float, he was stopped from leaving the room by Shadow Bonnie.
"Don't go... Let it happen..." It whispered, twitching it's ears uneasily.
"What do you mean, 'don't go'?!" Puppet snapped back, hovering closer and higher slightly.
"My friends are dying and they need my help-"
"But this way will be better..." Shadow Freddy added, coming around the corner and standing beside the shadow rabbit.
"BETTER?!" Puppet growled, pushing them out of the way. "How could this possibly be better?!"
Shadow Bonnie's gaze met his, as his pure white eyes locked with Puppet's black ones. "They'd move on..." The rabbit replied in a calm, soothing voice.
Puppet lowered his shoulders, becoming less tense and falling silent.
After a moment, he shook his head, and scowled at the two. "No... The toys died and their souls are still lingering..."
"But they're one step closer to leaving... To being free..." Shadow Freddy replied back, Puppet pondering off into thought.
After several minutes, Puppet sighed and nodded his head briefly, looking up at the two.
"So be it..." He replied, the two nodding in response. "Why haven't you two moved on...? After all these years I figured you'd find a way..."
"Oh, we did... But we can't move on quite yet..." Shadow Freddy sighed, lowering his ears.
"We swore to help you kids move on first..." Shadow Bonnie added, lifting his ears up and looking behind himself.
Puppet nodded and floated back into the party room, sitting down on top of the lid of his box.
"Do as you must... But I trust you'll make it quick..."
The two shadows nodded and vanished into the darkness.
Foxy's eyes shot open as he heard someone walking outside of his room.
A shadow was cast underneath the crack of the door, as the heavy footsteps creaked outside.
Felicity's eyes fluttered open as she looked over and saw the shadow under the door.
"Foxy..." She whispered, lowering her ears uncertain of what lie outside of the room.
"Hush, lass..." He whispered back, slipping her off of his lap and gently and quietly standing up.
Foxy lifted his paw up, and held up a finger, signalling for her to remain silent and still.
Turning around, the Fox slowly opened the door and peeked out, seeing a bear figure slip behind the corner.
"Follow me..." It whispered out, vanishing up the stairs of the ship.
Foxy's ears lowered as he growled silently, backing back into the room and closing the door behind him.
"Who was it?" Felicity asked, slipping off the bed and sliding her leather jacket back on.
"Looked like Freddy or Gold..." He said, looking her in the eyes.
"Then why didn't you follow them?" She asked, raising a eyebrow.
Foxy was hesitant to speak, and looked around the room.
"Cuz somethin bout him was off..." The pirate fox swished his tail uneasily behind him as a look of concern swept across Felicity's face.
"What was 'off'?" The orange cat questioned, tilting her head sideways a bit as her blue eyes locked onto his yellow ones.
"Couldn't quite explain it if I tried, Lassie... But whatever it was, it weren't the real Freddy..."
"Then what do we do?"
"I'll go check it out... You stay here lassie..." Foxy ordered, walking up to her and hugging her tightly.
"But Foxy-"
"No buts... I'll be back soon lass... But ye promise ol Foxy ye won't leave from this room..."
Felicity fell silent, wrapped in Foxy's embrace as she hugged him tighter, nuzzling into his chest fur.
"Promise..." She whispered back.
The fox grinned and kissed her on the lips, and brushed the side of her face gently with his paw.
"I'll be back lass..." He said, and slipped out of the room, leaving Felicity alone.
The cat slumped back onto the bed that her and her fox had been peacefully sleeping on moments ago...
How fast things slip by... And how much she wanted to clutch onto them and never let go...
Foxy emerged from his purple star curtains and looked around the pizzeria.
He lifted his eye patch off of his eye and scanned around the room, not seeing any other animatronics or any human being.
The animatronic fox quietly walked through rows of party tables, glancing up at the ceiling occasionally.
"Fred?" He whispered out in a low, gruff voice. "Chica? Gold?" He paused for a moment, and perked his ears up.
Silence... That wasn't a good sign... One of them were bound to hear him... Gold at least he thought.
From across the room, peeking out from the corner of a party room, Puppet watched his friend silently.
Inside this felt wrong. He knew full well he was allowing the shadows to lead them to their deaths... But at the moment he felt it was truly for the better.
After all, like they said; they were one step closer to being freed from this awful place...
This prison... This nightmare... It would all be over soon...
Vincent gave up looking for the device and kicked over a box of animatronic parts, growling to himself.
"FINE! I don't need some stupid device to take down those bots! I took down three of them! Let the others come at me!" The man walked over to the edge of the room and peeked out, staring at the corpses of Freddy and Chica.
"How many times do I have to kill these kids?" He grumbled to himself, walking back inside the little safe room and sighing, sliding down the wall.
He held the axe firmly in his hand and stared at the blood and oil that now covered the handle and blade.
Did this disturb him in any way? No. He'd slaughtered those kids with no regret or remorse.
He forgot how to love, how to cry, how to care.
His only concern was for himself, and right now that meant ending what he started; taking down the kids.
Foxy's ears perked up as he heard footsteps down the hall, and he charged after them.
"Freddy?!" He called out in a harsh whisper that echoed through the halls.
He saw the figure vanish behind a corner as he came into a maze of halls.
"Who designed this stupid place..." Foxy grumbled to himself, looking around at the three different hallways.
As he tried to figure out which one to go down, he heard a thumping echo from the hall to his right.
Spinning around, he saw what he believed to be Freddy vanishing down the corner.
"Fred! Is that you!?" He called out, running down the hall and turning the sharp corner.
He stopped dead in his tracks when he saw oil and blood pooled all over the checkered floors.
"W-What in the name of..." Foxy choked on his words as he slowly walked around the corner, seeing the bodies of his friends.
"N-NO!" He screeched out, falling to his knees and growling.
His growls turned into sobs as warm tears trickled down his face.
Vincent heard the sobs and quickly stood back up, axe in hand.
"Let's finish this..." He grinned to himself, walking around the corner to see Foxy on his knees.
Foxy's eyes shot open as he heard faint footsteps behind him.
Without a moment to lose, the fox quickly slid away from where he was, a cold hard axe slamming into the tile where he sat just moments before.
His eyes quickly trailed up at the attacker, as his eyes widened in horror.
"Y-YOU?!" He screamed out, baring his fangs.
The purple man shot him a twisted grin and chuckled. "It's me..."
"WHY DID YE COME BACK HERE?! HAVEN'T YE DONE ENOUGH?!"
Vincent snickered and shook his head, looking up at the fox, noticing his tears were turning to blood.
"Didn't get the chance to ask your friends before they kicked the bucket, why are you freaks cryin blood?"
Foxy's eyes were filled with hate as he stood up taller, no longer slumped over.
"WHY DON'T YE FIND OUT?!" He screamed, grabbing a hold of his mask and ripping it off, throwing it across the floor next to his dead friends.
His endoskeleton buzzed and glitched as blood gushed from the eyes.
Vincent's eyes widened as he took a step back, slightly disturbed.
"Now ye fear us?! NOW YER SCARED?!" Foxy roared, picking the mask back up and sliding it back on.
"DO YE EVEN KNOW WHAT YE'VE DONE TO US!?"
"Yes..." Vincent chuckled, no longer alarmed by the fox. "And how delightful it was to hear you screa-"
The purple man was knocked to the ground as Foxy tackled him, smacking him hard onto the floor.
"I'LL KILL YE! I'LL RIP YER GUTS OUT AND EAT YE ALIVE!" Foxy screamed, slashing a wound open in the man's chest, barely missing his neck.
Vincent pushed Foxy off and tried to stand up, still holding the axe in his hands.
Foxy quickly sprung back go his feet, raising his hook up, ready to swing down on the man.
Before he could act, Vincent swung the axe under his arm, chopping it clean off.
Oil and blood squirted out of the pirate's arm, as he yelped in pain.
Foxy brought his shoulder close to his chest, holding the wound that once held his arm on.
Vincent took advantage of this and pushed him onto his back.
The purple man grinned as he quickly kicked Foxy's severed arm out of his path, sending it crashing into Freddy's corpse.
Foxy's eyes filled with tears, mixed emotions of fear and pain, anger and hate.
"Puppet's gonna get ye... Even if I fail..." He growled, as the man snickered and grabbed him by the neck, holding him up.
Foxy quickly thought up a plan, acting too weak to move or struggle.
"Looks like the little fox has fallen..." Vincent chuckled, his pure white eyes locking with Foxy's yellow ones.
"I'll make it quick if you beg for mercy..." Vincent smiled, pulling the fox closer to his face.
Foxy spit up oil into the man's face, and kicked him backwards onto his back, landing on his feet.
"I'd rather suffer!" He roared, lifting his foot up and stomping down hard onto the man's chest, causing him to gasp out in pain.
In the shadows, Shadow Bonnie and Shadow Freddy watched the two fight.
"Maybe we should... Help him?" Shadow Bonnie asked, turning to his companion.
"Not unless he gets too close to killing him... We'll have to let Puppet take care of him after the others are... Gone..."
Shadow Bonnie nodded and looked back at the two, as Shadow Freddy sighed and took a step forward.
"He's going to kill him..." He sighed. The bear didn't want harm to come to the kids, but he also knew that was the only way to help them move on.
"Make him go limp..." Shadow Freddy commanded the rabbit, and he nodded in response.
"Bon..." He called out to his friend, causing him to look back at him as their solid white eyes locking.
"I'll try and make it quick..."
Shadow Bonnie nodded and turned into a purple-ish fog.
The fog seemed to slither across the floor like a snake, and absorbed into Foxy.
The fox's ears lowered as his eye sight became hazy and clouded, making him stumble backwards a bit.
Vincent gasped for breath and waisted no time in scrambling to his feet, grabbing the axe that lay across the room.
"Night night, fox boy!" He screamed as he charged towards him, slamming the axe into his neck.
Pulling it out, he began mindlessly hacking away at the fox, loud groans and yelps escaping his muzzle.
Slipping out of the fox, Shadow Bonnie returned to the darkness and looked at what he'd done, tears filling his eyes.
"We swore to help them..." Shadow Freddy sighed, walking up to his friend and hugg hugging him. "And that's exactly what we're doing..."
Puppet sat in his box, tears rolling down his face, knowing his friends were all dying one by one.
Mangle, Chica, Freddy, and now Foxy down... Only one left to go...
The most innocent out of all of them... The one never to have blood on her hands...
Felicity... The sweet cat didn't deserve to die, especially not like that.
None of them deserved this... None of them...
And here was Puppet, sitting on the sidelines allowing this all to happen...
I any one of them deserved to die it was him, or so he told himself.
"You know..." A sorrowful voice called out from right outside of his box.
Standing to his feet and emerging from his box, Puppet came face to face with Gold.
"W-What?" Puppet managed to stutter out, wiping his tears.
"You know they're dying and you're doing nothing!" He growled, tears rolling down his face.
"G-Gold... I-"
"Don't you 'Gold' me!" The golden bear snapped back, sobbing at this point.
"You let them die! You let them!"
Puppet shook his head and sighed, a lump caught in his throat as he drew a heavy breath.
"I-I know how it looks but..."
He paused, not knowing what to say, but then again what could he say?
"I-I know you're trying to h-help us but..." Gold shook his head and trailed off, wiping his tears away.
"You're letting them... D-d-die..."
Puppet shook his head and walked up to him, bringing him into a tight hug.
"D-Don't cry... It's better this way..." Puppet whispered into the bear's one remaining ear.
"Not for me..." He sobbed into the Pupet's chest.
"Shhhh..." Puppet whispered down to him, stroking his back gently.
"It's almost over..." He reassured him.
"Put me to sleep until it is..." Gold whispered to him, Puppet himself being hesitant to carry out his request.
Finally after several minutes, Puppet nodded and lifted his fingers over Gold's head, a faint glow coming from his finger tips.
The bear's eye lids became heavy as he yawned, and fell sound asleep in Puppet's arms.
"I shouldn't have made you special..." Puppet sighed, hovering up above the ground, waving his fingers in a circular motion.
Gold's body began to glow as it slowly turned into pure light, vanishing into nothing.
"Go to your secret place..." Puppet smiled a bit, as he sent his friend into his land of pure darkness.
Even Puppet wasn't sure how the bear had been able to conjure up such a place, somewhere where he could get away from everyone...
But then again he did give him powers far beyond that of any of the others.
How was he supposed to know so many poor children would become trapped here?
He only wished for peace for all of them, and he himself would even give his own life to do so.
Puppet, now exhausted by sending his friend to his own little place, stopped floating and stood onto the cold tile floors.
"I'll join you soon enough..." He sighed, crawling into his box.
Felicity paced back and forth in Foxy's room, becoming nervous.
It had been over a half hour since Foxy left her there.
She had gone to slip out and go look for him several times, but remembered her promise to him.
The cat swished her tail back and forth steadily, shaking her head.
"N-No... I gotta stay..." She mumbled to herself, looking up at the door and taking a deep breath.
"Sorry Foxy..." She whined, bursting out the door, breaking her promise.
The cat ran up the stairs of the ship and jumped into the air off the side of the ship, landing on all fours.
She tore off to the edge of the cove and hopped off the stage, bursting out of the curtains and running down the halls.
Vincent took a deep breath and panted, raising the axe back into the air and slamming it down once more on to the long-dead fox.
His eyes widened at the sound of footsteps, and saw a pair of blue glowing eyes far down the hall.
"Here kitty kitty..." He chuckled, slipping into the shadows.