Let's move on to the newest of chapters of this tale! As you saw in the previous chapter, Freddy managed to successfully kill Cera when he entered into the Land Before Time universe as well as her dream, and he was quite pleased with himself, much like he'd been after having performed the kill before that one. And following his causing Cera's extinction, he was shown by his orb he would be smartest to go to the Tiny Toon Adventures universe next, and specifically into the dream belonging to Furrball. With that being said, Furrball is one of the most unlucky toons that ever lived, and while he does have survival skills and special abilities from having been born and grown up in an alley, not to mention how he can be brave when he needs to be, the problem is he isn't fearless. And Freddy feeds on the fear of his victims. Even so, one would wonder whether Furrball will be able to survive the unexpected visitor named Freddy Krueger he'll be facing in this chapter, or whether Freddy will cut all nine of his lives short and see to it he takes a catnap forever. Find out the answer by reading this next chapter of the ongoing story that is this one.
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Freddy Krueger's Otherworldly Trips
Chapter 17-Fraidy Cat
It was nighttime in Acme Acres. Everyone was currently asleep, but one of the sleeping toons was about to get a lot more than he was expecting tonight, in a less than good way. Which one? Why, none other than the ever so hapless and unfortunate alley cat who went by the name of Furrball. The ironic part was, things had actually been going much better for him than they'd usually been known to go, as of late. You see, first of all, Furrball had finally found a home, and one in Mary Melody's apartment, to be exact.
Not only this, but aside from becoming her pet, Fifi La Fume had also become Mary's pet even more recently than that, and she and Furrball both were in love with each other and wanting of a better home than where they, until recent times, had no choice but to live. And there's also, I should add, the way that they liked Mary Melody a lot and vice versa. So he was living what was to be considered a much happier life now, not unlike his love. On this particular night, though, he would encounter something a lot scarier than anything he'd ever come across in his life, and for a cat who, until recently, was as unlucky as Furrball was, that was saying a lot.
Because just after he'd fallen asleep, Furrball saw that, somehow, he was in one hell of a dark alley. He was, understandably, startled as much as confused and surprised. At first, he'd let on out: "Hey! Where did I just get taken to? Why am I in some kind of dark alleyway just now? I fell asleep in the apartment that I now live in with Fifi and Mary! This is illogical even for such a toony universe as this one! But there must be some kind of explanation for it! I just have to find out what, as well as how I need to find out how to get back home!" He would find out the first of the things he was initially in the dark about just after he said this.
The reason for this was that Furrball suddenly saw on one of the alley's walls words of graffiti which read: "One, Two, Freddy's Coming For You!" He noticed that, one another one of its walls, there were spray painted words of: "Three, Four, Better Lock Your Door!" And then he would spot on another of the walls in the alley words in blood that consisted of: "Five, Six, Grab A Crucifix!" Subsequently, he caught sight of words on the ground, also in blood, which could be seen as: "Seven, Eight, Better Stay Up Late!" And, at last, he discovered words made of very dark clouds up in the sky, which said: "Nine, Ten, Never Sleep Again!"
Although Furrball was smart enough to know that this was no time to lose his composure, he nevertheless, despite not blowing it, was a bit afraid after reading what he did. And he would, predictably, turn out to be quite justified in this, as just as he was looking in the direction of what alley he'd found himself taken to once more and going: "What does all of this mean? What in the name of God is going on here?" he saw the shape of Freddy Krueger up ahead of him. Freddy an instant later told Furrball: "Your taking a permanent catnap at my hands, that's what!"
Furrball, remembering what words he'd read, exclaimed: "You're Freddy, aren't you?!" A reply from Freddy came out as: "Yep! That's me! Freddy Krueger, to be exact. And you are about to be nothing but catgut corpse casserole as I turn you from blue to red!" He ran right over towards Furrball and tried to slash him into meat strips with the finger blades of his glove, but an ever so nimble and quick Furrball leapt right over the attack. He also did a flip kick into the face of his attacker, causing Freddy to be knocked back and Furrball landed on all four feet.
"UNNNNNNNF!" Freddy shouted out, and Furrball then leapt at Freddy and pounced on him, followed by how, after Freddy got tackled to the ground, Furrball clawed, punched and bit at his dream demon of an adversary. "AAAAAARRRRGGGGHHH!" Freddy yowled, and Furrball told him: "I wouldn't believe that too strongly, Krueger! I'm a nice guy, but when I'm being attacked, I can get extremely dangerous!" "Is that so?!" Freddy shot back as he sliced his glove blades down Furrball's back with a sudden swipe from his glove.
"YEEEOOOWWWWWWRRRRRRRRR!" Furrball yowled in the sudden pain he felt as blood flew from the wounds created on his back, and as he was unable not to fall onto his side due to the pain, damage and suddenness of it all, Freddy got back up and continued on: "Well, it just so fucking happens that I'm a nasty guy and can get extremely dangerous, but especially if I am being attacked! So I'm one up on your ass in every way, fleabag!" Furrball struck back by an all of a sudden spin kick he did into Freddy's ankles, knocking him down in the process.
"OOOOWWWW! OOOOOOOF!" Freddy barked, and Furrball, struggling to get up, but having a hard time of doing so thanks to how much the wounds on his back hurt and bled, at least was able to say: "I don't think anyone would have guessed that, with the way I'm making it so you're not able to deal the fatal blow to me!" But Freddy got up again and did a nasty slash of his glove down Furrball's chest and belly, which created new wounds which hurt just as bad and did just as much damage and bleeding as the ones on his back.
"AAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH!" cried out Furrball, and Freddy would then say: "Yet that's just what I'm about to goddamn deal to you as of now! Especially since I not only made it so that I made the cut in terms of forcing you to back off when you were attacking me, but there is also a fair chance that my being so sharp towards you is more than you can stomach! Let's not fucking forget that one hell of a CAT-astrophe is about to take place!" Freddy jumped back and a second later manipulated things so that the following would happen.
Furrball was rolled into the center of the alleyway, and the trash cans in it all started to be moved around until they were all surrounding Furrball. Furrball, after he was able to see clearly a moment or two following his being rolled into the alley's central area, the reason he wasn't able to see clearly for a time being the haze he was in thanks to his wounds, of course, saw both all of the trash cans that surrounded him and the grotesque, demonic faces that Freddy had made them all grow on the fronts of themselves.
Understandably, his fur stood on end from the startled shock and fright he felt from this, and Freddy then leered: "I've got a theory as to why so many in your past treated you like trash before things got better for you…IT'S 'CAUSE YOU ARE TRASH! And now I'm gonna take out the trash with trash as I trash you good! Or to put it another way, what's new, pussycat? Why now, the fact that, as far as the job of living your life goes, you've just been canned! It's a double whammy, too! If you aren't crushed to death first, the now demonized trash cans will devour you all at once! Time for you to go to the cat bed…FOR GOOD!"
But just before Freddy could make the move which would end Furrball's existence for all time, he heard the voice of Mary Melody say: "What in God's name? Where am I? How did I get here?" He turned around to see who'd said that, and just as he saw her, Mary noticed him and an instant later shouted out: "YIKES! I recognize you! I've seen you in horror films I've watched! You're Freddy Krueger!" "Clever girl!" Freddy responded as he took a hold of Mary's neck with his left, non-gloved hand.
Then he threw her into the alleyway and said: "Go to the head of the class, bitch!" Mary's hitting the backs of two of the trash cans surrounding Furrball was followed by her going on out: "UNNNNNNNHHH!" but she recovered from this in time to see Freddy running at her, which a quick thinking Mary responded to by springing up and ducking under the swing of his glove he took at her, simultaneously slugging him in the guts as hard as she could. Freddy went out from a blow such as that one: "UUUUMMMMMPPPPPFFFFFFF!"
Mary then stomped on one of Freddy's knees, followed by kicking him in the shin and an instant thereafter landing an uppercut on his chin. "OOOOOOOOOOF! UNNNNGGGHHH! ARRRRRRHHHHHHHH!" Freddy bellowed, and Mary told him: "Why I didn't encounter you or see any of this the instant after I fell asleep, I'm in the dark about, but it doesn't take a second guess to know that you mean to kill me as much as you mean to kill anyone who gets sucked into your version of dreamland! And I'm not having it!"
She pulled Freddy's face down as so to head-butt him in it, then she tossed him a few feet away onto the ground and out of the alley, making him say: "UUUUUUHHH! OOOWWGGH!" But Freddy then pushed himself back up and used his powers to knock Mary into the middle of the circle of trash cans where Furrball was, telling her: "You fight real well, bitch, I'll give you that much! But that ain't all I'm goddamn gonna give ya! You also get to die alongside he who is your beloved pet cat!"
"UUUNNNNNNHHHFFFFFF!" Mary let out as she hit the ground, but hearing what Freddy had said caused her to subsequently open her eyes widely and go: "Furrball?" She then a second later saw him as he exclaimed: "Mary! Oh, dear God! You must have been sucked right a ways into this nightmare after I'd been in it for a time! We have to find a way to wake up fast! I don't want either of us to lose our lives!" "Neither do I," Mary replied to him, "but I don't know if we can find that way in time, especially in the position we're currently in! Freddy's somehow entered this universe and come into your dream, plus I, as you said, got sucked into it!"
"You know about him?" Furrball asked, able to tell by her words and tone that she did, in fact, seem to know things about Freddy that he didn't. Mary nodded and said: "No time for me to explain how, though. We're both in mortal danger here!" "I can see that!" Furrball said, but then, noticing that all of the trash cans were back to normal and had moved back to where they were, it was followed by him going: "Hey! What happened to the demonic trash cans and us being utterly surrounded by them?" "Yeah, why are they suddenly gone and no longer demonic?" Mary asked as she noticed what Furrball did herself.
Suddenly, shards of broken glass were flying at Mary and Furrball, and Furrball got some more wounds, albeit in areas he hadn't already been wounded in, while Mary got wounded in an awful lot of places herself, although she was not mortally wounded, nor was she bleeding enough to pass out. Furrball wasn't of that status, either, despite how he was hurt even worse than he had been before, but neither he nor Mary Melody were anywhere near being out of danger. Because a sentence from Freddy then consisted of: "Because now that you're both in perfect position to get butchered, I decided I wanted to kill you in a slower, more painful, more anatomically invasive sort of way! Doesn't such knowledge as that just cut you deep, especially knowing you haven't a shred of hope against me when push comes to shove?"
But just as Freddy elongated his left arm and wrapped it around his intended victims, an instant later making it constrict them hard as he said: "I'd say that we've got things all wrapped up here, wouldn't you? Especially with what a tight spot you're in, the way I'm in the mood for a little squeeze play! I'm armed with the perfect way to kill you, after all!" it was seen by him that Fifi La Fume was suddenly a couple of feet behind where Furrball and Mary were in the alley. In the next instant, he went: "What the fuck?!"
He got his elongated arm off of Mary and Furrball and turned it back to normal, just one moment before Fifi was going out: "Sacre bleu! Where ees eet that I have been taken to? Eet's a dark alley of some deescreeption, no?" "My dark alley, to be exact, bitch!" Freddy responded as he leapt over Mary and Furrball and landed in front of Fifi. "Man, this nightmare just keeps right the fuck on getting better and better! I aim for just one victim, then I get another and now I get a third one to kill! Talk about hitting the jackpot!"
"Oh, no! Not Fifi, too!" cried out Mary. Furrball then said: "He's Freddy Krueger, Fifi! He's tried to kill first me and then both me and Mary, and he'll try to kill you, too!" "Act as fast as you can and do whatever you can to fend him off!" Mary added in. "You've somehow gotten pulled into the dream Furrball was having, the way I was beforehand!" "Freddy's made it so that he entered our universe and specifically my dream! He's powerful and dangerous as hell! We all have to wake up the instant the chance presents itself!" Furrball shouted.
But Freddy then used his powers to knock Fifi into the back wall of the alley, making her go: "UUUUUUHHHHH!" and then walked over to punt Furrball in the face and do the same to Mary immediately thereafter. "Pipe down, pipsqueaks! That's more than enough out of the two of you, especially since you're only still alive by this point because seeing your skunk skank of a friend got me my second instance of being sidetracked!" But Fifi then recovered from how she'd been flung into the wall, and saw what Freddy had done to her friends.
She then snapped: "How dare vous! Knockeeng me into a wall so unceremoniously and a second latair attackeeng mon closest of friends! Vous, Krueger, steenk, and I would know!" She, just as Freddy turned around and walked over to face her, showing the blades of his glove to see to it she knew what he intended to do to her, sprayed him with her powerful musk and made him go out: "YAAAAARRRRCCCCCKKKKKKK! Damn, that aroma is fucking awful! Christ, bitch, you've gotta be fucking shitting me!"
He fell to his hands and knees, and Fifi then smacked him with her tail before she did a wrapping of it around him to slam him left and right against the ground and then toss him into a wall. The same wall he'd knocked her into, as a matter of fact. Additionally, she then took out a mallet and brought it down onto his head, followed by putting it away and landing punches, claw slashes and kicks onto Freddy. Freddy could do nothing but go: "WHOOOOAAAAAGGHHH! UNNNNNHFFF! OOOOOONNNFF! UUUUUULLLLHHH! YAAAARRRRGGGHH!" during the time it all happened.
Or so it would seem. For, just as Fifi was going: "Vous peeked ze wrong dream to enter eento zis time, monstair! Especially seence zis ees where I end vous but good!" Freddy struck a ways the fuck back by means of slashing Fifi down her chest and belly with the blades which he had on his glove, causing her to cry out: "AAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIEEEEEEEEEEE!" He followed this by punting her in the chin, right before he slashed her across and down the legs and sides, respectively. "AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHH!" Fifi screeched as she bled from it.
"Thought you fucking had me dead to rights, didn't you, bitch?" Freddy snarled. "Well, doesn't it stink for you that I'm about to cut your life short along with those of the two you the nearest and dearest to and vice versa?" Due to her wounds, Fifi was unable not to spin around, in the process exposing her back to Freddy, even if she neither intended nor wanted to do this. But I am afraid that the agony from the cuts he'd made on her was just too much and it was an unlucky reflex action by her.
Freddy took full advantage of this by means of slashing her down the back, and Fifi, as a yell of: "E-RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" left her, fell forward and landed on the ground where Mary and Furrball were. Both Mary and Furrball, who'd previously gotten far more hopeful that they and Fifi might survive this when they saw how well she performed in her fight against Freddy, now were horrified as hell both because of how badly Fifi was hurt and due to how all three of them were in more danger than ever before.
And Freddy exacerbated this by turning himself into a giant, demonic car, saying after he had transformed into a car version of himself: "Since all three of you have proven to be real, real worthy opponents in a fight up close and personal with me, and since, besides how cars are often found in or around alleys, you, La Fume, lived in a junkyard car before movin' into Mary's damn apartment along with Furrball, I think I'll opt for killing off all three of you at once by means of running your sorry asses the fuck over as a car version of myself!"
His targets, who were now too badly injured to get up and fight on, all looked on in utter terror with their eyes opened widely as Freddy then cackled: "Guess entering my realm is a sure way to have AUTO-death be your situation, especially with how well I can CAR-ress my targets before I kill them! Time for me to run roughshod the fuck over you little shits, in any case! So long, suckers! You're all about to be flat out doomed! BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" But when he'd driven himself so he was halfway to his targets, what happened?
Why, none other than Elmyra Duff showed up in front of him, causing him to brake and as such stop himself solely because of the suddenness of how it happened and the surprise which came with it. "ANOTHER TARGET?!" Freddy exclaimed as he turned himself back into what was to be considered his standard, neutral form. "Shit, I've never goddamned gotten this many a target in one nightmare! The closest I came to it was back in the Glee universe dreamland!" And, just after Elmyra Duff went: "Hey, where did I just go?"
She looked around and said: "An alley?" Then she noticed the three ones behind her and a second later said: "Mary? Furrball? Fifi? What are you three doing here, and why are you all so wounded?" Suddenly, she felt a horrible impaling pain in her abdomen, and that was due to how Freddy had plunged his glove's blades right into her belly. He snapped at her: "Okay, bitch, even though I'll kill my other three victims, sure enough, I think I'll make you the first one I kill, since you're both the newest of them and the one who stopped me from killing the other three!"
"E-RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIEEEEEEE!" Elmyra cried out, and Freddy a second later, as Furrball, Mary and Fifi could do nothing but watch in horror and alarm(they may have hated Elmyra's guts, but they would never wish this on anyone, especially since they hated Freddy even more for obvious reasons), raked his glove blades up Elmyra's inner torso some, the next instant seeing him do the same thing, only downwards instead of upwards, and he then did a swinging of his arm so that she was tossed up into the air.
Freddy would then turn himself into a giant hellcat and say: "To answer your questions of before, though, the ones you saw are here because Furrball fell asleep and, though he was not the least bit aware of or expecting it, found himself in a nightmare of my making, then Mary was to get sucked in, as was Fifi later from that! As to why they're so badly injured, I fucked them up in a similar way to how I intend to fuck you up, although yours will be worse than theirs briefly, the way it's going to kill you and what I do after that to fuck the other three up further is going to be killing them! I am Freddy Krueger! I am a dream demon an' sleep slasher, an' you, thanks to me, are done for, bitch!"
Elmyra opened her eyes widely as she saw herself falling towards the hellcat version of Freddy, and as she screamed: "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" Freddy added in: "And, since you like cats so motherfucking much, I thought I'd go for the ultimate irony by becoming one to finish your sorry little bitch ass off, Duff!" Once she was in reach, he used his claws for the purpose of shredding her apart and stuffed the pieces right the fuck into his mouth, chewing them up and swallowing them.
After he'd done so, he licked all of the blood off of his lips and shat out Elmyra's bones. Turning back into his regular form after this and also turning to his other three targets, who were by now paralyzed with fear, although their injuries also contributed to how they couldn't move at the moment, Freddy proclaimed proudly: "One down, three to go! And all three of the ones I still have left to kill will die in one go, too, I might fucking add! Yep, all in one fell swoop is the way you three will perish!"
He turned his glove into a giant devil's pitchfork and raised it over his head while going on over to Furrball, Mary and Fifi, telling them: "After all, I know of the perfect way to fork one hell of a grisly-ass death the fuck over to the three of you!" But just as he brought it down toward who he intended to be his next three kills, Mary, Fifi and Furrball all miraculously woke up just a second before the prongs of the pitchfork could touch them. They were obviously back in Mary's apartment, but while alive and not goners, their troubles were far from over.
For one thing, they were badly wounded and horridly injured, something which became a very blatant fact to them after they came to realize they were alive as much as awake. Mary was, as it would happen, the first to speak, saying: "Dear God…we lived through the nightmare due to waking up just in the nick of time! But I'm hurt dreadfully, and I can tell that you two are hurt as hideously as I am!" Furrball nodded and said: "You took the words right out of my mouth there, Mary! Not only do we need medical treatment, we have to find out how this happened!"
"Oui!" Fifi added in. "Furzermore, we must know whezer or not eet weel happen again, and what ze means by wheech eet was able to happen in ze first place mean!" "All very true," a reply from Mary came out as, "and besides how we need to get started on all of that now, we've got to make sure that everyone in Acme Acres knows about this, since their lives could very well be in danger from this along with our own! Wait a second! Elmyra! She got killed in the dream! I saw it happen and so did you two!"
"And from what we saw, zat must mean she is nozing but a pile of bones and a puddle of blood in her house's bedroom now!" Fifi gasped. Furrball then put in: "Normally, that would be cause for celebration, with all the horrendous things Elmyra does to animals and the way that she annoys her fellow human beings routinely. But this is much, much, much too serious a matter for that to be the case here!" "Well said, Furrball!" Fifi stated, and Mary would go: "Very well said, indeed! We'd best get started on that which must be done now, the way that, in such a situation as this one, every second counts!" Fifi and Furrball gave a firm nod, and Mary went over to get her cell phone and call 9-11 so that the first part of what needed to happen, namely, their horrid wounds being treated, could commence.
In the meanwhile, back in his original universe's dreamland which he'd reentered just as of now, Freddy was partially feeling good, but also partially feeling frustrated. See, his words of now came out as: "God, do I have some motherfucking mixed feelings just now! Although I am really happy that I was able to at least make one kill during such an unusual, full of surprises in the form of newcomer victims nightmare as the one I just finished, namely, the kill I made off of Elmyra Duff, the problem is she was the only successful kill I fucking achieved!"
He gave a grumble of irritation and continued: "What's ironic about this is, the first three of my victims, otherwise known as the other ones I was meaning to destroy, got fucked up badly by me and almost died at my hands in the end, but they managed to awaken just in time to go on living, and included among them was Furrball, the one who I started all of this shit with! Even if this is better than making no kills at all and I feel somewhat pleased thanks to having an addition to my collection of kills, it really fucking pisses me off that only one in four of the ones who I'd make an attempt on the lives of would perish by me in the end!"
Freddy sat the fuck back down into his throne chair and then gave a long, loud sigh of all around annoyance, right before he would go: "All the same, it's better than that failure streak that I had before and would just as soon fucking forget, not to mention how there will be plenty more of victims to fucking target following this nightmare performance sequence of mine! Time to see who the one or ones I'm next going to goddamn go the fuck after are!" He went over to his orb a second before picking it up.
Then he said to it: "Okay, orb! It's time once again for you to do your job and show me a portrayal of what universe I'm next entering and just who the hell I'm targeting in it!" The orb an instant later complied to his wishes, and after Freddy had seen what it showed him, he said: "So I now reenter the Harry Potter universe, and this time I make it so that I enter the dream of another one of the Weasleys! This time, it'll be Percy's brother Ron! Well, I've already got one kill from the Weasley family under my belt. And I sure as hell have no problem with making it a two-four, especially with how what nightmare I just finished with would feel completely empty and wasted if it weren't for my having gotten Elmyra Duff in the end!"
Thus would Freddy, seeing the portal of a passageway that the orb presented to him for a means of entrance into the Harry Potter universe and specifically into Ron Weasley's dream, do a walking into of that portal. He was taken from his own universe's dreamland into the dream of Ron, and he was meaning to score a kill with him as he had with his brother, Percy. Would that, in fact, turn out to be the case? Would Ron follow in Percy's footsteps when it came to being an offed target of Freddy Krueger who was also a member of the Weasley family? You will know if you read the chapter which follows this one, seeing as how this one is now over.
END OF CHAPTER 17
Tell me, everyone, was this chapter an enjoyable read for you? Although I wasn't going to kill off as popular, sweet, innocent and lovable a character as Furrball, especially after all he'd been through, and although the same thing went for Mary Melody and Fifi La Fume, and as such, neither of them lost their lives any more than Furrball did, I had no such compunctions about Elmyra and, in fact, am well aware of just how much everyone, myself included, loathes her. Not only this, but I wasn't going to make it so that Freddy suffered a full failure again so quickly after two successful kills in a row to help blot out his three consecutive failures before that, so it all added up to me making it so that he slashed that irritating and infuriating Elmyra out of existence. Now, with Freddy next entering into the Harry Potter universe once again, and specifically into the dream of Ron Weasley, can Ron live through the sort of thing that did his brother Percy in? Can he survive an encounter with Freddy where Percy couldn't? Or will Freddy claim the life of yet another Weasley? Find out in the next one of the chapters of this story, and please rate and review, all!