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Chapter 8

Zoe kissed the top of Tonnie's head. "Goodnight, guys. "

Tia pouted. "Do we hafta sleep?"

Zoe crossed her arms and nodded. "Yep. See you all tomorrow morning."

She walked out and looked into the kitchen as she closed the door. Freddy, Tonnie, and Mangle were already snuggled up in their sleeping bags and snoring away. The Marionette (or Mari, as Zoe had decided to call her) and Golden Freddy (whom she chosen to call "Goldie") were kind of half asleep. The rest were wide awake. As soon as Zoe closed the door, she heard footsteps as someone got out of bed, followed by muffled giggled. She opened the door again, and they all scrambled back to their beds.

Zoe smiled. "Go to sleep, kiddos."

She closed the door again, knowing that they were probably not going to sleep at all.

It was seven o'clock right now, and the animatronics' intellect had grown a lot quicker than she thought they would. Over the course of six hours, they'd seemed to grow six years. They were capable of talking, running, and Mangle had almost done a cartwheel by dinner (except he kind of fell over halfway through).

She walked out of the pizzeria, hopped into her truck, and sped home. She was exhausted after looking after the robots, and she needed to get some sleep.

xXx

Freddy opened his eyes and looked around. He was in a large room, on a stage. He looked to his left with effort and saw a large, yellow, chicken-like creature. He wasn't sure how he knew it was a chicken, since he didn't think he'd ever seen one before. He turned to the right and saw a purple bunny thing with a bright red and white guitar in its hands.

Freddy looked down at himself. His once human limbs weren't there. He instead saw large, light brown, fat sausages with weird paws on the ends. He tried to move them and was greeted by the loud noise of grinding metal.

His head felt heavy, but he managed to lift it enough to look around the room. The floor was black and white checkered and the walls were a depressing shade of grey. Tables were lined up on the floor, and paper plates and party hats littered the ground. Freddy lifted his foot and almost fell over. He regained his balance and tried to take a deep breath. Unfortunately, he had no lungs, mechanical or not.

He heard footsteps and turned his head. The bunny was walking away from the stage. He disappeared around a corner, and soon after he was gone, Freddy heard a weird sound- like static, kind of, but more... high pitched, maybe? He wasn't sure what it sounded like. He was curious, but wasn't sure what he should do.

He turned again and saw the chicken walking off the stage as well. It went after the bunny, and the same sound emitted from around the corner. Another sound came from a side room, and Freddy whipped around to see a fox-like thing walking there as well.

The same thing happened, and Freddy's curiosity finally won over. He clomped off the stage and slowly made his way to the corner. Then he heard something he hadn't before- a low, scratchy voice saying the words "Follow me."

Freddy hesitated. He didn't see where the bunny, fox, and chicken had gone, and was starting to get worried. The voice repeated itself, and he reluctantly followed it. He turned around another corner, and all he saw was a flash of purple, and all he heard was the static-y noise. All he saw was black for a few seconds, and then he was suddenly standing in front of a man all dressed in violet. Even his eyes were purple. The man looked scared, terrified even. Freddy couldn't help but think that he'd seen the man somewhere.

Freddy looked down and saw that he was in his old human form, just smaller, like a child. He looked around and saw that he was standing in the middle of four figures- two on his left, two on his right. They were kind of transparent, so he could see the grey walls through them. Freddy turned back to the man, and drifted forward. The other ghosts followed suit, and together, the five spirits advanced on the man, backing him up to a wall. The man looked around frantically, and dashed off to the side, towards a weird yellow robot resembling a bunny.

Suddenly, screams filled Freddy's ears, and flames danced across his vision.

Freddy, Bonnie, Chica, Foxy, and Goldie all shrieked at once and bolted upright in their sleeping bags.

xXx

Zoe walked into the pizzeria the next day feeling refreshed and well rested, only to have five terrified animatronics run at her and crush her in a huge group hug.

She almost fell over from the force, but she managed to stay upright. "Hey guys. What's wrong?"

Foxy took a shaky breath. "W-we h-h-had-d a n-ni-nigh-ight-m-m-ma-mar-re," he stuttered. He must've been really scared if he was stammering this much.

She opened her arms and tried to get them all in the hug. "Really? Wow. I'm so sorry, guys."

Goldie stared at her with panicked eyes. "Is this g-going to happen e-every night?"

She shook her head. "No. It's just surprising that you had a nightmare when you haven't seen anything in the world that should scare you. And all five of you at once?"

Bonnie nodded. "Yeah."

She thought for a moment. "How about we all go get some pizza? Would that help?"

Chica perked up when she heard this. "Pizza?"

Bonnie cheered and ran off to the kitchen, followed by Chica, Goldie, and Foxy. Freddy was about to go after them, but then he stopped. "Zoe?"

"Yeah?"

"Um..." He scuffed his shoe on the floor. "What causes nightmares?"

Zoe shrugged. "I'm not sure. I'm not good with organic life forms."

"What?"

"Never mind. But I think it's usually past experiences that you didn't like, like embarrassing things, sad memories, scary things that have happened, things that you feel guilty about- There are so many reasons."

Freddy considered this. "Could it be because you did something that scared yourself, and maybe you regret doing it?"

She thought about, then nodded. "Probably. But that couldn't be reason for you, could it? I mean you haven't done anything, right?"

He shrugged. "I guess I haven't." He turned around and walked to the kitchen.

i want to slap 2014 me in the face