A/N: It seems like people don't particularly mind when I upload these chapters, so I'll just continue to post them whenever I am able.

I'm going to be starting the next "serious" chapter soon. As you might have already guessed from the explorations into Mike's past and Nightmare's attacks, it is during these moments that I will dive into the past lore of FNAF, possibly with my own spin on how events played out during the timeline of the games. I couldn't initiate any of these before Mike found a way to get the ghosts out of the house, but since I have now accomplished that, I can delve into FNAF lore more deeply.

A lot of you have asked about whether Mike can make robot bodies for the ghosts to inhabit, ones that are obviously without the issues that lead to the FNAF tragedy. Like so many other things, I have…plans…for that. I've got a good 3-5 ideas for future chapters that are bustling around in my head, many of which are tied to what I just mentioned in the last paragraph.

Jacko and GaoGod: GaoGod is correct in saying that the main SL animatronics were destroyed in FNAF6's fire (as Molten Freddy) and that there were no souls in the SL animatronics, as it would be incredibly difficult for me to handle more main characters than I am already handling. However, I believe that what Jacko was referring to were characters like Bidybab and the Minireenas. Their status is currently…undetermined.

Aurora Borealis: To be honest, I haven't really thought about that. There aren't any automatic doors or candles in Mike's house, and modern technology seems to work fine around them. In the FNAF games, the ghosts really didn't seem to have that much of an influence over technology or external environments unless they were actively messing with things like the cameras, although to be fair they were also in animatronics at the time. There's also the fact that they love Mike and have no reason to try and scare him by messing with things in his house.

Chapter 29 – Supernatural Playdate 1

"Holy crap!" Meghan exclaimed. "You guys actually did it! You're finally here!"

"Yep!" Gabe replied cheerfully. "And surprisingly, it wasn't even that hard!"

"Wait, really?" Alex asked. "So what took you so long then?"

The ghosts gave each other uneasily. "We were…uh…we were held up by something…" Jeremy finally muttered. Telling their new friends that a black bear demon had assaulted them with their past crimes and sins was probably not the best of ideas.

Fortunately, both Alex and Meghan took the hint and decided to change the subject. "Well, you picked a great time to show up!" Alex declared. "We were just talking a few minutes ago about how we were so utterly bored. You guys just saved our Friday night!"

The ghosts grinned at this. "So what are we gonna do?" Susie asked eagerly. "Video games?"

To their surprise, both Marshalls groaned. "Maybe if it were any other time, yeah, but we've gotten to the point that even video games have started to bore the crap out of us," Alex explained.

Ryan nearly spat out his drink. "You're bored with video games?" he asked incredulously. "Jesus, you two weren't joking."

Mike shrugged. "Eh, doing a bunch of the same thing all of the time does get boring eventually," he commented. "Besides, my kids have played enough video games anyway. I was hoping they would find something else to do."

"Don't worry, dad," Gabe replied. "We're not gonna waste time with our new friends on video games."

"Wait, I have an idea!" Alex suddenly turned to Mike. "Mr. Schmidt, do you plan on going on a vacation any time soon?"

He shrugged. "I dunno. Maybe?"

"While we were at your house, we were talking about our vacation last year," he explained. "Are you going to be taking your kids on your next vacation with you?"

Mike realized what Alex was saying, and his lips stretched into a smirk even as the ghosts' eyes widened at the implications. "Well…" he began, pretending to think although he already knew what he was going to say from the beginning. "If I went on a vacation all by myself, it would be boring as all hell, wouldn't it?" he replied smoothly. "Hell, it's not like I have to pay to bring them along or anything." The ghosts gasped.

"You're actually gonna take us on a vacation?" Fritz exclaimed, starry-eyed.

"THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU," Cassidy was all but babbling with excitement.

"I LOVE YOU DAD!" Susie shouted with a silly grin on her face.

"All right, all right, settle down guys!" Mike tried desperately to calm them, and it took several seconds for him to finally be able to speak over them. Ryan bit his lip to keep from laughing. "I'll take you guys with me on vacations, but I'm not gonna do all the work. You want to go somewhere nice? You tell me where you want to go."

"Hey, wait a minute," Ryan interrupted. "I heard from Chris that you were gonna go on an extended vacation this summer that you cancelled. Is this the reason…"

"Yeah," Mike cut him off. "It is."

"But…"

"End of discussion."

His tone made it clear it was time to change the subject. "Why don't we leave these kids to themselves and head down to the basement, Mike? I can't wait 'til Stella gets home. I know she's been looking forward to seeing you again."

"Yeah, it's been a while since I've seen her," Mike agreed. The kids, living and dead, watched them leave before turning their attention back to each other. Alex suggested moving to his and his sister's room to get some privacy, to which the kids happily agreed.

"Didn't you already make a list of places you want to go to?" Meghan asked as Alex started turning on his computer. "I thought one of you did that when we were over at your house."

"Yeah, but we only wrote down the places you showed us," Fritz replied. "There might be even better places for us to go instead. Besides, Dad was already working on trying to get us out of the house and we didn't want to make his life harder."

Alex shrugged. "Fair enough. So, uh, what're you interested in?" he asked. "Like, what kind of places do you want to go to?"

Jeremy gave him a confused look. "What?"

"Do you want to go to natural wonders like the Grand Canyon?" he clarified. "Or different countries in different parts of the world? Maybe you want to go to big cities, or places that are meant to be vacation spots like a beach resort?"

"Why not all of them?" Fritz asked with a grin.

Meghan thought for a moment. "Well, like we showed you before, there's a lot of amazing places in the West. Honestly, I can't think of any places in America that are more beautiful than what we already showed you," she commented. "Besides, you won't be too far away from Vegas, and that's gonna be a fun time as long as you don't stay there for too long."

"Best thing to do at Vegas is only stay for about 3 days," Alex added. "That's plenty of time for you to explore most of the hotels. I've heard Dad say that Vegas gets really boring if you stay there for too long."

"Well, that makes one part of our job easy," Liz said as Gabe took a sheet of paper out of the Marshalls kids' printer. "But what about some of the other things you mentioned?"

"I still want to go to Disneyworld!" Cassidy insisted. "It's the perfect place for kids like us!"

"Yeeaaaahhhh…there's a slight problem with that, though," Meghan told her reluctantly. "If you're happy just looking around at the place, then that's perfectly fine. Disneyworld is an amazing place with plenty to do. And you'll be able to watch the shows there without any issues, I think. But, uh…will you be able to take the rides?"

"What are you…OH," Gabe realized.

"The roller coasters, the rides, etc." Alex continued for his sister. "Now, to be fair, I don't know anything about ghosts obviously, but I'm pretty sure ghosts can't go on rides."

Cassidy's face fell. "Awwwwwww…" she moaned sadly. "That would've been the best part…"

Susie put a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Don't worry, Cass," she reassured her. "There's still plenty of reason for us to go there. I'm sure we'll still have fun even if we can't go on the rides."

"Couldn't we just, I don't know, short-distance anchor ourselves to the rolling coaster carts or something?" Fritz asked.

Everyone stared at him. "Oh my God, Fritz, if you didn't say stupid crap half the time I'd call you a freaking genius!" Jeremy exclaimed.

Meghan grinned. "Well, that's your biggest problem out of the way," she commented as Gabe started writing stuff down. "By the way, make sure you go to Universal Studios after Disney World. They're really close to each other and there's no reason why you should miss one if you're going to the other."

"Okay…natural wonders in the West, Disney World and Universal Studios, what else could you recommend?"

"How much money does Mr. Schmidt have for this?" Meghan asked.

Alex looked at her incredulously. "Sis, you're joking, right? You do realize Mr. Schmidt is mad rich? Like, millions of dollars rich?"

"So….no limit, then," Meghan said. "Well, if money's not stopping you…what else are you interested in?"

"What's a beach resort?" Gabe asked.

"A really, really nice hotel on a beach in a tropical island," Alex answered with a dreamy look in his eyes. "Take a look at this one, for example. It's called Paradisus Punta Cana – we went there two years ago."

He looked a couple of images and showed it to the ghosts. Their eyes bulged as they took in the beautiful tropical beach, the gigantic swimming pools, and the simple yet elegant buildings and restaurants.

"Oh my God that looks amazing!" Susie exclaimed.

"It is," Alex agreed, "but I think this would be better for your dad than for you. The best part about Punta Cana is the huge pool and the many restaurants there, and since you're ghosts I can't imagine you being able to fully enjoy either for…obvious reasons."

The ghosts thought about Mike and how he was spending every hour of his life working for their best interests. "Doesn't matter," Jeremy said. "It's still worth it."

"Don't just pick the one we showed you, though," Alex advised. "We went to that one cause Mom found a really cheap deal online. Since you don't have to worry about money, look up different places and choose what you think is the best one."

"We'll definitely do that!" Liz assured him as Mary suddenly appeared at the doorway.

"Sorry for being late," the Marionette apologized as she floated in. "I had to wait until the street was deserted before Mike could get me in the house. People would get weirded out by a moving Puppet and all that." She looked at Alex's computer and Gabe's list. "So you're doing vacation write-up part 2?"

"Yeah, but a little more organized than what we did before," Gabe responded. "So what were you saying earlier about ancient monuments?"

For the next thirty minutes, the living and dead children exchanged information and questions about the various categories for potential vacation spots. The ghosts asked about various locations that piqued their interest, and the Marshalls did their best to provide as many details and recommendations as possible. By the time they were done, Gabe had filled out his entire paper with all the potential places they could go to.

"We'll sort this out later," he told his siblings. "There's probably gonna be arguments that pop up if we try to decide where we want to go first, and I don't want us to make ourselves look bad in front of our friends."

"I don't have any problem with that," Liz replied, and the rest of the family nodded in agreement.

"You guys don't have sibling rivalry when there's 7 of you?" Alex whistled. "Damn, that's impressive."

Mary's eye lights flickered. "There's a very good reason for that," she answered, and something in her voice made both Marshalls shudder. "Anyway, it looks like you're done with vacation ideas. What should we do next?"

"Don't you guys play musical instruments or something?" Fritz asked his friends. "I think I vaguely remember you saying something about that."

"Oh, right!" Meghan got on her feet. "Yeah, let me go get my saxophone!" she rushed out of the room.

Alex turned and gave the ghosts an apologetic look. "Yeaaaaaahhhh…I kinda left my violin at school, so I won't be able to play anything for you guys. Sorry."

Cassidy shrugged. "Don't worry about it," she replied as Meghan came back carrying a huge golden instrument. The kids' eyes bulged when they saw it.

"Geez, that thing looks bulky!" Gabe commented as Meghan started prepping it.

"I'll play something nice and simple," she decided as she experimentally blew out a few notes. Taking a deep breath, she began to play.

[[LOOK UP EPIC SAX GUY – DEEJAY ZONIK REMIX ON YOUTUBE AND PLAY TO ABOUT HALFWAY INTO VIDEO]]

The ghosts' eyes all widened as Meghan played her tune. Even though they hadn't heard a saxophone before and Meghan was only 11, they were amazed by how fluidly she played out her tune, a smooth melody with no obvious mistakes. Alex's lips stretched into a wry smile – he recognized the theme immediately and it really was a rather simple tune to play, though the ghosts didn't have enough experience to know that. He noticed most of them begin to unconsciously bob their heads in sync with Meghan's beats, and couldn't help but wonder if any of them had some latent musical talent of their own.

Meghan finished playing her last sequence of notes, and the kids instantly burst into applause. "That was epic!" Liz shouted excitedly. "You're really talented!"

"How are you so good? I need to know!" Susie insisted.

Meghan shrugged and gave them a sheepish smile. "I dunno…just lots of practice, I guess." She gave her brother a sly look. "And now it's your turn, bro."

"Uh…I left my violin at school, sis. I can't play anything."

She shook her head. "Oh come on, Alex. Don't try to hide the fact you can sing from them."

"What?" Fritz and the others looked at Alex with growing interest.

"Yeah, as a crappy pastime that's not worth talking about."

Meghan shook her head and took out a high school yearbook. "Hmmm…" she pretended to think as she skimmed through it. "Not worth talking about, huh? Oh, here we go!" she showed the yearbook to the ghosts and pointed to a picture with Alex on it. Underneath the picture was a caption labeled: "Best Singer Not in the Choir."

Alex groaned. "Thanks, Meghan. Good to know I can always count on you to have my back."

"No problem!" she cheerfully replied, earning another groan from her brother and a round of laughs from the ghosts.

"Come on, Alex, show us!" Liz begged.

"Urrrggghhh….fiiiiiiinnnneeee…" he gave in. He cleared his throat once, and began to sing.

[[Insert "Viva La Vida" Lyrics here, had to delete them to avoid the story getting deleted like "The Phantom Hero's Realm]]

The ghosts erupted into even louder applause than before, this time with cheers and shouts of praise added in. Even Meghan, despite her initial teasing, joined in the applause. She knew her brother was a deceptively good singer, but this was without a doubt the best she had ever heard him sing.

"Oh my God, you are absolutely amazing!" Gabe declared, utterly awestruck.

"Can you teach me how to sing like that?" Jeremy and Susie both asked at the same time.

"What was that song?" Cassidy asked curiously. "I'm guessing it's one that someone wrote after we died."

"Oh, Viva la Vida?" Alex replied. "Yeah, it's a classic. Still good after so many years. But sadly I can't really teach any of you guys. Between school and all the things I do outside of it, there just isn't any time. Like Meghan said earlier, the best you can do is practice. And maybe listen to some songs on Youtube videos to get an idea of what you want to sing and what goal you want to set for yourselves."

Fritz looked at Mary. "Do you think Dad will buy instruments for us?"

Mary thought for a moment. "He has a piano in the basement that he barely uses, but that's about it. Keep in mind, though, instruments tend to make a lot of noise, and he might get irritated if they end up being too loud."

Jeremy shrugged. "Can't really hurt to ask, though."

"Yeah, nothing to lose," Alex agreed. He coughed. "Man, now my throat's really dry. And I'm kind of in the mood to play some games now."

"Video games?" Meghan asked him. "I thought we were bored with those."

"Nah, not video games. Card games." Alex looked over to the ghosts. "Ever heard of UNO?"

Now it was his sister's turn to groan. "Really, Alex? THAT game?"

Alex grinned. "Aww come on, sis, it'll be fun introducing new friends to the game."

Meghan rolled her eyes. "If they start raging, I'm blaming you," she retorted.

"What's UNO?" Liz asked curiously. "And why are you worried about us raging?"

"You'll see…" Alex replied cryptically. "You'll see…"

/

"It's great to see you again, Mike," Stella gave her husband's friend a warm hug. Ryan's wife and Mike's close friend had arrived at the house just a few minutes ago from grocery shopping. "It's been way too long, hasn't it?"

"Without a doubt," Mike replied with his familiar dry grin. "Looking as beautiful as ever, Stella."

Stella laughed. "Still the charmer, I see. Some things never change." She shook her head. "I have to say, when Ryan, Alex, and Meghan told me you adopted a couple of ghost kids, I thought they'd all gone insane. And yet…here they are, in my house. You don't have any parenting experience, do you?"

Mike shook his head. "Not before they showed up."

Stella smiled gently. "I don't think that'll you stop from being a great parent, Mike. You have the heart and the patience for it."

Mike returned the smile. "Thanks, Stella. I'll do the best I can."

A muffled exclamation suddenly echoed from above them. "What was that?" Ryan asked.

"Let's go check," Mike suggested, and the three of them climbed the stairs to the Marshall kids' room. They peeked through the barely open door, just out of sight.

"Are you kidding me?" Fritz was howling. "Draw 8? DRAW FREAKING EIGHT? DO YOU GUYS HATE ME OR SOMETHING?"

The rest of the kids were doubled over in laughter, and the two Draw 4 cards at the top of the discard pile told Mike, Ryan, and Stella all they needed to know. "Best combo ever!" Gabe was chuckling as he held his hand out to Alex. Alex completed the high-five (or tried to), and Fritz was grumbling under his breath as he was forced to increase his hand size from two to ten.

The three adults snuck away from the room. No need to interrupt the kids' fun when they were having such a good time. "Man, remember when we used to always try and screw each other over whenever we played games, Mike?" Ryan asked wistfully. "I miss those days."

"Yeah, Ryan…" Mike sighed. "Good times, good times. Too bad they're few and far between nowadays."

Stella shook her head. "Well, we're all here together now, aren't we? It's a Friday night, and there's nothing to get in our way. Let's just enjoy each other's company, like we used to. In memory of the old days."

Ryan smiled at his wife. "An excellent suggestion, Stella. An evening with friends underneath a night sky sounds perfect."

Mike nodded his agreement, and as the Marshall couple headed downstairs, he looked back towards the room where the kids were playing. He could hear Cassidy complain about drawing 10 cards in a single turn and smiled.

"You finally have your lives back, kiddos," he thought. "It took way too long, but better late than never. I know you'll make the most of it." And with that, he followed his friends down the stairs and out into the night.

/

A/N: Because Fritz will always be a Butt Monkey when it comes to games :P

After the whole mess with Nightmare, I figured that the kids needed and deserved some happy moments to bring some light back into their lives.

Now, about the serious chapters coming up…here's three names. Three simple yet familiar names. I wonder what this could mean…?

A) Freddy B) Henry C) Baby

Hope that gives you a little something to think about 😊 Regardless of how things turn out, you can expect to see a lot of FNAF lore exploration in the future. That is a promise.