okay, I think I have neglected you FNAF readers for long enough. I have managed to write three chapters, so I will give you those and hopefully get more without you having to wait for months.

before we begin though

to A Random Guest: I am sorry you have to wait this long. not proud of it myself, but well; I'm not a robot- at least when I last checked XD

to Snowwing: nice to hear from you again! and your suggestion is a good one. I will keep that in mind for future chapters.

to Dinovictor: it sounds like a good idea, Halloween chapter coming right up.

to Thedyingjokepastaway: yup, your comment sure felt like reading a small book, but I really enjoyed reading what you had to say.

and now, enjoy this long awaited chapter.
the "Puppet Song" belongs to TryHardNinja

"Is this the place?" Goldie asks right after he and Scott appear at what looks to be a storage area, the man beside him does not reply right away since this is the first time he tries getting teleported by a possessed animatronic.
Scott takes a deep breath as if he forgot how to breathe for a moment. "Yeah, this is the place." Goldie nods and when Scott feels study on his feet again, he follows the man into the area. He does have to stay out of sight when Scott walks over to speak with the storage manager, showing that he has the right to take the parts they need from that particular storage container. It takes a bit longer than expected, but Goldie isn't really surprised. Last time anyone from Fazbear Entertainment came it was back when the people put him and Spring for storage.

Scott returns, now holding several papers in his hand. "Well, there are both good and bad news." He muses.
Goldie raises a brow. "Did they sell the parts?" Honestly, he wouldn't be surprised if this company did, there are after all limits for how long they want to keep something stored if not getting paid.
Scott shifts on his feet, clearly not comfortable with the topic. "Eh no, someone claiming to be part of the company and took everything in storage." He then hands Goldie the papers, whatever was stored in that container has a signature, a very familiar one.

"Vincent." Goldie growls, that man's seems to be everywhere when it comes to the company. "Now the question: where did he bring the parts?" Scott asks to no one in particular. "There was a lot, enough to fill a building, but most of what was in store was mostly covers for the animatronics, equipment to the show and… well, you and Martin…" The last Scott says in a quiet voice.
Goldie eyes wide in shock, not at him and Spring have been in there, he already knew that. No, what Scott said has made him realizes where the parts are.
And he does not look forward to visiting that place again. "I know where he took the parts." He tells Scott and right away adds darkly. "And it's not a place for you. Last time I was in there, Nightmare tore me apart. That building holds such strong negativity that black spirits gain strength."

Scott nods he understands but does ask. "So do we have to improvise with the show now the parts are a no go?"

"I only said I didn't wish you inside that building." Goldie replies, yes he does not fancy stepping inside Fazbear Fright, least for some parts they only would use at Halloween. But, well, he would like to know what Nightmare meant by them being siblings in some way. He is still unsure where his powers came from, and Nightmare made it sounds like those power came from it. Does makes sense in how hard it is to control this beast that is his powers. "I will take the parts out from the building and bring them back to the restaurant. If Nightmare is still in there, at least I have the advantages that I cannot die again."

"But she can still swallow your soul, making you part of her being." Scott argues.

Goldie is not entirely sure what the man's meant by that, but if his last encounter holds a clue; he is pretty sure he will be fine. "My powers won't let Nightmare do it." Scott nods slowly but does still look very worried about Nightmare might swallow his soul.
Goldie teleports them both back to the restaurant before he leaves alone, appearing at Fazbear Fright. "Can't say I am happy to see this place…" He grumbles but does walk inside. The aura of the building is still very negative and if a black spirit attacks then he won't stand much of a chance, just as a black spirit wouldn't at the restaurant. It's a balance even he must obey.
Not wanting to stay longer than necessary, Goldie grabs a large box, throws the parts Thomas would need, plus a few cosmetics to give the show the creepy vibe the humans are looking for.
Inside the security office, Goldie hesitates. There is something with dark intentions in here, not Nightmare though, it's not strong enough. He scans the room but cannot spot the spirit he can sense, his eyes do stop at a plush that looks like Spring— if Spring was creepy and dangerous looking. "Something tells me you are another of Vincent's toys." Goldie muses to the 'staring' creepy plush and firmly ignores it over the parts in the box besides the desk. He casts the plush one last look before he leaves, yeah sure that thing would fit the show, but it creeps him out, so that plush can stay right there and keep the dark spirit company.

Goldie teleports back with the parts and puts the large box onto the table inside the Parts and Service room for Thomas. "This was all we could get, I hope it's enough for your little idea."
Thomas pulls out the many parts, all from a different animatronic by the look of the colors, but the young man didn't seem disappointed in what he got. Thomas smiles and asks for a small favor by pointing at a single can with yellow paint. Goldie titles his head, at first a bit confused what their mechanic is asking him, then he realizes Thomas only has one can. "Oh, you need more?"
Thomas nods.
Goldie makes a calculation on how much paint Thomas would need with the parts the young man took out from the box. When he got a result from his computer brain he grabs Scott once again as he cannot go inside a shop for said paint.

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Halloween has begun and the whole restaurant got decorated for the holiday, made to stay a whole month.
Mike watches the animatronic do the show, then glances over to Rena who does not look that satisfied with her work. Yeah, the animatronics are not always in complete sync with the song and sometimes bug out with the lyrics but Mike thinks she did a brilliant job, he sure heck couldn't have done it without having fried their system. He walks over to Rena and tells her. "Chin up, the show is great and people like it." Waving out to their customers enjoying this show that will repeat every third hour. That way they are sure most people see it without the customers has to deal with listening to the same song more than once while being here.
Rena watches the older children, among them is Hope; enjoying the bit scary show. Rena is glad their customers like the show but she wishes she could've made it better. "I know but every time they mess up the lyric or bug out, it feels like a punch to the gut." She admits to Mike and sighs. "...I miss them, wish they could've done it without I had to mess up their mainframe just for a single show."
She feels a hand on her shoulder, Rena turns and her eyes meet Mike's, he gives her a weak sad smile. "I miss them too" Rena knows he does, she has caught him crying when he thought no one was watching and like those times, Rena hugs him. However, this time a quick one and they both return back to work.
Mike is right, people like the show and she did her best, so maybe she should just leave it at that? Rena makes a decision she should when the kid from the midsummer party at her parents runs over to her, she smiles down to the excited child. "Hey! Are you ready to carve some pumpkins?" The child beams and nods. "Yeah!" So hand-in-hand, Rena and the child heads over to the table where the pumpkins are.

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The doctor gave Mike and the others some good news. Sorens has recovered enough to leave the hospital, he still needs to take medicine though but Mike is sure Soren is more than relieved he can get out from the place.
Nice timing as well, the Halloween show is still up and what Goldie caught, the teen really wanted to see it.
Mike grabs the keys to Jeremy's car and tells the blond. "I'll be getting Soren now." and asks worried since Jeremy still deals with the trauma Twisted One put him through. "You sure you won't… um, try and hurt him?"

Can't blame Mike thinking that, he did after all attack the brunette back when that black spirit got him. Jeremy drinks some of his coffee before he replies to the younger man. "Can't say I am fully recovered, but I am sure I'm no danger for any of them." Nodding to Hope who for once plays like a normal child over at the ball area in the game room. "No urges to drag Hope away and serve her on a silver platter to that monster." and adds since Mrs. Grey hasn't been the only one who helped him recover from this. "And if I would rebound back to be Twisted One's servant, then Martin told me he would hug that evil out of me."

"…Can he do that?" Mike asks. Jeremy gives him a look. "Not a real hug, it's more like being tackled and held down by a giant glowing ghost hare." The blond remarks in such a deadpan manner that Mike has to choke down his laughter. Jeremy returns back to his coffee. "I will keep my distance, just in case." Mike nods to that and leaves to fetch the kid who soon will be his ward. Getting the paperwork through takes a bit longer than expected but at least they are allowed to house the kids without getting arrested for kidnapping or something else. So Jeremy's capture by the Twisted One hadn't all been for nothing.
He arrives at the hospital, and after have gotten the go-ahead by the clerk, Mike walks into Soren's room— right the second he sees the Fredbear plush gets thrown against the nearest wall, checking the teen, he notices Soren looks more flustered than angry. Looking past that, it's good to see the teen out from the bed. Mike pretends he hasn't noticed anything weird going on."You ready to leave?"
Soren nods, about to leave the room, then hesitates and without a word, he picks up the plush and with it in hand, he leaves the room.
Mike watches this whole thing with a faint smile, he looks over his shoulder and sees a grinning spirit of Calem.

"he thought he was too old for it." the spirit says before he disappears again.

Mike rolls his eyes, leaves, and guides the still flustered boy down to the car. The drive to Freddy's happens in relative silence, only broken when Mike explains Soren about the hidden room he and Hope will be sleeping. "At least until I get myself an apartment." He tells the teen.
Soren simply nods, seemly more interested in removing dust from the Fredbear plush.
That changed when they arrived at Freddy's, Mike smiles from how Soren is more than a little dumbfounded that the parking lot has a small crowd of people waiting for them.
The moment Mike helps the teen out from the car, Hope runs over and almost topple Soren down in a hug, the only thing stopping him from doing so is Mike standing behind him.

"You're back!" Hope cheers with tears in her eyes, so relieved Soren did not become a spirit. Soren returns the hug, although quite awkwardly, didn't matter for her. Hope is just so happy to see him again.

"Welcome to Freddy's Soren. I'm Rena." Rena introduces herself to the quite scrawny teenager boy, he eyes her unsurely, the same manner Hope did the first day she arrived. Rena is not at all annoyed he does not reply to her, certain he will open up in time as his cousin did. However, this shyness did not stop her from introducing him to the others.

With the introduction over, Mike tells the awkward standing teen. "Everyone here knows about the spirits, so with us; you can freely talk about the spirit world."

"Everyone else, well it's best you keep quiet about the subject." Scott adds and tells both the kids and Mike. "We made a welcome feast, uh, not sure if Soren is on a certain diet."

"Nothing we should worry about at least until he starts drinking." Mike grins and brings Soren inside. He and the others allow Hope to show him around, figures the two needs time to catch up with one another again.
When they return, Mike catches Hope explaining Soren about their resident spirits. "—He is sorta like you, but way more of a fighter." He has a feeling who they are talking about but right now the spirits can wait. "Come over and join us!" He calls for them and laughs at what Soren says: "Finally, real food."

At first, Soren eats the delicious pizza in silence, simply listening to the adults' chatter about stuff going on at the restaurant. Then he can't handle the suspense anymore, especially when he knows it's the sole reason these people even allowed him and Hope to live here. "Which of the spirits do you want to be trapped inside the robots?" He does winch when everyone stops talking and stares at him. Soren would like to disappear there but bites down the uncomfortable sense and asks as calm and collected as a timorous kid like him now can. "It's the reason you want us here r-right?"

"Sure, but there is more to it than that kid." Jeremy remarks from his spot, he can almost hear Twisted One command him to hurt this kid. Martin must've sensed it for he appears right beside him.

He takes his brother's hands in his, well, as much he now can. Only when sure his brother is not clouded by the darkness of that spirit, he speaks to the Medium boy 'your safety means more than our return.'

This confuses Soren, he thought this was the agreement. "But, you said I needed to imprison you in those bodies...!" He argues to the spirits watching the table. "That was the deal." He feels a pair of hands on his shoulder, turning around his brown meets Mike's grey-blue, the man smiles to him. "I won't deny it, we all would love to see our friends return again. But, well, we want you two to be happy as well."

"And we are some of the few people who won't be freaked out when you start talking to spirits." Scott adds.

Soren looks at everyone, both spirit and person, all of them do not want him and Hope here because of their power. No, they want them here because they are kids who need a home. That is such a surreal feeling, it surprises him as he really hadn't expected this treatment.

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"Alright, time for bed!" Mike calls for Soren and Hope inside the game room. He feels a bit bad to interrupt their small game of pretend— what he observed, they played as a wizard in search for his apprentice. It's the first time Soren has been comfortable enough to be like someone at his age.
"But we're at the best part." Hope argues in the ball basin. "The wizard is about to rescue his future apprentice!"
Mike does feel bad but he has delayed their bedtime too long already. "That rescue has to wait until tomorrow. Time to bed." He calls back.
Hope complains but she and Soren do stop their game, brush their teeth and heads downstairs for bed. Mike follows them right after he has turned everything off. "Goodnight, Goldie. Night, guys." He speaks to the slump over animatronics and the golden bear sitting at one of the tables.

"Goodnight Mike" Goldie replies for all of the spirits, not looking up from the newspaper he is reading as the humans go to bed for the night.
He does stop reading when the silence gets too much, this is one of the disadvantages in being the only aware spirit at this place. He is painfully aware of time and the loneliness at night is something he wishes he could avoid, but he can't as he does not need sleep and even if his robot body needs it to recharge, he cannot join the computer's illusion of dreaming.
Goldie lets out a sigh, sad that he once again has to wait for the sun to raises on his own. Something he has been doing ever since Marion set them free from their robot bodies. At these lonely hours, he is jealous of the other's ignorance about time and wishes he could be in their blissful states, only for a short time aware of this gloomy existence. Being death does not bother him, not anymore at least. It's the awareness his ghost powers give him. Hoping he can get rid of this suffocating silence, Goldie takes out Marion's old radio and turns it on for some much-needed music.
With the music engulfing the entire upper floor and Goldie too focused on the radio, he did not see a slender black figure walk inside the game room. He only takes notices something is amiss when the radio gets affected by the intruder.
The country music gets replaced with a soft tune of a music box, Goldie stares confused at the affected radio to then his red eyes wide when a familiar voice comes from the object.

'Taken way too soon
I'm not at all what used to be'

He then notices a presence and spins around, at the door of the game stand no other than Marion.

'Shifting in a box
The past is nothing more than just a dream'

Marion, eyes glowing white walks into the game room, a more than a little startled Goldie follows.

'Now I hear the call of evil growing once again'

The puppet walks past the spirits of the kids, beckon them to follow and they do.

'I'm powerless to change your fates'

Marion leads them to each of their animatronic form.

'But in the end I'll shelter you my friends'

And do something to each of the robot's heads.

'Tonight we roam'

Marion teleports over to the gang, doing the very same thing.

'And If they listen really close
They can hear us sing our song'

When done Marion walks over to Spring and the watching golden bear.

'And I can't give you back the things you had'

Martin spirit appears besides Goldie

'But you don't have to do this on your own'

Marion offers both one of his hands

'Even if you're never coming home'

Spirit and bear take it.

'You're not alone'

The seals inside every animatronic activate

You're not alone

BonBon collapses onto the floor, in last second caught by Chiara.
Theo snaps his eyes open, twitches as if he does not fully recall how to move.
Freddy launches his head up in the air like a man would who has been near drowning.

'You're not alone'

Chica flinches and eyes opening slowly, Bonnie beside her twitches as if he's waking from a nasty nightmare.
At the cove, it looks like the two foxes are not affected but by major glitching, they both open their eyes there are for once in focus.
Spring glitches once before he opens his eyes and turns to Goldie whose face is twisted in a sneer from the sudden pain he felt.

'In our own little world
Forever lost to passing time'

Slowly, all of the animatronics turns and their glowing in the dark eyes to where Marion is.

'No one knows what its like
To wear a mask that you are trapped inside'

Marion holds around his head as if he's dealing with a headache, then drops his hands and walks back to the gift corner.

'One day the purple clouds
That hover over us will fade'

Freddy stops the puppet by catching his arms, the puppet looks up to the bear.

'Then we'll be free to cut the strings'

Slowly Marion shakes his head.

'To wipe the tears but now we walk in chains'

Hesitant at first, Freddy lets go of the puppet.

'Tonight we roam and if they listen really close'

Marion starts to leave again

'They can hear us sing our song'

All of the animatronics hums to the melody

'And I can't give you back the things you had'

Slowly they turn away from Marion, scanning the place they do not recall from their memories.

'But you don't have to do this on your own'

Foxy turns to the Toys, giving them a weak smile that somehow eases their confusions.

'Even if you're never coming home'

Goldie puts a hand on a more than a little worried Spring, the hare meets his eyes.

You're not alone

and returns the smile.

You're not alone

Marion returns to the large preset prop, and back there, the lights go out in his eyes, no longer moving or aware.

Right at that moment, Mike, who has been dreaming the whole thing opens his eyes, sits up in bed and stares to the door leading upstairs. He wonders if it was just a dream or the robots really are back.
Knowing he won't get any sleep before he solves the mystery, Mike leaves bed, quietly goes upstairs and is not sure he should be yelling in shock or cry his heart out in relief as the animatronics no longer are on their spots. Freddy turns around, the eyes glowing in the same manner as they did back in the former restaurant but this time: Mike is not afraid. "You're back." he whispers, unable to keep the smile or tears at bay.

question: has this chapter been worth the wait?

I will try and give you a new chapter next week, but I can't promise it.