ask or dare W/Steven, the gems, diamonds, and fireteam Nova

protecting Chris afton

Chris's POV

Another night of no sleep, trying to keep the nightmares out.

I hear a noise from the closet, I go check and foxy gets out of my closet, I quickly crawl backwards.

My back hits the foot of my bed, foxy raises his hook, I close my eyes waiting for the hook to slice me, but it never comes.

I open my eyes, I see foxy's head to my left, and his body to my right.

I look up and see a man in armor, armor that looks like the one my imaginary friend wears, the one that disappeared a few years ago.

'It's not possible, he disappeared.' I thought.

My POV

I unsummon my dawnblade, squat down, and look at my friend.

"Chris, are you okay?" I ask him.

"W-Who are you, and how do you know my name?" He asks.

I put my hand out to the right a bit, and make a solar flame appear, illuminating the front of my helmet.

"It's me, Scarlett, I'm getting you out of here." I tell him.

I put my hand out, making my ghost appear.

I mentally tell my ghost to transmatt nightmare foxy's head and body to my ship.

"You're just my mind trying to give me false-" he gets cut off by the shock of me picking him up.

"Ghost, transmat us to the ship!" I tell him.

A few seconds later, we appear in my ship.

I walk over to one of the chairs inside my ship, and set Chris down in it.

"H-How did you pick me up?" He asks.

I get on one knee lower my cloaks hood, and take my helmet off, revealing my human face.

"Because I'm not an imaginary image your mind made, I'm your guardian." I tell him.

"My guardian?" He asks, confused.

"Basically I'm your protector that has amazing powers, and is pretty much immortal because of my ghost." I tell him, holding my hand out and making my ghost appear.

Chris calms down.

"My family is back there, when will we go back?" He asks me.

"We'll go back at 8 am." I tell him.

Chris just nods.

I get an idea.

"Wanna see something amazing?" I ask him.

He nods.

I pick him up and head over to the pilot seat of my ship.

I point out the air tight glass.

"Woah, are we in space?" He asks me.

I nod.

Timeskip to 8 am

William's POV

I enter the living room, clara, Michael and Elizabeth are here, but Chris isn't.

"Where's Chris?" I ask.

Clara looks at me with worried eyes.

I automatically get scared.

We hear a noise, we look in the direction of the sound and see a man in armor, holding a sleeping Chris in his arms.

"Chris, wake up, we're back home." The stranger tells my youngest son softly.

Chris wakes up, the stranger sets him down.

"Mom, dad, don't hurt him, he saved me from my nightmares." My youngest son tells us.

"Chris, your nightmares aren't real." Clara tells him.

The stranger holds his hand out, a floating robot appears.

"Transmat it in." The stranger tells the little robot.

Suddenly a headless scary fox animatronic appears on the floor.

The stranger lowers his cloaks hood and takes his helmet off.

"I'm Zachariah Sol, Chris is telling the truth, I've been protecting him from the nightmare animatronics, every night the leader of the nightmare animatronics casts a nightmare spell that makes it so none of you hear them, Chris probably told you about an imaginary friend of his, it was actually me, I told him I'm his imagination as a cover." He tells us.

I go up to Zach and hug him.

"Thank you, for protecting Chris." I tell him.

"There's no need to thank me, and don't worry I'll keep protecting him." He tells me.