In My Head

Darkness Rising

     It had been five years since Aydin and I started building our plaza. We were going to share it with our old friend, Treacher but as you can guess some shit went down between us. I'm not guilty of anything I said since all of it was true but there's still part of me who regrets the aggression in my outburst. I still hear the echoes of what I said.

        "You don't care about any of us! This whole time it was just to be SOMEONE. All you did was lie! Now everyone think we're freaks for being associated with you!"

       Yeah... I'd been so blinded by my own rage... but that's not important anymore. I have a plaza to open and crap to do. I sigh as I adjusted the drum set on one of my robots. This one was a blue and red wolf. Aydin and I had built them to have a combination of features that would make them almost human like. The most human like one was the one we called Mooncrest. His resemblance had a lot of meaning. As the moon watched over the entire world, we'd spent ages building in a translator into Mooncrest's programming. He would be the robot who served in the diner. There were four other robots -- Nifoll, Krystal, Rosa, and Bryony. Each of them were built for someone significant. 

     I'd designed Krystal for my little sister, Blue. She loved the colour Blue (who would've guessed), foxes, and plushies. With a lot of hard work, I created Krystal to be able to create plushies. She was a blue fox similar to my robot, Luma. I hadn't really known what I was dong when I built her. I'd designed her to be able to play the drums and she had a modern AI along with all of our robots. However, the main differences between Luma and Krystal were the animal types and colouring.  I had also built Bryony for Treacher who had meant significantly more to then than she does now. Bryony was done in pink and white and was a dancer, just like Treacher. She'd been the first but not the last robot we designed with a plastic outer design. 

      Nifoll was Aydin's robot. The first one we'd made. He was a purple wolf and had more of a plush outer design (Luma, Rosa, and Krystal also were designed like this). He was programmed to be a guitarist to play alongside Luma. Aydin had also designed Rosa for his sister, Angel. Rosa was a light pink axolotl that we'd built in hopes to play with younger children. He'd also supplied the idea of building Bryony and Mooncrest out of plastic and giving Mooncrest a built-in translator. 

      I was rearranging the backroom where we kept Nifoll, Luma, and sometimes Bryony for the fifteenth time when he came flying in. "DUDE!" he barked. "You need to hurry up! We're gonna be LATE!!"

     I sighed. "How much time do we have left?" I asked. 

     "WE WERE SUPPOSED TO BE OUT THERE FIVE MINUTES AGO!" he bellowed. I yelp out in surprise and jump to my feet. 

      Grabbing him by the arm, I yelled, "COME ON HURRY!!! GO GO GO!!!" It wasn't until we were outside I'd realised he had been joking. I gave him a dark look. "We're five minutes early!" I whined. He shrugged.

     "If I didn't tell you to come out here then we would have been late," he chided. I sigh. "If we're late how will that look on us?"

     "Fine...." I grumbled. "You have a point...." He chuckled dryly. 

      "Imagine how late we'd be if I let you sit there listening to your inner demons. You'd be there forever!" he said bumping into me. I roll my eyes.

      "It's not like they're still there..." I muttered. But they were. We both knew that. I sigh once more.  "Well we might as well head up to the front. The opening is in... two minutes." And with that we took off to the front of the plaza where it all would go to hell.

       It didn't go to hell just yet -- not immediately at least. The opening entrance went smoothly with no incident. It was later into the party when things started to go terribly wrong. Aydin and I were sitting at a table near the back where we were chugging down Dr Peppers to see who could drink the most. I was in the lead with two massive cups down and working on a third. Aydin was only half was through his second one when she  showed up. We both froze as Treacher approached our table. I could feel my chest tightening and the voices in my head.... 

       "Hey guys!" she said with enthusiasm so fake you'd swear Barbie was less fake than that. Ignoring the voices in my head, I returned the greeting quietly. Aydin gave her a stare that could set the world on fire with the amount of loathing behind it. "You've got a nice..." she trailed off looking around. "Strip club." I slammed my cup on the table. 

      "It's not a strip club du blöde Kuh!" I spat. I knew Treacher didn't understand my German outburst but she merely shrugged. 

       "What is it then? The FNAF 2 building or some shit?" she asked crossing her arms. Her flawless black hair swished behind her as she stared down at us as if she were some saint. My grip tightened on my cup.

       "If you haven't anything good to say..." I murmur with a quiet menace. "I recommend you leave us be before I get very, very angry." She smirked, knowing she was getting under my skin. I glance around the building to see if anything was amiss that could get me away from her. To my luck but also misfortune, someone was sneaking into the back part of the plaza that was currently off limits. I stood up quickly and slammed my chair back into place. Treacher's pale blue eyes were filled with alarm. "If you'll excuse me," I said briskly. "I believe we have too curious of a guest here." 

    I stormed away from the table fuming. Treacher was just DREADFUL. I can't believe I fell for her all those years ago... I exhale sharply and slip into the back room. the room was pitch black. I sigh and reach for the switch. A hand held mine back. I flinch in surprise and before I could tell out a hand clasped around my mouth. I promptly yell, or well try to yell "MMMMPH!" I find myself on the floor a few seconds later. Something crashed over my head and everything faded away.

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~Aydin

     I glare down at Treacher with displeasure. She would not shut up and it was very annoying. I finally snap.

    "You need to go check on Ash!" I spat.

     "Why? She's not my girlfriend or whatever you two are," she replied tartly. I fumed. Treacher always misgendered Ash wether on purpose or not I didn't know.

      "I'M NOT DATING THEM  СУКА!" (Russian swear 😮) I snap. "And if you keep misgendering your ex they'll never give you another chance. I've seen how you look at them. I also know they'd never take you back after what you did. I wouldn't either."

      This caused her to flinch. "Fine," she grumbled. "I'm only checking just to prove to you I'm not as terrible as you think I am." Yeah right... I follow her and wait outside the bathroom. "Sh- uh they aren't in here," she called back. We look around the plaza a little bit more.

      "We're gonna have to check the back," I said flatly. "Stay behind me and don't touch anything." Treacher nodded as if she didn't trust herself to speak.

      I stick my head into the back room. Dark as ever. I flick on the lights and look around. There was a puddle of blood on the floor and it trailed further into the room. I hear Treacher hit the floor. Can't handle the sight of blood I'm guessing. I sigh and turn around. Right in that moment something slammed into my head knocking me clean on the floor. A girl from one of my old classes, Katil, stood over me. I blink rapidly trying to make sense of what I saw. Katil, the loudest kid that had been in any of my classes standing above me with a bloody crowbar.

      "Long time, no see, Aydin," she said, smirking. I stare back at her, not sure what to say. "And speaking of no see...." She pulled the crowbar behind her preparing to send a blow. I threw up a hand as if it were going to save me from the crowbar. The metal snapped my hand back and slammed into my skull. I stare blankly into a puddle of red on the floor. It seemed to get further with every passing second. I eventually give in to the abyss.

[A/N AAAAAAAAAAGH ITS FINALLY DONE!!! ALMOST 1500 WORDS. 😭 Next chapter is coming out soon!]