"ʏᴏᴜ'ʟʟ ʙᴜʀɴ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴜꜱ"

Chapter 17: Phantasmagoria

A/N: This is one of the chapters I have been most excited to write! Enjoy!

You know it's gonna be good when I get creative with the titles ;)

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Sunday.

I hardly did anything that day...

Sure, I looked through a few articles online about Fazbear Entertainment, but it only confirmed what I already knew...not providing me with any new information to my disappointment.

The day was spent with my melancholy self trying to find joy through watching television and catching up on sleeping, literally having no idea what else I could do.

And so, that day had passed quickly.

Leaving me here, presently drinking coffee on a Monday night before my graveyard shift at Fazbear's Frights. How fun.

However, I knew what I needed to do once I got there.

Hopefully nothing will go wrong, even though I'm almost sure something will...

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Opening the front door to the location, it was currently 11:20. I made sure to get there early to give myself extra time to snoop around.

Funny enough, I bump into Jeremy as soon as I turned a corner, leaving us both shocked.

"Ah- Y/N? What are you doing here so early?" Jeremy questioned, trying to hide the tiredness in his voice.

"I didn't really have much to do before my shift, so I just decided to come here early." I shrugged, hoping he'd buy it.

He did.

"Oh alright, we'll I better get going, was nice seeing you." Jeremy muffled a yawn, waving to me goodbye as he left the attraction.

"Now I have this place to myself..." I grinned.

Time to get to work.

I wasn't sure if the souls of the kids followed the same clock Springtrap did, so I didn't know if they were awake and present or not.

The first place I was going to check out was the arcade, which I recalled the specific game Charlie wanted me to play. Happiest day.

I wasted no time in going there to play the game, time was ticking after all.

When I got there, I tried to power the arcade on, but it was in vain when the screen remained black.

I felt around the machine, making sure it was plugged in, mashing random buttons, but still nothing.

I huffed in frustration, turning my attention to the other mini games. Mangle's Quest caught my eye.

Unlike the other arcade machine, this one turned on with ease, displaying a screen with an 8-bit Mangle who had pieces missing from it. I moved the character throughout the games map, dodging kids to pick up the pieces to put the fox back together.

It brought me back to my childhood friendship with the fox, and I understood.

Ignoring the obvious exit, I continued until the fox dropped off of a ledge, falling down to a red staticky background with...a dark figure crying? It reminded me of the marionette. I continued and found another exit, going into it I was left with static as the screen went black.

I stared at the screen for a minute, before coming to the conclusion that that was all I was going to get out of it.

I heard radio static above me as I checked the time.

11:49

I looked up, seeing a charred white face of a mangled fox animatronic I had once known. It stared at me with white pupils, before it faded away into nothing.