The Job Offer

Chapter 2

Darkness overcrowded me, but the music box of the Marionette remained in the air. It kept getting slower and more off-pitched until there was no sign of it being there. I found a flashlight on the ground and picked it up to examine the area.

"Hello...?" called a voice that sounded like Vincent's. "I need help. Someone please help me..." As the voice became louder, I grew closer. I saw Vincent, but he had brown hair and white skin. I tapped him on the shoulder.

"Sir?" I asked. "Are you okay?"

"M-My children..." he said with tears. "She's... dead..!" He looked at me, sadly. "I can't go on without them...!" He fell on his knees.

"W-What happened?"

"The animatronics can't be trusted!!!" He looked around as tears from his eyes fell to the ground. "They can't be trusted..." He stood up, his hands over his face. The endoskeleton of an animatronic came behind him. "Ennard...N-No..." The endoskeleton implanted itself in Vincent. He turned grayish-purple. "We have to kill." I heard a slice then saw red then black and one by one, the gray and black ghosts of the children appeared. He had killed six children. The poor kids were gone.

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"Christin?" asked a voice. "Christin? Come on!" Someone tugged on me. It was Travis. "You have to go to the pizzeria!"

"Ugh..." I groaned. "But it's Saturday. The pizzeria isn't open today." I rolled back over.

"Maybe we'll find Michael!" I fell back on the bed. "Christin!!" He kept tugging me until I got up. I ate some toast while I watched the news.

I began straightening my hair and after fifteen minutes of it, there was a knock on the door. I ran over to the door, my hair half-way straightened. Jeremy was at the door. I hugged him.

"C-Christin," Jeremy said, "I need your help! Freddy is glitching! I think Vincent's behind it. I heard him talking to h-himself this morning about destroying all of the animatronics!"

"Oh no!" I exclaimed. "It's getting worse. All of the animatronics are gonna be gone by the end of this if we don't act fast!"

"W-What are we waiting for!?" asked Jeremy. "Let's g-go save some animatronics!"

We got to the pizzeria and walked inside. Vincent was talking to Freddy. We hid behind a desk.

"Fredrik," he said, insanely. "I love seeing you like this! My want for pain only grows when I look into your eyes!!" He grinned. Freddy had tears falling from his mask. "Your family is probably so happy you're gone. I would be, too! You always were an annoying child!!" He laughed. "There are so many ways I'd love to tell your family about your disappearance. Should I tell them that you got eaten whole by an animatronic? Maybe that you swallowed poison? Or that you killed yourself just to join the party!? That's a funny one!"

"You don't have to tell them anything," said Freddy. "Tell them that I miss them..." He had almost a river of tears coming from his mask.

"You miss them!? How pathetic..."

"Mommy...Daddy..." The bear sniffed.

"You pathetic, little..." I jumped out of my hiding spot.

"Vincent!!" I yelled. "Leave him alone!!"

"Christin...!" he said, smiling. "What a pleasure to see you on this lovely and blessed day!"

"Vincent, let these innocent children go! They need to be free. They're hurting. Don't you see that? Your family wants the real Vincent back!!"

"Let them free!? After years and years of killing and killing those kids!? You must be out of your mind. I hate my family. They left me. My son and daughter died, remember!?" I leaned down to Jeremy.