The Third Night

The clock stuck 12 am, Sora and Roxas had just arrived in the door. Quickly getting to their seats, In case the animatronics were already moving. The phone started to ring. Roxas hesitated, but then decided to pick it up.

“Hello! Hello hello! Uh, welcome to your third night, most people usually don’t last this long. Not that they die, not saying that of course, they just leave, reporting odd things. Should be nothing to worry about. The company and I have thoroughly checked the animatronics many times and found nothing. Uh, and after my previous shift, I noticed that if Foxy gets out of his curtain, he runs extremely fast towards the office. You won’t have much time to close the doors either. You’ll be fine though. Talk to you tomorrow.”

The guy hangs up the phone and Roxas breathes out in a frustrated sigh. It was only the third night at this hellish job and the animatronics were already out to kill. Sora sat still in his seat, waiting until Roxas said it was all clear. After the incident, Sora could not really think for himself or feel much emotions. Luckily some of the frontal lobe was there, which was the part which had the emotion for happiness. So Sora could do activities that he found fun before the incident. Roxas looked at one of the hallway cameras and saw that the posters that once covered the halls were replaced with the words “It’s me” all over.

‘Okay… That’s odd.’ Roxas thought to himself. Then proceeding to glance over at Sora, who seemed pretty happy, then back to the monitor. The posters were back to their normal looks with the 4 animatronics on them. ‘Am I just seeing things?’

“Uh… Roxas?” Roxas turned to look at Sora. “Look who’s here…”

Roxas saw Bonnie standing the left door with it’s animatronic smile.

‘That… is just creepy’

He then proceeded to shut the door, but Bonnie stepped into the Room, blocking Roxas from the switch.

“Oh look Roxas. Bonnie is here to join us!”

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Roxas stood in fair, he had seen what these ‘things’ could do to a human. Sora however stood there gleefully looking at Bonnie as it was the best day of his life. Roxas grabbed the back of Sora’s shirt and walked backwards, continuing to stare at the blue animatronic. But as he was about to leave the room, he hit something. Too afraid to turn around, Roxas closed his eyes, waiting for the horror.

“Chica!” Sora screamed. “Chica’s here as well. Just need Freddy and Foxy now.”

“Oh my god Sora…” Roxas opened his eyes. “Do you ever stop acting like a child?”

Roxas then looked at the 2 animatronics, they weren’t doing anything to his surprise. Just standing there. He glanced to the clock, 1:02.

‘We’re so dead…’

The phone begun to ring. Roxas ignored it.

‘What’s the point…?’

Sora noticed the phone ringing and picked it up.

“Uh, hello? This is gonna be a bit different than usual. The building had an incident today of an employee getting hurt and we went to go research it. The results we got back are odd as it shows that the animatronics are malfunctioning. Your safest bet is to either stay still in the office or try to run. But by what I can hear, you seem to have Bonnie and Chica keeping you there. Don’t worry though, I’ll be on my way to help soon, I need to collect a spare in the back anyway.”

The phone then was hung up on the other side and Chica and Bonnie moved closer to Roxas and Sora. Roxas glanced at the cameras and saw that Foxy was about to run down the hall and Freddy was almost outside the door.

He hung up the phone and walked in a bedroom to check on a child. The child was running back and forth from his bed to closet and left and right doors, occasionally turning back to flash a light at a stuffed toy on his bed.

“Still playing the game I told you to fight off the monsters? It’s getting a bit late don’t you think?” The man said to the child.

“But dad, those news stories could come true! What if I was bitten?” The child ran to the door, waited, and then flashed a light.

“That won’t happen, it was a one time event and those models are gone.” He paused, thinking of the horrors that could still lurk within the company. “Anyway, I’m off to work tonight, got to do some maintenance on the new models.”

“Oh… ok! Bye dad.”

The man walked out of the room, and out of the corner of his eye he thought he saw a familiar yellow figure down the hall. He turned to look at it, but there was nothing there.

Must be my imagination

He walked out of the house quickly and hopped in his car.

Let’s hope I’m not too late.