I just finished university and moved back to my family's first house. The house was
empty and free to use, as my parents were no longer living there. After so many years
studying far from home I felt a bit of nostalgia for this house… the house I was raised in.
My parents were fine with me living there, as long as I payed all the bills. So... I
quickly went looking for work.
Checking the newspaper ads I found a job offer as a security guard at Freddy Fazbear's Pizza.
I couldn't believe it… one of my favorite childhood places was open! I spent many afternoons
there with my parents and friends. Fazbear's Pizza surely was a heaven of laughter and fun…
Until something very gruesome happened – something related to the kidnapping and disappearance
of five children, who were never found. The restaurant lost many clients and ended up
closing down. I had no idea the restaurant had reopened, and although the offer was for
the night shift, an urge between nostalgia and curiosity made me accept it.
The first night, the owner was waiting for me in the restaurant. With a very curt attitude
he gave me the keys, and reminded me that I had to follow my schedule exactly as it
was: From midnight to 6 in the morning. The daytime guard left me a message with more
instructions at the security office.
When I got in, a wave of childhood memories invaded my mind. I looked at the stage, and
there I saw Freddy, Chica and Bonnie, a band of animatronic dolls which I watched play
and sing many, many times. The office was in the back – it was small, with two entrances
and windows on each side. I started listening to the audio my coworker had left for me…
and what I heard left me perplexed.
He explained that in front of me I had a screen that controlled the security cameras of the
restaurant, and I could use it to monitor every movement in the place. However, danger
would not come from any possible intruders – it would come from the animatronic dolls.
It seems that, in order to prevent their Engines to get blocked due to inactivity, they can
wander freely around the restaurant all night.
Also, when they see a worker, they don't identify him or her as a person, but as a robot without
its respective animatronic suit. Thus, they grab the worker, and force him or her into
one of the suits, filled with metal bars and other devices, crushing and killing the person
in the process. The only body parts that remain intact after the process are the eyes and
teeth of the victim, which can be seen through the mask of the animatronic suit.
This all sounded ridiculous… but when I checked the cameras I realized that one of
the animatronics, Bonnie, was no longer on the stage – it was coming through a hallway
towards the security office. In the message, my coworker told me to remain calm, explaining
that if the animatronics got too close I could see them arrive by turning on the lights in
the hallways, and could keep them out of the office by closing the automatic doors.
I followed his advice and immediately turned on the lights of the left-side hallway, just
in time to see Bonnie through the window… fixedly staring at me. I pressed the button,
and the door closed automatically and just in time. However, the message clarified one
last detail: The electric energy I had access to was limited, and if I used too many devices
too frequently, the energy would run out and I would end up completely defenseless.
I kept monitoring the hallway, waiting for Bonnie to go away and leave me alone. When
it finally left, I opened up my screen again in order to check how much energy I had left.
I had spent almost half of it already. Luckily, there were no more incidents that night, and
that energy was enough to last until 6 in the morning.
Despite all of this, I went back to work the next day. I didn't believe those animatronics
could actually harm anybody… and I really needed the money.
I had received a new message from my co-worker, congratulating me for "surviving" the first
night, and telling me to be especially careful with the animatronic from the pirate cave.
I looked at the cameras: He meant some kind of fox hidden behind the curtain.
I kept monitoring the rest of the animatronics on the stage, but when I looked back at the
pirate cave, the fox was no longer there. I frantically searched for it through the
other cameras, until I found it running through a hallway towards the security office. I closed
the door just in time, and I started hearing loud bangs from the other side. After a while
the fox animatronic gave up, and went back to its place in the pirate cave. Later that
night, the fox tried to get to the office two more times,
and Bonnie also tried to get in.
The following nights were even more terrifying after Freddy and Chica joined in the action.
Every hour was nerve-wracking. I was on edge, with my five senses fully alert, while those
robots looked at me directly through the security cameras. I could see they had tics and qUivers
which were not characteristic of animatronic robots.
They started to attack me simultaneously on both sides, and my energy was just enough
to last until 6 in the morning. Afterwards I would spend the rest of the day unable to
sleep, on edge because of the fear and anxiety.
On the fourth night, a shiver went down my spine when the recording of my co-worker ended
up abruptly with screams of agony followed by what I believe was the crushing of bones.
In the morning I noticed a putrid smell on stage,
and red marks around the eyes of the animatronics.
On the fifth day I met my boss; he was furious. The daytime guard had disappeared, and the
boss accused me of having something to do with that… but he didn't have any proof.
And to make matters even worse, I discovered there was a new message in the office. It
was a very deep voice, similar to the voice of the Freddy animatronic, saying something
completely incomprehensible. I feared that would be my last night alive.
On that final night, the four animatronics joined forces to go against me. And they weren't
alone, as there was a second Freddy robot that limped, with protruding eyes and streams
of blood flowing from them. I quickly closed both doors and hid under the desk,
paralyzed by fear.
I lost all notion of reality… until someone knocked on the door. In 5 minutes it would
be 6 in the morning. I thought it was my boss, who had arrived to the restaurant early.
I let out a sigh of relief. I opened the door…
and I found myself face to face with the limping Freddy.
The last thing I saw was its bloody eyes and teeth showing through its mask.