Memory Chapter 5

It had been a month since of the first showing of "Pirate Foxy's Terrific Adventure!" The show would gain more critiques in the newspapers, and they still remained positive. But, it seemed that, after a month of having it, the event wasn't as special as it used to be. New ideas still came through each performance, and it was why the children still came back to it, but they just performed it for the sake of it. Well, the sake of doing it and for the children.

Whichever works.

New prizes would be added weekly, and some new games would come, too. But things were kept the way they were for most of the month. Birthday parties still ran in the place, and it seemed that they, at least, had 3 parties per day. The party area had a lot of space as it is, and they added some newer activities that the Birthday child could do on their special day.

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On a certain Friday, everything was pretty much the same at the pizzeria. The children laughed a lot more as they played or watched the animatronics, chugging down on the restaurant's pizza while doing so. Freddy's band was playing, like usual, and Foxy was running his normal show.

He didn't have that much of a large audience that day, but it was still something he could work with. He was currently digging through his chest stuffed at the back of the stage, throwing tickets to the side as he dug deeper.

"Coulda' sworn it was in 'ere," He muttered as he then emptied out the chest and put it on his metal head. He then stood there, placing his metal hand on his hip as he stared through the darkness of the chest. The children in his audience laughed, and he felt himself mentally smile from under the chest.

He then took it off of his head as he lazily tossed it to the side. He said, "Well, if it ain't in there, it ain't anywhere. But I'm telling ye'! I really sailed through that storm, I did!"

The children rolled their eyes in response, but continued laughing as they leaned back. Foxy groaned, a smile creeping up onto his mouth as he looked around the stage. Boy, did it feel good to have the children smile..

He announced, "Well, that be me show for this afternoon. Come back around..eh, 'alf an 'our from now, and I'll be 'ere with some new tales, eh?"

The children nodded as they got up and ran to their booths or into the other rooms of the pizzeria. Foxy was left with a few children that stayed behind in order to speak to him. Foxy sat on the edge of the stage as he said, "If yer' 'ere for me, then I be ready!"

"Foxy!" One of the children exclaimed as they ran to the animatronic, extending their arms. Foxy turned his head as he extended his own, ending up hugging the child as they finally reached him. She didn't let go until a few seconds, giving him a bright smile.

"Foxy, I got a new shirt! Do you like it?"

She then spun around in the outfit she was in, and the animatronic laughed.

"'Course I do, lassie! Ye' look good in anythin' ye wear!"

She then blushed, placing her hands to her cheeks. She then gave him another hug before running into the game area, and Foxy felt himself watch her a bit longer than he intended to.

He quickly turned back to the next child, and his eyes widened in surprise.

"Why, if it ain't me special mate, Mary! How are ye', lassie?"

Mary smiled as she twiddled with her fingers shyly. She must've gotten new clothes from the last time he saw her, wearing a headband in her brown hair as she wore green dress to match.

She looked up at him with the cutest smile. "I've been good! I finally got moved into a public Elementary school!"

"Really?" Foxy asked, eyes widened in surprise. She then nodded, making him grin.

"That's great ta' hear, lass! When did ye' move into it?"

"Um," She placed a finger to her chin in thought, eyes traveling to the ceiling. "I think around last week. The people there are really nice, and I told my new friends all about you!"

"Really?" He asked, taken a bit off guard. "What did ye' say to 'em?"

"That you're my favorite character and how I love your shows! My friend said that she never really liked you, but she's never seen your show that you do with the others dressed as pirates! She said she'd check it out!"

"Sure hope she does," Foxy said before eying her outfit. "May be off topic, but I really like yer' dress, lassie."

Her eyes lit up as she looked down at it. She hesitating before looking up at him with uncertainty. "Really?"

"Of course!" He exclaimed as he made eye contact with her. "Ye be lookin' really good! When did ye' get it?"

"After I came back from the first adventure you showed us!" She exclaimed, a wide grin placed on her face. "I wanted to look for a pirate dress, but we couldn't find any...My Mommy got me this, though!"

"Yer' mother be really havin' good taste, then," Foxy said as he watched Mary do a little twirl on her heel. "Has ta' be one of th' best dresses I've seen, actually."

"Really?" Mary asked, her eyes widened as she looked at him. Foxy nodded.

"'Course."

"I just wish they made pirate dresses," Mary huffed as her eyes traveled to the ground in disappointment. "If I had one, I'd wear it every time I came here!"

"I wish they'd make 'em, too, lass," Foxy said as he scooted back a bit on the stage. "Maybe ye' can find a regular pirate outfit?"

"Or maybe I can wear an eye patch from the prize stand!" She exclaimed, her eyes wandering over to the stand in excitement. "That would still count, right?"

"'Course it would," Foxy nodded. "I admire yer' thinkin', lass."

"Thanks!" Mary said as she continued to stare at the prize stand. She fidgeted with her fingers for a bit before she turned to him.

"I'm going to go try saving up for it now!"

With that, she then left to run in the game area eagerly. Foxy mentally chuckled.

Seems that children weren't so bad after all.

--

The pizzeria was doing quite swell after a week or two. Parties ran quite more often, and it seemed activity was heavily boosted up. The new variety of foods seemed popular on the menu, but things were still focused on the pizza.

It wasn't long until October came around. Streets were filled with various decorations among many houses, and it was that time of the month that candy and costumes were popular. The pizzeria decided to be apart of the celebration this year, and had immediately gone into decoration.

Obviously.

Some fake cobwebs would be put in corners of the room and in the more darker places of the building. Paper decorations were lined along the wall, and it was around the time for the children to make Halloween-based fan art upon the animatronics or just simply sketching a pumpkin. Either way, it was all hung up on there as well, and people would take some time to admire the new decorations.

The band got some added decorations on the stage, and the tables had some Halloween-themed tablecloth set onto them. Some background Halloween-themed music would play while the band wasn't on stage, and the band made sure to center some songs around the holiday. The pizzeria only allowed costumes on the week the day Halloween would take place in.

Pirate Cove was the least decorated place. It was difficult combining pirates with Halloween, minus themed-costumes. But they made sure to include chocolate coins or candy in Foxy's treasure chest, where he would give away during his shows.

As for "Pirate Foxy's Terrific Adventure!"? Well, let's just say that a lot of candy was given out on those days. They made sure to make their setting much more darker for the theme. Their costumes would have more darker colors fit for the holiday, but that was about it. They didn't want to go too overboard with it, after all.

They'd save that for Christmas.

But, once the week Halloween was on had entered the place, the pizzeria had started allowing guests to enter with their costumes on. They, of course, had some small guidelines to it, with it being obvious rules. No weapons, harmful gear, inappropriate costumes, and no adults wearing any costumes. Anything else was common sense, really.

And, on that week, the pizzeria had decided to focus on Halloween-themed activities. They decided to let the animatronics lecture the children upon Halloween itself and of the creatures that seemed to be popular images to dress as. Like witches and vampires, which they had decided to inform the children about and why they're so popular to dress up as. They would ask questions, and would give candy away as a prize. Not much of a difference there, besides the different topic the questions would focus on.

The pizzeria didn't add many new activities, wanting to save up for ones they were planning for Christmas. But they made sure to add one large event followed up with a few small ones. The large event placed in the pizzeria included Pirate Cove. The small events were just put to the side in different rooms. But the one in Pirate Cove was the main and focused event taking place inside the building.

An employee had gotten the idea to add a miniature haunted house in the pizzeria. They had plenty of space in many of the rooms to add one in, but they felt that Pirate Cove was among the largest and most appropriate spots to hold one in. And it wasn't miniature, figuring that the thing held most of the space in the large room. It was designed to be a long passageway that guests would have to walk through while facing many horror-like surroundings and scares.

They also had a portion of the employees dress up as monsters or various creatures to be within the passageways. They had applied makeup and specially designed costumes just for the occasion. There were to try and scare the guests in creative ways as they made their way through the haunted house. Some of the makeup applied to specific ones already got some teens to jump at.

They still, of course, kept some employees to do their regular job. Waiters and waitresses still held their positions, as with the chefs and other various employees. Some still wore makeup and costumes, but weren't able to have any that would scare the children. But it still matched the theme of the setting the pizzeria held.

Foxy had his own portion of Pirate Cove to run his regular show. He still had the stage to work with, but most of the room was blocked out by the area used for the haunted house. Plus, with all the noises coming within it, it was relatively difficult to have his audience hear him clearly. He'd sometimes move them to a different room because of it, and they still got the chance to enjoy his show.

The haunted house only allowed specific people to enter. Heart troubles, pregnancies, and age restrictions were obviously placed upon the rules. They allowed teens and adults to enter, and restricted the children from entering for obvious purposes. They also charged the guests to be able to enter. It was a dollar per entry, or at least 30 tickets, if you couldn't afford that.

It was definitely worth the price, figuring that it was quite large from the size of Pirate Cove. They also had put some time and money into it, which was obviously shown from all the lights and decoration, as with the employees getting paid to do it. Many of the teens and/or adults ended up paying another dollar or two just to re-enter. Some groups of teens would go in about 10 times just for the sake of it.

The smaller events took place in more of the kiddie areas of the pizzeria. They weren't big, and didn't cost any money to play. There were a few games held to the side of the play area where some children could go and try at. One game consisted of rubber ducks being held in a medium-sized water container. The rubber ducks were custom made, and were modeled after Chica, with them having small bibs painted onto themselves.

The focus of the game was to have the children try and get some small-sized loops around one of the rubber ducks' head. It seemed relatively easy, with the loops being larger than the rubber ducks themselves. This was purposely done to make the game easier for the smaller children, and that the game, itself, didn't cost any money. If it did, then the loops would've been made smaller, much upon the manager's wish.

The prizes were obviously put. Tokens and tickets. If the child managed to get the loop around one specific duck that was larger than the others, they'd be able to get one of the rubber ducks as a prize, as with either the tokens or tickets. It turned out that they had some extra ones to spare, and they figured to just give away while they could. They also planned to make a lot more of the rubber ducks and be able to give it away as a prize.

While those were in progress, the pizzeria remained the same with the Halloween-setting. They'd be sure to change everything back to normal once the month was over, so they made sure to highlight the haunted house as a "limited time" thing. There was a possibility that they'd be bringing it back next year, but who knows how much they'd make by then?

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"Foxy, Foxy, I just won a rubber Chica! Look! Look!"

The animatronic fox blinked in confusion as he turned to look at the child, who was jumping as they held a rubber duck in the air. Foxy then squatted down as he observed the thing, tilting his head in interest.

"It be lookin' like a fine prize, lad! Where did ye' get it?"

"Over at the game thing!" The child pointed to one of the games from afar. "It was REALLY easy to get, but they said that I'm the only one who had won one today! Isn't that awesome!?"

"Aye," Foxy nodded as he stood up straight. "Great job, lad!"

"Thanks!" He grinned as he stared at the prize held in his hand. He then looked up at the animatronic as he asked, "Do you...think Chica will like it?"

Foxy opened his jaw to reply, but ended up looking up to the ceiling in thought. He ended up shrugging.

"I don't know, lad. Ye' should find out an' show it to 'er!"

The child nodded as they suddenly ran out from the room and to the stage where the animatronics performed. Since they weren't on, he had to look around before managing to spot Chica from afar. He then ran to her, being sure he didn't drop his prize while doing so.

Once he reached her, she was currently bidding farewell to a child that was leaving. As soon as she was done, she turned around, only to be greeted by another child. He waved, which resulted in her waving back.

"Hi there! How's your stay at Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria so far?"

"Great!" He replied with a grin. He then held up his rubber duck as he exclaimed, "Look what I won!"

Chica blinked before looking at the prize. It was....quite an odd object that she'd never seen before! But it looked a lot like her....

"It looks wonderful!" She commented as she then tilted her metal head in confusion with a slight click. "Is it modeled after me?"

"Sure is!" The child replied with a smile. Chica's eyes widened in surprise.

She then turned as he exclaimed, "Freddy! Freddy! Look, look, look!"

The animatronic bear turned around from whatever he had been doing and had approached the two. He blinked his blue eyes in confusion before asking, "Yes, Chica? What is it?"

"That!" The chicken replied as she pointed to the rubber duck held in the child's hands. "A toy is modeled after me! Can you believe it?"

"Yeah," Freddy nodded. "It's quite a neat rubber duck."

"Rubber...duck?" Chica asked, her smile vanishing. She then looked back at the thing as she commented, "I'm not a duck..."

Bonnie, whom had been nearby, snickered in the background. Chica turned to give him a glare, immediately silencing the animatronic.

Freddy gave her a smile. "Oh, come on. It's not that bad. Plenty of rubber ducks are modeled after things that aren't...well, ducks."

"You think?" Chica asked, turning to her friend. The child walked away from the animatronics and to a booth. They didn't notice this as the continued on with their conversation.

"Sure I do! I mean, Bonnie can be modeled as a rubber duck. And he's not one, right..?"

"Well, I don't know about THAT," Chica replied as she narrowed her eyes, turning to the bunny robot behind her. "For a bunny, he's sure got one large beak."

Bonnie turned around to give her a glare, in which she returned. Freddy shook his head as he stepped between them.

"Guys, guys, don't go into conflict. Today should be a happy day. And if we fight, it won't help."

"I guess you're right," Chica murmured as she looked at the ground. "Still, I'm not a duck. Why would they make me one?"

"Because, like ducks, you catch everyone's attention and they admire you," Bonnie replied. "Those children must give several attempts if they try to win a prize modeled after you."

"Aw," Chica clasped her metal hands together as she smiled at her friend. "Thank you, Bonnie!"

"Well, glad to see you two are getting along again," Freddy replied as he looked at all the children running around in the pizzeria. "So, while you two are still friendly, why don't we perform a song for the children? I've been wanting to try out that new one lately.."

"'Eyes within Pumpkin'?" Bonnie asked as he stepped on stage, grabbing his guitar that was put to the side.

"You know it." Freddy smirked as he followed after him on stage, grabbing his microphone from a nearby table. Chica grabbed her plate with a cupcake on it as she got into her position. Bonnie tuned his guitar for a bit before turning to his leader, giving the bear a nod. Freddy returned it as he turned back to Chica, who flattened out her bib as she nodded at him.

He then turned back to the audience, a smile brought onto his muzzle as he saw the tables already filled with plenty of children waiting for their performance. And, as they had started their song, the children watched them attentively with plenty of smiles. Freddy caught onto this, and felt himself smile, as with the other animatronics.

Boy, were they loved.

--

"Hey, Angela, what do you think is in that haunted house thing?"

Angela blinked as she leaned to the right, seeing a portion of the entrance to the haunted house. She ended up shrugging as she looked back at her friend.

"I don't know, Brandon. Probably scary stuff, if they won't let us in."

Foxy adjusted himself beside her as he continued to read from a paper one of the employees had given him not too long ago. The children were led out of Pirate Cove by Foxy, and they had settled on a spot on the carpet in the Birthday area. There weren't a lot of people there, but plenty of children had joined in on the circle they formed. A lot of them were wearing costumes, due to it being the week Halloween took apart in. Foxy seemed to be too busy reading from the map to notice any of the children not paying attention to their activity. Well, at least the one he was currently in process of planning.

Brandon glanced back at the haunted house. He then turned back to Angela with a sigh.

"I really want to go in there. It looks like a lot of fun."

"It does," Angela nodded as she continued to observe the people entering. "But only grownups are allowed. It sucks."

"Hey, Foxy!" Brandon exclaimed, raising his voice so the animatronic fox would hear him. Foxy stopped reading as he set the map to the side, giving the child a curious look.

"Yes, lad?"

"Do you know what's in the haunted house?" He asked in an eager tone, motioning over to Pirate Cove. Foxy leaned a bit so he could see the thing, and ended up shrugging.

"'Fraid I don't, lad. But 'Ol Foxy be hearin' that it be filled with plenty o' scary things, it be!"

"Scary things?" One of the younger children gasped. "Like what!?"

"Oh, I don't know.." Foxy looked to the ground in thought, resting his hooked hand on his lap. "Depends on what yer 'fraid of."

"I'm afraid of spiders," A girl wearing a cat outfit commented as she looked to the ground. "They scare me."

"Me, too!" A young boy dressed in a dog outfit nodded his head, looking around at the others.

"Spiders are really interesting to me," One of the older kids commented as they shrugged. "It's moths that I'm afraid of."

"Moths?" A child dressed as a skeleton scoffed. "Those are cute. I'm afraid of snakes!"

Soon before the animatronic fox knew it, every child in the circle had started listing out their fears. He just sat there and listening to them all, looking at each child that mentioned their own phobias. This went on for a minute or two, and, even by then, the children were starting to run out on their lists.

It wasn't too long before a child turned to him and asked, "What are YOU afraid of, Foxy?"

Immediately, the group had hushed down as they turned to the animatronic, eager for an answer. Foxy looked to the ground in thought, heavily considering the question.

He replied, "Hunters scare 'Ol Foxy."

"Hunters?" A little girl in a fairy outfit asked, making a face. "Why would they scare you?"

Foxy remained silent for a few seconds, blinking as he stared at the little girl. The younger children had blank looks as they stared at the animatronic fox. Well?

"OOOOOOHHHH!" One of the older children's eyes widened in realization as they clamped a hand over their mouth. The younger kids exchanged confused looks at this.

"Wait, I don't get it," A little boy in a vampire suit commented. "What's a hunter?"

He then looked around the circle, clearly wanting an answer. None of the children gave him it, due to being confused as well or just not stating it for obvious reasons.

"I think it be the time we be movin' on, it be!" Foxy quickly commented as he grabbed the paper set to the side. Children glanced at each other, confused out of their minds. Older children cleared their throats, giving them uncertain looks.

"Today, we be doin' somethin' different then we be usually' doin'," Foxy commented as he observed the paper held in his metal hand. "Since 'Ol Foxy don't 'ave his stage to work in', we be doin' some stuff differently 'ere."

"Ooh! Like what?" A girl dressed in a bright, pink dress asked as she rocked back and forth. Foxy shrugged.

"Oh, ye' know...just a lil' game I'm sure of all ye' know by now."

"Hide and seek?" A young boy asked, sounding a bit excited.

"No," The pirate shook his head.

"Rock, paper, scissors?" A younger girl asked, giving Foxy an eager look. He chuckled.

"No..."

"The silent game?" An older child asked. Foxy gave them a look, in which they only shrugged at.

The fox shook his head. "No."

"Then what!?" A girl dressed as a unicorn asked in frustration. Foxy quickly threw something at her, in which she managed to catch at the last second. She gave the object a weird look.

"A potato?" She asked, tilting her head in confusion. Foxy laughed as some background music had suddenly came on.

"Yes, lass! Hot potato! Don't be tellin' 'Ol Foxy ye' don't know what that is?"

The girl screamed before chucking it at one of the older kids. They fumbled with it a bit before passing it to the person beside them, whom had flipped out as they threw it back at Foxy. The animatronic caught it real quick before carefully passing it to one of the younger kids. They caught on to the pattern as they threw it to whoever was nearest.

This pattern went on, and it had gotten a lot of children to laugh at for how unexpected it was. It was until the music stopped for when the laughter ceased.

They all turned to look at whoever had the potato, only to realize that one of the younger males had it clutched in their hands, giving everyone a confused look.

"What?" He asked.

"Ye' be out, lad!" Foxy commented. "Whoever be holdin' it when th' music be stoppin' gets 'em out! 'Tis why everyone was passin' it in a hurry."

"Ah, man," The child grunted as they stood, passing the potato back to Foxy. He chuckled before giving it to the child next to him. The music had suddenly started again, which resulted in everyone passing it to whoever was available as quickly as they could. This ended up being a rather enjoyable game, with everyone laughing with each toss given.

And, as the game progressed, Foxy felt himself smile.

He could get used to this.

--

Halloween had passed the next day, which resulted in all the Halloween decorations and events being taken down in the pizzeria. The employees got out of their makeup(with some difficulties of some specific ones that actually had grew fond of it), and everyone was back to their regular jobs. The animatronics ran their concerts/shows back in the general category, and had stopped with the Halloween education. They went back to regular music, and it seemed that everything was back to normal.

The prizes now had the Chica rubber ducks added to them, once there were enough made. Chica was very pleased at knowing she was finally apart of the prizes, and had ended up hugging Freddy out of excitement when she first learned of it. More of the younger children had purchased the small item, but the chicken animatronic didn't care, due to being too happy of being apart of it in the first place.

But she became a bit disappointed once she learned that the other characters were getting their own rubber ducks. Even Foxy. This made her feel less special, but, with some encouraging words and praises from Bonnie, she ended up feeling better rather quickly. Because, hey, at least she was apart of the collection, right?

The haunted house the pizzeria carried ended up getting a few reviews from some adults. Most of them were positive, only counting 1 negative one from some fearless stranger. But this gave the employees to note to do it next year, and would put more effort into it so they'd be able to actually frighten the guests even more than they already did. They planned to use the entire Pirate Cove for it, which would make it bigger and better.

But, pfft, like anyone would get scared at a children's pizzeria.