Chapter 5: Sweet Balloons

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The glass floor above cracked as the Mangled creature began to push down it's force against it to retrieve it's sighted prey. Lora's eyes were wide. She had only just noticed the monstrous animal looking straight down at her. How long had it been following her? It's head matched the one from earlier, but whatever this thing was, it was clearly broken. It possessed two heads, one on an out stretched neck, the one Lora recognized, and one more attached to the body. This head went into a neck that actually had fur on it, which was a damp white before this neck seemingly transitioned into the metal part of the body. The head seemed extremely similar to Foxy, though the back of the snout had a metal wireframe that was exposed.

The second head was smaller and much less monstrous, and only had it's left eye, which unlike the others, was purple instead of orange. It lacked ears and other than this seemed to be in mint condition aside from a dent directly on it's left cheek, which was outlined by pink circles on it's jaw. The first head however lacked such things.

The monstrous fox had four arms and four legs, all but one arm placed on the right side of it's body and the legs evenly spread out. The right arm had three junctions along it each leading to a sharp point expect for the original, which ended with a bloody white hand that stretched out quite far. The arm was easily longer than the creature's standing height, the hand bent inwards on the ground. The three left sided arms seemed to have a pair of normal, metal hands with the top arm having a hand identical to the right.

It's feet were twisted and dislocated to the point a human would be crying in agony. They rotated seemingly on command whenever they left the ground, and the waistline itself seem to move as well. Along it's endoskeleton were hanging pieces of plastic and red wires leading from the hands and feet to the heads. But the most grotesque detail was it's chest. Right in the middle of the creature was a steady beating, stretched heart that looked as if it would explode, which rested under the red tie from which the metal body seemed to sprouted from.

As it made chomping motions towards Lora, revealing a very small lashing tongue, but almost pure red back teeth, the glass above her began to shatter. A huge piece fell to the floor, nearly driving itself into Lora's arm had she not moved. She began to run and the creature followed. She could now see an end. It looked to be a dead end with a door. Lora sped up before the monster jumped forward above her. She dove out as the glass floor above her broke, scattering to the floor. A piece of glass buried itself into her already scarred right ankle. Fear and adrenaline had softened the pain before, but that did nothing for what she felt at that moment. Struggling to stand and screaming without even realizing it, she saw the Mangled Foxy had harmed itself in the fall as well.

Containing herself, Lora began looking around to find a switch on the other side of a hall wall, which she immediately flipped. A light flashed and as the monster lunged at her, a giant metal door slammed down, crushing it's longest arm, leaving Lora on the other side of the gate with another door. Lora could hear it recoil in pain and she heard it attempt to remove it's arm before she heard a huge tear of metal. The winces became roar as the arm under the door was now motionless. She heard metal rending against the door as if it was trying to retrieve it's lost arm, but eventually, the creature gave up. However, Lora could still hear it growling and yipping in pain on the other side of the metal door. Again there was metal rending and a blood curdling roar that was followed by a strange snapping sound, as if something had been reattached. The arm still lodged under the door, now oozing a mix of oil and bright blood. Still, even after that, she could hear the Mangled Foxy was still there. There was now only one way to go now.

The single brown door stood in front of Lora had an outline which showed a white and black tile pattern like the floor in front of it. The knob was covered in a damp, inky substance. It wasn't blood, it wasn't thick enough, and it was shaded green, but it was sticky like a jam and Lora honestly had a hard time getting her hand to release the knob upon opening the door. The endless pathway had long since changed to enter a sliver end that Lora now stood in. After she had managed to creak the door open, Lora carefully pushed it outwards so she could properly get inside of the room. It had three hallways, one being a big loop back to here. This hallway in particular had a dark brown wood all over it. It felt dusty, but after holding her hand on the wall for only a moment, Lora jumped back.

"It's... Breathing..." She said in shock. "It's... Breathing! A wall can't breathe! There's no way. Out of all the things I've seen here, there is no way a wall could be breathing... unless..." She became pale. "Unless..." Lora braced herself for someone to charge at her, ripping through the doors dripping, old wood and to add another attempt at her life. For the fear to never end, even when she thought she was safe, but nothing happened. The breathing slowed, but nothing else. Lora attempted to ignore the hallway and continue her analysis on the room, but she found herself staring at the brown wood wall, still making breathing motions.

The door Lora had entered from was in a corner on the left side of the room, across from the brown hallway. Besides this door was a table area, the chairs smashed, and the tables scarred with bite marks, and mouth shaped gapes. One white table in particular had blood all over it's corners. It was not random splatters of blood, no, someone was hit with this table. Someone was killed with this table, the blood tainted with blue and purple fur. Lora's mind began racing. What had happened to Bonnie? The fur mad her doubt he was the attacker and instead made her think he was the victim.

Lora covered her mouth, feeling herself becoming sick again. Upon moving the table, clumps of blood and organic material laid on carefully placed napkins, the sight surrounded by a green and blue stain, and the organs melted into the floor, latching onto it as if latching on to dear life. Lora ran from the scene onto the other side of the room. Directly across was a counter, behind which was a trash can she now needed use of like before. The counter had two booths resting in the wall behind it, and on top of it was a destroyed cash register, completely smashed. It's surface however was a shining bronze, very clean and polished.

As she inspected the surface, Lora began to ask questions. But it all came down to one being the answer to all. What are they? They all looked like monsters, but Freddy and Bonnie acted like people, while the two Foxys were savage, uttering no words, only wild noises. She looked back to the checkered table. She felt a little sick, but kept it in. Silently, she began looking around again, covering the grotesque sight as it was before she entered the room.

Upon inspection, Lora confirmed that the room seemed to be outside of the walls. The roof was high up like the area she saw Freddy walking around... Freddy! Lora began frantically looking around for the little brown plushie entrusted to her. Throughout the three halls and not even on the floor's escalator, he was nowhere to be found. Her search at least confirmed she was back into a main area, but on another floor higher up. Lora, still determined to search for her friend, kept looking only to hurt herself. She winced, falling to the ground in pain. She had walked straight into an outward stretching plank, not realizing it's presence in her leg's path in time. The rap around her ankle was gone, her gashes exposed on her feet and bleeding once more.

Lora huffed in anger. She couldn't go back to the floor below, she was blocked off unless... She heard something. It was easily ignorable noise, but it was there. She realized that something was moving towards her. Perhaps Freddy. Turning to the noise she saw another creature, but this one wasn't monstrous. It just was broken, but not in the way the Mangled Foxy was.

The small chubby creature was about Lora's height, if not slightly shorter. It was wider though, and strangely lacked any arms. It's mouth was tapped shut, and it had no eyes, lacking even holes to hold such things. It's goblin like ears pointed to the sky, towered over only by the propeller on the creatures red and purple hate, covering most of it's lifeless brown hair. "Hey, are you ok?" Lora asked, ready to be rushed by her new discovery. The creature looked around, then towards her, and sunk it's head downwards once more. Upon further inspection, Lora realized the creature was floating. In fact, it was tied to an array of brightly colored balloons, unable to free itself, with only three balloons noticeably darker in terms of color. These balloons were the source of the noise as one of them had slowly begun to let out air.

"What happened to you?" Lora asked, this time the creature did not stir at her voice. Only a sigh of sadness that echoed through the relatively empty room. Lora made her decision then and there. She began looking around for something to cut the rope. Then, she found it. On a small table able to fit about 4 people, was one knife. It was cold as if it was made out of ice despite how dry it was. Picking the knife off of the table, she grabbed the creature by it's rope and turned it around. Immediately, it began squirming to be free from her, growing faster as Lora cut it loose. "Calm down, I'm trying to free you!" Upon hearing this, the creature stopped moving and waited. With a careful cut, the rope was off. Slowly, she removed the tape on the creature's mouth. "There, better?" She asked, proud of herself.

The creature nodded, and then began to form a sentence. "T-thank you." Lora's new friend then managed to wobble it's way onto it's feet. Lora helped it steady itself. "There we go, on your feet!" She smiled. Despite his appearance, whoever this was seemed nice enough. "You seem to be quite generous..." He said in a more normal tone. His voice was similar to that of a snake, but Lora refused to bring this fact up. It was rude, and he could easily take offense. "People call me the Balloon Boy, and your name is?" He said gaining a smile. Lora smiled back, though she had never even heard of 'Balloon Boy.'

"Well, my name is..." Lora began before she was cut off. As if he was doing nothing out of the ordinary, Balloon Boy began to grow new found arms, which went through his shirt sleeves perfectly. Not wanting to be rude and stare, Lora continued her reply. "L-Lora. My name is Lora..."

At this, the Balloon Boy flinched. "Did you say, 'Lora?'" He asked for reconfirmation. Lora nodded and noticed and the smile on the Balloon Boy's face had vanished. Readjusting himself, Balloon Boy turned and began walking into the front hall. "Hey!" Lora yelled after him. "What's the problem???"

Not even bothering to look back at her, Balloon Boy began walking faster. "I'd rather not be associated with you and that bunny of yours." He said obviously not in a friendly manor. "Thanks, but no thanks." Lora had begun walking after him, but paused. "Bunny? You mean Bonnie?" She asked. This time Balloon Boy did stop, but still did not turn back to Lora. He began walking again as if she had said nothing. "Hey wait, why don't you like Bonnie?!?" Lora yelled once again as she began chasing after Balloon Boy, who had begun running. He wasn't that dangerous looking, she could at least try to take him if he tried anything, or threaten to call Bonnie. Balloon Boy wasn't that fast, but Lora was struggling to move at all. He was clearly toying with her but, still, slowly she was getting closer and closer to him. It helped that Balloon Boy was going in a circle, scared that they would run into someone else should they leave the loop. Only feet away though, she heard something.

From upon a shelf in the room she had found Balloon Boy, there was a ruckus. Chattering Of teeth and slight movement that soon died down. The shelf had strange plushie that were a greenish yellow, that unlike Bonnie or Freddy's plushies, were more like action figures. They had actual limbs and joints, and were slightly bigger too. Every single one seemed to be based off of a bunny, but they looked different from Bonnie. Lora grew closer, now curious as to what exactly just happened.

The next time she passed the room, all eyes were on Lora, the chattering had mostly stopped. She actually took the time to look directly at the shelf, almost coming to a full stop. As she did though, she was graced with Balloon Boy's taunting. "Not so easy without your crutch huh? Can't do anything without Mr. Split Jaw helping you out!" Upon hearing this, Lora began sprinting after Balloon Boy. The pain was immense but her patience was the opposite. Balloon Boy seemed surprised by her burst of speed and even him speeding up barely did much good. As she got closer, Lora lunged to grab Balloon Boy, only falling to her knees as he jumped away. She wasn't giving up though. Her legs were already burning, she may as well go straight through the fire. Collecting herself, Lora began to run again...

Without warning though, as she began the next lap around, the plushies jumped onto her, their collective weight being too much for her. Balloon Boy without a second thought continued to run, off into the building out of where they were running and up some stairs. "No wait!" Lora cried out towards Balloon Boy, but there was no answer or reaction. The plushies began to hit her elbow, jumped up and down on her body and even began pulling her hair. "Bonnie!" She cried. There was no one. "BONNIE!" She cried aloud again. "WHERE ARE YOU?" Still nothing. The gremlin like creatures seemed to get more and more ferocious.

"Somebody, please, HELP!" Then, the plushies stopped. Lora could hear it. Stomping from something huge. Once again they began chattering as they ran away, scattering through the building. Lora's ankles hurt too much for her to move. There was still glass imbedded inside that had been pushed in even further by the plushies jumping on top of her. All she could do is turn on her back at most. The footsteps slowed.

From the darkness was a pair of purple eyes. Lora recognized them, but her brain was too confused to remember. Then she realized. "Bonnie?" The figure slowly walked from the hall towards Lora. It was Bonnie, but he was different. He was bigger, looking more monstrous than before. His demeanor has become more savage and more bulky. He had wild black hair that she had not seen before, and his eyes even with the calm purple color were threatening. He looked so relieved to see Lora, and at first she was confused why. Then she realized.

Lora lost Bonnie, and she'd been in the wall this entire time afterwords. He probably thought she was gone. He thought she was dead. Bonnie then noticed Lora's legs. The blood, the pain was recreated in an immensely huge puddle, with glass shards slowly getting pushed out from Lora's leg onto the floor, leaving the only the bigger pieces, seemingly imbedded in her calves.

"When did this happen?" Bonnie asked with a forcibly quiet voice. Lora was slow to answer. She could barely move through the pain. "There was this white Foxy. And a glass floor." She pointed to the door that lead inside of the walls. When she turned back to Bonnie, he looked furious. She had somehow not noticed, but his mouth was divided at the bottom, similar to that of a spider's.

The two hinged pieces had opened to reveal his real under jaw. Bonnie's eyes were glowing red and his expression was emotionlessly violent, but Lora didn't feel it was directed at her. Still, this scared her from saying anything about Balloon Boy. Back at home, Bonnie being angry was funny and just really a short temper that they laughed at later. This was different. Bonnie was actually scaring her. This wasn't a temper, this was rage. His claws shot out as if he was going to kill someone, which made Lora jump. Bonnie gave her a glance, and then looked at his hands, clenching them into a fist as he took a breathe and calmed down.

Bonnie then acted as if nothing had just happened. His eyes, while no longer glowing, were still shaded red. "Let me look at them." He said as he stepped towards Lora. She didn't ask what she had just seen. He may not be in mood, so it would be better to ask later. Bonnie reached to pick up Lora's legs. "Say something if it hurts." He said as he did so. He felt them only for a moment, and the pain was unbearable. She screamed and Bonnie immediately recoiled.

"Sorry..." Lora heard Bonnie say under his breathe. Lora has gotten a good idea of how Bonnie sounded. His voice wasn't as loud as Freddy's, but it was still loud, and if you didn't know Bonnie well, it would sound sinister and dark. Another set of footsteps began rushing towards them as Bonnie's ears twitched from the sound. "I need to move you. Now." He said. His normal charismatic tone was gone completely. From behind, Lora heard someone whispering something. Managing to turn her head to behind her, Lora saw Freddy standing there, looking at her before locking on to Bonnie. He was holding his smaller version in his left hand, his right clenching the wall next to him. Both were silent as Lora's head rang and her blood continued to spread on the floor near her legs. She felt pain, she felt she needed sleep, but she did not feel death. Still, the pain was too much for nothing but a little girl. Before they did anything, Lora's mind seemed to melt as she passed out. The last thing she thought about was a bright yellow balloon with red stripes, floating in front of her, weighed down by a piece of cut rope.

"This story was originally posted on Webnovel and Amino, and I give no consent to it being uploaded on any other site."