The Call Of A Mute Heart

Halloween 2017 pt 2

"Hello."

You silently shrieked at the childlike voice that filled the entire room and launched yourself away from the propped up Freddy suit. Only for gravity to kick in and you started to fall due to the fact you had been holding yourself up against the wall. Thankfully, you didn't have to worry to much about your current predicament. Long arms wrapped around your descending form seconds before you managed to make contact with the floor. You were then lifted until you felt a familiar chest plate being pressed against your back, looking as though you were being cuddled like a teddy bear.

"What was that? I thought we were supposed to be the only ones here?" Mettaton's eyes were narrowed at the third person in your small group as Undyne's single eye narrowed. Her ponytail swished around as the fish monster tried to pinpoint where the voice had originally come from.

"We are... I haven't noticed movement from anyone other than us. So that could be a timed reaction thing, someone is hiding scarily well, or some teenagers snuck in and triggered something?" Undyne's voice was steady as she eyed something high up on the far wall. The boon that almost all monsters gained from being trapped underground for thousands of years was the fact that most could see almost perfectly in the dark. So whereas you had to squint to see what she was looking at, Undyne was able to see the hidden security camera hanging from the ceiling perfectly. "Maybe someone hadn't left yet and is just playing around in the security room?"

"There's a security room?" You signed to Undyne when she turned to face the two of you again with your interest peeked. Despite not wanting to admit it, whoever put this place together knew what they were doing. The haunted house definitely had the Fazbear's Pizzeria feel to it. Black and white checkered tile floors lined all of the halls that you have been in so far. Posters, children's drawings, and other decor of the bygone era filled the walls along with some scary things to try and spook anyone coming in. They did seem to go a bit overboard with the animatronic parts though. Someone had placed them in several of the corners with lights inside as though they were jack-o-lanterns. You still weren't sure how you really felt about that.

Undyne nodded her head. "Yeah, it was supposed to be designed to look just like the old pizzeria and that includes the security room. To be honest, you would probably know this layout more than I should if that's the case."

You rolled your eyes at her but you couldn't deny her words. The layout was scarily familiar to your old childhood stomping grounds. Still... you had to know. All of this stuff looked to authentic to be handmade props. That Freddy suit wouldn't have been able to hold your entire weight if it had been made with cleverly painted wood. Meaning whomever put this place together had either gone all out in having it made... or it was real. "So... is all of this stuff made up?... Or did they actually get this stuff from somewhere?"

Your eyes trailed up to look at Mettaton's face as best you could with the current way he was holding you. Those simple questions were loaded with hidden meaning and Mettaton eyed you with a look that confirmed he knew what you were hinting at.

Was any of this stuff taken from the pizzeria you had been trapped in until 6am? Were the children whose souls had taken to possessing the animatronics now here as a prop or even holed up somewhere? Undyne had said there wasn't anything roaming the attraction but that didn't mean that they didn't have them put up somewhere to add in later. You didn't want to think about it but at the same time you really had to know. Those kids had been through enough as it was...

"A little bit of both. A lot of it is authentic though. Someone went around to the old businesses and bought a crap ton of the stuff trying to find the real things. I do know they tried to buy the lot that you held your test of courage at awhile ago but someone had already claimed it and refused to let them take it." Undyne shrugged nonchalantly as she trailed a little ways away further into the attraction with Mettaton following after.