Crystal POV

"Catrina , Catrina where are you? Catrina answer mommy." I called as I walked down the street.

My father sent his men to search the town. One is them came across my teddy bear that Catrina had accidentally left in the park. "Sir?"

"What is it? What have you found?" My father asked anxiously walking over to the man who handed him my teddy. "Oh no."

"Is it?"

"Yes. It's Catrina's favorite stuffed animal." Maurice said looking worried. "She never goes
anywhere without it."

"Sir over here." Another man called and Maurice turned to the man who had found my teddy. "Keep searching."

"What did you find?" He asked walking up to the man who was staring at the bench I had been laying on the night before.

"There are two sets of footprints here. One that matches Catrina's foot size and the other seems to be that of an adult. They lead towards the parking lot. There don't seem to be any signs of a struggle."

"Catrina wouldn't willingly get in a car with someone she didn't know." Maurice replied.

Freddy POV

Meanwhile, back at my house I was in my secret room tapping my razor glove against a wooden panel. I growled angrily and frowned Why hadn't he killed Catrina already? Why did she seem so different from the other children that he had murdered? Could it be because She was daughter of the women I loved? No! Crystal had betrayed me.

She had chosen to stay with that rich brat instead of seeking me out when she became of age. Catrina was a product of that betrayal. It should be easy for me to kill me and yet for some reason I couldn't bring myself to do it. "Dam it!" I growled. "What the hell is wrong with me?"

Suddenly he heard someone chuckling in amusement and then speak to him even though he was completely alone. "Maybe there's a reason you don't want to kill her." The voice chuckled in amusement once more. It was as if this voice knew something that he didn't."

"Who are you?" I demanded my irritation growing with every passing moment.

The voice chuckled once more and then replied "all will be revealed in time. As for the girl have fun but don't kill her just yet."

Then another voice replied "don't listen to him. go ahead and kill her she just like all the other brats."

"Now you and I both know that's not true." The first voice replied.

"Who are you?" I demanded once more looking around but still seeing no one.

"We are your friends Freddy." A third voice replied.

"I told you all will be revealed in due time. For now just do as I say." The first voice he had heard replied. I let out a low frustrated growl and smashed some empty glass containers nearby.

"Whoever you are get out of my head!"

The voice of the one who had told him to kill me laughed and replied "as you wish." With that their was complete silence but only for a second.

"I can sense your frustration. You don't want to hurt the girl and that's fine. There are other brats to kill. I suggest you go find one." The third voice replied.

"Why am I so hesitant to kill her?" I asked the third voice who sighed.

"I'm not allowed to tell you that but I can give you a hint by asking you a question. Would you ever have hurt Katherine?"

"Of course not she's my daughter she's nothing like those little brats." I replied.

"Exactly." The voice replied. "Perhaps the reason you don't want to kill Catrina is she that she is a very special little girl just like your little Katherine." The voice replied. Leaving Me confused. I knew one thing. I had to go clear my head or I would hurt Catrina for some some reason that was the last thing that I wanted to do.

However, I accidentally left the door to my basement open. A young man stood in distance watching. He had seen Freddy bring me home. He didn't like me in fact, he wanted me out of the way. "Nows your chance to rid yourself of that brat." A voice inside his head whispered.

"Wanna know a secret?" Another voice whispered in his ear. "Do you want to be the town hero? Then go ahead nothings stopping you from entering Freddy's home. Your just being a good neighbor." Tommy shook his head where were these voices coming from? Slowly he made his way down into Freddy's basement. "Over here." The voice whispered and to his surprise a door creaked open. What was inside shocked to him to the core. Newspaper clipping lines the walls. Clippings about the Springwood Slasher.

A strange glove hung on a nearby shelf. "Why don't you try it on? Come on, you know you want too." The voice whispered and despite his better judgement Tommy gave into his curiosity. Surprisingly the strange glove fit quite well. It gave him a sense of power. The dream demons smiled their plan was working.

Catrina POV

Meanwhile, upstairs I awoke from a bad dream. Mista Kwuga?" I called to him weakly letting out a laugh cough. "Mista Kwuga Whewe is you?" I heard a sound coming from downstairs and decided to investigate could Mista Kwuga be wowking downstairs?"

"Mista Kwuga ?" I called timidly.

"Guess again." Replied an errie voice.

"Whewe is Mista Kwuga?" I whimpered as a creepy man wearing a mask came into view. (Mask picture above). His eyes were covered by dark glasses. I slowly backed away from the man who smiled evilly.

"He's not here at the moment." The man replied with a chuckle.

I frowned "what did you do to him? You'd better not have huwt him! Owa so help me Me is gonna.... I growled and the strange man was taken aback. He had never seen me this angry before. Normally I was a very timid little girl.

"Or You'll what child?" The man asked. "How about we play a game? I know let's play hide and shriek."

"Me not heawd of that game." I replied beginning to feel very afraid.

"Ah it's simple you hide and every time I find you I do this. He replied lunging at me and slashing my arm. I screamed in pain and the man smiled. "Ah see, you do know how to play.

"Me don't think Me like this game."

"Well that's too bad because it's my favorite." The man replied. "How about I give you a sporting chance? I'll give you a one minute head start before I come looking for you. Starting now." I stood frozen in place staring at the man in fear. "Tic tock your times running out." With that I turned and ran upstairs.

Me had to find someplace to hide. "Come out come out wherever you are." The man sang in an evilly. "Gotcha!" He said as he pulled me out of the closet this time slashing my my left leg. He laughed as I tried to run. "Did you know that sometimes predators won't kill their pray right away? No it's the thrill of the chase that makes the kill far more satisfying. Some predators even paralyze their pray, and toy with them before killing them."

"I'm a lot like them. Go ahead I'll give you another chance to find a good hiding spot." Again he found me easily and this time he slashed me across the chest. "This is fun. I'll give you one last chance to find a good hiding spot before I kill you."

The man replied closing his eyes and counting to ten. "1-2 I'm coming for you. 3-4 no use shutting the door. 5-6 I'm getting my kicks 7-8 I just can't wait. 9-10 you'll never see your family again." The man sang as he watched me scramble away. "You can't hide from me your own body is betraying you.

Leaving me clues to finding you. I'll find you soon enough. I can read the headlines now, poor Catrina has gone missing from her home. Could she be the Springwood Slasher's latest victim? We wouldn't want to disappoint them now would we?" The man said with an evil chuckle.

"Mista Kwuga whewe is you?" I whimpered as I crawled my way into his daughter's room and hid under the bed.

Suddenly the man heard the key turning in the door. "You should have killed the brat when you had the chance. Run before it's too late!" The voices whispered. Tommy dashed back down the stairs tossing the glove on the floor and rushing out of the basement just in time.

Freddy POV
I smiled as I made my way down into the basement. It had been a fruitful night. I had managed to come across a boy attempting to force himself upon a young girl. I had killed the boy and then after having a little bit of fun with her I had eventually killed the girl. I frowned as I spotted one of my gloves on the floor.

"How'd that wind up out here?" I muttered picking it up from the ground. "That's odd." I said as I looked at the blades. "Fresh blood. Where did that come from? I haven't used this glove in weeks." Had someone been in his house? He looked up the stairs in worry. Could they have hurt me? "Catrina? Princess where are you?" I called out Catrina worriedly.

Catrina POV

Me wasn't about to fall for that bad man's twicks so Me pushed myself undea the bed. Me began to tremble as lights flooded the room.

"Princess are you in here? Where could she be?" I heard Freddy say worriedly.

"Mista Kwuga  is that weally you?" I asked peeking out from under the bed.

" Yes Princess it's me. Why are you hiding under the bed?"

"Me was hiding from the scawy man. He said he was going to kill me." I replied tearfully.

A slight snarl formed on Freddy's lips. "What scary man?"

"I think it was the bad man fwom the news. He had on  a scawy mask."

"Can you describe the mask Princess?"

"It had flames and it had stwange silvea mawkings on the fwont. The bottom was a skeleton mouth with vampiwe teeth."

"Is there anything else you can remember?"

"The bad man had glasses that hid his eyes. He sounded like someone Me know. He said Me was not going to see me mommy or daddy owa you again." I replied snuggling into Uncle Fweddy's chest tears filling my eyes.

"Shh. Your safe now." It was then that Uncle Fweddy noticed that Me was bleeding. "🤬!" He swore as he realized that I had lost a lot of blood and that I still had a fever. "Princess I you need to stay awake ok?"

"But Me so sweepy." I replied with a groan.

"I know  Princess but you've got to stay awake."

"Why?" I asked my eyelids starting to close once more.

"Because Princess if you fall asleep right now you might not wake up again. You want to see your mommy and daddy right?" I nodded weakly trying hard to keep my eyes open. "Then you must stay awake. Just for a little while longer ok?" Mr. Kruger asked.

"Me can't." I replied with a moan my eyelids growing heavier by the minute.

"Princess please try." Uncle Fweddy said as he placed me in the car.

However, just as Uncle Fweddy was getting ready to place me in the car seat in the back of his car Tommy the man that had hurt me spotted us. "What are you doing with the bosses daughter?" He demanded and frowned when he saw all the cuts."what did you do to her you sick 🤬 *******?" Where do you think your going? Your not going anywhere till I contact the boss." The man replied blocking Uncle Fweddy from closing the car door. "Yeah boss I found her."

"No she's not wearing the clothes she was in yesterday. No She seems to unconscious. He claims he was on his way to take her to the hospital. Yes boss. No of course. Yes, I understand." With that the man hung up his phone. "The boss will meet you at the hospital and then you'll have a lot of explaining to do Mr. Kruger."

Freddy POV

Once at the hospital I informed the doctor of my symptoms and of my high temperature. "I gave her Tylenol and some cough syrup but neither seemed to help. She was up all night with the runs and throwing up. She says she can't stay warm but she's burning up. No I'm sorry I don't know how she got all these cuts. I was asleep in my room when I heard her scream. 

When I arrived in her room she said a bad man had hurt her but there was no one in sight. She had been dreaming about a bad man all night. Could she have done this to herself unintentionally?" I asked and the nurse looked puzzled.

"Perhaps. However, given the extent of the injuries it's more likely these injuries were inflicted by someone else. Are you the child's legal guardian?"

"No her parents are on their way here. Is she going to be ok?" I asked.

"I'm sorry but I can only reveal that information to her legal guardians." The nurse replied with an apologetic smile.

Suddenly, Maurice burst through the hospital doors "where is she? Where is my daughter?"

"Please sir calm down. Your the guardian of the young lady who was admitted a few minutes ago?" My dad nodded. "Your daughter has lost a lot of blood she is in need of a transfusion without one I'm afraid she might not make it."

"Then take some of mine." Maurice replied rolling up his sleeve. "Take as much as you need."

"I'm afraid it's not that simple." The nurse replied.

"Why not?!" Maurice demanded angrily.

"I'm afraid your blood type is not a match." The nurse replied nervously.

"How could I not be a match? I'm her father! Fine then use my wife's blood!" He demanded his irritation starting to show.

"I'm afraid that your wife isn't a match either. Her blood type is O+ Which is a vert rare blood type. Unfortunately, this means that she can only receive O+ or O- blood. According to our records your blood type is A and your wife's is AB. I'm sorry sir. If we don't find a donor soon I'm afraid there's not much more we can do for her." The nurse replied.

"That is unacceptable! Can't you just contact s blood bank or something?" Maurice asked with a frown.

"That would be complicated. There would be paperwork to fill out, then the banks would
have to locate the blood. The nearest blood bank that might have that blood type on file is several hours away. I'm afraid that your daughter doesn't have that much time."

"Excuse me, I don't mean to interrupt but I couldn't help but overhear your conversation. Perhaps I could be of assistance. I believe my blood type is O. I'm not sure if it's positive or negative but I think it's definitely O." I said approaching the group.

Maurice grabbed ahold of my collar and shoved me up against the wall. "Why was my daughter with you? How did she end up like this? Answer me!!!" Maurice growled.

"I found her wandering alone in the park. She seemed afraid to go home and since I only live a few houses down from you I offered to let her stay with me until morning. As for her cuts I don't know how she got those. She said something about a bad man in a mask earlier but I didn't see anyone around the house except...."

"Except who?" Maurice demanded his grasp tightening.

"That guy who wouldn't let me bring Catrina to the hospital until he'd spoken too you. He was wearing a face mask that had flames on it with silver markings and with skeleton teeth including Vampire teeth. That is exactly how Catrina described the bad man who hurt her. He didn't seem to like the idea of my bringing Catrina to the hospital."

"He mumbled something under his breath the only words I made out was little brat. Look, I'll do anything I can to help your daughter no matter how much blood I'd have to give. I hope you catch the man who did this too her." I replied and surprisingly I actually meant it.

"Sir, this won't help your daughter. We have to administer the test to determine if Mr. Kruger's blood type is a match. As I said your daughter doesn't have much time. Reluctantly Maurice  lowered me to the ground and nodded.

A few minutes later the doctor returned with the test results. "I am happy to inform you that Mr. Kruger's blood type is indeed O. We will begin the transfer immediately."

My mother turned to Mr. Kruger and smiled "How can I ever repay you?"

"I want nothing from you. I'm not doing this for you Crystal. I'm doing for that little girl in the other room. She doesn't deserve to be punished because of your betrayal. Don't think I don't know who she is Crystal." At this, my mother's face went white as a sheet. "Now if you'll excuse me I have to go save our daughter." I replied brushing past my mom who stood their frozen a look of shock on her face.

Maurice POV

Meanwhile, I frowned when I heard the description of the mask. It belonged to his third in command's son. "Where is Tommy?" I asked turning to one of his men nearby.

"I don't know sir. I haven't seen him since Catrina was brought to the hospital. Why is something wrong?"

"I want him found. From what Mr. Kruger just told me he might have been the one who did this." I replied with a frown.

Patrick POV

"Oh no. Tommy what have you done now?" Tommy's older brother Patrick moaned as he walked out of the hospital to the car. "You had better not have hurt the bosses little girl or so help me I'll tan your hide myself!" He growled as he started the engine and drove off. It didn't take him long to find his little brother. Tommy was throwing things into suitcases as if he was in a hurry to leave. "Going somewhere little brother?" He asked blocking the door.

"I've got to leave town for a while that's all." Tommy replied.

"Why's that Tommy-boy?" Patrick asked still blocking the doorway.

"Don't call me that! You know I hate it when you call me that! As for where I'm going it's none of your business but if you must know, I have some important business elsewhere that needs to be dealt with." Tommy replied.

"Humm. The timing is a little suspicious Tommy-boy. The boss's little girl is badly injured by some mysterious bad man and now your in a hurry to leave town? It makes you look suspicious little brother."

"Look, I didn't hurt the little twerp ok? She maybe a spoiled little brat who needs to learn her place but I'm not stupid enough to lay a hand on her."

"Why didn't you want Mr. Kruger to bring her to the hospital?" His brother demanded.

"I found her at his house. I was concerned that he might have caused her injuries."

"Why did the bosses daughter mention your mask when she said the bad man hurt her?"

"I thought she was unconscious. Who told you that the man who hurt her wore a mask like mine?" Tommy asked his face lined with concern momentarily .

"Mr. Kruger."

"Did it ever occur to you that Mr. Kruger might be lying? That he hurt the little termite. I mean precious little thing?" Tommy replied.

"What is it with you lately? It's as if your jealous of Catrina or something. Name calling is so childish. If the boss or dad ever heard you call her names like that you'd lose your tongue." His brother replied with a frown.

"Yeah well she is a brat. It's about time someone took her down a peg." Tommy replied. "I'm sorry the little twerp wound up hurt but I can't say she didn't deserve what's happened to her. After all, she was dumb enough to run away in the first place. Now get out of my way. I have a plane to catch." Tommy replied. "I swear I didn't lay a hand on her." Tommy replied.

"I believe you but I doubt the boss will. Not with all the evidence stacked against you and now your on the run as well. It doesn't look good little bro it doesn't look good at all."

"I know ok?. I know, but I really do have some important business to deal with outside of town and although the timing couldn't be worse it's not something I can just dismiss. I have to go or I'm a dead man."

"Your a dead man either way. The boss won't stop until your found and who knows what he will do you once you're brought to him."

"Then I guess it's a good thing that he doesn't know where I am or where I'm going. Besides like I said, I didn't hurt the little brat." Tommy replies.