American Horror Story, Starting from Falls Town

Chapter 442: Halloween

On Halloween Eve, the entire city of Los Angeles was filled with a festive atmosphere.

The candy boxes and pumpkin lanterns everywhere, along with the citizens who had put on makeup in advance, made the whole city especially joyful.

Especially after nightfall, all sorts of demons and monsters, as well as various superheroes, roam the streets, like a chaotic dance of demons.

This definitely increases the difficulty of FEA's work. Agents cannot investigate every person dressed strangely. They can only disperse as much as possible on the city's main roads so that FEA agents can rush to provide support as soon as an incident occurs.

However, compared to the bustling atmosphere in Los Angeles, the festive atmosphere in Niagara Falls, 1200 kilometers away, is relatively less vibrant.

Halloween is mainly enjoyed by young people and children here; adults aren't as enthusiastic.

Take Nancy Thompson, for example, who hasn't been seen in public for a long time.

After graduating, Nancy helped out at her family's restaurant.

Roy had invited Nancy to go to UCLA in Los Angeles, but Nancy felt that she was just an ordinary girl and not the kind of person who could go to a big city, so she didn't go.

Nancy's rejection was actually predictable; she had already realized the huge gap between herself and Roy.

In terms of looks, Nancy was one of the least attractive girls around Roy.

In terms of ability, Nancy doesn't have any skills that she can boast about.

The only thing that makes Nancy special is that she's the female lead in "A Nightmare on Elm Street".

Therefore, Nancy decided to cherish her experience of spending her last semester with Roy as a beautiful memory.

Nancy is content as long as she can occasionally recall that blushing, heart-pounding feeling.

Today, Nancy was very tired after finishing the chores around the house, so she decided to wash up and go to bed early.

Lying in the bathtub, Nancy couldn't help but pick up her photo album to reminisce about the good old days and relax a bit.

However, Nancy seemed to have relaxed too much and unknowingly drifted off to sleep.

In her dream, Nancy seemed to have returned to her old house on Elm Street, a place filled with too many painful memories for her, and one she desperately didn't want to see again.

Unfortunately, Nancy didn't have the ability to control her dreams, so there was nothing she could do.

Suddenly, several people with their backs to Nancy appeared in front of her. Even though almost a year had passed, she still remembered those figures.

These figures are all Nancy's friends from Elm Street, including her ex-boyfriend, all of whom were killed by Freddie.

Nancy looked at her former partner with surprise.

"Why are you here?"

"Nancy, why didn't you save us?"

The group of people slowly turned around, each looking as if they were about to die. It was a terrifying sight, and they were all saying the same thing in unison.

"I'm sorry, there was nothing I could do at the time."

Nancy has experienced some supernatural events, and a year has passed, so she has long since emerged from the shadows and is therefore relatively calm.

"Nancy, why didn't you save us?"

However, the dead men kept repeating what they had just said.

Nancy shook her head helplessly, knowing that nothing she said now would make a difference.

The ghosts kept repeating what they had just said and began to walk towards Nancy, surrounding her.

Nancy frowned slightly; she gradually felt that something was off about the dream.

The next second, the dead companions all disappeared, and Nancy discovered that she was not in the old house at all, but Freddy's house.

"This is impossible!"

Nancy quickly ran out of the house to confirm and found that it was indeed Freddie's house, and there were three familiar little girls jumping rope in the distance.

"1, 2, Freddy will come looking for you."

3, 4, Lock your door.
5, 6, Cover your face with the blanket.
7, 8, Hold your breath!
9, 10, never fall asleep!

The familiar nursery rhyme filled Nancy with fear. She knew what hearing it meant, and the man who could save her was far away in Los Angeles.

"Calm down! Nancy, you must calm down! Maybe this is just a normal nightmare!"

Nancy tried to calm herself down, but soon she heard the sound of a sharp object scraping against the wall.

Immediately afterward, a voice that Nancy least wanted to hear came from afar.

"Oh, oh! Dear Nancy, do you still remember Uncle Freddy?"

The black wide-brimmed hat, the black and red striped sweater, the steel claw gloves, and that nightmarishly ugly face filled Nancy with utter despair.

"Impossible! Absolutely impossible! I saw Roy kill you with my own eyes!"

Freddie approached Nancy step by step, a wicked smile on his face.

"Oh, yes! I was indeed dead, but now I've crawled out of hell! Little Nancy, aren't you moved?"

Nancy dared not move; all she wanted now was to escape this terrible nightmare as quickly as possible.

However, the resurrected Freddy seems to be even stronger. At least when Nancy first dreamed of Freddy, she was able to escape the nightmare through willpower, but she failed today.

"Heh heh! Nancy, it's no use! Today, I'll taste the sweet fruits of my revenge!"

Freddy's expression turned extremely ferocious, and then his arm, clad in a steel claw glove, suddenly grew incredibly long, reaching straight for Nancy's face.

At the critical moment, a tall and beautiful woman suddenly appeared in his dream, blocking Freddy's steel claws.

"Freddy?"

The woman was very surprised to see Freddie, as was Freddie himself, who had just failed.

"Who are you? How did you end up in Nancy's dream!"

"I should be asking you that. I remember you were killed by Roy."

Upon hearing the name Roy, Freddie took a step back like a stressed animal.

Coupled with the fact that this suddenly appearing woman seemed rather difficult to deal with, Freddie decisively fled Nancy's dream.

Freddie has always been like this; his power primarily comes from the fears he collects in his dreams.

The basic formula is to announce one's return in the protagonist's dream, then start killing those around the protagonist to accumulate power, and finally make a move against the protagonist.

Nancy, who had been rescued, was somewhat bewildered and looked at the beautiful woman with a strange expression.

"Ma'am, who are you?"

Only after the beautiful woman was certain that Freddy had really left did she speak to Nancy.

"We'll talk after we get out."

Nancy was thus led out of her dream by the beautiful woman.

When Nancy opened her eyes, she realized she was still lying in the bathtub, the water of which had long since cooled.

She quickly put on her bathrobe and stepped out of the bathroom, only to see a tall, beautiful woman sitting in her room—the very woman who had saved her in her dream.

“My name is Lilith, and I’m Roy’s friend. I happened to be in Fallstown recently and noticed that you had some issues, so I came to check on you.”

Nancy looked enlightened.

In fact, the two had met before, but at that time Lilith was still inside Jennifer's body.

So Lilith knows Nancy, but Nancy doesn't know Lilith's new image.

"Ms. Lilith, was that really Freddie just now? Has he been resurrected?"

“I’m afraid so. Nancy, you’d better not sleep tonight. I have some things to do and can’t watch over you. After tonight, someone will take care of Freddy.”

Nancy exhaled and nodded.

"I will!"

"Then I'll be going now." With that, Lilith opened the window and jumped out, leaving Nancy in the room looking completely dazed.

As soon as Lilith left Nancy's house, she called Roy.

Unfortunately, Roy had already changed into his costume and was at the sorority's Halloween party. Captain America's cosplay costume obviously didn't have pockets for his phone, so he put it in his inventory.

After several unsuccessful attempts to get through, Lilith had no choice but to give up.

"Hopefully nothing bad will happen tonight."

Lilith had a feeling that something big might happen tonight, but she was also about to perform a very complicated ritual that required several hours of preparation.

"Lilith, where have you been? We need to start preparing for the ceremony!"

"Come right away!"

On the other side of Falls is Jennifer's old house.

This place has been engulfed by fire, and because of the bloodshed that occurred there, no one is willing to buy it.

Suddenly, a pair of hands reached out from the collapsed ruins, and then a burly man pushed away the rubble that was pressing down on him and stood up.

The burly man surveyed his surroundings before finally heading towards the center of Waterfall Town.

On the way, the burly man found an old white rubber mask that someone had thrown on the ground. He picked it up and put it on his face.

Suddenly, a voice rang in my ears.

"Michael, come to me!"

The burly man tilted his head as if in thought, when he noticed a ring of fire in front of him.

The burly man quickly made his decision and entered the ring of fire wearing a white rubber mask.

The ring of fire vanished quickly, as if nothing had happened.

Sawyer Manor is currently occupied by Ella, as the mistress of the house is not at home. Wendy and Misty live in the secluded woods of Sawyer Manor.

Neither the two witches nor the doll were the type to enjoy crowds, which made Sawyer Manor seem rather deserted.

Suddenly, Misty seemed to sense something.

"Wendy, I feel something's off!"

Wendy looked at Misty with a strange expression.

What did you feel?

"It's hard to describe, it's like something terrifying came out of the soil!"

As a swamp witch, Misty has an extremely keen sense of wetlands and soil.

Indeed, in the backyard of the main building of Sawyer Manor, which is also the Sawyer family cemetery, a hand is seen reaching out from the soil.

Not long after, a strong man emerged from the ground. He looked around and then heard someone inside the house listening to classical music.

This is Ella listening to a vinyl record; she really enjoys listening to classical music.

The burly man picked up a shovel from beside the cemetery, then put an empty burlap sack over his head, and prepared to go into the house to clean it up.

Before even entering the house, the burly man heard a voice.

"Jeb, come to me!"

Then, a circle of fire appeared in front of the muscular man.

The burly man hesitated for a moment, but ultimately chose to step into the ring of fire.

When the ring of fire disappeared, Wendy and Misty happened to come over to check, only to find that there was a new pit in the graveyard.

"Strange? Did someone dig a hole here?"

Meanwhile, strange things are happening elsewhere in America.

For example, at Camp Crystal Lake in Louisiana, which has long been designated a no-go zone by the FEA and no longer receives tourists, a burly man walked out of the lake step by step.

The burly man smashed through the barbed wire fence used to block the way, triggering an alarm set up by the FEA, but he paid no attention to it and picked up a somewhat worn hockey mask from the roadside and put it on.

"Jason, come here!"

At that moment, the burly man vaguely heard a man's voice.

For some reason, the burly man was willing to listen to this man, whereas he usually only listened to his mother.

The next second, a circle of fire appeared in front of the burly man. After stepping over the circle of fire, he disappeared from the outskirts of the Crystal Lake camp.

At that moment, FEA agents arrived after hearing the alarm. They found a hole about the size of a human figure in the barbed wire fence, but no one was there.

An investigation revealed that the traces on the ground only extended a short distance outside the barbed wire fence, as if the person who broke the fence had vanished into thin air.

This matter ultimately became an unsolved case for the FEA, forever sealed in the archives.

On the outskirts of Los Angeles, three tough guys and one freakish weakling appeared at the same time. The four of them stared at each other, none of them speaking immediately.

Finally, Freddie couldn't help but speak up.

"Hey, why aren't you guys saying anything? Are you all mute?"

The three burly men remained silent and made no move.

"So you're not only mute, but also idiots?"

That's the truth. Jason, Michael, and Leatherface never spoke in the movie, and all three of them had intellectual disabilities, putting all their attribute points into their physical abilities.

Freddie was speechless.

"Who exactly called me and these three idiots here?"

As soon as he finished speaking, Freddy heard a man's voice, the same voice that had summoned him earlier.

"Of course it's me."

A refined middle-aged man emerged from the shadows, exuding an extraordinary aura.

This imposing aura immediately intimidated four of the most notorious serial killers in Hollywood history.

The other three were both mute and mentally challenged, so only Freddie could speak.

"I wonder who you are?"

The middle-aged man was clearly no ordinary person, so Freddie's tone was quite polite.

“You can call me Mr. Lecter, or you can call me by another name, Beelzebub.”

Freddie's pupils contracted as he realized that the refined middle-aged man in front of him was the King of Gluttony, and he quickly took off his hat in greeting.

"Greetings, King of Gluttony!"

The other three tough guys were still staring blankly at Hannibal.

“You are all actually dead. I brought you back from hell with the purpose of killing someone on this special day.”

"So it was you, sir, who resurrected us! I wonder, who do you want us to kill?"

"Of course, it's your common enemy, Roy Black."

"what!"

Upon hearing the name Roy Black, the three tough guys finally reacted, with Freddie's reaction being the strongest.

Seeing the four people's reactions, Hannibal smiled.

"Rest assured, I will grant you great power."

"My lord, rest assured! I will definitely help you kill Roy Black!"

Jason, Michael Miles, Leatherface: -.

Here they come!
(End of this chapter)