I'm sorry that there's not much Plush – Cherry action going on in this chapter (and that I haven't updated in a while). Also, hooray for character development!

Human designs (descriptions and visuals) by Pole-bear, Fnaf belongs to Scott Cawthon. The name 'Danny' I got from TeddyBearTy, who got it from Crazybird101. Credit given where credit's due.

Enjoy!

"Are you ever going to tell Spring?" Cherry sighed as Plush practiced.

"Not until I get grips on it," Plush sighed, before morphing fangs as an example. "Besides, it's nightmare magic."

"That's a form of energy entity!" Cherry argued. "Be honest. Spring is the only energy entity user you know. He can help you."

"I don't want to be tied down by training," Plush moaned.

"You won't be," Cherry assured. "I don't think Spring trains all that much himself. And besides, I'll be with you, even if Spring says it's too dangerous."

"What if Spring is upset by me having magic?" Plush asked. "He's scared of his own magic, and it's not even nightmare magic, which was literally discovered on Halloween."

"He can't do a thing except accept it," Cherry said matter-of-factly.

"One thing confuses me though," Plush continued, levitating some water from the river. "Magic is inherited, meaning that either Spring has some ounce of nightmare in him, or Sunny has magic that no one knows about."

"What about your parents?"

"Dad had entity energy," Plush explained. "But I didn't think he would have had nightmare…"

"What is nightmare, anyway?" Cherry asked, and tilted her head in confusion when Plush laughed nervously.

"Technically," Plush began, averting his eyes and rubbing the back of his head. "It means that I should be with my cousin."

Cherry thought for a few seconds, before her hands flew to her mouth in surprise.

"Nannie?" she asked, disbelieving.

"Exactly," Plush smiled sadly.

"That nightmare…" Cherry whispered. "You look nothing like a nightmare."

"We have to use magic to do that," Plush shrugged.

"Okay, now you have to tell Spring," Cherry said, standing up. Ignoring Plush's shouts, pleads and warnings, she grabbed his hand and pulled him to his apartment.

"Spring?" Cherry asked, pulling a whimpering Plush to the kitchen. Spring poked his head around the door.

"Yeah?" he asked happily. His expression changed to confusion – with a bit of amusement – when Cherry nudged Plush, who had his ears completely covering his ears. "Is there something you want me to know?"

"Should I just say it?" Cherry sighed deeply, shaking her head at no reaction from the trembling rabbit. She turned to Spring. "Plush has nightmare magic."

Plush yelped, before fainting. Spring was still for a second, before coming in fully and leaning on the wall, hand still on the door handle, other hand slowly going to his mouth in thought.

"Are you okay?" Cherry asked?

"Yeah, I'm fine," Spring said weakly. "He must have gotten it from our mum," Spring mused quietly, while Cherry poured a small glass of water and gently poured some over Plush. The young rabbit slowly came to, and Cherry led him to the living room.

"Plush," Spring said quietly, following them into the room. He sat on the arm of the chair a quiet Plush was currently sitting in. Plush wasn't moving, instead staring at the ground. "Do you want to be a nightmare?"

Plush looked up at the question, surprised.

"N-no," he said quietly. "No, I don't want to be a nightmare."

"Have you been avoiding your magic and telling us to ensure you wouldn't have to be a nightmare?" Spring asked, voice the same level as Plush's. There was something else, something that Spring knew, but wasn't saying anything or making any move to show it. Plush slowly nodded, tears starting to drip down his cheeks. Cherry came over and sat on the other arm, wiping a few tears away.

"You know that we wouldn't do that," Cherry sighed.

"I wonder what Plush looks like in his nightmare form!" a voice came from the kitchen. Spring went back in, and came out with the Freddle triplets.

"If Plush doesn't want to be a nightmare," Spring said, glaring at the triplets out of the corner of his eye. He aimed the ending of his sentence at Plush. "I strongly don't recommend changing to your nightmare form."

"Ah, as Nika always used to say," Finn sighed. "Once a nightmare, always a nightmare."

"Literally," Fabian finished.

"What?" Cherry asked.

"Once you turn into your nightmare form once," Floyd answered. "You always turn into your nightmare form from 12 to 6."

"Am," Finn said. "And it's from 1 to 6 on full moons."

Spring growled slightly at the triplets, who faked being scared and ran behind the sofa, laughing.

"How do you know so much about nightmares?" Fabian asked mischievously. Ignoring the warning gestures Spring shot him, he continued, "I bet it's G-"

All three triplets suddenly flew up, freezing in place, unable to speak or do anything. Spring sighed deeply, dragging a hand through his hair.

"I think it's time to go," Spring said firmly, beginning to levitate the triplets to the door.

"Wait," Plush suddenly said, and a surprised Spring did so, accidentally letting go of them. "They're nightmares."

"Yeah!" Finn said. "We can teach him!"

"Knowing you three, you'll trick him into his nightmare form," Spring sighed again. All three triplets shook their heads, their faces framed with innocence.

"Tonight," Finn smiled evilly. "We should go back to Kiddo's house."

"Yeah!" Floyd agreed, and Fabian nodded.

"What about Neddy?" Spring asked, desperate.

"We can avoid the other nightmares," Finn said quickly, ears sinking just a little but not being disheartened. "The best way to practise nightmare magic is do what it's meant for; using it on humans."

"It's also the best way to ensure that someone who doesn't want to be a nightmare becomes a nightmare!" Spring shouted.

"I'll avoid becoming a nightmare, Spring," Plush said. "As best I can, at least."

Spring sighed deeply.

"If it's what you want," Spring muttered. "We can go."

That night, the six could be found standing outside the house of 'Kiddo'.

"We shouldn't be doing this," Spring muttered.

"It'll be fine," Fabian said, waving a hand in the air. He led the others round to the side of the house.

"Tree," Fabian said simply, pointing to the, well, tree. Everyone climbed it, Spring rather hesitantly, but in the end they all got into the house undetected. Plush, Cherry, Spring and Floyd made their way into the bedroom.

"Where's that kid?" Floyd muttered as he and the others silently looked around. Cherry suddenly screamed as two clawed hands grabbed her by the shoulders.

"Now, now, girly," Nannie's voice came, raspy and icy. Spring shouted as Noxy grabbed him, and the nightmare cupcake cornered Floyd. Plush tried to help him, but was caught off guard by Nika made an attempt to grab him.

"We could really use your nightmare form right now, Plush," Floyd said as he and Plush backed up against the wall.

"Yeah," Nannie smiled sinisterly. "We would like to see your nightmare form."

"Er, no?" Plush said. "I don't know how."

"Oh, it's easy," Nika growled, suddenly jumping at Plush, pinning him to the wall. "It can be triggered by stress, pain, anxiety, any negative emotion in extreme, really."

"And once you become a nightmare once," Noxy grinned, fangs bared and glinting in the dim moonlight. "You always become a nightmare!"

"We have five minutes to turn this squirt into a nightmare," Neddy announced, coming into the room with the other two of the Freddle triplets in hold.

"Five minutes? Ha! That should be more than enough," Nika snarled, pressing harder.

"Let go of me," Plush whispered, beginning to gasp for air. When the nightmares only laughed, he turned instead to the others. "If I am forced into my nightmare form, I don't want you seeing. I don't want you hurt."

"Plushtrap," Cherry whispered.

"I'll become a nightmare," Plush said, voice back at full volume, or as loud as he could get it with the claw around his throat, which loosened its grip after he said it. "Just let my friends go. That includes the triplets."

The nightmares glanced at Neddy, who nodded once, letting go of Finn and Fabian. Noxy, Nannie and the nightmare cupcake backed up.

"Go," Plush said.

"Plushtrap," Cherry started, but was interrupted by Plush.

"Go!" he shouted, closing his eyes, beginning to tremble slightly.

"I won't-!" Cherry was suddenly grabbed by Spring. "Let me go!"

"He's a nightmare, Cherry," Spring said. "He'll be fine."

The four made a break for the door, Cherry giving one desperate look at Plush, before being whisked out of the room by Spring. Cherry let Spring and Floyd pull her down the corridor, until she slammed into Spring's back. She looked in the direction Spring was looking, and gasped in fear.

"Hey, Night," Spring said nervously, as a slightly transparent black-furred bear bared his fangs in a sadistic, lopsided grin.

"What did I tell you about calling me that?" he snarled. Spring pulled Cherry against a wall, while Fabian, Finn and Floyd teleported somewhere.

"How do you know him?" Cherry asked suspiciously.

"That really doesn't matter right now," Spring gasped, before Cherry was hit on the back of the head, and the world faded to black.

"Cherry!" a voice awoke Cherry, the young girl blinking sleepily as her eyes focused on three brown, scruffy bears in front of her.

"Cherry," the one to her right – Finn, she guessed – repeated.

"Ugh," Cherry said, trying to lift a hand to rub her head, jumping when she found that she was tied with ropes. The entire room was shrouded in shadows, save for the spot she was sitting in, which had a stream of light coming in through a window.

"Calm down," Fabian said, holding her shoulders to keep her still.

"Is Spring here to?" Cherry asked whenever she had calmed down a little. Floyd nodded behind him, and Cherry sighed in relief at finding Spring, not tied up, though still unconscious.

"Plush is here as well," Fabian continued, jabbing a thumb behind himself. "He's a strong fighter. I couldn't have even dared to bite Nika."

"You what?" Cherry asked the shadows around her, guessing the general area Plush was hiding. "Come out here."

There was silence from the shadows. Cherry sighed. "I will see you in your nightmare form one day."

"He gets the really cool one," Floyd sighed. Suddenly, a cry came from somewhere, causing Cherry to shout out and the Freddle triplets to instinctively back up back into the shadows.

"Plush, use those jaws of yours please," Finn said slowly as a light flickered on Cherry and off again. "You're new. You have more light resistance."

"Plushtrap, I promise I won't mind your nightmare form," Cherry teased, desperate to get out of the ropes, considering the Freddle triplets were such good friends.

"I didn't plan on doing this anytime soon," Plush said, sliding onto his knees to untie Cherry, revealing his appearance. He hadn't changed much, save for his fur and hair looking like he had been dragged backwards through a bush, his eyes now looking like Golden's, and that his fur and clothes were now dirty and ripped, and his fur and hair was about two shades darker than usual. He now had fangs, and were those claws?

Plush struggled for a few seconds, before resorting to simply biting the ropes off. As soon as Cherry was free, she hugged Plush, who stilled in surprise.

"I-I'm a nightmare…" Plush muttered.

"You untied me," Cherry smiled, rolling her eyes a little. "You're not a bad nightmare."

A sudden flash came from nowhere, causing Plush to hiss.

"That's a disadvantage," Fabian grinned from the shadows, his fangs glinting slightly. "We nightmares don't exactly like light."

"Who's doing that?" Plush asked, rubbing his eye.

"I think his name's Danny but we call him 'kiddo'," Floyd said happily. "There's a corridor out that door."

"What door?" Cherry asked.

"Ah, it's too dark for normal people to see it," Fabian sighed. "We nightmares can see in the dark."

"Anyway," Floyd continued. "In that corridor, there's a chair, and three other rooms. I think kiddo has put an 'x' at the end of the corridor. Don't know why."

"I'll get him," Plush sighed, making for the door. He caught Cherry's questioning glance. "Distract him."

"Right," Finn said.

Cherry turned around, but Plush was already out in the corridor. While the light was off, he got as far as he could until the light shone again, causing Plush to stop in his tracks. He noticed the boy's phone, which had a timer on it, and was counting down the seconds – it was at thirty two. The light flickered off, and Plush made a mad dash for the 'x', being stopped right on it. Plush simply crossed his legs, blinking when the boy gave him a confused look. No, it was more like a relieved look.

"Go on then," Plush said, surprising himself at the way it came out. As if he had a sadistically fun time doing that. He shivered a little as the boy took off.

"We're good!" Plush shouted as he looked in the other rooms. Two – including the one Cherry, the triplets and Spring were in – were storage rooms, but one was a bedroom and the other looked like a rather unused office.

"A little help with Spring?" Fabian called out. Plush returned to the original room, slapping his brother a few times to get him to wake up. When he eventually did, he gasped quietly at seeing Plush.

"Oh, Plush," he sighed. "You know that's irreversible, right?"

"I know," Plush replied flatly. "Not like I can do anything about it now."

"Can we go before any nightmares find us?" Floyd asked. "They're sure to know we've freed ourselves when kiddo goes by."

"Kiddo…?" Spring asked quietly as they made their way into the corridor, still upset at Plush's transformation.

"Can we go home now?" Floyd asked jokingly after a while. "It's 4 am."

"It's good to be home," Plush sighed, lying flat out on his bed, as Cherry came back in with a glass of water.

"It's okay for me to stay over tonight," she said quietly as she set the glass on the bedside cabinet.

"Are you okay?" Plush asked, immediately noticing Cherry's quietness.

"Yeah, it's just," Cherry stuttered over her words. "It's sudden."

"Hey," Plush said jokingly. "You said you wouldn't mind my nightmare form."

"I don't!" Cherry said, waving her hands in front of her for emphasis. "I… it'll just take a little while to get used to…"

"Being a nightmare doesn't change me," Plush smiled, and Cherry smiled back.