Freddy's Nightmare

A Story by Karl Herzog

Horror movie icon who haunts the dreams of children and teenagers meets his match.

Chapter 1: freddy haunts boy

“Hahahahahaaaaaa! This will be the last nightmare you’ll ever have…”

The hideously scared man threatened as he raised his right, metal gloved hand revealing long sharp blades on the fingertips, standing in front of the teachers desk at the front of the nightlight classroom. The terrified thirteen-year-old boy trembled before the Nightmarish figure and raised his right palm to the Fiend as if to say ‘stop.’ Freddy just laughed as he merged closer, flailing his clawed glove.

“You can’t stop me, ki…”

Freddy was interrupted mid-sentence as the skinny brunette boy yelled out with all his might.

“By the pentagram I wear, earth, air, fire, and sea. I cast upon thee…SAUSAGE FINGER HANDS!”

This confused Freddy for a bit.

‘That doesn’t make sense.’

The scarred fiend thought until a blue ball of lightening formed in the kid’s right hand followed by a beam of white light that shot out and hit Freddy like a truck making him disappear from the kid’s nightmare. The darkened nightmarish setting of the classroom changed to daylight.

“Ah good, now he’s gone I can return to seducing my science teacher.”

The boy said to himself as the Supergirl look-alike science teacher suddenly appeared in front of the otherwise empty classroom.

Chapter 2: boy curses freddy

“WE’RE OUT OF SAUSAGES!”

Ella yelled out from the food stall of the small towns Oktoberfest. Her manager barging into the side door of the caravan.

“What!? It’s Oktoberfest, how can we run out of sausages?”

The fat, Bavarian looking man cried as he joined Ella in frantically search every fridge, freezer and Eski that was inside the mobile kitchen. Oompa band continued to cheerfully play as patrons sat, drank, and banged the table with their cutlery and steins as they chanted along with the music.

“More snags, more snags, more snags…”

A flash of white light appeared at the side entrance of the food stall, the manager and Ella the cook turned around to see a stunned Freddy standing still like a rabbit in the headlights with sausages for fingers. The manager saw this, point it out to Ella and muttered.

“It’s not much but a start.”

Ella eyed off Krueger’s sausage fingers and whispered back as not to frighten the Nightmare.

“Ten long kransky’s isn’t much but if I slice them up, mix with sauerkraut and serve on a hot dog roll with shredded cheese and German Mustard it could go around.”

The Manager smiled up at Ella.

“That’s a great idea. You knock out what…ever it is and make it happen, I’ll let everyone know. GOOD NEWS EVERYONE…!”

The Manager stood up leaning over the bench and calling out to the small crowd through the food stall opening. Ella grabbed a meat cleaver and leaped at a frightened Freddy Krueger, lopping his head off, moving his body behind the food stall and chopping off his hands. She discretely carried them, concealed in her apron to the kitchen where she chopped off the large kransky fingers and continued to slice and fry.

The crowd were delighted by this new source of food at Oktoberfest but not Freddy Krueger as this was the end of his haunting young people’s nightmares. Ironically, this was Freddy Kruger’s own nightmare.

THE END