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Summary: Past survivors of Freddy are brought together to battle once again. But in one of them the 'evil within' will come to the surface and devour their soul…

Chapter 1: Musings of A Madman

Names. He had been called so many throughout the decades. Son of a hundred maniacs, the Springwood Slasher, Nightmare Stalker…but the one he now preferred was fear. As he could make you fear him and he had conjured up so much fear in the hearts and minds of all his victims, and it was simply exhilarating to sense their fear knowing that their fate was now going to be sealed with their lives, blood and last breath.

In his life he would hunt the children, sweet little girls and boys. They were so gullible, so easy to lure and kidnap. He would take them away and butcher them, rip them from limb to limb with his various bladed gloves. Just like lambs to the slaughter. Why he did it? Well, maybe revenge was the right word. It was a way to get vengeance on those who tormented him as a child and as a teenager, and what better way to get back at them than to take away something precious from them? Their own children, their own flesh and blood. Things were going along smoothly during his killing spree but perhaps too smoothly. As his dark secret was ultimately discovered by her, his own wife Loretta. What followed was only necessary, she had to be silenced but unfortunately his child witnessed Loretta's death and soon she was taken away from him. Not long after he was discovered as the culprit behind the heinous murders of their precious children and was soon before the courts, however the stupid fucking police had forgot to sign the search warrant and he gained his freedom to hunt the children again. But that was not to be. Like a pack of wolves the parents of Elm Street hunted him down to the Power Plant and burned him alive, made him pay for his sins, believing that their nightmare was over. They were wrong, it was just about to begin.

He had been given the chance, the opportunity to acquire his revenge on the parents who had burned him and those who had taken her away. He now existed in dreams and would haunt the Elm Street children's nightmares. Turn their sweet little dreams into their darkness and most terrifying nightmares ever. And he did several years later after his fiery demise. He stalked all the Elm Street children, took them away one by one. They all fell by his bloodied blades and his other twisted and cruel ways of murder.

Some of the children had even tried to defeat him. Nancy attempted twice but failed along with Kristen. Alice Johnson defeated him twice too, along with the help of her unborn brat Jacob and his bitch of a mother Amanda. But you can never kill something that is eternal…and that is what he is. Eternal. Things changed after that last battle as Alice left the town with her brat and the bitch Yvonne and it meant one thing. No one was there to stop him. The town was there for the taking. And take it he did, he destroyed it. Slaughtered the children and teenagers one by one, leaving a trail of blood and death in every part of the town. He now owned the town. The remaining population of adults were in a state of mass psychosis. But there was one last teenager left alive and that boy would be involved in luring her back to Springwood. Katherine. She certainly hadn't grown up to be what he wanted her to be, but there was this lingering hope that just maybe she would turn to his side and continue the family tradition. But again she betrayed him; she had chosen their side over his to his ultimate anger and killed him, blew him to smithereens in the real world…or so she and her pathetic friends believed.

The town of Springwood during the time shortly after began to rejuvenate and flourish. Families moved into the town and now after several years children and teenagers filled the parks and streets. He was back in business. The authorities of the town however had other ideas, and so they erased every little shred of information on him and his crimes. Anyone who knew about Krueger and was dreaming of him was immediately locked away from society into Westin Hills where they were heavily prescribed with Hypnocil. And shortly the whole town forget about who exactly Freddy Krueger was. The children and teenagers were safe. While he was confined to the depths of hell, where he would wait for the right chance to seep back into the dreams of the new Elm Street children.

When it came he didn't know that the choice he made would be a disaster. Jason Voorhees screwed it up, and yet again he was banished to hell yet again by that bitch Lori and her boyfriend Will. Nevertheless some things had changed, the supply of Hypnocil was now gone due to his possession of that stoner Freeburg and the town began to fear him again, so events did not turn out that bad. It was only a matter of time before he would get back to his killing ways.

Now, his thoughts were turning towards someone else, his own child. There still was this belief that he could turn her to his side, that she would fall into darkness and embrace her true destiny. He saw what was buried deep within her subconscious and what he saw intrigued him. Her lost memories could and would be used to lure her onto his side. Then something happened to her during and after she defeated him and only they knew about it. Disturbing events where happening to her and at this present moment in time she doesn't have a notion as to what to do about it. But he knew and he would show her. The only problem was in enticing her back to Springwood…but first things were first. He had to increase the spate of fear and he would accomplish this through Lori Campbell.