Now Freddy is Deady and Hella is still Scary.

So, it came at last. It was less fun than I expected it to be.

Freddy and his girlfriend showed up at last for our big confrontation and almost immediately Cerise went down. See they got up close before we managed to properly notice them and before the fight had even properly started Hella just reached out and placed her hand on Cerise and Cerise dropped to her knees clutching at her chest before pitching forward facedown. I was shocked and honestly Freddy looked pretty shocked too, but when I went for Hella Freddy recovered. He attacked and I was forced back and when I tried to counterattack Hella was there reaching for me and I definitely didn't want the same thing so I was forced back again.

The Children's Defense Mechanism wasn't much help here. Freddy obviously was told about it and Hella seemingly knew about it or maybe I was just getting panicky. I mean I didn't really give her much chance to reach out so she could have been going for the fake, who knows I wasn't about to risk it. When someone can just reach out and stop your heart you generally try not to get too close.

I managed to get a few good hits on Freddy, but that just made things worse really. Frederick is a nest and so every successful hit I got off slowed him down maybe a bit, but just let out birds I'd then have to contend with. Honestly if it wasn't for one thing I think I was probably going to die there.

That one thing was Cerise wasn't dead. I saw it out of the corner of my eye as she slowly got back up, she was breathing heavily and holding her chest still, but she seemed more surprised than pained. I started to simply keep my distance as I watched her grab her flamethrower as she got up to her feet and then she ran over and fired out a jet of flame towards Hella.

Frederick stopped and moved back from the flames like any proper nest would and Hella got... well arguably lucky. She must have heard a sound or something, but she just managed to get out of the way of the jet. Not far enough out of the way though. The heat of the flames scorched the side of her face as it roared past and ignited her hoody. She tore it off in a hoody and she seemed panicked. I don't know if it was just how close she came to being charbroiled or surprise at seeing Cerise still alive, but whatever it was she shot a hateful glare at me and then fled. Cerise tried to give chase, but then collapsed breathing heavily again. I was smiling, even with Cerise seemingly back out of commission I felt like I had won.

I was wrong of course. Frederick wasn't beaten so easily and he attacked again while I was soaking my presumptuous belief of victory and he scored a hit. I stumbled back and slashed out at him again scoring a hit, but just causing more birds to come flying at me. I dealt with them, but even without Hella I realized I was at a disadvantage.

I'd stocked up on incendiary weapons just for dealing with this event, but Cerise had all of them and she was back lying face down on the ground, possibly dead for real this time. With just my machete I had no chance of beating Frederick.

I took a chance and tried to dive past him. As I did he reached out and I saw a small cut on his hand that he pressed to my shoulder as I passed and a burst of electricity shot into me and launched me. I felt my body twitching and everything hurt, luckily for me Frederick seemed a little stunned as well and I forced myself to crawl over to Cerise. Frederick had recovered and was coming for me so I didn't have time to think. I grabbed Cerise's bag, stuck my hand in and took out the first object I touched. It was a grenade of some kind. I pulled the pin and threw it as hard as I could at Frederick.

I saw his eyes widen and I knew that it was all down to luck now. If the grenade didn't kill him I was probably dead. Luckily for me I had chosen well. The grenade hit and sent out a burst of flames in all directions. I saw Frederick for a moment covered in flames, standing perfectly still and then he began to panic as he burned. I lay my head on the ground and just watched him burn.

You did well Frederick. You did well, but not well enough.

P.S. Oh yeah Cerise is still alive. Apparently her heart is doing fine too. Not entirely sure why she's okay, but she's okay.