The Artifact (Zajcu37)

The Artifact in its ball form

The Artifact is a powerful sentient object that came into the world and provides power to its current owner, Nightmare

## History

### 1983-1987: Fredbear's family diner and Freddy Fazbear's Pizza I

The Artifact provided power to Nightmare after he died as a human in 1983 at Fredbear's family diner, and his soul went into an animatronic's body. Nightmare wanted to use the Artifact to take over humanity but failed. After Nightmare's soul split and gave life to the other animatronics in the place, The place shut down. Another place was opened afterward where more animatronics were built, but it was shut down as well, at this time, Nightmare's remaining soul part also got trapped in Freddy's head

## 1987: Freddy Fazbear's Pizza II

Freddy Fazbear's Pizza II was opened, and the toy animatronics were built, with Golden Freddy, Springbonnie, and the original 4 scrapped. The Artifact was hidden in a wall in the building, waiting to be found. One day Mangle found it, which led to her working with Shadow Freddy. She hid the Artifact in Toy Chica's cupcake and used it when no one noticed. After a conflict between the 2 groups of animatronics, the place closed.

## 1993: Freddy Fazbear's Pizza III

Freddy Fazbear's Pizza III was opened, and everyone reunited and Mangle kept using The Artifact to continue Nightmare's plan. She kept hiding it in Toy chica's cupcake. After a long time of planning, the two successfully caused the place to shut down as well, they moved again

## 2016: Fazbear's fright

A new horror attraction was opened, starring Springtrap, with the others in storage. Mangle turned into a Phantom but she still used the Artifact hidden in the cupcake to continue with the plan. They caused the place to close again after perpetuating a conflict between Springtrap and the rest of the animatronics. They were all moved back to Freddy Fazbear's Pizza I

## 2020: The release of Nightmare

Mangle used the Artifact to release Nightmare from Freddy's head. Nightmare took possession of the Artifact and used it to gain powers.

## 2020-2120: The war

After dealing with the animatronics Nightmare used the Artifact to provide power to the army he created to take over the world. Eventually, it couldn't provide enough power to all of his soldiers and they all lost their resistance to damage.

## 2020 (Time travel) The meeting with Toy chica

After Toy chica went back in time to create the soul sword, she suddenly found herself meeting with the Artifact in some dark empty void filled with random Fnaf objects. At first, The Artifact used the form of Nightmare but then changed to Bonnie, Golden Freddy, Mangle, Scraptrap, and Toy chica from the past, the present, and eventually from the future. It remained in that form for the rest of the meeting. The Artifact explained to Toy Chica its neutral stance in the conflict and its obligation to keep the balance between both sides, which is the reason it created the soul sword, as a weapon for Toy chica to match Nightmare's strength. It then revealed that one of the animatronics on Toy chica's side received the ability to see all possible versions of the future, however, the artifact's interference in the world is limited so it refused to reveal who received it, and added that only one at a time can possess this power.

The Artifact explained how the soul sword works: The first soul gives shape, the second gives it a physical body, and the third gives it full power. Before saying goodbye, The Artifact showed Toy chica a prophecy about her fate in the future, claiming she will die trying to save someone she was wrong about if she won't change her path. It advised her to listen to her soul and warned her about the difficult challenge she was about to face. The Artifact then ended to conversation and disappeared into the darkness.