Into the darkness

Part 9

Henry woke up with a yawn. He stretched and stood up off the bed that was in his cell. His heart stopped when he saw that the safe house door was broken down.
Allison and Tom were gone. And now Henry was stuck in a cage. He started panicking, grabbing at his hair.
He felt a weird blob of ink on his forehead. He wiped it off. Why the hell was there ink on his forehead? There wasn't before he fell asleep.
He thought for a second that maybe he'd started transforming into an ink monster, but no, the ink came off.
Some ink monster must've been touching his forehead while he was asleep. He then noticed his wooden cage bars were broken.
His drawings were still in a pile, but moved to a different location. There was only fingerprints on some of the pages.
Henry felt his heart stop for a second. Bendy must've been here. He was the only thing that could've smashed down a metal door, then the boards. And pick up Henry and put him into his the bed that was in his cell with him.
But why did he not kill him? Henry felt confused. He just shrugged to himself and remembered the seeing tool he had with him.
He looked around his cell and saw arrows pointing to a spoon on the wall. Henry pulled on the spoon and a secret door opened.
It was a toilet. A golden ink arrow pointing to the back of the toilet. "That thing looks like it hasn't been cleaned in a very long time." Henry grimaced. He just turned away from it.
"This'll do fine." Henry grabbed the spoon off the wall and used it as his weapon. "Now that I think about it... this is a terrible weapon." He shrugged, continuing out of the safe house.
He stumbled down an inky hall, eventually getting to a room with boats and an inky river. Henry tripped on a loose board and the seeing tool slipped out of his pocket.
There was a message on the ground. 'There's something in the river' Henry read. "Well that's unsettling." He said.
He flicked a switch to let one of the boats into the inky river. He hopped in, turning on the boat and pushing the lever to go down the dark tunnels.
He got to an intersection of tunnels and there was a way off and another boat on the right path.
"That must've been Allison's and Tom's and Boris's boat." Henry muttered.
He was about to turn his own boat down that way to get off, but an enormous gloved hand shot out of the ink and grabbed the boat, dragging it back down.
"Other way!" Henry peeped, sharply turning his boat down the left path.
Every few minutes his boat motor would become clogged with ink. He'd smack it off with his spoon and dash back to the controls to go further away from the hand.
But it chased him. "This is more terrifying than Bendy!" Henry screamed as he pushed on the lever again.
He finally made it safely to shore. He noticed a lost one up on a house fishing. Henry doubted he'd catch anything.
But someone beside the lost one made his heart stop. It was Boris? But wasn't he with Allison and Thomas?
"Boris?" Henry called up to him. The lost one and Boris clone looked down at him. The Boris clone couldn't speak, but tilted his head at Henry.
"He's not the original Boris, he's been cloned into one by the ink." The lost on said.
He sounded quite familiar. That's when Henry realized the inky man was wearing a tan bowler hat. "Jack?! Is that you?" Henry asked.
The lost one almost dropped his rod. Nobody had called his name in a long time. "That's...that's my name." He said.
Henry smiled. "So everyone's still alive?" He asked. "Yeah kinda, but were stuck in inky bodies, or toon bodies. After you left, the three toons turned all twisted and evil, except for Boris. Alice got fused with Susie, Wally and Tom got turned into Boris clones, and Bendy is now our leader. If we decide to follow the Angel instead of him, well...you don't wanna know what'll happen." Jack said.
"Huh, so after all this time, you and Wally are still best friends?" Henry asked. "Of course we are, nothing can make us loose each other." Jack smiled. Wally smiled too.
"So that's not Boris, that's Wally?" Henry said. Jack and Wally nodded. "And who are you again? I recognize your voice but my memory is rusty with anything to do with our lives before. I don't even remember what me or Wally looked like." Jack sighed.
"I remember. And I'm Henry by the way, I used to be the animator here." Henry said. "Ah, yes the name sounds very familiar." Jack nodded.
"Anyways, have you two seen a couple of Boris's and an Angel pass through here?" Henry asked. Wally was doing a sign language thingy that only Jack seemed to understand.
He gasped. "Walls your right, he is!" Jack looked over at Henry. "I'm what?" Henry asked. "Oh no...Henry, you'd better get out of here." Jack warned.
"Why?" Henry asked slowly. Wally whined. "You're being targeted by Bendy, he wants to catch you. He won't tell any of us why though, and he's coming to check up on us any minute now." Jack warned.
Henry stiffened.
"I thought he was your lord and you did sacrifices to him and stuff?" Henry asked. "That's the prophets job, but we should report you've been through here, so run while you still can because he's getting wrestles." Jack said urgently.
Henry ran, but of course, he was stopped by a very pissed Sammy Lawrence.