Child of The Darkness

Chapter 1

Plot-What if, a Younger Audrey was sent to the cartoon world by the Ink Machine? In this story, Audrey, a Ten-year-old child living in an Orphanage in 1970s new york is tricked into helping her school's creepy Janitor Wilson turn on a strange machine that resides in the school's basement, from there, her life takes an eventful turn.

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She stared at the clock on the classroom wall, counting the minutes until 3 pm hit, with only ten more minutes to spare. Audrey, a Ten-year-old child who was currently a resident at the city Orphanage sat in a daydream as she waited for the clock to hit three, the young girl had not remembered much about her past, she could not remember her parents or what had become of them, as far as she was aware, her parents had passed away sometime when she was really young and that she had spent most of her life in the Orphanage and to be fair, it wasn't a bad place, Mrs. Lowell, the woman who ran the Orphanage was rather strict, but she did still care for the children that resided there.

Before long, the clock finally struck three pm, and the school bell rang. Audrey gathered up her things from her desk, including a doodling of a little cartoon Devil named Bendy which was quite an impressive drawing for a child of Ten. Drawing pictures was probably one of Audrey's favorite hobbies and she'd hoped to be an artist when she grew up. After gathering up her things, Audrey took hold of her backpack before exiting the classroom, where she was greeted by the site of many students being greeted by their parents, this made the young girl feel a little sad, being the little Orphan girl who grew up without any parents. With a sigh, the child began making her way to the school exit, when she suddenly felt a hand clamp on her shoulder.

"Audrey." The little girl turned around to find the school Janitor, Wilson standing behind her and she immediately let out a nervous gulp. She had seen him skulking around many times before, and oh boy did he give her the creeps, he was a slightly old man who spoke in a raspy voice and one of his eyes was white with what appeared to e a scar running across it.

"M..Mr. Wilson, you scared me" Audrey stammered, finally summoning up the courage to speak "don't sneak up like that."

"I'm sorry my dear" Wilson rasped, ignoring the child's nervousness "I didn't mean to frighten you, I was just wondering if you would come and help old Wilson with something."

Now under any circumstances, Audrey would have been happy to help anyone when they needed it, but there was something that seemed a little...off with the creepy school janitor and she had to think of an excuse to decline his request.

"I'm sorry, Mr. Wilson, but I can't, I need to get back" the girl nervously implied "otherwise, Mrs. Lowell, the orphanage mistress will be wondering where I am." Audrey then went to leave, only for Wilson to grab her slightly roughly by the wrist, insisting that it won't take long and before she knew it, he was leading her down into the school's basement which held a strange machine and in front of it, was what appeared to be six pedestals.

"What is that thing?" Audrey questioned, pointing at the strange machine "and what is it doing in the school basement?"

"Why this old thing" Wilson replied "why this, young Audrey is an Ink machine, it was donated to the school by an old animation studio that closed down long ago, it supplies the school with ink, but it needs to be switched on, and by doing so, an item must be placed on these six pedestals" he paused, before leering at the child in a rather, sinister manner " Audrey, sweet, little Audrey, do an old man a favor and go find them will you, the images for what you need are on the pedestals themselves."

Feeling like she didn't have much of a choice, Audrey timidly nodded before collecting the things that were needed to start up the Ink machine, although she couldn't understand why, it was a rather unusual method to be turning on something when most things required a switch of some sort. Luckily, the basement was pretty small and the items, which consisted of a Bendy doll, a cog wheel, a jar of Ink, a spanner, a music record, and a book titled "the illusion of living" were pretty easy to find, and once she had found them all, she placed them all on the designated pedestals.

"I found them all" she timidly stated as a sinister smile crept up on the old Janitor's face and the little girl was beginning to get a bad feeling.

"Good girl Audrey, now, there's only one thing left to do, pull that switch." The old man pointed to a switch at the back of the room near the door and being a child that usually did as she was told, Audrey went over to the switch and pulled it, causing the room to fall into darkness as Wilson appeared at the side of her, and to her horror, Audrey realized that he was locking the door.

"It is done," he said in a sinister manner as the Ink machine began to fill the room with Ink which was rapidly creeping up to Audrey's knees, staining her white tights.

"M...Mr. Wilson, what's happening?" the child asked, her voice filled with fear, what was going on, why had he locked them in? So many questions were racing through the child's head.

"Oh Audrey, the things you've set in motion" Wilson looked back at the machine as it filled the room with its Ink before turning to face the terrified Ten-year-old girl who was now on the verge of tears, asking what was going on "the Ink is calling us my dear, can't you hear it?"

"What I don't understand" The child sobbed as Wilson slowly approached her "Please, let me go, I want to go, please." However, she now knew that wasn't going to happen as Wilson grabbed hold of her arms, pinning them to her sides.

"Don't be scared Audrey" he jeered as the child struggled in his grasp "don't fret, we're going home, now, pay attention to these last words, because very soon, you will forget everything."

"Let me go" the little girl whimpered, too scared to call out, why was this happening, why was he doing this to her, she was just a little girl, she had never done anything to anybody, she didn't deserve this.

"I'm sorry, but I cannot do that my dear" Wilson replied as the girl continued to struggle in his grasp "now listen very carefully to what I am about to tell you, come find me, Audrey, come find me and I'll show you your purpose, I'll show you, the truth."

Audrey sobbed as his grip became tighter on her, the ink was well past her waste at this point and if she didn't get out of there soon, she could end up under it, she still struggled, attempting to break out of Wilson's grasp, but he had a firm grip on her.

"T..this can't be real, this can't be happening" the child sobbed as a sinister smile crept up on the old janitor's face and the little girl got a very bad feeling that something was about to happen.

"And now, we...die" Audrey's eyes widened with fear when he said that, and before she could grasp what was happening, Wilson went under the Ink, dragging the child along with him as her world turned to Inky darkness.