Child of The Darkness

chapter 4

Once she realized that she had been found, Audrey immediately gasped and began to crawl away as the Ink person looked at her in confusion before slowly making their way towards her.

"No please, don't hurt me, I..I'm just a kid, I'm not here to cause any trouble, please" the scared little girl begged, only for the Ink person, or Lost one as Audrey guessed, chuckled and crouched down to her level, causing the child to back up even further.

"Easy now kid, I ain't gonna hurt you" they replied "sorry if I scared you, it's just that well, we folks down here get a little, let's say, suspicious of strangers but you're just a kid, so you're clearly no threat to us, but can I ask this?" Audrey nodded, still a little weary "what on earth is a sweet little girl like yourself doing down here, this place isn't safe, especially for a child."

After the Lost one finished talking, Audrey explained how she wasn't here by choice and that she had been sent here more or less against her will and right now, she was trying to find her way out.

"I just wanna go home" the child said, slowly beginning to trust the Lost one, now knowing that they didn't intend to hurt her "I don't want to be a bother, I just want to find my way out of this place."

"Well, this place can be quiet dangerous, especially to a child, so you'll need some kind of defence" the Lost one stated "now there should be a gent pipe nearby, I think that will do, we just need to find one."

As the pair looked around for a gent pipe, Audrey asked if all the Lost ones were friendly and they explained that most of them were friendly as long as no one showed any sign of aggression to them before explaining that there were the odd few who had been driven mad by being trapped in the studio for goodness knows how long, so her having some kind of defence might not be such a bad idea.

"Are they all mad?" the little girl inquired, feeling a little nervous, the thought of her being trapped in a cartoon studio inhabited by Lost Ones made her nervous and since she was only Ten years old and pretty small for her age, what chance did she have if one of these Lost ones did try and attack her.

"Well not all of us" The friendly Lost one replied "but you'll still need some defence because not everyone down here is friendly, oh, by the way, I never got your name."

"My name is Audrey" the girl replied "so, what is your name?"

The friendly lost one introduced themselves as Phil, and how he could not remember his last name since he had been stuck in the place for quite some time. Audrey gave Phil a sympathetic look as the pair of them continued searching for the gent pipe but it was long before the walkie that Audrey had with her began to crackle.

"Audrey, are you okay?" Allison spoke "You've been rather quiet." The little girl assured the toon woman that she was fine and that one of the lost ones were help her find a gent pipe so that she could use it to protect herself.

"Okay but remember what I said, keep heading for the upper levels and remember to stay away from the Ink Demon" Allison instructed "if you see any sign, then you hide immediately."

"Mkay" Audrey replied before shutting off the walkie-talkie, just as Phil the Lost one found the gent pipe, however, where he had found it was not a suit thing for a child to see, it was currently stuck in the chest of a dead lost one that had been pinned to the wall with the words DEMON FOLLOWER painted in black ink just next to it.

"Kid, I found a gent pipe, but I need you to wait here while I go and retrieve it" Phil told her.

"Why?" Audrey asked, her little girl voice sounding a mixture of confused and scared "why can't I come?"

"Because there is something in there that isn't very pleasant for a young child to see, so wait h and I'll be right back."

Little Audrey nodded as Phil headed into the area where the gent pipe was and the girl sat down on a nearby bench. It could have been only a few minutes when the child began to get a tingling sensation in her head, just before her ears started to ring which was then followed by a deep, booming voice.

"Well, what is this that has wandered into my domain, a child so it seems, hmm, this will be most interesting."

Audrey was both scared and confused, she didn't know what was happening and who was speaking to her. She knew it couldn't be old Wilson since this new voice was much deeper, also, the experience had made the little girl feel light headed and it was long before she slumped acr the bench and falling into an unconscious state.