Child of The Darkness

chapter 5

"kid, wake up." Audrey groaned as she heard a voice and felt someone giving her a small shake at the same time " ah jeez kid what happened to you?"

with her vision slowly coming into view as she began to regain consciousness, Audrey could just make out Phil, the friendly lost one that had gone to fetch her a gent pipe, just moments before she passed out.

"Oh thank goodness you're okay" Phil commented as the little girl slowly sat up with her hand on her head "What on earth happened, I came out here and found you passed out." Audrey shrugged and stated that she had no idea what happened, only that she heard a disembodied voice and how she began to feel light headed soon after and then passed out.

"Is something happening to me?" the child questioned, her tone clearly nervous.

"Well, this place can mess with your head, make you see and hear things that aren't there" Phil explained "that's what it does to you, the Ink."

Audrey gave Phil a confused look, just what exactly was he talking about? However, she soon got her answer when he explained about how the Ink can mess with your head before eventually claiming you.

"What happens when it does claim you?" Audrey inquired and Phil gestured to himself and the child instantly knew what he was talking about "so, you become Ink creatures?"

"Pretty much, although, most of us still have our sanity intact, but there are a few of us that have been driven slightly insane from being trapped in here and they can be quite unpredictable, which reminds me, here" Phil handed Audrey the gent pipe which felt slightly heavy in her tiny hands "this will make for a great defence."

After giving her the gent pipe and wishing her good luck, the walkie talkie began to crackle again as Allison's voice desperately called out to Audrey.

"Audrey, are you okay, what happened?" She asked the child " you went silent for a few minutes."

After Allison had finished speaking, Audrey explained that she had heard a disembodied voice and how she had suddenly felt dizzy before passing out.

"Oh no" Allison replied "this is bad."

"Why?" Audrey asked, judging by the tone of Allison's voice, it wasn't good " miss Allison, what's wrong?"

"He knows you're here" the cartoon woman replied with a sigh "the Ink Demon, he must be trying to get into your head" the colour from Audrey's face drained, surely he couldn't be alive, after all, she did recall old man Wilson stating that he had ended the Ink Demon, but then again, maybe all of that was false. "Listen to me Audrey sweetie" Allison continued, distributing Audrey from her thoughts "you must not let him get inside your head, you understand?"

"Yes" the little girl replied, her voice shaking. If this so called Ink Demon was still alive and roaming around, then Audrey knew that she was in big trouble. After all, she was only Ten years old and the thought of running into this being made her feel terrified, but Allison reassured her that she should be fine if she stayed well away.

After Allison had warned her about the Ink Demon, little Audrey gripped the gent pipe tightly before proceeding into the next area where she found herself in a corridor that was flooded with ink and all if a sudden, the child started to feel nauseous and dizzy.

Whimpering, Audrey leaned against the wall to support herself as the dizziness grew more intense just before she heard what sounded like multiple voices in her head.

"You are one of us now, little one" Audrey grimaced and put her hand to her head, watching as ghost like faces appeared from the ink " the dark puddles sent a gift." As quickly as it had came, the dizzy, nauseous feeling soon went away and after taking some time to process what had just happened, Audrey pulled herself up and continued forward, the little girl not understanding how she had all of a sudden become dizzy and had started hearing voices in her head.

what's happening to me? the child thought as she continued forward why do I keep going dizzy and hearing voices, is this place messing with my head? her train of thought was interrupted when an Ink creature with a ghost like face, similar to the ones she had seen during her dizzy spell, jumped up at the door window in front of her and started to bang on it before slinking away.

"What the hey!" Audrey stated, opening the door to find the Ink creature banging on the wall where there was a message that said the following

YOU DON'T HAVE TO KILL ME

Feeling both confused and curious, Audrey slowly walked over towards the creature when she suddenly began to feel dizzy once again and the chorus of voices yet again began to speak in her head. "Free us young one, free us from this inky nightmare, use your newly found powers and banish us from this inky prison, for you now have the power of the banish."

Audrey squeaked as she felt a strange tingling in sensation in her Ink covered hand and the child looked down to see a golden swirl with a ghost like face appear right before her eyes, and it was right at that moment when she realised why the ink creature was banging on the wall where the message was, it was clearly trying to tell her something.

"Maybe, this new ability of mine, I can perhaps free the people who are trapped here" the girl said to herself "I mean, it wouldn't hurt to try."

Taking a deep breath, Audrey slowly crept up behind the ink creature as it continued to bang on the wall and proceeded to grab them with her ink covered hand as the golden swirl began to glow and the creature began to disintegrate before vanishing from existence. However, the process had made the Ten year old feel dizzy once again and thought that maybe she could rest for a few minutes before continuing onwards.

A few minutes had passed when a high pitched scream awoke Audrey from her short nap before she heard what sounded like an altercation coming from nearby.

"Stop, let me go, I...I..." the first voice sounding almost childlike, they also sounded terrified.

" Subject has entered a restricted area-a-a-a-a-a" a second voice spoke, this one sounding almost mechanical "the subject will be taken to the pit for interrogation-n-n-n-n."

Hearing something approaching, Audrey quickly jumped to her feet and hid in a nearby locker just as whatever she had heard speaking came round the creature and Audrey didn't get a good look at this thing, but from what she saw, it seemed to have a light emitting from where it's face was and it also moved in a slug like manner, also, Audrey couldn't help but notice that this thing was carrying one of the lost ones, only this one was small, clearly a child just like herself and they also appeared to be unconscious.

Audrey waited for the creature to pass by her hiding place before slowly coming out from her hiding place and continued onward, hoping that she wouldn't run into whatever she had just seen again.