Child of The Darkness

chapter 6

After checking that, whatever that unusual creature that had slithered by, carrying the unconscious child lost one under it's arm was gone, Audrey quietly slipped out from her hiding place and proceeded into the next area where she was greeted by a giant hole in the floor, and across from this huge hole, was another doorway which most likely lead to the elevator.

" Yeesh, that is one leap of faith I most certainly won't make" the child commented as she gazed down into the dark abyss below "guess I'll have to find another way across." Checking that there no more of whatever she had just seen go by whilst she was hiding. Audrey gripped the gent pipe firmly in her hand, ready to defend herself from any threats that maybe lurking and proceeded to head into the next area.

As the child wandered into the next area, she found a few more lists ones walking around and none of them seemed to pay no mind, expect for one female one who instantly ran towards the girl and for some reason, grabbed her in a tight hug.

"HEIDI, YOU CAME BACK!" the female lost one shrieked as she held Audrey in a bear hug and the child immediately began to struggle.

"Let me go, you got the wrong person" Audrey begged as she tried to pull away "my name is Audrey."

After telling them who she was, the female lost one instantly let go of Audrey before walking off, calling out for this Heidi person, and Audrey began to wonder if that was the child lost one she had seen being carried away by that strange, slithering creature. Not wanting to hang around any longer incase anymore, seemingly unhinged lost ones turned up and mistake for one of their missing children, Audrey began making her way down a staircase which lead to a room, and in that room was someone that Audrey was not expecting to run into.

Bendy sat on the rug in the small room, running his little wooden train along it when he suddenly heard a soft voice from nearby.

"Bendy?"

The little Demon looked up from what he was doing and was greeted by something that he didn't expect to see. A little girl, no older than Ten years old stood before him and she looked just as surprised to see him.

"You're real?" the girl asked as she slowly began walking towards him, making Bendy feel a little nervous of this stranger that he picked up his toy train and began to back away slowly " oh my, this is amazing."

Seeing him back away, Audrey could tell that Bendy was a little scared of her and not wanting him to feel that way, the child knelt down and put out her hand to him.

"It's okay, I won't hurt you" the child reassured as the little toon Demon looked at her and he thought for a minute. Surely, this new person whom he had never met before surely couldn't be a threat, after all, she was a child and wasn't much taller than he was. Slowly, he began to move towards the girl as she remained in a crouching position "see, I'm your friend, I won't hurt you."

After hesitating for a few seconds, Bendy finally plucked up the courage to approach the child and took her hand as what seemed to be an offer of friendship. However, the hand that he took was the exact same one that Audrey used for her new found abilities and with the young girl unable to control herself, accidentally gave the little Demon a slight electric shock, causing him to pull away.

"Oh my gosh, I... I'm so sorry, I..." holding his now injured hand, Bendy looked over to Audrey and she noticed that he had what appeared to be tears of Ink streaming down his face "I didn't know that was going to happen, I'm" Bendy ran off before she got a chance to finish "wait, Bendy come back, I'm sorry"

Audrey got to her feet and went after the frightened little toon, but he was already gone, it was like he had simply vanished into thin air. "Oh dang, what's happening to you Audrey?" She said to herself, she was just about close to possibly gaining a new friend and companion in Bendy, only to accidentally scare him off with her new abilities which she yet had no control over.

After the unfortunate incident with Bendy, Audrey knew that she couldn't hang around any longer, what if another one of those weird, mechanical slug like creatures she had seen earlier was lurking around and not to mention the Angel's warning about this so called "Ink Demon" and how he could show up if she hung around in one for too long. The child was just about to head forward when all of a sudden, a lost one came running towards her before grabbing her roughly by the arms, causing the little girl to squeal slightly.

"Where are they?" he asked in a panicked voice, slightly shaking Audrey as he kept a firm grip on her "my pictures, the pictures that I drew, I told them not to steal my pictures but they didn't listen, they stole my pictures and I want them back."

"Okay, take it easy" Audrey replied " if you at least let me go, then I can go and find them." Without saying anything else, the lost one let her go, but not before he started rambling again about his missing pictures, saying how someone had stolen them and despite only being a Ten year old child, Audrey tried her best to reassure the lost one who was now curled up on the floor, sobbing and whimpering about his missing pictures that she would try and find them.

As the lost one continued to weep on the floor, little Audrey made her way into a nearby area to see if she could find their missing pictures and the child immediately got a sense of danger, like something was coming, something bad. Trying not to let it play too much on her mind, the girl began to crawl through an open vent, and with her being rather small, she was easily able to fit in, however, as she exited from the vents, the little girl was not prepared for what was about to happen next.

As she crawled out of the vent, Audrey found another gate that had been locked and using the gent pipe that she was carrying, smashed it open, but as she stepped into the next area, all of the lights suddenly turned off, plunging the area into total darkness and immediately, Audrey began to feel dizzy once again as the same, deep voice from earlier, echoed in the darkness.

"The dark puddles awaken" the disembodied voice growled as Audrey threw her hands over her ears, trying to block it out as the voice let out a deep chuckle, it was almost like whoever was speaking was mocking her response "a child, an innocent soul, the Ink speaks to me, it whispers your secrets."

As quickly as it happened, the lights immediately came back on and Audrey proceeded to make her way into the next area where she saw what appeared to be a shadow cast on the wall just ahead, and that shadow did not look human, it appeared to have a horn shaped head and was crouched over.

"W...who are you, what do you want?" Audrey squeaked, her voice trembling, only to be met with a deep chuckle as the shadow ahead of her moved away, it was almost like whoever was speaking was taunting the child.

Nervously gripping onto the gent pipe, Audrey continued forward, crawling through another open vent as the deep, booming voice spoke once again, echoing throughout the open vent.

"Who are you, tell me your sweet name little one." There was another deep chuckle as the scared little girl crawled out from the vent and continued forward, checking over her shoulder constantly to check that nothing was following her.

"Don't be so paranoid, it's probably nothing" the girl said to herself as she continued forward until she found herself at some kind of doorway which appeared to resemble one of those ones you would get on a submarine and next to it, was some kind of lever and Audrey assumed that it was to open the door with.

"Well, whoever was speaking just now appears to have gone" the little girl said to herself "so I guess I better check behind this doorway, see if those pictures are behind there."

As Audrey gripped hold of the lever and began to pull it, the child heard what sounded like a low growl coming from the right and with her hand still gripped on the lever, she turned her head and saw the one being that she hoped never to encounter, the Ink Demon himself.