Child of The Darkness

Chapter 8

After checking that the coast was clear, Audrey quietly slipped out of the room with she had been hiding in and continued on her path to the upper levels, but now knowing that she was being hunted, not only by The Ink Demon, but also who or whatever was outside the room she'd been hiding in, the child constantly kept looking over her shoulder, expecting to find either of them following her, ready to grab her and who knows what, she didn't want to think about that right now, she was more focused on getting out of this place and finding her way back to the real world.

"You will never escape this place, Audrey" the Ink Demon's voice boomed "you belong here, with me."

"You're wrong" Audrey stated, trying to sound brave yet her voice was shaking "I don't belong here, I belong in the real world, and I will escape." The girl was immediately met with a gurgling chuckle.

"We will soon see, little one."

After everything went quiet again, Audrey gripped the gent pipes he was carrying tighter and continued onwards until she came to another area where she was greeted by a rather unusual sight.

Out of all the things she had witnessed during her time in the studio, this was quite possibly the first and maybe only funny thing she had ever seen because, right there in front of her was what appeared to be a lost one stuck in a pipe and the little girl noticed that they seemed to be wearing a pair of goggles on their head and they also had what appeared to be rope slung over their shoulders.

Audrey couldn't help but giggle a little at the scene in front of her and that caught the attention of the lost one who instantly stopped struggling and looked over in her direction.

"Oh, hello there" they said as they saw the child standing in front of them "are you looking for the way out?"

"Yeah" Audrey replied as she tried not to laugh "are you, stuck in there?"

"Well, yes" the eccentric lost one replied, a hint of disappointment in his voice "so I'm afraid that means that, you're stuck too."

"Oh dear" Audrey replied as she regained herself and stopped herself from giggling any further "can't you move at all?"

"No, not an inch" the lost one replied before getting an idea "hey, could you perhaps get me unstuck?"

"Okay, I'll see what I can do" Audrey replied as she walked over to the stuck lost one and used her glowing hand to loosen the Ink that was clearly making them stuck and they went sliding down the pipe, letting out a "weeeeeeeeeeeee" as they plummeted which was shortly followed by "come on down here kid."

Audrey peered into the pipe and saw that it appeared to be a long way down, but with everything she had been subjected to so far, it maybe wouldn't hurt to have just a little one. So, the child slowly climbed onto the pipe and then proceeded to jump down it, landing right in front of the lost one who had been waiting for her.

"Thank you very much for your help" he stated as Audrey pulled herself to her feet, dusting off her skirt "the name's Porter by the way, and who might you be?"

"Audrey sir" the child replied in her soft, little girl voice.

"Audrey, hmm? Audrey" was Porter's response as he stood, thinking for a moment before quickly shaking his head "nope, don't like it, that name doesn't suit a nice little girl like you, I think, I'll call you, Bobby."

"W..what?" Audrey replied, half shocked, half giggling as Porter crouched down to her level, taking hold of her glowing hand "hey, what are you doing?"

"Oh, I just want to give you a little something to say thank you for rescuing me" he replied before placing his hand over Audrey's and the little girl felt a strange tingling sensation as a yellowish glow emitted from between their two hands "there it's passed on."

"What has?" Audrey replied, clearly confused by what had just happened and porter explained that he had given her the power of flow and that now, she had the ability to access high and unreachable places.

"Now, you can move like me" he said with a giggle before composing himself "so, tell me Bobby" Audrey frowned at the name he had given her "where exactly are you heading?"

"Well, I'm looking for the elevator" the child replied "I was told to go to the upper levels, since, it's safer up there."

"Ah I see, well, today is your lucky day young Bobby" Porter exclaimed as Audrey raised her eyebrow "because I just so happen to know where the elevators are that will take you to the upper levels and if you'd like, I can take you to them."

Knowing that if she allowed Porter to show her to the elevators, then Audrey knew that she would at least have some company with her and maybe she'd feel a little more safer with a grown up around, even if he was a little eccentric and without hesitation, the girl accepted his offer.

"Great, well then Bobby, let us head to the elevators so you can get out of this cursed place" he replied "but first, let's try out that new flow ability of yours."

Taking Audrey's hand, Porter brought her over to the a giant hole in the ground, explaining to her that they were going to use her new ability to get across and that made the little girl feel rather nervous and the size of the hole in the floor didn't help either, what if she didn't make it all the way across and fell down to where ever that hole leads.

"I..I don't know if I can do this" she stammered "what if I don't make it all the way across."

"Oh ho ho ho, that's not likely to happen" Porter chuckled "not with your flow ability, trust me you will make it across, alright, now , watch me."

Letting go of Audrey's hand, Porter stood at the edge of the hole and for a split second, Audrey thought that he was going to fall in, watching as he put out his hand, and to her surprise, he leaped off the edge before teleporting over the other side so fast that if you were to blink, then you might have missed it.

"See, it's easy" he called over "Ok Bobby, you're turn, I believe in you kiddo."

Swallowing nervously, Audrey slowly made her way over to the edge of the hole before extending her arm out and then proceeded to jump, the child finding herself flying over the hole before reaching the other side.

"Oh Bravo Bobby" Porter cheered, applauding her efforts "see, I told you that you could do it."

"Yeah, it wasn't as bad as I thought it was going to be" she replied "but I think we better get out of here, I was told that it wasn't a good idea to hang around in one place for too long." Porter nodded, agreeing with her.

"Well then, young Bobby, I think it's time that we get you to the elevators" he exclaimed and Audrey gave a small nod before heading to the elevators with her newfound companion.