The Broken Dreams

-Chapter 1-

                   -The Old Studio-

It was night, a quiet one, and just at this one night, someone stepped into the old, abonded studio by the name of "Black And White studios", it was Louis Harris, an old animator of the place who left it 20 years ago, he came back after reaciving a letter from his old friend - Simon Lee who was the owner of the studio.

He opened the door, looking around the dusty place with ink spilled around here and there in the corners, dripping from the pipes and cealling.

-"Alright, here I am, lets see what Simon wanted to show me.."

He said and started to walk down the main hallway, after a few steps, he heard the main exit door slam shut right behind him, cousing him to turn around quickly.

-"..What the..?"

He said and walked over to the doors, he tried to open them again, but no luck, they were closed shut, not allowing him to open them.

-"Great.. Just great.. Guess I will figure out how to open them later.."

With that said, he walked down the main hall, looking around the quiet and dusty place, the floor creaking under his feet.
After a while he spotted his desk he worked on all those 20 years ago.
The desk, as expected, was dusty and dirty, with ink spilled on top of it, the chair beaing broken and bearly standing on its four feet.

-"Wow, looks like Simon run outta money to buy more desks eh? No wonder this one is in such conditions.."

He said with a quiet and small chuckle and then walked away from the desk, going straight to a diffrent hallway. He then noticed some writings on the walls, tho they were too messy to read, one tho was diffrent, it was big and clear enough to read, it simply said: "Why can't I go home?".

-"..did..Simon kept his workers here too long or something..? This is getting a bit creepy to me.."

After a short while he spotted something big under a white tho a bit dirty from ink or oil sheet, he grabbed it and pulled it away, reviling a big, old and rusty machine, it seemed to be used just minutes ago, with ink dripping from it.

-"what..is this..? What kind of machine is this anyway?"

He asked himself as he looked around the machine.

-"..So.. This is an ink machine of some sorts or something? Wow Simon, is it that hard to give something a name?"

He said and sighed.

-"guess I have to turn it on right? Well I hope that it will be quick.. This place is giving me chills.."

He then started to wonder around the studio, after a short time noticing a recording, he walked over to it and played it, hearing an familliar voice, the second hired here janitor: Michelle Smith.

-"Ok! First few days went on good! Nobody was all grumpy and stuff like that, and next week? BOOM! Everyones mad at everyone for no reason! And Mr.Lee? He dosen't seem to care! Mayby Im just a janitor, but I swear this place is not so happy as the cartoons were makin'! Oh and don't get me started on those blowing up pipes all around this place! Tell ya what? If one more of em' will leak or blow up on me, Im getting the hell outta here!"-

The recording then endded, leaving Louis with silence from before.
He then went back to trying and finding a way to turn on that machine.

After a long while, he founded a room that seemed to be the power room for that machine,or mayby the break room of some sorts, as he walked around it, he spotted another recording, this time from one of the music department employes, it was Beth Loop, a young female worker from the studio he knew a bit in the past.

-"Ok, lemmie get this straight, Simon is starting to get wired over here, he told us to grab some random items from every department and put them on those.. Tables? Whatever they are.. For what? Cuz of "Simons private reasons" or "to help please the gods" or some other crap like that.. I dunno whats goin' on behind the curtain here, but I swaer, I will find out"-

After that recording, Louis understood what he should do, in the power room were some sort of tables or pedlestools, there were 5 of them in total, so he needed to find 5 objects around the place and put them there.

-"..huh.. Well that seems easy enough"

He said and walked out of the power room, collecting the 5 object mentioned before witch were:

A stuffed doll of the studios mascot: Apollo the rabbit, a book, a music record, an inkwell and wrench.

After finding all of them and placing them where he needed to, he looked around for a valve or button and turned it, after that he accidently blew up one of the many pipes in the studio, making it leek with ink, but he ignored it as best as he could, then, not beaing sure if he should pull the leaver in the power room, he pulled it, causing most of the lights turn off.

After that and a bit more chills going down his spine because of how dark it got in the entire studio, he went back to the room with the machine in it, he peeked inside, only then to get jumpscared by..some strange yet creepy creature.. It looked.. Very simillar to the Studios mascot, Apollo, but way taller.. And very.. Well.. Scary looking, with ink dripping and leaking from it.

-"What the-?!"

He said before nearly tripping on the pipe on the floor.

-"Im getting the hell outta here.."

With that said he run to the exit, but before he could reach it he fell down as the floor broke under him, he fell to a lower level of the studio he didn't recodnice a lot.

-"..what the..? What was that thing..?"

He asked himself and looked up from where he fell from, not seeing anything chasing after him, only ink flowing and dripping down to where he is and on him a bit. He decided to go further and explore the place more, eventually finding a sharp yet with a bit broken handle axe, he grabbed it and went back to walking around the place, hearing as the floor from the upper level breaks and falls down to another room behind him, tho he tried his very best to ignore it.

After a minute of walking and breaking boards that blocked his path, he founded a room with candles and.. Wait for it.. A pentagram (how original of me) on the floor, as soon as he stepped into the pentagram he started to feel dizzy, like he is about to volmit, but it wasn't too long before he passed out, falling to the ground, losing consciousness..

(Authors note: Yes, Im aware that this is a horrible copy of Batims chapter 1, And Im sorry for that, but I not only got my bendy phase back, but that story grew way, WAY too big in my mind so theres no turning back for me, and I will try to make Louis a more interesting character in the future cuz I think he is a bit boring, but you can tell me what could I change to make the story in General more interesting and original, and Im quite young, what did you expect from a young person? Cuz Im sometimes not as Creative as I want to be :(, thanks for reading, have a great day folks!)