Inked in Mystery
Summary:
Crossover Bendy / Terry Toons / Disney Toons / Looneys Toons alias the ToonVerse (universe like 'Who Framed Roger Rabbit?')
Bendy is a little Toon Devil who suddenly went crazy to such an extent that he attacked his Animators before being locked in his studio which has since been haunted. At least... that's what his legend says! And since, all the Toons fear him!
Aiden the talking magpie, Heckle and Jeckle's young son, decides to lead his little investigation by going to search in the studio... but something is wrong in this whole story. Has Bendy really become a Mad Monster? Or is he just the victim of a terrible threat that still hangs over ToonTown?
Prologue:
« Not so long ago, when Humans were looking for a way to entertain their kind, men and women began to draw little black and white characters to make them live beautiful adventures to amaze the audience... when the characters began to come to life through the power of Imagination of their designers. Those new beings were named Toons and their creators were called the Animators!
Many studios were formed, creating their own Toons who lived their own adventures or made children laugh with gags. Among the most famous, there was Bendy the Dancing Demon. He was a little Toon with a very childish personality who had everything to be happy: a brilliant career, many friends (his best friend being his episode companion: Boris the Wolf) and a studio that loved him as a family, especially his Animator Henry and the Director Joey. But alas, this flawless happiness didn't last….
One day, Bendy's creator and animator left the studio to work in the neighborhood and look for new ideas for his little Devil Darling. But the little Toon didn't support the idea of being separated from a person to whom he had been very attached. He was always trying to be happy as usual and continued his gags for months... but one day, the pain of his loss became unbearable!
Without anyone expecting it, Bendy suddenly got crazy. He began to absorb more ink than he needed, making him suddenly terribly violent and aggressive. He then used his control over the ink to invade the studio, forcing the animators and the director to flee... but he continued to attack them, forcing the other humans to act and try to calm him in vain. Joey decided to cut the ink in order to weaken Bendy but, with all the ink he had absorbed, he was still very strong. The Animators managed to lock the crazy Toon into the studio, letting him screaming in rage. »
August 1959 :
The scene (which until then showed Bendy's studio and his crazy attack) suddenly changes to show a 1950s child's room. Sitting on the floor were two Toons kids... well, a Toon child and a half-Toon kitten. The pure Toon is a small magpie with a yellow beak, black plumage except for his belly which is gray. The kitten, meanwhile, has white hair, beige-gray tiger fur on the hind legs, tail, half of his belly, on the ears, and a bit behind on the edges of the cheeks, his feline face appearance and his arms (devoid of fur but armed with claws like cats) are Caucasian skin color, the scleras are yellow and his irises blue. While the chick wears no clothes (being a Toon, he wasn't obliged to wear any), the little Tunman* wears a red t-shirt and brown shorts.
In front of them stands the father of the chick: Heckle, one of two talking magpies from TerryToons Studios! Today, he takes advantage that his husband isn't there to have a face to face with his son, little Aiden, and his friend-kitten, Keffan, who is the adopted son of SourPuss and Gandy Goose. The chick's mother wasn't there and, judging that his boy is old enough, the magpie had decided to tell him the legend of Bendy, the Toon Demon! While little Keffan seems frightened, paralyzed by fear, Aiden seems fascinated.
« Since that day, no one has visited this studio which remains closed. » Heckle says, looking menacing. « The few who have dared to enter in it have either never come out again, or have been found in an atrocious state close to Death. Bendy seems to attack only Humans but his madness is uncontrollable! » he continues, raising his voice, making Keffan jump. « Some stormy nights, the wind carries Bendy's screams to ToonTown! Despite all these years of forgetfulness, Bendy is still alive, waiting for his time, hidden in the shadow of his once glorious studio! » Heckle finished.
While Keffan is frozen on the spot, visibly terrorized, Aiden is passionate.
« Wow! » he marvels, surprising his friend who stares at him as if he is mad. « Is it true, dad? »
« But of course it's true! » smiled the magpie, amused by the look of his son, before resuming a threatening tone. « And as soon as he gets free, ToonTown will end under his anger, engulfed by his ink and nothing will stop him! »
Aiden smiles, amazed (much to his father's surprise) when ...
« Heckle! What did we say about telling scary stories to kids? » Jeckle scowls as he enters the room.
Heckle jumped (for he didn't heard his companion returned) then he smiled turning to him before whistling. The other magpie glares at him and taps his foot, annoyed. Aiden refrains from laughing and then, wanting to help his father, he gets up and runs to hugs Jeckle's legs.
« Good evening mom! » He chirps, making his eyes soft.
Heckle stops laughing as Jeckle looks down at their son... but Aiden's smile and his big sparkling brown eyes calm him down. Sighing, he smiles and picks up his little one who squeezes him tightly in his little arms before kissing him on the cheek.
« You little rascal! » Jeckle smiled. « You're lucky to be so cute. »
« He's got that from me! » Heckle says, grabbing his husband by the waist before kissing his cheek.
Jeckle glares at him, seeming to say "Wait a minute, you!" under the laughter of the two children. Heckle looks at him with a charming gaze, knowing that his husband couldn't stay angry with him for a long time... but for the moment, the magpie is upset!
« I thought we had agreed to not to tell these kind of stories to children! » he grumbles.
« It's just a story! Aiden is old enough to hear it. »
« Oh yes ? So you're taking care of him if he wakes up with nightmares tonight! » the magpie scowls by posing his chick down. « And Keffan? What are we going to say to Gandy and SourPuss? "Sorry, but we scared your kid with Bendy's story while he was under our care"? »
« Scared? I wasn't scared! » The Tunman kitten indignantly jerks his chest.
Except that during this time, Aiden has recovered a small balloon under his bed, inflated and slips behind his friend... before releasing the balloon that deflates noisily. This ridiculous sound he has heard several times scare Keffan who jumped ruffling his fur, hissing in fear before running to hide under the bed, grunting. Aiden bursts out laughing with Heckle but the adult magpie is silenced by a nudge from his husband.
Keffan, hearing that they're laughing at him, gets out of under the bed and grunting, curling his back, ... before jumping on Aiden meowing furiously. The little magpie jumps and flies away laughing... except that his kitten friend starts to chase him all over the room, turning around the magpie parents as if they weren't there. Jeckle would like to intervene but Heckle holds him back.
« Don't you worry. » the magpie smiled. « They're just bickering . »
Keffan jumps on the bed and takes a dash, enough to reach Aiden and both roll on the ground ... and the kitten is flattened on the ground, the little magpie lying on his chest with a big smile.
« Won! » he does tweeting.
« Oh okay, huh! » The half-Toon grumbles, straightening up, dragging the chick on his lap.
Aiden smiles proudly before jumping to the floor to join his parents.
« Dad ! Mum ! What if Keffan stayed here tonight? »
« Ah! Not a bad idea, chum ! » Heckle smiled. « Like that, if he makes nightmares, it will stay between us! Gandy and SourPuss won't know! »
Jeckle looks at Heckle with a glare saying, "Yeah, see if I didn't notice you trying to make amend." before sighing.
« I will warn Gandy that Keffan is sleeping here. »
Aiden leaped with joy, shouting "YEAH!" under the laughter of his father before Keffan jumped on him and slapped him to the ground with a small smile.
« You can't win every time, feathered ball! » he laughs as the little magpie pulls out his tongue.
This is the prologue of our fiction Encré dans le Mystère on Bendy translated into English. Of course, Foxiso and I do not have any rights over him and this is only our version of the video game imagined well before the end of the game.
Aiden and Keffan are two OC invented by me and my friend Foxiso.
Aiden is a Talking Magpie, son of Heckle and Jeckle the Talking Magpies of TerryToons (who are in a couple and married in this fiction) born in March 1953. He is a happy boy, joker and very curious.
Keffan is a half-toon kitten, half human toon half cat. He is the adopted son of Gandy Goose (another character of TerryToons) and the best friend of Aiden, born in January 1953. His adoption is more fully described in Foxiso's fiction on FanFiction "Heckle and Jeckle as a couple"
Aiden belongs to me and Foxiso and Keffan belongs above all to Foxiso. She gave me the right to use this character so ask her or me before using Aiden or Keffan, alright?
Besides, before forgetting, here are the notifications noted by *
1: Other name of half-toons
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