++Author's Note #1++

For the entirety of this story, Bendy belongs to theMeatly (Kindly Beasts).

~~Safehouse of Allison and Tom~~

45-year old Henry Stein slowly awakens to a soft singing voice. The feminine voice was smooth, clear, and quiet - yet powerful and soothing in a way. It sounded as if it was the promise of tomorrow: beautiful, and one who wished that it would never stop.

Henry's eyes were like the stars, the way they drew you in to explore the spiral of emotions held in their depths. His black pupils was ringed of jagged silver fire swallowed by sapphire. His collared shirt was ripped open with an injury to his left shoulder that had been cleaned, stitched, and bandaged quite well; his brown, grey-streaked hair was all messy and stained with ink from all that has happened at Joey Drew Studios, the animation studio he used to work for as an animator and artist.

A shiver gets his attention. Henry looks down at his lap and he sighs softly in relief. It was Bethany Atkinson, his 17-year old daughter who was born right before his amazing wife, Linda, passed away due to extreme after-birth complications with her. Because she was out of town at the time on business for a few months, Henry was shocked to know she and Sammy Lawrence, the studio's former music director, was his children and Henry didn't even know it...

++Flashback Starts++

"My savior!" Sammy's ink form was a black, slightly muscular-looking Lost One wearing a smudged Bendy mask with a hole punched into the mouth to help him speak. He has no hair and strangely enough, while remaining in human shape, Sammy has four fingers on each hand instead of five. Besides wearing no shirt, he also wore overalls that somewhat resembled the ones Boris wore with a patch sewn on the left knee; his shoes and lower parts of his overalls are coated with ink. He was almost faceless with almost no facial features under the mask, leaving only his eye-sockets partially visible. He was on his knees bowing in a specific direction.

The group looks up when the door rose up and thundering footsteps were heard; Ink Bendy reveals himself. Bethany was in horror; the character was created as a doll when she was a child in Joey Drew's care...he had become nothing but like a demon out of Hell...literally.

Ink Bendy is a malformed, skeletal figure covered in black ink resembling bubbling tar. His head highly resembles that of his original counterpart, but the top area of his head appears melted, obscuring his eyes. His horns are slightly more curved and pointed, appearing to move sideways similar to animalistic ears. His creepy grin was nothing more but baring sharp razor-like teeth. His spine was slightly crooked and curved, strongly resembling scoliosis. His slightly hunched back sports spiky-looking spines for demonic features that creepily resembled human fingers; endless ink streams down from him as he walked.

What really stood out was his folded inky dragon-like wings and his thin yard-long tail ending in a scythe blade tip, making him more intimidating and frightening. His hands no longer resembled gloves and his feet no longer had shiny shoes; they both were now clawed while inducing endless wisps of blackish smoke. He used to wear a bowtie close to the middle of his chest, but it was now gone that gave him a misshapen appearance.

Soon, his mouth shifts open and allows him to talk, revealing a forked tongue. He looks at the group tied up as well as Sammy. "Stand up, you fool!"

Ink Bendy's voice was so embodied and demonic, shaking Bethany to her very core. The fear sits on her like a pillow over her mouth and nose. Enough air gets by it, allowing her body to keep functioning, but it's crippling all the same. Her brain had shut down. Her skin was clammy, glistening of a cold sweat with contrast to the dried ink that stained her clothes and hair. Her eyes were as wide as if someone was coming to deliver the fatal blow.

"My lord?" Inky Bendy says nothing before he then digs his claws into Sammy's chest, nearly ripping out his heart. Blood gushed with sickening determination as his own heart sought to pump it from his chest. His fingers clamped over the wound, growing paler by the second as he fell to the ground.

Bethany struggles against the rope and manages to free herself, running to her older brother's side and holds him in her arms. "No! Sammy!"

He coughs and weakly puts a bloodied hand on her cheek. "Little sister... I-I'm s-so sorry..."

Bethany's eyes dripped with tears. Her walls that hold her up and made her strong just collapsed. She couldn't stop crying, not caring about the inky blood staining her clothes and hands. "Please...don't go just yet... I spend ten years trying to find you! I...can't lose you again..."

"I...love you...little sister..." Sammy's hand slowly drops and coughs up inky blood once as the light finally recedes from his eyes. One last breath emitted and he died in Bethany's arms. Like millions of black flowers blooming, the droplets of inky blood fell to the floor and created a path. She winced as his inky body dissipates and returns to the Inky Abyss, leaving behind a special gift: it was a necklace meant to be given to her on her 7th birthday ten years ago, the last day at the studio when Joey Drew destroyed everything. A silver chain holds a multicolored crystal tangled in a filigree design. A matching amethyst crystal droplet falls below the pendent.

Bethany turns to face Ink Bendy. As she cried there was a rawness to it, like the pain was still an open wound. "Why...? Why would you do all of this?"

He growled as he limped towards her. His clawed hand then cracks across her face, snapping it back with the force of his blow and causing her head to reel sickeningly as it slams into the wall behind her. Bethany puts a hand to her cheek as the shining tears blinded her vision and her bottom was split, showing a little blood. "You...all left us to rot! I could care less about any of you!"

She growled back at him. "If you want to take your anger out at anyone, take it out on me!"

Henry was shocked. Even that statement alone made Ink Bendy stop in his tracks. Jayden, Bethany's closest best friend since elementary school, struggled against the ropes tied around his wrists. "Bethany! Don't do it!"

Bethany removes her somewhat heavy backpack, throwing it to the side and gets on her knees, still shedding tears. "Ink Bendy...I was associated with Joey Drew ten years ago, but I didn't know he would do all of this... I only have one request and nothing more from you."

Ink Bendy ponders for a moment, expressing by the slightest curve at the mouth's corner that showed an evil smirk at her defeat. "Show and tell me what you want."

Henry gasps as he watched his daughter stand up, seeing the obvious defeat in her eyes. Bethany sniffled and slowly opens up her plaid blouse to reveal her small full breasts; not too big and not too small but perfect in contrast to her slender yet slightly muscular body that was covered in surgical marks and inky blood. She then removes her boots and jeans to expose the rest of her body before letting down her hair. Her hair, dark and lustrous, had a sheen like fine hardwood - shiny varnish catches merely light around it, but the depths of that deep chestnut brown reflected all the radiance of her identity.

"Take me, Ink Demon..." Her eyes were the type of brown that was like a sweet chocolate. The chocolate that melts at the slightest bit of the heat from love and happiness. But that chocolate can also grow hard from the cold harsh reality that's apparent in this world. Heartbreak, or the depression that she hid from all those around her so well.

"I asked Joey Drew to make your cartoons come alive with success. I asked my friends to come with me to get you back, but that's no longer possible and they don't deserve this... I'll do whatever you want, but please...give me your word that you'll let the others go peacefully and unharmed..."

"Bethany, don't do this..." Henry's soft voice tried to reach his daughter, but to no avail as she turns back to face her father.

"I have no other choice, Dad. If this is to set you all free from this madness, then I don't care what happens to me..."

Ink Bendy stepped forward and examined her body. He touches her; the shivering from her indicated that she was pure, something that made him squirm in excitement in his twisted mind. He forms handcuffs from the ink and closes them around her wrists as well as a collar with a chain link around her neck. Ink Bendy goes over to Jayden and Henry, using his claws to cut the ropes.

"Leave." He grabs the chain, pulling Bethany close to him. "Follow us..." He opens a "door" in the wall. "...and I shall kill you. As for you, girl...don't make me regret doing this for you." Bethany sniffles as she lets the demon take her away.

++Flashback Ends++

"Is she going to be okay?" Henry looks up at Allison, who had asked the question. Her black hair is tied up in a ponytail with a headband and has a pair of broken horns. Like Physical Alice Angel (Susie Campbell), she wears a strapped black dress, giving the impression of a top with tights and belt-buckled boots. Her arms are entirely covered in ink, resembling black opera gloves; she also wears a waist belt with an attached bag, a rope crossed over her left shoulder, and a leather holster with a wrench and thin sword sheathed in it.

Allison obviously showed concern for Bethany, who had her head laying in Henry's lap. The thick velvety purple blanket covered her entire body, but she was shaking uncontrollably and crying softly. Her dark-brown eyes just leaked, the little water droplets streaming down her cheeks.

Henry sighs as he continued to stroke her hair. "She's traumatized. She refuses to sleep or eat anything. After what..."he"...did to her, she's shut down. Whatever's going on...I hope we resolve it soon so we can get out of here for good."

"We have some bacon soup cooking on the stove. She needs to get something into her stomach because she can use the extra energy. Tom..." She turns to face him. He looked just like Boris, but he has much more serious look on his face. He has the mechanical arms from the Bendy animatronic, symbolizing that he somehow lost his arms. "...please be easy on them."

Once the soup was done cooking, Allison pours some into a bowl and puts it on the nightstand right next to the bed. "Bethany...please eat this. I'm sorry that we don't have anything else, but at least try to eat a little bit."

Bethany coughs and tries her best to not move as her teeth chattered under her quivering lips. "S-S-So...c-c-cold..."

Henry helps his daughter change positions. Her eyes were bloodshot, she has lost so much weight that she looked anorexic and she couldn't stop shivering. Henry takes the spoon holding a little bit of soup and has Bethany eat a small bit of it. After adjusting, he feeds her a little more soup until her vision becomes blurry and her eyes shut closed.

Henry looks at Allison dumbfounded and became slightly angry. "Allison, what did you do?"

"She's traumatized, Henry. Since getting back here, she's refused to fall asleep. The medicine I gave her within her bowl of soup will warm her up and let her sleep for a little bit. Anyway...Tom and I know who you are. But...why are you here of all places?"

Henry lays Bethany's head on a pillow on the cot, recovering her with another blanket over the sleeping girl. "I want to rescue everyone stuck here and finish the Ink Demon...after what he did to my daughter. But I can't do this alone. We need your help."

++Author's Note #2++

This is a new Bendy story. The old characters used in the other Bendy fanfiction (now deleted) are in this story as well. This story is my interpretation of how Bendy Chapter 5 should have happened and what not.

Please read and review! Constructive criticism is also good to see how I can improve. I'm out ^^