As the school bell rang for the final time that day, Amelia Drew gathered up her belongings from her desk and packed them away into her rug sack, the Nine year old was a shy,quiet little thing that didn't have many friends and was often branded as a freak due to her being an Asthmatic, she was also the granddaughter of a Joey Drew who owned the run down old cartoon studio over sixty years ago and she often passed the old abandoned building everyday on way to and from school, Amelia had never met her Grandfather as he had mysteriously disappeared around the same time the studio had closed down which was a long time before she was born and the little girl often asked questions but her parents never seemed to want to talk about him but she did know that he had created a little cartoon Devil named Bendy, she had seen reruns of his old cartoons on TV and she was always fascinated by the fact that her grandfather had created these cartoons.
"Amelia, did you remember to take your Medication this lunch time?" her teacher,Mrs. Parsons asked and Amelia nodded, her parents often sent her to school with medication for her Asthma and instructed her to take it at lunch time, she also carried an Asthma pump around with her.
"Yes I did Mrs. Parsons" the little girl replied as she fastened up her pink windbreaker over her red, orange and purple turtle neck sweater, denim knee length skirt,white leggings and purple converse sneakers.
"Okay I'll let your parents know" Mrs. Parsons replied as Amelia slung her rug sack over her back and left the classroom. Her parents would often get concerned over her condition and that was due to the fact that she had suffered many sever Asthma attacks ever since she was five years old so they had to make sure she would still take her medication during school hours.
Meanwhile, a gang of boys who were a couple years above Amelia at school where hanging outside the school gates when they noticed little Amelia walk past, seemingly avoiding eye contact with them and without any hesitation, began to follow the girl and throwing taunts.
"Hey, wheezy, why are you walking away from us?" a chubby sandy haired boy taunted before grabbing her by the shoulder "what's your problem, do you have trouble with your hearing as well as your breathing?"
"Leave me alone Derek" Amelia pleaded as the rest of the group surrounded her and she could feel her eyes starting to water "just leave me alone."
"No you stupid girl" Derek sneered, walking up to her and grabbing her by the ponytail "you need teaching a lesson about ignoring me" he turned to his cronies "hold her" two boys grabbed her arms to prevent her from running away as Derek took out a pocket knife and held it to her throat "just because you're the granddaughter of some guy who owned that run down old cartoon studio that's been closed down for so many years doesn't give to the right to think you're better than us and just because you got a medical condition doesn't mean we're going to go easy on you, now" he pressed the knife up against her throat as tears began to fall down her cheeks "it's time someone taught you a lesson for being such a stuck up little bitch" before he got the chance to do her any harm, a quick thinking Amelia kneed Derek in the groin, pulled herself away from his two cronies and took off running.
"YOU BETTER GET BACK HERE YOU LITTLE WHEEZY BRAT" Derek yelled before he and his gang took off after the little girl who continued to run without looking back but she could hear them pursuing after her and yelling out all kinds of threats, it was a pretty unsettling site to see a gang of Twelve year old boys chasing after an Asthmatic Nine year old girl and threatening to harm her. The little girl continued to run, trying to find a place to hide when she came across what looked like an empty building and without any hesitation, bolted inside and slammed the door shut before taking a few puffs from her inhaler and then pressing her ear against the door to hear Derek and his gang outside.
"You can't hide in there forever Drew" Derek taunted "we'll be waiting, we're not going anywhere." Knowing that Derek and his Gang wouldn't be leaving any time soon, Amelia knew the best thing to do was to hide in this empty building for a while until they would eventually get bored of waiting and leave. As she walked away from the door and turned around, she found herself in what seemed to be an abandoned workshop and seeing what was plastered on the walls gave away exactly where she was.
"Wow" she whispered, looking up at a poster with the words Bendy in Little Devil darling written on in Black bold letters "I must be in my grandpa's old cartoon studio" the girl was too busy running away from the gang of bullies that she had not even notice the sign on the front of the building reading out JOEY DREW STUDIOS.
"Well, guess I could explore for a little bit while I wait for Derek and his gang to leave" she pointed out before walking into the open area ahead to find that a projector was still running but nothing projecting on the wall.
"Has this been running all this time?" she wondered, quite amazed but also confused by the fact that the place had been abandoned for at least sixty years and that projector had seemingly been running for all this time and hadn't lost power, unless there was someone else here but as far as Amelia could tell, she was the only one in there right now. Standing up against the wall near the projector was a Bendy cutout, it's pie cut eyes seemed to stare right at Amelia who gave a small smile and walked over to the cut out.
"Hey there Bendy" she said,standing on her tip toes to pat the cardboard cutout on top of the head since it was slightly than she was "I hope you don't mind but i'm going to be hanging around here for a little while, at least until those big mean boys waiting outside go away" the cutout said nothing, it just continued staring at the little girl "well, see ya around." Amelia then turned around and headed off in the other direction as the eyes on the cut out seemingly followed her movements and as she entered into the next area, she was greeted by an eerie message on the wall that appeared to be smeared in Ink.
"Dreams come true?" she asked out of curiosity "wonder what that could mean?" thinking nothing off it, she continued onward and saw something at the end of the corridor, something huge and still feeling curious, the little girl walked towards the end of the corridor to find what appeared to be a huge machine, Amelia looked up at the sign above her head and saw that it read out INK MACHINE.
"I guess this is the Ink machine huh" she pondered, walking up to it and noticed that Ink was flowing from it, splashing onto the ground and she had to jump back to prevent any of the stuff splashing onto her shoes "I guess they left this thing running also." After she had finished having a look at the Ink Machine, Amelia walked out of the room and turned round the corner just as black Ink like tendrils began snaking across the wall accompanied by what sounding like a growling breathing sound, something appeared to be following the little girl but she was unaware of this, she was too busy exploring her grandfather's old studio.
"This place sure is weird but interesting at the same time" she said to herself "wonder why they never reopened this place, it's just..." she caught something in the corner of her eye and the child looked over to see what appeared to be the corpse of an anamoprhic wolf like character strapped to what appeared to be a surgical table and it's chest appeared to be ripped open and it's insides taken from it's body and the terrifying image caused Amelia to freeze on the spot in pure fear and she could feel her chest begin to tighten, indicating that she was possibly about to have an attack and she took her puffer from her coat pocket but just as she was about to use it, she felt a pair of hands clamp on her shoulders.
"Well, what do we have here?" a voice said from behind her "what's a sweet little girl like you doing in a place like this?"