The batim saga, chapter two: an old song
Aqua woke up in a room with coffins and a pentagram, neither of his partners were visible.
"Com-on out my friend, calling Whisper! Yokai medal do your thing."
"Ladies and gentlemen, summoning… Slippery!"
"Dippery, Chippery! So Slippery! Lippery, Shippery! So Slippery!"
"Whisper!"
Whisper appeared, half drenched in ink and looking very unhappy, "I told you so!"
Aqua ignored this and called dracunyan.
"Dracunyan!"
"I almost just drowned in ink, but I'm good."
Aqua looked to one of the coffins, "let's give that demon the axe," he said picking up a steel hatchet.
"Nyice"dracunyan said.
Aqua went over to the door and broke it open with the hatchet. The continued down a fleet of stairs until they came to some sort of shine with a audio log. "That might help us out," aqua said. Dracunyan pressed the button and a different voice came through, "He appears from the shadows to rain his sweet blessings upon me. The figure of ink that shines in the darkness. I see you, my savior. I pray you hear me. Those old songs, yes, I still sing them. For I know you are come to save me. And I will be swept into your final loving embrace. But, love requires sacrifice. Can I get an amen?"
"I said: can I get an Amen?"
"Who said that?" whisper asked.
The trio followed the voice to a hallway flooded with ink. Half way through they saw someone walking on the other side holding a cut out. They ran to the other side to find he was gone and the cut out was against the wall.
Aqua took the ax and chopped the cut-out in half, he turned to find an exit. The door in this room required three buttons to open. He turned to tell the others, but was set of when he noticed the cut out was fully intact again.
The trio ignored this, found the buttons and entered the door. In the next room a wall had a sign that read, "Music department." nere it another cassette, whisper turned it on and the same voice as the last came out, but they determined it had been taken at an earlier date, "So first, Joey installs this ink Machine over our heads. Then it begins to leak. Three times last month, we couldn't even get out of our department because the Ink had flooded the stairwell. Joey's solution? An Ink pump to drain it periodically. Now I have this ugly pump switch right in my office. People in and out all day. Thanks, Joey. Just what I needed. More distractions. These stupid cartoon songs don't write themselves, you know."
"So this guy used to sing a different tune," whisper said
"Kinda sounds like an older Aqua," dracunyan jokes.
"Ok, let's find this guy's office, I'll take the stairs, whisper left hall, drac, that room," aqua said heading for the stairs. Once up the stairs aqua found a booth with cassette and projector. He started playing both, the projector showed a cartoon and a new voice came from the cassette, "Every day the same strange thing happens, I'll be up here in my booth, the band will be swinging, and suddenly Sammy Lawrence just comes marching in and shuts the whole thing down. Tells us all to wait in the hall. Then I hear him. He starts up my projector, and he dashes from the projector booth and down to the recording studio like the little devil himself was chasing behind. Few seconds later, the projector turns off. But Sammy, he doesn't come out for a long time. This man is weird. Crazy weird. I have half a mind to talk to Mr. Drew about all this. But then again, I have to admit. Mr. Drew has his own peculiarities."
"Sammy, he must be the one in charge of the music department, and from the last two tapes, it sounds like he never left," aqua said to himself. He then stared down at dracunyan. "Hey Drac, there's a cut out behind you!"
"Nyo, there's one behind you!" he said. After that Aqua did some running until there was a cut-out for each instrument.
Dracunyan noticed them all too, but he saw them in the booth. He also found a cassette on the piano nere a recording booth it said, "It may only be my second month working for Joey Drew, but I can already tell I'm going to love it here! People really seem to enjoy my Alice Angel voice. Sammy says she may be as popular as Bendy someday. This past few weeks I have voiced everything from talking chairs to dancing chickens. But this is the first character I have really felt a connection with. Like she's as a part of me. Alice and I, we are going places."
"She sounds pretty," dracunyan said.
"Whisper had found a room with an old organ. He played a few notes but stopped when he heard, "ugghhh!" he tapped a key to hear, "Aaah!" "I'll… just leave this alone."
When he left the room he found yet another cassette, "what is up with these," he then turned it on, "So I go to get my dust pan from the hall closet the other day and guess what? I can't find my stupid keys. It's like they disappeared into thin air or something. All I can think of is that they must have fallen into one of garbage cans as I was making my rounds last week. I just hope nobody tells Sammy. Because if he finds out I lost my Keys again, I'm out of here."
Whisper than began inspecting trash cans for keys, eventually he found keys, and unlocked the apparently ghost proof closet. Inside was another cassette, whisper set his yokai pad to record, "Every artistic person needs a sanctuary. Joey Drew has his and I have mine. To enter, you need only know my favorite song: The piano delicately calls The banjo shudders with a piercing voice. The violin again screams. The piano returns in graceful harmony. Sing my song and my sanctuary will open to you."
Whisper then switch the cassette to record, "whoever thought tons of cassettes were a good idea, you're wrong."
Whisper found his way to aqua who was attempting to throw his ax at a ton of bendy cut-outs.
"Aqua, I… What are you doing?" he asked.
"Everytime I go down there they are gone and I run back up here and they're back down," aqua replied.
"Well I know how to find the guy's office!" whisper exclaimed.
"Got it," aqua said smacking on the projector.
"Wuwuzzat about?"
"This 'sammy lawrence' always turned on the projector before doing something."
"I see, then I know what to do next!" whisper exclaimed.
The two ran down the stairs to the maine room, the moment they got of the last step, the ink started moving, forming, taking humanoid form.
searchers:B rank
Wicked
"These nasty creatures are the searchers, wicked yokai who obey their shady master!" whisper said.
Aqua began attacking them with the ax, They went down one by one. The two ran into the other room. Dracunyan greeted them with, "Hey where's the fire!?"
"No fire, just Wickeds," Aqua said.
"W-w-wickeds!" Dracunyan, "I thought we got rid of em in the movie!"
"Well to be fair this canon doesn't line up so well with the events of the main can… " whisper started but was cut off by Aqua yelling, "No Breaking the Fourth Wall!"
"Click!"
"The projector turned off," aqua said.
"On it!" whisper said flying off hitting the button.
One song later a secret door opened, the trio looked in. at the end of the room was an ink pump. They walked up and turned it to the off position. The three turned toward the exit and the bendy cut-out once again peered over the edge of the doorway and shot back.
Aqua slid out of the sanctuary with the ax but was greeted by an army of searchers.
"I got this one," dracunyan said dragging whisper out and shaking him up. Whisper's eyes started to spin and his face turned a pale green.
"Information Overload!" whisper yelled as green smoke forced its way out of his mouth and into the searchers putting them all in a daze.
"Was that your Soultimate?!" Aqua asked.
"I don't like to use it."
Dracunyan took a running start at the searchers and leaped into the air yelling, "Big Blood Sucker!" he jumped into one of the searchers and took a bite out of him. The searchers went down one by one, soultimate after soultimate, chop after chop.
"Alright follow me," whisper said motioning to the hallway.
They came to a door next to glass window and entered the room.
"Alright, find the pump," aqua said.
"Huh, anyother one speaker," dracunyan said tapping the button on said device. The sound from this one was more upbeat than the last, "So they sent you a letter, to come back home to play, but to your dismay, this isn't your day, for the happy, funtimes have begun to fade."
Whisper than turned the speaker off, "not right now."
Aqua found and activated the pump and the three walked down the hall toward freedom.
"Oh wait, I just remembered!" whisper said, "I found this yo…" he was interrupted by getting knocked out. Aqua and Dracunyan soon followed. Before passing out, all three heard the same thing, "Rest your head, it's time for bed!"
When aqua came to he was being tied up by a more human looking searcher with a bendy mask and overalls.
"They're we go nice and tight," he said in a familiar voice while taking the ax, "We Wouldn't want a sheep roaming away would we? No, no we wouldn't"
Sammy Laurence: A rank
Eerie.
"Well I am honestly, quite flattered that someone would come and visit me down here," Sammy continued, "It almost makes what I'm about to do seem, Cruel." "Wait," he said looking at aqua, "you seem familiar to me… Doesn't matter, soon my lord will save me from this inky, excuse of a body!"
Sammy then started walking toward a door. When he was gone whisper woke up and slipped out of his ropes.
"Cut us loose!" aqua yelled as a mechanical door opened. When the trio was loose aqua grabbed the ax ready to attack sammy, just then sounds from the other room came, "No my lord! I am your prophet!"
"Looks like that backfired," Dracunyan said.
The three ran through the open door and the hallway after it, smashing wooden boards in the way, in the process. Until they heard, "CRACK!"
"The ax broke!" the all screamed. Then Demonic Bendy popped up from a pool of ink in front of them. "AAAAAHHHHHHhhhhh!" the three ran down a different hallway until they got through a door. They closed and berracaded it.
"That was close," aqua said.
"Hopefully, this holds," whisper added.
Behind them a rolling sound, and a can hitting the wall could be heard. The three turned to see a human wolf stepped out from a corner.
"Ah nyuts!" Dracunyan sighed.
To be continued…
