Authoress' note: I think i killed someone with my last intro, so this one's going to be short:
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Okay that was the intro, now for the reviews!
Pink Fox Productions: Don't worry, mi amigo, Henry's back in action. It's gonna be fun seeing him be a protective father.
Shadow the strange weasel: Funny thing is, I tried that, but it didn't work for some reason. Thanks for the advice though.
BendyInkDemon: Glad you love it! I'm having fun!
Twins 'n Fandoms: I'm glad you like the ship, I personally have mixed feeling on this whole thing but I have some awesome ideas on the way. So stay tuned!
Darkgenius3: Apparently you are the only one who reads the bold print
LouiseTheLastWriter: Yeah, when I read the "Grendy" comment I died on the spot. Kinda reminds me of "Grucy." (Despicable Me fan, anyone?)
anywho, I own nothing blah blah blah now onto the horrors!
Henry Brookes raced up the stairs full speed with Sammy stumbled behind him. He had already gone up 5 levels, yet he did not feel the least bit tired. Sammy, on the other hand, was panting like a dying dog.
"Slow down!" Sammy wheezed.
Henry stopped in front of a door labeled "Level 9." He could here his daughters screams and Bendy's snarls from behind.
"Grace!" Henry shouted as he messed with the door handle. Locked. Dammit.
Henry banged his shoulder against the door. "Grace, Grace can you here me?!" From the exchanges he heard several floors down, it didn't seem like Bendy was targeting his daughter, but he was a psychopathic Ink Demon, Henry wasn't taking any chances.
"Henry!" Sammy called.
"Help me get this door down!" Henry shouted as he rammed it again.
Sammy raced up to the door, but instead of banging into it, he shoved Henry aside and took out a ring of keys from his pocket.
"Where'd you get those?!" Henry snapped. That knowledge could've helped him a long time ago.
"I've always had them." Sammy retorted as he opened the door. Henry wasted no time as he marathoned into the familiar room of level nine.
OOO
"Last I checked there were only three butcher gang members!" Grace yelled.
She, as well as Boris, were fighting off the butcher gang clones with stray pieces of floorboard while Bendy was using his ink magic. When the butchers were solo they normally avoided the demon, but in packs of 10 or more they posed a threat to anyone down there. Bendy was having little problem fending them off, but they weren't going for him. They were going for the wolf and the angel.
"Eek! You have a mouth on your head!" Grace screamed. She whacked it with her board, but it only caught it with it's mouth and ripped it out of her grasp.
"Bendy!" Grace screamed.
Bendy raced over and grabbed Grace by the back of her shirt, lifting her up in the air, while using his ink to suffocate the clone. Grace gagged at the sound of Striker choking and puking ink.
"Ya okay?" Bendy asked.
Grace shook her head. "I'm gonna be sick."
"Grace!" The two of them looked up to see a crazed, ink-covered Henry charging towards them with a plunger. Bendy thought he was going to attack him, but instead the animator chucked the toilet device at a Piper that was creeping behind the ink demon.
"Daddy!" Grace squealed as she reached for her father.
"Henry, how are you not-"
"Put my daughter down now!" Henry yelled as he retrieved his weapon.
"Why? I'm trying to protect-"
"Dad! Butcher freak!" Grace pointed behind Henry. Henry spun around and whacked the Striker in the head, causing ink to stain everywhere.
"Oh god, I'm gonna sick up-" Grace moaned.
Suddenly Bendy howled in pain as a Striker hit his leg, causing him to drop Grace. Grace thudded onto the clone.
The first thing Grace saw when she hit the floor was the tiny wrench that the clone held, so the next thing she knew she was wrestling the cartoon for the weapon. Henry stepped in before Bendy could and pounded him with his plunger until he melted away. As soon as she was free she jumped into her fathers arms.
"Daddy! You're alive!" She sobbed.
Henry patted his daughters back as he said. "Great to see you to but now's not the time, I'm getting you outta here!" Grabbing his girl's hand the Brookes attempted to reach the door, but there were too many butcher clones. Fortunately Sammy came in from behind the butcher-freaks and started beating them with his mask. After ten minutes of fighting, the last clone was vanquished.
Now that the enemy was out of the way, Grace and Henry were able to have a proper reunion. Henry bear-hugged his daughter and spun her around as the two of them cried with relief.
"Baby girl!" Henry cheered. "Aren't you a sight for sore eyes!"
Grace laughed-sobbed. "I was so worried, daddy!"
"Yeah yeah yeah, happy family reunion, that's great." Bendy interrupted. "Now that we're back together, quick question: Henry how are you walking?!"
Grace shot Bendy a dirty look while Henry huffed. "I wish I knew, but apparently your weird ritual thing healed all my injuries, and probably reversed my age too."
Bendy cocked his head. "What? I think you were fakin' it this whole time."
"If I was faking it I would've tried to escape a long time ago. I survived an elevator crash Bendy!"
"Uh..." Grace cleared her throat to get everyone's attention. "Can we not focus on that and instead someone tell me who dad's friend is over there." She said as she pointed to Sammy.
"Sure, but can you first tell me what you are doing here?"
Grace sideglanced. "Uh... I came here looking for you..."
"Is your mother and sister here too?" Henry had the tone parents used when their kids were in trouble.
Grace's head drooped in shame. "Um, no..."
"You came by yourself?!"
"Yes..."
"Do they know you're here?"
"...No."
Henry groaned. "What were you thinking?! Your mother's worried sick no doubt! H-How did you even get this far?"
Grace pointed to Bendy.
Henry's eyes widened as he turned to the ink demon. Bendy shrugged. "I rescued her from a bunch of Searchers. Ya welcome."
Grace shot up her head and glared at Bendy. "That's a total lie! Those things weren't bothering me, you jumpscared me like in a horror film!"
Henry shot daggers at the demon. "Is this true?!"
Bendy scoffed. "Hey, you should be grateful I kept her around before that crazed angel got her."
Boris whimpered. That was when Henry noticed him for the first time. "Boris!" The animator hugged his cartoon friend. "You're okay!"
"Yeah, and I saved the wolf. Again, ya welcome." Bendy turned to Sammy. "Now care to explain why ya couldn't keep track of one handicapped fella?!"
Sammy jumped back in alarm. "I-I- My Lord-"
"Out with it! You should be grateful Henry didn't escape the studio, or I'd smash ya on the spot!"
"H-He... I don't know what happened-"
"You never seem to know what's happenin'! I can't trust ya with the ritual, I can't trust ya with Henry, why I should just end ya right here and now-"
"BENDY!"
The boys turned their heads to see Grace glaring at Bendy. Her hands were on her hips and her back was strait with her chest was puffed out. "Quit holdin' a heater* to the poor fella! Can't you see he's dramatized as it is?! You're. Not. Smashing. Anyone. Ya hear?!"
All the men were speechless. Henry tightened his grip on the plunger, prepared to defend Grace if things got ugly. One thing Bendy had proved to him down here is that he didn't take orders from anyone.
But then to Henry's surprise, Bendy actually relaxed. He released what sounded like a gurgled sigh before turning to Sammy. "Sammy..." He said, forcing down his anger, "What. Happened?"
Sammy took several deep breaths to calm his renewed nerves.
"Something happened in the ritual that not only affected you and I, but Henry as well. I m-may had said part of a healing spell, because Henry is fully recovered. He even says that his old aches are healed."
"I'm not that old." Henry muttered.
Bendy stared at his servant as the facts sunk in. So he was (partially) human, Sammy was human, and Henry was healed. The spell seemed to be doing everything except what it was meant to do.
Well, okay it sort of worked, but only for Sammy.
"So... You're Sammy?" Grace asked, trying to break the tension.
Sammy nodded meekly. "And you must be Henry's daughter, uh... Grace, was it?"
Grace nodded. "You're Bendy's disciple, I take it?"
Bendy grunted. "A useless one, but yes."
"Hey." Grace retorted. "Be nice, nobody's perfect."
The five of them stood awkwardly for a minute or so when Henry piped up, "So I did the ritual, you got Boris, now can we go on to freeing the studio?"
"Freeing the studio? You mean from the curse?" Grace asked.
"You know about that?"
"Bendy filled me in."
Henry nodded. "But the ritual didn't work. Are we gonna have to do it again or...?"
"I doubt it would work a second time. But you said the outside world has information on these things, correct?"
Henry sighed, remembering that he promised Bendy that he would get him out of the studio so they could find a cure. "Are you implying that you come with us?"
Grace's heart dropped. "Whoa whoa whoa wait. Bendy's coming with us?!"
Bendy frowned. Why was she saying that like it was a bad thing?
"i-I'm not saying that it's official, but he knows more about this stuff better than I do-"
"Yeah, and this is occult stuff we're talking about! Black Magic, demon rituals, Satanic... things... just a whole lot of 'this is a bad idea.' I donno about you, but I don't wanna get dragged to hell."
Boris quivered at that thought.
Henry sighed. "Yes, this is a bad idea. But maybe using black magic isn't the answer, that's why it didn't work last time. Perhaps there's another cure out there."
"Like what?"
"I donno, uh..."
"An exorcist?" Grace huffed.
"A what?" What's an exorcist?
"That... might work. Let's cross that road when we get to it. For now, let's just get outta here." Henry mimicked Wally from the recordings.
Unbeknownst to everyone, Boris' ears picked up on that last part.
OOO
Allison Pendle paced in the meeting room in one of the lower levels. Even though she was in one of the safest places in the studio, she still carried her sword on her belt. Also in the room with her were Thomas Conner and Jack Fain. Tomas resembled Boris with a mechanical arm while Jack was a swollen searcher with a hard hat (Jack said it gave him personality).
"He'll come, Allison." Tomas grumbled. He could still talk, but it was very difficult to do so.
Allison sighed. "It's been too long, we should've sent someone with him."
"Wally's the man for the job, las. He brings light to the situation and can fix almost anything, if anyone can find Henry, it's him." Jack gurgled. He had met Henry and had some fun with him, before Henry smashed him with a crate.
"Last Wally checked in he was pretty deep in Bendy's territory, that makes me anxious." Ally mumbled. "Thomas, can you try contacting him again?"
Thomas closed his eyes and struggled to speak through the ink. "Wally, this is Thomas, come in Wally."
It was quiet for a moment, before a faint voice replied. "No need to go military mode, Tom. I'm here."
"Wally? You sound weak, you alright?"
I... I dunno honestly. I'm still walking, so that's a plus."
"Do you have Henry?"
"Uh... yes and no."
"What?"
"I found Henry, then I lost him, then Susie got me, and then... Bendy-"
"Bendy?! What did he do? Did you get away?"
"Lighten up, pal! I got away from Susie, but that's cause Bendy and this kid rescued me! Apparently he was sent by Henry, and there's talk about a ritual...
"Ritual?"
"I dunno all the details, but it looks like Bendy and Henry are workin' together to undo the curse... and Sammy's here too."
"I wasn't aware Bendy wanted to break the curse."
"Me neither, but apparently he hates it here as much as we do. Anyways, so he and Henry are gonna leave and see if they can find a cure. Sammy's coming to, as well a the kid."
"Wait, their leaving?! And who's the kid? Are you coming too?"
"One at a time, Tom! It looks like I'm comin' too, since Henry thinks me as a pal. Yes, they leavin', and I think the kid's Henry's daughter."
Thomas anxiously drummed his paws on the table. "Does Bendy suspect anything?"
"I don't think so, but I haven't been able to explain things to Henry. We were on our way to ya guys when we ran into Susie and... oh... about that..."
"What happened?"
"Are ya'll aware that she's been dissecting people?"
Authoress' note: Quick thing: The other day I got my hair cut and highlighted a darker color. Then the other day I looked in the mirror and I was like "Holy Crap I look like Grace!" :O
Bendy stay away from me, I'm not into ink demons.
Oh, and review and stuff.
