AN: HOLY COW THIS CHAPTER DID NOT WANT TO GET WRITTEN!
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Bendy stopped a couple feet away from the girl, taking in her fear, her desperation. It would be glorious, the moment he killed her, but he wanted to enjoy it first. Savor her fear, bask in it.
What better way to do that than with jokes!
"It looks like this is yer dead end brat." Bendy might not have been able to see her face all that well, but judging from the faint shifting of her mouth and eyes, and her slightly horrified gasp, he could tell the girl clearly did not enjoy his joke.
Bendy laughed, too amused by the girl's reaction. It had been so long since he had told a joke, never mind last seen anyone look like that...
"It looks like your humor is as rotten as you are, Bendy." The demon frowned at the attempted joke. It was such a horrible come back, Henry could have done better! His frown deepened, Henry had been terrible at jokes, but he had always tried. Henry...
The familiar laughter and the duo traded art based jokes back and forth, Boris watching with a happy look in his eyes. The tears leaking out of Henry's eyes as he fell off his chair in response to Bendy's jokes, laughing so hard he could barely breathe.
Joey opening the door and telling them to "shut it" before slamming the door closed. The silence that had reigned for a couple seconds before Henry broke it.
"Well, it looks like Joey won't punish us for such terrible jokes!"
Laughter broke out once again.
Henry… Boris…
Forgetforgetforget!
His whole body ached at the thought of the traitorous human, his dead best friend, tortured by Henry, and his anger towards the Lex girl only grew. He hated this stupid brat for reminding him so much of Henry! Reminding him of the pain...
BorisBorisBoris! Deaddeaddead!
Grief, sorrow, pain, and anger threatened to drown the demon once again. He hated living, he hated having to feel.
Bendy had learned long ago that existence was nothing but torment, a way to break someone and shatter them completely. He was so tired. So tired of existing and feeling nothing but pain over and over again. He wanted it all to end.
But first he had to kill these humans, and find both his creators. Make them pay for what they had done.
Then he would be with Boris once again.
"Ya always gotta ruin the fun, huh? Well, ya won't be stopping me from having fun while I rip yer limbs off!" Bendy's grin returned full force as he thought of what he would do to the girl. He would make it slow, and start with small wounds before turning up the intensity.
She would suffer.
"Heh, and I guess apologizing for smashing your face in won't help me?" The girl had taken a step back, as if that tiny amount of space would somehow make her safer. It was a cute attempt, the demon had to admit, but it would be pointless in the end.
"Nope." Bendy responded, shuffling a bit closer to Lex, getting rid of any of the space she had originally made between them.
"But I gotta know, why do somethin' as stupid as running away from the exit?" Bendy was not sure as to why he continued to speak. Some part of him felt that taunting the girl might make this more fun. Make her angry and have her fight him, a final battle of sorts.
Cliché or not, Bendy did want to enjoy this, even if the part of him that whispered how wrong this all was had only gotten louder.
And yet why was she alone? He knew the other girl had been with her the last time he saw them, so when had they split up? He paced back and forth in front of the girl, both blocking the exit and expressing his mental frustrations.
The demon loved learning and often asked Henry many questions while they lived in the studio about the world around him. He had never been outside...
Perhaps after this he would finally get to experience the world.
"I know humans are stupid and all," He noticed the girl twitch at the insult, but instead of acknowledging it he kept speaking. "But even a stupid human should know runnin' away from the exit's a bad thing,"
What was it that drove this girl to risk her life? It certainly could not be because of those other humans who were also trapped in the studio.
No, humans were far too heartless to care about anyone other than themselves.
He paused in front of the girl and faced her. "So why?"
The girl remained silent, and Bendy sighed in irritation. Honestly, why did this human have to be so uncooperative? This loud mouth, aggressive, annoying brat-
Wait…
She was aggressive, so he could taunt her into telling him! Bendy smirked at his ingenious plan. He knew exactly what to say to get the girl to respond.
"Hm, well how about I make some guesses." He purred, taking delight in the girl's confused expression.
"Well, for one ya friends could've abandoned ya here." His grin grew at the frozen expression on her face. "Or maybe ya abandoned them and got turned around." Oh, her expression was glorious, now was the perfect time to really make her angry.
"Or maybe ya abandoned that smaller girl to get away from me." Her reaction was instant, and explosive.
"You better shut the fuck up right now before I make you!" Lex shouted, anger written all over her face. Clearly he had found her weakness, that other girl, but he doubted she actually cared about her, so the answer must be something else.
Maybe a little push would get her to properly answer his question...
He grinned. "Ooh, I guess ya did then. Shame since the two of ya looked so close."
"As if I would abandon her, or any of my friends." Was that her answer? Did she honestly expect him to believe that she cared about anyone, that humans cared about anyone other than themselves?!
Henry helping to pick Bendy up after he had tripped over a loose board. Henry bringing colouring books to the studio for both Bendy and Boris to use so they would not get bored. Henry visiting them in the dead of night so they would not be lonely in the dark, empty studio.
HenryHenryHenrywhydidyouleavemealone?!
Humans only cared about themselves, it had to be true!
The demon broke down laughing. That was the best joke he had heard since before he got stuck in that cut out! "Y-ya mean ta tell me, that yer tryin' ta buy time for them ta escape or somethin'?" He wheezed out as he continued to laugh.
Bendy sighed as his laughing fit ended and faced Lex. While he could not make out her facial expressions, her body was rigid and tense. Was she serious?!
"Is that what yer actually doin'?" She remained silent, and Bendy started laughing once again. This human truly was something else, far more stupid and naïve than any other human he had met.
"HA! As if humans know anything other than being lyin', backstabbing, murders!" Her face twisted back into a glorious expression of rage. Oooh, she was angry again!
"Shut up!" The girl barked. "If that were true I wouldn't be here!" A grin began to take over the demon's face once again, but it disappeared as she continued talking. "Besides, considering what I saw with Boris earlier, I don't think you can say shit!"
He froze, agony soaring through him once again as she dared to imply…
No…
How dare she. How dare she assume something like that. How dare she think that he had killed…
No…. no….
Killed….
NO…. I WOULD NEVER HURT HIM!
Boris' ink covered corpse appeared in his mind once again, and Bendy snapped.
I WOULD NEVER KILL BORIS!
"You humans." Bendy hissed as tears ran down his face, agony searing through his core, voice shifting from that of a cartoon character to something... more. He snarled and lunged at the girl, a demonic screech erupting from his throat as he shouted.
"YOU HUMANS KNOW NOTHING!"
The girl screamed and swung the bat once again. Bendy, empowered by his rage, easily dodged the clumsy blow and commanded the ink around him to attack. It rose up, forming sharp spikes that shot towards Lex, once again the human started dodging, but then something happened.
One of the spikes, far lager and faster than the others, rocketed towards Lex's face. The human lifted the bat up to ward off the blow, but it was not enough.
Bendy grinned as the bat was ripped in half by the attack, and with that weapon out of the way everything he was about to do was going to be so much easier for him.
He could see the confusion in the girl's eyes, and before she could even finish asking what had just happened, Bendy wrapped his hands around Lex's throat and lifted her up in the air. He felt the girl viciously claw at his hands in an attempt to make him let her go.
How pathetic.
"YOU HUMANS KNOW NOTHING ABOUT WHAT I'VE BEEN THROUGH!" He screeched, tightening his grip around the girl's neck. He would kill her for what she said, he would kill her!
HE WOULD KILL THEM ALL!
"When I'm done with you, your friends will be next." He hissed, enjoying the expression of pure terror that appeared on her face. The voices within his mind were screaming, begging him not to do what he planned, but the demon had enough.
"N-no!" The girl choked out. Bendy was unsure if the plea was for her own life or that of her human friends, but one thing was certain in his mind.
There would be no mercy.
"So brat, any last words?" He hissed as he continued to squeeze the life out of her. He wanted to hear her beg and plead for mercy, hear her fear!
Lex was silent, still squirming in his grasp, but silent none the less.
Would this damn brat deny him at every turn?! "Well?" He snarled, shaking the girl a bit and pulling her closer to his face. He wanted, no, needed to hear her terror before he killed her. It was the least she owed him for daring to imply that...
"Y-yeah, sorry Bendy."
What?!
For a single moment, Bendy finally got to see what Lex looked like. Long, tangled brown hair danced around her pale face, both stained with ink and blood. Her clothes were torn, and small cuts littered her frame.
Fierce, determined green eyes stared into his own. They almost seemed to burn him with their unrelenting gaze. There was anger within those green orbs, and something that made the demon think of regret.
Then the girl's fingers slammed into his eye.
At first he felt no pain, most likely from the shock of actually getting stabbed in his eye! Then the burning began. He shrieked, a noise he was certain he had never made before because of the pain. It consumed his thoughts and left nothing but agony in its wake.
He had never felt anything this painful before! Except...
Needleneedleneedle!
The insane look in Joey's eyes as he stabbed Bendy with the needle, over and over and over and overandoverandover!
Bendy continued to wail and flung the girl away, memories warping his mind and forcing him to relive that traumatizing moment over and over again. His whole body burned remembering how painful it had been to get stabbed with the needle!
His hands clutched at his eyes, as he screamed and cursed as best he could in his cartoony form. The ink around him rippled and surged, desperate to find the girl who had wounded him!
"YOU #%&$, YOU &#$&$% &%#$, I'M GONNA #$&%$# KILL YA FOR THAT!"
As the pain slowly faded the demon became away of the sounds of splashing footsteps getting further away. She was escaping, the brat who had stabbed him in the eye was escaping! Bendy hissed and charged down the hall, following the sounds of the splashes because the dammed brat had taken away his sight!
She was going to pay for what she had done. No more curiosity would hold him back, neither would the voices in his mind that now screamed for him to stop.
No, his conscience would not hold him back. He would kill everyone.
With that thought being the only clear objective in his muddled mind, the basic urge to kill, Bendy chased after the girl as quickly as he could in his blinded state. He used his senses to track her through the ink, but everything was so confusing and it hurt.
Everything hurt.
His heart, his soul, the memories of Boris and Henry, and even Joey when he had been nice to his creations at the beginning of their lives. There was nothing untouched by pain and sorrow, and Bendy felt it.
Why did he bother to keep moving, keep fighting, when there was nothing left?
But he forced these thoughts away, shoved them down, and focused on chasing the girl. Later. He promised himself, and continued to chase his prey down the hall.
Bendy did his best to follow the twists and turns of the halls, several times he smashed into walls or dead ends as he attempted to find his prey, hissing and snarling in anger, but he was still blind and could not see jack #$%&!
Finally, he managed to hear the footsteps of the girl getting closer, he was catching up! He had to move faster, he had to catch her-
Bendy yelped as he smashed into yet another wall, shaking the area with the strength of the impact. With a groan he stood back up, shaking off the pain. That Lex girl was around here somewhere, he knew it, now all he needed was to hear her and he would know exactly where she was.
"Where are you, brat?" Bendy hissed as he began to make his way down the hall, one hand resting on the wall so he had something to lean against. He sent out some tendrils of ink to check the area, and hopefully find his prey. He walked cautiously, waving a hand in front of him to check over every inch of the hall. He had to make sure she was not hiding right in front of him.
The demon honestly had no idea if the girl was aware of the blindness she had inflicted on him, or the agony that was racing through his body as he made his way down the hall, panting the entire time.
What was that?
His horn's twitched. The ink had moved, rippled around something, and he had heard that gasp...
Bendy grinned. She was here!
He continued to hold one hand out in front of him as he walked forward, the excitement coursing through him making him move just a bit faster.
She was here! She had to be here! Finally, the chase would be over-
What was that?
Bendy paused as his horns twitched at the sound of something moving through the air. What the heck was that?!
SPLASH!
Bendy spun around, careful to keep one hand on the wall so he did not lose track of where he was in the hall, and rushed towards the new noise, a vicious grin stretched across his face. That stupid girl, did she honestly think she could escape him?!
He ran towards where he had heard the noise come from and continued moving, carefully listening for any sign of that Lex girl. She had to have gone this way, she must have! The noise had to have come from her!
The demon had no idea how long he had been running down the hall for, but he kept moving.
The ink was draining, and that could only mean...
No.
She had tricked him, that stupid brat had tricked him!
Bendy screamed, the noise echoing off the walls around him. He could not let her leave! He would not let that dammed girl escape him! She could not escape!
He ran down the halls, ignoring the ink draining around him and kept moving, and then he heard it. The noise he had been searching for. The noise that would lead him to the girl who had dared to wound him and possibly to the other intruders.
Tap, tap, tap!
It was the sound of someone running. Bendy grinned and snarled, chasing after the noise and the girl. He heard the girl speed up and in turn began running even faster. He chased her down the halls, slowly but surely getting closer every second.
As time went on the demon realized his vision was slowly returning. Everything still looked incredibly faded and blurry, but he could faintly make out shapes. Speaking of which, he could faintly see a familiar outline in front of him...
That Lex brat!
He heard the girl shout something, but the rage he felt at being able to see the person who dared hurt him blocked it out. All he could focus on was killing that brat!
He sprinted forward and barely noticed the two other figures standing near the door, also shouting at his target. She was so close to freedom, he could not let her escape! Bendy snarled and in one final attempt threw his arms forward, hoping he would be able to grab the girl.
One of his hands wrapped around her leg, and the demon pulled.
The girl yelped as she was dragged back towards him. One of the intruders, the tallest one, threw something away and grabbed the girl under the arms to try to pull her to safety. The attempt was adorable.
Bendy yanked the Lex brat back towards him and watched with sadistic glee as the girl let out a pained noise and the other one yelp in fear. "I could use some help here!" A boy then? No matter, nothing would save them from his wrath.
The demon hissed as he noticed another figure behind the boy and felt the force trying to pull the brat towards the entrance strengthen. It would not matter, even if all of the intruders tried to overpower him, it would not work, he was too strong.
He could not help but grin as he felt the useless kicks hit his arms. As if that would hurt after everything he had been through, everything that brat had done to him!
"If this keeps up my knee's gonna pop out of the damn socket!" The Lex girl shouted and Bendy could imagine the tears gathering in her eyes from the pain. Perhaps it would be best if he simply yanked the girl's leg off. If only he could see the pain on her face, his vision was still a bit too blurry to make it out.
The boy said something in response, but Bendy paid it no mind as he continued to pull the group back into the studio. Once there was no chance of their escape he would enact his revenge, and then go after the ones he had missed...
"HEY BENDY, LEAVE LEX ALONE!"
Who the heck?!
The demon paused and glanced up at the shout. With his blurry eyesight he could vaguely make out the outline of another person. The figure was a girl based on the voice and she was the shortest one he had seen yet.
There was some strange object in her hands, but he did not know what it was.
"Close your eyes!" The girl shouted, further confusing the poor demon. Why on earth would be need to close his eyes. Was this brat also planning on shoving her fingers into his eyes and blinding him too? What the heck-
SON OF A &%$#!
Bendy shrieked as something pained and bright hit him in the face, blinding the poor demon for the second time! As he howled in pain he released the girl's leg from his grasp in order to cover his face and protect it from any future attacks.
He was so focused on the pain that he barely noticed his intended victims making their escape. No, no, no, no!
He had screamed, screamed, and screamed. Pain tore through him as he realized that he had failed. The humans had escaped, and he had no idea what they would do next. Would they return and try to torture him as punishment, or would they somehow find Joey and bring him back?
The thought made the demon stop screaming and shudder in fear. Joey, the man who had started this, mess, forced him to exist, to suffer, to give him everything and then take it all away.
Bendy whimpered, inky tears falling down his face. He was so angry, yet so scared.
His body continued to drip and melt away into the floor now that all the excess ink from the machine had disappeared. He focused on trying to pull himself together as much as he could, invisible eyes closed in concentration.
Slowly, slowly his body began to shrink as the ink compacted and restored his original form. A general outline appeared as the ink drew back. First his shoes, still as shiny as the day he was "born" appeared, followed by his legs and arms.
His gloves had returned to their usual, not pointed form, and his horns rounded out a bit. His tail (he finally had a tail again!) appeared and flickered a bit. It would take him a bit to get used to having it once again.
The ink that made up his form shuddered once before settling. Bendy opened his eyes and looked around, vision perfectly normal. He was back!
A warm grin formed on his face, and inky tears ran down his cheeks. He was back, he was alive! He wrapped his arms around himself and squeezed, giving himself a hug. He was whole! The ink from the machine must have completely healed him!
The ink from the machine... healing...
Oh no...
Boris.
Bendy scrambled up and sprinted towards the room Boris was in, short legs moving faster than they ever had back when he had first been alive. Please let Boris be alive, please let his best friend be alive!
Please, he did not want to be alone anymore!
He slammed into door frames, bounced off of wooden walls, but he ignored the pain and focused on running faster, he had to find Boris! He would check the room the wolf was in, and hopefully when he got there...
He finally slammed into the doorframe of the room that Boris was in. Bendy wheezed, worn out from all the running he had just done, but he somehow found the energy to lift his head up and peer into the room.
Please, please, PLEASE!
A broken scream tore its way out of his throat at the sight that greeted his eyes.
"BORIS!"
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AN: Sorry about how long that took to get written, but I have good news! I'll be uploading the final chapter either today or tomorrow (since that's been finished for at least a month) and I'll be releasing the sneak peek of the sequel either tomorrow or the day after. Please note that the sneak peek will be added as an extra chapter to "The Stupid Decision", so look there for it!
This means I'll be posting the sequel to "The Stupid Decision" sometime this month! :D
Thank you all so much for the continued support and I'll see you guys in the next chapter!
