AUTHORS NOTE: I will be trying to live stream chapter one of Bendy and the Ink Machine when I get off work! So this will be around 2 in the morning my time, in 6 and a half hours!
"I'M ALICE ANGEL!"
As the woman let out a frantic, unstable laugh the lights died. You found yourself clinging to Henry tightly, Who in turn was holding you close to him. You both needed to find a way out. "I see you there~" The woman, Alice, humming somewhere close to your ear. A shiver crawled down your spine and you squeezed your eyes shut. Somehow, Alice scared you more than Bendy at the moment, possibly because unlike the demon who had only spoken a single, gargled word, Alice was speaking in full, smooth sentences. Alice was totally sentient, and that terrified you. You felt a thin, clawed hand on your back and whimpered, trying to stay as still as possible. Alice let out a soft chuckle.
"Two new flies in my endless web." You could hear her stepping around you and Henry and she removed her hand slowly, her nails just barely scrapping your shirt before her touch was gone completely. "Come along now. Let's see if you're worthy to walk with angels." The lights then slowly flickered on and you found the glass booth broken through and the room empty besides you and Henry. Alice had gotten out, and she was roaming. One of the display windows had been been broken through to reveal a new hallway. Still shaking you peeled yourself from Henry and began walking through it, jumping at every shadow and ink drip hitting the ground. You were more scared than you had ever been, and your stomach dropped when you reached a fork in the hallway and two signs. The demon and The Angel. What the heck was that supposed to mean? Unsure where to go you turned to Henry who studied the signs silently before turning right, choosing the angel path. You followed him silently but before you could enter the new hallway behind him a gate slammed down, separating you from the older man. You gasped and pressed your hands against the gate, trying to get it to budge. "H-Henry?! Henry, what's going on?!" "I-I don't know!" he called back through the door, his voice muffled. "I can't open it..just...try the other way! We don't...we don't have much of a choice." You stared at the door, hands shaking and slowly backed away. He was right. If you couldn't get this gate open then you had to choose the other hallway. You had to go on all alone. Oh god, you wanted to throw up. "It'll be okay, (Y/N). Trust me...okay?" Henry asked weakly from behind the gate. You swallowed and nodded, but just barely. "okay..okay. I-I'll see you soon. i promise." With that your turned back down the hall and chose the path of the demon. The hall turned led to another Devil darling poster and then an entrance way to the left. You peered through it and audbly gasped.
Ink.
There was large room flooded with ink, so much of it that there was practically a small spiral of ever spilling ink coming into the room. You didn't want to go in there, and that repeated in your mind with each step you took inside. 'I don't want to do this.' Step. 'This is a mistake.' Step. 'All of this was one big, stupid mistake!' Slosh. You were in the ink, near waist deep in the ink. Oh god. There was a table in the room, a drawing board completely ruined with ink. A bendy cut out near the exit, and a recorder sitting on a chair in the far corner. Though you knew nowhere was safe with this much ink, it was still the Bendy cutout you kept your eyes on as you moved slowly towards the recorder doing your best to avoid the waterfalls of ink bleeding in from the room above. The minute you flipped that switch a loud booming voice filled your ears, and filled you with rage.
"There's nothing wrong with dreaming.
Wishing for the impossible
is just human nature.
That's how I got started.
Just a pencil and a dream!
We all want everything without
even having to lift a finger.
They say you just have to believe.
Belief can make you succeed.
Belief can make you rich.
Belief can make you powerful.
Why, with enough belief
you can even cheat death itself!
Now that_ is a beautiful,
and positively silly idea."
"Bastard!" You chucked the recorder into the ink. Was this what this had all been to him? Some crazy bid for immortality? A game to cheat death? What the hell was he doing?! What had been his plan?! Why had he called Henry here?! You flipped the chair itself in your rage, but it died the minute a voice reached your ear. A gargling voice, though a bit more clear than th last time you heard it. There was even a somewhat amused tone to it. "I'm glad to see you feel the same way."
You turned slowly and the color drained from your face. There, emerging from the ink like Jesus Christ rising from his baptism was bendy the dancing demon, hos body made mostly out of the pitch black ink, though his hands were white gloves and he had a very sagged bow tie, a large grin on his face as the ink oozed down. You wanted to scream but your heart had jumped into your throat. Bendy slowly made his way towards you and when he finally got directly in front of you, you saw that you barely reached the monsters chest. Laughter, soft and course seemed to escape him as he reached out a hand and you found yourself unable to move. You want to scream and run but your body wouldn't listen to you. All you could do was stand there and shake. Finally his hand made contact with your cheek, the glove feeling wet and warm against your skin. Bendy leaned down, his face getting closer and closer and you could, much to your surprise, feel hot breath against your face as he spoke. "Wendy..."
NOPE.
NAH.
SCREW THIS.
You jerked away and dove for the cutout, for once thankful that it was around as you gripped the dumb thing tightly and swung it at the ink demon, nailing him in the face and sending ink flying. Bendy lurched back, letting out an angry cry and you ran as fast as you could out of the room and out into the hallway, nearly colliding with the door when you reached it. You could hear bendy calling out your name...you mean, your old character's name, as you wrenched the door opened and jumped through.
"WENDY!"
You slammed the door behind you and ran blindly down the hall, panting hard as your heart pounded in your ears. The hall, which had been pretty ink free when you first entered it started to grow dark, ink bleeding through the walls. That had to be from Bendy. Panicking, you noticed one of those little miracle stations and jerked the door open, flinging yourself inside and closing it as you pressed yourself against the back, peering out through the thin slot.
"WENDY!"
You watched, covering your mouth in an attempt to hide your heavy breathing as Bendy stalked through the hall, passing the little miracle station, and you.
Again, I'll be trying to do a stream of Bendy chapter one much later tonight. I'll post on here before the live stream starts so anyone who wants to watch will know.
Welp, the reader had a bit of a moment with Bendy, though not exactly a good one. This is a horror game after all, things aren't going to come easy for our poor, lovelorn devil darling. But why did the gate shut on you when Henry went the angel route? Did Alice do that?