I'm sorry to you all that it took really long to get this out. I've been really busy lately. I was meant to publish this around Halloween but time and stuff got the better of me. And as you can also see I wanted to work on my new story ideas like my new story, Elsa of the Pride Lands: The journey begins. So without further ado here's my new chapter.

Chapter 8: the old song-part 4

Henry ventured down below from the infirmary to what seemed to be an Ink filled sewer. And in front of him was a message written on the wall that read, "Down here we're all sinners".

"Well it's a good thing that the kids aren't down here with me!" Henry said to himself.

As Henry continued to ventured on in the sewers, he didn't know that he was being followed by two peculiar kwamis. "S-Should we really follow him? I-I'm sure he'll be fine!" Plagg told Tikki, sounding like he wanted to chicken-out of their task. But Tikki wasn't going to have any of that, "Come on Plagg! You promised Adrien that you would watch over Mr. Henry while he's down here to make sure he's safe!" Tikki edged Plagg, making sure he didn't back out from this.

"Fine, but… why are you here? Your user isn't making you follow him through this creepy sewer!" Plagg retorted.

Tikki paused for a moment after hearing what Plagg said to her. Then she glared at him and said, "I'm only here to make sure that you don't screw up and to get answers for whatever is going on in this place!" Tikki bantered on! "I mean, ever since we got here, I've felt this evil presence. One that I've never felt before, and I know you've felt it too!"

Plagg looked off to the side for a moment, not denying Tikki that he also has felt this presence. "Look Tikki, whatever this evil is we shouldn't mess with it! For now, we should just follow Henry and find Marinette." Plagg suggested and Tikki smiled a little and agreed with him.

Meanwhile with Henry, he was still venturing on through the sewers until he came upon a few boards blocking the path. And something standing behind it, when he got closer to it the thing disappeared into the inky liquid. But before it vanished Henry got a good look at what the creature was holding. "Was that thing holding my valve?"

Henry quickly chopped up the boards in his way and continued walking the path to find the creature that has his part. As Henry walks along the path stumbles upon an opening on the side with a desk, scattered paper and a violin resting on a chair. Henry wondered why all this was down here? Then he saw another tape recorder on the desk so he decided to play it.

Jack Fain: "I love the quiet, and that's hard to come by these busy times.

And yeah sure it may stink to high heaven down here. But it's just perfect for an old lyricist like me, Sammy's songs always got some bounce, but if I didn't get away once in a while, they'd never have any words to go with them.

So, I'll keep my mind a-singin' and my nose closed."

After the tape ended, Henry was left to wonder who this guy was and whatever happened to him? Henry continued on and walked to the end of the hallway. When he came up to the corner entering another path there was a Bendy cut-out standing against the wall. Of course, Henry chopped it up out of annoyance and walked along. He then entered this big ink filled Boiler room with two big machines, a lift with a crate, and another weird message on the wall that read, "Sing with Me". In the middle of the room that's were he saw the ink creature with the hat that had his valve, he went over to it to get the valve but the creature descended back into the inky floor before Henry got close to it and popped back up to another side of the room. This continued on for awhile and Henry was getting tired and frustrated, he just wanted the to get the valve from the ink monster but it was being difficult to get to it.

Henry stopped for a moment to catch his breath, when he did, he saw that there were these levers on the machines. He pulled on one of the levers to see what it does and it activated the lift with the crate to go up a bit, then Henry pulled the other one and it cased the lift to drop the crate. Seeing this Henry thought of a great idea.

"If I can get that thing right under that crate and drop it on it, Then I can get my valve!" He thought over his plan.

Meanwhile back with Tikki and Plagg…

The two finally caught up with Henry into the boiler room and secretly hid so they could watch over him in case that ink thing decided to attack him. But it was like watching a weird game of cat and mouse, or in this case human and ink monster.

"Well… this is boring!" Plagg complainingly sighed.

Tikki smacked the back of Plagg's head and told him, "Focus! Were here on a mission not to complain about everything!" She scolded him.

"Owww… ok, ok, I get it!" Plagg said while rubbing the back of his head, "But can we at least help the guy catch that thing? By the looks of it it's gonna take him eternity for him to get that valve! And we both know what eternity feels like!"

Tikki thought about for a moment and agreed, "Ok, let's do it!"

"Alright sorry for suggesting such a stupid—" Plagg cut himself off after realizing what she said to him. "Did… Did you just agree to my idea?" He said, surprised.

"Yeah, I'm surprised too!" Tikki answered in a snarky remark and Plagg glared at her annoyingly. "So… What's your plan?" She asked him.

"Well… umm… maybe we can sneakily go around wherever that ink thing pops up and scare it so it ends up where Henry can trap it or whatever and get his valve!"

"That actually sounds like a decent plan Plagg! But we gotta make sure that Mr. Henry doesn't see us, Ok!" She instructed him.

"OK!" Plagg agreed then the two of them split up and went to help Henry.

Back with Henry. He was still trying to get to the ink monster, but as he was trying to find a way to get it, Tikki was hiding by one of the big machines. When the ink monster popped up in the corner near her. Tikki saw her chance and quickly flew up to it and quietly yelled "BOO" in its face. The creature got scared and descended into the floor again and resurfaced across the room near where Plagg was hiding behind the other machine and he scared it too. This was going on for a bit and during this Henry was just standing still and confused at why was the creature just popping up and down all over the room like a whack-a-mole without the whacking. But eventually the ink creature stopped right under the crate and Henry saw his chance to drop it on that thing, so Henry pulled the lever and the crate fell on the ink monster and killed it. Leaving nothing but the valve and the cool hat it was wearing.

"Sorry I had to do that. Nice hat though." Henry said pitifully as he went over and grabbed the valve.

Now that Henry got what he came for he headed back to the kids so they can switch on the valve and get out of here. Tikki an Plagg peeked over one of the machines and happy that their secret mission was over too. So much that Plagg couldn't help saying out loud, "Yes! We did it Tikki!". Luckily Tikki reacted fast enough to push Plagg into the ink filled floor to hide him, (since he blended with the ink it was no trouble) before Henry turned around to see what made that noise. But he saw that nothing was there.

"Huh, thought I herd something?" Henry shrugged and continued to on.

Once the coast was clear, Tikki got Plagg back up and was relieved that they weren't caught.

"Whew that was close", Tikki sighed in relief.

"Yeah, but did you really have to push me into the ink!?" Plagg complained to Tikki as he got up and was trying to wipe the ink off his body. "I mean come on Tikki!"

"Well I wouldn't have done that if you hadn't cheered out loud like that!" Tikki retorted.

"Ok, ok, let's just go back upstairs and get out of here" Plagg told her. And just like they flew out back up to return to their user's bags without anyone seeing them.

Back With the kids…

Henry finally returned to everyone and they were so relived to see he was okay, (none more relived that Nathaniel). "Ok, that should do it." He said after he reattached the valve back on the pipe and turned on the pump.

"Great, now that entryway to Sammy's office is drained and pipe's not leaking, we can go in and turn on the switch to drain the stairwell!" Alya cheered.

Then all of them grabbed their stuff and left the infirmary to go up to Sammy's office. Adrian was happy to see his Kwami safely returned undetected. When they finally got there, Henry decided to be the one to go in to flip the switch. When he entered it looked like a normal standard office except for the huge switch the room and another creepy message that read 'It's Time to Believe'. Henry just flip the switch and the deed was done.

"Alright, it's done." He said to the kids when he got back out.

"Good, now we can leave!" Chloe said with enthusiasm.

Everyone agreed with her, but as they were about to move Alya halted them from doing so. "We can't leave just yet! We still haven't found Marinette!"

"Look, we haven't found her Alya and it's obvious that she isn't here. We've looked all over so, let's just get out of here and go home!" Chloe told here as she tried to dash off, but Nathaniel grabbed ahold of her arm preventing her from leaving.

"Alya, as much as I hate to say this I kind of agree with Chloe. But if we leave now and find help, we have a better chance of finding Marinette." Adrian sternly told her.

Alya tried to fight on this, but as much as it pained her, she knew he was right. She didn't want to leave her best friend in danger if she was in any but if they got help, they could probably find her. "Alright" she reluctantly agreed.

With that said they all headed toward the stairwell to finally escape the studio. Just they were about to enter the main room of the music department again. To their surprise and horror, they found an unconscious Marinette lying on the floor.

"MARINETTE!" Everybody shouted as the rushed to Marinette to see if she was alright.

"Marinette. Marinette!" Nathaniel shouted at her as he held her shoulders and shook her to see if she would wake up. Thankfully, she was waking up but she was weak. She could barely open her eyes but managed to say to them, "E-Everyone… get out… w-while you still can."

"What do you mean?" Nino questioned her, wondering what she was trying to say.

"I-It's… a trap!"

"Huh?" Everyone was confused from that, but at that moment everybody got hit on the head and knocked one-by-one. When Henry got hit on the head, landed on the floor, and was about to pass out he looked up and got a good look of their attacker. He was tall, wearing overalls and a Bendy mask on his face, has an inky muscular body, and in his hand, he held a dustpan, (no doubt the weapon he used to knock everyone out). It was the same man he saw earlier when Henry was walking in the ink filled hallway. Right before he passed out the stranger whispered something to him, "Rest your head. It's time for bed." then everything went black.

Eventually Henry and the rest of the kids regain consciousness, but they found themselves tied up together sitting on the floor, (though Henry was the only one standing and tide to a pole). Alya, Marinette, and Chloe were tide together. Nathaniel, Adrian, and Nino were tide to each other as well. They were in a strange room and faced with their mysterious attacker.

"There we go now. Nice and tight. We wouldn't want our sheep roaming away now, would we? No, we wouldn't."

When they herd this strange man talking to them his voice sounded familiar. It didn't take long for them to realize that standing before them was Sammy Lawrence at least what's now of Sammy Lawrence. They all wondered what happened to this guy, why was he doing this, and what was he going to do with them?

"I am very proud to have such a collection of fine sheep to present to my lord", he gestured to everybody. "Especially this delicate little lamb." He said as he went over to Marinette and gently yet forcefully lifted her chin up to face him, "Maybe I should keep you for myself."

"Get your gross inky hands off my friend!" Adrian shouted.

"Yeah leave her alone!" Nathaniel agreed.

Sammy immediately went over to the tide up boys. They instantly shut up when he came up and towered over them, "You two are very feisty young sheep. My Lord will be please about that." He said in a malevolent tone. Then he continued on.

"I must admit I am honored all of you came all the way down here to visit me. It almost makes what I'm about to do seem cruel. But the believers must honor their savior. I must have him notice me." Then Sammy stopped for a moment and went to Henry, "Wait. You look familiar to me… that face…" But he shrugged it off and continued with his speech, "Not now. For our lord is calling to us, my little sheep. The time of sacrifice is at hand! And then, I will finally be freed from this… prison. This inky… dark… abyss I call a body. Shhhhh… Quiet! Listen! I can hear him. Crawling above. Crawling!" He pointed up to the ceiling where there was bangs and thumping noises coming from above. Everyone was starting to get scared. "Soon he will hear me… he will set us free." When he finished, he left and entered the side door on the left.

"Guys, what does he mean by Sacrifice?" Chloe asked, terrified.

"It means were going to be served to ink monsters Chloe! And I bet it's the one we saw in the Ink machine room before things went to hell!" Nino explained to her. Not wanting to die.

"We have to get out of here!" Marinette said while trying to break free from the tied ropes around her wrist and waste.

"It's no use. The ropes are tide on pretty tight. We'd have to cut are way out of these ropes if we want to get out of here." Adrian told her.

But that gave Henry an idea when he saw his ax lying across from them and felt that his bands were a little loose. "Wait. If I can break free and get my ax, I can free you all and we can get out of here. My ropes a bit loose if we can buy a little more time." He told the teens and they agreed.

"Ok dad we're with you. Just hurry." Nathaniel said to his father.

"Yeah, I don't want Sammy to be around when you try and do that!" Nino warned.

"Hey, is it just me or did that guy had real good-looking abs" Alya said to everyone and everyone's reaction to that was both shock and disgust. "Oh, don't act like you didn't think that too."

All of a sudden, the speakers came on and it was Sammy speaking and he began to sing a creepy song. "Sheep, sheep, sheep. It's time for sleep. Rest your head. It's time for bed. In the morning, you may wake. Or in the morning, you'll be dead. Hear me, Bendy! Arise from the darkness! Arise and claim my offering! Free me! I beg you! I summon you, Ink Demon! Show your face and take these tender sheep!" Sammy called out to his lord as he opens the big door started to left up and open. But as that was happening, they herd weird noises on the speaker and knew something was going on. "No! My lord! I am your prophet! I am your- AAAHHH!"

After hearing him screaming they saw ink spill under the door Sammy went through. Whatever got to him they all knew he was gone. Finally, Henry broke free and untied all of the teens. When Henry grabbed the ax more ink monsters popped up. Thankfully Henry quickly took care of them before they became a problem. Then they all rushed through the big entryway to hopefully find another way out. The path was blocked by more boards and junk though, but Henry was chopping it away.

As he was doing that, everyone was happy to reunite with Marinette. "Marinette! I'm so glad your ok." Alya said relived and hugged her friend. "I'm happy to see you too Alya." Marinette returned her hug. "Oh, before I forget here's your bag!" Alya returned Marinette's purse who was happy to get back and peeked it open to thankfully see Tikki was still in there who was also happy to Marinette was fine too.

"What happen to you Marinette? How did Sammy get you?" Nathaniel asked her.

"When we passed out back in the pentagram room Sammy took me out of their and hid me away to use me as bait to lure you to him", she explained.

"Wow, that's a lot. But I guess I'm glad your ok Marinette." Chloe told her, trying to be sincere.

"Uhhh… thanks, Chloe." Marinette was genuinely surprised from this.

They were getting close to the next room but things still didn't feel right. "Do you think we'll finally be able to get out of this place?" Chloe asked, still a bit shaken up.

Nino just act like what she said was no big deal and told her "Relax Chloe, we made it this far. At this point what could go wrong?"

Just as he said that Henry chopped the last board that was blocking their way, but when he did the ax suddenly broke in half!

Alya stared furiously at Nino and said to him, "Never say what could go wrong!"

"Oh, come on! Its not like that was my fault." Nino tried to defend himself.

Before things could get ugly again Henry stopped them. "Alya, it wasn't his fault it was just a coincidence. Now let's us all just keep moving." Alya understood and she dropped it.

Then they all walked up to a room that was filled with ink! On the other side of the room there was a door that could possibly lead them out of this place. But before any of them could take a step in the inky room, Henry stopped them. "I don't like this. It's quiet. Too quiet."

"Come on Mr. Henry. I doubt anything else is gonna pop up at us out of nowhere." Nino said as he went through and took a step into the ink. Just as he did a huge Ink creature emerged from the huge pool of ink. It was tall, had pointy ear-like horns, one hand was like a cartoon-y glove and the other a normal inky hand, it was skinny and you could see its rib cage (assuming it has bones), it wore a bowtie and it was dripping ink out from its body. Its face had its eyes cover by ink and it had a menacing gin-like smile. No doubt this was the Ink demon Bendy!

"NINO!" Alya shouted at him.

Adrian: "Now's not the time for this!"

Nathaniel: "Yeah, what we need to do now is RUUUUUUUNNNNN!"

Like that they all took off running down the other hallway, being chased by Bendy. Everyone was running fast as they could to try and avoid being caught by him. But Marinette didn't see where she was running and she stepped right through the floor board hurting her leg. Everyone saw this, Nathanial and Adrian immediately rushed to her side to help her and get her foot unstuck before Bendy caught up.

"Go! Get everyone out of here dad we're right behind you!"

Henry understood and he reluctantly left his son and Adrian to help Marinette so he could get everyone to safety. Adrian and Nathaniel were able to pull Marinette's foot out from the floor board, she was in pain though and definitely could not stand. They all saw Bendy coming from the corner and they both carried Marinette through the hallways to avoid Bendy. Finally, they made it through where everyone was and Nino and Alya were able to slam the door right at Bendy's face and lock it before he could get through.

"T-That… was close!" Alya panted.

When that was all over everyone went over to Marinette to see how had her injury was. "Well it could've been worse, but the ankle is slightly dislocated and the cut around it isn't too deep." Henry examined. "Ok, I'm gonna try and push it back in. Marinette can you be strong for me?" He asked her.

"O-Ok, I'll try" She answered, nervous about how painful it was gonna be.

"Adrian and Nathaniel. I want you two to hold her hands as I try and put her ankle back into place, ok." He instructed the two boys and they understood. Then Henry prepared to pop back Marinette's ankle, "One… Two… Three!" Henry popped her ankle back in and Marinette muffled a scream and she clenched onto Adrian and Nathaniel's hands who also were trying not to scream in pain. Now that was done all they needed to do was clean Marinette's cut and bandage it up. Henry looked around the room and saw an old medical kit on a shelve. He asked Alya to bring that to him and she did. Henry open the kit and found what he needed, ointment and bandages. Henry got those out and tended to her ankle. It was all done and Marinette's foot was feeling better but she still couldn't walk on it, so Nathaniel helped her get up and wrapped her arm around his shoulders so she could hold onto him and move.

"What do we do now Mr. Henry?" Adrian asked, seeing their luck not getting any better.

"Lets just keep moving and hopefully we can find a place to hide and rest." He told the kids, trying to give them some hope.

As they began to pick up their stuff and leave the room, a can of bacon soup just rolled down from the hall. Something was hiding down there.

"Hello? Someone there? I know you're in there. Come out and show yourself." Henry called out to whoever was hiding. Standing guard in front of the kids.

Then the stranger walked out of the hallway and revealed themselves. To everyone's surprise it was a living cartoon of the character Boris!

"Boris?" Henry said, surprised to see him.

Everyone didn't know how to react to this. They all were lost for words, except Alya who began to strangely laugh for no reason and just ended up fainting.

Hoped you all enjoyed it. Leave a review. Also I'm gonna take a break on this story for a bit so I can focus on my new story. So be patient!