Chapter 8

                                    

                                          
By mid afternoon, The Stein family and the twins were searching for Bendy. When they played tag, Connie lost track of Bendy and was scared what happened to the little demon. Boris and Cody comfort Connie and told her it was not her fault, and that Bendy got caught up with the game. Henry, Alice and Linda came back, but Bendy wasn't found.
                          
"We looked around the park." Linda stated. She bowed her head down, "but we haven't found him yet."
                          
Connie looked down almost crying. Cody hugged his sister tight. "Its okay sis, we're going to find Bendy." Cody insisted.
                          
Alice agreed and put her hand on Connie's shoulder, "Don't feel guilty Connie, Bendy is fine. I know the little devil myself, and he's going to be okay." She insisted. Connie hugged the angel, and the later rubbed her back.
                          
"Where could Bendy run off too?" Henry asked. He, Linda and Alice looked everywhere in the park for him, but no sight of the toon. He finally got his answer when one of the kids from Tommy's brother's group running for his life.
                          
"Monster! A monster!" Henry and the group turned around noticing they got their answer where Bendy ran off.
                          
Tommy's friends were hiding behind tress and bushes from the Ink Demon, who now was hunting for his prey. "Where...are...you?" Bendy hissed wondering where Tommy's friends are hiding.
                          
"We screwed it this time." Tommy's brother's friend, Eric whispered.
                          
Tommy's brother, Jonathon shushed his friend and kept an eye on the ink demon. Bendy looked around for him and his friends before walking away. John and Eric turned and left their hiding spot and saw Bendy was walking away. "Quickly let's get to the others!" John whispered. The two boys quickly ran, but Bendy had good hearing.
                          
Bendy chuckled and turned around seeing the two boys trying to escape. Eric and John screamed as they ran off with Bendy on their heals. "YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM ME!" Bendy roared.
                          
Eric and John ran as fast as they could as the demon. Eric tripped, but John grabbed him and they kept running.
                          
Their friend Lewis was hiding behind some bushes as they heard the screams. "Lewis!" Eric yelled. Lewis grabbed his two friends and stayed quiet in the bushes. Bendy stopped in his tracks as he looked around for the bullies. Bendy hissed knowing they were around here, and they were hiding from him or better yet attack him. "WHERE...ARE...YOU?" Bendy whispered.
                          
For the bullies, this was the first time they were scared. They never have been scared of anything or anyone. However, with Bendy they never expected a wimpy demon to be a huge monster. The bullies froze to death when they heard a tree being lifted off its roots and being thrown.
                          
Eric passed out seeing that would be the fate the three will have if they were caught.
                          
Bendy chuckled and went to grab another tree, "Excellent." Bendy looked up and around the woods wondering where the voice was coming from.
                          
"Henry! Boris!" Bendy called out. The demon then heard chuckled, Bendy growled thinking it was his tormentors, "Alright! SHOW YOURSELF!" Bendy roared.
                          
"You're doing well. My little demon."
                          
Bendy gasped, he recognized that voice, "Joey?" Bendy whispered.
                          
"Bendy!" Boris called out.
                          
"Bendy! Where are you!" Cody yelled.
                          
Everyone went looking for the demon going inside the forest using a flashlight Henry kept around. "Bendy! Come on out! Its me Henry!" Henry yelled.
                          
Though no one heard the toon in sight, not only that there were no inky lines anywhere. Bendy, John and his friends must have run far from the group. "BENDY WHERE ARE YOU!" Connie screamed, making everyone cover his or her ears.
                          
Though the demon didn't hear her, Connie sighed looking down. Henry pats the young girl's back to comfort her that everything is okay.
                          
Alice heard a tree branch snap and turned to where the noise was. She looked back at Henry's group and back where the sound was and walked towards the sound of the snapping tree.
                          
"Looking for someone?" Alice turned thinking she found Bendy, but instead it was another girl. She was sitting on one of the three branches and looked at Alice.
                          
The angel nodded, "yes. This may sound weird, but have you seen some large...monster...demon around here?" She asked. Alice was nervous over her question because she thought the girl would see her as a freak.
                          
To Alice's surprise the girl jumped down from the tree. Alice was surprised over her appearance. She had brown hair with a blue streak wore clothes featuring a rock band, jacket, jeans and tennis shoes. Times really did change for the toon angel.  "If your talking about an ink monster he went that way." She pointed over to the left. 
                          
"Thank you. Thank you so much Miss..."
                          
The girl sighed, "Danni. Danni Romeo, and you don't need to add the miss."
                          
"Oh sorry." Alice apologized. "I'm Alice Angel Stein, but call me Alice." Danni shook the angel's hand.
                          
"Nice meeting ya, angel!" Danni introduced. The two girls smiled, but the angel didn't know what to ask next. "So new in town?" Alice nodded "Cool! See you around!" Danni was ready to leave before Alice stopped her.
                          
"Do you need help getting back?"
                          
"Nope. I know my way around. I'll leave something behind to help you."
                          
"Thank you!" Alice yelled. Danni already left, but Alice smiled seeing the girl, she had this feeling of befriending her. The angel then remembered her mission, looking for Bendy to make sure he was okay. "Henry! I think I found out where Bendy might be!"
                          
Bendy was on the ground breathing heavily. Joey's voice was speaking to him from the beyond. "Leave me alone. Leave me alone." He mumbled.
                          
Joey's voice laughed, "pathetic excuse of a demon! No soul! No nothing! Just a disgrace!"
                          
Bendy growled as ink dripped from his face, his claws getting bigger and bigger. However, a memory of being with Henry brought him to his senses for a bit, "I'm not a disgrace! I'm Bendy! A demon, the dancing demon!" He yelled back.
                          
Suddenly the voice disappeared, the demon sighed in relief. However, for how long? "Now that Joey's gone. I can focus on revenge." He chuckled. Then, someone hit a pebble at the demon. The demon turned around seeing John and Eric with handmade slingshots pointing it at the demon.
                          
"Alright! We got him!" Eric cheered.
                          
The bullies started throwing pebbles at the demon, and more dark memories of his past with Joey came to surface. "Now just one more, shot." John was about to launch one more pebble, but Eric grabbed his hand, and shook over the sight of Bendy.
                          
Bendy's hand and horns grew larger as he started to growl and get bulky. Eric and John shivered, grabbed their passed out friend and ran off.
                          
Henry's group stopped, when Henry heard a familiar roar. Henry, Boris and Alice looked at each other knowing the growls came from the little devil their looking for.
                          
"Bendy!" Everyone yelled.