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✘ ruffnut thorston

One half of a whole.

Who: Ruffnut and you
What: Ruffnut's last few hours in the arena are spent in the fairgrounds
Where: The fairgrounds
When: Week 3
Warnings: Horrible death of a teenage masochist.

Ruffnut was starting to feel like she had been awake forever.

Still wearing her silly bucket helmet with a bent pipe and fork as horns she was trudging along without really noticing where she was going.

She had procured a moldy stuffed dragon toy from one of the game booths and was talking to it as she explored in a sluggish and sleepy manner.

"It's just like, all my life I was wondering what it would be like to be an only child. And now that I am it feels weird."

The simple girl let her gaze settle upon a massive hulking structure of wood and steel. It looked like if you built a castle but didn't fill in all the walls so you just had the skeleton. Some cars rested at the bottom and it looked like they were supposed to go up and around the skeleton.

"Not that I miss him or anything." she added stiff and bitter "He'd probably just be getting in my way." Turning to follow the wooden planks she began climbing along the roller coaster out of idle curiosity for what might lay at the top...

...a few minutes later she fell off the coaster landing with a grunt. It seemed in her drugged state of being she was unable to focus for long on her task.

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That was more then enough for even Ruffnut to get the picture.

"OH MY GODS BEHIND YOU!" She shouted having immediately forgotten he couldn't see. She pointed and then turned to run, dashing into the nearest building.

A house of mirrors.

She was thrown off by her reflection appearing in front of her. For a moment she thought it was Tuffnut and she instinctively punched it, causing a spider-web of cracks in the glass and cuts in her knuckles. Blood ran down her fingertips and dripped onto the floor leaving a trail that thankfully Kevin couldn't see.

Deeper into the fun house she went, feeling even more unsettled as the reflections began to stretch and twist into different shapes and sizes. Short and fat, tall and skin, thick in the middle, giant head and feet.

The pointing is lost on Kevin, it's true - but the sound of fleeing footsteps was not, reaching his ears quickly and sending him lurching in pursuit. Following into the building, he promptly ran into the cracked mirror - sending fragmented glass into his arm. He pulled back a moment, picking it out and calculating his next move.

It was fortunate that Ruffnut's blood could not be seen, that was true.

It was also unfortunate that Kevin could smell it, picking up the trail with a few deep breaths. Furthermore, the confusion that a mirrored maze caused was rather lost on a blind man - his hands helped him feel his way along, with no visual confusion to stop him up.

"Oh, Ruffnut," he called out, his voice sweet singsong. He was catching up, and quick. "Why are you running away? Don't you want me to treat you like a friend?"

"Because you're freakin' me out man!" She shouted back causing the reflections of her to pull grotesque and horrible faces. As those reflections slid away and were replaced by Kevin's Ruffnut let out a startled shout and charged the first one she saw head down.

SMASH!

Glass exploded from the mirror she had tackled through and she found herself even deeper into the maze of mirrors surrounded by her own befuddled expression.

"J-just...back off!" She tried to sound strong but the fear was evident in her voice.

"Now, now," he called out, his voice moving from singsong to something twisted, distorted. The reflections of Kevin's face that Ruffnut ran across were changing because of the mirrors, of course, those horrible teeth stretching out and growing more numerous...but something about the change was tangible.

Even in the normal mirrors, the reflection was snarling.

"That's no way to treat a new business partner! We're here to do a JOB, aren't we? And I plan to do very well at mine."

He was picking up speed, picking up her scent.

He gashed his hand open on broken glass, running it along the mirrors and leaving sticky streaks of his own blood in his wake.

Stumbling on her own trembling legs Ruffnut's makeshift helmet had fallen apart and she was holding the serving fork as her only weapon. Twisting slowly surrounded by her reflection she let her eyes dart from one to the other waiting. Watching.

"Get a new job." she called back only half paying attention to the words coming out of her mouth. "Have you ever tried fishing? Or sheep herding?"

"Sorry, hahahahaHAha."

The laugh was wrong. Everything about Kevin was wrong as he closed in towards the Viking, his reflection growing in number around her as he drew closer, closer, dragging the pipe beside him.

"Sorry, but no! But gosh...I would just love to try it someday!"

"No time like the present!" In a panic she thrust the fork at his face and-

-shattered another mirror. the fork twisted from an impact that sent vibrations through her hand and hurt. She yelped and dropped the ruined weapon and she spun around trying to find which reflection of Kevin was not in fact a reflection. Her braids slapped against the sides of her face as she spun faster and faster till she was dizzy and stumbled to a knee.

A high, thin laugh echoed through the maze - bouncing off of the glass, the walls, the floors, surrounding the prone Viking much like the snarling, toothy reflections that leered down. He was circling, watching, waiting like an animal on the prowl for his chance.

"You're right."

The voice was wrong, distorted - but the time to react to it was slight before one of the many monstrous faces in the circle suddenly dove forward, lead pipe swinging blindly straight down - hopefully for a limb.

CRACK!

Ruffnut's scream echoed through the funhouse as she felt the sharp snap send a bolt of lightning through her.

The arm hung at a funny angle and she stumbled and fell to her knees clutching at the break. Tears streamed down her face mixing with a sheen of panicked sweat.

Flopping ungracefully to her side and rolling onto her bottom she pushed backwards with her feet till she had her back against a mirror and was gazing up in horror at the face of her murderer.

And what a face it was...peeling, blind, pointed teeth bared in an animal snarl. He reached up with his cut hand to push a few stray hairs from his face, streaking red across his lip and cheek in the process.

He licked it off, standing over Ruffnut and slowly drawing nearer.

The mirrors echoed him, a whole horde of blind monsters closing in.

Ruffnut had spent most of her life growing tough.

To be a Viking on Berk you had to endure the harshest of weather not to mention near constant attacks from dragons.

She had risked her life time and time again, just for fun in some situations.

But she had never felt fear the way she felt fear right now.

All around her a sightless monster loomed while her distorted reflections reminded her that she was going to die alone without her twin.

One reflection even looked like him and in her panic she reached out for her brother with eyes wide.

"Help me." She whispered as terror seemed to wrap it's fingers around her throat and crush her voice.

In blindness, Kevin's ears were sharp. He heard the whisper, and...it gave him pause, if only for a moment. He stood there over her, forced grin hanging on his features, bloody and sharp. Sweat glistened on his skin, almost even like a shimmering shell. He seemed like he was turning something over in his head, hollow eye sockets narrowing, narrowing.

Something in him was needled by her plea. Something long buried, long controlled. There was a bright shock at the back of his neck, and the feeling was gone as fast as it arrived.

When he spoke, his voice was hoarse and distorted.

"I plan to."

He descended upon her, foregoing the pipe in favor of locking his teeth on the first body part he found.

She felt the pinch at her neck and shoulder, in that place where the curve became sharp and boney. It was the strangest feeling as she always expecting more of a stabbing pain from such a wound.

But it actually came off more like pressure, like a pinch as the teeth sank into her flesh. There was a moment of sharp stinging as his teeth hit her collarbone.

She felt the liquid running down her shoulder and soaking into her shirt. It wasn't hot or cold but just...there.

The pain made her scream though, even as her mind was running a mile a minute and the world seemed to slow down she was screaming. She was screaming before she even realized she was screaming. Her screams faded into focus in her ringing ears and she found her high pitched cries of pain and terror deafening as they bounced from mirror to mirror.

He must have hit something with those teeth because she felt another sharp pinch and like someone had squeezed a fruit, there was a splash of juice onto the reflection she had been begging for help.

No...no not juice. It was too thick it was blood? Who's blood? Her mind was floundering now as she saw the monster attacking her reflection! She had to do something! Had to save her reflection! She tried to swing her fist but it was pinned under something heavy. When she turned to look she realized it was pinned under the monster man. He was ontop of her! Were there two of them?

Her chest felt heavy and wet and she realized the front of her body was already soaked in the blood from his first bite. It was somehow shiny in the darkness.

Frenzied now, Kevin gave a soft groan as the blood gushed down his throat and against his face - he bit down harder, tighter, pulling back and taking a hunk of flesh out with him. He remained there, right over Ruffnut; right where she could hear the sounds of him chewing and swallowing her still-warm flesh, smell her own blood on his now-rancid breath.

He didn't speak - he merely snarled, moving in for a second bite, snapping down harder and deeper than the first one.

He was hungry.

His neck burned.

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