LovelyMarie

To summarize my silly thoughts: Equestrian club boys have a crush on you, and their horses are tired of them making googoo eyes so they take matters into their own hands er… hooves. Also, I lowkey just assumed the horses genders based on their names so if I got it wrong, oh well.

Riddle

You were relaxing on your dorm’s couch, Grim curled up in your lap watching some corny movie on the phone that Crowley so graciously gifted you. It was a lovely Saturday and you wouldn’t have to think about school for 2 whole days!

It was peaceful which is strange considering you attend Night Raven College. A school full of insecure crackheads that love to overblot and drag you into their troubles, but you digress. Maybe, just maybe, you’ll have one normal day.

*Thunk thunk thunk* “MRAH!? What in the world was that?” Grim yowls, claws digging into your thighs painfully. You push the fat tub of lard off of you as you wince. “Sounds like someone’s knocking on the door. And loudly at that.” You grunt and push yourself up off the couch.

Your soft footfalls slowly echo off the quiet dorm’s walls as you open the door and are greeted with… a large brown horse. “Ain’t no fucking way…” You and the horse have an uncomfortable stare off as you stand there in shock.

“Who’s at the door?” You hear the small pitter patter of Grim's paws approaching before they stop suddenly. “EH? Who’s darn horse is that?!” You shrug, looking back at the feline. “I’m not dealing with this! Good luck, ___.” And he waddles away.

Turning your attention back towards the horse, you can’t help but think you’ve seen him before. You deduce that you’ve probably seen him (I think it’s a he) near the stables. Did the horse break free from there?

He was wearing a bridle and on his back was a saddle blanket. Almost like his rider was halfway through gearing him up before he took off. You supposed you'd have to lead the overgrown toddler back to his rider before things go south(as they usually do at NRC.)

You sigh as you grab the reins and try walking off towards the stables but the gorse doesn’t budge. Great, one of those horses. The stubborn ones are a pain in the butt. “Come on big guy, don’t you wanna go back to your rider?” You try to coax the horse along but he snorfs at you.

Drawing your hand dramatically to your chest like he just insulted your blood line, you gasp dramatically. The horse stares at you unimpressed and lies down on your dorm's porch. How in the world where you supposed to bring him back.

You could text, Riddle. He’s in the equestrian club, but he might be doing his housewarden duties and you didn’t want to disturb him. Working alone it is.

You drop the reins and run back inside towards your fridge. Riffling around for maybe some carrots before your hand lands on a small basket of apples, courtesy of Epel after the SDC. Jackpot!

With an apple in hand, you run back outside towards the horse. He’s still laying on your porch and it looks like he hasn’t moved a muscle. Lazy bum. You wave the apple in front of the horse’s snout, hoping to entice him to follow.

It actually works as the horse perks up and quickly stands. You keep waving the apple as you turn and head towards NRC’s stables.

Sebel and Silver watched as Riddle spiraled, freaking out over his missing horse. They had been cleaning up the stables, cleaning the horses water troughs and feeding them when Riddle screamed. His horse bolted out the stables without so much as a glance back. Things quickly descended into chaos.

“I don’t understand! Why did he just take off!?” The 2 diasomnia students sighed as Riddle ran around the stables. They weren’t sure who did it, but someone left the gates wide open and the horse took his chance.

Riddle was panicked, whoever left the gate open was going to get beheaded. A horse on the loose was chaos bound to happen and he didn’t want to deal with the aftermath. How could this be happening to him?

The horse followed close behind you, nipping at the apple. Every time he would get close you’d yank the apple away and pick up your pace. You could see the stables now. Soon you could go back to lounging comfortably on ramshackle’s couch. You looked forward to that.

You led the horse through the gates and could see Silver and Sebek outside the stables. You waved at them. The horse tried to take advantage of your distraction and steal the apple but you pulled it away again. “Hey, you 2! Does anyone know whose horse this is?”

Sebek looked shocked while Silver looked relieved. “Hey, that’s Vorpal. He’s Riddle's horse. Where did you find him, he’s been looking all over for him.” You grunted as the horse pushed you trying to get the apple. “He was on ramshackle’s porch. Don’t ask me how he got up the stairs. I have no clue.”

Silver shook his head in amusement. “Oh thank the Sevens!” You turned and smiled as your favorite redhead came into view. “Riddle, hey!” Riddle looked over at you and froze, not expecting you to be the one returning his horse.

“P-prefect, what do I owe the pleasure?” Silver and Sebek got the hint and made excuses to be elsewhere before walking into the stables. “Ah, I was just bringing this big guy back. He was wandering outside ramshackle.”

“I see, well, many thanks. I was rather worried about him.” Riddle won’t meet your eyes as he fiddles with his uniform. You can’t help but smile at the boy as you hand over the apple to Vorpal, who eagerly accepts it.

“Welp, I’m heading back to ramshackle. I’ll see you around!” Vorpal nudges Riddle in your direction just as you’re about to leave and the boy gulps.

“Hey, uh…, prefect?” You stop and look back at him. “Yes?” He clears his throat, “Would you be open minded to the idea of a date sometime? Maybe somewhere quiet, just the two of us?”

You can’t help but smile softly. “I would love that, Riddle.” His head snaps up to look at you and he relaxes. “I see, how about next Saturday..? I’ll meet you in front of ramshackle around 12:00?” You nod and bid him farewell.

Riddle turns back to his horse and lets out a shaky breath. Next Saturday couldn’t come fast enough.

Silver

Ahhhh, gardening. Both stress relieving and stress inducing but it gave you something to do. You’re glad that the back of ramshackle had enough space for a garden, and that the soil was very fertile. You had quite a large vegetable garden growing. Meaning you didn’t have to rely on Crowley as much for food.

You had lettuce, corn, carrots, peas, squash, tomatoes, a horse. A horse? Doing a double take, you rub your eyes thinking heat exhaustion has gotten to you. The horse doesn’t disappear and keeps on eating your newly ripe tomatoes.

You had no clue where the horse came from. He wasn’t there when you started picking vegetables for a stew you were gonna make for lunch. You didn’t even hear him approaching.

Setting your vegetable basket down, you wander over to the horse. He doesn’t react as you get closer, only lazily flicking his gray tail in your direction as if acknowledging you.

“Hey there, buddy. Where’d you come from?” He doesn’t answer, he’s a horse. Why are you asking it questions? He’s still eating your darn tomatoes.

“Please stop eating those, Crowley gives me little food money to begin with…” he seems to understand your woes and stops eating. You pat the horse's jaw and he leans into your touch.

“I’m assuming you’re from the equestrian club’s stables. We should get you back buddy, i’m sure your rider is worried about you.

The horse lets out a snort as he follows your guide. You are glad the horse is so accepting of strangers commands as you begin your trek towards the stables.

Silver fell asleep for 30 minutes and lost his horse. Great, just great! He’s glad it’s just him in the stables as he didn’t want to hear Sebek’s loud reprimands. He already felt embarrassed enough.

Grunting as he circles the field and checks behind the stables. He lets out an exhausted sigh at the distinct lack of horse. Why did he have to fall asleep at the worst times and why could nobody remember to lock the gates after they leave?

He ventures back into the stables, hoping Samson has just magically appeared into his stall. He’s not there and Silver wished he hadn’t gotten his hopes up.

You hum as the white horse walks beside you. You can’t help but feel like one of those hallmark movies where the girl befriends an animal because she’s pure of heart.

Finally reaching the stables, you open the gate more to allow the horse to easily slip through and you follow behind. You want to make sure the horse stays and doesn’t follow you back to wreak havoc on your garden.

Guiding the horse into the stables you see Silver slumped over on a chair. You think he’s sleeping until he jolts up at the sound of hooves on concrete. An uncomfortably long silence passes between you two as he looks at you then the horse and back at you.

You watch as his shoulders relax and his eyes look at you with appreciation. “___, I see you found Samson. Thank you for bringing him back here. I was worried.” You nod and give him a soft smile.

“Of course, He was in ramshackle’s garden and I had a feeling his rider would be looking for him.” Silver pushed himself of the chair and stiffly pats you on the shoulder. His horse is unimpressed with his chivalry.

“If you’ll excuse me, I need to get back to gardening. I unfortunately left my already picked vegetables in the sun.” Silver nods as he he watches you walk away, Samson lets out a loud whinny and begins pushing the boy rather hurriedly in your direction.

He huffs, pushing the horse off him before calling out to you. “Hey, ___. Wait!” You look back confused. “Since you brought Samson back I think it’s only fair I do something for you. How about I help out with your garden or take you out on a date…?”

He mumbled the last part and refused to meet your eyes. “A date sounds nice, Silver. How about next Saturday?”

His cheeks burn as he clears his throat, “Yes that is great. I shall see you then, ___.” You wave goodbye as you walk back to ramshackle with a wide smile.

Sebek

After you took up residency in ramshackle, you noticed how the plants around the building seemed to spring up with new life. Almost as if they were waiting for new residents to breathe life back into them.

Flowers bloomed and the trees flourished. You were hanging out under one of those trees, Grim curled up in your lap snoring away as you crammed for a history test that would come tomorrow.

You’d been studying for hours, surely some shut eye wouldn’t hurt. It would just be for a few minutes, you deserved it after all.

So why was Grim shaking you awake and why was there a heavy weight on your legs. Cracking your eyes open, you're greeted by a pitch black horse curled up near your legs, head resting on your shins.

Where did this pretty girl come from? Who knows, but she napped so peacefully on your legs you didn’t have the heart to wake her but you had to. You needed to find her rider and return her. Even if the little nickers she made in her sleep melted your heart.

Grim was clutching his pearls looking at the large horse, not happy about his nap being interrupted. Groaning as you stretched your arms above your head, you felt the weight of the horse shift off you as she raised her head. She let out a slew of soft whinnies as she also stretched.

You thought it was the cutest thing ever and mourned the fact you didn’t have your phone to snap some pictures. As you stood up, the horse followed suit.

Grim, not wanting to stick around the sweet beast, darted off toward ramshackle like a coward. You looked at the black horse who had no concept of personal space and sighed. Why are you always the one getting roped into fixing things?

You couldn’t complain about this sweetheart though, as she nuzzled her large head into your neck and snorfed. You giggled as the whiskers on her chin tickled your neck.

“Alright sweety, alright! Let’s get you home.” You smiled as you patted her long neck. You assumed she belonged to an equestrian club member so that was your first stop.

Half way through your journey to the stables, you could have sworn you heard loud shouts quickly approaching. You could vaguely see green hair running toward you in the distance. The closer he got, the louder his shouts were until you could make out the shouter as none other than Sebek.

You waved at him and quickly made your wave over to the boy, horse in tow. He was hunched over out of breath and heaving when he looked back up at you. Eyes landing on the horse.

“Tempest! You scared the thunder out of me when you took off like that!” The horse whinnied back as if sassing him and you couldn’t help but let out a not-so-elegant snort.

“Prefect, thank you for finding Tempest! Now I must return her to her stable!” You nodded in understanding and Sebek tries to lead his horse away. Tempest doesn’t cooperate as she bites onto your uniform sleeve and tries to drag you along with them.

You almost shriek as Sebek panics, trying to peel the horse away from you. “Tempest, what has gotten into you?!” Tempest whinnies and releases her grip on you, only to begin shoving you into the boy. She doesn’t stop until you’re pressed chest to chest against him.

Sebek’s face burns as he apologizes and Tempest starts stomping her hooves. “Tempest! What in the Sevens has got you riled up like this?!” The boy is fumbling and apologizing as the horse almost knocks the two of you over .

You watch as Sebek's face cycles through confusion, clarity, and abject horror as he figures out what Tempest is trying to tell him.

He grumbles as he avoids eye contact, “It seems Tempest has picked up on my affection for you…” you almost miss his confession as the usually loud Sebek has fallen silent. But you didn’t miss it. You heard it loud and clear.

The green haired boy almost turns and dashes off but your hand shoots out to grab his upper forearm. “Oh? You're just gonna confess and dip? Just like that?” You snicker, “You’re not even going to wait to hear me say I have affection for you too?” Sebek jumps but quickly tries to hide his embarrassment.

“W-well, if you also bear affection towards me then I suppose taking you out on a date would be the knightly thing to do…?” He’s hesitant, maybe even worried that you’re just going to laugh in his face. You would never.

“I suppose so. Then, should we meet at ramshackle for our date next Friday?” You tease, watching his poor face turn redder and redder. He nods before turning and guiding Tempest back towards the stables.

Sebek’s inexperience with love amuses you andbyou can’t wait for what date idea he has in mind. Before you can dwell on it, your heart drops. You were studying for a test and you left your books outside on the ground.

You should probably get back to that.

Authors notes: I’m camping rn and the internet sucks absolute ass, the internet has gone out twice while trying to post this and I didn’t even write the damn thing on tumblr, I did it on google docs 😭

Chapter 1: The Mad Queen and his Court

Part 1: The Maze

Stumbling out of the woods, Grim clutches your shirt tightly as you and him stare up at the hedges of what you assume is a winding maze of thorny roses.

You had no clue how long you had been walking to wind up here. You were also surprised you hadn’t seen the shrubs sooner since all the other foliage around was dead.

Yet here stood beautifully trimmed hedges that stretched like a protective cover for what laid inside. Maybe help stood inside those walls.

“So… now what?” Grim shakes your shirt to draw your attention, you shrug and walk along the hedge’s outer walls.

“We’ll find a way in, judging by how well the wall is maintained I know someone has to be nearby.” Your shoes crunch against branches that had been trimmed and pruned off the wall of twisting shrubbery.

Grim points out to the distance, “ Hey, Henchhuman, look at that!” You look where the small cat is pointing and spot a white marble arch. Looking closer, the piece of stone is engraved with all kinds of symbols that remind you of a deck of cards.

“Looks like that's our way in.” You state simply, now standing smack dab in the middle of the arch, you look inwards and see you were right about this being a hedgemaze.

You sigh, thinking about all the twists and turns you would have to navigate. Not to mention how long the maze spans out, you can’t even tell what lies beyond the maze.

You really don’t want to get lost in there. Your arms hurt from holding Grim and your legs burn from walking through the forest but your choices are limited. You need to find someone, anyone, that could help you and the cat-beast that’s attached itself to your clothes.

Grunting in annoyance, you take the plunge and step into the maze. The walkway is narrower than you expected so you’re careful not to let your shoulders brush against the maze’s walls as you turn corner after corner after corner.

It’s like you're going in circles as you look up at the sky and it feels as if the walls are closing around you. How long have you been traversing this stupid maze?

Grim grunts as you drop to your knees to rest your poor legs. You set him down so you can cover your face with your hands and try not to burst out crying. The cat-beast nuzzles up to you in your lap as you try to calm yourself down.

This is horrible, you’ve only been traversing the maze for an hour at most and you’re already having a breakdown. This is all so stupid.

You let out a shaky huff as you drop your hands and look at Grim, who is gazing up at you with mild concern. “Panicking ain’t going to get us out of this maze, henchhuman. We’ve gotta keep pushing onward!”

Nodding you stand back up and take a breath, “Yeah… you’re right. But you are walking on your own from now on! I can’t keep carrying you!” Grim frowns as he stomps his little foot and you giggle.

Your head whips around as a branch snaps behind you and you’re face to face with a porcelain mask with a shiny red diamond underneath one of the mask's eye holes.

You and grim jolt back as neither of you had noticed him. The two of you remain frozen as the boy tilts his head.

Not wanting to find out if this guy was planning on killing you, you snatch Grim off the ground and dart further into the maze. You didn’t pay attention to the turns you took, only looking back to see if he was on your tail.

He wasn’t, and you couldn’t hear his footsteps either. Then again, you couldn’t hear his footsteps getting closer to you when you were resting so you push on.

You weren’t getting killed right off the bat, you watched enough horror movies to know what not to do.

Continuing to watch your back, you don’t notice when you’re no longer in the maze. since you weren’t paying attention to what was in front of you, your foot catches on a loose stone on the path.

You yelp as both you and Grim are sent tumbling into the stone path way. You apologize to poor Grim, who was crushed under you and not very happy.

Still splayed out on the ground, you look up and for the first time, notice the beautiful castle-esque building in front of you.

Judging by how clean the building looked, you new someone had to live there. Maybe they could hide you from the weird guy lurking in the maze.

Grim looks up at you,”You think someone lives there?” You nod. Shaking off the dirt from your clothes, you pick Grim back up and head toward the building, hoping to find help.

The Prologue

Crickets, Why did you hear crickets? Why could you feel grass against your skin? Why was it so cold and dark?

Nothing made sense as you opened your eyes and stared up at the decaying branches of large and old trees. Why were you in a forest? Better question, how did you get there?

Pushing yourself up, you take a glance around and your sight lands on a black ball of fur whose ears seemed ablaze with blue flames. You poked it and it jumped awake, startling you.

“MYAH, What’s YOUR problem?” Your mouth drops as the cat-like figure bats at your pointer finger. “And where am I? You better not have done anything invasive, human!” Its yowls hurt your ears and you shush it.

“Shush! I’m trying to figure out what you are and where we are. I’m not sure what you are but I’m 100% certain we’re in a forest.” The cat looks at you with exasperation.

“If you don’t know where we are and I don’t know where we are, then how did we get here together?” You shrug, standing up and giving the area a once-over. It’s dark and depressing. All the plant life has decayed, leaving nowhere for prey to hide.

“I’m not sure, and if someone brought us here, I don’t want to stick around to see who.” The bipedal cat looks up at you and nods before huddling closer, having not considered the possibility of some unseen presence stalking around in the dark.

“I’m the Great Grim, by the way and I expect to be addressed as such!” You grunt in acknowledgement and give him yours. Ears perked up listening for human footsteps, it’s gone quiet. Too quiet. The quiet that happens when predators are nearby.

You quickly grab the small cat, much to his protest, and start jogging in a direction that feels less threatening than the rest. “We need to go, this place no longer feels like we are alone.”

Grim quiets before clutching onto your shirt and shivering. His ears twitch towards the area you were just in and you sigh, glad you got out of there before whoever was roaming decided to inspect your awakening point.

Now, where will your legs take you? What’s the reason you're here? Maybe the direction your heading has answers, or maybe it has more questions. You’ll have to find out, you WILL find out.

A twst x reader slasher au that popped up in my head while I was trying to ignore my tummy ache

Where, instead of stumbling out of a coffin onto the campus of NRC, you’re transported to the hunting grounds of 21 killers! Yay… Of course Grim is with you! He’s your beloved companion after all, whose loud mouth puts both of you in danger of being captured by the crazed boys who are hunting you down! Are they hunting for your love or do they want you dead? Who knows! :)

Of course we can’t have a slasher without a cool nickname, now can we?

Heartslabyul:

Riddle Rosehearts- The Mad Queen

Ace Trappola- The Jack of All Trades

Duece Spade- The Rose Garden Stalker

Trey Clover- The Queen’s Butcher

Cater Diamond- The Queen’s Executioner

Savanaclaw:

Leona Kingscholar- The King Killer

Ruggie Bucchi- The Savanna Haunter

Jack Howl- The Hell Hound

Octavinelle:

Azul Ashengrotto- The Sea Witch

Jade Leech- The Silver Tongued Serpent

Floyd Leech- The Cannibal Basilisk

Scarabia:

Kalim Al-Asim- The Manic Sultan

Jamil Viper- The Sultan‘s Assassin

(Wanted to name him The Sultan’s Jester but that seemed to mean 😭)

Pomefiore:

Vil Schoeinheit- The Weeping Queen

Rook Hunt- The Hunter

Epel Felmeir- The Plague Bringer

Ignihyde:

Idia Shroud- The Reaper

Ortho Shroud(doesn’t technically count since he’s not a love interest)- The Ai

Diasomnia:

Malleus Draconia- The Cursed King

Lilia Vanrouge- The Blood Soaked General

Silver Vanrouge- The Forgotten Prince

Sebek Zigvolt- The Half-Blood Knight