What's a young princess to do?

[bunnybrat]

WHO| Chibi-Usa and anyone that comes across her
WHAT| Our pink-haired girl is coming to terms with everything
WHEN| 01- August
WHERE| D7’s floor, the Training Centre, and the Shopping districts
WARNINGS| None


District Seven’s Level

After being told she had been brought here to fight to the death for ‘glorious Panem’, given her communicator and credit card, in a daze Chibi-Usa allowed herself to be directed back to her districts floor and to her room. Once there she slept for the rest of the day willing herself not to cry through most of it.

The next morning she wakes with a start, at first thinking it had all a bad dream, rubbing at her eyes her first thought was to tell her Mama. After all she had just gotten home from staying with Usagi. As she starts to climb out of her bed she thinks maybe that dream meant Usagi needed her again?

It’s then she wakes up properly and looks around the room realising that she really had been kidnapped to another world.

What if she wasn't the only one they brought here?

“Usagi!?” she shouts as she comes running out of the room.

Training Centre

After talking to the people on her floor, Chibi-Usa comes to the training floor to look at it. She really doesn’t like what she sees, just so many weapons and people using them on each other. At least it didn’t look like they were trying to kill each other right now.

To say she was looking wide-eyed and befuddled would be an understatement, after wandering around she sits down on a bench, bringing her legs to her knees and sighing deeply.

“How am I supposed to help everyone here?” She hugs her legs tighter. “Puu, I really wish you were here right now. I even miss Usagi.”

Shopping Districts

Trying to get everything out of her mind, Chibi-Usa takes some time wandering the shopping district looking at a great many things but not actually trying to buy anything. There were so many crazy outfits, and strange things to have she was actually feeling a little overwhelmed at it all.

Where are all the normal clothes?

She soon finds herself standing in front of a window with a dress in the window that looks more like some crazy kind of mix of a pink marshmallow and a rice ball that was covered in glitter. She’s spending a lot of time wondering if it’s something to wear or some joke costume that could be edible.

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[bunnybrat]

The nope was so certain, Chibi-Usa isn't sure if she should try asking about the others.

She looks at the food again then back at her.

"Aren't you scared?"

[ruffntumblenut]

"About what?" She glanced at the food and then back to the girl.

"You don't look so scary to me. Why should I be scared?"

Ruffnut Thorston, Missing the point champion since the time of Vikings.

[bunnybrat]

Chibi-usa just... Stares at the girl and her reply, making her vey uncertain about everything for a moment.

"Not me. About all this, that. That we are being made to fight?"

[ruffntumblenut]

"Huh?"

It takes Ruffnut a solid ten seconds longer to put the pieces together.

"OH! THAT! Nah...no. It's not like we gotta go do it today. And besides I already died once...twice." She corrected herself and at least had the shame to look embarrassed about it.

"Being scared is fine though. You look kinda small so it makes sense. But a Viking doesn't let a little thing like fear stop her." She slammed her fist on the table making the juice in her cup jump over the rim.

"Ya gotta take that fear and turn it into energy right? Ya gotta eat up that fear and look the scary thing in the face and laugh because it wants you to be scared! And are you gonna give that thing what it wants when it's being a huge jerk and trying to eat you!?"

This was...by far the most coherent speech Ruffnut had delivered...ever. And sadly only Chibi-usa was here to see it.

[bunnybrat]

With her taking so long to figure out what Chibi-Usa was talking about, there's a moment of worry for the girl from Chibi-Usa.

But then she listens quietly, taking it all in, to her it feels really strangely worded, but at least it makes sense.

"N-No. But I don't really want to be where... Wait things want to eat us too?"

She's not scared anymore, so +A to helping her be less scared, but now se's just confused.

[ruffntumblenut]

Calming down Ruffnut takes another bite out of her meal as an Avox cleans up her juice and brings her a fresh drink.

"Well not here no...except that Kevin guy." Her face turns deadly serious.

"I don't think he would because there are people here to protect us from each other...but stay away from the blond guy with teeth like this."

She holds her fingers up to her mouth attempting to imitate rows of sharp teeth.

"He ate me awhile ago. Didn't like it." She grumbles sitting back down.

[bunnybrat]

"Someone called Kevin. Ate you?"

Sorry, but that look you're getting. That is a look of someone not believing you right there. Because how can you possibly just eat someone, it sounds like a ghost story.

[ruffntumblenut]

Well that's enough to earn her a scowl.

"Well it's not like I just hung around and let it happen! He broke my arm and chased me into a house of mirrors. I was starving and weak." She insisted and pointed at the TV.

"Turn on the stupid magic window! They show it at least once a day if you don't believe me."

[bunnybrat]

The explanation of what happens causes Chibi-usa to give the girl a really blank look. They can't really allow something like that to happen could they?

"Stupid magic window?" Chibi-Usa blinks before turning to look at the TV. "They show it on the television?" She gives the TV an apprehensive look, really not sure she wants to see that.

[ruffntumblenut]

This doesn't sit well with Ruffnut but she slumps in her seat idly stabbing at a sausage on her plate with a fork.

"Yeah that's the thing. They show it on all the Tee Vee." The way she said it still didn't sound right.

"It's a sport you know? People want to watch it and we gotta play the game or they hurt us I guess. That's how it was told to me. Do what you're told? Only get hurt in the arena. Try to fight it and they'll hurt you out here too." She nodded her head to one of the silent servants currently sweeping things to one side of the kitchen.

"Like that guy. I hear he was a traitor. Now he can't talk and has to bring us drinks and stuff." She paused and added "Don't talk to him too much though. Gets him in trouble and you."

Ruffnut had learned that the hard way after a full day of harassing one of the Avox she met. She thought he was just being rudely silent, she wasn't aware he simply couldn't talk.

[bunnybrat]

Despite the actual topic, Chibi-Usa manages to take it all in and tries to process it. That is until she's told about the Avox, she looks at the one in the kitchen and stares at him.

"Can't." She looks back at the girl. "Like he's not allowed to talk to us?" She sounds so very hopeful that's what the older girl means. Either way she knows for sure she'll make sure she puts her dishes away, to not be any trouble for the poor man.

[ruffntumblenut]

Ruffnut considered the question while she chewed.

"Both I guess. Not allowed to...and they ripped out his tongue."

Said so casually as if it wasn't the most horrific thing.

"What I can't figure out is how they eat without tongues."

Because priorities.

[bunnybrat]

"They ripped out his..."

She doesn't hear anything else the girl says, because it's all just too much for her, to the point where she just drops to the ground shaking her head helplessly asking no one in a very soft voice.

"Why would anyone do that?"

[ruffntumblenut]

"Because they're jerks." Ruffnut answered matter of factually.

"They do it to scare us into doing what we're told. Works pretty well too because I like my tongue." She stuck it out and pointed to it as if that would somehow convince Chibi Usa her tongue was particularly worth protecting.

[bunnybrat]

"That's. That's terrible!"

Oh Ruffnut, you're not making her feel at ease at all and does give a shudder, feeling equally scared and nauseous at the idea that if she doesn't behave that her tongue removed.

[ruffntumblenut]

"No kidding."

Chibi may notice that Ruffnut is not the most sensitive of tributes but she stands up all the same and moves around the table to comfort her.

"But you're new so they won't do anything to you so long as you behave. Besides you're in my district and I'm WAY more annoying then anyone I know. So they'll come after me and you'll be safe."

[bunnybrat]

She is very quickly starting to realise that Ruffnut isn't really someone who is either understanding the situation, or just doesn't care.

"You're like this on purpose?" She asks, starting to wonder if maybe her claims to be annoying as a away to protect others.

[ruffntumblenut]

She looked thoughtful for a moment.

"Well I don't really have to work at it. I just...am who I am you know? And I know that I can be a HUGE pain in the butt. You're still a bitty delicate little thing so who's gonna go out of their way to break you when I'm around?"

[bunnybrat]

It seems like some real weird kind of logic to Chibi-Usa, but she just slowly nods anyway. As long as it made real sense to one of them she guessed?

Then she realised she was being rude.

"Oh." She slowly stood up. "My name is Usagi Tsukino, but you can call me Chibi-Usa." She gave a small polite smile.

[ruffntumblenut]

"Chibi-Usa?" Ruffnut tried it out and didn't seem to have a problem with the sound.

"Alright. I'm Ruffnut. A dragon rider from Berk." She said this last part wistfully. There was a bit of longing in it as she thought back to her home and her long lost dragon.

[bunnybrat]

"Ruffnut?" It was a strange name, but not the worst she could hear she thinks. And then the rest of what Ruffnut says catches up to her.

"You ride dragons?!" She is wide-eyed and surprised. Because wow that would be amazing.

[ruffntumblenut]

She couldn't help but grin and stands a little taller.

"You bet. Everyone back home rides dragons now...well mostly everyone. My brother and I ride the two headed "Hideous Zippleback!" She declared proudly.

...and then promptly had to ignore the pang of longing and regret that neither her dragon nor her brother were around.

[bunnybrat]

"Wooooow"

Chibi-Usa can't help but beam in excitement.

"That would be so amazing, I'd love to ride a dragon. What the a hideous uh, zippleback? look like?"

[ruffntumblenut]

The admiration was enough to wash away Ruffnut's longing and she grinned that crooked grin once more.

"It's got this big body right? As thick around as two oxen." She puffed out her chest and held her arms to her side to indicate how broad before pitching forward and crawling around Chibi-Usa on her hands and knees.

"And it's got these thick legs with claws. They aren't very long so it kind of scuttles like this." She demonstrated before vanishing behind the kitchen counter. Her hand popped up to snag a pen off the counter before vanishing again.

"But the most obvious thing is it's heads."

Her hands appeared again this time with crudely drawn faces on them.

"Two slithery squirmy heads on loooong necks. One head, my head is Barf and he spits out a cloud of nasty green gas."

To play along with this idea she mimed it with her hand, amazingly enough as she wiggled the hands around an inhuman growling sound could be heard. When the head opened it's mouth it let out a roar that was extremely lifelike.

"Then my brother's head is Belch. He spits out sparks to the gas. And that makes the GAS EXPLODE!"

She sprang up so fast she knocked some food off the counter throwing her hands in the air.

"BOOM!" She declared happily.

[bunnybrat]

Having never seen an oxen, Chibi-Usa can't think about how big two of them would be. But she has seen cows, and oxen are like cows, so that's still pretty big.

As Ruffnut keeps talking about the dragon, the younger girl smiles more, even laughing at the faces drawn on the viking's hands to look like her dragon. Clapping a little at the growling.

There's a little gasp as she knocks over the food, Chibi-Usa starts to head for it but sees the Avox is already on it without even thinking. She stares at them for a moment before turning back to Ruffnut.

"Wow, that's really cool. The closest I've had to a pet as cool as a dragon is Diana, Luna and Artemis."

And they're just cats... Who can talk, one of which managed to become human for a few hours too.