Author's Note: I'm ridiculously proud of this so far. :D My first chapter had 3,000 words! That's totally a new record for me! Hopefully this is a welcome break from my ridiculously short chapters in Amnesia.
So I got the idea for this from my friend, who was talking about the story Runny Babbit. The moment she said Beddy Tear, I was automatically freaked. Doesn't Beddy Tear just sound like something form a horror film? Well now it's a horror story.

Summary: Duck knew she would have to face some tough things when she said she would try to restore the Princes' heart, but Duck never thought she would have to face something like the Beddy Tear. How can she stop a coldblooded murderer that can't speak? And what if she doesn't really want to save the Prince anymore?

Spoilers: If you haven't seen Princess Tutu, I would recommend you see it first because I only explain things very vaguely, so as to not bore people who've already seen Tutu. And no, I haven't read the manga, so there is nothing from that.

Warning: I think this pretty much screws over any sense of innocence this show once had. Whoops. Watch out for blood, gushy love scenes (probably no smex though), and downright horror.

Disclaimer: I don't own the Beddy Tear (who's original disposition is still unknown to me), or any of the Princess Tutu characters, although I would LOVE that.

Once upon a time, there was a teddy bear named Corduroy. Corduroy was a sad, sad bear. For a long time, he sat in a toy store, completely neglected. Kids didn't want to play with Corduroy because he had a button that was falling off. Since he was considered broken, he only sat and sat on a lonely shelf in the back of the store.

Now normally, Corduroy's story changes at this point. One day, a little boy wanders towards the back of the store and stumbles upon Corduroy. The little boy plays with Corduroy and grows to love him. And after quite the tantrum, he convinces his mother to let him take the little bear home, although she thinks the bear is broken and worthless. Once home, the mother takes the initiative to fix the little guy, and the happy teddy bear and the little boy live happily ever after.

But this isn't normal.

Instead of things getting better for Corduroy, things continually get worse. One day, after getting completely ignored again, he decides that he has had enough. Corduroy jumps off his dusty shelf, and leaves the little toy store. No one notices the angry little bear leave the store and head down the street towards the butcher shop. Nor does anyone notice him steal a large knife, and take it to the forest in the middle of town.

The reason that Corduroy's story changed had nothing to do with the absence of the little boy, but it had everything to do with the town that the store was located in.

You see, the town that the little bear was in was special, and not exactly in a good way. This town changes stories, warps them until they are something else entirely. It is the town that the writer named Drosselmeyer controls, and he reigns supreme over it. Unfortunately for the inhabitants of this terrible place, they have no idea that they are being controlled. And even if they did figure it out, they could never leave.

But not to worry, dear reader, there is a benevolent force working against the dark writer, much to his soon to be chagrin. Although he claims to control her, Princess Tutu is working valiantly to stop Drosselmeyer, although neither of them really knows that's what she's doing yet.

Princess Tutu's role in Drosselmeyer's story is to help the prince, who had lost his heart. She is the only one who can restore the prince's heart to him, and it seems that his unruly heart has hidden in shards throughout the town. Maybe a shard has hidden itself inside the once benign bear?

"Have you heard about it?"
"Heard about what?" Two women gossiped outside their houses; little did they know that a young girl was eavesdropping on their conversation.
"They call it the Beddy Tear. It's said it was a neglected teddy bear. Now it lives out in the woods, sharpening its butcher knife. At night, it tears into children's rooms and kills them in their sleep. Three children from Golden Crown Academy have been killed already." One of the women whispered conspiratorially. The other woman gasped, but that was all that the young girl heard. She quacked involuntarily, in shock from the news that had just passed her ears.

Oops, she thought miserably as the world grew around her. She shrank until she was only a few inches tall, and she turned into a duck. For this was no ordinary girl. In fact, she wasn't even a girl at all. Duck was her name, and that's exactly what she was: a duck.

This once lonely duck struck a deal with Drosselmeyer to become a girl, and in exchange, she would also become Princess Tutu, a necessary character, in order to keep his story afloat. At the moment, she was hiding her identity of Princess Tutu and a duck from practically everyone, which was a trying task. Since everyone thought she was just a normal girl she had to be careful, something she wasn't especially good at. For if Duck acted in any way like a duck, "poof!" a duck she would become. Plus she had to deal with her clothes when she changed forms….

Now, an attentive reader like yourself must be asking, how can a duck pretending to be a girl have anything to do with Corduroy, the bear whose once beautiful heart has been stained with bloodshed? Well that's what this small tale is about! It is another one of the many adventures that little Duck experienced as she tried to restore the prince's heart. Will she be able to recover yet another shard of the prince's heart from the distraught teddy bear?

The tiny duck worked to bundle up her discarded clothing as she thought about what she had just heard. A teddy bear that went around killing people at her school! She had to tell Fakir!

For a little while now, she and Fakir had been working together to restore the prince's heart. It had taken a while for them to trust one another, but now Duck went to him for everything. Although they both still didn't particularly understand one another, they both had the same goal: to help Mytho, the prince. Maybe their misunderstandings were the reason that Fakir never wanted to tell her anything….

"Quack, quack, quack." Duck ran along, her clothes wrapped around her so she could carry them around more easily. At the moment, she was looking for water-the only way to change herself back into a girl. "Where to go, where to go." she thought aloud, "Oh, I know! That pond in the forest! It's not too far away, and no one will see me there." Anxious to tell Fakir the news, Duck hurried on her way.

She discarded her clothes next to the pond and hopped in, relishing the coolness of the water after the heat of the day. Poof! Now that she was a girl again, Duck wasted no time in putting on her clothes and heading to school.

Class had ended a few hours ago, so Mytho was probably with Rue, his girlfriend, and Fakir was either in the library or in his room. Fakir had been spending more and more time in the library lately, and of course, as was per his usual attitude, he refused to tell her what he was doing in there.

Duck had a feeling it irritated him whenever she came to see him in the library, but it wasn't really her fault. It was really important when she needed to see him, and these things just couldn't wait!

"To the library!" Duck called out to no one in particular as she marched onto school grounds.
"To the library?" Lilie asked, coming up on Duck's right to walk in stride with her.
"What for?" Pike added, coming up on her left.

Pike and Lilie were Duck's best friends, although they tended to pry a bit too much. Duck never thought of them in such a way though; she only saw the goodness in people. Pike and Lilie were the most innocent, loyal girls in the entire town, and that was what Duck saw in them.

With that, Duck allowed the two to make a big deal out of the smallest thing.
"You can't be studying." Pike said, thinking hard.
"Maybe Duck has turned herself around! And now she's going to study and actually become a better dancer!"

(Oh, did I mention she goes to this school for dance? Now imagine a duck learning how to dance….
As you can imagine, Duck isn't the best of the best. In fact she's been thrown into the remedial classes multiple times. Of course it doesn't help that she isn't a very focused student, and she has to worry constantly about the prince's heart and well-being.)

Lilie jumped in front of Duck, forcing her to stop walking, and pinched her cheeks painfully.
"Lilie….can't…..breathe." Lilie was squeezing her now, not paying attention to the pain she was inflicting on her friend.
"You really think she's going to study?" Pike asked, also ignoring Duck's cries of distress.
"No." Lilie laughed, letting Duck go. As Duck struggled for air, her friends began dragging her back to her room, which was in the opposite direction of the library. "Well, since it's obvious you aren't going to study, we'll have to force you to study with us instead." Lilie cackled manically, enjoying herself far too much.
"Yeah, we don't want you to fall back into remedial classes again. You only just got out of them!" Pike said innocently.

Duck sighed. She felt guilty that she couldn't focus on dancing more, especially when she aspired to become a great dancer. When she turned into Princess Tutu, she could dance whatever dance she wanted, and she always did it perfectly! Duck wanted more than anything to be able to dance that well as herself, as Duck. But if that day ever came, it would be a loooooong time from now. Now she couldn't even stay out of remedial dance class.

Duck didn't mind that she couldn't deal with school all the time. She knew she wasn't a genius or anything, and that never bothered her too much. But she did feel bad that her friends and teachers were willing to help her so often and yet she couldn't pay much attention to them. Mytho was definitely the most important thing, but sometimes she wished she didn't have to ignore other people who were always so kind to her.

"How does Fakir do it all?" Duck muttered to herself. She had been about to ask her friends to let her go, but she had gotten side-tracked into thinking about school and Fakir and Mytho. Although it seemed that her friends didn't need convincing because they gave one another a look and suddenly turned on her, stopping in their tracks.

"Did you just mention Fakir?" Lilie said menacingly.
"I thought you were a Mytho fan? Not that I mind, I mean Fakir is cute too, but one less girl on the Mytho band wagon is better for me." Lilie said.

In case you haven't caught on quite yet, the girls in Golden Crown Academy adored Fakir and Mytho; they had their own fan clubs and everything. It was a bit of an unfortunate happenstance for Duck, since she needed to speak to them pretty frequently. It made it extremely difficult to just walk up and talk to Fakir or Mytho, since girls were constantly swarming around them. Girls were always trying to pester those two, and even though Mytho had a girlfriend, the other girls never seemed to care. Fortunately, Rue knew that Mytho didn't have a heart, so she was able to get over it when he randomly said yes to girls who asked him out. Being heartless also seemed to make him brainless sometimes. But I digress, back to Duck's story.

"I get it now! I heard that Fakir has been spending a lot more time in the library lately. You were going to spy on him, weren't you?" Lilie said, getting excited. "Seriously? I didn't know you were that kind of girl, Duck." Pike said uncertainly. "You don't spy on me, do you?"

Throughout their conversation, Duck's friends had spoken to her, but they hadn't let a word in edgewise. This was pretty common with them. Pike and Lilie just got so excited that they forgot to let Duck answer. Finally, Duck had a chance to defend herself against some of their wild accusations.

"No, no no! I'm not spy-"
"Remember when we went with her to spy on Mytho? It was because she was a Mytho fan! Now that she's a Fakir fan, she's taking out her spying fetish on him!" Lilie said, making up more and more as she got hyped up.

"Really? That's juicy! Can we go with you?" Pike asked, totally believing everything Pike was making up. "I'm not spying on Fakir! And that time with Mytho was different." Duck said, making her way towards the library again.

"Riighhttt." Lilie drawled, following close behind.
"It's O.K, Duck. I understand why you don't want to say anything. We all know that Fakir is way out of your league." Pike said, trying to be comforting.

"Oh…" Duck said, slowing. "You think?" She turned and asked.
"Oh no! You made Duck upset! Now she's going to go looking for that evil teddy bear to kill her in her sleep!" Lilie cried, talking a mile a minute. Duck gasped, suddenly remembering the real reason that she wanted to see Fakir. Her friends had confused her into forgetting why exactly she was even going to the library.

"See you later!" Duck called over her shoulder as she began sprinting to the library.
"Good luck finding the Beddy Tear!" Lilie called back.
"No Duck! Violence isn't the answer!" Pike called over Lilie, trying to get Lilie to stop egging Duck on to her doom.

Duck ignored them, putting all of her energy into getting to the library as quickly as possible. She didn't stop when she made it to the library. Instead, she took the steps two at a time and burst in at full speed.

Surprisingly enough for her, some guy tried to stop her when she came in. She realized it was the guy who was always trying to shush her when she was talking to Fakir in there.

"Stop!" he whispered loudly when he saw her. He was standing in front of the door, which turned really badly for the both of them.

"Oof!" They collided, sending them and the books in his arms crashing to the ground.
"You…" he worked to get his breath back, since she had so thoroughly knocked it out of him. "You are always disruptive when you come in here!"

Although he tried to reprimand her, he found that she wasn't listening. He gave her a confused look as she babbled, "I'm sorry! I'm sorry! But I have to go. Oh, here are your glasses." She handed him his glasses, which had fallen when they had collided. She got up and continued running. Bewildered, he tried to call her back.

"Wait! You-"
"Shh!" the librarian gave him a disgusted look as he passed by. He sighed. How did that girl squirm out of everything so easily?

Finally! She was finally going to get to tell Fakir the news! She found him reading a book, just as she normally found him. When he saw her coming, he held up a finger, telling her to wait a minute. She groaned inwardly and almost immediately started hopping from foot to foot. Whatever Fakir was reading couldn't be that important!

After what seemed like forever, Fakir looked up from his reading. By this time, Duck felt like she was going to explode, which was kind of what happened when she started talking.
"Teddy bear, Mytho, school, bear, death!" The words spurted out of her as if she was a fountain, and Fakir obviously didn't understand fountain language.

"Duck." He said firmly, working to calm her down, "I can't understand what you're trying to say. Relax." After all the running and hopping she had been doing, Duck was a little shaky, so she forced herself to stand still for a moment and take a deep breath. "Good. Now what did you want to tell me?"

"Did you hear about the Beddy Tear attacking kids at our school?"
"Yeah, it started a few days ago." Fakir said with a hard look. Duck could tell it worried him too. She sighed. "What?"
"Well I guess it's a good thing you know what's going on, so you can watch out for Mytho and stuff, but I ran a really, really long way to tell you about this, and people kept stopping me, and-"
"It's a good thing you're worried about Mytho as well, but it's my job to watch out for him. Your job is to restore his heart to him. Got it?"

Fakir didn't mind speaking openly about who Duck really was, since the library was empty.
"But I'm worried about Mytho, and I can't just sit around doing nothing!"
"You had best not be doing nothing! You should be in class. You could be an extra pair of eyes to watch Mytho, if nothing else." Fakir glared.

Lately Duck hadn't been making it to very many of her classes, which only seemed to help prove to her teachers that she was an idiot.
"Sorry, but I've had a lot on my mind. And I've been trying to look for Mytho's heart."
"That's no excuse for skipping class. Besides, it's important that you stay in this school and if you can't pass your classes, they're going to kick you out."
"Why does it matter if I stay in this school?"

Fakir didn't answer for a moment. Instead, he looked around to make sure that they were still alone in the library. He gave an exasperated sigh.
"Think about it, stupid. If you aren't around, won't it be more difficult to tell me things you find out? And how will you be able to watch Mytho dance?" Fakir laughed as she blushed.
"Well I guess that makes sense." Duck muttered.
"It's settled then. I'll watch out for Mytho; you go to class and look for Mytho's heart. Remember, his heart is the most important thing but try not to skip class so much, all right?"

Fakir started pushing her away, the book he had been reading still under his arm.
"Wait, what were-"
"Not now, Duck." Fakir cut her off. "You have work to do, don't you?" He gave her a glare that could stop hearts, disabling her ability to interject. Was he angry with her or not? It didn't seem like he was until just a second ago…

Duck thought hard about what Fakir said as she made her way back to her dorm room.
"He's right!" she declared to absolutely no one. "I need to work harder!" Another thought suddenly crossed her mind, in that sporadic way that Duck was always thinking. "Oh man! I forgot to ask Fakir how he manages to do everything. And he does it so well too! He gets good grades, dances amazingly, studies, researches stuff he refuses to tell me about…" With exaggerated sadness, Duck continued to walk along.

"Oh well!" she piped up again a few moments later. "No need to worry about it now. I'll just ask him later." And with that, she continued to waltz along school grounds, thinking about what Fakir was up to and how she was going to find Mytho's heart.

She had already decided that she would go to school the next day, like Fakir had told her to. Afterwards, she would search the town for heart shards.

That's what she had been doing! She totally forgot after hearing that crazy news today! She had been searching for Mytho's heart that afternoon when she had overheard those two ladies talking about the Beddy Tear. Duck gulped. Maybe she should keep her window shut and locked tonight, even though it had been warming up lately. Would the Beddy Tear try to go after her?

Starting to freak out, Duck finally took notice of her surroundings. The sun was starting to set, and she had heard that the Beddy Tear only attacks at night, when it's dark. Looking around some more, she also noted that there wasn't anyone around. No students milling around aimlessly like they normally did. Were they afraid as well?

If there was anything that still needed to be done, it could wait until tomorrow, couldn't it? As darkness began its slow creep across the grounds, Duck instinctively started running. The thought of the Beddy Tear attacking someone, possibly her, was enough to terrify her into wanting to get inside.

Chest heaving, Duck finally burst onto the hallway that her room was located on. Despite being inside, Duck still felt the need to keep running. Working simply on adrenaline, she had run full speed up all three flights of stairs until she made it to the top floor. Her room was at the end of the hall, and she booked it until she practically collided with the solid wood.

She didn't notice Pike and Lilie stick their heads out of their rooms and look around, trying to find the cause of all the commotion. When they heard Duck's door slam shut, they gave each other knowing looks and went back into their perspective rooms.

Duck dove into her room, but quickly crawled back to her door to lock it. The Beddy Tear could be right behind her or at her window! "Ahh!" Flailing and yelling, Duck ran around her room barring the door and window with anything she could get her hands on.

Finally, when she felt a bit better, Duck changed into her pajamas and crawled into bed. Holding her stuffed duck close, (Oh the irony.) she huddled underneath the blankets, hoping the Beddy Tear wouldn't see her if it managed to get in.

Fear kept her alert and jumpy for a while; whenever she thought she heard something outside her room, it took all of her effort not to quack. She kept a hand over her mouth to make sure she wouldn't make any noise, but after a while, she started to get tired. Despite trying to stay awake to watch out for the thing that she was convinced was trying to kill her, she found that she was falling asleep.

One last thought crossed her mind before she passed out- a thought that scared her far more than she had felt before.

If the Beddy Tear didn't come after her tonight, who would it go after instead? Fakir? Mytho? Pike or Lilie? Duck had exhausted herself with worry, and within moments she was asleep, although it wasn't a very restful sleep. In fact, it was quite the opposite.

No real horror or anything yet, just a set up of the evil that comes in the next chapter. I hope to update weekly, but no promises, since I have to take a chemistry course over the summer. Blegh.

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