Dark Woods Horror.

Rin and Len.


Rin, and Len, were good children. They always had been. They ate their greens, and obeyed their parents - as good children do.

They were also quite lucky children. The twins parents had plenty of money, and the family lived in a grand house.

You could say, that the only thing that flawed the family, was little Len Kagamine. No one has ever been quite sure about what the problem was with the boy. Rumours flew around of course, most of them ignorant and particularly stupid. And of course, none of the rumours actually helped anyone find out what was wrong with him. Of course, none of them were true.

But no one could deny that something was wrong with the Kagamine boy. His parents would sometimes watch him, with interest. He didn't say much. What he did say was badly spoken, slurred, and not very intelligent. There were days when Len's sister was busy, that he would just sit and stare.

Nobody really knew what went on in the boy's head.

Rin, however, was the daughter that the Kagamine's had always wished for. She was smart, neat and polite. She talked to her brother on long days, and time seemed to flow. Len didn't reply, but Rin would sit with him and hold his hand. She liked to talk to him about the world; about all the things she could not talk about with her parents. She was silently afraid of them, that one day she would not be good enough. She felt like she was slowly slipping away from their standards, though in fact, she was pushing herself academically, physically and emotionally more than ever: all at the tender age of fourteen.

But at the end of the day, the Kagamine children were two sides of the same coin. Rin always told herself, that deep down, she was as simple as Len, and Len was as complex herself.

Life carried on as normal. Until one day, Rin found herself awoken by a nightmare.

She woke up in bed, sweating and nervous. Glancing around, she noticed that she could hear hushed voices.

"We need to get rid of him."

"Do we? Really? He's not perfect but-"

"He's far from it! Nobody knows what the hell's wrong with him!"

" But he's our son."

Rin paused, staying very still so that she could hear her parents quiet argument. Her very own father wanted to get rid of her twin. She could hear her heart pounding as she sat in bed.

"A sad excuse for one. I'm getting rid of him whether you like him or not."

"How can you! What about Rin? What will you say to her?"

Rin's eyes widened as she heard her name.

"I'll tell her about the accident."

"What accident?"

"The one which he dies in."

Rin heard a shuffle, and then silence. The silence did not relieve her, it only scared her more. Her parents were not who she thought they were. How could her mother and father allow Len to be killed?

The female Kagamine child sat in bed for a further thirty minutes, thinking things through in her head. She also wanted to make sure her parents were asleep.

After a further ten minutes, Rin sat on the edge of her bed and began to get dressed, very slowly and very quietly. She collected all of her pocket money and stored it in her pocket, inside a little see-through bag.

She then crept into her brother's room, shaking his shoulders gently. There was a small trail of salvia running down the course of his face as he slept.

"Len," Rin said gently, as quiet as possible. "We must go. Get dressed."

Len, although confused, trusted his sister. He got dressed facing away from Rin. He did not know what was going on, or where they were going, but that didn't matter much to him. He had never really liked the confines of his own home.

Whilst Len was getting dressed, Rin took all the money that he had from his 'money-tin' and put it in the small bag.

"Len. Len, look at me." Rin instructed, holding her twin's shoulders firmly. "We have to go. Now. And we have to be, very, very quiet, and we can't tell mother or father."

Len almost looked as if he was looking past his sister. He didn't say anything, but looked sad and uncomfortable as he wiped away the tears that fell down his sisters face.

"Come on Len." Rin said softly, tugging at her brother's hand. "Lets go."

As the pair left the house, Rin considered leaving the house, but decided against the idea. Those monsters didn't deserve a letter. Not one word.

The two travelled in silence, never letting go of the other's hand. As they reached the outskirts of the city, they saw a large circus.

"Wanna go in?" Rin asked, squeezing her brother's hand. She saw his eyes fill with fear and fascination as he saw the circus. Without replying, he began to walk towards the lights that he saw at the circus. He was like a firefly, attracted by the lights. The bold, bright lights.

Rin looked at the circus and wondered what Len was walking towards. It looked like an average circus to her, quite dull. Nothing special about it. She followed him anyway, until they were greeted by a tall, tall man.

"Hello, children. Isn't it a little late?"

Rin saw the man had the most amazing green-grey eyes she had ever seen. Len looked up, and smiled as he saw the man; his eyes electric blue, like the lights that had drawn him closer.

Rin didn't have much of an answer. She was enchanted by the man anyway.

"Why don't you come with me, yes? You can see the circus later. Do you have a place to stay?"

Both children shook their heads, both of them absolutely in love with this tall stranger. Rin liked how his voice trickled in her ears, as smooth as the ironed suit he was wearing.

Len liked the way the man sounded too, the way he sounded just like him; slurry and slow.

"I'll have to find you a place to stay." The man said, standing in between the siblings and taking their hands.

Neither of the twins questioned him. He was safe, surely. Anyone as magical as that man must be trustworthy.

The group began to walk. Rin was quite sure she was walking in silence, whereas Len was quite sure that the man was talking to him and telling him things about the world, just like Rin did. Though he knew much more. Much, much more.

Finally, they reached their accommodation. Rin thanked the man quietly, as she took in her surroundings. The building was all white, but at the front there were concrete slabs on the ground, each slab black, white and red. She liked the design.

Len looked up at the sterile white house, but smiled as he noticed at the bottom there was a nice garden, filled with red roses.

The man looked at the circus's 'home' with a slight look of disgust, as he noticed that the floor still had blood on the floor. From who, he didn't know. The tall, tall man was quite aware that the children could not see what he saw. The tall, tall man knew how magical he really was, blurring people's sight, and judgment and percipient.

The man led them inside and the children each saw a vision of their new home. They were both in love with the man and their lodgings. The man finally led them to a room, and both children saw how white and unfriendly the room looked. Nothing inside.

"In you go."

Len looked at the man uncertainly before stepping inside. Rin suddenly felt fearful and sick as she entered the room.

"Goodnight children."

As soon as their tall captor closed the door, both children could finally see clearly. The white walls were splattered with blood, and the smell was so horrible that both children thought they might retch with disgust.

Len looked at his sister with wide, hurt eyes. In his mind, he had trusted his sister with no reason to, and she had led him here.

Rin looked at her brother, though her mind wandered to her captor. How had she not seen how awful this place really was?

Len could suddenly see the blood dripping down the walls, reaching towards him, as if trying to poison him. What he did not know was that the blood was old and brown, and had dried weeks ago.

Rin could suddenly hear the screams of the innocent as they stumbled into the same trap that her and her sibling had fallen in to. What she did not know, was that her and her brother were the only people to be captured at the moment, and nobody was screaming at all.

Len looked at his sister, and began to back away into a corner, wild fear in his foggy mind. He stayed in the corner, looking at his sister with wide, frightened eyes. He looked at the walls and all he could see was the blood coming to get him, pooling round his feet now. There was even blood on Rin's face. Or so he thought.

He covered his face with his lanky, pale arms, shaking. After a few seconds, he knew he needed to look again.

One small fleck of blood rested on his arm.

He looked down.

The blood was up to his ankles, swaying around his feet like a calm ocean tide.

Len threw his head back and screamed.

Rin at this point, also had her arms covered her face. Now Len had started screaming, the screaming she could hear in her head intensified, although apart from Len, the place was silent. She began to whimper. She could hear the voices, screaming for her help.

You let us down Rin, help us! We're dying, can't you see!

She looked at Len with the same wild fearful eyes that he had looked at her with. She did not know where she was. She did not know what was going on, or who was shouting for her.

Rin, Rin! The blood!

Her head was pounding now. The screams had dissolved from words to just screams, which were worse.

After an hour or so, both of the children's fantasises had eased. The screams in Rin's head were just quiet pleads, and the blood at Len's feet had somehow gone down from his ankles to his toes. Len stayed in his corner. And both of the twins stayed away from each other.

Outside, the tall, tall man smiled to himself.

"Little do the children know, they are just sat in a white room, with a little blood on the wall. The whole house, is silent." he said to himself before walking away, to the other end of the corridor.