Say Hello to Fluffy....

Fluffy is my character that I have created for our haunted house "Statesville Haunted Prison". I have been using and modifying him for 3 years now. At horror conventions around the Midwest he is well known and placed in a few contests.

Here is his story....

Born unwanted, he was placed at the doorstep of the Hillcrest Hospital alone. He was raised in the hospital due to his unmanageable temper as a baby. When he became slightly older he was removed from playing with other children for biting and clawing at them. No one knew why he was such an angry child, and cause no one dared get close to him, he never received a name. To make matters easier, he was placed in a padded cell where he couldn't hurt himself or others. Fed only once a day, he began to tear at the walls and eat the fluff from inside the padding. When the doctors discovered this, they quickly put him into a straitjacket and steel toe boots to prevent him from using his toes. The steel toe to prevent him from chewing through the shoe to get his toes free. When it came time to feed him the attendants would draw straws on who would have to . One unfortunate day a Nurse came running into the lobby with two fingers missing, the other hand clenching the shortest straw. From that day forth, a mask was put on his face with only to eye holes and a hole for his mouth. This did not stop anything. He began to gnaw at the walls in order to get to that fluff that he so badly wanted. Psychiatric doctors could not diagnose his problem or find a way of curing it. The only thing they came to a decision on was naming the boy "Fluffy". Fluffy's mask was taken away and the mouth sewn shut so only a straw could be fed through. His name sewn on the back strap of the mask as a joke for the doctors and nurses to make fun of him. They restrapped it to his head and stapled the sides into his flesh so he could never remove it. They would kick and abuse him when it came time for his meal, spitting at the mouth of his mask. This treatment went on for years, until the hospital was closed down for undisclosed reasons. As everyone began to move their belongings out, and patients were moved to new hospitals, Fluffy sat in his tormented sanctuary. It came time to remove the patients from the psychiatric ward. The head nurse of the unit went through the checklist making sure every patient was taken out properly and safely. When she came to Fluffy's door, she gave a small smirk, lifted her eyebrow, and with her two stubbed fingers clenching a red pen... checked him off the list as PATIENT REMOVED.
Two days later the hospital was empty, besides Fluffy, who sat in his cell perched on his toes watching the slot in the door. His long matted black hair draped over the front of his mask. Inevitably, the power was shut down to the Hillcrest Hospital. This caused the electronic locks on the cells to be shut off. Fluffy listens as the massive steel door *clanked* and *banged*. His head slowly tilted to the side as sight of the hallway came into view from the left side of the door. He approached and nudged the door with his head. It slowly creeped open, a smile spread across Fluffy's face as he heard no noise. He spent the next few hours roaming the hospital in search of the doctors and nurses who had caused his detainment. Endless hallways and door upon door had Fluffy on edge for the next thrill around each turn. Finally one corner had him face to face with the entrance doors. He watched as not even 100 feet away people were passing by on the sidewalk. Slamming his body against the doors, wanting to rip apart every person he saw. But the doors were chained shut from the outside, preventing anyone from entering the hospital. With no success Fluffy, made his way back through the corridors. Memorizing every step, every door, every corner, he would turn this hospital into his home, this would be his territory. He enters the pediatric unit, and is confused of the bright colors and toys laid about the rooms. Never was he able to experience this before. He grew very fond of the stuffed animals, how they reminded him of his home in the padded room. He began to collect them and pushing them all into one corner with his head. Something had to be done with his arms, he couldn't hold them and touch them with his hand tied around his body. He made his way back to the cafeteria which he had wandered into on his adventure through the hospital. Pots, pans, knives, trays, so many shiny things in the kitchen he wasn't able to concentrate. He began to go crazy and kicked the shelves and tables, one shelf tipped hitting the knife rack on the wall. They fell and a few stuck in the counter top as the other slid across the floor. Again Fluffy's head cocked to the side. He saw that one had pierced the counter top but also through a towel. He could comprehend that it was sharp and began to rub the straps against the blade. Cutting himself numerous times and not bothered by the blood, the strap broke free and his arms could move.
The next few days go by, then weeks, and finally 4 months later Fluffy had the hospital mapped out in his head. He can get anywhere just by using the ventilation system. The darkness has become his friend and his eyes see almost as good in the dark as they do in the day. He moves on all fours because it allows him to go faster and sneak in and out of the vents easier, and feasts on mice and old boxes of food left around to stay nourished. No stuffed animal is left intact in the hospital anymore, he has destroyed them and taken all the fluff out. just the lifeless ripped cloth skins of the animals lay about. As Fluffy is finishing up picking apart the pieces of meat left on a rat a loud *CLANK* catches his attention. He runs to where the echo originated from. He finds the answer to his puzzle at the main entrance. Six tall creatures have entered, all different colors, all loud and obnoxious. Fluffy is excited and cautious at the same time, his head tilted to the side ever so slightly, taking in every noise and sound they make. What Fluffy doesn't know is that "today" is Halloween, and that the six strange creatures are in fact six seniors from the local high school dressed in Sesame Street costumes. They thought it would be fun to break into the old hospital and have a good time. But what these six curious law breakers didn't know was that Fluffy just saw six giant stuffed animals walk into his playground.... For awhile, he just sits back and watches, studying what they do. Plotting out his course and what he will do in order to remove the fluff from inside there bodies. The kids have ventured far enough into the hospital to no longer know where they are. Thanks to the alcohol, this problem doesn't bother them. Then they happen to make the biggest mistake they could have made..., they walk into the pediatric unit. Taking off their masks, they begin to pick up the soft carcasses of decapitated stuffed animals, tossing them at one another and laughing. Fluffy's whole body shudders and he can no longer watch. They have desecrated his new sanctuary, now they must pay...
He takes off toward the group running on all fours. The kids don't know how to react and take off in different directions. Fluffy leaps and latches to the back of one of the characters who then trips, and as he falls forward, his forehead encloses over the corner of the nurses station. Dead on impact, Fluffy watches as blood pours from his head. As he looks up he is face to face with a mirror and notices that he looks nothing like the lifeless body beneath him. Wanting to have a face he dips his hand in the blood and smears a red smile that stretches ear to ear. The exact expression that is hidden underneath the mask. He takes the black makeup smeared around the kids eyes and copies the look by rubbing it on his mask. Satisfied with his little project, he takes off to find the remaining five. He jumps into the nearest vent and pops out a few halls over. Remaining still he listens to the sound of the footsteps echoing off the floor tiles. There he finds the closest victim, stopped in the intersection of two hallways trying to fight the alcohol and remember the way out. Fluffy's feet and hands make no noise as the cloth from the straight jacket muffles the sound. At full speed he slides, taking out the kid's feet. Breaking his arm trying to catch his fall, the boy struggles to get up. The red smile creeps up from behind and with both feet jumps into the air and lands dead center on the Big Birds back. *SNAP*. The boy lays paralyzed, screams of pain and horror bounce off the walls. The other kids hiding in terror, not knowing where it is safe to move. To shut him up, Fluffy raises one knee as high as possible and slams his boot onto the neck of the loud one. With him no longer breathing, Fluffy moves on to his next play toy. Now that they are all hiding and no longer making noise, Fluffy's job becomes somewhat harder. However he has become accustomed to sitting and waiting since birth. In the end, fear takes over and causes one of the kids to go crazy. He sprints for an emergency exit and begins pounding on the door, forgetting they are all chained from the outside. Within minutes Fluffy has located the sound and sits at the end of the hall staring the kid down. Slowly turning, he see's the bloodstained Fluffy and slowly slides down the door beginning to cry. He covers his face and starts screaming into his hands. When nothing happens, he peers up to see that the creature is no longer there. Grabbing a fire axe from the wall, he hears something around the corner. As soon as it gets close he swings, catching Oscar the Grouch right in the chest cavity. As he bends down to help his friend, Fluffy creeps up from behind having watched the whole thing happen. He reaches over the students head, putting his hand into the boy's mouth and grips his top jaw. Pulling back, he slams his foot into the kids shoulder. Ripping the top jaw completely away from the bottom. Both lay dead on one another as Fluffy disappears into the dark.
The last two kids, a couple, have stuck together. Fluffy has found them creeping down the E.R. trying to stay quiet. They hear a *Click* and turn in enough time to see Fluffy sprint across the hall they just passed. Both begin running at full speed not sure which way he will come from. Taking a side corridor they think they have lost him, that is until the girl falls face first into the tile. The other turns to see his lover being dragged into the vent Fluffy had emerged from. With one leg in his possession, Fluffy begins to pull her in. Her boyfriend on the other side starts pulling on her hands. With one leg stuck outside the vent, it dislocates at the hip, causing her to let go of his hands. He then falls back against the wall. Fluffy drags the girl far enough into the vent to the point of a drop down. The ventilation unit goes straight down two floors to the basement. Putting her headfirst and giving a kick, the girl falls bouncing side to side off the vent walls. She bursts through the ceiling of the basement, breaking her fall with her shoulders and neck. Alive, but barely able to breathe she tries to move and cannot. She hears the familiar sound of the vent walls bending. Squinting, she looks up into the dark hole just in time to make out the silhouette monitor from the nearby nurse station before it smashes her skull. Fluffy retreats to the hall to track down his final game. After a few turns and a few staircases, the exhausted student sees the front door and makes an attempted sprint for it. He grabs the handle and rips it open, charging for the sidewalk as soon as the moonlight enters the crack between the doors. At the same moment Fluffy's boot slams against the door shutting it on the last survivors wrist. With only his hand remaining in the hospital, he pulls at it trying to break free as Fluffy starts bringing him back into his territory. As he renters screaming, Fluffy takes the steel door and slams it into the victim's face over and over until teeth fall from his mouth and his eyes no longer carry a pupil. Dragging the body back to his "nest" of fluff in the pediatric ward, Fluffy smiles with his trophies. He collects all the bodies and keeps them all together in order to see what their insides hold.
Two weeks go by... No sign of the kids cause the town to go on a manhunt. Eventually this leads to the hospital where Fluffy has claimed his home. After a gruesome four day fight, leaving nine police officers dead, Fluffy is apprehended and placed in to Statesville Prison. He is sentenced to life in prison without parole. Strapped in a new straight jacket, without removing the mask, he is placed in Statesville's Maniac Ward. He resides in his own cell where fluff has been replaced with damp concrete. In his time there Fluffy causes the deaths of six inmates and two guards. After the outbreak at the prison, the Warden comes to Fluffy with proposition. Knowing of his past and his abilities, he proclaims that he wants Fluffy to hunt remaining guards and inmates that will not cooperate with the Warden. In return he promises that Fluffy can keep the bodies once the Warden is finished. So now, Fluffy sits in his cell, waiting for the call of his master. Using the vents and the sewers, he runs room to room, cell to cell, looking for the Wardens wish and dragging them back. Statesville Prison is Fluffy's new Playground....