Dewey ran away from his brothers, in search of his uncle. He bumped into someone as he ran, falling to the floor.

"Ow..." He muttered.

"Dewey?" The middle triplet looked up and saw Donald.

"Uncle Donald!" Dewey stood up and hugged his uncle. "I wanna go home, please can we go back home!" He sobbed. Donald picked his nephew up.

"Dewey, what's wrong?" He asked.

"H-Huey was saying weird, things and L-Louie was being, a...a bully." Donald sighed.

"Where are they?" He asked. Dewey pointed towards the food court. Donald walked over towards the food court, Dewey still in his arms. He spotted his other two nephews sitting down at a table softly talking to each other.

"Hubert! Llewellyn!" He yelled, making the ducklings jump. They turned around and saw their uncle.

"U-uncle Donald, hey." Louie said nervously. Donald was wearing an angry face. Huey was a bit scared once he saw that face.

"What did you two do to your brother?" Donald asked.

"Um, we-"

"Stop, I don't want to hear it. We're going home."

"But Uncle Donald-"

"No buts Llewellyn, follow me, we're going back to the car and then we're going to talk about this at home." Louie crossed his arms and grumbled as he followed his uncle down to the car. The eldest triplet was scared, while the youngest was angry. On the car ride home he only glared at his older brothers, causing them both to be scared. Once they reached their destination, Louie and Huey tried to sneak away from Donald, in an attempt to get out of him yelling at them. "Boys." Donald grabbed his nephews and picked them up, carrying them to their room to talk. "Now boys, do you know why I'm upset?" Huey nodded and Louie shrugged, earning him a jab to his side.

"Ow, what the heck?" He whisper shouted.

"Boys! No fighting, now listen to what your brother has to tell you. Dewey?" Dewey stood in front of his brothers, his hands were fidgeting with each other.

"Um, guys, I.....you two, you guys, pushed me to much today.....I was scared and n-nervous all day, and you noticed and cared, for a while, until you stopped, and I felt left out.....I just wanted to be strong for today so I could have fun with my brothers, but I couldn't handle it, it was too much."

"But why? Why is it too much for you to handle?" Huey asked, his previous questions still fresh in his mind.

"I, I......-" Dewey looked down. "I don't know."

"Oh come on, you have to know, it's your fear. You said you were different when it happened, younger. What happened?" Huey pushed on.

"Hue, give it up." Louie begged, he was starting to get a little scared.  "What's with these questions anyway?"

"I'm just trying to figure out what happened!" 

"Boys!" Donald yelled. He sighed heavily before turning to face his nephews. "The three of you probably don't remember how each of you acted when you were younger, but Louie, you would, not, stop talking, no matter how hard I tried, you just kept talking. Huey, you were always very, imaginative and stubborn. You'd convince yourself that what you said and saw was right, I tried to tell you other wise, but you just wouldn't have it." He laughed a bit. "And Dewey, you were really quiet and shy, you never did anything bad, but then things started to change after I took you three to that amusement park. Huey started understanding more and resorted to asking questions to get the right answer. Louie stopped talking so much and became very laid back. Dewey became braver and more rambunctious."

"And what does this have to do with Dewey being afraid of rides?" Huey asked.

"I was just, getting to that." Donald said a bit annoyed. "When I took you three there for the first time, nothing exceptionally bad happened, but I began taking you more often and things began getting worse. One day, when I took you boys there, Dewey wasn't feeling to good, he had gotten a cold and a bit of a stomach virus, but he still wanted to have fun with his brothers. He walked around the park in a fever dream like state. Dewey, do you remember what you told me you saw?" The middle triplet nodded.

"Everything was dark, and had no color, I just saw grays and, and reds." Dewey looked down, his hands turning to fists. "All the rides were running, but they looked so unnatural and slow. I looked up at one of the rides and it looked so tall. I walked around, everyone there moved so lifelessly and zombie like, for me being that young, everything really scared me. I thought it was all real and that at some point, the people were going to hurt me. When I got on one of the rides, I didn't see anybody moving, I got so scared, and then I saw, that thing, that horriBLE EVIL THING!" 

"Dewey, calm down, it's okay." Donald soothed.

"What thing Dewey?" Huey and Louie asked.

"He told me his name was R-Ruffles."

"Ruffles? That sounds adorable." Huey stated.

"IT'S NOT! HE'S THE MOST EVIL, SINISTER, MANIPULATIVE CREATURE TO EVER EXIST!!!"

"Didn't Uncle Donald say you were having a fever dream? That means that "Ruffles" isn't real." Louie stated. Dewey shook his head.

"He's there....he's, here.....he attacked me on the rides, in my dreams and in real life. He follows me. I know he's real. Uncle Donald saw him once, didn't you Uncle Donald?"

"Dewey, you were just having live fever dreams, "Ruffles" isn't real." Dewey looked down.

"Dew, you're paranoid, I can't believe you've dealt with this for so long." Huey stated. "Look, I'm sorry that I asked you questions that scared you."

"And I'm sorry for forcing you on rides."

"But you don't have to live through this paranoid state anymore, that thing you saw, is fake. It's not real." Dewey nodded.

"Okay, h-he's not real, he's not real." 

Later that night, the triplets were fast asleep in their beds. A sound woke Dewey up. He sat up and looked around the semi dark room, a soft gust blowing past his ear. He looked to see if the window was open, but it wasn't. Dewey hid under the covers and closed his eyes tightly. He felt something pat his back. He whimpered in fear before hearing a low voice say.....

"You know I'm real, and I'll always be behind you."

The End

Um, this one was a bit, strange.......you got the "Ruffles Ending".........eerie.....