Guys, I have to face it. I SUCK at updating stories. SUCK! I'm sorry for my delays, but nothing ever came to my mind when it came to updating. But I'm not gonna let this stop me from doing what I like to do. So now I'm kickin' off last year and welcoming this one with a story that I've wanted to do for a long time. Please put your hands together for…

UNDEAD!

Chapter 1

It all started when the two idiotic raccoons only known as Lifty and Shifty had stolen the Mask of the Dead. That woman had told them what it was capable of if it was ever moved. Did they listen though? No. Of course they didn't . Giggles told me that she, Cuddles, Lifty & Shifty, Flippy and Flaky were going to a museum to see some interesting things. My best guess is that the two brothers only went to see if they could nab something. I was right.

Happy Tree Museum

10:09 A.M…

"Hey, Lifty! Check it." Yelled a green raccoon wearing a grey fedora from across the hall. The other raccoon, not wearing a fedora at all, turned away from a picture of some woman that was smiling, but frowning at the same time. "Yeah, bro? "Shouted Lifty. A green bear wearing a beret, along with a military jacket and dog tags turned around and put a finger to his lips. "Shhh!" he said. Lifty paid no mind as he kept walking over to his brother, Shifty. "What's up?"

"Check out this mask, dude! It's so epic!" said Shifty, amazed by what was inside the glass box. His face was pressed up into it as he started to drool. A purple squirrel walked by and coughed. Shifty looked up to see a girl dressed in one of those Indiana Jones suits. "Yes?" he asked. The Indie Lady nodded her head to the side and Shifty followed her gaze up to a sign. WARNING. DO NOT TOUCH THE GLASS! Shifty kindly backed up from the glass, nervously chuckling to himself. "Sorry."

The Indie Lady kept glaring at the two raccoons. "I know exactly who you are," she said without batting an eye. "The Kleptomaniacs, Lifty and Shifty. You guys have stolen a lot of priceless artifacts from this place and yet, you come back. I've called the cops and posted your pictures up on the walls everywhere. And yet, you still seem to come back without a single cop on your asses." "That's because the only sheriff in town leaves the cell door unlock-OOF!" Lifty received and elbow to the ribs before finishing his confession. Indie squinted. "I'm warning you. That mask is dangerous. It has the power to do unimaginable things. It's capable of ending the world as we know it." "Like 2012?" asked Shifty. Indie Lady just looked at him with a glare that shut his ass UP. "Do NOT touch the mask. Of all things, do NOT TOUCH THE MASK!"

"Ok, ok! Chill, lady!" Lifty said, hiding behind Shifty as if he was a shield. Indie Lady gave them the "I'm watching you!" sign and walked away.

"She was nice." Said Shifty.

10:30 P.M…

Cuddles, a yellow rabbit wearing pink bunny slippers, and Giggles, a pink chipmunk wearing a big, red bowtie were holding hands and looking at a picture of two foxes standing on a beach with their backs up against each other. So were Flippy, the green bear, and Flaky, who was a red porcupine with a bad case of the flakes. Flippy looked at his wrist watch. "Hmph. It's been over 20 minutes and those two haven't stolen anything." He said, looking over at two raccoons watching a golden scepter. "Are they even moving?" Giggles asked. "They've been standing there for over 5 minutes. Which is weird." Said Cuddles, adding an uncertain "hmm".

Suddenly, Lifty fell to the floor, as did Shifty. That's when the gang realized that the two looked extremely flat. The old carboard cut-out clone trick. Nice for them. Bad for the others. This is not good.

Outside the museum in Flippy's truck…

"Quick, stash it. I see 'em." Said Lifty as Shifty stuffed a mask inside his burlap sack. "Shit." He said, as the door opened and Flippy hopped in the car. "What now?" he asked, his eyes firm. Before Shifty could respond, Indie Lady came running out of the museum, panting. She looked very frightened. Suddenly, Lifty shoved Flippy out of the car. He closed the door and locked it. Flippy put his head to the glass. "Get out of my car!" "FLOOR IT, BRO!"

Shifty put the pedal to the medal as he and Lifty drove out of the parking lot. The two raccoons laughed as they watched Flippy surprisingly still making an effort to chase them. They heard words like, "When I catch you two you'll be sorry!" and ,"Stop or else you'll both be in body bags!", but they never did stop. Eventually, he got tired and gave up. "Alright, we got it. Now call 'em up!" Lifty said with joy. Apparently they stole the mask for a reason besides…well, stealing it for fun. "Take the wheel." Shifty said. Lifty did so as he scooted out of the driver seat into the passenger seat. He quickly dialed the number and put the phone to his ear.

….

"Come on, pick up!"

They picked up. "Hello?" asked the voice on the other end. "Slade, that you?" asked Shifty. "Yeah, it's me. Shade is out nabbin' some food for us. Thought that he should get you guys something for your hard work." Lifty turned his head. "What about the money, Chester?" Lifty kept calling the person on the other end Chester for some reason that only he knew. "Yeah, yeah we got the money, too. $10,000,000 like we said you'd get." Lifty giggled. You could tell he was happy. Come on, now. 10,000,000 grand. That, my friend is a lot of zeros. "Ok, meet us up at our house in 20 minutes. Shifty out."

30 minutes later…

Two black cats were standing at the door of Shifty and Lifty's house. One was wearing a blue beret and holding 2 boxes of pizzas. The other was wearing golden sunglasses, holding a silver case and tapping his foot impatiently. He then grumbled under his breath about how you can be late to your own party. A busted up green Hummer came screeching around the corner. It quickly pulled up into the garage. Two raccoons hopped out and closed the garage door. "Act natural!" yelled Lifty as he put his sack with the mask in the hat of a large garden gnome. A squad of police cars rolled around the corner and flew across the street. They paid no mind to the quad of Tree Friends. Lifty sighed. "That was AWSEOME!" screamed Shifty, slapping hands with his brother. "Hey, yo, fat-head Jones." Said Shade. For some reason, Shade called Shifty Fat-head Jones. What's with the nick-names? "You're late. 20 minutes, buddy." "So what if I'm late?" responded Shifty. "I paid good money for these pizzas. I want them to still be warm when I cut 'em." Shade said, getting fed up. Slade weaseled his way into the conversation. "Keep talking and they'll be cold. I say we should get inside and tear these bad boys up!" Shade and Shifty both looked at each other and nodded, their faces losing any kind of malice and turning into smiles. "Well then, let's eat." Said Lifty.

Down at the Happy Tree GraveYard…

The weirdest thing about HTT is that they have a grave yard. If no one stays dead in this town, why the hell…Never mind. Anyway, a green squirrel and a blue skunk were visiting an old friend of theirs. The skunk was holding flowers. "Happy Birthday, Alexis." Said the skunk. "We miss you." Added the squirrel. His eye was kind of lazy as it kept sliding off to the right. "Petunia," the squirrel said. "It's getting pretty late. We should go home." Petunia laid the flowers down on the grave. "Yeah, I guess your right." She replied. As the two got up, a green mist suddenly formed. They couldn't see a thing. "Nutty! Where are you!" yelled Petunia. Her voice was lost in the mist as she called and called, but no one answered. The one thing she did hear, was the sound of dirt being pushed away. Next, she heard a groan. And footsteps. Coming right towards her. A cold hand touched her shoulder. Petunia screamed as she whirled around and saw the face of Nutty. She let out a sigh of relief. "Jesus, Nutty. I thought something happened to you." Nutty let his head drop. "Sorry. When the mist came up I kinda ran away. Took me a minute to realize I left you. Come on, we need to go." Nutty tugged on Petunia's arm impatiently. Another weird sound made them freeze. It was like a cry. "Nutty….you hear that?" asked Petunia, her voice shaking. Nutty pulled her arm even more. "Yeah, and like I said we need to go. Now!" he said. Just then a tan bear emerged from behind Petunia. Nutty couldn't speak as he watched the Tree Friend advance. As it got closer, he could see that it was female. Her hair was falling out in clumps. Her left eye was missing as well as about 3 of her teeth. She smelled rotten.

"Ugh! What's that smell?" Petunia said, pinching her nose. Nutty only pointed as the bear was right behind Petunia. Petunia turned slowly, and before she screamed the bear had bitten Petunia right in the neck. Nutty screamed as he ran away from the scene. More groans were heard as he circled around the graves. To make things worse he saw a decayed arm pop out of a couple of graves. He kept running until finally he reached the gates to the graveyard. Too bad they were locked.

"Help! Help me please!" he screamed through the bars. Even though he couldn't really see, he managed to make out two figures walking towards the gate. One was a blue anteater and the other was a purple deer. The deer looked like a mime and the anteater had on taped glasses. "Sniffles! Mime! Thank God! Open the gate, now!" But it was too late. At that moment, the rotten Tree Friends had caught up to Nutty. They clawed at his back and chewed on his legs. Nutty screamed as he was pulled into the crowd of moans. Sniffles and Mime backed away in shock. Then ran. It didn't take long for the rotten Tree Friends to break down the gates. They easily caught up to Sniffles, but Mime managed to get away. As Sniffles cried out into the mist, being eaten alive, a few Tree Friends came out of their houses to see who bit the dust today. Bad move. The Rotten had taken notice and were now advancing towards the others. The living Tree Friends screamed and retreated back to their houses. The Rotten easily broke down the doors to houses, garages, stores and cars. Nowhere was safe.

Mime still managed to sneak away. This time he knew that his Imagination House wasn't going to help, so he headed over to the two people he knew that lived close enough. Lifty & Shifty's.

To be continued in Part 2 of Chapter 1…

So how was that? Pretty good, really bad, or meh is what I want to hear if your rating it. Hopefully I can get the next part done quick. Until then, see you next time. Oh and by the way, Im changing my name for the last time to The_OneandOnlyPredatorXD. So yeah…I'll just leave.

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When Mime knocked on the door hard, no one answered. He knocked again. No one answered. He was about to kick the door when he heard the door unlock. "Mime? What are you doin' here?" asked Shifty. Mime did an act showing him walking around stiffly hunched over and pretending to bite his arms. He put on fake glasses and laid on the ground, his tongue hanging out. He then took of his glasses and knocked on a fake door.

"Uh… I speak English." Said Lifty. Shade came to the door. "I think he's saying that zombies ate Sniffles and the reason why he's here is because zombies are following him right now. "You know what he said?" said Lifty amazed. Shade nodded his head no. He then pointed out to the street where Sniffles' dead body lay. Then he pointed to a group of Rotten advancing towards the house. Mime ran past the group and into the house as did Lifty and Shade. "Oh." Was all Lifty could manage before he collapsed onto the carpet.

End.