Opening the stunning glass slider, he poked his head out, calling to his son. "CUB!", when he got no response, he felt a pang of concern, stepping out into the yard and taking a cursory look around. "CUB?" he made her way further into the yard, going around the side corner of the house-and screamed at what he saw. "CUB!"
"Hey, Flips. Did you hear about pops son cub"
Flippy leaned up, grimacing at the movement, fake blood dripping down onto the snow and fake fence post beneath him. "No, What happened?"
His best friend cuddles smiled, brushing a medium length strand of blonde hair from his face, raising the camera. "The beast got him. Ripped poor Cub to shreds"
A click and flash as cuddles took the picture, moving around his Flippy to get another view, taking another quick picture, while Flippy smirked. "Pretty sick, I gotta admit.", he adjusted himself, shivering slightly as his uncovered arms brushed the snow, the t-shirt he wore hardly any protection against the cold. "Now, are we done yet? I'm freezing my ass off here."
Cuddles nodded, helping his friend to stand, the slightly frozen face blood dribbling down the older teen's front. "Yeah. We're done for now. We gotta get a few more shots tonight, though. I figured we could go to the park for 'em since my mom and your dad'll be out for the night."
"I don't know Cuddles", Kyle said, picking up the prop fence piece and the extra prop gore. "You know your mom and my dad don't want us out at night, especially with the beast out there."
Ike frowned. "You always do what your dad says?"
"No but if I disobey him its milertary school for me.", the older teen huffed, ruffleing his cuddles's hair affectionately and effectively making him smile. "I still don't see what you need me for. I mean, I get the whole art project on Macabre and Disturbia and stuff, but why do I have to help again? I mean, it's not my class."
Cuddles smiled, patting Flippy on the shoulder. "Because you're a wonderful best friend and you make a good corpse."
Flippy sighed, shaking his head and rolling his eyes as the marched into the house, depositing the fake gore in the sink to be washed for reuse. "Oh yeah, that's right.", heading up the stairs he turned back to glance down at his brother with a small smile. "hey is it still ok with your mom to stay at my house tonight"
Cuddles smirked. "yeah, remember I phoned her before I came."
"ok.", Flippy said , moving to the towel closet and pulling out a deep green towel and matching washcloth. "I'm gonna take a shower. Get all the makeup off. You want one after?"
The blonde nodded. "Yeah. I did my best to wipe off the fake blood and the glue from the fake torn eyeball earlier, but I should probably have a real shower to get it all off."
"Cool." Flippy smiled. "I'll try to be quick." and he darted into the bathroom, locking the door behind him.
Stepping out of the bathroom, towel around his waist and green hair damp and clinging to his face, "hey Shower's free."
He heard a muffled 'thanks' from inside and padded off to his room, he went into his room and locked the door after him Once alone he let the towel drop to the floor, grabbed his favorite Camo pajama pantsand a plain black t-shirt, and got dressed, combing his natrural green hair He knew for what his Cuddles had planned later that he'd have to get on regular clothes, but hey, he figured for an hour at least he could relax in his pjs.
Plopping down on his bed he grabbed his laptop, turning it on and waiting for it to load up. When it was finished he logged in he pulled up his Aim chat window and smiled when Flakys username pooped up wanting to chat and, of course, he clicked accept.
cute_gal_porcupine: hi flippy
army_bear: hi flaky. Gonna help Cuddles finish his art project later.
cute_gal_porcupine: Wow. You've been helping him with it for 2 weeks. How much longer's it gonna take?
army_bear: We finish tonight. Finally. I don't think I could stand anymore fake blood. That stuff itches like crazy. What about you?
cute_gal_porcupine: im gonna wash the dandruff out my hair damm stuff come back evryday
army_bear: I always wondered how it came back everyday still up for goin to the park on tuesday
cute_gal_porcupine: well ofcourse.
army_bear: its cool our pen names are our fav animals
cute_gal_porcupine: o yeah. G2G. Talk later.
army_bear: KK. Bye.
After Flaky logged off Flippy did the same, shutting down his computer and collapsing in a comfortable heap on his bed, eyes sliding shut as he yawned.
"Flippy Wake up!"
flippy jolted up in bed, smacking his head into his friends's, making both boys cry out. Flippy sat up, grimacing and rubbing his head. "What the hell Cuddles?"
The younger teen, gave his friend a fleeting smile. "your Dad left. I figured we should go now to make sure we get it all done tonight."
"Alright," Flippy stood up, nodding with a sigh. "Just let me get dressed."
cuddles nodded. "Sure. I'll get the gore and the camera."
Flippy nodded, with an amused smile. "You do that."
As soon as the blonde was out of the room was undressing and pulling on his day clothes. Putting on his trademark beret and Camo jacket, knowing he'd have to take them off for the pictures, but deciding to bring them anyway. He didn't want to have to walk home cold and covered in faux blood.
Cudlles popped his head back into the room, showing his Flippy a bag of disturbing gore and thick red blood. "I got the gore! You ready?"
Flippy nodded, smiling. "Yeah, I'm ready." walking into the hall,Cuddles doing the same, he nodded towards the bag of gore. "That's just a little disturbing."
Cuddles smirked, following the older tree friend out the front door and into the cool night, a breeze slamming into them. "Just a little? Makes me worry that you think it's just a little disturbing that I'm carrying a bag of blood and gore. Maybe lumpy was right last Halloween and you are a psycho."
"Yep. I'm a homicidal maniac, campy warning theme song and all.", Flippy said, playfully shoving cuddles as they made their way to the pond, the legs of their jeans wet up to the knee in seconds.
When they got to the park they were both shivering, jackets wrapped thoroughly around them as they made their way to the small metal playground that had been put in a few years previous.
"Alright Flips, off with the hat and jacket.", Cuddles said, putting the bag of gore and fake blood down on the nearby slide.
Flippy nodded, shrugging his jacket off and his hat. "What are we going for this time?"
"mauled" the blonde haired of the duo said quickly, leading Flippy to the slide and having him sit down.
Flippy didn't respond, choosing instead to sit still as Cuddles applied prosthetic gashes and claw marks, filling them with fake blood and a blackish ground product that looked suspiciously like charred meat. When he was done the blonde teen took a step back to examine his work.
Satisfied Cuddles grinned. "Alright, let's get to work."
Several photo's later Flippy was soaked to the bone and shivering, arms wrapped around his torso in a half baked effort to keep warm. He watched as Cuddles packed up the unused horror props, gore, and faux blood, squishing it all into the plastic bag they'd brought it in, leaning precariously on the swing set. Being flippy he lost his balance, falling flat into the snow, a stinging pain drawing his attention to his arm.
"Dude. You are so clumsy.", Cuddles said, trying, and failing, to hide his chuckles.
flippy rolled his eyes, getting up and examining his arm. "Ah crap, I'm bleeding."
Cuddles frowned. "How can you tell with all the fake blood and costume cuts on? It could just be fake."
Flippy moved to him, showing him the gash on his upper arm. "It's not fake dumbass. I can feel the pain.", he said pointedly.
cuddles nodded lightly. "Guess that would do i-"
Before he could continue he was cut off by a low growl then a howl in the nearby woods, drawing both his and Flippy's eyes to the shadowed tree's. Neither teen could make anything out in the darkness, but they did catch a glimpse of shocking yellow before it was again just darkness.
"What the hell was that?", Cuddles asked slowly, backing away from the tree line, eyes slightly wider with fear.
Flippy shook his head. "I don't-"
He was cut of as a hulking mass shot out from the wood, slamming him into the ground and leaning down, teeth clamping down on his shoulder. A pained scream pierced the air, prompting Cuddles into action, the blonde teen running at the beast seated atop his Friend and trying to move it away.
Before he could get close the monstrous creature looked up, evil green eyes glowing in the darkness, and darted into the woods, Flippy still held firmly in it's jaws.
"Cuddles!", The older teen cried, reaching for his friend before vanishing into the tree line, his screams ripping through the wood.
Cuddles took off after them, grabbing the nearest thing to him to use as a weapon, his camera. He dashed through the tree's following the sounds of green haired teens screams, fear gripping his heart.
"Flippy!", He cried, rushing about in the darkness and, by chance, coming out in a clearing where the beast loomed over his friend, Flippy's blood drenching the snow and it's muzzle. "Flippy!", he cried again, moving towards the beast and slamming into it as it leaned down on his brother biting into his already torn flesh and making the green haired teen cry out in pain. "Get off of him!"
The jolt as he hit the creature set off the camera, a blinding light filling the clearing for a moment, before leaving cuddles, Flippy, and the beast disoriented. With the brief pause in attack Cuddles pulled Flippy up, letting him lean on him, and both boys began running, the foot falls of the monster following after.
"W-What the fuck is that thing?", flippy cried, gasping, a small trail of blood trickling down the side of his head.
Cuddles shook his head, not daring to look back and try to get a better look at the beast that had tried to turn Flippy into dinner. "No fuckin' clue! And to be honest I don't want to find out.", he glanced around, the sound of the creature getting closer. "Shit! Where do we go? Where the fuck do we go?"
"The road!", Flippy said quickly, pointing a bloody hand towards a area of tree's with light filtering through.
Cuddles nodded quickly, he and Flippy stumbling towards the area and breaking out of the woods, stumbling out onto the highway. Quickly they darted across the street, barely avoiding being hit by a large and slightly familiar van.
A yelp split the air, and both teens turned around quickly to the creature on the road, body bloodied in front of the van.
"Let's go!", Flippy cried, voice wavering dangerously.
Cuddles nodded turning and helping his friend to run all the way back to his house, where they stumbled in, Flippy almost collapsing once inside. Cuddles paled now that he could really see Flippy's condition. Though he was aware that some of it was the costuming and fake blood, he was more aware that some of it was real. Real torn flesh. Real blood. Real pain.
"Oh shit! Oh shit! I-I'm gonna go get bandages or-Shit ", the younger of the two teens cried, shock setting in.
He left, returning several seconds later with bandages and antiseptic, eyes widening when he saw Flippy, eyes closed, blood dripping down his face, as he lay on the couch. Blood was everywhere. Drizzling down the green haired teen arms, splashed on the soft beige carpet. It was like some over exaggerated horror movie only real.
Cuddles moved to Flippy and began cleaning the wound, growing more afraid by the minute. He couldn't fix it. They needed help. There was so much blood. Flippy's blood. And it was all over his hands, red and wet.
"Oh god w-we need to get you to the hospital! I-I can't bandage this!", Cuddles cried, letting out a chocked half sob. "I think it needs stitches "
Flippy's eyes shot open and he reached out, one bloody hand catching hold of Cuddle's wrist. "NO! I-I'm fine ", he glanced at the bite on his shoulder, eyes soft. "It's stopped bleeding okay ? I'm fine. We can deal. I'm okay."
Cuddles stared at Flippy's wound shocked to see he spoke the truth, the wound was no longer bleeding profusely. "That's not possible wounds can't ", he let out a sharp breath. "We have to get you to a doctor!"
Flippy shook his head, putting both his blood covered hands on the sides of Cuddles face and making him lean his forehead against his. "No. I'm fine. Really.", he gave a small comforting smile, pulling his upset Friend into a hug, the smaller boy's head on his chest. "I'm fine. We'll wash off all this blood, bandage the wound, and then we'll go to bed, okay? Pretend this didn't happen. I'm fine."
Cuddles nodded softly, not trusting himself to speak. He'd yet to stop shaking and felt he would never get the image of that thing mauling flippy out of his mind, Flippy's blood splattering the pure white snow, screams splitting the night. He'd have nightmares for the rest of his life.
Flippy disentangled himself from Cuddles, giving him a small smile which came out as more of a grimace of pain. "I'm gonna go shower real quick. Wash off the blood. When I'm done you go, okay?"
Cuddles nodded sharply, eyes still wide with fear. "Okay. C-Can I stay with you tonight?"
Flippy smiled down at him. "Sure ill get out the blow up bed when I come out."
Cuddles smiled half heartedly. "Thanks."
Flippy nodded, leaving to the bathroom to wash away all the blood, fake and real, that covered him, dripping on the tile. He was quick, getting clean and getting out, Cuddles doing the same. Then they bandaged his wound, cleaned the blood from the floor, and curled into their own beds, Flippy falling asleep instantly.
Cuddles on the other hand simply watched Flippy, eyes tracing the older teens form, just to be sure he was really there. Cuddles had never been so scared in his whole life, and that was saying something since in haapy tree town everyone dies almost every day. He'd almost lost his Best friend. But Flippy was fine. He'd said so himself.
So why did Cuddles have a horrible feeling that he wasn't