I´m sorry for you to waiting so long, but I wasn´t satisfied with this chapter and re-wrote it several times.
Splendid blushed, while he was still scared covered his mouth.
Why did I say that? It simple slipped out him. He wasn´t even sure if he was really gay, or better: He was be able to successfully suppress any thinking about it. As a hero you had the image of a strong man preserve at any cost.
His unease was reinforced even as Giggles, Petunia and Lammy huddled giggling and smiling around him.
"Don´t worry, Splendy. You mustn´t longer adjust yourself.", Giggles said, patting his head, just as he had always done, to comfort and to donate courage.
Splendy? What the… He wanted to say something, but no words came out of his mouth out and he remained silent.
"It´s okay to be gay.", Lammy said, and gently stroked his back, as if to comfort him. However, only when he felt the touch, Splendid was really going to be sad.
He looked down and shook his head softly. All the years he had tried so hard to repress everything. It just couldn´t be true.
"Please don´t say something like that.", he whispered, silently begging that they should forget everything but the girl understood it rather than a cry for help.
"We accept you as that you are.", said Petunia and wanted to hug him, but suddenly narrowed Splendids eyes. He tore his arms in the air and shouted:
"WHO CARES ABOUT YOU?"
The girls were frightened, backed a little and Splendid realized a moment later, what he had actually done. Three beautiful girls had crowded around him, wanted something from him, and they were insignificant enough for him, to not respond to them and even to yell.
God, I'm really gay. Splendid flopped down on his butt, and covered his face with his paws in shame. His heroism was over.
Meanwhile Giggles ventured again careful, attracted by the suffering of the super squirrel.
"Shhh ... Everything is going to be okay.", whispered Giggles and knelt before him. Petunia and Lammy waited bequeath him with caring eyes. Obviously, they had learned to act more sensitive and less stormy.
Splendid didn´t push her away this time and let it even admits that she gently pushed his paws from his face.
"Don´t worry. We will always be there for you.", she said quietly and watched him faithfully in his sad eyes. After a moment of silence, she hugged him gently.
Splendid returned the hug. He had been a long time really lonely and he could really use consolation. Nevertheless, it still drove him a question.
"How ... did you know that?", he asked softly, after he broke away from the hug.
"The guys have told us.", Petunia said casually, gesturing to Flippy, Cuddles and Lumpy, who had, with Flaky, gathered away from the main drag in a circle and intently whispering to each other.
Splendid hadn´t noticed, although he could hear their whispers with his super-hearing, if he wanted.
"I-I dunno ..." he heard Flakys nervous voice, "...It´s a l-lie."
"Which lie?", Splendid called out, frowning. His justice reflex still worked. The four animals startled and looked up to Splendid, Flaky even trembling.
Giggles, Petunia and Lammy observed meanwhile silent what is happening.
Lumpy seemed suddenly to remember something, because he made "Ahaa" and pulled out his cell phone and walked out.
Wouldn´t it be Lumpy, Splendid would have thought he would try by acting to escape, but he thought the moose wasn´t bright enough for something like that.
Flippy and Cuddles scratching themselves embarrassed by the neck and Flaky laughed in her typical nervous manner, while she lost a few extra dandruff flakes.
"Well ... um ..." stuttered Cuddles and Flippy gave him a meaningful look, as far as Splendid it could assess, even if he had no idea of what they had cooked up back there.
Finally, Cuddles nodded and the two boys ran quickly over to him, grabbed him and pulled him into the next room, away from the girls, who afterwards looked puzzled.
After they were out of earshot, Cuddles began to whisper:
"Okay, listen. We wanted to get you a girl, but since you are... well, you, we had to come up with something like the girls come naturally to you. "
"Wait ... Don´t say me-" Splendid almost stopped breathing that emerged from the audacity and Flippy continued in a whisper:
"I came up with the idea to tell the girls you're from the other side. It even works better than expected. Well, at least until you have spoken. "
Splendid clenched his fists in anger. What they allow themselves anyway?
"Are you retarded?", he exclaimed, Flippy and Cuddles gesticulated to be quiet.
"Shh, damn it. The girls ... ", whispered Cuddles, even quieter.
"Oh you can be sure I'll tell it to them.", Splendid said angry, crossing his arms.
"Come on, buddy. We have to stick together.", distressed him Cuddles.
"Suck my ass."
"You'd like it, right?", said Flippy mockingly, out of nowhere.
Splendid shot a dagger-like view of the war vet and growled menacingly.
Before the situation got out of control, Cuddles intervened.
"Okay, I really didn´t want to be so, but I have probably no choice ...", the yellow rabbit muttered nonchalantly.
"Splendid. I know what you've done."
Splendid listened to and studied Cuddles expression that appeared very confident.
"What do you mean?" Splendid asked a little worried.
"You know what I mean. As you should rescued someone."
Splendids initial anger was replaced by fear.
That can´t be true. He can impossibly know. It simply not.
If that came out, what Splendid just thought, his hero reputation would be ruined justifiably.
"You can´t know it." Splendid whispered darkly.
Cuddles raised an eyebrow.
"I do it though and you know that it's possible."
Splendid stared at Cuddles for a while into his eyes, searching for any signs of uncertainty, but Cuddles gave himself no nakedness.
Damn it. "What do you want?", Splendid growled defeated.
"You tell the girls nothing. Don´t worry, someday we will tell them, but today you're the star for them, okay?"
"All right.", gritted Splendid. It was not really much, but to be in the first place blackmailed, was bad enough.
"But I swear before this day is over, I'll let you regret it.", Splendid whispered threatening, but neither Flippy nor Cuddles let themselves be intimidated.
"Okay, but now go back to them. They want certainly still talking.", Cuddles said with an evilly joyful expression.
Reluctantly, with a sinister face, he walked back into the festively decorated room, with the embarrassing poster on the ceiling and of course was immediately besieged by Giggles, Petunia and Lammy, while Flaky uncertain remained in the background.
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Meanwhile, Cuddles and Flippy went to seek Lumpy.
"Tell me." Flippy said softly, "What did you Splendid actually threatened?"
Cuddles shrugged as she ran along the corridor.
"No idea. Have bluffing."
Flippy gave a surprised and respectful nod.
"Wow. That was good."
"I know.", and so they stepped out the back door into the garden, where they found Lumpy who was loudly laughing on the cell phone.
"Hey Lumpy.", Cuddles arose attention, "Who are you talking there?"
Lumpy stopped laughing, looked at him a moment and then asked to his phone:
"Um, who are you again?"
Cuddles and Flippy rolled their eyes and before Lumpy could answer, Cuddles tore the blue moose his cell phone from the paw.
"Hello?", he asked curiously into the phone.
"Ah, it's you.", heard the yellow rabbit Shiftys voice, "Is it true that Splendid really isn´t attracted in women?"
"Yes, unfortunately.", Cuddles replied with regrettable voice.
"Oh great. So that our plan has failed. "
"Well, actually there is one last hope.", Cuddles said carefully.
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Splendid sat, feeling like hours on the couch, even if it probably was only a few minutes in reality. The women seemed to have developed a strong interest in him, and he just wanted to get away from here.
"No idea what type I like.", he replied annoyed.
"Do you like big, strong guys, or rather the frail?", Petunia asked further.
Splendid groaned. Can´t they leave me alone with this subject?
Suddenly Cuddles, Flippy and Lumpy stormed in the room. All three looked shocked, as if something bad would happen.
Splendid listened to, but remained suspicious, although their facial expressions looked genuine. Even Lumpy looked as if he were in a panic.
"Splendid, you need to save Toothy immediately. When I phoned him he told me right away that he wanted to throw himself off the roof.", Cuddles exclaimed.
"The purple beaver? Why?", Splendid asked hastily.
"You know that he's crazy about you. He wants to be just saved from you."
Splendids eyes narrowed. The beaver had probably let him sign every one of his comic books and have also frequently watched him by rescue missions. He knew him and his obsession of course, but that was even for a fanboy like him, too much. Plus, he already had a bad mood.
"I'm going to tell him something.", Splendid muttered angrily and flew out of the roof opening.
The gust of wind from the sudden acceleration hurled furniture and animals around the room. Items were broken, the poster ripped, but fortunately no one was injured.
Splendid flew with top speed in the rough direction of Toothys house. He didn´t know exactly where he lived. Through the hiss of the air, he suddenly heard a cry for help, which didn´t sound real by Splendids experience.
That must be him, he thought, and he discovered the purple beaver by his supervision, how he slipped deliberately on a tile on a roof.
He quickened again, stretched out his arms and just before he reached the beaver, he braked sharply in order not to tear him to pieces, which was unfortunately often happens.
With a "Ugh" Toothy plopped in Splendids arms and groaned in pain afterwards, how it occur when you fall of several meters on steel beams equals arms.
Serves you right., Splendid thought when he saw Toothys pained face and floated down.
He put the beaver carefully on the ground, who rubbed side his ribs.
"Ouch", Toothy whined until he opened his eyes and saw the face of the hero.
He blushed slightly and smiled shyly.
"Th-thanks. You have-"
"Save it!", Splendid interrupted angry the beaver.
"I know that you have just acting. What did you actually think you were doing?", Splendid said louder and angrier becoming.
Toothy winced, whimpered and suddenly burst into tears.
"I'm s-sorry.", he howled, his knees buckled and he fell down, covered with his paws his weeping eyes.
"I just wanted... wanted ... I-I-I'm so s-sorry.", Toothy cried loudly and curled up on the ground.
Splendid had such a violent reaction didn´t expected, and although he had scolded him rightly, did him the boy, who cried on the cold floor curled up and bawling snot and water, somehow sorry.
"There, There. Calm down. It´s no reason to go so upset.", Splendid tried to calm him, but the convulsion of the beaver didn´t subsided.
Splendid sighed.
He gets still a cold., he thought, and lifted Toothy off the ground, like a baby.
He pushed open the door of the beaver, which was open to happiness, and carried him to the couch, where he passed him carefully. Soothingly gently on the back patting while Toothy calmed down slowly.
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Meanwhile, two familiar shadows left with a cheeky grin on their faces creeping Toothys house. They snickered about their act, although they hadn´t stolen exceptionally something, but had leave something hidden.
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In Giggles house, the girls were worried about Toothy, eventually they were Toothys friends, too.
Petunia wanted Toothy call with her cell phone, but Flaky stopped her.
"N-no.", she stammered, "W-We can´t."
"Why?" Petunia asked blankly and Flaky wringing more nervous than usual her fingers.
She swallowed before she muttered:
"I-It´s...the plan."
