Like I usually say, sorry for not updating in so long, if you are one of my readers. Have a short chapter that I couldn't be bothered to properly write!
Chapter Two: Locks and Knives
Flaky awoke to a sharp knock on her door. She hobbled out of the kitchen, where she had been half asleep at the table, and opened the door sleepily, after unlocking all twenty locks. What she saw wasn't exactly what you would want to see right after waking up.
Toothy was standing there, with a blood stained Cuddles standing behind him. Cuddles was hiding something behind his back, and Flaky thought she saw a flicker of silver. Like a knife.
Flaky tensed. She felt like screaming out to Toothy, to grab and pull him away from the crazed rabbit, but before she could, Toothy seemed to notice the horrified look on her face.
"Flaky? Are you alright? Is Cuddles scaring you?"
Flaky nodded slowly. So, he knew that Cuddles was there, and he also probably knew about his blood-covered state. Also, what seemed to be Flippy's Bowie knife, as Cuddles took it out from behind his back, and passed it to Toothy, as if it was being confiscated.
"Sorry." Cuddles mumbled. "I got into a fight..."
"... With Flippy?!" Flaky finally got the courage to speak up. "Cuddles, you could've been seriously hurt! D-did he flip out?"
"That's the thing." Toothy told her. "When we came in, we saw Cuddles attacking a completely normal Flippy. We don't know yet, but we think that Cuddles here might've attacked him first..."
"... We?"
"Giggles and I. Flippy and Cuddles' houses have been destroyed by Splendid, so we're taking them to live at different houses while we figure out who did what. Flippy is staying at Lumpy's. Cuddles here is staying at yours."
"B-But why my house?" Flaky was rather frightened. Why did they choose her of all people?!
"Well," Toothy scratched his head, trying to remember. "Petunia wouldn't let us go anywhere near her house with blood stains all over us, Lammy is… insane… frankly, The Mole lives underground, The Mime lives in a pretend house, and we have no idea where Lifty and Shifty live, and Pop won't let us anywhere near Cub after what happened that caused Splendid to destroy their houses in the first place when he tried to save him, so..."
"Wait, so Splendid destroyed Flippy and Cuddles' houses while trying to save Cub?" Flaky was mildly confused.
"Yeah, pretty much." Toothy replied, spinning the Bowie knife between his fingers absent mindedly. "Anyway... I hope you don't mind looking after Cuddles. I doubt he'll try to hurt you, and even if he does, we can always put you in the Regenerator."
The Regenerator was a special machine that regenerated body parts, and could even bring people back to life. It had to be used on a dead body at least a week after it died; any later and it wouldn't work. It was a miracle they had survived after the concert hall exploded last Christmas, because only one of them survived to bury the others where the machine hooked up. It took two weeks for everything to be back to normal.
"I guess you're right." Flaky muttered.
Cuddles suddenly cleared his throat loudly, causing Toothy to almost drop the Bowie knife on his foot.
"Oops, sorry." Cuddles smiled nervously. "But… I'm right here, you know. I'm not going to try and hurt you, Flaky. In fact, I need your help."
Toothy shrugged as he picked up the knife again and started to walk away.
"Well, you two have fun! I have a pie with my name on it, so see ya!"
Flaky tried to stop him from closing the door, but she couldn't. He was long gone by the time she managed to unlock it again.
"So, Flaky…" Cuddles smiled. "About helping me…?"
Flaky sighed in defeat. Not much she could do now.
"Go draw yourself a bath." She said, locking the door again. "We can talk after."
Cuddles nodded and took off to the bathroom. Flaky sighed and sat herself on the couch, curling herself into a ball. What on earth did she just get herself into?