Okay, guys, with school starting, I don't know how often I'll update this… But thanks for the reviews!

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Chapter 2

A crazy night

Petunia ran to her door, beckoning her friends to remover their shoes before entering the house, all the while apologizing for the mess they were about to see.

Giggles looked at Flaky and they both giggled softly, while Lammy tilted her head in confusion. When she walked through the door into Petunia's house, she gasped. It was spotless! And she apologized?

"You guys go wait in the living room… Turn on the TV! I'll put a movie in after I make snacks…" Petunia said, rushing into the kitchen.

Giggles nodded and walked into the dark living room, searching for the light.

"I… I'm going to help P-Petunia in the k-kitchen…" Flaky said, backing away from the blackness while giving a nervous giggle.

Giggles watched Flaky run off and turned to Lammy, who merely smiled.

Outside Petunia's house, Flippy, Toothy, Cuddles and Handy walked down the street, talking.

Cuddles stopped, making Toothy bump into him and fall.

"Dude! A little warning would'a been nice…" Toothy muttered, standing up.

"Wanna go pick on the girls?" Cuddles said, smiling evilly.

Flippy tilted his head in confusion. "What do you-" Before he could finish, Cuddles grabbed his hand and ran to Petunia's door.

Handy looked at Toothy, before they both ran after them.

Cuddles smiled again before grabbing the doorknob and flinging it open.

Petunia gasped and dropped the bowl of cake mix she had been stirring when the boys broke in.

"Great! Look what you all did!" She growled, immediately beginning to clean the mess.

"Eh, we thought you guys missed us." Cuddles aid, winking to Giggles as her and Lammy ran into the kitchen.

Giggles blushed and looked away. It was obvious the two liked each other, but they seemed to be oblivious to their feelings. Heck, even Lammy could tell there was more than friendship these two wanted to accomplish. And she'd only been here for three days!

"Yeah, sure. It was getting a little boring." Petunia smirked, rolling her eyes.

"We thought so…" Toothy remarked, giving Petunia some paper towels.

"W-well… Now that y-you're here, you c-can't leave." Flaky said, smiling at the boys.

"We wouldn't dream of it." Flippy laughed.

"Yes you would." Petunia said, standing and pushing them toward the door. "GIRL sleepover. As in, boys and girls don't sleep together."

"Well… Not to get technical, but yes they d-" Cuddles said, before getting cut off by Petunia's hand hitting him on the back of the head.

"Don't be a pervert…" She muttered, staring dagger at Cuddles.

"Aw, we won't sleep with you guys. Heck, we might not even stay to sleep over here. But… For now, can we?" Flippy asked, giving Petunia puppy dog eyes.

Petunia sighed, moving to let them in.

"Fine. But we're going to need a new movie…" She muttered, hitting Flippy on his arm lightly.

Flippy gave a nervous laugh, which made Lammy confused. What were they talking about…?As if reading Lammy's mind, Giggles walked over to her.

"Flips… Has a demon. From war. Kills everyone. He comes out when anything reminds him of war…" She explained.

Lammy had a hint of confusion in her lavender eyes. A demon? Strange… And how did they know when he was going to flip out? She looked away, lost in her thoughts.

On the way into the living room, there was a sudden shaking. It shook the ground so hard, and caused almost everyone - and everything - to fall. There were a few loud crashes during the shaking; if you could hear over Flaky's screaming.

After what seemed to be an eternity, the shaking stopped. Flippy, Cuddles and Toothy were the only three who stood. Cuddles and Toothy quickly ran and helped up the others, while Flippy stood, shocked but not totally flipped out. Flaky's screams had cast his evil side away, allowing him to keep control.

"Whoa, what was that?" Handy said as he stood, looking around the house. It had been totaled when the shaking had started, wrecking Petunia's house.

"Felt like an earthquake." Toothy inquired, looking around the house.

"Well, whatever it was it just ruined my house!" Petunia wailed, looking around her ruined home.

"Oh, we'll help you clean up later. Right now, let's go see what that was." Giggles said, running into the living room.

Everyone else followed her. Petunia grabbed the controller, turning on the TV to see Sniffles come on.

"As you can clearly tell, Happy Tree Town just had an earthquake." Sniffles said, standing in front of a pile of rubble.

"Way to state the obvious…" Murmured Cuddles.

"As you can see, here, one of our lovely neighbors had their house destroyed."

Flippy gasped when the camera closed up on the rubble.

"I-is that my house?" He said, his eyes wide.

Cuddles nodded, before laughing.

"Yeah, dude! It's your house!" He screamed, almost falling out of his chair.

Petunia, Giggles, Flaky and Lammy stared at Cuddles for a moment, before running to the door to see what other destruction had been done. They gasped at the sight.

Trees were toppled over in yards, cutting a few houses in half. Others tumbled to the ground with the force of the quake. There were cracks in the ground and places that were once rich gardens that were now brown, shriveled dirt.

Petunia stepped back and looked at her house, sighing at what she saw. Her house had nothing more than a fallen tree dent in the roof. Nothing big. Nothing to hard to fix. She lived on the edge of the town, in the second biggest house. But the Town looked as if a tornado had blown through… And this was all from an earthquake?

"Oh, not cool! MY house is wrecked!" Cuddles said, seeing the destruction.

"Ha. Ha." Flippy growled, looking around.

Back in the living room, Sniffles had once again begun to speak the news.

"This is no normal earthquake. It's way to high to be one! And the results of it are not natural."

"Who is tha-a-at?" Lammy asked after a while, still not completely sure on everyone's names. She had learned from a letter that her parents wrote her, that you could die in this town and come back. She of course, was shocked. But, no one else seemed to be, so she let it go.

"Sniffles." Toothy said, rolling his eyes.

"Oh…" Lammy blushed, feeling dumb. "I sa-a-aw him a-a-at school…" She said quietly, turning her attention back to the TV.

"We are still researching this, but we think that the earthquake may have been triggered by an explosion. In other words, someone planted a bomb on happy Tree Town…"

Everyone's eyes widened. Who would want to hurt the Town?

I have an idea, Flippy thought. And what's that? Evil joked back. Flippy sighed irritably and ignored the mocking demon in his mind. Flippy shook his head and looked at the others.

"Well, since your houses got destroyed, I have no choice but to let you stay…" petunia said, finishing up in her kitchen and grabbing sleeping bags from her closet. "You guys each get one. I got cleaning to do." With that, she ran into her bedroom and began tiding up in there.

Ack! Sorry for the long wait! Kinda… boring chapter here, too. Anyone know who it is who planted the bomb? Anyone? Well DON'T SAY! Cause I don't know yet… xD R&R peeps!