Chapter 4

Proving The Hero Wrong

Part 1

Toothy's POV

Okay Toothy, you can do this.

Flippy's house. The scariest place in the town….at least it is to me.

Nothing to be afraid of. Everything will be fine.

Flippy's is a great guy! He's nice and sweet and he wouldn't hurt a fly!...Unless, of course, you happen to be there when he flips out…

You. Can. Do. This.

Walking up to the door, I slowly raise my hand to knock, trying to push all the negative thoughts I was having away.

For Lifty!

Gulping, I proceed to knock.

Here goes nothing…

A few minutes pass and footsteps approach the door. My heart was going a mile a minute.

"Who is it?"

"T-Toothy." I managed to squeak. I probably sounded so lame but could you blame me? My life was on the line!...for the millionth time. You'd think by now I'd gotten used to death by now..

"Ah! Toothy!" The front door swung open and I was greeted by a bear hug from my old friend, Flippy the green bear. Very ironic.

"H-Hey Flip-waaugh!" His hug was so tight I thought my head was going to pop off.

"Oh! How I missed you guys! How's Cuddles? And Flaky? How is she? Is she okay?"

If he wasn't squeezing the life outta me I probably would've answered by now. Letting go of me I sucked in a bunch of air.

"She's...fine...Flippy..*cough* and so is...Cuddles..*wheeze*..."

"Oh that's good! Say Toothy, are you okay? You look a little blue."

Not like you have an iron grip or anything..

"Listen Flippy, I just came by to give you a message. I was hoping you could give it to Splendid."

"Oh of course! What's the message?"

"Tell him that Lifty has changed his wa-"

BOOM!

Before I could finish my sentence, a loud explosion came from next door. Then a flaming car came crashing into Flippy's front yard.

"Lumpy!"

I ran over to the car without thinking and tried to get him out of it.

"Hang on Lumpy!"

The door was jammed and the car was gonna explode any minute. With no time to spare, I used my buck teeth to break the glass. Pain went through my face from the glass and my mouth tasted of the usual copper but I had to do something. Dragging him out of the car, I managed to get us both to safety. His legs were broken but he wasn't dead.

KABOOM

The car exploded and produced a large fireball.

"Lumpy please tell me you weren't trying to power your car with rockets again!"

He made his trademark goofy smile and shrugged, "I was late for work." I slapped my forehead. "Hey Flippy!"

Oh no..

Flippy! I forgot about him!

No no no...

"Heheh...hehehe.."

"What's so funny neighbor?"

"Hahaha…HAHHA..MWAHAHAHHAA!"

Oh joy.

"Hello Toothy, Lumpy. Long time no see."

He flipped. Great.

Before I could even say anything he lunged at us, then everything went black.

Ugh..my aching head…

I should've known this was gonna happen. Every time Flippy is near anyone something always sets him off. I blame Lumpy.

Stupid moose..

Waking up in the hospital, I saw a yellow blur. My vision was a bit bad, so that probably means my eyes were involved with my death. Again.

"Toothy!"

"Ugh... Cuddles..?"

"It's okay Toothy! I'm here!"

I felt something grab my hand.

Cuddles…

"How are you feeling? Any better? Can you see anything yet?

"Nggh..no..everything's a blur…"

"He will probably be like that for awhile."

A light blue blur appeared from the blurry doorway. I assumed it was Sniffles.

"His eyes will take some time to adjust. His new eyes.."

I groaned, "Why are my eyes always involved with my death?!"

"...Maybe because your eyes are too perfect for this world?"

Wait what?

The sound of a laughing anteater broke the silence from the room.

"Okay well I'll leave you two and your...bromance...alone for awhile. I'll be back to discharge you in an hour or so Toothy."

Feeling my cheeks get warm, I groaned again in annoyance.

Bromance, huh?

"Ugh! An hour is so long! I missed my big chance to let Splendid know about Lifty, I died, and now I have to wait an hour to fully heal! Why can't anything go right?!"

"Toothy, I hate to say this, but you didn't have much of a chance to say anything in the first place."

I frowned, but sighed.

So much for that idea..

"T-Toothy!"

Out of the hospital and the third person I see is Flaky Porcupine, the sweetest, shyest female out of the entire town.

"Hi Flaky!"

She gently hugs me, making sure none of her quills poke at me.

"I h-heard about F-Flippy and you a-and Lumpy. I'm s-sorry you went through t-that." She smiled sweetly at me.

"It's ok Flaky. It was my fault. I was just trying to get a message to Splendid...ugh...I really should've seen it coming, heh."

"H-Hi Cuddles."

"Hey Flakes."

Those two aren't as close as they once where. Cuddles would always pick on Flaky the minute he had any given chance. He was kind of a bully to her...no, he was a bully to her. My eyebrows furrowed at the thought.

"Hey, you okay man?"

Looking at Cuddles, he's changed. Alot. He used to be so innocent and kind but now he's so headstrong and abit reckless. I chuckled.

"Yeah I'm okay. I just wish I could find a less... dangerous way to talk to Splendid.."

Cuddles sighed, "Either way you'd probably die. Flippy may be a fipped out killer, but Splendid has his own... problems, whether he knows it or not."

Flaky giggled, "S-Speaking of S-Splendid, he was t-the one who s-saved you, w-while I w-wouldn't necessarily s-say he was very g-gracefull with i-it, h-he still t-tried."

"Was he the one who got me to the hospital?"

"Y-yes. You a-and Lumpy."

"He's probably back at Giggles' Cafe. He normally goes there after he 'saves' someone, according to Giggles."

Cuddles emphasized on the word saved. Being the old vice-president of the Splendid Fanclub, I was a little offended at that. Nobody's perfect. But he's right. Splendid isn't very...graceful at his job.

"Okay, well, looks like I'm going to have to talk to him myself."

"You could've done that in the first place, y'kn-OUCH! What was that for?!"

Ignoring his question, I head in the direction of the only restaurant in town.

I hope he's still there.

I felt like I needed to write out a situation that leads up to Splendid, I'm sorry if this chapter seems like a filler..but don't worry it will get better.

Thank you to all your kind words. I'm glad someone likes it. My grandfather is in the hospital and I just moved so a lot has been getting in the way of this story but I will finish it eventually ;^_^

Have an awesome day!