A majestic ocean of dark blue painted the skies, trimmed with the light of the dozens of stars floating above.
Some cars were driving by on an empty street.
It was a calm night and two figures were standing in front of a star shaped doorway where The Mole was being the guy at the front desk and making reservations.
That doorway was the entrance to Club Plateau, a local place where most couples would come for a good time. Imagine two large houses pressed together and that's the size of the whole place.
Now Club Plateau is a petite place but it was quite famous.
The building was colored light blue with hints of neon pink on the walls. Sitting on top of the club was a large dome that shone its translucent glass screens.
"Azalea, what's this all about now?"
"Come on, sis! You look amazing!" the blue cat chirped. Azalea was wearing a light purple 80's styled top and it had the logo of a large white heart and two smaller hearts below it.
The shirt had matching short sleeves that only wrapped around under her shoulder blades.
A dark brown tanks top with thin straps was underneath it. She wore a skirt that had black and white zebra stripes and it had blue ruffles for its trimming along with a pair of red shoes.
Soleil looked down in embarrassment from her clothing. She was wearing a pale gold-like yellow dress that had a pair of long translucent sleeves that revealed her gloves and trimmed with pink ruffles. Her neck was strapped with a pearl necklace.
A pale pink rose with emerald green leaves was sitting next to her left ear and a dark pink belt was wrapped around her tiny waistline. Her bare feet were sealed inside dark green boots.
"Just wait until "he" gets here! He's gonna love your newfound femme fatale!" Azalea giggled.
It made Soleil's cheeks flare in a wild craze of red and her fists tightened up.
"I know how bad you wanna kiss him! Just say it, sis!"
"For the last time, me and Splendid are just buddies." She shouted and crossed her arms.
"Yeah, right!" added a male voice.
Then Soleil looked over and saw that Nutty and Sniffles were with Azalea as well.
"Wait, why did you invite those two again?"
"I guess they probably just wanted to come too or something like that." said Azalea, shrugging.
Meanwhile, a certain blue figure flew down as Toothy was walking along with him.
Splendid didn't even notice Soleil from far away after he had landed. He was wearing a classic white tailcoat tuxedo that has a pink flower on one side and he had a pair of black pants. His arm flaps stuck out, tearing rips in the sleeves.
"Alright, looks like we got everything down." he said with his paws on his hips.
"You're gonna get Soleil's love in no time." Toothy added.
"I just hope that I don't look...desperate."
"No way! You'd be wearing something much more cheep than that tux, dude."
Toothy even gestured to his tuxedo as to prove his point. "Really? How so?" Splendid replied. He went and turned around a couple of times, closely examining his apparel.
However, Soleil was still a bit ticked off with Azalea.
"I'm just trying to help you out." Azalea chimed, only for Soleil to turn and cross her arms again.
"Azzy, that guy's not..not..h-h-he's not even hot!" she huffed. "I mean it's not like I'd care about it." Soleil was about to continue, but she was tongue tied and was blushing crazily when she spotted Splendid from the corner of her eye.
Her eyes both began to gaze at the squirrel.
The slight glow of his tuxedo made him look more dashing and she could see many yellow sparkles surrounding him.
Soleil's knees stuck to their sides, her wings popping out from her back as they spread out wide. Her gloved paws traveled up her face and they pressed onto her cheeks lovingly. A flustered yet goofy smile appeared on her own lips. That very moment was when her heart beat like the pulse of a supernova star, she could almost feel it slip into her throat.
She could only keep gazing at Splendid as her face was red as a cherry.
The heart shaped pupils in her eyes weren't beating as fast as the heart hammering against her ribcage.
"By Dear Auntie Aphrodite's pearls..." Soleil breathed in a whispery tone, a droplet of drool tumbling out of her mouth. But the feeling quickly vanished when she realized that Azalea was staring at her with a cheeky smirk on her face.
Soleil let out a huge yelp as her wings retracted.
Her body felt a bit stuff from shock and she gave her a nervous laugh as a response.
"N...No! I-I-I-I was not looking him! He..he just..startled me!"
Azalea could only laugh, slapping her knee as Soleil gave her a slight glare.
(Meanwhile)
"So do I have to kiss her left paw if I don't look like it?"
"Gah! YES!" Toothy shouted, before he looked over to Soleil.
"Hey, that's girl you were telling me about!"
Splendid also turned as he pointed...and his jaw dropped like a anvil.
He saw the beautiful Soleil that stood a few feet away from the doors. She was still talking to Azalea as Nutty was eating a candy cane and Sniffles was reading a book.
The screen zoomed in towards her alluring body and zoomed out a few times.
What made the scene strange was that the sound of a Klaxon horn or the classic "awooga" noise played in the background.
Back to Splendid, he was looking her with wide eyes and a lovesick smile on his face. All that he could ever think about was from Soleil's angelic face to the way her fur glimmered under her dress.
"Umm...Dude?" Toothy said while waving his paw in front of his face, only to find him still staring at her. His left eye even twitched a few times.
"You okay?"
But that was when the squirrel's knees shook violently and his tail flickered.
He could feel every last ounce of blood in his veins being pumped in and out of his thundering heart.
Everything seemed to last three seconds worth of silence before he suddenly got down and stood on both of his arms and legs as if he was a dog.
His wide eyes looked close enough to pop out of their sockets as his tongue dangled out from one side of his mouth.
Then, he lifted his head towards the night sky and his tail was straight as a diving board.
"...AAAWWOOOOO!" Splendid howled loudly as the squirrel's left foot started stomping up and down repeatedly. His subtle, lovesick,..awkward howling was loud enough for a flock of birds to fly across the skyline of the city.
Soleil and Azalea's ears perked up when they heard the howl and they jumped a bit.
"Woah! What the Zeuz was that?!" Azalea shouted.
Splendid immediately snapped out of his trance and he zoomed right in front of the girls in a blaze of blue.
"That was nothing!" he chuckled nervously,"It...it was a...dinosaur"
Nutty stepped up, pushing Azalea out of the way.
"Which one? T-Rex or Triceratops?" he asked.
Splendid looked to side and he looked right back at him.
"Umm...Both?"
Nutty's eyes seemed to light up while Sniffles walked over.
"Hey Sniffles! Splendid knows a Tricera-Rex!" he squealed.
"They're actually called "Tyrana-Ceratops", but your selection seems very adequate." Said the anteater.
Soleil blushed as Splendid looked back at her.
"Well, shall we go inside?"
"Um..sure." She said with a smile.
He took her by the paw and they entered through Club Plateau's doors. Azalea giggled at the duo as Nutty and Sniffles followed her inside.
"Ahh, young love!" Said the dark blue cat as the doors closed behind them.
When they had all gone in, they didn't get a chance to see a purple van rolling up in front.
It the van of Lifty and Shifty, the most beloved and wanted criminals of Tree Town. There inside, Shifty came out with a blueprint map in one paw as Lifty hopped out.
But Lifty fell down face-flat by accident.
"Dang it! Get off the concrete, we got a theft to do!" Shifty yelled as he got back on his feet.
Lifty snickered as he went over to the back of the van.
"Okay ladies, Time to get us some dough!" He called in a sing-song voice.
He reached for the doors and he opened them wide.
But in the very trunk of the van, he noticed a pair of bickering skunks, who were flaying their fists at one another.
It was only Mitzy and Mandy, except Mitzy's long hair was down since she always had it bunched up under her cap. She was wearing a short white dress that had a top that looked like it was wrapped around her upper body. It had thick shoulder straps and on one of them was a clasp with a mint green rose. She was also wearing a dark blue jacket over the dress.
"Stop hitting me! STOP IT!"
"ME? You're the one who shoved her foot in my mouth! MY MOUTH, DAGNAB IT!" Mitzy barked.
"Hey, Mitz!" Lifty said, pointing to her dress," Isn't that the gown we stole from that wedding shop yesterday?"
Then the screen pans out to show Shifty next to him, gazing at Mitzy with his tail flickering.
"And it still makes you look hot!" He purred with heart shaped eyes.
"You're kidding me, right..?"
"Shut up, Lifty!" Mandy whined, "It's all Zappy Pants's fault that she looks like a roll of toilet paper!"
"My fault? Really? Why do you keep saying that it's my fault?" Mitzy shouted.
With a swift wave of her arm, Mandy slapped her across the face as her crimson sparks sparkled around her paw.
Mitzy rubbed the sore mark on her cheek, her eyes glowing white.
"You...You..hit me..."
"So? What about it?"
She could only let out a furious scream before she clutched her paws around Mandy's throat.
But Mandy poked her finger in her right eye, forcing her to let her go.
Lifty and Shifty could do nothing but watch the battle unfold. Mitzy kicked Mandy in the stomach and she threw a powerful punch into her upper chest. She lunged at Mitzy to rip off her ears, but she clashed her paws into hers. Their paws were clasped together with their arms out and the exchanged icy stares at each other.
"It's my job to make sure you don't screw up my life! Sniffles said so!" Mitzy shouted.
"Hey! I'm not the one who cares about nerds!"
"No, Mandy! I'd never be this ticked off if not for you!"
"If I were you, I think you should give up and let me kill you!" Mandy screamed.
That was the second just as Mitzy growled and pushed her down to the hard metal floor of the van. As Mitzy's eye had a few blood vessels in it. She held out her paws and tossed a green bolt at her, only for her shoulder to be zapped.
"If you weren't so cray-cray, I'd go back to living my normal life!"
"If Sniffles didn't tell you to watch me, I'd still kill you! Zappy!"
Puffs of steam flew out of Mitzy's nostrils as her body was crackling with green thunder, slamming her foot down.
"If I never found that...that..stupid ray, I'D NEVER EVEN DEAL WITH YOU IN THE FIRST PLACE!"
Mitzy screeched those very words at the top of her lungs, her voice echoed from inside the van.
This made Mandy silent for a moment...until she charged at Mitzy like an angry bull and they went back to throwing punches and pulling each other's jet black curls of elegant hair.
"Shifty, do something! They're gonna foil the mission!" Lifty said. "Trust me, I got this." Shift replied, adjusting his fedora and stepped inside the van.
As he stepped in, Mandy and Mitzy had now engaged into another one of their usual slap fights.
"Hey, Mitzy!" Shifty purred in a sing-song voice.
After she heard him, she gave Mandy a quick punch in the face before she turned to him with a furious look plastered on face like it was a horror movie poster.
"What? Whatcha want now?" Mitzy hissed, her voice full of anger.
Shifty just smiled as he began to wrap his arms around her waist.
He leaned in and he kissed her on the lips, causing her to blush. She could feel her heart pumping when the blush on her cheeks went from pink to a neon cherry red hue.
The crackling lightning around began to fade she closed her eyes. Mitzy returned the kiss while it slowly became more passionate. She even kicked up her right foot in the air, Shifty doing the same with his right foot.
Lifty and Mandy, on the other paw, just made gagging noises from watching them kiss.
When their seductive kiss broke apart, Mitzy was crossed eyed and blushing red as a tomato. Tiny pink hearts bubbled over her head when Shifty kissed her paw.
"Feel better?" Shifty purred again, scooping her in his arms.
She could only nod to say yes as they hopped out the van.
"Let's go, people!" Mitzy called out in dumbfund/lovesick tone.
Lifty tagged along, but Mandy just watched as they went to go inside. She even blew a raspberry at the three before she looked down at the van's front side. Run under one of the wheels in a nasty pool of blood and broken bones was Toothy's bloody corpse, making Mandy laugh a bit before she went inside the van.
Back at the front desk by the entrance, a strange person was wearing a cloak that covered his body.
When Shifty approached him, he passed him a bunch of keys on a chain. "Don't scratch the van, alright?" He said, opening the door for Lifty to enter.
He and Shifty snickered as they went in, Mitzy being the last one to go.
The person at the desk suddenly removed the hood of his cloak and he watched Mitzy walk inside the club with hearts bubbling over his head.
He gave her a passionate wolf whistle as she vanished behind the door and laughed evilly to himself.
"Oh! My Darling!" The person swooned, "You're still as beautiful as ever."
"And you shall be mine, even if it means the world must obey me..."
ToonAngelStar17: I did it! It's already 8:30 PM and I've been up working on this chapter driking nothing but V8 juice to keep my energy up.
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