Metal Meltdown

Author's note,

Well, here's the next chapter, hope you all like it! Special thanks to DeepDarkDebt09, Neon's Wrath, Phoenix Reece, SANDMAN78308, and waterlillyx for reviewing! here's the chapter!

Cuddles slowly walked to to his position on the stage, frowning as he noticed that only half the town was there. 'Maybe we aren't the most popular band ever after all...' he thought to himself as he turned his attention to Lumpy. Lumpy looked around at the crowd and blasted a loud chord that rung through the entire building, causing everyone to watch closely as the stage lights suddenly went off. The stage was full of darkness as the crowd watched anxiously to see what would happen next. The massive chord the blue moose had played was now starting to die out and the crowd was starting to lose interest when suddenly lights around the drumset lit and Handy started to play a low and steady beat. Like a beating heart the drums became louder, until the bass joined in and together they kept the low, and even tempo as fog slowly filled the stage. A spotlight shone down onto Cuddles as he started to play power chords. At first, they were slow and rung out just as Lumpy's did, but then they started to speed up and Handy began to hit the cymbals every few beats. The crowd watched in amazement as the tempo slowly speed up, until the light finally shone on Lumpy and he did another massive chord during a powerslide. As he did the slide, all the lights on the stage lit up and Flames shot up from the sides of the stage. Everyone in the builing was screaming, but not the usually screaming that happened in the small town, it was the screaming of excitement and pure happiness. Sniffles watched from behind the stage, he listened to the music and was jumping with joy at the success.

"Thank god!" he said as he fell backwards into his chair relieved at the bands comeback. Suddenly, he felt his hand twitch and his eyes turned to the volume control knob. He smiled to himself as he reached for it. "Turn it up to 11!" he shouted as he turned the knob all the way up. The sudden bust of music caused the fans out in the crowd to become even louder as Lumpy played a wicked fast solo while the others kept the speed fast and strong. Outside and all over town, people were hearing the sound of music coming from the town's indoor arena. The music sounded so new, so different. Many of them walked all the way to the arena just to find out what this amazing sound was. Lumpy was just finishing his solo, when he looked down and noticed his guitar glowing red. He looked curiously at it as he kept playing and suddenly the glowing shot out the head of the guitar and destroyed the roof. All the fans cheered, for they thought it was all part of the show, and noticed storm clouds appearing above the stage. The band watched the sky and started to become nervous as to what was happening, when all of a sudden a large bolt of lighning hit the centre of the stage and a large red crack appeared in mid-air. Everyone stared at it curiously as they wondered what it was. Then a clawed hand, with blood red skin shot out of the crack and anchored itself to the wood of the stage. The Happy Tree Band stared at the hand in horror as it slowly became tense and pulled the rest of the monster it belonged to out into their world. Standing in front of everyone was a being, whose twisted body, was only half as twisted as it's mind. Whose flesh was covered in hard metallic plates, hammered onto the monster and caused it pain for it's entire, eternal life. His face was covered in rows of jagged, sharp teeth and it's eyes burned bright red as it stared into the souls of the Band.

"Finally..." It said, it's voice was harsh and caused chills to go down the spines of the band, yet in a weird way smooth, and calm. "I have been freed from my eternal prison! You... you were the ones who had freed me, now, as a token of my gratitude, i'll show you what metal can do in the hands of someone who knows how to use it..." He smiled as a burst of fire erupted in front of him and a guitar appeared in his hands. He then played a solo that caused a crack to pierce through the ground and the crowd started to scream as hideous creatures and other beasts rose from the crack and stood in front of them in a large mob. "Now my children!" he shouted, "Kill all who stand in your way! We will claim this world as our own and nothing shall stand in our way as we become Gods to these pathetic creatures!" As he finished the beasts began to drool and their sharp teeth glistened in the dawn sunlight. The Tree Friends screamed and ran as the monstrocities ran at them and began to kill them. A brown bear wearing a black jacket ran towards the exit of the building when he heard a voice shout to him from behind.

"Ruffy! help!" the voice cried. Ruffy turned around to see his friend, Clumy the blue squirrel, being ripped apart by a large clawed creature resembling a huge crab.

"Clumy!" the bear screamed as he ran towards his friend's bloody corpse. As he reached the body, he became surrounded by three creatures, each with one long jagged claw on each of their arms. He stood horrified as he closed his eyes and waited for the inevitable, but instead heard the three fall over and hit the ground hard. He looked up and saw a white porcupine with black spikes, wearing a black scarf and white bandana, standing above him. He stared in wonder at the three creatures on the ground and saw that they were still alive and trying to get up.

"Damn," the porcupine muttered as she watched them get up and face her and Ruffy. She grabbed his hand and pulled him out of the way of one of the creature's strikes and took him outside to see the meyhem of what was happening. There were dead bodies everywhere, and they watched as many more tree friends died from the hands of the army of dark beasts. A white tiger grabbed them from behind and pulled them quietly under a pile of debris from the stage as more creatures ran past to assist in killing the tree friends. "Thanks Lightning," the porcupine said as she checked to see if the coast was clear. In the distance she could see a red porcupine running from four large creatures with long sharp claws. She was about to run to help when she saw a green figure jumping at their necks and stabbing them. The figure's attacks appeared to have no effect on the creatures and one of their attacks stabbed the figure in the arm. She could hear the scream of pain and became worried of what was going to happen, when suddenly the sun rose and the creatures all began to appear weak.

"What?! NO!!" the demon, their leader, shouted and slammed his fist into the ground. He then looked at the sun and smiled. He played another solo, this one sounding dark and low. and the sky began to fill with red clouds, blocking out the sun. He turned back to the green figure to see that it had successfully killed the four creatures and was now making sure the red porcupine was alright. He sneered as he walked menacingly towards the figure and shoved his hand into it's back and ripped out it's still beating heart. He then turned to the porcupine to find that she had run away.

"Holy shit!" the porcupine, Aace, said astonished, "What the hell is going on!?" The tiger was watching the one side of the debris and noticed an open area that they could escape from, he pointed it out to Aace and she nodded. "You ready?" she asked Ruffy, who was completely confused as to what was going on.

"Ready for what?" he asked, as they started to run off towards the woods which bordered the town. "Hey! Wait up! don't leave me!" he shouted as he caught up with them.

Deep in the forest Flaky, the red porcupine, was panting furiously. She had just witnessed all that death, and above it all, Flippy dying in the most horrible way she could think of. She shuddered and started to cry. Then she heard something walking through the trees near her. She instantly began to think of everything she had just witnessed and began to run deeper into the forest. As she stopped to rest from the running, she turned around to see if she was still being followed, she heard nothing and sighed with relief. She then fell over exhauted and fell unconcious as she drifted into sleep...

well there it is! Please tell me what you think of it! I really hope i'm doing a good job with it!

Ruffy, Clumy (c) DeepDarkDebt09

Lighning, Aace (c) Broken Hearted Bible