Flaky notices the bus falling apart
STARRING Flaky Maple Nutty Artsy
Flaky was sitting at the back of the bus alone. She was leaning against the side of the bus as she looked out of the window to take in some of the nature that was just outside of town. As she got lost in the sounds of the bus she suddenly heard a loud metal sound of some piece falling off the bus. She instantly sat up and looked back, seeing a few screws left on the road behind her. She instantly got a worried look and looked around for the emergency stop line. She pulled it and got up from her seat, looking around for where her friends were sitting.
Nutty was currently looking out at all the bright colours outside on the seat opposite to Flaky’s. Nutty was millimetres away from the window and she could see some saliva slowly dripping down the glass. She looked around nervously but then finally gave herself a boost of confidence.
She reaches out and pokes Nutty on the shoulder, which gets him to instantly snap over and look at her. She jumps a bit, but then manages a friendly smile. “Hey Nutty! I… I heard there’s this really cool candy store! It’s uh… It’s right around here! Do you wanna check it out with me?” Nutty instantly gets up. “OOOOoo!” He nods his head frantically.
Flaky grins a bit but then frowns again as she looks around. She noticed Giggles and Cuddles just a few rows down and quickly walked over. “H-hey…” But before she could finish Giggles chimed in. “Oh hey Flaky! I think someone stopped the bus…” She lets out a sigh and then Cuddles chimes in. “Someone’s eager to make us wait even loooonger to get home…” Flaky frowns and looks down a bit. “Yeah… Who would do that…” She nervously chuckles a bit and continues on down the line of the bus.
Eventually she comes across Maple and Petunia. Maple was on the window side staring out into the wilderness and Petunia was autistically just staring at him whenever he wasn’t looking at her, but Flaky walking up to them caught both of their attentions. Petunia quickly scrunched away from Flaky to get away from her dandruff and Maple waved a bit. “Hey Flaky! What’s up?” Flaky fidgets with her hands nervously and looks around a bit, avoiding any and all eye contact. “Well… I uhh… Uhm…” She was struggling to come up with a reason for them to get off the bus with her. Petunia kept slowly backing further into Maple who chimed in again. “Is something wrong?” Flaky had a bit more of a panic before she finally let out a deep breath and decided to not lie to them. “I think I saw some screws fall off the bus… I don’t feel safe here…” Petunia was starting to get super embarrassed as she realized how scrunched up against Maple she was, leaving her unfocused to hear what Flaky said. But Maple took notice. “Oh really? Oh god! We oughta-.” Suddenly Lumpy yelled back. “Hurry up!” Flaky looked around nervously but Maple manoeuvred around Petunia who was just lost in embarrassment. Maple turns to her. “Hey Petunia, you comin?” She just quickly hides her face. “NOTHING!” He was taken aback but shrugged it off. “Alright then, let’s go, Flaky.” Flaky and Maple walked off, and Nutty followed them shortly after. But right as Lumpy was about to close the door, Artsy came off and stood next to them. “Is the bus really falling apart?” He said in a soft nervous voice.
Flaky takes a minute as she was caught off guard, watching as the bus took off away from the four. “I heard banging… and… and I saw some… Screws or something fall off the…” She was nervously rambling but then the four all turned their heads as a sudden crash rang out. The bus suddenly tilted to the side, shortly after one of the back wheels flew off and made the bus start scraping along the ground. “Holy fu-.” Maple started to say, but then the bus suddenly flipped over on its side and started barreling along both lanes of the highway. After a few moments of that the bus hit a bump in the road and took a nasty dent, after that it slowly skidded to a halt. But before anyone could react the engine suddenly exploded, surely killing everyone inside.
The 3 all watched in horror, whilst Nutty wasn’t… All there enough to be more than a little concerned. Flaky looked traumatized while Maple freaked out. “Holy Fuck! What the hell!” They all then were silent for a bit as they processed what happened. But after a bit, Artsy noticed Nutty start walking away as something caught his eye. “Wait! Nutty! Where are you going!” Artsy started going after him, and the commotion snapped Maple and Flaky out of it as they quickly followed. They were a good bit shaken up by it but Nutty’s complete lack of regard for his life managed to prioritize itself over the death of all of their friends for now.
Eventually Nutty stopped running along as he picked a flower and took a big chomp out of it. He chewed on it for a second before coughing up and spitting it out, a disappointed look filling his face as he let out a big sigh. “Nutty! You can’t eat flowers!” Flaky quickly called out as she was mixed between the feelings of ‘what the hell are you doing’ and ‘all my friends just died a horrible death’. Nutty dropped the flower and looked around, and suddenly his eyes widened. “Oooo!” He said in awe as he ran towards a tree. Flaky ran after him again but right before she caught him, Maple grabbed her arm and held her back. “Nutty! Watch out!” Flaky was originally upset with Maple, but quickly she realized that she almost just charged off of a very steep hill.
The three watched as Nutty ran up to a tree and started climbing up to a beehive. “NUTTY! STOP! THAT’S NOT CANDY!” Maple yelled out as Artsy and Flaky helplessly watched. Nutty kept climbing higher and higher, and as he did the tree started to sway a bit from his weight. The sound of some roots snapping filled the ever deafening silence as he got right up to the hive. But right as he went to grab at the hive the tree suddenly tilted way down. Nutty lost his balance but managed to catch a branch and hold himself up. But what ensued was much worse. The mud around the tree started to flow downhill as the entire tree started falling downhill with the ground around them. Nutty started getting flailed around as he flew around and due to the disturbance of the landslide a bunch of bees came out of the hive and found the nearest disturbance and started attacking it. As the bees started stinging Nutty, the pain made him start to lose his grip as he jumped a bit. Quickly the stings became too much for him as he let go of the tree. As he fell the tree suddenly moved and smashed into his chest, making him spit up a ton of blood before he slowly but surely sank completely into the downpouring mud.
They all had a moment of silence as the landslide calmed down and came to a stop. There was quite a bit of heavy breathing amongst them as they all just kept looking between each other, hoping someone else could help calm them down. Eventually Maple broke the silence as he looked around. “We need to get back home. Let’s get moving…” Flaky and Artsy were both mortified, but he made a good point. They didn’t respond except for Artsy giving a slight nod as the three of them silently kept on walking through the woods.
After a bit, it started getting windy, which only seemed to add to the growing dreadful mood. Artsy stepped on a rather sturdy branch and it made him lose his balance, as he stumbled a very powerful gust of wind swooped in and pushed his stumbling along. As he tried to regain his footing his tail caught a twig and yoinked him to the side. His tail got caught as it pulled him into a rose bush, instantly stabbing him all over with thorns. Maple ran over and pulled on his tail to try and yank him out of the thorn bush, but all he accomplished was pulling Artsy’s tail off, covering him in blood. Artsy completely tumbled into the rose bush and by the time Maple was able to pull away enough vines to see Artsy he could see tons of exposed flesh among some dark red vines. There were a few pieces of flesh all around and Artsys face was blank as a corpse. He gagged a bit as he stepped back and gave Flaky a pretty horrified look. It started driving Flaky pretty insane, there was only one more distraction keeping her from the reality that everyone she knows is fucking dead. Maple, who was fucking coated in blood, just grabbed Flaky’s hand and continued walking while dragging Flaky with him.
It felt like hours passed and both of them looked miserable at this point, especially Flaky, who seemed to be on the verge of completely shutting down. But Maples’ determination to get home was the only thing keeping the two going. Flaky spotted something in the distance and squinted at it, trying to decipher what it was. Suddenly a barbed arrow shot out and struck Maple right in the gut, sending him tumbling back, eventually coming to a stop on the floor laying on his side. A large dog man in a bright orange vest started approaching from the fort that Flaky had noticed, and he looked really proud of himself. Flaky watched Maple fall to the ground and instantly curled up into a ball, INSTANTLY breaking down into a screaming mess as she shook violently on the floor. The hunter walked up and inspected Maples corpse. “Heh! Bastard didn’t even see it coming! Don’t worry red thing, he can’t hurt you anymore…” The hunter offered a hand to Flaky. She just simply screamed out in anguish as she laid next to her last friend, bleeding out on the ground. The end