STARRING Maple FEATURING Petunia, Giggles, Flaky, Disco Bear, Handy, The Mole
Maple walked into the bar with Flaky following close behind. She was a little anxious like she usually was, but due to how often these little hangouts happened she was starting to get more used to seeing people. Maple spotted Petunia and Giggles sitting at a table and walked over, making sure Flaky didn’t stray behind too far. Maple sat next to Petunia and Flaky sat next to Giggles. “Hey guys! Hope we didn’t keep you waiting too long!” Maple said as he waved at them. Petunia sat up in a nice comfortable posture. “Oh don’t worry about it! We only just ordered some water!” Maple sighed a bit in relief. “Oh great! I have some time to catch up!” He stretches and gets up from his seat. The three all watch in confusion as he walks up to the bar.
The three were quiet for a bit before Giggles turned to face Flaky. “How have you been Flaky? I heard that you and Petunia went to the park together!” Flaky suddenly jumped up and got super embarrassed. “Oh we did! IT WAS AMAZING I-.” She realized she was super loud and quickly shut down into a near whisper. “It was fun…” She shrinks down a bit and hides her head to the side. Petunia picked up after that though. “Well, it sure was a fun surprise having Flaky invite me out, usually it’s just Maple dragging her out.” She took a sip of her water. “It was a pretty relaxing trip, we layed in the grass for a while.” Flaky was absolutely exploding with glee. But on the outside she was doing a decent job of hiding it.
Maple suddenly came back to the table with 6 PINT GLASSES OF BEER. The three all looked at Maple with concern as he suddenly sat back down next to Petunia and rubbed his hands together. Flaky and Petunia were speechless, but Giggles chimed in. “You aren’t gonna drink all that… Are you…?” Maple looked up and showed a bit of concern. “Oh? Did ya want some? I only ordered for myself cause I thought I was the only beer drinker!” Giggles quickly backs off. “No no… I don’t drink but just-.” Maple grows a big grin. “Great!” He chomps the stick he was chewing on in half and lets it fall on the table. The three all watched as Maple suddenly chugged 3 pints of beer in a minute and a half. He notices the three of them watching him, but turns his attention to specifically Petunia. “What’s wrong? Want some?” Petunia quickly leans back. “WHAT?!? N-…” She thinks about just how much he enjoyed that drink. “Maybe just… A little sip?” She gulps a bit. Maple takes another sip of his fourth pint as he slides over a glass to Petunia. He goes back to guzzling down another pint as Petunia deeply stares into the pint of beer, scared of what it would do to her. She looks over and sees that Maple was almost finished his fourth already and sighed, putting aside her fear and slowly taking a small sip. It tasted absolutely rancid. Petunia quickly coughed and gagged a bunch as she forced herself to swallow it, afterward she grabbed a napkin and wiped off her tongue, but when that didn’t work she grabbed her water and quickly drank a large portion of it. When she finally got the taste out of her mouth she looked around to see Flaky and Giggles chuckling at the sight whilst Maple had the biggest shit eating grin ever. “How was it Petunia?” She musters a small fake smile. “It was fine…” Maple lost it, he started cracking up and smacked the table. “You hear that? She likes it!” He laughs a bit more, but pretty quickly his laugh dies down as a very odd look covers his face. He scans around for a bit before grabbing his 5th glass and taking a sip, seemingly calming himself down. Petunia was so embarrassed, but then she felt Maple put a hand on her shoulder, it was strangely VERY comforting. “Oh don’t worry about it, beer is gross.” He rubs her shoulder a bit, which made her feel comforted but also gave her a hetero panic as she hid her face from his view.
Disco Bear was sitting at the bar, he was on his second drink now, but overhearing a big hearty laugh he looked over and saw Maple sitting with Flaky, Petunia, and Giggles. He looked around the bar and Saw a game of darts being played, as well as an empty pool table. He decided it was time to challenge Maple, maybe crushing him in pool could make the other three more open to a new fourth at the table. He finished off his drink and walked over to Maple, putting on quite the confident look. Maple was sipping away at his 5th beer when Disco Bear walked up. He looked up at Disco Bear and waved. “Oh hey! Didn’t expect to see you here!” DB puts on a stance and a friendly smile. “Hey Maple! There’s an empty pool table and I was wondering if you’d like to have a game?” Maple seemed pretty excited at the prospect of that, he looked at the trio. “Welp, can’t turn down an invite like that, I’ll be back in a bit!” He got up and walked over to the pool table closely behind DB. Maple set up the pool balls crazy fast, almost like he had done it plenty of times before, but the warning sign evaded DB’s perception as he shot over a smug look at the trio who were all watching and returned his look with disinterest. DB got down into position to break the game.
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After a bit of playing, the girls could tell Maple either had no idea what he was doing or wasn’t trying at all. Disco Bear was slow but steadily pacing through the game, sinking a ball or two every second or third shot. He was starting to get close to winning, but Maple really started to go crazy. Whenever he went for a shot he couldn’t even hold his cue right, and Disco Bear had to stop him from biting the cue. “Listen, just because you aren’t very good doesn’t mean-.” Suddenly Maple stopped and stared at Disco Bear with a pretty scary look, it was as though something had just clicked in Maple’s brain. Maple chomped down on the backrest of an unused chair and bit a chunk off, finally finding a permanent solution to his disorder as he suddenly took on a proper pose. Everyone watched as Maple sank all 8 balls in a row, and finally to sink the 8 ball he did a jump shot, sending the white ball over one of the coloured balls to sink the 8 ball. Disco Bear was left in a state of shock as he heard the gal’s all cheer out and clap for Maple. Maple stood proudly and took a bow, but DB was quite the sore loser. He gritted his teeth but put on a fake smile and walked up to Maple. “Wow, looks like someone turned on the accelerator.” He nudges Maple’s shoulder very hard. “Good game.”
Maple stumbles from the shove and loses his balance. He was able to catch himself before he fell, but the shove made him start choking on the big piece of wood. Maple start gurbling and stumbling around as both of his hands went to his neck. The trio, who were all watching him, quickly took note of what was going on. Petunia quickly came over, Flaky hesitated, but due to Giggle’s persistence she got up and all 3 ran over to Maple to assist him. Petunia went to wrap around him and try to squeeze it out, but she instantly saw some wood chips on his shirt and backed off. Flaky panicked a bit and ran off to the bar to try and find assistance from a worker. But Giggles continued where Petunia couldn’t and wrapped her arms around Maple. She squeezed his stomach a few times before finally she helped him cough up the piece of wood. It flew out of his mouth and smacked into the back of Disco Bear’s head right as he walked in front of the dart board. He turned around and rubbed the back of his head. “Hey! What was that for!”
Mole was currently lining up his arm with where he presumed the dart board to be. Maple coughed out like crazy as he started breathing again, but Petunia stepped forward. “Oh shut your mouth! You almost got him killed, you jerk!” She put her hands on her hips. DB looked appalled. “Me?!? I wished him a good game and walked-.” Mole threw his first dart, which landed squarely into Disco Bear’s temple. He stumbled a bit towards the dart board from the impact. Mole threw another dart which stabbed right into the big artery on DB’s neck. DB fell to the floor as he started to bleed out. Mole then threw the third dart and hit a perfect bulls-eye. A few seconds later the dartboard fell off of the wall and smashed DB’s skull in, turning it into a pile of mush on the floor. The trio all screamed out in horror but Maple was currently twitching and looking all over the room. He bent down and stuck his teeth into the pool table. Chewing on it for a moment before a disgusted look filled his face, causing him to quickly dislodge his big teeth from it. He ran off through the bar, which pulled the trios attention enough for them to start following him. He goes to the bar and starts trying to chew on the counter top, but due to it only looking like wood whilst being some much harder compound his teeth shattered on it. He howled out in pain as many different parts of his body started to spasm out. Petunia grabbed his arm and shook it a bit. “MAPLE?!?! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?!?!” He looked at her, but it was pretty obvious that he didn’t listen to a single word that she said. Instead his eyes drifted down to her chest, more specifically, the air freshener. He just lunged down and took a big chomp into it. It released a crazy amount of fumes directly into his mouth, and on his next breath, all of the intense fumes went straight into his bloodstream. Petunia quickly backed off in fear as Maple’s eyes nearly instantly became bloodshot. He stumbled around a bit from the high for a few moments, before he lost his balance and fell backwards. His head smashed into the corner of the bar, which brutalised him as a giant chunk of his head was torn off. Blood went everywhere, including all over Petunia. She was horrified at the sight, but what really tipped her over the edge was how stained and gross all of her fur was in Maple’s blood. She quickly looks around and sees Handy (the bartender) reaching for a bottle of clear liquid. Without stopping to think, Petunia climbs over the counter and grabs the bottle, mistaking it for water as she pours it all over her fur. To her surprise it was actually sort of work for getting a vast majority of the gunk off of her fur. She shook off a bit to get some of the liquid off of her and then climbed back over the counter before Handy even really registered what was going on. Petunia went over and grabbed Flaky and Giggle’s hands before dragging them out of the bar as fast as she could. As they ran out, Handy called out at them but they were far too quick to hear what he said. Petunia got in the driver’s seat, Giggles in the passenger seat, and Flaky in the backseat. Petunia looked down at her completely ruined air freshener and threw it in a garbage bag she had at her feet. She reached over to Giggle’s side of the car to get at the glove box while looking for a replacement, but she couldn’t find one. She leaned over to take a look and then reached further in and pulled out a candle. After that she looked in the console in-between the two front seats and pulled out a lighter, quickly flicking it ablaze and using it to get the candle burning. As the candle started burning she let out a sigh of relief, but then the candle let out a crackle as a tiny spark flung out onto Petunia’s fur. Suddenly all of the liquor that Petunia poured on herself ignited and set her entire body on fire. It very quickly spread through the entire car and before any of them could mess around with the locks and free themselves they were all burnt to a crisp. A few seconds later the car suddenly blew up, sending chunks of the dead trio everywhere. The end.