A/N: I dunno why, but right now I'm obsessed with Toothy.... and Splendid. What? No, Mime is STILL my favorite, I'm just obsessed with Toothy and Splendid. ... If you haven't figured out yet, I mean them as a couple lol. So yea, I wrote this story since I don't see many stories about them as a couple, so if you don't like slash/yaoi stories, stop reading now. It's very minor romance, and it'll be multi-chapter... sadly enough, I'm gonna start it out as a one-sided crush... OBVIOUSLY on Toothy's part since Splendid doesn't notice him really at all. =)

Disclaimer: I do not own Happy Tree Friends. I only own the plotline. :3 And the antagonists of the story, but they're all random characters that I shall only call "Bro", "Sis", "Cuz", and "Auntie". ^^ Not official characters.

NOTE: Minuit "Mint" the cat does NOT show up in this story. I'm gonna start discluding her a little more often. I feel like she shows up too much, so I'm not gonna put her in this story. ^^

Romance is minor. It's more adventure than romance =) Couplings are minor ToothyxSplendid(obviously), FlippyxFlaky, and CuddlesxGiggles. ^^

Okay, let's start the story now!

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The purple beaver sat at his table by the window in his kitchen, staring at the TV, where they were showing the news. He sighed boredly, and then looked out his window. He was munching on cookie since he had nothing better to do. He saw smoke in the distance and saw his favorite superhero, Splendid, flying to the rescue. He sighed, wondering why when he himself needed help Splendid never came.

Toothy heard knocking at his door and jumped up to answer it. Standing in front of his door was Cuddles, Giggles, Lumpy, Flaky, and-oh dear God-Flippy.

"Heya, Toothy!" Cuddles exclaimed happily. "Wanna come play some soccer with us?"

Toothy glances at the kitchen, then smiled and said, "Sure! Just let me grab my first aid kit."

"No need to, Flaky's got her's," Cuddles said, rolling his eyes, but a smile lit up his face.

"Oh, okay then," Toothy stated with a smile. He closed his door and locked it. Then he and the other five took off for the park.

--Ten Minutes Later--

"So why isn't Petunia here with you all?" Toothy suddenly asked.

"Oh, it was her house that caught fire this morning," Giggles said sadly. Then she perked up and said, "But don't worry, she's in the hospital now. Splendid saved her life!"

"Really? That's good," Toothy said with a smile, but he was frowning on the inside. He was glad Splendid saved her, of course, but when he himself had been in a fire, Splendid didn't show up.

"Anyway!" Cuddles interrupted, "Let's start playing! I choose Giggles and Toothy for my team!"

Flippy sighed and said, "You had to leave me with Lumpy, didn't you?"

"I see you're not complaining about Flaky, who nearly killed you by accident last time we played," Cuddles stated in his matter-of-fact voice.

"Yea, but then he flipped, remember?" Toothy pointed out.

"And killed us all but Flaky," Cuddles added, looking suspiciously at Flippy, who had begun blushing and muttered something about having taken back over before Evil could kill her.

What a lame excuse, Toothy thought to himself. It's obvious he has a crush on her...

They started playing their game, happily kicking the ball back and forth. But then Lumpy got stupid and kicked the ball at Flaky, who had her back turned to him for the fact that something had caught her eye. The ball hit her in the back and deflated immediately, but the feeling of it hitting her back scared her because she thought someone had run into her. She immediately screamed and started trying to get it off before she realized it was just the ball. She sighed in relief.

The others had started laughing until they realized that the sound of the ball deflating-popping, more accurately- had set Flippy off. Flippy jumped at Cuddles and pulled out his bowie knife. Cuddles screamed and tried to run but Flippy easily caught him and slit his throat. All the friends scattered with screams. Flippy went for Lumpy next. He stabbed the bowie knife in the side of Lumpy's head, and Lumpy collapsed immediately.

Toothy quickly hid behind a tree, hoping and praying that Flippy would not find him.

Flaky had tripped over her own two feet and fallen into a hole with spikes at the bottom and was impaled on the spikes.

Giggles had also hidden behind a tree, but she screamed when she saw Flaky fall into the hole-trap and saw blood fly up out of the hole. Flippy was upon her within a second. Toothy muffled his own cream and tried to get away from the now-dead chipmunk-Flippy had stuck a grenade in her head!- but he tripped and fell backwards. Flippy turned to him with an evil grin on his face and started approaching him.

Toothy quickly backed away from the evil bear, but felt his head hit a tree-trunk. He started seeing double for a moment, but then Flippy pounced at him. He let out a shrill scream and covered his face, waiting for the pain and death.

It never came. Toothy opened his eyes and uncovered his face and floating there in front of him was Splendid. Flippy got off the ground and growled quietly.

Flippy pounced at Splendid this time but Splendid merely grabbed the bear by the throat and tossed him towards the pond.

This time, when Flippy stood up, he looked confused and his eyes were back to normal. He looked around and gasped. Then he looked down at his clothes. Then he looked at Splendid. Then Flippy the bear ran off, going to his home to clean off himself and his clothes.

Splendid looked back at Toothy. Before Toothy could say anything, Splendid nodded slightly and then flew away at highspeed.

The tree Toothy had been leaning on was uprooted and blown away-impaling Toothy in the process.

--The Next Day--

Toothy woke up in the hospital. In the bed next to his own was Mime, who was still recovering from a really bad unicycle accident.

Toothy sat up in his bed and looked around. He saw all of the Happy Tree Friends-except Flippy, Cro-Marmot, and Splendid, obviously.

Toothy hopped out of bed and dashed out of the hospital. No one was there to stop him. All the Happy Tree Friends were either dead or in the hospital recovering. None of them could play the part of doctor or nurse.

Toothy went on over to his own home. He unlocked the door and walked in, but immediately stopped. He heard voices speaking from his basement. He slowly went further into the house and listened carefully as the voices spoke.

"I'm telling you, bro, it's a ghost town. There's no one here. It's completely deserted. And there's blood everywhere."

"Ah, stop your complainin', sis. It's the perfect place for a hideout. No one would ever find us here. It's too far in the woods."

"But if we found it, won't they find it eventually as well?"

"Shh, cuzes. Someone's upstairs."

"Might just be Auntie."

"No, Auntie went to sleep in the bedroom. She sleeps a long time, you know."

"Well, cuz, go scope it out."

Toothy put his hands over his mouth to muffle a gasp and quickly started for the door, but the other guy was much faster than him. The next thing Toothy knew, he was being held against the wall with hands around his neck. He looked at who it was who had attacked him and saw a blue cheetah with red spots holding him against his own walls.

"What are you doing here?" the cheetah demanded.

"I-it's MY house... what are YOU doing here?" Toothy retorted in a choked voice.

The blue cheetah grinned. "Well, your home is a hideaway for us. But now that you know we're here, we'll have to send you to HQ as our prisoner."

Toothy looked scared. "C-can't you just kill me?" he inquired, knowing if they did he would be perfectly fine.

"Oh no, we torture our prisoners before killing them. We have none of our tools with us now, but at HQ...," he trailed off with a sly grin. "Hey, sis, bro, come look at what we have here!"

Two more cheetahs like the first-only colors reversed- came up the basement stairs. The female cheetah went over to the door and closed with. She locked it and looked over at Toothy.

"A beaver? What's a beaver doing in a town like this?"

"This is where he lives. This is his house. But he might squeal if we let him go. And we don't like to kill without torture, do we, my friends? We have to send him to HQ, where there are torture chambers and machines."

Toothy gulped as the cheetah let go of his throat and grabbed his arm.

The female cheetah-Sis, as far as anyone calls her- knelt down in front of the beaver-they were about Lumpy's height, much to Toothy's dismay- and asked, "How old are you anyway?"

Toothy gulped again and said, "I-I don't remember. N-none of us i-in this t-t-town remember. I-it's been s-s-so long!"

"So long? You can't be more than fifteen years old," Cuz stated in an aggravated voice.

"I-I'm much older than what you think... and what I l-l-look..." Toothy stuttered fearfully. "W-why c-c-can't you j-j-just k-kill m-me?"

"Too forgiving. For all we know, you heard our plans."

"B-but I d-d-didn't, I s-swear!" Toothy assured quickly.

"We're not taking any chances," Bro stated with authority. He turned to Cuz and Sis. "Tie him up and take him to the jeep in the forest. Make sure no one sees or hears you. If he somehow uncovers his mouth and screams like he's likely to do with those big teeth of his, slap him as hard as you can. If he becomes too much of a problem, run over him with the jeep. Just get him the hell away from here and to HQ."

Sis and Cuz both nodded their heads. Cuz dragged Toothy down in the basement with Sis trailing behind. Sis grabbed the rope and tied Toothy up while Cuz kept him from struggling. Heck, it wasn't like he would struggle anyway, he was too scared.

Toothy was picked up by Cuz and taken out into the Happy Tree Forest. He felt himself tossed into the back of a jeep. When he heard the engine start up, he bit through the rope covering his mouth and immediately shouted for help, that he was being kidnapped. He felt a large fist hit him in the head, knocking him unconscious.

Little did they know his shout did not go unheard.

--Splendid--

He had been at his house when he heard the shout. It sounded more like a shriek, but he immediately pulled his glasses and tie off and flew at highspeed out the window. He listened carefully but did not hear another shout for help, but then he noticed an engine. Surely the others weren't out of Happy Tree General Hospital yet?

Splendid went towards the forest in the direction he heard the engine. He saw there was a jeep with blood on the window. He stared at it for a few seconds, and then followed it. As soon as they exited the forest, he stopped and sighed. He didn't know which Happy Tree Friend it was, but he would soon find out. He was determined to find out. He sniffed slightly at the air to get the scent of the vehicle so he could follow it later-hoping by that time he wouldn't be too late- and flew to the hospital quickly.

He arrived at the hospital a few moments later. He quickly looked around and quickly put names to each tree friend.

He knew Flippy couldn't be kidnapped so easily. Besides that, Flippy was sitting beside the bed Flaky was at. Cro-marmot was a block of ice, so he couldn't exactly bleed, nor was he easy to kidnap.

Splendid saw the one who was missing was the purple beaver, Toothy. He frowned. Was it Toothy who was kidnapped? Well, he thought to himself, I'll just have to find out, now won't I?

With that, he zoomed out of the hospital and went in the direction the jeep had gone.

He just hoped he wouldn't be too late, because if the kid-at least, he thought the beaver was a kid- died outside of the forest boundaries, there was no coming back.

--To Be Continued—

So, will Splendid save Toothy in time? Hmm... We'll see. =)

I'll get started on the next chapter immediately, I like the way this is progressing so far. =)