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[Ollie]
Olivine Nguyen was a simple person who liked the simple things in life, and it showed.
She was a rather scruffy-looking Asian girl with thick, rectangular glasses and a body built like an overstuffed teddy bear. But that didn't matter when all she did was just sit around all day and do homework.
She liked to kick back, listen to her friends chat online while drawing digitally and sipping a nice, sweet cup of Thai tea. It was hard to get a break these days with how much time she's spending in college, but hey, it's winter break!
Ollie lets out a snicker as she finished up a sketch, hearing her friends talk about the weirdest things they've eaten. "Have any of y'all eaten sand before? I'm pretty sure I've eaten at least a bucketful of that stuff when I was a stupid kindergartener, haha..."
"Nah, man, that's rookie stuff! I've eaten birds nest soup- although, I got hella sick after that..."
"You're wrong- bugs are where it's at! I've eaten fried grub before, it's surprisingly crunchy-"
She hums as she starts on the lineart, but she's interrupted by her mom opening the door. "Ah, shit- sorry guys, I gotta go- my mom's tellin' me to do something."
"See ya!" With that, she takes off her headphones and levels a slightly miffed expression at her mother. "Mẹ ơi - kỳ ý ạ? (Mom, what is it?)"
"Giúp nấu ăn với em - cô và cậu đến thăm. (Help your brother cook - your aunt and uncle are coming over.)" Her mom hurries her into the kitchen, and Ollie makes a face, taking her laptop and carrying it over to the counter.
She sees her younger brother rolling out some cookie dough- the kind you'd see pre-packaged in an American supermarket. "Oi, shitass-" Her mom hisses at her to not curse, and Ollie sighs. "You're baking now? I thought you only knew how to cook."
"Mom over here-" Her younger shoots an annoyed glare at the older woman, who crosses her arms at his tone. "Said that since it's gonna be Christmas soon, I gotta be baking some cookies."
"Tch, as if you know how to bake." Ollie drawls, using her laptop to pull up a recipe. "Chocolate chip?"
"Mhm." Her brother confirms. She's left helping him preheat the oven, and she squints as she scrolls down the cooking website to see how exactly to bake.
The hierarchy of cooking skill in her family went like this- it went from her mother (the designated main cook fo the family), her brother, herself, and then her father. On one end, her mother could cook a mean beef curry and rice dish, but didn't have a lot of experience in baking. On the other hand, once her father burnt a microwave pizza so badly that it was nothing but a hard, black disc.
Yeah. This wasn't going to go well, wasn't it.
Ollie sets the tray with cookie dough inside the oven, and glances to her brother. He's already finished his job, so he's already scuttled back to their room to play more Roblox or something.
Ollie shrugs. Shit, guess I'm supposed to be the one watching the cookies.
She pulls out her phone, idly swiping through Tumblr until she sees some fanart and is reminded- oh yeah, I've got that game they recommended.
The girl had seen all that fanart of that blue jester twink, and her friends had recommended she played this gacha game for the hell of it. She wasn't really keen on spending money and time on it until they said that it was full of cool lore (and hot men and women), and then she decided to give it a try.
She found it cute. Ollie progressed rather slowly on the story mode because she was a gambling FIEND and preferred to spend her time reading fanfictions or looking at fanart of said hot characters, so yeah. She'd only progressed through six episodes of the first continent.
Currently, she was just collecting all of the materials from her farms, organizing her kingdom, reading up on the lore of the new cookies she pulled...
"Aughhhh WHY. WHYYYY." She complains out loud, after having lost the Game of Cards again. "FUCK you Royal Margerine Cookie, you absolute hack- that's my fifth black joker in a row! Fuck you!"
Again, she'd just lost five cookie cutters to him, so she's pissed. She closes her eyes, takes a deep breath and calms herself. "It's okay, I've got like one more try left..."
"..."
"FUCK." She's lost again. Ollie really does have shit RNG, huh.
After an hour or so of just wasting her time managing her kingdom and playing through story mode, Ollie sniffs the air and her eyes widen.
"Oh damn it, did I forget-?" She rushes over to the oven, and squints her eyes. It's practically smoking inside, the glass pane obscured with grey smoke and the cookies probably long ruined.
"Damn it! Ozwald and mom's gonna be so mad at me- I gotta make this right-" She leans down and opens up the oven, ignoring all the warning signs.
Immediately, there's a loud 'FWOOSH-BANG!' as the oven fucking explodes in her face, sending her body flying back and a chunk of scalding hot metal through her head.
Her vision goes BLACK and PAIN, SEARING PAIN- then it quickly fades to nothing.
The only lucky thing about her death was that it was quick enough for her to not feel that much.
H-huh... what was I- wait. FUCK. Damn it, I've made a mess of the whole kitchen! Mom and Dad are going to be so mad at me!
Wait, no, I died... shit, that makes it even worse! Now they're gonna freak out and have to call the cops to clean up my dead body! That isn't cheap, I don't want them wasting their money on cleaning up my own mess!
... How odd. You've died, and yet the only concern you have is of your family's plight. Does it not matter to you that you have just left the mortal coil?
Dawg, in this economy? Me dying is just one less mouth to feed for them. And- wait, who the hell are you?! Where am I?!
You're dead, little mortal. Is that not obvious?
Well, YEAH, but where AM I now. Heaven? Hell? Nirvana? I doubt that it's the first one, but hey.
You are in the in-between of reality, little mortal. Your soul floats endlessly through the voidsea, and you are at a crossroads in your path. Fortunately, a higher being such as myself has a little proposition.
Huh... shit, this is the beginning of one of those isekai plots, isn't it? It's exactly like those manga and manhua I read!
Very good! You seem to be familiar with the premise, little mortal. Or should I refer to you as little Ollie?
How do you- oh wait, right. Godlike knowledge fuckery, I guess. Call me whatever, I don't give a damn. Just- where am I going to be isekai'd?
Hm... perhaps it is obvious. Or do you need a refresher on those very tropes you know?
...
You've got to be shitting me. Earthbread? From Cookie Run Kingdom?! I barely know the lore- I'd be a sitting duck!
Ah ah ah, little Ollie- I would not let my dear source of entertainment die so quickly and be so helplessly boring. Due to your... promising future, I'm willing to bestow you several boons, one of which you get to choose yourself.
So you're giving me a power? Any power, in return for me being 'entertainment'? You're a typical god aren't you... trying to wring entertainment and chaos outta me.
Please, little mortal- don't you humans do the same with your video games and books and movies?
... You make a fair point. Let me think my boon over- it should be something that'll help me the most.
Very well then.
...
...
I would like to take my knowledge with me to another world. Please, allow me to bring my laptop to Earthbread, and give it access to everything on the Internet. I want to know EVERYTHING, and... I want it to only be able to be used by me and me alone.
I cannot let knowledge that only humans know fall into the hands of the cookies. It's only a recipe for disaster.
Hehehe... as always, little mortal. You are a rather curious little thing. It's what I've liked about you, Olivine.
... Why do you talk like you've met me before? Have you been... stalking me?
Hmm, nothing of that sort. It's more of like I'm familiar with someone like you.
Ah, well. Might as well get it over with. Now- did you grant my wish?
Only after your new body gets made, little one. It's a rather fascinating process, you see- you might have to face a bit of a tribulation before you awaken once more.
Tribulation? What... what do you mean?
Oh, don't you worry your cute little head, mortal. Think of it as an unskippable cutscene. Gotta go through it to get your other powers, if you wanna survive on Earthbread!
W-wait! What do you mean?! It's not gonna hurt, is it?!
Hehehe... if it wasn't a sin to lie, I'd tell you that it'll be sweet and easy.
But it isn't. Toodle-oo, little mortal!
The Tale of the First Kitchen was something that almost every cookie knew. Although, most of the facts were lost to time, with the witches being revered as their creators rather than the malevolent forces they were.
But there was another legend less known amongst the cookie-kind, one that was lost to time after the record-keepers and archivists of the chaos of iron and flame crumbled.
Legend says that the Divine Witches had a helping hand in their midst- a magic-less witch that helped them diligently knead the dough and stoke the flames of the oven.
She was only known by her title: Gretel.
The cookies of the ancient times say that this holy being was taken under the wing of the Witches, studied the divine magic of creation, and helped them discover the secret of Life Powder.
But... that was not how the true story went. Just as how the Witches went from eating cookies to being benevolent figures in their mythos, the true tale of Gretel had been distorted with time and mystery.
In reality... it went a little something like this.
Gretel was only one of two siblings who had stumbled upon the Witches' hut, having been lured in by the sugary-sweet appearance. Hungry and tired from their time away from home, they eagerly accepted the delicious food that they had given them.
Alas! It was only a cruel deception. Unlike the story you and I both know, they were far less perceptive and far more desperate. Gretel's own gluttony led her to eat far more than she'd needed, and Hansel's own envy of his older sister meant that he was more focused on upstaging her than actually trying to run away. And so when the witches asked them to both check if the First Oven was hot enough...
Both the sister and the brother were shoved and locked inside. They screamed and pleaded, cried out for their mother and father, cried out for anyone who could save them.
... Neither of them left the Witches' hut.
[Dark Enchantress Cookie]
"Ahahaha! Oh, it feels so good to be finally back, after all this time!" Dark Enchantress Cookie gloats, stretching out her arms and swinging her staff. "I've been trapped in that dreadful magical confinement for ages... to think that I still feel as strong as before!"
"Indeed, master!" Licorice Cookie looks practically star-struck and overjoyed at seeing his previous master, bowing in reverence. "It's been so long! We greet you with all of our loyalty and dedication!"
"Ah, truly it is a fortuitous occasion, Master." Pomegranate Cookie flourishes her mirror and bows as well, deeper than Licorice Cookie in order to one-up him. She narrows her eyes, and Licorice Cookie's eye twitches.
Dark Enchantress Cookie regards all of the other cookies present with her, having teleported them back to their old base at the Cake Tower. Dark Choco Cookie regards her distrustfully, and Schwarzwälder is cheering in the back.
Poison Mushroom Cookie is hiding behind Licorice Cookie, tugging at his dark robes and shyly tilting their head. Red Velvet Cookie is in front of all of them, kneeling with his sword planted in front of him. "We have awaited your return, Dark Enchantress Cookie."
"It seems like you all are here, my loyal suboridinates." Dark Enchantress Cookie chuckles, and rubs her chin. "Although you have suffered some losses from those... upstarts, I suppose you have all done well."
"Thank you, Master! We only wish to do the best for you!" Licorice Cookie says. He's the most enthusiastic out of all of them for Dark Enchantress Cookie's return, although Pomegranate Cookie is similarly pleased, just hiding it inside.
"Hm. All of you- perhaps we need to bolster our forces a bit more. I heard that those cookies from the new Cookie Kingdom... yes. I've heard that they've bested you in combat."
"Tch. Of course they did- you sent Licorice Cookie and Pomegranate Cookie." Red Velvet Cookie crosses his arms. "Those two are at each other's necks almost all the time."
"Are you insinuating that I am unable to complete my missions out of- petty rivalry?!" The former priestess spins her mirror, and glares at Red Velvet Cookie. "Watch your mouth! I am not as foolish as to jeopardize my Master's plan!"
"Is not! She's just being all uppity again and trying to get in the way of our plans!" Licorice complains.
"SILENCE!" Dark Enchantress Cookie shouts, and the two of them cease their arguing. "Apologies, Master." "Sorry, Master."
"As much as I appreciate your efforts towards my noble goal, you all are being beaten by those fools. How?"
"W-well, it's perhaps because they're summoning more cookies as allies?" Licorice Cookie stutters. "I recall those four... brats having new companions every time they go out to defeat us. Are they using..."
"Hmm... Cookie Cutters, yes? I see." Dark Enchantress Cookie narrows her eyes.
Cookie Cutters, to the residents of Earthbread, were rare one-use artifacts used to summon a random individual to you. Due to their scarcity, they were often found in the hands of more powerful individuals, either used as quick transportation or getting more manpower during the Dark Flour War.
They also were used to make Cookies, but that was something only the Witches could do with their magic and Life Powder. Dark Enchantress Cookie thought this over.
"So those fools have been relying on luck alone to obtain more allies? Hmph!" Dark Enchantress Cookie gets an evil smile on her face. "Let's show them how a real summoning is done- with the help of my dark magic!"
"Come along now- let us go to the First Oven!"
Her followers trailed behind her, walking the long distance while Dark Enchantress Cookie simply floated along with her own magical power. She stops in front of the massive, fiery gates of the First Oven.
"Behold! Although it has long since been unmanned by the Witches, at this point- the First Oven still has all it's power since the Dark Flour War." She smirks. "Red Velvet- surely you remember how your dear cakes were created here?"
"Indeed, Master." He bows his head. "I must thank you, for without your permission, the Cakes would have not been as prosperous and well-spread around Crispia. Their lives are all thanks to you."
"Yes, yes. But that is then, and this is now." She flairs her staff out, levitating a single, shiny Cookie Cutter. "What you are about to witness is far different- a cookie summoning, conducted at the First Oven!"
The dark cookies whooped and hollered, excited to see their Master's power. Dark Enchantress Cookie laughs. "With this- we'll welcome a new member to our merry band! If fate favors us, then- we'll have another powerful underling under my command!"
She takes some raw dough, and rolls it down with her magic. Dark Enchantress Cookie wields the metal Cookie Cutter, slamming it down on the dough and cracking the surface. It gleams with orange-yellow magic, and her dark magic seeps into it as she places it into the fiery pink depths of the First Oven.
Dark Enchantress Cookie begins to chant. "Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and caldron bubble! Summon power unheard of before, from lands yonder and from times yore!"
"Rise, my new minion!"
The fire explodes with power. It flares up, rising to five times the size of a normal cookie, licking and consuming the dough inside.
"Yeees... YEEEES!" Dark Enchantress Cookie cackles, anticipating the best. "With this cookie- we'll eventually be able to overthrow the witches! Rise!"
The blaze of orange glory dies down into a peaceful simmer, leaving nothing but the smell of delicious chocolate and spice. There's a coughing, wheezing sound from inside the First Oven as the dark cookies looked inside, curious to see who was summoned.
It's a rather pathetic-looking thing, shorter than the rest of them by a good margin. Not as small as Poison Mushroom Cookie, of course, but she was only bigger because of her big, poofy hair and the two wafer antennae on her head. They twitched as she got up from her knees, unsteady.
The new cookie had glasses on her face, with slitted pupils similar to Red Velvet's left eye. Her form was wider to accentuate that pitiful stoutness of hers making the cookie seem more like a lazy, gluttonous bug than any real fighter.
"Are you kidding me?! All of that magic, for- this?!" Licorice Cookie exclaimed, looking the arrival up and down. "That was a single Cookie Cutter, wasted on the likes of that!"
"Tsk, you dare question Master's results?" Pomegranate Cookie hisses at her coworker. "Surely the great Dark Enchantress Cookie summoned someone worthy to be on our side! To question her summon is to question her!"
"Hmph." Dark Choco Cookie looks at the new cookie, who's slowly getting to her feet and wobbling, stumbling forward in a panicked manner. "She smells like chocolate, but not of the Dark Cacao Kingdom's sort."
"Who... where..." She rubs her eyes, panting heavily. "I- no, no... not this damn oven, get me out of this damnable oven-!"
"Hmph. You there, little insect-" Dark Enchantress Cookie points her skull-staff directly at the newcomer, who yelps in shock and leans back a little. "What is your name?"
"I- um..." She stutters a bit, looking at all of the cookies in front of her with shock and surprise. "I... Choco Thai Tea Cookie. Just call me Thai Tea, if you've already got another- um."
Her eyes dart around, and she takes a deep breath. There's an awkward silence for a few minutes, and she speaks.
"Why have you summoned me here." Thai Tea's voice is different from before, more strained and serious. She sounds like she's carefully considering the situation. "What do you intend for me to do."
"Why, serve me, of course." Dark Enchantress Cookie chuckles, and lowers herself down from her levitation in order to look down on the new cookie. "Seeing that you haven't been screaming at us and calling us monsters or heretics- well. It leads me to assume that you're interested."
"I'm just... considering my options." Thai Tea carefully words her response. "I'm a very careful girl, after all. Mama told me never to sign any contracts without knowing what's in store."
"Your mother was a very clever woman, in that case." Dark Enchantress Cookie response. Schwarzwälder, Pomegranate Cookie and Licorice Cookie already seem bored by all of the talking, but Dark Choco and Red Velvet Cookie are assessing their newest hire. Poison Mushroom Cookie doesn't seem to care.
"Thank you." Choco Thai Tea Cookie clears her voice, and Dark Enchantress Cookie leads her to the banquet hall. The rest of her followers take their seats at the table nervously, while Thai Tea politely pulls a chair out and sits on it.
"Come on, come on- have some food. It's my treat."
"My mother also told me not to accept food from strangers, especially spellcasters." There's a twitch in Thai Tea's eye. "As... gracious as this is, I would like to politely decline. Thank you, and I am sorry."
"Ah, no need." Dark Enchantress cookie regards the newcomer in a more analytical light.
Clever and cautious. She seems to have some promise, after all. She folds her hands on the table. "So tell me- do you know the true purpose of Cookies? The reason why we have been brought to life?"
"..." Choco Thai Tea Cookie narrows her eyes. "If you're talking about what happens during the Banquet of the Gods... you don't need to tell me. I know."
"Ah, so you see my dilemma." Dark Enchantress Cookie relaxes. And she's already seen the truth. Hehehe- a perfect new subordinate! "Isn't it unfair? For our own creators to make us with our own hopes and dreams, only to dash them and consume us like cattle?"
"I suppose so. But life is often unfair, even without the Witches conspiring against us."
"Yes, yes! So my plan- the crux of my whole mission- is to find a power greater than the Witches themselves. Find a way to rebel against their wicked machinations, and give peace and freedom to both Cookies and Cakes!" Dark Enchantress Cookie feels her heart race at the idea of her goals.
Thai Tea, on the other hand, seems to think it over with more apathy. "Are they not leagues above us in power? Even with your... magic." She spits out that word with some vitriol, as if she was uncomfortable with it. "They still physically and magically overpower us."
"What part of 'finding a power greater than them' did you not understand?" Dark Enchantress Cookie scoffs.
"Yes, I heard you right the first time. But tell me-" Choco Thai Tea Cookie folds her hands together. "Do you even know their names? How they function? How their own brand of magic works?"
"Do you understand the very process of our creation? The way they have created Earthbread and placed us under these... skies?"
The mood in the room seems to shift to a more uncomfortable one, as the rest of the cookies begin to see how this unassuming, weak-looking cookie is more than she seems.
"Fascinating... you're thinking that far ahead." Pomegranate Cookie muses. "As disgraceful as you appear, there might be some use for your sorry little existence..."
Dark Choco Cookie raises an eyebrow. Dark Enchantress Cookie herself seems to consider her words.
"My, my... are you perhaps more of a scholar than a fighter, little one? Do you wish to learn more about the witches for our glorious mission?"
"And what if I am?" She tilts her head, tapping her hand on the table. "You seem to have no need for intellectuals. You already have a... you are a priestess, correct?" The cookie levels a glance at Pomegranate Cookie. "You already have a priestess at your side. And you seem to favor fighters, not thinkers."
"Perhaps I can make an accommodation for you, then." Dark Enchantress Cookie smirks, and holds out her hand. "I see that you have potential- just think of what you can discover about the Witches when you join our side!"
"And then, once we've learned every nook and cranny of their power... we'll take them on and overthrow them!"
There's a beat of silence. Choco Thai Tea Cookie pauses her fiddling, and slowly gets up from her seat.
"Ah. I see how it is." She turns to the rest of them, and glances them all over. "You're still indulging in that... frankly, impossible mission."
"Excuse me?!" Licorice Cookie gets up as well, his scythe in hand. "You DARE question our Master-?!"
"Honestly? I think it's something that no cookie can be able to do without irreparably destroying your world and yourself." She turns her nose up at Dark Enchantress Cookie, but politely pushes the chair back and turns away. "I am sorry- but goodbye. I will not join you on your... foolish suicide mission."
Dark Enchantress Cookie blinks, and the tension in the room doubles. Hmph. I guess it was a mistake to try this little experiment out, after all... summoning a cookie doesn't guarantee their loyalty.
However... I can't just let her walk out. She's seen too much of our plans and our base.
"And who says you had a choice?" Dark Enchantress Cookie points to her with her staff, and commands the rest of the dark cookies. "Dark Choco, Werehound Brute- stop her."
The prince of the Dark Cacao Kingdom looks conflicted at having to do this to someone so much smaller than him, but the both of them block the door out. Thai Tea's face morphs into confusion, and then slight panic.
"See, I summoned you here with the hopes that you would help me and my subordinates thwart some new upstarts." She drawls. "I can't have you running about, telling them about my plans- and right after you've seen the Cake Tower, too."
"Let me go." Choco Thai Tea Cookie's voice is strained, trying to remain calm as possible. "I assure you- I will not. My objective is to live a quiet life and continue my research in peace-"
"Ah, that research. Can't have such precious knowledge and potential fall into the hands of those who are unworthy, hm?" Dark Enchantress Cookie smirks. Pomegranate Cookie readies her own magic, and uses it to assess Thai Tea.
"She has naught but a small lick of magic, Master." She said, her tone condescending. "I suggest you dispose of this insect instead of keeping her around."
"My, my." Licorice Cookie grins as he summons three Licorice Servants, raising their blades. "Master! Please let me do the honors of disposing of her!"
"Very well, Licorice. Do as you please." Dark Enchantress Cookie waves her hand, and Licorice Cookie's grin gets wider.
"Minions- attack!" He points at Thai Tea, and they rush towards her.
[Ollie Choco Thai Tea Cookie]
No no no no NO! She's panicking, not sure of what to do. Come on, what am I supposed to do here?! I'm gonna die! AGAIN!
She panics as she balls her hands up into fists, and whips her head back. Dark Choco Cookie looks down at her with an apologetic, guilty look, and her way out is blocked. Damn it! NO!
"NO!" She dashes forward, seeing only one way out of this dilemma- fighting. Thai Tea grits her teeth, her mouth instinctually forming a wide, toothy grin- and she slams her hand into the first Licorice Servant.
It flies across the room and directly into Licorice Cookie's gut, sending him flying as well and he slams into the wall with a loud 'crack'.
Everyone goes quiet. The two other Licorice Servants (and the one that hit it's master) had poofed out of existence. Licorice Cookie is knocked out, the solid wall behind him having some cracks.
"W-wait... what?" She looks down at her fists- er, her nubs for hands in the shape of fists. They seem completely normal for an average cookie. How did I...
"Hm?" Dark Enchantress Cookie furrows her brows. "No, that cannot be right- tch! Red Velvet! Deal with her- Licorice has proven himself a failure once more!" She'd expected Licorice to fail, seeing that the dark mage was a frail cookie without his magic.
"Yes, my master!" Red Velvet Cookie takes his sword, and points it at Choco Thai Tea Cookie. "You there- stand down, and I will make your death quick. I do not wish to harm someone smaller than me!"
"I- I-!" Thai Tea panics, and she barely dashes to the side before the sword crashes down where she once stood. "Ack! Leave me alone!"
Dark Enchantress Cookie regards the cat-and-mouse chase of the little cookie in front of her with some annoyance and frustration. Here she was, wasting a Cookie Cutter only to get an uncooperative cookie, and not a new servant as she's expected.
"Come on, give up! Either join us or die!" She yelled. The enchantress spins her staff around, pointing it at Thai Tea Cookie. "I can give you all the power you want! All the fame, all the riches- anything!"
"Agh- as if I have any need for those things!" Choco Thai Tea Cookie scrambles under and around the table of the banquet, creating a mess as Red Velvet Cookie swings his blade down and accidentally destroys a chair instead.
"Fine then! If you're going to be so stubborn- then I'll end you right here and now!"
And that's when Dark Enchantress Cookie makes a grave mistake. See, she didn't know it- but Choco Thai Tea Cookie Ollie had a thing against magic. She'd been forced into that memory about Hansel and Gretel, forced to feel herself get tricked and captured by the witches, forced to feel as they used magic on her and cooked her alive-
So the magic chains that snapped around her arms and legs made her freeze up, and begin to spiral into a frantic terror. Dark Enchantress Cookie slowly drags her body up to look her in the eye, threatening her. “You have one last chance, foolish insect. Either join me now, or face my wrath.”
“A-ah- no, no no no- no! Let go of me! Let-!” She struggles against the chains, getting more and more scared and desperate as her rationality slips away.
”No? Well, what a shame.” Dark Enchantress Cookie spins her staff, and magic begins to crackle around the air. “I thought I wouldn’t have to do this… but goodbye.”
Ollie’s fear reaches a crescendo as the familiar feeling of magic makes her body react in visceral terror, remembering the last time she Gretel had been trapped and bound by magical means.
”Get AWAY FROM ME, WITCH!” She screeches, throwing her head back and yanking her body against the chains.
Despite Dark Enchantress Cookie’s prowess in the dark arts, they shatter like glass with that desperate tug, something interrupting the very matrix of the spell and rendering it useless. Dark Enchantress Cookie only has a second to react before Olivine lunges at her with all the fear, desperation and violence of a cornered animal.
SHE’S A WITCH SHE’S GOING TO KILL ME AND EAT ME AND BURN ME TO ASHES-
And when animals are cornered, when they see no way out and they’re surrounded by the possibility of death…
They bite.
Ollie opens up her mouth, feeling her jaw snap and her teeth bare (wait, she didn’t have teeth in this form) and the skin around her lips contort into a feral grin-
It’s a blur to her, her vision getting worse as she panics. All she remembers is the sound of a resounding ‘click’ like when her teeth snap shut, and the taste of red velvet cake and jam fill her mouth.
She’s delirious, her head fuzzy with stress and her eyes unfocused. She tastes the massive chunk of cake she’s just bitten into, so big and full that she does what her instinct tells her, which is to swallow.
Ollie- Choco Thai Tea Cookie- gulps it down. It travels down her throat and settles in the pit of her stomach, giving her a sense of fullness that filled the empty void, for now.
Delicious.
She hears… screaming? Yelling? The girl blinks her eyes a bit and her vision refocuses to see the dark cookies in front of her, all with varying expressions of shock, horror, aggression-
And Red Velvet Cookie stumbling in front of Dark Enchantress Cookie, his mismatched eyes wide as his cake arm was completely gone.
Oh FUCK.
[Red Velvet Cookie]
He’s loyal to Dark Enchantress Cookie and Dark Enchantress Cookie alone, because as cruel and callous as she could be at times, she was also the only cookie that cared about him and the Cake ‘monsters’. She’s give him his arm, saved him from being eaten by the Witches- why wouldn’t he dedicate his life to her?
So when that ingrate broke out of his master's spell, of course he'd jump in front of her to strike her down! It was his job to protect Dark Enchantress Cookie as the commander of the darkness!
"Stop right there! I command you to- AAAGH-!"
There's a sharp, guillotine-like feeling on his arm as a menacing 'CLACK!' fills the air, making it disappear into thin air. He stumbles, dropping his saw onto the ground with a metallic clatter.
"RED VELVET!" The other cookies react in various ways- some in horror, some in shock- honestly, he didn't expect Pomegranate Cookie to look so surprised at what had happened, nor did he expect that sort of terror from Schwarzwälder.
Licorice Cookie can't really react because he's knocked out, but oh well.
He turns his head up to where Dark Enchantress Cookie is standing, but instead of her usual smug or malicious expression, there's a hint of fear in that completely stunned expression.
"What... was that?" She whispered to herself, and from the looks of it, even his master didn't expect what had just happened. "What sort of magic..."
Choco Thai Tea Cookie is hunched over, her face obscured by her massive chocolate hair. She tilts her head up, her eyes glazed over with an unresponsive look, but there's a glimmer of hunger that terrifies even Red Velvet Cookie.
His arm is gone. His arm is gone. He's just processed that, looking back to where the limb was- and he sucks in a horrified gasp. Her antennae twitch at the sound. Everyone else is screaming for him to get back, as Thai Tea blinks and the awareness returns to her eyes.
"Ah-? Aaaah- AAA-!" She scrambles back, also terrified. It's like she has no idea what she's just done as well. "AAAAA-!"
She lets out a screech that crescendos, and charges forward with all of the desperation of a fleeing animal. She pushes aside Pomegranate Cookie, knocks Schwarzwälder to the ground, and barrels through Dark Choco Cookie in order to smash open the door, running through the halls.
"After her!" Dark Enchantress Cookie commands, using her magic once again to try and ensnare the fleeing cookie. The chains break once more, tearing like paper as Thai Tea keeps on going.
Red Velvet Cookie is tagging along, running as fast as he can while several Cake Hounds follow him. He can't exactly fight, but he can still command the Cakes to go after her.
Dark Enchantress Cookie opts out of trying to bind the cookie again, growling as she summons fireballs and curses, hurtling them at the small cookie. While she manages to dodge some of them, others manage to land true on their target.
The magic slides off of her like soda off a Gem Mermaid's tail. The spells instead explode on the ground and walls, making it harder for Dark Choco Cookie and Choco Werehound Brute to chase her.
"How?!" Dark Enchantress Cookie screeches, charging up a stronger attack. "How are you doing this?! Those would crumble a normal cookie!"
Choco Thai Tea Cookie is still panting heavily, running as fast as her legs could take her. There's an end to the hallway, but the crystal-candy door is bolted shut with the strongest chains they had-
Aaaand it all proceeded to go to hell once the little bug-like cookie slammed directly through the door, cracking it to pieces and shattering the candy-brick walls of the room.
"..."
"..." There's a shared silence between Schwarzwälder and Dark Choco Cookie while they slow down sightly, eyes wide at the sight. They would have had difficulty breaking down that door, and she just went through it in a panic?
"What are you doing, you imbecilic fools- keep on going after her!" Dark Enchantress Cookie screeches. "Pomegranate Cookie- stop her with an illusion!"
"Face your darkest fears in the name of my Master, pathetic insect!" Pomegranate Cookie waves her mirror, and the world shifts around them hazily as she casts the powerful spell.
There's a beat as Thai Tea punches through the mystical Illusion as well, shattering it to pieces and making Pomegranate recoil with a slight wail. "Ah!"
It's a dead end, with only a brick wall leading outside to a sheer drop downward. Choco Thai Tea slams through the wall, screaming in terror as she falls down to the dirt hundreds of feet below.
What they don't know is that for a human like her, that height would have only been the size of a kitchen counter or so. And when she finally hits the ground arm-first, her dough holds and she doesn't crumble at all, instead recoiling and stumbling a bit before skittering off into the dark forest.
"DAMN IT!" Dark Enchantress Cookie roars, absolutely infuriated. "Everyone- I want that cookie CAPTURED! Not dead!"
"I want to know what sort of monster I just summoned!"
