Years ago at the witches banquet, when White Lily Cookie fell into the pot, Dark Enchantress Cookie was then born from that pot. Throughout time, Dark Enchantress Cookie both hated the witches and White Lily Cookie for their mockery and weakness, yet… Back at the banquet, the same exact banquet… She overheard something from the witches.
Illusive Witch: "By the way… What happened to that meek author? Didn't they say that they'll be coming?"
Arrogant Witch: "Oh hush, dear! You know them. They often don't come to events such as this one."
Weeping Witch: "True, but last time… They did come to the banquet last time and yet… Something about them felt off."
Nonchalant Witch: "True that. If I remember correctly… They didn't even bother to eat the cookies we had prepared."
Illusive Witch: "Oh yes! I remember! They were very much a picky eater!"
Arrogant Witch: "And too sympathetic over our food as well."
Weeping Witch: "S-Say… What was their name again?"
Illusive Witch: "I dunno."
Arrogant Witch: "I remember that it was Ambrose. Or was it.. Riumi?"
Nonchalant Witch: "Definitely Riumi… That's at least what I remember."
…
… Riumi, huh?
…
Dark Enchantress Cookie: "A witch who can't eat the cookies that the other witches created for their lofty stomachs… An intriguing character indeed."
Nightbringer: "Your grace…"
Dark Enchantress Cookie: "What is it?"
Nightbringer Cookie: "The souls of the beasts… We have successfully given them newly developed bodies. As of now, they are currently asleep and recovering."
Dark Enchantress Cookie: "And your subordinate and last soul?"
Nightbringer: "No word from them yet, but rest assured, your grace… They will be back. I am sure they have their reasons to stay behind for a little while longer."
Dark Enchantress Cookie: "Oh I'm sure… For whatever you are saying is true, Nightbringer Cookie., just know that damn well you know how it ends if you betray me."
Nightbringer: "Fret not, your grace. I would never betray such evilness… Never!~"
Dark Enchantress Cookie: "... You are dismissed."
Nightbringer: "As you wish, your grace."
…
"Pure Vanilla Cookie…
Pure Vanilla Cookie…"
That voice again…
Why are you calling out to me?
"White Lily Cookie needs your help...
She must wake up...
So that she may hear my voice once more…"
What must we do?
Where could she have gone?
How are we supposed to wake her up?
"In the kingdom secluded and shut behind closed doors…
At the heart of the land…
The Kingdom of Faeries…"
Light of Freedom?
W-Wait!
… H-Huh?
A little girl?
W-Wait… Something's off about her…
… !!!!!!!!
"... To where do the stars truly fall…?"
…
Pure Vanilla Cookie: *GASP... huff… huff…*
GingerBrave: "Pure Vanilla Cookie…?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "GingerBrave…? D-Did I worry you just now?"
GingerBrave: "Well, yes. But are you alright, Pure Vanilla Cookie? You haven't been getting proper rest lately."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "I'm fine. Please don't worry about me, GingerBrave."
Mariya: "Heads up everyone… We made it."
Wizard Cookie: "Woooow…"
Strawberry Cookie: "What are those creatures flying in the sky?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "I don't know! But they look vaguely familiar…"
Celestine: "We should be able to cross the border from here."
Mariya: "Stay alert everyone… We don't know what will happen once we cross the border from here."
Wizard Cookie: "Agreed."
Once the airship has crossed the borders of beast yeast, GingerBrave and his friends went outside to take a better look of their surroundings in the skies, from there.. There were a lot of those flying creatures from earlier and they look a lot bigger than previously.
GingerBrave: "Wooow… They really are majestic."
Wizard Cookie: "Look at that one over there!"
Celestine: "Ehehe~"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "GingerBrave! Try not to go overboard over there."
GingerBrave: "O-Oh! Right, thanks for that."
Strawberry Cookie: "KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!"
Celestine: "Strawberry cookie?!"
GingerBrave: "STRAWBERRY COOKIE!!"
— THUD
Wizard Cookie: "IT'S THE FLYING CREATURE FROM EARLIER!!!"
Mariya: "WHAT THE FUUUUCKKKK!??!?!?!?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Mariya Cookie?!"
Mariya: "Ship's fucking stuck!! Can't control—"
— BREAK
Mariya: "..."
Wizard Cookie: "...."
GingerBrave: "..."
Mariya: "Do not panic…"
— THUD, BREAK, CRACK
— POP
Mariya: "Okay… Now we panic."
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
When the creature landed on the airship, having to grab hold of Strawberry Cookie, it broke the balloon and the propeller leaving everyone falling into their deaths as soon as the creature let go of both the airship and Strawberry Cookie from its tentacles.
GingerBrave: "WAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!!"
Strawberry Cookie: "KYAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
Mariya: "FOOOOR FUUUCK'S SAAAKEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "GINGERBRAVEEEEEEE!!"
GingerBrave: "YEAH?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "GRAB HOLD OF STRAWBERRY AND WIZARD COOKIE!! — ON THE COUNT TO THREE, CELESTINE COOKIE…"
Celestine: *nods*
Mariya: "COUNT TO WHAT AGAIN!??!?? THE HELL YOU GUYS GONNA DOOOOOOO??!!!??!!?"
… ONE
… TWO
… THREE!!
The moment when all of them were about to hit the ground, Celestine and Pure Vanilla Cookie's quick thinking casted a spell that would slow their fall. A gust of wind soon surrounded them and slowly put them down on the ground, but then.. Celestine, out of nowhere, cast a strong barrier around them and the airship soon landed, crashing itself down on the ground, leaving a pile of rubble and dust.
Mariya: "Show offs."
Wizard Cookie: "Ooohh… My dough.."
Strawberry Cookie: "That was close…"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Is everyone alright?"
GingerBrave: "We're fine! But…"
Mariya: "Where, where!! Where in the hell are they!??!"
Celestine: "Mari—"
Mariya: "Ah, thanks. — AH HAH! FOUND THEM!!"
Wizard Cookie: "... And what are—"
Mariya: "I'll explain it later. Right now… We landed in the middle of nowhere here in the forest."
Celestine: "Hmm…"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Something the matter, Celestine Cookie?"
Celestine: "... It's nothing. Thought I felt something just now."
Wizard Cookie: "Speaking of nowhere… How are we supposed to get back to Crispia? With the airship destroyed—"
Mariya: "Worry about that later, 'kay? That's my problem for later."
Wizard Cookie: "Your problem?!"
Mariya: "Yes. My problem. Now come on, we better move."
Strawberry Cookie: "To where?"
Mariya: "Anywhere but here, that's for sure."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "She's right, best we go find what we came here for on foot."
Right!!
Mariya: "... Hey, Celestine? You coming or what?"
Celestine: "... Hmm? Right, sorry."
Mariya: "You're not the only one who's paranoid."
Celestine: "... You feel it too?"
Mariya: "No doubt about it. Furthermore… There's another one that's watching us in the shadows."
Celestine: "...."
…
… One, two, three…
6 little cookies have entered the land of Beast Yeast…
Hmm… Strange…
Out of 6… One among them is really an odd ball…
This shall be interesting.
…
Venturing deep into the unknown, they encountered a lot of unfamiliar creatures within the place, some were familiar in books while others were newly mutated. Strawberry Cookie kept herself close to Celestine while Wizard and GingerBrave stayed behind Pure Vanilla Cookie and Celestine. As for Mariya… She has been documenting everything within her digital notes, top to bottom about the place.
Suddenly… At the nearby bushes… A rushling sound can be heard and it startled Strawberry Cookie to the core. The rest soon had their guards up and prepared themselves for what's about to happen next. Soon… The creature behind the bushes leapt out and landed on… GingerBraves head?
GingerBrave: "GAAAAHH!! — Ah… W-Wait… What's this thing on my head?!"
???: "Kekeke~ Silly little cookies! You really are gullible."
Mariya: "Says the lizard."
Weird Lizard: "Wh-Who're you calling lizard?! — H-Hey! Put me down!!"
Mariya: "How about a no?"
Weird Lizard: "Why you—"
Wizard Cookie: "Just who are you anyway?"
Weird Lizard: "Put me down and I'll tell you."
Mariya: "Or I deep fry you for dinner, how's that sound for you?"
Weird Lizard: "GAAH! I WON'T RUN AWAY!! I PROMISE!!"
GingerBrave: "EEEK!! It… Transformed into a cookie?"
Mariya: "Your life's spared then… For now."
???: "Tch… Well thanks."
Celestine: "Very sorry for that, but our question still stands. Who exactly are you?"
Carameleon Cookie: "At least someone has manners… *AHEM*... The name's Carameleon Cookie! And I, am the Master of Survival in the land of Beast-Yeast."
Mariya: "MMMMMMM… Yeah I don't buy it."
Strawberry Cookie: "Carameleon Cookie…?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Ah! I've read about these kinds of creatures in a book somewhere before! You're able to blend into your surroundings, correct?"
Carameleon Cookie: "Yup! — Not only that… I also have a good eye!"
Mariya: "... Yeeeaaahh… I still don't buy it."
Celestine: "Heehee~ For someone who has survived in this harsh environment, you sure are adorable in this form."
Carameleon Cookie: "M-Me?! Adorable?! Don't flatter me! I am not cute!!"
Mariya: "Anyway… Since you're an 'expect' around these parts of the forest, JUST WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT CREATURE FROM EARLIER?!?!"
Carameleon Cookie: "Jelly Squids."
Mariya: "Jelly wah?"
Carameleon Cookie: "Jelly squids! They're the creatures from earlier? And also the reason why your… ship crashed in this forest."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "No wonder they looked so familiar to me earlier! But I heard that those jelly squids were extinct nearly eons ago, so how come they're still alive til this very day?"
Carameleon Cookie: "Beats me. Nature can be pret—ty mysterious… In its own way."
Mariya: "Uh huh…"
Celestine: "Hehe.."
— Bzzzz…
— Rustle, rustle..
StrawBerry Cookie: "Wh-What… Are those?"
Carameleon Cookie: "Yeast spores! And a whole herd of them!!"
GingerBrave: "A-Are they friendly…?"
— Bzzz…
— BZZZZZTTTT
GingerBrave: "Nope.. NOPE!! DEFINITELY NOT FRIENDLY!!"
Mariya: "Come on! We better move! Follow—AACK!! The FUCK?!"
Carameleon Cookie: "Come on, cookies! This way!"
Running away from the dangers they have faced, they soon stopped themselves to take a moment to breathe. Immensely, they were exhausted to the core from running and fighting the overall Yeast Spores… But not for Carameleon Cookie.
GingerBrave: *huff… huff…* "Did we… Lose 'em?"
Wizard Cookie: "I think so…"
GingerBrave: "Woo.. Oh boy… Can we really find Dark Enchantress Cookie in this land, Pure Vanilla Cookie? Everywhere we go… We'd end up running back to those guys."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "We must! And yet, considering our limited information and strength… It might be reckless for us to go searching for her at this moment."
Mariya: "YA THINK!?!?!"
Wizard Cookie: "More importantly… We don't know exactly where is Dark Enchantress Cookie. Nor where she is residing."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "That might be true, but the objective of this expedition is learning more about what Dark Enchantress Cookie is scheming here in Beast-Yeast. And to do that, we must first find out why Dark Enchantress Cookie has chosen Beast-Yeast as her stronghold."
Celestine: "Something tells me that this place feels rather off. Almost as if—"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "That there is something hidden here within Beast-Yeast."
Mariya: "Yep… Definitely deja vu."
Strawberry Cookie: "Say Carameleon Cookie."
Carameleon Cookie: "Hmm?"
Strawberry Cookie: "Didn't you say that you're a master survivalist here in Beast-Yeast? Surely you know more about this than us, right?"
Carameleon Cookie: "Indeed I do. Weeeeelllll… all we've seen so far is this endless jungle teeming with strange monsters…"
Strawberry Cookie: "Do Cookies even live on Beast-Yeast...?"
Carameleon Cookie: "PFFFFTT!! OBVIOUSLY, crumbs-for-brains!"
Wizard Cookie: "You sure talk a lot for your size!"
Carameleon Cookie: "My SIZE?! I'm almost as big as you!"
Mariya: "Yet both of your egos are even more obnoxious than your overall height."
Wizard Cookie & Carameleon Cookie: "HEY!!"
Celestine: "Surely you know something that we don't, Pure Vanilla Cookie."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "If knowledge serves me well… batches of Cookies live scattered across Beast-Yeast, as they've learned to thrive, despite its harsh conditions. Cookies whose names are found only in legends."
Celestine: "Hmm… — Huh?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "... Something the matter, Celestine Cookie?"
Celestine: "Thought I saw something — or someone just now."
…
I must reveal it…!!
… The secret of Cookie Creation!
…
Pure Vanilla Cookie: ".....!!!!!!!"
Celestine: "A voice?"
Mariya: "Heard it too?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Did you?"
Mariya: "Yeah… THAT THIS PLACE FUCKING SUCKS!!!"
Celestine: *sigh*... "Good grief, Mari…"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Ehee~.."
Mariya: "Anyway, follow me. I think there's something from way over there."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "So you actually heard the voice?"
Mariya: "The hell you talking about, Vani? Plus this is a gut feeling. I heard nothing."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Then…"
Celestine: "Best we don't think about it for now, okay? Let's keep moving."
As they thread further into the forest, they question if Pure Vanilla Cookie was leading them to the right direction of the place. The obvious answer was rather simple;
Mariya: "You sure we're going the right way?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Yes, I am sure of it."
Mariya: "... No, you clearly don't. Furthermore… We're literally going around in circles!"
Wizard Cookie *huff… huff*... "I don't think I can keep up."
Celestine: "Oh my! Wizard Cookie…"
GingerBrave: "Hmm? GAAH!! It's those Yeast Spores again!!"
Strawberry Cookie: "Wait GingerBrave! I don't think they're attacking us."
— Bzzzz..
— zzt.. Zzt!
Wizard Cookie: "Do they… Want us to follow them...?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Surely they're not leading us into a trap... right?"
Mariya: "Please don't jinx it."
Carameleon Cookie: "Yyyyyeeeeeeeppppp...! I'm not going any further! So long!"
Mariya: "What the—OI!!!"
Celestine: "W-Wait! Carameleon Cookie!"
Strawberry Cookie: "He already disappeared..."
Mariya: "Grrrrr… The next time I see him… I am SO GONNA MAKE HIM A LIZARD SKEWER!!"
GingerBrave: "Come on guys! Let's follow these guys. Maybe they know the way."
Mariya: "I hope so… — Wait Where'd Celestine go?"
… Oh no.
Earlier from before, when Carameleon Cookie soon disappeared from them… One of the Yeast Spores wanted Celestine to follow them, separating them from the group. Celestine was hesitant at first when they were trying to tell her to abandon her group of friends, but seeing how the spores were willing to show her the way, she had no choice but to do so.
Deep within the forest, far away from the group, Celestine threads further down as she follows the spores to who knows where they'll lead her to. But then… A little sound can be heard in the distance… The soft chime bells felt melodic, but for the yeast spores.. It was danger right around the corner of their little plucks.
The chimes grew louder, as if it was coming straight towards Celestine. In the very midst… Those chimes soon came quiet and revealed a young cookie with wings that looked ethereal to the eyes that were drawn to it. The person held their bow right in front of Celestine with fierce intent, soon they spoke steadily.
Winged Knight: "You! Who are you?! A cookie such as yourself shouldn't be here!"
Celestine: "Ah… I'm sorry. I—"
Winged Knight: "State who you are!"
Celestine: "... Celestine 'cookie'."
Winged Knight: "... I don't see any ill intent in your eyes. You're all in the clear. I'm sorry if I startled you just now too.
Celestine: "It's quite alright."
Winged Knight: "So tell me… What's a cookie such as yourself doing all the way out here in Beast-Yeast?"
Celestine: "I got myself lost in these woods, and got separated from my friends."
Winged Knight: "Hmm… I see. Well… If you'd like, maybe we can find your friends together, Celestine Cookie!"
Celestine: "Are you sure?"
Winged Knight: "It is a knight's duty to help, so of course! And besides… I know for a fact that a really good friend of mine will do the same too."
Celestine: "Ehee~ Very well then."
Winged Knight: "O-Oh! I haven't introduced myself yet, haven't I? Forgive my rudeness, miss."
Celestine: "It's quite alright, so what is your name?"
Winged Knight: "Its—"
KYAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!
HA HA HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!
Winged Knight: "What was that sound just now?!"
Celestine: "Oh dear…"
Winged Knight: "Let's hurry! I do think they need our help."
Celestine: (I just hope they're doing alright without me.)
Moments earlier…
…
GingerBrave: "Come on guys! Let's follow these guys. Maybe they know the way."
Mariya: "I hope so… — Wait Where'd Celestine go?"
… Oh no.
Wizard Cookie: "She was just here with us not too long ago!"
Strawberry Cookie: "Do you think—"
Mariya: "She's not. She'll be fine."
GingerBrave: "You're.. Not worried about her?"
Mariya: "Of course I am worried! But what can we do in a situation like this one? We can't just split up and hope to come back after we have found her."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "She has a point, GingerBrave. It is best we keep moving, if fate is with us.. Surely we'll see her again in no time."
GingerBrave: "Hrmm.. Alright. I just hope we'll see Celestine Cookie again."
The group kept following the yeast spores as they thread even further deep within the forest of Beast-Yeast. As further and deeper they go, the eeriness in the air soon suffocates them, leaving them in a panic. Now lost and nowhere else to go, they all agreed that they shouldn't have followed those yeast spores.
Surrounding them were a group of creatures that they have never seen before, along with those yeast spores. The group soon prepared themselves for battle against all odds. With swiftness and ease, the group eliminated every single one of them… Yet it was merely a warm up for Mariya.
Mariya: "Tch… Too easy to be this challenging."
Wizard Cookie: "For you, sure. For us, no."
GingerBrave: *cough cough*... "Too much.. Powder…"
Strawberry: *whines… cough* "L-Look over.. There!"
Mariya: "A shard?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "No.. It cannot be..!!"
…
I must reveal it...!
The secret...
…
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "... A shard of the Light of Freedom!"
Wizard Cookie: "'The Light of Freedom', you say? Is it similar to your Light of Truth?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Yes, I carry the Light of Truth in my Soul Jam just like White Lily Cookie carried the Light of Freedom in hers."
WHITE LILY COOKIE?!?!
Mariya: "Lily wuh—"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "I thought... it faded away when White Lily Cookie became Dark Enchantress Cookie. And yet… Now it feels as if the Light of Freedom is calling out to me."
Mariya: "Vani hold on—"
When Pure Vanilla Cookie touched the shard of the Light of Freedom, a vision of the past soon revealed to them; in the past, White Lily Cookie ventured into the depths of Beast-Yeast in search for the truth of cookie creation, to answer her longing and awaited question why most cookies in this world were created and what were their purpose in their lives.
White Lily Cookie was the one who followed the Yeast Spores in the forest when she first encountered them in her journey, but the Yeast Spores in the past were rather friendly towards her rather than a threat.
GingerBrave: "W-Woah! What was that dream just now?!"
Wizard Cookie: "Did we all have the same dream somehow...?!"
Strawberry Cookie: "That was definitely... White Lily Cookie...!"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "... Could that have been… A fragment of White Lily Cookie's memories...?"
Mariya: "Most likely. And there's also a possibility that there are more of these shards deep within the forest."
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Hmm…" (Is it possible... that the voice that called for me came from this fragment?)
Wizard Cookie: "Now hold up! Can we really be sure that this isn't one of Dark Enchantress Cookie's sinister tricks?"
Strawberry Cookie: "Wizard Cookie's right… Remember how Dark Enchantress Cookie used White Lily Cookie's memories to lure us in and free herself...?"
Mariya: "Just how traumatized are you kids?"
Wizard Cookie: "I suspected a trap here in Beast-Yeast since the very beginning!"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "If that is the case, we're only playing into Dark Enchantress Cookie's plans. But whatever she is planning, this shard might provide a clue. I think we should take it with us." (And if it really is a piece of White Lily Cookie's memories, it's all the more reason to keep it…)
Mariya: "...." (I have a bad feeling about this… Whatever it might be… I know in my guts that there's someone waiting for us somewhere.)
— Grrrr…
— RAAAAAAA!!!
Mariya: "You gotta be FUCKING KIDDING ME!?!??!!?"
Pure Vanilla Cookie: "Prepare for battle everyone!!"