Fragments - A Cookie Run Fanfiction

Chapter Three: Worry

Strawberry Cookie was with Herb Cookie and Chili Pepper Cookie- they had ventured off into the forest to try and find GingerBrave, because Purple Yam was looking for him for some reason. The biggeer cookie had tasked himself with something- as to why he couldn't go and try to find GingerBrave himself.

The forest had a mysterious air to it today- something felt off, and none of them could explain what it was. Herb was walking behind the two others, looking around aat the trees in thought. He blinks his brown eyes as he tried to listen for any signs of the brave cookie that they needed to find. So far- there was nothing but the ambiance of the forest- Peaceful, and calm. Melodic.

Strawberry made sure to stay close to the other two cookies who had come with her to find him- originally, they were intent on splitting up at the pathways- but the uneasy feeling in the forest kept all of them from doing so. Something wasn't right.

Chili Pepper played with her small knives as she looked around from time to time. She knew well that she usually never had to keep an eye out for Brave- Brave Cookie was loud by nature- unless he was trying to communicate with someone who preferred quiet communication. She tossed her knife up, and down, and caught it by the handle, letting the blade spin a bit.

Haphazardous.

Surely somethig she would be lightly scolded for by Almond if he were around.

"Have you guys seen any signs of Ginger B' Being around yet? The silence is killin' me." Girl noted as she grunted, putting her knives back where she usually stored them. "You two never did talk too much, did ya?"

Both Herb and Strawberry look at each other. Strawberry was walking backwards, and the man continued to walk at a normal pace, facing forward the whole time. The younger of the the three cookies shook her head, before bringing her hands out of her pocket.

"I talk, I just couldn't think of anything to talk about. It's hard for me to communicate with others a lot- especially if Brave is not around, but I am working on it. I am just more worried about him right now... I don't like what feeling I am getting, and I don't even know what this feeling is..." There was a lot of pensiveness behind the words of the hoodied cookie. She starts to look around, her brow arching in a way that made it clear she was uneasy.

Herb sighs, before looking around at the trees. "I am unsure about this place. Something is definitely wrong." the man starts to readjust his apron, tucking the strings in the back in so they wouldn't get caught on anything.

Chili Pepper cookie just grunted, but she nodded, understanding a bit more. She wouldn't fault them for their preferences. At least she had an answer now.

As they continued their walk, they all shared light conversation. Mainly with long gaps of silence in between but it was the bits that counted here ad there anyhow. After an unidentified mount of time, Herb heard something, and called out to the other two cookies to ask them to stop moving. Chili and Strawberry both look back to the green haired cookie, before complying, pulling themselves to a stop.

They all started to her it- it was the sound of slight dragging- almost like someone had a limp and were unable to lift their leg.

It was close by- so after a little bit of looking, they should be able to find the source- the all nod to each other, walking off in slightly different directions- but still made sure to keep within hearing-range of each other, in case something happened, or went wrong.

5 minutes pass- and Herb calls out to the other two, seeming to be in a hurry. "Chili, Strawberry, come here- I found him!" there was slight panic in his voice, it was clear that something caused him to either be unnerved or perhaps slightly panicked. Both cookies that were paged started to quickly make their way off into the direction that Herb had went, spotting him not even two minutes later- he was kneeled over something on the ground-

Upon getting a closer look- Chili and Strawberry took notice that it was Brave- he looked fairly fine, save for a lot of jam under his leg- the biggest concern was the strange pink crystal-like spear that had embedded itself in the poor kids leg-

"What in the name of RoyalBerry happened here?!" Chili exclaimed, before rushing forward a bit. She went and kneeled next to the child was face flat on the ground, and clearly unresponsive. She tapped on his shoulder, hoping to recieve a response that indicated at least some kind of stimuli.

Other than Brave's leg moving in discomfort upon touching the object that had been lodged into his limb, there was not much of a reaction to anything.

Strawberry was squeamish at the sight of the the ripe red-pink jam that came from her friends leg. "Hey- G-Ginger- come on, say something- are you alright..?!" the questionn was hesistant. It seemed she didn't really want an answer- it was clear he wasn't okay- but he hopefully wasn't dead-

Herb looked even more troubled that the other two were, somehow. He shook his head, trying to use his healing ability to at least stop the bleeding. However, it wasn't working. It was strange, something that Herb hardly ever encountered- and that worried him more.

Brave was losing his inner contents fast.

"My healing isn't helping- it hasn't made anything close up a bit so he at least can keep what remains in his body where it is supposed to be-" he somewhat stuttered out- before shaking his head. "I can't do anything... and I don't have too much medical awareness other than what my healing abilities do. I'm going to tie off his leg, but we can't remove whatever this thing is, before we get back to the kingdom, it could be even more fatal."

Chili and Strawberry nodded to the green haired cookie, before the red haired girl took her weapons out of their holsters, and handed them to the smaller female. "Here, strawberry. I am going to carry Brave- I want you to hold these to make sure that they don't come loose- I won't be able to pick them up, and Herb doesn't like knives too much-"

All of the cookies present worked as fast as they could without being reckless. Herb tore off part of his apron, and sued it to tie off GingerBrave's leg, and Chili handed her weapons over to Strawberry who was apprehensive to have them, but didn't refuse. As soon as the unconcscious boy was picked up, all of them made a quick run back to the kingdom, following the path they were on- chili holding the child as steady as she could, so nothing got damaged more than it already was.

All of them travelled in relative silence, and held hope that they woudn't run into any animals.

Other than a few stumps of trees, sugar rocks, and loose vines, there weren't any problems- Strawberry cookie ran ahead, spotting the gate of the Cookie Kingdom. Finally! They were almost there!

She looks back to GingerBrave again, wondering just what happened, before shaking her head. She would just ask later when he was better- he would be okay- he always was...

That last thought didn't help with her sinking feeling though.

(To Be Continued)