A Tale of Two Lovers|Licorice×Clover Cookie

Time Skip🤩💅

A week later in the Cookie Kingdom,

Herb cookie was putting up missing posters everywhere and asking every cookie he encountered if they had seen Clover. Herb glanced towards the woods that Clover had gone to eight days ago.

"I'm done..." The cookie muttered to himself as he went into the direction of the woods. As soon as he entered he started running and running and running untill far away from the kingdom. "Pant...Pant..." Herb was out of breath from all the running he had just done.

Finally, after regaining his stamina he decided it would be better to walk. It all happened so fast as soon as he took another step, he could feel this awful presence surrounding him. Despite being scared, he continued on. After a few more minutes of walking he saw this Castle. The castle had a beautiful design it may have looked destroyed to some but Herb saw the potential in this castle.

  "Nows not the time to be fawning over beautiful homes, Herb" he said to himself. He took a few steps forward he hated the feeling of this place. "Hiiii....." Upon hearing, this he immediately turned around to see what had said this. When he turned around he say what he realized was a child. He did not like the vibe this cookie gave off.

"Do you live here?"  Herb cookie asked the smaller cookie. The cookie standing before him answered by nodding his head indicating that they did, in fact live there. Herb cookie went serious very quickly and said "Have you seen this cookie?" The cookie infront of him stared at Herb and responded with " I...don't think Pomegranate with be happy with me...telling you that..." Herb cookie snapped into reality and looked the cookie dead in the eyes.

"Tell me where he is." The cookie ran off before Herb could get an answer. This was Herb's only chance to find Clover he had to take it, even if Clover really wasn't there and he was just about to embarrass himself. As he followed the kid he saw that they went into the castle. Herb was hesitant about going into this stranger's home yet it was his only lead to finding Clover.

He opened the doors and snuck through the hallway. He soon came to realize that this place was MUCH bigger then it seemed. After sneaking by he tripped over something. When he looked down he saw rock placed in the middle of the hallway. Hoping that he had made too much noise he got up and continued his task. After not too long he reached a door that drew his attention. This door was either a trap or someone really stupid put it there. The door had a big sign that said in bid bold letters

                              "Dungeon"

Herb was thinking if it was a good idea to go in there. Before he came to a decision he heard talking down the hall. This was his only way to avoid the cookies coming towards him. Not wasting another second he opened the door and ran into the dungeon. When he walked into the dungeon a couple of things caught his eye.

1: The only door with metal on it. 2: That there were no cookies there, other than him of course. And 3: That he did not think this was a trap. He heard distant talking he assumed that it was the cookies in the hallway. He thought that while he was down here he might as well explore.

When he walked closer to the metal door the voices got louder. Are there cookies in there..?
Herb pressed his ear to the cold door, hoping to hear the conversation better. He felt that one of the voices was familiar. "Wait..." He thought. He quickly opened the door to see who was in there, he didn't care if he got in trouble or there were consequences to trespassing.

When he saw the cookies infront of him, he froze. Tears flooded from his face he could only seem to focused on the cookie to the back of the room.

"Clover..?"