The Rebirth of the Phoenix

Chapter 19: In the Vanillan Land

In a void full of darkness a Cookie slumbered, he was dressed in waffle clothes and a cone hat. In his chest rested the Soul Jam of Truth, which started to glow amidst the pitch-black: "...Wake up, Pure Vanilla Cookie. The time for your second chance has come."

The wearer slowly ooens his eyes, and sees nothing but darkness around him. What became of his past? Where is he? ...And where is she?

"Who... Who are you...?" Pure Vanilla Cookie's consciousness asked the blue light, before succumbing to the darkness once more...

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"Master...! At last, you have regained your body and strength!" Pomegranate Cookie welcomed Dark Sorcerer Cookie, standing in one of the fallen Vanilla Kingdom's castle's corridor.

"My faithful Pomegranate Cookie... It's a pleasure to finally see you with my very eyes. I knew you would be the first to greet me." The Cookie replied, hand gripping on his scythe.

"They used to call this place this place the 'Vanilla Castle,' after that hypocrite king and his lackeys... But now, it's all waiting for you, Master, the rightful ruler! THE WORLD TREMBLED BEFORE YOU AND THE MIGHT OF THE DARKNESS YOU EMBODY!" The guilded Cookie claimed.

"No, Pomegranate Cookie, this is merely the start..." Dark Sorcerer Cookie announced, with his grand plan in motion, he will put the Vanilla Kingdom under his rule.

"I must claim the strength of the Five Heroes...! Soul Jam, made of the purest Life Powder, scattered across this world... Pure Vanilla Cookie... You shall watch from your abyssal prison as I use your power to reshape this world into my vision...!" Dark Sorcecer Cookie stated, looking outside of a window with dark eyes.

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The group of Cookies were running on dry ground, not any greenery in sight. With the arrival to the Vanillan grounds, a looming sense of dread surrounded the Cookies. Perhaps it was due to the neglect the land faced after the Dark Flour War.

"WHEN I SEE DARK SORCECER COOKIE AGAIN I'M GOING TO MAKE HIM WATCH ME CONSUME HIS OWN WEAPON." Gingerbright Cookie said calmly, hand holding her other fist tight.

"Ha ha! That old man knows better than to mess with ME, THE ALMIGHTY KING! Ahem..." Custard Cookie III said before tripping on a small pebble and suddenly, some crow silhouettes started to take flight.

"I suspect... No, I'm almost certain we are being watched!" Wizard Cookie assumed with certainty, and soon after, a Cookie appeared on the dried tree which the raisin crows flew away from. Her hair was black and in a long ponytail, her eyes as dark as her hair except for a pink spark in her left eye, with a spiked plate over her right, armless side.

"Outlanders! Not another step." The stranger threatened, with her only arm holding another raisin crow, significantly larger than the others.

"B-Black Raisin Cookie...!" Another Cookie called out, running towards the tree. The Cookie had raven hair and a broken pair of glasses.

"Go back and hide! It's an attack! Leave these outlanders to me." Black Raisin Cookie replied before the smaller crows came with waffle-made robots chasing behind them. And then dissappearing in the chaos between the Cookies and the mechanical creatures.

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"...So we just got treated as an enemy at first sight." Wizard Cookie deadpanned after shocking some of the Wafflebots that came as reinforcements. After running for what seemed to be an eternity, a settlement's shadow was getting closer and closer, but when they've arrived, a bunch of Raisin Villagers stood in front of them, not letting them in.