Muffin Tales

Cocoa For Your Troubles

A knock on the door was heard, Devil got up and opened the door. The person in front of her was a tall hooded woman with a short cloak as Devil was able to recognize her despite the woman barely revealing her face at all.

"Oh. You're back."

"Hello, Devilisha." The woman greeted.

"Madame Gallmazun." Devil bowed, awkwardly. The woman chuckled at her formalities as Devil gestured her to take a seat.

"Angie! Look who's back from her travels in the overworld!" That's when Angel rushed to the living room while crashing some furniture in the process. (More preferably, some vases...)

"Ms. Gallmazun! Y-You're here!!!" Angel stood up, straightening her back.

"Nice to see you too, Angely." Angel bowed in the same way Devil did, she snickered at this while doing so.

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"My sincerest apologies for keeping you all waiting, but as I've only been gone for a week, I've been thinking about making young Maalik a companion to be friends with." Grimoire kept digging her hands into her bag as she pulled out some baking ingredients and ingredients that can be found in the surface.

"Make Mimi a friend?" Devil asked.

"I'm sorry but Mimi already has friends, so..." Angel said.

"Do any of them seem to understand her gestures?" Grimoire questioned, making the two to think of an answer for that. Mimi somehow 'mentioned' her friends to them, but the two never fully get to know them.

"I..." The two said, lost for words.

"And the fact that she sometimes gets outside and explore the wonders of the underworld without your company?" The two shot up their heads to the woman aside them. "Based on from what I've experience." She muttered.

"You see, I have this idea where I want create a companion for Mimi to be guided by other than us..." She walked into the kitchen and saw Mimi taking some of her leftover banana bread from the fridge. The devil caught a glimpse of Grimoire and tackled the lady into a hug.

"Alright Mimi, it's good to see you too." Grimoire giggled while patting Mimi's head as she purred from the action and proceeded on taking the banana bread to the living room for her to munch on.

"It's just sad to think that Mimi was feeling lonely these days..." She turned to the two and continued, "Despite the two of you being around of course."

"W-Well, we're always here to keep Mimi company so... it's our job to do so." Devil shrugged.

"I know you both well that you two have only kept her out of trouble... with Devil not giving her a damn of course."

"Hey!"

"No offense but... that's true. She never really cared about Mimi's well-being." Angel commented.

Grimoire smiled, though you couldn't tell since you can't see her face at all.

"Now if you'll excuse me, I'll be creating Mimi a companion." The lady vanished herself into her research lab.

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Angel was cooking some dinner for the night while keeping an eye out for Devil and the cat, which is just watching her cook the food.

"Would you like some cocoa?" A voice was heard behind her, she turned to see that nobody was there but...

"Whoa! You almost stepped on me there!" A small gingerbread cookie said, she was now on top of Angel's head as the cookie smiled.

"Hello!" And this is the part where Angel freaked out and ran into Devilisha's arms, screming.

"WHAT THE HECK IS THAT?!" Angel pointed at the cookie below them, with the little one forming a confused look. Devil blinked a few times, then rubbing her own eyes to see if that gingerbread is not the cutest thing she's ever seen.

"Omigosh...." Devil's eyes sparkled and kneeled down at the cookie.

"Who-" The devilish girl was interrupted by the sudden presence of none other than Grimoire.

"Grimoire?! Wait, THIS is going to be Mimi's friendly companion? Because I saw you with those cookie ingredients and wondered what you're going to do with. But I never expected THIS!" Angel pointed at the lady, yelling frantically.

"Apperantly, yes my dear. Her name is Cocoa Cookie." Grimoire said, completely ignoring the rest of Angel's comments. Then Cocoa Cookie jumped upon the tall lady's opened hands.

"Pleased to meet you all!" She smiled innocently. Now it's Angel's turn to have her eyes sparkle, the innocence in her expression made her wanna die in cuteness overload.

"Cocoa...? Why cocoa?" Devil raised a brow.

"You know how cocoas are prone to heat... Plus, I accidentally dropped my cup of cocoa while making her." Grimoire added.

"Mimi!" The woman called out as the devil was seen walking towards them, "Meet Cocoa Cookie." Mimi's eyes widened in surpirse before her expression softened when Cocoa summoned some kind of giant cup (for her size) and hovered around Mimi as she landed on her shoulders, vanishing the cup while landing on her.

"Oh, by the way..." Grimoire dugged into her bag once more as she pulled out a small marshmallow, that had its top roasted and resembling a hamster.

"This is Marshmallow Hamster, Cocoa Cookie's pet." She gave the hamster to the cookie, hugging it tightly.

"Now that you have your own playmate in the household, Mimi, you need to take good care of..." Grimoire turned to see Mimi running towards her room, slamming the door shut.

"...them."

"Well, that end well..." Devil said, suddenly hearing some ruckus from the kitchen. The three rushed their way there and caught their cat eating all the food.

"DROP IT!!!" When Angel yelled angrily at it, the cat threw up.

"Ew, not that kind of 'drop it' you were expecting, huh?"

Published: May 31, 2020