Takes place in my vague undefined Beast redemption au where the spice swarm has been dismantled and Nutmeg's been reformed(ish) through Mozz and this weird half qpr half situationship thing they have going on. B!TES girls are all kinda gay with eachother but it's more of a situational group camaraderie thing than a true poly relationship.
Nutmeg doesn't even have to SEE them being all close and gay behind closed doors to get jealous though—just seeing them all hanging together irks her a little. Nutmeg starts lurking at their shows like a FREAK and Mozzarella notices bc she's a terrible lurker and they get nasty about it yay
What happened with Petal/reader's ex? Did he just cheat on her?
@cookielovetorun LORE DROP!! Warnings for toxic/abusive relationships.
Ok...To put it in perspective to how bad it was, Butterfly had a MUCH healthier relationship with the Ebony Dragon when they were alive. Heck. Even her currently relationship with Longan NOW is much healthier than Petal's ex.
Yes. It was that bad.
It wasn't anything physically bad but emotionally, finanacually, and verbally-...Yeah. Longan and Ebony never manipulated Butterfly and tried to cut her off or belittle her as evil as they were in the past.
Petal and her Ex fiance were together since teenagers in high school. Back then she was a lot less confident in herself with low self esteem and anxiety. So having one of the most handsome boys in school wanting to date her was a dream to her.
So in reality, she wore rose colored glasses for all of it as he wore her down.
He pretty much molded her into what he wanted, which was a trophy GF since Petal did get REALLY beautiful during puberty but low self esteem does that to a gal. Backwards compliments. Y'know the ones- "Do you really want that desert? What if you get fat? I can't be with someone who doesn't take care of herself?" "You look so beautiful with make up but you're prettier without it. You don't have to wear it and cover your natural beauty up." "You're wearing THAT? ...Oh no. There's nothing wrong with it but don't you think it's a little too-...Revealing? What if others get the wrong idea?" Etc. Etc.
He was pretty controlling too-
"I don't think you should see your friend anymore." "Why?" "He's only hanging around you because he likes you! I heard him talking to Froyo Cookie about it." "He said that?" "YES!! Why would I lie about that? He said if you weren't already with me, he'd get with you in a heart beat!"
Convinced her to put any money she earnt with her beautiful singing and dancing talents into one bank account...You can see where this is going- He tried to have her give up studying medicine (her family was herbalist so she frequently studied it as a hobby and to make her family proud), but didn't push her on that because her family would get too suspicious of him if that happened. She really only had her rose colored glasses ripped off her face and broken when she walked into her ex-fiance and now ex best friend making out by complete accident the day of their wedding....Yep. You read that right.
The day the wedding was supposed to happen she went to the changing rooms because she forgot her pretty veil and found the two two hours before the ceremony making out like a bad twilight fanfiction right there. Spoiler alert! He'd been cheating on her the entire time in their years of being together. Made off with all her money too by draining the bank account and off he and the mistress ran.
Sure she can act spoiled and childish sometimes (based her partially off Rarity from mlp) since she was raised that way but she genuinely loved him up til that point and in reality she's a very generous and loving person if anyone got to know her.
Yes her and Pineapple Ring and Desert Rose clash and don't get along, but like as it a previous post if one of Lotus's kin needs help she still dropped everything, had Hydrangea Cookie load up crates and crates of supplies, and personally went to go help Pitaya and their mate by bringing food and offering personal medical care.
She's in a much better place now emotionally and no longer has low self esteem but she'll never forgive them for what they did.
By back hurts so much like not overal just one teeny tiny spot that when i lay in comfy position it starts hurting its annoying omfg can someone break my back but like in a healthy way just cracking and making jt feel better please
Another funny idea discussed with @cookielovetorun because Pitaya is the BEST dragon and no one can tell me otherwise.
Ever heard of a domino effect?
It's certainly a truly real and comprehendable thing as dragons would find out. For every action has an equal...and sometimes BIGGER reaction. And it all started on one Pineapple Island.
SLAP!!
The Mango Tribe members looked on in utter shock. A certain dragon found their head suddenly looking the opposite way. A loud sound ringing through their skull. And a hit hard enough to send their head snapping, pain in their cheek. And the source of this pain?
"You keep the Red Dragon's name out of your egotistical holier than thou mouth!"
Ananas slowly looked at their wife, a hand coming to press against their sore cheek. Never once had she ever slapped them across the face before let alone in front of anyone. Yet there the woman was death glaring at them. What had they done to earn it? Well-
"Did you hear the news?"
"What news?"
Her concerned face turned up to look at them. "Pitaya returned to Dragon's Valley and they're not in good shape. Apparently rumors already got out about an injured dragon and their poor wife is so scared about hunters coming next."
"Tch. Well that's what they get I suppose."
She had looked at him. "I beg pardon?"
"It was only a matter of time. Instead of having any common sense and staying in their valley, they went galavanting off head first into a fight that wasn't even theirs." She still stared at them. "Served them right. They were always the stupi-"
And then the strike came.
And now Ananas was staring dumbfounded as their wife proceeded to tear into them.
"You're one to talk!! No one made you join a war but when's the last time you got your fat tail off that stupid throne of yours and did something to prove the name of the 'benevolent' Golden Dragon!?" She gave a harsh shove to their chest. "The Red Dragon risked their life battling the greatest threat on earthbread helping to save everyone including YOU, ME, and the Mango Tribe by the way and all you can say to that is that they're stupid for not hiding away like you!? Ananas, you are many things but a noble warrior you are not!! Even if they did die, they would have done so nobly on the battlefield for a good cause trying to protect everyone they loved dear, complete strangers, and even the rest of their kin! Do not open your mouth about this subject again unless you are ready to deal with the consequences of spouting such utter foolery or to apologize for the wrongful things you so foolishly spouted."
She then turned and walked away without giving them even a chance to process what had just happened as they just stood there blinking, clutching their cheek, and a few Mango Villagers awkwardly stood by watching.
"Mango Cookie! Mother needs your boat, Sweetie!"
Really no one should've been surprised during the second domino falling. After all it wouldn't have been the first time Longan had gotten slapped, however it WAS the first time they got slapped for not saying anything bad about cookies.
"Mate, you and our child will remain here. I insist you stop this nonsense."
Wyverns stopped in the middle of their duties to watch their master's wife angrily stomping her way out of the palace, bag of clothes in one hand and a smiling Dragon Eye in the other looking unbothered by their parents arguing again. Their master walked behind them looking slightly worried about everything right now.
"Oh. So now it's nonsense to be worried about a dragon dying? What happened to your whole 'dragons are superior and there should be more of us' talk go?" She did not stop by the way.
"You mistake my words and are twisting the meaning-"
"'Pitaya is foolish and I knew one day they would die by a cookie's hands because of their misplaced ideals'. That's the dam words that came flying out of your mouth! I am not mistaking that! I'm taking Dragon Eye and we're going to stay somewhere else! You can stay here and not worry about having to worry about cookies or weak dragons like me for a while!"
"That is not what I meant!"
She stopped and whirled around with a dragon growl snarling what tiny fangs she did have making them snarl. Antenna and tiny wings flattening against her head. "I had enough of your selfish dam insulting ass! I AM A COOKIE!! I AM A DRAGON!! I AM WEAKER THAN PITAYA!! YOU ARE NOTHING BUT A HYPOCRITE AND I REFUSE TO BE WITH ONE ANY MORE!! CONSIDER YOURSELF DUMPED UNTIL YOU CLEAN UP YOUR ACT!! Oh..And by the way- JOWMX IWMWM QOWZET ISH-KINAR GYTERD YI TAK!!"
They are more of a true dragon than you are.
Longan stared in complete shock being insulted in their own language before she turned around and finished walking away. Dragon Eye smiled and waved bye-bye at their parent over her shoulder.
"And don't you dare forget to have someone feed Obscure Umbra while I'm gone! Or I'll use a few quotes of dragon tongue on you and see how you like it!"
You know how the saying goes. Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern. No? How about this one? Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you. But fool me thrice-
"YOU CAN'T STAY LOCKED UP IN THERE FOREVER OVER ONE STUPID ARGUEMENT!!"
The small glared at the locked window as their mate stared blankly at them...before she smiled sweetly and closed the curtains. Which sent Lychee over the edge banging on the window.
"IT WAS A JOKE!! I TAKE IT BACK IF THAT MAKES YOU FEEL BETTER!! THEY'RE NOT WEAK!! ACTRESS, DON'T IGNORE ME!!!"
Some 'joke'. When she had heard of what Shadow Milk Cookie did to Pitaya and as someone who personally went through Shadow Milk's torment personally, she felt absolutely awful for the Red Dragon. However expressing that to Lychee learnt her a snort from the smaller dragon, rolling their eyes, and the following 'stupid arguement'.
"Even I was able to take that Beast head on! If Pitaya couldn't do that, then what kind of dragon are they?"
"The kind that helps cookies because they're kind and selfless? What the fudge, Lychee?!"
"Oh please. It's not MY fault they're too weak to fight against a cookie. Even I can do that."
".....Ok. Let's test that theory."
"AAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!"
Lychee shrieked when they were launched out a window football style. And now Lychee was going through the worst punishment they could get. Getting left alone and ignored.
"I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME!! OPEN THE WINDOW OR I'LL SMASH A WALL DOWN!!!...........OPEN UUUUUUUPPPPPP!! THIS ISN'T FAIR!!"
The silent treatment wasn't the only one torturing for Lychee.
"Petal! Darling, you can't just kick me out of my own palace!"
Said woman glared at them from eating on her balcony. The flower dragon bobbed in the water smiling.
"Surely we can talk about this. I really did not mean any harm in pointing out the facts-"
"You called someone who once helped save everyone from the Ivory Dragon and then Dark Enchantress cookie a disgrace to your kind and you would've been more suited to raising their child! Let me remind you that they also once saved me from drowning during a festival because you were busy with delegates!" She took a nice long sip of her tea before glaring back at Lotus. "I agree they're stupidly stubborn but let me also remind you that I would be dead floating dough chunks in the water now if they hadn't noticed me falling into the water, Lotus. It is highly disgraceful of the Blue Dragon's name to talk about an equal in such a way! Such utterly repulsive behavior sickens me to my stomach! I am not talking to you because you're an embarrassment to your kind and me!"
"My lady, the large order you asked for is finished."
"Oh! Perfect timing." She set down the teacup casting Lotus a look. "I just lost my appetite. Please take everything to the docks, and I'll need a few cookies to come with me to deliver it all."
"Hydrangea Cookie?!"
Both woman gave them a look. "Save your breath for when you actually apologize! Saying you can raise someone else's child better just because you two are the same species of dragon- AS IF OUR PRECIOUS DAUGHTER DOESN'T ALREADY EXIST!! You can live on the bottom of the lake like an inconsiderate rock until you learn proper manners! Come, Hydrangea Cookie. I still need to make the final arrangements."
Hydrangea WOULD have done what her master said over Petal...but she was kinda scared too after seeing the dainty woman chuck the dragon into the water when they wouldn't stop bothering her to 'forget this tiresome matter'.
What WAS a surprise to all four dragons was discovering not too long after that all four mates went missing. Panic set in as the islands were combed. Tribes were questioned. And only vague answers were given.
"Lady Pineapple Ring? She asked me to take her to the mainland because she had to run a very important errand. I haven't seen her since but I just thought she was taking her time!"
"I'm sorry, Blue Dragon. I do not know where she went after we saw off the trading goods at the docks. She asked to be left alone for a while."
"She's not in her hut? We thought she was still in there giving you the silent treatment."
Panic truly had settled in. No one had seen them in days! The islands were bare of them. WHERE COULD THEY HAVE GONE!?
"YOO HOO!!! Anyone home!?"
"Goodness gracious it's hot out here."
Pineapple Ring gave the fancily dressed lady a raised brow. "This is Dragon's Valley. Maybe you shouldn't wear long elegant robes when we had to treck through lava infested rocklands filled with dinosaurs, monsters, and wyverns as well as dangerous hunters."
"When going to see someone it's always good to look nice. It was so kind of the Mala Tribe to carry all those crates for us."
"It was kinder of Mala Sauce Cookie to lead us to where their home was." Butterfly squinted her eyes inside holding Dragon Eye by the hand. "I don't see anyone though."
"Maybe they're on Dragonfruit Island instead?"
"WHO ENTERSSS MY DOMAIN!?" A loud voice called out making the four look inside. "SSSPEAK OR BE CRUMBLED BY MY FLAME!!"
"..I think that answers your question."
"Pitaya! It's just us!," Butterfly called inside. "We came to visit you and make sure you were ok! Can we come in?"
There was silence for a long, long time before a loud grumbling followed. "Fine!"
They came in slowly following the faint glowing of torches on the walls, until eventually finding the dragon in a room. Armor was replaced with bandages wrapped around their entire torso and a thick blanket covering most of their body. Their usually messy hair was down and splayed everywhere, and they looked completely miserable aside from forcibly cuddling with their own wife and child for comfort. In short...
They looked in bad shape. "What do you want?"
"We figured the two of you could use a hand and we have come to offer our services!" She held up her sword. "I have come to guard the Red Dragon as they recover! My sword is yours until you recover!"
"Butterfly and I can take care of the cooking and cleaning so you two can relax! Plus I heard you get bored easily! I know all kinds of tricks and stories!"
"And I can help look after your baby." She gently tugged Dragon Eye forward who waved at the tired pink dragon. "I even brought them a playmate so they're not too lonely without their parents."
"I brought you enough food with high nutrition to last five months." She smiled proudly. "Lotus Paradise is chalk full of medicinal herbs. I can change your bandages and make any kind of medicine you need."
....Pineapple Ring looked at Petal in surprise. "You know medicine?"
"Of course I do. Just because I live in a palace that doesn't mean I don't know my way around an open wound."
PItaya seemed lightly surprised....slowly blinking...before grumbling and pulling the sleeping woman closer to them instinctively. "Do what you pleassse. Jussst ssstay out of my treasure hoard."
I know how Desert Rose reacted when she found out all of Pitaya's past misdeeds but what about the other four? You can not tell me Pineapple Ring wouldn't be angry when they found out Ananas's betrayle of their kind considering she values upholding honesty and her word.
Sometimes, I really love you guys for coming up with these ideas. XD
It really WAS inevitable at this point. Ananas had spilled the beans to her and left them satisfied in the fight that commenced after they left (for those who've read their part she locked herself in her room and threw water on Longan when they attempted to DEMAND her to open the door and talk). Lotus ended up slapping Ananas upside the head.
"What on earthbread were you thinking?"
Ananas is intimidated by the heavy and dead eyed stare Lotus was giving them piercing their very soul as they rubbed their head. "She needed to know the truth!"
"Yes but did she need to learn it by you blurting it out and then leaving her to process it by herself?! That's the equivalent of myself telling you your cookies all crumbled then leaving the room to go have tea!"
"They have a point," Pitaya added leaning against a wall. "I've killed foesss that weren't asss heartlesss."
Lotus growled poking Ananas in the chest. "Do something like this again and you will receive more than a simple harmless slap to your dense skull from me. Now if you excuse me, I must go fix YOUR mess."
Lotus has to be mediator, therapist, and an outside voice to explain to Butterfly the extent of Longan's attempted genocide and why they did so, and hope for the best the crying and horrified cookie (war flashbacks from Mystic Flour), can find it in their heart to at least not condem Longan for the progress they're slowly starting to make. For now Butterfly seems to be willing to stay with the Ivory Dragon in exchange for the dragon promising to at least stop acting upon their hatred for cookies. She had physically shown affection towards them, like hugs and the occasional kiss on the cheek so they seem to be slowly healing together.
Longan can only sit there and take it all. They know anything specist would immediately make her reject them more, and that Butterfly's truama would only be resurfaced again. It's frustrating to them but all they can do is...try.
"My love for you is eternal."
"Are you willing to do anything for me?"
"Yes."
"Including trying to get along with cookies?"
"..Yes."
"Alright. But remember any one more comments like the last one and I'll pummel you again. And just to be sure you keep your word, I invited an old friend of yours?"
"Friend?" They turn around and freeze when a blood cookie tips a top hat at them.
"You're going to start spending time with her for exposure therapy!"
".....I take back what I mentioned about the others' tribes being weak." They snap back around to Butterfly in utter horror so fast it even surprises her. "I will spend time with Gingerbrave if I must! Do not leave me alone at the hands of that creature!"
"Too bad! You're going to spend the entire weekend with her."
"I even made some popcorn to watch your crash out."
"No. NO!!" They back away from her as she calmly walks forward. "Stay back! Get away from me you vile creature!!"
Ever see Longan run? Longan is not running...They're BOLTING down the halls away from a flying pair of scissors and break at least one wall trying to get away from her.
"DON'T RUN AWAY FROM YOUR FUTURE THIRD WIFE, LONGAN!!"
"W H A T!?"
"Oh wait. That's the other timeline when you get a cookie-sexual awakening. My bad!"
LOTUS:
"I beg pardon?"
Lotus chokes on their own tea nearly spitting it out. Petal stared at Ananas who smugly sits there on a visit. Lotus quickly dabs their mouth with a napkin as Ananas nods.
"Oh yes. Didn't they tell you? They used to be a very bad dragon. Longan levels of bad."
"Ananas! This is slander and you are doing this on purpose!" Lotus glares at them across the table. "How dare you do this when I welcome you as my guest!? I should throw you out this instant-"
"Go on." Lotus and Ananas looks at Petal who narrows their eyes at Lotus in a way she's never done and it silences the Blue Dragon. "I'd like to hear this if you don't mind."
"Gladly!! Well sometime long ago Lotus actually lost the ability to grant wishes and so instead of being truthful-"
"Ananas, I demand you-" A light slap sound was heard as Petal did something she NEVER did before. Reach across the table and slap a hand over her lover's mouth, staring dead at the yellow dragon. It was so out of character Lotus could only stare at her speechless.
"Go on."
Ananas smirked. "They learnt to conjure illusion magic from Lychee. They would make the cookies dream of their desires getting fulfilled as they slowly crumbled away and then stored their life force to help keep Lotus Paradise flourishing. Of course, they don't do that anymore-....Oh. Did they not tell you?" They smirked taking a nice long sip of their tea as Petal just....Stared at them...
Before slowly looking at the dragon who suddenly felt very uneasy about the sweet smile she was holding. "Oh. Is that all?" She calmly took her hand off the frozen dragon's mouth and patted their shoulder. "Why didn't you tell me? It's quite alright. Everyone can make mistakes. What's important is that they learnt from them and moved on." She slowly stood up. "Thank you for telling me though, Ananas. It's always good to see from my kin-in-laws."
Ananas seemed disappointed. Lotus went a deathly pale blue.
"Huh...I was expecting you to be more angry."
"Oh me?"
SHATTER!!
Ananas looked down. Lotus...sssslllooowwwlllyyy looked down to find the teacup crushed in her grip as she smiled eyelid twitching. Both dragons went still.
"Not at all. Would you please excuse us, Ananas? I need to have a talk with my partner in private."
Lotus snapped to him in an instant. "You fool! Do you realize what you've condemned me to!? A H- !!!!"
Claw marks were left behind on the table as Lotus in an uncharacteristically scared fashion latched onto it to no avail when a painful grip snatched up the end of their tail and started dragging them away across the ground towards the palace.
"Come along, Dear." Her grip tightened more painfully on their tail. "We're going to have a nice little discussion about keeping secrets about murdering cookies."
"HYDRANGEA COOKIE!? HYDRANGEA COOKIE!! IF YOU CAN HEAR ME REMOVE ALL OBJECTS THAT CAN BE USED AS WEAPONS WITHIN A TWO MILE RADIUS IMMEDIATELY!! I'LL GET YOU BACK FOR THIS, ANANAS!!"
ANANAS:
Five words.
Lotus A L W A Y S keeps their word.
It's no secret Ananas likes to refer to themselves as the benevolent dragon. They DO in fact care about their cookies, enough that they sent the Mango Tribe away when Longan appeared in a secret attempt to save their lives disguised as banishing them to not arose suspicion from the Ivory Dragon. They DO allow visitors on the island as long as they don't corrupt it's natural order. But they weren't so relaxed about cookies as they are now.
"Lady, Pineapple Ring." Mango Cookie cutely holds up a piece of folded up paper to her. "This letter is for you."
She blinks. "A letter for me? Who's it from?"
"The Blue Dragon themselves." They lit up immediately. "I was piloting my boat back from fishing when they just popped up out of the water and asked me to delivery this to you as it 'was urgent' and they said they only trusted me to do it! It was such an honor!"
"Lotus?"
Now what could the dragon have wanted with her that they couldn't come and tell her themselves? Maybe it was a reschedule for the children's playdates. She took the letter from him opened it up and it rolled down to her knees before she began reading. Her confusion turned to a shocked one the more and more she kept reading the very LONG and very DETAILED letter...comically pressing her face closer and moving it up like a type writer as she kept reading and reading...Until she slowly looked up with a face of stone.
"...Mango Cookie, is Ananas home?"
"Nuh uh. The Golden Dragon went to go do their monthly check up on the Ivory Palace." He seemed worried. "Why?..Are you angry? W-Was it something I did?"
Immediately two hands grabbed his cheeks. "No, Honey. It's not you. You did nothing wrong. Don't you think for a second I'm mad at you." A kiss was pretty to his forehead. "You just let Ananas know that I'm going to wait for them at their cave if they come to the village first. Ok? I need to talk to them about important adult stuff that you'll find boring."
He smiled immediately. "Ok, Lady Pineapple!"
Well it was not half a day later when Ananas returned. Happily landing in their cave and smiling seeing their wife sitting on their throne arms and legs crossed and face blank.
"If it isn't my beautiful ray of sunshine.~" They immediately walk forward arms outstretched towards ready for a hug. "Waiting for me on my throne like the queen you-" CLANK- Immediately they stop when something connects with their armor..they look down blinking at the foot she stuck out to stop them then back at her in confusion. "What's with your leg deciding to wage war against my golden armor?"
She doesn't say anything. Instead she slowly stands up, arms crossed and looking calm. "Ananas, is there anything you forgot to tell me before we got married? I do mean anything. I'll give you one chance to come clean."
Ananas is genuinely SUPER confused. "What? No. Why would you think I'm keeping things from you?"
"How about siding with Longan's genocide ideals to save your own skin?"
ANANAS. FROZE.
"I-...Y-You-"
"Or how about forcing your islanders off their home? Or thinking cookies were nothing but 'lowly being over good enough to worship the footprints I leave behind in the sand'?" Her calm face turned into a scowl. "I think my personal favorite is 'the witches who baked them must've root beer because honestly what use are these things.' ...Oh. What's wrong, Honey? Cake hound got your tongue?"
"H-HOW DID YOU-!?"
"It doesn't matter how I found out!" She snapped back with a growl. "What is important is that I found out my so called husband is keeping secrets like that from me! What else are you hiding, Ananas?!"
"Nothing! I swear!" They held up their hands. "Darling, please. Believe me. I don't hold those beliefs anymore."
"Oh. So you DID have them at some point? Why didn't you ever tell me?"
"What does it even matter!?"
"Because you sometimes still refer to cookies as lesser beings compared to dragons?"
"Well I'm not exactly wrong. Compared to dragons they are weaker and more prone to imperfections."
....Her eyelid twitched.
A few yellow haired cookies looked up from where they were gathering bananas at the base of the mountain. A golden figure yelled as they tumbled down until with a loud thud they splatted face first into the ground. A few cookies blinked as their leader groaned and a hand reached around to rub at their behind at where their wife had literally kicked their behind out of their own cave.
"YOU CAN GO SLEEP IN THE JUNGLE UNTIL YOU LEARN TO HAVE MORE RESPECT FOR YOUR WIFE!!" The cookies looked up as their leader's wife shouted down from their cave.
"YOU CAN'T KICK ME OUT!!!" They snapped up and to their cave. "I OWN THIS WHOLE ISLAND!!"
"THEN FIND A PLACE TO PLANT YOUR DISRESPECTFUL YELLOW BEHIND AND PUT IT THERE!! I DO NOT WANT TO SEE YOUR FACE UNTIL YOU'RE READY TO APOLOGIZE TO ME!! YOU CAN FORGET ABOUT SPENDING MATING SEASON TOGETHER TOO!!"
Their face went immediately pale. "WHAT!? WAIT!! LE-LET'S NOT OVERREACT!! WE CAN TALK ABOUT THIS!!" She scowled at them before disappearing back into the cave. "SWEETHEART!! DARLING!! LOVE OF MY LIFE!! DON'T BE RASH!!....DARLING!? ...HEY!! ANSWER ME WHEN I TALK TO YOU- OW!!"
Their hands clutched their head when their own staff was thrown and hits their head-
LYCHEE:
Actress knew what Lychee had done. Actress KNOWS Lychee had mind controlled people before and tricked them. Actress KNOWS Lychee is trying to be better with Rambutan's cookie for help....
Conveniently they failed to mention helping Longan and almost helping in erradicating all cookie kind...and mind controlling everyone into mining those giant crystals of theirs. Rambutan Cookie is asked by some of the tribe to investigate the loud wailing on the other side of the village and finds Lychee just sitting on the ground sobbing loudly with tears rolling down their cheeks.
"I don't hate you!" Actress's voice shouted mumbled through the hut's door. "I said you were on a time out until you're ready to start telling the truth!"
Lychee instead stands up and puts their hands on the door crying louder. "I AAAAMMM!!! LET MEEEE IIIII-HEHEEEEEENNNNNN!!! AAAHHHAAAA!!!"
".....*sigh*" The door is cracked open and as soon as it was big enough the small crying dragon latches onto her leg in a death grip.
"...Just how long have you put them on time out?"
"A two days. Guess they couldn't handle it anymore. They're still not spending mating season with me."
What if there was an alternate reality where the adopted kiddos were actually the bio children of the darlings and dragons?
OOOHHHH!!! I actually kinda like this idea!! I already made a post detailing how they'd take care of them and whatnot so Ill skip that part and get straight to the cute babies! Let's just say for the sake of this hypothetical argument none of the kiddos appeared in the cannon timeline until their parents met and had them.
When Desert Rose first breaks the news to them, they're completely shocked but then they're hugging her close to her as happy as can be! They're bragging to everyone, constantly asking Hollyberry for advice, and they let Desert Rose destroy their hand once labor hits nine months later. 14 hours later, a healthy egg is delivered sharing Pitaya's color palette. They're over the MOON as they cradle their wife with the egg in her lap to warm the egg, and guard over their precious family. They don't really see anything wrong. The egg is a much more easter-y like lime green and cotton candy pink than their dark green and magenta scales but they don't care. They love their egg regardless. They ARE shocked however when they feel the egg moving 6 months later and a baby FLOWER dragon comes waddling out all chonky looking like a beany baby. Both are completely stunned, and Desert Rose is worried Pitaya will accuse them of cheating with Lotus or something. Instead they slowly blink before picking up the peeping baby. "Oh.....I guesss when my birth parent told me my great grandssssire wasss a flower dragon, they wasss not joking like I thought." They rub their head on the peeping baby. "No matter. They are my heir regardless! I will make a fine warrior out of you!" It turns out Pitaya got some flower dragon genes. Who knew? Pitaya doesn't care either way. THEY LOVE THEIR LITTLE SNAPDRAGON IN ANY UNIVERSE BIO OR NOT!! Lotus is later shocked, and very very jealous of Pitaya siring a flower dragon.
ANANAS:
Pineapple Ring really wasn't interested in having children at first, but she often saw how Ananas looked at the parents and grandparents of their tribe. Soft eyes, smiling at newborns staring at them wide eyed when they thought no one was looking, Ananas would stare at Pitaya and their adopted hatchling and mumble something about Longan being lucky being allowed to keep Dragon Eye. She def thought long and hard about the pros and cons before telling them- "Ananas...I'm ready to have a baby dough with you." The first thing the dragon does is hug her and start crying tears of joy. Well one week of 'do not disturb' time, nine months, and 6 hours of labor later- Ananas is face to face with a most shocking sight. It's THEIR baby. But it's also a COOKIE baby. A cute lil blob with yellow hair is placed in their arms inside a waffle cone and they're completely shocked. No one was sure what would happen when a dragon and cookie had children together, but their child looked nothing like them at all aside from the blonde hair they obviously got from them. No fangs, no claws, no wings-...Just an ordinary plain cookie...Slowly the baby reaches out to hold their hand, and Ananas starts tearing up again. It's a cookie..But he's THEIR baby and nothing will change that for Ananas. Its all the more reason to protect him.
LOTUS:
Was the most delighted of the news their darling was expecting their child! It was an unsuspected surprise as they weren't trying for a baby(didn't even know it was possible-) but a welcome one! Lotus is THE best doting parent there is. Planning constantly ahead and readying everything for their baby's arrival. Nine months of spoiling, and a few hours of painful labor later a beautiful baby girl is born and handed over to Lotus after everyone has settled. The Blue Dragon is instantly crying happy tears when two little blue flippers are waving at them as the baby whines and cries. A small blue bud of a flower on her forehead as she squirms in their hold. She's not fully dragon..not fully cookie...Which is why she looks so strange, but she is Lotus's little girl and with the hope of more of their kind coming into the world, she's not going to be an only child for long. Just the first and most spoiled.
LYCHEE:
They faint as soon as they hear the news and then faint again once the news is confirmed. They're really nervous but honestly so excited! They're gonna be a parent! But what they WEREN'T expecting was to be handed a cute baby dough with greenish hair nine months later. "This. Is. Ridiculous!" They know she's their's because of her scent but they can't help but be moody. "She's not a dragon! She looks nothing like me too!" "That's not true. Your Mangosteen Cookie disguise has green eyes like her's. Remember?" The baby giggles at Lychee's cute pout as they huff and cradle her. "At least you're cute." A couple years later when Actress announces her second pregnancy, Lychee is excited once more but when the healer hands them a second bundle after labor, a baby dough with green eyes and blue hair coo up at them. "Oh come ON! Is this some kind of sick joke or something?! Hmph...At least you have fangs like me."
LONGAN:
Longan completely freezes up when they're told. Not because they're upset or anything, they just weren't expecting this so soon. They had often talked about having children together before she passed away but she was unsure of it this time. And Longan never pushed in fear of frightening her away. So this is very unexpected and very unplanned...but VERY very welcomed! The new age of dragons shall be restored even if they had to do so one hatchling at a time. They're very excited and very attentive and present for the entire nine months and labor. When a waffle cone is placed in their arms hours later, Longan is baffled. The baby is pure dragon, but instead of an egg they're a small tiny baby looking at them with big black eyes already full of intellect not normal for a baby. Odd. Pherhaps its because their mate is a dragon inside a cookie's shell? ....Either way it's a success and they hold the precious little baby closer. "You are the first in the upcoming age of dragons. The rightful order will be restored one way or another-" A small black hand grabs at their nose with a giggle. "...Perhaps I shall wait until you can coherantly comprehend what I say."
Okey, question. How does the Dragon's heat/rutt/mating season work? Like, it activates just when they have a mate? They feel attraction and arousal only toward their mate or for any being with certain characteristics? They just feel arousal, or they also feel other feelings?
Tinier question... Burning Spice actually has chances of Joining the Polycule or he is just a annoying guy constantly stalking the couple?
@cookielovetorun Ok. Genuinely debated whether or not to answer this or just send the answer to you. SO-...I'll answer this as sfw as possible just as if we're discussing the mating seasons of animals. But please keep in mind THIS blog is sfw. OK? Minors just steer clear of this one just to be on the safe side. Warnings for spicy times mentioned/implied but NOTHING explicit.
Just like any other person/cookie, they can experience wanting 'spicy times' just like everyone else can. There was a reason Pitaya knows what 'one night stands' are. They themselves have definitely had a few over the millenias they've been alive, just like the other dragons. Minus Longan. I'm pretty sure they would want to want until they found their forever mate before engaging in that kind of activity, because dragons mate for life.
However 'mating' and having 'spicy times' are NOT the same things to them.
While they can engage in spicy times if they please with others, 'mating' is more of a mate thing. It's the most intimate activity they can do that puts them in a vulnerable position, it's for starting a family together, it's the most intimate way they can show their love (especially if they are a dragon of few words or have trouble expressing feelings like Longan).
.....It's also kinda dangerous to be honest.
Remember in that one post Pitaya thought the two were together because of the one night hand? And remember how dragons are pretty much yanderes naturally?
Yeah. If they're interested in YOU and YOU accepted 'mating' advances, then their mind flips a dangerous switch. Now you are THEIRS. Now you're MATED. And there's NOTHING you can say or do to switch that flip back. Mating bonds to dragons are real things. Somehow they can mental know where you are and how far, your smell hieghtens to their nose, they become more observant of your actions, etc. Dragons mate for life or until one of them dies. Rarely take mates after from the mental toll their death can take on them. If Longan had not been the most powerful dragon in existence, their rage and grief could've driven them to death. That's the difference.
As for mating seasons. It only happens once every ten or so years for dragons who are single, it mostly drives them to want to seek out a mate. Usually during this time they whole themselves away for a week until it stops. Once they DO get a mate, It happens once every two years. The need to repopulate doesn't help but they wouldn't force anything with their mates. A 'NO' and telling them to leave her alone is enough for most of them. Although with mates their 'needs' can happen much easier and more often....Poor ladies.
They feel other things too. Attraction, love, the need to show affection, increase in calmness and happiness while she's near, etc.
As for your second question-
In the Polycule side au, oh yeah. He does but it'll take a while to regain their trust because...Yknow killing Golden Cheese's entire kingdom she revived and ripping her wings off, chaining Desert Rose up like a dog, and Pitaya hating him for all of that. It'll take a really REALLY long time, and after the Beasts are made to get therapy and help or be resealed in the tree by White Lily and Silent Salt-
I personaly would add that i thought dragons mating season goes through stages like at the very start they start feeling itchy and start clinging to their mates way more than usual and as the time proceeds the enviroment becomes more hot and intimate than usual yk yk
Like for example i think dragons will also be more territorrial especialy male ones like i know theyre genderfluid but for the sake of my mind they can have genders just not all of em
I also would think that their enviroment will respond to their state like becoming hotter/colder or smth like that
Ts text probably has alot of grammar errors bc im not english speaker and still learning
You mentioned that the Beasts/Dragons/Ancients Au timeline doesn't follow the cannon timeline after Dark Enchantress Cookie dies againstthe Avatar of Destiny. And while Pitaya didn't get taken over and turned into the Chaos Dragon they did get serevely injured by Shadow Milk Cookie. How did everyone react to that?
I knew someone would ask about this sooner or later. Warnings for injuries mentioned, surgery mentioned, blood(jam) mentioned, etc.
It wasn't anything anyone was expecting. After all it was supposed to be a joyous celebration. Instead Hollyberry had been the one to find her friend, knelt on one knee clutching their chest. She had been SO happy to see them.
"PITAYA!! We've done it! I-"
The happy smile quickly turned to one of utter horror. She'd never seen that much jam littered around before. Never seen the dragon forcibly clutching an injury shut. Never had look at her in FEAR before.
"Ho-...Hollyberry...I can't feel anything." Then with a clang of metal the once mighty dragon fell to their side.
Unmoving. Unbreathing. Limp. Still.
It was all a blur. Hollyberry clutching a heavily bleeding dragon. Shouts for medics and Pure Vanilla.
"I can't heal them! We all used too much energy in the fight! I haven't had time to recover! Quickly! Get them to the medical bay! We can stabalize them there and then transfer them to the nearest hospital!"
Now look at where they were.
In a too sterile hallway that smelt way too much like cleaning chemicals with a metallic tang. Too white. So white the lights above them all reflected off it too much and strained the eyes. Forced to just sit in an old uncomfortable and creaking wooden chair in wait.
"They're going to be alright." A hand tried patting the woman on the back. She said nothing. Staring at the floor. "Pitaya is too stubborn to die. They're having a good fight with the reaper and kicking his behind as we speak!"
She still said nothing to the woman who admittedly was also pretty worried about her friend. But neither was expecting the presence of other guests to arrive. When did they arrive? She didn't know. Maybe in the beginning? Maybe after Pitaya was taken in for surgery? Maybe just five minutes ago?..It was all blurred. She finally reacted though. When black hands tried to reach out and remove the baby in her lap-
Lotus didn't take offense when she snatched Snapdragon away fixing them with a nasty glare, eyes already a pink from crying on and off all day. Snapdragon's crying and hiccups had echoed in the hallways for hours throwing tantrums and crying-
They were probably only sleeping because all the crying wore out the toddler to be honest. Usually Snapdragon was as stubborn as their parent come nap time.
"Dear, you're exhausted. You haven't slept or eaten anything since yesterday. Just let me take care of the infant for you."
Somehow Lotus ended up holding Snapdragon leaving the woman sleeping in an uncomfortable position in the chair that'll surely cause her body to be sore come morning. Then it was just the five of them. Hollyberry standing and crossing her arms. Ananas sat in an chair opposite of the door, leaned forward, and hands clasped across their mouth. Lychee was the only one making noise flapping their wings to keep a float pretending to busy themselves by looking out the window at the night sky and counting stars...they lost count after 578. Lotus simply stood by rocking the sleeping baby in their arms. The only one whom looked unbothered was the Ivory Dragon. Hollyberry was completely shocked Longan had even showed up, calmly walking in and staring at the door unblinking. A bandage wrapped around their upper arm, proof of a kindness that everyone was shocked to discover Longan would even make-
"We're having a problem."
Everyone had feared the worst when a nurse had come out slightly sweating.
"What kind of problem?"
"We're in need of a a jam transfer but no types of jam we have on hand match up with theirs."
Of course not. That's because Pitaya wasn't a cookie. They were a dragon.
"It'd be too risky in their condition to experiment and see what sticks."
"So that's it!? You're going to let them bleed out because you want to take gambles on their life!?"
"Ananas, please stand down. That's not what she said."
"A-Actually w-w-we were hoping one of you f-four w-would be willing to donate ja-jam?" The nurse looked understandably nervous under Ananas's looming form.
"Mine." Now the nurse REALLY looked nervous when black soulless eyes pierced her soul.
"Longan?"
"Too few of my kin remains. My power will stabilize any issues they have. Take what they need to live."
Now the dragon sat recovering what jam was taken from their arm, a book from the hospital's small library in their hands, calmly waiting for any news from the doctors inside. Until finally one did. He came out, apron stained red with strawberry jam, gloved hands reaching to pull down a mask as he stared at the small crowd for a small moment before smiling.
"They're going to be alright." A collective sigh of relief washed over everyone.
"How are they, Doc?"
"Oh, just fine. A few months of relaxing and taking it easy and drinking lots of juice and fluids should do the trick! Bring them back after three months and we'll remove the stitches." Pitaya? Relaxing for a few months? Ha! Easier said than done! They'll go stir crazy for sure. "They're sleeping right now, but you can go in and see them if you'd like."
It's so ....surreal seeing the red dragon lying in a hospital bed, white gown covering their body as their hair was out of their usual ponytail. A few tubes and wires attached to their body. The only sounds being the beeping of a heart monitor and-
"Nice to know Pitaya's throat is still in tack." Lychee rose a brow at the loud snoring coming from the unconcious pink dragon laid there.
"Shush up. The least they're entitled to is a nice long nap."
"TAYA!!" Someone had to snatch the baby dragon before they tackled the miserable looking dragon on the bed. "TAYA! TAYA!! TAYA!! TAYA!!" They happily waved their arms at their parent and kicked out.
"There they are! How are you feeling old friend?" "Do they need more jam? I'll volunteer next." "Ananas, don't crowd them....But Pitaya, answer my question. How many claws am I holding up?" "TAYA!!" "They live because my power stabalized them." "They're fiiiinne. Dragons heal faster than cookies."
"Mmmmmm." They reach a shaky hand up to push away Lotus's hand. "I'd feel better if you all weren't in my face. What isss thisss? A meeting of alliesss."
"Oh yeah. They're gonna be fine. The doc wouldn't let us come back in until you ate something."
They grimaced. "Yuck! I thought cookiesss were exaggerating about your poor hossspital food. That ssssausssage wasss ssso mushy, I wasss expecting it to deflate like a balloon." They sniff and grumble. "Thisss pain mussst be messsing with my head ssstill. I ssswear I sssmell fruit and meat."
A second later various take out bags and fruit were pulled from various garments and armor from the dragons and Hollyberry. "We figured you'd say that. I had Wildberry sneak in some strawberry and pineapple burgers for you, and some EFA!"
"EFA-...What?"
"Earthbread Fried Almondbird."
"You can call it junk! Hand it over! I'm ssstarving!"
They gobble down most of the take out first followed by any and all fruit they hand over. At one point Snapdragon is cradled in one arm and Pitaya was handing the toddler half an apple to eat. Until the door opened and a frazzled haired woman is standing there. Longan gives a glare when they're shoved aside by her. She takes two seconds staring at the smiling pink dragon-
"SSSWEET- HMPH!!"
They don't get to say anything else before she's on them, smashing their lips together. Hollyberry laughs...
"I have to interrupt, but no one has been told what the cause of this calamity is."
"Oh that's right!" Hollyberry smiled lovingly at Pitaya who's full attention was now turned completely to their small family (specifically the woman who was still kissing them) and the food they had. "Will you two excuse us all for just a moment? We have some unfinished business to take care of."
Pure Vanilla sighed as after long last he could relax and not have to worry(at least for a little while-) about the world ending, evil, or Shadow Milk Cookie's antics- BAM!! A slam outside his window and repeated pounding made the tired man groan, and reach for his staff. He pointed it towards the window without getting up from his stomach.....Until he did lift his head.
"Shadow Milk Cookie?"
Shadow Milk Cookie was there. Along with his two minions. The three looked like they were put through the ringer. Hair disheveled and messy, clothes torn in places, and-....Were those burn marks on their dough? Black Sapphire patted Candy Apple's head insistently as she panicked waving her arms around until the embers were put out. Shadow Milk looked like a hoard of hungry witches were on his heels and he hit the windows over the window!
"Let me in! LET ME IN!!!" He looked behind him. A roar or two off in the distance with four VERY ANGRY dragons, two Ancients, and one red Beast on his tail. BANG, BANG, BANG, BANG!! "THEY'RE TRYING TO CRUMBLE ME!!"
"Who is!?"
Shadow Milk SHRIEKED when an axe slammed into the wall of the Vanilla Kingdom's castle wall right next to his head.
"GET DOWN HERE AND FIGHT ME LIKE 'THE MOST POWERFUL BEAST COOKIE' YOU CLAIM TO BE, YOU COWARD!!" A loud and wrathful voice called from down below.
PLEASE!! I NNNEEEDDD POLY QUADRUPLE WITH THE DRAGONS HAVING THE 'OH NO THEY'RE HOT-' SQUIDWARD MOMENT!!
Been waiting for someone to ask for poly quadruple! I dunno if I'll make the polycule idea cannon, but I LOVE the idea of it. Also Mystic Flour and Eternal Sugar redemption because girls just needs some therapy after being almost killed for some greedy cookies. Warnings for some innuendos in Lychee's part because...well it's Lychee, longan hitting their head, some blood mentioned, and Longan almost drowning but they're ok.
-For Ananas it's the easiest. Out of all five dragons, they have the best relationship with cookies. Specifically THEIR cookies but they allow visitors to come and go on their isle...as long as they don't disturb the isle. Of course they WOULD understandably be pretty weary of White Lily Cookie at first after Pitaya tells them of her past misdeeds and her being half of Dark Enchantress Cookie, but after some time (and Pineapple Ring constantly reminding Ananas THEY used to be just as bad as Longan once upon a time too until they changed) they eventually come to tolerate her presence. Sure she's always very respectful....And very, very pretty....And it's incredible JUST how powerful she really is despite her demure looking demeanor. And yes. They can relate to some of her struggles as once upon a time being evil, and betraying her friends (Pineapple Ring is NOT letting them off being a hypocrite pointing out that THEY betrayed their other kin to side with Longan). She's trying to make amends with Pitaya (sadly to no avail) and helps to bridge the gap between them and Silent Salt. So it surprises even Ananas one visit they just kinda snap after Pitaya calls her a- "You're a deceiving little traitor to Hollyberry Cookie! I'm ssssurprisssed no one'sss crumbled you yet! You'd probably be more ussseful as flour to bake a cake with! At leassst then they could get sssome ussse from your worthlessss-" They didn't get a chance to finish their rant at the sad looking lady before being body slammed by Ananas and sent a few yards away. "That's enough out of your mouth!!" They growled surprising everyone. "This is MY island and you will NOT degrade my wife's friends on her own home! So you can either screw shut that loose lid you call a mouth shut and enjoy the celebration or you can leave, Pitaya!" Pitaya is shocked but is pulled away by Hollyberry hissing at White Lily while doing so. "Thank you...I w-wasn't expecting..well that." "Think nothing of it. This is supposed to be a peaceful feast. Pitaya has no right to cause problems on someone else's soil." They're not expecting the lady to poke their shoulder with a smile prettily standing in the moonlight. She was almost..glowing. "Still, I'm grateful for your help. You really are the most benevolent dragon." They feel their heart nearly stop a moment. OH NO-
-"I'm a married drake! I'm a married drake! I'm a married drake! I'm a married drake! I'm a married drake!" They excuse themselves to walk into the jungle for a while and hit their head over and over against a boulder. "I. Am. A. Married. Drake!! What were you just thinking!? You're happily married to the love of your life you dense lizard!!" They yelled at themselves. Before they slowly inhale and shake their body off. "It's alright. It means nothing. There's other cookies who look absolutely beautiful and there's nothing wrong with acknowledging that! You weren't feeling anything. You were just...mentally giving her a compliment. Yes. That's it-" "Golden Dragon?" Ananas gives a loud squawk of alarm and turns with a startle. They don't see him for a good moment as his black armor blends with the shadows, but then their night vision kicks in and they see a knight standing there with his hands raised. "I beg pardon. I didn't mean to scare you." "You didn't scare me, I was just-..Practicing my battle cry on you! *ahem*" They frown at him. "What are you doing sneaking around my jungle anyways?" Silent Salt points at the left side of his body and and Ananas now noticed the bit of food stuck on his helmet. "The small dragon thought it'd be funny to throw a pie at Shadow Milk Cookie. As you can see they missed. Lady Y/n said there was a waterfall around here I can wash my armor off in quickly." Ah. Lychee. Ananas nods. "Alright..I'll show you where it is." "Thank you. I greatly appreciate it." The dragon lead them to the small waterfall and watched as the man walked on over, reached up to tug at the dirty helmet real quick before it came off with a metal clank sound- Ananas's jaw dropped as Silent salt just hummed along washing his helmet under the water before he turned and blinked gorgeous purple-grey eyes at the shocked dragon. "....Is something the matter?" "NO!! FINISH YOUR WASHING AND GET BACK TO THE OTHERS!!" They quickly skulked off hissing and running claws down their face. "You're married. You're married. You're married!" They stuck to their wife's side like glue for the rest of the night, enough that Pineapple Ring took notice. "You're a little clingy tonight. Is everything alright?" "I love you! No one else is as beautiful as you!" She looks at White Lily who shrugs. "Thank you. You're very handsome too."
-Unfortunately these two were NOT making it easy on them! Everytime she smiled at him and giggled. Or when she deliberately runs up to them so happy. "Ananas! There you are! I was thinking we could spend time together!" "..What?" "Well there's so much about dragons I don't know, and I still want to try and make amends with Pitaya! You're the most kindest, generous, understanding dragon I know! Could you please help me?" Stop! Their face is already a bright blushing orange. They are not immune to how pretty and demure she is. "Wow. Your scales are so shiny. They reflect the sunlight more than any other dragon I've seen." "Aw. Mango Cookie loves you so much. You're really good with children." "Haha! That's so funny. Oh, please don't tell Pitaya I laughed at them." SSSTTOOOOPPPP!!! Silent Salt was no better. "You spar really well." "Ha! Not too bad yourself. I have to hold back when my wife and I spar but being a Beast means I can let loose more strength with you." "Hmhmhm." Dammit why was his laugh so nice sounding?! "One last round then?" "Sure. If you can beat me this time, I'll give you a few gold coins for the trip to the mainland." "A deal I can not refuse." What Ananas was NOT expecting was for the old knight to trick them, trip them up, and then be on top of them with a knee to their chest, face inches away, and sword harmlessly placed by their head. "I win! That was a really good round though!.....Um. Golden Dragon?" He blinks as Ananas stares up wide eyed and a deeply orange faced. No. Ananas is not immune to Silent Salt's old man boomer rizz either. "My Lady Y/n." His wife smiled as he got down on one knee, helmet pushed up enough to kiss her hand. "It was an honor to see you once more." "It was so nice of you to visit again. Stop by again real soon." "My Lady White Lily." White Lily also smiled as he knelt to kiss her hand. What Ananas wasn't expecting was for him to also kneel and kiss THEIR hand. "Fair Golden Dragon. I thank you for the hospitality you've shown me." FWAP- All four wings pop open nearly hitting the women in the face. Silent Salt being an old boomer and respectful gave him unsuspecting dragon rizz. Who knew?
-"I'm so sorry! Please forgive me." Pineapple Ring is confused when Ananas is suddenly clinging to her one day and hiding their face in her chest. "Ananas? Honey, what's wrong?" They're nearly on the verge of crying. "I've been unfaithful to you!" She blinks. "What?!" "I keep having these thoughts towards that Ancient and Beast! I don't know why! I'm unable to stop them! I've tried but they persist! Please forgive me! I am so sorry! I swear I've never acted upon them once-" "Oh. I already knew that." Ananas pauses for exactly four second before yanking away from her with a face. "What do you mean 'I already knew that'!?" "I mean it was obvious. Remember how you figured out White Lily had feelings for me when you first met her?" She poked their nose. "You blush a pretty tiger lily orange.~ It's actually cute.~" "I AM NOT CUTE!!" They're blushing an orange again before pausing. "Wait. You're not...angry?" "Should I be?" "WE'RE MARRIED!" "And you didn't cheat. Do you still love me?" "OF COURSE I DO!! DRAGONS MATE FOR LIFE!!" "Then you did nothing wrong. Entertaining some thoughts or finding a crush isn't a bad thing, Ananas. You really don't need to beat yourself up over it. I'm not angry." They open their mouth, close it, open it again-...Before just sighing and faceplanting into her chest again. "Sometimes I really do hate Cookie feelings." "There, there." She rubbed their back. "Everything is going to be fine. You'll see. I've already invited them back so you can explain everything to them and get it out of your system." "........You what?"
PITAYA: No one knows HOW the four of them got together but somehow it works for them and somehow healthy?? Even Longan is scratching their head trying to figure it out. (credit to @cookielovetorun for a piece of the dialogue used and some ideas)
-There's exactly TWO things Pitaya takes into account with literally ANY relationship whether it be platonic or romantic: Friendships, relationships, family, etc. 1. They value strength both mental and physical. Example: Evil White Lily's bravery to visit them and face them despite her delicate dough ending up being burnt, Flame Cookie's ability to eat lava thus Pitaya granting him a piece of fire turning into an Elemental, Hollyberry bashing their head in every other day- You get the picture. And 2. you have GOT to acknowledge them and/or respect them in some way as the powerful dragon they admittedly are. I see a lot of people ship Hollyberry and Eternal Sugar when it comes to a Polycule and while I see Hollyberry and Pitaya, I don't see Pitaya and ESC getting along. Pitaya would acknowledge her strength but wouldn't get past the whole sloth thing. Plus ESC's clinginess and sugary sweet ways are probably a big turn off for someone like Pitaya. Arguably Golden Cheese and Pitaya have MUCH more in common. Both have greedy, kinda selfish, big egos and prides. Both love treasure. Pitaya can respect her as a strong ruler, especially one who can take them in air, and both know what it feels like to lose everything. For Golden Cheese it was her entire Kingdom(until she kicked Burning Spice's behind in the rematch and revived everyone with her souljam) and for Pitaya it's loosing everything that made them THEM. Their power, their home, their own true body, and even their REPUTATION was taken from them. In CRK (even though it's NOT cannon to this au) other than Snapdragon Pitaya probably also felt alone as the only one of 2 dragons remaining. So that being said, it's a much better match than Pitaya x Eternal Sugar(no offense to those who do ship them). So when Pitaya starts realizing they may in fact LIKE-like the pretty bird lady-
-"What are you gazing at old friend?" "....I am contemplating sssomething." Hollyberry found the dragon sat down, hands clasped, and eyes narrowed as if thinking. She's quick to notice that Pitaya had been staring the past hour at their mate and Golden Cheese as they sat and talked a lot about their shared homeland. It wasn't every day their mate could actually talk with a native to the Spicelands so their talks lasted quite a while. In Golden Cheese's arms sat Snapdragon as the baby dragon teethed on some hard sap candy. The Queen had become fond of the adorable baby dragon and honestly who didn't after meeting Snapdragon? Although Hollyberry was a little confused. "Contemplating what?" "...SSSomething I am ssstill in the processss of underssstanding." Hollyberry rose a brow, before looking at the two ladies, before looking back at the still staring dragon, before looking back to the ladies- Golden Cheese pulled Snapdragon away when they reached up to make grabby hands at her gold crown but instead of getting mad she laughed. "I'm so sorry! Pitaya says Snapdragon is entering that age where their hoarding instincts are starting to develop." "It's alright. They have good tastes. I can spare a few pieces of silver and diamonds for them to start their own hoard." "Really? That's so nice of you." "Abundance should be shared. It wouldn't harm me one bit!" "Gems! Gems!" "I have a few gold jewelry pieces made right in the Spicelands! They'd look beautiful on Pitaya if the dragon wore that golden armor again!...Actually, they'd look beautiful in gold and sitting next to my throne that I think about it!" "Oh they're beautiful all the time. You should see them without a helmet." Hollyberry looked back to Pitaya, their pupils blown wide and their tail swaying. OH! So that's what it was. "So have you two actually confessed to liking each other yet?" She snorted and started laughing as the dragon made a turkey sqauwk sound and snapped to her wide eyed. "I'M NOT INTO HER!!! I AM A HAPPILY MATED DRAGON!!!....SSSTOP LAUGHING!! IT'SSS NOT FUNNY!!" That only makes Hollyberry laughing harder and louder making the two look over at them. Hollyberry is laughing as Pitaya is standing there face a much deeper magenta. "What's going on over there?" "With those two? Who knows?" It's also Hollyberry's fault..and help that this relationship even kicks off. "Golden Cheese!" "What!?" "PITAYA HAS FEELING FOR YOU TO-!!" "AAAAAAHHHHHHH!!!!" Ever see a flustered dragon leap across a room and slap a clutch Hollyberry's laughing mouth shut? "SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!! SHUT UP!! I DO NOT!!! YOU'VE JUSSST HAD TOO MUCH JUICE!!" "You're proving it right now by blushing-" "IM NOT BLUSHING!! IM ANGRY!!" It takes Ananas taking time out to help, Dark Cacao, Golden Cheese, AND Desert Rose to pry those two apart before a tipsy Hollyberry can spill anymore of Pitaya's secrets. Desert Rose demands Pitaya explain themseles and- "And we're not leaving until you explain whatever the fudge THAT was about!?" Pitaya deflects, denies, changes the subject, gives the two women three hours of the silent treatment- Until they finally cave and admit that ok MAYBE they admire Golden Cheese a little more than the average cookie and MAYBE she was attractive and MAYBE they felt really really bad because they didn't want Desert Rose to think Pitaya didn't love her anymore! The two women are stunned before looking at one another- "Well of course you'd find me attractive." She flicks her ponytail back spreading her golden wings to reflect the sunlight. "Who wouldn't?" "Oh. Baby, did you really think I'd hate you?" Pitaya only groans hiding their face in their hands. "Thisss isss embarrasssing!" "Well, now that this is all out in the open-..Will you model that golden armor set you have for me? You'd look so pretty in my colors.~" Pitaya chokes- They're gonna get revenge on Hollyberry later!
-It actually works out for all three of them because Golden Cheese also respects Pitaya and they both love their mate! As for how Burning Spice comes in- Well now that he KNOWS where his little Desert Rose escaped to, and where Golden Cheese is hanging out every other month- Yeah. Pitaya is NOT happy to have the Beast who imprisoned their mate and who ripped the wings off their OTHER mate hanging around their home and constantly demanded they hand over the two women. So Pitaya and Burning Spice does what they're both best known for. Pitaya goes out and beats Burning Spice's ass kicking them out of Dragon's Valley or off Dragonfruit Island. They've TRIED crumbling him believe me. Lava pits, their sword, dropping Burning Spice from hundreds of feet in the air, smashing him until their arms were sore, throwing ten toned boulders at his head- "HE JUSSST REFUSSSESSS TO DIE!!!" Golden Cheese sadly nods and peeks down from where both women and Snapdragon were safely placed as Burning Spice literally latches onto the side of a volcano and pulls himself out from the top out of boiling lava. Pitaya had thrown him like a stepping stone when he started climbing UP the one they were currently on. "I know. Believed me. I've tried everything including shoving my spear up his-" "LANGUAGE!! Both of you!" "He's just too stubborn to crumble. Besides...it'd be the end of us both. You can't have one half without the other as annoying as he is." "Well guess what. We're too stubborn to die too!" She rolled her shoulders back. "Pitaya, I think it's time to see if that dragon tongue you taught me comes in handy." It's SO HOT when their wife uses force! It's annoying...But Pitaya doesn't deny the constant stream of challenging fights isn't something they enjoy! They hadn't had something like this since the era they tried to constantly take over the Hollyberry Kingdom! "HAHAHAHA!! You're certainly a worthy challenge!! When I eventually claim my victory, I will remember you for a long time to come!" "The strength of a true dragon is truly unmatched!!" "YES!! Come dance in the beautiful symphony of destruction with me!!" "Finally a worthy opponent! OUR BATTLES WILL BE LENGENDARY!!" BURNING SPICE STOP!! YOU'RE INFLATING THEIR EGO ENOUGH AS IT IS!! It's gotten past the point of battle banter and is starting to come off as...something else the more these fights start. To the point Pitaya as stopped talking back and just fighting. "Are you going to stab be through with that sword of yours again this time!? Because I-" "ALRIGHT!! SSSTOP!!" Pitaya is just looking at him annoyed. "WHY DO YOU KEEP TRYING TO COURT ME?! I HAVE TWO MATES ALREADY!" "Trying to-" He's confused at first. "I'M NOT TRYING TO COURT YOU LIZARD!" "THEN WHY DO YOU CONSSSTANTLY COME HERE AND CHALLENGE ME TO FIGHT AND SSSAY I'M SSSTRONG AND ENTERTAINING?! AND COMPLIMENT ME!!" "BECAUSE I LOVE ME A GOOD CHALLENGE!!" "THAT DOESSSN'T MEAN YOU MUSSST ACT LIKE THISSS ISSS SSSOME KIND OF COURSHIP!!!" Burning Spice stares at them for a few seconds like Pitaya just put an idea into his head before smirking a hand rubbing his chin. "Hmm. A dragon I can fight whenever I please, the souljam holder, and little Dessert Rose as my concubines.~...You've just solved all my problems! HAHAHA!! Why didn't I think of it sooner!?" With a too wide smirk he makes a come here motion walking towards a shocked dragon. "Come here, Lizard.~"
-Burning Spice proceeds to get snatched up, carried a few miles away, THROWN as far as Pitaya can throw him, before the dragon returns to their mate. "Oh, good. You're back. I made your favorite roast tonight!" They don't respond face a deep red and just end up chugging down a bottle of hollyberry juice. "Pitaya, we were saving that for new years! What's gotten into you this time?" They sit on the floor with a thud just staring blankly at nothing. "....I think I made our sssituation worssse with Burning SSSpice." She stared. "Pitaya, what in witches name did you do?" "....SSSet an expectation I don't think I can take back." "Pitaya, I swear if you don't tell me what you did-" "Golden Cheessse, will have my head too once she comesss back." "WHAT DID YOU DO!?" ....Slowly they gulped. "I may have...given the idea of....joint concubine-isssm. ..With the both of usss." She stares at him. "And him...And Golden Chee- OW!!" They proceeded to be pelted by a broom harmlessly. "WHAT THE FUDGE WERE YOU THINKING!?"
LONGAN: Pot meet kettle because you both call each other black. Longan is going through the five stages of grief on TOP of a midlife crisis. It turns out if you decide to take on two more cookies as mates just to gain more power, the mating instincts are going to come back biting them in the dough. Because one shares their ideals, the other one doesn't treat them like a threat and instead tries to reach out to them while(being a DILF-) helping bridge a gap between their shared mate.
-It was ALL logical in their head. Both these cookies were powerful in their own right. Both wanted Butterfly. Both were obstacles in their way needed to be solved. They were powerful enough to kill them, but the problem is neither could be killed easily. And if they ended up doing that, Butterfly would leave for good and never forgive them. On top of that they'd have their kin and the two dragons they sensed on Dark Cacao after them. In their weakened state, they could be killed permanently. Hmm. What to do? What to do? It was a VERY tough problem to crack, until they remembered the famous quote. 'The enemy of my enemy is my friend.' So it was logical. They couldn't destroy one without destroying the other, so why not get them to destroy each other. if they nearly did it once, then surely they could do it again. The question was how to go about doing it without arousing suspicion or getting their hands dirty. Hmm....Got it. "Longan, you mean it?!" Her happy smile lit up in absolute JOY as the Ivory Dragon slowly nods. "It has come to my attention that perhaps...I have harmed you more than done good. Considering the circumstances-..." They hold their hands out to her. "I wish to build an alliances with the ones who call themselves the Dark Kingdom." They weren't lying of course. They wished to build an alliance to get one step closer to the ones who'll destroy themselves in the end and leave them to build their perfect life with their eternal mate. Butterfly hugs them out of sheer joy much to their pleasure. "See? I told you all cookies weren't that bad! I'm going to send him a letter right now!" "I have already taken the liberty of 'extending the olive branch' I believe is the phrase. He should come shortly." She's SUPER delighted to see Longan taking initiative in the right direction. What she doesn't know is that Longan also sent a SECOND message with one of their wyverns. So it's a shock to Butterfly AND Dark Cacao when the king arrives for a visit when a woman of ivory comes walking in through the door. "MYSTIC FLOUR COOKIE!!" Dark Cacao was quick to react first pulling out his sword and slamming the tip to the ground with a clang sound as he stands between HER and a shocked Butterfly. "You dare come here and disgrace these halls with your presence?" Longan's face is blank, but they're smiling in delight on the inside. Yes. Fight over Butterfly and break each other apart. Throw each other into the ocean where you both will become nothing but soggy dough. No one will suspect a thing. "I do not understand the hostility." The ivory woman calmly states. "It's meaningless." "EVERYTHING to you is meaningless! That's why you-" "If you will allow me to finish speaking before you so rudely interrupted me. Your hostility is meaningless as I was invited in." Both stare at her. "What? That's absurd. I didn't think you'd resort to lying like Shadow Milk Cookie!" She didn't say anything. Instead she reached into the belt on her robe and pulled out something that made Longan freeze. A folded piece of paper. "Lying is meaningless. There would be no point in me entertaining such a foolish notion." She held it out, Dark Cacao slowly took it keeping a hand on his sword, glared at her suspiciously, let it unfold as Butterfly poked her head around his arm- "...Longan, this is your handwriting. I'd recognize it anywhere." -and then both slowly turned to look at the dragon who stood as still as a statue under their eyes. "....Longan." She scowled and pointed at Mystic Flour. "Do you care to explain this?" "I was under the impression that you sent that letter as a form of good will. Not a ruse to whatever scheme this is!"
-"Simple. I tire of the threats you both continuously bring to my door." Inside their kinda panicking. She wasn't supposed to BRING the letter!! Dark Cacao didn't!!! They underestimated the Ivory Pagoda Mistress. NOT AGAIN!! ...But first they'd better cover this up. "I tire of the chains dragging my body in the name of safety. Most of all I hate the idea of any moment something irreplaceable will be ripped away from me once more. You will both need to find a way to disperse your feuds that will not bring harm to the one we all know whom it will effect the most." They pointed at the two of them. "Settle it away from her." All three stared at them for a long long moment. That was until Dark Cacao looked at the letter again carefully...before nodding. "They are right. Our fighting will only cause problems and hurt those around us more." Wait. What? He turned to Mystic Flour. "We may address this with our next talk." TALK?! "What are you talking about?" Butterfly lit up. "Mystic Flour is working very hard to redeem herself!" "WHAT!?" "I've not been given much of a choice. It was this...or being taken back to the new Silver Guardian for sealing." "We are currently working on her out look on things." He narrowed his eyes at her still. "So far there is..little progress, but a little progress is still better than none. Mystic Flour Cookie, let us settle this now. Us two shall give our word not to bring harm to the one we care for most." Mystic Flour didn't say anything a moment, before her eyes opened slightly revealing eyes strikingly similar to Longan's. "I will agree to your terms." Butterfly clasped her hands together. "All three of you have made me so happy. This..may have been the happiest I have been in a very long time! Mystic Flour, I don't know if I can ever really forgive you for what you did..but you did help me get away from an abusive situation so I will accept any apology you give me." ....Dark Cacao cleared his throat. "This is the part where one usually does the responsible thing and accept fault with grace." "......Apologies." The white cookie blinked her eyes largely when Butterfly suddenly grabbed her hands with a big smile. "Come have tea with me in the garden! You'll really like it." She was already pulling her forward by the hand past the two men. "It has these ivory curl trees with these white flowers that would look so pretty in your hair! Longan got them for me!" She slowly blinks being forcibly taken...but she wasn't complaining about Butterfly holding her hand! "Yes. Sounds....nice." "C'mon, Longan! Dark Cacao! We can all eat together!" "That sounds delightful! I will happily take up your offer." Longan just stares. Defeated by their own scheming....Oh they LOATHE the day they lost the dragon orbs and couldn't foresee things anything.
-Longan is forced to open their home to the cookies and suffer in silence through a tea party as Butterfly smiles and pours tea for Dark Cacao and passes the blank faced woman a small cake. This required more planning. ..All three looked up when a snake like hiss came out of their mouth. "Longan, are you alright?" The dragon only nods rubbing their head but just a moment later the teacup in their other hand drops to the table spilling all over the ivory tablecloths- "Oh, no. Not again." "What's wrong with them?" "Migraines. Longan gets them a lot because their horn is broken and exposed. Lately they've been pretty bad." "I am fine." They weren't fine. They felt light headed and their head hurt, but the last thing they ever want is to look weak in front of these two cookies! Unfortunately they only got worse more and more time went on. Longan could tolerate the woman Mystic Flour. She was quiet, demure, only spoke when someone asked her something, and had manners but Longan knew better. The scuffle that they had had when she first arrived proved her to be a strong source of power despite her small and thin dough body. She didn't object to their mate pulling her by the hand anywhere or spending time. "I can't believe Shadow Milk Cookie tried to hurt Pitaya so much. What was he thinking?" "It doesn't matter-" Both Longan and Mystic Flour look at each other in light surprise. "Of course it does! Pitaya got really hurt and then their mate almost crumbled Shadow Milk." "That cookie crumbling has no effect on us." "I agree. His existence is the true definition of being meaningless if one should look for him in a dictionary." Longan nodded. "He is an arrogant fool." "Quite foolish." Butterfly looks between the two of them wide eyed. "...Wow. Firstly that is really mean of you two to say! Secondly, I can't believe how alike you both are." "What?" Both look at her again. "Well you're both passive and apathetic to almost everyone else, you both have the same exact views about a bunch of things, you both have the title of Ivory, lots of people used to worship the both of you, you're both super powerful, you both even have the same mannerisms-...." Her eyes suddenly narrowed. "You BOTH tried to do a mass cookie genocide." ...Longan instantly looked away as Mystic Flour suddenly found her tea VERY interesting. "The way you talk, the way you see things, how you both deal with your trumas...The only difference that's big enough to see is Longan values family and power to the point they were willing to force other dragons under their servitude, and you also value that but instead choose to bury it." "You believe I value those things?" "You raised Cloud Haetae Cookie when his mother was killed trying to protect you while you hibernated before you were sealed away in the tree." Mystic Flour said nothing. "You could've kicked him out or crumbled him the moment you returned but you didn't. You let him stay and serve you, and don't say it's meaningless. Because it wasn't. And you DID come all the way here just to see me at least twice, you wouldn't have done it if you didn't value a relationship with me on some level....Besides you both also have the same colors on your bodies, the same way of decorating your homes, and you even have the same smiles and eyes. You're both really beautiful. I don't see why you both can't just get along. If I wasn't around and you two met, I bet you'd be an old married couple by now."
-Again they both just stare at her before looking at each other. Longan and this cookie? Rubbage. Just the mere thought of Longan sharing their reign with anyone but their eternal mate was pure slander....That didn't stop their mind from wondering to the dangerous what if...Mystic Flour was quite lovely. Demure. If Longan hadn't already been mated, then by all accounts this cookie is what everything they would've looked for in a mate. A flash of those two women adorned in their colors, Mystic Flour crumbling cookies by their side, Butterfly greeting them both with equal happiness. Mystic Flour was no dragon, but if Snake Fruit Cookie could rise to become a dragon then perhaps- The pouring of liquid made them blink finding the Ivory woman pouring more tea into their cup. "You've sat there with an empty cup for almost twenty minutes staring off." "She's right. Are you feeling ok, Longan?" Longan just stares at the woman who shared their eyes. A butterfly slowly fluttered and landed on her head while they sat there in the garden. "...Yes. I was thinking about our upcoming alliance." Longan is not immune to finding someone who shares so many similarities attractive. Nor are ANY of them immune to what they walk into. A tour around Ivory Palace with Butterfly pulling Mystic Flour by the hand. "-and this is the Wyvern Wing! It's mostly just where Longan's long time servants and followers reside. They're all harmless though. They just go about their day and do whatever Longan tells them so pay them no mind." Longan only follows behind silently. Butterfly points up ahead. "We also have a sauna and bath house! It's really good for relaxing your body or steam baths or just warming up! Dragons love it since they can never get too much heat! It also helps Longan relax and make those headaches go away! Wanna see?" Mystic Flour nodded. They stopped in front of the door, she happily slid it all the way open, steam immediately flowed out catching all three off guard- Huh. No one should be using it at this hour except if some of the wyverns decided to have a nice hot bath or one of them forgot to shut it off. Most of the steam bled out into the halls for the three to look inside. Butterfly immediately squeaked out a choked noise, Mystic Flour's eyes opened all the way with a snap, and Longan felt their own eyes pop to the size of plates. Well....someone was making use of Longan's old chains and weights. Dark Cacao stood there SHIRTLESS and without the usual armor, chains rattled as he slowly lifted the heavy weights one another another, dough glistening a little from the steam droplets, hair tied up in a messy bun unlike how he usually wore it-...However he had turned around when he heard her choke, revealing the body of a warrior who's honed his body for years of battle with the scars to match. His purple eyes stared in shock. The four stared for a long, long moment- SLAM!! Both women jumped when Longan slammed the door back closed. The three stood there, pink in the face, Longan kept their hands pressed to the door before they inhaled. "Treasury." They turned to Mystic Flour. "Do you want to see the Treasury?" "I-I-..*ahem* Quite." "Let us go then. Quickly." It was very awkward at breakfast the next morning when everyone pretended nothing happened, but Butterfly did stutter apologies on their behalf. "It's alright....*ahem* L-Let us move on from the subject." The other two are just sitting their drinks, pink faced, and trying to avoid looking at Dark Cacao.........Longan was starting to see the appeal of why the Twin Dragons may want to hang around Dark Cacao, but once they get rid of these two cookies they will convince the Black Dragon of the North and White Dragon of the South to join them as their kin and help bring about the age of dragons!!
-Unfortunately their light headedness and throbbing pain was staring to come back. Curse that Gingerbrave Cookie for what they did to them! He and his friends will be the first to pay once they find a way around these problems and gain their power back!! Unfortunately Butterfly wanted to finish giving Mystic Flour a tour around the rest of the Palace. "This is Longan's throne room." The sound of waterfalls usual soothe the dragon but not today as they just stood head in both hands continuously rubbing at their hurt head as everything was getting lighter. "They keep swedish red fish as pets." Mystic Flour tilted her head at the pretty red fish swimming about in the moats. "They're fed twice a day. Dragon Eye's favorite is Crimson." "...Quite lovely." "Aren't they? Perhaps we can bring some fish to the fountain in the garden. Longan, what do you think-" She turned just in time to see the dragon tilt, smash their head into the floor, before their body disappeared with a splash- The absolute blood curdling shriek that erupted afterwards was enough to alert every wyvern within thirty feet and one king who immediately started running towards the scene. A moment later the throne room door was busted open. "What's going on!? What happened!?" What he found was one woman staring at the water shock and Butterfly looking between 'I'm about to have a panic attack' and 'Im about to cry' pointing at the water horrified. "LONGAN FELL IN!! THEY CAN'T SWIM AND NEITHER CAN I!!" What neither woman was expecting was the clattering of armor and a cape, and a second later a second figure disappeared into the rippling water. ........."*COUGH COUGH COUGH*" Black eyes opened up to a white ceiling, a throb to their skull, and a face inches away from theirs pulling back slowly. Two more heads joined the first one as their vision was fuzzy. "Longan, can you hear me? Are they ok?" "I can't be sure. They're bleeding jam from their head. We should get medical attention quickly." Everyone sounded like they were under water. "We need to get you both dried off! Who knows how much water your dough already absorbed!" "I thought dragons were immune to water?" "Only in their dragon forms! And the only one who's completely waterproof in any form is Lotus!" They might've blacked out again, not sure. But when their vision stopped swimming and they could feel again, they found themselves in bed. A bandage wrapped around their forehead where it hurt, and a servant fanning them insistently. A second servant was rubbing their black doughed arm with a towel but stopped when their master pulled away. "Where am I?" "Don't move please." Longan looks to the left, and their eyes jolt open seeing Dark Cacao Cookie in a robe that didn't quite fit leaving most of his chest exposed open. A towel was wrapped around his head and a third servant was fanning him as well. "You absorbed much more water than I have. They don't yet know if the damage is permanent yet." Longan looked at his ches- "I beg pardon. My eyes are not located on by biceps." Longan looked at him scowling. "Why am I here?" "From what I'm told you fell and hit your head against the floor before rolling into the water. I managed to get you out though." "Impossible. I do not trip like a clumsy infant." "No one said you were clumsy, but you did stop breathing for a moment or two. I had to perform CPR." ...Their eyes slightly narrow in confusion. "CP..R?" "Yes. It's a medical technique involving chest compressions and mouth to mouth resuscitation to help someone who's stopped breathing." Mouth to mouth-...Like. Kissing? Immediately their face drawls a blank, then they turn a light pink, then they glare in anger! "You dare touch me like that!? A cookie!?" Dark Cacao to his credit is calm. "Would you rather I did not perform cpr on you when you stopped breathing and let you die or that I managed to get your body to start breathing again well enough for you to be angry about it later?"
-They scowled hard at Dark Cacao for a long moment before turning to the ceiling. "Where is my mate?" "Miss Butterfly? She left to go get the Blue Dragon. Apparently they have the most medical resources and experience with these matters. She should be back any moment. Don't worry. She's alright, just worried about you. I also hope you don't mind, but she let me borrow one of your robes to change into. It is a bit..small though." Longan inhaled slowly before releasing it(they did NOT quickly glance at his exposed chest-). "..I expect nothing less." A moment of silence passed between them both with the only sounds being the two wyvern servants continuously fanning them to get them as dry as possible. "..What do you seek out of me?" He hummed looking at the dragon who stared back. "What do you seek in return? Power? Some part of my treasury?" Their black eyes narrowed. "Access to my mate?" "Well...if you could just lie there on the bed until they get here to look over you properly that will be good enough." "I don't believe that. You must want something." "Is that the only reason you think I helped you?" "What else is there to think?" "How about because showing kindness and helping others is the right thing to do?....With great power comes great consequences. I learnt that the hard way very long ago, and to this day I still regret my actions." His head tilted. "You also have regrets and suffered great consequences however there is one thing you did not learn that I did." "And what is that?" "With great power comes great consequences, but it also comes with great responsibility. I chose to bear the burdens but also reap the rewards of knowing I can help others when they need it, and yes that includes you...It does not matter if you believe me or not, but just knowing you're alive is good enough for me. If you do believe I want something, then perhaps just be kinder to others." Another silence followed as both stared at each other for a long, long moment and for a moment he believed Longan wouldn't speak again until they got back. "Where did you learn your medicine?" ...This time he smiled. "Oh, lots of hobbies in the Dark Kingdom involve ice covered lakes and ponds. Figure skating, hockey, ice fishing- In fact when I was a young cookie, my own father used to take me ice fishing with him all the time! *sigh* Such fond memories. Almost all my citizens are taught these things just in case someone falls through the ice. For safety reasons." That..was actually not a bad idea. A hand of theirs slowly reached to touch their mouth for a moment. "...That seems..useful." "It certainly is! It came in handy today didn't it?" "Yes. I will concede to that....You have earned a piece of my rare gratitude, but make no mistakes. I do not give it lightly, especially to a cookie." "Your welcome! If you'd like, I could teach you how. Just in case something like this happens to someone you know." They hummed. It was rare but not unheard of for their kin to drown if they were not a water dragon or had SOME kind of water attachment like Lotus. Their mate couldn't swim and Dragon Eye wouldn't stop playing near the water no matter what their parent told them....It would be very useful to have on hand. They nodded. "Show me." Dark Cacao blinked. "Now?" "No time like the present as the saying goes I believe. You will find I am very quick to new knowledge." By the time Butterfly and Mystic Flour came back with Lotus they found a ...pretty new sight before them. "You put one hand over the other, like that." Dark Cacao laid of the bed as Longan sat up, black hands hovering over where Cacao was positioning them. "You put them there and them push down in rapid sessions. After thirty you apply two mouth to mouth breaths. Go on and try." ".......I think I will just follow the instructions- !?"
-They froze as he just pulled their hands down on his chest. "You can't learn just by reading or hearing someone explain it! You learn by doing! You can't be afraid to just get in there!" Longan didn't move, but their eyes were WIDE and their face showed the slightest of pink. Lotus tilted their head raising a brow amused. "Should we go in now?" "No!" "We should not interrupt." Both women are definitely not staring at Dark Cacao and how pretty Longan looks with their long hair flowing around them and a little disheveled looking.
LOTUS: Lotus is just as surprised as everyone else...Yet somehow this quadruple is the second healthiest right after Ananas.
-It actually starts with Eternal Sugar. Yep. But it's not as bad as everyone thinks. Lotus is ready to get physical again if they have to once Hydrangea Cookie informs them the Beast was back, flew right into their paradise and in front of their palace. But it's more sad, kinda cringe, and awkward when they and Petal go to look out the window outside Lotus Palace and see a sight they were not expecting. Eternal Sugar standing there, crying, holding a record player playing sad music over her head, and behind her on the sidewalk are roses laid across the pavement spelling the words 'I'm sorry.' They just end up staring at her until the record player stops and she's hiccuping taking time out to wind it back up before holding it over her head again. She's not actually here to cause trouble this time. Turns out Hollyberry convinced her to start attending therapy sessions in return for Hollyberry agreeing to spend time with her and of COURSE Eternal Sugar quickly agreed. Her therapist suggested apologizing to everyone she hurt without expecting anything in return and she took off before Hollyberry could give them a heads up. Unfortunately she also asked Pavlova for advice on how to apologize and Pavlova being the hopeless romantic fanfiction novelist he is gave her a scene from an 80s movie only difference is there is a record player instead of a boom box. Eventually Lotus goes down to see wtf is actually going on. They don't get one word out before Eternal Sugar is back into dissolving into ugly sobbing again catching Lotus off guard as she blubbers through the ugly sobs and crying. It takes her almost ten attempts, three whole tissue boxes, and Lotus reluctantly trying to calm her down to piece everything together. "H-H-Hollyberry s-s-says *HIC* I-I was bad-...*SNIFFLE* a-and s-s-she wo-won't talk to-o-o me-me unless I-.....AAAAAHAHAHAAAA!!!" Yeah. Lotus gets the picture. Poor Hydrangea Cookie is sweeping the tissues and roses away to be cleaned up while giving scowls at the crying pink haired cookie for daring to dirty her master's perfect paradise. "Ah. So you came to apologize?" She nods still hiccuping through smeared mascara. Lotus doesn't detect any lying, after all they ARE a master manipulator themselves and while Eternal Sugar IS smart enough to deceive others, she's not as proficient as Shadow Milk is. "Pl-he-heeeeeze forg-g-ive me- *HIC* I-I want Ho-Ho-Holllyyybeeerrrrrryyyyyy- *HIC*." Both Lotus and Petal (standing a good distance away for safety reasons-) gives each other awkward looks. "....You are forgiven." Lotus is just gonna agree to get her to stop crying and to get out of this awkward situation. "But on the condition you stop coming by to harass my Petal." Instead they end up having to sit with her until she completely stops crying, and her face is a darker pink and puffy eyed. "Tea?" The pink haired woman only nods as Lotus has her a cup. Lotus may not like her (YET) but they're not a monster. If Ananas can give hospitality to Silent Salt so could they. Petal is still safely on their other side but she joined them. Somehow Eternal Sugar looks much, much smaller than she used to. Wings drooping and makeup smeared all over her face. It's honestly pretty sad that the powerful Beast Lotus fought almost a whole year ago now is just sniveling like a teenager who was stood up at prom. And you know what? Lotus takes this to their FULL advantage. "Now, now. There's no need to cry." A handkerchief was dipped in the water next to them, a moment later a hand was gently tilting Eternal Sugar's face towards the dragon as they gently turn her head towards them and gently began wiping her face much to her surprise humming and cleaning her up. "You're doing the right thing. Now you're going to ruin that pretty face of yours." "Lotus is very generous and kind."
-Petal narrowed her eyes as their partner graciously cleaned her up. "Unlike some cookies." "Now, Dear. We should fully support her in seeking help. After all, she came all the way here just to apologize." They lean forward a little bit making Eternal Sugar blink a moment. "As long as she's a good girl, I see nothing wrong with it.~" Now Lotus is VERY beautiful, arguably they are THE most beautiful out of all the dragons. Hydrangea Cookie knows this. All of Lotus Paradise knows this. Petal knows this. Everyone who ever sees Lotus knows this. Lotus themselves ALSO know this. So they use this to their entire advantage as the Beast Cookie goes wide eyed when Lotus finished cleaning her face and smiles at her. Closely. "My...What a pretty cookie we have here hiding under all that make up.~ But your face still looks so puffy...We have an excellent spa here on Lotus Paradise.~ Oh the visitors and Ananas especially loves it. I'm going to be nice and set you up with a full spa treatment and massage on me." "Darling?" Petal and Hydrangea look as surprised as Eternal Sugar does. "Do you know who she is?" "Of course. She is a guest. An uninvited guest, but a guest none the less and as a host I would be most disappointed if I did not show Miss Sugar here our famous hospitality until Miss Hollyberry retrieves her. Hydrangea Cookie, please escort Miss Sugar to that nice salon in town and arrange a room for her in the palace." Hydrangea is confused to her master's orders but doesn't question them as always. "Yes, Master. Please follow me." Petal waits for Hydrangea to pull Eternal Sugar away before turning her head in confusion and slight annoyance to Lotus. "Not what on earthbread were you thinking allowing her to stay after the waterworks show? After everything she had done?" Lotus only smiles that knowing smile that they always had when they were already planning something. "Have you ever heard the phrase 'kill them with kindness'? Sometimes it is more effective to get what you want by just simply being kind and hospitable and then just want for the opportunity to come to you." OOOHHH. She saw now. "So what do you want from her?" "Hmm...I don't know yet, but I have an idea. I need some time to see if it'll be worth it first." Turns out a massage and being pampered by others is just what was needed to placate the once ugly sobbing woman. Although Petal couldn't help but stare in disbelief when Lotus assigned servants to personally clean her room and bring Eternal Sugar some food when she just slept on soft silks blankets all day. "You're treating her like an honored guest-...No. I take it back. You're treating her like a pampered pet!" "Exactly! That is entirely my plan." "...Alright, but she is NOT going anywhere near Pond Dino! I don't want her bad influence rubbing off on my baby!" It was almost three or four days before Hollyberry finally decided to show up to personally remove the Beast. "I'm sorry. I wanted to send you a letter beforehand but she took off like Pitaya when they see a fight before I could stop her. Sorry for all the trouble she caused." Eternal Sugar is crying again clinging to the poor worn out woman like yellow on a sunflower. "Think nothing of it. She was no bother at all. It was the least we could do to encourage her to become better." "*sigh* We're still working through her attachment issues. As soon we get back, she's having another appointment." "You look quite tired from your travels." Lotus gestured to the palace behind them with a smile. "Come stay for the day and relax before you have to travel the long way back again." "Hm. I don't know. The last time someone said that, I was almost trapped inside a garden." Eternal Sugar sobbed louder. "No offense to you, Blue Dragon!" "None taken! If you feel more comfortable, I shall have Hydrangea Cookie set you up in a nice inn in town instead. We have good food and juice-" "Actually, maybe staying one night wouldn't hurt!"
-She was convinced by the juice. Petal was not so confused now, but she did wonder what Petal wanted from the both of them. Instead they set both ladies up again with rooms, full on pamper services, servants, and good meals. It's all a part of the plan. What plan? Simple. What better way to neutralize a threat then to get said threat on your side? At least that was the plan at first. Seduction was easy for them. Eternal Sugar gushed at Hollyberry, at anything the woman did. She looked at Petal when she offered to sing and dance for their entertainment with big goo goo eyes, while it irritated them...Having a Beast under their hands wasn't a bad idea. Why? 1. it effectively eliminated any threat. 2. Simply because they CAN. "Isn't Petal just radiant?" Eternal Sugar beams and agrees because of course she does. Lotus isn't lying. "And Miss Hollyberry is so delightful. She really livens up the party." She nods again. Lotus sighs. "You have such good tastes, Dear. I can see why you'd want to keep the both of them to yourself. *sigh* It's such a shame. Tch, Tch, Tch. Such a big shame indeed." Now that gets the pink cookie's attention as she turns to the dragon. "What is?" "Oh, nothing. I just find it fascinating how alike we are." She blinks. "We are?" "But of course. We both have excellent tastes, we are both owners of beautiful paradises, we both have a previous egregious past with harming others-..." A hand reached out to run across her chin and stopped to hold it as Lotus gave a sultry look at the staring cookie. "Hmm. Rather pretty if I do say so myself.~ If I had found you first, I would've added you to my treasury.~" They let go of her chin looking back to the performance like nothing happened. "A shame." ...All the feathers on Eternal Sugar's wings fluff up instantly, face a shock with her eyes popped open and mouth again, entire face a darker pink- "PAVLOVA COOKIE!!" The poor small Cupid drops his (fanfiction-) book in a panic as his mistress is standing in the doorway breathing heavily and looking out of breath, highly unusual for her. "M-Mistriss! W-Wha-" "I need every piece of information you have on love triangles and polycules immediately!" He stares a moment before beaming. "I'm way ahead of you!" Just a few seconds later not one or two but FIVE stacks of books, magazines, poems, scripts, and unfinished papers he wrote on was plopped on the floor in front of her. Each stack was almost two feet above HER head. "I have everything from love triangles to polycules! I also have harems, cheating, affairs, secret admirers, reverse harems, love rivalries, someone falling in love with someone else when they're already in a relationship, third wheeling, open relationships, arranged marriages to cookies with multiple wives or concubines already, and someone who thinks their spouse died so they find love again but feel guilty or so they remarry only to find out they didn't die so now they got two loves instead of one!!" He took a deep breath from explaining. "SO! Which ones do you want?" "All of them! Read them to me! And if I fall asleep, immediately pick up where we left off as soon as I wake up!"
-Petal is NOT amused when Eternal Sugar starts making daily trips to come see them again now with a renewed interest in courting her, Hollyberry, AND now Lotus. There's always too sweet sweets from her garden now left at Lotus Palace's doors as offerings, gifts of silks, once they found a whole marble statue of Lotus left in the middle of courtyard- "Was this your idea from the start?" Petal pouts arms crossed. Lotus only smiles. "Yes. But now I have the power of a Beast Cookie under me instead of against me. It should pose useful if used correctly." What Lotus was underestimating was Eternal Sugar's dedication. So it surprised them to one day find the woman serenading them outside their window with a lyre. They've never actually heard or seen this instrument played before so they were actually happy to sit there and genuinely listen to her play. "Master, I mean no disrespect-...But what do see in that cookie?" Both Hydrangea and Lotus are staring down at Eternal Sugar who somehow got a hold of gold, gems, and assorted sweet fruits from her garden were piled up around her as she stared up at Lotus smiling widely and holding up a sign that read 'roses are red, lotus blooms are pink, so what do you think?' Lotus is oddly genuinely flattered as no one's ever courted the Blue Dragon with such enthusiasm and dedication before. "She amuses me. Have servants go down and move the gifts to the Treasury....And tell Eternal Sugar she's invited to stay for dinner.~" As for why they find Hollyberry attractive- Lotus lost track of all three ladies one visit because they had to tend to some cookies who wanted permission to turn an area of Lotus Paradise into farmland, and eventually found both Eternal Sugar and Petal sat outside in the grass just staring at something intensely and sipping loudly on wine glasses. "What are you two ladies doing out here on such a hot day?" They don't look at them, both just point. They look and Lotus paused seeing Hollyberry in yoga pants and a tube top, one hand holding the marble statue lifting it up and down and up and down and up and down- Before with a grunt she slowly puts it down with a loud thud and wipes at her brow. "PHEW!! What a work out!" She flexes her arms unaware of the three watching her, muscles rippling, abs flexing. "Now for the legs!" ....Lotus slowly sits down next to them as Eternal Sugar passes them a champagne glass without looking up. "*SSSSSSIIIIIIIPPPP*" It turns out they were right when they said Eternal Sugar and them have the same tastes-
LYCHEE: In which Lychee finds out Pure Vanilla is VERY pretty and thus they decide what better way than to tick off the clown than to join forces with the Ancient....HEY!! Why is the stupid clown pretty too!? That's not fair!!
-Let's just admit it folks. Pure Vanilla IS very beautiful. Especially in his current form after he awakens his full power. Lychee finds this out the hard way one day when he comes to visit Actress because they're actually friends despite all knowing he's in love with her. Lychee only tolerates him because he's useful against the clown, and actually doesn't cross any lines, and Rambutan convinced them to try to make more friends with cookies. THEY WEREN'T EXPECTING HIM TO BE HOT!! OK!? HOW WERE THEY SUPPOSED TO KNOW!? "You want to see my cave?" They raised a brow as he smiles politely at them. "Why?" "Actress has told me of all of your magical crystals you harvest. Perhaps there is one that could use useful to keeping her safe." Lychee hums considering it....Ok. Seems reasonable enough. "Give me one hour to feed Fluffles and put him in his cave." "....Fluffles?" "Lychee's pet monster. He eats any trespassing cookie that enters Lychee's cave while they're not there. But he should be fine. Lychee was about to feed them an entire T-Rex from Dragon's Valley anyways." "OH!...Wait-" Pure Vanilla looks nervously at Actress. "They what?" "Oh, it's nothing...But if Pitaya comes around asking about a missing dinosaur, just be truthful and say 'I haven't seen any dinosaurs'. Which isn't a lie...Trust me. You don't wanna see Fluffles at meal time." Pure Vanilla is now slightly nervous. On the other side of the ocean, Pitaya is scratching their head and wondering why they've been losing dinosaurs. Pure Vanilla happily waits for Lychee to come back and gives him the go ahead to fly his airship to their main island. "Wow! What a magnificent cavern you have!" "Of course it's magnificent! It's MINE!!" As they're walking along, they don't notice the loose crystals above but Pure Vanilla does. Because he's looking around the beautiful crystals on the ceiling noticed one breaking off and falling towards the floating dragon- "LOOK OUT!!" It all happened so fast. A loud thud echoed through out the cave. Lychee was tackled to the ground. Dust and dirt was thrown into the air....Lychee coughed waving at the air...and they freeze at the sight above them. Pure Vaniila with his hands on either side of their body, leaned over them, and completely caging them under his body with their tinier form easy. His hat had fallen off in the scuffle and his flowing LITERALLY GLOWING golden locks are around them both like a waterfall as he heaves blinking at them. "Are you alright?! I dropped my staff so I can't see you." Maybe it's a good thing he couldn't because Lychee was staring wide eyed and jaw dropped at them...some kind of noise left their throat as they laid there splayed out like a starfish. ...Until they look down. AND CHOKE!! "YOUR SHIRT!?" SINCE WHEN DID HIS TWINKISH COOKIE HAVE A SCULPTED BODY!? "Huh?" A hand comes down to feel where the front of his robes were turned to shreds. "Oh. I must've torn my clothes on all the rocks and crystals lying around. Don't worry! I'm not hurt." Lychee is picked up from under the arms as he leans up and holds them like a cat or small kid. "I can heal you too. Are you hurt anywhere, Violet Dragon?" Lychee glanced at his chest-....."OW!!" They hissed. "Watch how you're holding me! I hit my head hard on the floor when you tackled me you numbskull!!" "Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry! Hold still and I'll heal you up." Of course his healing has no effect on the dragon because they weren't hurt to begin with. "I still have a headache! It's dangerous for a dragon to fly without full focus and I am NOT walking! I demand you carry me back!" Actress is not amused with Lychee's antics as they're smooshed face first into Pure Vanilla's chest as the Ancient awkwardly stands there. "....They said they were too hurt to walk." She groans and facepalms. "Lychee, quite being a pervert and get off him!" "Shhh. This is healing me.~" "How exactly is pressing your face into his biceps 'healing you'?" "Hehehehe. Recoperating.~....On second thought, I see why you like him.~ Let's keep him!"
-....Actress yanks Lychee from a red faced Pure Vanilla after he gives Actress a 'please help me' look. Lychee is smirking also blushing a deeper purple at him. "So when is he moving in?~" "Lychee, stop it. You're embarrassing him, yourself, AND me." "I can get his stuff if he wants." "Lychee, I swear-" "You're gonna have to try real hard to 'extract' me from this pure vanilla now.~ Course it's not going to be so 'vanilla' when I get a hold of yo-" "LYCHEE!!" Poor Pure Vanilla is reader than Burning Spice's dough. Unfortunately for him Lychee LIKES what they see, and now he WILL be subjected to their courting and shameless flirtations. He squeals. Yes. SQUEALS when Lychee picks him up and flings him over one shoulder- "V-Violet Dragon!! Please put me down! This is improper!" "For your kind maybe, but I see no problems carrying my mates." He chokes. "M-MATES!?" "Duh. We both love Actress. She loves both of us. So what's the big deal? Besdies I decided I like your cute little glowworm act.~ It was SO attractive when you drove that airship into the blue twig.~" Pure Vanilla is embarrassed by their sudden flirts and attention-.....But he's not exactly hating it either. It's actually kinda funny seeing the man blushing like crazy as Lychee presses one hand against the wall flirting with him when THEY are the smaller of the two. Actress tries getting them to stop but then she's either flirted with too or thrown over Lychee's other shoulder as they carry them around. Lychee has no shame perfectly convinced these two will fall for their charm and love them....and sadly it's not entirely false. Lychee has two hands and so they hold TWO sexy people's hands. ...At least until they're just hovering around their island and smell a familiar scent. It smells like blueberries and milk...And immediately they're growling, wrath bubbling up, and pupils are dilating. "THAT DOES IT!!" Their axe is summoned as they start flying towards the source of the scent. "I don't care what they say! I WANT THAT BLUE TWIG OBLITERATED!!" They EXPECTED Shadow Milk....And they weren't wrong! What they FOUND however. "We rarely get visitors compared to the other islands. It's nice to know you're having a nice time visiting ours-" "RAMBUTAN COOKIE!!" Two ladies turn up to the heavily heaving dragon growling and gripping that axe! "STEP ASIDE!! I'M HUNGRY AND COOKIE IS ON THE MENU TONIGHT!!!" Rambutan immediately puts up their hands. "Whoa, whoa, whoa! Hold on now! There's no danger here! She's just a visitor-" "OH SURE!! NICE TRICK BUT THERE'S ROOM FOR ONLY ONE SHAPE SHIFTER ON THIS ISLAND, SHADOW MILK COOKIE!! YOU CAN'T FOOL ME THAT EASILY!!" The 'woman' still has their back to Lychee freezing when sensing the dragon's absolute RAGE as Lychee raises their axe and growls. "At least have the dignity to turn around and face me you dam two faced sack of blue dyed pig fat!!" Yes they learnt that insult from Desert Rose. For a moment no one moved...before slowly the 'woman' turned around to face them and Lychee paused. "Shadow Milk Cookie? Who's that?" A completely different voice came out from the woman who smiled and held a hand to her face giggling. "I'm afraid you must have me mistaken with someone else, Mr. Dragon." "I'm NOT a mister or misses!" Lychee growled but they lowered the axe and lean forward staring wide eyed. "Your scent gives you away-" "I'm so sorry, Ma'am." Rambutan apologized. "I don't know about dragons where you come from, but here in the Tropical Soda Seas all our dragons identify as non binary." The 'lady' giggled cutely a hand to 'her' mouth. Lychee could see 'she' was dress daintily in a blue, black, and white dress with a cape. 'Her' pretty white hair tied up with a pretty blue bow. Basket of chocolate chip muffins on one arm.
- "It's quite alright." 'She' smiled. In reality Shadow Milk Cookie was SWEATING beads of sweat down their dough from being found out so fast, waving War Flashbacks to when Desert Rose chased him down with Burning Spice's axe for severely injuring Pitaya. Even THIS tiny dragon was more powerful than him and right now they were staring at him with an expressionless face, sharp axe in their hands. CLEARLY he didn't think this through!! "I'm afraid you're mistaking me for someone else. I am Lady Azure. But whoever this Shadow Milk Cookie is must be really powerful if you think he's a threat. Handsome too! I have a feeling he's VERY handsome." Lychee started at 'her' longer...before a wide, evil, smirk spread across their mouth. Shadow Milk Cookie felt his eyes go small when Lychee ran a tongue across their teeth. "Actually as a man you look too ridiclous....But as a lady- How about a court battle? I win you do what I want. If you win, I'll let you spend time with Actress.~" "....Hmm. Deal-" YES! SMC knows what a court battle is being the Fount of Knowledge. Yes. They also underestimated the tinest dragon- "So I'm going to these auditions next week on the mainland. It's for Honeyed Ham-Let." "Ah! A classic! Which part are you auditioning for this time?" Actress opened her mouth to answer but both jolted and Pure Vanilla dropped his tea when both heard a woman's shrieks and a shadow went past them from overhead. Making both look up. "LYCHEE, WHAT IN WITCHES NAME ARE YOU DOING!?" Lychee paused briefly to look back at them, a woman kicking and screaming over their shoulder. "Don't mind me. We had a court battle and I won, so I'm going to see how pretty of a clutch I can get out of this form. They're look so pretty with his blue eyes-.. Hey. Can we find some way to keep him a woman? He's a lot more pretty like this." "....Is that who I think it is!?" "HELP ME!!" A panicked Shadow Milk reaches a hand out to Pure Vanilla as Lychee turns to continue floating off. "I"LL DO ANYTHING!! REFORM CLASSES!! I'LL RECYCLE!! I'LL SEE A THERAPIST!! I'M TOO YOUNG TO BE A MOTHER!!" "No you're not. You're like what? A thousand years?" "VANILLY, YOU'RE THE HERO DO SOMETHING!?" Both Actress and Pure Vanilla slowly look at each other. "....Should we go help him?" Pure Vanilla sighs before standing up and beginning to run after them. "Hang on! Quit fighting back! Some of them see that as showing more interest!!" "NOW YOU TELL ME THIS!?" Actress sighs, chugs down the rest of her tea, and then runs off after them to save Shadow Milk from himself-
THIS IS AMAZING I LOVE YOU AND YOU AND YOU AND ALL OF YOU OMGG
ALL DRAGONS WERE PERFECT WITH PERFECT REACTIONS ACTIONS AND EVERYTHING ELSE OGJXGDHOFOHDHFOYSFPI
Ummmm.... so can we have part 2 im serious this is very interesting and caught my interest bc its actually a very cool idea
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I once read a webtoon called I Gave Birth To The Tyrant's Child. It's where a knight ran away after discovering she was pregnant with the child of a ruthless killing king. How about that with the darlings if they were reluctant to actually be in a relationship with them?
OH! I actually listened to someone dub the entire thing on YouTube once. That's actually a really interesting idea! NOT CANNON!! This is an alternate 'what if' scenario if the Darlings didn't accept any romantic feelings from the dragons.
Warnings for pregnancy, drinking, yandere like behavior, and implied spicy times but NOTHING explicit. PLEASE drink responsibly!
-She knew Pitaya was starting to see her as a mate or actually a potential mate to be exact. That was NOT what she wanted! She just got away from someone who kept her chained to a stake for months and called her his 'concubine', she wasn't about to become lifelong mates with a dragon who was essentially her landlord! That's why she had to set the record straight with Pitaya immediately right after Tartin Tan Cookie told her all about Pitaya's weird behavior and confronted them. "I NEED to set some boundaries with you." Pitaya simply blinked at her as Snapdragon giggled in her arms. She had confronted Pitaya with what Tartin Tan told her and Pitaya seemed to be awkwardly shuffling. "Look. I know you can't help feeling things sometimes, and honestly there is nothing wrong with having a crush on someone. I'm not even mad you have a crush on me. I'm really not. But I don't like you that way. I like you as a friend! Like the cookie friend you told me about. So out of respect for each other....Can we still just be friends?" Pitaya stared long and hard at her before they gave a kicked puppy sound and nodded. "Yesss. I-...can live with that." She sighed relieved. "Thank you. Believe me when I say I really appreciate you listen to what I have to say. How about I make the three of us a friend brunch to celebrate?" They DID perk up at that. "Food? What is it?" "How about a rotisserie almond bird with lemon and rosemary?" Pitaya was already licking their chops as Snapdragon perked up. "Birdie! Yummy!" Things from there on was...incredibly awkward when Pitaya would do something like flex or stare at her in a way before seeming to remember what she said and backed off. She was incredibly relieved Pitaya at least respected the firm boundary she put into place. Their landlord-tenant frienship relationship continued with her leaving different tributes once a week as usually and her living a somewhat peaceful life. That was until one day she happened to be headed to Dragon City for a supply run, some loud flapping was heard, and a moment later the pink dragon dropped next to her beginning to walk along. "Hi, Pitaya! Beautiful today isn't it?" "Where are you going?" "Dragon City. I heard they're having a celebration today!" "Celebration?" "Yeah. Apparently it's to celebrate the day and evil uh-..monster was vanquished from the city last year today!" She avoided saying 'dragon'. "There's gonna be a parade and games and a jousting content and food-" "You had me at joussst, and food! Ass the one who vanquished the black dragon it'sss only right to praissse me for it!" She rose a brow. "Wouldn't it be dangerous for you and your baby to walk in looking like a dragon?" "...Oh yeah." "Why don't you come with me? We can have fun together and it'll be safer in numbers." They perked up instantly. "YESSS!! Mala SSSauce is already looking after SSSnapdragon!" She had no idea who Mala Sauce was but she was happy to spend time with a friend.
-She was actually surprised one moment to look away, look back and found Pitaya WITHOUT their helmet and adjusting a brown cape...She just stared. "What the-?" "Lychee isssn't the only one with a cookie disssquissse." They....Actually looked pretty cute without the helmet and armor but she shook it off to keep traveling. The celebration was already underway in the city. They missed half of the parade through town but the loud music, laughter, and happy shouting was everywhere. Pitaya seemed to easily get into the spirit when they snatched someone's meat on a stick when they weren't looking and scarfed it down with a smile which she chuckled at. The night was FULL of fun. Pitaya went straight for the jousting contest and out of curiosity she followed. It's not surprising the dragon in disguise won every single round against the cookies, in fact she'd say they were cheating having a clear advantage over cookies but they seemed to have fun holding the grand prize at the end, which was a bag of gold coins. They seemed to LOVE just fighting and gold of course! After about an hour of strolling together checking out the booths and trying to find Tartin Tan among the sea of hundreds of cookies to no avail, somehow they ended up at the Dragon City Inn where the festivities continued in full swing. A band playing fast lively music in the corner, bartenders passing out mugs of hollyberry juice by the dozens, people eating hot meals and laughing. Pitaya pointed out to her an arm wrestling costent before they winked, smirked, and walked up to the cookie three times bigger than them. The larger man laughed as Pitaya sat across from them holding out an arm, and then everyone laughed when Pitaya threw his arm so hard and fast he dropped to the floor instantly. Someone slapped them on the back. "That's the funniest thing I've seen all night! I'll buy ya a drink for the laugh! On me!" "That I will accept! But buy one for my friend asss well!" "Sure! Anyone who makes Pound Cake Cookie eat dirt like that earnt it! HAHAHA!!" She accepted the mug of hollyberry juice from Pitaya and watched in amazement as Pitaya gulped it down in one go. "Isn't this stuff really strong?" They wiped their mouth before smirking. "I can drink fifty regular mugsss before I ssstart feeling their effectsss. Dragonsss have higher tolerance for thingsss regular cookiesss have trouble withssstanding. Like the heat of Dragon'sss Valley." "That actually makes more sense now. There's supposed to be fireworks tonight too. Wanna stay and watch them?" They nodded at her.
-The fireworks wouldn't be until sundown so they had a few hours to kill, which mostly consisted of her just relaxing and bathing in the atmosphere. Pitaya spent it mostly drinking down mugs of juice they used a few gold pieces to pay, and of course buy some large meals. At one point Pitaya joined a drinking contest that was going on and everyone watched shocked as the dragon guzzled down mugs by the BARRAL-full and outdrank everyone else with ease. She herself was on her fourth mug over the course of a few hours and was feeling tipsy. "Hey pretty lady.~" She turned and leaned back instantly finding a face inches away from hers. The man smirked. "What's a pretty girl like you sitting all alone by yourself for?~" Oh just great! She was being hit on. "None of your business." "Come on. It's a time of celebration! I'll buy you a drink.~" "No thanks! I have a boyfriend!" His brow rose. "Oh yeah? He here." Just great. Her eyes looked over and spotted Pitaya sitting back lazily in a chair and chugging down some more Hollyberry juice. She pointed. "There they are right there!" He looked. "Tch. That's not you're boyfriend. You're lying." "Yes they are!" She was sure Pitaya would understand if she used them as a white lie. "Prove it!" She started at him anger building in her before she chugged down the rest of her drink before standing up, a bit wobbly from being so tipsy. If she was sober she would've NEVER done what she decided to do. Pitaya laughed at some crude joke they heard but paused when with a plop she sat on their lap. They blinked for a moment clearly off guard before she just grabbed their collar and the mug dropped from their hand. Pitaya's eyes widened as she just kissed them! A loud cheer went off as their eyes bulged out comically completely shocked....before slowly they kissed back. The rest of the night was a blur. She vaguely remembered them making out, seeing some fireworks outside of some window, and then everything else was just a blank.....She woke up to three things. A throb of pain from her head when she moved her head slightly, sunlight stinging her eyes, and a loud sound next to her. It sounded like a bad engine. She groaned and slowly got herself awake enough to stare at a ceiling..that wasn't her cave ceiling. Witches it felt like her head was hit by Burning Spice! And what the fudge was that sound!? She rubbed her face and looked over- Her body went cold. Laying there next to her was one snoring dragon. Pitaya was fast asleep, curled and hugging a pillow to nuzzle their face into as they peacefully slept. She started at them right next to her...She slowly looked at herself before clutching the blanket and feeling heat rise to her face. "Fudging witches. What was in that juice!?" She frantically gets herself together careful not to wake up the dragon. She felt terrible leaving Pitaya all alone there with their wings exposed...But she really didn't know what to do except quickly make her exit and run away from the awkward situation like crazy. She flees all the way home and scrubs her body and clothes try, cracks open some chocolate, and just lays in bed contemplating her entire existence. ....This didn't mean anything. Cookies had one nighters together ALL the time all over Earthbread. It meant nothing to them. They were both drunk and were feeling the moment. So what? It was nothing. Pitaya drank WAY more than her anything. They had over a hundred mugs when she only had four. They'd probably wouldn't even remember anything! Sure they'll be mad she just disappeared and left them but she can just say she got drunk and couldn't remember anything either! YEP!! Everything was going to be fine and this wasn't going to cause any troubles! Everything was fine!!
-She didn't see or hear from the dragon for almost a week to her relief, but she still left a basket full of fruit outside for a 'tribute'. But she froze when the flapping of wings was heard and a moment later a figure just walked right into the small cave. Pitaya stood there smiling. Not smirking. Happily smiling like they just had the best day of their life! "Oh...Hi, Pitaya." She awkwardly smiles as they just walk in. "How are you? Did you like the berries I left you?" Instead of answering they just walk up to her and envelope her in a big hug. Not tight. But enough to firmly pull her against them which shocked her because Pitaya had NEVER hugged her before. "Pita-" She froze when they just growled and placed a kiss to her forehead. "W-What are you doing!?" A happy growl escaped them. "Greeting my mate of courssse!" Her eyes bug out as they sniff around. "What'sss for breakfassst?" A glass shattering sound went off in her head. "WHAT!?" It takes a considerable amount of effort and strength for her to get away. Backing away from the confused dragon. "What'sss wrong?" They reach for her- "ARE YOU INSANE!? WE'RE NOT MATES!!" They stand there for a moment awkwardly as she stares at them. They slowly blink. "Yesss we are." "Why in witches name do you think that!?" "That night when we-" "Having a one night stand together doesn't make us boyfriend girlfriend! Or mates! Or whatever it is you think! You do know what a one night stand is right?" "Yesss." "Then you should know that cookies have those all the time with no strings attatched!" They frowned pointing a hand at her. "YOU are the one that came up to ME and initiated the kisss!" Oh witches. They DID remember- "I WAS DRUNK!! YOU WERE DRUNK!! NEITHER OF US WERE THINKING CLEARLY!! IT WAS A MISTAKE-" "SSSPENDING TIME WITH ME ISSS A MISSSTAKE TO YOU!?" "NO!! That's not what I meant! I meant neither of us were in our right minds! I can't even remember anything after getting drunk off juice!" They folded their arms. "Jussst becaussse YOU fail to remember doesssn't mean it didn't happen or doesssn't matter to me!" "I KNOW THAT, PITAYA!! It just-....UGH!!" She put her head in her hands. "I didn't know what I was thinking!! Ok!? I'm sorry for leading you on and hurting your feelings!" She looked back up to them. "I really didn't mean to hurt you or give you the wrong idea! I really do feel bad! But I don't want to be anyone's girlfriend or mate or....Anything. Please understand. I'm so sorry. I am so, so, so sorry." They just stare at her with that frown for a long long moment...before nodding. "I underssstand." She sighed. "We shall court firssst properly!" She felt her reality break with her mind as they hugged her again sounding genuinely happy. "I will bring you proper giftsss and show you proper courtship." This couldn't be happening. Unfortunately it WAS happening because she woke up to a loud thud outside and when she groggily got up to go see what it was- She screamed seeing a pretty dead monster six times larger than her just dropped in front of her home. Pitaya had one foot against it smirking. "How isss THISSS for a gift?!" "Pitaya, why is there a dead cake monster in front of my cave!?" "It'sss a courting gift of courssse. Thessse are deliciousss." "GET THIS THING OUT OF HERE BEFORE I PUKE!!! NOW!!" They look hurt. Like really hurt, but silently they grab the monster by the leg and walk away without another word back into Dragon's Valley. She had to sit down with and let it sink in for a while.
-As if her luck couldn't get any worse- "MAMA!!" A small baby suddenly clung onto her the next day. Guess which two dragons found her gathering herbs. Snapdragon giggled hugging her. "Honey, I'm not your mama." "MAMA!!" "Pitaya, tell them I'm not their mother." They only smile warmly at her. "Not yet! We're ssstill courting!" "No we're not." "Yesss we are! I brought you a different gift!" That gift was a gold bracelet studded with emeralds and rubies, obvious their color palette. "N-No! Pitaya, I REALLY don't want it! You don't have to get me anything-" They slap it on her wrist before she can stop them. "My mate dessservesss to be ssspoiled!" The next few days were horrible. She TRIED to explain to Pitaya they were NOT mates to no avail. She TRIED to get Snapdragon to stop imprinting on her as their mother. She TRIED to give the gifts back which kept coming. Not to mention the stress her body seemed to be going through. Headaches, she started throwing up in the morning, her anger only seemed to be spiking....and for some reason she was starting to crave jalapenos?? Unfortunately Pitaya also noticed.
-"You're sssick." "I'm NOT sick. I'm stressed. Because someone doesn't want to listen to a THING I say!" That and the look she gave them made Pitaya snap their jaw shut and back away finally. "..Isss there anything I can do for you?" "....Give me just one week of peace! PLEASE!! That's all I ask." They didn't look like they liked that but nodded in agreement. And the next morning she vomited again...Maybe Pitaya was right and they WERE sick?? Well considering Pitaya always kept their word, she had at least seven days without being bothered. Dragon City had a clinic for travelers. She'd go and stop by there to get checked out. It was probably just stress symptoms but it would be better to get checked out. She made off for the city that very day ignoring anything else until she finally got there, briefly asking for directions before finally ending up at the small clinic. It wasn't too big or busy, just the doctor fixing someone's sprained ankle. "Good evening. How can I help you?" "I need an emergency physical. I think I got stress sick but Im not sure." "Oh. Well come right on in and take a seat. I'll ask you a few questions if that's alright." He did. She answered each one truthfully describing in as much detail as she could about her symptoms. She got to the part about throwing up only during mornings and craving jalapenos when he paused and rose brow. "...Alright one last question. How many partners have you had in the past year?" "Just one. And it was only one time." "When?" "During the festival two weeks ago." The doctor slowly raises the brow higher. "...Can I examine your body for a second? Just to confirm or not my suspicions." She consented to poking and prodding. He just looks at her a moment before completely smiles in glee. "Well I can safely say it's not the a stomach flu or stress! Congratulations, Ma'am! You're pregnant!" Pregnant. The word seems to hang in the air for a long long time echoing over and over in her head. Temporary ringing in her ears could be heard, until like a sack of brinks everything hit her at once. "WHAT!? N-No! I-I can't be-...T-There's no possible way I'm-....A cookie can't have a baby dough with a-" She snapped her mouth shut. She couldn't say dragon! This town was full of adventurers, hunters, slayers, and everything in between! There's no telling what anyone would do if they found out! "T-There's gotta be a mistake!" "Nope! I've performed this procedure every time and I have not been wrong once! You're almost one month pregnant. Congratulations, Miss! The physical will be twenty coins!" She found herself sitting on a random sidewalk just staring at her feet as people just walked by. She couldn't process what was happening. She was pregnant. She was pregnant. She was preg- It just wouldn't settle no matter how many times it landed in her head. Then a shadow fell over her. "Y/n Cookie?" She flinches looking up and staring face to face with Tartin Tan. "Wasn't expecting to see you today. What brings you here?" The older woman blinks when she just starts crying. "Hey now. What's wrong, Sweetie? Oh no. It's ok. Come on. Let's go somewhere private, and you can tell ol' Tartin what's making a young lady cry like that?" The woman gets her settled somewhere private they wouldn't be heard. She breaks down telling the woman everything from confronting Pitaya to the festival to the mistake to what she just found out half an hour ago. The woman listens carefully raising a brow when she hears the last bit. "....And you are SURE it's theirs?" She scowled at her. "Just asking. A cookie and a dragon...And here I thought in my old age I've seen everything." "What am I going to DO!? What's Pitaya going to do if they find out!?" "Well honestly they'd probably never let you go now. Dragons are scarce to begin with and very protective of their young. If they found out you're going to have their child..." "Can't I just give them the baby? Like a surrogate? Or giving them up for adoption!?"
-Tartin Tan shook her head. "They already think they're courting you in their mind. If they found out that 'mating' lead to this...well I was serious when I said dragons mate for life. They'd never let you go even if you were willing to hand over any baby once they're born." She looked like she was about to break down again. She wasn't ready for this! Let alone a baby!! "There's a solution though." She instantly snapped back up. "If they just think you're courting for now, then a big rejection could nail in through their skull! You'd probably have to leave the valley and Dragon City entirely." "HOW!?" She grimaced. "....I can't help you directly. If the Red Dragon found out anyone from here helped you and they're angry enough...Well I'd rather not witness a dragon's wrath again." That was understandable. Pitaya was powerful. REALLY powerful. Their power already burnt down the city ONCE. "W-What do I do then?" "Where you live there's a grey plant that looks like milkweed. It's dragon's bane. It's not actually poisonous to dragons, but if you boil the plant and then pour the water on yourself, it'll mask your scent from wyverns, dragons, dinosaurs and other giant reptile creatures! Lots of adventurers use it to hunt in the valley. You can buy some perfume bottles and fill it up with the boiled water. That way they can't track you, at least long enough for you to get away." She pointed the way out of dragon's valley the way she FIRST arrived there. "There's always people leaving and entering the city. If you disguise yourself and leave quickly, it'll be like you're just another cookie passing through here....However I can't give you any advice on what do to with a baby dragon other than maybe abandoning them on one of the Tropical Soda Seas islands with one of the other dragons once they're born." "T-That's it?" "How much time do you have until they return?" "At least six more days." "Then you'd better go home immediately and get going." She didn't have to be told twice. Immediately heading home and stopping on the way searching for the dragon's bane Tartin Tan told her about. It wasn't hard. That grey plant seemed to be growing everywhere she looked. She came back with an entire armful of it and immediately got to work boiling the water as fast as she could. She only had six more days before that dragon came back and for all she knew, they could be watching her right now! "This smells like spoiled cabbage!" She didn't like how it smelt...but if it kept Pitaya from coming after her, it was worth it. She contemplated leaving in the middle of the night...but dragons could see in the dark, plus all the stores she needed to buy supplies from were closed and she was tired. The next morning she vomited again....before packing up whatever she could carry lightly in a pack, and leaving but not before leaving Pitaya one last basket of gummy fish and veggies. It would be her last tribute and she might as well leave while keeping her word. She left. Not seeking out Tartin Tan to say good bye or to thank her. She only made a few stops in Dragon City to buy some supplies, sell some others, and left entirely without looking back.
-The first three days were easy going. She walked along the dirt road, keeping the hood over her head and parnoidly kept looking over her shoulder at the sky for any signs of a pink dragon flying towards her. As she kept going on and on until she heard it. That dreaded sound. A distant wing flapping. Immediately she dove into some bushes and threw some branches over her head. A moment later the ground SHOOK jolting her around. A peek through the leaves had her eyes popping out. HOLY FU- THAT WAS THEIR DRAGON FORM!?!? THEY. WERE. HUGE!!! A full dragon stood there crushing some flora around the path as they looked from side to side slowly ....SNIFF SNIFF!! Loudly they sniffed the air. Oh witches! Dragon's bane please work. Please work please work please wo- "Mama?" A much, much, MUCH smaller tiny dragon walked along the path in front of Pitaya's green claws. Was that...Snapdragon? In dragon form? Pitaya gave a noise. An almost kicked puppy sound as they stared ahead. "Not yet..Come, SSSnapdragon." They started walking slowly instead of flying this time with little Snapdragon running behind them to catch. She stayed there, curled up in a fetal position even long after she couldn't hear the dragon's large steps anymore. ...HOLY FUDGE!! It was clear now why Tartin Tan Cookie helped her from afar. If THAT was what she had to fight against, she'd absolutely be crumbled. She waited another hour before walking through the woods following the path JUST in case she had to duck behind a tree again. She didn't see them but she DID find a fork in the road, where she took the path that lead AWAY from Dragon's Valley and the Spicelands. She went off. And she was free. Time passed as she continued on and on and on. Leaving everything behind again. The landscape changed, the cookies changed, SHE also changed as her stomach continued to grow. Bigger and bigger by the day. At one point she had to stop by a clothing shop just to buy a bigger dress before pushing on and waddling her way further. It was REALLY starting to take a toll on her sanity with the amount of time she had to stop just to catch her breath now...Also she wasn't supposed to be this big! Either she was having more than one, or this was going to be one big baby. Both terrified her. And both made her equally angry as she tried trudging up this STUPID HILL!!! There was supposed to be a city on the other side with plenty of job opportunities. Seemed like a good place to settle down. She plopped on her behind not even a quarter up this stupid hill yet. "You..all..aren't making this easy for me." She growled at her stomach. "If I ever see that dragon again-...*huff fluff* I'm going to rip off- Haaaaa. Their scales one by one...un-until they're..BALD!!" "Oh REALLY!?" She froze..or froze as much as a heavily pregnant woman out of breath could. Someone walked around her and she slowly looked up to the VERY angry face of the dragon scowling at her. "Jussst how to you expect to do THAT!?" She opened her mouth, closed it, before bolting- Pitaya rose a brow as she attempted to quickly get up-...only to look more like a turtle who was flipped on their back. "...There'sss no ussse doing that." "Screw you!" "How do you think you came to carry my clutch in the firssst place!? !? SSSTOP!! You'll hurt yourssself and the hatchlingsss!" She still refused to stop until they literally grabbed her by under the arms and dragged her against them kicking and cursing. "Put me down, Pitaya!" She attempted to punch them..but couldn't reach. "How'd you even find me?!" "I visssited a traveling fortune teller asss a lassst resssort." They firmly held her still. "Why didn't you tell me about thisss!? You ran away with MY clutch!" "Because I don't WANT to be a dragon's mate! I don't want to be anyone's concubine or girlfriend or wife or anything!! I don't want a relationship! BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN TO ME!!!" She heaved as she sat there and the dragon stopped as she sat there...and then the tears started she couldn't stop. "I don't want to be a mom! I don't know the first thing about baby doughs!"
-There was a long awkward pause as the dragon just sits there holding a crying woman in the middle of the road...Until they slowly just take the opportunity of her not trying to pummel them to pick her up bridal style. "I'm not Burning SSSpice." "*hic* You're s-still taking me back aren't you?!" "Not asss a hossstage! But.." Their eyes can't help but look at her stomach. "...But becaussse..they're mine too. Pleassse. You're exhaussssted." Pitaya had NEVER said please before. But even if she did fight them on this, they were right. She was exhausted. In fact, she's never felt this drained in her life! She didn't know when but she fell asleep sometime between Pitaya walking off and waking up in her cave-...No wait. It was too big to be her cave. She was laying on something soft and turned to the pink dragon when they just pulled thick blankets and pelts over her body. There was another awkward pause as the two just sat there...until Pitaya tapped their hands together clearly unsure and nervous. "Do you..need anything?" "....Jalepenos. And those hot peppers that are red." Yes. It wasn't lost on either of them that she was craving pepper also Pitaya's color scheme.
I got scared at some point that pitaya will become possessive and everything bc i read another angst post abt pitaya like.. forcing reader tk be with him and this writing relives me because and im glad that pitaya written here as understanding dragon.... phew
And im glad that pitaya when finding out abt pregnancy didnt take them forcefully but even pleaded to come with him
Thanks for nkt shocking me too much its just thw right about of angst i can take
How would dragons react if there darlings suddenly want to have fun with them *wink wink* Like out of the blue
If you are not comfortable with this just ignore it okay, you don't need to even reply just ignore it
-you dear fan is a ***
Ok. I'll do this one but I'll do it as the Dalings accidentally flirting with them/seducing them instead...and the dragons REALLY misunderstanding the vibes they're giving off. Except for Lotus. YES. Lychee IS an ADULT. They're just shorter than average cookies like Cream Ferret Cookie.
Warnings for innuendos some suggestiveness.
PITAYA DRAGON COOKIE:
A scream pierced through the air. Not the scream of a monster or a wyvern or even a dinosaur. It was the shriek of a woman running for her life and away from the figure right her. "PITAYA, WHAT THE FUDGE!?" She looked back ONCE, and felt her stomach DROP finding the smirking, slightly drooling face of the dragon right THERE behind her. She only bolted faster away from the one brain celled lizard. How did this happen!? Well, it started with a dinner. A romantic dinner. It had been so long since they just had a moment to themselves. It was a grand romantic gesture to show how much she loves the dragon. So she put herself to work! Cleaning the cave, spending all day slaving over the stove to cook ALL of Pitaya's favorite dishes, and even bribed Mala Sauce Cookie with some of her homemade juice to babysit Snapdragon overnight. Lastly she washed herself off and prettied herself up with a few pieces of jewelry Pitaya had given her. So when the dragon finally arrived announcing themselves loudly as usually, they were quite surprised. It's not everyday Pitaya comes home and finds their cave cleaned up and so much food cooked that some dishes had to literally be set on the floor around the table. They didn't even question it. Just started picking up a juicy rotissere almond bird baked with lemon juice and surrounded by potatoes and carrots, devouring the entire dish in three and a half bites before putting the metal tray to the side and moving onto the candied jalapeno spice cake. The sweet and spicy taste stinging their taste buds as they just bit into it, not using any spoons or forks. Just SCARFING it down. "Hi. You're back!" She called from down the corner hidden. Pitaya only nodded licking their lips. "Yesss. And to a feassst fit for a ruler no lesss." They shoved the rest of the cake into their mouth. Humming pleased. "Werm iphf Thawfoogon?" (Where is Snapdragon?) "Mala Sauce Cookie is watching them tonight. I decided to make all your favorites. Help yourself." The dragon didn't need to be told twice. Scarfing down dish after dish leaving the plates and bowls behind in their famous gluttony. She waited until they had paused to start chugging the Hollyberry juice before she finally walked out, the moment she did Pitaya paused..Eyes going wide and slowly turning to her. "Well, what do you think?" They stared at her for a long moment. "...Thossse are the onesss I gave you." She nodded. "Yep." Running a hand across the various rings and necklaces on her body, green and pink and red jewels sparkling on her. "Aren't they pretty? I-...wanted to surprise you tonight." Pitaya blinks at just how beautiful she looks in one of her rare shy smiley happy moments fiddling with a bracelet.....And a smirk slowly spreads across their face. "It's been so long since we had a date night and-" THUD. She blinked when the jug of juice was placed down, and it was the look the dragon was giving her. Smirking widely, pupils barely visible from how thin they were against their scelera, their fangs parted and a pink tongue slowly licked over those chopper sharp enough to literally bite through steel- Pitaya made that face whenever they had found a good fight or was hunting prey. And they were looking right at her with that look!
"Um..P-Pitaya." She took a step back. Pitaya took a step forward towards her. She was never afraid of the dragon...but something about THAT look made her weary. "Why are you looking at me like a cake hound looks at a bone?" HISS- A wheeze sounding like a train escaped their mouth and literally grey smoke escaped their mouth. Eyes crinkling, and a growl escaping their throat. It curled around their eyes as their wings raised. "SSSweetheart.~" They slowly lifted a hand and made a 'come here' motion. "Come here.~" She didn't staring at them as the realization hit that Pitaya had obviously gotten wrong idea about what this was. Instead of seeing it as a grand romantic gesture like SHE intended, the dragon thought she wanted- "AH!" She shrieked diving to the right as the dragon growled and LEAPT at her! She did what her instincts told her to do and RUN. She bolted right out of that cave and like bat out of tartarus with the dragon right on their tail running on all fours. She managed to keep away for exactly eleven seconds before she squealed when the strong arm snatched her up around the waist and pressed her to a warm body. "Playing hard to get as always!~" "Pitaya!" A kiss was pressed to her shoulder, neck, then her cheek before she turned to yell at them and then a deeper kiss was pressed to her lips before they pulled away growling. "I love you.~" A nuzzle was given to her neck, she could hear their tail thumping hard against the ground. "Let'sss go home and continue our night.~" She opened her mouth...before just shrugging and holding her head in one hand when the dragon just turned around carrying her back to the home. Whelp...Could've gone worse.
LONGAN DRAGON COOKIE:
Probably the most awkward mistake. It WAS genuinely just a mistake. Butterfly had been curious to the strange horn decorating Longan's head. The connecting spines on their back were permanently damaged forever from the force of their entire Ivory Palace crushing them into the ocean, but the one on their forehead was broken off. Snapped in half. Snake Fruit Cookie had mentioned when dragons break their horns it was akin to cutting half your leg off and leaving a piece of the bone constantly sticking out. Constantly hurts and causes constant stress. Longan had always acted so calm so she never expected them to be in any pain..However now that she thought about it, they often rubbed their head often and had requested some medical tea from Lotus quite a lot that helped with headaches. It was fully regrown now but it was still sensitive she supposed because every so often they'd reach up to scratch at the horn or make a face when they saw their reflection. As much as herself and Longan were at odds, and they definitely were NOT in a relationship. She still felt bad for them...Maybe a head massage would help? It always worked for her when she massaged her legs after being forced into mandatory dancing lessons growing up, so it might work for their headaches. "Longan." The dragon turned to her instantly. "Can I try something?" The dragon tilted their head. "It works for aches and pains for me I remember! Maybe it'll work for you too." They instantly perk up at 'I remember'. Perhaps she finally regained some memories!..But- "What does it entail?" "I have to touch your head mostly." Longan slowly blinks at her. "It won't hurt. I promise! If it makes you feel better-" She tilts her head with the antenna to them. "- you can touch me too!" Their black eyes BULGE out instantly looking at her like she grew another head. "I beg pardon?" "Go on! It's ok! I don't mind." "Do you have any idea what this means?" They look from her antenna to her then back to her head-...Before they swallow thickly. They slowly reach the hand out and lightly poke the antenna..Was she truly taking such a step!? SO SOON!? Of course they weren't complaining, they were all for this! But- "Um..Yes. I'm showing you it's ok." She leaned back up. "A head massage can help get rid of those aches and it feels SUPER relaxing." Longan blinked again. "...Ma-...ssage?" "Yep! I can give you a head massage and it'll help with your headaches until they finally go away! Wanna try it?" Longan stares on with a pink face and disappointment and embarrassment settled in their chest. ....Oh. Of COURSE she meant a massage. They swallow the lump in their throat before turning around and quickly walking away from the awkward situation leaving her blinking confused. "...Guess that's a no." Butterfly later is horrified when she tells Lotus and the Blue Dragon has a good chuckle before having to explain what it implies when a dragon's mate touches their horns/flowers/antenna on their heads. "They probably thought you were ready to kickstart their mating season." Longan later finds Butterfly with an armful of flowers and fruit as an apology offering blushing in embarrassment. "I am SO sorry! I had no idea it meant...THAT!!" "....Forgiven. Let us never speak of this incident again." "Deal!" It's too late because the other three dragons are having a good laugh when Lotus gossips.
LOTUS DRAGON COOKIE:
Oh. THEY know. There's no misunderstandings between those two. Petal lightly brushes the flower and horns on their head making the dragon immediately look at her with that look they both know but she's not looking at them..Well she WAS dancing pretty close to them, maybe her hand accidentally brushed against their flower/horns as she was moving past them. They let it slide for now and continue playing..until a Hydrangea Cookie quickly walks up to them (10/10 best wingwoman!). "Great Blue Dragon. It appears Madam Petal is injured." Well that immediately catches their full attention. "How? Is she alright?" "She didn't say. She only asked me to tell you she doesn't feel too good and she's going to lie down for a little bit." Lotus is walking off towards the bedroom worried without letting her finish. Rushing past servants and worshippers until they practically fling the bedroom doors open. "My darling bud! Are-...you..." The entire room is dark except for some candles, rose petals leading to an exquisite bed of silks. "Oh no." Petal laid there a hand pressed to her head. "Help me. I've seemed to have fallen in bed and I can't get up.~" It only takes two seconds for the dragon to smile WIDELY and hum tilting their head. "Oh no. Whatever shall we do in this dilemma?" "I have a hard time breathing...I think I'll need cpr.~" "Oh. It's fortunate for you I happen to know such medical treatments.~" ...It's best everyone stays away as soon as that door clicks shut and Lotus locks it behind them.
LYCHEE DRAGON COOKIE:
A complete misunderstanding because Lychee accidentally overhears Actress practicing for an audition on the mainland and asking Rambutan Cookie for feedback, but Lychee mistakes it as Actress talking to their mutual bestie about-....activities unrelated to acting(and yes these are REAL quotes from famous plays). They're just munching on some pineapple burgers they (stole-) borrowed from the mainland when they float past an open window ready to walk in- "I would kill for them." They pause mid bite. "I would die for them! Either way what bliss." "Oh yeah. They'll definitely love THAT one if you say it to them like you mean it!" Rambutan Cookie? They sneakily creep over and peep in the window. Actress is smiling as Rambutan Cookie is casually sharpening a spear. "You really think so? What if they don't get what I'm trying to tell them?" Rambutan hummed. "Sometimes things DO fly over their heads...Give me another." Actress cleared her throat putting on a sultry expression and sounding flirtatious. "I will live in thy heart, die in thy lap, and be buried in thy eyes." Lychee felt their eyes go wide. "Hm..Sounds more romantic than the sexy thing you're going for. Try another one." "How about this? ..Shall I lie in your lap?~ That's a fair thought to lie between one's legs.~" Rambutan gave a scrunched up face before shaking her head long ponytail swaying. "Nah! They'd probably just think you're talking about taking a nap. Try something else." "Ok. How about this one? *AHEM*...Graze on my lips, and if those hills be dry.~ Stray lower, where the pleasant fountains lie.~" Rambutan smiled nodding with a large smile. "Oooh yeah! That one is definitely going to do the trick!" "You really think so!?" "Yep! Not even Lychee could mistake what that means if you tell them!" Lychee's pupils are blown wider than plates, the burger comically falling to the ground, and comically they slowly lower themselves from the window and slink away before hearing the REST of the conversation. "You're definitely going to get the part of Narrator with a voice like that! You tell the scenes so well! What book is that line from anyways?" "It's from a poem called 'Venus And Adonis' from the famous poet Will-ham Shakes-pear Cookie." "Huh. Didn't think someone so 'civil' would write that stuff." "Oh you'd be surprised what all these old poems and plays contain! Thank you so much for helping me. I would've asked Lychee but they took off again without telling me." Rambutan Cookie shrugged. "I'm sure they'll be happy I helped you. You'll get that part for sure!"
"Lychee, I'm home!" She just casually walked into the hut she shared with her partner. Looking around and finding the dragon in a...She blinked. "Oh. You're here." Lychee was there alright, smirking and with their head in one hand. A half lidded look on their face. "Good. Because I wanted to talk to you about something." "Oh, I know.~" She rose a brow. "Oook. So there's this- HMPH!?" She didn't get to say anything else before Lychee latched onto her like a leach and just smashed their lips together. She was stunned to say the least when the dragon finally pulled off her. "Lychee? Not that I don't mind but-" The dragon actually giggled in giddy delight. "If you just wanted me so badly, you could've just said so.~ But it's so cute how you wanted to seduce me with flattering poetry.~" ..She blinked. "Poetry? What are you talking about?" "'Stray lower where the pleasant fountains lie.~' It was obvious that you find me irrististable.~ I mean who wouldn't?" They flicked some of their white hair back. "I'm the cutest dragon ever hatched after all.~" It clicked. "OH! You must've heard me talking to Rambutan Cookie. Lychee, I didn't-" She stopped when the dragon tilted their head. Hmm. Was she REALLY gonna hurt the dragon's feelings over a admittedly cute misunderstanding? "...Nevermind. I'm glad you liked it though- AH!!" She kept forgetting how STRONG this dragon was because lychee just lifted her bridal style easily with a growl. "Enough chit chat! I've been waiting all day for you to acknowledge me and Im not wasting anymore time!" Lychee makes Actress miss the audition thanks to the misunderstanding.
ANANAS DRAGON COOKIE:
Ananas overhears Pineapple Ring talking to one of the Mango Tribe people and a big misunderstanding is had. They were just casually walking along the huts nodding in greeting to their cookies as they waved and greeted their beloved leader. But where was their wife? Some visitors were coming to the isle and as agreed she was going to stay in their nest until they left. "It's only natural of course." Ananas paused turning to look in between two huts. Oh! THERE she is. She was talking to Mango Juice Cookie. The other woman tilted her head confused at her neither saw the dragon approaching. "Children are such a big responsibility though." Pineapple Ring nods firmly, sure in her opinion. "Yes! My thoughts are set on the matter! It's natural for a lot of couples to want to have children after being married for a while." Ananas completely freezes blinking. WHAT!? Mango Juice hummed rubbing her chin. "Are you sure?" She nodded. "Positive! Back when I was still a ruler of a kingdom, I was asked to help pick teachers for a school! They were all so adorable and tiny running around! I even got to hold a baby dough once! They were just the most adorable thing ever baked! But don't be fooled. Being a mother takes a LOT of responsibility." Mango Juice nodded. "I agree with you there. Was it easy with Mango Cookie?" "It has been both easy and hard since I adopted him, but raising him now fills me with the pride and joy only a mother may have. I'm not saying it's for everyone but when I look at him-...I know I'm making the right choice." Mango Juice shifted. "And...the Golden Dragon wouldn't mind this..choice?" She smiled wider. "As soon as they hear, they'll completely understand! There's already six other infants currently in the village after all!" Ananas's face is already a deep orange as they turn around and quickly start walking away before they saw Pineapple Ring reach out to pat the woman on the shoulder and didn't hear what the conversation had been about. "If you and your husband want to be child free then no one is going to judge you two or give you a hard time. As I said, it's not for everyone and take my advice. If you're questioning something that you already feel uncomfortable doing, just don't do it. Ananas wouldn't think less of you two just because one couple in their tribe doesn't bake a baby dough." The woman let out a long sigh of relief they'd been holding back looking at her in gratitude. "Thank you so much. Apricote Cookie and I have been so worried about this." A firmly pat on the shoulder was given. "Not to worry! Everyone in the village and your families loves you both! With or without children! We'll all support any choice you two make together! Speaking of families- I'd better get to Ananas before they think I'm going back on my word. If you ever want to talk again, come find me." "Thank you, My Lady."
She was expecting Ananas when she trecked up the volcano and found them sitting on their throne in wait. She smiled at them and walked on in as usual. "There's my handsome husband! Now what have you been up to all day?" They're smiling. Not a smirk. Not a sultry smile. A happy warm smile. "I've been thinking. About what you said to Mango Juice Cookie in the village today." "OH! So you heard us." She nodded. "She was very worried, but don't you worry. I reassured her everything would be fine. You don't mind one bit do you?" They stood up shaking their head. "No. Not at all. In fact..I-I've been considering the pros and cons of this entire situation." Their face is STILL a deep, deep orange as they gulp, inhale, and look at her. "I-I agree to it." She beamed brighter. "Aw! How sweet." She reached out to hug the dragon who instantly latched onto her back. "I knew you would understand. After all baking children is a very big decision and it requires a lot of thought. You don't make it lightly." They nodded against her tail wagging. "I'm sure she'll be relieved after hearing you aren't angry at her." "HA! Angry at her? Me? No. T-This-...This is the happiest moment of my life. I love you so much! I can't wait to begin making our family bigger! And saving my kind!" "That's wonde-....Wait." "I've been wanting this with you since the moment we became one! I just-....N-Never wanted to force you into something you never wanted." Ananas pulls away blushing, tail thumping against the ground, CLEARLY happy, and they give a growl. "The boat doesn't leave for a-an entire week. We have the entire time to ourselves undisturbed." They placed a kiss to her wrist. "Uh oh....Ananas. Dear." They continued kissing up her arm. Oh no...How was she going to break the news that they CLEARLY misunderstood everything and she wasn't willing to become a mother except adopting Mango Cookie? "I think there's a problem we need to talk about." They got to kissing her neck before pausing to smile at her. "No problems. I've already designed a nursery! There's this shop on the mainland that sells those cone blankets a-and the onesies and-...You're right when there's already six other infants in the village. They'll have friends their age! And of course Mango Cookie!" She opened her mouth...before closing it when they went back to kissing her. She breaks the news to them gently later, Ananas is heart broken but understands. Ends up staying in the Mango Village for a few weeks happily asking the parents to hold their baby doughs and spending time with Mango Cookie until their brooding instincts leaves their body.
I once read a webtoon called I Gave Birth To The Tyrant's Child. It's where a knight ran away after discovering she was pregnant with the child of a ruthless killing king. How about that with the darlings if they were reluctant to actually be in a relationship with them?
OH! I actually listened to someone dub the entire thing on YouTube once. That's actually a really interesting idea! NOT CANNON!! This is an alternate 'what if' scenario if the Darlings didn't accept any romantic feelings from the dragons.
Warnings for pregnancy, drinking, yandere like behavior, and implied spicy times but NOTHING explicit. PLEASE drink responsibly!
-She knew Pitaya was starting to see her as a mate or actually a potential mate to be exact. That was NOT what she wanted! She just got away from someone who kept her chained to a stake for months and called her his 'concubine', she wasn't about to become lifelong mates with a dragon who was essentially her landlord! That's why she had to set the record straight with Pitaya immediately right after Tartin Tan Cookie told her all about Pitaya's weird behavior and confronted them. "I NEED to set some boundaries with you." Pitaya simply blinked at her as Snapdragon giggled in her arms. She had confronted Pitaya with what Tartin Tan told her and Pitaya seemed to be awkwardly shuffling. "Look. I know you can't help feeling things sometimes, and honestly there is nothing wrong with having a crush on someone. I'm not even mad you have a crush on me. I'm really not. But I don't like you that way. I like you as a friend! Like the cookie friend you told me about. So out of respect for each other....Can we still just be friends?" Pitaya stared long and hard at her before they gave a kicked puppy sound and nodded. "Yesss. I-...can live with that." She sighed relieved. "Thank you. Believe me when I say I really appreciate you listen to what I have to say. How about I make the three of us a friend brunch to celebrate?" They DID perk up at that. "Food? What is it?" "How about a rotisserie almond bird with lemon and rosemary?" Pitaya was already licking their chops as Snapdragon perked up. "Birdie! Yummy!" Things from there on was...incredibly awkward when Pitaya would do something like flex or stare at her in a way before seeming to remember what she said and backed off. She was incredibly relieved Pitaya at least respected the firm boundary she put into place. Their landlord-tenant frienship relationship continued with her leaving different tributes once a week as usually and her living a somewhat peaceful life. That was until one day she happened to be headed to Dragon City for a supply run, some loud flapping was heard, and a moment later the pink dragon dropped next to her beginning to walk along. "Hi, Pitaya! Beautiful today isn't it?" "Where are you going?" "Dragon City. I heard they're having a celebration today!" "Celebration?" "Yeah. Apparently it's to celebrate the day and evil uh-..monster was vanquished from the city last year today!" She avoided saying 'dragon'. "There's gonna be a parade and games and a jousting content and food-" "You had me at joussst, and food! Ass the one who vanquished the black dragon it'sss only right to praissse me for it!" She rose a brow. "Wouldn't it be dangerous for you and your baby to walk in looking like a dragon?" "...Oh yeah." "Why don't you come with me? We can have fun together and it'll be safer in numbers." They perked up instantly. "YESSS!! Mala SSSauce is already looking after SSSnapdragon!" She had no idea who Mala Sauce was but she was happy to spend time with a friend.
-She was actually surprised one moment to look away, look back and found Pitaya WITHOUT their helmet and adjusting a brown cape...She just stared. "What the-?" "Lychee isssn't the only one with a cookie disssquissse." They....Actually looked pretty cute without the helmet and armor but she shook it off to keep traveling. The celebration was already underway in the city. They missed half of the parade through town but the loud music, laughter, and happy shouting was everywhere. Pitaya seemed to easily get into the spirit when they snatched someone's meat on a stick when they weren't looking and scarfed it down with a smile which she chuckled at. The night was FULL of fun. Pitaya went straight for the jousting contest and out of curiosity she followed. It's not surprising the dragon in disguise won every single round against the cookies, in fact she'd say they were cheating having a clear advantage over cookies but they seemed to have fun holding the grand prize at the end, which was a bag of gold coins. They seemed to LOVE just fighting and gold of course! After about an hour of strolling together checking out the booths and trying to find Tartin Tan among the sea of hundreds of cookies to no avail, somehow they ended up at the Dragon City Inn where the festivities continued in full swing. A band playing fast lively music in the corner, bartenders passing out mugs of hollyberry juice by the dozens, people eating hot meals and laughing. Pitaya pointed out to her an arm wrestling costent before they winked, smirked, and walked up to the cookie three times bigger than them. The larger man laughed as Pitaya sat across from them holding out an arm, and then everyone laughed when Pitaya threw his arm so hard and fast he dropped to the floor instantly. Someone slapped them on the back. "That's the funniest thing I've seen all night! I'll buy ya a drink for the laugh! On me!" "That I will accept! But buy one for my friend asss well!" "Sure! Anyone who makes Pound Cake Cookie eat dirt like that earnt it! HAHAHA!!" She accepted the mug of hollyberry juice from Pitaya and watched in amazement as Pitaya gulped it down in one go. "Isn't this stuff really strong?" They wiped their mouth before smirking. "I can drink fifty regular mugsss before I ssstart feeling their effectsss. Dragonsss have higher tolerance for thingsss regular cookiesss have trouble withssstanding. Like the heat of Dragon'sss Valley." "That actually makes more sense now. There's supposed to be fireworks tonight too. Wanna stay and watch them?" They nodded at her.
-The fireworks wouldn't be until sundown so they had a few hours to kill, which mostly consisted of her just relaxing and bathing in the atmosphere. Pitaya spent it mostly drinking down mugs of juice they used a few gold pieces to pay, and of course buy some large meals. At one point Pitaya joined a drinking contest that was going on and everyone watched shocked as the dragon guzzled down mugs by the BARRAL-full and outdrank everyone else with ease. She herself was on her fourth mug over the course of a few hours and was feeling tipsy. "Hey pretty lady.~" She turned and leaned back instantly finding a face inches away from hers. The man smirked. "What's a pretty girl like you sitting all alone by yourself for?~" Oh just great! She was being hit on. "None of your business." "Come on. It's a time of celebration! I'll buy you a drink.~" "No thanks! I have a boyfriend!" His brow rose. "Oh yeah? He here." Just great. Her eyes looked over and spotted Pitaya sitting back lazily in a chair and chugging down some more Hollyberry juice. She pointed. "There they are right there!" He looked. "Tch. That's not you're boyfriend. You're lying." "Yes they are!" She was sure Pitaya would understand if she used them as a white lie. "Prove it!" She started at him anger building in her before she chugged down the rest of her drink before standing up, a bit wobbly from being so tipsy. If she was sober she would've NEVER done what she decided to do. Pitaya laughed at some crude joke they heard but paused when with a plop she sat on their lap. They blinked for a moment clearly off guard before she just grabbed their collar and the mug dropped from their hand. Pitaya's eyes widened as she just kissed them! A loud cheer went off as their eyes bulged out comically completely shocked....before slowly they kissed back. The rest of the night was a blur. She vaguely remembered them making out, seeing some fireworks outside of some window, and then everything else was just a blank.....She woke up to three things. A throb of pain from her head when she moved her head slightly, sunlight stinging her eyes, and a loud sound next to her. It sounded like a bad engine. She groaned and slowly got herself awake enough to stare at a ceiling..that wasn't her cave ceiling. Witches it felt like her head was hit by Burning Spice! And what the fudge was that sound!? She rubbed her face and looked over- Her body went cold. Laying there next to her was one snoring dragon. Pitaya was fast asleep, curled and hugging a pillow to nuzzle their face into as they peacefully slept. She started at them right next to her...She slowly looked at herself before clutching the blanket and feeling heat rise to her face. "Fudging witches. What was in that juice!?" She frantically gets herself together careful not to wake up the dragon. She felt terrible leaving Pitaya all alone there with their wings exposed...But she really didn't know what to do except quickly make her exit and run away from the awkward situation like crazy. She flees all the way home and scrubs her body and clothes try, cracks open some chocolate, and just lays in bed contemplating her entire existence. ....This didn't mean anything. Cookies had one nighters together ALL the time all over Earthbread. It meant nothing to them. They were both drunk and were feeling the moment. So what? It was nothing. Pitaya drank WAY more than her anything. They had over a hundred mugs when she only had four. They'd probably wouldn't even remember anything! Sure they'll be mad she just disappeared and left them but she can just say she got drunk and couldn't remember anything either! YEP!! Everything was going to be fine and this wasn't going to cause any troubles! Everything was fine!!
-She didn't see or hear from the dragon for almost a week to her relief, but she still left a basket full of fruit outside for a 'tribute'. But she froze when the flapping of wings was heard and a moment later a figure just walked right into the small cave. Pitaya stood there smiling. Not smirking. Happily smiling like they just had the best day of their life! "Oh...Hi, Pitaya." She awkwardly smiles as they just walk in. "How are you? Did you like the berries I left you?" Instead of answering they just walk up to her and envelope her in a big hug. Not tight. But enough to firmly pull her against them which shocked her because Pitaya had NEVER hugged her before. "Pita-" She froze when they just growled and placed a kiss to her forehead. "W-What are you doing!?" A happy growl escaped them. "Greeting my mate of courssse!" Her eyes bug out as they sniff around. "What'sss for breakfassst?" A glass shattering sound went off in her head. "WHAT!?" It takes a considerable amount of effort and strength for her to get away. Backing away from the confused dragon. "What'sss wrong?" They reach for her- "ARE YOU INSANE!? WE'RE NOT MATES!!" They stand there for a moment awkwardly as she stares at them. They slowly blink. "Yesss we are." "Why in witches name do you think that!?" "That night when we-" "Having a one night stand together doesn't make us boyfriend girlfriend! Or mates! Or whatever it is you think! You do know what a one night stand is right?" "Yesss." "Then you should know that cookies have those all the time with no strings attatched!" They frowned pointing a hand at her. "YOU are the one that came up to ME and initiated the kisss!" Oh witches. They DID remember- "I WAS DRUNK!! YOU WERE DRUNK!! NEITHER OF US WERE THINKING CLEARLY!! IT WAS A MISTAKE-" "SSSPENDING TIME WITH ME ISSS A MISSSTAKE TO YOU!?" "NO!! That's not what I meant! I meant neither of us were in our right minds! I can't even remember anything after getting drunk off juice!" They folded their arms. "Jussst becaussse YOU fail to remember doesssn't mean it didn't happen or doesssn't matter to me!" "I KNOW THAT, PITAYA!! It just-....UGH!!" She put her head in her hands. "I didn't know what I was thinking!! Ok!? I'm sorry for leading you on and hurting your feelings!" She looked back up to them. "I really didn't mean to hurt you or give you the wrong idea! I really do feel bad! But I don't want to be anyone's girlfriend or mate or....Anything. Please understand. I'm so sorry. I am so, so, so sorry." They just stare at her with that frown for a long long moment...before nodding. "I underssstand." She sighed. "We shall court firssst properly!" She felt her reality break with her mind as they hugged her again sounding genuinely happy. "I will bring you proper giftsss and show you proper courtship." This couldn't be happening. Unfortunately it WAS happening because she woke up to a loud thud outside and when she groggily got up to go see what it was- She screamed seeing a pretty dead monster six times larger than her just dropped in front of her home. Pitaya had one foot against it smirking. "How isss THISSS for a gift?!" "Pitaya, why is there a dead cake monster in front of my cave!?" "It'sss a courting gift of courssse. Thessse are deliciousss." "GET THIS THING OUT OF HERE BEFORE I PUKE!!! NOW!!" They look hurt. Like really hurt, but silently they grab the monster by the leg and walk away without another word back into Dragon's Valley. She had to sit down with and let it sink in for a while.
-As if her luck couldn't get any worse- "MAMA!!" A small baby suddenly clung onto her the next day. Guess which two dragons found her gathering herbs. Snapdragon giggled hugging her. "Honey, I'm not your mama." "MAMA!!" "Pitaya, tell them I'm not their mother." They only smile warmly at her. "Not yet! We're ssstill courting!" "No we're not." "Yesss we are! I brought you a different gift!" That gift was a gold bracelet studded with emeralds and rubies, obvious their color palette. "N-No! Pitaya, I REALLY don't want it! You don't have to get me anything-" They slap it on her wrist before she can stop them. "My mate dessservesss to be ssspoiled!" The next few days were horrible. She TRIED to explain to Pitaya they were NOT mates to no avail. She TRIED to get Snapdragon to stop imprinting on her as their mother. She TRIED to give the gifts back which kept coming. Not to mention the stress her body seemed to be going through. Headaches, she started throwing up in the morning, her anger only seemed to be spiking....and for some reason she was starting to crave jalapenos?? Unfortunately Pitaya also noticed.
-"You're sssick." "I'm NOT sick. I'm stressed. Because someone doesn't want to listen to a THING I say!" That and the look she gave them made Pitaya snap their jaw shut and back away finally. "..Isss there anything I can do for you?" "....Give me just one week of peace! PLEASE!! That's all I ask." They didn't look like they liked that but nodded in agreement. And the next morning she vomited again...Maybe Pitaya was right and they WERE sick?? Well considering Pitaya always kept their word, she had at least seven days without being bothered. Dragon City had a clinic for travelers. She'd go and stop by there to get checked out. It was probably just stress symptoms but it would be better to get checked out. She made off for the city that very day ignoring anything else until she finally got there, briefly asking for directions before finally ending up at the small clinic. It wasn't too big or busy, just the doctor fixing someone's sprained ankle. "Good evening. How can I help you?" "I need an emergency physical. I think I got stress sick but Im not sure." "Oh. Well come right on in and take a seat. I'll ask you a few questions if that's alright." He did. She answered each one truthfully describing in as much detail as she could about her symptoms. She got to the part about throwing up only during mornings and craving jalapenos when he paused and rose brow. "...Alright one last question. How many partners have you had in the past year?" "Just one. And it was only one time." "When?" "During the festival two weeks ago." The doctor slowly raises the brow higher. "...Can I examine your body for a second? Just to confirm or not my suspicions." She consented to poking and prodding. He just looks at her a moment before completely smiles in glee. "Well I can safely say it's not the a stomach flu or stress! Congratulations, Ma'am! You're pregnant!" Pregnant. The word seems to hang in the air for a long long time echoing over and over in her head. Temporary ringing in her ears could be heard, until like a sack of brinks everything hit her at once. "WHAT!? N-No! I-I can't be-...T-There's no possible way I'm-....A cookie can't have a baby dough with a-" She snapped her mouth shut. She couldn't say dragon! This town was full of adventurers, hunters, slayers, and everything in between! There's no telling what anyone would do if they found out! "T-There's gotta be a mistake!" "Nope! I've performed this procedure every time and I have not been wrong once! You're almost one month pregnant. Congratulations, Miss! The physical will be twenty coins!" She found herself sitting on a random sidewalk just staring at her feet as people just walked by. She couldn't process what was happening. She was pregnant. She was pregnant. She was preg- It just wouldn't settle no matter how many times it landed in her head. Then a shadow fell over her. "Y/n Cookie?" She flinches looking up and staring face to face with Tartin Tan. "Wasn't expecting to see you today. What brings you here?" The older woman blinks when she just starts crying. "Hey now. What's wrong, Sweetie? Oh no. It's ok. Come on. Let's go somewhere private, and you can tell ol' Tartin what's making a young lady cry like that?" The woman gets her settled somewhere private they wouldn't be heard. She breaks down telling the woman everything from confronting Pitaya to the festival to the mistake to what she just found out half an hour ago. The woman listens carefully raising a brow when she hears the last bit. "....And you are SURE it's theirs?" She scowled at her. "Just asking. A cookie and a dragon...And here I thought in my old age I've seen everything." "What am I going to DO!? What's Pitaya going to do if they find out!?" "Well honestly they'd probably never let you go now. Dragons are scarce to begin with and very protective of their young. If they found out you're going to have their child..." "Can't I just give them the baby? Like a surrogate? Or giving them up for adoption!?"
-Tartin Tan shook her head. "They already think they're courting you in their mind. If they found out that 'mating' lead to this...well I was serious when I said dragons mate for life. They'd never let you go even if you were willing to hand over any baby once they're born." She looked like she was about to break down again. She wasn't ready for this! Let alone a baby!! "There's a solution though." She instantly snapped back up. "If they just think you're courting for now, then a big rejection could nail in through their skull! You'd probably have to leave the valley and Dragon City entirely." "HOW!?" She grimaced. "....I can't help you directly. If the Red Dragon found out anyone from here helped you and they're angry enough...Well I'd rather not witness a dragon's wrath again." That was understandable. Pitaya was powerful. REALLY powerful. Their power already burnt down the city ONCE. "W-What do I do then?" "Where you live there's a grey plant that looks like milkweed. It's dragon's bane. It's not actually poisonous to dragons, but if you boil the plant and then pour the water on yourself, it'll mask your scent from wyverns, dragons, dinosaurs and other giant reptile creatures! Lots of adventurers use it to hunt in the valley. You can buy some perfume bottles and fill it up with the boiled water. That way they can't track you, at least long enough for you to get away." She pointed the way out of dragon's valley the way she FIRST arrived there. "There's always people leaving and entering the city. If you disguise yourself and leave quickly, it'll be like you're just another cookie passing through here....However I can't give you any advice on what do to with a baby dragon other than maybe abandoning them on one of the Tropical Soda Seas islands with one of the other dragons once they're born." "T-That's it?" "How much time do you have until they return?" "At least six more days." "Then you'd better go home immediately and get going." She didn't have to be told twice. Immediately heading home and stopping on the way searching for the dragon's bane Tartin Tan told her about. It wasn't hard. That grey plant seemed to be growing everywhere she looked. She came back with an entire armful of it and immediately got to work boiling the water as fast as she could. She only had six more days before that dragon came back and for all she knew, they could be watching her right now! "This smells like spoiled cabbage!" She didn't like how it smelt...but if it kept Pitaya from coming after her, it was worth it. She contemplated leaving in the middle of the night...but dragons could see in the dark, plus all the stores she needed to buy supplies from were closed and she was tired. The next morning she vomited again....before packing up whatever she could carry lightly in a pack, and leaving but not before leaving Pitaya one last basket of gummy fish and veggies. It would be her last tribute and she might as well leave while keeping her word. She left. Not seeking out Tartin Tan to say good bye or to thank her. She only made a few stops in Dragon City to buy some supplies, sell some others, and left entirely without looking back.
-The first three days were easy going. She walked along the dirt road, keeping the hood over her head and parnoidly kept looking over her shoulder at the sky for any signs of a pink dragon flying towards her. As she kept going on and on until she heard it. That dreaded sound. A distant wing flapping. Immediately she dove into some bushes and threw some branches over her head. A moment later the ground SHOOK jolting her around. A peek through the leaves had her eyes popping out. HOLY FU- THAT WAS THEIR DRAGON FORM!?!? THEY. WERE. HUGE!!! A full dragon stood there crushing some flora around the path as they looked from side to side slowly ....SNIFF SNIFF!! Loudly they sniffed the air. Oh witches! Dragon's bane please work. Please work please work please wo- "Mama?" A much, much, MUCH smaller tiny dragon walked along the path in front of Pitaya's green claws. Was that...Snapdragon? In dragon form? Pitaya gave a noise. An almost kicked puppy sound as they stared ahead. "Not yet..Come, SSSnapdragon." They started walking slowly instead of flying this time with little Snapdragon running behind them to catch. She stayed there, curled up in a fetal position even long after she couldn't hear the dragon's large steps anymore. ...HOLY FUDGE!! It was clear now why Tartin Tan Cookie helped her from afar. If THAT was what she had to fight against, she'd absolutely be crumbled. She waited another hour before walking through the woods following the path JUST in case she had to duck behind a tree again. She didn't see them but she DID find a fork in the road, where she took the path that lead AWAY from Dragon's Valley and the Spicelands. She went off. And she was free. Time passed as she continued on and on and on. Leaving everything behind again. The landscape changed, the cookies changed, SHE also changed as her stomach continued to grow. Bigger and bigger by the day. At one point she had to stop by a clothing shop just to buy a bigger dress before pushing on and waddling her way further. It was REALLY starting to take a toll on her sanity with the amount of time she had to stop just to catch her breath now...Also she wasn't supposed to be this big! Either she was having more than one, or this was going to be one big baby. Both terrified her. And both made her equally angry as she tried trudging up this STUPID HILL!!! There was supposed to be a city on the other side with plenty of job opportunities. Seemed like a good place to settle down. She plopped on her behind not even a quarter up this stupid hill yet. "You..all..aren't making this easy for me." She growled at her stomach. "If I ever see that dragon again-...*huff fluff* I'm going to rip off- Haaaaa. Their scales one by one...un-until they're..BALD!!" "Oh REALLY!?" She froze..or froze as much as a heavily pregnant woman out of breath could. Someone walked around her and she slowly looked up to the VERY angry face of the dragon scowling at her. "Jussst how to you expect to do THAT!?" She opened her mouth, closed it, before bolting- Pitaya rose a brow as she attempted to quickly get up-...only to look more like a turtle who was flipped on their back. "...There'sss no ussse doing that." "Screw you!" "How do you think you came to carry my clutch in the firssst place!? !? SSSTOP!! You'll hurt yourssself and the hatchlingsss!" She still refused to stop until they literally grabbed her by under the arms and dragged her against them kicking and cursing. "Put me down, Pitaya!" She attempted to punch them..but couldn't reach. "How'd you even find me?!" "I visssited a traveling fortune teller asss a lassst resssort." They firmly held her still. "Why didn't you tell me about thisss!? You ran away with MY clutch!" "Because I don't WANT to be a dragon's mate! I don't want to be anyone's concubine or girlfriend or wife or anything!! I don't want a relationship! BUT YOU WOULDN'T LISTEN TO ME!!!" She heaved as she sat there and the dragon stopped as she sat there...and then the tears started she couldn't stop. "I don't want to be a mom! I don't know the first thing about baby doughs!"
-There was a long awkward pause as the dragon just sits there holding a crying woman in the middle of the road...Until they slowly just take the opportunity of her not trying to pummel them to pick her up bridal style. "I'm not Burning SSSpice." "*hic* You're s-still taking me back aren't you?!" "Not asss a hossstage! But.." Their eyes can't help but look at her stomach. "...But becaussse..they're mine too. Pleassse. You're exhaussssted." Pitaya had NEVER said please before. But even if she did fight them on this, they were right. She was exhausted. In fact, she's never felt this drained in her life! She didn't know when but she fell asleep sometime between Pitaya walking off and waking up in her cave-...No wait. It was too big to be her cave. She was laying on something soft and turned to the pink dragon when they just pulled thick blankets and pelts over her body. There was another awkward pause as the two just sat there...until Pitaya tapped their hands together clearly unsure and nervous. "Do you..need anything?" "....Jalepenos. And those hot peppers that are red." Yes. It wasn't lost on either of them that she was craving pepper also Pitaya's color scheme.
