A Frozen Void (Black Void Cookie’s Story)
(NOTE: Beast Ancients AU and thus the setting of this story belong to @cuppajj, I make no claim of ownership over anything in this story except Black Void Cookie themself. Have a good read, I don’t write often.)
The weather this side of the Great Icing Ridge wasn’t usually this bad, yes, the seemingly ceaseless blizzard was bad, but not blindingly so. Black Void Cookie, scuttling about on their spidery hind appendages, struggled to see what’s ahead. The cookie body they inhabit not helping despite having more functional eyes. Each stab into the soft snow left a knife like marking, the long sharp limbs keeping them locked with the ground. They wobbled slightly from the sheer force of the snow. Even with the heightened insulation from the worn corpse, Black Void Cookie shivered in the beating weather. They should have turned back at the ridge itself, but the hostility from Dragonberry’s kingdom pushing that thought forever away. Whatever was north-west wouldn’t matter, their primal mind rationalised that nobody would be in or on this side of the ridge.
That was until they stumbled into a wall, dark and rough. They stared for a moment, feelers emerging from the cookie’s mouth to sense it. Chocolate. Frozen cold. Nothing they couldn’t climb. So they did spidery appendages stabbing into the markings on the wall, the distant roaring of the Licorice Sea seemingly picking up. They continued scaling the wall, snow battering their backside then dully falling to the ground. A round obtrusion met their path, easier to scale for them due to it’s grooves, minus the overhang. Once they got on top the cold seemingly increased out of nowhere. The Licorice Sea roared louder, slightly deafening now. They scuttled about the battlements, searching for cookies either to use as new hosts or to flee from. Nobody.
After making sure no cookies were near, they scuttled down the other side of the wall. Tarsi touching down on the snow, soft and delicate. Just in case. Slowly stepping along the snow, the white ground seemingly more cold each time. They moved between stalls and buildings, looking for cookies. Still nobody. That’s good. They moved into the open, each step now with a gentle click as they moved along the path. That’s when the large structure came into view, towering over the rest before disappearing into the blizzard. Black Void Cookie stared, feelers peeking out the cookie body’s mouth as they slowly approached the door. Chocolate again. Their head tilted, accenting their curiosity by tapping the door with a leg.
They immediately regretted that choice. Ice crept up the appendage as they backed up, flailing about along the paths, stumbling into stalls and walls. The ice continued to climb the leg rapidly approaching the joint. The next time that leg hit the ground, it froze there. Black Void tried their hardest to rip it out, three legs trying to push away from the limb. No dice. The ice continued to climb the leg, adrenaline fuelling Black Void’s body making their legs scrape whatever the ends could touch. It continued to climb, nearing the cookie body and thus the rest of the leg connections. They flailed, the internal creature stuck in the body due to the ice. The leg joints froze, flailing reduced to mere kicks. Fear was evident in the creature’s movement as the ice continued to creep over their body. It quickly overcame the rest of the legs, freezing them solid. The cookie body’s limbs, too froze, leaving just the head iceless. That would cease soon, the entire creature frozen solid, like many Dark Cacao natives before them.
(Sorry if my art isn’t the best, my CRK style isn’t the best out there :3)
