Pairing: Father! Millennial Tree Cookie x child! Reader
Featured: Pure Vanilla, Dark Cacao, Wind Archer
Notes: This is fully platonic, Angst/not much comfort, reader is a child throughout the entire fic
Part: one, part two “The Dance with Ash”
“Keep running (name)!” Millennial Tree yells as you slowly start to slow down.
Millennial Tree, Wind Archer, and you were running from the burning flames that continued to spread throughout to forest. Someone or something is controlling the flames, making you all run like dogs to save yourselves. You all were fast, but the fire is faster.
“We can’t outrun it!” You yell back.
“…We can’t, but you can!” Millennial Tree stops in his tracks. “Run, run and do not look back. No matter what you hear behind you, you keep running.”
“What! I cant leave you guys here!-”
“You can and you will, they want me not you.”
“This isn’t up for debate, I am your father and you will listen to me! you are running away and thats final! Now go!” Millennial Tree snaps at you. “Please leave, I promise we will see each other again.” Millennial Tree turns around, heading toward the fire, Wind Archer following close behind.
You look at them one last time, then sprint the opposite direction.
Years passed, your father became a forgotten memory. Your life in the forest become so distant. You reside in Vanilla Kingdom. The king, Pure Vanilla, took you in as his own. You’ve lived with him ever since that unforgiving day.
You’ve made new memories with him, you barely left the castle, per his request. There was someone after your father and most likely after you to.
“Since the holidays are coming up, what decoration should I put on my horns this year? I did red and white lights last time so I need something new..” You and Pure Vanilla were in your room. You had him help you decide what decorations to put on your horns. You and your father used to decorations eachothers horns, since he’s not here Pure Vanilla decided to help.
“How about a light weight wreath with ornaments and glitter? You havent done that yet.” Pure Vanilla says smiling.
“Yeah! Thats gonna be amazing!” You squeal.
“Come in.” Pure Vanilla says, standing up from the chair.
The butler walks in and bows, “Im very sorry to interrupt, but theres someone here to see you both.”
“Us, both?” You says perplexed.
“Interesting, come on. Lets see who our mysterious guest is.” Pure Vanilla smiles and walks out the door, you follow close behind.
As both of you walked down the halls, your heart began to race. You rarely talked to anyone outside of the castle, who would want to see you?
The doors to Pure Vanillas throne room opened and revealed a cookie thats unknown to you.
“Hm, King Dark Cacao. What brings you here?” Pure Vanilla says sitting on his throne. You sit on the chair next to his, decorated to your liking.
“King Pure Vanilla, we need to talk.” Dark Cacao says.
“Hes back, and so it the fires back.” Dark Cacaos eyebrows furrowed.
Pure Vanilla stays silent. He glances at you before speaking again. “Where?”
“Near my kingdom, it’s obviously a warning that he’s coming back for the child. You knew this was bound to happen, the child and their father possess great power of the forest.” Dark cacao glares at you, chills running down your spine.
“I can’t give them up, I promised him I would keep them safe… Can we talk about this in private?”
“No Pure Vanilla, they need to know whats going on.” Dark cacao crosses his arms.
“Did I do something wrong..?” You whisper to Pure Vanilla.
“No, you did nothing wrong.” Pure Vanilla smiles at you. “Dark Cacao, what do you expect me to do? We know nothing about whoever is doing this.”
“Next fire, give them up. My kingdom will be burnt to a crisp if you don’t. Are you really willing to put an entire kingdom at risk for a child?!” Dark Cacao yelled.
“Excuse me?! I will do no such thing!” Pure Vanilla rises from his throne.
You put your hands over your mouth, tears began to fill your vision. Give me up to the fire?, you thought.
“(Name), everything will be alright. Just go to your room, ok?” Pure Vanilla does his best to keep his composure when talking to you.
You left instantly after he said that. You ran to your room and cried. You knew you were different from other cookies. No king just takes in a cookie and treats them like their own and hides them away from everyone else.
“I promised Millennial Tree I would take care of his child, I will not just give them up!”
“So you’re willing to put my kingdom in danger for a promise you made to a dead man?” Dark Cacao accused.
“He is not dead!” Pure Vanilla yells.
“Stop lying to your self Pure Vanilla, there’s no way he survived that.. Now give me the child.”
“Leave Dark Cacao, I will not give you them. I will keep my promise, and I will find a way to stop who ever controls the fire.” Pure Vanilla turns and leaves, slamming the door behind him.
Days past, another fire showed up. This time it was in front of Vanilla Kingdom.
Two mysterious cookies in robes had showed up in the kingdom. One as tall as pure vanilla and another slightly shorter. Both cookies showed up not long after the fire, leaving them as suspects.
You became curious of the one with horns just like you. You would leave the castle and some times follow them for a little bit.
“Where have you been going, (name)?” Pure Vanilla says.
You snuck back into your room after leaving for hours.
“Pure Vanilla! What a surprise to see you!” You say shocked. You weren’t hoping to get caught.
“Answer my question, you had everyone worried.”
“Just a stroll around the kingdom, nothing serious!”
“And you didn’t tell anyone?.. Were you around those two new cookies?” Pure Vanilla curiously asked.
You sigh in defeat, “not exactly with them.” You nervously laugh, avoiding eye contact.
“What do you mean, ‘not exactly’?” Pure Vanilla folded his arms, raising one of his eyebrows.
“I was just, watching them?” You nervously said.
“Watching them..?” Pure Vanilla looks at you disappointedly. “We’ll talk about this later.” Pure Vanilla walked out the room with a sigh.
Pure Vanilla quickly walked down the hall to the nearest maid. “Can you please contact Millennial Tree and tell him to come to the castle, its urgent..”
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