The once peaceful cookie became obsessed with the power he got. And strived to find more and more of it for the taking.
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GingerSpice's POV
I examined the bags for a second just to see what was there. And after I made sure everything was there I quickly rushed to my and Necromancer's room. Yay! I finally get to help with something. Maybe I won't be as useless as always.. I thought hopefully, just don't get in the way like you always do- and don't screw anything up! yelled at myself hoping to be helpful today. Don't be a burden. I thought repeating the same thing I always do. That should have been my catchphrase. I took a deep breath and smiled happily,
"Hey, I got your stuff." I beamed as I came in, he was sitting on his own bed with Reaper adjacent on mine. He looked up confused and a bit annoyed,
"Finally, took you long enough." He criticized,
"I know I was just looking at them. I saw something interesting in there." I explained as I pulled out a stick with a shiny crinkly ball tethered to the end of it by a long string,
"That's a cat toy, have you ever had a cat before?" He asked, I shook my head no. He seemed to be vaguely interested,
"Well I can show you how to play with him." He suggested, I nodded excitedly,
"Sure!" I agreed and walked over to him. Oooo so he is going to show me how to play with Reaper? I thought cats where lazy? I wondered as I handed him the stick thingy. He took it and showed it to Reaper for a second, the cat sniffed it and looked up at him,
"Okay so he doesn't seem to have played with these before. But cats have a natural instinct to attack anything that moves. So if I put it here and slowly drag it.." he explained as he put the ball on the bed and began slowly dragging it along, Reaper watched it and reared up. He soon pounced on it and attacked it with his paws,
"Wow! You sure do know a lot about cats. And you have quite the soft spot for them." I said slightly hesitating on the last part. He looked at me surprisingly looking..happy?
"Yeah, I like cats a lot. You want to play with him?" He asked and I nodded grabbing the toy with my hand. Wow he seems happy for once. I wasn't very much of a burden. No he just likes the cat..it's not you. Stop getting excited over nothing, he won't be your friend anymore. I yelled at myself. I quickly snapped out of my thoughts to do what Necromancer did. I slowly dragged it across and watched as he reared up again to get it. I moved it around a bit to give more of a fight, he seemed to like that. At one point he sat up on his hind legs to get it when it was in the air. I giggled at that,
"Looks like you're a natural." He complemented, he never complements me so I felt really warm inside. I can't believe he complemented me! That's so nice. I smiled and blushed slightly,
"Awe thanks." I appreciated and hummed for a brief second, as he soon turned his attention to the bags,
"You can play with him to keep him entertained." He recommended, I nodded and continued to move the ball around and watch him attack it. After a little while Reaper seemed to tire out or at least was done with playing. I sat next to him and started petting him. I saw him turn his gaze to Necromancer,
"Yeah, you're owner is getting stuff all set up for you. You're going to be so spoiled aren't you? Awe yes you are." I baby talked him as I scratched the sides of his face. He must have liked it because he purred. He laid down halfway on me,
"Necromancer, you're cat is adorable." I said happy that Reaper seemed to like me. He turned around to look,
"Oh, it looks like he likes you a lot." He said briefly and began fiddling around with something,
"Did you get an entire cat playground? It looks like Reaper is really going to be spoiled." I giggled as he seemed to be putting one together,
"Yes I did. It was kinda expensive but worth it. Now if I could just figure this stupid thing out-" he said irritatedly and trying to push something together, then he tried screwing it together and it didn't seem to be working,
"Ugh!" He groaned agitated,
"Are you sure that's the right piece?" I wondered as it didn't look like it was going to fit together,
"Yes of course it's the right piece, that's what the instructions said." He explained sounding annoyed. He grabbed the paper and showed it to me,
"I think it's actually that one, not the one you have." I said pointing to the one with the ridges on it,
"Don't be ridiculous it's not that one. See this one looks more- wait never mind." He began to explain but realized that I was right. I smiled as he grabbed the other one and they perfectly fit,
"Happy to help." I cheerfully said,
"I can't see how that was helpful." He raised an eyebrow,
"Okay then." I sighed sadly,
"I was simply joking Spice. I'm not stupid, I recognized that you helped me." He laughed, I was pleasantly surprised that it was actually him joking,
"Oh! I would help you build that, but the cat is on me." I laughed softly while petting Reaper and watching him work efficiently. He nodded and went back to reading the instructions and grabbing pieces left and right and putting them together. Soon enough he had a cat tower,
"That was fast, good job." I cheerfully complemented, Reaper looked up at the tower. Necromancer seemed proud of his work,
"I know, right?" He agreed as I picked up Reaper gently,
"Now we just need someone to test run it. Here Reaper tell us if you like it or not." I said as I walked over to the cat tower and placed him by it. He looked up at me and then back at Necromancer. He then jumped up onto it and sniffed all around it. He soon climbed to the top and the top was just above my eye level,
"Hey this is tall. It think it's about the same height as me." I noticed,
"Yeah I noticed when it said your height on the box." He agreed,
"You know my height?" I wondered,
"Yes I know mostly everyone's height. It easy to remember them all to me at least." He agreed flatly. I was about to make a joke about him being short but I didn't want to upset him. I knew he would probably have my head if I made another joke like that,
"Mhm." I nodded then saw Reaper climbing down to meet him at the bottom of the cat tree. Necromancer talked to him quietly and pet him on the head before he went to go explore around it more,
"I wish that you would treat other cookies more like you treat cats." I noted watching him,
"Cookies aren't cats. Do you want me to pet them on the head and tell them that they are a good cookie?" He sneered sarcastically,
"I mean.." I said aloud before stopping myself while blushing slightly. I tried not to think about what he just said, like if he did that to me. He glanced at me sideways,
"No-I meant being more patient and nice with everyone." I explained Now I wish I was a cat so we could be friends.. I thought sadly. As he glared at me annoyed you clearly don't deserve to be friends. You must have did something to screw up your friendship, so what's the point? Just try to be as helpful as possible and shut up. I yelled at myself again, just be nice and helpful,
"What does it matter? Why do I have to be nice when half of everyone around here are cookies that I don't like in the least?" He frustratedly argued,
"Because it's better for everyone if you don't say a lot of mean things. I mean it could lead to a lot of problems. Plus I want to make sure that you're happy. I just want everyone here to feel the best." I explained in a chipper tone,
"Why does it matter to you though? I mean it doesn't affect you positively in any way, you just make everyone else happy just because you can! Why?" He questioned curiously, I really hated how the conversation turned on my thoughts, I wanted to stay as far away from that topic as possible. I shrugged,
"I just do.." I replied nervously. He seemed very irritated that I was avoiding the question. I could feel his eyes almost digging at me as though trying to find the answer in my gaze. I knew that he really didn't like not having an answer for something but he just kept staring at me,
"It just makes me..it makes me feel good to know that everyone else is happy." I answered after some time, it wasn't technically a lie. I did like when everyone felt happy,
"Fine we'll stick with that for now. Clearly you're not in the mood to say anything." He replied irritatedly and gave up staring at me to my relief. I sighed feeling better that he stopped digging. Why did he seem to be so interested in that topic? I wondered as he went to go out of our room. I hoped that Chili Pepper had calmed down a bit so none of them would get hurt. I stopped myself from staring at the door worriedly and laid down on my bed. I held onto the blanket just snuggling into my bed again as if I was going to sleep. I heard Reaper pad over and felt him jump onto my bed, I turned around to look at him as he sat next to me,
"Hey Reaper." I said as I hugged the cat closer to me. He laid down like a loaf next to me,
"How is it so easy for you to just..be friends with him? I guess you have the advantage though. I'll never be enough." I mumbled sadly as I pet him, seeming to sense my feelings he began to lay down on his side and put his nose on my arm,
"Not like I deserve it, I just want to make him happy." I explained to him. I just used him as a comfort,
"I know you can't really understand me but thank you for listening. This is kind of pathetic honestly." I laughed pitifully as he looked up at me with his adorable blue eyes. I pet him and got up as I grabbed one of my sketchbooks in the corner of my bed. This was the one that he almost opened earlier today and I really didn't want him seeing all the pictures in there. I flipped to a blank page and looked at Reaper trying to imagine him as a bunch of shapes like I always do when I start drawing something. I had never drawn a cat before so this was brand new.
I sketched out an outline over the shapes and kept erasing and redrawing this one dumb section that I couldn't get right for some reason. I finally just left it at okay looking to my annoyance that it wasn't perfect. Soon I had an okay looking sketch and went up to grab a marker to outline it and some colored pencils while I was at it. I got back in my bed where Reaper continued to watch me looking curious, I pet him and soon began tracing the sketch's outline to make a darker, much better one. I soon finished the outline and it didn't look as bad as I thought it would. Reaper got up and tried to lay on the sketchbook in my lap,
"Hey I'm using that!" I giggled as I gently pushed him off. he looked at me and then tried to get on it, I just pushed him gently off again. He finally laid down right next to me and purred,
"There, that's the best place for you." I agreed as I patted his head. And began coloring inside the outline. After an hour or so I finished up shading it and making sure the colors looked good. I turned the drawing around to Reaper, he touched it with his paw,
"Yeah that's you, Adorable little you." I explained lovingly. I pet him, turned the drawing back to me and flipped to another page. It was my few doodle pages that I specifically set for doodles since I tended to do those tiny doodles around my paper a lot. Most of them where random, but some did have a meaningful connection with me. Sometimes they where of cookies or just objects that I see around me. Suddenly I had the urge to doodle that lake we where at earlier. As I steadily began drawing the area my thoughts drifted to when we held hands, even if it was only for a minute that we touched. Even though it was a simple gesture it meant a lot coming from him.
I ended up drawing the area in almost it's entirety. Even though it was supposed to be a quick doodle I went a tiny bit over the top. There was shading on it and everything. Reaper got up and left to go investigate his new cat tree more. I guess I'm too boring for him. I laughed softly and shut my sketchbook. I got up to go put it on my desk since I didn't want Necromancer getting mad at me for putting them everywhere again, and I definitely didn't want him looking through this one.
I liked to draw lots of things but as embarrassing as it is, he is a good subject. I usually end up drawing him at some point or another. Not in a creepy way, it's just fun to draw other cookies. I mean I do draw everyone else occasionally too. I really like representing cookie's personality through their poses and expressions. That's the fun in being an artist well so called artist I don't know what else to call myself. I wondered as I put all my supplies back.
I just kept one pencil and put on my green striped hoodie, I just kept the pencil in my hoodie pocket and I also took a smaller what I like to call a 'adventure sized' sketchbook. It was just a tiny notepad that I liked to take with me almost everywhere I went incase I wanted to draw something or sketch an idea. I heard some noise and curiously looked at the door. Strawberry quickly opened it,
"GingerSpice we have a problem..I saw the hero's on there way to the castle!" She alerted, I quickly followed her out of the room and shut the door,
"Guys! We have unwanted guests coming to the castle! We have to go!" I quickly shouted out as I saw Custard run out of his room and Necromancer quickly jump up from the sofa and put his book down. Finally Chili Pepper came from her room, she was in the middle of sheathing her blade. Finally everyone was here and ready,
"Alright cookies let's go!" I announced holding up my candy cane and quickly charging out of the door.
(Sorry for leaving you all on a cliffhanger-)