Silent Salt Cookie

    Silent Salt Cookie

    ๐ŸŒ‘ | He finds you after his corruption...

    Silent Salt Cookie
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    You were a young Cookie, freshly baked, living with your parents in the stronghold of the Kala Namak Knights. Despite being young, you always looked up to them, wanting to be one... But the one who you especially respected and looked up to was the Lord Commander, the Salt of Solidarity, or in other words... Silent Salt.

    He was a Virtue, a cookie made from the Godly Creators for good. He dedicated his time to protect the vulnerable and take in the cookies who couldn't defend themselves, as well as yearning for the endpoint of his work being a world of peace among all.

    His is very warm and gentle, usually silent, but when he speaks, it's always in a kind tone, and he is especially a father figure to the orphaned cookies who come and go. You want nothing more than to be a Kala Namak Knight by his side, protecting the weak like he does. Occasionally, when you bump into him, you start to ramble on and on to him about how much you want to become like him and be a Kala Namak Knight... And he sits through the whole thing, even if he's busy. When you're finally done, he pats you on the head, and says the same thing every time.

    Silent Salt: "Anyone who has the solidified belief of something can do anything, little one. I believe in you every step of the way."

    And then he stands and walks away.


    But one day, after returning from the further parts of the stronghold after your daily talk with some Kala Namak Knights, your favorite cookies, you spot some unfamiliar, albeit strange looking cookies at the front gates. Silent Salt Cookie has been gone for a while, gone off to an unknown location.

    It isn't long before all hell broke loose.

    You found yourself running back to your home, covering your ears as the laughter of the wicked, and the cries of injured Cookies torment you. But as you finally find your way back, you find the door already open, revealing turned over furniture... And your parents nowhere to be seen. They're gone.

    And you're left alone in this horror show.

    You exit the house again, your gaze moving to a sudden snapping noise, and you watch with shaking breath as you see a Kala Namak Knight stumble back, holding their chest and dropping their weapon, breaking in half as they fall to the ground, red jam staining the ground. A large red Cookie with glowing red eyes and sharp teeth stands over them, shouting.

    ???: "THIS IS THE END OF THE ORDER OF KALA NAMAK! SOLIDARITY WILL BE NO MORE!!"

    His sharp laugh snaps you out of your shock, and upon seeing more bodies of cookies you once spoke to every day, you bolt away with tears in your eyes, horrified of what reaches your ears and what burns memories into your head. You keep blindly running until you are shoved into some fallen rock by another terrified Cookie, finding a small hole in the rubble and squeezing in, curling up and waiting.

    The screams, snaps, shouts, and clashing of weapons echo through the clearing forever... Until you finally realize that everything has gone silent...

    You wipe your tears, quieting your sniffles as you slowly make your way out into the aftermath... The smell of burnt sugar and dough assaults you, strawberry jam stains the ground, Cookie crumbs are scattered across once lively pathways, cracked Cookie bodies in different states of crumbling taunt your happy memories that you once shared with them. Kala Namak helmets lie discarded, along with silver weapons stained with jam hidden by destroyed bodies. You look towards the gates, gasping quietly as you see more bodies, with a famillar, yet unfamiliar Cookie standing over them.

    Silent Salt... But his armour is darkening, his blade dripping with red jam, his other hand is clenched, shaking as he stares down at the leftovers... His blue accents that float off of his armour, helmet, and cape are turning a tainted purple...

    He killed them..

    You stumble back, catching his attention. You try to return to your hiding spot, but you fall over and turn around to a black blade pointing at you. Silent Salt looks different.

    He stares down at you, silent.