parted ways
This fic is just a experiment ok don't get mad for how bad it's written
Anyways it's an au here Fire Spirit stopped being a elemental guardian and becomes power hungry and turns to the dark side and joins Dark enchantress, meanwhile Wind Archer was keeping a huge secret from him, 1 that he wasn't even aware until recently, he wanted to tell Fire Spirit until he heard the news and when the 2 met each other again face to face...
Dark Enchantress: ahahahahahaha! Brilliant! Just brilliant! Never in my life could I ever seen this coming! To think... One of the elemental guardians were to join us in our ranks! I must say... You surprised me Fire Spirit cookie... To what end are you hoping to gain by joining us?
Fire Spirit: tsk- I'm tired of everything, my duty as a guardian has taken me no where! And the rest of them are all just weaklings! I need more power and I won't be able to gain any just by standing around playing with fire... I need something more...
Dark Enchantress: hahaha... I see
Pomegranate: master can we really trust what he says? This is quite a sudden change of side... He could just be tricking us for his own benefit...
Fire Spirit: suspect me all you want, I don't care what you do to this pitiful world and it's cookies, so long as you can give me what i want you can do whatever
Dark Enchantress: fear not my devote follower... I sense no lies from him... But very well, if it's power you want... I have just the thing for you... Bring me her mirror Pomegranate cookie
Pomegranate: right away Master
Pomegranate cookie steps into the shadows and then later returns with none other then Agar Agar cookie who is holding her old broken mirror
Fire Spirit: so that slimey creature did belonged to you
Dark Enchantress: this is Agar Agar cookies broken mirror, you recall breaking it when you first met yes?
Fire Spirit: duh obviously
Dark Enchantress: this mirror may be broken but it still holds fragments of the elemental powers and life energy that Agar Agar cookie has eaten with it, use this mirror and I can assure you, you will have all the powers you crave for
Fire Spirit: is that so?
Agar Agar cookie gives Fire Spirit cookie the broken mirror, he looks at it intently, thinking back from previous event from when he was just a weak little cookie to the fire elemental guardian that he is today... The times he spent with his "friends" the times he spent with him if he does this now... There's no turning back...
Dark Enchantress: well? What will it be...? Your friends and the plain old life you have on Earthbread? Or the power you will gain to make the world a new?
Fire Spirit gritted his teeth and took the broken mirror, and swallowed all of the broken shards, the servants of darkness takes a few steps back in shock, as they did not expect him to eat the mirror, Fire Spirit does his best to swallow all the pieces as he can feel the life energy... The power of the other guardians surging within him, soon fire burst from the ground surrounding him as 5 hydras appeared around the flaming pillar, they all circle it as they slowly changed into each different element, water, ice, thunder, wind and fire, all surrounds the flaming pillar until it disappears and revealed Fire Spirit cookie in his new form, he takes a look at his new form and new power, Dark Enchantress smiles with satisfaction knowing what she has created, Fire Spirit begins to laughs as he has finally gained the power he wanted and was itching to use it.
Wind Archer cookie was looking at something with tired eyes... Tonight has been a eventful night... He never thought something between him and Fire Spirit could have ever created it... But he smiles knowing that he will not let it get into harms way... He could only hope Fire Spirit cookie would be as joyful as him once he hears the news... He looks outside into the night sky as the stars was twinkling away in the sky... Yet he could not see the full moon as it was hidden away by the grey clouds, Millennial tree cookie then approach and calmly sat besides the forest guardian knowing how much he through in one night.
Millennial tree: you must be tired dear child... Rest I will keep watch while you sleep
Wind Archer: I thank you but I mustn't rest... I still have a duty to fulfill... I must not be slacking off...
Millennial tree: it is alright to take a break once in a while Wind Archer... In your case you will really need it... It is important for one to save their energy after such a rough night...
Wind Archer: *sigh* perhaps you're right... But I still could not help but worry... I wonder what he will say once he finds out...
Millennial tree: I'm sure he would be... Thrilled...
Wind Archer: hmm...? You seem to be at distressed... What causes your worries?
Millennial tree: are you sure... You want to tell him right now child?
Wind Archer: yes...? What is the matter? I thought you said he would be thrilled...
Millennial tree: he will... That much I'm sure... But I'm afraid you might not be thrilled for what I'm about to tell you my child...
Millennial tree cookie explained everything to Wind Archer cookie about what happened to Fire Spirit and what he has done, Wind Archer lay there in his bed listening in disbelief, he doesn't want to believe it... Fire Spirit isn't the type of cookie to just... Do this... No he could never do this...! If not what was the point of the times they spent together as guardians? As friends...? As... Millennial tree cookie holds Wind Archer in his embrace as he gently stroke his hair to comfort him.
Millennial tree: shhh... I know dear child... I know... Let it all out... Tonight you need not to be strong nor brave... You can let out all of your emotions...
Finally a single tear drop from Wind Archers eye, every time he has ever been upset about something, he has always suppressed parts of his feelings as he believes it was too immature to express feelings in such ways... But now there was nothing stopping him, he hugs Millennial tree cookie tightly as his eyes begin to shed a river of tears, letting out all of the emotions he has never allow himself to express before, Millennial tree cookie can only hug and comfort him in pity for such a tragic thing to happen before a new beginning...
Almost a year has passed now and Wind Archer hasn't heard a single thing about Fire Spirit for a while, he thought that he has abandoned him... And will no longer return as the smiling ball of flaming confidence... He always wondered if it was his own fault... That had pushed Fire Spirit cookie away... Was it because he treated him too coldly...? Or have they never been friends in the first place... Wind Archer sighs as he clutches his first tightly and close to his heart, maybe Fire Spirit was just using his emotions to get close to him... To play with him like a little play thing... It would seem he has grown bored of him now hasn't he...? Just when Wind Archer was about to go patrol another part of the forest, a strong gust of wind send a familiar burnt air to Wind Archers way and he turns around in shock as he sees the cookie standing behind him, it was Fire Spirit cookie but... He looks different... Far too different from the Fire Spirit cookie that Wind Archer once knew... The air used to be filled with laughter when Fire Spirit is around... Now it's all silence... Fire Spirit only stood there looking at Wind Archer, not moving or showing any signs of his emotions... He only stood there blankly looking into Wind Archer cookies eyes, he couldn't recognised who he is anymore. Fire Spirit frowns as he looks at Wind Archer cookies face, it didn't show any signs of fear or anger... Instead he was showing sympathy... He hated it whenever Wind Archer makes that face...
Wind Archer: Fire Spirit cookie...? What has happened to you...? You seem... Different...
Fire Spirit: that's because Im not the shame cookie I once was anymore, I changed... And so should you
Wind Archer: tell me... Why did you turn out this way...? We're you unsatisfied with the position you were given...? We're you not satisfied by your powers and those you surround yourself with...? Or was it because of me...?
Fire Spirit clenches his fist and avoided eye contact at that question, is that what Wind Archer thought of him this whole time? Did he thought he was just using him? He could feel the flames flickering within him, telling him to stop this but then again when have they ever really gotten along...?
Wind Archer: you really have changed, the Fire Spirit I know was not one to hold back his words... He would always say what's on his mind...
Fire Spirit: too bad... He was a fool and that's why I changed... I'm not longer the same cookie you once knew, I'm not the cookie who was everyone's friend...
Wind Archer: *sigh* you say that yet... I know you, your looks and attitude may have changed but I know there's still a part of you that is still you... You aren't exactly the type to change so easily...
Wind Archer slowly approaches Fire Spirit cookie as he reaches out a hand so he caress his cheeks, yet deep within his heart Fire Spirit doesn't want him to get close, he wants to push him away, attack him, kill him do anything... Just... Don't come close to him with those eyes of his... Yet when Wind Archer cookie was standing right next to Fire Spirit and caress his cheeks with his gentle hand, he did not push him away, he did not hesitate and back away from his touch... He only stood there and take it.
Wind Archer: there were many things that was unspoken between the two of us sience the past year... And you have no idea... How much I wanted to tell you... But I guess I just never had the courage to find you, quite a coward am I not...?
Fire Spirit remained silent, truth be told he too has kept many things from Wind Archer cookie and has always wanted to tell someone of the pain he has endured for so long yet it was his pride that stopped him from ever showing weakness, Wind Archer knows this well and has never pushed on the subject, Fire Spirit grabs Wind Archers hand, this time Wind Archer can feel the heat of his flames burning his dough as he pushes his hand away.
Fire Spirit: you were always too soft to do anything after all, you never raise your now to kill, all you do is "purify" it, to stop darkness in its tracks... And just because of all that did you really think you can purify someone like me? A wildfire made to devour and destroy all...? It's not like you to think of doing so pathetic that's it's out of your league
Wind Archer: no... It's true I cannot purify what is not made of darkness but you are just someone who was never meant to be born in Ashes of the flames... All this time I could never imagine how hard it must be for you... To be born to destroy but never be born to create... Not to be able to touch life at the tip of your finger tips without the fear of destroying it... It must have been hard for you...
Fire Spirit felt a little surprise but then felt angry as he gritted his teeth and glared at Wind Archer.
Fire Spirit: oh please don't talk like you know what it's like to live in my shoes! Look around you! You're surrounded by life itself and you're protecting it! What could you possibly know what it's like to be me?! I was born only to die at the mouth of a volcano! I was born only to become fire itself and can never interact with other life forms without hurting them myself! While all you do is just shoot your damn arrows around!! You know nothing of what's it's like to be treated as a disaster... You don't know what's it's like to be treated like ME!!
Wind Archer: I know... And I'm sorry that you have suffer so much all this time... And I couldn't do anything to help you
Fire Spirit: stop it... Why...? Why must you be so foolish?! Have living in this god forsaken forest blinded you of the truth?! Look at how much we given to this world and how much it has taken from us! How could you still want to protect them after everything they did to us?! Everything they did to me... Everything they did to you.
Wind Archer: so that's what this is all about... I can never bring myself to harm a life of nature... You know this well, not all life is plagued by darkness... I still believe there is good out there
Fire Spirit: a foolish belief, can't you see that's what made you weak...
Wind Archer: you may not act like it now... But you too once believed that there is still good left in this world don't you...? When we both stood here and promised to each other that we will protect them with our power... You were still grinning like a child, full of hope and joy... It was the time when I finally came to understand you... Your dreams and goals were no different from mine... You just have a different view upon this world...
Fire Spirit: you think I don't recall that moment...? We stood here and look at this world like we were the creators ourselves... The way you gave me that stupid smile of yours and told me your aspirations for protecting the world, for the old folktales that had been passed down from cookies who were born anew? You told them to me so passionately and all for what? Empty promises and all those lies... They never meant anything...
Wind Archer: that's where you're wrong... I never lied about anything... Every word I have ever spoken to you... They were all the truth... They were my truth...
Fire Spirit eyes widened as his grip on his staff tightens, the flames flickering within him felt like they could cause a huge explosion at any moment... Fire Spirit glares at Wind Archer as he still have him that gentle look in his eyes... Why? Why is he looking at him like that?! The earth beneath their feet suddenly rumbles as cracks starts to appear with flames and lava bursting from the ground, surrounding the two of them in a circle of flames, Wind Archer did suspected Fire Spirit to upgrade his powers and he was right... They react to extreme emotions it seems...
Fire Spirit: why...? Why now?! Why are you giving me that looks now?!
Wind Archer: what do you mean...?
Fire Spirit: do you know how long I've waited for you to finally choose me and maybe just once look my way...? How long I waited for you to finally see me the way I see you?! Never once in the time we spent together did you ever looked at me, all you ever cared about is that damn tree and the forest!! Never once did you cared about me!!
Wind Archer: I do care!!
Fire Spirit was shocked when Wind Archer suddenly raised his voice, he has never done it before... And to raised his voice with a unexpected answer...
Wind Archer: I have always seen you... I have always cared about you sience the day we both worked together as a team... But how could I ever reach your flames when my wind was never strong enough to face you... Flames may burn bright but the wind could never be able to shine in comparison as the wind is not made of light...
Fire Spirit: tch... Then you realised your too late don't you? I've destroyed life itself, plants, homes, buildings, cities, kingdoms! Cookies... I've destroyed every single last one of them... All from pure hatred that was boiling inside me...
Wind Archer: I'm aware...
Fire Spirit: yet I thought I would feel powerful... I thought I felt like a God... But no. Did you know what it made me feel like...? Nothing, I didn't feel anything... All I could have think of what you would think of me when you watch me burn down the lives of all these cookies...! How much it will made you hate me... And yet here you are... Still looking at me with those eyes...
Wind Archer: because you must have thinker it out haven't you...? I could never bring myself to hate you
Fire Spirit: I guess I'll just have to kill you then...! This was never something about closure... Call it a need for stifaction if you want... But the only way to end this is for me to finally get rid of the thorn on my side...
Wind Archer: then do it.
Fire Spirit: what...? Don't act like you're not afraid of me!! If you knew I'm going to kill you then raise your weapon!! Attack me! Do something!
Wind Archer: I can't... I will never use my powers to hurt others... I will never use them to hurt you, even if you kill me right here and now...
Wind Archer uses both his hands to caress Fire Spirit cookies cheeks as he looks into his eyes, Fire Spirit can finally see it... The tiredness and exhaustion that was on the archers face... It just shows how long he hasn't sleep... How much time he had forgotten to take care of himself... Fire Spirit used to hate it when he does it... And worse of all... Seeing the archer in this state right now... He stills hated it... Fire Spirit leaned in for a moment and hold one of Wind Archers hand while it's still caressing his cheek, he used to find comfort in these hands... The same pair of hands that would always easily calm him down in a single embrace... It's all gone now.
Wind Archer let's out a raspy gasp as he was pierce threw the heart with a flaming fist, the fire on Fire Spirits hand crackling as it had impaled him... And slowly he removes his hand, Wind Archer slowly fell asleep he looks into Fire Spirit hollow eyes, he seemed shocked for a few seconds as he fell into Fire Spirit arms... Fire Spirit cookie didn't say a word when he catched him, he only watched the body fall as the howling winds suddenly felt silent, suddenly everything felt like time itself has stopped, yet Fire Spirit cookie does not understand... He did it... He killed Wind Archer... So why are his hands shaking...? He holds Wind Archer close to him as he felt tears of frustration falling from his eyes... Wind Archer was killed and yet he still has that annoying look on his face! He's not angry... Not sad, not scared...?! More annoyingly... He still looks so forgiving... Why?!
Fire Spirit: no... What's wrong with me...? I've done what I wanted... Why do I still... Feel this way...? Damn you...
Wind Archer: ... It's not my fault you are still a cookie with a heart... But no matter what... I'll always forgive you... I can only hope... That they will forgive you too...
Fire Spirit: they...? They who?
Wind Archer cookie wanted to say so much yet no words left his tongue as he could only close his eyes, tho the look in Fire Spirit cookies eyes were cold... He still found comfort in the warmth of his body and closes his eyes as the gem on his head cracks, Fire Spirit eyes widened as it completely shatters and Wind Archer slowly fades away into a pile of leaves and they were blown away from his hands by the last single gust of wind...
Fire Spirit: no... N-not no no! Wiat! Not like this!! It wasn't supposed to be like this!!...
The walls of flames rises as it devours the forest... Only the Millennial tree forest was left unsaved but at what cost? Fire Spirit cookie weakly looks at the fragments of the shattered gem on the ground and then looks at the hydras behind him... He had blindly summoned them without knowing... But the wind hydra is missing... It's gone... Fire Spirit could only swallow all his feelings and emotions and leave the forest... There's no point in staying in a place where there's no enemies to fight... No rivals to bicker... No lover to hold... He had only came here to finish what he started... Yet he could never get rid of the empty feeling that had permanently scarred his soul... Fire Spirit spreads his wings and fly away as his back is turned against the destruction of all the past memories he had in that forest. Maybe one day... He will return...
And so Dark Enchantress cookie won... She changed the world to a "new better" world... It didn't seem like it was worth the wait... Fire Spirit cookie looks down upon the new world as it was created over the Ashes he has spread... Yet he does not feel joy at all... He doesn't felt anything... So has all this just been a waste of time...? Had he turned his back against everything he known for nothing...? Fire Spirit wasn't so sure of himself anymore and decided to fly back to the one place he hated the most... He spread his wings and flew far away into the maze grove where the Millennial tree forest is... As he flies into the vast forest, he sees that all the trees has grown back, tho the lush green colour was not the same as he remembers he doesn't pay it any mind, he soon found a field of grass and lands down as he closes his wings, he looks around the place which seems to be a location near Millennial Tree... But then he looks down and notice something... A pile of rocks stack on together to form a memorial for something... He can see flowers growing around the memorial and wonders who this could be for but then a sudden voice interrupted him.
???: who goes there?! Back away from the memorial at once!!
Fire Spirit: huh?
???: huh...? A fire cookie...? Aren't your types supposed to be in the dragon valley?... Wiat... Why do you look so oddly familiar...? Who are you?!
A cookie steps out of the trees wielding a far too familiar bow, it was his bow... And this cookie... They hold so much resemblance to him but he also strangely looks like Fire Spirit cookie... The Firey hair... That determined look within his eyes... And that strange ruby gem on their forehead... Who is this cookie?
Fire Spirit: and who are you supposed to be tiny sugar plum? A little forest scout?
???: wha- I'm asking the questions here! And my name is not "sugar plum" it's Flame Chaser cookie!
Fire Spirit: flame chaser...?
***: Flame Chaser what is all that noise?
Fire Spirit looks behind Flame Chaser cookie as a taller cookie walk up behind him, he has green hair red eyes, a familiar leaf scarf and wields a staff with a green gem on it, he also has a pair of white feather wings on his back
Flame Chaser: brother, I found this stranger near father's memorial so i-
***: stranger? Who could be-
The taller cookie stares at Fire Spirit cookie in disbelief, he then gritted his teeth and uses his staff to summon wind blades to attack Fire Spirit cookie, he casually dodges the attack but notices how the attack actually destroyed some trees in the back instead of "purifying" it...
Flame Chaser: woah Wind Dancer be careful! Or you'll chopped all the trees down!
Fire Spirit: Wind Dancer...?
Wind Dancer: leave this place at once! I don't ever want to see you step foot in this forest ever again!! Not after what you did!
Flame Chaser: after what he did...? Do you know him?
Fire Spirit: how do you know...
Wind Dancer: I will never... Forgive you for what you did you monster...
Flame Chaser: hey ok maybe we can calm down and talk? We don't have to get all angry at each other!
???: indeed... Please keep your calm dear child...
Both of the siblings looks behind them as Millennial tree cookie steps in to defuse the situation.
Wind Dancer: grand- great tree...!
Millennial tree: Wind Dancer cookie please take your brother back home... I can take it from here...
Wind Dancer: b-but...
Flame Chaser: come on...! Don't argue with him...!
The two cookies left together, leaving only Fire Spirit cookie to stand there in disbelief as Millennial tree just calmly stands there
Fire Spirit: Millennial tree... Those cookies... Who... Who were they... And why...
Millennial tree: I think you have already know the answer to that my friend... But I'm afraid you were too late to find out about this...
Fire Spirit: their... Their mine...?
Millennial tree: ... Indeed they are your children...
Fire Spirit: but how...? Sience when...? For how long did he kept this from me?
Millennial tree: he wanted to tell you after he gave birth... But by that time he had eventually found out that you have given into the Darkside... And couldn't find any way to tell you about the children... Sugar swan and I did what we could to raise them... And by the time they finally matured, we allowed them to take his place as forest guardian and told them the truth about their father's death... Sugar swan cookie had offered to create a replica of him for them but in the end they choose the remember their father in where he died...
Fire Spirit: no... Why didn't he tell me...? Why...? Why was I so foolish?!
Fire Spirit cookie fell to his knees as he breaks down in tears, Millennial tree couldn't do anything but closed his eyes as not even the gentle breeze can calm the souls today...
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