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They were both shocked to hear that especially pure vanilla. "OH NO! I'll be there right away!" Pure Vanilla then ran towards the door while waving goodbye to shadow milk. Shadow Milk began to wonder: why was the kingdom being attacked? Was he because of their trip to the laboratory? Was it because- no he shouldn't overthink this. He should go help. Maybe today he'd finally be able to repay pure vanilla for all the kindness he's shown him. Back with pure vanilla, he was running to where the fight was with black raisin. When suddenly a bright light completely enveloped him. When that bright glow disappeared he had transformed into his awakened form. "What?! You never told me you could do that!" black raisin said surprised. She'd never seen any of the ancients and their awakened form. "Oh, I guess I never told you. My apologies I've just been so busy the past few months that I never got the chance to tell you" Pure Vanilla said slightly embarrassed "It's fine…I guess" black raisin responded.
They ran for a bit before finally reaching the battlefield. Espresso and strawberry crepe cookie were both fighting a horde of cake monsters diligently but they could use some help. "I'm here! Is anyone hurt?" pure vanilla asked eagerly. "Well, it sure took you long enough. I mean you have any idea how long we've been waiting." "strawberry crepe might I remind you that we've only been waiting for 5 minutes." Espresso added. "Well, it felt like forever!" Strawberry Crepe said angrily. "Well, there's no need to worry anymore. I-" Just then someone had tapped on his shoulder. He looked over to see it was shadow milk. "Well, I think you should go do what you best and heal any injured cookies. I'll go deal with the monsters." he said playfully. "But shadow milk I can handle this. You don't need to" Shadow Milk then flew off to fight the horde while saying "Oh this is going to be fun." "Shadow milk wait!"
he was about to go after him when someone pulled on his robe. It was one of the villagers. He had some Scratches on his face but it didn't seem to affect him. "Pure vanilla You need to come help! We just found out that one of the other villagers has a serious injury on his arm that he covered up. So could you please come help." the villagers requested. "But I…" he looked back at the fight where Shadow Milk was. He knew shadow milk could defend himself but he was still rather worried. "Hmm, shadow milk should be fine while go help them," pure vanilla said to himself. Pure Vanilla agreed to go help them. While he was running over he looked back at the fight. The horde was fierce. There were so many huge monsters that kept slamming their weapons on the ground. Some were about the destroy buildings but we were stopped by shadow milk. But no matter how many enemies he defeated they're always seemed to be more. More and more they kept coming in hordes. And eventually, shadow milk began to grow tired. He'd huff and puff for air and almost fell to his knee. "no…I can't get tired now I need to keep going. The cookies here… still need my help. I need to help them, to protect them to wait to protect..?"
Just then Shadow Milk realized what he was supposed to do. What he was made to do. And now what he wanted to do. "I want… to protect them." he said quietly to himself. Then his souljam began to glow and he heard a voice speak in his head. a voice from deep within his soul. "Ah, do you finally remember?" his soul jam began to glow immensely until it completely covered him. A beam of light shot up into the sky. Shadow milk had to close since the glow was so bright but when he opened them again he saw his soul jam right in front of him. But its eye was closed. Then it began to speak "Shadow milk cookie do you finally remember what we were supposed to do?" "I think so" Shadow Milk replied. "And tell me other it being are purpose why is that you want to protect others? What changed in your ideals?" the soul jam asked solemnly. "Well because the cookies nowadays how such innocent smiles and our so appreciative of what they have. And I know that there will always be cookies like pure vanilla cookie that I want to save. Now I… I understand why pure vanilla wants to protect this world so much." Shadow Milk announced with a smile. "Do you wish to help him in doing so?" "Well of course I do!" Shadow Milk responded eagerly. "Then you already made your choice and I shall do everything I can to help" The soul jam then turned into a sphere of light and went right into Shadow Milk's chest. A bright blue light surrounded him and he closed his eyes again.
When he opened his eyes he was back in the vanilla kingdom except he felt and looked different. Then he could hear pure vanilla call his name. "Shadow milk! Are you-" "I'm fine pure vanilla. Now could you give me a few moments to clean up? I'll be quick. He then made quick work of most of the monsters. And the few that remained retreated. Once he was done pure vanilla walked up to him. "Shadow milk you-" "Oh you don't need to call me that anymore. I know it's a little late but please allow me to reintroduce myself. I am blueberry milk cookie the sage of truth." he took a bow "pleasure to meet you pure vanilla cookie" pure vanilla had such a fond smile on his face and had small happy tears in his eyes. He ran towards Blueberry Milk and gave him a big hug. "I 'm-I'm so proud of you!" pure vanilla said fondly.
"Thanks vanilly. You know I wouldn't have gotten this far without your help. I am eternally grateful for all you've done for me" blueberry milk remarked with a big smile. "Of course blueberry milk. However, I do have one question. What is the real you like?" pure vanilla asked. Blueberry Milk thought about it for a moment. "Well, I reading and knowledge. Oh, and I also like drinking tea.” Blueberry Milk responded fondly. “Why don’t we have a tea party to celebrate this moment? What do you say.” He held out his hand. It reminded him of the first time pure vanilla held out his hand. Expect this time he happily took it.