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It was another totally normal day at the bagel shop. Today MidniniPanini decided to come back! They had brought their super secret strawberry satchel (say that three times fast!) And asked to come behind the counter. Yukari and Tamari weren't opposed to this, if MidniniPanini brought their bag, then surely it was a new bagel ingredient.
They were correct. MidniniPanini opened their bag to reveal…. a bunch of tiny little red crescent moons? They said these were hard to find, only in a specific segment of Robloxia that regularly gets hit with chaotic and terrible weather. And they swore these were edible.
Before Tamari could grab one, MidniniPanini warned them.
“Do not let the nearby cat clan know anything about these. They will be terrified, and may condemn me to their little cat hell. I know you and McChicken are regularly in cat contact, but PLEASE don't tell them.”
They held up their pinky, and Tamari made a pinky promise with MidniniPanini. With that, MidniniPanini split one of these moons with Yukari and Tamari, and they all took a bite. Hm. Tastes like cherry cola. Nice! A good addition to the sweet bagels.
Yukari went and sat down to enjoy her bagel sandwich, and waited for the inevitable moment where Sharty would show up.
Tamari decided to crush up the moons and mix it in with a tub of the crm cheese to make a limited time deal.
MidniniPanini leaned against the counter and said “Y'know, eating these might get rid of the danger they pose. We could save the world by consuming these little fragments. Genius!” They walked off and sat with Yukari to wait for Sharty to show up. And of course he did, he walked in, overconfidently striding with a smug grin as always, as if he wasn't going to be met with death by crm cheese.
He went over to the counter, asking what the current special is. Tamari mentioned the “cherry cola bagel”, leaving out the detail of it being in the crm cheese. Sharty ordered the cherry cola bagel and sat down at a nearby table to enjoy it. MidniniPanini and Yukari watched Sharty take a huge bite into it, before noticing the skin on his hands crackling aggressively. Much more than before. Were the fragments… aiding the bagel shop?
Before they could continue to wonder, the cat clan darted into the bagel shop, yes all of them again, yowling and hissing. Russetstar ordered the cats to do a thorough search of the bagel shop, saying he could smell danger. He hopped up onto the counter to speak with Tamari, questioning them on what he was smelling.
Patchtail and Streamstripe, two gray cats, one appearing to have white pants, the other fluffy and stripey, were pushing the tub of crm cheese with the fragments inside.
“In here!”
“The smell is in here!”
Was MidniniPanini caught?
The rest of the cats sat in a circle around the tub, while Russetstar sniffed out where the origin of this scent was. He found one singular loose fragment, and interrogated Tamari on where it came from. He looked around the bagel shop, and saw Yukari and MidniniPanini pointing at Sharty, who's arms were entirely crackled now, and he was flailing on the floor.
All of the cats charged at Sharty, aggressively scratching him.
“Don't you ever bring that Dark Forest material near our precious two-leg shop ever again!” Tamari overheard one of the cats hissing at Sharty. So that's what cat hell is.
Yukari and MidniniPanini laughed at Sharty, seeing as their shifted blame worked. The cats hated Sharty anyways, so it was easy.
The elders sat on top of Sharty once he was dead, loafing. The other cats did the same, loafing and relaxing on Sharty's dead body. The bagel shop celebrated with the rest of the cherry cola crm cheese bagels on the house after the cats left!