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"You- ack!.. Jester...." Wind Archer weakly spoke as he was cornered to a tree. The beast Infront of him just stared at him fondly. "Hehehe!! Oh cmon Archie~ Dont you want to put a little more .. FIGHT!" He laughed at the injured cookie.
If only Wind Archer was a little quicker to react he wouldn't have been placed in this situation. Unfortunately he wasn't able to hide his fear completely. "What is that I smell in the air? Or wind should I say? HAHhahaha" Smilk laughed at his own joke. It was fun watching the wind cookie suffer. But wouldn't it be better to use his to spread his deciet if little Archie here was on his side?
A very wonderful idea.
It's not really hard to poison nature.
Especially one who've been poisoned before...
Shadow Milk then slowly approached the injured cookie "You're quite the charm.. ya know that, Archie?"
"W-what-" Wind Archer responded as he backed himself to the wall. "What are you planning you beast!" He questioned trying to hide his state of fear but his current injured state doesn't allow him to do it efficiently due to the feeling of pain.
"You're so silly, Archie!!" Shadow Milk laughed at the guardian of wind's futile effort to hide his fears. Does the poor cookie even remembered that he can sense whatever he was feeling? "You know, I think you're quite fun to hang out with, not many get that recognition" He remarked as he closed the distance between them.
Wind Archer narrowed his eyes. "I'm not going to play games with you." He scowled
Shadow Milk completely disregarded whatever Wind Archer said. "Don't you think that old tree (Millennial Tree Cookie) is giving you a fool's errand?" He pointed out. "Like, it just the same thing!" He commented as if he was the Guardian of the Wind. "A very... BORING job" he said as he sat down on the air, floating.
"You foul being... DONT YOU DARE DISRESPECT MILLENNIAL TREE !" Wind Archer spoke with anger. Though he was injured and could barely move, he will not let this beast drag Millennial
Tree's name in the dirt. Or darkness? Since like Millennial Tree is, in a way, ok with dirt?
Before Wind Archer could detest any further, blue strings were suddenly warped around his body. "Whoa there greenie, cool down a little would ya? Wouldn't want you to burn yourself from the inside" Shadow Milk laughed at his own joke, looking at Wind Archer in a somewhat doting way.
The string then hung Wind Archer up making him stand, but his legs were too weak to hold his own weight. Shadow Milk then placed his hands on Wind Archer's cheek and brought him closer, whilst looking down on him.
"We can have soo much more fun if you aren't so obsessed with your job as a Guardian of that tree... Isn't that right... Raven?
"W-what- did you just call me..?" Wind Archer's eyes widened and looked to Shadow Milk 'How on Earthbread does he know that name?' he thought to himself. Some part of him wants to think that he might be overthinking and this is obviously one of the Jester's trick. But it's impossible. Unless...
No..
"Oh, did I hit a nerve?"
"That- How did you.."
"Know? Well, remind you that I was the fount of knowledge. I know alotttt of stuff..."
Wind Archer then remembered that Shadow Milk had relations with Dark Enchantress. Chances that the jester was informed of that.... was quite high. He struggled to try and break free but it was futile, those strings only got tighter around him. Shadow Milk brought Wind Archer more closer and whispered (to his ear???) "I know you've been also running away from the darkness that you so-called wanted to purify..."
Then, Shadow Milk dropped Wind Archer back to the ground. The guardian was lucky that Shadow Milk hadn't lifted him up too high or else he would've crumbled on the spot.
"I can help you with that..." Shadow Milk reached his hand out. Wind Archer looked up in defeat. "You.. can?" He nearly gave his hand to Shadow Milk before quickly pulling back. "NO! I WONT FALL FOR ANY OF YOUR SCHEMES!" He hissed.
"Fighting till the end huh? It's futile anyway" Shadow Milk rolled his eyes and looked at Wind Archer with an eerie smile. "Do you feel it?"
"Feel wha- Argh-!" Wind Archer started to cough badly. The air felt more toxic his vision started to darkened. But this feeling was somewhat familiar. It can't be...
His forehead pounded in pain as he felt as if own life force was getting sucked away.
...
Wait. This feeling is familiar.
No..
NO!
Shadow Milk watched as Wind Archer succumbed to the darkness. He saw the darkness swallowing the Guardian whole. There weren't as much screaming as the beast had anticipated but the way the darkness was consuming the wind.
After moment of waiting, the darkness slowly receded around what remained of Wind Archer. From Shadow Milk's view he saw a pair of dark violet wings as Wind Archer had turned into Night Raven.
And, oh witches does he looked majestic. Shadow Milk approached the cookie and picked him up in a bridal matter and observed him more closely. He then smiled.
"The Night Raven who spreads the darkness eh?"
He leaned closer and kissed his cheeks before bringing Night Raven back to the spire.