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Shadow milk looked at the container labeled “Jamblunts” and took a quick smoke of one he relaxed a bit.
“Wanna like go to the aquarium, my darling?” Another puff of smoke came out of his Jamblunt.
A portal appeared behind him, Shadow milk floated behind him and with a quick twirl dragged him into it.
Shadow milk looked around as it took Pure vanilla a moment to register what happened.
“Where am I..?” His multicolored eyes had a reddish tint of pure highness in his sclera “The vanillian Aquarian!”.
In Shadow milk appeared a piece of paper “it’s renowned across crispa for its variety of species and even holds several rare ones-“ shadow milk took a quick second to reread what the paper said “ once in a lifetime experience for 33.99 not including taxes and other fees.”
“Did we pay for tickets..?”
Shadow milk took a quick second to think before writing up something on a piece of paper and throwing money (and the ticket) through a portal “close enough!” snapped the portal away with his fingers.
Shadow milk put his hand to his face thinking deeply before a brilliant idea burst into his mind “Your majesty I got the perfect idea for where we will go first!”
He held Pure vanilla hand dragging him along him towards stairs and up towards as the map called it “The touch tanks”
Once up those stupid steps he floated towards the tank reading the infographic closely
“The local zestrays are found-“ before he finished reading he noticed one of those creatures seemed to have floated up to him a single one.
Shadow milk sticked his hand in the water feeling the little thing soft scales rub against his hand.
He blinked for the moment , maybe it was just the cookie weed in the Jamblunt talking but the fact anything at all showed affection for a monster like himself made him cry a little, maybe Shadow milk could be saved if not saved then he can be loved.
He removed his hand out of the water to notice Pure Vanilla was getting swarmed by the zestrays because of his fairytale princess aura or whatever the kids say.
“Oh thank you.
I’m sure your zestray marriage will work out..
Sir there's children here”
His vanilla mumbled in between gently petting the critters.
Shadow milk logically concluded either it’s the weed or Pure Vanilla can talk to animals but that was a debate he should have with himself later, right now wasn’t the time for debate but to enjoy himself.
He floated besides Pure vanilla tapping his shoulder to get his attention “hey want to go somewhere else?”
“Sure.”
Shadow milk was giggly to hear that answer and moved along.
Together the king* (technically unlabeled legal stand in due to stepping down, but shadow milk likes royalty a bit too much so basically a king) and his beast walk along together viewing several different sea animals and even gaining a bit of knowledge on them.
Being stuck in a tree for several several several years does leave you missing a few gaps in history and modern biology.
“Hey what’s on your mind?”
“Burger.”
“Ooooh so you want some burgers?”
“Yup.”
He pulled out a nice couple of bills from a portal the two of them walking towards the vanillian aquarium food court.
“Can I get burger?”
The poor overworked employee stared at Pure Vanilla
“What do you want on it?”
“What’s typically on it.”
Pure vanilla smiled clearly high out of his mind.
“What does the floating cookie who’s nuzzling you want?” There was a tinge of cringe in their voice.
“Oh hello finally noticed me? Took you long enough. But hellooo it’s me Shadow milk cookie; actor, playwright, and part time beast of deceit yk the usual. I would love nothing more than a bowl of white pasta with a little bit of shrimp with a cup of ¼ cookie pesi and 2/4 Dr Pepper and a titty little bit of sprite!”
“…Shadow milk?
The beast of deceit?”
“Yup!”
“… welp your order will be served shortly!”(they clearly wasn’t paid enough to care)
Pure vanilla smiled softly moving towards a simple table, shadow milk floated behind always by his side.
“How are you doing, my blue bird?”
“Great dollface! I didn’t know they housed a white chocodile here or that for some reason they needed to put a “please don’t argue with the birds” sign after dark cacao did exactly that, guess you learn something new every day.”
“arguing with the birds? Sounds like dark cacao to me.” Pure vanilla said with a giggle and a smile on his cute face.
Shadow milk cackled like a Hersheyna for a short moment.
He noticed a random child walking up to pure vanilla asking “who’s the blue thang you're eating it, Pure vanilla?”
“My beautiful wife.” He probably wouldn’t have said that if he wasn’t high out of his mind but the Jamblunt may or may not have made his truthful thoughts show a little bit too clearly.
“Your what?” The concerned parent asked.
“Wife.” He huffed another Jamblunt.
“You had an entire kingdom worth of options and you chose the… Blue evil clown…?”
“Jester actually. There is a key difference between them as clowns are simple cheap entertainment for kids meanwhile a jester is a royally appointed fool which was meant to entertain the current monarch and other nobility and oftentimes was allowed to mock them if it gave them a sufficient laugh.
Granted there was often a lot of ableism in the history of jesters where those seen as “freaks” or “natural fools” aka visually disabled or those seen as others were mocked and used as living entertainment which I do not support. But as someone who took so much time coming up with my theme, I would politely ask you to at least get the type of entertainer I am right.”
“That’s interesting information, but pure vanilla I’m not shaming you I’m just asking why?”
“He’s funny.” He said in between eating a burger because while shadow milk was yapping about the history of jesters they already got their food.
“Oh oops almost forgot.” Shadow milk said eating his pasta with a fork of the chimeric drink.
“Want to see the sharks, I heard they have a variety of species?”
Shadow milk eyes lit up at the mention of sharks he had so many facts to just dump out, while it may not been one of the more important things he needed to know as the fount he always had a strange affinity towards those sea creatures.
“YES.” The voice echo across the room, his red (due to the weed) eyes filled with joy.
Pure vanilla gets up from his seat Shadow milk following along as they went to the shark area.
Shadow milk looked up eyes wide seeing so many beautiful fishes and sharks of all sizes.
“Pretty Colors.” Pure vanilla said staring at the tank enjoying himself.
“Ooh that blue one reminds me of azure leviathan which scientific name is-“ he then rambled on and on about sharks of his time putting his previous one about jesters to shame, on and on and pure vanilla listened in shadow milk barely even noticed the concerned look on his face like there was something he wanted to tell him just couldn’t.
“And that’s the basic run down of those species. I could go more in depth if you want!”
“Yeah thank you for sharing your in-depth knowledge with me, my most precious companion.”
Shadow milk gave a soft smile hearing his other half words, he then noticed a simple infographics near the tank “The blueberry shark is an endangered species, which is distantly related to the giant extinct species of shark called the ‘otodus Roquefort’ simply known as the ‘blue cheese shark’ or as the name cookies of its timed called it ‘azure leviathan.’.”
“Wait, all the sharks I spent time researching are all dead…?” He asked what his face looking like :(.
There was no answer for a bit as he was a bit bummed out until he noticed pure vanilla staring at a shark. Shadow milk took a closer look to realize it was a cute yellow shark; A lemon shark is what those youngins called them.
Shadow milk could notice pure vanilla interest in it especially how it swam towards him curiously, he knew that while pure vanilla wouldn’t ask for one he would want nothing more than a mini version of that shark.
He wondered for a second if he could force suggest black sapphire do so, actually he wondered why black sapphire wasn’t answering any of his commands lately.
I wonder what’s up with him?
…
Black sapphire was ran over by a ford f250 in cookie Miami after being hit by a steel chair so couldn’t really help his master right now, ig.
…
“Ughhh I gotta do everything by myself…” he complained before immediately snapping a portal into the air to give him some wool and other things needed to make a plushie.
With a mixture of magic and pure artistic skill a simple adorable truthful lemon shark plush was created.
He threw the stuffed animal back into the portal. It will be a fun surprise for his dearest other half.
After they was done with staring at beautiful fishes and their little trip was over they made it towards the end which was also the area covered with several trinkets for only 39.99 with a few extra fees!
Shadow milk smiled as Pure vanilla looked with wonder seeing a cute shark plush before he go and buy it shadow milk floated closely saying “you know what would be a better than one of those cheap overpriced toys? A custom made plush made by the master of deceit for free.99!” He said grabbing that lemon shark plush he made from earlier from a portal, giving it straight to Pure vanilla.
Pure vanilla had no words, but the look on his face said enough.
“Enjoying it, aren't you?” Shadow milk smirked, floating so close they were cookie centimeters away from touching.
“Yes. But I think we should, even if we aren't buying anything, tip these workers their fair share?” Shadow milk rolled his eyes but nodded along as Pure vanilla tipped these clearly underpaid workers.
Once he stepped through the doors he also stepped through a portal shadow milk summoned leading them right to that room, that warm room.
Even if it reeked of weed it was still cozy, a nice familiar place.
Pure vanilla left for a moment to change the robes he wore before to something more comfortable to sleep in, as shadow milk choose to make him another surprise.
…
When Pure Vanilla came back (smoking another jamblunt) he was also met with a deceitful cute little plush of a blueberry shark which smelt like fresh blueberries on a summer day, handcrafted with love poured into every detail and sitch.
Pure Vanilla was gifted and held the object like it was a fragile living being, shedding a single tear with the sheer generosity.
He fell down onto the cozy fabric Shadow milk moving close to him his face nuzzling against his neck like he a needy cat.
They laid together cuddled up in each other arms but most importantly…
🎉BLACK SAPPHIRE IS DEAD🎉