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I hate to tell you...

Summary:

Hollyberry Cookie tells Golden Cheese Cookie the truth about Dark Enchantress Cookie.

warning: this is the saddest golden cheese story i've ever written.

edit: no it is not

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(See the end of the work for notes.)

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After a meeting with the other Ancients, Hollyberry Cookie took Golden Cheese Cookie aside to catch her up on everything that she had missed while she was away in the Golden City, or as the other three assumed, a deep, sweet slumber. She sat her down on a comfortable sofa, poured out a couple of glasses of berry juice, and started to catch her up. 

“White Lily Cookie isn’t here. I wonder how she’s doing these days…” Golden pondered, taking a sip of her juice.

Hollyberry sighed. “Golden Cheese Cookie, you deserve to know the truth.” Hollyberry Cookie took her hand and gently squeezed it in both of hers, debating how much she should say. She wanted to save it to the end, but it came up organically. “Dark Enchantress Cookie… she’s…”

The room fell silent, only broken by the sound of the Queen’s spear clanking on the ground.

Golden Cheese Cookie immediately teared up. “NO! I don’t believe this. I won’t believe this!” She grabbed the glass of juice and downed the entire thing. “This CAN’T be.” 

Hollyberry Cookie didn’t have to finish her sentence before Golden Cheese Cookie deduced the truth. Her wings drooped, and then she pulled them around herself, sobbing into her hands until they very quickly grew soft and soggy, smeared with makeup. Hollyberry put her arm on her back and pulled her in to a tight hug. 

“White Lily Cookie?!” Golden could barely keep herself together - it would definitely take quite some time for her to process what she had just heard properly. She couldn’t help but move her wings and wrap them around Holly, crying on and on about how she couldn’t believe what she had just heard, how she refused to believe it. White Lily Cookie was a precious friend. She genuinely valued her back in the days, hell, half an hour prior, she had even wondered about her whereabouts. All that was gone now: surely, next time she saw the flowery Cookie, she’d pull out her spear and seek revenge, if she could bear to look at her for long enough to plunge her golden weapon through her old friend’s body, but she couldn’t do that either. If what Hollyberry Cookie said was true, Dark Enchantress Cookie was only a fragment of White Lily Cookie. Her mind raced. It wasn’t White Lily Cookie; it was Dark Enchantress Cookie who crushed the city and the Cookies that she loved so dearly!  Her kingdom was gone, and it was all White Lily Cookie’s fault. It was better that she found out from Hollyberry Cookie, but nothing could possibly mend her broken heart. Hollyberry Cookie rubbed Golden Cheese Cookie’s back, feeling the tears soaking through her top. The winged queen, meanwhile, pulled herself closer to her friend. It had been ages since she felt the intimacy of another Cookie, since she had found herself in the warm and loving arms of the berry queen, a feeling that, as much as she didn’t want to admit, she had missed in her time away from her friends.

Golden Cheese Cookie wept into Hollyberry Cookie’s chest, and momentarily looked up, feeling more embarrassed and weak than she had felt in her entire life. There she was, one of the strongest Cookies on all of Earthbread, a mighty queen who had revived her people into a grand illusion out of sheer will, sitting on a friend’s lap with tears and eyeliner streaming down her flushed cheeks. She didn’t want Hollyberry to see her so vulnerable…

Outside, Pure Vanilla Cookie and Dark Cacao Cookie walked past the room, and hearing the muffled cries coming from behind the door, they gave each other a sad look.

 

She knew.

 

Notes:

I hope you enjoyed my sad ahh story.

Please leave a kudos. golden cheese and hollyberry consistently got 8th and 7th place in cookie of the year 2025, and after all that poor, dear goldie has been through, our queen can't take another heartbreak. (/ref) I mean, come on! Having her kingdom that she spent SO long, building from the ground up with two random teenagers and an orphan child in a dog hat she found dying of dehydration in the middle of the dunes destroyed by the evil alter ego of her ex-galpal? All her cheesy friends? DEAD. Her general? Yeahhh... he betrays her, then some teenagers from outside tell her she's spent too much time playing video games and make her log off when she was perfectly happy in her VR dreamland! Oh, and them coming into her city in the first place kinda triggered her general to throw a temper tantrum and usurp her. She goes back to her other friends, and whoopdeedo! I bet on Mozzarella Cookie's soulcheese that *someone* had to have told her who Dark Enchantress Cookie was after the meeting in the epilogue cutscene. My money (and the soulcheese) is on Hollyberry, since for one: In the MOTA cutscene with the young Ancients, Holly and Cheese were together when they met PureLily and Dark Cacao, and based on how Hollyberry teases Golden Cheese, those two have GOT to be besties. Secondly, iirc, Holly told Cheese that she'd catch her up after the meeting. What's a better way to say 'welcome back, our slay queen' than your best friend telling you "soooo, yeah. Our other friend is our collective nemesis and the one who brought your home to ruins."

If that's not bad enough, remember the general I mentioned before? Yeah, she forgives him for some reason, like good on you, girl. I would've kept him asleep until I could, you know, rebuild my kingdom and punish him. Then again, he was a loser in crispia and was really ironic for calling golden a 'childish brat.' Boy, look who's talking! ANYGAYS.... she's forced on an adventure to fight a big red dude who rips off her wings and gives her a painic attack after she stops to save a baby monkey because he gave her a smoothie. TLDR: she says hell no and kicks the red guy's ass. I'm going to go on the record and say that her new wings look much cooler. Thank you, Burning Spice Cookie, for pushing Golden Cheese to rock bottom so she could awaken and come up at.... what's the opposite of rock bottom? Sky high? The tip of the atmosphere? The bloody SUN? Whatever.

Almost immediately after she gets back, she finally decides that she's ready to talk with White Lily Cookie and goes to council to meet with her friends. The mere thought that she'd have to see White Lily Cookie makes her have trauma flashbacks, and she almost unknowingly gets sick in a hallway or something while her friends are very much witnesses, whether she knows it or not, to her groaning and crying while she's hunched over and gripping her stomach.

And to rub salt into the lily, she got 8th place in Cookie of the year... and White Lily Cookie is WINNING. White Lily Cookie does NOT need a third legendary costume. Vote for Eternal Sugar Cookie. Do it to avenge HollyCheese, because I am a sucker for HollySugar, GoldenSugar, and them as a thoruple. Or vote for Silent Salt. I don't care, and I won't care in a year when the winner gets their legendary costume because it's just a game.

TLDR: Poor Golden Cheese Cookie. If you didn't enjoy the story, please drop a comment and kudos anyway. Do it for her.

- marianne golden 🧬🌟