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Salt had woken up on a very special bad day. Has Sea Fairy knocked on the front door, he knew today was gonna be bad. If you didn't know, today was gonna be the big fight between them and DE, Pirate Cookie. He got up, grabbed everything he needed and hugged Squid Ink.
"P-Pops...where are...you..going..?" Squid Ink was confused. Salt never told them why he would be leaving, never anything about DE or Pirate Cookie. "Where's...Dad..?"
"Squidy, I'm going to find Dad. Dad...He's with someone dangerous, I'll save him. I promise," Salt knew breaking this type of promise would break Squid Ink. But their just a child, what was he supposed to do? Tell them their dad is dead? "I'll come back, Squidy. I know I will, you know that too." Salt patted Squid Ink head, seeing the happy emotion on their face made Salt a bit happier. He got up and went to the door to open it, he was then greeted by Sea Fairy.
"Why hello, Salt Cookie." Sea Fairy looked like she was yesterday. Her big dress, wavey hair (haha, "wavey" since she's a water type cookie. im so funny) "We must be going now, You don't want to keep Pirate waiting. Don't you?"
As Sea Fairy started to walk away, Salt caught up. "Yeah yeah...I really wouldn't,"
The two Cookie talked as they both got the volunteers to help fight. What they had was Moonlight, Millennial Tree, Pistachio, Knight, Hero, Tiger Lily, Purple Yam, Milk, Dark Choco, White Choco, Dino-Sour, Plum, and Peach. A great group of fighters.
"Well, my fellow Cookies, we're here. DE's base," Sea Fairy showed all the Cookies what they're getting themselves into.
"It doesn't seem too bad..." Knight said,
"Of course you would say that!" Pistachio exclaimed. "We're dealing with a beast here-"
"DE isn't a beast per se, but she can and will kill you." Sea Fairy carefully opened the door to DE's "home". "Come on, everyone. Let's go save that Pirate..."
The 16 Cookies went inside with Sea Fairy, following her lead. What they saw wasn't a beauty, just a dark home. Everything was hard to see.
"Okay, who has a light?" Peach said with fear, "It's scary here..."
"A light may be useful, but it'll blow our cover," Dark Choco said.
"Aw..." Peach stayed close to Plum, holding onto him.
"Does this always happen?" Milk asked. Before Plum could answer Milk, a loud noise could be heard with laughter.
"Oh no, she's here." Loud footstep echoed in the halls, then three that started the fight."
"Pirate Cookie. Attack." Out of the darkness came two Cookies. Dark Enchantress, and Pirate Cookie...at least I think so. 'Pirate Cookie' attacked with his ship, shooting from the cannons at all Cookies that stand there. This caused a panic in Salt, what the hell did DE do to him?! Milk Cookie protected everyone with his shied.
"Everyone okay?" Milk yelled out, "Wait, where's Salt?!"
It turns out, Salt Cookie was going after Pirate himself, not to fight but to save him from the curse put on him. Kinda.
"Salt! Get away from there, you could get hurt!" Millennial Tree called out to Salt, hoping that he would listen. Nope, he didn't. With the spear Salt had in his hand, he threw it at Pirate, but it didn't hit him. Instead, Pirate caught it and threw it back.
"Wait! With Pirate attacking Salt, it'll be easy for us to attack him!" Dino said. With that idea in mind, everyone went to their position. Milk standing with his shied, Millennial Tree standing next to him. Dark Choco, Purple Yam, Hero, Knight, Plum, Peach, and Pistachio attacked with what they had. Tiger Lily, Dino, and Moonlight took out their helpers, ready to fight. Salt still was trying to attack Pirate even if he didn't have his spear in his hand.
The fight went on for, what felt like, hours. Until finally, they defeated Pirate. But how you may wonder? As they all had their stand, they were able to attack Pirate in the way they wanted to. Defeating him, but not in the way they wanted.
As Pirate fell to the ground in defeat, there was nothing left of him. He was gone. His eye that used to crumble started making his body crumble.
"We did it!" Dino yelled out in glee. They were all hurt in a way, but they would heal sooner or later. Salt ran over to the lifeless Pirate, holding him.
"Pirate! Pirate, please wake up!" Pirate's body crumbled away in front of Salt's eyes, only leaving his hat and clothes behind. Salt holding the last pieces of what used to be his husband, he sobbed into his hands. Wishing that he could've died instead. Millennial Tree slowly walked over to Salt to hug him.
"My dearest Salt Cookie, I know how to feels to watch something you've known for so long die in front of you...But you should know something,"
"And that is...?"
"They're always watching you. No matter what. Pirate would've wanted the best, and the best, in this case, was to die."
Salt got up, with a small smile on his face, "H-Hehe, i guess you're right..."
All of the Cookies went back to their homes, happy with their accomplishment, but sad about Salt. Salt opened the door of his home, seeing Squid Ink being taken care of by Soda.
"Oh hello, Soda." Salt said with his voice a little lower,
"Sup Salty! I was just playing with Squid, but I better be on my way!" Soda got up and say bye to Squid Ink, he got out of the house.
"W-where's....Pops...."
Salt didn't know what to say, he didn't wanna hurt Squid. But he had no choice. "Squid, I have some...bad news. P-pirate is...dead.."
The poor little Squid sobbed as he heard the news. Holding Salt as he did. We all know not everyone can have a happy ending, and sadly this one didn't.