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echantedtoon · 5 months

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That Bloomin' Curse Ch4 Operation Get Lost

(Hey everyone. I just wanted to thank everyone who read this far and liked my story enough to read it to it's end. I had a lot of fun writing it and it makes me happy knowing some people loved it enough to read it fully. If you liked this consider checking out my other works. Thanks to everyone for reading this, faving it, or leaving a nice comment. And thank you to GearsForBreakfast for creating such wonderful characters and giving me the opportunity to make this wonderful story. )

The moon was still high in the sky as the three made their way back towards the mansion but stopped when they came in contact with the doors.

"You have what we need don't you?"

Hazelle happily smiled and held up the bag of holding in her hands. "Yep! This baby should be able to hold up at least a thousand crowns so it'll definitely be useful with this."

Snatcher nodded. "Right. And you know the other part of the plan right?"

"You'll get Vanessa to chase you back through the tunnel to the summer house." Moonjumper held up as t least three exploding apples in his hands. "Once you both are deep enough we'll seal off the tunnel using these for good. That'll keep Vanessa from ever coming back again."

"But first we have to get those pecking crowns." Snatcher grumbled before motioning the two of them to follow him back to the window that they crept into the first time. "C'mon. The sooner we get this done the better."

Hazelle nodded but stopped feeling a hand grab onto her forearm and Moonjumper looked at her. "Hazelle..This is going to be very dangerous. A-And you've already been hurt so much. I-..." His look became more worried. "I don't want you to get hurt again. If you want to stay behind then I think that'll be best-"

"Moony, I'm fine." She assured him and pulled away . "I'll be careful now and I want to get back at Vanessa too for what she did to me."

"If you two lovebirds are finished wooing one another, then we should get going." Snatcher frowned at them Waiting impatiently.

Moonjumper stuttered but Hazelle only smiled and followed him with Moonjumper behind her. Together they rose up to the broken window again (with Hazelle getting a hand from Snatcher) and peered inside. It was dead silent. Snatcher slunk in first popping his head through a few walls and the open doorways in this particular hallway before looking back and motioning that it was safe for them to come in. They did and together they made their way into the old bedroom that held all the glittering crowns.

"Alright. Let's start grabbing them already!," Snatcher hissed already reaching for the ones on the chandelier and plucking them off. "The faster we get these the sooner Poppy's safe."

Good thing the florist hadn't insisted on coming with them. It was safer for her to remain back and keep an eye on the kids with Shapeshifter so nothing bad happened to them. Crown after crown the three grabbed from the various places lying around before throwing them into the open bag Hazelle held with Snatcher poking his head out to make sure the coast was clear every so often. They left no stone or piece of furniture unturned and soon the last crown was thrown inside and the bag tied shut.

"There. That should do it," Hazelle said handing the bag over to Snatcher. "You remember where the passage leading back to the summer house is?"

He nodded. "Of course I do! It's behind the giant statue in the courtyard. It's still wide open too so it should be easy for me to get the ice hag to follow me back. Just make sure you stay a good distance away from me when I do!"

"Then how will we know when you get her back into the tunnel?"

"There's an office in the room just next to this one." Moonjumper nodded to the left. "I remember Vanessa's mother used to spend hours there working on things. We can watch and wait there."

"Fine! Just be ready when you do."

With that he turned and floated out of the room bag in hand. Moonjumper nodded after him and Hazelle followed. Snatcher left. Moonjumper lead Hazelle one room over opening the creaking door and ushering her in quickly. Inside was the remains of a once nice study. The shelves held rotting books, the fireplace was crumbling away, a giant desk was cracked and half broken, and a giant half broken window was directly behind the desk. They approached it and looked out at the once nice courtyard. Now all they had to do was wait which wasn't long at all.

"HEYOOO!! IM HERE TO PARTY! WHERE'S ALL THE FOOD AND MUSIC!?", Snatcher's voice wailed out causing both to whirl back around as it echoed through the halls.

Both looked at one another. We'll that was one way to get attention.

"My Prince? Have you finally returned?"

"Prince. Nah. Never heard of him. Did you try checking the basement?"

There was a loud screech from a certain someone and there they stood in wait as the screeching got louder and louder and then softer and softer at the same time. Until Moonjumper nudged her and they both looked outside as the screeches continued to screech out. In the courtyard was the obvious form of Snatcher flying around before stopping in front of a giant statue and holding up a bag with a Sinister grin shaking a bag in the air. A screeching shadow figure was running after him leaving a trail of white ice in her wake. Snatcher suddenly dove head first disappearing behind the statue and a moment later she followed suit as fast as she could also soon disappearing from sight. This was it. Now was their chance. They made haste through the mostly destroyed manor and Hazelle followed Moonjumper through the back and into the courtyard. A trail of ice helping lead them right to the statue. Both hurried over and peered behind the giant headless statue and blinked shocked. A giant hole was right behind it and stairs lead down into the ground.

"This is our chance! Quick! The apples!"

Moonjumper was quick to get the few apples that they brought with them and held them up. They'd get this over with as soon as possible. Not wasting any time, Moonjumper infused some of his spectral energy into the apples and like bombs they started blinking orange. Fumbling Moonjumper was quick to throw them all down into the tunnel entrance and a few rolled further inside. Hazelle yelped as Moonjumper practically tackled her form. She barely grabbed her hat as it fell off her head. Moonjumper continued to sore through the air and into the mansion-

B O O M!!!

The courtyard. EXPLODED!! The statue broke to pieces and scattered about. Dirt flew high into the air and scattered everywhere covering everything with mud and old moss. The entire middle of the courtyard collapsed in on in self sealing the tunnel off and cutting it off the rest of the world. Both watched from a safe distance with Hazelle safely sat in Moonjumper's arms. Eventually the ground stopped shaking, all that was left was a dust cloud slowly settling down. The two stared at each other for a long moment before Hazelle plopped her hat back onto her head.

"Well... That's one thing taken cared of."

The two were able to make it back to the others and were relieved when they saw everyone was alright. Everyone was safe and Vanessa was now back where she belongs. A while later Snatcher even joined them and he still had Hazelle's bag of holding with him which he just plopped at their feet and allowed the children to go ham on it digging their hands in and pulling out as many crowns as they wanted.

"You didn't let her have the crowns?"

"Of course not. Did you really expect me to give her the satisfaction of keeping them?," he said with a sadistic grin on his face, "That's just one more way I can really torment her! AHAHAHA!!"

"But is she really back in the mansion?"

"That trick worked like a moth to a flame. She was foolish enough to actually fall for it."

That was it then. It was all over and solved. Vanessa wouldn't be bothering anyone else again for a long, long while. Which left one last thing to do- Moonjumper was slightly surprised when Hazelle pulled him aside while Snatcher was busy boasting to Poppy and the children were all too busy digging through the bag and the gold crowns to notice. Once he was able to look at her Hazelle blinked.

"So...I heard from a few little children that you were worried about me and just maybe a little bit more than that." Her brow rose. "Your darling little Hazelnut huh?"

His face jolted a red. "Uh!.....I-I didn't -..W-Well I mean...*ahem* Well naturally I was worried about you and your safety and...Iiii...Uh-"

He trailed off as she pulled his closer and he froze as a small peck was placed on his cheek. Before lighting up a full red.

"Oh...good heavens."

#a hat in time #That Bloomin' Curse #ahit vanessa #dad snatcher #dadtcher #ahit shapeshifter #moonjumper #hazelle #snatcher x florist #snatcher #ahit snatcher #ahit mustache girl #ahit hat kid #ahit timmy #ahit bow kid #a hat in time florist #hat kid #bow kid #mustache girl

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abloomntime · 7 months

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That Bloomin' Curse Ch1 Escape To Another Trap

He finally had everything he wanted. A family, a loving spouse, and a whole kingdom to himself. However he seemed to forever be cursed by his ex. It doesn't help that Hazelle seemed to be captured by the crazy ice hag and Moonjumper seems to be going through emotions he never knew he had. Why does there seem to be a blooming curse in his life?!

(Final installment of the Bloomverse series. This story will be based around and heavily reference Vanessa's Curse DLC. I own nothing. All characters belongs to Gearsforbreakfast. I head cannon Mustache Girl's name as Muriel.)

The world was dark and cold.Trapped within her own frost bitten underworld she made for herself. Forever trapped in a frozen, harsh wasteland as cold and harsh as her heart. There she would never get any happy endings. So knight in shining armor to save her. No hero to break her free of the curse. No Prince to come give her the romantic fairytale ending she so much desired. That she CRAVED. She'll never once again see anything happy. It was her eternal punishment for her crimes against everyone innocent and everything she once held dear but betrayed for her own greed. Her own selfishness. Her own jealousy.

Queen Vanessa was now the sole ruler of nothing but despair and misery that was her own doing.

Her curse was not done yet being the terror it was yet. As a figure was wallowing away screaming away her anguish and agony no one in their right mind would pity. The darkness of the manor only mocked her in silence. In her anger she often scratched at the walls. Leaving holes and deep scratches in their decaying wood. And it was on such a day that the cursed witch took her forever anger out on a random wall, digging her way through the wall. Splinters and strips of wallpaper scattered at her feet the more she clawed in frustration.

Until the wall gave away.

The red eyed woman paused at the sudden collapse of the wall startled to see the hole on the other side. More so the cold stone stairs that lead right down into the dark abyss.

"My Prince? Are you in there?"

Nothing but the empty echoed of her own voice answered her. With a hiss the darkened figure walked into the cold cavern to the new trap leading to the new trap for her.

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an-incorrect-quote-in-time · 6 months

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whats yo favourite ship

As far as A Hat in Time ships go, since this is an A Hat in Time account, my favorite ships are:

-Flowercrown (Snatcher/Prince x Florist, the fanart made me like it)

-Vanessa x Prince (if its not a toxic relationship like in canon. Like canon Vanessa x Prince is an unhealthy relationship, it's complicated)

-Discotrain is pecking cute :3

-Snatcher x OCs is fun to see and I enjoy seeing the cute art :D

I can't think of any other ones, but there's probably ones I'm not thinking of rn (my brain is slow, I'm tired lol :P) , so if there's other ones y'all want my thoughts on, send asks and I'll try and answer em.

These are just my opinions, you guys are allowed to like whatever ships you like, I'm not judging (unless its like... an adult character and one of the kids, because that's wrong and I do not support that behavior onesoever).

-🌠

#asks #inbox #I hope this made sense #I'm not trying to offend anyone here #I can't think of any ships besides discotrain and the Snatcher ones bc those are the most popular ones rip :(

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the-galaxys--local-catgirl · 2 years

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Meow Hello! ~ Welcome to my blog ✧*｡٩(๑˙╰╯˙๑)و✧*｡

My name is Kitty (or Katie or Eevee), I use She/It + Neos I'm Genderfluid, Catgenders, + other xenogenders. I'm aroflux bisexual queerplatonic and ambiamorus.

This is a fandom/art blog!!

My other blogs here:

@adorbspoprocks - main blog / reblog stuff

@a-mafia-in-time - my swap au blog

@ahit-mafia-boss-fanclub - my blog all about Mafia Boss :)

@ask-mafia-hat-kid - ask blog for my Mafia Hat Kid au!

Below the cut us more info about me / this blog <3

My current fixation is A Hat in Time, so it's rare I'll post about anything else, but I'm also into Pokémon, Yokai watch, Stardew Valley, Fnaf (specifically 2 and SB), and Smile 4 Me.

My favorite character is Mafia Boss from AHIT, so plz talk about him 2 me :3 but I do love all the other AHIT characters .

I mostly do artwork but I also write sometimes. I'm not the best writer tho lol

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Do and don'ts of my blog ! Since that's vry important

Do's:

Ask me about aus and fandoms, I will luv u forever <3

Request stuff! I'll do most requests unless they're like super complicated

(Those are the only things I can think of rn! Will be added onto)

Don'ts:

Be weird, I know this is obvious but whatever

Don't talk about Flowercrown (Snatcher x The Florist) I don't mind shippers following me but the ship just personally makes me vry uncomfortable so id rather u not bring them up on my blog :3 (I totally understand shipping those and not wanting to interact with me just don't be mean!)

Don't talk about Dadtcher (however it's spelt). I really don't like it.

Don't ask me to draw the cut characters,, I like posting about the canon characters not characters that are more concepts than actual characters. Only exception asking about au versions of them.

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Other info;

My favorite aesthetics are kidcore, chaotic academia, yumekawaii, and lovecore

I also enjoy dark topics and horror stuff

I am heavily attached to fiction and my favorite media's, so if I'm mean or come off that way just know I mean no ill well

I selfship and are fictionkin, but I won't post about them often besides when it comes to reblogging stuff

I am bad with tone, both reading it and expressing it myself so sorry

I'm very critical of my favorite media and it's fandoms (it's just how I show my love for them) and I'm sorta picky with popular hcs and such sorry

I call people nicknames often, it's just a habit of mine plz tell me if that makes you uncomfortable!

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Do Not Follow me if you are Proship/Anti-Anti/whatever they're calling themselves now, an exclusionist, and romanticizes mental illness. I hate every single one of you

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Important tags!! :

#kitty khats - main talking tag, most of my posts are under this tag

#kitty reblogs - self explanatory, for my reblogs

#a hat in time: time collectors - my main ahit au!! Most of my ahit stuff is apart of this tag

#a mafia in time / #amit - my swap au, au also has a whole blog for itself

Characters tags are written like this "media: emoji character emoji"

#not fandom related - just some random stuff that isn't about a fandom

More tags will be added

Anyways that's all for now!! Have fun on the blog <3

#kitty khats #not art #not fandom related #introduction #intro post #pinned post

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quartizinedaze · 3 years

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shoutout to @toxic-lavender for sending the pic that inspired this

he is a big ol cat

#a hat in time #ahit #ahit florist #the snatcher #snatcher x florist #flowercrown #da hold..

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toxic-lavender · 3 years

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||Birds outside Will sing me a song tonight I know that it's right on time, time (Dwee-da-da-da) Life flies by The moon and the midnight sky Is guidin' me to your side, side|| - One Day by Imagine Dragons

#the snatcher #the florist #ahit #a hat in time #flowercrown #snatcher x florist #imagine dragons #mercury act 1 #one day

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shadowgarden · 3 years

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Death Approaches? Death Approaches! ♡

[id: Two pictures next to eachother in a twitter meme template. The caption on top reads “Why has no one ever shown me the 2nd part of this meme?”

The left image shows Snatcher sneaking up behind the florist, a wicked grin on his face, clearly up to something. She is smiling, looking towards the camera and not paying attention to behind him.

The second image has the two hugging. Snatcher has his arms wrapped around her waist, a large happy smile on his face, his evil deed completed. The florist is happily surprised at this, a large smile on her face, turning to see who has gotten her into a surprise hug. End id]

#My art #A Hat In Time #Ahit #The Snatcher #The Florist #Jolene #Snatcher x The Florist #GhostFlower #GhostPlant #flowercrown #yes thats a hades reference #That scene fits the meme so much

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metamatronic · 4 years

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what if was just. all of them. what if she just went on a 7 day free trial period for all of the different bodies.

#art #doodles #comic #doodle #a hat in time #ahit snatcher #snatcher #ahit the florist #the florist #the prince x the florist #ahit the prince #the prince #prince snatcher #las au #law and specter au

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rubys-forest · 1 year

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Florist hours

I believe in florist was trapped in a painting supremacy

She'll fuck yo shit up

#a hat in time #ahit #florist #ahit florist #a hat in time florist #roselily my belobed #she is girlbossing rn #i am cringe but i am free #snatcher #a hat in time snatcher #ahit snatcher #flowercrown hours #yall missed the opportunity to call snatcher x florist corpseflower hehe

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thatghostlyart · 3 years

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Just watching the bird movie awards and roasting all the films. @shadowgarden

#The stack of corn next to the couch is so Snatcher can heat them up with his firepowers and refill the popcorn bowl #Which is powers he is likely to have considering he makes things explode and his title screen has blue flames UwU #Snatcher #ahit: The Florist #Ghost Flower #Ghost Plant #Snatcher x Florist #Snatcher x The Florist #Florist x Snatcher #ahit #A Hat in Time #Old Art

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strawbunniiee · 2 years

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Hello! Snatcher x the Florist

OH?? IVE NEVER SEEN THIS SHIP BEFORE I CANT BELIEVE I NEVER THOUGHT OF THIS BUT OOGA BOOGA ANON

great now i wanna make the florist a ghost form and have her be snatchers new gf aww

he deserves WAY better than vanessa

im discovering so many ahit ships aaaaa

#a hat in time #ahit #snatcher #ahit florist #snatcher x florist #uhh idk what their ship name is either #hmmm #maybe... deathrose??#unless there already is lmao

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echantedtoon · 5 months

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A Bloom In Time Ch35 Epilogue

(Hey everyone. I just wanted to thank everyone who read this far and liked my story enough to read it to it's end. I had a lot of fun writing it and it makes me happy knowing some people loved it enough to read it fully. Thanks to everyone for reading this, faving it, or leaving a nice comment. If you liked this consider checking out my other works. And thank you to GearsForBreakfast for creating such wonderful characters and giving me the opportunity to make this wonderful story. )

Ah. Cupid's Day. The day everyone expressed their love to one another whether it be platonic love among friends and family, or for lovers to have a nice relaxing day out on a date with their spouses. Usually Snatcher would absolutely despise this day because of the implications of love to him was even more exhausting than usual. Yes, he'd tolerate the kiddos giving him small trinkets or pictures he'd hang on the fridge or on the walls of his tree home, but very evilly and totally not because he actually liked them ok! It was on this day he had a very special surprise planned out for a certain red haired fireball of a woman. All he had to do was wait for the right time to show her is all.....

Which was easier said than done.

The first thing that happened when the day started was him getting bombarded by Hattie and Bow rushing in and shoving cutesy pictures and hearts in his face with big smiles on their faces. Of course being the most evil of evil rulers he was, made a big groaning scene about it before taking them, reluctantly of course, and very VERY menacingly hanging them onto the wall above them to show everyone how evil he was by keeping something so mushy around him and showing he didn't care. Of course he hadn't spent all month hurrying his minions into working faster to put the last finishing touches on his very evil surprise for Poppy just to have it spoiled by these two, so to distract them all he gave them some of that mail Poppy had insisted he'd take to give to all the minions and dwellers running around. That should keep the two of them busy and running around for a good while before they went back to that ship! Good thing they didn't bring Poppy with them into the forest. He wasn't sure how'd he be able to get her distracted enough to finish his work....That didn't apply to a certain witch though when he paused when he saw Hazelle pop up.

Snatcher frowned. "What are YOU doing here?"

Hazelle smiled having a cute home made card in her hand. "Can't a friend visit a friend, Snatchy? And truth be told I came here to see how you were doing after the whole incident was over."

He huffed and turned away. "I'm fine. Just....working on something before the end of the day's over."

Hazelle nodded looking over the cards in her hands. "That makes sense. If that's all then I'll be hopping over to Moonjumper now."

Snatcher snapped his head back around to her. "WHAT?!"

"Calm down. I promised the girls I'd give him the Cupid's Day card they made for him and drop off Timmy for their sleep over."

"WHAT?!," he demanded again narrowing his eyes at her and she rolled her eyes at him.

"Snatcher, he was grounded for a long time and he's just a kid. He didn't know any better. One sleep over with his friends isn't going to hurt Poppy or you. Get over it."

Snatcher grumbled under his breath but didn't comment anything else when she tucked the cards away. "Well I'm off. But if you want to see me again, I'll be dropping Timmy off later at the ship."

Snatcher didn't say anything as Hazelle teleported away and he turned back towards his destination. He had work to get done and a limited time to do it in. The day went by realtively normally and fast, the girls came back a little while later with enough leftover mail to give the minions for Winter Solstice gifts. So he dissmissed them and off they ran. He guessed to go back to the ship and telescope jump around the planet to deliver more of those home made scribbled cards to those birds and cat. Whatever. It'd keep them out of his hair at least for a long while. It certainly took a lot longer than he suspected to get done, but when the last mushroom was replanted, and the last minion patted the dirt in the right place he nodded. It was ready. Of course living in a dark forest, he couldn't tell how late or early it was in the day, nor could he from space, so when he teleported himself to the kid's ship he was a little surprised to find not only Timmy there but the weird blonde girl that once upon a time made an alternate reality to get rid of all bad guys.....So naturally he frowned seeing the two of them huddled in the living room watching TV on top of a bunch of pillows with Bow and Hattie. Mustache Girl...Was that her name gave him a frown back and Timmy looked slightly nervous seeing the spook there. He also guessed he just must've missed Hazelle dropping him off because he was standing in front of Poppy holding a pretty shining flower in a small pot in one hand and a red scarf in another. Poppy was already holding a small cactus like the one you'd find in gift shops and a basket that smelled of delicious food. She smiled upon seeing Snatcher.

"Ah was wonderin' when you'd show up!," she greeted.

"Uh yeah. What do you have there?," he asked gesturing to her the objects in her hands.

"Oh these?" She held them up. "Cookie stopped by and asked if Mu could join the lil get together for the night. Somethin' bout her n' that loud mouth bird havin' dinner ah think. So I said I'd watcher her too! She was nice enough to give us some more food and this cute lil guy!" She smiled at the small cactus. "Ah never tried growin' a cactus before so it'll be a real fun experience." She called Bow to come over to take the basket of food from her and intrusted her to put it away then turned back to Timmy. "Watchin' him too! Now ya'll said ya wanted ta tell me somethin'?"

Timmy gulped and nodded. "Y-Yes, ma'am. I uh-...W-Wanted to apologize for what happened. I'm r-really, really sorry." He held up the shining Twilight Flower. "I got you this straight from the Alpine Alps. Hazelle helped me pick it out, yeah."

Poppy regarded him for a moment, before smiling and shifting her cactus into her other hand, reached down to pick up the decent sized bright flower from him. "Now ain't that sweet? Now ah got two plants I never had before! ....Apology accepted."

Ah. She always did like kids. So of course she would forgive Timmy easily. She blinked again when he also held up the neatly knitted red scarf. "Moonjumper asked me to tell you that's he's sorry too, and that he hopes you'll forgive him so you all can maybe be friends. He made this for you."

Poppy blinked at the scarf, but before she could even respond a dark arm shot out and snatched the red scarf right out of the boy's hand and up to the scowling face of Snatcher as the yellow orbs laserfocused on it. "I'll be the judge of that.." For the next few minutes Snatcher spent looking throughly at the red scarf, as if sensing every fiber. Scanning it long ways and up and down, back and front, and tugged a few strands here and there. After a bit he looked back to Timmy with a supicious face.....and slowly held it out to Poppy. "I don't sense any magical hiddden energy in it. It's safe if you're going to accept it."

To his surprise Poppy did take it from him and looked at it for a moment, then to Timmy with a serious face. "When you go back ya tell him I accept his apolody and gift, but it's gonna take a while before I decide if I really forgive 'em." Timmy nodded and she nodded back. "Good now go play and behave with the others. I have something to talk with the purple onion for a minute."

As Timmy ran back over to the other children Snatcher raised a brow. "You have something to tell me?"

She nodded. "Yep. Hold these for a minute." She shoved the small plants into his hands and turned to walk off towards the door to the kitchen. She had a certain something to give Snatcher on this day. As a thank you for everything he's done for her, as you all might remember a certain gold skull that was found along with the other gold that Poppy and the girls found hidden in the attic. Well Poppy remembered Snatcher getting the girls those skulls in the attic as gifts and since this is Philip now, what better gift to get him than a golden skull? She wasn't sure if the skull was a real skull before that R.King turned it to gold with the gold potion but she didn't have enough time to think of any better gift when the girls suddenly left to go around handing out those home made cards they made to everyone without telling her. She should really stop sleeping in so late, but as she entered the kitchen she caught sight of it real quick. It was decided the golden skull would be the thing to be left behind and was hidden under Hattie's bed for safe keeping when they had left for Express Town a while ago, so she spent a good amount of time polishing it and cleaning it up until the golden skull gleamed at her, catching the reflection of the adorable picture the girls gave to her on the fridge. It was a messily but cute drawn picture of her and Snatcher holding hands, with the two of them holding either of their hands as well. Smiling, she held it behind her back and exited. Snatcher's face looked to the door as Poppy came back out smiling from ear to ear, one hand behind her back as she walked up to him. "Ah got somethin' for ya."

"Oh really?," he asked surprised, "You didn't have to. I had enough of this mushy love to last me for eternity."

She chuckled. "Well Cupid's Day is 'bout celebratin' the people ya care about right? That means good friends too." She finally brought it out and Snatcher's eyes instantly widened at seeing the shiny golden skull she held up to him. "So here's ta good friends. Happy Cupid's Day, Snatcher!"

Snatcher stopped and just stared at the shiny thing showing his relflection in it for a solid moment...before he took it into his free hand and stared at the beautiful gold skull with wide eyes. "It's......." He looked at her. "T-This is incredible. Where'd you get this?"

She bashfully shrugged. "I-It was in the attic when we found all the other gold. I was savin' it for an emergency but I thought I could use it for your gift instead. A-As a thanks fer everythin' ya did for me."

He still stared at her for a moment before a small yellow flush dusted his face and he cleared his throat. "W-Well it's very .....nice. Thank you I guess."

Poppy giggled. "Your welcome. It was the least ah could do."

Snatcher rubbed his thumb over the shiny gold for a moment, before looking back at her with a small smile. "Well....I happened to get you something too."

Poppy blinked in surprise at his words. "Wait. Really?"

He nodded. "Yep. But I can't show you here. You'll have to come back with me to my forest.''

Poppy looked a little skeptical at that and rose a brow. "Back to the forest? Ain't it too dangerous?"

"Not with the contract, and my minions know to not cause trouble." He smiled that usually smirk. "As long as Im in the forest you'll be fine. Besides you'll love it."

".....What 'bout them?," she asked nodding to the kids watching the tv.

"They'll be fine being along for a little while. Won't you?" The children either hummed or nodded not looking up from the funny penguin cartoon they were watching. "See? Sides. It's not like they weren't left alone before you came along for a while. C'mon. I swear you won't regret it."

Poppy still didn't look too convinced but in the end she agreed and so the children were made to PROMISE to stay there and behave while they were gone and they were teleported just as Poppy grabbed onto Snatcher's arm. The familiar purple came over here along with the weird feeling that came with it, before she looked up as the purple disappeared and soon found herself back in the familiar scene of the nightmarish forest. Poppy shivered at the sight of it all and all the minions or dwellers than happened to stand around stop and stare at her. Snather cleared his throat to catch her attention and he gestured for her to follow him up the pathway towards his tree home. Poppy rose a brow noticing he still had her plants in hand, but followed none the less. Snatcher flew right into his home, Rough Patch giving a lazy meow from the chair he laid on before yawning and turning the other way to sleep again. The golden skull was placed right on top of his shelf next to the sewing kit. He gave one last look over and smile before exiting the home and going outside and staying towards the left side of the home. Poppy was slowly walking her way forward blinking at him as he just floated there seemingly waiting for her to get closer. When she did, he smiled and silently pointed to the ground. Poppy blinked and looked to where he was pointing, eyes widening as she saw a small pathway of small bushes leading off somewhere into the woods. And soon enough Snatcher started floating down that way, giving one look back to her as her signal to follow before he disappeared between the trees. And of course, Poppy followed. Into the woods following along the bushes as she slowly took her time walking and walking......And walking. Slowly but surely, a few glowing mushrooms popped up here and there starting with the smaller mushrooms Hattie and Bow would use to bounce on before they became bigger. And bigger. And BIGGER until the bushes disappeared and there was nothing but lots and lots of beautiful glowing mushrooms everywhere. In all shapes and sizes and colors. She gaped at the beautiful glowing blues, greens, and reds of all the polka dotted fungi everywhere glowing in the moonlight and lighting up the place. There was a clear path between all of them replacing the one the plain bushes made and she continued down it still no sign of Snatcher anywhere either, not that she noticed. She was too busy admiring all the beautiful sights around her. Before the path took a corner and of course she followed it. And she stopped DEAD. A soft wind blew through the trees as multi colored petals blew towards her and to her feet a few purple, yellow, and red ones floating by her head. Her blue eyes widened and her jaw dropped as the sight of what she was seeing hit her with the force of a meteor from space crashlanding into the dirt.

Snatcher finally popped up as he floated next to her gaping frozen self with a proud grin. "So. Do you like it?"

IT. WAS. ROSES!! RAINBOW ROSES!! All the colors of the rainbow sitting right there and multiple of them blooming beautifully in the moonlight. Some of the petals on the ground in a beautiful arrangement of color. Shimmering in the moonlight like a rainbow on stems. She still gaped at all of them and Snatcher only smiled prouder. Yes. After making that owl cough up the location of these wild roses (an oasis not surprisingly in a desert) and taking the ones in her shop for good measure too, Snatcher had a peck of a long time just gathering them and digging(having his minions carefully dig) them up by the roots and teleporting every single one of them back to his forest. But the extra work was worth the look on Poppy's face just now. Poppy still stood there stunned for a long moment. Before pointing and looking at him....then back at the roses gesturing with both arms then back to him again still totally amazed and shocked.

"HUH?!"

"What? I promised a garden and I delivered a pecking good garden! You got your regular bushes, mushrooms, a couple exploding apples, and even a nice flower section all of your own. Your welcome.~"

"HOW?!" She looked back at the beautiful batch of roses. "W-WHERE THE PECK DID YA EVEN GET THESE?!"

He shrugged. "Some small corner in the desert. Nothing too hard to find really. Do you like it?"

"YES!!" Her shocked face was replaced by a wide smile and sparkling eyes. "PECKIN' YES!! T-THIS IS INCREDIBLE!! I-......Ya never cease to out do yerself ya purple onion."

He shrugged again. "Well...you did give me a gold skull. I say we're pretty much even." He handed back the two small plants he'd been holding on since she asked him to hold them back on the ship. "Here. What's a garden for if you don't plant anything in it?"

She blinked at him for a bit before taking the twilight alpine flower and cactus. "Will these even grow here?"

"Anything will grow here if I want it too. Sides, with your skills you could get anything to grow here regardless."

Poppy smiled at him before turning around and starting forward. The two then took a moment, Snatcher helping her dig two holes a little a ways from the roses so Poppy could carefully put her two new additions into her new garden and carefully pat them in. Smiling as a mother would smile at her children when she was done, even if the bottom half of her dress and hands were all dirty afterwards. She took a moment just....staring and smiling at her new beautiful garden and Snatcher stared at her with a bright smile on his face seeing her smile so genuinely after so long....before frowning and looking down.

".....Listen, Poppy." She looked back up to him and he felt worry pool in his gut. "I know I....made mistakes when we first met again and if you....really want to live somewhere else or even break from the contract I'll respect your choice fully."

"....That's so sweet of ya but.....I'm not planning on going anywhere for a while."

he snapped to her blinking. "Wait. Really?"

She nodded smiling before looking back to the roses. "Ah really don't where I'd go if I did. Never did have any interest in travelin' 'round. And...A-And I think I enjoy havin' the safety of a purple onion." She shrugged. "Maybe things will change in the future but right now....I'm happy and content at this moment." She looked at him, moonlight making her blue eyes shine. "Thank you."

He felt yellow flush through his face again and he quickly turned away. "Y-Yeah. Well you know where to find me if you ever change your mind! I-It's not like Im super attatched or anything you know! You're your own person after all! You can make up your mind any way you want!"

Soft hands grabbed his neck fluff and yanked him down to eyes level with those blue eyes suddenly and Snatcher didn't have any moment to react before a pair of soft lips gave him a quick peck on his fanged mouth. And he froze! Poppy pulled back and stared at him for a moment....before snickering. His mouth had dropped wide open, eyes small as a dime, and his entire face a bright yellow. The fluff around his neck fluffing up to new heights as he just sat there. OH PECK!! OH PECK!! OH PECK- POPPY KISSED HIM!! LIKE REALLY R E A L L Y KISSED HIM!! LIKE-....A REAL ROMANTIC KISS!! Her snickering brought him out of his stuper as he sqawked like a bird and immediately pulled away. And Poppy opened the flood gates to laughter as she snorted and laughed at his flustered state.

"Y-Your- AHAHAHAHAHA! *snort* F-FACE!! I-IT LOOKS LIKE A JACK O LANTURN!!"

"WELL!! I THINK ITS TIME TO GO!! AFTER ALL YOU'RE BABYSITTER ALL NIGHT!! AND IM NOT HELPING!!,'' he yelled out as he began floating away.

Poppy reached out for him before stubbling to her feet still laughing and chasing after him. "W-WAIT!! I DIDN'T MEAN IT!! AHAHAHA!!"

"YES YOU DID!! BACK TO SPACE WITH YOU!!"

"HAHAHA!! NO I DIDNT!!

"YES!! YOU!! DID!!"

The red head chased the flustered ghosts back towards the tree home. A gently wind blowing more petals to the ground.

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A Bloom In Time Ch22 Cooking Cat Returns With Mustache Girl

(I headcannon Mustache Girl's actual name to be Muriel. )

You know. It feels a lot better sleeping on a bed than it was sleeping on a hard cold wooden floor. Also much better to wake up with having sore muscles for a second time. Slowly waking up, blue eyes peered out awake to the world, blinking away the blurry vision that came with it. Where was she again? The first thing she saw was the blue canopy of Hattie bed......And slowly she started to remember what happened last night. Groaning, the grown woman slowly sat up on the bed and reached a hand up to push the long messy hair out of her face. Vision slowly focusing and seeing the large pillow pile and diving board attached to the top of it, and the bookshelf with all those children books on it. Yawning, Poppy stretched out her back the Starella story book tumbling off her lap and onto the bed beside her, not that she noticed. She was a little busy smacking her lips and rubbing her face before standing up and sluggishly walking her way towards the tiny door. She was hungry and you know what, some apples in the morning didn't sound too bad anyways. As her ma would say, an apple a day keeps the doctor away. Right? Well not quite. As she tired crawled(dragged) herself into the control room, the sweet smell of fried eggs and cheese filled the air and when she sniffed, Poppy found herself turning in the direction of the kitchen. Her stomach rumbled at the smell of the food and she stood to her feet again. Mind blank as she tiredly trudged her way towards the ramp up to the kitchen area. Passing Rumbi who was happy to be back in the control room and not carried around room to room anymore cleaning. Up the ramp and past the big vault door, she could smell the food getting closer and closer until she pushed open the doors without a second thought.

"....Well, good morning to ya," a cheering slightly southern accent called out, "I was wondering when I would see you again."

The voice seemed to finally wake up Poppy as she blinked and turned her head in the direction of Cookie who smiled and was standing on a chair to reach the hot stove. Something was sizzling on the stove in front of her and that's what was making the delicious smell. The girls were there too, all dressed in the same outfits as yesterday but these ones were different colors. Same design and style, different color. Hattie was wearing a dark blue and white out fit and hat( dark blue being her shirt and pants, and white being anything else from her cape to hat), and Bow was wearing a similar dark blue and white attire(with her dress being dark blue and everything from her Bow to shoes were a white). The girls happily waved at her in between eating what looked like friend eggs into their mouths. A third short person was standing off in the corner of the room behind Cookie looking bored.

"Oh. Uh.....*YYYYAAAAWWNN* H-Hello again, Cookie." She proceeded to rub her face again. "W-What are you doing here?"

Cookie smiled turning back to the stove to flip the yellow almost cresent shaped egg. "Well, since the last episode of my cooking show for this season was finished, it means I get a few months to take a load off and prepare for the next season after the Annual Bird Movie Award Ceremony is over."

"Bird ....movie awards?"

Cookie nodded. "It happens once a year, but unfortunately since one of the three judges not awefully sick from bad bird seed they had to push it back a few months this year. Now the deadline is the week before Cupid's Day, that's why the theme for this year's contest was romance. Poor Mr. Grooves is having an awful time trying to find suitable actors for this fairytale romance theme he has going on. I would've volunteered myself, but I was really looking forward to some rest." She smiled shyly and pointed to herself. "And I wasn't exactly what he was looking for in the fair maiden role."

"I think you're beautiful Cookie!," Bow piped up, "The prettiest cat in the world!"

"And the best cook, too!," Hattie added.

Both making Cookie giggled and waving her paw, "Oh stop! Ya'll are making me blush worse than a kitten with a puppycrush."

"What are you cooking?," Poppy asked shuffling closer to them.

"Cheese omlets," Cookie replied happily. Reaching over and grabbing a plate laid next to her, she expertly flipped the omlet up and onto the plate in her paws with ease before turning to Poppy smiling and offering it out to her. "I hope ya'll don't mind me stoppin' by. I had nothing else today to really do, and I thought that I'd drop by and spend some more time visiting like I promised. And I wanted to see for myself if you were settling in today."

Poppy gladly took the plate from her stomach rumbling and mouth watering at the sight of it. "Uh. N-No. It's perfectly fine. In fact it's very kind of you to do so." Smiling she took the fork handed along with her and dug in......OH MY PECK!! Whatever a cheese omlet was it was SO delicious! Once again her cooking amazed her again. " SO GOOD!!"

Cookie ended up chuckling again turning off the stove. "I'm glad you think so, honestly it was only a few eggs and slicing a few pieces off that cheese wheel, the fridge is practically empty. Why didn't you go restock yet?"

Poppy stopped mid bite and looked at her for a moment staring. "Restocking?"

"Y'know. Shoppin'? All ladies like to shop, don't you?"

"Uh...Actually I don't think I could. I haven't exactly been paid by anyone yet so I don't really have much to buy any fancy things." She continued eating and eventually a movement to her right caught her attention, blue eyes looked down to meet gold ones as the two made eye contact and her brain quickly registered it to be another little girl in a red hood with her hair in two ponytails. Swallowing down some food, Poppy smiled at her. "Well hello there. I don't think I've met you yet. What's your name?"

"Mustache Girl!," the tiny girl proclaimed pointing a hand up, "Defeater of bad guys and savior of the world!"

"More like almost destroying it," Hattie shot back shooting her a dirty look witch this ...uh...'Mustache Girl' shot back with equal annoyance.

"Says the one who messed up by making it rain dangerous hourglasses everywhere!," the blonde yelled back pointing a finger, Hattie just stuck her tongue out at her.

The little girl continued to look slightly annoyed and Cookie reached behind her to pat the child's head. "This is Muriel. But we call her Mu for short." She gave a scary mom smile down to the children. "And we're not going to fight today are we?"

"No, Cookie!," all three girls agreed under the cat's gaze.

Poppy wasn't gonna lie, she was slightly scared and kinda impressed and this cat woman's skills to mother these three with ease within just a few seconds. And Mu huh? She giggled. It was pronounced the same way as 'Mew', like what a cat would say. And honestly it was kinda cute of her. Mu noticed the way Poppy was giggling and looking at her and frowned. Before shooting an accusing hand and face at her.

"And what are you laughing at?," she asked and Poppy noticed she also had some kind of accent. "Are you a bad guy too?!"

"MU!," Cookie scolded giving her a stern look and Mu instantly froze, eyes shooting sideways to the cat, "What did we talk about with minding your manners? Now you apologise to Ms. Bloomington this instant!" Her gaze turned apologetic to Poppy. "I am so sorry. It's hard for her to break old habits from Mafia Town, but I promise you she's a good girl."

"There's no need to apologize." Poppy smiled wider before kneeling down slowly to Mu's height. The little girl pulled her hand back to her and watched as Poppy stopped eye level smiling at her like Cookie would. "It sounds to me like you're a very brave little girl."

Mu paused for a moment. Looking Poppy up and down suspiciously as if trying to decide if she was serious or not about it, but took it as a compliment. Smiling proudly and puffing out her chest, pointing at herself. "Absolutely not wrong! I'm the bravest crime fighter in the world!"

Poppy chuckled again and sweetly nodded. "Well, I wouldn't be surprised if ya was. Such pretty eyes too. They look just like gold and honey."

"YEAH! That's exactly what I am!" She puffed up prouder at the strokes to her ego. "Gold and honey! The best gold and honey in the universe! Finally someone who gets it." Behind her Hattie rolled her eyes stuffing the last of her breakfast in her mouth, and Cookie seemed to be happy with the way the two stopped arguing finally.

Poppy chuckled again. "Well, it's really nice to meet you, Mu."

"Likewise, Bloom-in-Tons!"

"Call me,Poppy!" She smiled as she stood up to finish eating her food as she smiled. "Why don't you all go play?"

"Yes," Cookie agreed nudging Mu forward a little bit, "Why don't you all go and play with that pretty gold castle they showed us and be nice while the adults talk for a little bit?" The children were a little apprehensive at first but agreed to do so with Bow quickly stuffing the rest of her breakfast into her mouth and both her and Hattie tossing the dishes into the sink as one after another they ran to the doors with a few shouts of- 'I call being the Gold hero!' 'No you don't! I'm the best crime fighter!' "No you're not! I beat you remember!' 'Yes way!' 'No way!' 'Yes, Way!' and Bow following after the first two as they left. Cookie sighed shaking her head and grabbed the frying pan and spatula she had been cooking with hopping off the chair before looking up at Poppy. "I'm sorry for that. Those three may fight sometimes, but Hattie was quick to forgive everyone including her. They are friends I swear, but they argue worse than Conductor and Mr. Grooves at times....Mind being a dear and dragging over that chair there?"

"Hm. Oh! Sure." Plate in one hand, Poppy used the other to drag the chair across the room right behind Cookie to the sink following. "And it's quite alright. Kids will be kids after all, I don't blame them at all. Hmhm." She scooted the chair over where Cookie silently pointed and watched as the plump cat impressively jump onto it and faced the sink with the already dirty dishes in it. Going back to eat the other half of her breakfast as she watched Cookie roll up her sleeves more and turning on the sink. "Thank you for the..omlet by the way. I really appreciate it. "

She nodded not looking at her and instead turning on the hot water to the said sink. "Well it wasn't trouble at all. I was a little surprised you hadn't gotten up yet. Aren't you supposed to be the little dumplins' new babysitter or somethin'?"

Poppy sighed through her nose swallowing again. "Uh, well. Yeah that's my new job I guess. Being a maid and nanny to 'em. But to be honest with ya, I don't know the first thing about where ta go or even start with whole thing."

Cookie paused for a moment in her movements to look over at her...Yellow eyes roaming up and down eyeing the tacky dress on her and the messy bed head she had. "Well, by the way you look now ya'll are having some trouble settling in."

Poppy groaned allowing the cat to take away her now empty plate. "Tell me about it. With all the darn crazy things that's happened in the past few days I'm about ready to burst. And even if I knew where ta shop, I couldn't exactly pay for anything being broke."

Cookie looked at her confused. "Broke? But I thought all those gold do-dads were supposed to be your payment? The children seemed awefully proud to have them and Hattie said something about buying a whole bunch of things with some of it."

........OH!! THE GOLD!! OF COURSE!! She had completely forgotten about all of that in favor of being hungry and getting herself some food, but now that she remembered that didn't sound like a half bad idea to use it for food and some clothes that weren't so tacky.

"That doesn't sound like a half bad idea ya got there!...But. I'm not really sure where to use it. Haven't visited many places around here."

"Hm...I got an idea!" Cookie's smile widened at her. "Mu and I were just going around to do some errends after visitin'. Why don't ya'll come along and we'll make a girls trip outta it? It'll be fun to show someone around my favorite places! And I know just the place in Express City where you can trade gold for pons."

Poppy blinked. "W-Wha- N-No! I-It's fine. You're too kind really. We'll be just fine just how we are right now-"

"Nonsense," Cookie cut her off giving her a look. "Staying here all the time isn't going to magically put food in your fridge or nice clothes on your back. I insist. Besides, some time stretching your legs will be good for you."

Well. That didn't sound too bad to be honest. She could definately get a change of scenery besides haunted woods or an alien space ship, plus some actual soil under her feet sounded nice instead of floating in outer space. But Cookie wasn't exactly about to let her just waltz out with a bed head like hers. Luckily there was three little girls who gladly got very excited when they were asked by the cat to play 'make over' with Poppy, and by that she meant tidy up her hair. To say it hurt quite a bit with all the tangled built up ever since she crash landed in the swamp was an understatement. IT PECKING HURT!! Didn't help her hair was very long so it would take quite a while, in the meantime Cookie was nice enough to gather some of the gold objects they definately could put to better use. Of course both Bow and Hattie were very reluctant to let any of the buried treasure they found go, and once seeing all the gold Mu certainly was not willing to let 'any potential evil doers get their hands on it'. But they all came to a understanding with the stern gaze of the cat thrown at them. They would the girls each keep one, leave one or two pieces of gold for back up just in case of any emergency where they needed money, and the rest was coming along with them. They agreed reluctantly. No surprise Hattie chose the golden Roach King. Bow chose the castle as she enjoyed having it while playing her games. And Mu chose the cookie. Why?....She pouted and said because it reminded her of someone before shoving it into her cape's pocket with a huff. It was decided the golden skull would be the thing to be left behind and was hidden under Hattie's bed for safe keeping. Which left the golden gear, trophy, potion, pencil, Mafia Man, Cheese pieces, and candle would be all the things to go. But they all wouldn't be easy to carry as solid gold was a sure heavy thing. Luckily Poppy was just what they needed, who else to carry them but the strongest gal here? So into the pockets of her trusty leather apron they went. The weight was a bit much but she'd manage, like the light pain in her head right after the girls got done with her hair finally, leaving it in that signiture long braid and pretty blue bow tied at the end by Bow. She was ready! But the trip all the way down to the planet was another thing in of itself.

She was NOT about to risk free falling from space again, and these two weren't exactly known for their iron grip the last time. Cookie, being the genius cat she was suggested she just come along with them to Moon City to catch the next chip taxi down to the planet with them. Poppy hesitated at first, but she agreed afraid of falling from the sky again. Bow and Hattie coming out with umbrella's in their hands presumably going on their own to follow them all. Making sure they were all comfortable the cat lifted her sleeve again to reveal the same watch like device she had used the last time she was there and instructed Poppy to hold onto her paw now, as it would be a really quick trip there. She wasn't sure what to expect when she nervously grabbed Cookie's paw, but she did slam her eyelids shut when Cookie pressed the button on there. Before quickly grabbing Mu's hand with her other paw.

.....

........

"Uh..Ya'll can open your eyes now," came Cookie's voice.

Were they there already? Poppy's hand was released by Cookie and the human slowly opened her eyes. ....And what she saw both surprised and calmed her. Looking up the starry sky of outer space shown down at her live the time she free falled, but without the falling to the ground this time. The pretty stars shown brightly before those blue eyes blinked around at everything else. It was a CITY alright. A BIG ONE!....Well, she guessed any city would be big to her, as she's never really been IN a city before, the only one she's known to be in the city was her distant cousin who had a Fruit Stand somewhere in the Subonette City Marketplace. He'd sometimes tell them all the tall buildings that were so close together and the giant skyscrapers the rich fatcats lived in and their fancy carriages being pulled by giant beautiful black stallions. He always said the place was always too big and crowded for his liking but he didn't leave because the market always brought the best customers to his food. But she'd didn't think any city would be this.....Flashy. The tall buildings were decorated in massive lights and music blasted from everywhere and all kinds too. Rock, jazz, blues, techno remixes. You name it. It was almost enough to hurt her ears and her eyes. And all around them were...There was....PENGUINS!! Moon Penguins. They all didn't seem to mind or care that they just showed up in the middle of the town square and didn't care. Beeping was heard as a car zipped by them all and Poppy jumped staring at the weird mechanical beast that just went by. Gigantic signs were everywhere decorated with lights. One said 'Hats', another had a picture of a fedora and said 'Nuthin' Cooler', one Said 'Hats and Buy'. She giggled at one that read 'Penguin Suits Clothes Store'. There was even a giant glowing sign of piano keys with the words "Feelin' Lucky? Casino Hall'. It was...AMAZING!! Even if her senses were being attacked right now. But then she stopped to stare at the fountain they were standing right next to. It was in a giant shape of a music note and like most everything else, was bedazzled in lights as water poured from it.

"Are you alright?" Mu was giving her a strange look as the grown woman gawked at everything. "You look like you've never seen a fountain before."

"I've never been in any city before! Let alone on the moon!" Poppy smiled excitedly at the two of them. "This is amazing!"

Cookie chuckled and grabbed Mu by the hand gesturing for them to cross the street to the right.....Then proceeded to grab Poppy's hand to drag her along behind them as she still stood and gawked at everything but jumped at the tiny cat pulling her along across the street to the sidewalk. Another red car driving by them. As they walked Poppy noticed there was tiny bush plants in pots everywhere also covered in lights as they passed. These pengiuns really loved lights huh? Speaking of them she saw a lot of them. Moon penguins wearing suits, fedoras, and black sunglasses, they were all listening to music or talking to one another, or driving those big machines they were riding in. At one point she saw a lady penguin dressed in a pink outfit similar to the others, waddling around with a baby stroller with an egg carefully placed inside of it. She giggled at the sight of a tiny fedora on the egg as they passed, how peculiar- BAM!! Bright yellow light! Suddenly hitting her straight in the face. Poppy had to slam her eyes shut again at the sudden bright yellow flashing on them, only being guided by Cookie still holding her hand but Poppy did blink her eyes open and look up to where the light was radiating from when she felt cookie tug her in a different direction before stopping. While she got her hand back, Poppy held it up above her as her eyes adjusted and she was finally able to make out the blinding light up above. There was three gigantic blinding signs on top of the biggest building she's ever seen. Two were saxophones and one in between them were bright yellow letters saying GROOVES.

"That's Mr. Grooves moon studio," Cookie explained noticing her staring up at the signs. "He built it right by the entrance to the metro so he can just waltz on in and start workin' if he decides to shoot on the moon for what ever reason." Her yellow eyes also squinted up at the sky above and pointed up to two little stars floating down from the sky. "And here come the little darlins' now. I told them to meet us as soon as possible at the metro here before we go down to Express Town."

"Express ....Town?"

"It's the first town before you get to Express Owl City. Millions of birds ...mostly owls, live there. But Express town is big enough to have everything we need, and to be honest I'm not a fan of cities. I've gotten used to a small town life as it was."

Poppy continued to gawk at the bright lights, slightly impressed by it all...but then slowly shifted over to two little things floating down from the sky towards them, it was hard at first to see them thanks to the blinding yellow light from the sign but eventually she was able to see the forms of Hattie and Bow floating down towards them. Hattie was holding onto her hat with one hand and smiled down at the three girls below when she noticed they were staring at the three of them.

"I'M MARY PENGUINS YA'LL!!," she called down from the floating umbrella waving her hat.

Mu huffed crossing her arms. "Show offs."

Poppy chuckled at it all and watched with a smile as the two girls gently floated down closer and closer, until they were right in front of them. Standing on the ground smiling and putting away those magic umbrellas into...Well magic thin air she guessed and smiled up at them all.

"Are we late?"

Cookie shook her head, and gestured to the stairs leading down into the ground, turning as she did and starting to walk down said stairs. "Not at all, Sugarplum. Come along now everyone. The evening train's 'bout ta leave any minute now. And we don't want to miss that now do we?"

Shaking her head no, Hattie followed right behind her with Bow and After rolling her eyes, so did Mu. Poppy slowly followed after them down the stairs, but surprisingly she wasn't greeted in darkness. Instead she was met with a secret underground tunnel of concrete under the city and ....HOLY COW!! A train! There was a train smack dab right in the middle of the room, a few penguins climbing onto it or off it as the many doors on the long thing was open. Thank goodness it wasn't as flashy as the city outside as she looked around in wonder. The place was still pretty big even for small penguins, about five or six houses wide and height if you asked her. There was one penguin who wore the same thing as the other penguins only had on a conductor's hat and a small mic in his flipper, Poppy watched from the bottom of the stairs as this penguin looked at a watch on his other flipper before bringing the mic back up to his mou- ...Uh...Beak.

"Attention passengers." His voice boomed through a speaker above them all. "The Evening Train to the planet below will leave in exactly thirty two seconds. Those boarding please have your luggage in hand and board immediately. Last call for the evening train. That is all."

"Oh, that's our ride. C'mon ya'll. Don't want to be late now."

Cookie hurried the three little girls in front of her towards the nearest open doors on the trains, Poppy trailing behind. Passing penguins going in or out of the tram Poppy gazed up at it as she stepped in. She had to lean other a bit to not hit her head on the ceiling. The weight of the gold in her heavy duty leather apron making her lean more from the weight of it. It had white painted walls with poles and handles on the ceiling to hang onto along with benches the perfect size for Poppy and the girls to sit in. Poppy being obviously taller ended up taking up a seat and a half next to them, but there wasn't many penguins on board so she had plenty of room to herself without having to worry about taking up space for anyone else.

"Last chance of boarding. I repeat last chance,'' the Conductor Penguin's voice sounded out. Poppy glanced over at the doors as they all closed with a loud click ceiling them as the girls and Cookie all sat on either side of her. But gave a small yelp when the train lurched wobbling everyone in it and slowly started to pull forward, Poppy glancing out the window behind them and seeing the station move as the train started taking off. "We are now leaving Moon City Metro. Please remain your seats and enjoy the ride. Thank you for choosing PenCo Express Services for your space travels."

As they picked up speed, Poppy kept staring out the window and her eyes widen seeing the out side of outer space and suddenly the sight of the moon after a few seconds, it was silver and round like a moon would look like but a good CHUNK (like half of it) was alive with lights bright enough to be seen from her spot on the running train. The lights making the buildings look shadowy, it was kinda pretty in a monochrome way. As she turned her head in the opposite direction to look forward, the planet from what she could see from it was getting closer and closer. Well.....Here she goes.

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