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The Story begins the cover of a Little Red Riding Hood book with an illustration of the titular character screaming at the sight of a monstrous depiction of the Big Bad Cat as dramatic brass music plays.
"Red Riding Hood. You probably know the story. But there's more to every tale than meets the eye. It's just like they always say: you can't judge a book by its cover. If you want to learn the truth, you've got to flip through the pages." A person narrates that being Zestial.
A book opens up, then the camera zooms in through a pop-up woods that become real. Dramatic music plays until the camera stops at the door of Granny Rosie's cottage.
Vaggie Red slowly opens the door sticking her head out the door. "Granny?" She called going inside. "It's me, Vaggie. Is everything okay?"
She looks around the house her eyes finally landing on her Granny's bed, where she seems to be laying down in.
"Oh, oh yeah. Sure thing. Come on in." Granny said but her voice sounded wrong
"What? Wh-Who are you?" Vaggie asked squinting her eyes as she moves closer.
"I'm your grandma." The fake Granny answered
"Um Your face looks really weird, Granny." Vaggie said
"I've been sick, I... uh..." Fake Granny tries to think of an excuse.
"And your mouth doesn't move when you talk." Vaggie puts out
"Oh, uh, plastic surgery. Grandma's had a little work done. Now, come on over here. Let's have a look at you."
Vaggie slowly makes her way to the head of the bed. "So, what's going on, Grandma?" She asked raising a brow.
"Oh, this and that. Doing a lot of quilting. So, you got the loot?" Fake Granny asked his voice dropping the Granny voice for a second.
Vaggie looks suspicious as she looks down at her Granny's hands and her eyes widen a bit. "Whoa, what big hands you have."
Fake Granny looks at his hands. "Oh! All the better to scratch my back with." He says doing so.
"And what big ears you have!" Vaggie says as her eyebrows shot up in surprise.
"All the better to hear your... many criticisms! Old people just have big ears, dear." Fake Granny says starting to get annoyed at Vaggie Red
"And Granny, what big eyes you have!" She says looking at the fake Granny's eyes behide the mask.
The fake Granny loses his temper. "Are we just gonna sit around here and talk about how big I'm getting?!" He then moves to be face to face with Vaggie Red.
"You came here for a reason, didn't ya? So tell ole Granny what you've got in the basket!"
Vaggie backs her face away her face wrinkling in disgust. "Ugh! Granny! What bad breath you have it smells like cheap whiskey!"
"All right!" The fake Granny then takes off his mask reveling himself as Husker the Big Bad Cat going back to his normal voice.
Vaggie Red screams, taking a step back. "You again?! What do I have to do, get a restraining order?!"
"Settle down, little girl, I'm on to you!" Husk says raising his arms up to attack her with his teeth bearded.
Vaggie Red then puts her basket aside raising her hands and going into a Kung Fu stand. "HI-YAH!"
"Save it, Red fu! You've been dodging me all day, but now you might as well give up." He says pulling out a poker that was resting near the fireplace.
This makes Vaggie Red gasp and runs away taking to make an escape to the door. But Husker beats her to it and guards the door.
Vaggie goes back to her fighting stand. "Hyaaah! You crazy wolf! What have you done with Granny?!"
Husker then grabs Vaggie's right arm making her scream. "I've taken Granny down, and you're next!"
The closet door breaks opens and Granny Roise herself hopping out all tied up.
"Granny!" Vaggie yelled I shock.
Husker looks back seeing Roise making his eyes widen in shock as he puts the poker down. "But you, that's not right..."
Suddenly, Sir Pentious smashes through the window screaming, waving an axe around making everyone scream.
"Whoa! Whoa!" Husker yells putting his hands up in a calm down gesture.
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It abruptly cuts to black. As we then see the police at Granny Rosie's cottage.
A police car's sirens wail as it drives up to the cottage. The police chief Adam gets out of the vehicle. He is immediately faced by the paparazzi.
"Chief Adam, are the suspects inside connected with the Goody Bandit?" One of the news reporters asked him.
"Yeah, uh... no, no. Don't print that, bitch. We don't know anything yet." Adam says as other reporter speaks.
"Is the house made of gingerbread, sir?"
"The fu- I don't know!"
"Does the first man eat gingerbread?"
"All right, all right, all right! That's enough with the fucking questions. Hey bitch, come on! Get these people back." Adam ordered a female exterior police officer.
"All right, back it up! Let the chief do his job! You, with the feathers, back behind the snake."
Chief Adam pulls up the yellow police tape that was round the house looking pissed off. "I just want to go home and sex with some dumb blondes. ABEL!" He yelled to his son, who was talking with an officer.
Abel jumps in shock as he turns around quickly. "DAD! I-i mean chef.....dad...chef dad haha." Abel nervously chuckles making his dad roll his eyes.
"Whatever, The hell have we got?" Adam asked taking a sip of his drink as the two start to walk to the house.
"Ah, it's a domestic disturbance breaking and entering, wielding an ax without a license, intent to eat..." Abel starts listing things off with his fingers before Adam waves him off.
"I get the picture. Any connection with the recipe robberies?" Adam asked handing off his finished coffee to a pig cherub officer.
"You mean the Goody Bandit? Could be. The house belongs to Granny Rosie." Abel says making Adam shocked.
"No fucking way you mean the cookbook lady?"
"Yeah, that's the one." Abel says as he opens the door to the house. "No way I fucking love her cookies their the shit! Hey someone get me some of those now!" He ordered as the father and son stepped inside.
Once inside they see the three suspects Husker, Sir Pentious,Vaggie Red and Granny Roise in the living room sitting down with handcuffs. Husker was on a separate seat away from the other three that all sat to together.
"Okay, Snake Bunyan here was swinging the ax, and Cat here was trying to eat lil' bit." Abel says as the camera shows Pentious worried face, to Husker raising an eyebrow and then to Vaggie Red that just glared at them.
"All right, get a muzzle on that filthy street cat demon." Adam ordered pointing to Husk.
"Hey, I can explain everything." Husk says putting his chained hands up.
"Well, you can explain it to the judge!" Adam then turns to Vaggue Red. "Bith shouldn't you be in school?" He asked
"Shouldn't I have a lawyer?" She asked with a sassy attitude.
Abel tires to hold in a laugh behide his hand making Adam glare at him. Adam takes a look to his right side briefly before snapping his head back fully.
"Wha-what are you doing?"
We then see Millie, Moxxie and Blitzo, all of whom were eating from Vaggie's goodie basket. Adam was forced to hire hellborn after Emily said they had to make the police force more 'diverse'. They all stop mid bite where they get caught.
"Oh, uh, hey, Chief. We was just, uh..." Moxxie tries to think of something. "We were just smelling it, we was.." Millie tries to help her husband.
"Don't eat that! That's evidence!" Adam yells making them groan but nod. "Right."
"Thanks alot Mox now we're all in trouble."
Blitzo said to Moxxie making him shocked.
"ME!?"
Husker then gets a muzzle put on him by an officer.
"All right, so this looks pretty open-and-shut: Little Miss Rosycakes making covert deliveries to the goody tycoon." Adam points to Granny Rosie making her gasp.
"Then kitty tries to eat 'em both, then Crazy Snake fuck with the ax here busts in swinging vigilante-style. Take 'em downtown, boys!" He points to Husk and Pentious making Pentious gulp with Husk flipping Adam off.
"Uh, it's the Pentagram woods, Chief. We don't have a downtown." Abel points out making Adam groan. "You know what I mean! Just book 'em!"
"Not so fast, Grizzly." A voice sais making everyone look to the door. There the silhouette of a tall man appears with glowing green eye's, then he steps into the house realizing himself to be Zestial the overlord.
"That's the problem with you angles always growling up the wrong tree." He says taking a sip of his tea
"Hey, Zest!" Millie says happily waving to him. "No way, you're on the case, Zest?" Moxxie asked.
"No, just stopping by to have a sarsaparilla. Say, Moxx, you lose some weight?" Zestial asked handing him his tea cup.
"Uh, no." Moxxie asked unsure.
"Didn't think so." Zestial says, Adam walks up to them. "Well, well, well if it isn't the old gizzer. What are you doing here? This is my case!" Adam says jabbing a finger to his chest.
"Well! Someone slept on the wrong side of the bed. I saw the lights. Thought the circus was in town. Now of course, I see I was right." He says giving a quick look though in the living room.
"Well you're too late, Nicky, I got this case all wrapped up." Adam says with a glear making Zestial giving him a little glear back. "Is that right?" He asked pushing Adam back with his chest.
"Yeah!" Adam says right back pushing his chest at him too.
"They got us all wrong, Mr. Zestial." Vaggie says from her spot making Zestial look at her before pushing Adam away making him fall, his son rushes to help him up.
"Oh, I don't know. You look pretty dangerous to me. What's your name young one?" Zestial asked Vaggie
"Vaggie, Vaggie Red." Vaggie says simply
"And why do you call that?" Zestial asked
"Why do they call you "Zest"?" Vaggie asked with a raised eyebrow making Zestial freeze getting a flashback of him at a party, where he unfortunately got caught making out with Carmilla Carmine in the closet.
They back away from each other in shock as the everyone chants "Go Zest!".
Cuts back to reality as Zestial coughs uncomfortably. "Uh, no reason." He says not making eye contact.
Red rolls her eyes. "They call me Vaggie Red because of this red hood I wear." She says gesturing to her hood.
"Ha I though it was because of her period." Adam says before a flying pan his thrown at his head making him fall back down with his son putting his hands to his mouth in shock. "WHO THROW THAT!?" Adam yelled as he head shot up from the ground looking around.
Granny Rosie whistles innocently looking at her nails.
Zestial rolls his eyes at Adam looking back at Vaggi. "What about when you're not wearing it?" He asked as Vaggie blinks a few times. "I usually wear it." She says after a few minutes.
Adam gets up soving Abel away as he walks to the group. "Recipes have been coming up missing all over the Pentagram. Goody shops have been going out of business for months, and the trail ends here. I got a case to close." He says as Zestial holds his hand up.
"Slow down, Chief. We've got four suspects, and that means four stories, and if you get people talking long enough, someone will spill the beans." He says a matter of fact.
Moxxie then pops his head into frame. "Beans?!" He says excitedly as Blitzo slaps him over the head. "Stop being a fatty Mox!" "It's not my fault Luna took my lunch again!"
Husk stands up from his seat his voice muffled. "Look, could I just make a phone call?" He then cries out as he gets zapped by Millie.
Vaggie rolls her eyes at him as she looks at Zestial. "I'll tell you what happened."
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Granny Rosie's Kitchen
A flash transition to Vaggie being interviewed in the kitchen. She seating on one of the chairs in handcuffs.
"What's with the handcuffs on a little girl? Her wrists could slip right out. How about a cage?" He jokes sitting at the head of the table to face Vaggie.
Blitzo speaks into his walkie-talkie eagerly. "Bring in the cage!" He yelled in joy
"I was being sarcastic." Zestial says with a frown.
Blitzo looks disappointed. "Damn sarcasm. Strike the cage..." He says making everyone on the walkie-talkie sad. "Awwwww."
Chief Adam scoffs but caves. "Well all right. Get the cuffs off her." He orders making Abel get the cuffs off her. Vaggie smiles at him making him blush a bit as he walks away.
Luna sits down on the right side of the table sharpening a pencil with a notepad in hand.
"So, Red, why don't you explain how this all began?" Zestial asked as he hits a button to a tape recorder.
Vaggie takes a deep breath. "Well, like any other day. I was making deliveries for my Granny's goody shop."
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Pentagram Forest (Flashback!)
Music begins with Vaggie Red riding a bike around the tail of the forest.
"🎶Here's a story I hope you'll like. It's the one about the girl riding on her bike. I know🎶" She sings looking around as a hellborn imp happily waves to her.
"Hi, Red!"
"🎶It's a tired old tale, but it still rings true.🎶" As she rides a sinner slug waves to her. "Hey, Red."
"🎶She could never be rude or unkind, but a sad song played at the back of her mind. 🎶" She then waves to Travis, who has a smile on his face as he waves too her. But as she leaves he frowns and grumbles to himself.
She then passes by Sir Pentious, who looks down at the ground in sadness as he walks.
"🎶Oh-oh. Can someone show me a different day to take me away?🎶" When she singing she sees some humming birds flying around her making her smiling.
The humming birds then help her cross a river bank making her shocked as she laughs happily. The humming birds then join in the song.
"🎶Take me out of the woods. Great big world. You know what I'm wanting for you. Whoo. You know what I'm wanting for you. What I'm wanting for you. Wanting for you. Oh...🎶" She stops at an edge looking over the forest all the humming birds leave flying into the sky.
Vaggie sings the last note looking down at the ground in sadness. She shacks her head as she moves her bike to go back down the hill to continue her route. She rides a branch over her head shows porcupines dancing to the music before one falls off after losing his balance.
As she continues riding around the forest, we see Vox, who is in his box TV head watching Vaggie ride away from the hill. He smiles running over to her.
"Hey, Red! Oh! Nice outfit. Always red with you. You must be in autumn." He says and with a little bolt zaps into her bike basket. Don't ask how he fits.
Vaggie Red smiles at him as she pellets. "Hey, Vox. Aren't you helping the Muffin Man today to promote his snacks?" She asked making Vox look sad.
"Oh, he closed up shop. Someone took all his recipes last night and now I'm out of a job." Vox said putting his head on his fit.
"Oh, gee, Boingo, I'm really sorry. Are you still running the cable car?" She asked looking at Vox in pity, while still making sure to keep her eyes on the road.
"Yeah, yeah, I am. But it's nothing like selling goodies and being on screen all day." He says sadly making Vaggie frown before smiling again.
"Would a shark crumpet make you feel better?" She then takes a shark crumpet that shapes like a well shark face and hands it to Vox making him smile.
"Oh, boy, oh, boy! Thanks, Red. I can always count on you to deliver, you little rascally... devil." He says before cursing to himself at how stupid he sounds. He holds the crumpet close to his heart.
"Yeah, well, the woods don't go around by themselves." She says sounding a bit sad as she says this. Vox then zaps out of the basket as he runs to go do something. What that something is? Vaggie doesn't know.
As Vaggie rides she sees a hellborn hammering a sign, saying, "Out Of Business", then closing the door.
This makes Vaggie look around seeing another flip a sign, saying, "Sorry, We're Closed Permanently!!!"
A loan shark boy puts up a sign with a red X on it.
Then a succubus flipping the sign, saying, "Closed For Good!!".
A sinner skeleton then close her door with a sign saying, "Recipes Stolen!".
Then Vaggiw stops as a hellhound family walks with all their stuff packed in hand. Their recipes had all been stole so no repcips means no more Snack Shack.
"Come on, let's go." The mother hellhound says. "Where are we going now, mama?" Her youngest pup asked.
Vaggie watches them leave in sadness. "With the goody bandit on the loose, recipes were becoming an endangered species. I decided to call Granny. If anyone would know what to do, she would."
"I don't know what to do. I'm just a tired old lady." Granny Rosie says talking to Red over the phone while knitting.
"Your recipes are the most famous in the whole forest, Granny. What if they get swiped? It could wipe you out." Vaggie says over a pay phone, she then thinks of something. "Maybe I should bring you the recipe book just for safekeeping."
This makes Granny Rosie freeze as she looks around her house. "A trip up the mountain is too dangerous for a little girl."
This makes Vaggie Red frustrated as she puts a hand on her hip. "I'm not so little anymore!"
"Please, dear, you just keep the recipes there, and everything will be fine." Granny asked her voice filled with worry.
"But..." Vaggie begins before being interrupted by Granny. "I have to go now. My program's on. Kisses." She makes kissy noise befre puts the phone down hanging up. Vaggie sighs as she puts the phone back.
Later, Vaggie Red is in her tree house high on a redwood reading a world magazine. Collin then flies to Vaggie as he lands of the wooden railing.
"What you reading, Red?" He asked looking at the title of the magazine. "Far Away Places"? Are you going somewhere far away?" He asked making Vaggie scoff.
"No. The world is too dangerous for me." She says sarcastically throwing her magazine out of the Tree house.
The magazine falls onto the windshield of a demon duck's car. Making him scream. "AAHH! Can't see! Danger! Turn into the skid!" He yells
Vaggie watches as a crash is heard and one of the trees in the background shakes. Vaggie's eyes widen watching this happen.
"I'm okay. I'll walk it off." The Duck demon says making Vaggie shack off her shock as she looks back at Collin.
"But you can't go away. Who's gonna ride the goody bike?" Collin asked
"If i had wings like you, I'd fly all the way past that mountain, and the next one and the next one." She uses her hand to gesture to the huge mountain before she looks down. "But I can't. I'm just a teen." She says in self pity.
"I'm just a cherub." Collin says with a smile making Vaggie smile back at him. They hears a glass breaking in a distance making them both jump. "Uh-oh." Collin says in fear.
Vaggie then gets down from the tree with a rope running to her Granny's Emporium looking the broken glass window on the door.
She opens the door she then noticed a rock as she picks it up the rock it saying, "You're Next!"
"Y-Y-You're next"? W-what does it mean, "You're next"?" Collin asked shacking like a leaf.
Vaggie then witnesses a demon duck closing his goodie shop. He is hammering a sign that says "Out O' Business". The Duck groans looki gsad. "First my marriage now my business my life is ruined."
"It means someone wants our recipes." She then looks at a picture of Granny she opens it realizing it to be a secret door that had her Granny's recipes. She then grabs the book.
"Are they gonna get your recipes?" Collin asked, Vaggie then turns to face Collin with a determined look in her eyes. "Not today." She then puts the shark cupcakes in her basket to cover the book.
We then cut back to the present with Zestial making tea of the stove. "So, you deliberately took your Granny's recipes from the family vault, without permission." He says taking a tea cup from the cubert.
"Help yourself." Vaggie says sarcastically, Zestial then pours in the cup as he sutures it. "And then you set out on a dangerous journey up the mountain...alone?
Vaggie thought about it for a moment. "Yeah. I guess I did." She says with a proud smile.