Flame princess wait!
She didn't. She just kept running.
Where are you going?
Not a word. Run faster.
Come back here!
She wouldn't. She ran up and over the hill before jumping into the air. The wind whooshed past her as she took off through the cool night air.
Then everything was gone and she was just floating. Falling really, but so slowly that it seemed like everything had stopped dead in its tracks.
Who was he? Prince Finn.
What type of person kept changing like that?
He liked her. He didn't. He liked her. He hurt her. He liked her…
But he had hurt her.
And she wasn't going to let that happen again.
"Where'd she go?" Finn yelled over to Jake.
He'd been trying to catch her, frantically trying to explain what was happening. But did he really understand it himself? Where did she even come from? Jake had said something about the Fire Kingdom but that didn't make any sense at all. People from the Fire Kingdom were destructive and evil and stuff.
But she wasn't like that, she couldn't be.
She just wasn't and Finn knew it.
But even if she didn't mean to she could still hurt someone, maybe even get herself hurt.
She could get hurt.
Finn started running faster, what if she got hurt before he found her? What if something bad happened to her and he couldn't help her?
"Hey dude she's gone!" Jake yelled back at him.
"I know that but where'd she go? Did you see where she went?" Finn shouted. He was panicking now. Scanning the horizon for the hint of a spark. A hint of anything that might lead him to her.
Finn ran up to the crest of the next hill, maybe he could get a better look from here.
No, nothing. Just the dark sky, and the dark clouds, and some dark silhouettes in the distance.
"Maybe we should just give up," Jake was saying now, "She's probably fine."
"That's not good enough Jake," He yelled back, where could she be? "I need to know she's okay!"
Wait? What was that in the sky. Like lightning but pale red instead of white. Maybe that was her?
"Come on Jake! I think I found her!"
Without even waiting for a response Finn started running.
Things burned so easily in this place. Back home the only things that were left to burn were stones and the air itself, and neither of them would catch fire no matter how hard you tried. But with just a halfhearted fireball, almost anything in this world would catch fire.
Even the ground she was walking on was igniting as she touched it. It didn't even take any effort at all. Amazing.
But everyone was screaming. Wasn't fire a good thing? They barely had any, just a speck here and there. And she was giving them so much of it. Fire here, there, everywhere. They almost seemed like they were afraid of it…
"Hey lady! You've gotta stop that!"
The voice was a shout, coming from far behind her. Turing, she say that boy and his dog. She'd just gotten away and they'd found her again. Why wouldn't they leave her alone? But she wasn't going to let them bother her anymore. There was stuff out here to burn…
What was she doing? Burning up all of those goblins and their houses and stuff. He had to stop her, but he couldn't hurt her. She was a girl and plus he didn't want her to get hurt at all. Maybe he could try to talk her out of it or something.
"Hey Flame Princess." He yelled up at her. She paused what she was doing for a moment and looked down at him from her place up in the sky.
"What do you want?" She snarled. Not menacingly, just angrily. Upset.
"I just want to talk to you." He yelled, she seemed confused and was silent for a moment.
"What are you doing Finn?" Jake whispered from his side. "You've gotta stop her, she's burning everything up."
"I know, I know." Finn whispered back.
"Well I don't want to talk to you." She said, her voice slid through the air and into Finn's ears. It sounded so nice just to hear her talk.
"Well won't you just tell me why?" He asked her.
She looked down at him and said with a glare. "You keep hurting me! You're messing with me and you keep trying to put me out!"
"No I'm not!" He blurted out, "Not on purpose! I don't want to hurt you! It's just what keeps happening…"
"Finn you better do something fast." Jake was saying, "That fire's getting everywhere!"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm working on it."
"I don't believe you! You said you like me, then you said you didn't, then you did, then you hurt me. I think you're trying to mess me up and I'm not gunna let you. Not anymore."
Finn glared down at Jake for a moment and the dog shrank down to the size of a grape. "Hey man that was before, she's your problem now." Then he slipped behind something and out of sight.
"That wasn't me before, that was my friend, the first time I ever really saw you was when you came to the treehouse."
Flame Princess stopped throwing fireballs and turned to look at Finn. But all was not better, she sported an angry glare.
"That wasn't you! You didn't even care enough to come to the Fire Kingdom yourself?!"
Just as she finished her sentence, she through a fireball at Finn. He started to panic before he remembered that his dad's sword was tucked into his backpack. Quickly whipping the sword out, Finn used it to bat the fireball aside. It hit the side of a building and stuck, starting a brand new flame.
"No you've got it all wrong! I didn't even know who you were until you showed up earlier!"
He eyes widened and her grimace tightened until her teeth showed. "You mean you sent your dog to find you just anyone and you didn't even care who he brought back?!"
Two more fireballs flew through the air, but Finn batted them aside. They hit the dirt and a cart respectively.
"No that's not what I'm trying to say at all. Jake just went out and found you on his own, I didn't ask him to or anything."
Finn had his sword ready to deflect any more fireballs she threw at him, but there were none. He waited a second then looked up at Flame Princess. Even from this far away he could see there was something wrong. There were no fireballs, only specks of flame that were dripping from her eyes. Was she crying?
"Are you saying that you never even wanted me?"
Finn tried to yell to her, "No that's not what I meant!"
But she had already left. She flew off out of the goblin village, heading for the forest.
Finn ran after her, yelling over his shoulder, "Take care of this Jake, I need to go find her."
Soon he was in the forest, not the evil dark forest, but it was plenty dark. He was having trouble seeing in front of him and he kept tripping over roots and other things. Low branches were scratching at him, getting caught on his hat and sticking to it. But he didn't have time to worry about those things. Flame Princess was somewhere in the forest and he needed to find her. There probably wasn't anything in the forest that would hurt her.
Except for me…
But he still wanted to find her. Needed to find her soon. Needed to tell her how he felt before it was too late. Oh Glob why was this so hard.
Wait, what was that light off in the distance. A somber orange glow.
Finn started running even faster.
Tears were slipping off of her cheeks and falling like that darned rain that these people loved so much. Why did he have to do this to her. Just when she thought she was safe he did it again. She needed to get control of herself.
But first she needed to stop somewhere, this had been a long day. She was tired and exhausted in more than one way. There was a rock she could sit on. She lowered herself past the treetops and into a clearing.
The rock sizzled for a moment as she rested herself on it. A stray spark rolled down the side of the cool rock and she watched it as it caught a single blade of grass alight. After a moment of burning, it went out.
Suddenly he burst into the clearing. He was breathing hard, more like panting. She glared at him, hoping that he would just leave her alone and finally go away. She'd had enough of him.
"What are YOU doing here?" She demanded.
"I- um- I wanted to see if you were alright…"
"Why do you even care? You didn't care about me before why are you pretending to now?"
He paused and started to stutter and mumble nervously. His cheeks were starting to turn red.
"What?!" She growled at him.
"I, uh, you," he sighed, "I can't even talk to you. I didn't know about you before, but I wish I had. And I'm not pretending. I really do care about you."
Now Flame Princess's cheeks were turning red, a contrast with her bright orange skin.
Then she shook her head and said, "I'm not gunna fall for this again. You're just trying to set me up so you can hurt me."
"No, no, no I'm not. I really do. I, l-li. I li-li." He couldn't even say the words
She was just looking at him with that confused and fascinated look on her face. It was so cute and he just couldn't look away. And when he looked into those big eyes of hers he got all choked up and didn't know what to say.
But then Finn took a deep breath and forced himself to say it. "I, I like you. That's why I've been following you around. I just want to know you're alright. I don't even know you but I want to. So much."
She was just looking at him. Now Finn knew his cheeks were burning.
"But why do you keep hurting me? I just don't understand it…"
"I don't know why. I don't want to. I just want you to be okay and I want you to be happy and I want to be with you so much and I don't know if you feel the same way but I'm pretty sure you don't because of how much I've hurt you and I've only known you for a couple hours and I've done so much wrong but I just want you know that I really don't want to hurt you." He took a deep breath. He had been talking so fast that he wasn't even sure if Flame Princess could understand most of what he said.
Flame princess didn't say anything but she stood up from the rock she was sitting on and walked over to him. She was standing just a few inches away from him, looking directly into his eyes. Then she wrapped her arms around him. Finn started to wrap his arms around her too but then he started to feel the pain. Struggling to stay still, not to whimper or betray the pain, Finn finished wrapping his arms around her and held tight.
A tear slid out of his eye and fell onto her shoulder. Flame Princess jumped back and stared to glare at him before she saw that he had burns on his arms and a portion of his face. Then her expression turned sad.
She stepped back and started to speak softly. "I really don't want to hurt you too…"
Then she leapt into the air and was gone.
Finn just looked up into the sky and watched her disappear.
Thankyou all for reading. I hope you enjoyed it. For anyone who's read my other stories
-Omg! I'm branching out! But don't worry I won't neglect my Zelda stories. Funny, I write MaLink fics and FinnxFP fics. I guess I've got a thing for red lol.
For everyone who hasn't read my zelda stories, you might like them, they're darker than these but decent enough. Please review and tell me if it was any good since this is my first forray out of Zelda territory.