Story Note: An AU set in a world where mythical creatures and magic exist, but humans often rarely contain magic power and most beasts are either hunted and/or regarded with hatred. This world takes in an older time-period, where electricity and plumbing exist but people use lanterns and less advanced devices still as well. Bonnibel is a princess and is 18 years old. Marceline is a dragon. So that you have a visual of what she looks like as a dragon, imagine a stereotypical serpent-like dragon, with the whiskers and lack of wings and whatnot. In my head, I see her with a very similar body to that of Haku's from Spirited Away. (Don't actually know what that species of dragon is called, whoops).
Disclaimer: Don't own Adventure Time. This story is for fun only.
Worst Case Scenario
by. xxBurningxx
Chapter One: Prison
The walls were adorned in bookshelves, filled to the brim with large tomes that contained vast worlds and endless seas of knowledge. She trailed her fingers along their spines, wondering what would be on her reading list for the day, a sigh escaping past her lips. Of course, it didn't matter which book she chose. She'd read every single one in the room at least three times, even the ones that were thousands of pages long.
Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum sighed, giving up on her hunt for an interesting piece of literature to read. Instead she opted for lying down on her entirely-too-large-for-one-person bed to stare at the ceiling. The pale pink of the wall wasn't exactly fun to look at, but at that point she didn't really have anything else to do.
It wasn't as though her life was difficult. She "wanted for nothing," as her father put it. The most exquisite foods were available to her, any fabric of clothing she desired, just about everything was within her fingertips should she request it. Except for perhaps the one thing that she was positive would never be granted to her.
Freedom.
The sweet and blissful ability to leave.
Release from the prison cell that was her room atop a tower in the Candy Kingdom.
For hours she would sit on her balcony and admire those below, trotting along on horseback or even just walking in the midday sun. From a rational standpoint, she could understand her parents - the queen and king of the land - being so overprotective of her, the only heir to the throne. But from a completely personal and maybe somewhat selfish view, it irked her to no ends.
She wasn't allowed outside her room except for dinner in the main hall with her parents. Other than that, all her supplies, clothes, food, whatever it may be, were delivered to her room by the servants. There wasn't a minute that passed when there weren't at least two guards waiting outside her door, keeping anyone from entering, or in her case, exiting.
It frustrated her so much sometimes that she had half a mind to attempt scaling down the tower, even if it was a hundred feet up in the air. Of course, whenever she reached that point of frustration, the logical part of her brain would knock her senses back into place, reminding her of the responsibilities she had looming overhead. She had a kingdom to rule one day; she couldn't be running away just because she was locked up for a little while.
Bonnie tossed herself off the bed and bounced back to one of the bookshelves, scanning the titles again. Nothing particularly spoke to her. She tried cracking open a classic collection of poems, managed her way through two of them, before tossing it across her bed and laying down again.
She groaned in annoyance. The boredom that had swept over her was intense, apathy settling on her shoulders like an unwanted anchor. At that point, Bonnie honestly had no idea what to do with herself.
In the end, she found herself leaning against the balcony railing, gazing into the distance, dwelling on the bustling people on the streets below, praying for a change of pace.
Author Note: I'm trying something very different here. In the past I've always fretted over the length of my chapters, trying to make them 2 - 3k words long. With this story, I'm not going to worry. I've decided that multiple short chapters and frequent updates will be better than me cranking out a chapter once every three months. I already have about five and a half chapters of this story written, and some chapters are like, 600 words and some are over 1k. It'll just depend I think.
This chapter is just to introduce Bonnie to our story, and the next chapter will be from Marcy's POV. We should be consistently switching between their POVs from each chapter, with the occasional POV from an outside source.
Anyway, I hope this train wreck of a story has caught your attention so far! Thanks for reading! Sorry for the crazy ridiculous shortness of this chapter, but like I said. Gonna try not to worry about it this time 'round. Next chapter will be up tomorrow!