Chapter 1

Marceline's POV

I was gone for two days. Two simple, insignificant days and my world has been completely torn apart. I look at the ground. There is a stone sticking up from it with a red sword punctured in the ground beside it. I almost couldn't read the words through my watering eyes. I didn't believe them. It wasn't even possible in my mind. I trace the letters as I float above the dirt mound. FINN. I break.

"Arhh!" I scream into the night, but no one's there to hear. How could this have happened? I can't keep myself afloat any longer. I land on the mound hard and curl into a ball. I'm completely broken. I never really thought that this could ever happen! Why did I leave? I claw at the dirt, scrunching it all up in my hands and letting it fall back down in clumps.

"Finn…" I say through my sobs. "I never got to tell you something, wanna know what it was?" I sit upright and look out into the vast darkness.

"I love you," my voice quivers. I loved you… my mind corrects. I slam my fist into the stone, creating little cuts all along my knuckles. It's not right. Why is it that I must go through this grieving? Why did I become attached to a human? I should have expected this to happen, but I can't accept it.

"YOU CAN'T BE GONE!" I scream, refusing to use the word dead. "You can't leave me…" Then, I lose it.

I turn into a monster, clawing at the Earth and leaving deep gashes, until I find something wooden. I accidently leave a large gash in the precious wood. I return to myself and lay against the cold, hard surface. He is on the other side. My mind taunts. The thought it so alluring. I rip the lid off. I gasp as I look into the pale face.

"Finn…" I croak and then scream the loudest, blood curdling scream that I could produce. It just wasn't possible, but there he is. He looks so much alive, I can't handle it. I hug his lifeless body and sob.

Follow him. I agree to my thoughts. It's almost morning. The sun will rise and make its cycle. And I will be right here. Be with him forever.

I can see the sun coming. It is almost upon me. And then it strikes. I scream out at the pain until I can't feel it anymore. I remain in that spot, not daring to move away from him. I won't let him go alone. It's taken me this long to find someone like this, I'm going with him. My arm starts to char and I don't even care.

"What is this?" I hear someone outside the hole cry. "Marceline?" I scream from the rush of emotions as Jake reaches down for me and drags me out of the hole and under the shade of the trees.

"No!" I scream and try to fight my way back to Finn. "I want to go with him!" I cry.

"You can't Marceline! Calm down, please!" I don't want to, but I don't have the energy to fight anymore. I give up. I become completely limp and I want to just disappear. If it was possible to evaporate into nothing, I would do so willingly.

The dog soon comes back from fixing the grave and picks me up. I don't know where he is taking me, but I try to fight. I don't want to leave. I don't want to.

At some point, we arrive at the place I would lastly want to be: The Candy Kingdom. Why would he bring me here? He takes us up to Bubblegum's room where she starts to examine my arm and bandage it up. Her eyes are puffy and red. I must seem like an insane person, but I don't care. I don't care about anything anymore. And now I have to live for the rest of eternity feeling like this. I don't' want this.

"Why?" I croak. Bubblegum and Jake look over my way. I am now lying on Bubblegum's bed, staring into the ceiling.

"Why what?" Jake asks.

"Why did you take me away?" I can feel myself starting to lose it again as I wrap my arms around my head. "I wanted to go with him. WHY DID YOU STOP ME?" I scream and start to bawl my eyes out, not caring who sees.

"Because, I can't let you kill yourself over this. I lost my brother, and I'm not trying to kill myself." Jake says coldly.

"But I wanted to go with him! I…I love him," I choke on the words as they spilled from my mouth. This is the worst pain ever. Heart break. My heart is broken, completely shattered into little tiny bits that can never be reassembled. I don't care who is hears my confession.

"It's ok, Marceline," Princess Bubblegum says. "We will all miss him." I snap up.

"No, it won't be ok!" I hiss. "I will have to live the rest of my life without…without…" I can't say the word: him. "It has taken me a thousand years to find him and now…" I curl up in the bed and ignore them as they try to comfort me. I just lie there until I cry myself to sleep, wishing it were oblivion instead.

"Marceline! Wake up!" Someone yells in the room. It's morning and I can barely open my eyes. They fill so heavy and sore. I have to blink many times before I can see clearly. At least Bubblegum and Jake had the courtesy to keep the curtains closed.

"What?" I croak.

"We have something to tell you. Something that PB found out!" Jake the dog says. He seems a little too excited. I want to slam him into the ground.

"What could you guys possible want to show me? Because I simply don't care anymore," I say and wrap the pink blanket tighter around me.

"It has to do with Finn," Jake says. He now has all my attention. "Yeah, thought you'd listen after that."

"What is it?" I ask as Bubblegum enters the room.

"Oh, Marceline! You're awake!" She says, cheerily.

"Why are you two smiling?" I say with venom. They give each other a look and then Bubblegum begins to speak.

"I think I may have found a way to bring Finn back," PB says.

"Impossible," I say. Jake comes closer and touches my arm.

"No it's not! I remembered something that happened awhile back!" he says and shakes my arm. I raise my brow.

"Go on," I say and he tells me of a time when he and Finn accidentally killed PB's princess plant and had to go to Death to retrieve the plant's soul.

"Wait, you mean we can actually go to Death and get Finn back?" I exclaim. Jake smiles.

"I think so! But we must beat him in a musical battle or something!" Jake says. A musical battle? Well, I've got this one in the bag then!

"Let's go. Now!" I order and get up off the bed. Princess Bubblegum stops me though.

"Marceline, we must discuss something first though," she says. I stare. "You see, a human's soul is different than a plants. His soul could have become warped in the afterlife or anything. And Death might want more than a musical battle for a human soul as well. We must assess the risks."

"I don't care what I have to do, Bonnibel!" I shout. "I am going to get him back!" I push her away and look at Jake.

"Take me to Death."

A/N

Hello All! I'm back and with a new fic! I'm still in the process of writing Illuminate My Eternity Part 2, but it will be like another two weeks before I post that. So yeah, musical battles and what not. Hope y'all liked this chapter, even if the beginning was a little morbid and such. And yeah, Marcie seems a little emotional and very out of character at times, but how would you act if you'd finally found the person of your dreams only for them to die before you could tell them you loved them? That's my reasoning at least. Also, this chapter was inspired by the song "Like You" by Evanescence. You should give it a listen, it's really good! And I'm terrible (lazy) at formatting, so if anything is wrong, my bad, haha.

Will Marcie, Bubblegum and Jake be able to retrieve Finn's soul? And if they do, will he be the same ol'Finny we all know and love? Find out next time!

A very special thanks to Neverthrive and TheStinkyFoot for being my test subjects for this story. Thanks so much buds, it really means a lot! =D

Another thing, this story will also be on my DeviantArt account if you would rather read it there or just want to check out some of my Adventure Time crap (The fic may be updated faster on there). My username is HNRat.

A Little Preview, cause I enjoy previews =)

I looked into the clear box in defeat. There was nothing else I could do.

"I'm sorry," I whisper and the sorrow filled blue eyes looked up at me apologetically. I put my hand against the glass like structure and he did the same. This may be the last time we ever see each other. I could have saved him, but I screwed up everything and there's no fixing it now. "I'm so sorry, Finn!"