Once there was a little girl, she had blonde hair, which hung in low pigtails,and her long curly bangs swayed to the right. She lived alone in a little log cottage in the woods. The cottage happen to be near her best , and only,friend, who happened to be a magical cat named Cake. Cake was the closest thing the girl had to family. And if you are wondering who this abnormal sounding girl is, she is Fionna, the only human known to live in the forest named Aaa.
Cake always took care of Fionna. That meant Cake fixed her clothes, when they needed to be patched up, brought her food, and kept her company so that she wouldn't feel alone. Fionna was currently on her way to Cake's house, and although Cake lived near her, it was still quite a bit of a walk, So she walked along in her semi-torn blue dress. Every few seconds she thought she saw something move behind, or to the side of her. However, she dismissed the movement as a rabbit or a racoon, and continued walking.
"Who is she!" a black-haired boy asked himself.
He had little black wolf ears poking out of the top of his head, and extremely sharp teeth. Two of his teeth stuck out of his mouth making him look very similar to a vampire, which was enforced by his pale skin.
"I`ve never seen her here before..."
Fionna turned around quickly, upon hearing something like a voice, and the boy hid in the tree he was beside.
"Hello... is anyone there?" she asked. "Hello?" she repeated. Getting no answer she continued walking to Cake's house.
Fionna`s stomach growled, and she regretted not having a snack before venturing out into the could now see the trail that led to Cake's house. Fionna knocked on Cake`s door"come in!" cake yelle from inside. As soon as fionna was inside she was handed a stack of red cloth.
"uhhh I don't know if-"
" oh come on sweetie I knew you needed clothes, and they were out of blue so... TADA! i made you this so... go change!" cake yelled shoving fionna into a small changing room.
"oh man, I don't think red is 'my color' I like blue and green y`know ADVENTURING COLORS!" Fionna thought.
Moments later she was dressed and out the door, waving goodbye to Cake. Walking back to her house, Fionna kept seeing movement again, but this time she decided to kill time and chase after it.
"HEY! Heyyyy come back here!" Fionna yelled. "Come back little ... whatever you are! we could be friends!"
"ugh! girls..." the wolf-boy thought.
"Oh come on don't be a wimp come out... please?" Fionna said ending as cutely as she could.
" ok, ok stop yelling but I'm not coming out of this tree" the boy said.
"Oh what`s your name and why are in a tree?" Fionna asked.
" Marshall Lee is my name. And because I can be, and I like the shade. so what's your name red?" he asked.
"My name is Fionna, not red." she said grumpily.
"Ok sorry calm down... Anyways what are you doing out here, y'know alone, in an enchanted forest? Not a lot of humans come out here alone. Especially not little girls." he stated.
Fionna crossed her arms and puffed out her cheeks, a sign she was angry "I'm not little I'm eight, and i live out here."
"Oh... You know, it's getting a little dark, Red. Maybe you should be getting home."
He was right. The sun had started to set and she didn't want to be out after dark. Just last week it was discovered there was an evil queen with ice powers living in the woods.
"yeah ok, but you`ll be here tomorrow right?" she asked
"Sure, red." he said from his hiding place in the tree.
"ok, bye. AND STOP CALLING ME RED!" she said turning and running back to her house.
"What have i gotten myself into?" Marshall asked himself.
When she had almost reached her house, she ran into something while running, and scraped her knee. "Ow, ow, ok ow...stupid tree" she said not looking at her new enemy, the tree.
"Sorry to interupt your, umm, mumbling, but I am afraid I'm the culprit, not a tree." someone said.
Fearing it was the evil queen she had learned of, she quickly looked up. Although instead of meeting cold gray eyes she saw gentle purple ones.
"Oh sorry. I'm Fionna nice to meet you" she said getting to her feet herself since this guy obviously wasn't going to help her.
"I am prince Gumball. I rule the kingdom closest to this forest." he said.
"How interesting..." she said blandly.
"It is, in fact- oh my glob are you a human girl?" he asked suddenly.
"Umm, yeah... I live just over there. Actually, I can see my house so if you could move that would be great. You're sort of in my way." Fionna said a bit rudely.
"Of course sorry." prince Gumball said, moving over slightly, letting Fionna escape. Which she happily did.
Almost as soon as fionna was in her house Marshall Lee was in front of Prince Gumball.
"why are you here?" Marshall Lee asked him harshly
"Can i not visit lovely places and meet lovely ladies?" Gumball asked.
"no not here and not her. You better leave Fionna alone." Marshall demanded.
"I don't think she belongs to you Marshall. She isn't yours, and you don't own her so i will do as i want." Gumball said dominantly.
"I'm warning you Bubba. Don`t mess with her." Marshall said turning to leave.
"Don't worry Marshall Lee, she just scraped her knee." Gumball said.
Marshall Lee half-ignored the comment, but he had been a bit worried about the abundant smell of blood that was unmistakingly hers.
"Whatever, jerk. She isn't going to see you tomorrow is she?" he mumbled triumphantly to himself.
The next day Fionna woke up smiling. she had met two new people in one day.
she was ecstatic, to say the least. She could not wait to go visit Marshall Lee. She was going to try and convince him to come down from his dumb tree.
"How can I have a friend without knowing what he looks like? What if he goes missing? How am I gonna describe what he looks like?" Fionna had asked herself the night before when she had been trying to sleep. After plotting a bit more She decided it was time to get up. So she got put on her red dress, ate a sandwich, and left her house to go meet Marshall Lee.
When Fionna reached the same place that she had left him yesterday she called out for him with no reply, so she waited. only a few seconds later a voice said
"oh, you're back already" It was so creepy sounding it sounded different than Marshall Lee. Fionna panicked. She was afraid it was an accomplice of the Ice Queen. She turned around in a fighting stance ready to defend herself, but when she did all she saw was a boy. This Boy was a few years older than her, and he had shaggy black hair, with wolf ears on the top of his head, and purple eyes identical to Prince Gumball`s.
"Oh, ummm, who are you?" fionna asked bravely.
"Don't`t you recognize my voice,
Fionna? It's me, Marshall Lee." he said grinning creepily.
"Id that really you? You're adorable but you sound different!" Fionna squeaked.
"Looks can be deceiving.. and this is how I sound when I'm around ugly brats" Marshall hissed.
"sorry... are you feeling ok?" she asked him.
"Perfect" he replied.
"Well what do you want to do today?" she asked him trying to change the subject.
"Nothing to do with you" he said pushing her down.
Fionna sat dumbstruck for a moment before quickly getting up, and running away from him.
Fionna kept running until she ran into something warm and pink. she looked up to see prince gumball and his radiant purple eyes.
" Oh my glob Prince Gumball! Thank grob you're here. This, umm, guy, I think he`s gone crazy" Fionna stated frantically.
"It's okay, Fionna there are some messed up people around here,this is an enchanted forest after all" prince Gumball said calmly.
"Ugh! I thought that jerk was my friend!" Fionna yelled angrily.
"Calm down Fionna. That's what Marshall Lee does. He lies to people to get them to trust him." he said without really thinking.
"w-what? I never said who i was talking about..." Fionna said worriedly.
"Wait, What?" Prince gumball asked her.
"I said, how did you know I was talking about Marshall Lee? How do you even know him? Was that even him back there, or was it you? Because you guys have the exact same color of eyes, and that`s a little too coincidental don't you think, prince? If you're even a prince." fionna said in anger.
Prince Gumball got a crazy weird expression, and he pushed fionna to the ground standing over her with a solid gold knife.
"How did this happen" Fionna asked herself.
"Well it started yesterday after you went inside..."
:~ruining the mood with a flashback (yesterday after ML left PG outside Fi`s house)~:
Enraged by Marshall Lee, of all people, talking down to him, he decided to make him pay. So, Prince Gumball returned to his castle, and headed straight to his lab.
" Marshall Lee will rue the day he messed with me" Prince Gumball muttered under his breath as he mixed purple and sickly green liquids together.
After hours of work, Prince Gumball had three vials in front of him. Two of them contained powders, one was jungle fever orange,
and the other was lemon yellow. The remaining vile was a blood red liquid. Gumball picked up the vial containing liquid, and drank it. In an instant of intense pain Gumball looked like Marshall Lee, except his eyes were still purple.
"You wanna mess with me? Well let's see how you like when a mess with your precious little Fionna!" He shouted (A/N: insert lightning effects!)
:~returning to the possible stabbing in progress (imma cop)~:
"So are you gonna, like, kill me, or just jack my face up or something?" Fionna asked.
"I will do whatever I feel like because i am a prince and no one can tell me no!" he said followed by a very creepy laugh.
"You know, I have friends all through the forest. I battle all sorts of monsters everyday, and i'm only eight. You're, what? Ten? I bet you don't even know how to use that, but me? Yeah you can bet your life I do." she said quite calmly,
even though she had a knife pointed to her throat and a small gash down her leg.
"What are you like a negotiator,
or something?" he asked her.
"No, but if I scream right now Marshall Lee, Cake, and about 37 more people will come help me. So don't tempt me." she said threateningly.
"How would you scream if someone were to, I don't know, cut your throat?" he asked her maniacally.
"Pretty well considering, you couldn't do it. You've only cut me once so far, and even that was by mistake." she retorted, then screamed as loud as she could.
He lunged at her, but she quickly got away from him, and ran. She ran and ran until she was caught by someone, or something. when she looked and saw black wolf ears, she panicked. The Prince had gotten her again and now, she was going to die, at the tender young age of 8. She tried wiggling, and pulling away as best she could, but that jerk-prince was tougher than he looked.
"Red, chill. what`s wrong? I heard you scream, and- woah is that blood in your hair?" he asked her, which made her open her eyes.
There was no way the Prince would know about the red thing, plus it didn't even sound like the dumb prince.
So Fionna opened her eyes, and she saw the exact replica of what she saw before, but his eyes were now red instead of hideous purple.
"M-Marshall Lee?" she asked, more to herself than to him, but he answered anyway.
"yeah, but why are you so freaked out, and bloody?"
"P-Prince gumball" is all she could say in her current state of shock.
"Well, I did warn him..." Marshall Lee said, grinning happily
"Now i can beat the fluff out of him"
She was in shock. She didn't know what that meant, and she didn`t know why. Actually she did know why. Sure, she had fought tons of monsters before, but those weren't really directed towards her. those were her trying to save a small village from certain doom, but this, this was a personal attack. And it really scared her.
"Stay here, and keep your eyes shut. i'll deal with Gum-for-brains over there. oh,and try to calm down." Marshall Lee told her.
She sat completely still, with her eyes closed, trying to think of Cake's adorably chubby face... and failing. All she could think about was the two boys behind her arguing about her life, and getting into a fight.
"I warned you. You should have left the little girl alone." Marshall Lee yelled at gumball.
"Little girl? Is that all she is to you then? Someone you occasionally pay attention to, like that cat-thing Schwabble?" Gumball asked him, calmly.
"Wha- NO! I mean, Fionna is my friend, and , y'know, I want to protect her. AND JERK I LOVE SCHWABBLE!" Marshall Lee said defensively.
Gumball smirked.
"Whatever! I warned you before, now i`m going to mess you the fluff up!" Marshall Lee said showing off all his extremely sharp teeth and launching himself towards Gumball.
(A/N: I still suck at fight scenes I'm sorry!)
Midway through the fight, with Fionna still confused behind a tree, Gumball had a broken nose, which was bleeding, a busted lip, bruises all over his face, legs, and arms, and he was limping.
Marshall Lee had a few cuts and bruises, but nothing major, from what Fionna could see. It was so obvious who was going to win this fight, that Fionna felt a little bit better, but just when Marshall Lee was going to end this, and kill that stupid jerk someone was calling to them.
"Hey, you! You're under arrest!" all three kids turned to see two banana guards followed by about 10 marshmellow knights.
When they had finally reached the kids one of the banana guards said "Prince Gumball, you are under arrest." Fionna had a dumb look on her face, though no one could see from where she was behind the tree, and Marshall Lee just looked confused.
"You know how your sister feels about humans living in the Aaa and Ooo forests. They must be protected, and NOT KILLED. Do you are going to jail." One of the banana guards told him.
"FOREVER!" the other guard added in a spooky sounding voice.
"So I don`t get to kill him or anything?" Marshall Lee asked the guard, who had done the most talking.
"Kid i think you need to calm your girlfriend down" he said pointing to Fionna.
"She is not my girlfriend" Marshall Lee told him, but went to comfort Fionna anyway, while they carried Gumball out of the forest, and out of their lives.
"so, Red... you still shaken up about all this?" Marshall Lee asked her.
She just looked up at him with her big blue eyes. All he could do was sit down next to her on the tree root.
"You know, yesterday morning I didn't wake up thinking I'd meet a cute girl, who would flip my world upside down, and not the good way either."
He told her which made her begin to tear up with sadness, she had someone save her that didn't even want to be a part of her life, and she had ruined his life, as he had basically just said.
"I didn't think I would have to save her at the risk of my own life. If a lot of sane people had the choice, I bet they would do it over and would choose to ignore the problem, or go on a different path to avoid it, but me... I would have still wanted to meet you, Fionna." he told her.
She turned towards him, with tears brimming her eyelids, and hugged him.
"Thank you" she said into his shirt, though it was barely audible.
"No problem, Red. No problem" he said to her as she cried into his shirt.
:~SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE FOREST AND THE CANDY KINGDOM~:
Gumball pulled out the orange powered from yesterday and threw it on both of the guards, and all the knights, freezing them in place. Then he threw the yellow powder on himself which turned him invisible. he initially had a different plan for these powders but desperate times call for desperate measures. He only hoped he could get far enough away before the potion wore off, then he would start plotting his revenge on Fionna and Marshall Lee.
A/N: I kept it mostly the same and just fixed a few mistakes so I hope everyone still enjoys it and don't forget to read the sequel