"This is Treason disguised as a play! Guards seize them!" The Flame yelled out and his flame guards grabbed Finn and Jake.
"What?! No!" Finn cried out as him and Jake were held down to the stage. Both looked at the Flame King as he told his guards to search them.
"Sire, it's your daughter's scented candles!" The guard said holding the candle out for all to see.
"Uh..." Finn could not find the words as he tried to explain.
The Flame King looked at them both for a second, something about them seemed familiar, "Guards, Remove their masks!"
The Guards pulled their masks off, and the entire crowd was in shock, the Flame Princess's Boyfriend Finn the human and his buffoon Jake the dog. "Please we're trying to warn you about assassins!" Finn cried out as the Guards pulled them to their feet.
Sickos! Take them to the dungeon! At sunrise tomorrow Finn, the prince of the Grasslands will die!" The Flame King yelled as his minions cheered with delight.
As Finn was being dragged away, Flambo hiding within the crowd, ran off the warn Flame Princess, "This plan has gone from bad to worse!"
Flambo whispered to him self as he approached the edge of the Fire Kingdom.
Flame Princess was pulling at the grass burning it to a black crisp, thinking of when Finn and Jake will return.
"I hope they didn't get caught." She said out loud to herself as she continued to pick at with the grass.
Flame princess head shot up hearing, a familiar voice…
"Flame Princess, help! Help!"
Flambo came running to her, his face alight with panic. She caught him in her arms and tried to calm him down.
Easy, Flambo!" Flame princess said. "What it is?" His response was in panick. "It's Finn!"
Flambo cried. "They got him and he's gonna die tomorrow at sunrise!"
"WHAT?!" She cried out gripping the little flame booger even harder.
"Princess..can't...breathe" Flambo kept getting squeezed harder. Flame princess dropped him as she fell to her knees. "
"This is all my fault, I shouldn't have let Finn and Jake go to the Kingdom, now I'll never Finn again" she put her face into her hands and started to cry.
"Princess come with me" Flambo said as she got to her feet and they walked to the fire kingdom.
Her heart was beating painfully against her chest. She felt a mixture of fear, as she stood before the dungeon in the Fire Kingdom. She would only be more upset.
"The Princess would like to look into the eyes of the man who tricked us." Flambo stated simply to the guards, knowing that the truth would not gain her entry.
"Be quick." They stepped aside for the princess of fire not questioning her.
Her heart fell when she saw him, kneeling in the cell, his wrists burned from the ropes that held his arms behind the wooden stake in the ground. His backpack gone, and his head downcast.
She could not stop herself from running to him.
"Phoebe." And her name on his lips was like air for her to breath. And she knew she had made the right choice by coming back.
"I'm so sorry," she said, pressing her face to his chest, wanting the comfort of his touch.
"For what? This?" Not the least bit of anger touched his voice. She wrapped her arms around him and pulled herself close to him in the darkness.
"I've gotten out of worse scrapes than this." He almost joked. "Can't really think of any right now, but..." He smiled warmly at her.
She pulled slightly away from him, the guilt filling her up inside. "It would have been better if we had never met at all. Then none of this would have happened." She confessed to him.
"Phoebe, look at me." He waited until she responded, then continued to try and reassure her. "I'd rather die tomorrow, then live a hundred years without knowing you." And his eyes never left her's.
Finn suddenly began to sing,
"If i never knew you...If i never felt this love...i would have no inkling of how precious life can be...if i never held you...i would never have a clue...how at last i'd find in me...the missing part of me...in this world so full of fear, full of rage and lies...i can see the truth so clear...in your eyes...So dry your eyes..And im so grateful to you...I'd have lived my whole life through...Lost forever...If i never knew you…"
She wiped away her tears and sang, "I thought our love would be so beautiful...Somehow we'd make the whole world bright...I never knew that fear and hate could be so strong...All they'd leave us were these whispers in the night...But still my heart is saying we were right...For if i never knew you…"
"There's no moment i regret…"
"If i never knew this love…"
"Since the moment that we met…"
"I would have no inkling of…"
"If our time has gone too fast…"
"How precious life can be…"
"I've lived at last..." he kissed her gem.
"I can't leave you." And she held him tighter than before, as if she could keep him safe while her arms remained around him.
"You won't." He whispered to her. "No matter what happens to me I'll always be with you forever."
She held on for one more wonderful moment, and then released him.
As she walked away Finn watched her shadow,when she was gone he let his head fall. "And i'm so grateful to you...I'd have lived my whole life through...Empty as the sky.."
Flame Princess looked back at the cell door one more time before going up the stairs.
"Never knowing why..."
Both thought, "Lost forever...If i never knew you..."
She ran.
She ran away from him, away from her kingdom, her home, her family, away from everything. She finally, returned to her home, all she could do was weep.
Back in the Fire Kingdom the guards were having a big problem, Jake the Dog had escaped and they didn't know where he was at.
