My apologies to everyone who was reading the previous version of this story! I was trying to redo it and ended up deleting the whole thing somehow. So sorry! So now I'll just be re-uploading the chapters as I revamp them. Sorry about this! -LW
Pink Lemonade - A Bubblegum and Lemongrab(s) Fanfic
(Warning: May contain Lemon. Haha. I couldn't help myself.)
Prologue
The Earl of Lemongrab was absolutely horrifying! She never thought she'd think such a thing of one of her own creations, but the original Earl of Lemongrab had gone horribly wrong, and continued to decline despite all her best efforts to save him. Nothing had worked! Not providing him with ample space of his own and plenty of resources, not sending him subjects from the Candy Kingdom, and certainly not creating a specific companion for him- a second Lemongrab only seemed to double the original Lemongrab's chaos in the end, and he sought to impede his brother's very existence by trampling upon him, tearing him down, and even consuming him bit by bit. And the lemon children- he seemed not to care for them at all, but to possess and control them. Lemongrab the Horrible. The nickname was already whispered amongst her own subjects at home... and the nickname was coming to complete fruition.
Such greed and inability to care about anyone, even himself, was almost beyond even Bubblegum's capacity to comprehend. To witness his behavior made her physically ill to behold. How had this all gone so wrong? He had become an unfathomable abomination, her own monster. She watched her dear Lemongrab do the unthinkable- consume his poor brother whole. It was done, and the damages of his rampages were irreparable in so many ways.
As Bubblegum escaped with Finn and Lemonhope, she couldn't help but to stop and stare back he direction of Lemongrab, where he could be seen from a distance in his current globular, obese form flailing upon a high balcony. She could still hear him yelling and shrieking angrily at her, and she felt her heart break to know that his servants would suffer excess abuses, all because she defied him and escaped. No, it was all because she had failed him from the beginning.
Bubblegum felt her eyes well up with tears as Finn placed a hand on her shoulder, "It's not your fault, you know. He's just that way."
She shook her head, "I can't give up hope. Not now that there are so many lemon children to think of.." She whispered, grasping Lemonhope's hand firmly and pulling him closer to her side. The little lemon child sighed contently, resting his cheek against her arm as they began to walk again.
"I can't give up."