Chapter One: Welcome Back To Life

"You'll never win, Ice King!" Finn shouts as he delivers a painful round-house kick to the Ice King's head.

"Ouch, Finn!" The Ice King rubs his sore temple as he shrieks bitterly. "That was uncalled for."

"You kidnapped Lumpy Space Princess." The young human adventurer gestures across the castle of ice over to the ice cage where a large purple puff-cloud floats mid-way above the ground. "Creepy, old blue wizard dudes who kidnap lumpy purple princesses get kicked with in the face. It comes with the job."

"Well! You could be more gentle, I bruise like a banana."

Jake, Finn's best friend in the whole wide world who just happens to be a magical talking dog, comes up to the Ice King from behind and gives him a 'boot in the poot' (or kick in the butt). "Ha ha, Ice King you are so easily distracted!" Jake laughs while, literally, sizing up his fist into a ball of destruction. Of which he proceeds to SMACK! the lonely old wizard with, into the ice cage.

"Forget you guys!" LSP yells in a very masculine voice for a very lumpy, spacey princess. "I'm out of here!" She flails her arms as Finn delivers another kick to the ancient ice wizard. "Brad! Brad! I'm coming Brad!" LSP flees the ice castle in the Ice Kingdom, and floats her way to her pseudo-lover, Brad.

The Ice King explodes in a flurry fury blast of ice and snow, knocking both Finn and Jake off their feet. "Enough!" Shouts a lonely old man, who just wants to fill a void with various princesses of all degrees (and even a few who aren't princesses at all). "I just want a princess to love and care for", he weeps softly. "Why", the Ice King raises his hands, enraged. "Why can't I just have a princess to make my queen!" With that, he slams his fists down, shattering the ice floor of his ice palace throne room.

"Ahaaaaaaaaa!" The three scream in unison, as they fall several feet on to a thick bed of perma-snow. With an oof!, they slowly stand up, until Finn drop kicks Ice King in the face, KO'ing him into a frozen statue.

As per the usual victory, Finn and Jake respectively compose themselves into goofy positions and fist bump. Yet right after the sacred victory rite, the Ice King sails over head. "Holy crud!" Finn gasps.

"Who are you?"

A young girl around Finn's age, with almost exact dress, slaps her hands together as if clearing them of the dust of a herculean task. "My name is Fionna, I was frozen by the Ice King." She explains.

"You two look look a lot alike." The magic dog notes. "Same white, puffy hat. Same blue shirt, same blue shorts, except hers is a skirt. Even the same green bag. What's going on here?" The Finn doppelganger walks over to another statue and liberates it. "She even has a cat! I bet its magic!" When Fionna bends over to pick up her sword, her hat falls off. "And she's human! Oh my Gosh!"

"Of course I'm human, what do I look like? A race of sub-human fish things?"

"Kinda." Jake mutters as he shrugs, remembering a particularly disappointing misadventure. " We thought Finn was the last human. Who's your cat? I hate cats."

Cake hisses at Jake, amassing a massive size in an intimidation effort. She even puffs out her coat for good measure. "I am Cake! And you better not even think about messing with my baby girl, Fionna! Or I will slice you with my huge, kitty-cat claws!" The shape-shifting cat unsheathes her claws for good measure.

"Well I'm human. And I have to go see Peppermint King at once!"

"Um, who?" Finn asks.

"The leader of the kingdom." Fionna says matter-of-factly.

"He ruled over 900 years ago. Wasn't he one of the first Candy royalty?" Jake asks.

"He is- was the first!" Finn and Jake look at the lost little time traveler, their jaws a gap with utter shock.

"She has future shock, dude." Jake whispers as he elbows Finn.

Fionna humphs at Jake. "Cake, let's go. These guys don't know anything."

Finn raises his hand. "Wait! You don't know where anything is, Ooo has changed over the last 900 years."

"You don't even know what planet we're on, it's called Aaa."

"Not any more. They changed that name long ago, most people have forgotten it. But I learned about it from Princess Bubblegum." Finn explains as he blushes deeply.

"Bubblegum." Fionna says sourly, unaware of Finn's fondness for the current princess.

Jake stretches over to Cake and gives her a good sniff. "You smell alright, cat."

Rubbing the back of his head, the young human hero blushes at a hospitable prospect. "Why don't you guys come back to our house? You don't know where anything is anymore, and we need some help with an up coming journey to the Ghost Kingdom."

Fionna rubs her chin in consideration. "Yeah, why not?"

When they arrive at the huge, rickety tree house, night has nearly fallen. Jake sets up a bed for Cake and Fionna to share. As bed time nears, Fionna enters the room as Finn walks in from brushing his teeth. She starts to undress, Finn blushes.

"What the heck are you doing?" He freaks out.

"Getting undressed. We're both adventurers here."

"You're a girl!"

"And you're a boy. So What?"

Finn gives up. Resigning himself to simply avoiding her naked image. He couldn't help himself, with the overwhelming curiosity. So he peeked a few times. Fionna caught him every time, but didn't call him out and simply laughed at his coy curiosity.

Fionna slept in a massive white T-shirt, what with no other clothes in the tree house. "Night, Finn." She called, knowing he would blush. He did.

"N-night F-Fionna." Finn stutters, thinking he has a new crush.