Bubblee. The ABC challenge.

A is for Apple.

The great Vampire King of the Nightosphere walked around his humble home in deep boredom. Yes, he was walking instead of floating, again because of the boredom he cannot fathom himself. As he was in the brink of doing something beyond stupid, an apple appeared out of nowhere on his house's doorway. He grinned and started to walk over the fruit. But much to his dismay, the apple rolled away, as if inviting him for a game of tag.

"What the—no one ever dares to—" he muttered. He grabbed his hat –to avoid the sun- and he hurriedly flew towards the rolling apple. It rolled just about everywhere; in Ice Queen's lair, over the mountains, in LSP's hideout, in Fionna and Cake's tree house, the Candy Kingdom and any place one could imagine in Aaa.

Marshall Lee paused for a while, trying to catch his breath. He landed gently on the ground and was a bit amazed that the last place the red fruit rolled into was Ooo's Candy Kingdom. "How in the hell did I reach Ooo?" He mumbled to himself. He started to search for the apple that he was trying to catch and found it in the hands of a candy person.

"Hey! Blue candy dude! That's mine!" he said with brute force as he flew towards the poor shaking candy. The blue candy ran away shrieking, and accidentally threw the apple up on one of the castle's window. The Vampire King hurriedly went on the apples direction and found Peppermint Butler walking towards it.

Marshall Lee spared no time. He flew towards the peppermint as if it was his prey. When he thought he was about to grab Peppermint Butler, a certain brown bun blocked his way, causing him to collide with it. He withdrew quickly from the obstacle and tried to recognize who blocked his way. As he saw his blocker, he gave out a sigh. "Cinnamon Bun, you idiot." He muttered quietly.

As he was finished in grooming himself, he looked for the butler. But much to Marshall Lee's disappointment, Peppermint Butler nor the apple was nowhere to be found. He sighed in defeat and started to reflect on what just happened. "All the trouble I went through just for a stupid apple." He silently told himself.

The disappointed Vampire King started to float away from the Candy Kingdom but was abruptly stopped when he heard a familiar sweet voice walking towards his direction from behind. Before he could do anything, the voice was already very near to him.

"Marshall?" Princess Bubblegum said the moment he saw the floating vampire in front of her. Marshall Lee smirked a bit. "Hey, princess."

"What are you doing here?" she asked.

"Oh you know, strolling around... Ooo and all." He said as an excuse. He didn't want anyone to find out that he was having a wild goose chase with an apple, especially not to the princess of the Candy Kingdom. But the princess simple raised an eyebrow and folded her arms, obviously not buying his excuse.

"Uh-huh." Princess Bubblegum said dryly.

"Well yeah."

The two was caught in silence for a moment until Bubblegum gave up and showed him the red fruit he was chasing. "You were looking for this, right?" she asked straightforwardly. Marshall Lee gulped upon seeing the fruit.

"How did you know?" he asked.

"Because it's red. And some candy people reported that there was a male vampire lurking around my kingdom." She said.

"A handsome male vampire?" Marshall Lee added with a smirk, hoping to irk the bubblegum out of the princess. And sure enough, he got it right.

"You? Handsome? Give me a break." She said and rolled her eyes. The Vampire King snickered, and then swiftly grabbed the red fruit that was on Bubblegum's hand.

"Hey!" Bubblegum was taken by surprise.

"Hehe. Too preoccupied while thinking about me?" he teased. As he was ready to take a bite on his desired fruit, he quickly stopped when he saw legs on the red thing. "What the hell?!"

Princess Bubblegum giggled and grabbed the red thingy from Marshall Lee's hand and smiled. "That's my latest invention, Marshall. An artificial pet." She said. "The moment I finished making it, this fellow here hurriedly crawled away, as if he was taken hostage."

Marshall Lee raised an eyebrow. He cannot fathom the weirdness of the princess in front of him.

"Who would've thought that it could reach Aaa? Amazing, right?"

Marshall Lee sighed heavily in defeat. And then he realized something. He grinned mischievously and turned his gaze towards Princess Bubblegum. "You were trying to lure me here aren't you? By using that so called 'pet' of yours?" he said with a teasing smile. The princess on the other hand, blushed madly. She started to come up with some excuses.

"W-why would I even do that!" she exclaimed, trying to hide her deep crimson cheeks. Marshall Lee laughed a bit and flew closer to her. "Because you like me." He said, making the color of the blush on her face go even deeper.

"Me? Like you? Preposterous!"

"And besides, if I can't eat an apple today because of your crazy invention, then..." he leaned closer towards Princess Bubblegum. "I wouldn't mind eating the red on your cheeks, princess."

So I was bored and I need to do something to survive the summer heat. I took the ABC challenge and decided to write about my OTP :D Hope you enjoyed it~!

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It's a drabble, yes.