Authors Note; This story takes place after the elementals story arch in Adventure time. It's like every time Adventure Time bring Ice Kings past back up, I want to write about it again.
All though, truth be told. Adventure time never ever take it the direction I thought they would.
But you know, I also like that about Adventure time. Just, if anyone out there in the future reads this, you can note I started writing this right after the elemental arch finished and well, the show may do something compleately different with these two characters in the new future. Probably actually.
For Betty, it seemed like such a short time ago. For her it had only been a few months, a year tops. Since the day she had laid in her own couch, in her own apartment she shared with her wonderful boyfriend.
Waiting for said boyfriend to finally come home from Scandinavia. They intended to start planning a wedding when he came home, Betty wanted to start a family, she felt ready for it. And she knew there was no one she would rather spend her life with than Simon. That lovely scene now seemed so far away. For Betty it had only been less than a year, but as far as this world was concerned, over a thousand years had passed by. Everything had changed, the world itself had changed. Humans didn't dominate earth any longer, plenty of other new species had taken over. New kingdoms and new rules had formed, her world was gone.
Now Betty was laying on a cloud which was part of the cloud kingdom looking down. She had changed to.
She had gotten magical powers, the kind which beforehand had only been theories, now they turned out to be for real.
Sometimes Betty's head would be buzzing, as if the magic inside of her body was a constant energy source, filling Betty's head with ideas that wasn't her own.
But she welcomed it! This knowledge was her best option, to safe him.
Simon…. Betty squinted her eyes. She supposed she should feel touched that the ice king had come for her after the ice elemental had caught her. She supposed she should be thankful he had been nice to her.
But with every glance at him Betty was reminded, this person in front of her. With his hunched goblin like frame, his sharp teethes, long skeleton fingers, long pointy nose and milky white eyes. That had been Simon ones!
Simon! Her handsome boyfriend, with his warm brown eyes and smiling face.
Of course how handsome he had been was not the important part.
No! He was sweet and he was kind, he was intelligent and he was funny. He could be silly, he was often acting very silly. But Betty always knew she could count on him to take things seriously when it mattered.
He had made her laugh like no other person in the world could, he had encouraged her even when everyone else thought she was being stupid, making her feel so good about herself.
She remembered it so well, when it happened.
Simon had just come home and he was goofing around as usual to try and lighten her mood.
"You would not believe what those Scandinavians eat!" Simon had laughed. "Pickled herrings and then with a raw yolk un top! Gross!"
"Are you serious?" Betty asked.
"I really am! They ate that!" Simon exclaimed. "Maybe the yolk was to keep up their mighty viking strength?" he suggested.
"I heard drinking yolk is good for the hair." Betty commented.
"Huh, I thought my hair had gotten softer recently." Simon commented as he made a swing with his hair and Betty laughed. "Still my hair is not as pretty as yours princess." Simon smirked.
"Of course not." Betty let her own red hair out. "I'm your princess after-all!" And Simon grinned.
That's when Simon dug into his bag. "Hey check this out!" he said pulling up a golden crown encrusted with red jewels.
"Wow, what's that?" Betty asked.
"I don't know yet." Simon admitted. "I found it pretty much by accident at a junk shop." he admitted. "Seems like the owner didn't even have any idea of this crowns worth, neither do I right now, it's really odd. This design is not traditionally scandinavian at all, but the condition of the metal still suggest that this crown must be several hundred years old at least." he commented.
"Maybe the vikings stole it on one of their pillages to other countries?" Betty suggested.
"That's my conclusion as well, but I don't know what country that would be." Simon said holding up the crown. "Maybe Aztec?" he suggested. "That it's made from gold suggest that, could also look spanish."
"It must have been worn by some pretty powerful people." Betty commented.
"Oh yeah, Kings would wear this to show of their wealth for sure." Simon chuckled. "And now I got it! Hehe look!" he grinned as he lifted the crown over his head and then put it on.
Betty rolled her eyes. "Are you trying to show off your wealth?" she asked in a smirk, there was no respond. "Simon?" she asked as she turned to him and then blinked. "Simon?" she asked again.
For standing there right in front of her was Simon with the crown on his head, except he seemed like he had frozen to the spot standing straight and rigid, his eyes were wide open and his face expression frozen in a place of shock, he stood absolutely still, like a statue.
"Simon?" Betty asked for a third time then finally stood up from the couch. "Simon what are you doing?" she asked.
Simon didn't respond, just stood there in his petrified state. "Okay I get it Simon, you're like a king. Haha, you can take the crown off now."
Still Simon didn't move.
"Take it off you look stupid." Betty then asked, but Simon didn't move. "Simon, this is not funny anymore!" She exclaimed. "TAKE IT OFF!"
Then suddenly as she spoke, a breeze rushed over Betty's feet's, it felt cold, Betty looked down and suddenly realized a thin layer of rimfrost was covering the floor, she looked up and realized the frost was crawling over the window and soon mist started to escape her mouth as the temperature in the room was dropping. "What in the?" she asked as now, soft flakes of snow started to fall, inside of the apartment.
A soft voice spoke. "I want….. I want."
Wide-eyed Betty turned and now saw Simon, he was speaking slowly, his eyes still wide open as he spoke.
"Princess." Simon then said. "I want… my princess."
Betty's eyes widened. "Si-simon?" she asked.
At that Simons eyes suddenly snapped up and he looked at her, with a chilling gaze that made it shiver down Betty's spine and he grinned in a way that Betty had never seen Simon do before. "Princess!" he grinned as he stepped towards her, snow starting to whirl around him. "I want, my princess!"
"Simon!" Betty stepped backwards. "Simon you're scarring me, if this is one of your pranks its really not funny! SIMON STOP IT!" she screamed, only for him to jump straight towards her and grab Betty's arm in a tight grip, so much that it cut off the blood stream in Betty's arm. "SIMON NO!" she screamed.
"My, princess." Simon grinned as he pulled her in, Betty struggled and tried to get away, but suddenly his strength seemed inhuman as he grabbed her and held her tight. "Mine!"
"GET AWAY!" Betty screamed as she finally managed to push him away, Simon stumbled backwards and so did Betty.
"Urgh.." Simon groaned from where he landed on the floor, still with the crown on his head. "What? What happened?" he asked as he rubbed his eye. "What in the? Snow?" he asked confused then he turned to Betty. "Betty?" he asked.
Betty however was shivering, her eyes were terrified and a tear escaped her eyes.
"Betty? What?" Simon asked confused.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME!" Betty screamed as she jumped up and then ran through the door out of the apartment.
"BETTY!" Simon shouted as he ran after her, completely forgetting the crown still on his head. "BETTY WAIT! PRINCESS!" he shouted after her as he ran after her down the stairs, but as he did suddenly the tone in his voice changed again. "PRINCESS!" he now shouted sending out beams of ice and snow from his hand. "PRINCESSSS!"
The present Betty closed her eyes as she laid on her cloud… Was this all her fault?
If she had just stayed instead of so foolishly jumping into the future, what had she been thinking?
She should have known her Simon would never have acted like that. Not her Simon.
And now he was gone, and that thing had taken his place.
Betty had to safe him… Somehow. She just had to. She had to fix this, it was her fault, Simon didn't deserve this faith, no one did but least of all him.
Screw this world of Ooo, screw the Ice King. Simon was the only one who mattered… Betty would find a way to fix him, no matter the cost.