Once More

by C.O.Y.L

Finn the human boy has died. In his place, is Finn the man. He has caused grief and pain during his four year absence. But what he has caused, is nothing compared to what he will do. Chapter 6 up.

1. Alive

Once more

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Disclaimer: I don't own anything.

Yo. I'm new in this part of so I'll make this quick. This is the story of Finn the boy, or rather Finn the man. About my other fic, I'll try updating it within this week if not, then next week. I'm having really bad writers block with that story, and I think writing something different will help me with this writers block. I also need to explain that my computer had two viruses and that is the cause of my writers block. Having not written anything the past four weeks, I really need to jog my brain.

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Four years had passed since the incident, four painfully long years of grief. Jake the dog had taken to going to the gravesite everyday for the past four years. Having been there when it happened, he couldn't help but feel responsible. Everyday he wished that he could turn back time and react faster, but he knew that even if he was in a world filled with magic, nothing could ever change history. He was standing in front of the gravesite of the one he was mourning; beside him was his girlfriend, Lady Rainicorn. And beside her was Princess Bubblegum and Marceline the vampire queen. Lady had her arms around Jake, she was whispering something that only he could here.

"I know lady. It's just that I really want him back, it should have been me." He pouted and turned his attention back to the gravestone. Lady let go of Jake and sighed, she could understand his grief, but it would make him feel better if he knew there was nothing he could have done in that situation. The next to speak up was Marceline. Marceline had taken the news rather harshly; she had actually saddened and gotten enraged at the news, she couldn't believe that he died at such a young and tender age. She always thought that he would live old enough that he would start a family with someone, he would be playing songs with her even at the age of thirty, and that he would just grow old and die. She never expected that he would die just like that. She was more annoyed at the fact that a simple human could make her feel like that, could make her feel grief and pain of losing someone close to you. She always enjoyed his presence with her, he gave her what she had lost all those years ago, he gave her back a little bit of her humanity. Even for a brief moment in her immortal life, she just couldn't believe that the weenie was dead.

"Four years is long enough for grieving, I mean for an immortal like me. But" She paused as she adjusted her umbrella to cover her face from everyone around her.

"I still miss him." She admitted with a sigh. The princess next to her could feel for Marceline, she had taken the news just as harsh as she did. The first time she heard the news she thought it was a sick joke made by him and Jake. But when she approached Jake the morning the news came, she found out the truth. That it wasn't a sick joke, that it was actually the truth. She had locked herself in her room for four days, she didn't eat or sleep, she just sat in a corner and cried. She couldn't believe that he was dead. Finally, on the fifth day, a note slipped under her door. It was an invitation to the funeral. Her heart sank, but she finally sucked it up and went to the funeral. There, she saw almost the whole population of Ooo had come, from Marceline the vampire, to Dr. Princess, Flame princess and Flambo, Lumpy Space Princess, Billy the hero previous of Finn, and oddly enough, the ice king. When she approached the coffin though, there was no body, instead, inside was his sword. The blood red sword from his father, the sword made of demon's blood. She cried as she looked at the coffin, she had really wanted to see his face. But Jake had explained that he never found the body, though he searched for it for five days. Jake finally gave up on the sixth day, thinking, though he didn't want to think like that, that the body was eaten by wolves. That was one of the rare days where she wore black. Where she hid her pink hair from everyone, where she had lost her regal air and just cried. After the funeral was over she headed home and immediately locked herself in her lab. She spent the next three days working on a potion to find the missing body of the boy, but when she threw in a piece of his hair, hair that she got from inside his hat. It exploded in smoke, and after that incident, she found that she had stopped aging. She only noticed this on the third year however. Her scientific curiosity took over and she wanted to know when she would start aging again. So far, she hasn't.

"I know Marceline. We all miss him. We just didn't expect that this would happen." She looked to the gravestone. The gravestone that read:

"Here lies Finn, the greatest hero in all of Ooo."It started raining, and Princess Bubblegum had opened her own umbrella, as to keep her sugary hair and body from melting. Jake and lady Rainicorn didn't mind the rain. They just wanted to mourn over the death of their friend.

"Well, I have to go. If I stay up this late in the mourning, I'll wake up too late in the night." Marceline said as she turned around and started floating away. But out the corner of her eye, she saw someone approaching them, sword drawn. She looked straight at the approaching figure and saw that it was the figure of a man; he was holding a regular sword, a silver sword that had a blue handle. He also had a shovel behind his back and was wearing a hooded poncho, and inside the poncho the man was wearing a brown long sleeved shirt, though the sleeves were folded all the way to his elbow. He was wearing some blue jeans and wore black shoes, though she didn't see his face because it was covered by the hood. The man gradually began picking up speed, and soon blew into a full on sprint. Jumping over the mourning trio, he landed on the tombstone, his back turned toward them. Marceline had floated back down and glared at the man's back, she had a feeling that they'll need her help. Jake started growling as soon as he landed on the gravestone while PB had jumped in surprise but recovered soon enough to say.

"Excuse me, but you have no right to trample and stand on top of our hero's tombstone. We don't care who you are, but do not mock him." She explained in a sickeningly sweet tone. The man had relaxed his arm, so his sword was only on the level of his hips.

"I heard of the sword." Was his only answer, Jake's eyebrows furrowed.

"So? You want it or something?" He asked. Marceline face palmed at his question.

"No, he's here to give us all spaghetti." Marceline answered sarcastically. Jake smiled.

"Really? Then I'll have mine with extra cheese!" Jake answered excitedly, this time everyone face palmed. Lady had moved closer to Jake and whispered in his ear, Jake blushed a bright red, and turned to Marceline.

"Real funny Marceline. Real funny." He laughed sarcastically. Marceline and PB couldn't help but smile at him. But they quickly shook off their smiles as they looked at the strange man, who had faced them, but was still standing on the tombstone.

"Need the sword. Please don't get in my way." The figure said as he sheathed the sword on his back, indicating that he had a hidden sword sheath inside his poncho.

"Or else what?" Marceline asked defiantly, her face morphing to something scarier. Jake was taking a fighting stance while PB was enveloped by Lady Rainicorn, who was also bearing a hostile face. The man sighed, but didn't care as he grabbed the shovel from his back and started digging.

"Hey!" Jake shouted as he launched himself at the man, his fists growing to the size of a water melon. The man dropped his shovel and ducked under the huge hand, Jake's hand brushed right past his face. He then jumped in the air away from Jake, his poncho blowing from the increasing wind speed. Marceline had taken to the sky and chased after the backing figure.

"Vampire kick!" She shouted as she launched her out stretched leg toward the man. The man twisted his body and dodged the leg by just an inch. Marceline growled and faced the man again; he had landed on another tombstone. Jake growled and let out a "Rarrgh!" as he increased his mass to twice the size of the trees in the graveyard. He tried grabbing the man but the man squeezed through the gap of his hand and he started running up Jake's arm.

"Hey! Get, off!" He shouted as he slapped his shoulders where the man was currently running around. The man had to dodge as Lady decided to join in. She charged straight at him with her horn, but he dodged, and Lady had just impaled Jake's horn.

"Ow! Lady!" He whimpered as he massaged the spot where he was impaled in. Lady had started to apologize as she hugged Jake.

"Enough, no use. Just let me have the sword." The man said in a monotone voice. He dodged as Marceline attempted to tackle him. He landed but found that a sword was now on his neck. He sighed and relaxed, he turned his head to see his captor, and saw that PB was the one holding the sword with her right hand, her left still holding her umbrella. Her eyes were full of anger, and a little sympathy. He bowed his head and waited for whatever she was going to say.

"Great job PB! You caught'em!" Jake shouted in happiness as he shrunk back down to her regular sized. Lady was still wrapped around Jake still saying sorry in Korean.

"Great job Bonni, didn't think you had it in ya." Marceline praised. PB just smiled, but her smile suddenly turned into a frown as she looked at the captured man. She motioned for Lady, and after saying sorry for the 50th time to Jake, she moved beside PB.

"Call for an escort." She ordered. Lady nodded and took off towards the candy kingdom.

"So, who are you and why do you want Finn's sword?" She asked with a hint of anger in her voice.

"I don't want it, I need it." He explained. Marceline and Jake had approached the man and looked closely at him.

"Sorry, but only Finn can hold that sword, well, not necessarily only HIM. Anyone can, even ice king, though he can just make a sword made of ice, ooh! And also make them fall from the sky." Jake muttered about how awesome ice powers would be. Until Marceline elbowed him that's when he stopped.

"Well, my point is. Only Finn is good enough for that sword! And he's been dead for four years!" The last part he growled. Marceline approached the cloaked man and made a move to remove the hood covering his face. The man twisted his face as her hand approached his hood. Marceline sneered at his defiance, she began reaching for his hood in rapid successions, but each time her hand came close he would twist his head, thought he was still careful not to stab his neck on the sword, so she couldn't remove it.

"Graa! Stay still!" She shouted as she made one final move for his hood. She smiled as she finally got a hold of it.

"Now, let's see who's under this hood." She smiled coyly as she pulled the hood back. As soon as the hood was down, a flash of lightning struck near them, illuminating the entire area. Who they saw however, was the last person they expected.

Flashback when Jake last saw Finn…

"Come on Jake, mah bones are tellin' me someone's in trouble!" A fourteen year old Finn shouted for his adoptive brother, who was currently playing with Beemo, their game console.

"Come on man, since when did your bones tell you about someone being in danger?" Jake asked as he groaned, his character died and now he was all out of lives.

"Oh come on B-mo! I had like three lives left!" Jake whined. Beemo on the other hand just "hmphed" and walked away. Beemo was one of those consoles that don't take kindly to being complained too about her games.

"Oh come on Beemo! I was only kidding!" Jake tried to apologize, but Beemo had already left the room.

"Well, seeing as you have nothin' else too do, wanna see if mah bones are right?" Finn asked as he front flipped towards the door. Jake shook off his guilt and ran towards Finn, who had already opened the door.

"The last time your bones told you something, they said that you should jump in a lake full of table-leeches." Jake explained, remembering the time when Finn jumped into a lake, then came out full of leeches that were square. They had real trouble getting them off, but they managed in time, just when Finn was about to pass out. Finn and Jake walked out the door and closed it behind them, they started walking to the grass land.

"Whateve's man, it just means that my bones have a habit of finding trouble." Finn shrugged as he jumped over a snail. Finn turned around and saw that the snail was waving at him, so he waved back.

"Whoa dude. Check that out!" Jake stopped walking and pointed towards the apple forest where Tree Trunks lived. Finn immediately saw two giant gumball machines, the gumball guardians, as Finn likes to call them, were stomping on what looked like pixies. Finn began running towards them, while Jake tailing behind.

"Aw, dude! It's the forest pixies! You know, the ones that hate you for being in there territory." Jake groaned. He was not in the mood to save someone that wouldn't appreciate it.

"Well, me too, but I'm bond by my hero's code!" Finn shouted the last part as he jumped on the foot of one of the guardians. He began climbing up his leg all the way to his face. Jake had taken the liberty to gather the pixies and transfer them somewhere else, even after being hit and bit by them. Finn stopped in the middle of the guardians face.

"Yo! Guardian! What are you doing destroying these pixies homes?" He shouted as he knocked on the glass face of the guardian, Finn was then grabbed by the guardians partner and was held in its hand, its grip as hard as steel, Finn unable to wriggle out of the giant hand.

"We do not mean any harm to these pixies; we only came here to investigate a sudden change in the weather." The guardian in front of Finn explained.

"Yeah? Then why were you stompin' on these pixies homes?" He retorted. Before the guardian could answer though, Jake had stretched all the way to guardians hand.

"Hang on buddy!" He shouted as he squeezed through the guardians hand. As soon as he was inside the hand, Jake immediately began increasing his mass. Soon, the guardian was having trouble keeping his fist closed. He tried using his other hand to help the hand keeping Finn locked in, but this proved futile. We one sudden pop, Finn and Jake were free.

"Haha! No one can keep me and Finn trapped for so long!" Jake laughed triumphantly.

"We do not wish to trap you, we only wish to explain." One of the guardians explained. Finn looked at Jake, who nodded.

"Alright, let's here what y'all have to say." Finn said as he sat down on jake, who turned into a couch. The guardians explained that they found the temperature here was dropping significantly in the last five days. Princess Bubblegum thought that it was a rare solar system event that only happened once every 150 years. She thought that Neptune, being so close to Earth and its moon, had altered the orbit of the moon. And that the gravity of the moon was affecting the weather patterns here by gathering clouds filled with water in this spot. Finn and Jake didn't really follow any of that, but as soon as the guardians finished explaining PB's theory, there faces darkened. the guardians knew different, they knew that this was no ordinary thing that happened annually. They knew something was coming, but they didn't want to tell Finn and Jake, however, Finn had picked up on this and pressed for information.

"Yo! Guardians! What are you hiding?" Finn shouted as he jumped off the Jake couch, and landed in front of one guardian. Jake morphed back in his original shape and walked over next to the now standing Finn.

"Hey man, what makes you so sure that their hiding something?" Jake whispered to Finn's ear. Finn just shrugged. The guardians looked at each other and nodded.

"Finn the human, what we are going to tell you is of grave importance. We cannot reveal this to anyone else except for you." One of the guardians explained in a deep booming voice.

"What about Jake?" Finn asked as he looked at Jake, who was looking straight up at the guardian.

"We cannot reveal this, we are deeply sorry, but only you Finn the human, can possibly help us." The guardian said as he reached down and grabbed Finn, resulting in a loud scream by Finn.

"Hey!" Jake tried reaching for Finn but he too was grabbed by the guardian. The guardian readied his hand behind his back. Finn saw this and immediately began squirming.

"Not cool! This is so not cool! Let go of Jake!" He shouted/ordered as he kept squirming. Jake had trouble also, he found that no matter how big he got now, there was no stopping the guardian from throwing him across Ooo.

"He will survive, but we cannot reveal this to him." He said with finality. After saying this, the guardian launched Jake in the air.

"Jake!" Finn's voice cracked as he saw his brother thrown in the air.

"Finn!" Jake reached out as he flew threw the air. After three seconds, Jake was nowhere to be seen and heard. The guardian set Finn down.

"What the zip was that for!" Finn shouted as his face reddened with anger.

"He will survive, but now for our problem. Finn the human, the land of Ooo, will be destroyed."

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"Finn!" All three people shouted as they saw who was under the hood. The blonde hair and blue eyes were a dead give away to who it was. It was the person who was supposed to be 6 feet below. PB dropped the sword she was holding and backed away, tears swelling in her eyes. Finn turned around and faced her; it was obvious he looked sad.

"Hey Jake, Bubblegum, Marceline." He said with a monotone voice. Jake immediately enveloped Finn in a bear hug.

"Hey? You've been dead for four years and all you can say is hey? Come on buddy! It's us! Your 'Friends'" Jake emphasized the word friends as he hugged Finn tighter. Marceline had flown closer to Finn, who was now awkwardly bent because of how hard Jake was squeezing him.

"Wow, it really is the weenie. And I thought I was immortal." She smiled as she punched Finn's arm playfully. Jake had let go of Finn and Finn was now standing on his two legs. Marceline went over and hugged him also, although it was brief and stiff. Finn hadn't reacted to this. The rain had stopped falling and PB had dropped her umbrella. She made her way around to face Finn. As she saw him, she felt her heart swell, he was still alive. She thought.

"Finn, i-is it really you?" She asked with tears swelling in her eyes. Finn faced her and nodded.

"Yes, it is me princess." He said monotone. PB enveloped him in a hug. This hug, unlike the other two, had more feeling.

"Finn, I can't believe it." PB said as she rubbed the back part of his head tenderly. If one would listen carefully, one could hear faint growling coming from Marceline's direction. But it soon died down as PB let go of Finn. PB raised her hand and waved at the approaching police marshmallows and carriage. Lady Rainicorn had

"Princess, you called for an escort?" One of the marshmallow officers said. One of the marshmallow officers turned at who they were gathering around on. He saw Finn, and his eyeballs jumped out there sockets.

"Whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa! Finn the human? You're alive!" He shouted and asked at the same time. Suddenly Finn was surrounded by the officers and regular police marshmallows. Asking questions on how he survived. Finn looked to the ground and sighed. He cleared his throat, making everyone hush up. He opened his mouth to speak.

"Bubblegum, I have to tell you, Jake and Marceline something. But we need to be in private." Finn said with a little feeling this time, PB cringed at him using just her name; it was like they weren't close anymore.

"Ok Finn, we will come to the castle and discuss things there." She said, her voice had a hint of concern, but she shook it off as she went inside the carriage. She held out a hand towards Finn, wanting him to ride in the carriage with her, but he turned it down and began walking towards the candy kingdom, which one could see just over the hill. Marceline moved inside the carriage and floated adjacent of PB. PB looked at her with a confused look.

"What? I don't feel like carrying my umbrella around. Besides, it's a one way trip with this carriage. Knowing myself, I'd probably get distracted by a red colored flower field." She explained. PB shrugged as she turned to Jake. But he was now walking along past Finn towards the candy kingdom. PB motioned for the driver to go. And soon enough, they started for the candy kingdom.

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Marceline sighed as she looked at Finn talking to Jake as the carriage shook up and down. PB noticed this and smiled.

"You missed him didn't you?" PB teased as Marceline turned to her. Marceline smiled coyly at her.

"Of course I did. He was great be around with, and he tried helping us no matter how hard the problem was." Marceline explained. PB was about to say something but Marceline interrupted.

"I always thought he would grow up and looked scrawny and weak. Turn out I'm wrong." Marceline said as she looked at the muscular body of Finn. Not like body building type muscular, but like a regular, exercise seven times a week guy. He was all around muscular.

"True, he was lanky as a kid. But never mind his body, wonder where he's been the past four years." PB exclaimed as she joined Marceline at looking at Finn. Marceline thought for a moment but shrugged.

"Not across the ocean that's for sure. He'll probably tell us when we get to your castle." Marceline said.

"What gave you the idea that he wasn't across the ocean?" PB asked in curiosity at Marceline. Marceline raised an eye brow at PB.

"Didn't you know he had a huge fear of the ocean?" She asked as a smile crept to her face. PB looked flushed.

'Wait, Marceline knows something about Finn that I don't?' PB thought as she looked at Marceline.

"He has a fear of the ocean?" PB asked Marceline. Marceline nodded as she looked at Finn, who had taken to ignoring Jake's ramblings.

"Yep, big time. When he was still 14 I occasionally flew him to the ocean. I flew over the ocean with him, he couldn't stop screaming! Man that was hilarious!" Marceline chuckled as she remembered how Finn hugged her desperately saying "Don't let go!" or "Get me out of here!" Then she decided to be mean and drop him, Finn screamed so hard it could be heard all the way to the ice kingdom. She did catch Finn as he was about to land in the ocean. But he made her promise never to do and speak of that event again. It took a little convincing, but she did eventually agree to it.

"What are you chuckling about?" PB asked with disdain as she looked at the slightly blushing and chuckling Marceline. Marceline again shrugged as she opened the carriage door and floated out, umbrella in her hand, Marceline closed the door behind her and floated next to Finn.

'Finn, I wonder how you've grown?' She thought as the carriage moved past the giant gate of the candy kingdom.

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First of all, I love this series. It just tingles me whenever I watch it. Second of all, I still haven't watched the fourth season, but I' am placing fic this right after the episode "Goriad" This will be for slightly mature audiences, and I get most of my info from the wiki page of adventure time. But anyway, forgive me for any mistakes and wrong grammar. I promise that I will get better. Just need to brush off some rust. Reviews are always welcome, so is constructive criticism, but all them flamers that don't justify there reason for flaming, can go burn. R&R. C.O.Y.L out, peace!

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The latest chapter of behind words is half way done. 6000 words so far. This part is only for the readers that enjoy my writing style and just read my fics. Thank you.