Adventure Time fanfic (name pending)
Couple notes to start with:
Only saying this once: I don't own adventure time. Pendleton Ward still hasn't responded to my many generous offers to take at least 51% of adventure time off his hands. Besides the references to other stuff, the only things I own are the characters/other junk that weren't in the original show.
Another thing, this is a story I've been writing on and off for over a year, and it's the first thing outside school I've written. Please understand (lolz Nintendo reference), I'm sure more time went into coming up with ideas for this story than actually writing it, so forgive me if it seems a little scattered. Reviews and comments are always appreciated. I like to write, mostly to put my countless thoughts down on paper instead of daydreams in anatomy. If you guys and gals like my stuff, I may devote more time and explore the wide world that is fiction writing, so thanks in advance!
Any who, enough about me, on with the story!
This isn't necessarily an AU, it's just regular adventure time with non-canon events and characters (one being me ;D) Expect a few time skips and more dialogue than combat, but when there is combat, I'll try to make it as epic as possible. I'm still writing this thing, so if anybody has any cool ideas or suggestions fire away! I'm always open to ideas/criticism and I'll put credit where it's due. Jeez, way too much intro, anyways, let's get this party started!
-Chapter 1, New Challenger Approaching!-
Finn and Jake were trudging along the hilly grasslands of Ooo. They were just returning fom a dungeon crawl turned into a three day cave expedition. Needless to say, they were tired, hungry, weak, and in need of a shower. The cuts and scrapes on Finn, and Jakes' bruises and matted fur personified their spirits.
"Let's go in that mine, he says. It'll be fun he says." Jake grumbled to his brother.
"Shut it man, I'm too tired to deal with your sass right now. Plus, how was I supposed to know that scaffolding would collapse?" Finn groaned back to Jake.
"Finn, I'm pretty sure that sucky ladder was like, 80 percent termites."
"Yeah, I got a great look as we free fell down that shaft." Finn retorted sarcastically.
"Hehehe, shaft." Jake laughed to himself.
Finn gave Jake a confused look and didn't bother asking for an explanation. All of a sudden Finn's entire mood changed as he remembered his gathered loot.
"Hey! At least we still nabbed those raw power gems!" Finn reached for an absent backpack and his face returned to a frown, "…that are sitting in the middle of the spike trap where I got clipped in the shoulder." Finn lightly rubbed his aching shoulder while his hand was there. Jake stretched a hand up to his brother's head to pat it.
"Bro, I love you and all, but we have to have a talk about dungeon crawling."
-x-
After what seemed like an hour of walking, they came over another hill to see the treehouse off in the horizon. A smile came onto both of them as they started making plans what they'll do when they make it home.
"I'm going to make a stack of bacon pancakes ten feet high, take a very hot shower, and give Lady and the pups the biggest kiss ever…not in that order." Jake said thoughtfully.
"I should call Flame Princess and tell her what went down, I hope she didn't worry too much."
After another ten minutes of walking, the two heroes felt a faint rumbling in the dirt beneath them. They both stopped and started looking around the hilly landscape. Jake's ears were perked as he was trying to locate the source of said shakes.
"Bro, do you feel that?" Finn asked, trying to hide his apprehension.
"Awe, don't worry about it brother, it's probably just PB's herd of cotton candy horses."
Finn agreed and shrugged it off. As they walked the rumbling came back harder (that's what she said). Finn started to worry this may be more than some edible horses. Jake stopped and scrunched his nose in the air.
"*Sniff-Sniff*…Why do I smell pig?" Jake asked with obvious tension.
Suddenly the sound of a stampede roared behind them. Just before Finn could turn to react, he felt the dull side of a club slam into the back of his head. As Finn was falling to the ground, he saw Jake receive the same treatment.
-x-
Finn slowly opened his eyes. He was sprawled out on the ground, and his head was painfully throbbing. He looked to his right and could barely see Jake out cold and being tied up by their assailants. Finn felt the sharp prod of a blade poke his chest and snapped his gaze up to the cause of the threat. It was a masked goblin. He then noticed the rest of the posse, distorted sizes and shapes all riding giant animals, the giant tusks led him to believe they were boars. Finn was still very much dazed, so his senses haven't quite caught up yet. He could make out the goblin talking about "valuables" or something like that, but what he was saying was the least of his concerns right now.
'Oh stuff, this isn't good. Any day of the week Jake and I could mop the floor with these goons, but I don't have Jake's backup, and I'm barely conscious right now. What am I going to do? I didn't even get to call Flame Princess…' Ask and ye shall receive.
"YO! Do I have to separate you kids?!" A new voice rung out from the top of a bank not far from their position.
Every bandit Finn could see jerked and looked at the possible danger. Finn weakly turned his head to his left to get a look at the newcomer. All he could make out was a black and blue figure standing with his arms folded. The marauder who Finn guessed was the leader, rode out in front to shout, "Who are you weakling?!" He could hear the stranger snicker at the challenge.
"I don't think you and your boyfriends have room calling me a weakling as you beat up on an already beat up kid and his dog."
The leader became enraged as he spurred his boar to charge the silhouette with his axe raised. The figure chuckled and cupped his hands to yell, "So we're not going to talk about this like adults?!" The stranger's answer was another growl in spite. "Alrighty then, your funeral!" The newcomer taunted as he slid down the hill.
As he reached the bottom, Finn saw him pull a small rod from his back. "A stick?! He's gonna get cream-", Finn was left speechless after the next turn of events he witnessed. As if in slow motion, the rod grew at both ends, and contorted to what looked like the shape of a bow. At the snap of his fingers, a blue arc of electricity connected the tips of the now completed recurve bow.
The silhouette grabbed the middle of the arc, and as he pulled back, a solid bolt of lightning formed between his fingers, and let the "arrow" fly. The bolt through the air at a speed Finn had never seen before, so fast that the force alone knocked the bandit clean off the boar. A sudden explosion of electricity and light flashed and blasted the bandit skidding into the earth. The still-charging boar had no idea what it was getting in to.
"Alright Piglet, your turn!" The figure shouted as he started jogging towards his new foe. As if the whole bow out of nowhere thing wasn't enough, what happened next was just silly. Being closer than before, Finn could pick up a more detail. One detail being the bow glowing with blue runes before morphing again, this time straightening and lengthening (that's what she said). A blue spearhead formed on the end behind the stranger with small thunderbolt-shaped hooks flanking the blade.
Finn's new savior lowered into a dash, and as he neared he boar, he spun the spear blade out and slid with one knee down. Like the main dish at a luau, the spear staked the boar clean through. Still holding the spear with one hand, the newcomer stood up with surprising strength as he held the giant boar about his head. "Pulled pork anyone?" He said to the leaderless band of thieves.
The bandits looked from their crispy boss, then to his mount on a shish kebab, then down to the man responsible. Almost at once, they all let out a battle cry and charged forward to get revenge. "I'll take that as a no. Hey, catch!" The stranger said as he gripped the spear, swinging behind his back and throwing forward, launching the boar off his weapon. The huge animal collided with the front lines, knocking down most of their forces. "STEEERIIKE!" He said as he pumped a fist at his side.
The spear momentarily glowed with the same blue runes, and molded back into its first rod form as the figure slid it behind him again. He cracked his knuckles and said, "Alright you dweebs, let's get to know each other." He then dashed towards the bandit posse still standing. Finn lost sight of him as he dove into the fray of the bandits. All Finn could muster was, "Whoah…awesome." Just before he slipped into the black void again.
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WOW that was a long first chapter. Thanks for sticking around those who didn't rage quit halfway through. I'm still learning my way around the site profile wise, so don't before afraid to make fun of me if I label or name something wrong, help is always awesome. No idea when I'll get the next chapter up or how long I should make them, that could be totally up to you all. Like I said, any constructive criticism is always awesome, and I hope you guys enjoyed it!