Chapter One

Fionna's POV

I sat on the edge of the tree house as the glowing orange sun slowly lifted from the horizon. Cake came up and greeted me, at first surprised to see me up so early.

"Hey sugar why you up so early?" she asked, as she yawned loudly, " You thinking of her again?" she said as she sat down next to me. I looked over at her and noticed she was tearing up a bit, like I was. I felt a tear try to make its escape down my cheek, but I didn't let it fall.

"Do you think she'll ever even come back?" I said, my voice a tiny squeak. I thought back to the time a year ago, when I was twelve, and when Lionna was eleven. I regretted letting her go adventuring on her own, for she hadn't come back yet, like she promised. I was supposed to protect her; she was my biological sibling, but we had a stronger bond than that.

"Babydoll, I don't know," Cake said, looking down, she was crying a little now, "I hope she does soon…" Lionna was my little sis, my adventuring bud. No, she is my adventuring buddy.

"I know that you're out there, somewhere," I said as I stared at the world slowly awakening. Cake and I were about to cry when I heard a whoosh. A few feet from us, and a girl climbed out quickly, her face drenched with fear and sweat. She was on top of our tree house, too, her back turned against us.

"How nice it is to finally be able to see the beautiful sun again," she murmured, and I felt as if I suddenly recognized her voice. She sighed and adjusted her cat hat. At this I froze. She was Lionna. She had a hat just like mine, except it had cat ears and not bunny ears. That was Lionna!

She finally turned around and her expression told me that she was scared from what she was apparently running from. I recognized her face and clothes, as they were similar to mine, but we had different color hair and eyes, as well as different color clothes.

"Li-Lionna?" my voice was cracking a little, and Cake sat off to the side, her mouth opened in shock. Lionna's sad face slowly turned into a smile, one that I recognized.

"Hi, Fionna, hi Cake," her voice broke a little too, and I saw that she had let a few tears escape. We all embraced each other in a group hug, and this time I didn't fight the tears. We all sobbed right then and there, from the relief that Lionna had finally come home. She seemed really happy to be home, too. We soon wiped up all of our tears of joy and headed our way downstairs to set up her bed in our room.

Once her portion of the room was set up, all her instruments and belongings were organized and put away, and we pulled out her old bed, we decided she should have a " Welcome Home Lionna!" party. She went upstairs to take a nap while Cake and I set up the house and invited all of our friends, especially Flame Prince, my boyfriend since he was one of Lionna's closest friends.

"Oh babycakes! It's so great to have Lionna back," Cake yelled. It was really nice to have her back after so long. I smiled at Cake as she smiled back.

Marshall's POV

It was just a regular Sunday morning when I got a call from Fionna.

"Marshall! Come quick!" she half screamed. She went on and on for the next 20 minutes telling me about how she found her lost sister or something of that matter.

"So the party's now?" I growled, "It's so bright outside…"

"Marshall!" she snapped.

"Fine, fine. I'll be there in a while." I hung up and went upstairs to dress into a new outfit, grabbed my guitar and umbrella, and started floating out the door. I strummed softly along the way, floating in midair. I glanced at the time and found that I was late. I floated a bit faster, and in no time at all, I was at Fionna's tree house. Instead of going in right away, I spied on the partygoers through the window on the ceiling to scope out the scene to know what to expect. What I saw made me almost drop my guitar axe.

She looked like Fionna, but wore a red outfit and a blue backpack opposed to Fionna's blue outfit and green backpack. She also had big chocolate brown eyes, and hid her hair under a cat hat instead of Fionna's bunny hat. She looked like Fionna, but her hair seemed to be jet black, like mine, since her bangs fell loose from her hat like Fionna. She looked like Fionna, but was more… well, more beautiful. I shook my head.

Snap out of it, I ordered myself. I gathered up all my confidence, sung my bass guitar over my shoulder and floated down to the front door. I opened the door and greeted everyone inside, slowly making my way toward Fionna, Lionna, and Flame Prince, sipping punch while having a conversation.

"Hey Cinnamon Bun," I said "'sup Lumpy Space Prince?" Both just waved at me and I floated over to Fionna. "Hey Fi," I greeted Fionna, "Who's your friend?" I said, gesturing over to Lionna, whose eyes got big.

"H-H-He's a vampire!" she screamed, dropping her punch, " Everyone's in grave danger!" She grabbed Fionna and punched me right in the face.

"Li, he's harmless…" Fionna said, trying to comfort her, "Marshall is a friend."

I stood there, gaping at what she had done. I hadn't even caused any trouble yet and she was already terrified and angry towards me.

"No! You can never trust any of those blood-sucking demons!" Usually, I would sucker punch any person who dared to say that to the vampire king himself, but coming from her, it really hurt.

"Don't worry I won't hurt you," I managed to choke out. That only seemed to provoke her even more. I watched helplessly as the only girl I started to have feelings for in a long while was dragged away by Cake and Fionna, who were trying to calm her down. She screamed disgusting things at me and I felt my heart sink every time she called me something. Monster. Leech. Murderer. I never felt this way about anybody else, and the person I felt feelings for at the moment hated me for no reason. I couldn't help but start playing a sad song on my guitar.