"Hey Marshall! Catch!" Fionna said as she threw the pixie at him.
He grabbed it and then used his axe bass guitar to hit it in the air and send it flying through the trees.
"Nice shot!" She said as she tried to catch another one, but failed. Pixies might seem like nice creatures, but if given the chance, they will be mischievous, which is all the more fun when you hunt them.
Two of them grabbed her shirt from behind and started lifting her off the ground. She struggled to get out of their grip but stopped when she looked down and realized that she was at least 100 feet in the air. They gave a tiny snicker and let go of her. "OH MY GLOB!" She screamed as she fell and was about to hit the ground when Marshall flew down and caught her.
"Thanks dude." She sighed in relief.
"You gotta be more careful, Fi." He scolded.
"I know. Now come on. Let's go hunt down those pixies!" She yelled enthusiastically, fist pumping the air.
"Got it." Marshall chuckled as he sped up towards the pixies. They looked at them in horror and dived for the trees. "Hang on Fi! Things are going to get a bit rough!" And with that, he started weaving through the trees, narrowly missing branches. Fionna covered her eyes and let out a small scream because she thought that she was going to hit a tree and die. Out of all the things she's faced, a tree would get the better of her. She felt Marshall slow down and then eventually stop. She looked up and saw that he caught the two pixies.
He smirked down at her and then started to snicker.
"What's that look for?" She asked.
"Fionna the brave, the last human in the land of Aaa who is supposedly afraid of nothing, is actually afraid of trees." He said doubling over from laughter.
"Shut up Marshall!" She yelled at him, her cheeks flushing red with embarrassment. "When you have a stupid vampire carrying you around, barely dodging trees at full speed, you'd have to be insane not to be afraid!"
He laughed even harder at this and sped up towards a tree. "Oh no!" He cried out. "We're going to hit that scary tree!"
Fionna stared at him with dagger eyes. She had had enough of this. She pushed against his chest and wiggled her way out of his grip, flipping through the air and landing on her feet.
Marshall was immediately by her side. "Don't tell me you're mad." He said.
Fionna just continued walking, not even glancing at him.
"Oh come on Fi! It was a joke. It was funny."
She stopped and turned towards him, crossing her arms.
"Are you pouting?" Fionna quickly turned around to hide her face, but Marshall grabbed her shoulder with his free hand and spun her around. "You're definitely pouting." He confirmed. He broke out into a wide grin and pinched her cheek. "You're so cute when you're pouting." He said in a taunting voice.
"Cut it out, Marshall." She said as she swatted his hand away and sat down near a tree with her back turned towards him.
She jumped when a finger jabbed her side. "Fiioonnaa." Marshall sang in a singsong voice. "If you don't stop being upset, I'm going to have to do something you won't liiike." He warned.
She ignored his warning. He sighed and started poking and tickling her. She got up and tried to run away, but Marshall grabbed her and gently pushed her down. He then proceeded to sit on her, practically straddling her waist, and continued his attacks. He smiled when she started to laugh.
"Marshall, please stop." She pleaded in between laughs.
"You done being upset?"
"Yes! Okay! You win!" She cried out.
He got up and stared at her with a smirk on his face.
She looked at him and then down at the ground when she felt a blush creeping into her cheeks. She walked over to him and punched his arm. "That's for being a jerk."
He laughed and then cried out in pain. Fionna looked over and saw that one of the pixies had managed to bite him. She pointed her finger at him and started to laugh. "Looks like even the pixie agrees with me."
He raised his hand up to his face and glared at the tiny creature who dare bite the Vampire King.
"What should we do with these little brats?" He asked, continuing to give the one that bit him his best glare.
"Hmm... " Fionna thought.
"Oh I know!" Marshall said with a mischievous grin on his face. "Let's go visit gum for brains and let them loose in his castle!"
"Marshall! We can't do that!" Fionna protested.
"Oh come on Fi! It'll be so much fun. Plus, I haven't visited pinky in a while."
"But Marshall..." She began.
"I know you're going to say yes to me, so let's just go." He said with his know it all smile. He picked up Fionna and headed towards Gumball's place.
"Marshall, we shouldn't be doing this..." She whispered as they peeked through the window at Gumball who was talking to Peppermint butler.
"Ready for some entertainment?" Marshall said right before he let the pixies loose into the room.
They immediately headed for Gumball and picked him up in the air, swinging him back and forth around the room like a rag doll. Gumball cried out, "Put me down this instant! Or I'll have you imprisoned!"
The pixies laughed and one of them (the one who bit Marshall) also bit Gumball and started blowing bubbles in his face. "Ugh! You despicable little creature!"
They continued their little attack, knocking over lab equipment and breaking glass containers with weird things in them.
Fionna felt bad and the guilt gnawed inside of her. She jumped in through the window and caught the pixies.
"Fi! You completely ruined the fun! It was getting to the good part too!" Marshall complained as he floated in through the window.
"I felt bad. Plus, it's my duty to help people in trouble."
"So, it was you who let those horrid creatures into my castle." Gumball stated, glaring at Marshall.
"Who? Me?" Marshall asked, pointing at his chest. "No way man." He lied. "I just saw them come in and followed to watch the show." He said nonchalantly, floating over to Gumball with his hands behind his head.
Gumball narrowed his eyes at him but turned to Fionna. "Yet again, you save me. Thank you Fionna. You're an amazing friend." Fionna cringed as he emphasized on the word 'friend'. "And you're timing is perfect too. I was just discussing with Peppermint butler if the cream puffs were done. We're handing them out to the candy people. Would you like to help me?"
"Um... sure." Fionna said unenthusiastically. Gumball's missions were about as entertaining as watching grass grow.
"What, Fi? Are you serious? Are you seriously going with pinky over here on his totally lame mission?" Marshall asked as if reading her mind.
"Lame? I'll have you know that we have a great time helping the candy people. Right, Fionna?"
She stayed silent for a moment as she thought of what to say when a great idea suddenly popped into her mind. "That's right, PG! It's so much fun that we shouldn't keep it all to ourselves! How about Marshall comes along with us?"
"What? Nooooo way Fi."
"As if I'd let you come." PG said as he turned towards Marshall to glare at him some more. Fionna took the chance to beg Marshall to come behind PG's back. She folded her hands prayer style, put on her best puppy dog look and kept mouthing 'please'. Marshall looked over Gumball's shoulder and tried not to laugh. PG looked back at her and she quickly dropped her hands and gave him a lopsided smile.
"On second thought, I'll come. I have a way of making things fun." He said mischievously. "By the way gum for brains, I don't need your permission on whether I can come or not." He said, patting Gumball on the head and floating towards Fionna, grabbing her hand and pulling her towards the front door.
"Ugh. I cannot believe you hang out with him, Fionna." Gumball muttered bitterly.
This only made Marshall laugh.
After spending the whole day handing out the cream puffs, they finally headed back towards the castle.
"Man I'm hungry." Marshall complained, clutching his stomach. "Hey Fi, hand me one of those left over cream puffs."
"Sure thing." She said as she threw one at him. He sucked the red out of it and was about to throw it away when his face lit up with an idea. He crept up behind Gumball and threw it at the back of his head.
"What the...?" Gumball said as he touched the back of his head and was surprised to find cream coating his fingers. He spun around and his eyes immediately looked at Marshall. Marshall had his hands behind his back, looking up at the sky and whistling.
He looked at Gumball and feigned a surprised look. "What?"
"You know what!" Gumball exclaimed, irritated.
"I seriously don't know what you're talking about." Marshall said giving Gumball his best confused look.
Gumball balled up his hands and said between clenched teeth, "The cream puff you threw at me."
"Oooh, you mean like this?" Marshall said as he revealed the cream puff from behind his back and threw it at Gumball, hitting him square in the face.
Gumball wiped the cream from his eyes and flicked his wrists, shaking the cream onto the pavement. He looked at Marshall with a shocked expression, his mouth gaping open. Soon, his expression turned from shock to rage. Marshall doubled over and howled with laughter at Gumball's reaction.
"Told you I had a way of making things fun." He bragged, raising his hands in the air.
"You intolerable, red sucking, idiotic freak!" Gumball yelled, shaking with fury. He grabbed a cream puff and threw it at Marshall. It managed to hit his shoulder.
"Alright! Pinky fights back!" He exclaimed excitedly.
Fionna set down the large basket of cream puffs and backed away slowly. She wanted to stop it, but she didn't feel like walking home all sticky and smelling like pastries.
Marshall saw Fionna trying to leave, so he quickly flew in front of her and crossed his arms. "And where do you think you're going?" He asked, raising an eyebrow at her.
"Home. I'd love to stay and have a cream puff war with you, but I told Cake that I'd be home by now and I don't want to make her worried." She lied.
Marshall saw right through her and said, "You're not getting off that easy." And with that, he squashed a cream puff on her head.
"Marshall!" She yelled, trying to clean her bunny hat. She picked up a cream puff and threw it at him, but he dodged it and laughed as he turned his attention to Gumball who was ATTEMPTING to hit him with more cream puffs.
"Come on! Is that all you got?" He taunted.
Fionna walked over to Gumball's side and said, "No, he has me." She started rapid firing at him, as did Gumball.
"Hey, hey! Two against one, that's not fair!" He complained, trying to dodge the cream puffs.
"All's fair in love and war." Fionna said, winking at him.
They continued their little war until they ran out of cream puffs. By then it was completely dark and the stars shined brightly in the sky. Even though Marshall was outnumbered, he still won, managing to cover the two in cream while he barely had any on him.
"Oh yeah! Score for the Vampire King! Even outnumbered I beat you guys!" He bragged, doing a small victory dance around them.
Though Fionna and Gumball were a bit upset about losing, they had wide grins plastered on their faces because overall, it was the most fun they had in a while.
Marshall and Fionna said goodbye to Gumball and started walking home.
"You don't have to walk me home Marshall." Fionna said. She didn't want him to feel obligated to walk her.
"Are you trying to get rid of me?" Marshall joked.
"What? No!" Fionna said quickly, shaking her head. "I just don't want you to feel like you have to walk me home."
"Please Fi. I'm the Vampire King. I do what I want. And if I didn't want to walk you home, I wouldn't."
"Oh...okay." She said, blushing.
They finally reached the tree house.
"Hey, thanks for coming with me on Gumball's lame mission."
"Hm? Oh yeah, no problem. I don't want to admit this, buuut I had fun... towards the end."
"Yeah. But what's frustrating is that you barely got any cream on you." She pouted. And then, her face lit up. "But we can change that." She said as she took a step towards him.
He backed up and gave her a quizzical look. "What are you do-?"
He didn't even have the chance to finish his sentence when he felt thin arms wrap around him and push him to the ground. Fionna was on top of him, wiping cream off her arms and hat and smearing it on his face and basically anywhere she could reach.
He tried to push her off but she grabbed on tightly to his shirt, so he ended up on top of her, their faces only inches apart. She stopped squirming and looked into his dark eyes. He looked into her clear, blue ones and he held his breath. She was indeed beautiful as many have said.
A million thoughts ran through his head as he debated whether or not he should kiss her. Actually, a large part of him wondered why he would want to in the first place. Eventually, lust started winning over. He slowly started closing the gap between them but stopped when their noses touched. His eyes widened in realization at what he was about to do. Instead of kissing her, he chucked her cheek and flew up into the night sky, not even saying goodnight. Fionna just laid there, stunned.
"What... the glob...just happened?" She whispered to herself as she got up and went inside.
Cake immediately jumped off the couch. "Where have you been? You know how worried I was?" She stopped and took in Fionna's appearance. "Baby, why are you covered in pastry cream? And why is your face red as a cherry tomato?"
Fionna whispered, "Marshall... he almost..."
Cake's tail puffed up and she stretched up to Fionna's height, putting her paws on Fionna's shoulders. . "He did what baby? She said, looking concerned. She never did like that pretty boy vampire.
Fionna broke out of her daze. "Oh, uh, he didn't do anything bad. He just... okay. I'll just give you the short version." She started talking quickly. "We had a pastry fight with the left over cream puffs that we were helping Gumball pass out to the candy people. Marshall won and he walked me home. And I got upset that he barely got any cream on him, so I tackled him to the ground and started wiping the pastry cream off of me and smearing it on him.
"Wait... you tackled him to the ground?" Cake asked, astonished.
"Ye..yeah." Fionna stuttered, looking down at the ground and blushing.
"Anyway," She said, continuing her rapid talking, "he tried to push me off, but I grabbed onto his shirt and he ended up on top of me. And then we just stared at each other and he leaned in and was about to... maybe... possibly... kiss me." She said uncertainly.
Cake just looked at her with her mouth open. "HE ALMOST DID WHAT? WHEN I SEE THAT VAMPIRE AGAIN, IMMA MAKE HIM MY PERSONAL SCRATCHING POST!" She yelled. "How dare he EVEN THINK to kiss my baby.
"But he didn't." She sighed. "He just chucked my cheek and left."
"You look really disappointed baby. Do you have feelings for him?" She asked, calming down a bit.
Fionna threw her hands in the air and dramatically fell onto the couch with a grunt. "Ugh, I don't know Cake! I don't know what my heart guts are trying to tell me!" She cried out in frustration. "It's not like I thought about this before. I thought we were just friends and then... and then THIS happens, and now I don't know what to think anymore! Plus, why would the Vampire King like me, or better yet, why would he like a human?"
"Hush now, Fionna. You are beautiful inside and out. Don't you ever think otherwise. Okay, baby?" She said, grabbing Fionna's hands. "Now, I don't know for sure, but it seems like he likes you. Even though he may not realize it now and think otherwise, within time, he'll figure out how he really feels. As will you. Next time you're around him, think about how you feel with him. Think about how you would feel if you two got together. Give it time, don't rush into things like this, okay?"
"Thanks, Cake. You always know what to say." Fionna said, hugging her.
Marshall paced back and forth inside his room. The memory of what happened a few minutes ago, flashing through his mind. He let out a frustrated growl. "What the glob is happening to me? Why was I about to do that?" He muttered to himself and continued pacing. "I can't have feelings for a human! I'm the Vampire King and the son of a demon for crying out loud! I'm a vampire, I'm dead! My heart stopped beating a long time ago. I don't feel love." He muttered bitterly, his voice cracking towards the end. He dropped his head into his hands as he remembered how he unwillingly lost his ability to truly feel things like love.
The demon clutched and unclutched his hands as he looked up at the sky. "Soon." He whispered to himself. "Soon, when the sky and everything else is engulfed in darkness, I will escape. And when I do, I will finally get my revenge on the Vampire King for sending me here for eternity. I will kill him and take my rightful place as the ruler of the Nightosphere!" He whispered excitedly, letting out a maniacal laughter.
Marshall took a deep breath and knocked on the tree house door. He kept repeating to himself how he should just keep cool and pretend that nothing happened yesterday.
Cake opened the door and when she saw it was Marshall, she just stood there, glaring at him and blocking his entrance.
Even though Marshall didn't know what was going on, he glared right back at her. "What's got your tail in a bunch, cupcake?"
"Don't call me that!" She warned, crossing her arms and still refusing to let him in.
"Well, aren't you going to let me in, kitty cat?" He teased.
"Ooooh, I'm... I'm about to...mmm!" She mumbled grabbing onto the door handle, trying to restrain herself. "If it wasn't for Fionna, I would have shred you to pieces by now!" She yelled, slamming the door in his face.
"Hey!" Marshall protested from the other side of the door.
"What's going on?" Fionna said tiredly, wiping the sleep from her eyes. She yawned and looked at Cake.
"Oh nothing baby. Just some annoying little pretty boy who thinks he's all that came by. He's gone now. So don't worry, let's just have some breakfast."
"Hey kitkat, that wasn't very nice." Marshall said, flying in through the window.
Cake looked like she was about to skin Marshall alive. She stretched up, grabbed Marshall and shoved him out the window he came through, covering it so he couldn't get back in. "See, nothing to worry about." She said, smiling nervously.
Marshall picked up a stick and started poking her back. "BOY, YOU BETTER CUT THAT OUT BEFORE I COME OUT THERE AND SLAP YOU BACK TO THE NIGHTOSPHERE!" She yelled.
"Alright." Marshall sighed, shrugging his shoulders. Cake's tail puffed up because she had a bad feeling about this.
Marshall quickly went into Fionna's bathroom, got a razor and came back out. "I'm giving you one more chance to move aside." He said.
"Or what?" She asked suspiciously.
Cake felt something move across her fur and then goose bumps appeared as she felt cold, but only in that spot where she felt something move across her.
Her eyes widened and she whipped her head around and saw Marshall with a razor in his hand, laughing hysterically. Then she quickly stretched to look at her back. There was a line that ran down her back where her fur USED to be. She began to shake furiously. "YOU LITTLE UNDEAD BRAT! WHEN I GET MY HANDS ON YOU, YOU'RE GONNA WISH YOU WERE NEVER BORN!" And with that, she stretched out the window after Marshall. He barely managed to get out of her way. And then he began to circle the tree house until cake couldn't stretch anymore and finally gave up. She returned to her normal size and kept touching her back. "My fur! My beautiful fur!" She yelled in anguish. "Fionna! I don't even know how you can even consider having feelings for someone like him!" She yelled loudly enough for her voice to echo throughout the house.
Fionna cringed at how loud her words were. She couldn't bare to look at Marshall from embarrassment, let alone be in the same room with him. She took Cake by her arm and quickly led her up the stairs. "Cake! Why in the name of glob would you say that!" She whispered furiously.
"I'm sorry baby, I was just so upset that he did this to me." She said, pointing towards her back. "I can't ever leave the tree house again until my fur grows back! I can't even let monochromicorn see me like this!" She cried.
"Oh come on Cake, it's not too bad." Fionna lied, trying to cheer her up.
"Not too bad? NOT TOO BAD? This... I don't even have words to describe this!"
Fionna sighed. "You're right. I'll go talk to him." She said curtly.
Marshall stood frozen in the air as the words "I don't even know how you can even consider having feelings for someone like him" reverberated through his mind. Someone can have feelings for him? That's impossible. Everyone fears or hates him in some way, even though some may not show it.
He heard someone coming down the stairs and he quickly composed himself.
"You know, that wasn't very nice." Fionna said angrily. "She doesn't even want to leave the tree house until her fur grows back."
"Oh come on, Fi. It's not that bad." He said, trying to make the heavy atmosphere between them lighten up a bit.
"Yes it is. You can mess with me all you want. But when you mess with Cake like that, that's where I draw the line. I don't... want to see you right now, so just go away." She said, her heart breaking slightly. She wished she could take back her words when she saw his face crumple in sorrow and pain. His eyes were downcast as he hunched his back and slowly left. "I knew you'd hate me sooner or later." He whispered.
She reached out her hand as she took a step towards him but he was too far out of reach. A tear streamed down her face. Cake came down the stairs and saw Fionna crying.
"Baby, why are you crying? And where is Marshall?"
She kneeled down and wrapped her arms around Cake's shoulders, burying her face in Cake's neck. "I was mad about what he did to you and I told him to go away. He looked so crushed and upset. And as he left he said "I knew you'd hate me sooner or later". I feel so terrible now." She said, beginning to cry.
Cake wrapped her arms around Fionna. "Oh baby, I'm sorry that this happened. But you can fix it. Just go after him and say you're sorry. At least you now know how you feel about him." Cake said reassuringly.
"Huh.. how I feel about him?" Fionna asked, getting up and wiping the tears off her face.
"If you didn't like him, you wouldn't be standing here crying like this because he was hurt when you told him to go away. If he was just some regular guy, you would have said he deserved it."
"You're right, Cake." Fionna said as she suddenly stopped crying. "I have to go find him."
She ran out the door and towards his house. She finally got to his cave.
As she looked around, she yelled," Marshall? Are you there? Look, I'm sorry. I didn't mean to say that. I overreacted and I'm really, really sorry."
There was no response. She finally got to his house and knocked on the door, but yet again, there was no reply, so she let herself in and looked around. He wasn't anywhere on the bottom floor, so she went up to his room. "Marshall? Are you in here?" She asked, opening the door. It was empty.
"He's not here..." Fionna slowly said to herself. "Ugh! Why do I have to be so stupid! He was just playing around!" She yelled in frustration, falling onto his bed. She grabbed his pillow and his scent wafted over her. This made her start to cry because she realized that she might never get to see him again. She clutched the pillow tighter and pulled the blanket over her head, falling asleep when she was done crying.
