Beating Hearts.

The dragon growled at the warrior, treading its claws into the hard ground. The warrior held his sword tightly, ready to strike the mighty beast. The dragon made his move. It raised a powerful claw and slammed it onto the warrior. The warrior stabbed its arm with his sword. The dragon roared in agony and lifted his claw to examine it. It opened its jaws-

"Fiona, are you awake yet?" Cake's voice rang out of the dragon's mouth. Suddenly the world spun and darkened, making the warrior and dragon disappear. Fiona opened her eyes and rubbed her head.

"No I'm still sleeping." She replied tiredly. I wish I was, that was an awesome dream.

"You'd better not be!" Cake's voice had a hint of irritation in it. "It's almost seven o'clock!"

"Yah cuz' that's late right?" Fiona muttered under her breath. She rose from her bed, pulled on her silky bunny hat, and began struggling into her clothes. She looked out her window at the beautiful morning and rising sun. So nice outside, I hope no one's in trouble today. I could use a day off. She walked down the stairs and grabbed her backpack, reaching inside it to get her ruby sword.

(Now Fiona's POV.)

I reached the bottom of the stairs and looked up to see Cake sitting there with an annoyed look on her face. I sighed, what now?

"Don't you remember that we need to visit the candy kingdom today?" Cake raised a furry eyebrow. "Does Prince Gumball's ball tonight ring a bell?"

"I remember it's at five, TONIGHT. And correct me if I'm wrong, but its seven thirty in the morning." I walked into the kitchen to grab some breakfast.

"You have to get ready; he might have the hots for you!" She stretched over to me and gave me a nudge with her elbow. "Didn't you think about that?"

"I don't want to get my hopes up for nothing." I gave up on breakfast and walked outside, Cake following closely. I blushed at the thought of Prince Gumball liking me. He's cute . . . really cute. I brushed away the thought. He would never like me.

"So what are we going to do today? Maybe we can pay Marshall Lee a visit." Cake suggested. Marshall Lee is kinda cute too . . . I turned and glared at Cake.

"Why are you bringing up the subject of boys all the sudden?" I stomped away in the direction of Marshall Lee's home. When we reached his home he was leaning on the side of his house.

"Oh hey Fiona." He kept in the shade so he wouldn't burn. "What are you doing here?" He looked up at me with his black eyes. He beckoned me into the shade with him. "Not that I don't want you to be here. . ." He caressed my cheek and leaned down so that his face was centimeters from mine. I felt my face become hot has I began to blush. Why is he hitting on me? Out of the corner of my eye I saw Cake sneak away into the trees, leaving me alone with Marshall. Not that that's a problem. Marshall moved even closer to me, he began to close his eyes and he kissed me. I was so surprised I almost forgot to kiss him back. He began to wrap his arms around me when we heard a cough. We both jumped and looked around. A small candy person stood there. She was white with red stripes all over her. I stepped away from Marshall Lee blushing with embarrassment. The candy person stepped forwards and gave me an envelope with the Candy Kingdom insignia printed on the front of it. The candy person left without a word. I looked back at Marshall, he looked just has embarrassed has me. He walked up behind me and looked over my shoulder at the card. His face went pale and his eyes became filled with anger.

"Err, Marshall-"

"I'm sorry."He interrupted. I looked at him in surprise. "I can't do this, Fiona, you're a wonderful girl it's just . . . it looks like you are with someone else." And with that he walked back into his house, his hands in fists. Looking closely though I saw a tear sliding down his face. I glanced back at the envelope, it had 'With Love~' written on the bottom. I dropped the card in surprise and looked back at the house. Oh Marshall, I'm so sorry . . . Suddenly I heard rustling behind me and I slid out my ruby sword.

"I'm in the mood to be messed with." I croaked. I whipped around to see a yellow-orange pug, holding Cake. She looked like she was being held hostage. Considering Cake was bruised and battered; so obviously she was caught off guard by the attack. The bushes rustled again to reveal a boy about my age with a blue shirt and green shorts on just like me. He had blonde hair poking out of his white bear hat on his head. I stared in shock; He's wearing a white animal hat . . . all humans used to before they went extinct. So he . . . he's a human? I looked back at cake, but he attacked cake so that means we are enemies. "You have no idea who you're messing with." I snapped. I lunged at him with my sword held tightly. He stayed where he was as if he was shocked to find another human, but when he saw me lunge he got his sword out and faced me. I knocked him to the ground with full force and put my sword to his neck. A large fist slammed into my side and I saw the pug standing there, 4x the size he was eairlier. Don't tell me the dog has magical powers like Cake! I rolled to the side has another fist pounded into the ground. "I looked over to see the boy had gotten up and was running over to me. Two agianst one? How is that fair? I stabbed the dog in one of his huge paws and went to face the boy. He jumped up and landed on me, one of his hands on my neck. I heard a screach and I craned my neck to see a dark figure running towards me.

Author's Notes

Thanks for reading this guys, I'm starting on my other story 'Big but Shy' but I wanted to get away from MLP; FIM. I will be writing more chapters for this story too so I hope you like it, please review! (BTW I really appreciate the awesome feedback you guys gave me on my other story, 'Dashing and Soaring'!)