Fionna gripped the hilt of her sword, wiping the blood from her jaw as her knuckles turned white. Her bright blue eyes swiveled between the two giant spiders on either side of her. Cake was a wimp when it came to bugs bigger than her palm, so she sat this one out. The adventuress took a deep breath, their beady black eyes carving in to her while they slowly approached her. Suddenly, she crouched down just as one of the monsters struck and sprung in to the air to dodge the seconds attempt. She swiftly spun in the air, striking the beastly bugs in the face as she landed and bringing their corpses to the ground. She smiled and blew some hair back, this is what she lived for.
"Yay! Great job!" Cake cheered as she stretched herself down from the ceiling of the cave she clung to. The blonde looked up from the oozing dead spiders and beamed at her sister.
"Thanks!" She chirped, blood still trickling down from the scratch on her cheek.
"No prob, and you've really perfected that triple sword swing. Flawless ten outta ten," Cake praised her sister as they started to walk out of the cave.
"Thanks, I've been practicing butt loads," Fionna grinned, a slight limp in her step as she cleaned her sword off with her stained shirt.
"Yeah, I know."
The girls exited the mouth of the cave and gazed up at the sky. The bruised sky was littered with thousands, no, billions of stars. They twinkled and sparkled, and the moon was smack down in the middle of the dark sheet. It's silver glow was a full circle instead of a half or a sliver. Fionna loved it when the moon was barely there, it looked too bulky like this. What she really loved was the stars.
"What do you think the stars are made of?" she asked. Her chest felt full as her breath was slowly taken away from her at the sight above her.
"Ehhh...I'm not sure. MoChro said something about them being burning balls of gas floating millions of miles away."
"You wanna know what I think they are?"
"What?"
"Wishes," she breathed and took a step closer.
"Wishes? Are you getting all whimsical and crap on me?" Cake sassed.
"N-no! It's just what I always thought they were!" Fionna defended.
"Why did you always think they were wishes?" she questioned.
"Because whenever I made a wish one would fall out of the sky," Fionna told her. Cake looked at her sister like she was crazy while she was too busy gazing up at the night sky.
"Like before you made the wish or after?"
"After," she replied closing her eyes.
"I wish..." her eyes remained shut as she finished the rest of her wish in her head, knowing the sacred rule of wishes to never say them aloud. Once she opened her eyes a shooting star zipped across the sky and she smiled.
"Damn, it worked," Cake said, causing Fionna to giggle.
"Yup," she and her sister continued walking across the grass towards their treehouse in the distance. It was barely a ten minute walk.
"How do you explain falling stars when you don't make a wish?"
"Simple, someone else made the wish. I'm not the only person who makes wishes," Fionna answered.
"Okay then, how about when you make a wish and you don't see a star fall?"
"It probably fell somewhere else in the sky, I can't see all the stars," she explained.
"Man, you've got answers to everything," Cake said.
"I know, its a gift." Fionna slammed the door open, instantly collapsing on the floor and loving how oodly soft the wooden floor felt to her tired body. Cake laughed at her exhausted sister and lit their lamp.
"Get up, you little worm," she chortled. Fionna groaned and was dragged up to the main room by Cake; the adrenaline in her body was running out already.
"I don't wanna move," she moaned.
"Go take a shower, you'll feel better," Cake shooed and got a pot out from the cupboard.
"I can't move."
"Whatever, baby cakes, go take a shower while I make some spaghetti," Cake nagged.
Again, the adventuress groaned and then made her way to the bathroom. She stood up and examined herself in the mirror. Everything seemed to be in place. A nose, lips, two eyes, a pair of legs and arms. Yup, no missing limps or pieces. She smiled big with teeth at her reflection and stretched her mouth to make sure all her canines were in place and wiggled her tongue before making a silly face.
"What are you doing?"
Fionna yelp and released her face muscles and looked around. Her head whipped around to see Marshall lee floating behind her in his usual skinnies and worn flannel. He was smiling slightly, as if he was reluctant to admit how adorable it was to see her pull such a funny face. Just seeing her do that thinking she was alone made him think she was an even bigger dork than he previously thought.
"M-Marshall! What are you doing in here?" she hissed. He chuckled.
"Relax, buns, I only came to see my favorite human," he smirked.
"I'm the only human," she reminded him.
"And thats why you're my favorite," he replied.
"Why are you really here?" Fionna crossed her arms and awaited the vampire's response.
"Well, I was planning on hanging out with you today, but you weren't here" he explained. "Where'd you hop off to, buns?" He tugged on one of her bunny ears and chuckled when she swatted him away.
"I went to a cave and totally annihilated a hundred arachnapacknais! You should've seen me! I did a totally perfect triple sword swing and killed two at once! It was so math, Marsh!" She exclaimed, her face ridding of her annoyance and was taken over by her excitement.
"Whoa, a triple sword swing? You've been working on that for months!" he responded. She nodded and grinned, only for her expression to falter when she remembered she was supposed to be mad at him.
"Wait, I'm supposed to be mad at you for spying on me! Get out!" she snapped. He laughed.
"No way, tell me more," he urged.
"Cake will kill you if she knew you were spying on me, so get out now," she ordered with no acknowledgment of his response.
"C'mon, Fi, I'm interested now."
"Too bad, out."
"Ugh, you sound like Gumwad," he groaned.
"What's wrong with sounding like PG? He's very responsible," Fionna argued.
"Gumball is very full of shit, that's what's wrong."
"Marshall!" she shouted.
"What?" he shouted back defensively.
"Don't say that here, Cake doesn't like cussing!"
"Bunny, you know I do what I want," he smirked.
"Not unless you want your face clawed off by Cake," Fionna pointed out. He laughed loudly, he wasn't afraid of Cake. Cake was afraid of him.
"Whatever, that's a pretty weak threat." Fionna stuck her tongue out at the exasperating boy and pushed him towards the window.
"Go home, I gotta take a shower," she said and walked past him to start the bath.
"I could use a shower, mind if I join you?" He smirked.
"No way! Go home!" She shouted and threw her shoe at him. He held up his arm to stop her black flat from hitting his face and chuckled.
"Calm down, it was a joke. But if you insist, I guess I'll be on my way. See you later," he spoke as he drifted out the open window.
"No, you won't!" she called after him. He peeked his head back in to her window with a playful grin.
"Yes, I will," he winked, and with that he was gone.
"Stupid vampire," she grumbled.
"I heard that."
Fionna growled at the window and swiftly shut it, secluding herself from the irritating talking corpse. Incredibly dumb and annoying irritating talking corpse. Stupid flirty sexy vampire. Ugh. This is what she had to put up with on a daily basis. She sighed and turned the shower on, letting the water warm up as she returned to the mirror. Her clothes were tattered and worn, blood stains that came from her and the arachnapacknais she slaughtered not too long ago. The inky black goo was unmistakably evil, and had a horrendous stench that made Fionna scrunch her nose in disgust.
"Ugh, I'm a mess," she tore off her outfit and threw it in the trash. She had plenty more where in her dresser, and Cake could always make her more. The adventuress climbed in to the shower and washed away her sweat and grime; lathering her hair and body in delicious smelling soaps and letting the water wash it down the drain. Once she was finished she dried herself off and got in to her red pajamas before joining Cake in the main room.
"Girl, what took you so long? I thought you, like, died or something," Cake said as she set down a plate of spaghetti in front of her.
"Ugh, Marshall wanted to know where I was all day. He's so annoying sometimes," Fionna told her and started gobbling up her food.
"Yuk! You just got clean!"
Fionna shrugged shamelessly and continued stuffing her face, red sauce dripping from her chin and on to the table.
"I doubt you think he's annoying, you guys hang out quite a lot," Cake pointed out.
"I said sometimes. He's cool most of the times," she sputtered with noodles hanging from her mouth.
"Yeah, I guess. I still think he's evil," Cake shuddered at the image of his demon eyes, their dark black and devilish red color was the stuff of nightmares.
"I don't think he's evil. His moral compass is just a little flomped nogged, that's all."
"You're just friends with him, right?" Cake asked. Fionna looked up from her noodles with a face that said are-you-kidding-me.
"Of course we're just friends, what else would we be?" Fionna sassed.
"Well, he's a boy...and you're a girl...and sometimes boys and girls like to be more than friends," she said. Fionna raised her brow.
"Seriously? I'm fourteen, I understand the idea of dating and stuff. I had a boyfriend not too long ago," she reminded her.
"So you can understand why I'm asking." Fionna sighed.
"No, Marshall lee and I are not dating; we're just friends," Fionna assured her. Cake sighed with relief.
"Thank you, Fi."
"No problem," she grinned and continued eating. Cake smiled as well, sitting next to her sister and slurping her noodles as well.
"Marshall said the funniest thing, though. He asked if he could take a shower with me. Isn't that odd?" Fionna giggled. Cake laughed nervously.
"Boys are so weird."
"Yeah, really weird."
Old fan fiction I wrote a long time ago and now I'm re-writing. Original: story/9965306-adventure-of-love by KseniaLynn (me) on wattpad. I hope you enjoy! ^_^