The Hunter
Finn and Jake are running away from ten large, rampaging trolls that were attacking the Breakfast Kingdom but they end up going to a dead end. They were ready to attack in desperation as Finn unsheathes out his sword and Jake tries to outgrow the trolls. Before their last words of regret, a shadowy figure from above clad in a dark purple, padded and sleeveless jacket with a white undershirt, a black "skirt", dark brown cargo pants, black boots and a unique looking hat walked to the edge of the dead end, raises his hand with a detonator and pressed it to make the explosive charges behind the dead end explode. Finn and Jake witnessed a sudden massacre on the trolls but one of them still lives. The figure knew that so he jumps down and hacks the troll's neck as he lands.
Finn: Oh Glob! x4
Trolls: [running and growling]
Jake: Darn! It's a dead-end!
[Troll's shadows covered Finn and Jake in darkness]
Both: [gasp]
Troll #1: Hahahaha! Trapped like a little mousy!
Troll #2: Time for a pummelin'.
Finn: We have no choice. [unsheathes sword]
Jake: Are you crazy!?
Finn: We have to! At least, we die fighting right bro?
Jake: [grows] Finn?
Finn: What is it?
Jake: We should've call off the offer.
Finn: Yeah...
[footsteps and wind effects]
Figure: [telepathically talks to Finn and Jake] Get down now!
Both: Huh?
Figure: [raises his hand with a detonator and presses it]
[Jake wraps Finn just before the wall detonates. The trolls were screaming to their death and smoke covers the area]
[Smoke subsides]
Finn: Ughh, what's with the explosions? [Eyes wide open as he witness genocide of the trolls]
Jake: Finn, what happened? Whoa! [Looks at the bodies] All gone?
Troll #10: Help me. [crawls out]
[Figure jumps from the platform, activates his shadow blades in mid-air and hacks down the crawling troll]
Troll #10: Help me, Zor'~ [Slashed] Gwahh…
Finn: Huh?
[Figure stands up and after a gust of wind removing the smoke and deactivates his magic blades, he turns around]
Finn and Jake were mesmerized by his appearance, mainly the wind flows through his "skirt", jacket and his silver hair shined by the sun at its brightest. He approached to them to ask of their condition.
Figure: [puts his hand on Finn's head] Are you okay?
Finn: Y~yeah.
Guild Master: Great job boys!
Figure: [kneels down] Guild Master. Quest completed.
Guild Master: Rise up. [smiles] Excellent job on being decoys.
Both: Decoys!?
Guild Master: I have a hunch that you would outrun the trolls and I was right. My manners boys, this is Vin. Vin, this is Finn [points at Finn] and Jake [points at Jake]. Vin here is the best one we have for this Guild. It was he who came up with the plan but [hand on the side head] it was I who thought of hiring you two for the job.
Vin: I could've rallied those trolls and bombed them myself.
Guild Master: Vin, Vin. You know the old saying, "Being social gives you favors, favors lead you to more quests and in the end, it gains you a lot more than you alone."
Vin: You're just making it up.
Guild Master: Oh? Were you born a thousand years ago?
Vin: [silent]
Guild Master: Good. We'll inform you for more work but for now, follow my advice. Finn & Jake, here is the gold and be social with him. (leaves)
Vin and Finn: So… Huh?
Vin: You first.
Finn: What was it like to be a hunter?
Vin: It's a difficult job. You are being paid to either slay or end up dead.
[Background]
Guild Master: Skin the trolls! We'll gain more money than the intended reward. There you are, please return the gold to the Princess.
Emissary: No, keep it.
Guild Master: These troll skins can suffice.
[Foreground]
Jake: Were you really the best, Vin?
Finn: Me?
Jake: No! I meant Vin.
Finn: I could've swear that you said my name.
Vin: You know what, I realized that you [points at Finn] and I sound nearly the same.
Jake: So what would we call you?
Vin: Vinnie.
Finn: I like it.
Jake: Me too.
Vinnie: Well, that's a start. Yes, ever since Day One… [smiles] You know, I think I can trust you. I'll give you two reasons why I'm here. [lifts one finger] I'm resuming my job that my ancestor stopped centuries ago and [lifts another one] I'm looking for certain people who can help me.
Jake: Ancestor?
Vinnie: See that portrait over there, that's my great-great Grandfather. I came all the way here from my homeland to continue his legacy but before you ask me, I won't disclose it.
Finn: Awww.
Vinnie: [checks pocket watch] Listen, I better get going now. I need to prepare.
Jake: Where are you going?
Vinnie: [moves head closer] I'll be in one of the caves of Ooo at night. There will be no blood loss once it's all over. It's nice working with you. [leaves]
Finn: That was weird.
Jake: Yeah, totally.
After their conversation, they went back to their tree fort. Hours later, Jake is cooking for dinner while Finn is playing video games with B-Mo. Jake then remembers what Vinnie said before he left as he checks out the night sky. After cooking, he brought up the topic which made them think hard.
Jake: [stirs while looks at the night sky and humming some jingle]
Vinnie: [FLASHBACK] I'll be in one of the caves of Ooo at night. There will be no blood loss once it's all over...
Jake: Oh. Finn, dinner's ready.
Finn: Coming. Huh? [notices Jake's sad face when going to the table] What's wrong Jake? [sits down]
Jake: I'm fine.
Finn: No you're not. It's about that guy, right?
Jake: Yeah. He's starting to give me the creeps.
Finn: [eats meal] Mmhmm. I still don't know what he meant.
Jake: Night. Blood Loss. What's the connection between the two? What is he telling us?
Finn: Wait a minute. Night. [speaks slowly] Night. Doesn't that mean he'll find a creature at night?
Jake: Yeah and what about the blood~ [gasps, drops spoon and food falls down from his mouth] Oh my Glob…
Finn: What is it?
At that time, he's just going inside her cave house. He activated a sort of vision power to see in the dark. He arms his stake and just as he was about to knock, huge colony of bats swarmed around him. He then tries to detect which of the bats is Marceline the Vampire Queen. He failed to narrow it down then she appeared out from nowhere with her Ax bass in hand. She missed the hack but kicks him so hard that knocks him back outside the cave.
Vinnie: [approaches to her cave in First Person perspective with just only the right eye]
Vinnie: [goes in the dark cave and activates thermal vision with his left eye]
Vinnie: [arms his stake and goes closer to the door]
[Bat swarm]
Vinnie: What!? [goes back and looks around which one is his target]
Vinnie: Glob it! Where is she? [looks harder]
Marceline: [jumps out from nowhere with her ax bass]
Vinnie: [eyes wide open and dodges her]
Marceline: [misses her attack but she quickly transitions to a hard kick to his chest]
[FLASH]
Minutes later, they rushed to the cave to save her but they were too late as it has already begun. They began to hear someone struggling so they went behind the cave and they saw them, resting before the next move. The duo intervenes, she notices them and he welcomes them.
Finn: We have to save her!
Jake: I knew there's something off with him.
Both: Marceline!
Finn: No… Are we too late?
Jake: Listen. [hears something] It's from outside.
Finn: [Nod]
[runs]
Both: Marceline!
Marceline: Finn?!
Vinnie: Jake. Finally, you've come.
Marceline: What? You guys know him?
Jake: We'll tell you later.
Finn: Right now, we have to protect you.
Vinnie: Protect? You guys must be facing the wrong way. I'll be making this place better once I'm done with her!
Finn: We didn't know you were after our best friend!
Vinnie: Best friend?
His voice was different from last time as he sounded as vile and dark as being serious. He was surprised about their decision to protect them.
Vinnie: [near silent and shudder] You can't be serious. [looks at them and shout] YOU CAN'T BE SERIOUS! I~I even give you my trust back at the job and all this time you're with that fiend!? [focused] I can't believe that it has come to this.
Finn: It's not what you think.
Vinnie: You are all just her thralls after all. [legs spread, dust flies and activates his Shadow Blades]
Finn: But~
Marceline: There's no use.
Vinnie: Let's dance, vile creature! [runs to her and shout]
Vinnie charges to her but Finn and Jake are protecting her. As he jumps over Finn, he's planning what to do. He decided to not harm Finn and Jake and focus on her.
Finn: Sorry man! [readies his sword] I won't let you kill her!
Vinnie: [jumps over him]
[Slow Motion and monologue]
Vinnie: I wasn't expecting this. These guys are making my job harder. I don't want to kill them too. No choice.
[Normal Motion]
Vinnie: [palm strikes Finn to the gut and run]
Finn: Gyahh!
Jake: Finn! Grrrr! [stretches and barks at him]
Vinnie: [slides down, somersaults and force palms Jake in the gut]
Jake: Guh!
Vinnie: [runs to her] Die monster! [spin slash]
The duo are unable to fight as Vinnie pinpoints his blows to incapacitate them which made it easier for a while. He charges to her and attack with all their might. Blow by blow, parry by parry, they were ruthless but Vinnie seemed to get the upper hand by disarming her Ax Bass. She then used martial arts to attack him but he countered it with the moves similar to hers and as she used the Vampire Kick to him, she began to notice the projected image going behind her. She ends up punching nothing because he teleported to the image and gave her a powerful left hook.
Vinnie: [disarms her bass]
[Marceline now fights in close combat and he knew it by deactivating his Shadow Blades for a fair fight]
Marceline: Vampire Kick!
Vinnie: Karate Deflect!
Marceline: What!?
Vinnie: Palm Strike!
Marceline: [pain sound] Hyaah!
Vinnie: Hmmph! [her kick removed the image] Hiyah! [left hook]
She then partially transforms into a demon and used her claws to attack him while he reactivates his Shadow Blades to put it to defense. They both strike continuously until his blades break. He immediately jumped after the break and threw oak stakes as fast as the rain. She dodges the stakes and charges to him.
[She transforms and power attacks him while he defends but his blades starts to show its breaking point]
Vinnie: [grin]
[Blades broke]
Vinnie: [jumps very high, grabs stakes from behind] Raining Stakes! [throws stakes]
[Marceline dodges and runs to him as she notices his descent]
During his descent, he grabs his knife and tries to stab her heart. She managed to grab on to his hand holding the knife then attempts to stab him with all of her strength. From the time the blade was about to hit his heart, the blow was stopped by a psychic energy, which is a unique self-defense mechanism exclusive for his clan and used his hair imbued with silver as a weapon in the process.
Marceline found no opening to her attacks due to his hair and his ability's sentient defense mechanisms. Just when she found it, he locked her arm within that spot and whipped her multiple times by his silver hair.
Finn and Jake woke up seeing her demonic form but fallen. Just before the final blow with the stake, the two went in and attacks him with all they got. Still vowing to not kill them, he had to be on the defense. Marceline soon gets her senses to grab her ax but he noticed her trying to. The duo tried to delay him and delay he did because by the time he realize that she's awake, his ability worn off and he had to run quickly. He raised up his hand above with the stake, ready to stab her heart but she spun upwards twice to not only deflect the stake but also "slice" what it appears to be his neck.
Jake: Ugh. Did she win? What the!?
[Vinnie constantly whips her]
Finn: Marcy!
[Finn and Jake rushes to attack him]
Vinnie: Awake?
Finn: Eat this!
[dodges and blocks their attacks with his hair]
Jake: [tries wrapping him but was eventually released due to the spikes he forms] Yeow!
[Blocks every attacks with his hair while thinking]
Vinnie: [Monologue] They're putting up a fight, for what? Why are they protecting her? Huh?
Marceline: [Wakes up to grab her ax]
Vinnie: [his ability time is over] No, not now! Grr. [unsheathes the stake from his pocket] You're finished!
Finn: Nooo!
Marceline: [spins slash to deflect the stake then another to his neck]
Vinnie: Guh! [jumps back while holding his neck]
He held his neck tightly as if he's trying to stop bleeding. He releases the grip and found out that there was no blood but it slashed his hat in the process. He threw down his hat in anger and decides to put a beat down on her. Both rolled down from the hill while punching each other. After rolling down, Marceline is on top punching him but he got back on top to beat her.
[hat cuts in half]
Vinnie: [intense] You're done for. Grraaargh!
[rolls down, stops, Marceline beats him up then Vinnie got on top to beat her]
After his blows, she reverted back to her usual form, meaning that she lost her energy to fight on. It was his perfect opportunity to put the stake through her heart but Finn and Jake managed to intervene on time. They made him drop his stake and that was when he began try talk some sense to them.
Vinnie: [grins with wide open eyes and sweat] Heheh! Your reign of terror is over!
Finn: No!
Vinnie: [Jake shackles his left hand so hard that he dropped his stake] Gyah! [he then grips Jake's arm harder] What's wrong with you? Why do you have to side with the enemy?
Finn: That's because she's our friend! Maybe you're the enemy to us because~
Vinnie: I never meant to hurt you! You two are in my way of finishing my quest! Guild Master trusted you. I trust you but this, is unacceptable!
Jake: Are you for real? Dude, time has changed. Maybe what you think about her was a long time. Do you have any idea how long we get alon~
Vinnie: It doesn't matter what you say!
[Grips Jake's arm and swings it to Finn thus knocking them back]
While Vinnie was talking, he tries to grab his stake but he grabbed something else, something soft.
Vinnie: Listen, a hunter must fulfill their duties as requested. No shortcuts, no lies, no forgery! I won't let you two ruin it and if I don't do it, I'll be dishonored! I never want to be like that even if it's the last thing I do! [touch]
Marceline: [moan]
Finn: Huh? [shocks and blushes]
Jake: Whoa, he didn't.
Vinnie: [whispers and feels a bit of pain as he tries to pick it up] It can't be that deep. Listen to me and listen well. I won't even let you two to tarnish the legacy of House Cerdansa as well because [he groped for every two words] I am the Hunter and I will not stop until I get the job done! [the last one was intense but he still thinks that's his stake]
Marceline: Ah! [blush]
Finn: Vin?
Vinnie: WHAT IS IT THIS TIME FINN AND WHY ARE YOUR FACES RED!?
Jake: T~t~that's not your stake you're holding.
Vinnie: What!?
His two hands starts to glow an intense red color. Just as he saw what he was holding the whole time, his hands start to burn and he feels an unbearable pain. He let go, dropped and roll on the ground to desperately extinguish the flames. Marceline can't believe what just happened.
[his hands starts to form a red X mark and then intense heat from the hands occur]
Vinnie: Gyaah! [moves away and rolls on the ground] Hot! Hot! Hot! Hot! HOT!
Finn: What just happened? Wait, Marcy!
Jake: You alright?
[Marceline just lies there with her eyes wide open because of what he just did]
Marceline: He~ he did just~ tell me he didn't do that?!
Both: Uhhh?
Vinnie: Aghh! It burns! It burns!
Marceline: Grrrr! [fully transforms into a demon]
Vinnie: (steadily recover from the pain and breathing) Huh?
Marceline: You pervert! [Punches Vinnie flying real hard]
Vinnie: Gyuh! [Tumbled so far until he manages to stand up] Hmm!?
Because of his unintended action, she fully transformed herself into a vampiric demon. Finn and Jake stood back just to be safe from the rampage. He on the other hand, watched her and made his coup 'de grace.
Vinnie: It has come to this. [pose] Time for the Finale! [Shouts] Enlightenment! [kneels down and smoke appears]
Smoke subsides and reveals that he has transformed into a winged creature with no head but his entire body has a large mouth with sharp fangs and an eye with cross pupils. What replaces the head is a long spine that acts like its tail, a very slender part of the body which is part of the spine that connects to the legs and the entire body is mostly covered in fine fur except the hands and feet.
Jake: He transformed!
Finn: What is he?
Vinnie: Now, it is time.
But unfortunately, he can't move after the first step. It was his lack of mastery of harnessing the power of his transformation and to make it worse, it was his first time. He repeats himself that he can't move and struggles to make it move, Marceline was confused for a while but Finn and Jake were able to take advantage of the situation.
Vinnie: Hnngh. [creature kneels] What the Glob? Why can't I move?
Marceline: You can't be~
Finn: What just happened?
Jake: Dude, he's just sitting there. Now it's our chance!
Finn: You're right! Hurry, to the spine!
[Both ran]
Vinnie: C'mon, move. Move. Move! Huh?
[Finn and Jake are running to him]
Vinnie: Stay back!
They climbed to the spine and Vinnie warned them not to do it. They ignored, stabbed the sword to the spine and then huge clouds of smoke appears as he reverts back to himself.
Vinnie: What are you doing?
Finn: [Jumps from a stretched Jake and screeches down to stab his spine]
Vinnie: Uwooh! [smoke appears]
Jake: I got you, bro!
Finn: Thanks. Did we win?
[Both landed beside Marceline and smoke subsides]
[While in the smoke]
Vinnie: Defeated!? How did I lose?
He was in so much shock that to think that the highest elite hunter was beaten by a Vampire Queen, a boy and a dog because of his own mishap with his transformation. The trio then came to him as the smoke clears. He on the other hand had to run away to a nearby forest.
[Trio approaches]
Vinnie: Stay away from me! [Flashbang]
Finn: Wait!
Jake: Mat-te!
Marceline: I know where he's going. Follow me.
Marceline carried Finn and Jake to fly through the forest to find him. Later on, he spot him just standing on the cliff so they descend and talk to him.
Marceline: You see him?
Finn: Not yet, huh? Found him!
Jake: Drop us off!
[She drops them off to the cliff]
[VIN'S SCENE]
Vinnie: [Sigh]
Finn: Vin!
Vinnie: You again…
Jake: Hey~
Vinnie: Enough! You really want that do you?
Jake: What are you talking about?
Vinnie: Can't you get the picture? I failed. Such disappointment will brand me [steps closer to the edge of the cliff] dishonored!
Finn: Wait, are you~ Are you crazy!? You can't just throw away your life like that.
Vinnie: [grin] Below me is the Forest of Sharp Oaks. Legends say that defeated Vampire Hunters jump on this very cliff to their, you know what happened next. In that case, I will never become your lifeless prisoner, Vampire Queen.
Marceline: Hey! I wasn't all like that. Seriously, have you been living under a rock all these years? Can't you see that I am not as brutal as what you think about me.
Vinnie: [turns back] Spare me your lies to your thralls… You two, I know you've been through dangerous times and I know you can survive it but I have no idea why you side with her, a monster that will soon harm you in the end. Listen, be cautious to whoever you're with. One of those days, you will die.
[Gust intensifies]
Vinnie: Vampire Queen, whatever you do, don't be seen by the likes of me. [Falls down]
He jumped off the cliff in which he will fall in the Forest of Sharp Oaks and intends to end his life by being stabbed by the oak. Finn rushed to him while Jake is ready to wrap him as a rope until she decides to save him. His descent was fast and she is trying to fly down faster until she finally grabs him. He tries to let go just to continue his descent.
Finn: Vin! [runs]
Jake: Wait up! [passed by Marceline] What the Glob?
Finn: Marcy?
[Vinnie is still falling with a shameful smile on his face as if he wanted it]
Marceline: Almost there. Almost there! [grabs his wrist] Got you!
Vinnie: [being whiplashed] Hnngh. [wakes up] Huh? [looks at her] What!?
Marceline: [Lifts him up]
Vinnie: [angry tone] What do you think you're doing?
Marceline: I'm saving you. That's what.
Vinnie: No! I almost killed you! [grabs knife but misses swings] Why do you bother saving me?
Marceline: Watch that!
Vinnie: [tries to shakes off] Let go of me! Let go!
Marceline: Vinnie, I know who you really are. You're one of a kind. Don't ever waste that.
Vinnie: [eyes dilated] Iie. [struggles] Yamero! I'm not worth it. [starts to shed tear] Just let me go, let me, let me~
He couldn't take it anymore. His calm but merciless and tough personality has been broken right in front of her. She carried him until he dropped him safely on the cliff. He was in total disbelief of what happened but they convinced him so much that he may have to consider getting used to the life in Ooo. It was also that time that he unknowingly changed after the mental break but not all of it.
Vinnie: Uwaaaaaaah! Glob darn it! [sniffs]
[drops him off beside Finn and Jake]
Finn: Vin!?
Jake: You did it!
Marceline: Phew. You wouldn't believe that even how fast he is, he's very heavy. What does he carry anyway?
Vinnie: What's going on? Why is it have to be like this?
Jake: Hey. I don't know where you come from but it's a lot different here.
Vinnie: Huh?
Finn: Yeah. Nothing's really wrong here. Well, except this morning but you have to get used to it.
Vinnie: Get used to it?
Marceline: Besides, I would have destroyed the land if I want to but it just ruins the fun since I have friends like him [looks at him], [partial transforms to scare him] him, PB, and I could get used to you, Vin.
Vinnie: [blush and gasp] Do you really mean that?
Marceline: Yeah. Let's say we should hug it out. Just to forgive you and forget what happened.
Finn: Good idea!
Jake: Phew. Thank goodness it's over.
Vinnie: [grin] You guys are weird but then again, [breathes out] I realized something.
Jake: What is it?
Vinnie: I'm starting to admit that Humans are extinct. What's the point of me protecting for a race that is already dead?
Jake: You're wrong, man.
Vinnie: [confused] Why?
Finn: Because I'm human.
Vinnie: [Light Bulb break sfx] [Shock] What!?
Vinnie tackles him and then he checks by tapping on everything around him including pinching his cheeks. He got hurt then Jake wraps him up in retaliation.
Finn: Whoa! What are you doin~ Ouch!
Jake: Hey! [stretches his hand to wrap Vinnie]
Vinnie: Oomph!
Jake: Finn, you alright?
Finn: Ow!
Jake: Hey! What's wrong with you? You haven't seen a human before?
Vinnie: I'm saying the same thing!
Both: What?
Vinnie: Because I'm a~
Marceline: Dhampir…
Both: Huh?
Finn: What's a dha~dhamp~
Marceline: Half-human, half-vampire. Am I right?
Finn: Half-human?
Jake: No way!
Vinnie: How did you know that? [shakes head] I left my homeland for five years to find the likes of you. The reason why I'm looking for a shred of humanity because~
[Abrupt End]
Trivia
- His full name is Vin Cerdansa. Cerdansa is a combination of two Romanian words, Cer (heaven) and dansa (dance) but his translated name is Heavendancer which the word "dancer" in Romanian is "dansator".
* In addition to this, Vinnie as a hunter with a Romanian last name is a reference to the hunters in Romania especially Van Helsing, the Vampire Hunter who killed Dracula in the Bram Stoker's novel.
- His transformation doesn't look like a bat despite that he's a dhampir.
Cultural References
- His "X" marks on his hands indicate that he's a straight edge and it's proven by emitting a painful burn everytime he did something not allowed.
- His transformation, Enlightenment is based from Satori in Naruto - Blood Prison and the effect of his Straight Edge marks in his two hands shares a similar effect of Fire Release: Heavenly Prison from the same movie.
- His technique, Shadow Blades is an inspiration to Psi Blades in Starcraft series.
- His blue eye with a cut is based on the Balkan Vampire folklore. His dhampirism is also taken from the same folklore with few characteristics from other folklores.
- His jacket design looks similar to Zero from Megaman Zero series and Vent, Aile, Ashe and Grey from the Megaman ZX series.
- His skirt design is loosely inspired by Clone Zero and Original Zero from the King of Fighters series which it's based on the Javanese male sarong.
Words from the Author
Happy 1st Anniversary of Adventure Time with Finn, Jake and Vin. So I'm going to make a redux version with fresh new chapters and a different take on the existing chapters while keeping most of the story from the original.