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Lost Friends and Dusty Relics
Finn landed on his back, backpack flying away and spilling over the ground. He and Jake were fighting a set of Witch Triplets in the heart of the Evil Forest. They had recently found out that they were the source of the forest's evil and that if they died, the forest's inhabitants would all return to their minds and be capable of choosing their alignment.
Finn and Jake had been fighting monsters in Ooo for almost five years since Finn's thirteenth birthday. After being stranded in Prismo's realm, the Lich hadn't been a problem ever again. The Flame Princess had broken up with Finn long ago and began to date Flambo, eventually marrying him. The moment they were married, he regained his true form and was revealed to be the Flame Kingdom's most accomplished war hero. Fortunately, the war was against the Lich so he had never killed anyone that was good.
After Flame Princess had left Finn, he had spent the free time it gave him hanging out with Marceline, Princess Bubblegum, and Jake. Marceline taught Finn to play guitar and Jake mostly kept Princess Bubblegum and Marceline from killing each other, not that they didn't try. Once Finn was as good a guitar player as he was likely to get in a short time, he spent more time sparring with Jake and Marceline. Jake he could beat but Marceline always beat him without even needing to transform. Eventually, Marceline had given him an Axe-guitar.
"Finn!" Jake said running over. "Get up man! These witches are doin' somethin'."
Finn groaned and sat up. He scratched his head and thought his hat had fallen off for a moment then smirked. He had gotten rid of his hat along with the rest of his outfit a long time ago. His hair had turned black around the same time that a dragon had very nearly burned it off. Jake said that the ash had poisoned it but Finn didn't really believe him or care why it changed. His outfit had gone from bright blue to a black Tee-shirt, navy blue cargo pants, and black Converse All Stars. He carried his Axe-guitar on his back and left his Father's sword with Jake. Jake seemed fine with that and had even let Marceline teach him how to actually fight with a sword. She had also taught Finn to actually fight with his Axe-guitar as well as his bare hands and swords.
"What are they doing?" Finn asked.
"They're doin' a spell man!" Jake said.
"They're witches," Finn said. "That's what they do. That's what threw us, remember? A telekinetic repulse spell."
"No man!" Jake said pointing to the three witches who had so far been kicking their asses without breaking a sweat. "A blood spell! I think they're going to summon!"
Finn looked at the witches and paled pushing himself up and looking around for his axe. The witches were standing in a triangle with their hands in the middle. They all had jagged cuts on their palms and the blood was dripping onto the ground and forming a seal. It had already formed a circle and was beginning to form a symbol in the middle. There were symbols around the outside that were flashing into existence as the three witches chanted.
"I know that spell," Finn said. "We really need to stop them."
"How do you know it?" Jake asked.
"Marceline," Finn said spotting his axe.
He sprinted over to it and picked it up then sprinted toward the witches just as the symbol finished and the seal exploded skyward in a geyser of blood. The concussion from the explosion sent Finn and the witches flying and the witches all moved to stand next to each other and watched with pride as the seal spewed blood fifty feet into the air. Jake caught Finn and set him on the ground and Finn thanked him readying his axe.
"We could use Marceline," Finn said. "Oh well. Good thing we found that cyclops yesterday."
"You got the bottle?" Jake asked.
"I told you to get it!" Finn said.
"I told you to grab it when you went back for your axe!" Jake said.
"Perfect," Finn said as the geyser died down and the ground where the seal was drawn began to rise up like something was pushing on it from below. "Here we go."
Then, the ground melted away reforming as if it had never risen. When the ground had melted back to it's original position, it left behind exactly thirty seven objects. One, was a dusty robotic arm with a kitchen knife blade in place of a hand. Another was a ram's horn and, like everything else, it was so dusty it was hard to tell what color it was. Another was a tiny tiara with three red gems similar to the Ice King's crown only a lot smaller.
The Ice King had had a flash of memories including abandoning Marceline for the crown and had destroyed the crown. The moment it had been destroyed, he had passed out and fallen into a coma for a day. When he had awoken, he had not been the Ice King, he had been himself. He had even returned to his human body. Marceline had been ecstatic about it and had spent days filling him in on everything that had changed since he had lost his mind and making the Ice Castle inhabitable for him. He wasn't human as he kept his blue skin and ice powers, but he had lost the elongated nose and his beard.
The third object released from the seal was a tiny golden knife with a sapphire pommel. A fourth item was a severed, extremely large, fur-less cat's paw. A fifth, was a fractured deer antler. The sixth, was a doll. It was ragged and the head was bigger than the body, both of which were balls. The arms and legs were extremely long and one eye was missing with cotton poking out through the hole. The other eye was a button and there were two bumps that may have been ears on top of its head. The other items were all scales of various size but undeniably dragon.
"Any of those look familiar to you?" Finn asked gripping his axe tighter.
"All but the tiara," Jake said.
"Ice King's fanfiction of us, Ice Queen's tiara," Finn said. "That summoning spell, summons things from the enemy's memories to attack and kill them."
As he said this, the objects all began to form bodies. The scales all multiplied until each had formed a dragon. The tiara generated flesh until the Ice Queen had been formed, the antler did the same until the same stag that had put Finn into a coma stood before them. The cat's paw formed the same Demon Cat from the Crystal Eye Dungeon minus the fear of Jake. The tiny knife formed the tiny white cat Me-Mow. The robotic arm formed Finn at the age of thirteen. The biggest difference was that this Finn was somewhat fat with frayed clothing, a long nose, and large eyes. He was still thirteen so he still had the hat that the real Finn had abandoned. The Doll, formed two hands holding it. Then the hands grew into the child Marceline that Finn and Jake had encountered in Marceline's memories.
"That can't be good," Jake said. "Which ones do you want?"
"I'll take Ice Queen, little Marcie, and me," Finn said.
"Um, Finn?" Jake asked. "That horn hasn't formed anything."
"Maybe it's...wait, I know that horn," Finn said looking around.
Five months after the Lich had been stopped the last time, Billy had returned just long enough to give the Lich's severed horn to Finn before disappearing again. Finn had carried the horn in his backpack and now saw it laying a short distance away, an identical match to the horn floating in front of the other enemies. The horn had now begun to grow and Finn knew what it would form.
"Crush the horn Jake," Finn said. "Crush it now!"
Jake reached forward expanding his hand but the horn suddenly sped up finishing the Lich's body in under a second and the Lich grabbed Jake's hand and then threw him into the trees. Then, the Lich began laughing.
"Excuse me," one of the witches said. "Kill the boy and the dog. Now!"
The Lich looked at the witches and raised his hand which lit with green fire. Then the fire shot at the witches and exploded killing all three at once.
"Useless hags," the Lich said. "I'm in charge now."
"Lich!" Finn shouted. "You're not even real!"
"Doesn't matter," the Lich said. "I'm going to pay you back for imprisoning me then I will free the real me."
Finn charged forward with his axe just as Jake restrained the Lich but the stag kicked Finn back breaking a rib and the Demon Cat slashed Jake's hand causing him to pull it back.
"First, you must deal with your old friends," the Lich said. "Kill them."
The stag and cat both charged at their targets and began to attack. The stag tried to stomp on Finn but he rolled out of the way then spun kicking it in the leg but the only thing hurt was him. Then the stag lifted him up with its horns as threw him into a tree. Finn felt more ribs break and felt his head begin to swim but pushed himself up and broke a branch off of the tree. The stag pawed at the ground and Finn groaned and glared at it.
"Come on then," Finn said.
The Stag charged and Finn held the branch out in front of him. It was sharp where he had broken it off and the stag impaled itself on it but not before smashing Finn into the tree again.
While Finn and the stag fought, Jake avoided the Demon Cat's attacks while staying his normal size to keep it from having too much of a target. Finally he saw an opening and thrust his father's sword forward but felt a sharp jab on the back of his neck and faltered just in time for the Demon Cat to smash the sword away. Jake slapped the back of his neck and pulled his hand away with Me-Mow holding an empty syringe. He threw Me-Mow at the Demon Cat and lunged for his sword then rolled over just as the Demon Cat impaled itself on the blade. Jake shoved the Demon Cat off then expanded his liver until the poison finally stopped. Then he shrunk back down and looked down to see Me-Mow running at him with a knife. He snorted in amusement and stomped on Me-mow crushing her.
Once those thee had been killed, the Ice Queen and Farmworld Finn both charged at Jake but Finn tackled Farmworld Finn. Jake dodged seven ice blasts then knocked the Ice Queen's tiara off and crushed her like he had Me-Mow.
Farmworld Finn kicked Finn off and stood readying his kitchen knife and Jake tossed Finn their father's sword. Finn swung and Farmworld Finn ducked under the blade then slashed Finn's leg. Finn spun and removed both of Farmworld Finn's legs only to have Farmworld Finn shoot the knife into his side. Finn pulled the knife out and then walked over to Farmworld Finn. Farmworld Finn swung his robot arm at Finn but Finn leaned out of the way then jabbed the knife at Farmworld Finn's face. Farmworld Finn moved his robot arm into the way but the knife slipped between the two bars making up the forearm and then sank into his face. Finn stood and turned around to see young Marceline standing a short distance away with tears in her eyes.
"Are you okay Marcie?" Finn asked.
"I'm sorry," Marceline said.
"For what?" Finn asked.
"This," Marceline said as all of Hambo's limbs pointed at him and began shooting arrows.
Finn managed to dodge them and grabbed his axe but froze. Marceline turned toward him and aimed at him but he still couldn't make himself attack her. She was his best friend, after all.
"I'm so sorry," Marceline said as Hambo began shooting at him again.
Jake suddenly grabbed Finn and pulled him to safety receiving one arrow in the process. He pulled it out and glared at Finn.
"Kill her!" Jake said.
"I can't!" Finn said.
"Then kill the Lich and I'll kill her," Jake said grabbing their father's sword.
Finn grit his teeth and charged at the Lich again but stepped on a loose stone and fell. His ribs instantly exploded into pain and the Lich walked up to him grinning from ear to ear.
"Now you die, human," the Lich said.
He raised the axe but an arrow suddenly impaled itself in the side of his head. He and Finn both looked and saw Marceline aiming Hambo at him but looking surprised and angry at the same time.
"Don't you dare hurt Finn!" Marceline said firing more arrows.
The Lich shot a fire ball at her but Finn pulled her out of the way and picked up his axe. The Lich fired three more and Finn slashed them out of the air. Then he charged at the Lich and leapt over another fire ball then froze and looked back in time to see it hit Marceline and explode. Hambo landed on the ground and Marceline's feet landed next to it. The rest had been destroyed.
"Shit!" Finn said just before the Lich's next fire ball exploded beside him sending him flying.
"Finn!" Jake said twenty feet away pinned to a tree by an arrow.
"I must admit I didn't realize that girl was capable of free will but I suppose now I can kill you in piece," the Lich said.
"Maybe in one," Finn said smirking and reaching into his pocket. "But not in a thousand."
Marceline had taught Finn to make explosives and Finn had caught on quickly. Now he usually carried two or three in each pocket of his pants. He pulled one out and lit the fuze then turned and ran toward Jake. He grabbed their weapons and Hambo then pulled the arrow out of Jake and pulled him around behind the tree just as the bomb went off. They stepped back around after a minute and Jake whistled. The bomb had scorched everything in the clearing and had ruined the things Finn had had in his backpack. Luckily all of the important things were still in their tree house.
"It's over," Jake sighed. "Can we go home now?"
"Yes you can," a sign zombie said stepping out of the trees. "Thank you for freeing us."
"Your welcome," Finn said then gasped in pain and fell to his knees and his side and broken ribs all throbbed painfully.
"We're going home," Jake said.
Finn nodded and Jake picked him up then carried him back to their tree. When they got there, Jake got their bottle of magical goo and healed their wounds then looked at Hambo.
"You're going to give that to Marceline right?" Jake asked.
"Yes," Finn said. "Long as I've got it, might as well return it."
Jake nodded and Finn grabbed his guitar and walked to the door. Besides, I want to have a jam session.
"Want me to come?" Jake asked knowing the answer and smirking.
"No," Finn said. "And no, it's not because we're secretly dating."
Finn left and closed the door behind himself then headed to Marceline's house. The day was clear and extremely hot but by the time he reached Marceline's cave, it was night. It was cool but not cold and there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Finn could see billions of stars or more and the only thing obstructing his view was the full moon. Marceline was sitting on top of the cave strumming her base slowly and staring at the moon.
"Hey Marcie!" Finn called. "I've got a present for you!"
Marceline raised an eyebrow and floated down in front of him until they were only a couple inches apart. Finn rolled his eyes and Marceline floated back a bit grinning. Then she closed her eyes and held out her hand. Finn set Hambo in it and Marceline opened her eyes then they grew to dinner plates.
"It's...but...how..." Marceline tried to say something but couldn't think straight.
"Long story," Finn said. "Basically, the summoning spell you told me about."
Marceline hugged Finn crying out of happiness. Then she pulled back and wiped her tears.
"Thank you so much!" Marceline said.
"You're welcome," Finn said. "So, wanna play or spar?"
Marceline grinned and Finn guessed what she was thinking. His face turned red and he gave her an exasperated look before she laughed.
"Alright," Marceline said. "But instead, it's time for a history lesson. Come on, we're going to watch Van Helsing."
THE END
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