Title: Candy Kingdom & Nightosphere
Pairing: P. Gumball/Marshall Lee
Summary: After Prince Gumball has been dragged into a night-time adventure by Marshall Lee the Vampire King, their unsure friendship slowly starts to become more comfortable. Now, as these two get closer, someone else also has an eye on the prince...
Warning: This story will be a boyxboy/yaoi. Don't like, don't read. Any flames will be used to injure the person who has flamed. -creepy, innocent smile-
Author's Note: Riggghhhtttt~ I know you guys might be wondering, 'An Adventure Time with Finn and Jake fanfic? A yaoi fanfic at that? A child's cartoon~?!' So, before you guys get a fork and a knife to stab me in the back, there's an absolute good reason to explain my new obsession with this pairing! -silence-...REALLY! First off, school has been literally killing me since this year is a very important year for me. And my laptop has also been confiscated, my iPod is my only source of entertainment (ignoring the tele). And, while I was searching for random fanfic here, I found Prince Gumball and Marshall Lee pairing! I always adored the gendbent version of the show and I got excited and read a few of those. Haha...
Well, then I was like, 'why not?' And yea. And second of all, this cartoon is not exactly as innocent as it seems. As you grow old, lol...Im old, nah! Let's just say a teen like me, who watched (and still watches but no need for that information) cartoon, this show was really a bit too mature for CN. But meh, I enjoyed it nether less. So...these are my reasons. Ahaha~ It's also an apology fan fic for those who wants some kind of update on my other fic but won't be getting any soon. ahaha...ANYWAY! ENJOY AND REVIEW! :D
And uhmm...ignore all the obvious spelling and grammatical errors due to the fact that I'm using my iPod. ^^" Also, this chapter and the rest of the chapters will be in 'episodes'. :3 ENJOY!
Episode 1
In the Land of Aaa, lived and ruled a kingdom, where people were no longer made out of blood and flesh. The sunny sky that glazed over the green lush grass had left the soft normality that everything was as it seemed. But if you looked carefully, you can notice a different type of glare that the sun emitted and the grass that suddenly looked a bit too lighter than normal. If you sniffed the air, the aroma was a bit too sweeter than what would its usual smell be. Screams of joy, laughter, and many other whispers and talks could be heard past a gate, over the other side, where the finest kingdom was ruled by a friendly and a very loveable ruler, Prince Gumball.
The people, the citizens of the kingdom weren't made up from flesh and skin. In fact, they were a little smaller, shorter, sometimes a bit too stub and round. Sometimes, they were a bit too tall and a bit too slick. In different colour and patterns as their skin. And to top of all the weirdness, they were actually seemed to be made up of candies and sweets. The kingdom had its name due to the citizens and the ruler itself. Prince Gumball himself wasn't human. In fact, soft coral or to what some people would mistaken it as pink, that covered every inch of his body was also made up of candy. The type of candy that people loved to eat. Purely gumball.
This prince was known for his kindness, his yellow crown the only colour added to his body, resting perfectly on his head. His smile had the respect of others and he had never neglected his duties, not even once, even if it would mean that he wouldn't officially get any rest for himself. He was that selfless. Though, that didn't mean he was a loner and had no friends. In fact, the coral prince had many friends. But only few that were very close to him, close enough did they know the real him. One of them was the heroin of Land of Aaa, Fionna.
She was the petite blonde who only looked fragile but was actually far more fierce and awesome than she looked. Prince Gumball had always found her to be amazing and very skilful. A friend that he could always rely on and maybe, sometimes, it did cross his mind, to be something more with her. However, that was beyond question and even before Prince Gumball could think any further, he would throw the thoughts far away. Far away and to never return.
Then, there was Cake. Loyal companion of Fiona and best friend of hers. She was one of the strong willed pet or friend that Gumball has ever witnessed. She was always beside of Fiona whenever the time needed it and sometimes, she was there for him too. Not always, but enough times that he had begun to consider her as a friend close to him. Overall, there was finally one more person to consider in the equation. However, that person was like juggling in between friends and foe. The young prince never really had enemies because he had hated to dislike anyone. The mere thought of it made his stomach clench in a weird way but this person, he wasn't exactly someone to be considered in that way. In fact, Prince Gumball was quite confused with what he had thought of him. The only words that ran into his mind every time he saw him was either spooky or creepy. Evil, now that was the weird part. The coral prince had never thought of him that way. But that could only mean different since he doesn't fully know the boy. He was always closer to Fiona and never really got any chance to know him.
Pouring some chemicals into the reactant as it burned under the Bunsen burner, he couldn't help but to scrunch his eyebrows tight. This was one of the prince's favourite past time. Besides his princely duties, he was also more favourable towards science. The way the chemicals reacted together to form some other different result had intrigued the prince and he had always wanted to know more. Everyone who knew him deep enough always knew that the prince was knowledge obsessed. To always know things more and more, and he loved the thought of just discovering new things. Therefore, science was always his closest friend among all.
Carefully tilting the jar that contained some purple mixture into a beaker, he had made sure his hands were as steady as possible. Even the slightest mistake could ruin the mixture and he would have to start again. Concentration at the fullest, the prince didn't even have time to notice that a lurking black shadow has entered itself into Gumball's lab. Slowly floating in mid air, Gumball was just too busy making sure the mixture didn't blow up to notice that the looming figure was on his head, peering down on the prince to look at what he was doing. Just a bit more, Gumball mused in his mind as he saw at how a small drop was creating at the edge of the test tube, trying to fall into the bubbling mixture inside the beaker. Almost there, the prince mused again as he felt himself holding his breath as the drop formed larger and larger. Just when the drop was about to drop into the beaker, something shocked him.
"Hey there, Bubbs!" the voice itself shocked the glob out of Prince Gumball and accidentally poured a huge stream of the liquid instead of a drop. If it was any possible, the prince's coral coloured face was slowly draining its colour as he noticed how the beaker was starting bubble so loud that it was beginning to hiss and screech. It was weird but Gumball also knew that it was dangerous. And so, he quickly took a few steps back and noticed how the beaker was about to blow. With one last screech, Gumball closed his eyes and waited for the impact.
"Dude, it isn't going to blow," a snicker was heard coming out of a familiar figure as the prince immediately snapped his eyes wide and looked at the beaker. Right on what was said, the beaker was back to normal as if nothing changed. Then, Gumball snapped his eyes and looked at the looming, floating figure who was busy smiling mischievously back at him. His eyebrows furrowed deep as a small frown escaped his lips. It wasn't like if this was the first time but this was definitely a rare occurrence. Floating eye level with the young prince, was the nightwalker, the only nightwalker that Gumball had ever knew actually that didn't try to kill him or eat the gummies out of him. This was also the person that was now currently under 'Friend/Foe/I Don't Know' list in the prince's mind. The nightwalker who was just staring back at him was known for his famous title as the Vampire King. He was the king of all Nightoplane and yet, he always had time to fool around.
"What are you doing here, Marshall?" the prince asked annoyed as he pushed past the floating figure and towards his chemistry set. He quickly turned off the heat from the Bunsen burner and sighed to himself. Marshall, the Vampire King, was just grinning before he shrugged.
"Fionna asked me if you wanted to join us tonight," Marshall asked as he turned himself around upside down as he floated and let himself to look at the ceiling. Gumball turned around and looked at the now upside down king and stared at him. To be honest, Gumball had always had a hard time trying to figure out who this Marshall Lee actually was. Was he really that scary? Was he nice once he get to know him? However, if he was really mean, Fiona would have kicked him by now. Which she didn't and she liked hanging out with him. So, could that mean that he was just another misunderstood creature? Gumball couldn't comprehend this and just shook those thoughts out. Simply said, he hasn't known Marshall well enough.
"For what?" the prince asked as he slowly stripped himself from the lab coat. The king however was just staring at the ceiling, not even bothering with manners of when talking to someone, one must meet the eye stuff and just answered the question bored.
"For a night-time adventure," Marshall said as he finally turned around himself and sat himself on the floor, landing his feet perfectly as Gumball's eyes never leaving the vampire. The word 'night' and 'Gumball' never really did mixed well. A shadow of uncertainty washed over his face as he looked away from the king and thought about it. But certainly, tomorrow he had so many things to do, he couldn't just leave it all behind. He had a royal meeting with the candy people about their houses and he had to sign some documents. He was a prince for glob's sake! Marshall noticed the hesitance of the prince and just smirked hotly to himself before he crossed his arms against his chest. "I don't have all day, Bubba," Marshall teased as the prince immediately threw the vampire one of his glares, unfortunately, not affecting the king. At that very moment, the prince had made up his mind. If he was going to be stuck on a dangerous night-time adventure, risking his royal duties just to be with this person, he would rather use his time for educational purposes.
"No, I don't want to come and address me as Prince Gumball. Not Bubba and not Bubbs," the prince said annoyed as he turned around, walking away from the amused vampire. It was always like this. It was admittedly rare for Marshall to visit Gumball, and only ever comes when he wanted to invite or tell the prince in the behalf of Fiona. Though, even at that, the king somehow took a liking into annoying the gluten out of the young prince, always smiling and grinning more every time the prince snapped or shaded in light pink that was visible on his candied colour skin. Marshall simply floated or elevated a few inches from the ground and followed Gumball out of the lab, not really wanting to leave him alone like how the prince would have liked.
"Aww, that must really suck," the vampire teased as Gumball raised both of his eyebrows, glancing at the direction of the Vampire King. "Not having any fun at all," Marshall stuck out his tongue as Gumball sighed and kept on walking, not really bothering to even comeback that answer. On the other side, the vampire wasn't pleased with the lack of reaction to his sarcasm. He had always enjoyed annoying the prince and to see his various reactions to everything and to suddenly see the prince ignoring him. That was quite displeasing, actually. So, without having to bear with the silence, Marshall hummed out a tune. The prince didn't want to actually listen to any song on the other hand and was quite disturbed with the humming.
"Marshall," Gumball said as he stopped walking and finally looked at the vampire who had stopped humming immediately and looked at the prince with a smirk. "I have a meeting now. So if you could kindly leave and apologise to Fionna on my behalf that I can't make it, would be a good use of your time," the prince simply said as the vampire dropped his smirk and frowned at the pink prince.
But just like that, the moment Gumball blinked, the frown was gone, replaced by another smirk only, this time, the smirk seemed a bit too spooky. The vampire slowly dropped to his feet and walked a few steps closer to the prince, almost immediately causing the prince to be aware of the change in distance between them. Gumball didn't like this as he took another step backwards before the king smiled at the intimidated prince. Without any hesitation, the sadistic king drew his face closer and closer until his ghostly breath hovered over the prince's ear. "You are a good use of my time," he whispered almost seductively. The prince immediately yelped in surprise and pushed Marshall away, maintaining a safe distance as he felt his cheeks reddening all of a sudden. His eyes were wide as the Vampire King's face was plastered on the smirk, looking amused at the reaction he had received.
"Marshall!" the prince yelled at the vampire, trying to calm his suddenly rapid beating heart. "Don't say things like that!" the prince couldn't help but to feel a bit embarrassed under the vampire's gaze.
"About what?" Marshall asked almost innocently as he smiled wickedly at the blushing prince.
"Don't say anything, Marshall," the prince warned as the vampire only decided to taunt the prince more. Gumball wasn't dense. He knew why Marshall was doing this to him. In fact, this was his ways of getting Gumball to agree on everything without doing much of a begging.
"Say that you're coming if you don't want me to speak anymore," Marshall said lowly as he had that amusement latched in his voice as he smiled coyly at the prince. "Bubba."
The prince had really had enough of the vampire's childish behaviour and sighed. He was late for his meeting, he was sure of it and the reason was because Marshall was spouting nonsense to him to get him to agree. "Fine, I'll come," the prince said almost begging as the vampire smiled at the prince in triumph. Peppermint maid was so going to be angry at the prince for his lateness and she was the last person he had wanted to upset.
"I'll see you at eight, Bubbs," and with that, Marshall floated away, stretching himself as he did. The prince just watched him float away, feeling red and confused yet as well intimidated. He never knew why the vampire went through all that trouble to make him go to those type of events. It was the way Marshall had approached him that the prince found it to be offending but somehow, overall, if it was a normal turn of event, Marshall was practically asking the prince to go out. With...him.
Redness filled his face as he embarrassingly pushed away those thoughts and shook his head. He shouldn't be thinking like that! Oh, the meeting! With that thought invading his mind, his previous encounter with the king was forgotten. His princely duties mattered first.
Night time dawned quick, and the prince was exhausted. He had his duties that filled his rest periods too and now, he just couldn't wait to just sleep. He walked tiredly into his room and shut his door, and yawned. He was about to just walk to his bed when he saw a familiar figure looming near the window, leaning against it and was now, looking towards him with a frown on his face. Gumball just stared at him back for a few minutes before the realisation dawned him. The adventure! But, he was just too tired to go anywhere tonight. Gumball was about to ignore Marshall, who noticed the way the prince was moving, and quickly tapped on the window loudly, catching the prince's attention. Gumball tried to ignore but his heart was too kind to do anything so rude. He was a prince after all. He just didn't know if it applied for the king. He walked tiredly and lazily to his window and unlocked it, causing the sudden bursting open of his windows to happen. Marshall just stormed inside and turned around and looking at the prince unamused, either completely ignoring to how droopy the prince's eyes were or simply decided to be oblivious to it. "Dude, I've waited for you since eight," from the sound of it, the prince was sure that the deadless was unhappy with his tardiness.
"I'm sorry, Marshall," Gumball sincerely apologised as he stifled another yawn. "But I don't think I can go anywhere tonight. I'm just too tired."
The king just stared at the coral prince, not even bothering to register to what the prince has said. "Yeah, well, I bet you'll be fine again once we get our adventure started," Marshall said as he walked closer to Gumball. The prince just furrowed his eyebrows annoyed as he sighed.
"Marshall, didn't you hear-"
"Hurry up," without further ado, cutting the prince's sentence in half, Marshall simply had one of his hands behind of Gumball's head and the other at the back of his knees, lifting him princess style and bringing him closer to his chest. The prince's eyes widened and he blushed in deep red when he noticed in what position he was in. He snapped his head to look at the vampire who was only looking down on him and smirking.
"Let me down this instance!" Gumball tried to fidget his way out of the vampire's strong grip but the deadless just smiled wide before walking out to the balcony. The prince squeaked in fear when Marshall had reached to the edge of the balcony, climbing onto the rails and standing there before he looked down on the cowering prince.
"Relax, Bubba," he grinned slyly as the prince looked at him in fear. "I won't drop you," he said as the prince cringed at the word drop. "Not on purpose anyway."
That had made the prince's stomach to do somersaults as he registered the words. His face could possibly paled and Marshall was more than happy to see that face as he chuckled at the frightened teen prince. Gumball shot a disapproving glare at the old vampire, failing to add the intensity of the glare due to the fright for heights. Without anything said, the king just jumped out to the balcony, not even warning the prince fist. Almost immediately, the prince screamed a bit and threw his arms around the vampire's neck, hurrying his face deep into the crook of the vampire's neck. He clutched his eyes tight, unsure of what was happening. Little did he notice, this was somehow affecting his companion.
Marshall Lee was definitely taken aback when he suddenly felt hot breath at the crook of his neck. His breath would have hitched if he was breathing due to the sudden gesture. After all, nobody was this intimate to the king before. He never hugged anyone and certainly, nobody had hugged him like this! The vampire tried to focus on the way to their adventure. The dark forest. It was true, there was an adventure tonight, but he doubt that after two hours of waiting, Fiona and Cat would have found something better to do. Now, he would be certainly alone with the prince. A sudden weird feeling crept into the vampire's dead heart as he tried to remove it from his mind. Enough of this, Marshall Lee mused in his mind as he sighed and tried to relax to the way Gumball was hogging him now.
After what had seemed like an eternity, they finally reached to the entrance of the forest. The forest was dark and suddenly it seemed so spooky that the vampire couldn't help but to smile at the way the trees looked so crooked and the fresh smell of soil and moss. He slowly landed on his feet and froze when he felt the prince had actually nudged his face deeper into the crook of his neck. Silence stayed between them for a few minutes before the prince noticed something was wrong. Cracking his eyes a bit, he noticed that there was no more wind bowing through his hair. He quickly took his head away from the vampire's neck and looked around, finally realising that they were no longer flying. The prince slowly looked up and noticed that Marshall, he was actually smirking at the prince with a weird gleam in his eyes. Almost immediately, the prince jerked Marshall away from him as Gumball tried to conceal his slow reddening face. He landed on his feet perfectly and patted himself. Gumball looked away from the king, annoyed and possibly quite upset with the fact that the king had brought him here even when he had protested so and actually was half embarrassed at what he had done.
"Where's Fionna and Cake?" the prince then noticed the only breathing (well, excluding the Vampire King here) was him. No one else was around him. Looking even more frustrated, he had wanted to yell at the king. Marshall slowly looked around before he snapped back his attention to the prince smiling and shrugged.
"They must've left," he casually said. Gumball's eyes widened at that and his face this time reddened in anger. "You did made us wait for nearly two hours," the vampire casually said as he smiled at the prince.
"Marshall!" the prince yelled at the vampire. "I'm tired from a long day of work! I need to sleep!"
"Loosen up, Bubbs," Marshall said casually as the prince winced at that nickname. "A few hours of fun wouldn't hurt ye," he added his casual slang in. Before the prince could protest, he felt Marshall grabbing on his right hand and tugging him into then forest. The prince was now utterly scared and unsure. Why was he even here if the other two didn't even wait?
"M-Marshall! I think it is best if we've left!" Gumball tried to pull his hand away but the vampire's grip was just too strong around the hand.
"Nah, it'll be fine," the vampire glanced at the frightened prince and gave him a smile. However, that wasn't very convincing for the prince. "I just want to show you something. Don't want to waste tonight, now, do we?"
The prince didn't know how to respond to that. His eyes slowly travelled from the vampire's face to the hand he was being gripped on. Gumball didn't know why but he felt fuzzy and warm around the area his hand was being held onto. It was comforting and yet, this doesn't sound disgusting to the prince. Holding hands was something someone who knew each other for quite sometime would do. Yet, Marshall simply took his hand and guided him though the thick forest. Gumball slowly left his eyes to wander again as he noticed how dark the forest looked. The trees seemed like they had wanted to eat him alive. Fear was bubbling in him as his heart beat raced. What if Marshall was going to murder him? No, Marshall wouldn't do that. Right?
The prince couldn't hold back the scary thought, so engrossed in his fantasies of what could happen in the dark that he screamed a bit when he stepped on a twig. Marshall stopped moving as he turned around and looked at the prince, hoping that he was alright. The pure fear on the prince's face somehow didn't enlighten the vampire. "Hey, everything's going to be okay!" He said casually as he squeezed the hand tight, catching the prince's attention. Marshall Lee only smiled a bit before continuing on his journey. On the other hand, Gumball was still trying to not die from fear. However, after that little assurance from the king, his fear incredibly lessened. Not understanding this himself, he let himself to be dragged into the forest. The deeper they went in, the scarier it got.
"Ah, here!" Marshall finally exclaimed as Gumball snapped his attention at the vampire. The deadless turned around and looked at the prince with a gleam in his eyes. "Come on," he said slowly as he tugged onto Gumball's hand one more time before the two royals ended up past the bushy trees, wide open in the middle of the forest, was a lake. A huge lake and the trees surrounded it magnificently. The moon was shining bright, reflecting on the pond.
Gumball gaped wide as he looked at the scene. Inside this scary forest, filled with creatures that looked like they could kill, laid a magnificent view. A small smile soon played on the prince's face as he scanned the view. "Where are we?" a soft question was asked as Marshall chuckled to himself and looked at the scenery with the prince.
"I call it the Crystal Lake," Marshall said softly. Gumball looked at the vampire, confused for a second. He had never heard of that lake before.
"Why is that?" he asked again as Marshall shrugged.
"Cause it looks like crystal at night," Marshal absentmindedly spoke catching the prince off guard. He looked back at the view, trying to see what the king saw before he noticed the soft glow from the pond. It was indeed shining and shimmering like a crystal. The view itself was so calm.
"It's magnificent," Gumball stated as the vampire only chuckled. Only then did Gumball noticed that he was still holding hands with the vampire. He was quite taken aback when he hand noticed how well his hand had fit into his. It snugged warmly and he didn't even feel like taking it away. A soft tinted blush spread on how face as he looked away, furrowing his eyebrows at his weird thoughts.
"Marshall? Why did you bring me here?" Gumball asked as he looked at the view in front of him.
"Cause..." the vampire trailed off slowly before he broke the hands apart and took a few steps away. A sly grin spread on his face as Gumball snapped his attention towards the vampire. His hand suddenly felt cold and empty, like his hand was begging to hold hands with the vampire a bit longer. He noticed the grin on the deadless face and frowned. "Cause this is the least scary place here, you baby," Marshall simply snickered as Gumball fired up in red again.
"I'm not a baby!" Gumball protested as Marshall on the other hand only snickered louder.
"Oh yeah? Then why is pink your favourite colour?" Marshall Lee counter attacked causing Gumball to spit out words.
"Because!" was his only words as the two bickered off. Gumball almost forgetting about his exhaustion. Marshall couldn't help but to be amused at the collection of faces that the prince was showing. Of course, the prince had managed to get on the vampire's nerve too but overall, they were somehow bonding. The prince noticed this and yet, he didn't mind. Exhaustion slowly wearing off, somehow, Marshall Lee had managed to drain the exhaustion from him. Even making him forget about his royal duties for tomorrow.
Soon, the moon had shone too bright and hours have passed, and finally, the two royals had stopped their bickering. "Hey, come with me," Marshall suddenly said catching the prince's attention. Gumball wasn't so sure if he should follow him but Marshall Lee wasn't having any of it. Therefore, he started to walk back into the thick forest, leaving the pink prince behind. A slight rush of panic went through the prince as he immediately decided to follow the vampire. He wasn't planning on being meat or candy in this instance for creatures of the dark. The nightwalker smirked to himself as he heard the timid footsteps of the prince. "Be careful with your step," Marshall Lee teased as the prince looked at the figure walking in front of him and back to the ground where he cautiously took another step. They've walked in silence and the moon somehow found its way to shine on both of them. With the slight shade of light, Gumball mused that it wasn't that scary now. However, he would still like to keep his attention alerted in case. Marshall Lee didn't talk neither gave out one of his famous sarcastic remarks about how frightened the teen prince looked and concentrated to reach his destination. After a while more, the king finally stopped causing the prince to abruptly stop as well.
The prince looked at the vampire for a while before taking a few more steps and stood next to him. "What-"
"Sshh," the vampire said as he pulled the prince behind a tree. The prince yelped at that sudden gesture and looked at the king half annoyed. Marshall Lee was only grinning at him before pointing towards something. The prince followed the point and his eyes then landed on a rabbit. Hoping off in the middle of the forest. Prince Gumball was confused as he looked back at Marshall Lee. It was just a rabbit and there wasn't anything interesting about it.
"Watch that," the king said as he kept his eyes on the rabbit. The prince slowly turned his attention towards the rabbit, unamused for a moment. The rabbit was just hoping around in the dark. There was nothing interesting or unusual about it. The prince was about to open his mouth to say something when the rabbit suddenly jumped into the small patch of moonlight that managed to dawn through the heavy shaded leaves. Immediately, the white furry rabbit which was once looking harmless, had increased in size. A thousand times its size and his claws which were hidden in his paw had extended sharp. The prince took a step back in caution, terrified yet somehow interested at this but Marshall Lee was excited to see the transformation. The rabbit which now had its white fur longer and shaggier with its two buck teeth formed larger and sharper, started to sniff around. The prince's breath got caught in his throat as the rabbit started to walk away. Just when the darkness has hit the rabbit, the horrendous creepy features were gone and hoped out was the cute little bunny.
The prince was too shocked to say anything as Marshall Lee chuckled with amusement when he noticed how wide Gumball's eyes were. "W-what was that?" the prince asked as the vampire looked at the prince, a smile on his face.
"That was a moon rabbit," Marshall started to explain. Prince Gumball immediately snapped his head towards Marshall Lee, obvious that he was slightly confused. In his research, he had never came across a moon rabbit before. Intrigued at the new found knowledge, the prince gestures the vampire to continue. "They usually will transform into Moon Beasts whenever they come out to the moon. They're quite harmless when they're normal but predatory killers during the moonlight," Marshall finished explaining as the prince nodded, his eyebrows furrowed in concentration. The information sunk in quick before the prince smiled and nodded. Just then, Marshall noticed the sky changing slightly and he knew, it was time to bring the prince home.
"Hey, Bubbs," Marshall said casually as the prince frowned again with that nickname. "It's almost dawn. You should get back."
The prince's eyes widened at that and looked at the sky, almost immediately panicking. He didn't even get a wink of sleep! He had some royal duties to cover. Gumball slowly looked at the vampire, who only smiled, enjoying at how the prince panicked. "Marshall! It's going to take me hours to walk back," the prince sounded as if he was whining, earning another grin from the nightwalker.
"Relax," he suddenly assured the panicked prince and walked closer to him. "I'll fly you back!"
"Again?" the prince asked as he took a step back, once again, feeling doubtful with the king's offers. The smirk on the deadless face only grew as he shrugged playfully but continued to advance towards the prince. Before anything else was said, the king scooped the prince up princess style, not even getting affected by the squeals and embarrassment enchanting the prince.
"You can always walk and go back. If you're still up for it in the dark anyway," the king mused on as his grip tightened on the prince's body. Gumball could feel his cheeks slowly tainting in pink as he looked at the smug vampire. Frowning to himself, he had to admit. If he walked, who knows what might be out there! Could be creatures of the night just waiting to eat him up. Shuddering at the thoughts, he finally sighed and nodded.
"Fine, but don't dare to drop me," the prince warned as the vampire only smirked. Gumball didn't like the look on his now-soon-to-be-foe's face and decided to ignore it. He felt his blush deepen when they were lifted from the ground and had to cling onto the vampire for his dear life. Marshall Lee, however, came to a conclusion that he liked the way this teen prince was holding him now. Though, it was a weird thought for someone as cold-blooded as him, he decided to just remove them from his mind.
It only took a few minutes when they finally reached to the balcony of the prince's room. Dropping him carefully onto the ground, the prince took a step back as the vampire jumped down from the rails and stood right in front of him. They both stayed quiet for a moment before the prince finally decided to break the ice. "Thank you for the lift and for not dropping me," Gumball said as Marshall Lee only chuckled and nodded.
"No problem, Bubba," the Vampire King stated once again earning the prince's disapproval look. However, it was ignored by the king, as usual. "As weird as it is, I actually had a great time," the king said in a spur of moment, taking the prince aback. He stared wide eyed at the deadless for a moment as he tried to register the words. Marshall Lee the Vampire King, someone who looked so mysterious and mischievous, actually had fun with the prince. The prince only nodded and shrugged.
"Me too, Marshall," he said softly. This time, the king was taken aback and couldn't help but to be a bit sceptical about it. "You know, besides being mean and trying to scare the glob out of me," the prince smiled as the vampire slowly smiled back. However, his smile was somehow too noticeable for its hidden meaning.
"Well, I was just trying to loosen ye up," Marshall shrugged. "You were acting like a stick in the mud, dude."
The prince was a bit offended with that statement. He wanted to sulk at the vampire and ask for an apology cause he was certainly not a stick in the mud but ever so, it was Marshall. He decided to act royally prepared. He was about to retort something when suddenly someone knocked on the prince's room door. Gumball's eyes went wide and he finally noticed how the sun was rising. Marshall was also slightly panicking, though he was doing well not to show. He quickly looked at the sky before deciding to walk away now. "Well, I'll see you soon, Gumball," Marshall said quickly before he climbed onto the edge of the rails again and flew off before the sun could come out completely. The room door just in time opened, revealing a butler who walked in. The prince turned around, sighing as the butler seemed curious to why his prince was outside at the balcony at this early in the morning.
"Prince Gumball?" the butler asked slightly confused as the prince only walked into his room, shutting the balcony windows tightly and smiled small at him.
"Just taking in fresh air. Couldn't sleep," the prince lied as the butler looked at him sceptically and nodded. "I need to sleep a bit more before the meeting. Is that possible?" Gumball asked, somehow hoping he doesn't seemed too eager to sleep. He really needed to sleep. The butler simply shook his head, crashing and squashing the prince's hope to do so.
"I'm sorry but the meeting starts in an hour, Prince Gumball," the butler said slowly as the prince could only smile weakly.
"Oh, alright," the prince nodded. "I'll need a bath though," immediately the butler nodded and decided to call one of the maids to draw the bath out for the prince.
As the day progresses, with meeting and papers to sign, the young prince couldn't actually help but to recall back at the little night-time adventure he and Marshall Lee had. It was, fun and the most fun he had ever had. It was also quite relaxing to take his mind off from royal duties too. Immediately feeling bad for his citizens at that thought, he sighed and resumed with his duties. Though, he was also silently hoping, even though he tried to deny, he wanted to spend more time with the king.
Far away however, the prince hadn't realised of another presence, looking at him. It wasn't Marshall Lee but it was still someone familiar. A small chuckle escaped from the person's mouth. It was just about time before the prince was in the person's grasp. And until the time comes, actually, it will come. And soon too.
"Soon..."