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Finn's Dream
Finn ducked under a stream of flame, slashing at the dragon as it passed over him but the Finn Sword hit a talon and sailed away.
"Aw nuts," Finn sighed. "Jake, comin' to you!"
Jake grew until he was roughly the same size as the dragon and threw a punch at it. Before it hit, the dragon wound around his arm then his body, beginning to squeeze. Finn sighed, drawing his Root Sword that he had thought to bring as backup, then raised his hand. A moment later, Marceline grabbed it, flying into the air and over the dragon, releasing him. Finn rolled out of the way of a stream of flame then stabbed the dragon in the head. It shrieked in rage, loosening its grip on Jake who shrunk down and escaped. Finn pulled his sword free and dropped to the ground just in time for the dragon's tail to smash him and Jake both away. Both crashed into the ground, pushing up several meters of it before stopping. Finn groaned, standing and looking at the dragon as it chased Marceline, trying to light her on fire. Finn staggered forward, knowing that fire was one of a very short list of things that could kill Marceline. Just as he reached his Root Sword and picked it up, Marceline shot past, spinning to try to get him out of the dragon's way. As it approached, Finn raised his sword then slashed it down the face, killing it but making its body crash down on top of him. It plowed through the ground with him for several hundred meters before stopping, Finn's upper body exposed and bloodied.
Finn opened his eyes, looking around. His treehouse was in front of him, except that it was a charred and smoldering pile of debris. He looked up, seeing a blood red sky with slightly darker shade clouds here and there.
"What's up with the sky?" Finn blinked.
Just then, screams reached his ears. Hundreds of them. They were deafening. He covered his ears, looking around before running to the top of a hill nearby. Suddenly, he was staring down at the Candy Kingdom. it was in flames. He sprinted down the hill and through the front gate, which looked to have been blasted inward. He skidded to a stop, looking around. The buildings looked like bombs had gone off next to them, some collapsed, some gone, some with gaping holes in them. Flames licked out of the holes and dotted the streets. The screams seemed louder here but he couldn't see any signs of life, or corpses. He sprinted through the streets, heading for the castle but skidded to a stop as a building ahead of him collapsed, burning debris crashing down into his path, making him shield his eyes from the heat and smoke. He looked to the other side of the fire and saw a figure. The heat distorted it, making it unrecognizable and the light of the fire made it seem blood red. It looked back at him and grinned.
"Hey you!" Finn shouted over the screams and the roar of the flames. "What happened here?"
The figure laughed, its voice registering perfectly in Finn's mind. Then, it turned, beginning to walk away. Finn growled in annoyance and backed away.
"Fine," Finn sighed. "I'll come ask you closer."
He sprinted forward, leaping to the still-standing wall on the other side of the street, over the fire, then off the wall to the street. Less than a second before he pushed off, the building collapsed as well, doubling the height of the flames, and the heat. Finn looked up but the figure was gone. Finn sighed then sprinted through the streets, past the burning buildings to the castle, the main door having also been blasted inward. He sprinted into the castle but slowed to a stop behind Princess Bubblegum. She was crying, holding her hands to her face and facing away from him. He reached out to turn her around but at the last second, she turned. Finn shrieked in horror, staggering backward and falling onto his rear. Her eyes were gone and there was blood running down her face from her empty eye sockets, also coating her hands. Finn scrambled backward as she began to stagger toward him, her movements stiff like her legs were unable to bend. He should feel bad, or angry, or sympathetic, since she was blind, injured, and a friend. But he wasn't. For some reason, the sight of his friend filled him with nothing but terror.
"You left us Finn," Princess Bubblegum said. "You left us behind. You left us to die!"
Finn scrambled to his feet, backing away again as doors along the walls on both sides opened and the other princesses all staggered out of them, all in similar conditions to Princess Bubblegum.
"Join us Finn!" they all said. "Join us! Join us in the darkness! We're all waiting for you here!"
Finn turned, sprinting out of the castle, leaving it behind and sprinting down the main road as the screams grew louder, the princesses voices bleeding through the rest. Finn sprinted past where the pile of burning rubble should have been, but it was gone. As he ran, the princesses began to grow out of buildings, rubble, the ground, anything. There were dozens of each and they made it difficult to escape. However, after several minutes, he sprinted out of the Candy Kingdom and the ground began to collapse below him. He sprinted up the hill and just as he crested the hill, the ground gave way. He grabbed the edge of the ground that stood firm, pulling himself up just as the screaming spiked, becoming painfully loud. Finn fell to the ground, covering his ears but failing to block it out. Then, a new voice bled through. Marceline.
Finn stood, sprinting across the field to her cave, his worry blocking out the screams enough for them to not be painful. Or maybe they were just quieter again. He opened the door to Marceline's house and froze. The house was flooded with blood. It was everywhere, covering everything. It dripped from the ceiling, it seeped up from the floor, it ran down the stairs like a river. It gurgled up from the sink, and it seeped out from under the bathroom door.
"Marceline?" Finn called out, unable to hear his own voice over the screams.
"That you Finn?" Marceline replied, her voice easily cutting through the screams.
"Yeah!" Finn replied.
"I'm in the dining room," Marceline said.
Finn swallowed, stepping into the blood on the floor and found that it was higher than the top of his shoe, seeping into his shoe instantly, soaking into his socks and squelching as he walked. He tried to ignore the blood, the awful smell, the feeling of it squelching in his shoes as he walked. Just as he stepped into the dining room, the screams abruptly stopped, leaving everything else seeming amplified. The blood running down the stairs, the blood dripping to the floor from the ceiling, the gurgling of the blood coming out of the sink. The growling above him. He slowly turned, looking up to see Marceline in her wolf-bat form, eyes blood red and watching him hungrily, blood and saliva running out of her mouth.
"M...Marcy?" Finn gulped. "What...what are you doing?"
She leapt at him, roaring ferally and tackling him into the blood. Then, Finn was falling through the blood. It soaked into his clothes. It matted his hair to his forehead. He wished, for once, that he hadn't stopped wearing his bear hat on his seventeenth birthday a few months ago. He tried to ignore the thick sticky, warm, red fluid now running into his nose but he couldn't. Just as he opened his mouth to breathe, he found himself lying on what felt like solid ground, staring up at the blood red sky, the clouds now crossing it quickly, just fast enough to be disorienting. He stood, looking down and his disorientation got worse. Below him, was a perfect reflection of the sky above, but no reflection of him, giving the illusion of standing in the sky. He looked around, seeing an endless expanse of sky above and reflection below.
"Welcome Finn Mertens," a voice behind him greeted.
He spun, seeing a pitch black smoke silhouette of a humanoid with blood red eyes and black slit pupils, the eyes being the only solid thing on the silhouette.
"W...What are you?" Finn breathed, mind flashing back to the cloud like entity from his belly button claiming to be his fear, though it had proven to be a demon's will, creating a fear of the ocean to keep Finn from tracking the demon out in the ocean and slaying him, which Finn had done.
"Well, you could say I'm you, or that I'm me, or that I'm nobody," the silhouette said cryptically. "You could say that I'm the future, or the past, or the present. Maybe I'm your friend..." the silhouette solidified, transforming into Jake. "...or your love..." it transformed into Princess Bubblegum, complete with no eyes and blood running down her face. "...or your family..." it transformed into Martin, then Joshua. "...or your enemy..." it transformed into the Lich King. "...or myself." It changed back into its silhouette form again. "One thing I will tell you, however, is that I will not allow you to expire just yet. I still have plans for you."
Finn reached back, drawing the Finn Sword he hadn't realized he had, then sprinted forward, slashing at the silhouette but it merely passed through with no effect.
"I like your spirit, Human," the silhouette chuckled, Finn recognizing the laugh from the figure in the Candy Kingdom. "Now, wake up."
Finn sat up, gasping for breath, eyes darting around the room in terror, a cold sweat coating his body and running down his back.
"Finn it's alright," Princess Bubblegum said, resting a hand on his shoulder.
He screamed in terror instantly, trying to hurl himself away from her, something warm and wet touching his leg and spreading downward. Princess Bubblegum staggered away, eyes wide in shock and fear, as Marceline pinned Finn to the bed, shifting to her wolf-bat form to hold him still.
"Finn we're not going to hurt you!" Marceline said.
However, Finn wasn't listening. His eyes were wide with terror and he was thrashing violently, desperate to escape as an earsplitting scream rolled out of his mouth. He peed himself a second time as his heart monitor began to spike to a dangerously high rate and stay there, Finn's breathing approaching hyperventilating. Finally Jake pulled Marceline off, pinning Finn down and standing over him where he could see him.
"Finn it's us!" Jake shouted, making Finn stare at him in fear, then slowly beginning to calm down. "No one's going to hurt you. It's just us."
Finn's eyes shot over to Marceline and Princess Bubblegum. Marceline had shifted back to normal and both girls had tears flooding down their face from fear and worry.
"S...Sorry," Finn croaked, making the two girls begin to cry anew from relief.
"When we...brought you here, we weren't sure...you would live," Marceline said, barely holding back sobs. "Then...you started...screaming in your sleep...and...we were so scared. Then...when you finally woke up we thought...maybe you were okay but..."
"I'm sorry," Finn croaked, feeling as though he had been screaming for hours, which apparently he had. "I didn't mean to make you worry."
"It's okay," Jake said. "It's over now."
Finn nodded, looking under the sheets, seeing he was still fully clothed, and climbed out of bed, collapsing only for Marceline to catch him.
"You shouldn't move yet," Marceline said.
"I have to go clean up," Finn stated. "I'll rest at home."
Marceline looked unsure but nodded so Jake took him, stretching out the window and expanding to a height that didn't allow anyone to see that Finn had peed himself. Then, he carried Finn back to their treehouse. He helped him to the bathroom and then into the tub, taking his dirty clothes and promising to be right back if Finn needed him. Then, he left to throw Finn's soiled clothes in the wash and get fresh ones.
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