I'm back…with the sequel to my story "Finn the blood king"- "the quest for the family tree". Enjoy!
Chapter one: a long search
On the horizon, a cloud of dust was moving extremely fast. A motorcycle made of spiky bones and a shining futuristic-looking engine was crossing the fields of Ooo. On it, was riding a guy, with tan skin, mirroring sunglasses, a spiky black leather jacket and boots, large black pants and leather black gloves. He crossed the candy kingdom so fast, that a candy police car was riding behind him while root beer guy was the driver. He pressed a button on his motorcycle, and it took out lots of smoke, turning off root beer guy's sight and making him crush into a sweets bakery. "My shop'! Sacreblu!" said the cake man who owned the shop. Root beer guy came out of his car, looking towards the motorcyclist who was getting away.
Meanwhile, Finn and Jake, the duo of adventurers, were marching on their way to the candy kingdom. Jake stretched an arm towards the main tower and they both entered princess bubblegum's room. There, princess bubblegum seemed more stressed than ever. "What's going on, PB?" asked Finn "Finn, Jake, I need your help. Remember the lich?" "-If we do? Don't worry, princess, he's a big baby now, he's harmless" said Jake "yeah, he shouldn't be a problem anymore!" added Finn, but princess bubblegum didn't seemed to calm down "Who cares about the lich?!" she screamed of worry, startling the two back, seeing their fright, she calmed herself a little "Sorry guys, but it isn't the lich who's threatening Ooo this time, nor you Finn" she said as she saw Finn's worried face, the last few weeks were a little too much for the young man "Remember the tree Billy trapped the lich on?" "Yeah, what about it?" asked Finn. Bubblegum seemed like she wanted to say something, but stopped herself "You should see by yourself…". As they came to the top of the castle, Finn and Jake could see the huge tree, and released a scream. "OH MY GLOB!" said Jake "What happened?!" asked Finn. Bubblegum seemed to shake a little, and then said: "the tree is dying, Finn". The entire tree was grey, and it's leaves were black, some of them even burned with black fire.
The mysterious biker passed across the fire kingdom's wasteland. A weird blue light was surrounding him. Flame princess looked from the highest window on the top of her fire castle, which was now on construction "Who's that?" she asked to herself. Cinnamon bun was listening to her thoughts while guarding the main entrance and asked: "should I persuade him, my princess?". She thought it for a second, until she said to him "No. He doesn't seem to do any harm to my kingdom, he seems more like he's searching for something, or someone…hmmm…" she said. "Ok, then I will just keep guarding the entrance for you" said Cinnamon bun, before returning to his stand. As he got far, Flame princess turned back to her thoughts 'I wonder' she thought to herself 'why does he look so familiar…?".
"What?! How?!" asked Jake. Bubblegum closed her eyes, took a deep breath and said: "Because of you guys". "Huh?!" said both of them in total shock. "Impossible!" responded Jake "There's no way we will do such thing, you know that PB!" "I know, I know…" said Princess Bubblegum "But you see, there needs to be an order in the universe, when the lich was created, he was now the essence of death itself, so there needed to be an equal essence of life. When Billy pushed the lich to the old pit in my castle, he landed on a corpse of a single dead cherry man. On his fall he touched a seed inside of him, then the universe saw an opportunity. Something strange happened, the seed began to grow and grow until it became a huge cherry tree, which slowly trapped the lich in its sap. The tree that grew was now the essence of life, it held the entire unstable magic energy and even physical form of Ooo together. Since they were both the exact opposites of each other, they fed on each other's life and death's energy. But now that you turned the lich into a big cute baby, the essence of death, wither and corruption is no more, therefore, there's no need in the essence of life, purity and bloom too." A big branch fell from the tree and smashed a tower. Suddenly, an earthquake began, the sky turned green, and a volcano emerged from the ice king's ice tower, splattering lava all across the ice kingdom. "What's going on here!?" yelled the ice king. He was on an ice block with his penguins and he tried to turn the lava into rock, but more lava came "Help me!" he screamed, but of course, nobody cared.
"It's all my fault.." said Finn "I'm so sorry…" he kneeled and began to cry. Bubblegum laid next to him. She wiped a tear of his cheek, and said: "Finn it is not your fault…" she then looked to Jake, and back to Finn "guys, this is serious, we need to find some strong source of black energy, or we are all doomed!" Finn smiled boldly and said: "I'm on it PB! Leave it to me!" "And me too" said Jake "But…" "-what is it Jake?" "-where a we going to find a source of death power?" they all thought about it for a second, until Finn hit his open palm with his fist "I got it! We will ask Death for help!" they all cheered, until peppermint butler came to them "I'm sorry, Mr. Finn, but Death doesn't want you to see him, he said that if you do come to him, he would kill you…" "Ahhh…." Said Jake. PB then smiled and said: "Marceline's father should know about such a thing go ask him!" "Good idea!" said Finn "Jake?" he said "All ready, bro" said Jake, as he made a portal to the nightgosphere "Well then, IT'S ADVENTURE TIME!" yelled Finn as he and Jake passed through "Good luck, boys.." whispered PB.
On a bar on the nightgosphere, two wild-western styled doors slapped open. A cloaked figure passed between the demons who looked at him until he stopped a demon and pointed his chainsaw-sword to his chest "YOU!" he yelled "y-yes sir?" the demon asked "Do you know where is Finn the human?" "-no, sir." Answered the demon, and he let go of him. He kept searching faces until he came across two demons whispering "You!" he took the arm of one of them, spinned it around his shoulder unnaturally, and the demon made a backflip on the air before falling on his nose. The figure pointed his sword towards his head "Where is Finn the human?" he asked "I-I have no idea what you're talking about…" he said, pretending to be innocent, but then watched in horror as the figure quickly put his chain-sword under his arm pit, stabbing the demon's friend who attempted to attack him with a knife, killing him on the place. "DON'T FUCK WITH ME! Where is Finn the human?!" "Please don't kill me!" begged the demon "he is at Mr. Abadeer's place" the figure then took his sword out of his friend's chest "Mr. Abadeer, uh?"
Finn and Jake where standing in front of Mr. Abadeer, which was sitting in his throne "Please, Marceline's dad" said Finn "there must be something you know about such a thing, you're the king of the nightgosphere, for glob's sake!" Mr. Abadeer scratched his chin thinking "Hmmm… maybe… got it!" he said, while reaching to a library. He took out a book and opened it, passing on the pages "There it is! I can't believe I didn't thought about it!" "-what?!" asked the two men "The orb of death'" said Mr. Abadeer "It was once's death's orb. Before he made the land of death, he store all of his lost souls inside an orb. That artifact should give enough death essence for your tree for a millennium or two at least!" but then, his face turned sad "what is it?" asked Finn "now I remember" he said "Death asked me to keep this powerful artifact away from the wrong hands, so I hid it at the depts of a dungeon deep inside the most dangerous and deadly zone of the nightgosphere- the land of the exalted" "The…*gulp* land of the exalted?" asked Jake "Yes, to get there you are going to need to face all sorts of dangers and creatures that might certainly kill you…" Jake was shacking at this point "It's ok, we will do it!" said Finn "WHAT?!" said Jake "what happened, Jale? Are you a coward?" "-a coward? Never! Show us the way, Marceline's dad!"
Both of them came down flying by the portal, to a place that was even scarier than the nightgosphere "'the land of the exalted'" whispered Finn. "This place gives me the creeps" said Jake. In other place, a couple of hooded figures were watching them in a mirror/round table and discussing: "There is no way that boy and his dog get that orb. We will have to take it for ourselves!" said one of them "Yeah!" responded the other one "But they are already ahead of us in this quest, what makes you so sure that we will get that orb before they do?" everyone started whispering, until the main one got mad "SILENCE!" he yelled, and everyone shut up and turned to face him "good. Now, I will show you how we will get rid of them…" he put an anorexic hand above the mirror, and shot lighting from his hand to it. On the land of the exalted, Finn and Jake were marching, mostly Jake with Finn on his back, until a lightning came down from the sky and split into four parts, each of them surrounded them and hit the ground. Seconds after, the cursed earth came to life and took the shape of four big earth humanoid creatures.
"Golems!" yelled Jake. One of the golems raised its big hand and pulled it down on the boys. They both managed to escape on the last minute, Finn took his sword, and Jake turned his hands into a spikey ball and a hammer. The fight was intense, but no matter how many times they cut their limbs, they golems kept regenerating them from the earth beneath them "It's useless, man!" said Jake. The golems surrounded them, and the boys were exhausted. The golems were about to make the final strike, until a flying, spinning futuristic-like motorcycle covered with bones hit one's face. The golem regenerated his face, and he and his friends turned around to see a black figure standing there. They were about to attack him, but he took down his sleeve, revealing a bracelet. He touched it, making a huge magic light circle appear in front of them. It hit them with a ray of light, turning them all into a mud pool. "No!" yelled the main hooded figure, hitting the mirror table "Great, now how are we going to stop them?" asked the first one. The main figure tremble with anger, until he smiled and turned to them "don't worry,we will get them and that orb.." he laughed and they followed him. "Are you ok?" the figure asked Finn "Yeah, who are you?" the figure kneeled In front of him, taking his sunglasses and revealing a pair of black eyes "Unbelievable, you have the eyes of your mother…" "My mother?! Who are you, stranger?!" asked him Finn. The guy who took of his hood, turned to be a human, with black hair and tan skin. "My name is Zein" he said "And I'm your uncle, Finn…."
Well that's it. See ya!