This story is completely AU from the current Adventure Time. Finn is 16, and it'll start from the episode "Burning Low" and continue on from there. I hope you all enjoy the ride.
All was well and calm in the Land of Ooo at this point in time. The weather was fair, and more importantly; the people were healthy and functioning.
At least that was how it appeared to Finn, The Human. A sixteen year old hero, currently taking a stroll in the Candy Kingdom. He had grown with time, standing at five foot five inches. His hair had grown as well, reaching his shoulders in length, however the most of covered by his trademark white hat with two ears sticking out at the top. The loose hair hung out the back of his hat.
The boy wore the same old baby blue "boy-style" T-Shirt, expect it now fit looser than usual. To cover the lower parts of his body he wore blue-jean shorts and black shoes with white rolled down socks. It fit him and his sometimes childish personality.
With him was his girlfriend of a two years, the Flame Princess. She had long orange-red hair and yellow-orange skin. If Finn could say so himself, she was beautiful in every aspect.
The girl clung to her boyfriend's arm as they walked through the Candy Kingdom. They were currently grocery shopping for a date they had planned. It was the first time she had seen Finn a while, for he was working for other kingdoms simply because of his love for adventure, and while he appeared to love her; he asked her to not accompany him during his string of journeys.
According to his best friend, they were going to be doing some, "man-stuff," and she obliged. Just when her curiosity was about to fully eat away at her, he returned home as lovable as ever. As mentioned before, he had grown while he was gone, so she now had to look up to her boyfriend when she spoke, "Where are we heading first, Finn?" The girl asked sweetly as she gently nudged his arm.
Due to her roots and element, being close with his loved one sometimes hurt, but he had been around her so much; he had grown used to it. There was a slight burning sensation, but it lasted for a short time. He acted as if it didn't affect him at all, so he could keep his girl happy. The boy cracked a smile, "I thought I told you Flame Princess, the bakery."
To further prove his point, Finn pointed down the cobblestone road toward a bakery. It was very small in size, but it made high quality pastries. "Jake ordered a cake for us," Finn told Flame Princess as he guided her into the shop, "He said it was a gift from him to us, I won't quote him exactly though." The boy laughed a bit remembering the original statement of, 'Tier 2, no time.'
"Oh, how sweet of him," Flame Princess said as she smiled back at Finn lovingly. She ended up staring at the boy for quite some time as he got their cake. Flame Princess was in a daze of sorts. It was a new kind of euphoria she had never experienced in her entire life. She hadn't even realized that he removed his arm from her grasp so he could hold the whole cake with both hands.
The girl heard unitelligeble mumbling from somewhere but ignored and continued to stare at Finn. A warm smile crossed her face, 'He's so cute. . ' The girl trailed off in thoughts about her boyfriend, until she was thumped on her nose.
Flame Princess regained her senses and realized that Finn was talking to her. "Huh?" The girl asked, "What- What is it?"
"I said what do you wanna eat, girl!?" Finn was a little irritated that she wasn't paying attention to him talk. It's like she wasn't even acknowledging him half the time, and zoning out. She didn't hear what he said and started to become forgetful.
"Oh, that spuh… stuff is pretty good," The girl tried to remember the name of the saucy delicacy she had partaken in when she and Finn first started dating. It had seemed like so long since she had last eaten it. "Spuh.. spuh.. spuhg…" The Flame Princess blushed a little bit having forgot the meal.
Finn laughed gently, "Spaghetti, sweety." The boy nudged her to begin moving with his foot and they exited the shop. "Um, we'll have to get to the general store then, and get the materials. I don't think we have any of the ingredients at your house or mine."
"Let's go then."
The couple started down the cobblestone once more and headed in the opposite direction. It's where the general store was, and a lot of other stores, if she wanted something else.
As they walked through the kingdom, Finn started noticing little things about Flame Princess. The biggest being how hard she was staring at him. It made him a bit uncomfortable, even when he looked away and walked in silence with their arms locked, he felt a burning sensation of her eyes examining his body.
The boy laughed eerily and scratched the back of his head.
"What's the matter, honey?" Flame Princess asked him because of his sudden outburst of laughter.
"I can literally feel you looking at me and it's weird, because you have a very hot stare."
"What do you mean?"
"You're made of fire, what else could I mean? You're literally burning a hole in my skin the way you're staring."
Flame Princess foolishly looked at his skin, seeing no hole. "What hole are you talking about?"
Finn laughed once more, "Figure of speech, Flame Princess."
"Oh. . ."
The couple fell silent after that, as they entered the general store. Finn, who still had the box in his hand with the cake in it, looked over at the carts. "Babe, could you get me a cart?"
"Of course," The girl removed her arm from Finn and went to grab a cart. She pushed over to him quickly, since she didn't want to melt the plastic covering the metal frame of it.
Finn stopped the fast moving cart with his foot and put the cake box in the cart so his arms would be free.
As Flame Princess returned to his side, he looked down on her, "You're not as talkative as usual, what's the matter?" He asked as he began pushing the cart throughout the store, to find the materials for spaghetti. "I thought we would be talking non-stop once I got back home from my adventures."
"I just . . . missed you so much, Finn, while you were gone." The girl looked toward the ground as she paced slowly behind the fast moving human boy, "Six whole months without you was something I've never dealt with before. I've never had any real emotional attachment to any other than you, so . . . "
"I get what you're saying. You're just happy to be with your favorite stroodle oodle noodle again, am I right?"
"You're more than right."
Finn threw the box of noodles into the cart and spun it around to dash out of the aisle childishly. Flame Princess ran behind seeing what he was doing.
The boy had gotten so hyperactive out of nowhere, rarely paying attention to the people while he was cutting corners searching for sauce. "PEW, PEW, PEW." Where the lasers were coming from, no one knew.
His girlfriend found it funny and that's all mattered to Finn, smiling as he heard her laughing in the background.
BAM.
Finn ended up crashing into something, rather someone. She sounded very irritated from the groaning noise she made as she struggled to get back up. The human helped the girl back up, and it was none other than Princess Bubblegum.
"Oh, hey PB!"
The pink haired princess gave Finn a blank stare as she picked up her items off of the ground, "Finn . . . what did I tell you about running in the grocery store?"
". . . It's stupid and I should stop."
"It's stupid and you should stop," The woman reiterated her point as she had finally gathered all of her belongings. She finally started to smile again, though, "I missed you though, Finn. You and Jake. I can see that the other princesses kept you very occupied for those six months."
"Yeah, made me into quite the man." Finn cracked a smile of his own as he grabbed the cart once more and pulled it closer to himself, "What're you doing here?"
"I should ask you the same thing," The Bubblegum Princess had a raised brow.
Flame Princess had finally figured out which aisle he was in, getting sidetracked by something, but having finally caught up. She interrupted the conversation, "We're making food for our picnic date tomorrow, isn't that right, sweety?"
Finn nodded in agreement.
The Bubblegum Princess wasn't completely satisfied with her answer. It actually elicited a slight frown, "Oh, how wonderful." She said, but it almost sounded condescending. The woman decided to make her exit right there, "I'll catch you guys later." She walked off hurriedly.
"That was weird," Finn admitted as he grabbed the sauce off of the shelf and started moving once again. He stopped running, because it was stupid, and he could probably hurt someone doing it anyway.
"I wonder what her problem was . . . " Flame Princess thought out loud as she trailed behind Finn now as he grabbed random snacks and drinks. He probably needed to restock his treehouse since he was gone for so long. Any food he had was probably expired.
Their trip to the grocery store was coming to a close as they got to the cash register. Finn used the money he had garnered from his adventure by doing little jobs while voyaging.
Finally they would head home and spend some time together like Flame Princess had wanted.
Slowly, but surely they would get to the treehouse. On their way there, they talked about what did while they hadn't seen each other, how much they missed each other, and what they planned to do in the future. It was a calming experience for Flame Princess, finally getting Finn back, and getting to banter with him like they used to. For Finn, it was nice to simply relax. He wouldn't complain about adventure, but he definitely needed a break.
At least a few days off.
With his treehouse in sight, Finn started to look it up and down. "Wow, it's good to be home."
Both Flame Princess and Finn then rose their brow as they heard loud music coming from within. The front door was already partially opened, so Finn turned around and used his butt to open the door all the way.
Once inside, he heard singing from the stereo up-stairs, and his best friend; Jake the Doge.
"Na, na, na, na," Jake stretched his head down stairs, bobbing it with the rhythm of the rock. "Na, na, na, naaaaa! NOT IN THE BOOOOOOOOOINGLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOINS."
There was a sick guitar solo to follow as Jake's full body was finally downstairs. He thrusted his pelvis and imitated a guitar with his hands, "Owwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww!"
Finn laughed and set the cake down to join in with his own imitation guitar. The boy was so caught up in the moment he hadn't realized the music stopped. He had his eyes closed and dropped down to his knees to emotionally play his guitar, all fueled by Flame Princess' laughter.
"It was a solo," Jake cut Finn's moment short, "Respect the tech."
The Human stopped, "Wha?"
"I thought it was cool, Finn," Flame Princess added in.
"I'm just cutting your porkchops, man," Jake said laughing.
"Oh, Jake!" Finn joined in on the laughing and got up off of his knees.
Flame Princess' smile had faded but slowly crept back as Finn and Jake interacted. It warmed her heart to have people she called family in a way. People she could trust and confide in.
She could only hope it lasted even if only for a while.
. . .
A woman with dark tinted glasses was leaning back in her chair. She ran a hand through her long orange hair and sighed. She possibly had the most boring job in her profession, but she couldn't complain.
She was monitoring heat signatures on a screen. Exciting, right?
If the fire elemental was able to produce it, there would sweat rolling down the side of her face. She was in the hottest place in all of Ooo: The Fire Kingdom. To make matters worse, the most oppressive force in the whole Land of Ooo was slowly making his way into her department. What he wanted was unknown, but she could only hope that it was a short meeting.
His malicious aura brought her down whenever they interacted. She wasn't exactly happy now, but dealing with him certainly wasn't going to brighten up her day.
Before the Flame King entered, one of his servants would come and survey the room. He left and told the King something.
The woman sighed and got up so she could bow toward the King upon his entrance.
His armor making sounds as he walked in signified his arrival. The armor itself was bronze in color. His head was a fireball with facial features. The man wore a light smirk when he entered, as he moved the woman out of the way and sat in her seat.
It was a swivel chair that he spun around in, "I need to get one of these," He wiggled his ass in the seat a few times to get a feel for it. Finally, tended to the task at hand, "So give me the rundown about the Flame Princess."
"Her little boyfriend has returned home, so naturally her flames are burning stronger," The woman would step up to the control board and minimize the window that showed the Kings daughter's signature, "Whenever they're alone, they're especially strong. She has the 'hots' for the boy, so to speak."
"I see, disgusting, but go on."
"The more emotionally attached she becomes, the more dangerous. As concluded a long time ago, her emotions are tied directly to her elemental matrix," The woman read from her well taken notes, having observed Flame Princess since she was a child. "Emotions like anger, jealousy, romance only augment her strength. When they reach a climax point, she can become extremely dangerous."
"How dangerous?"
"Enough to destroy the Earth," The woman replied calmly, "That's with an unstable matrix. If she were taught to control it, she could have power that surpassed even you-"
"Enough of this," The Flame King slammed his fist against the control board. The temperature of the room increasing significantly. Some of the command keys were broken upon impact.
He was mad.
The woman groaned, "I'm simply stating the facts, your majesty, it was projected that she became stronger than you in the long run," She rolled her eyes behind her sunglasses, "If you would let me finishing talking, and not cut off my sentences, you would have known sooner that you can still be the strongest in Ooo."
A curious brow was raised by the Flame King, "The Strongest you say?" He sounded more than intrigued. The King would do almost anything to increase his power.
"The absolute strongest," The woman informed him, "While your flame control is second to none, you can still improve upon it."
That warranted a frown from the man, "Improve what's already perfect?"
"Nothing or noone is perfect, Flame King," The scientist had no problem saying that with a small smile, "With time, meditation, and the necessary training; my staff could have your power at levels you couldn't have even imagined."
"I'll do it."
"What are your plans for Flame Princess?"
"We're going to return her to where she belongs and make use of her extraordinary power."
The woman was curious as to what he meant, but she wouldn't question him. Nothing good came from questioning the king.
. . .
"So, how does she pee?" Jake wore a puzzled expression as he and Finn stared at their bathroom, "Is it like a jet stream of fire? Does it always hurt for her to pee?"
"I don't know . . . " Finn scratched the back of his head, "Maybe it's like boiling hot wizz."
"I wonder if she sits or stands," Jake looked over at his brother, "Maybe it's like ash, seeing that she's always on fire. Smoke, maybe?- You're her boyfriend, you need to know the little things like this."
"Don't you think that's kind of weird?"
"Yeah, but, if you can't be weird with your girlfriend; maybe you should find a new one."
"Hm, never thought of it that way," Finn mumbled to himself, as they cut their conversation short when they heard the toilet flush. "Shhh."
"So how does the cake look, Finn, good?"
"I haven't even looked at it."
Flame Princess emerged from the bathroom with a smile on her face, "Let's wait until tomorrow and keep it a surprise, Finn, that'll be fun."
"Yeah, fun. Who doesn't like surprises?" Finn leaned back on the couch and smiled, "I know I love 'em."
"BMO loves surprises too," said the little video game. It came trotting in with a smile on it's pixelated face.
. . .
"Surprisssse, honey!" A voice called out to the woman.
Princess Bubblegum looked away from her screen only to see the Ice King floating through her window. He wore a creepy grin on his face, which promised no good. At least in her opinion.
She pushed herself away from the control board and swiveled in her chair, "What do you, Ice King?"
"Too see my sweet fine thang of candy, know what I'm sayin'?"
"No, I don't," The woman spat out and folded her arms. "Leave, now. I told you I didn't want you here, or in the candy kingdom. You're a nuisance."
The King's grin became creepier, "I'm your nuisance though, right, baby?" He floated toward her and held his arms out for a hug.
Princess Bubblegum stopped him from initiating any contact by pressing her foot against his chest, "Leave."
He smiled lightly and still tried to reach and hug his 'sweet fine thang,' but it was to no avail. Banana guards charged into the room and that made him float away from her, "Fine, I'll leave." The man flew out of the window and that ended Princess Bubblegum's problems for now.
"Make sure he leaves the Candy Kingdom, go follow him," The princess ordered and they dispersed from the room as instructed.
She sighed and turn back to her screen. The woman furrowed her brow as she saw two heat signatures snuggled up with each other on a couch. One was much higher than the other's. It was rising as well, which worried her, "They're moving along too fast," She sighed and got up from her control board. "I know where this is headed."
The Princess shut the window and left the room for good. A frown was plastered on her face. She wasn't happy with Finn and Flame Princesses' relationship.
The woman wasn't jealous, rather concerned with the fate of the world that they lived in. It had been destroyed once, and she'd hate to see it return to it's aforementioned state, so if she could do anything to prevent it; she would.
. . .
