A/N: To those who have read The Lion and the Rose:

I am super sorry for deleting it! I just ran out inspiration because it was a raw idea. I hope this story makes up for it!

To those who just randomly clicked on this story:

Thank you for choosing to read this! I hope you will enjoy this.

I would also like to ask for some constructive criticism please!

Disclaimer: I own adventure time like I own the moon. And the song is owned by Britney Spears. It is "Oh la la" go search it if you want. ^-^


Chapter 1: Can we dance?


It was a bright day in all of Ooo. Why? It is Finn the hero's eighteenth birthday. He is of marrying age and all the princesses' wants him as their husband. And King. Oh yes, he would make a great king – possibly the greatest. But Finn didn't want anyone. Not PB, not FP – no one. He had moved on from his crushing on other girls and had grown to love adventuring even more. To him, girls were and are just girls. No more, no less – it wasn't that he found other girls indecent, he just wasn't interested. He didn't want to actually be involved in a relationship. For him, a relationship would be more complicated than finding the hideout of the Lich. But the Lich had already been defeated – he had been killed by Finn, Jake and Marceline three years ago. But that's another story.

Marceline opened her eyes and sat up from bed. She yawned and stretched her arms out and scratched her back. Sighing, Marceline floated over to her bathroom, took her clothes off, turned on the shower and took a bath. After washing up her hair and body, she took her towel from its rack next to the shower and wrapped herself in it as she took her hair dryer and started drying her hair. When her hair was dry, she put on a black tank top with the words 'bite me' written on it with red ink, blue skinny jeans and her newly polished red rocker boots. Tying her hair in a loose pony tail, she floated down to her front door, took her umbrella and flew over to a certain hero's tree house.

Upon arriving, she knocked on the wooden door and Jake opened it.

"Hey Marceline!" he exclaimed. He had warmed up to the vampire since they defeated the Lich. It was either he lost his fear of vampires or he just wasn't afraid of her anymore.

"Come in, Finn is still sleeping," Jake said, gesturing for her to come in.

Marceline stepped in and Jake closed the door.

"Jake! Oh, hey Marcie," a rather rattled Finn went down the ladder of the tree house.

"Hey there hero," Marceline greeted – a slight hiss in her voice.

"Heh, hey there too," Finn answered nonchalantly. He went to the kitchen and grabbed some cupcakes for breakfast.

"So, hero, how do you want to spend your day?" Marceline asked Finn.

"Actually, Peebles is throwing a masquerade for my birthday," Finn shrugged.

"Yeah, you should totally come to the party Marcie!" Jake added enthusiastically.

Marceline snorted, "Now why would I come to a 'pretty pink party'?"

"You can mess with PB if you want," Finn and Jake said together.

"Hmm," Marceline thought for a moment. "Do I get to chuck black ink at her?"

"Anything," both brothers said together again, thus resulting into a 'jinx' and an 'I said it first' fight between the two.

After they quieted down, Marceline agreed, "Done."

"Yes!" both brothers appeared each other.

"But," Marceline said.

"No!" Finn and Jake whined.

"Cut it out weenies, I was joking," Marceline burst out laughing.

"Oh laugh all you want Marcie," Finn rolled his eyes as Jake smiled.


Later that night, the PB's castle was packed with guests – and they were all flirting with Finn – well, everyone except the men and Marceline. Finn had a look of discomfort as girls swarmed him, trying to kiss him, hug him, but he had managed to dodge the attempts. At least; he was not in the mood for girls right now.

Hiding under the punch table, he finally let out the breath he was holding. Every girl that flirted with him – and I really mean every girl – wore a strong smelling perfume. And it gave him a headache just breathing it. So, he resorted to holding his breath. And that almost – almost – killed him. Geez, those girls need to stop wearing perfume, the hero thought.

"Why are we hiding under here?" a voice whispered behind him.

He jumped, but then he saw that it was only Marceline. At least she didn't wear perfume.

"Getting away from all those crazy women," Finn breathed.

"Really Finn – that's how you're going to deal with them? You should go to them and just say, 'I hate you' and then you're going to be happy – go – lucky again!" the vampire laughed.

"Hey, Marcie, you're actually right," Finn smiled and crawled out the table.

Marceline looked at him shocked, then shaking her head; she crawled out after him and yelled, "Finn, I was joking!"

But Finn had already started telling off girls.

"Oh man…I'm in trouble…wait…this is turning out to be quite fun!" Marceline mumbled to herself as she watched Finn tell of girl after girl; every woman there was now either fuming, sad or both.

The last girl he had to tell off was Bonnibel, and she didn't take it quite well; but, eh, every girl didn't. She had yelled, "Finn, I have loved you since you had defeated the Lich; since you saved me from his grasp! And this is how you repay me? I thought you loved me!" and Finn just shrugged. Bonnie then slapped him hard and walked away. And Marceline chose that precise moment to chuck a bottle of black ink at the pink princess.

"Marceline!" the princess yelled. The vampire just shot the princess an innocent look. Mumbling, Princess Bubblegum walked off, calling for some servants to help her.

Finn hung his head down low as everyone stared at him and Marceline.

"That was a bad move, Finn," Marceline said, floating down toward him, still laughing at her prank and ignoring the stares that were shot their direction.

"Yeah…" Finn murmured; his head sank down even more. He couldn't bear to be the one who actually made the princesses' mad. He didn't mean to; Marceline's words just got to him and he let his stupidity take control.

"So, this is becoming the worst birthday ever, right?" Marceline smirked.

"Just stop," Finn said almost crying.

Marceline's smirk grew even wider (if that's even possible) and she set her feet down on the ground. She walked over to Finn, and grabbed his head to make him face her. He had grown quite taller over the years and that was the reason why she started floating whenever she was around him.

"Oh stop being such a weenie Finn," she rolled her eyes. "Can we dance?"

Finn stared at her before nodding. Smiling, the vampire snapped her fingers and her axe bass landed in her hand.

Finn's mouth hung agape.

"That's just a new trick I learned," Marceline shrugged. She started to strum random notes before she hit a beat. Then she sang.


You don't have to look like a movie star

Ooh I think you're good just the way you are

Tell me if you could would you up and run away with me?

You don't have to roll like a millionaire

Baby I would go with you anywhere

We don't need no gold, we'll be shining anyway, we'll see

You know can't nobody get down like us

We don't stop 'till we get enough

C'mon, turn it up 'till the speakers pop

Break it down; show me what you've got

Ooh my my baby don't be shy

I see that spark flashing in your eye

My heart beats fast 'cause I want it all

So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

Take my hand, we can go all night

And spin me round just the way I like

It feels so good, I don't wanna stop

So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

You don't have to wear no designer clothes

Just as long as we're dancing on the floor

Fingers in my hair and I'm letting go tonight, so free

You know can't nobody get down like us

We don't stop 'till we get enough

C'mon, turn it up 'till the speakers pop

Break it down, show me what you've got

Ooh my my baby don't be shy

I see that spark flashing in your eye

My heart beats fast 'cause I want it all

So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

Take my hand, we can go all night

And spin me round just the way I like

It feels so good, I don't wanna stop

So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

Ooh my my baby don't be shy

I see that spark flashing in your eye

Ooh my my baby don't be shy

I see that spark flashing in your eye

My heart beats fast 'cause I want it all

So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

Take my hand, we can go all night

And spin me round just the way I like

It feels so good, I don't wanna stop

So baby come with me and be my ooh la la

Baby come with me and be my ooh la la

So baby come with me and be my ooh la la


And as Marceline sang, Finn danced crazily around her. Everyone enjoyed the song too; and Marceline had no idea why she sang that. She guessed it was that feeling she was feeling with her not beating heart; but she just shook it off.

She couldn't be in love. Ash shattered her heart, even if it was not beating. Why would she even fall in love again?