Lux woke up with a start and couldn't tell where he was till he remembered what happened. He went home, had a party, asked Bonnie out on a date, had a drink and passed out on his couch. He shook his head and immediately he felt a bit dizzy and his headache started to reform softly.
What was the name of that drink? Lux thought but couldn't remember.
He looked around the room. It was a mess, that was a given, he knew that the party would be pretty big. There was trash littered everywhere. Napkins everywhere, beer cans littered the floor and stains of many different colors were on the walls and floor. But one thing was off, the living room he was in felt foreign, as if he hadn't been there before. He looked at the room more closely. It was definitely not his living room, the couch was the same but other than that everything was completely different. He was getting a bit scared and got up.
Big mistake. His head started pounding and he got a lot dizzier. Lux lost his balance and was about to fall on a coffee table before he caught himself on the edge of it. A few glasses fell over and some fell on the floor, making a small noise. Lux thought he heard something upstairs but dismissed it. No one stayed at his house; he was probably just hearing the wind.
Lux sat back down on the couch and ran his hands through his hair, trying to remember if he went to a friend's house. The bad thing was, he could only remember from when he was walking home to when he passed out on his couch. That was strange; surely he couldn't have forgotten that many memories. He kept trying to remember anything from his life. The biggest thing he knew he should remember was his parents' funeral.
It was an awful day, Lux was fifteen and his parents had died in a car accident. None of his relatives could take him in because they were still trying to save money to send their kids to school or just didn't like Lux. He had to go out on his own, get a job, a home, and an education. It wasn't easy, but eventually he was able to afford all of those things.
The terrible part of it was that he couldn't remember that either. Now he was getting scared, he couldn't remember anything. He heard more movement upstairs and figured that it couldn't just be the wind this time. Lux looked around for a place to hide, but there wasn't a suitable enough hiding spot for him. That's when he saw the kitchen. Before he had time to get up he heard a door open upstairs. He quickly made his way to the kitchen and hid beneath the table.
He waited and waited, but didn't hear any footsteps.
Maybe I'm just imagining things." Lux thought to himself and sighed.
He got out from under the table and started to walk back to the living room.
"What were you doing under my table hero?" A female voice asked.
Lux froze and turned around and his eyes widened at the speaker. She was very pale, had black hair with red eyes. The girl looked to be about 18. She was wearing a grey tank top with black sweat pants. She was looking at Lux with a raised eyebrow and hands on her hips. Lux noticed that she had two fangs and was floating a few feet above the ground!
"Why are you looking at me like that?" The pale teenager asked.
"Y-y-you have f-f-fangs!" Lux stuttered nervously trying hard to keep the fear in his throat down.
The teenager raised one of her eyebrows again, "Uh, yeah I've had these since I was turned." She said acting as if Lux knew.
"T-t-turned?" Lux asked, afraid of the answer.
She sighed and put a hand on her forehead, "Since I was turned into a vampire. Why are you acting like you don't know anything about me?"
"B-but I don-" Lux stopped himself and thought better of what he was going to say. This girl and Lux had clearly known each other for a long time. He didn't know what to ask; maybe she was one of his friends at his party. One thing that made that wrong was that he didn't know any vampires. Maybe if he knew her name he would remember.
"What's your name?" Lux asked wincing, afraid that he might upset her.
"What's my name- You don't remember my name?!" She said and punched him in the arm hard.
"Oww!" Lux yelled and fell on the floor from the impact of the punch. He rubbed the spot where she punched him and looked at her with an angry glare. The girl just rolled her eyes.
She's strong! Guess I can't underestimate her like I thought I could…" Lux thought.
"Come on weenie that shouldn't have hurt the 'Great Hero of Ooo'." She said smirking and putting air quotes around Great Hero of Ooo.
"Ooo?" Lux asked and suddenly it hit him. He remembered a voice saying, 'Welcome to Ooo." That's where he must be, some land called Ooo.
"Did you hit your head on something? Ooo the place where you've lived your whole life, defeated a lot of bad guys and jammed out with me and your best friend, come on Lux you can't tell me you forgot that." She said looking a bit worried.
"You mean Ethan's here?" Lux asked getting up and looking around as if Ethan would walk in any second and tell him it was all just a big joke. That never happened.
"Who's Ethan? I'm talking about Jake, your brother and best friend." The black haired girl stated, now becoming more worried.
"J-Jake? Sorry but I don't think I know any Jake's…" Lux said disappointedly.
The girl floated around Lux and looked him in the eyes, their faces only inches apart. Lux blushed softly but the pale girl saw it and smirked. She continued looking into his eyes and then started to float towards the kitchen.
She turned around and asked Lux, "You want anything for breakfast?"
Lux was about to answer before his stomach growled and interrupted him.
The girl just laughed and said, "I'll take that as a yes." And she went into the kitchen to make breakfast.
Lux followed her into the kitchen and watched her make some pancakes and bacon. Once she was finished, she put it on a plate and handed it to Lux. He went over and sat down on one of the chairs at the table. The black haired teenager looked through the refrigerator and pulled out a bowl of strawberries and floated next to Lux.
He watched her carefully. She took a strawberry, bit into it but not all the way, and the bright red color drained from it. He looked at her wide eyed again.
"Don't tell me you forgot this too?" She said a bit irritated.
"I did." Lux said starting to become a bit more comfortable talking to the pale girl.
She just sighed and said, "Basically I can only eat red so instead of blood I drain the color from anything that's red and eat that."
"Oh, that's pretty cool." Lux said taking a bite from the pancake, "This is awesome!"
"You sure? I thought you didn't like my cooking." The girl said looking at him curiously.
"How could I not like this, its flippin' awesome!" Lux said and started to eat the pancake faster.
"Hmm..." The teenager said, draining the color from another strawberry.
"You never did tell me your name." Lux said looking at her, wanting to know who she was.
"Well since you can't remember, I'm Marceline the Vampire Queen." Marceline said waiting to hear what Lux was going to say.
Lux practically spit out his food when he heard 'Vampire Queen'. "You're a queen?!" He exclaimed and got up from his chair and bowed infront of her. "Please excuse my stupidity your majesty, I promise it will never happen again."
Marceline laughed and told him to stand up, "I really don't want any of that formality stuff. I thought I told you that already."
Lux chuckled and got up, "Oh yeah, I forgot." He said trying to play it off as if he knew.
"Don't pretend with me, I can tell you're not being truthful." Marceline said looking at him.
"Well partly being truthful, since I really can't remember anything." Lux said blurting out the truth.
"Y-you cant remember anything at all?!" Marceline yelled not believing what she just heard.
Lux nodded and said, "Yeah pretty much, all I can remember is last night and that's about it."
"Tell me about last night then." Marceline said floating closer to him.
"Well, I was walking home with my best friend and he gave me a present, it was Three Days Grace concert tickets, cause it was my birthday and Three Days Grace is my favorite band. He started to text everyone we knew to come have a party at my house. When we got home, everyone was there and we had a pretty good time. Ethan, my best friend, was running me through some scenarios to ask…to ask…ah! He was running me through scenarios on how to talk to this girl I liked, Bonnie."
At hearing the name Bonnie, Marceline frowned but didn't interrupt him. He continued, "So I finally talked to her and asked her out, then she left to go help her dad. After that the party kicked into high gear and we started to get drinks out. I never had one so Ethan helped me pick one out. I…can't seem to remember it right now. But anyway, after I took a sip from it I got a huge headache and I started to lose my vision. After every sip I took that happened till I finally laid down on the couch and asked for some water. Someone decided to prank me and put some of that drink in the water so when I took a sip I lost vision and started to slip away. Before I completely slipped away I heard a voice say, 'Welcome to Ooo.' Then the next thing I know I'm waking up here." Lux said finishing everything he remembered up to this point.
Marceline took a few minutes to process everything Lux had said before finally saying, "Seems a lot like what happened yesterday, instead you walked to my house with Jake and all of Ooo royalty was there. You didn't ask anybody out, but you did have your first drink. Maybe you just need to give it some time before your memory starts coming back." She concluded.
"But, I feel like I don't even know you, you and this Jake are complete strangers to me." Lux said.
"Yet you know Bonnie? You think I'm going to believe that you don't know her?" Marceline asked, the same frown forming from when Lux first said her name.
"You mean she's here!?" Lux yelled excitedly, "Thank goodness, I thought I was alone here..."
"Yeah she's here, well not here she's at her castle, but she prefers to be called Princess Bubblegum." The pale teenager replied. "And why are you so excited about her being here? Last I heard she broke you're heart and left you on the street crying your poor little heart out." Marceline said, her face softening.
"You mean she dumped me? But I just asked her out!" Lux said furious, trying to understand what Marceline was saying.
"You dated her for two months and she dumped you because she 'had to move on.' What a load of crap…" She said looking angry.
Lux sighed trying to think, "So I dated her for two months before she dumped me…when?"
Marceline looked at him with a sad look on her face, "Yesterday…"
"Y-yesterday?! You mean she dumped me on my birthday?!" Lux said cant believing with what he just heard.
Marceline just nodded as Lux got even angrier.
Lux hit his fist on the table, cracking it, he then put his hands on his face and sighed trying to calm down, "I can't believe this, didn't even get to enjoy it."
"You wouldn't have liked her anyway. She's not your type Lux; she's too boring for you." Marceline said trying to comfort him.
He looked at her and gave her a smile, "Thanks Marceline, even though I met you several minutes ago, you already seem to be one of my best friends." Lux said and gave her a hug.
Marceline blushed softly and hugged Lux back before letting go.
"Are you blushing?" Lux asked confused.
"N-no!" Marceline said floating away from him and out of the kitchen, "I'm going to get ready!" And with that she floated upstairs, leaving Lux there wondering what just happened.
Several minutes later Marceline floated back down wear a gray tank top, blue jeans, and red boots.
"Come on, we're going to go the Treefort and talk to Jake and find out what's wrong with your noggin." Marceline said grabbing an apple from the fridge and drained it of its color and threw it away.
"Treefort?" Lux asked.
"Yeah, it's where you live weenie, now come on." She said and floated near the door, grabbed an umbrella, and floated out.
Lux followed her but when he got outside he couldn't find her anywhere. "Marceline, where'd you go?" He shouted wondering if she thought he knew where to go.
Suddenly, something picked him up and he was flying through the air. Lux looked up and saw Marceline carrying him. She looked down and smirked at him and continued flying. Lux grinned and started to look at Ooo's environment. He saw a forest, Ice Mountains, an area of land that was on fire, and a big castle in the distance. Lux didn't get much time to enjoy the scenery before he was dropped.
He looked up and saw Marceline, eyes closed and a dart in her neck. Lux grabbed her hand and carried her bridal style, still falling through the air. He didn't know how his legs would survive the impact but all he was worrying about was Marceline's safety. Then something swooped down and caught Lux by the collar. Lux looked up again and saw a crow about the size he was.
Fear started rising in his throat, mostly because he thought crows were evil, and he didn't know what to do before he just decided shift Marceline and grabbed the bird's tail and yanked hard. The bird squawked and let go of him. Lux returned Marceline back to carrying her bridal style. He was much closer to the ground then he was before. He landed with a hard thud, when he stood up his legs started to ache from the impact, but they weren't broken.
He looked back and saw the bird coming in for another strike.
"Don't worry Marceline; I'll get you out of here." He said reassuring only himself.
He ran as fast as he could to get away from the bird's grasp, he was nearing a forest.
Perfect, He thought, it won't be so easy to catch me in there!
Once Lux entered the forest he heard the birds cries getting fainter and fainter. He could tell it was bumping into a lot of trees. Then the cries started to grew closer.
Well that didn't last too long. Lux thought, trying to figure out what to do now. The bird had neared them now and was just a few inches of grabbing Lux again. Lux was running out of energy and couldn't run like this forever, he hoped Marceline would wake up soon. He felt the bird grab his collar but didn't pick me up like it did last time. Then, Lux started to feel something small crawl down his neck and the bird let go and flew off.
Lux stopped and looked around, "What was that all about?" He asked very confused about the bird's behavior. He went to a nearby tree and set Marceline under the shade. He also pulled out the dart that had somehow found its way on Marceline's neck.
"I Wonder where this came from..." Lux said, talking to himself.
He felt something crawl on his shoulder and felt a slight pain. "Ah!" Lux yelled and pushed something off his shoulder.
"Aghh!" A small voice screamed.
Lux looked at what he had pushed off…a tiny cat? He raised an eyebrow and looked intriguingly at the cat. She was a white pink-eyed cat holding a tiny dagger.
"What the-?" Lux said trying to figure out what she was trying to do.
"Urgh…" The cat grunted, getting up, she dusted herself off and went into a battle stance, "You won't get away!" She yelled seriously.
Lux started laugh, "You're just a small cat, what could you do?"
The cat pointed to Marceline and said, "Well I knocked your girlfriend out didn't I?" And she smirked.
"W-what? She's not my girlfriend..." Lux said blushing furiously.
"Whatever, that doesn't matter to me. My name is Me-mow, 2nd class assassin, working on getting my full guild membership." She said saluting.
"Assassin? You look to small to be an assassin…" Lux said looking at Me-mow disbelievingly.
"I almost killed your best friend and Wildberry princess! I would watch what you say because I could kill you in an instant!" Me-mow said running towards Lux going to stab his leg.
Lux moved to the side and tried to kick Me-mow, but she just jumped and landed on his foot and started to crawl up. She doesn't get too far before Lux punches her off. Me-mow hisses and jumps at Lux, claws extended. Lux punches Me-mow hard and she falls to the ground and lands with a soft thud.
Wearily and beaten up, Me-mow looks up at Lux, "I…wont..let you get away…this time…" She said before passing out.
Lux feels bad for the cat, and instead of leaving her out in the open, puts her in an empty hole in a tree. He sighs and notices that Marceline regained consciousness.
"Hey Marceline." Lux said as if nothing had happened.
She floated up next to him and gave him a big hug. Lux blushes hard, after Marceline lets go she smirks and says, "That was some pretty awesome fighting hero, especially versus an assassin from the Guild of Assassins. Me-mow might not look it, but she is a pretty tough opponent."
"Thanks..." Lux said blushing.
Marceline smirked, "Come on let's get to the Treefort." She said, picked up Lux and flew off towards the Treehouse.
Once they had arrived Marceline put Lux on the ground and went up to the door and knocked. When the door opened a yellow dog came out. He gasped when he saw Marceline, but jumped for joy when he saw Lux. He ran over and gave Lux a bro hug. The only thing strange about this dog was that it was walking on two feet like a normal person.
"I'm so glad you're safe and sound Lux, I thought you might've gone too far with the drinking last night!" The dog said.
The fact that he talked freaked Lux out.
Marceline smiled and said, "It's okay Lux this is your bro Jake. He's a magical talking dog."
Lux looked at her wondering if she was joking, but she was completely serious.
"That's awesome!" Lux exclaimed happily.
"Yeah I know right!" Jake exclaimed enthusiastically, but then realized what Marceline just said, "Wait he should already know that."
"Yeah well…I think he did have too much to drink last night.." Marceline admitted ashamed.
"Tell me everything." Jake said seriously and looked at both of them.
"Fine let's just go inside, I think I've had enough of the outdoors." Lux said and walked into the Treehouse.
Somewhere of in the distance on a cliff.
A hooded man with binoculars looked through them; he was looking at the Treefort and saw Lux, Marceline, and Jake go inside.
"Humph, so he managed to best one of my recruits? Let's see how he does with a professional. Dawns, I want you to go and assassinate Lux the Human." The man said talking into a wrist communication device.
"Yes sir, don't worry about a thing, he'll be as good as dead in a few days." A gruff voice said on the communicator.
"Good…" The man switched off the communicator and looked back, "Once the hero of Ooo is out of the way, nothing can stop us, the Guild Of Assassins, from taking control over it." He started to laugh evilly before he started coughing. "Darn flies…"
