Finn stood staring down the lich his cloak wrapped around his body like armor his trusty golden sword in his hand as he stared into the lifeless eyes of the Lich. "Why continue to fight boy? I have already won, your world is dead you should just accept your end. It'll be less painful that way." The Lich spoke holding out a skeletal hand to Finn. "Embrace your end." Finn Growled running and leaping forward throwing his sword at the lich embedding it in his body with no effect, but as the Lich reached to end him Finn revealed his prosthetic fist in which the nine gems of the princesses were embedded the two clashed as the world erupted in bright light.
Finn jolted in bed sitting up and smacking his forehead against Star's both blondes rearing back in pain. "What is wrong with you!?" Star shouted rubbing her forehead as Finn did the same rolling out of the bed and standing up looking at the woman from before.
"Oh it's you, sorry about that." He said dropping his hand from his forehead as he looked around noticing he was in a hospital. Seen one seen them all he supposed as he noticed he was only in his pants and cloak seeing all of his wounds were healed. "How long have I been asleep?" He asked looking at Star and noticing his backpack in her lap along with his mother's music box on the cupboard near his bed. He stepped forward snatching his bag and music box as his cloak wrapped around his torso into a t-shirt. "Where do you get off going through my stuff?" He asked gingerly placing the music box back into his bag and putting it onto his back reaching for his sword to place it between his bag and his back.
"Ugh where do I get off?! Where do you get off you land in my kingdom flip over my statue and hurt my friends! You should be lucky you're not in the dungeon right now." Star said as she stepped up to him snatching her eyes back from staring at his chest. "I'm Queen Star Butterfly the ruler of these lands now, tell me who you are and why you're here!" Star said trying her best to imitate her mother's stern voice.
Finn's eyes widened as he looked at her his instincts taking over he dropped to a kneeling position. "Apologies your majesty I didn't mean to insult you." He said scratching his head a little. "My name is Finn Mertens former Hero of Ooo." He said sighing at that last part as he stood up towering over Star.
"Th-that's more like it now why are you here?" Star said sitting back in her chair as Finn sat on the bed.
"I'm here for the Lich." He said simply, but noticing the confused look on Star's face he elaborated. "The Lich is a mega evil dude. He's like death or whatevers, his whole purpose is to wipe out all life he comes into contact with. He-he killed my world and tried to escape into a portal to so he could do the same to all worlds, but I attacked him and his portal causing him to break into six pieces spread out across different universes. It's only because I have this gauntlet that I can track him down in each world and utterly destroy him. The last piece came here, and if I don't stop him he will infect this world and kill everything and everyone on it before repeating it on another universe until there's no life left in existence. "Finn said running a hand through his golden hair as Star digested all this.
"So like you're going to kill this thing and then what?" Star asked wondering what his plan was after all this. Finn shrugged.
"Doesn't matter, all that matters is that the Lich is dead. I don't care what happens after, now how long have I been asleep?" Finn asked getting back on track.
"About three days." Star answered as Finn tugged his boots on and grabbed hold of his yellow t-shirt pulling it over his head as it formed a hat with two golden nubs at the top. It reminded Star of a teddy bear.
"Then there's no time." Finn moved to the window throwing it open just as the infirmary door was thrown open as well by a guardsman who saluted Star.
"Your majesty there's an attack on an outlying village." Star stood up shocked by this before going into queen mode.
"Assemble a squad of Warnicorn Knights have them leave immediately. Do we know who's att-?"
"Where's the village located?" Star looked back as Finn interrupted her coming up to the knight and looking down at him.
"Umm it's a couple day's ride to the south of here. The village of Maudwarren." The knight said visibly intimidated by this much larger male. Finn wasted no time as he jumped out the window his yellow shirt enveloping his legs and stretching down to the ground far below as Finn began stretching the long yellow legs crossing out of the castle city in moments. Star stared at the window her jaw nearly scraping the floor as she watched Finn's receding figure.
"OH COME ON!" She shouted as she once more called upon Cloudy hopping on the sentient water vapor. "Give the Knights my orders on the double!" She shouted as she jetted off catching up with Finn as he ran on elongated legs listening to him talk to someone.
"Yeah I know Jake. What no I'm not going to get myself killed, and even if I did what would it matter?" He said as Star appeared at his side.
"Ok what is up with that cloak and who are you talking to?" She asked as Finn cast his blue eyes towards her for a moment.
"This cloak was a gift from my brother it pretty much is him." Finn explained ignoring her second question as the two noticed a column of smoke rising in the distance. "No more talking this may be something from the Lich be on guard, and don't hold anything back." Finn said as his legs shrunk down placing him on the ground as it wrapped around him completely except for his prosthetic arm like a body suit as Finn pulled forth his Katana and rushed into the burning village and immediately smelled the scent of burning flesh and death. He was transported back to another battlefield.
He was standing inside the slime kingdom as he and Jake tore into the multitude of monsters the Lich had summoned. He looked around at all the puddles of once sentient slime folk not to mention the bodies of the candy people and the army of humans he was leading. He was facing down a horde of monsters and slicing through them with his glowing sword as Jake towered above him flinging the monsters around with complete ease. Star looked at Finn the glazed look in his eyes let her know he wasn't here, but wherever he was, was having a profound reaction on him as she turned seeing figures approach out of the smoke and fire and her eyes grew large in shock at what she saw. She knew what these monsters were and it felt like a brick was dropped into her stomach. "Septarians?!" She asked, but from the looks of them they were long dead their bodies displayed wounds that weren't healing and no blood flowed from their injuries. Many of them had weapons sticking out of their bodies with no apparent discomfort.
"YAYAYAYAYAAAAAAA!" Finn shouted as he rushed to meet the undead horde pulling his Katana free as he sliced through the first Septarian he reached cleaving through him easily both halves falling to dust as they were separated. Finn didn't stop as he grabbed another Septarian by the head as his metal hand glowed releasing a blast of eldritch energy beheading the undead soldier. Star watched for a moment before jumping into the fray.
"Blueberry Cupcake Bazooka!" Star shouted launching an explosive blueberry into a horde of Septarians, but watched as they walked away from the blast zone damaged, but showing no signs of faltering. "What, I totally blew them up!" She shouted as Finn reduced more and more to dust.
"Weak sauce! You need to really let loose on them annihilate them until nothing is left!" Finn shouted locking blades with a large Septarian with twin rows of spines down his back. The two were locked in a stalemate before Finn's cloak wrapped around the Septarian's legs crushing them as Finn slashed back and forth so fast that Star could barely register the blade's movement before the Septarian fell to pieces before the blonde warrior. Star never felt comfortable killing anything, but these creatures were already dead so with a heavy heart she raised her wand above her head. She scanned the area with her magic making sure no living thing was in the blast radius before speaking her spell.
"Cataclysmic Total Extinction Death Blast." Stars wand turned a deep red crackling with black lightning before a thin black and red spiral of energy erupted from her wand passing harmlessly between the Septarians, before erupting in a massive explosion nearly taking Finn with it, before he slung his cloak out pulling himself out of the blast zone watching the explosion climb higher and higher as wind roared away from it knocking down any structure that had managed to survive the initial shockwave. Finn's eyes were wide in shock he'd never seen magic of this magnitude done by any single mage if he had to compare it to something he'd say it was as powerful as that time he tricked Flame Princess into fighting Ice King. He landed next to Star who was panting heavily hands on her knees.
"That was Flippin' Algebraic why didn't you do that in the first place?!" He said looking at the queen who straightened quickly looking at him.
"Uhh because I don't like eradicating things right off the bat!" She said shaking her head. "And further more how come all it took was a cut from your sword to dust those things and I had to use that spell to make sure they were gone?" Star asked miffed at the fact she had to use such a high level spell for some zombies. Finn looked down at this sword.
"I got this sword from a real mathematical guy in another dimension I was in. It was made to slay primordial evil, but he'd already defeated it there and had no use for the sword anymore, he gave it to me so that I could dispatch the Lich and trained me for a bit. Samurais make the best teachers." Finn said sheathing the sword on his back as he looked around raising his gauntlet seeing no reaction he gave a nod. "Looks like you got them all, by the way what were those things, or what did they used to be?"
Star looked at him. "Those were Septarians, regenerating lizard men, but none have been seen on Mewni in years. I assumed all the ones who didn't die in the past went back to Septarsis. You're telling me the Lich or whatever brought back dead Septarians to fight for him? Why, I thought he was some all-powerful death machine?" Star asked as Finn nodded.
"If he was at full power it wouldn't take more than a day to find the core of this universe and kill it along with everything else, but he's only a portion of his true self. I told you he was split into six as he was thrown through the portal making his portions weaker than he was before. He needs a host to conserve his magic and get him to where he needs to be, and once there he'll kill the universe absorbing all that death energy. There have been times where I get to a world too late, and the fights that much harder. If he absorbs a world's death like that the only thing that will stop him are these." Finn said pointing at the gems in his metal arm. "These gems are the pure essence of the Lich's home universe, and will destroy him no matter how powerful he is, or I think so I haven't let him get more than one world's death energy before he boarded the Knuckle Train to Fist Planet!"
Finn said smiling happily reliving the five previous deaths of the Lich. "And now there's only one left, and when I find him he's going to eat. My. Sword!" Finn said as Star raised a brow at the man before her remembering the smile he wore as he tore through those undead Septarians.
"Ok that's creepy, but I can't just have you running all over Mewni looking for this Lich unsupervised. Come back to the castle with me I'll arrange a search party and we can go out and end this Lich thing." Star said turning back towards the castle only to hear Finn walk in the opposite direction.
"Sorry, but no every second I spend not hunting the Lich is another second he gets closer to killing this world, you do whatever you gotta do, and I'm finishing this." He said as she watched his cloak wrap once more around his legs stretching him high into the air before walking off towards the Forest of Certain Death. Star growled stomping in the dirt as she watched his figure recede.
"You did not jus- I can't believe this is urgh!" Star said summoning her Mewberty wings and flying back to the castle. As she did so she pulled out her mirror phone and called the one person she could to get a better angle on Finn. She didn't know what his deal was. First he comes here and jacks up her soldiers and then they fight side by side only for him to ditch her, when they disagree what is going on?!
Finn shrunk down into the depths of the forest looking around feeling more at ease in this place. He did live in a tree for most of his life. He inhaled the deep earthy scent of the woods around him listening to the sounds of nature as he began walking seeing signs that this was where that platoon of Septawhosits came from. "Dude you know they're called Septarians, and what's with giving blondie back there the cold shoulder?" Finn sighed as he heard Jake's voice. "What was I supposed to do I couldn't just go back with her while the Lich is out there raising the dead, man!" Finn said crossing his arms justified in his response. "Pfft yeah and me and Lady have an open marriage. You know you're not just going to find the Lich we've been through this five times already I can tell you exactly how it'll go. You'll run yourself ragged looking for him and then he'll show up where you least expect him and then you two fight and then you clean his undead clock! POW!" Finn laughed a little at Jake's words as he noticed an increase in footprints as they neared a cave. "Oh this isn't good." Finn said seeing the multitude of impressions in the dirt if he was just guessing he'd say there were more than a hundred of these things out there. "See this is what I'm talking about he's already got an army at his back now!" Finn shouted gripping his head as he paced back and forth before slamming his metal fist in the wall of the cave entrance knocking out a large chunk.
"Take it easy man hear breathe into me." Jake said as Finn clutched the cloak to his face breathing in and out as he sat on the ground. "See all better, now why don't we call that hot queen out here and see what she thinks? I bet she's got an idea about this place, and even if she doesn't I wouldn't mind staring into those baby blues of hers again. I think they might be even bluer than yours." Finn groaned as he let go of his cloak. "I'm not calling the Queen out here hot or otherwise, no way Jake this is our thing we're the heroes and we're going to kill the Lich no one else. Yeah I guess her eyes are a pretty, I mean pretty blue." Finn said blushing before shaking his head and clenching his fist as he stared up at the sky. "Besides I can't let anything happen to anyone else. I let down everyone on Ooo, and then what happened with those turtles, and after that scientist and his sister helped me with my arm his lab was blown up! Everywhere I go and whoever I get involved with something happens to them. I'm doing this alone or die trying." Finn said as he stood up.
Toffee watched as his soldiers ravaged a monster village. A deep frown etched onto his ashen face. He couldn't believe these fools. He'd given them the opportunity to join his army and overthrow the Butterflies, and the bastards had said the most disgusting thing he could imagine coming from a monster's mouth. But we like Queen Star. He'd set his undead army on them immediately and watched the carnage unfold. "If they won't willingly serve, their corpses will do just as well." He said as the once dead monster corpses rose up. "I've given you my power Toffee and we both know where the center of this universe lies all we have to do is take it." Toffee nodded. "Yes we need the wand."
"So let me get this straight. This guy; Finn fell from the sky and told you he was hunting this Lich that destroyed his entire universe and after you told him to wait he just walked off to go hunt it down on his own?" Marco asked as he sat in his dorm room looking through his Mirror phone at Star stroking his goatee.
"Yeah like here I am not even holding a grudge that he totally manhandled Buff Frog and flipped over my statue, and he just runs off to do whatever." Marco smirked as he looked at Star. "What's with that smirk?" She asked.
"You remind me of your mom when she'd get mad at us for running off and doing whatever we wanted." Star's eyes widened as she glared at Marco pointing at him accusingly.
"You bite your tongue Marco Diaz I am not like my mom, and this is serious he's running around like some crazy person. I'm not even sure if he's all there I mean he talks to his cloak." Marco shrugged at that.
"Star this is serious to him too his world is gone and the only thing he has is revenge I know what that's like. I would have gone crazy in the Neverzone if I didn't have the goal of catching Hekapoo to keep me grounded. He's spiraling this is his final mission so he's determined to see it through, but also scared because after all's said and done he won't have anything left, and come on talking to an inanimate object isn't all that crazy." Marco said as Star thought on his words and smiled.
"I knew you were the best person to call. You're so smart and understanding, and-"
"Pony Head didn't pick up did she." Marco stated looking at the blush on Star's face.
"Yeah no she didn't still I was right to call you second. So what do you think I should do?" Star asked as Marco sipped from a soda bottle.
"Just stick to him like glue, and be yourself. You have a way of making people see things your way eventually. Spoken from someone who's experienced this first hand." Marco said placing a hand on his chest as there was a knock at his door. "Oh shoot sorry Star me and some of my classmates are having a study session, but I'll call you back tomorrow, and you got this, go save the world your majesty!" Marco said making Star blush once more.
"Ok study hard you dork." She said hanging up as she flopped against her chair before casting the "All Seeing Eye" spell looking around for a moment before spotting Finn. He was sitting next to a cave and talking to his cloak again. "Ok I don't care what Marco says it's still weird." Star said as she listened to what Finn said her cheeks turning crimson at that before she closed the spell. "Did he just say I was hot, and my eyes are pretty?"