Chapter Two: Of Butts and Socks

Frozen solid, thick ropes of melting ice pooling at their feet, cooling their heels as it were, Finn and Jake were forced to watch in embarrassment as the kingdom bustled about, working towards saving the heroes. Communicating on a semi-telepathic level of brohood, the inseparable duo exchanged the thought that they should have seen this coming and have a cool way of avoiding the attack. Seriously, after fighting the Ice King for all of these years, they really should have had some kind of a way to deal with their not-so-crafty enemy.

"Alright, stand aside! Move your cowardly buns!" A cool, commanding male voice reached their ears, a voice that made Finn want to both throw up and punch something with a chair, "We can take it from here! The real heroes have arrived!"

The candy people shuffled aside so that two non-candy people could make their way to where Finn and Jake were trapped. In front, and the only one seen from the duo's vantage point, was the boy that had arrived at the kingdom with Marceline, but they only needed to hear him to know who it was.

"We?" Finn and Jake, muffled by their prison, asked in unison, not seeing the Flame Princess behind her cousin.

Standing just behind the boy was none other than Finn's old crush, the Flame Princess. She stayed behind the boy, obviously doing everything her power to avoid looking at the human warrior, "Back off, unless you want to burn alive."

Fleeing like the easily frightened ninnies that they were, the candy citizens dove into foliage (some of which ran away, leaving people to find other hiding places), jumped through windows, and ran into random buildings, leaving Cinnamon Bun to fall on his back. Rolling his eyes at the display, the boy turned to his cousin, giving her a challenging nod. Interpreting the look with ease, she nodded back, looking determinedly at the block holding Jake in it. Blasting it with fire, she watched as her competitor began to glow like his own radiant sun, the light burning not only the ice, but everyone's eyes.

But no matter how blinding it is, fire is hotter than light, so Jake was free first, and Flame Princess won this round. Too bad she didn't see it, so she kept going, scorching her way through Jake's fur, leaving him with more than a tan. Yelping in pain, the sassy adventurer leaped from his skin, buns smoking black char.

"Ouch!" He cried out, rubbing his flaming rear end, fixing the girl with a reproachful eye.

Freeing Finn, the boy leaned in close to the blonde, almost close enough to touch him, smirking smugly at the other boy, a light husk in his tone, "Hello, Finn. I thought that I was the only one who lit up the room..." He trailed off, turning to address his other friend casually, "'sup, Jake?"

Jake, who liked the boy and never caught anything untoward about him, removed one hand from his buns, waving in a large arch, "Yo."

"Flame Princess," He addressed her quickly and politely, choosing to keep his eyes on the untrusted one, and not to be rude, Finn glared at the other boy, extremely uncomfortable with how he was treated by him, "Skyler."

Frowning as if hurt by the distant remark, Skyler beckoned his cousin closer, leaning his head against her shoulder (he was shorter than most of the women in Ooo, falling close to Flame Princess's height), "I tell him time and time again to call me 'Skye', but he insists on being so cold! I may be immune to the cold because of my mother and father, but I swear that he just tries to darken my doorstep with his negativity!"

Sighing in defeat (and not wanting to appear impolite should Princess Bubblegum be watching), Finn was about to speak when Jake cut him off, reminding him in an undertone that the other's couldn't hear, "Hey, remember that that guy is the prince of the Air and the Light people."

"More like Prince of Butts," Finn scoffed under his breath.

Shaking his head, side swept bangs remaining perfectly in front of his left eye, he laughed, "Actually, you're both wrong. I'm the Ex-Prince of Lux, Lux being my hometown."

Looking at each other in shock, both assuming that their whispers were secret, Jake hastily changed the subject, "Where's Princess Bubblegum?"

Casting a warning glance at her cousin, Skyler waved her away, grinning mischievously at Finn and Jake, "Where indeed?"

Gold, Gum, Fire, and Blood

"I can't find my socks! Gumball, help me look for them!" A brown boot soared through the air, missing the pink head of the prince by mere inches, the girl who threw it digging underneath the fallen pot and pans, only a shock of lemon-cream colored blonde hair seen bobbing up and down fervorously as she raked through the silvery utensils.

Stifling a laugh at the baby-blue girl, the level-headed twenty year old removed a cottony stocking only one or two shades lighter than the girl's hair from the back of her crimson vest, the material pooling from the hood, "You could stay you know."

Snatching the thigh-high sock from him, she pulled it on, smoothing out the thin powder-blue bow, "I really would love to stay here with you, maybe even actually bake that cake, but Marshall Lee wants to have a jam session..." She let the words hang there for a second before adding in at the perturbed look on his face, "But I will be back as soon as I can be, I promise." Seeing that he still wasn't convinced, she pecked him on the cheek, taking his hands in hers, running them along her waist so that he was hugging with all that he had, "You know, I don't like all of your friends either."

"It's not that I don't like Marshall Lee," He wiped away a splatter of cake batter from her chin, "I just don't approve of the way that you hang on to his every word. He's not Glob, you know?"

Sighing, she smiled weakly at him, knees buckling so that she fell back, obliterating whatever space that had been between them seconds before, "I hate it when you doubt how much I love you. Gumball, you know that I would never intentionally hurt you. I love you too much."

Straightening out the navy strip that was her skirt, he slipped something small in her vest pocket, "I love you too, Sklyla." Reaching for her pocket, he shook his head, staying her hand. Whispering something to her, he turned from the kitchen, "Later. You have somewhere to be."

Released, she spun on her heel, grinning wildly at him, "I won't be long!"

And he watched her go, running from the kitchen to Glob knows where the Vampire King was staying that day. Sure of his girlfriend, he turned his attention back to the problem at hand, gaping in dismay at the sorry state of the kitchen. He really had to stop letting Skye leave before she cleaned up after herself... Wait a minute, did she say that she didn't like his friends?

Disclaimer: I don't own Adventure Time, only my blue boy, Skyler, and his female counterpart, Skyla ~

A/N: Lux relates to light, which being a light/air elemental, it makes sense to make "Lux" the capital of Skye's Kingdom. You like how Skyla blows off Gumball to hang out with Marshall Lee and insults his friends? Pretty great.