AN: Hi, me again. Chapter 2 is here! If you like this story then I'd most certainly appreciate it if you'd review. Also thank you to the two people who did review, it meant a lot to me.
Chapter 2: It Does Not.
If Marceline wouldn't help him, Finn would have to find aid from someone else. He was running toward the Candy Kingdom now. "Maybe Poibles knows something about this Chaos- God- Jerk guy!" he said to himself as he swiftly manuvered through low branches and leapt over large stones. 'Yeah, she's like the most smartest person I know. She has to be able to figure out some way I can beat... it? I guess it's more of of him if Marceline was dating it.' he thought.
It disturbed him slightly that Marceline could say she even knew people who could bring about Ooo's doom so easily. Then he started feeling nauseous when thinking of her dating such an evil person. The mental image of her kissing a giant, fanged creature with eight eyes was ingrained in his head now, and it felt like a dagger had been plunged into his heart. He then started to question why he cared so much who she'd been with. What did it matter to him? Then another thought occurted to Finn.
"One of my exes." He recalled her saying. Just how many did she have? Tens? Hundreds? She was over 1,000 so chances are the number is high. He knew of two now: Ash and this Chaos God thing. If there was one thing Finn knew about the dudes Marceline dated, it was that he hated them. Maybe that was just jealousy, or maybe it was the fact that her exes were complete assholes.
Thinking of all the people and things she must have dated in her time just made him feel even worse. The thoughts did not last long, however, for now he was almost upon the surgared walls of the Candy Kingdom.
Finn walked down the familiar street towards the castle. Bubblegum saw him coming and greeted him from the balcony. "Guten tag, Finn! How are you?" she asked while waving. She was wearing her usual princess attire, pink as always.
"I'm fine PB." he lied, "I need to talk about something kind of important though."
"Oh. Ok, I'll be down in a minute." Then she turned away and went inside. Finn could remember a time when he had a crush on the princess, but then she broke his heart. After some time he took her advice and decided to move on. It's been a few years since she rejected him and Finn was now fine with being just friends. Besides the fact that he'd aged noticably in those tree years, it didn't seem much differant than before, just less blushing and seemingly embarassing moments. Soon she opened a door beside Finn and stepped outside to meet him. "What did you have to say, Finn?"
"I think there's some evil monster guy who's coming to destroy Ooo and I need your help. He's s'pose to be invincible or some junk, but cram that! There's got to be a a way to beat him. Got any ideas?"
"Oh my, this does sound rather ominous." Finn sometimes wished she wouldn't use words he didn't understand, it made his brain hurt. "Quickly now, follow me." She hurridly lead Finn to the Royal Library. Dozens of rows of book shelves filled the enormous room. Finn had never seen so many books before, then again, he had little need for them. Bubblegum turned to Finn and asked "What is this monster you speak of?"
"I guess he's called the Elder God of Chaos, or something. I think that's what Marceline said..." Finn wished the jerk had a shorter name, it was annoying repeating it.
The Princess gasped "Finn, I've heard of this creature before. In the tales I was told as a child, he was said to be indestructible." She started to pace the floors, trying to recall more information about this new threat. "Do you know when it shall arrive?" Finn thought she sounded far too concerned. He'd beaten countless monsters like this before. Just a few years back he'd beaten the Lich! Even if people think this guy's indistuctible he knew there would be some way to beat him, there always is.
"Marceline said it'd be here the day after tomorrow."
"There's no time to waste. We must hurry Finn." Finn thought it was strange to hurry, There were two days before the thing was gonn'a get here. They only needed to get to the other side of the room. She walked over to a shelf and started scanning the names of the books. After some searching, she found what she was looking for. She pulled out a rather large, ancient looking book, bound in brown leather. She carried it over to a nearby table, blew some dust off from the cover and started flipping through the pages. She stopped on a page somewhere in the middle of the book.
"This is the Elder God of Chaos, Finn." She pointed to an illustration of what looked like a giant demon engulfed in columms of flame. Finn wasn't too far off from his estimates about what this douche looked like. An evil abomination. At the bottom of the page were little ink people. They were all fleeing for their lives, but never truly going anywere.
"So how do I beat it? Can't I just stab my sword through its face?" Finn asked, genuinely curious. "Stabbing things usually works pretty well for me." He recalled felling hundreds of rampaging monsters with his trusty blade. Hell, it even sort of worked on Marceline's father. Why wouldn't it with this guy?
"No, Finn. You would be incinerated before you would ever be close enough to engage it in direct combat." She shook her head solemnly.
"Well the thing has to have some weakness. Does that book say anything on how to defeat it?"
Bubblegum read through the texts again, but after a few moments she frowned and closed her eyes, and then the book. "I'm sorry Finn, it does not." She opened her eyes once more, but the gloom on her face remained.
"Don't worry Princess. I'll find some way to stop it!" He exclaimed while turning to leave.
"I know Finn. You always do." she sighed as he ran out of the door. She turned and replace the book on the shelf.
AN: So will Finn be able to save Ooo? Of course he will, otherwise this would be a really depressing story. If you really want to know, read the next chapter. That should clear some things up. Also, sorry that this chapter was a little shorter than the last. That's just how it happened.
