"Before we venture out, I'll need a stronger host." The boy noted while Magic Man was explaining his history with Finn and Jake to Ice King.
"A stronger host?" Magic Man didn't like the idea of making the demon more powerful then it already was.
"Well, how do you expect me to defend myself properly as a child?" The boy replied with an irritable air of impatience.
"He has a point, Finn and Jake aren't pushovers." Ice King remarked while looking at a potion that gives the user a six-pack, when in reality it just made the user fatter.
"Perhaps that person shall suffice?" The boy had his beady eyes focusing on a rather lean looking wizard, certainly not someone who is going down easily.
Ice King expressed very little fear when looking at their target. "It's three against one. If we can't beat him, I'll eat my crown."
"We'll need a plan. I think we should let Ice King incase our victim while the little guy... Where did he go?" Magic Man just noticed the boy had just left their side and walke right up to the wizard they we talking about.
"What do you want, shorty?" The menacing wizard growled, which did noting to faze the boy.
"Your body and power." The boy responded bluntly.
The wizard laughed heartily at the boy for some time. He sobered up once he noticed how serious the boy's face was.
"You're aren't really a boy, are you?" The wizard asked with a frown crossing his face.
Instead of answering the question, the boy just wore a sinister smile. The wizard looked a little intimidated, but quickly switched to a more confident smirk.
"This bod isn't for sale, chump!" The wizard yelled out before slipping into a shadow of a suit of armor close by.
Much to the trio's surprise, the suit of armor jerked to life and grabbed a random sword from a shop window, the owner of said shop looked mortified once he caught sight of the possessed suit. Within a blink of an eye, the suit wasted no time throwing the sword at the boy. Ice King froze the incoming projectile to a dead stop. This didn't stop the sword's shadow, which kept flying through the air. The shadow sword just barely left a cut on the boy's arm before going hilt deep into a wall.
"I recall a newspaper having an article about a boy gone missing in this city..." The Shadow Wizard poked his head out of Ice King's shadow. He removed a rather crumpled piece of paper from the deep depths of the shadow he was in before analyzing it. "Ah, yes, the description fits you. Short brown hair, green eyes, and a scrawny build."
"Okay, what's your point?" The boy snarled at the wizard, who had poked his head from the shadow of Ice King.
"My point being is that boy's parents want him back. They are willing to hand out a nice amount of cash if he is brought back to them safely." The wizard explained while disassembling his shadow possessed suit of armor with the snap of his fingers.
"A payday is what you're looking for? You are twisted." Magic Man was a bit surprised for this wizards thirst for money.
"Twisted? You have some nerve calling me out, Magic Man. Coming from the guy who turns people into feet, for his own pleasure, is a joke. At least I'm not being a bum!" The shadow wizard responded while his very being radiated anger.
Magic Man snapped his fingers and morphed one of Ice King's shards of ice into the shape of a sword. Before taunting the Martian again, the shadow wizard's head was penetrated by the ice sword that Magic Man had made. However, his body dissolved into a dark mist. When it sunk to the ground, the wizards body was reconstructed back to perfect condition.
"I hate to say it, but that hurt." The wizard acknowledged with a bitter smile.
Ice King wasted no time in trapping the wizard in a ice cell with no bars for him to slip through. The boy grabbed the mirror from Magic Man's shop and decieed to keep a distance from the fighting.
"You know, I thought he was tougher then-" A thundering explosion from inside the ice cell cut off Ice King's comment. Pillars made from shadows ripped through the cell like butter.
The wizard dusted the wreckage of the ice cell of his robes before looking at Ice King heatedly. "I've had enough of you childish games! Die you fools!" The wizard focused large amounts of magic into his hands before plunging them deep into the ground beneath him.
A dark pool of what appeared to have been shadows surrounded the wizard. At first, simply stepping back a few steps was enough to keep save from the growing pool of shadows. It soon became apparent that running at break neck spefs wouldn't be enough to avoid the shadows soon.
"I didn't sign up for this!" Ice king whimpered while taking off into the air, probably to go hide somewhere safer.
"Martian, I need your assistance at once!" The boy hollered while slipping back into his mirror.
Magic Man wasted no time in levitating off the ground a few inches before scooping up the mirror from the ground. The demon had shed his child form and honestly looked like something that crawled out of the Nighto-Sphere itself.
"What's up with the look, Martian?" The demon spat impatiently.
Magic Man figured it was best to change the topic to something a little more relevant to the situation at hand. "Look, getting to control this guys bod is a tall order. He isn't just going hand himself over freely. Is there other options?" A dark ball of mass whiz zed past Magic Man's head, nearly knocking over his hat. "Come on, think of something!"
"I know what I'm doing, just throw me near the wizard!" The demon ordered swiftly.
With a curt nod Magic Man threw the mirror near the shadow wizard, only to get blasted by one of the wizards shadow balls the instant he released the mirror from his grip. The sheer impact of the ball pushed Magic Man through a building. A bookshelf took the brunt of Magic Man's crash landing, that is before it collapsed on top of him.
As the mirror came closer to the wizard, a small portal opened where the glass was supposed to be. Powerful suction, that could rival a tornado's, came from the portal, which immediately absorbed the pool of shadows bone dry. With much suprise, the wizard noticed how the portal was now trying to suck his hands in. Pulling his hands loose wasn't an option, he could already feel his wrist being ripped apart by the suction. It seemed the hard choice was going to be necessary now. Besides, missing hands were going to be problematic for that wretched demon.
Allowing his hands to retain its shadow form, the complete removal of them wasn't painful once the mirror claimed them. Instantly, another problem occurred, the suction from the mirror grew only more violent. Much to the wizard's horror, the demon had poked its face from the mirror and let out a blood curling scream.
"Just give up already!"
"You wish!" The wizard was beginning to mutter ancient dialect unknown to the demon.
The wizards body radiated so much shadow energy that daylight was replaced with the pitch blackness of night. With a violent shudder, the energy around the wizard expanded enough to cover a two mile radius.
"You're going to scare me off with this dome of shadows and changing the time of day? I'm starting to regret trying to take your-" the demon's mocking was cut short when it felt a sudden shiver ran down its spine.
No sooner had the demon suffered from its fit of shivering is when everything in the dome suffered from a humongous explosion.