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Chapter 3:
"Mirror, Mirror On the Wall"
~*O*~
"No kidding huh?" He said smiling. "I remember a lot of my old neighbors being Enchanted Cats – hey hold up, you're a human?"
"Uh yeah, why?" she asked.
"My adoptive brother Finn is a human too!" he explained with happiness. "Oh my grob, he'll be so happy to know he's not the only human in Ooo!"
"Seriously!" Fionna moved closer to him. "I knew it, I knew he was human!"
"You know Finn, when did you see him, I've been looking for him. Could you tell me where he went –"
"The thing is though, he kinda, like, disappeared." Fionna paused when his face dropped. "I mean I know where he is, but I can't, like, take you there. I don't even know where I'm at; you know what's weird though is that this place almost looks like Aaa. But, everything here looks like a mirror image of Aaa, sort of like it's reversed, the only thing that's the same here is where my Tree House is."
"I could take you to my Tree House if you'd like so you can check out a holo-map."
"That'll be great, thanks. What's your name by the way?"
"Jake."
"Nice to meet you Jake, you already know my name."
"Yeah, and it's nice to meet you too… Fionna?" she nodded, and then Jake grew bigger. "Well hop on Miss Fionna the Human girl!"
Fionna hopped right on Jake's back and he took off running to the Tree House. For the entire ride to the Tree House, Fionna felt like she was home in Aaa again, and it was like Cake running instead of Jake. As they approached the Tree house, Fionna said, "It looks exactly like my house!" They shrunk back down to his normal size and opened the door for Fionna; she thanked him and walked in. Fionna slowly walked to the living room-kitchen and paused, it was exactly like her house. At that moment she ran through the entire house, stopping in each room to thoroughly examine Finn and Jake's Tree House; Jake stood in the second living room watching Fionna as she ran here and there. Jake decided to look for the holo-map while Fionna took in the sight of the house. He was in his room searching for the holo-map in his dresser, "Someone's late for their video chat!" Jake looked up and saw Beemo perched up on one of the branches of the house.
"Sorry Beemo, now's not the time – hey, she stopped." He perked his ears up.
"Who?"
"Fionna, she's a new friend of mine. She's pretty rad, and get this: she's a human like Finn"
"Hmm… now why does that name sound familiar?" Beemo closed it's eyes to help it think.
"Didn't you hear me? Never mind, I'm gonna go look for her, I just found the holo-map that she needed."
Jake was just about to go downstairs until he saw Fionna on the boat-balcony outside his window.
"Hey Fionna I found that holo-map – you okay?"
"Huh – uh yeah thanks." She said, taking the holo-map. "Hmm… I was right, everything's opposite here… the names are the same though. Oh math, the Candy Kingdom! Jake, do you think you could, like, take me to see Princess Bubblegum?"
"Peebles, how do you know her?" Jake was completely confused at this point.
"She's Gumball's cousin."
"SAY WHAAAAT! Princess Bubblegum has a cousin! Since when did she have a cousin?"
"Well, technically Bubblegum and Gumball are second cousins; Gumball's grandpa was Gumbald, which means Bubblegum is Gumbald's great-niece. So yeah."
"This is a lot to take in, my heads bloopin' hurts!"
"Fionna?" Beemo said from behind Jake.
"Football, what are you doing here?" Fionna asked walking towards it.
"No, I'm Beemo not Football."
"You're the one Football would talk to in the mirror? So you're, like, real and stuff?"
"Of course, you and Cake thought Football was just talking to a reflection, and Finn and Jake thought I was too."
"Whoa, whoa, whoa!" Jake interrupted Beemo. "How the – what the – you can, like, see other worlds or something?"
"Of course, I don't know how, but we do."
"Wait a sec'!" Fionna blurted out and hit her fist against her open hand. "Jake I know exactly who you are, you're Jake the Dog. My friend, well our friend, Marceline told me about you before, I didn't even, like, realize who you were because you said you had an adoptive brother! Hey here's an idea: let's go see Marceline maybe she can help us. Oh yeah, you know Marshall right?"
"Marceline's younger twin brother, yeah I do, I mean I just found out today!"
"Oh, well guess what? Marshall and Bubblegum are sort of like a thing now, they're passing around letters and junk!"
"Oh my Grosh, I really think I should lay down for awhile." Jake said just before fainting.
~*A*~
"Marshall Lee, as in, Marceline the Vampire Queen's brother?"
"Yeah, how do you know him?" Cake asked.
"Because I know Marceline." He replied with a smile and a thumbs-up.
"It's strange, she's never mentioned you before," Flame Prince speculated. "She has mentioned her friend named Jake the –"
"You know Jake?" Finn grabbed Flame Prince's shoulders, but quickly pulled them away before he could obtain serious burns. "AW SHMOW!"
"Oh Glob, are you okay? I'm so sorry!"
"Naw man that was fault. It's just that Jake's my brother, my adoptive-brother. What were you saying?"
"Huh, Marceline never said anything about Jake having a brother." Flame Prince crossed his arms.
"Weird." Finn was a little hurt that Marceline doesn't talk about him to her friends.
"Anyway, she also talks about her best-friend Princess Bubblegum, apparently Bubblegum is also Marceline's boyfriend's second-cousin."
"PB has a cousin, and Marci has a boyfriend; I guess she's over Ash now. Man there's, like, a lot of stuff I don't know about, but I guess it's really not my business. Still though, it would be cool to know."
"Oh don't feel bad sugar-biscuit." Cake patted Finn on the shoulder. "I'm sure they just didn't feel like it was so important to talk about, I mean I have an older sister named Cynthia and an adoptive-sister named Fionna –"
"Hey I know Fionna, does she wear a white bunny hat?"
"Yeah and –"
"Is she human? I have to know because I am too!"
"I thought you were human, and yeah she is! Oh she'll be so thrilled to know there's another human; since she's already met you and all I'm sure she knows by now."
"Wow, another human. You know what's weird though, is that she looks just like me!"
"Hmm… I don't know what to tell you, but right now we should get moving to meet Marci and Marshall before Ice Queen wakes up. Come on sweetie-pie climb on."
Finn climbed on top of the now bigger Cake and the three of them took off to the Candy Kingdom.
~Z~Z~Z~
Finn, Cake, and Flame Prince finally arrived to the Candy Castle and were climbing up the stairs until Finn realized, "Hey I just noticed this place is, like, a reversed version of Ooo; no wonder I got lost in the Forest of Trees, I thought it would be the same as it is in Ooo. Would have been nice if I'd figured that out earlier!"
"Finn, what the hey are you doing here!" Marceline said coming from behind them. "How did you even get here in the freakin' first place?"
"Well I was calling you but you flew faster so I fallowed you into the Cave of Mirrors, but I got pulled in by the Ice Queen and got chased around by her until Cake and Flame Prince saved me. And also I met Fionna, who's a human like me!"
"Oh Grob!" Marceline slapped her forehead. "Look Finn I have a reason why I didn't tell you there was another human if that's what your upset about."
"Hecks yeah I'm upset, but –" Marceline grabbed Finn and put her hand over his mouth.
"Look I didn't tell you about Fionna because… me and Marshall think that… he's back, I mean like, back, but we don't know for sure! So please understand that for the sake of the world we couldn't loose both of our greatest heroes!"
She let go of Finn, "Oh Glob Marceline, I didn't know it was like that, sorry."
"Don't worry about it kiddo." She smiled at him.
~*O*~
"So do you really think this will work, or is even necessary, uh?" Fionna asked, cautiously leaning away from the unconscious Jake.
"You can just call me Flame Princess." She didn't answer Fionna though.
Flame Princess slowly and carefully poked her flaming finger against Jake's butt and quickly pulled it away.
"AHHHHHH!" Jake screamed, running around in a circle. "OH GLOB, OH GLOB, OH GLOB!"
"Fionna now!" Beemo shouted and Fionna grabbed Jake. "Don't worry Jake I have that Cyclops' tear with me."
Beemo put a drop of the Cyclops's tear on Jake's butt; he felt instant relief. Fionna let go of Jake since he was not in any danger of jumping off the balcony, not that he would get hurt.
"Thanks Beemo and Flame Princess… I guess." Jake said, narrowing his eyes at her.
"No biggy." She laughed then became serious. "Oh and Fionna already told me about Finn, so…"
"Gee nice to know you two have already introduced yourselves." Jake was a little upset Flame Princess burned him.
"Oh come on Jake, I barely touched you, I'm sorry I didn't think it would hurt that bad!"
Jake grumbled, "Whatever."
"Okay so can we go see Princess Bubblegum now?" Fionna asked.
"Yeah let's go, comin' FP?" Jake asked.
"Sure."
Flame Princess and Princess Bubblegum were actually on good terms now. Bubblegum personally visited Flame Princess' home and apologized for her father having locked her up. Apparently Princess Bubblegum had only asked Flame King to keep Flame Princess within the borders of the Fire Kingdom, but misunderstood and, unbeknownst to Bubblegum, kept her in a prison. Flame Princess entirely understood, knowing her father to be so ignorant, and forgave Princess Bubblegum. Bubblegum felt so ashamed for not having known of Flame Princess' situation in the Fire Kingdom she often visited her and the two became good friends; the same went for Prince Gumball and Flame Prince.
~Z~Z~Z~
"Hey Peebles!" Jake and Flame Princess shouted together. "Hey Jake and Flame Princess… and Fionna the Human girl? But how did you… it's not possible!"
"Um, well here I am!" Fionna made jazz hands. "And it was an accident but it's a long story."
"Oh of course, and forgive me for behaving so rudely I was just shocked and am delighted that you are here! It is a privileged to finally meet the great she-warrior of Aaa!"
"Thank you, it's awesome to meet you too Princess Bubblegum the cousin of Prince Gumball, and the, uh… you know what, of Marshall Lee the Vampire King!"
"Oh now cut it out it's not like that!" Bonnie blushed deep pink.
"Yet." Fionna nudged Bonnie with her elbow.
"Shall we all go up to my room and sit by the fire this nice evening?" She said and led the way.
"She's in Princess mode." Jake whispered to Flame Princess.
"We are ladies after all." Flame Princess defended.
"Okay so here's the problem," Fionna began when they had finally been seated in Bubblegum's room, "I was fighting with the Ice Queen until I got knocked into some portal in the Cave of Mirrors at the Loch of Phantoms. After I went through I bumped into Finn who's a human just like me – but then the Ice Queen grabbed him and the portal closed before I could save him. While I was wandering around the Ice King got me, but then Jake saved me, then I met Flame Princess, and here we are now. Huh, I guess it's not a really long story, unless you add all the details, but whatever."
"Hmm." Bubblegum was thinking. "Well I could try to create something to open the portal, though, it would be much easier if Marceline was here to open it. We need magic and have none because Marceline is in Aaa with Finn probably; we definitely don't want to ask the Ice King for help, but I guarantee that will be our final option if all else fails. By the time I think of and construct an invention we just might miss the next full moon since that is when the portal is able to be opened by magic-users."
"We could ask that Tree Witch or that Donut Witch if they could help us." Jake suggested.
"No the Tree Witch might sit on you again and the Donut Witch would strip you of your powers since you knocked her cane over."
"Oh yeah I forgot." Jake laughed.
"Of course you did." Flame Princess teased.
"We still have time!" Fionna said standing up. "The day's not even over yet we can still make it; who knows if Marceline isn't waiting for us at the portal on the other side!"
"Unfortunately Fionna," Bubblegum solemnly said, "Aaa is a day ahead of us and the portal cannot be opened from there."
Fionna plopped in her chair and stared at nothing; she felt hopeless.
"Don't worry Fionna it's not so bad." Jake tried to comfort her. "I mean, so you'll be in Ooo for a month, but that's okay!"
"No it's not that, it's just –" Fionna hesitated. "I overheard Marshall and Marceline say something about 'him' once, but I had no idea what they were talking about. But whoever 'he' is, it didn't sound too good."
Fionna looked at Bubblegum who looked as confused as she did, and also worried.
"What could Marceline possibly keep secret from me?" thought Bubblegum.
"Come on let's go." Bubblegum said as she stood up.
"Where are we going?" Flame Princess asked.
"To the Loch of Phantoms," she explained, "I don't know why, but I think we should just go there and wait until something happens. Jake would you like to stay here with lady?"
"I'll go with you guys, but let me see Lady first." He left.
~Z~Z~Z~
Princess Bubblegum, Flame Princess, Jake, and Fionna had just crossed the Safe Path of the Loch of Phantoms and were now entering the Cave. Flame Princess' radiance helped guide the four through the cave. Eventually they reached the Mirror.
"So we just, like, wait here?" Fionna asked Bubblegum.
"I believe so."
A voice echoed from behind them, "Hey, hey, hey!"
"Ice King!" They all shouted.
~*A*~
Marshall Lee and Marceline; Finn and Cake, and Flame Prince all entered the Candy Castle and waited for Prince Gumball in the castle foyer. Marceline and Marshall were whispering to each other with their backs turned; Finn and Cake knew they should not listen but they continued to try, but the two vampires were just too quiet for either of them to hear. Finn looked over at Flame Prince to find him staring out the window by himself; Finn wanted to know a few things and decided now was the best opportunity.
"Hey umm…" Finn didn't actually ask his name.
"You can just call me Flame Prince." He said. "Sorry, I forgot to introduce myself."
"Don't worry about it – did you say Flame Prince?" he asked. "Do you know a Flame Princess?"
"No I don't. But that's not really what you wanted to ask me?"
"Oh right… my girlfriend is from where you're from: the Fire Kingdom. I remember you said earlier that Marshall Lee was teaching you how to use your abilities, has he ever taught how to, like, control your heat or whatever?"
"You want the same thing as I do: to touch the one you love without hurting her – in your case without being hurt and having her be the one to blame herself. Yes he is actually, but it takes a lot of practice; I am sure she will have better luck than me because she is a girl. Girls of the Fire Kingdom tend to be calmer than guys. I hope for myself and you, that some day, your Flame Princess will be able to touch you, and I Fionna."
"You and Fionna, seriously? Wow that's so weird how I'm dating a girl from the Fire Kingdom and she's dating a guy from the Fire Kingdom. We have a lot in common."
"That is strange." Flame Prince smiled at Finn who smiled back.
"You're pretty mature, like, for a kid."
"Thanks."
"Hello everyone, I am sorry to have kept you waiting." Gumball said as he walked through the doors.
Marceline flew over to Gumball and into his open arm to passionately kiss him.
"Ha-ha, weird." Finn said to himself and tilted his head.
"Finn the Human it is nice to meet you!" Gumball welcomed while walking over to Finn.
"You too Prince Gumball." Finn shook his hand. "Okay so here's the problem, I was fallowing Marceline to the Loch of Phantoms so I could – oh yeah, Marceline, Peebles asked me to give these letters to you."
Finn took out the two letters and gave them to Marceline; she looked at both of them and then gave one to Marshall and the other to Gumball. Gumball put his in his coat pocket, but Marshall quickly opened his to read. As Marshall read his letter he smiled and giggled after he was finished.
"So, like, I was in the Cave of Mirrors when I got knocked over by Fionna who's a human just like me, but then out of nowhere this psychotic Ice Queen chick pulled me through a portal and into this world! Then she started chasing me because I kicked her in the face, and she's like, 'I'm gonna kill you, blah!' So what I did then was run into the Forest of Trees, but then I got lost… (breathes) because I know the forest so well in Ooo or whatever. While I was lost Cake and Flame Prince here saved me from that whack-nut; Cake was all like, 'Don't mess with me Ice Queen'; and Flame Prince was like, 'Heads up, zap'; and I'm like, 'Yeah what they said!" It was flipping' awesome!"
Finn was catching his breath and Gumball just stared at him with amazement for having completed an entire story in fewer than two breathes. Gumball was about to say something but became lost in thought, he looked at Marceline and her brother.
"I think we should go back to the Loch of Phantoms, and just wait there for awhile." Gumball looked back at Finn.
"Oh Gumball I don't have a good feeling about this, my tales frizzin' up again!" Cake looked at her tail.
"I don't either." Marshall admitted.
"It might not sound like a good idea, but I really think we should go." Everyone just nodded at Gumball.
~Z~Z~Z~
"Now what?" Finn asked Gumball when they were in front of the Mirror.
"I have no idea, but hey it's worth a shot by waiting here." Gumball smiled at Finn.
"Well everyone might as well sit around me to keep warm, who knows how long we'll be here." Flame Prince suggested.
"Oh well lookie here!" An irritating voice said from behind them. "It's one big happy reunion!"
"Ice Queen?" They all groaned.
"I was called here so shut your yaps!" She commanded.
"But by who?" Marshall asked, slowly walking up to her. "Are you sure it's not those voices you were telling me about?"
"Of course not – at least I don't think so, I don't know… look, all I know is that I was called here by an evil presence."
"Okay." Marceline said.
"Step aside, step aside, and let me see what I can do." The Ice Queen moved past the gang to get a better look at the Mirror. "Hmm… yes, yes I see… mmm of course!"
"What is it?" Finn went to go stand by her. "Do you really think you can open it?"
"Huh? Oh! No I can't, but um maybe I can…"
Ice Queen used her magic to form a thin layer of ice on the surface of the Mirror.
"Oh dear it seems I've frozen it solid, so instead I think I'll just –"
~*O*~
"Step aside, step aside, and let me see what I can do." The Ice King moved past the gang to get a better look at the Mirror. "Hmm… yes, yes I see… mmm oh, okay!"
"What, what?" Fionna went to go stand by him. "Do you really think you can open it?"
"Huh? Oh! No I can't, but um maybe I can…"
Ice King used his magic to form a thin layer of ice on the surface of the Mirror.
"Oops I think I may have frozen it solid, so to save time I'll just –"
Both the Ice King and the Ice Queen smashed the Mirror with an ice lightning-bolt; shards of glass flew everywhere. At that moment a great force erupted from the shattered Mirror and expanded throughout the entire land of both Ooo and Aaa. The two great heroes of Ooo stared at the two great heroes of Aaa within one land they each vowed to protect!
"That's it, seriously?" Marceline asked rhetorically, leaning her elbow on Marshall's shoulder.
"I know, right!" Marshall said, crossing his arms. "Man, that was lame."
That is the end of Chapter 3 ladies and gentleman; Chapter 4 is coming soon after New Years! Thank you so much for reading, please review or continue to review! Happy New Years to you all, God bless, I hope you all have an amazing time this coming year! :D ;P
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