He was running. Splintering pain in his ankles as he tried to push pass his limits. Everything was black, darker than any night he'd seen. He ran, but felt his foot ing slip and he started falling.

"Where are you headed, Simon? You know there's no way out."

Simon clutched his head and screamed, but felt nothing except water enter his lungs and freeze. He swam up to what had been his way down. A sheet of ice sealed the top. Simon slammed into it, cracks coming into visibility. Another breath of ice invaded his lungs as he broke through, too impatient to breathe. Bursting through the water he forced air down into his lungs, but all that came back was blood.

"Come now, Simon. We are trying to heal you! You're making a fuss over nothing."

"Leave me alone," Simon yelled into the darkness as he climbed onto the ice.

It wasn't very long before the ice was replaced once again. Fields of grass beneath a blue sky. He knew what was happening, what had become of him and what he was turning into. Simon could only hope he could hold it off long enough to stop it.


"So how's he doin'," Jake asked. Pb just shook her head. She had dark bags under her eyes, yawns escaping every so often. "I stayed up all night with Science, but we found nothing. No illnesses, no diseases, no poison, no nothing." She glanced down at her feet, but looked back over at the Ice King. His breathing was stable and the heart monitor was beeping every so often as it should.

"I just don't get it. What's happening to him? I mean, one minute he's out with us being a butt like usual and the next he's in here," Finn sighed. Princess Bubblegum replied with a sigh of her own, "That's what I'm trying to figure out. Except nothing is coming up."

Another round of sighs was interrupted by a quick succession of beeps. The Ice King was turning in his sleep and twitching like he was having a bad dream, the beeps were from his heart monitor. PB rushed to her machines and started twisting knobs and clicking buttons.

Finn just looked at Jake in confusion, glancing from PB to the Ice King. "What's happening?!" PB kept at her work, answering without looking up, "He's turning unstable." Just as PB was talking the Ice King started coughing up blood. Finn flinched, seeing the thick crimson stain his tongue and clump in thick globs on the bed as it dripped from his mouth.

"Hang on Ice King! Please, just hang on!"