"Where do you think she came from?"

"I'm not sure, I found her on the up top."

"Doesn't she look a bit like…"

"No, she can't be, the Queen is a fire elemental, this one is like us."

"But I've never seen hair quite like this."

"She beautiful."

The voices around me were strange, they didn't have the crisp underlying crackle of a fire elemental, but not the sweet ring that most candy people have either. In fact, the tone was flat, neutral.

"What?" I groaned, my head flopping uselessly to the side. My eyes opened, but the startling array of colors blurred together, making alien faces looming over me.

"She's coming to!" A feminine voice squealed in delight.

I squinted trying to make sense of the faces, they had pink-tan fleshy faces, and strange neutral hair colors, like brown, and dirty blond. Teeth flashed as they talk, unpointed and more for eating plants than anything.

"What, what are you?" I stuttered, the shapes beginning to form into solidity.

"My name Susan." A blond one with a cat hat loomed over me with a wide grin.

"Excuse Susan, my name is Harold, and this is John." The brown haired boy pointed to himself then at a similar version of himself.

The one called john held out his hand in a friendly gesture, "Nice to meet you."

"What's going on. Where am I?" I grunted, taking his hand so he lifted me to a comfortable sitting position.

John flashed a crooked grin at me, "You're at the CandyMan Village."

"I, I never heard of it." I said confused.

I thought I had burnt all of Ooo to a crisp, what were these creatures, and how could they possibly have a civilization. Looking around I found myself in a small cavern, a low ceiling with two bed and a stove in the corner, small holes were located around the room near the top, no doubt for ventilation. The rest of the furniture was humble, and primarily made of rock and woven cloth. If you thought about it, there wasn't a splinter of wood to be found. The cave was lit by lamps hung on the walls. The flickering of fire was soothing to me, and aided in calming my nerves.

"You Topside?" Susan grunted her eyes widening.

"I'm not from underground if that's what you're asking." I snorted, thinking about the burning castle I had waiting for me back home.

"How do you survive in Ooo!? There's nothing left." John exclaimed excited.

Harold crawled over his eyes flashing, "Yeah! Tell us!"

I was overwhelmed, surely if I told them who I was they'd kill me, afterall it was obvious why they were forced to live underground.

"Leave her alone." A pink-brown figure lingered in the doorway.

My eyes widened, and painfully I recognized her for who she was, the princess of the candy kingdom, or when there was a candy kingdom. She was definitely shorter, in fact she was in a strange chair with large wheels. Her bottom limbs were shriveled and browned, as were other random patches of skin. Her hair was short too, and her eyes that were aimed at me, seemed to look past me into nothingness.

"Princess Bubblegum?!" I gasped aloud.

"I go by Bonnie now." she said curtly, "You're lucky I can't see, but if I had any guess, you'd be the Flame Queen. I'd know that wretched voice anywhere."

Pain stung my face. I'm far from wretched.

"I think you're mistaken Bonnie, this is no fire elemental." John said.

"Yeah, she's just as human as us." Harold agreed.

I was shocked, I knew these people were different, but I didn't know humans still existed, and most importantly, I thought I was turned into the last one.

"Let me feel her." She reached out one shaking hand patiently, while Susan nudged me up from the ground and guided me over to her.

Fearfully I allowed her to clasp my hands.

She released almost instantly, "Definitely not fire. But I'm still not sure. What's your name?"

"My name?" I asked, did I have a name? All I knew was Flame Princess and Flame Queen.

"Yes", she snapped impatiently, "Your name."

"I'm Blusse." I spit out. I didn't even know what it meant but it sounded like a name.

She gave a displeased frown and wheeled her chair around, "Well, Blusse, welcome to CandyMan."

She started wheeling out the door and the group of humans began walking forward after her, so there wasn't much to do but follow.

I gasped the moment my eyes hit the space before me, all of this glorious space. It was like a beehive, there had to be hundreds of doorways along the sides of this massive cavern, the ceiling dripping like icicles, and a lake at the center at the bottom of the cavern was surrounded by a bunch of stone huts. Lamps were everywhere lighting the way for people everywhere, and winding paths snaked along the sides of the walls descending into the bottom.

"All this exists?" I asked in a dazed state.

"This is called the CandyMan for a reason." Bonnie said, "After the Day Of Flame, the humans, who were hiding underground for centuries spare some missions for other supplies, they attempted to save some surviving Candy Kingdom members, myself included. For the past two years we've been living together in peace.

"Are there other villages then?" I questioned, I was so sure I had destroyed everything.

The burnt princess nodded gracefully, "A few, the Man village, the MiscMan village, and a few nomads wander the caverns down here. When we are sure the Flame Queen is deceased, perhaps we can return to Topside someday."

"Hm." I grunted.

At least I was safe from that psycho-bitch.

"You can have the house we just left for now, but if you're going to stay here you might want to find yourself a job." Harold explained as we walked down the side path descending into the cavern.

I was confused to say the least, but nodded and followed, I didn't have much choice anyways.