Shankara's Funeral
"You useless scum!" The Emperor of Nightosphere kicked the disciple's face that accidentally shot Shankara instead of Fionna. The disciple bowed down repetitively asking for mercy, but the Emperor cared less. This all took place back at Emperor's pavilion in Nightosphere engulfed in fire with multitudes of demonic and other "deathless" entities luring outside.
"You were supposed to kidnap that girl ALIVE! Your error has dishonored the entire clan's reputation outside this dimension; now you must die!" The Emperor pulled the hair on the disciple's head and forcefully plunged his fingers into his neck. The disciple's eyes rolled back spitting out blood agonizingly. He gradually stopped shivering and fell dead on the marble pavement. Marshall Lee watched him while sitting on a cascade textured cabriole sofa holding an apple ready to eat before The Emperor hollered at him.
"Do you know the where about of Adelaide's daughter!?" Marshall stopped and grin looking at the apple despicably.
"You mean Fionna? I don't know; the last time I saw her she escaped from the arena backed-up by this knife-throwing lady. That's all I got really…" Marshall crossed his legs and scrumptiously sucked the red color out of the apple using his vampire canine-teeth turning it gray over time.
"Damn it! Now that we lost her I will never be able to locate the sutra where the Great Eclipse Scroll is preserved!" The Emperor violently struck the contents on the Loo table near by with his cane shattering them.
"If you are so eager to obtain the Scroll why don't you confront Adelaide in person?" Marshall said mordantly while taking another apple from the fruit bowl. The Emperor then threw his cane at Marshall, but he deflected using his foot.
"You cunning bastard! Just like your mother; never knowing when to shut your mouth." The Emperor spilled his wrath, but on the other half he was intimidated because he knew that his kung-fu doesn't come any where close to Adelaide's Systema. In ancient times, The Emperor led his hellish battalions in attempt to conquer the world, but defeated by the hands of Shankara and Adelaide. Shankara used immense energy by manipulating the flow of chi that shook both heaven and earth spontaneously collapsing his entire battalions while Adelaide wrestled with him at the point where he nearly died. This terrified the entire entities living in Nightosphere causing them to never come out from their dimension for over 3,000 years.
"Well… at least we got one obstacle out of the way. This task would've been far more difficult if Shankara was still alive." The Emperor regained his composure and went back to his chamber.
At the same moment, back at BiscottiRepublic, Shankara's funeral took place in Princess Biscotti's courtyard incorporating a vast garden and water features, full of goldfish, and with myrtles growing along its sides surrounded by low gallery supported on white marble columns. The square was paved with colored tiles and the colonnade with white marble, while the walls are covered up from the ground with blue and yellow tiles, with a border above and below of enameled blue and gold. The casket containing Shankara's corpse was oriented so that his head pointed south while the feet pointed north where people assembled to pay him respect or to burn scent and then piercing on the ash pan. One moment to another, people wearing black suites bowed to the casket with Princess Biscotti being one of them holding a bouquet of cosmos and lilies. Cinque and Rebecca also stood next to her together retrospectively thinking of the times in which they spent with Shankara. Tear drops from Princess Biscotti's cheeks landed on one of the flower petal which then leaked down to the ground. Along with Cinque and Rebecca, Princess Biscotti exited the scene speechless while a legion of Biscotti Knight Army loaded their rifle and lining up horizontally in single file.
"Legion aim… fire!" The army pointed their rifle at the sky and at once fired their round. Samarsam looked at the army as they were reloading their rifle.
"Aim… fire!" When the second round went off, a battalion of white horses led by Prince Gumball and Princess Bubblegum entered the courtyard. As the foot soldiers made way for the monarchs, another two anonymous individuals both of them covering their faces with a white veil approached to Shankara's casket. When the tallest one wearing a Cinderella dress with a blue oval emerald amulet fixed in the center of her chest confirmed that it was Shankara, they both took their veil off; it was Fionna and her mother Adelaide. When the funeral's attendees saw her face, they all bowed down worshipping her.
"Please, stop humiliating me like that in front of him! Can't you all tell that Shankara is the one who deserves more respect here?" Adelaide rejected their worship and once again looked down to see Shankara's pale face.
"Shankara… my dear old friend… I've been searching for you all over the world and now I finally found you. Thank you for protecting my daughter since she's the only one left amongst all. May your soul rest in peace…" Adelaide knelt down and kissed Shankara on the forehead breaking down into tears. Fionna, who was wearing a solid colored gown with embroidery at the opening of the overskirt and bodice with quilted underskirt underneath also with sleeves flared at the elbow wearing a coronet, loomed towards Samarsam.
"Are you Samarsam?" Fionna asked to Samarsam who wore a black cheongsam suite.
"I'm him and you must be Fionna, correct?" Samarsam asked back and Fionna kindly nodded "yes". Both of them sat on a porch under the weeping willow distancing themselves from their parents.
"Your father died protecting me. I… don't know what to do, I… I know that sorry wont just cut it… I…" Fionna gripped her skirt strongly.
"The sun is replaced by the moon, and then the moon is replaced by the sun. Summer is replaced by winter, and then the winter is replaced by summer. Light is replaced by dark, and then dark is replaced by light. Everywhere in nature, you will see these basic cycles. It's a natural thing for a person to die just like my father; I'm sure that my father doesn't have any hard feelings for you hence, neither should I." Samarsam stood up boldly and plucked a branch off of the weeping willow.
"Although, whoever was in charge of assassinating my father shall pay; I will avenge his death." Samarsam snapped the branch in half and dropped on the ground.
"Allow me to help you avenge your father death Samarsam! I'll join Rejan Illesaih School of Martial Art together with you!" Fionna followed up; being assertive to her decision.
Samarsam and Fionna ran to Adelaide begging for her permission to allow Fionna enter the school.
"I'm not sure, what do you think Noir?" Adelaide asked for Noir's opinion.
"…I'll accept your enrollment." Noir said after thinking for a while. Fionna's eyes became watery with bliss.
"Oh, thank you mother! Thank you!" Fionna jumped up and hugged Adelaide.
"Thank you for letting Fionna join our school mother." Samarsam bowed shallowly. Noir brought his head back high by lifting his chin looking straight into the eye.
"But only if you promise me to take good care of her." Samarsam swore and bowed again. When Samarsam and Fionna were talking about what just happened elatedly, Noir gazed at Shankara's casket.
Look, my husband, your death was never in vein since it connected them both; Let us hope that Samarsam and Fionna will grow more fondly about one another until the day comes for them to continue where you and Adelaide left off in the legendary path of mighty heroes…