Chapter 3: Roar

Finn and Bonnibel stared in awe as the smoke rose high in the sky. A large portion of the city was clearly burning, though they couldn't see the cause of it. Finn was the first to react.

"We gotta get over there!"

The candy girl didn't question it, just followed Finn as they both made their way to the Candy Kingdom. After running for about 10 minutes they made it to the city gates where dozens of citizens were attempting to flee the burning city. They saw King of Ooo sitting in a corner, looking rather terrified. Finn ran up to him.

King of Ooo, what's going on?"

"Th-there's a... a..."

Suddenly, a large roar was heard coming from within the city.

"Dragon!"

Finn turned to Bonnie.

"You stay here and tend the wounded. I'll go deal with the dragon."

"Are you insane?! You're going in there alone?!"

"Someone's gotta keep this thing occupied while they escape. Don't worry, I've fought dragons before."

She remained quiet for a few seconds and then sighed.

"Fine, just be careful."

The human nodded, then went inside the city. Most of the buildings were completely burned to the ground while others were still in the process of burning. The smoke was making it difficult to breathe so he took his scarf and covered his mouth and nose with it. As he continued to walk along the streets he didn't see any pedestrians

"Maybe they all got out." He thought to himself.

Suddenly, he saw a massive object heading towards him. He quickly jumped out of the way as the object hit the ground beside him. When the smoke cleared he saw that it was the head of a gumball guardian.

"It took out both guardians?!"

He began to hear thundering footsteps approaching from further in the city. As he turned to look near the candy palace the massive beast came into view.

It was at least 15 meters high. It had a red gem on the center of its chest. Finn couldn't tell the color of its skin because it was fully covered with black armor. Instead of standing on four legs, however, the beast stood on its rear legs like a regular person. Its tail swung behind it and was also covered in armor, with a spike at the very end. Its wings were nearly the size of the dragon itself and were completely red. Its eyes were red as well but there were no pupils, just a menacing glow.

It let out a thundering roar that nearly made Finn cover his ears. After it was done, it charged straight through the palace, knocking down all it's supports. after it broke through the other side, the palace came tumbling down, falling on top of several buildings below.

After a few seconds of admiring its handiwork, it laid eyes on Finn, who was still staring at the creature. As if having a personal grudge against the human, it stopped destroying the city and instead began walking towards him.

"Oh, crap."

The beast inhaled deeply and sent a wave of fire from its mouth to burn him. He quickly reacted and jumped into a nearby alleyway where the fire only nearly scraped his leg. The alley was a dead end and the street was completely set ablaze. Finn spotted a ladder that led up to the roof on one of the walls.

Having no other options, the human began climbing. Upon reaching the roof, he saw the dragon standing right beside the building, looking right at him. Before Finn knew it, it was already swinging its arm to crush him. Right before he was crushed, Finn heard a familiar voice.

"Finn!"

Suddenly, he was pulled away from the roof just as the beast's hand had hit. Finn looked down to see a thin yellow line wrapped around him. As he was set down on a nearby roof, he saw who had saved him.

"Jake!"

The human and the dog shared a quick hug and returned to look at each other.

"What are you doing here?"

"The smoke could be seen all the way from my house so I instantly rushed over."

"Well I'm glad you did."

"We'll continue this conversation later."

Finn nodded then two turned back to the dragon as it continued to make its way towards them. Once it was in range, it released another breath of fire. The human grabbed on to Jake and the dog quickly stretched to another rooftop as the fire burned the other.

After setting Finn down, Jake immediately stretched and began wrapping himself around the dragon, trying to subdue it. After a few spins, the beast could no longer move.

"Ha! What now, sucker?!"

The dragon closed its eyes and a fiery aura appeared around it, burning Jake.

"Ahhhhhhhh!"

The dog instantly unwrapped himself and fell on another roof. As he laid unmoving, the dragon was closing in to finish him off.

"Jaaaaake!"

The human began jumping from roof to roof hoping to reach his friend. As he ran, the gem on his chest began to brightly glow. As the dragon began to reach in towards Jake, Finn was able to make it to him.

He raised his hand towards the beast as if trying to stop its arm, but suddenly, blue flames shot from the human's hand and hit the beast's face, removing its entire right side.

As it roared in pain, Finn looked at his hand.

"What?"

After the dragon stopped roaring, it began falling backwards and hit the ground, making it shake. Finn continued to look at its corpse for a few seconds before seeing its chest split open. A strange figure began emerging from within. Upon being able to lay eyes on him, Finn grew an expression of shock.

It was Flame Princess' brother, Flint.

He looked up at Finn with an angered look. A large cloud of steam began to emerge from the dragon corpse. Once it dissipated, Flint was nowhere to be seen.