We left the cave the next night, since when we had our trouble with Marceline's nightmare, it was already night, and then turned to day. We waited for the welcomeness of the Dark, in each other's arms. We flew out of the cave once the sun went down, and started having fun. We went out into the towns, and started scaring the living daylights out of people. We tried to keep from doing this to the Candy people, since we knew they would explode. While Marceline was flying away to find more people, I saw something familiar out of the corner of my eye. When I turned my head, it was a witch's shop, with a most peculiar thing in the window. "Hambo..." I said to myself quietly, remembering the toy from her Memories.
I walked into the shop with my hood up, looking cautiously for anybody out for me, and I picked up the stuffed toy, its long arms dangling down, still somehow stitched to it. "Ah, I see you have seen that old thing." I heard from behind me, and when I turned, it was an old woman, with somewhat skeletal arms. "How much do you want for him?" I asked her. She smacked her lips together, revealing many rows of sharp, needle-line teeth. "Money has no worth to me. What I want..." The old lady said to me, "is your coat. It looks soft enough for me." I pulled the zipper down as far as it would go, shedding myself of the coat. "Here. Pleasure doing business with you." I told her. "That toy must have some significance to you, for you to give a perfectly good coat for one, like yourself." She called out at me as I was in the doorway. I turned my head to have a single eye looking at her, then said, "Not to me, but to someone close."
"Hey dude! I found some more people!" Marceline said as I was walking back to where I was, the item I had just gotten behind my back. "Mike, where's your coat?" She asked me, confusion in her voice. "I traded it." I told her. "For what?" She asked me. I pulled Hambo from behind my back, slowly, and said, "This guy right here." Marceline gasped, staring at him as I held him out to her. She moved her hands from her mouth, slowly, as if it were a fantasy, towards the raggedy toy. When her hands were right next to mine, I slid him from my hands and onto hers, which made her gasp, now knowing that he was real. She pulled him close to her chest, giving him the biggest hug ever, and started crying.
"Marceline?" I asked her, starting to walk closer to her when she jumped out at me, putting an arm around my body, the other holding on to her long lost toy. "I..I...I..never thought..." She started off, partially stopping because of her sobbing. I enclosed her in my arms, keeping her close to my body, and she started using me to dry her tears. "It's alright Marceline, let it all out." I told her, rubbing her back and lifting us into the air. She continued on with her former statement, "I never thought...that I would see him ever again..." I kept her wrapped in my arms, and quickly flew us off to the cave, for dawn was starting to approach. As soon as we got back there, and we leaned our backs to the wall, I explained to her, "While you were gone, I saw him. I knew that it would mean the world to you if I found him and got him back for you." She hugged me again, this time throwing the arm with Hambo around with me, and said, "Thank you. So very much. I'd thought that he would be nothing but stitches by now." I kept her close, and she moved Hambo to in between us, and we fell asleep, entwined in each other's arms.
I woke up the next evening to see Marceline sleeping with a smile on her face. "Hey. It's time for us to get out of this cave." I told her, shaking her slightly to wake her up. She cracked an eye open, then giggled, and said, "I like the cave. Don't you remember it?" I looked around, and instantly remembered where the cave was from. "This is the cave that you and I were in after my accident." I told her. "Good, you're very observant." She said to me, burying her face in the crook of my neck. I slid my right arm underneath her knees, and kept a firm grip on her upper body. I then stood up, holding her in my arms like a bride. "Come on. I want to show you the place that I have been hanging around for a while." I said to her.
After a short flight, I managed to get to the small shack near the woods. "Wow dude, this is your place? It sucks." She said, keeping Hambo close to her body. I opened the door, then said, "One mustn't judge a book by its cover. It is much larger on the inside of it." We walked in, and I flipped on the light bulb hanging from the ceiling, which revealed a massive dome covered hole. I twisted on the wheel above the dome, unlocking it, then pulled it up and away, exposing the ladder. "An underground hideout. Nice." She said, holding her hand out. I held it lightly, assisting her in starting down the ladder. After a few feet of her going down, I started to climb down, pulling the cover back on the hole and tightening the wheel on the inside as well. I tapped the side of the long vertical tunnel, and activated the multiple lines of glowing green with the many tiny lights that I had installed. "This is cool!" I heard from below me. "Thanks!" I said. As soon as we hit the bottom of the ladder, We were in the familiar white-tiled hallway, which had multiple rooms along the curved sides.
"Wow!" Marceline said, amazed at these new surroundings. I walked us over to the first door on the right, and opened it, holding it for Marceline. She walked over to the doorway, and peered inside to see the greyscale room, with a large, soft bed and a stereo system on the nearby nightstand. "There are twenty seven of these rooms in this complex, each with their own audio and video systems." I told her. She walked in and sat on the bed, bouncing a little, and stared at the TV. "Okay, this place has officcially blown my freaking mind, man!" She said, bouncing back and taking the full embrace of the bed. She immediately moaned in pleasure, and said, "This is intoxicating..." I walked over to the bed, rolled onto the top and beside her, and said, "And you have just seen my bed."
She sat up, and said, "Wait, this is the bed that you've been sleeping on for all this time?" She asked me. "Yeah. Hey, I've slept on a couch for a long time before coming to this world." I told her, sitting up as well. "Well, if I had known that you were this close, and the beds were this comfortable, then I'd visit a lot!" She said, looking at me with a smile on her face. I grinned back, and said, "Let me guess, you would leave after every three hundred and sixty fourth day every year. And return after day three hundred sixty five." "Yeah. Something like that." She said, laughing. I wrapped my arm around her, and we quickly descended into sleep.
"What the?" I said in a few minutes, being surrounded by large, musical notes. "Am I in her dreams again?" I asked myself, as I watched a musical note grow larger than another, then engulf the other note. "Why can't she just have a normal dream?" I said to myself as a circle of blood-red notes made a ring around me. I summoned my Keyblade, and quickly cut through the Notes, causing the note's sound to occur after their destruction. After they were all gone, I sent my Keyblade away, and started walking in the large, white room. After about five minutes, I encountered a door, with a star on it. When I opened the door, it revealed a large space of Darkness. I jumped through the doorway, and quickly entered the full blackness around me. I could feel the free fall around me, and I could still see the colors of my clothes and skin, which struck me as odd. Then, I managed to land on some surface, with immediate ease.
I looked around to see nothing at first, but then the picture changed to an image of an afternoon sun over a large field, surrounded by trees. I looked to my right to see a little girl and a little boy, wearing black and playing in the field of grass. I looked more, and saw a picnic blanket nearby, with two people on it, more than likely their mother and father. I started to walk towards them when one of the children ran clear through me. "Ah. So I'm invisible and intangible here. Just perfect." I said to myself. I looked at the couple again to see a familiar face between them. Actually, two familiar faces.
"Marceline... And myself?... In broad daylight?" I said, looking at this place's sun. "I like this dream." I heard from behind me. "You've... dreamed of me and you with kids before?" I asked Marceline, the only other person in here that could see me. "Only recently, but yeah, I have. And I would love to see the sun. I think that this is what it is like." Marceline said, Hambo not in her arms in this place. We both looked at the girl, who had raven-black hair, but blue eyes. She held the stuffed toy in question within her tiny arms, and it appeared to be without need for any repairs in a long time. "We make cute kids." I said. Marceline chuckled, then wrapped her arms around my body, raising one of her hands to where my old Stake wound was, and moved her other hand to over my belt, simply resting it there. I gently put my hands over hers, and said, "I think that I can help you on the sun part." She rested her head in between my shoulder blades, then asked me, "How? There's no spell that can enable vampires to not be in pain during the day. Trust me, I've looked at all of them." I turned in her embrace, having her and myself face to face, and I said, "Where I am from, there was a thing that people would wear in order to protect them from the sun's harmful rays. I think that it would help us out here." I held her close, and she made a sound similar to a moan, but within her, and then said, "I think that I'd like that. We'll go out tomorrow and get the stuff you may need. For now, I just want to stay like this." She and I decided to stop standing, and just floated in the air, caught in one massive embrace. I looked into her gray, sweet eyes, and said, "I love you, Marceline the Vampire Queen." She looked back at me, then said, "I love you too, Michael the Vampire King." I started to feel as if the moment was just perfect, and I started to lean in closer to her. She moved her head closer to mine, and we were making slow progress. When we got close enough, we finally shared a kiss.
Author's special:
Creator: FINALLY! I wanted them to go through with it!
Mike:What?
Marceline: What are you, some kind of God? Get the f*** out!