With nothing more to say for now, here's the fourth chapter; read n review please

Everyone in the room remained silent, their eyes went back and forward looking the pieces of the Ice King's crown and the body of Simon that stood in the floor.

"Ugh…" a small sound came from Simon's mouth making the others snap out and approach him "where am I?" asked Simon feeling a little dizzy he raised his head and found Joshua looking at him with a dumbfound expression.

"You're finally back Simon" said Joshua as he leaned forward and hugged Simon "It's been ages since I lost myself inside the crown isn't it?" asked Simon as Joshua let him go "I'm afraid so" said Joshua with a sad smile on his face.

A sudden roar was hear from the pieces of the crown as an strange ice-blue dust materialized from the crown and flew away from the castle breaking a wall with very little of effort "NO!" exclaimed Simon as he started to ran to the hole the dust-creature made "Don't let it escape" he said as he reached the hole but it was too late, the trail of dust the creature left was gone as the creature itself was nowhere in sight.

"Damn" said Simon "I think there's nothing we can do for the moment now that thing is gone" he said as he looked at the frontier of the ice kingdom with a worried look on his face; "what in the world was that?" asked PB still half-shocked from the presence of the dust-creature "It was the crown's conscience" explained Simon "it's the thing that took almost all the control of my actions, while I wore the ice crown, although thanks to its influence I was able to stay alive and survive the extreme radiation, in exchange that thing trapped my mind away deep inside of the 'Ice King' subconscious letting the memory of Betty as my only remain though but twisting it into an insane wish to marry princesses, and while the creature was controlling my actions I could only see from the inside…" he stopped and looked at Finn, Jake and PB with almost tears in his eyes "I'm terribly sorry for the things I've done as the Ice King, I do not expect you to forgive me but at least understand the meaning of my behavior" he gave an apologetic bow as he finished his sentence.

While Simon expected to hear something like 'Arrest him' or 'I don't care' instead he found himself left up by Finn and Jake "Simon Petrikov" told PB to Simon "It is true that the Ice King has done a lot of things, some evil and others good, but those are the crimes of the wizard known as the Ice King for what I understand and know I have no reason to be mad or angry at you, you had nothing to do with this and I ask you to help us with the recent problem" "It will be my pleasure princess" said Simon as he kneeled and planted a kiss on PB's sweet hand.

Inside the Candy Castle

"So, Mr. Simon is it?" asked PB as she took a sip of her tea cup "Y-yes P-princess" answered a nervous Simon to PB, he wasn't used to talking to royalty, although, in words from Joshua, he had the highest manners when talking to people he was a total gentleman, also the smell of the Candy Castle was making him a little dizzy (Finn and Jake have been in the Candy Kingdom, almost all his life in Finn's case, and a lot of time in Jake's, so they were familiarized with the smell) "No need to be nervous Simon, you're with friends right?" said Finn while patting the back of Simon "Yes thanks Finn" answered Simon while drinking his cup of tea (a little too sugar for his taste but hey, if life gives you free tea you ain't complaining).

"Princess Bubblegum!" said Peppermint Butler as he (literally) punched the door opening it "what is it Peppermint?" said PB a little intrigued of Peppermint's attitude "there'sabigdustcreatureattackingth ekingdomwemustmovilizethecan dysoldiersandalertalltheciti zenstoevacuatethekingdominme diatelythisisalifeanddeathsi tuationpricesswemustactquick ywemust…" screamed Peppermint in an incredible speed before receiving a strong shake from Finn's courtesy "Calm down man!" said Jake as Finn putted him in the ground, "good" said both Finn and Jake "now Peppermint can you please repeat what you said?" asked Princess Bubblegum *insert anime tear here* "and in an average speed please" said Joshua, Simon didn't said anything 'cause he though it wasn't necessary, also he was busy examining the weird candy-butler specimen in front of him 'Dear Lord I haven't seen such weird specimens since I visited the Himalaya in one of my excursions' though Simon, he was going to have a great time in the so called "Land of Ooo".

"Now Peppermint" said PB "can you please repeat what you said?" Peppermint took a deep breath before speaking again although this time in an 'understandable' speed "what I tried to said was that there is a mysterious blue dust creature that's attacking the frontier of the kingdom but, by this time it must be already inside the kingdom" "Is there any other thing about the 'dust creature'?" asked Simon finally saying something, there was a notorious worried tone in his voice "Now that you mention it…" said Peppermint as he rubbed his nonexistent chin "the creature shoot some weird blue beams that froze everything they touched, although I don't know what relation this has with anything" "Thank you Peppermint, that was all we needed to know" said the princess as she called Lady and motioned Simon to sit behind her "well guys let's do this" said Joshua as the group parted to the candy frontier.

"Are you okay Simon?" asked Joshua as he flew near Lady "I'm not sure Joshua, I don't know if I'll be able to control that beast" answered Simon as he became silent again while remembering the little chat he had with the group few moments before parting.

*Flashback*

"What did you say!" yelled PB before shutting herself and recover her composure "I'm sorry for yelling but can you repeat what you said?" PB needed to hear that again, she simply couldn't believe it.

"What I said is that there is a method to stop that thing" said Simon sounding a little worried "the only way to stop the 'Crown's Conscience' is that the bearer of the crown has to oppose it with his own will and defeat it" "Then If it's that simple let's do it" said Finn while taking out his sword "IT'S NOT THAT SIMPLE!" yelled Simon at Finn "I'm sorry Finn but you don't know anything about that thing, his will's enormous, once you interact with it, it consumes and twists your mind so horribly that transforms you into something no more different that a mindless puppet for it to play with, I don't know If I can fight against something so humongous, I don't know if I will be able to come out again, what If I fail and the Ice King returns? What if-" "Simon" interrupted Joshua waving lightly in Simon's face to get his attention "This time it will be different, last time you had to face it alone but now you have friends don't you?" said Joshua while giving him a cocky smile, Simon's eyes widened while looking at the room, all of his new friends were smiling at him and Simon understood now, it was true, he wasn't alone anymore, he had friends that would rescue him even from the deepest mountain, he could do it.

*End of flashback*

"We already had this conversation didn't we?" asked Joshua to Simon interrupting his trail of thoughts and giving him a pat in the back "Yeah, indeed we did" answered Simon acquiring a serious yet determined grin in his face. After five minutes they finally reached the frontier of the Candy Kingdom; what they saw was the remaining of the once green and filled with life land, PB was completely shocked, the once green and vast land turned into an ice dessert, the calm and warm breeze that once blew there was now a strong frost wind that gave strong chills to whoever passed there, all of them felt like just the fact of being there could freeze their bones in any second. As they descended they started walking, the sight that they saw was almost heartbreaking, the poor animals that still lived in the area were desperately cuddling against each other to find at least a little bit of warm, the floor was covered with snow that reach almost 10 cm of height, the once green and pink trees now had a frozen appearance looking not more different that any ice statue you could find in a party cooling the drinks, even the once light blue sky full with birds and puffy clouds was now obstructed with a deep gray fog that didn't allow even a single sight of the sky. As they walked for what seemed like 15 minutes they heard a loud growl coming from deep of the frozen trees.

In a medium sized ice platform that stood inside a now frozen lake was the so called 'dust-creature', by the time they saw it the temperature of the place lowered even more, it was so cold that any breath could be seen in the air. In the very moment they past the frozen trees the creature looked at them, but by now it wasn't a dust figure anymore, in the time being it obtained a kind of ice-armored skeleton with a cold glass that was now containing the dust, it now looked like a tall creature that at least was 1.60 meters of tall, it had sharpened ice claws in his hands, and his head looked like a gargoyle's, it had a sharp mouth full with dark blue colored ice fangs, his eyes now had a cold yellowish color but they didn't had pupils; all this things accompanied with the cold breathe that appeared every time the thing breathe made it look more sinister than ever.

The tension was so intense that you could actually touch it, the group stared at the creature silently for a long period of time, they didn't move nor talked, they just stared at each other, after the long silence it was the creature who broke it "Well, well, well look what the frost got me, a gum woman, a horse freak, a rubber dog, and a hero wannabe" said the creature as he passed his eyes at the group of people who felt their blood boiling with anger at the creature's words, however his eyes stopped as he looked at Simon and Joshua, giving them an evil grim with a sinister smile "Oh my, isn't it Joshua and Simon? It's been eons since I last saw you Joshua, I see that you still like to play being a hero don't you?" Joshua said nothing as he continued to stare the creature putting his hands at the edge of his sword, although he wanted to slice the creature in miniscule parts, he decided to wait, he decided to give that honor to Simon "and Simon" continued the creature as his eyes started to show a reddish glow "it's been a while since I saw you in that form, I still remember those good old times in England, specially that big scare we gave to your fiancé, Betty wasn't it?" "Don't you dare say her name you bastard!" yelled Simon at the creature feeling the rage almost possessing his body, Joshua and Finn had to grab him until he calmed down, he was still hurt about the loss of Betty, and the last thing he wanted was for the causer of his pain to practically rub it on his face "now now Simon, It's obviously that you didn't came just to say hi right?" he said as he sharpened his claws and his fangs as if he was ready and willing to start a massacre "For the first time I agree with you" was the last thing that was heard coming from Simon's mouth as he Finn, Jake and Joshua ran against the Crown's Will.

A/N: CLI-CLI-CLI-CLIFF HANGER! Sorry for that guys, but my brain was literally dry and that was the better (and saner for me) way to finish the chapter, but don't worry the battle will come in the next chapter so until then :P