Neko lay there in that candy cell. He didn't know why he didn't just go. Talking with this stupid vampire chick was starting to annoy him. This called for a well, perfectly thought out excuse why she should leave. Only the most intellegent plan and perfectly said phrase. He would settle for no less.
"Why don't ya piss off. Ima take a nap now."
He turned over, facing the wall. He prefered that she be gone when he left. He would. He'd go back to the river and maybe even meet up with the gang. God, they were the only few he trusted. Weird. He thought about teasing Illucius about his stupid Ham-axe thing. And maybe mess with Violet a little. He closed his eyes and shook his head. An image of a blonde girl falling into a strange red liquid popped into his head. He was reaching to catch her, but was being held back by some unseen force. She fell into the crack on the floor, time slowing down. He saw every tear she shed in the thirty foot drop. Her hair was stained in mud, yet she was so beautiful, no matter her messiness. He saw her head dip and her hand sink into the bloodlike river. He yelled at the top of his lungs, screaming her name. Kicking off the arms holding him he lunged for her, but was caught by someone. He shed a single tear. But in the spot she had fallen, the river bubbled and hissed. Steam rolled off as a hand rose out.
He felt a chill and was pulled out of the memory. He turned just in time to see the vamp leave. Perfect. He didn't have much to do. He sat and waited, pulling a pair of custom headphones out of a pocket far too small to fit them. He loved space distortion. He was able to store things in a seperate dimension, just for him. He could pull these out of "thin air" even though he was just making matter form the object again. He couldn't store too much though. Not a truck or something. Small things. Maybe even as big as a person. That was about it. He smiled at himself, happy he had an explanation. He had many "supernaturaul abilities. Some he still were discovering and mastering. The perks of being mostly daemon. But he still didn't believe in magic. He'd been roaming the universe for quite a long time, and seen many things. But he believed there was an explanation to everything. Its just he didn't know them all yet. But he knew some things. Like how his body was capable of making things "disappear and reappear". He put on the headphones, playing music he made just a couple weeks ago. Listening to music was a must for him. He needed to dissasociate sometimes, forget all the stuff he saw. Music helped him do that.
He figuired after what felt like quite a while of waiting it was time to go. It looked like it was almost dawn. He kicked the bars, snapping them like twigs. He walked out with the music pounding his ears. Some more candy people rushed at him. They looked like yellow popsicles. They had spears, so they must be the guards. He ran at the wall and jumped onto it, digging his claws into the candy wall to hold himslef up. He leapt off, and landed behind the guards. He ran towards the way he came, ascending the stairs, passing through endless corridors and rooms. He finally made it outside after trashing several places in the castle, spreading fires accidentally. Oh well, that's what firemen are for, right? He tensed, crouching down to get as much air as he could, and jumped as far as his legs would allow. He got a good ten twenty feet, sticking the landing on a house roof. Arrows wizzed by his head. He grabbed one that was a hair away from his face. He bit a piece off.
"Mint, I love it. Goodbye Candy peeps! Had a great time."
Looking around, he saw he had caused much more damage than he had intended. Whatever. He jumped the huge gingerbread wall, relizing too late there was a forty foot drop. He landed hard on his left foot and heard a snap. He bit back a scream, and pulled up his pant leg. The bone was sticking out. One of the cons of being part human. He grabbed his ankle, close his eyes, and snapped the bone back into place. He yelped, as this hurt quite a bit more. He felt it healing now though, but would have to deal with the new stain on his only pair of socks. Looking at it again, he saw the skin scab and the scab shrink and fall off, in a maatter of seconds. He limped over into the woods, and in minutes was running once again.
This had been an eventful couple of days. He didn't know how long he was running, it felt like hourse. Eventually the ground was covered in ice and he heard the soft crunching of snow between his feet. Huge mountains of ice now stood in front of him. He figuired this large snowed over field was fine. He walked a a bit farther, giving some space between him and the woods. He knelt down, and drew a large circle in the snow. He surrounded it in small drawn symbols of a language very few know. Luckily he was one of those few. He cut his finger a bit with one of his nails, and let a couple drops of blood hit the centre of the circle. From the blood a shadow appeared. It rose off the ground forming a large circle, and suddenly it formed depth into itself. He threw a stick in to make sure the portal was working. Now he just had to wait for the guys to open the portal from the other side. He yelled in.
"Jeremy, I'm here. Open the portal."
No response.
"C'mon man don't screw around. Illucius? Guys open up haha. I'm kinda in some shit here."
Still nothing happened. He stared into the portal for a couple minutes, his grin slowly turning into a frown. The portal began to close. He started yelling, and every inch smaller the portal closed the louder he yelled.
"Okay guys this is not funny. Open the damn portal already, I don't want to get stuck here. OPEN THE FUCKING PORTAL. Damn it I know you're there!"
The portal was now barely large enough to even squeeze through. And right before it closed, a familiar group of faces appeared.
"Guys open the portal."
"No. You're done."
"The hell you mean, Jeremy?"
"You're staying there. We ain't dealing with you. You're pathetic. A half Daemon. And you thought we would stick with YOU? Ha. Goodbye Neko. Hope the destruction gets you."
"WAIT NO! FUCKING OPEN YOU LITTLE-"
The portal was gone. The few people he had trusted just abandoned him. He sunk to his knees. He was stuck here in some strange world. He had no way to even get back home. Not way to get revenge. He just lost acess to everything he cared about in a matter of seconds. He had nothing...nothing but rage now. He wanted to rip apart everything alive. He hated life. He felt in his pocket for her neckalace. The neckalace Violet gave him before she had been corrupted. It was the only thing that he had now. Except...except...he felt his pockets. He patted himself down. He was just waving his arms around now looking for it. And he snapped.
Neko began to laugh. Laughing at the stupid world he was in. Laughing because this was a joke. It had to be. But it wasn't. And now he was crazy. He laughed at himself for being stupid enough to let this happen.
"Tsk tsk tsk Neko, ya shouldn't av let that happen. Now ya stuck here alone. Ya stuck. Ah well haha. Maybe you should take this out on something. Yeah. I think ima kill something. But there's noone here. Well I could just..."
His laugh slowely turned into a scream. He screamed in rage. He needed to destroy, so he did what felt natural. He slammed the ground, cracking it open and summoned the souls. All the souls of the enemies he had killed. He forced them to come back. He saw them rise out of the ground. He didn't know he could do that, but whatever. It was convenant. He stood up smiling.
"Hey bros. Wanna die?"
He killed them all. He slashed at everything that moved. He wanted to make sure they were destoryed. He smashed, kicked, slashed, bit, anything to kill them. And when they were all gone he sunk back to his knees. He wasn't angry anymore. But he felt nothing. He had nothing. Why bother. He zoned out. He wasn't really there now. Just sitting and thinking about how much he hated everyone. There was noone good in exsitence. He was alone. And he would always be. And suddenly he heard a faint voice ask him who he was. He didn't know who it was, but he felt so soothed by it. But he didn't know the answer anymore. He was a stranger to himself now.
"Just a stranger."
And after that he didn't recall much. He was in a sort of dream state. He just kept replaying everything in his life over and over, ignoring everything around him. He didn't care what happened to him now. He could die for all he cared. He saw the death he caused, the pain he felt and most of all what had sent him into this state of mind. And suddenly, he woke up. Everything around him was yellow. He tried to move but found he couldn't even blink. He was encased in some sort of rock. Or crystal. He had to get out. He pushed with all his strenght. He couldn't even speak. But he felt his arm budge. He struggled for a long time. All he saw was a clock and the stone floor. Everything else was too yellow too make out. And suddenly throughout the Candy Castle a scream was heard. Everyone went beserk, as a strange army had already started invading. And now there was this, terrifying yell. And suddenly a loud crack was heard throught the halls.
Neko fealt stiff. He didn't know how long he'd been in there, or how he got in. He suddenly felt the rage at Illucius and Jeremy and all of them. But it was quickly forgotten. Looking at the clock he relized it took him a half hour to break out of that strange prison. He climbed the stairs, feeling like he weighed nothing. Walking through the halls he didn't even bother to avoid getting spotted. He saw the guards standing at the walls all trembling in fear of him. Strange, but he wasn't going to complain. He walked right out of the castle, and looking to the west, he saw what had woken him up. The destruction had come for him. But this time, he was pissed. Too pissed to run. He usually would skip worlds to avoid them, but he didn't bother this time. Now he couldn't. He broke off into a sprint, approaching the enlargening shadow in the sky.
When he arrived at the beach the shadow was directly above, he was amazed at how large this portal was. It must've taken a god to open this. What set him in motion was the sight of the vamp and her friends getting shot at. He was next to them in seconds. Finn looked at him and drew his sword.
"This is your fault. How did you get out of the amber prison? You called this army on us didn't you?"
"No. She's been shot. I can help. If I don't, her soul will fade into nothingness and she will be gone forever."
"How do I know you won't kill her? All you've done in the time I've seen you is atrack us and set the Candy Kingdom on fire! Glob it, she saw you making something EXACTLY like that thing!"
Finn pointed at the obvious portal in the sky, now depositing dozens of soldiers. Neko looked Marceline. The stone arrow stuck in her shoulder was cursed marble. It was spreading over her like some kind of shell. She didn't have much time left. Neko leaned down, to the objection of an angry Finn, and grabbed the arrow. He felt the arrow sread over his hand. The stone spreading on marceline cracked. He pulled the chunks of rock off her chest. The stone spread over his hand and suddenly cracked and fell off. He crushed it uncer his foot. Marceline coughed and her eyes fluttered open momentarily. She was breathing. Finn looked solemnly at her and then at Neko.
"Thank you."
"No problem. Now. Get out of here if you want to live. Dog, get the horse and Marcy to safety. Now"
"I'm not leaving."
"Yes you are, you're wife is hurt. I imagine she'd like to wake up in the arms of her husband."
"If I go there's a chance these guys will make sure there's noone waking up to anyone."
"Not if I have something to say about it."
"Sorry man, but I'm fighting, whether you help or not."
With that Finn brought out his sword and smirked at Neko. Neko brought out a sword using his little 'trick'. Finn nodded at Neko and they charged into the mass of enemies.