"Finn, how do you move so fast?"
Finn had just finished setting Hambo up for the fire when Marceline asked him. Both Finn and Jake's heads shot up, though Jake's expression was worried, while Finn's expression was a bit sheepish.
"Well," the blonde started "I don't actually know how it happened, but I remember when I figured it out. I was back when I and Jake were still on the run…"
Finn and Jake stepped out of the convenient store they'd just looted, especially excited about the amount of food they were able to stuff inside of Jake's backpack, the rest was to be carried by hand back to their makeshift base.
The boys stepped into the woods, going north toward their home. When they started to get close, though, they heard rustling, and quiet sloshing noises, as if something was stuck in mud. Jake put down his pack, shifting into a weasel before he walked through the trees, into the clearing.
Not a minute later, he ran back out in his human form, yelling at Finn to run. But the blue eyed boy was frozen in place in fear when he saw what came- crawled out of the trees. It was a giant, black widow monster, fangs bared. He drew his sword ready to fight, but he kept hearing a voice in his head, along with Jake telling him 'Don't fight, run. Run boy, and you will live. Run. RUN.'
So he did, he re-sheathed his sword, at the same time turning on his heel and sprinting away as fast as he could carry himself. He heard the spider drop from the tree and take pursuit behind him, and he heard the voice again, this time saying 'Faster. Don't think, feel, and fun faster'.
In no time flat he was surpassing Jake, and no sooner, sounds. He hadn't realized he was running faster than the speed of sound until he slowed down for Jake to catch up, and created a sonic boom.
"… After that, I and Jake kept training, and we got it under control so that I didn't break the sound barrier every time I took a jog." He chuckled to himself.
Marceline looked a bit dumbfounded for a couple of minutes, just staring at him, but the =n she just shook her head, laying down and going to sleep.
They started out early the next day, the boys waking up to the smell of food cooking, opening their eyes to see a wild boar slow roasting over the fire, though Marceline was nowhere to be found. The boys knew she was in no danger though, so they happily took their own separate rations of the cooked animal, after letting Aithne take her portion first, and dug in.
Marceline, on the other hand, was scouting through the woods, looking for leftover tools or potions someone left behind. She'd walked for 3 hours, so far only finding a flame enchanted dagger and a longbow with seventeen arrows, before she found a trail of some floral scented blue substance.
She continued following it until she heard a shriek in the direction it led in. She sprinted towards the sound, readying her axe to destroy whatever was hurting somebody. She came back onto the original dirt road to find a wolf dragging someone away. She dropped he axe and ran straight to it, kicking it in the muzzle so hard that its fangs ran through its skull, straight into its brain.
It collapsed onto the ground, disintegrating into ash and being blown away in the wind. She walked to the person and saw that it was a female with strange bright pink hair, and no serious wounds that she could see. She touched the side of her neck, and felt warmth and a steady pulse.
"She's kinda cute." She sighed. Blushing, after realizing exactly what she had just said, she gently picked the girl back up and began carrying her back towards the camp.
Everyone immediately stopped eating when they saw Marceline walk through the trees, with what seemed to be a girl in her arms, completely unconscious. The boys were both amazed by her beauty, and by Marceline's care and grace, though Aithne just stood up, creating an area to place the girl down.
Marceline walked over, gently placing the girl down and walking back over to the fire, grabbing an arm off of the boar and sitting down, wordlessly eating.
"So um… You found a girl. Where from, exactly?"
Marceline swallowed and mumbled "Found her unconscious, bein' dragged by a wolf. I killed it, decided not to leave her there, and brought her here."
But halfway through Marceline's explanation, the girl began to stir. She woke in a clearing, bag still draped around her shoulder, but she was surrounded by four people she had never seen before. Two boys and two girls she assessed. O her right, she found a dagger lying on the ground, and when she knew that no one could see her, she snatched it from the ground, pointing it toward the dark skinned boy in front of her.
All four of them jumped up, and the pale skinned girl slowly walked towards her, about to try to take the dagger from her grasp. When the girl got close she lashed out twice, the first time missing, but the second time scratching her cheek, deep enough to bleed, but not enough to seriously damage her. A warning shot that scratch was.
Marceline reached up to her face, wiping the blood away and laughing, "Wow, okay there sweet-cheeks, ill know not to get on your bad side from now on. Sorry if you thought I was trying to invade your space, I was just trying to stop you from hurting anyone with that," she pointed at the dagger "Which is mine by the way."
The girl flipped the dagger in her hand, giving it to Marceline, who put it in its respective sheath.
"Thank you. Now, I'm Marceline. That's Finn, Jake, and Aithne." She introduced, pointing out their respective person. "What's your name?"
"Bonnibel." She replied.
A.N- I told you i'd upload it on monday :3
So i know it seems to be moving fast, but its going to slow down like right now and everybody's gonna start getting better aquainted and start having flashbacks more often so that should make the story a lot easier to keep up with for you guys.
See you next chapter x)
-drago
