Cheyenne Prybylinski
Fan Fiction: Adventure Time with Fionna and Cake 7
I am sooooo sry this took so long. Just wanted to say thanks to JennaHazADHD and arashiwarrior and all the others that have reviewed so far (loved ur comment London britt.) And so, without further ado, ladies and gents, chapter 6! Read on…
Chapter 6
Fionna held her breath as she heard the trap door open and someone pull themself up into the room. She pressed herself up against the back of Marshall Lee's closet, taking great care not to disturb the broom and pan leaning up against the wall.
Footsteps resonated across the room as the person slowly walked across the carpeted floor. Fionna silently leaned forward and snuck a peek out of the shutter doors of the closet. She gasped as Prince Gumballs head came into view.
He was frowning slightly, with his hands on his hips. His suit was ruffled and one of his puffy sleeve tops looked a little deflated. Fionna would ask Marshall Lee what happened after they avoided the biggest bust of their lives.
All of a sudden Gumball's head snapped towards the closet. Fionna froze, scared that if she even moved a muscle, he would know in an instance she really was there. He took a couple of steps toward the closed shuttered door, but then seemed to change his mind.
He went around the room picking up things, and looking under others. Marshall Lee floated up into the room, but stayed near the trap door. He glanced around the room, looking surprised. When he looked over at the closet, he did a double take. Then he looked directly at Fionna, and smiled.
She smiled too and blushed a little. Nothing escaped his eyes, especially not her. They shared a silent message between each other before severing the connection. The plan: wait for Gumball to finish inspection, and then quickly get her home.
Fionna turned her attention back to the silent Gumball. His eyebrows had come together to form one long monobrow. His usually plush and relaxed face was struggling between an angry expression, and a freak out one.
Finally turning in a complete circle, Gumball let out a grumble before facing the smug looking vampire. "I could have sworn she was here," he said looking unhappy. Fionna heard Marshall Lee let out a breath neither of them seemed to realize he was holding.
Quickly regaining his smirk, Marshall Lee floated up and crossed his legs in midair. "Told ya, now get out of my house Gumwad." He waved his hand towards the trap door. Prince Gumball lowered his head, shot one last glare at Marshall Lee, and then continued to walk back across the room.
But just before he reached the hole in the floor, Fionna felt a tickle in the back of her throat. Oh no! Not now, anything but now! Gotta hold it in, gotta hold it in! Fionna covered her mouth with both of her hands, struggling to hold in the sound that was trying to escape her.
But sometimes the universe just doesn't want you to win.
As Gumball opened the trap door to leave, Fionna coughed. Marshall Lee's smirk disappeared, and he dropped a little from his levitation. After recovering from his mishap, he started to cough like crazy, pounding his chest with his fist. "Stupid allergies, pollen always gets in here this time of year."
Prince Gumball stopped in his decline, and raked his eyes across Marshall Lee, a look in them that Fionna knew all too well. The wheels were turning in that skull of his, and she knew what he would do next.
Fionna watched in horror as he climbed back up the one step he had gone down, and pushed a slightly freaking out Marshall Lee aside. As Marshall Lee kept babbling on about his allergies and how Gumball was supposed to be leaving, Gumball advanced toward the closet.
Fionna was sure he could see her now through the permeable shutters. Her mind raced as she tried to figure out what to do. There was nowhere else to go, nothing left to do.
And as Prince Gumball grabbed the handle of the door, Fionna wished with all her might that she could be as invisible as coat in a closet.
Marshall Lee watched in dismay as the pink prince opened the closet door. He shut his eyes, and face palmed himself. Why did she have to cough! We were almost in the clear. So close…
He peeked open an eye expecting that by now Barnaby had grabbed Fionna and was pulling her out of her hiding place. But to his extreme surprise, all he did was stare into the closet space with a sour expression.
Marshall Lee smiled when he leaned at an angle to see over the Prince's shoulder. There was no one in the closet. That's my girl, he thought proudly. Somehow she had eluded being caught.
Gumball turned and swiftly walked back to the trap door, and without so much as a backwards glace was down the ladder and out the front door before Marshall Lee could come up with a smart remark.
He floated over to his window and watched as the gumwad walked stiffly out of the cave. He chuckled and floated back to the open closet. "Fionna," he said still laughing, "you should have seen his face! Too funny."
There was a laugh from inside the closet. "Yeah, I saw." Marshall Lee inspected the inside of the small room. "Where in Glob's name are you?" he asked, feeling weird talking to air. So that's what it feels like, Marshall thought to himself after remembering moments of him talking to Fionna while invisible.
All of a sudden, the big brown coat in the back sprouted legs and a head. Fionna looked at Marshall Lee, a pleased smile on her face. "Even fooled you," she said undoing the buttons and setting herself free.
She ran into Marshall Lee's arms and they kissed. "That was great acting," she said when they pulled apart. Marshall Lee nodded "But the show's not over yet, we still need to get you home, just in case Gumwad checks there again."
Fionna frowned a little. She didn't want to leave, but Marshall was right. Sighing she planted a kiss on his cheek before agreeing. The whole way to the Tree Fort was spent talking about when they would be able to see each other again.
"No, not tomorrow," Marshall Lee said after Fionna's suggestion, "It would be too soon. Besides, Gummy-puss will be watching us pretty close for the next few days." Fionna pouted over the separation time.
Now that she had come clean about her feelings for Marshall, she didn't want to be apart from him any more than Cake wanted to be apart from Lord M. She could actually understand now why Cake spent so much time with him.
Marshall Lee was just as frustrated as her. He wanted to spend time with his new girlfriend, not avoid each other just to spare the feelings of some other guy! He smiled. He had just called Fionna his girlfriend, and somehow he felt it was universally correct.
She blushed when he told her this, and both exchanged a small kiss, in which Fionna ended up screaming for him to concentrate on flying when they started to fall out of the sky. He quickly escalated, laughing a little for his brake in concentration.
After talking it over, the duo decided to meet under the weeping willow at the edge of the Grasslands three days from then. The Tree House came into view. "At sunset" Fionna said excitedly as Marshall Lee landed right outside of the door.
He laughed, "Ok, at sunset. See you there, and try not to be late." He set her down on the grass. She moved a little closer to him, closing the gap between them. "Wouldn't miss it for the world" she whispered and kissed him.
He wrapped his arms around her waist, and both were so occupied with each other that they hadn't realized Cakes appearance until she broke the night silence. "Ehh-Hmmm," she said clearing her throat.
Marshall Lee and Fionna jumped, and when they realized Cake was standing in the door way, they both blushed. Marshall Lee rubbed the back of his head awkwardly, "Hey fur ball, didn't know you was up."
Cake glared slightly at him, but somehow kept herself from clawing his face off, "Hello to you too Marshall." She swished her tail back and forth. Fionna slowly walked to the door. "Well, see you later Marshall…"
Marshall Lee was about to say the regular, bye bye Fi, when he decided to do something a little more extreme. Rushing forward, and making sure it was right in front of Cake, he swept Fionna off her feet and kissed her in midair.
She giggled when he nipped her lip a bit, and held onto him until he put her back on the ground. Looking over, Marshall Lee almost rolled when he saw Cakes face. It was a mixture of fury and surprise.
Fionna took one look at her and laughed a little. "Oh Cake, shut your mouth. You're going to catch a fly if you keep it open for too long." Cake looked from Marshall to Fionna before shrugging and crossing her arms.
"Can't do nothin' about this can I?" she asked looking ticked.
"Nope," Marshall Lee and Fionna said together, popping the 'p'. Cake sighed, "Thought so." She retreated back into the house, waving for Fionna to follow. She did, but only after high fiving Marshall Lee.
We might be dating, she had thought to herself, but we are still the same friends we used to be. She waved goodbye as he disappeared into the night, and walked inside before the chilly night air could make her any colder.
Fionna walked straight to her room, and before anything, she took a shower. It made her kind of sad to wash his scent off of her, but how else was she going to get clean? After washing out the suds from her hair, she wrapped herself in a fresh towel.
When she walked out of the bathroom, she found a clean pair of her pajamas lying on her bed. "Thanks Cake!" she yelled down the ladder. "You're welcome honey!" she heard in reply.
Dressed in her warm and comfortable red footy pajamas, Fionna crawled into her sleeping bag and pulled the draw string so that only her face showed. After wiggle worming herself into a comfortable position, she awaited sleep.
But instead she laid away for hours on into morning. Thinking it over, she realized that the sleep she had had at Marshall's was probably going to jack up her internal clock and biz. When Fionna finally found sleep, Cake jumped on her bed and woke her up.
"Oh Fionna honey! I've made breakfast, come on down and eat." Fionna cracked an eye open and looked at her sisters smiling face. "Wha' time is it?" she asked drowsily. Cake looked at her, smiling as if she knew how Fionna felt.
"About 9 o'clockish. You had better not oversleep, you'll mess up your internal clock, which will mess up your…"
"…Sleeping, I know." Fionna finished for her. Sitting up, and wiggling out of her cocoon, Fionna stretched. Getting dressed in her usual skirt, shirt, and thigh high stockings she hurried down the latter.
Cake was at the stove, flipping two pans at once, in which were pancakes. Expertly, she threw both onto a huge stack of them at the center of the table, along with the condiments of butter and syrup.
Fionna opened the cabinet, retrieved two glasses, and then got the milk out of the refrigerator. Both of them sat down at the same time. Cake slapped the stack, and three pancakes fell onto Fionna's plate.
Fionna, clapped, and then slapped the stack herself, making nine pancake fall on Cake's plate. "Perfect," Cake said giving her a thumbs up. Fionna did a little bow, "Thank you." It was a normal morning in the tree fort.
The two dug into their breakfast, almost eating all of the pancakes. Eventually Fionna pushed away from the table. "Uh, can't eat another bite," she said patting her stomach and leaning her chair up on its two hind legs. But Cake continued on.
"So," she said after swallowing down pancake with milk, "You were gone all day, and almost all night." She raised an eyebrow, "What did you two do?" Fionna blushed a little, and smiled at the memory.
Cake didn't take this as a good sign. "Girl, don't you tell me you went up and did tier 13?" she pointed her fork at Fionna as if daring her to say she did. Fionna, on the other hand, was so surprised at this assumption that she fell back in her chair and landed with a crash on the wooden floor.
"What?! No, nonono, you know me better than that. I mean, we were going to…"
Cake frowned and glared at her sister, her tail as pointy and fluffed as a Christmas tree. Fionna hurried on before Cake could say anything.
"…but I couldn't. I didn't feel like it was the right time, ya know? I mean, one day, yeah, but not now." Fionna blushed hard as she admitted to almost doing it with Marshall Lee.
Cake slumped back into her chair and let out a sigh of relief. "Whoooo, for a second there I thought you two had, wait, what do you mean one day?" She said crossing her arms and looking at Fionna slightly surprised.
Fionna frowned a little. Standing, she picked the chair up and slid it back underneath the table. "Cake, don't act so surprised. I mean, I know what you do when you go over to Lord M's house. I'm not stupid." She said crossing her arms, looking please with herself.
Cake shrank a little, and didn't say anything else. Fionna nodded her head, and then remembered a question she had wanted to ask Cake. "Hey, did PB come by yesterday when I was over at Marshall's?"
Cake was still sulking a little about her and LM's cover being blown, but perked up when Fionna asked the question. "Yeah, a few hours before you and Marshall Lee showed up. Why?" Fionna nodded her head, so he wasn't lying about coming over here to check on me.
She cast Cake a worried look, "Because he came over to Marshall's house when he found out I wasn't here. You're terrible with keeping secrets." Fionna said when she remembered it was Cake that had told him where she was in the first place.
Cake smiled and shrugged her shoulders, "What can I say? He had catnip." She went all serious, "I didn't know he was going to go over there, but what's the harm in that?" Fionna shook her head, and told Cake everything that had happened the night before.
By the end of it, Cake stood there looking quite shocked. "What was that gum-for-brains Prince think he was doing?! He doesn't own you, and he threatened Marshall?" Cake thought it over.
"Well, he couldn't really threaten him, Marshall is half demon. But banishing him is uncalled for, even if I don't like him." Cake started walking to the door, "I'm going to go have a talk with Prince Gumball…"
Fionna grabbed Cake and held her back. "No, you can't! He still doesn't know that I was there. But, I will have to tell him that I'm with Marshall Lee now." She thought it over, but decided that now was not the right time to approach the Prince. After her and Marshall had talked it over, then she would go to him and explain.
Cake was grumbling about what trouble boys were, and how she was going to have a word with Marshall next time they met. Fionna looked down at the feline, and smiled. "Well, I can't go to the Candy Kingdom, and I can't go to Marshall's for a while. How about an adventure?"
Cakes ears pricked up when she heard the word adventure. She turned to Fionna and smiled. "Yeah, that sounds awesome. Where we goin'?"
Fionna grinned, "How about a race to the top of Mount. Doorcrag, then let's see who can steal the Giants big money first." Cake jumped up and clapped her hands, "Fionna, that's the best idea you've had all day. On your mark, get set, go!"
Cake stretched to the door, and pulling it open, sling shotted herself out of the Tree House.
"Hey, wait up! No using your powers, that's not fair!" Fionna laughed as she ran out the door after Cake, backpack in tow. The two soon disappeared over the horizon, a human and a cat, racing up a mountain to steal a Giant's big money.
Hope you liked it, and sorry bout da bad ending. Couldn't think of anything else to write Again, I am soooo sorry it took so long to update. Had a little 'no drive' streak, but it's all gud now. Plz review, and give me some constructive criticism, I needs it to makes it better. Thanks again to all those who have commented thus far, and plz keep reviews coming. Cheyenne iz out, peace!