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Kapitel 7 –Konflikt

Happy Independence Day for everyone in the USA!

I will use my knowledge about MA's for the following war. Really now, that will be so much fun for me! If I begin to think how I could create complete new strategies thanks to the unique abilities of the Candy people, I begin to want to just write, write and write! How I could use Marceline in order to mentaly disturb the enemy while enemies siege the Grass kingdom, how I could feature different kind of Candy people which I saw in the show, oh, the possibilties are endless!

Ah, I don't know if it's respectless, but I want to post a story about slavery today. Should I better wait until tomorrow?

I do not own Adventure Time, Pendleton Ward does. Enjoy – Horius

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The little Peppermint Butler dashes in the direction of the licorice man, but must stop as he sees the shadow of a mace just ahead. Sure enough, a mace smashes on the ground directly in front of him. If the little guy hadn't noticed the shadow of the incoming weapon, he would have been keeping his run, resulting in him being pulverized.

Being pulverized wouldn't kill him technically, but it's very likely that he would be a different person after being once again pressed back together. Solid Candy people can be revived as long as their core is intact, but pressure on the core can change the personality.

The mace suddenly swings just nanometers above the ground toward the butler. Seeing this, the butler does have to smile. It was a grave mistake from his enemy to swing such a heavy weapon directly above the ground.

He jumps above the mace, his well-trained legs allowing him to jump almost double as high as his own size. The mace weights too much, so, the lemon ball can't just change the direction of his swing. Stopping is also impossible for him, since his body-shape makes it hard to keep his balance with such a heavy weapon.

This leaves a huge opening for the butler. Just one problem left for the little guy; where should he attack? His enemy is triple as big as himself, so, he will not be able to jump to his head. Also, his enemy owns a very hard body, which is why Peppermint Butler can't stab his enemy too deep, or he may lose his sabre.

The peppermint guy really wishes now that he would know where the core of the Candy man is. If he would be able to just scratch it, he would have won the fight. But he loses too much time when he further just stands around thinking about his attack; soon the ball will be able to defend.

Desperate, Peppermint Butler slashes at the legs of the lemon ball. He hopes that he will at least be able to further worse the already bad balance of his enemy, when he isn't able to finish the fight in one attack.

His plan successes, his enemy falls down on the ground on his belly. The round body makes the lemon ball instantly roll a bit on the ground, but the mace in his hands stops the movement. The ball promptly tries to stand up without letting go of his weapon, but his heavy body together with the weight of his mace makes this an almost impossible feat.

Before his enemy can stand up again, the peppermint guy sprints towards the weapon arm of his now desperate enemy. He slashes the arm in one fluid movement and connects further slashes towards the face of his opponent. The core of most Candy people are in their head, so, he hopes that he gets a lucky hit.

By now, the assaulter of the queen knows that this is a fight which he can't win. Everyone knows that the size of solid Candy people determines their strength, so, he wonders why he's losing. Angrily, he curses the Licorice man in his mind. 'That damn weasel knew that this guy is dangerous!'

Only thoughts of surviving keep the lemon ball struggling. He knows that he does have a good chance to survive when he flees, since his core isn't in his head as Peppermint Butler seems to belief, but at the point where the heart of a human would be.

Using advantage of his body, the ball begins to roll towards the door. This is a method of fleeing which normally wouldn't work. In the woods would have been too much hindrances, like trees and bushes, in the city would be too many people whom he would crush accidentally, in a house the doors are too slim for his body. But in the castle? There are the doors wide enough so that he can easily roll away.

For a second, he thinks about rolling over the peppermint guy, but decides against it. When he over rolls him, his sabre may hit his core by chance. He heard about crazier things happening, so, he just escapes, knowing, that Peppermint Butler wouldn't be able to stop his roll.

Peppermint Butler stares as the assaulter as he flees. That he actually thought about fleeing surprises the butler, since he didn't think that his enemy is shape enough to understand when he has no chance.

Even when the lemon ball would have tried to over roll him, he just needed to lay himself on the ground. His flat body would have saved him from being crushed. And rolling over the queen would have been his greatest mistake, since he would have just glued himself to her and wouldn't have been able to keep rolling. Only sharp attacks can kill Queen Bubblegum's kind of Candy people.

"Thanks, Peppermint Butler." The sudden voice of his queen surprised the butler. He turns around in order to see his queen and kneels in front of her. "You don't need to thank me, your highness. I just followed my duty."

Bubblegum ignores the statement of her butler. For her, thanking someone was normal. Her 'thanks' isn't a form of showing gratitude; her 'thanks' is more like a way to assure that the helper isn't offended and is ready to help her again.

"How comes that you arrived so early? Was your mission a success," the Candy queen asks, not really interested in her answer. 'Of course it was a success, after all he's my best…' the queen thinks, but is interrupted by the surprising answer of her servant. "No, your highness. Hunson didn't want to sign this kind of contract. But he reassures us that Finn would never attack us."

The queen stares open-mounded at her butler. This was the first time that he wasn't able to fulfill a task. But that wasn't the worst part. "But he just did as you can see. Also, how comes that Hunson made such promises? It isn't like he knows Finn to well."

This is one of the worst situations Peppermint Butler was ever in. He doesn't want to inform his queen about the information's he got from the Evil Lord, but he's bound by his royal promise which all her servants have to give. They all have to promise that they answer their queen truthfully.

"Your majesty, Hunson is one of Finn's greatest fans. He admitted to me that he secretly supported the love of his daughter to the boy," the butler answers while staring at the ground. He prays to Grob, Gob, Glob and Grod that she doesn't ask any more questions, but he knows that it's futile. "How comes that the Evil Lord is a fan of Ooo's greatest hero?" The voice of the queen sounded emotionless. Her servant knows that this only happens when she is about to go in one of her few fits of rage.

The butler knows that his next words will determine everything. He hopes that he can't prevent a war with the Grass kingdom, but his new knowledge makes it almost impossible.

"Before I answer, I want to inform your highness that evil magic doesn't make a being evil." He looks in the eyes of the queen, which seems confused about his weird statement, but nods anyway. "Hunson informed me that Finn does have great potential for evil magic, even more so than the Lich. Actually, he seems to use it unconsciously, which would explain why he can withstand so much physical pressure, like the time he survived a smash from a dragon."

This was just perfect for the queen. She does have a reason to attack the Grass kingdom without looking evil. The citizens of the Grass kingdom are all traitors who betrayed the Candy kingdom and their attack on her just decided their fate. They will all be put either in jail or die in battle. Well, not really die, since she will revive them with a changed personality.

Bonnibel Bubblegum isn't one to be messed with. If someone dares to treat her like a push-over, she will show them just who the push-over is. But she doesn't kill others… permanently. Killing others isn't her style. That would have been just a waste of resources.

Defeating the few hundreds Candy people who follow Finn isn't a real problem. The Candy kingdom still possesses over twenty-thousand people. And, she owns enough sugar to tenfold their numbers.

After all, Candy people can multiple in two ways. The first is normal birth, which Bubblegum likes more since she doesn't have to use her sugar savings and loves romantic. But she can also produce Candy people in a factory.

The only bad point about produced Candy people is that they don't own a core, which is why they need organs made of sugar in order to live. Normal Candy people have organs but don't need them to live, so, needing them is a big weakness in battle.

But Finn being talented for evil magic wasn't enough of a reason for a war. If she would go in war with just that, there would be many kingdoms which would gladly help him. Neutral kingdoms like the Wizard kingdom would be at his side since he once saved the Great Magician and other important persons, while almost all evil kingdoms would help him because they think that Bubblegum wants to eradicate all evil.

That would mean that Queen Bubblegum actually is forced to permanently kill others. She hates the idea, even more so since two races are almost bound to help him.

You simply can't forget that he's on very good terms with the Flame Princess, and the Vampire Queen is his new girlfriend. Queen Bubblegum shudders, realizing just how much influence Finn possess. Well, that is natural, after all Finn's just too lovely.

In fact, he's so lovely that she want to spare even his life and to place him besides her again, or above her in a bed, whatever. She would declare to Ooo that she supervises his training in black magic while she makes sure that he uses it for good. This way, she doesn't have to kill the person she truly loves. 'Finn himself will think that I want just the best for him, he's kind of stupid after all,' the queen thinks happily.

"If he would just go would commit a grave mistake, like changing the laws of my kingdom. Something like this would really piss some of my fascists off," mutters the young queen, waiting to be reunited with her lover.

'Oh glob, she's going into a war,' Peppermint Butler realizes, hearing the queen talking to herself. He watched the queen thinking, afraid that she would go in a war. Not because he's afraid that people in the Grass kingdom might be hurt, but because he's afraid for the safety of his Queen.

Peppermint Butler doesn't belittle Finn's abilities in combat like Queen Bubblegum. He knows perfectly well that you need to have good judgment and must be able to think fast in order to fight like he does. The only bad part is that Finn never got a real education, which is why he seems stupid. But as a general, commanding the forces of a kingdom, he could perfectly use his knowledge about combat.

"… These are the laws of the Grass kingdom, my dear citizens. With these laws, for example, the murderer of royalty gets the same punishment as the murderer of a beggar. Know this, for me, every live is just as much worth as any other live. No matter if you're a king, a fisherman, a hero or a salesman; we all have the same worth," screams King Finn from the balcony of his tree fort down to his citizens.

He was az first startled by the amount of people down there. One week ago, they were not many more than two hundred people, but now; they are at least four hundred.

"Did you hear this? I knew that Finn is way better than Queen Bubblegum!" A tall, not important bystander announce what the complete crowd thinks.

"Yeah, how can Queen Bubblegum be a good person with all these laws which allow her to treat others like shit?" Another bystander helps the first one, showing everyone just how evil she is.

"Well, she never does it and other kingdoms have the same laws about royalty…" a third bystander begins, trying to defend their old queen a little. But he feels hundreds of stares of people who are ready to kill in the name of their glorious king. Feeling his live threatened, he continues: "but I totally know what you mean. Such a bitch!"

A fourth smarter bystander decides that he should quietly visit the Ice King for some time. He really doesn't want to be here when the war begins, and at this point, there is no other option then war. Being with the Ice King for some time isn't too bad, right?

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Konflikt means conflict. It's sometimes funny how strongly English and German resemble each other. Well, just in some words, there are parts which are just TOTALLY different. Others wouldn't believe me how many words we have for "the". For these who wonder, 16.

Well, today I want to answer just one review. I can't update Dream Killer myself, since it's a collab. Well, I promise, if I don't have the second chapter until the sixth, I will write it myself.

Please review!

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