The three of them sat down to a breakfast of red pancakes, eggs, and orange juice.
"You seriously need to stock up your fridge and pantry Marshall." Cake told him.
"Well, it has only been me living here for the past 1000 or so years." Marshall Lee replied.
"Don't get sassy with me boy." Cake snapped back as Marshall Lee laughed.
"I'm going to take a shower." Marshall Lee told them as he stood up.
"What about your food?" Fionna asked him.
"I'm actually not that hungry." Marshall Lee replied as he went to his room.
"I'm going to go check on him." Fionna told Cake.
Before Cake could even respond Fionna jumped out of chair and ran to Marshall bedroom. As she got to his door she collided with him and they both went down. When Fionna noticed that all Marshall Lee had on was a towel.
"What's wrong Marshall, you usually wolf down Cake's cooking." Fionna told him.
"Like I said I'm just not hungry." Marshall Lee replied.
"There's something more to it." Fionna replied as they got up. "I know there is."
"No, there isn't." Marshall Lee replied. "Why are you following me into the bathroom?"
Fionna finally noticed where they were and she covered her face as it got bright red.
"Not again." Fionna moaned, horrified.
"I've known you've seen me naked already." Marshall Lee replied.
Fionna looked up at him in surprise.
"What? You knew?" Fionna asked him.
"Of course I do. I wouldn't take an F.B.I. agent to figure it out." Marshall Lee replied.
"F.B.I?" Fionna asked him.
"Oh yeah sorry, that's from way back when." Marshall Lee told her. "It stands for Federal Bureau of Investigation."
"Oh, okay… I better get back to the table before Cake comes looking for me." Fionna replied.
Before she left Marshall kissed her cheek and when she closed the door Marshall stepped into the shower.
"What's up with Mr. Secretive?" Cake asked her
"Nothing that he is willing to share." Fionna replied as she began to mess with her food.
"Give him time, he will tell us when he's good and ready." Cake replied.
Fionna only nodded and when they were done with their breakfast Cake got up and went to the door.
"I'll be back; tell Marshall not to worry about me too much." Cake told her.
"Didn't he say we should all stay in one place so that they don't have a chance of using one of us as bait?" Fionna asked her.
"There isn't anything in his fridge for lunch." Cake replied before exiting the house.
Fionna paced around the kitchen for awhile before she saw Marshall Lee come floating out of the bathroom.
"Where's Cake?" Marshall Lee asked her.
"She went to the tree house to get some food for lunch." Fionna replied.
"Listen, there is something I need to talk to you about but Cake would've killed me if I had done so when she was here." Marshall Lee told her.
"Which is?" Fionna asked him.
"Physically I want you, but mentally I know that can't truly happen without you dying, but my mind and body are syncing up for the worst." Marshall Lee replied. "I keep on telling myself that it will get you killed, but it gets harder every time."
"I know you would never do anything to hurt me Marshall I trust you." Fionna told him.
"Yeah I know, but I don't trust myself; not anymore." Marshall Lee replied.
"Sure, you're the offspring of a demon but you are also part human, and you don't start remembering that I will whack you upside the head." Fionna told him.
"Fine, sheesh, no need to get violent." Marshall replied.
"No, killing you would be violent, whacking you is for your reassurance." Fionna replied.
"My reassurance, seriously?" Marshall asked her.
Fionna kissed his cheek and guided him to the living room. They sat down on the couch and Fionna looked at him intently.
"I know that you know more about the croak dreams then you are letting on." Fionna told him. "Spill it."
"No. You have already learned more than the Owl wanted you to know." Marshall Lee replied.
"Forget the owl." Fionna told him. "Just tell me."
"I can't, I want to; but I can't." Marshall Lee replied.
"Let me guess, the Owl said you couldn't tell me?" Fionna asked him.
"No, Death." Marshall Lee
"Why are you talking to Death, you better not be trying to persuade him to take your life over mine." Fionna told him.
"No, he wouldn't even listen to me on the subject. He said, that on its natural course of events one of us will have to suffer without it being a sacrifice made out of love." Marshall Lee told her.
Marshall tried to hug her but she just pushed him away.
"So one way or another one or both of us will die, and there is absolutely no way to prevent it?" Fionna asked him.
"I've been trying to find a way, but so far no luck." Marshall Lee replied.
Fionna finally let him hug her but she didn't feel the same warmth that she always felt when they hug she just felt a never ending coldness that spread through her body.
"Fionna are you okay?" Marshall asked her.
"I don't know Marshall." Fionna replied. "For once in my entire life I feel no hope what so ever."
"Don't give up just yet, we are not done just yet." Marshall told her sternly. "I have never gotten angry at you but is the last straw. If you give up now I will never forgive myself Fionna."
Fionna looked at him as he continued.
"I wouldn't be able to forgive myself because I promised Cake that I would never let you lose hope or the will to live, so you better perk up or I swear, I'll…I'll…" Marshall ended it right there for a second before putting his head in his hands. "I don't know what I'd do."
Suddenly he let go of Fionna, stood up, and kicked the table. It flew into the wall and shattered into a million pieces.
"God damn you Death. You can rot in hell before I let you get your hands on Fionna I swear on my great great grandfather that I will protect her as long as you are out there." Marshall Lee yelled. "You will have to go through me to get to her.
Fionna just looked at Marshall as he continued to rant on and on, and when he sat down he looked at her.
"What?" He asked her.
"I've never heard those words before, I mean Cake told me about how they were used in a fictional world called Earth and she made me swear not to use them." Fionna told him.
"Where do you think your people came from?" Marshall asked her.
"I've never known or cared to asked." Fionna replied.
"Let me tell you Earth isn't a fictional place, but yeah some things have been exaggerated." Marshall told her. "That's what the Land of Aaa was called when billions of humans lived here."
"What?!" Fionna asked him, surprised. "Tell me more about Earth."
"Let see, it was polluted and major corporations were killing of species one by one slowly, but there were people that were trying to save animals, my father was actually part of the animal lovers." Marshall Lee started. "Sure at first when civilization start people didn't care about the environment, but as the world as most humans knew was unknowingly coming to an end they all started to work together to help the world get better."
"This seems depressing." Fionna replied.
"Just wait. My father actually worked with your parents but my mom refuses to tell me anything about them. Your mom wasn't pregnant at the time but that was coming soon, too bad she isn't to see what a wonderful young woman you've come to be." Marshall told her.
"Why are you telling me this anyway?" Fionna asked him.
"I have a feeling that our final battle will be at an older era, your era to be exact." Marshall Lee told her.
(OC's for Earthern Era and on will be accepted just PM me with details)