Chapter 7: The Ice Fortress
Pagos had just arrived to the fortress of the Ice King and Queen, and was entering the back way, which Finn had told him about, He was still in complete control of Finn's body. The heroic boy was questioning if he should trust this ice prince or not, but it was far too late for him to decide. "So how did you know your sword is here?" Finn asked. The only way they could communicate was through each other's minds, since they were both sharing one at this point, but Pagos was still in control of the whole body.
"It was made with one of my crowns jewels, and I am in control of your mind, i know your memories, your tactics, your skills and so forth, along with mine," he responded with a chuckle while wandering through the dark underground part of the fortress. They arrived to the room Finn had first entered. It was a simple storage room at the back door. Pagos grinned as he walked over to the table and grabbed the sword with the snowflake finger guard. Somehow, it now had the blade on it. It was like now that Pagos was alive again, the blade was back as well. "Great! Now I can take my body back and…" Finn started but was cut off.
"Sorry, what? You agreed to allow me to use your body, and since I have it now it will stay mine, I will rule the kingdoms! And as for you, I'm going to shove you into the back of my mind, literally," Pagos said.
Just then, Finn felt a sharp pain shooting through his body. He let out an echoing scream. He was now in eternal darkness, seeing flashes of his memories appearing and vanishing leaving him, tied up and trapped in an infinite loop of his life's memories. Pagos was laughing while standing there with his sword that had a katana like blade. He was now in complete control as far as he cared. And just like that, Finn was gone, and all that was left is the new ice prince. "Now to deal with the ice fools. I'll give you some revenge to put you at complete peace, you poor hero," he told himself before beginning to walk up the stairs of the fortress, dragging his katana behind him and scraping the ground.
Pagos arrived to the main room of the ice duo. He just grinned as he cut the door handle off and kicked it straight open. "Hey, Ice King and Ice Queen!" he shouted while laughing maniacally. The Ice King was just listening to the Ice Queen brag about how she killed Finn, but they were shocked when they saw Pagos. In confusion, they thought it Finn when really it was Pagos in his body. "You should be dead!" the Ice Queen screeched. She fired a rain of ice sickles, but Pagos swung his sword upwards, making a wall of ice shoot up from the floor and block them. This put a sense of horror and shock at the icy duo's faces.
"Y-you can use ice magic too?! Who are you? What did you do with Finn?" the Ice King panicked, needing to know since he was rather friends with the heroic boy. Pagos gave out a creepy grin. "I took his body, and crushed his mind!" he claimed. He aimed the palm of his hand at them, and his sharp teeth showed before the duo's widened eyes. He fired a huge blast of ice that encased the both of them in a frozen block.
Pagos finished the battle, but he didn't freeze the duo's crown and tiara. He took the tiara from the Ice Queen and the crown from the Ice King, tearing out the jewels in each one and eating them, chomping and crunching them into small pieces. He swallowed them before beginning to laugh, an icy aura surrounding him as he twirled his katana around, making a sheath on his side out of ice. He slid the blade into the sheath. Delight was showing through his cold face. "This kingdom is now mine! I am the ice prince! And this is just the beginning!" he declared while beginning to leave the Ice Fortress.
Meanwhile, Fionna and Bubblegum were running to the tree fort, and Peppermint Butler was right behind them with a medical bag. However, a terrible sight made Fionna feel even worse than before. "W-where'd he go?!" Fionna screamed still worried and having not stayed calm from the situation. Bubblegum could see the puddles which the ice shards left from melting, but also the pool of blood. Soon, they saw something far away. Pagos was approaching them from a hill, but like the ice duo, Fionna and Bubblegum gullibly believed him to be Finn. Fionna quickly threw her arms at him and squeezed him into a hug. "Finn! Are you okay?!" Bubblegum asked while running to him. He looked cold and pale, but he wasn't shivering at all. He had now gained a set of blue skin and white hair.
"Who are you two?" Pagos asked. He didn't need a response, but then he saw Princess Bubblegum's tiara. He entirely focused on it, but he was glad that they had not notice him slip his crown away into his backpack.
"He's lost a lot of blood. It must be causing his brain not to fully function," Bubblegum explained what she thought the problem was. Fionna hadn't broken her hug on him, yet Pagos knew that he was just freezing his own wounds shut, even if the ice wouldn't heal the wounds completely. He had an idea, getting a grin to creep across his face. He pretended to pass out and fell onto the ground. Fionna tried to help him stand up. "Finn!" she shrieked as Pagos groaned in pain. "Let's see what I can do about that injury," Bubblegum said while helping the heroic girl bring him inside. However, unbeknownst to the group, Pagos had melted his own ice blast which were meant to cover his wounds. The girls had to treat him as soon as possible with Peppermint Butler's help.
Finn was sitting in the void of darkness, looking around and sighing in grief. "This is what it's like in the back of my… his mind, huh?" he asked since he was no longer in control of his own body. He had lost all hope on being his normal self again. His body now belonged to Pagos. Finn just sighed lying on the dark floor, and silent weeps soon came out from him, because now there was one less hero in the Land of Ooaa.
End of Chapter 7
