Chapter 8

Marshall-lee's P.O.V.

I followed Fi's scent to the lake that's in the middle of the Ice kingdom. And looked around for her, expecting her to be crying somewhere and sitting on the snow but all I saw was a desolation. I walked to where her sweet scent was strongest and thought for a second. Poor Fionna, I wish I hadn't been an idiot and fallen asleep then I could've been the one to dance with her, to confess to her finally that I have been in love her with since the minute she introduced herself to me. I wanted to protect her, to keep her all to myself and just love her. I stopped thinking for a second and noticed the smell of burnt charcoal in air just barely sticking to the sweet smell of Fionna.
"crap...what did that phsyco do to her!?" I exclaimed and kicked the snow to the side. I bet he took the chance that she was heartbroken to get even closer to her.
"dang, that's not fair!," I said my hopes of comforting her crushed by that giant piece of burning coal. I stomped the ground and rubbed my temples. "well I guess I Better go get her... Who knows what that jerk will do to Fi." I moaned and scratched the back of my head. I started walking and thought about I should comfort her. "I could carry her home and make hot cocoa and we could watch a nice movie!" I said out loud and then realized, "wait that sounds like a date we can't do that because first of all, cake would scratch my face off second of all, Fionna might think I'm a freak and might never wanna go on a real date..." I mumbled to myself.
I walked a little dazed the rest of the way over to the fire kingdom. God...what if she doesn't want to be comforted by me...what if she thinks of flame prince as more suitable... I thought bumming myself out even more. This made me doubt my motives about going and getting Fi but the thing is flame prince's mother's words about how he wasn't mentally stable... That pushed me to keep walking, I wanted to protect my Fi, my adorable bunny, I wanted to be the one she smiled for, the one that her heart beat for, because she was the one that I smiled for, the one my heart wanted. If she was gone... I guess I would join her. No I wouldn't let that happen I would protect her I wouldn't let her leave, never ever would she smile that fake smile again.
Before I knew it I was at the giant burning doors that lead to the thrown room of the fire kingdom. "I gotta stop doing that..." I mumbled to myself as I prepared myself to push open the doors and take Fionna where she actually belongs. Then I remembered what would happen if I walked in there and I really didn't want to burn up. I chanted the spell that I had scared out of some random flambo and once I had completely turned blue I pushed the creaky doors open. No one was there but I heard a familiar voice upstairs.
"it's okay you can cry if you want too," I heard flame prince say soothingly. Damn that was supposed to be me.
"no I'm not sad because I'm with you now, my flame prince," I heard Fionna say in a strained voice.
"I'm very happy you feel that way my darling." I heard him say sweetly.
"god damn it..." I muttered to myself and started slowly ascending stairs to his room. I don't know why but when I heard Fi talk to him like that it felt like my body weighed a million pounds and I just wanted to go home, but I couldn't because something didn't feel right about Fionna's aura. I thought about what I would do when I got up there and the only thing that came to mind was standing there like an idiot and asking what was going on which is, sadly, exactly what I did. I wanted to hurl, Fionna was sitting on Flame Prince's lap looking at a box of things that seemed to be sparkling in the light. Fionna looked up but her eyes were dim and hollow and it looked like she was looking through me. Flame prince stared at me smirking.
"what do you want vampire king?" he demanded in a teasing way.
"I've come to get Fionna," I said quietly "your not right for her..." I muttered looking down at ground and clenching my fists. I really should have just gone home.
"ha! She came with me, go on ask her!" he laughed.
"Fionna?" I asked worriedly. She was looking through me but acting like she was looking at me.
"what do you want? We were talking about an important matter that doesn't involve you." her eyes flashed quickly with pain but then they were hollow again, "we were talking about wedding preparations." I felt my heart stop and everything went blurry, my heart was aching like crazy.
"oh..." I turned and walked out of the fire kingdom.I finally stopped at a forest center to catch my breath and sat down with my head in my hands, my head was spinning and was filled with a flurry of emotions, anger, sadness, confusion, etc. the only reason i ran out of there was because my heart felt like it was going to split in half from sadness, the other half was seeing her like that... What the hell is going on? Why was Fionna with that guy?! What was with that split second of sadness in her eyes? "what's wrong with this picture?" I asked myself sarcastically but then I got serious and thought about what was really wrong with the picture. She suddenly was all out in love with the flame prince and was talking about getting married? My head throbbed when I thought of my Fi with someone else. What the hell is going on and how do I stop it?!

Fionna's P.O.V.
That rosy feeling from earlier? Yeah, it had left along with all my free will. My soul or whatever was chained to my body's neck, in other words cut the chain and my body is literally just a hollow shell. Every time I try to touch my body I get shocked and it's actually really painful. Flame prince was using my body as a puppet and only he could see my soul floating just above my body. Poor Marshall, his heart seemed to shatter when I said...when Flame Prince said that we were getting ma-mar-married.
"please...I beg you," I said sobbing and looking at Flame Prince though my tears, "let me go, we don't... We don't belong together..." I said softly then realized that it was a huge mistake. Flame Prince got tired of being 'puppet master' and could either put me back into my body in a normal way or shove me painfully back into my body which felt like I was getting electrocuted and burned at the same time. Flame Prince chose to do it the painful way. When I finally connected together with my body I was in extreme pain and was out of breath.
"Why would I want to do that?" flame prince asked shoving me onto that bed and holding me down by my wrists, I was way too tired to fight back and prayed to god I didn't piss him off any more, "Why can't you see that I love you and that I want us to be together... Forever." he said staring into eyes, "just shut up and forget about everyone, think about only me, WANT ONLY ME! Your an idiot who can't see that I'm the only one who loves you!" Flame Prince yelled and singed my wrists. Whenever he's mad he burns hot instead of being regular human temperature.
"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry," I said frightened, tears streaming down my face. Flame Prince looked down at my face for a second and then his look of anger faded and his grip softened.
"please stop crying my darling, I'm sorry I didn't mean to hurt you." he said closing his eyes and lowering his head next mine, he nuzzled his face into my messy hair and then I heard him sniff it. I really hate him with all my heart. Flame Prince let me go and locked me inside the bedroom alone to think about things, primarily our wedding. Instead I thought about Marshall, poor Marshall had heard lies, terrible lies that made his face look horribly lonely and sad, how on earth do I make it up to him? How do ask him to save me? How do I tell him that... I think I like him? My questions always suck because they take so long to answer. I started looking for ways out of the castle which I guess was pretty stupid because I was like that princess that got locked up in the tower and wasn't aloud to get out until a prince came to save her, cake used to tell me those stories when I was younger. There were two windows in the room but they had fire blazing up from the sill and acting like barrier, I had tried to see how hot it was earlier and burnt my forefinger really bad, there was a blister forming on the tip of my finger now. In the room there was a canopy bed specifically for girls, a desk with a mirror(for makeup)next to the bed, and I guess a shower. Flame Prince had gone through the trouble of preparing this room for me. I can't give in though because I don't love Flame Prince one bit, in fact he kinda terrifies me now... And what about Marshall his face made me start crying he didn't know that I didn't mean that and was probably somewhere hating me for being so cruel to him what if he never wants to see me again?
"ugh! I have to stop asking myself these stupid questions! Marsh might hate me now but I can't leave him thinking that!" I whispered bravely to myself, "and cake is gonna start getting worried about me soon anyways I bet she's looking for me right now!"
"yes mother she wants to marry me willingly, would you like proof?" I heard flame prince ask his mother downstairs, they started walking up the stairs and I felt my soul ripped out of my body which left me breathless but my body picked up the chest of wedding rings that he and I had been looking at earlier and started looking through them as soon as his mother opened the door.
"well hello there dear! And how was your day today sweetheart?" she asked in a kind way, his mother was much more sane that he was and was also a very kind woman which made me feel a little better. "Ignitus why don't leave the room and close the doors behind you, I want to have a nice chat with Fionna here." she said in a way that reassured me that I wasn't totally screwed.
"yes mother." Flame Prince answered back.
"my, Fionna you are such a pretty girl! But are you sure you want to marry Ignitus?" she asked almost worried. My body was being controlled by Flame Prince again.
"why yes Flame queen! He is such a handsome boy I fell in love with him from first sight!" my body said in a sickly sweet tone.
"ah, what joyous news! I am quite glad that you also wish to marry my son, you both shall have a grand wedding and I will invite all the people in the land of Aaa!" she said excitedly.
"that's sounds absolutely wonderful your majesty! I look forward greatly to it." I giggled stupidly.
"no it's not, I don't! Please save me, hear my voice!" I screamed and I started sobbing, I was terrified I didn't want to marry a monster that I didn't love back.
"Sweet heart? Why are you crying?" Flame queen said. I wiped my eyes quickly and looked down at her excitedly. She wasn't looking at me she was looking at my body which had accidentally let a tear escape from my left eye. Does this mean I'm still connected to my body in a slight way? Even if I can't yell or scream or show that I'm terrified? I cried harder at the thought and and I saw three more tears escape from both eyes this time. My body quickly covered it up or I guess flame prince did.
"oh my these are tears of absolute joy!" my body said quietly and wiped the tears away.
"oh you scared me there!" exclaimed the Flame queen
"my dearest apologies my queen." my body said, all of sudden Flame Prince burst into the room.
"how was your talk together?" he asked "so when should we schedule the wedding? Please make it soon."
"hmmmm..."the Queen pondered, "how about three weeks from now?"
"any sooner?" he persisted.
"no because I have to gather supplies and prepare the wedding." she said a little frustrated. Three weeks till the wedding I thought to myself and cried harder my entire body shook it felt like if I was transferred back into to my body the painful way my body would reach the maximum pain level and my brain would explode. I pulled my knees to my chest and buried my head in them and sobbed. I listened as Flame Queen congratulated Flame Prince and left the room. I felt my body and my soul mesh together (thank god he did it the easy way...) I opened my eyes and looked at Flame prince who stared at me...or my body... I started crying really hard again and I felt flame prince slowly and cautiously crawl onto the bed
"why?" I whispered shakily
"because I love you and you WILL love me" he said solemnly then wrapped his arms around me and it felt ugly and horrible and I wanted to slap his arms off but I felt if I tried I would shatter like fragile glass.
"but... I already think I love s-some-" I stuttered and then was slapped across the bed by a burning hand that left a singe mark on my face.
"NO YOU DON'T YOU WILL LOVE ME!" he flared up and shot up next to me I flinched and shut my eyes waiting for another slap from him but instead came silence. I opened my eyes and saw him staring into my face a single tear of magma escaped his left eye. He collapsed on top of me and hugged me then got up and left the room I heard the many inner locks of the door click and I knew I had time to process all this crud without my brain shorting...
Three weeks till the wedding
Three weeks to think of an escape plan
Three weeks to figure out these feeling I have for Marshall