A song of fire and Finn chapter 8:
The Fire Kraken
Calcifer's troops surrounded the gate, the tree giants slammed waves of soldiers away, the fire soldiers set the tree giants ablaze, but they kept fighting. The jigler's turned into their fierce, color spazzing, violent forms, flailing there tentacles all around. The spiders set traps by the door, and ambushed the flame troops. They were holding, but not for long, there were to many troops, the gate held but the flying troops swooped over the gate, the lumpy space inquisition did the best they could suppressing them, but they still got over.
"hold the line!" billy shouted to his troops and gave Finn the signal to send his troops on the offensive.
"CHARGE!" Finn yelled to his troops. They charged at the troops being dropped over the wall. Finn's chocolate bunny jumped in to the horde Finn slashed a fire soldier with the family sword, the rocky skeletal system shattered into ashes and the fire dispersed into a puff of smoke. It seemed simple enough, just like any other undead, kill them and they turn to dust. The warriors were doing well, the candy troops and the knights with real k'ck armor were slashing them to pieces, the rough housers were having a little more fun then the rest, they hadn't even drawn their weapons yet, they just beat them and tackled them into submission. Billy's men hadn't even gotten a soldier yet, but all of a sudden the door burst open! The jigler's were all gone and the burnt corpses of the tree golems were scattered, the few remaining spiders were trying the best they could, but they were overwhelmed, Susan strong ran back to billy who was still holding the line.
"ROBOTS! Fire at will!" billy yelled. The robots fired a frenzy of missiles into the oncoming group, hundreds were taken out, but more instantaneously took there place.
"WIZARDS!" billy yelled again, "cool them off!" the wizards and their summoned snow golems sprays a mixture of water snow and ice at the forces, again many were taken out before their own fire mages could counter the snow with their fire. The conflicting elements turned into steam, engulfing the goblin kingdom in a hazy cloud.
"Marceline! Jake! Your up!" Finn yelled. Marceline and her vampires formed from the darkness, the secret society of secret assassins exited from the shadows, alongside the bearded bandits from the city of thieves, they latched onto soldiers, daggers and poisoned knifes in hand, and struck at their weakest points. Marceline with her bass clenched swung back and forth destroying enemy after enemy, soldier after soldier. The rainacorns flew into the sky as the dogs of war parachuted off their backs into the battle below. The dogs ravaged the enemies, jake grew to a giant form and picked up groups of flame warriors crushing and throwing them.
The battle was going better then expected, but it was still early and there were still more forces pouring out of the crevice. Enemy warriors were now getting through to billy and his forces, but he had little trouble disposing of them, "HOLD THE LINE!" billy kept repeating to his soldiers "if our line brakes, the city falls!" Billy reminded.
The battle raged on, then another earthquake happened, the crevice grew wider. A face formed out of the blue fire, "HAHAHA!' the face laughed, "I am Calcifer! King of the fire kingdom!"
Finn jumped to the top of one of the buildings and screamed, "FACE ME CALCIFER, BE A MAN, FIGHT ME!"
"as you wish" the face disappeared. A giant portal of blue fire formed, as tall as the sky. The earth shook as a giant tentacle of fire and rock exited the portal and slammed on the ground, it was followed by another, and another, and another. Eventually a head poked through the portal, "HAHAHAHAHAHA!" it was Calcifer no doubt, he was taking the form of a giant fire kraken, extremely rare, and deadly. He rushed out of the portal flailing his tentacles about, one of his tentacles hit the city, crushing a wall and killing many of Billy's soldiers.
Jake saw the fire kraken and grew to match its size, and two extra arms to level the playing field even more. He tackled Calcifer pushing him to the ground, Calcifer got back up and whacked jake with two of his tentacles. Jake followed up with a right hook to Calcifer's cheek, and then an upper cut sending him back a good half mile, crushing trees, and putting a giant crater in the ground. Calcifer looked back at jake, currently charging towards him, and exhaled a fire twice the size of any dragon. Jake was ignited by the flame and dropped to the ground rolling trying desperately to put out the fire, Calcifer immediately redirected his attention to the kingdom. He spotted Finn and slammed his tentacle in his direction, it was right on top of him, closing in fast, the impact alone could kill him.
"Finn!" Susan strong screamed jumping off her Glub Glub doing a barrel roll. She threw Finn out of the tentacles path into the side of a building, the tentacle landed on Susan, smashing her into the cobblestone ground, crushing Susan... Killing her on impact. The tentacle emitted a wave of force nocking those around it back, but not Finn.
"SUSAN!" he screamed, pushing through the wave of energy, he took his family sword and pinned the tentacle to the ground, grabbing the katana with both hands he sliced the tentacle numerous times eventually severing the tentacle from Calcifer. Calcifer screamed a Godzilla-like noise in pain, falling backwards. Finn used all of his strength influenced with a rush of adrenalin, and rolled the severed tentacle off of his friend, but the sight was gruesome, and too graphic for me to describe with my current rating. Finn in a blind furry picked up his family sword and went berserk killing hundreds and thousands of Calcifer's troops single handedly. "GGGGGAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!" Finn screamed, in his anger and his rage, remembering every detail of what her corpse looked like.
"Finn?" flame princess said trying to calm him. The fire troops were cowering against the walls, and his own soldiers were looking afraid of him. "Finn you're scaring me..." she wanted to hold him, to tell him everything was going to be alright, but she couldn't even hold his hand without burning him.
Finn stopped and saw what he had done, he was standing on a hill of ashes, the sky was filled with smoke, he was only now realizing what he had done, even Marceline was put off by his sudden blood thirst.
Soon enough the rest of the soldiers were killed and the forces focused there power on Calcifer. Marceline turned into a bat like demon creature and attacked Calcifer, jake was extinguished and also joined the fight against Calcifer.
"ENOUGH!" Calcifer yelled, "you are stronger than anticipated, but not that strong" Calcifer materialized a giant sword of fire, he slashed open a portal. Fire soldiers poured out of of the portal, but these were much more powerful. Each one was about 12 feet tall, and fire swarmed around them.
"brace your selves men!" billy warned his men. The new and improved fire soldiers burst through the walls, shooting fire balls in every direction. The fire balls took out several from the line, they drew their weapons and dove into the army.
Calcifer exhaled fire on Marceline, the same fire he used on jake, but she countered it with her own fire. Then jake came up from the ground and grabbed Calcifer's head throwing it away from the city, towards the horizon.
"OH MY GLOB!" jake yelled, "Marcy! The suns about to come up!" he was right, the sky was starting to turn pink, she needed to get out of there fast.
"I'm not leaving you guys!" she said blocking one of Calcifer's attacks.
"you're no good to us dead! Take your vampires and get the math out of here!"
Marceline sighed... "alright jake, have it your way..." Marceline signaled her vampires to retreat.
Below in the city the battle was getting difficult, Finn and Billy's soldiers were getting killed left and right, things weren't going good. One of the soldiers smacked the halberd out of flame princesses hands and backed her into a corner, "AAAAHHHH!" she screamed, and in a flash Finn was there. He ran at the creature, he sliced one of its legs then the other, when it dropped down to its knees Finn jumped up to its head, and sunk his blade deep within its skull.
"princess!" Finn asked concerned, "are you ok?"
"I am now" she replied as she picked up her weapon again.
Finn and flame princess fought back to back killing any of the giant creatures that came near them, but it was hopeless. Finn could see his troops being killed right before them, do we need to retreat? Finn thought to himself. Seconds later billy fought his way to Finn and flame princess, "my line has been broken, the city is lost, we need to get out of here!"
"we can't, jake just needs a little more time! He can clobber Calcifer!"
"Finn we need to save as many people as we can... We need to go..."
Finn knew billy was right, he didn't want anyone else to die, it wasn't worth it. "then how are we going to beat Calcifer?"
"we will defeat him, but not today, not if we lose our entire army..."
"ok billy, sound the retreat..." Finn said dipping his head in sorrow.
Billy blew a horn, sounding the retreat, the soldiers began to exit the city, Running back to the candy kingdom. Jake put in one final punch on Calcifer, a strong punch, nocking a chunk of his face out. He ran back picking up Finn and billy on his way out of the city back to the candy kingdom.
The city was left with piles of bodies, and hills of ash. The soldiers began clearing off the dead bodies and moving them into piles, to be Resurrected and repurposed as Calcifer's soldiers. Calcifer reverted to his normal form, a rotting corps with fire coursing through the body, but the chunk of his face that jake knocked out, was still missing. Calcifer was still mortal, he may be undead, and a demon, and now a king, but he was still mortal, and could still be killed. Calcifer walked inside the goblin castle and sat on its throne, slowly setting the place on fire.
"that dog was too powerful" reflecting on the fact that if the battle went on too much longer, jake probably could have taken down Calcifer in one of his stronger forms "servant, kill him"
"yes my master" the voice came from a somewhat bulbous figure, it was the king, Resurrected by Calcifer, forcing him to do his dirty work, just as the flame king had once done to Calcifer.
