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Chapter 6. Madness in the mountains
…Portal led girls onto the frozen plateau. There wasn't a lot of interesting things: two strange bricks of ice with something inside, someone's camp… They walked towards the camp.
- Well, this place looks peaceful, - Marceline said to PB, looking around. Then she heard PB scream and turned to her. PB opened the door into the nearest metal house, and now was standing near it, with her face as white as snow around. Marceline approached her and looked inside. She shrugged when she saw human corpse, ripped open, like someone was trying to find out, who they are. Near, she saw three or four dead dogs.
-Why… Why every place in which we go finds a way to make us scream? – Princess managed to return control over her.
- It is human nightmares, I suppose. The lower we go, the greater they become, - Marceline answered and hugged Princess,
- But we will go through everything, aren't we? – PB smiled a little:
-Yeah. Let's go and find where Finn could go…
…After some time they actually find another symbol of an eye, and a small map, guiding them towards strange structure. The closer they were, the stranger it became, until it started to look frightening; unknown symbols was covering it's walls, and it was so alien and unnatural, so even Marceline felt herself out of place. They slowly entered it and followed the lights.
- Glob, who was living in this place? It doesn't even look human! – PB tried to hide her hands' trembling. Marceline noticed that and said softly:
- We won't stay here for long, - She pointed on the shimmering thing in the distance.
- The portal! – PB smiled, and nearly ran towards it. Nearly, because Marceline grabbed her and said:
- Look down, idiot! – Princess followed her advice and saw a rift, right in front of her. The landscape was made with exact way, to make rift unseen. PB felt herself weakened, and felt the pain in her hand slowly returning…
…Marceline tried to fly there, but winds from it was too powerful to have any chance to get there.
- Well, we should find a way to the portal. Finn found, - Marceline looked at PB and saw her, sitting on the edge, rubbing her hand,
- Hey, what is wrong, Bonnibel? – She reached Princess, and touched her lightly. PB got up and said:
- Nothing, just a bruise. I can handle it, - Bubblegum started to walk down, still rubbing her hand. Morphine worn off and now her hand was like a piece of wood; mostly useless, and barely movable. Marceline followed her, concerned with it. She knew that she can't help PB a lot…
…The lower they were, the darker the place was. At some point, PB got out her flashlight and activated. Flashlight's beam was snatching separate figures on the walls; even the pictures were horrible: strange, squid-headed figures with amorphous bodies, commanding much more horrible creatures.
- How could something like this possibly be alive and around? – PB whispered, frightened by this unnatural, alien figures. Marceline was unable to answer this question. After some time, they reached the point, at which their road was splitting on two: one road was going further in the deep, another was going up.
-Finally! – Marceline smiled and flied towards the road up, when on her way appeared some strange, black amorphous mass, with many glowing points on its "body". It was rather unfriendly, and was filling corridor to the ceiling. Vampire Queen attacked it, but her axe won't seem to do any damage to this thing. Mass roared and tried to get Marceline in it's deathly grip; she started to cut this thing's tentacles, but it was just growing more of them.
- Run! – Marceline shouted to PB, trying to held creature,- RUN! – Thing finally managed to catch Marceline and roared.
- NOOOO! – PB screamed and jumped to creature, cutting Marceline out with her axe. Then she got out the Eye of Evil and showed it to the monster. Thing immediately stopped, as Marceline crawled to the PB, trying not to look up. She got up behind PB and said:
- We need to get through that thing anyway. Let's return to camp and think of the way to deal with "it", - Princess nodded and walked backwards, until monster disappeared from their sight…
…When girls returned to camp, they saw someone's campfire. Marceline got her axe, and only now PB noticed that her skin was partially shed to her bones. It must have hurt as hell, and Princess whispered to Marceline worried:
- A-are you hurt? – Vampire Queen whispered back:
- Could ignore for now,- They walked to campfire, and saw human near it. He was sitting near the fire, and mumbling something to himself, very nervous.
- Who you are? – Marceline looked at man with axe in her hand. Man jumped and turned to them with a jar of something. He looked at them, and put the jar back:
- You are human. Like a boy that passed by,- Man shrugged, when he looked at Marceline:
- How could you live with those… wounds? – Marceline answered:
- They will close sooner or later. What I want to ask you, how he managed to get through that strange mass thing, - Man looked at her and answered:
- Those things hate fire. Problem is, that they regenerate themselves as fast as it possible. Fire,- Man shrugged again; it looked like he just remembered something unpleasant,
- It just… makes them to go away. But they returns, always returns, oh yeah, again and again! Silent, emotionless, fearless and gruesome! – Man have shrugged again, and continued,
- If they would stay on place, to be burnt to ashes, but they always moves! – PB suddenly remembered something rather embarrassing: gasoline smell, smell of burnt flesh and laughter.
- I have an idea that might make us a way! – Princess looked at Marceline, relieved…
…It took a lot of time for them to create the thing, which PB has imagined. PB's hand was unable to move normally, so Marceline was forced to work under her control. Man was very helpful; he brought a canister of fuel to them. When it was finished, Marceline just asked:
- And how that thing supposed to work? – PB answered, looking on her "blueprints" on the snow:
- Remember Caleb's gun? This one, which was throwing flames? I tried to make something like it, - PB looked at their "gun",
- I hope we have enough ammo for this thing,- Marceline looked at PB with opened mouth:
- From what time you are so great in weapon creation? – PB sadly smiled:
- This thing isn't alive. It is just a monster without a soul or mind. Just the type with which Finn was fighting. He would want us to take care of this monster, - She rubbed her hand, trying to ease her aching pain. Marceline looked at Princess, worried:
- Are you really at good shape? – PB replied, not wanting to show her pain:
- I am fine, let's go…
…They returned to the place, where road was split in two. Creature appeared ready to consume them. PB showed the Eye to it, rendering it paralyzed and helpless.
- Fire, Marceline! – She shouted, feeling pain in her hand. Large ball of fire flied to the monster from the gun, making it covered with flame. It was burning, slowly, but inevitable. When flames started to stop, PB screamed again:
- Fire! – And she was screaming that again and again, until creature wasn't burnt to ashes. Bonnibel fell on the ground, crying. Marceline gave the gun to man and grabbed PB:
- Poor girl… - She said with sadness, and floated upwards. There man left them, saying one particular thing to girls:
- Boy went there week ago. You may get to him soon, - Man walked away. Marceline sighed and floated through the portal, with Princess in her hands…
Well, that is it. I have spent a lot of time trying to put it together and… there it is! Next chapter? After my exams. Enjoy!
