AN: I'm so damn sleepy, here's my return. Sorry if there were any mistakes.


Princess Bubblegum was fixing her hair in front of a vanity mirror, grooming it with a brush to make it have the impression of real hair. She did a few more strokes and placed the brush back to one side of the vanity mirror, her hair was smooth now and had streamlines that made it look like actual hair.

She then stood up and called for Peppermint Butler. "Pep But! Can you please get me my dress?" She ordered, Peppermint Butler replied with a distant yes and came back with a pink and magenta dress, it had a long, slightly widened skirt and a flamboyant design on the top and lower garments and it had mostly rhinestone look, the shoulders of the dress were braced with diamond-shaped covers and the center of top garment was covered by a pink rhinestone-shaped pad. "Thank you" She thanked, she took the dress from Peppermint Butler.

"As all ways, madame" Peppermint Butler remarked, he made a polite bow and exited the room.

Princess Bubblegum was still wearing her casual royalty wear, a long pink dress, she didn't wear it to parties since it had little exquisite design. She examined her new dress and prepared to wear it.

She took off her dress, stripping down to her underwear and bra. She then started to wear the other dress, it was worn separately, she started with the top garment and then the under garments. She was already suited up and ready.

Princess Bubblegum was about to open her door to get the ball ready but a recognizable breeze blew from her back. She looked back to see the Vampire Queen, Marceline, lying down by the windowsill. She was wearing her tank-top with jeans and boots along with her sun hat and her long gloves.

Princess Bubblegum glanced at her for awhile and quickly snapped to being serious, she didn't like uninvited guests. "Marceline, what do you want?" She asked sounding a bit annoyed, she was trying to hide her anger. Marceline smirked at her and started to floated near her, trying to make her feel chilled.

"I need you to hand me an invitation, I have someone to bring along with me" Marceline asked with a voice of a vixen. Princess Bubblegum wasn't scared of her and she needed more answers, she couldn't simply hand over an empty invitation.

"And who is that?" Princess Bubblegum asked, Marceline gave another smirk and started to float around her slowly, Princess Bubblegum didn't turn around to follow her movements, she simply knew it was one of her games. Marceline then stopped behind Princess Bubblegum, shading her under her sunhat.

"My boyfriend" She said, Princess Bubblegum started to feel curious,

"Marceline has another boyfriend?" She thought, Marceline slowly floated away from her and sat on the side of Princess Bubblegum's bed.

"Your boyfriend, huh? What's his name?" Princess Bubblegum asked curiously, Marceline lied down on her bed with her arms cross behind her head.

"I call him Simon" She answered back uncaringly, Princess Bubblegum's eyes widened, she never would have thought that Ice King got Marceline. It was bizarre for her, Ice King never had a woman to be with him.

She snapped back to the conversation, "What!? He just turned into that human and you're already coupled together!?" She said with astonishment in her words. Marceline nodded.

"How did you get there so fast? Did he seduce you or tricked you somehow?" Princess Bubblegum asked again. Marceline smiled, she was thinking of how to answer without sounding perverted.

"You know, things happen when a boy and a girl are left alone in the dark and it was me who moved first, not him" She answered, Princess Bubblegum was dumbfounded, red started to crawl up her pink face.

"YOU DID THAT WITH HIM!?" She yelled, almost alerting everyone in Candy Kingdom.

"Uh huh, I can say he was really good at it" Marceline remarked, she then floated back upright, "Enough with the talking, invitation please. You still owe me, I told you about him or you would have been the one with him in the dark" Marceline reminded her.

Princess Bubblegum sighed, "I guess you're right...", She then got a spare invitation from her vanity mirror's desk, together with a pen. "What could go wrong?" Princess Bubblegum thought. She wrote the name and signed her signature on the invitation, she faced Marceline and handed her the invitation.

Marceline smiled, "Thanks. Goodbye, virgin" She said sarcastically as she flew out of Princess Bubblegum's window. Princess Bubblegum looked at her as Marceline headed back to her house.

"Ungrateful little..." Princess Bubblegum muttered and stopped until she realized the irony. "What's gotten into Marcy?" She thought to herself, the thought of romance with Ice King was simply unthinkable for Princess Bubblegum and the thought of being a virgin started to bug her.

A loud knock on the door soon came. Princess Bubblegum walked to the front of the door and opened it, she was greeted by Finn, he was wearing his bear hat and his usual clothes. "Oh hey PB, Pep But said he needed you down to prepare for the ball" He reminded, he slightly blushed on how Princess Bubblegum looked.

"Yeah... let's go, the ball ain't gonna prepare itself" She said with determination.

"Let's go then" Finn said happily, he walked down the stairs, Princess Bubblegum took one last look at the window and quickly followed Finn.

"I got a bad feeling about Marcy..." She thought again.

Meanwhile in Marceline's house...

Ice King was preparing in Marceline's room, he already took a bath and shined his shoes with the shoe polish Marceline uses for her boots.

He tried to look for anything that looked elegant for him to wear but there was none in the house of the vampire queen, let alone, a woman. He took a look in the mirror and tried to encourage himself, "C'mon Ice King, you can do this!" He whispered loudly. He took a few deep breaths and decided to comb himself.

"I sure hope you know how to dance" A voice erupted, Ice King looked back, it was Marceline.

He looked back and became slightly nervous, "Oh hey, Marcy, good morning" He greeted, not sure of what to say.

"Ball's starting in a few hours" Marceline reminded him, Ice King scratched his head and continued to comb his hair. "You do know how to do those fancy royalty dances, right?" Marceline asked, she went to her closet and took a dress that she could wear.

"Yeah, Gunter taught me" Ice King answered, Marceline raised an eyebrow.

"A penguin taught you how to dance?" Marceline remarked curiously, she started to take off her clothes.

"It's simple you see, Gunter reads the books and he teaches me the how-to's" Ice King said, he put the comb back on her vanity and double checked himself. Marceline was slightly astonished by how Ice King learns, it seemed weird yet amazing. She then started to wear her new dress, obliviously throwing her last dress.

The dress she was going to wear was similar to her why-wolf hide dress. The only difference was the edges were no longer jagged and the length of the skirt reached her heels and there were multiple dark-brown leather straps encircling the center of the dress. She also had long violet silk gloves to match her dress and she wore her red boots that looked like heels from an observers point-of-view.

Ice King wanted to ask Marceline if he looked good, he turned back and was amazed to see the woman in front of him. Marceline let out a smirk, "So, how do I look?" She asked, Ice King stared at her for a few seconds and noticed her question.

"Absolutely beautiful" Ice King answered, "How about me?" Ice King gestured a motion to his body.

"Meh, it looks formal, we can go with that" Marceline answered. She took her sunhat and put it on.

"Aren't you going to put on some lipstick and all those other girly things?" Ice King asked sounding concerned. Marceline shook her head.

"Nope, enough is enough" She answered, Ice King agreed by slightly nodding his head. "Come on, get yourself some breakfast but don't eat too much, PB's got a feast ready" Marceline started to float down to her kitchen.

Ice King soon followed her down. He was slightly excited for the ball, he never got into such social events. Then the thought came, he contemplated for awhile. Ice King realized that the days before Marceline were lonely and Gunter was the only companion that he could talk to. He remembered that he would sometimes realize that deep inside him, he felt alone, he would feel emptiness.

The days before, he would wake up, feeling the loneliness and the emptiness of his life. He would wake up to greeting Gunter and him quacking back, he would wake up to putting on his crown, fixing his beard and plotting to steal another princess or writing his fan-fiction about Fionna and Cake.

But now, it seemed different. The loneliness and emptiness was gone this day, Gunter was back home, he had no more beard, there was no reason to steal a princess and his fan-fiction was left back home.

This day and the night before it was a turning point, it marked the end of his loneliness.