Fionna woke up early the next day. She couldn't wait to try out her new sword, but she had been thinking about it. This is some pretty serious stuff, I'll have to find someone really evil to send to the Nightosphere...but who? She knew that she needed to be responsible with this crazy awesome weapon. She walked past Cake, who was still in her drawer, sound asleep. Fionna had picked her up and brought her to her bed last night after she came inside. She was kind of disappointed that Cake wasn't awake yet; Fionna didn't like making her own breakfast. I should wake her up, she thought. Aw, but she looks so happy and cute...Nah, she's waking up, "Cake!"
Cake rolled around on her pillow.
"CAKE!"
The sleeping cat woke with a start and jumped off the pillow in surprise. "What? What's wrong, baby cakes?!"
"Can you make me breakfast?"
Fionna watched Cake's eyes roam to the clock on the wall. "Are you kidding me? You woke me up at seven in the morning because you're too lazy to make your own food?"
"C'mon, Cake, you know I don't even make good food. It never tastes right."
"Just make some cereal!"
"That's one of my worst dishes!"
"That doesn't even make any sense!"
"Please?" Fionna wasn't above mock-begging.
"Fine. But only because I'm totally awake now. I'm gonna kick your butt later, just so you know, though."
Fionna excitedly replied, "Sweet," and walked over to grab her sword of the Nightosphere, slipping it on her wrist.
Cake watched her as she stuffed the pillow in and closed the drawer she was just sleeping in. "Where did you get that?"
"Marshall Lee gave it to me, for my birthday."
Fionna's hair blew back because Cake ran over so fast; she squinted at the smoky bracelet, "You sure it's not cursed or something. That sure looks cursed to me."
"No, it's not cursed! It's enchanted!" Fionna thought for a moment, "Well, it actually might be cursed...I don't know, but it's pretty awesome anyways!"
Cake slowly approached the bracelet with an outstretched finger. She poked it and took back her hand quickly. "Hmm...I don't know, Fionna. What does it do?"
"Marshall told me that if the sword wounds someone with the blade, they will be sent to the Nightosphere. I accidently sent him there yesterday, but he can come back whenever; everyone else can't come back."
Through her still squinted eyes, Cake looked at the bracelet, "Let me see it."
Fionna morphed the bracelet into its sword form, the black and purple smoke forming the hilt and blade, the skull charm dangling around Fionna's fingers. She saw Cakes' eyes widen, "Awesome, isn't it?"
Cake reluctantly replied, "Yes it is. But a weapon like that is some serious junk. You can't just go around messing with stuff like that; you need to take it seriously."
Rolling her eyes, Fionna said, "I know, I know! Me and Marshall are going to test it out today. Find some evil doers and kick their butts. Don't worry!"
"You're hanging out with him today? Baby, is there something that you aren't telling me?" Cake was suspicious now.
Fionna blushed, "Oh, yeah. Last night, Marshall told me that he likes me."
"And?"
"And, what? He likes me; I like him. That's the story so far, nothing happened."
Cake relaxed a little, "Ok, I guess that makes me feel better. You just don't let him push you around, he seems to not think about what he's doing sometimes."
"Okay, I will stand my ground, Cake, jeez. He's not as bad as you think."
"So is today a...date?"
"What? No, maybe, yes, I don't know. I guess so, it will be just us so...sure, yeah, it's a date."
"Well, I planned on going to Monochromicorn's today...do you want me to stay here, just in case?"
"No, go have fun with MoChro, I can handle myself, Cake.
They went downstairs, and Cake made breakfast for the two of them; BMO joined them later and requested a cup of tea. Cake left after breakfast was all done, giving one last "be careful" to Fionna, who just shrugged it off. She needs to trust me a little bit more, she thought, and Marshall, for that matter.
Fionna finished off a glass of milk and walked toward the door; she couldn't wait to go to Marshall's. She turned to BMO, who was sitting at the booth with her cup of tea, "Bye, BMO! Don't blow anything up!"
BMO replied, "I will try not to!"
It took a few minutes to get to Marshall's cave. When she reached the mouth of it, she slowed her pace. She wanted to sneak up on him, so she was trying to use her stealth moves like she did the other night with Cake. She hid behind one bush and rolled to another, trying not to be spotted. She scanned the house; one window was open on the second floor. Now if I could just find a way to—Ah ha! She spotted the basketball hoop. She climbed the hoop with ease but not silence. Jumping through the window, she landed with a thud, "Man, I gotta practice on my ninja skills," she mumbled to herself.
"I'll say," Marshall was standing behind her, against the wall. He laughed, "Fionna, are you trying to sneak up on me?" He was rather amused at that idea.
"Um, duh. And I would've totally done it if your basketball hoop was easier to climb, or you just kept a ladder by your window and make things easier on me!"
He rolled his eyes, "You're here really early, you know? I haven't even had breakfast yet."
Fionna didn't want to wait any longer, "C'mon!" she dropped to her knees, trying to look as pitiful as she could. She started to whimper.
Marshall laughed at Fionna's feeble attempts, "Nope, I got some stuff downstairs; it'll just be a couple minutes, jeez." He grabbed her shoulders and stood her up, "Stop that, you look pitiful."
"Well, that's just more of my great acting," she remarked. They walked downstairs and Fionna sat on the couch, while Marshall went to the kitchen, grabbing some cherries. He sucked the red out of them and turned to Fionna, who was swinging her sword around again.
"You gotta stop doing that; you're gonna send me to the Nightosphere again, and I'm gonna have to come all the way back here. You ready?"
"Just killin' time, 'paste-face'," she winked at him, "and yeah, I'm ready."
They left his cave and embarked on their adventure. "So, where are we going?" Marshall left the planning to Fionna, this was her day.
"Hmmmm," she thought for a minute. "Let's go to the Ice Kingdom. She's probably got some ice monsters that need to be taught a lesson. "
Marshall rose a couple feet beside Fionna, "Well, in that case," he held out his hand, "my lady." He winked at her, and she took his hand. They began to fly, and Marshall ended up having to just hold Fionna by her waist, so she wasn't struggling not to fall.
They touched down at the front door of the Ice Queen's Castle, heading inside. They slowly approached the main room where they could hear the Ice Queen talking to one of her penguins.
"Does this dress make me look fat?"
"Wenk."
"Do you think my Gumball will like it?"
"Wenk wenk."
"What? How dare you! Do you know –"
Marshall turned to Fionna, "Let me handle this, you wait here."
Fionna just nodded, watching as Marshall turned invisible. She looked around, but, of course, couldn't see him. She went down the hall, closer to the room, and peered inside. The penguin that the Ice Queen was yelling at was starting to rise, "Wenk! Wenk! Wenk!"
The Ice Queen's nagging faded in confusion, "What is going on?"
The penguin was flapping it's little flippers, "Wenk! Wenk!"
"Are you flying? Oh, I'm so proud of you!"
The penguin started to move toward the window, leading the Ice Queen out of the room. "Oh, you want to go outside? Okay, let's go outside." The Ice Queen flew out of the window after the penguin. Fionna remained squatted outside of the room until Marshall appeared in front of her.
"Let's hope she has some monsters sitting around." He grabbed her hand and helped her up.
"Did you just throw a penguin out of the window?"
Marshall laughed, "Yeah." They laughed at the scene and then got it together.
Fionna was in charge now, "Okay, if she has any ice monsters around here, they'd be down in her weird ice vaults, which should be..." she looked around the room, "there." She pointed to a doorway that lead to many twists and turns.
"Alright, let's check this out." Marshall was all for breaking into the Ice Queen's place and messing with her stuff.
Fionna stepped one foot inside the doorway and began to slide down the crazy ice slide. "Woo hoo!"
Marshall flew above her, "Shhh! Practice your 'ninja skills', remember?"
She didn't hear him over her cheering, "Hey! Stop flying and go down this thing!"
He rolled his eyes and dropped to the ice, sliding behind Fionna. He had to admit, it was pretty fun. Fionna hit the end of the slide and skidded to a stop. Marshall didn't realize how fast he was going and tumbled over her, leaving them both lying on the ice. "Why hello there," Marshall had landed on top of Fionna, pinning her to the ice.
She smiled, "You're kind of in my way; I'm trying to kick butt here."
They got up and Marshall examined the room, "Well, I don't think there is any butt to kick here."
Fionna examined the room now; there was nothing! "Aw, man! I could've sworn this is where she would keep them!"
"Keep what?" The Ice Queen was behind them, staring them down with hatred, especially Fionna. "What are you doing in my castle? Didn't your parents ever tell you not to break into other peoples' houses?"
Marshall replied, "No, actually. My mom probably encouraged it."
Fionna had her sword ready and the Ice Queen replied, "Well, then allow me to teach you a lesson your mother never did." Shards of ice blasted from her palms to the ground in front of Fionna and Marshall.
Fionna laughed, "Missed!"
"Oh, did I?"
By her voice, Fionna knew something was coming. To her delight, ice monsters rose from the ice beneath them. Marshall and Fionna turned to each other and high fived, "Aw yeah!"
The Ice Queen was angry now, "What are you doing? These are scary monsters! Fear me!"
Fionna took the lead, slashing at one ice monster and another. With each pass, the beasts would dissipate in the air, vanishing to the Nightosphere. Marshall started punching at the monsters, but he didn't have to do much; Fionna was pretty much taking care of everything.
The Ice Queen shot shard after shard into the ground, birthing more ice monsters. "Hm, I sense a strange magic here," she mumbled to herself. She noticed that the sword Fionna was destroying her monsters with had the look of the magic that was only native to the Nightosphere. She stopped firing off shards, "Where did you get that?"
Fionna looked disappointed that there were no more monsters to slay, "The Nightosphere, duh."
Marshall eyed the Queen, "Don't get any ideas. You take that sword, and I will send you to the Nightosphere."
"That's exactly what I'm worried about; leave. I don't want that kind of magic anywhere near me." That last thing she wanted was to be taken out of this world and put into another one without her Gumball. I don't even think there are any good looking guys down there! How would I survive!
Fionna butted in, "Don't worry, Ice Queen. We don't like you, but we don't not like you enough to send you to the Nightosphere! I just want to kick some monster butt."
The Ice Queen looked at the pair, "Tell you what, I will make you all the monsters you want, and you don't ever touch me with that thing. Ever."
"Deal," Fionna was excited, not that she liked the Ice Queen, but, hey, unlimited monsters don't come along all that often.
They spent a couple more hours slaying the ice monsters; the Ice Queen got bored almost immediately and slouched in a chair, half-heartedly making monsters with her finger. Fionna sighed, "Okay, I think I'm done," She wiped the sweat from her forehead, "This has been fun."
"Yeah, well, speak for yourself." The Ice Queen was glad it was finally over.
Marshall said, "Alright, do you want to come back to my house?"
Fionna swung her sword, "Yeah, sure!" Unknowingly, Fionna had hit one of the Ice Queen's penguins with her sword, making it vanish in thin air.
The Ice Queen stood up, "Gunther!"
Fionna could see the rage in the Queens' eyes. Fionna yelled, "I'm so sorry, Ice Queen! I didn't mean to do it!"
She flew up in the air and prepared to zap the offenders with the sharpest zap of ice she could conjure up. Fionna yelled to Marshall, "Run!"
Marshall grabbed Fionna and flew back the way they came, toward his cave.
