Author's Notes: I'm thinking about starting a real-world Adventure Time fanfic, weirdly enough I was tired after 5 hours of writing this chapter, so I went to sleep and the plot came to me in a dream. Turns out, the plot is amazing and I really want to put it on paper.

Sounds weird, yeah I know.

Enjoy the chapter!

Disclaimer: I do not own Adventure Time... yet.

~ Fiery Embrace ~

- Storm, Chapter 10 -

Princess Bubblegum jotted down a bunch of notes before placing them gently on a desk. She had been hard at work for a week straight, she had barely gotten any sleep and it was starting to show; her eyes looked devoid from life and had dark rings under her eyes, and her hair was messy and knotted around, tucked into a long ponytail. She wore her lab coat over her usual pink dress, which protruded under her ankles.

As she lifted her hand off the notes, she hesitated for a second before placing them inside the drawer instead of over the deck. Information like this was best kept in hidden; she couldn't be too paranoid with the events that had taken place lately.

She wiped her arm across her forehead and sighed deeply.

She wanted to tell Flame Princess, she really did. But the risk of it getting into the wrong ears would surely cause a war. It just wasn't for everyone to hear, no matter how much it revolved around the young princess, it just wouldn't be right to tell her. But the least she could do to pay for her lies would be to at least make her final years happier. Finn made her happy, and so did she to him. The torture the Candy Kingdom has put to the royal family of the Fire Kingdom through had to stop now.

She thought about that day, when everything had been explained, but she hadn't understood it then. She was still too young to understand it at the time.

~ Eight years ago ~

Her mother tugged her forward eagerly through the dark streets, she didn't know this place even existed before today. It was a foreboding place; it just didn't feel like somewhere she wanted to be. Dark figures sneaked around the city, shady characters whispered words with threatening tones, while peculiar men and women stood behind stalls fending off thieves and trying to sell their merchandise at the same time. It was a chaotic place! It had been a horrible day already, and being in this city wasn't making it any better.

First she had been woken up early in the day, and her mother had made her leave with her in a hurry to this strange place. Her and her self-designated aunty, the Vampire Queen, were supposed to meet at the kingdom gates after she woke up, now she was going to miss her day of fun for some boring business her mom had to 'deal with'.

Her mom almost dived into a door, pushing it open and almost throwing the poor candy princess inside. She slammed the door shut, the sounds and rustle of the dark city ceasing with it. Her mom sighed and turned around.

It was a small little room they were in; it looked like it was the backdoor to some bar, as she could hear the loud ramblings of the drunks through the back wall. The ground was lined with bumpy cobblestone, as most of the city's roads where. There was a dim fireplace set in the wall. Two chairs sat conveniently across from each other in the middle of the room with a small desk on each side, and sitting on one of the seats, was a fire elemental.

Bonnibel had read of the Fire Elementals that patrol the Fire Kingdom, how they are hostile to any intruders, never letting anyone but their own kin in or out of their fiery land. But she had never really seen one in person; and this one looked to be royalty! She had a fiery crown adorned with beautiful red rubies that made a pattern around the base of the metal. Her dress was lined with beautiful gold trims that caressed down from the chest down in a curled pattern, going down and lining around the bottom of the dress. Her forehead and chest were adorned with large ruby gems similar to the ones on her forehead. She was just a bit smaller then her own mother. Her fiery hair had been tamed down and tucked under her neck into a small pony tail.

"Greetings Candy Queen, please take a seat. I don't want this to take any longer then it should, especially in this city." The fire elemental woman said sighing, trying to compose herself.

She almost looked like she didn't want to be here as much as herself. There was something on her face that the young princess just couldn't identify, she was still too naïve to read those emotions.

Her mother nodded, before sitting down on the hard leathery seat.

"I'll get straight to the point then, have you found a solution to her problem yet?" her mother said flatly.

She could be rather cruel sometimes when it came to running a kingdom, she put aside most emotions and friendships just to run her kingdom, something she still didn't understand it.

"We've been trying... but... there's really nothing we can do." she said with a sob in her voice.

"Then I'm sorry Flame Queen, I'll have to take action for the sake of Ooo." her mother said, almost harshly.

"I know but-"

"Look Flame Queen, I know she's you're daughter, and I understand what you're going through, but responsibility demands sacrifice, it was a huge risk to even consider meeting away from your kingdom." she said while she walked over to the Flame Queen, placing her hand on her shoulder.

She looked dimmer than the fire elementals she had seen in books in the library, she would spend most of her time there reading books about faraway lands, but the confines of the castle only held so much excitement; it was rare enough for her to even leave the kingdom's gates. The fire elementals in her books glowed way brighter then the queen sitting before her.

"But having the same condition as her, you must understand the sacrifices she must make." she said as she smiled, trying to comfort her.

"Just... listen to me." the Flame Queen said as she looked up to her. Her expression changed, she looked intently at her mother.

"Only those that have this condition can understand... when you're imprisoned, locked up for being who you are, people start to treat you differently, even look at you differently. You begin to think that people are treating you normal, but in the end you realize that they think you're a monster." she began, wiping the tear that escaped from her eye.

She looked up to the Candy Queen, a more serious look on her face.

"Once it happens, there's no turning back. You can only look towards the future, filled with darkness and loneliness. You begin to lose sight of who you are, and your whole life you walk with the shadow of death beside you, completely unaware of it." Another tear escaped her eye, followed by a stream of them.

"And in the end, you feel a void in your heart. It fills your mind day in and day out, that gaping emptiness you feel every day; the condition, ready to pounce on any strong feeling that dares enter it. When you live with the constant loneliness and isolation, you start wishing you just die. That's what it means to be like this." she ended, wiping the tears from her face. She got up, and looked at the Candy Queen intently.

"But there is a cure to this depression..." she smiled softly, lowering her face.

She paused for a second, and her eyes drifted to Bonnibel's own, who was entranced in what she was saying.

"Having something that can fill that void in your heart." she said as a final tear escaped from her eye.

"Please help my daughter find that something."

~ Present day ~

"I guess Finn is that something." she thought, finally understanding her words.

She shook her head and looked out the window. There was no time for such thoughts now; she had to get to work. Something caught her eye before she turned for the door though, and she looked towards it. The sky had gone dark; she could see storm clouds in the distance. The storm looked very irregular, the clouds were almost completely black, the only hint of light being the massive storm raging within it.

She heard someone knock on the door, it was a light three taps and the sound seemed to be coming from the ground up. Naturally she knew it was Peppermint Butler.

"Peppermint Butler, I need you to warn the people of the incoming storm, it looks like it's going to hit us hard." she yelled out, grabbing some notes off her desk.

"And we better be ready when it does."

~ ... ~

Flame Princess remained in shock for the moment; she didn't move as Finn pulled her in and said those words. She could only sit there and comprehend what he had just told her; he loved her.

She knew that they had feelings for each other, but the comment took her by surprise. All that anger and that isolated feeling she always had suddenly disappeared, it was like a part of her had suddenly returned. She felt comforted, accepted. For once since her imprisonment, she felt truly happy.

She would've been happier if she wasn't burning him though; she reluctantly pulled away from him, a sweet smile on her face.

She had burned his arms again, but she understood now that pain was irrelevant when it came to this bear-capped teenager, he was relentless in being with her, and all she had ever done was hurting him and do nothing but cause trouble for him. Yet he still loved her for who she was, when everyone else looked down on her.

"I want to kiss you so much right now." she said openly.

She could almost feel the heat radiating off his cheeks as he blushed, she giggled at his reaction.

The happiness she felt inside could only be matched by the sadness she felt every time she longed to embrace him, how she longed to repay him for being such an amazing person. But simply being her got in the way, it would be like this forever. There wasn't anything she could do about it.

Suddenly, she felt a sharp, stinging pain on her shoulder. Her palm seemed to flip onto the source of the pain, smacking at whatever was causing it. She could feel nothing there, she exclaimed in confusion as she felt another sharp sting of pain; this time on her chest. She looked up and exclaimed in shock as she saw what the cause of it was. A massive dark cloud was looming directly above them, the only light seeping through it being the flashes of crackling lightning that danced around inside it.

Finn looked up into the sky to figure out what she was looking at; the glaring rays of the sun had been completely swallowed by a dark, looming cloud. He exclaimed in shock as he ran to cover the Flame Princess, he grabbed her, pulling her down and covering her body with his. He groaned in pain as her fiery hair burned against his chest.

Suddenly a crackling flash of lightning smashed down somewhere nearby, letting out a roar of thunder as the heavens seemed to open up, rain began pelting down and completely covering the area.

"Finn, it's hurting me!" she yelled over the sound of crashing rain and thunder, the rain continued to pelt down as Finn rushed her under the cover of a nearby rock formation.

Flame Princess' arm was rested over his shoulder as the two desperately fell under the cover of the rocks, breathing heavily as Finn's arm rested under her stomach, supporting her so she doesn't smack her head against the rocks.

He wouldn't have minded staying like that, if the burning sensation hadn't gotten to him. He thought to himself for a second. He was really getting used to her heat. All of these burns were making his body almost resistant to it. He wasn't burning as easily as he had used to; even though his current burns around his face, back and front still hurt.

He looked towards Flame Princess; she somehow seemed to have been rendered unconscious by the rain. He thought it weird, she'd never had this type of reaction to water before, not much had gotten to her either. He was sure he covered most of her body with his own. He then remembered her fiery hair burning against his chest, and looked at his shirt. It had been completely burned through the mid-section and the ring around it was flaming away.

He sat there with a stupid look on his face for a second, before screaming in shock and flinging his shirt off and into the rain. He watched as the fire doused, smoking rising off of it, leaving the shirt to dampen in the rain.

He sighed deeply, sitting amidst the roaring thunder and crashing rain, the trees seemed to bend slightly, the winds picked up and it was almost freezing Finn to death. He sat there hugging himself, trying to keep himself warm. His body was naturally drawn to the heat of Flame Princess, who had shifted her position, now facing Finn. He shivered and scooted his body over to hers, before lying down next to her. The heat radiating off her body comforted him, before he drifted off into sleep.

~ ... ~

A giant yellow dog could be seen leaping over trees and hills amidst the roaring thunder and crashing rain, he was gaining speed with each bound, set on his goal.

Jake exclaimed in shock as a bolt of lightning crashed into the forest, igniting a blaze within the rain. Even amidst all the falling current, the fire seemed to blaze brighter. He jumped over the blaze, and continued to move towards the Fire Kingdom.

After he had figured out that Finn had left, he rushed off towards the Fire Kingdom as fast as possible. The sun was still out when he left, so Marceline couldn't follow him. She was also looking for her sun hat, which seemed to have disappeared.

As he neared the place where the Fire Kingdom's entrance was supposed to be located, he could see a slight glow in the distance.

~ ... ~

Finn awoke to find two wide-open eyes staring at him right in his face.

"Hellooo?" Flame Princess said in a silly tone.

He exclaimed in shock as he ungracefully flung himself backwards, and felt the warmth around his body completely vanish with the massive wave of rain that flung over the top of him. His hands scrambled as he dragged his fingers along the ground to get back under the cover of the rock formation. As he leaned his back against the rock face, he looked towards Flame Princess who was laughing at him in her usual soft voice.

He looked out into the open, the world looked completely devoid of life as the storm raged, and it still hadn't cleared up.

"What happened? And where is your shirt?" she asked him, still giggling.

He looked down and remembered that he still wasn't wearing his shirt. He cheeks turned red, before he rubbed back of his head laughing.

"Uh, your hair sort of set it on fire." he said as a gust of wind flew right through him, making him shiver, holding onto his body.

She frowned at him, before he gave her a reassuring look.

"Hey it's okay FP, really. I just uh..." he shuddered, before stumbling on his words.

"Yes?" she asked, a smile appearing on her face, obviously aware of his embarrassment.

She scooted closer to him, her smile staring at him seductively.

"Uh I..." he could've sworn she was had slapped him like the first time they met; his cheeks were really hot.

"Yes...?" she continued to tease him.

"Need you to... uh."

"Yes?"

"Be close to me." he said quickly, he never usually let himself be thrown into a corner like that, he's usually the one in charge of a situation, but this was something completely new to him.

Her very female body and her seductive smile was inciting a new feeling in Finn, he felt rather attached to staring at her body for a second, entranced in her gentle curves. He then quickly shook his eyes away as he felt her stare locked on him.

"That's all?" she said with a smile, as she moved herself next to him, just enough so her body didn't caress against his skin.

Finn really could have stayed like that forever; he didn't need her touch for now, just her being there.

It was all he had wanted from the beginning.

- End of Chapter 10 -

Author's Notes: Whew... well that was another emotion-heavy chapter.

As always, did you enjoy the chapter? What should I improve? What would you like to see in the story? Leave it in your review! I'll see everyone on next chapter!