Update
Ch 9 Just you and me
As Finn and Jake were nearing their house along with Huntress Jake couldn't shake the uneasy feeling that he was getting the closer he got to the house all the while Huntress having a shit eating grin that put Jake further into a greater panic.
When Finn got to the front door and opened it, it was quiet too quiet then normal then it usually is. It was just then Jake finally realized what he was forgetting and cold sweats ran down his head as he looked towards Huntress.
Huntress seeing the look on Jake's face knowing that he finally realized what he was forgetting couldn't help but snicker at his expanse. On the other hand Finn stood in the side lines still confused as to what is happening between the two of them.
Finn seeing Jake shacking in fear was worried and was getting a little fearful himself "hey Jake what's going on with you?" Finn asked with no reply
Huntress seeing the distress in Finns voice places her hand on his shoulder to grant him some form of comfort and words to rally to "don't worry I got your back for the things to come"
"What things to come?" just as Finn questioned Huntress's statement he saw a yellow blur run past him at such amazing speed he couldn't see what it was but when it ran past him he immediately heard the screams of pain from his bother and he turned around with sword in hand and as he saw what it was. All the fear he once had was just gone the moment he saw what it really was.
"You listen and you listen good young man, you and Finn have not been home in nearly two days, and when Jermaine came home without you two I was worried sick about you both when he said you two were going on one last bounty and by the looks of it. It wasn't a C or a B ranked but it does look like the rewards you'd get from an S ranked wanted criminal!"
"Ow ow ow ow" Jake yelped in pain as his mother pinched and twist his ear and stretched it out "wait mum I can explain just give me a minute and I'll explain everything to you" Jake said hoping his mother would let go of his ear and hope that the story he would concoct would be believable.
But sadly Huntress butted in and filled Margaret in on what really happened to lead them into having so much money truthfully.
"He got greedy and persuaded Finn to help him to go after the Black Knight which he thought he was B ranked but he really was A ranked because he had a really out of date wanted poster"
Margaret was shocked the Black Knight was very well known for being bloodthirsty and merciless to all those he fought in battle. It was then Margaret realized that she didn't know who this girl was and felt a bit embarrassed that she saw her act very unladylike.
Jake on the other hand was shocked but for very different reasons, he somewhat felt betrayed as Huntress ratted him out to his mother, although to be fair on her he did sort of see her loyalties were to Finn mainly and maybe Jermaine a little bit.
"You traitor owowow" Jake yelp as Margaret twisted his ear in order to silence him from talking
"I'm so sorry dearie for my son's beaver and dragging you into a dangers situation"
"As if I dragged her anywhere with me and Finn and besides she was stalking Finn like a creep for day's owowow" Jake yelp again with his mother trying to silence him.
"Boy you better zip your lips or you will get a good spanking if you dare to talk like that to this nice little lady here you understand"
"Yes mum"
"Good" as Margaret let go of Jake's ear "now go and put that treasure in the basement and go to your room to think about what you have done, I mean seriously you could've gotten both you and your bother killed and his sweet girl over here killed as well"
As Jake began to walk up stairs and into his room Margaret looked over Finn to check if Finn was not hurt in his encounter with the Black Knight which was annoying Finn to a great degree"
"Mum I'm fine really Huntress fixed me and Jake up with her healing magic when I passed out"
"Well ain't that sweet of her" Margaret complimented her "wait passed out? You didn't do anything to my boys when they were unconscious did you"
"What n-no I didn't try anything" Huntress lied again.
"Oh okay then, it's getting late Huntress would you like to stay here for the night and have dinner with us? I'd feel bad if a sweet girl like you going home like this late at night"
"Sweet girl my butt" Jake whispered softly.
"Thanks that would be very nice and don't worry about my parents they know I wouldn't be back for a while"
"Okay it's settled I'll just call Joshua and Jermaine to come home and I'll get started on cooking diner, Finn be a dearie and keep Huntress company" as she say this Margaret leaves to go into the kitchen to cook dinner leaving Finn and Huntress alone with each other.
"Soooo you want to go play some video games?" Finn asked awkwardly
"Uh that sounds nice Finn" replied awkwardly
"Nice now all we is to find BMO"
"Who?"
"Oh right you may not know his but that game console you gave me was really a tiny cute robot"
"Really then where is he"
"He's most likely in the bathroom talking to himself in the mirror"
"What?"
"Yay he is kind of weird and does a lot of stuff that's odd but you know in a cute way"
"BMO chop!" BMO yelled as he seemingly fell on top of Finn's head out of nowhere "if this was real battle you'd be dead Finn"
"Hehehe stuff like this, hey BMO say hello to Huntress"
As BMO turned and saw Huntress he immediately recognized her "Oh hello kidnapper, be careful Finn she may try and kidnap you too" BMO said in a care free tone of voice.
Huntress was shocked, the robot just called her a kidnapper and also claimed that she would kidnap Finn as well. Huntress was a little pissed off about that comment but she couldn't help but fantasies about it causing her to blush.
"BMO! Not cool man"
"You're right I'm sorry"
"That's okay I mean I did sort of did kidnap you so I'm sorry too"
"Oh no don't be sorry I like it here, every one here is nice to me and I have lots of fun with them, so do you both want to play video games?"
"Hell yay" as soon as Finn said those words BMO pulled out two controllers out and plugged them into himself.
"Hey Finn I'm not really that good at playing video games because I'm a forest nymph you know, since we don't really use technology at all"
"It's okay I'll tech you and I'll even go easy on you as well"
Huntress couldn't help but smile at Finn's kindness as see looked to him and deep down she knew Finn was smiling with her under his bandana.
"Okay but don't go too easy on me I want my victories to mean something"
After two hours of playing video games Joshua and Jermaine came back home after a long search to find Finn and Jake only to find out that they didn't any help. After they hugged it out with each other Joshua was proud when Huntress told him how Finn killed the Black Knight but Jermaine was royally pissed that Jake lied to him about the next bounty and rushed to his room to confront his brother on the matter.
After another hour passed playing videogames Huntress had just noticed that Finn still had not taken of his hood, bandana or even his goggles. Even when Huntress spied on Finn for three days not once did she see his face, so without even thinking about it she asked a question that she wanted answered.
"Hey Finn what do you look like underneath all the coverage?"
Finn stopped and because of that he lost the game to Huntress, Huntress knew something was wrong because this was the first time she won a game against him. Finn wasn't moving or talking, she was sure it was because of what she had asked.
"Ah Finn you there?"
"Yay I'm here" Finn finally responded "you wanted something?"
Huntress was hesitant to ask again but she did anyways "I asked if I could see your face Finn? Because for as long I have known you I've never seen what you look like without your bandana and goggles on"
"Well what about you? I haven't seen you without your face mask on" Finn countered trying to avoid the question he was asked.
Huntress saw that Finn was getting defensive about it so she decided to go first and take off her mask and revile her face to Finn because she trusted him and hoped he trusted her in return.
"Finn do know why I wear a mask?" she asked with her face in full view of Finn.
"No"
"Remember the time when we first meet I said I worked with some bad people to get some money to pay off my family debt?"
"Yay I remember that"
"Well you could probably guess it was not the safest way to get money, every day I was scared that if I let any people see who I was they would hurt me though my family because living in this world, everything you care about is a weakness that can be exploited by those whose morels have degraded over time to nothing"
Finn could feel the pain in Huntresses voice and deep down he felt as if what he said to her was a slap in the face and he truly regretted that he was too defensive to someone he saw as a friend.
"But I trust you Finn to know my weaknesses, I trust that you will help me with the weakness I carry, I trust that you will guard it with every fiber in your body and I both trust and believe in you Finn as the person and individual that you are, with all my weakness and hopes"
As huntress finished speaking she took off her hood and face mask in full view of Finn and looked straight at him and spoke her last words to Finn.
"I just hope that you have the same the same faith in me as I do you"
Finn was speechless, he could not think of a response that could get him out of this situation, he contemplated whether he should revile himself as human or not to Huntress, after much thought Finn made up his mind.
"I'm somewhat in the same position you're in but then again somewhat different then you, I don't wear my mask to protect my family, my family makes me wear my mask to protect myself"
"Are you saying your face is cursed?"
"No but it might as well be cursed, my face is but the means to my end, the only people that have ever seen my face are my family and even then the last time anyone in my family saw my face was my mum and Jake almost a half year ago, in fact you are the only person I have hanged out with outside of my family because of my mother's fear that people will see me for what I am and use and hurt me because of it"
Huntress was shocked, Finn was scared of himself, his very being gave him pause, Huntress was now starting to see Finns faults and his weaknesses but at the same time that was what made him real what made him a person and what made him an individual and she stared to see that like her Finn was lonely a bit as well.
"But as you said, I will trust you with my weakness and my darkest secret"
Finn first took off his hood to show his long gold flowing hair which Huntress so desperately wanted to touch it but at the same time did not want to spoke Finn. Next Finn took off his goggles to show case his rich sapphire like eyes that anyone can be lost in if they gazed to long in his eyes and finally last Finn took off the bandana to relive Finns pale snow white skin.
Huntress could not believe her eyes, Finn was hands down the most beautifulest being that she has every laid eyes on or will ever lay eyes on and a thought came to mind, what would Finn look like when he gets older? As she imagines it blood leaks out from her left nostril but somewhere in the back of her mind she felt something was off with Finn. It took Huntress a full 2 minutes to realize what was so off about Finn because of his beauty was distracting her from focusing, her eyes widen even more so when confronted with Finns beauty.
"You're a, you're a, you're a" Huntress tried to get the words out of her mouth but she just did not have the strength to do so.
"Yes I'm a human Huntress, and before you even ask yes I am the last of my kind as far as I know" Finn told Huntress without her even asking for he knew the most likely questions she would ask.
"How is this possible all human are supposed to be dead?"
"When I was a baby Jake found me in the woods right in Boom Boom Mountain alone with nothing but a dipper and my polar bear beanie alone and scared, and I was far too young to have remembered anything before Jake found me"
"But you had to have come from somewhere a human doesn't just pop out of nowhere so there must be something"
"Like I said I was too young to remember anything but sometimes when I dream I dream of my mother my 'real mother!' I think but I really don't know for sure anymore, the dream for a time started off peaceful and nice, my mother would hold me close to her and she would sing to me in the most wonderful voice and it made me feel at peace, but recently the ones perfect dream I once had is gone, replaced with a nightmare, I see my mother dying while I'm still in here arms and that I'm ripped away from her dead hands by a monster with a glowing blue skull"
Huntress sees that while Finn was telling her his story tears formed in his eyes, as he started too curled up into a ball and start to shiver ever so slightly all from the pain in those memories. Seeing Finn like this brings a tear to Huntress's eye seeing her hero so broken deep inside his soul made her regretted asking about things she would never truly understand. How could she, for there were many of her kind in the woods thought-out OOO and even some in the city's.
But for Finn. He was all alone in this world even with his family beside him just knowing he was the last of his kind left on OOO can make anyone feel alone in this world. Huntress leans into Finn and wraps her arms around Finn in order to comfort him in his time of sorrow.
"You don't have to feel alone anymore Finn, you have an amazing family that loves you and is there for you, trust me when I say that most people that would of found you would simply sold you off to the highest bidder and they would live in luxury for the rest of their life's but they didn't and neither will I"
Huntress's words of encouragement did make Finn a bit happy that his new friend was a true friend and he was relieved that his trust in her was well placed in her.
"Thanks I needed that Huntress"
"Do you think your parents would mind me knowing that you are human?"
"I think they'll be okay with it when they get to know you better so better not tell them that you know I'm human and thanks for being a good friend"
"same here Finn but just so you know there are other people that are like you, alone and scared but they don't have friends and or family like you do so you should count yourself lucky that you do you big cry baby" Huntress joked as she punches Finn softly in the arm.
"Yay your right I really am lucky, guess I just needed a friend to help remind me about it" Finn said as he went and hugged Huntress "Thanks for being there for me Huntress"
The hug Finn gave her was unexpected but it was well appreciated "thank you to for being there for me as well Finn" Huntress said as she hugged back but in her mind she was thinking "SCORE!"
"Finn, Huntress dinner is ready and Finn go get your brothers" Margaret called out
As both Finn and Huntress let go of each other and to back on their face coverage, as Finn was to walk away to get his brothers Huntress just had to say one more thing to Finn.
"Hey Finn can I tell you something?"
"Sure"
"I may not have known about you for long but from what I see you have it pretty good compared to other people that I hear about"
"What do you mean other people you hear about?"
"It's just when you work with criminals and such you tend to hear some sad and depressing stuff that's happening all over OOO especially if you're a runner like I was, going place to place you just hear the word that passes through each kingdom"
"Stuff like what?"
"I'll tell you later Finn"
Somewhere in the Fire Kingdome
In a dark room with a single lamp in the middle of the room with a little girl inside no older than eight years old alone and waiting for anyone to come in and end her solitude. As her hopes were diminishing that anyone would visit her today until the door opened to revile a small male flame elemental with a fiery Mohawk around the same age as the girl in the lamp.
"Ignis!" the fire elemental cheered
"Hey Phoebe sorry I was late father was pretty angry today"
"Oh no, what did you do?" Phoebe asked in a worried tone of voice thinking her brother got in trouble with their father.
"Oh no you got it wrong, I did nothing to anger father someone else did, and you see dads plan to undermine the Candy Kingdom's economy by having the Black Knight raid their trade caravans in hopes to weaken them, it was working for a time but rumor has it a kid around our age killed him and now the Candy Kingdom is getting their trade caravans back on track" Ignis explained to his sister.
"That's good to hear that someone is standing up to dad, I'd wish I could stand up to him as well" Phoebe said to herself.
"You mean 'we!' could stand up against him, you're not the only one that suffers under dad sis though don't get me wrong you have it the worst out of the both of us, I mean all dad makes me do is train to become a powerful and feared general, but with you he just sticks you in a lamp for reasons unknown"
"Yay thanks Ignis for reminding be all about how I'm stuck in here and you get to live out there I had completely forgotten all about that" Phoebe said sarcastically to her brother.
"You know sis sarcasm doesn't look good on you and besides look on the bright side maybe that kid that killed the Black Knight might come and help us don't you think"
"You and I both know there is no such things as a happy ending for us"
Ice Kingdom Westside
"Gunter put down that bottle right now" the Ice King demanded
"Wenk" Gunter replayed before doing what he was told to do *crash*, Gunter drops the bottle breaking it.
"GUNTER! I didn't mean to drop it on the floor I meant to put it down gently Gunter your constant bracken of my bottles is distracting me from writing my fan fiction go over to the corner until you learn your lesson"
"Wenk"
"Hey don't you dare give me any of that sass young man"
"Wenk" Gunter repeated as he left the room
"Good now back to my fan fiction"
As the Ice King pulled out a sheet of paper from the middle of a stack of papers causing it to fall on the Ice King. It took a minuet for the Ice King to regain his bearings in order for him to get out of the pile of paper and when he dose he sees a photo that he does not recognize.
"Hello there what's this?" the Ice King asked himself.
Picking up the photo and saw two people he did not know standing arm and arm with each other. One was male with olive-skinned, dark-haired human wearing a three piece brown suit with reading glasses. The second was a fare skinned human woman, with auburn hair wearing a green sweeter and gray jeans as well wearing reading glasses like the. To the Ice King even he could see even with his cursed mind that these two really loved each other as evident with their smiles and with them holding on to each other. This showing of love made the Ice King a bit jealous of the two but in his heart he could not bring himself to truly hate them not even a little bit.
"Lucky bastardy" the Ice King directing his comment to the male in the photo
But somewhere deep in his mind he couldn't shack the feeling that he somehow knew these people in the photo in some strange mind but his trial of thought was interrupted by loud noises coming from his kitchen.
*crash* *crash* *crash* *crash* *crash* *crash*
"GUNTER! What in globs name are you doing?"
Ice Kingdom eastside
*Crash* *crash* *crash* *crash* *crash* *crash*
"GUNTER! What in globs name are you doing?"
As soon as hearing all the loud screaming caused the Ice Queen to wake up from her beauty sleep. Getting out of her bed angrily and walked up to her nearest window to look across the snowy mountain rang to see her next door neighbor causing such a disturbance to her daily routine.
"HEY YOU OLD BAG OF BONES KEEP IT DOWN OVER THERE I'M TRYING TO GET SOME BEAUTY SLEEP HERE" the Queen yelled out loudly to get the Ice Kings attention which it did
"LIKE YOU NEED ANY BEAUTY SLEEP YOU OLD HAG" the Ice King replied back to the Ice Queen
*Gasp* Ice Queen was stunned at that reply and it took her a few seconds to recuperate "HOW DARE YOU, YOU"
*Crash* the Ice Queen heard glass breaking in her study room.
"What in glob's name was that?"
Ice Queen rushes to her study to find out what made that noise with an ice spell charged up ready to use in case of an intruder entering her home. When she did make it to her study room to her displeasure she found her penguin had just broken something again.
"Gunther! Bad penguin bad, why do you keep braking mommy's stuff all the glob dame time?"
"Wenk wenk"
"I don't want to hear it just get out of here so I can clean up this mess Gunther"
The Ice Queen thank glob that her penguin only broke one thing before she got here to stop her from doing any more damage to her stuff. As she looked at the mess, it was a now broken photo frame, as she swiped up the scattered glass she pick up the photo frame which caused the picture to fall out to her feet.
When she pick the photo up she saw a man and a woman holding each other lovingly, the same two people that the Ice King saw in his copy of the photo. The Ice Queen felt jealous at the sight of the two holding each other, because she wished she two had what they have, just someone to love her that's all she ever wanted in life. But for some strange reason she felt like she knew the people in the photo but she couldn't for the life of her pinpoint the reason why.
"Lucky bitch" the Ice Queen directed her comment to the woman in the photo
*Crash* *crash* *crash* *crash* *crash* *crash*
"Gunther!" the Ice Queen screams as she runs off to where ever the penguin is
Lemon Kingdom
In the Lemon Kingdom ruled a fat and insecure tyrant, as he sits on his gold throne stuffing his face full of food he sees that the doors are opening up and in comes in his personal messenger. The messenger walks up to Lemongrab slowly and even hesitates to even enter the throne room.
"Ah… ah ooooh hail king Lemongrab king of the lemon people I bring bad news from afar the black knight that you sponsored to raid the Candy Kingdom to weaken their economy was killed and his bounty was claimed by a dog, a forest nymph and a hooded child" the messenger said in fear to his king.
Upon hearing the messenger Lemongrab's face was turning red with rage and frustration "what? UNACCEPTABLE!" he screamed as loudly as he could at the top of his lungs causing everyone in the throne room to cover their ears.
"How could you fail me worm!" as Lemongrab pointed his fatty finger at the messenger "you of all people should know the punishment of failure is around here is!" as he slowly pulls out his sound sword slowly and sluggishly as beads of sweat run down his face.
"Please my king it was not my fault that the Black Knight was killed I'm just a humble mess…" the messenger didn't even have the time to finish pledging for his life till Lemongrab swung his sound sword in the general direction of the messenger sending a sound wave to cut the messenger in half.
As the messenger's body fell to the floor and as his lemon juices oozed out of his body did Lemongrab start to claim down from his tantrum
Satisfied with the death of the messenger Lemongrab sheathed his sword, as he did his stomach begins to rumble for food but as he looked at the platter beside him he saw no more food. But he does see the dead corpse of his now dead messenger and tried to get up off his thrown to get it. But because of his girth he was stuck in-between the arm rests and couldn't get up from his position. In order to save face and to not show weakness in front of his people he gives out an order to his servants.
"Bring me the corpse of the former messenger now!" Lemongrab demanded.
As the order was given two servants picked up both pieces of the corpse and handed it to their king and to their horror he was eating it in full view of everyone present in the throne room. This was not an uncommon site to see Lemongrab eating his own people, he had even eaten his own brother in a bid to gain more power for himself, but that didn't diminish the fact that everyone was afraid of him because of it.
"You there" as Lemongrab points to a random servant while still eating the former messenger "you will be the new messenger from now on and I hope for your sacks you to don't fail me like the last one did!" as Lemongrab slurped up the remaining body parts and licking his lips of the lemony juices.
"Oh… oh yes m-my king I w-will not fail you I s-swear" the new messenger stutters
"Acceptable" Lemongrab sat in his throne satisfied with his latest meal but just then he remembers the problem he was having before "someone get me butter!"
Goblin Kingdom
"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!" the mad goblin king laughed as slapped the asses of his slaves that he only recently bought back from another kingdom his men raided.
Xergiok was trying to let out some steam when he heard that the Black Knight was killed now not only was his plans to destroy the candy kingdom was put on hold for now but he also lost his favorite slave dealer. Where on OOO was Xergiok going to find a slaver that could fill in for the Black Knight, before him Xergiok would have had to wait for weeks before he could gain new slaves and it would look like he will have to go back on that system.
With the room he was in now filled with the screams and cries of so many people Xergiok now felt his mind ease now with all the suffering surrounding him. With his mind now focused he was now devising a new plan to take down the candy kingdom alongside his allies. Knowing full well they can't just up and attack them out in the open like what the fire king and Lemongrab wanted.
"Idiots" Xergiok thought to himself about his so called allies.
"Those two know nothing about finesse and tactics and or strategy if we did it their way and openly wage war on the candy kingdom they would just call on their allies the werewolf kingdom, jungle kingdom, rock kingdom and even glob forbid lumpy space kingdom" Xergiok cringed at the mere thought about those flying tumors and when he is done with the candy kingdom, they're next on his to kill list.
He was contemplating weather or not to call them his allies, he knows he was no 'good ally' by any definition of the word but those two out class him any day of the week. One was a literally a hot head that will burn you, your family, your home, your land and even your next door neighbor if you simply bumped into him by accident. The other one is just as bad if not worse than the both he and the fire king combine, sure we both torture and kill your subjects but we don't eat them on a regular bases.
"Stupide retarded, fat cannibal" Xergiok muttered to himself
Werewolf Kingdom
Queen Luna was sitting in her privet study room sipping tea, reading a good book, right next to her favorite painting she painted herself all while under the light of the full moon. As she was enjoying the remainder of the night someone came knocking on her door.
"Come in"
"So sorry to have disturbed you my queen but a message has come for you" the butler explained
"Really from who Lobo?"
"From princess Bubblegum, she has sent out an invitation for you to and others to come to her kingdom to have a little get together but knowing her she just probably just wants to try and strengthen our military alliance and or trade agreements"
"that may be true but I've not seen her in months and I know both her and her brother have been going through a lot recently with all those bandit attacks on their borders, I just want to check on her just to know she's okay, and who knows maybe Marceline and Marshall will be there so I know it won't be boring if I go there, so message princess Bubblegum back that I'll be there"
"As you wish my Queen"
Luna closes her book and walks to the door but turns back to look at her painting of a worrier that had saved her life when she was much younger. Who has sadly now long since passed from this world like the rest of his kind. For Luna's greatest claim to fame was that she was there during the final moments of the mushroom wars and she saw the fall of the human race. As she looks back one last time to see the human figure in the painting with his short golden hair, his soft smile and the most note able feature he had that no one else had was his piercing rich sapphire eyes. (Basically he looks like an older version of Finn)
She sighs and looks down upon herself as she was holding the only thing he gave to her as a little girl a white wolf eared beanie. Ironic really seemingly as she became a werewolf sometime after they separated, it was funny to her how fate dealt with her, she now only wises that fate be kind to her and deal her a kind hand to see her hero just once more be it in spirit or be it for him to be reborn to this mortal world in flesh and bone.