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I awoke floating in midair. I guess Mem-o must have turned off the gravity or something, because it was happening to everyone else as well. In the zero-gravity everyone's arms had floated up in front of them, save for Finn, who somehow continued to have one arm around my shoulders even though he had flipped so that he was facing directly away from me while he was sleeping. I giggled a bit at his awkward position, then attempted to stand up. Of course, we were in zero-gravity, so I ended up careening around in a circle, flailing and waking everyone else up. I finally righted myself by grabbing on to a wall.
"Sorry guys." I said sheepishly, then let out an exclamation of surprise, as Finn, somehow still sleeping, managed to slam his head into the back of mine. We began preparing to leave; packing up all the stuff we had left floating around. I moved to the console and asked Mem-o where the Lich was.
"The Lich is located in the present memories section. Due to the hugeness of the past memories section, it will be more efficient if I create a door to it here."
"Great!" I replied. "You ready guys?"
"Yep!" Other me answered, slinging a backpack onto her shoulders.
"Okay, Mem-o, open the door!"
A door similar to the one Joshua had used formed out of the stone in front of us. I carefully edged it open, revealing an almost blinding bright light, and drifted through. I reappeared in another room, this one white and sterile. Looking around, I saw a series of pipes holding the liquid that I saw before in Joshua's memory feeding into a large number of molds. The liquid flowed into the mold and hardened into a memory gem, which was then removed by another spider-robot and carried out a door marked past. We were currently in what appeared to be another control room. A strange hat-type thing was suspended from the ceiling, with a chair underneath it. I attempted to drift over towards it, but, with a start, realized that there was gravity here and almost fell over. I took a few shaky steps towards it, then, adjusted to the gravity walked normally over to it.
"FP, I don't think you should touch that." Princess Bubblegum warned from behind me.
"It'll be all right." I replied. "Isn't it safe Mem-o?"
Mem-o replied from the console next to the chair. "It will not harm you physically."
"See?" I replied, still vaguely entranced by the strange hat. "Nothing will go wrong." I reached up and grabbed the hat, pulling it down towards me. "Nothing will go wrong." I said again, quieter, as I pulled the hat down those final couple centimeters until it fit squarely on my head. As the hat fully contacted my head, my vision went black, replaced with what appeared to be the treehouse. I attempted to walk towards it, but it appeared that I had no legs, or any corporeal for that matter, and merely instantaneously relocated to the spot I was thinking about going to.
"Hmm." I thought. "So if I think about going to the Ice Kingdom…." The view shifted, flying across Ooo until it reached the Ice Kingdom. "I can see the Ice Kingdom." I played around with the viewer for a bit, then finally decided to use it for something useful. "Show me the Lich." I thought, and my view shifted once more, flying through space to the large, brown asteroid that was the Palatium Iaculis and through the wall, past an image of my friends looking nervously at me, still in the chair, to the Lich, standing in the middle of the set of memories. He reached down, touching a gold gem, still hardening, that glinted images of a man helping an old woman across the street, turning it black, replacing the previous images with nightmares beasts and corpses. I gasped, shocked, and quickly returned to reality. I pulled off the strange hat and stood up.
"Flame Princess! You're OK!" Finn exclaimed.
"Yes! But we have very little time. We must find the Lich. He is corrupting memories or something, turning heroic memories into evil ones!" I gasped again, breathing heavily, still tired from using the strange viewer-thing.
"Let's go!" Both Finns said at once, jumping down a ladder into the rows of memories cooling. We followed them, running down towards the one I had spotted the Lich in. We rounded the corner, and sure enough the Lich was still there, turning to another memory, this one red.
"Hey Lich! Take this!" I yelled, throwing a fireball at him. He rose into the air, dodging it, then threw two back at me, which crashed into the floor, leaving a smoking hole. Alarms began to go off, and a number of robots began crawling over, attempting to repair the hole. I increased the temperature of my flames, shooting into the air like a rocket, and threw another fireball at the Lich. The area around me went black all of a sudden. I could feel the Lich's presence attempting to control me and possess me, and I fought back, remembering meeting Finn for the first time, him singing his song about me, holding my hand, and our hasty kiss after being reunited.
"Stay out of my mind!" I yelled, remembering all of my good times with Finn and Jake and my friends, bolstering my confidence to throw one massive fireball at the Lich. It impacted him, almost knocking him over. He rose again, laughing madly.
"Silly little girl, I don't need to be in your mind to have control over it. I have all of those good memories right here." He raised the red gem he had picked up when we came around the corner, and I gasped, seeing myself and Finn holding hands reflected on it. The Lich put one finger onto the gem, and it turned black. I felt a clawing pain in my chest, deep sadness and terror, pulling me down into the dark abyss. The Lich disappeared, and I was left alone, collapsed on the floor. The light of my flames illuminated an ever-shrinking patch of ground around where I sat, hugging my knees. I tried to continue remembering all of the good things me and Finn and my friends had done, but found myself losing them.
There was a dog…Jack? Oh, now he's gone…
The princess of candy, I knew her! Or…at least I think I did. I can't remember.
A vampire? I-I don't know.
I began repeating a mantra in my head.
I am Flame Princess. I am 15 years old. I am a hero and I'm teaching my boyfriend Finn to be a hero as well. I live in a treehouse.
I am Flame Princess. I am a teenager. I am a hero, and I have a boyfriend named Finn. I live in a… tree?
I am FP. I am a hero. I have a boyfriend named Finn. I used to live somewhere.
I am FP. I am a hero. I have a boyfriend named Finn. I-never mind, I can't remember.
I am FP. I don't remember what that stands for. I used to know someone named Finn. He was…more than a friend?
I am FP. I used to know someone named Finn.
I am FP. I remember Finn.
I remember Finn.
I remember Finn.
I remember…I can't remember.
I awoke sometime later. I was on fire, which was a bit unusual. Am I supposed to be on fire? I can't remember. I was in a big, black room. That made me laugh. That's a word. I still can remember some words. I can remember I used to be someone. I used to know more words. But now I know less. I don't remember! That made me laugh again. I don't remember! Haha! I don't know why it's so funny. You could say I don't remember! I don't remember! I'm running out of words now. Square, circle, box, blue, red, green, yellow… I don't remember. I don't remember the things that mean something. I don't remember what something means! I don't remember "means" either. I think…what's think? I don't remember. I made another one of those happy noises when I thought that. What is thought? I don't remember. It wasn't funny anymore though. Now it was…sad. What does sad mean? I don't remember. I had thought that so many times, I made a song.
"I don't remember, I don't remember, I can't remember because I don't remember."
Am I turning into the Ice King? Who's the Ice King? I laughed again. I think it had something to do with losing my sanity. I don't remember sanity. It can't be that important.
"I don't remember, I don't remember, I can't remember because I don't remember."
"What is remembering? I don't know because I can't remember!" I giggled again.
"Flame Princess!"
A voice called from far away. I don't remember a voice. That's new.
"Wake up!" The voice was closer. Wake up? I'm not asleep. At least, I don't remember being asleep. Was the voice talking to me? Am I Flame Princess?
"Are you talking to me?" I yelled back. Hmm. Yelling is new too.
"Er. Yes! Wake up!" The voice yelled back.
"Cool! How do I wake up?" I replied. Cool is new. I didn't remember cool from before.
"Er. I don't know! You should just know how to wake up!" The voice replied.
"Well, I don't remember anything. So that could be a problem." Problems are new too. I haven't heard of a problem before.
"Try opening her eyes." Another voice suggested, quieter. I think the new voice was talking to the old one. Suddenly, the black sky cracked open, revealing an immense face. It-no, he was wearing a big, white, hat. Hats were new too.
"Um. Do you remember me, Finn?" The big face called back.
"Nope!" I replied cheerfully, smiling and waving at the big head. "Although I wish I did. Do you want to hang out sometime?" Hey, you can't criticize me. This Finn-head-thing was cute.
"Oh. Um. We-uh, normally do that, when your memories were fixed."
"My memories are broken?" Come to think of it, that might be the problem. I don't think I have enough of them.
Other voice interjected again. "Here's the memory powder."
"Ok. I'm going to look away, but I'll be in there with you in just a second." Big floating Finn head replied. There were a few noises as his head disappeared, then he appeared next to me. I stumbled back at his sudden appearance.
"It worked!" Finn exclaimed. I looked at his blue clothes. I remembered them from somewhere. It was quite puzzling.
I walked over to him, examining the things on his feet. "What are these?" I asked.
"Um. Shoes." He replied, standing there somewhat awkwardly.
"And these?" I asked, pointing to the protrusions from his white hat.
"My ears." Finn replied. This continued on for a bit until I roughly understood most of the meaning of the words.
"Listen, FP, you need to wake up." Finn said.
"I know! It sounds awesome up there, but I can't figure out how." I replied. "It's so far away."
"Listen, FP, is there anything you can remember?"
"Not remembering? I remember that."
"You need to remember." Finn grabbed my hand. Yay! That's good, I think.
"I-I think I remember you. We were in a room, and we were doing something, because we had been lost and I was happy I found you." I tried to remember. That was the strongest memory I had.
"You kissed me, remember?" Finn said again.
"Yes, I think I do." I said vacantly.
"Remember me, and Jake, and all the others?"
"Yes…" I whispered. It was all coming back! I was starting to remember! Me and Finn leaned towards each other, drawn together as the black landscape around me slowly began gaining color. Just before our lips met, I whispered two of the three words that had plagued me.
"I remember…"
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