Author's Notes:

Hey guys. This chapter is intense, believe me.

Surprise at the end! … Wait no don't skip!

Hey, my new fanfic called "The Evil Within"'s summary has just been released! Go read it and you'll like it! How will it be? Definitely more adventure than this fanfiction, and it goes into the background of a character in this story. To see the summary, view my profile and go down to "My Fanfictions"

I'd like to give a shout out to the new OC in the story. She was created by adventuretimedrama go check out her stories they are rad!

Enjoy!

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/ Chapter 10: Out of the frying pan… \

Was I dead?

I could hear my shallow breaths coming out of my mouth, but I couldn't open my eyes and I could barely move.

Then the voices. But they were not in my head, they were real.

"Restrain him."

I felt hands all over me, then I felt a cool, rocky object wrap around my hands and feet, and a click.

Then all my senses came back. I opened my eyes to see black, and I knew that there was a band around my eyes so I couldn't see and I was gagged. Whatever was in my mouth tasted unpleasant.

I was pushed onto my side and was being dragged along, and I felt like something ripped into my skin as I was being pulled- probably the rocks.

There was no escaping this.

"We need him alive, put flame shield on him."

I heard silent chants then a sting on my shoulder, and something cold covered my body.

"Now take him to the King. Come on, move people!"

And I was lifted into the air and the guy that was carrying me was running.

After a few minutes of running, I heard lava bubbling, rocks falling, loud footsteps, and fire cackling.

A rock door opened and a few seconds later I was put onto my knees. Hands were wrapped around my eyes, then the band came off and I looked around.

I was DEFINITELTLY in the fire kingdom.

It was all red, kind of a funnel, and there were fire guards all surrounding the throne in the middle of the room.

And my god, the guy that was on the throne was HUGE. He had a wide head made out of fire, with a crown on top, copper armor that covered his chest, arms, and legs. He rested his arms on the chair and looked at us.

To the right and left of him, were rows of seats, all containing the citizens of the fire kingdom.

Above him was a lantern, and in the lantern was Flame Princess.

She was shouting but they were muffled, and her pounding on the glass was worthless, since the glass did not crack or anything.

I looked to my right and left, and Finn was directly to my right, followed by Jake. At my left, were the knocked out PB, Marceline, and Ice King.

Me, Jake and Finn were the only ones awake.

"My lord, who would you choose to speak?" Asked a guy at his right.

This guy was not a citizen, his head was a helmet of rock with red eyes, and he had muscles, shown with his rock arms and gloves. He had body armor on underneath his shirt. He was holding a M60 Machine gun.

If I were to escape, I would have to kill him first.

The large guy- Flame King, thought for a minute, before he pointed to Jake.

"Him, because he was the cause of this mess, and my daughters close demise."

One of the flame guards walked up to Jake and released his mouth, and he breathed heavily.

"Hello, 'Buffoon.' You realize that I am very enraged, correct?"

Jake hesitated before nodding.

"And what almost happened to my daughter is punishable by death, correct?"

I stopped listening because Finn nudged me and I looked at him, and I followed his eyes to see him kick a sharp piece of rock at my leg.

I looked back at the King before scooping up the rock with my feet, bringing it to my hands, and I managed to grab it and started to try to break the rock that restrained my hands.

After a few seconds, it broke and the pieces fell on my legs.

Finn brightened and I almost saw a smile underneath his gag.

I reached down very slowly and started to break the ones on my legs. It took a little bit, but I also managed to break the restrains.

I was free.

My heart began to pound in my ears as I stayed in my restrained form so the guards didn't notice. They didn't fortunately.

"… and now, we begin with the slaughter. Start with the boy on the left."

It took me a second to realize that he was talking about me.

A flame guard walked towards me with a AK-47… it was covered with black, volcanic rock, and some lava streams flowed through it.

Wait, if the kingdom has guns, that means…

My heart was pounding so loud the entire land could hear it. The guard was close to me and raised his weapon.

(To get the full feeling of this battle scene, play some epic rock or dubstep music.)

3…

The guard reloaded another clip.

2…

He switched off his safety.

1…

And the barrel raised to my head.

NOW!

I shot up and slapped the barrel out of the way, putting my arm around his neck, strangling him as I dragged him, using him as a shield as I put him behind a rock.

I took his gun and the whole kingdom froze with wide eyes and 'O' mouths, even the King, before I raised the weapon and quickly fired at the armored guy at the King's right.

I missed, the bullets hitting the rocks around him, and he jumped into action, raising his M60 and shot thick rounds at me.

I ducked and ran towards another rock and dived behind it, covering myself from the rounds.

I heard guns cock and then the King's voice.

"No! Let X handle this. Guards, seize my daughter and lets go!"

I heard footsteps move away from me and I was still for a moment before I raised my head to see, forgetting about X.

X jumped from the stone he was standing on and rolled on the ground, then swiftly shot his M60 at me again.

I went back behind the rock just in time before the rounds smacked the rock.

I ran out from behind the rock, surprising him as I fired at him.

It hit him but did barely any effect, because he flinched but went back down into cover.

"Careful, Connor he has armor!" Jake shouted.

I wasn't going to be able to take him out with weapons. I had to go Hand-to-Hand.

I threw the AK aside and ran right towards his cover, and caught him off guard as I vaulted over and kicked the M60 out of his hands. It went sliding across the floor but he got to his feet and threw a rocky fist at my face.

I took the blow hard, and I felt my cheeks swell up and stinging pain but couldn't recover as he punched my stomach and the air was knocked out of me, and he followed with a knee right above the belt.

I went down on one knee and he stopped, thinking I gave up but I wasn't going to go down that easy.

I punched him right above the belt and followed with an uppercut as he staggered back, and I twisted his arm behind his back and he tensed up.

"You're not an elemental! Who are you?" I shouted.

"That's none of your concern." That voice…

He elbowed my face and I fell over, and he took a volcanic pistol from his belt and aimed it at me.

But something blue came out from behind him and a large fist came down on his head and he collapsed.

Jake ran over to me and pulled me to my feet. "Are you okay?"

I wiped my face with my hand and it came away red. "Yeah, I will be."

Finn ran over to me. "They're driving away on trucks, they got FP! We need to go get them!"

I suddenly remembered something and shook my head.

"You go! I have to get something. Grab a truck and start to chase them, I'll catch up with you!"

They nodded and the others awakened, looked at me, but then followed Finn out the door.

I looked at the body on the ground. "I'll see who you are later…"

And I ran towards the hallway behind the throne.

I was unarmed but there were no guards and I kicked the door open, followed by a huge hallway with doors. I broke into a sprint down the hallway, looking back and forth for the right door.

"Where's his office?"

At the end of the hallway was another door, and it was bigger than the rest and the sign above it said 'King's Office, Do not Enter.'

"Aha!"

And I kicked the door open to see a large room with trophies and a large desk in the middle and there searching the place was a girl.

She heard it and slowly turned around, and she looked at me with emotionless eyes.

She was wearing a red leather jacket with a gray t-shirt underneath, black jeans but it looked ripped at the bottom into shorts, with black hightops. She had one glove on that was fingerless and black. I looked up to her face, and she had long blonde hair with black streaks in them. Her right eye was dark green, but an eye patch covered her left. She wasn't affected by the fire. She was thin and I found myself entranced at her perfect curves before quickly yanking an AK47 from a gun locker at my left and aimed it at her.

"Don't. Move." I said coldly.

She blinked and tilted her head at me. "I suggest you don't do that." She said.

I kept the gun raised as I moved slowly towards the desk. "There's a fire dagger around here somewhere, do you know where it is?"

She pulled out a dagger with a bright orange blade. "You mean this?"

I gasped and growled. "Yeah, and I'm gonna need that."

The corner of her mouth curled up and then she said, "Over my dead body."

And before my finger was even on the trigger she was gone, and I was very confused and looked around the room before she was behind me and kneed my back, sending me to the floor. She kicked the AK away with her toes and moved towards me. I raised my leg to kick her but she blocked it and punched my mouth and I ignored the pain and got to my feet, shoving her away.

She slammed into the gun locker and fell to her knees, but I didn't see pain in her eyes.

She looked up at me. "What's your name? You look familiar."

… "Connor Dunbar…"

Her eyes widened and she got to her feet. "I've been looking for you this whole time…"

"What? Why?"

"I want to join you on your journey to defeat the mafia and kill your father."

I was silent for a minute before lowering my weapon. "Why?"

She blinked again. "Because..." she looked down and thought, before looking up again. "It's not important. But if you don't let me join you, I teleport away and you'll never see this dagger again!"

I sighed and nodded. "Fine. You can join me…"

She began to run towards the exit of the room before I held my hand up to stop her. "Wait… What's your name?"

She looked back at me and smiled. "I'm Rian… Rian Shields."

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She was running down the hallway, and I was right on her feet with the AK swinging back and forth in my hands as I was running with her.

She rammed right through the door to the main area and I stopped at the unconscious body of X, and I swung the AK over my back and kneeled down next to him.

Rian stopped and looked back at me. "What are you doing? We have to get to your friends!"

I didn't answer and she came up next to me and knelt on his other side. "What?... Who is this?"

"Were about to find out." And I grabbed his helmet and lifted it off his face and gasped with horror and jumped back.

It was Mark.

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Haha! Surprise! … ehh.. whatevs.

How'd I do adventuretimedrama? She is now an important part of the story.

Well anyway, Marks back and he's a traitor! What will Connor say to him? How will Mark explain himself?

Find out in the next sorrowful chapter, "Unhappy Reunion"

Bye guys!