For the first time in nearly one thousand years, Simon Petrikov had control of his body.
"Huh? What on earth am I waring?" he asked himself as he looked down at the blue robe he found himself in.
A giggle cut through the silence of his private chambrs in the icce castle.
"Who's there? Are you the one that released me from the crown?"
"Yeah" a voice answered from the shadows, a female's. "I'm...Dream Princess I used my magic to bring you back and seal away the spirit of the crown".
"R-really? Thanks I guess..."
"You've been gone for almost a thousand years Simon, It'll be hard, but you should be able to make a new life for yourself" Dream Princess said.
"One thousand..Marcy, little Marceline, she's-Oh God..."
"Marceline is alive, and in trouble" his saviour stated, shocking him out of his grief.
"What?"
"Marceline, the vampire queen has been captured by a dangerous magic user, one that only you can stop" she explained.
From her place in the shadow of a recently built tunel to the ice caves, Dream Princess watched as the information registered in Simon's mind.
"What do you mean I'm the only one that can help her?".
"Take a long hard look at yourself ice man, I wasn't able to restore your body to the way it was before the war" she explained and the former ice king followed her suggestion and looked at his reflection in a nearby mirror. His hair and beard were significantly shorter, it wasn't the full length of the ice king, aside from his outfit and lack of glasses, he looked exactly like he did when he traveled around the world with Marceline after the war.
"Oh.." Simon said.
"In this state you can use the full powers of the crown without losing your mind" Dream Princess explained. "Your enemy is called King insomnium, big, tall guy that looks like a demon, black skin- and I mean that literally- he's kidnapped Marceline and brainwashed all those that could oppose him"
"I don't know..."
"Simon, the crown keeps you alive by wapring temporal energy around you to keep it in this state, you can use that!" she continued. "King Insomnium's only weakness is time magic, and even a small amount will be effective against him!"
"Are you sure Marceline needs my help? It's been so long and-" SImon began.
"I've sacrificed a lot to bring you here petrikov, and yes, Marceline needs your help, everyone here does, now go"
"But-"
"Go!" she commanded and watched as he took a look outside the window, saw the mayhem occuring in other kingdoms, and ran out with the crown in hand.
Dream Princess sighed and glanced down at herself, her wings were slowly receding into her body, feathers falling to the ground as they did so. Her body felt numb as her legs and pelvis began to morph, which forced the princess to run as fast as she could into the ice caves. Instinct told her to run, to ensure her friends never saw what she would become, and even as her mouth began to stretch and change into a wolf-like muzzle and white fur sprouted all over her body she ran.
She came to a stop in a cave, the tunnel leading to a dead end. Unable to withstand the numbness and the changes she collapsed onto the ground, her mind going foggy as her body forced her to rest until the changes were complete.
(time lapse)
Her body felt alien when she awoke, a long muzzle in her feild of vision, feet that felt to short and wide to be human and elongated arms with clawed hands. the proportions of her body and limbs suited that of a quadraped, but she found she had some anrthopomorphic ability as she succeeded to walk upright towards a mostly flat piece of ice to use as a mirror.
She looked, for lack of a better word, like a werewolf in every sense of the owrd. the head was that of a normal wolf, save for the eyes, despite the change she didn't have slitted pupils, instead they were round, blue, human-esque eyes. her body had the slight curves of woman, though with great relief she realised her mammary glands were located on her stomach somewhere underneath all that fur. What would have been forepaws were clawed hands and her hindlegs and fet were indentical to wolf's. Her tail was far longer than most, a portion of it resting on the ground, and she realised that she was far taller than before, she would have easily towered over her former self.
She opened her mouth to find her dental structure wasn't nealy as canine-like as she first assumed, teeth designed for ripping and tearing at meat were now sharpened and wolf-like, while the grinding teeth humans had the back were still present.
"An omnivore huh, neat" she said without thinking, her voice had regained its usual Australian accent, only it was slightly deeper than normal. Thankfully it lacked the growl she thought it would have.
She noticed something was reflected in the ice and she turned around to find the mirror of the multiverse attached to the wall behind her.
"You've got to be kidding me.." she deapanned, her ears pricked up as she heard voices in the distance.
"Dream Princess?"
"Princess?"
"Dream Princess where are you?"
"Hey DP you here?"
Distinctly the voices of Finn, Jake, Marceline and Simon.
Just how long was I out for anyway? she thought and glanced at the trail of feathers that would eventaully lead the group to her.
I can't let them see me
She glanced back at the mirror, the glass silently reflecting her scared and panicked expression.
"Ponyfeathers" she cusred, and clumsily ran on through it.