"Oh my Glob. What the stuff is going on here?"
Lumpy Space Princess. The princess of Lumpy Space (obviously), had a loud voice and a VERY lumpy body. But that didn't stop the one and only Princess Bubblegum from befriending her. In fact, they where BEST friends. Sure, the candy princess was friends with virtually every princess in Ooo, but she was especially fond of Lumpy Space Princess. (Why? Nobody knew. But she was.)
On her way to greet Bubblegum for a tea party, she caught site of all of the gloom and sadness that radiated from the once happy Candy Kingdom. She floated to the castle feeling confused and unsure if it was a good to time see her friend. All of the candy had turned a dull color of what it once was. All of the candy people where slow, and tired and sick looking. Was it possible they caught the Freezer burn Flu again?
Lumpy Space Princess made her way through the cloudy sad castle, up the royal stairs and to Bubblegum's room. She grabbed the handle of the door and turned it. It was locked.
"Hey PB! Open the door Globbit! What's with your lumpin' kingdom? It looks like a freaking ghost town, exempt everyone is still alive. But sick, or sad or….open up!" Lumpy Space Princess yelled while pounding her purple lumpy fist on the door. Still, nobody answered. The purple cloud huffed, disappointed. She then decided to check up on the royal king and queen. "Maybe they might know where Bubblegum is." She wondered. She floated to their royal bedchamber, and knocked on that door as well.
"Uh, hey, hello? Mr. and Mrs. Candy Kingdom? Do you know where Bubblegum is? And what is, like, up with everybody?"
The door slowly opened. Lumpy Space Princess smiled, but it quickly dropped in confusion when she saw Princess Bubblegum appear from behind the door.
"Uhh, wait…what the stuff-?"
Like a dash of lightning, Bubblegum grabbed the cloud by her wiggly arm and pulled her into the bedroom. Slamming the door quickly behind her.
"LSP keep your voice down!" Bubblegum harshly whispered. The cloud simply gawked at her. "Keep it down? Why the lump do I have to keep it down…?" And then it hit her. She smiled devilishly.
"Oh, PB. Are you, like, sneaking around?" She asked.
"I most certainly am not! I'm merely looking around for clues." The abashed princess stated. LSP crossed her arms. Not impressed. "Uh huh. Riiiiigghht."
The candy princess sighed. And looked at her lumpy friend once more. "Look, LSP, now's not a good time right now. In case you haven't noticed, my kingdom is in dire need of satisfaction. And I'm trying to heal it." Bubblegum said while going through her parent's closet. LSP made a smug comment that the candy princes didn't catch, and then she heard her lumpy friend jump on her parent's bed. Bubblegum gasped.
"LSP! Get off of there! If my mother sees her sheets in a mess she'll kill me!" she exclaimed, and tried pushing her friend off of the bed. Because of her lack of legs, the cloud turned her yellow star on her forehead off and on to give her that 'bouncing' notion. This also made it more difficult for the princess to swat at her.
"Oh, cmon PB! Stop being, like, such a lumping idiot! You should totally bounce with me. It's so much fuuun!" exclaimed the happy mound of lumps. The princess continued to try and push her friend off, but eventually gave up. She sighed in defeat, and walked back to the closet to rummage through it. She could hear her friend's bouncing cease after a moment, and then whining.
"Coooommme oooon! I'm always sooo lumping bored Bubblegum! Hanging with you is, like, the only way to be happy! Why do you even need to be in here? What are you looking for? Stop being such a lumping butt!" the lumpy princess insulted. Bubblegum simply kept searching the closet. The lumpy cloud turned a bright pink with anger.
"Hey, PB! Are listening? Listen to me! Stop what you're doing glob blobbit!"
The princess still didn't stop.
"Listen to me! PB!"
Still didn't stop.
Now red with anger, Lumpy Space Princess floated to the royal dresser, grabbed a book off of it, and, "Listen…to…ME!"
She threw it at Bubblegum. It hit her square in the back of the head. She yelped, and turned to glare at Lumpy Space Princess.
"Ow! LSP! Why would you throw a perfectly good book at me?!" She picked up the book to make sure it wasn't damaged. She flipped through the pages while talking.
"I mean, you could've seriously damaged it! A book's spine is a lot less strong then a humanoid's ya know. And didn't you think that…that…wait a minute."
The Princess trailed off as she looked through the book. After reading a few lines on one of the pages, the princess's eyebrows shot up.
This is my father's journal.
"Hey PB? Are you, like, alright? You look a little sick." Asked the lumpy princess.
In Princess Bubblegum's mind, her imaginary gears where clicking things together.
In your father's permanent words…
Permanent words…
Writing.
"I don't give a Why-Wolf's ass! Just don't let him in!"
Over the last few weeks of being in the Night-O-Sphere, Marceline had turned angry.
And not just anger, powerful.
She ruled the vampire kingdom with an iron fist, and she did so with the one and only Hunson Abedeer. She hated him with every shred of flesh and blood she had on her body, but what was she to do? He was good at teaching her how to rule a kingdom, and he did know the ropes of the Night-O-sphere, so what was she to complain about?
The first week she took the throne, her father made a visit.
I'm so proud of you. He told her. You are exactly how I wanted you to be. Strong, independent and monstrous. You never really belonged in that silly Candy Kingdom anyway. You're rightful place is here, in the Night-O-sphere, with me.
This made Marceline's motionless blood boil. There was no way she would allow him in her kingdom after he said that. Not today, not tomorrow, not ever. Especially not today.
"But, your highness. The mighty Lord of Evil might not be very pleased with that." Said one of Marceline's goblin servants. Lots of vampires tend to kidnap goblins from their kingdom, and enslave them. Marceline never kidnapped a goblin, but some goblins ended up working in the royal vampire castle, tending to Marceline's commands.
The vampire queen frowned. "I don't care! I don't want to see him. Not after what he said. Just leave him out there." She ordered, and began to walk away. She stopped after she heard a bang. She turned around to see her father standing in the door frame, and her servant on the floor next to him. She glared at the little goblin in a 'why-did-you-let-him-in-I-thought-I-told-you-not-to!' kind of look.
The goblin shook his head violently. "I didn't let him in, he pushed the door open." He whispered to her. She looked at him, and then back at her father. He bore a devilish grin. His large green eyes staring at Marceline.
"Hey, wassup sweety pie?" he asked her jokingly.
She cringed. "Don't call me that. What do you want? I'm very busy." She asked sourly. The Lord of Evil made his way inside, and sat on a brand new sofa Marceline had gotten. She really fixed the place up since she took charge. The broken pillar that she landed on was fixed. Everything was scrubbed, and cleaned, and dried. She even had her servants fill in cracks on the walls and floors, and painted over it with silver paint. The place was spotless and beautiful.
But of course, to give it that Night-O-sphere look, she had skulls and weapons hanged up on the walls and had them hanging from the tall ceiling. It wasn't the same as the Candy Kingdom, but she still liked it. It was hers. All hers.
"I just dropped in to say hi. Can't a loving father see his own daughter just for fun?" he grinned. Showing off his rows of teeth. Marceline crossed her arms.
"Dude, that's enough of that 'I love my daughter because I'm her dad' bullshit. Everyone here knows that you only like me now because I'm stronger. But the truth is…I haven't changed. Not mentally. I'm still going to return to the Candy Kingdom. But not until I'm at my strongest peek."
Hunson Abedeer chuckled. "Are you still bent out of shape about the Candy Kingdom King taking a little tumble? Who cares? We demons don't care about anybody but ourselves. It's in your blood Marceline. You're a demon, like me. You're strong, like me. You should be careless like me too." Her dad stated. Marceline ground her sharp teeth behind her lips.
"No! I'm not like you! I will never be like you! You suck! The Candy Kingdom King was my real father, not you! I'm going to the Candy Kingdom, and taking back what I want." Marceline spat.
Her father straitened his tie, and smirked. "And what exactly are you planning to take back, Marceline?"
She smirked herself. "My innocence. I want to show those candy people that I'm not guilty of my father's murder. And punish the one that is." She sneered, fangs glowing. Abedeer laughed. He laughed harder then he had in a long time. This all but confused the vampire queen. She shifted in her knee high boots, and glared at him. After he calmed down from guffawing, he looked at his daughter.
"Oh sorry. It's just that…you take after me more then you think you do. Revenge is in our blood too ya know."
Marceline froze. He was right. She had changed more then she thought. More then she had wanted too. More then Princess Bubblegum would have wanted her too. She dropped her shoulders. Was what she was planning to do a bad idea?
Then she pictured the King lying broken and dead on the stage. Her anger and hatred for the Queen soon rose up once more. She didn't care if what she was doing was wrong. She didn't care if she had changed. She didn't care. Like her father.
The Lord of Evil cocked an eyebrow.
Marceline looked at him, and her face grew dark. "Look. You wanna help me becaome stronger right?" She asked him. He was a tad surprised by the question, but eager to know where it was going.
"Of course my little monster."
"And you want me to be just like you right?"
"Yes."
"…If you help me, I promise you. I will be the most ruthless ruler in the entire universe. You just have to help me execute the Queen of the Candy Kingdom."
The Lord of Evil grinned widely at this proposition. He liked the sound of it in every which way.
"Ohh? And you think you aren't strong enough to take her out?" he asked playfully.
Marceline looked down at her boots. "I'm strong, but the Candy Kingdom's defenses are really impressive. For bananas with spears, they're tough fuckers. It's why not too many people fuck with the Candy Kingdom. Plus they have many allies. You're stronger though. You can suck souls. Help me get past the guards so I can reach that damned Queen." Marceline stopped to see her father's reaction, but she got nothing. So she continued to the juicy part.
"If you can do that…I'll be whatever you want me to be. I'll be your little monster."
The Lord laughed again. But not out of humor, but out of satisfaction. This was a great deal. For him anyway. He like the sound of this. Marceline was losing her patience with him. "Well? Are you gonna agree or not?"
"Heheh…It's just…This deal is so one sided. You have no idea." He giggled.
Marceline picked at her long finger nails. "I know it is. But I don't care. If it means killing the Queen, and taking my revenge, I'll do it."
She held out her hand to her father. "So, is it a deal?"
He grinned. He shook Marceline's hand. "Yeah, it's a deal. When do you want to leave for the Candy Kingdom?" he asked her. She thought about it for a moment.
"Tomorrow. At sun down." She answered after a moment.
Marceline thought she was walking away with trust for her biological father. But what she didn't know was that Hunson Abedeer had another plan up his sleeve.
Okay, kind of a crappy chapter, but the next chapter will be the BIG ONE. ;)
This is taking me forever to write. But i'm still going at it! The story is slow going. there's just a lot of information and things i have to explain in it. I do think 11 chapters (so far) is a bit much. but bare with me! your wait is soon over!:)
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