Marceline was ready.
She was ready to face the Candy Kingdom. But most of all, the Queen herself. She sat inside her father's living room (which was basically broken rubble with a picture frame here and there) next to an illuminating blue portal in the middle of the floor. She looked inside it, trying to wait patiently for her father's return. The longer she looked inside it, the more she thought. Is all this worth it? Is all this stress and preparation worth the Queen's death? And then she would remember painful thoughts. How her father-her candy father played with her as a kid. How he treated her with so much kindness and love that shed never thought, hoped, she would achieve. His death is what usually drove her back into an angered madness, and she loathed the Queen once more.
But she would often think of Princess Bubblegum. And the candy people. They all cared for her too. Taking the Queen from them might just push them all over the edge. She would be taking away Bonnibel's mother, then she would have no one. Was Marceline really going to do that?
The Vampire Queen banged her palms on her head repeatedly. "Ugh! Where is he?" She hissed in aggravation. As if he heard her, the Lord of Evil opened the door to the living room with a toothy grin on his face.
Marceline crossed her arms. "Jee, I didn't realize getting a few "errands" took so long these days." She mumbled sarcastically. Then added, "What did you need to get that took you so long?"
Hunson Abadeer smirked. "Oh I just had to grab some banana repellent. Might be useful on banana guards."
Marceline squinted her eyes at him. Not sure if she should ask him what he really got or just ignore the situation. She chose the latter. But she did tell him things to remember. "Okay, remember, your top priority is to take out the guards, but not kill them. I don't want innocent blood on my hands. Got that? Incapacitate the guards or anyone else that tries to stop us. Leave the Queen to me." She exclaimed.
Her birth father smiled widely, and gave her a dirty thumbs up. "Don't worry. Its all good."
Marceline rolled her eyes, and jumped into the portal. Abadeer following closely behind.
The vampire Queen rocketed out of the portal that formed in the sky above the Candy Kingdom. She flew downward towards the castle. She could see some candy people spotted her already. They where pointing and yelling at her. This alerted the candy guards, and they raised their spears at her. She knew those couldn't kill her, but there where so many guards, she knew they would slow her down. Stall her until the Queen escaped. She couldn't have that now could she?
But much to her relief, the Lord of Evil quickly formed into a large tentacle monster hiding in his throat, and wraped the gaurds tight in his tentacles. They weren't going anywhere.
Marceline smirked at this, and quickly dived into the castle entrance, passed the tied up bananas. She flashed her way through the halls and around the chocolate stairs. She stopped suddenly, like she was a cartoon, right in front of the royal bed champers. She pulled the doors open with so much strength that the hinges broke, and the large pieces or chocolate flew behind Marceline. But she hardly noticed. She looked around with huffy breath, but saw no one. The Queen wasn't there. She then looked inside her own room with a little more care. Still no one.
She then checked Bubblegum's room last. She opened the door and looked inside. She didn't see anybody, but something caught her eye. A big clump of paper hanging on the ceiling above the princess's bed. She walked to the edge of the bed to get a better look. She saw fond memories. She saw poorly drawn depictions of her, her father, the princess and the Queen having a good time together. She spotted a picture that she drew herself when she was little.
It was a drawing of Marceline and her father standing together with a slightly scribbled pink heart in the middle. Before she knew it, warm tears where streaming down her blue, cold face.
Because she knew, as a child, she could never have showed how much she really loved him on a simple piece of paper. In reality, that heart was worth a million. She felt the same for princess bubblegum. Her caring sister. But not the Queen.
Take away those millions of hearts, plus the one drawn on the ceiling, and what do you get? Nothing. That's the kind of love she felt for her so called "adopted mother". And she was ready to show it.
She was finally ready.
She clenched her fists, her fangs jutted out farther then they ever did, and her crimson eyes glowed with anger. She burst through Bonnibel's window, and up towards the roof of the candy castle. There she would be able to see the entire kingdom, and make it easier to spot her target. Before she got to the roof, she saw a shadow move inside through the window of Bubblegm's lab. She threw a punch at the glass, and it shattered all over the room. She crawled in, and looked around.
She spotted a trembling figure In the corner. She got closer. Then her face scrunched up. It was her target. The Queen.
The Monarch had her knees to her chest, and she was visibly shaking in fear.
"Please…Marceline…leave me be." Bagged the Queen of the candy kingdom. Marceline grinned devilishly, and shook a finger at her. "Oh no. I don't think so. You can't talk down to me anymore. I'm a real Queen now. And I'm stronger then you. Or your kingdom." The vampire hissed. The Queen tried her best to shrink at Maceline's dark words, but it was no use. The vampire could still see her.
"Marceline, what good will terrorizing my kingdom do? How could you possibly benefit from this?" wheezed the Queen. Her words becoming harder to say as her fear takes over her mouth. She hiccupped. Marceline got in her face.
"How could I benefit from this? How could I benefit from this?! Are you that fucking stupid?! My revenge on you will bring me the most needed comfort ever. You're nothing to Ooo. This kingdom could do better without you breathing down its neck." The vampire spat. The constant insulting managed to twist the Queen's nerves enough to speak up to the powerful demon.
"I only treated you the way I did was because I wanted what's best for my family!" the Queen spat back. The vampire snarled, showing her row of pointed teeth.
"So killing the King was your idea of "what's best for your family"?!"
The Queen froze. Her candy blood turned cold in her licorice veins. Her ears rang.
"How…How dare you blame me for his death. It was YOU who pushed him!" Screamed the maddened candy monarch. This startled the vampire. She didn't expect the Queen to explode like that. She took a step back.
"What? I would never push him! I loved him more then Glob itself! I would never do such a thing!" Marceline yelled back. She was confused now. The Queen acted as if she wasn't responsible for his death. But of course she was…she had to be…right?
"I've had just about enough of your games Marceline! Either you speak your wrongings with honor or so help me I will-"
Marceline shot a hand at the Queen's throat, and held it in a tight grip. She lifted the Queen up above her head, to the point where the Monarch couldn't touch the floor.
"Shut the fuck up! You're the one playing dumbass games! Do you think this is some kind of joke?! Your gunna die old prune!" shouted the vampire before rushing out the window; the candy Queen still held tightly in the her grip, and to stop above the entire kingdom. She held her arm out to stare at her enemy. Who had her eyes tightly shut from the pain in her neck.
The Queen gasped for air as she squirmed to try and free herself from Marceline's rock hard grip. Unaware that they where floating a hundred feet in the air.
After a moment of nothing but the pink Monarch's gasps for air, Marceline spoke up.
"How could you do this to me? To the kingdom? Why would you take him from us?" Marceline asked. Her words freshly dipped in sorrow. The Queen managed to pry her eyes open to look at the vampire.
"I…ack…I didn't ki…ll him…I loved him t..oo…"She said through the small chunks of air she could receive. Tears weld up in her eyes as her throat started burning from the friction of air trying to get through. Marceline growled.
"You told me before I preformed that night that you where mad at him for not giving you enough attention. You compained that he didn't love you anymore. You had a damn motive for doing it! Not me!" the other woman shouted. The more she thought about it the more she was tempted to let go of the Queen's neck. Letting her fall to her doom.
Or snap her neck. Either way.
But before she did that, she needed to know why the Queen was trying so hard to hide her crime.
"Marce...line…ugg…I was…mad…but I...gah…loved him…more then…anything…" the Queen had sugary tears pouring out of her eyes now. Marceline was shocked to see them. They dripped from the candy female's chin on to Marceline's pure white knuckles. This was when Marceline suddenly began to notice her surroundings. She looked past the Queen, and saw tons of bat demons flying around. She then looked down and saw hundreds of different demons fighting candy people and setting things on fire. The Vampire Queen's jaw went slack.
She looked up at the portal in the sky, and saw hundreds of demons pop out of it and into the sweet kingdom. Marceline looked at all of the destruction with horror. "What…what the hell?"
"MARCELINE!" shouted a familiar voice. She turned her head to look at the roof of the candy castle. She saw her sister, Princess Bubblegum, holding a brown book and yelling for her attention.
"Marceline! stop this! Please! She didn't do it! It was suicide!" she shouted to the skies where Marceline inhabited. The vampire looked at her sister for a moment before she felt a strong tug on her arm. She looked over to see the Queen being pulled free from her grip by bat demons. The snickered and laughed as they bit into the candy flesh. The Queen screamed in pain as her bubblegum body was being devoured by demons in mid air.
Marceline quickly grabbed her axe bass over her shoulder and swung at the demons. She managed to chop their heads off and grab the Queen's damaged body before she fell far. The bat demons fell to the ground dead. Their heads following shortly behind.
Marceline held her mother bridal style. Bubblegum's words banging inside her brain.
It was suicide…suicide…suicide… why?
The Queen coughed up pink blood; her body leaked the same fluid. It dripped all over Marceline's skinny jeans. She tried with all her might to focus on the vampire's confused, almost frightened gaze. She licked her lips.
"Marceline…what have you done?"
Then her head went slack. It dangled over Marceline's strong blue arm. All forms of life from the monarch dropped to the Land of the Dead. Marceline's eyes went wide. She didn't need to check her pulse to understand what had happened.
The Queen died. Her injuries where much too severe.
The Vampire Queen turned to look at her sister, who held of face of utter shock. She knew what happened too. Oh Glob. She knew.
Marceline slowly floated to her. To her sister that had hot, gushy tears running down her face. The vampire stopped in front of Bonnibel, the Queen's body still in her arms. She stared at her sister. Unable to say anything to her. All she could manage to do was gently place the Queen down in front of the princess, and quickly fly away to resolve the issue of the demons.
She tried to scope out Abadeer with little luck. After a while of looking, she finally spotted him smashing a small muffin house. He was in his large soul sucking form, so Marceline quickly changed into her large bat form and struck him in the face. The Lord of Evil rubbed his large head and looked at his daughter.
"Ah! Marceline. How did your little revenge thing turn out?" He asked cheerily. Almost as if all this madness and destruction wasn't there.
"Why are all these demons here? Why would you do this?" scolded the large vampire beast. Marceline couldn't tell if he was smirking or not with his strange vertical mouth, but knowing him she was sure he was.
"Because I'm evil of course! Duh!" he exclaimed.
Marceline grit her teeth. She knew that this was his best excuse, and simply wanted it corrected. "Fix this. Now! Get rid of all these demons!" She yelled in his large face.
He raised his hands ( and his tentacle hands) in front of her. "Woah, hey now. Everybody's havin a good time. C'mon. Don't be such a party pooper." He mumbled graciously.
"Dad, if you love me, you'll stop this."
The Lord of Evil hesitated. Marceline had never called him dad before. On top of that she was just what he wanted her to be. A demon. And that's what she became, as much as she hated it.
He pondered for a moment. Then said, "Ah what the hell. For my little girl, I'll bring the demons back."
Then he stuck a tentacle finger in his mouth and whistled. All of the demons stopped in their tracks, and flew back up into the portal. Just like that they where gone.
"So…will I see you for supper? Maybe?" asked the Lord of Evil playfully. Marceline looked at him, unimpressed, and told him to leave. Once he did just that, Marceline turned back to normal and closed the portal. So much for the "no one leaves the Night-O-sphere" rule.
She looked down at the aftermath. It was bad. Most houses where damaged in some way, and there where candy people crawling around in pain, or calling out to find their loved ones, or just broken in little pieces everywhere. The vampire's lip quivered. She didn't mean for any of this to happen. She didn't want all of this destruction. She looked down at the candy castle. It took little damage, but that's not what she was looking for. She saw bonnibel crying over her mother's body. The brown book tossed casually by her side. Marceline floated down to them.
Despite being as silent as she could, Bubblegum sill looked up at her. Her face stained with tears. Marceline's undead heart dropped to her feet. Never had she felt so guilty for something. Never had she felt so sad for her sister.
"Bonnie…I…I didn't mean for-"
Bubblegum screamed at her, and threw the book at Marceline's face.
The vampire easily caught it, but it still hurt emotionally that her sister intentionally tried to harm her with an object. But Marceline new she deserved it. She caused Bubblegum so much pain. Bubblegum put her face in her hands, and ran. She ran to the chute that leads to the roofs and ran down it. Out of sight.
Marceline watched her disappear out of sight. Then she slowly opened up the brown book. She quickly recognized the handwriting to be that of her father's. She flipped through a few pages, read a few notes, and then she stopped on the very last page of the journal.
It read:
Well, tonight's the night of the ball. I know for a fact that this night is going to be stressful for my lovely wife, and my amazing daughter. They both have been on edge lately with each other. They fight because of me. I love them both will all my heart. I cannot simply choose between them. My little princess has also been fought over.
I've made my decision. I believe I know the best solution. It's a foolish one. But for the love of my family, I think it might help them come closer together. As one. I and my wife will be standing on the balcony above the stage where Marceline will be performing. I'll watch Marceline play her talented song, and then fall off the balcony where I will die on the impact of the stage. With me out of the picture, it will help mend my family's ties. They will be strong without me.
Marceline was weeping now. She cried more then she ever did. She cried for her father, she cried for the Queen, for the kingdom, for the princess.
Her father set the whole thing up so that the rest of the royal family would love each other like a normal loving family. Instead it only aroused more hate. Why did Marceline not see that? Why didn't she start bonding with the Queen? Why was she such an uncaring beast?
She wish she knew. Had all those years of manners and love not reach her? Marceline floated away wondering where she was in the greatest moments of her life.
4 years later
"Alright, so here's how it's gonna go down. You start saying things," said Jake the dog, pointing an orange finger at his best friend, Finn the human, "and you start laughing waaaaay loud," He pointed to Marceline, his newest friend, "and Bubblegum," pointing to an opened window that Bubblegum as whistling by, "will get jealous of you," pointing back at Marceline, "which will awaken her Finn love!" He finally finished.
The satisfied dog walked beside Finn and said, "Action!"
Finn looked around nervously at first, trying to think of funny things. He eventually just settled for strange noises. He made all kinds of different noises, and, like a clever actress, Marceline laughed wildly at it. It of course attracted the princess to look out the window.
She smiled widely when she saw Finn, her greatest hero, outside. "Greetings finn!" she announced happily. Her smile quickly faded when she saw who he was with.
Marceline. Her so called "sister" that she hasn't seen in almost 4 years. Her so called "sister" that almost destroyed her entire kingdom. Her so called "sister" that killed her mother.
The very person that ruined her life was standing outside her window, in her kingdom, as if nothing happened between the two.
She swallowed all of the insults she had boiling in her throat, for Finn's sake, and settled with a very dry, "Hey Marceline."
The vampire smiled widely, waved a hand at her and cheerily said, "Hel~lo Bonnibel!"
This made the princess's anger even more extreme. Once again, she locked the gates on her emotions and disregarded her. She continued to talk to Finn. "So…what's so funny Finn?" She asked.
The young boy simply scratched his head and mumbled, "Um..It's…something…"
"Well, then keep it down out there! I'm trying to whistle practice." She stated and continued to whistle inside the castle. Marceline sneered at the window. Asshole.
She went back to helping Finn and Jake win over the Princess. After a while of failing horribly at that, Marceline and Finn sat inside an attic of Finn and Jake's tree dome. The young adventurer sadly slumped down against the wall and sighed.
"I don't understand, Marceline. I tried everything. I guess she doesn't like me."
He was quickly shushed by a finger to his lips. He looked up at the smiling vampire. "C'mon Finn. A pain lord like Bonnie?" "Pain lord" was an understatement in Marceline's mind. "You'd be bored with her in a week! Anyway, I, for one, think you're pretty great." Marceline admitted, and kissed the teenager on the cheek. She walked to the edge of the opening of the tree attic and turned to look at Finn.
"Sorry it didn't work out like you wanted. I'll see you later I guess," She said, and with that she flew away.
Once Marceline got back to her cave, she sucked the red out of an apple for a quick midnight snack. She also was thinking about what had happened just a couple hours ago. How the Princess was being rude to her from the window sill. Marceline was under the impression that they had come to an understanding. She thought they had talked over the scenario like adults, and understood each other. She thought three weeks after the demons attacked the Candy Kingdom that Marceline showed up at the castle to talk to the Princess about what happened. Did that change nothing?
Marceline squished the now colorless apple in her palm, and angrily plugged in her axe bass to some speakers, and before she actually managed to play any tunes, she heard a noise outside. She looked out her window to see Finn dressed up in his ridiculous lute suit, and beat boxing a weird beat.
She couldn't help but smile at the funny sight. At that moment, she said to herself, fuck it. Finn was all the entertainment she needed. Not that mood killer, Bubblegum. Finn and Jake where her best friends now, not her.
Marceline had a great life! She felt great! She could party whenever she wanted! She could hang with anyone she wanted! She could do whatever she wanted without the Queen yelling at her all the time…..
Marceline's smiled dropped. The Queen. The Queen didn't deserve what she got. She was, honestly, thinking about the well being of her family. She didn't miss the Queen, but she still, to this day, regret what she did. She often tried to look at the positives of things too. Like hanging with Finn and Jake, and being independent, and doing whatever she wanted. She was having the best time of her life without the princess! Who needs her right?
But sometimes…Marceline can't help but miss having a sister.
Holy crap burgers! that took forever! :s But here it is! the BIG ONE! :D
I do hope everybody was satisfied with it. I know it took forever. i was really busy these past couple weeks. more busy then I usually am.
So thank you for your patience. And yes, i know Finn and Jake weren't in this story very long. they where just a pain in the butt too try and squeeze in. :D
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