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Ch 11 nightmares and land lords
So where is our new house Huntress? Because I can't keep carrying all of this stuff forever, I'm going to get tired eventually" Jake asked as he had turned himself into a train carrying all of his stuff from home as well as Finn's and Huntress's stuff as they were making their way to their new home in the grasslands.
"You mean mine and Finn's house, you're just the live-in maid Jake"
"What the! Finn bro help your bother out with this"
"Sorry bro can't do anything, after all you did sign the contact Huntress gave you"
"Yah but I had no choice, I would have been homeless if I didn't sign it"
"Quite complaining Jake were here now"
"What where? I don't see any houses anywhere"
"There"
"Where? I don't see anything but a big old willow tree and a pond"
"That big old willow tree is 'mine and Finn's' new home Jake"
"Does anyone even respect me anymore?"
"I respect you Jake" BMO said as he popped out of the luggage in the back
"Yah so do I bro and you know that, Huntress is just pulling your leg right Huntress?"
As they all looked towards Huntress trying to see her response, Huntress felt she was being pressured into saying yes with all the staring eyes glued to her.
"Fine, yes Jake I respect you too and all the things you do but with all the other crap you do, I tend to lose the majority of my respect for you" Huntress said without caring whether or not or not she heart Jake's feelings.
Both Finn and BMO looked at her with a disappointed look on their faces but not Jake, he instead had a big happy go lucky smile.
"I'll take what I can get"
"You better" Huntress grumbled under her breath "but anyways where here now"
And with that Jake turned back into his original form but he didn't keep it for long as he stretched out new limes all over his body to grab all the luggage inside.
"Hey, Finn where do you want me to put your gold?"
"Just place it where ever, it's not like I use the stuff, it's more like… keeping score you know?"
"Yay, I guess I can understand that… so can I borrow-"
"No!" Finn answered his bother without even needing to even think about it
"Come on I'll pay you back"
"You and I both know that will never happen"
"But I… come on… you're right I won't pay you back" Jake admitted to Finn and placed the sacks of gold on the floor near the front entrance.
Satisfied with that Finn journey further into his new home to get the lay of the land and where to find where he will be sleeping from now leaving Jake behind with his treasure horde confident his security system could handle any would be thieves that would dare try and steal from him away.
The moment Jake saw Finn leave the area he stretched out his right arm to grab a few gold coins, as he kept a lookout for anyone that my walk in on him. When his hand reached the treasure trove his hand slithered into one of the sacks he had laid down hoping to just grab a few coins to pay off the money he owes to his butcher that sells him some of the most rarest and sometime the most illegal of meats and food stuff on the black market.
Unluckily for Jake the moment he did he heard a loud snapping sound followed by searing pain emanating from his fingers. Jake wanted to scream but he was able to cover his mouth quickly to shut himself up so that Finn wouldn't find out he tried to steal from him. Jake reals back his hand to find a mouse trap firmly clamed to his finger and wonders who put it there only to find a little robot pop out of one of the treasure chest he laid down.
"Oh hello Jake, looks like you got caught by one of my many traps I placed in the cash stash"
"What OW!" Jake yelped in pain as he removed the mouse trap from his fingers "why would you do that BMO people could get hurt?"
"But Finn told me to do it, because Finn said that the bad people would try and still his hard earned loot"
"But Finn should have asked me to guard the loot, after all I'm a dog, guarding stuff is what dogs are great at?"
"Jake I'm a robot and thus I do not have a fully comprehensive understanding of the concept of monetary value since I don't have any desire to attain anything beyond my base programing to find a family which I have and so I don't want for anything more than what I already have" BMO explained to Jake and a cool and calm manner that was not very much like him at all.
When Jake heard this he felt a bit sad for the tiny robot, for he had no desires to have more in life then what he already had and like himself who wanted more from life and never satisfied made Jake ponder what he really wanted in life but before he could think deeply on the matter the little robot still had more to say.
"Also Finn asked Huntress first to see if she knew any spells or incantations that could protect the loot but she told Finn that was not her specialty so he then asked dad who told him to put all his loot into a dungeon filled with monsters and traps. But that would have taken too long to do, so in the end he asked me to guard it and I said I'd do it"
"Was I even considered for the position, and BMO be honest with me?"
"Finn did consider it for a while but Huntress made him think about it really hard about his decision to let you guard his treasure, stating that you are more likely to steal than protect the treasure and by the looks of things she was right"
"Oh crap, look BMO you can't tell Huntress, I don't want her to rub this in my face so you have to promise me you won't tell her okay"
"Don't worry Jake I won't tell a soul this time but just so you know if she did find out you did try to steal from your own brother she'd make you sleep outside"
"Then thank glob she won't find out"
"Find out about what Jake?" Huntress asked Jake seemingly appearing out of nowhere behind Jake.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Hey Huntress fancy seeing you here hehe, so what brings you here?" Jake said trying to play it cool but obviously failing to do so.
"Jake I live here so I'll ask again, I won't find out about what Jake?"
Jake begins to panic and looks towards BMO for support only to see the robot slowly sink into the treasure chest as the lid closes leaving Jake behind to deal with huntress alone.
"Aaaaah you know… dumb stuff that's unimportant that you'd don't want to know"
"But I want to know about this so called dumb stuff is Jake?! Huntress asked again however this time she said it in a more demanding tone while stepping closer into Jake's personal space.
"Welllllll you see… uh hehe uh" Jake tried to think of a convincing but because of the pressure he was under he just blurted out the first thing that came to mind that made semi-sense in his scared little head "uh some hot bikini clad girls are going to come over to welcome us to the neighborhood and give us a plate of hotdogs as a welcome gift" it was only when he said it out loud did he realized how stupid he sounded.
Huntress just stared deep into his soul and spoke with a disappointed tone that sounded like she was expecting a better lie that "Jake that has got to be the worst lie I have ever heard in my life, this is your last chance to tell me the truth, NOW!"
Jake had all but lost hope of being saved now and was about to tell her the truth until both he and Huntress heard the door being knocked on.
*knock, knock*
"Hey guys can you open the door I'm pretty busy up here at the moment" Finn yells from the second floor hoping that ether Jake or Huntress answers the door.
"Don't worry bro I got it" Jake responded as fast as lightning "now if you excuse me I need to attend to the door, don't want those bikini clad babes waiting" right now Jake is internally praying to glob that some sort of miracle happens or he won't live long enough to have a life to live
"Jake there are no bikini babes behind that door, you and I still need to have that talk and I want the truth or else"
When Jake opens the door both he and Huntress were shocked beyond words as there were three bikini clad babes standing outside with one of them holding a plate of green sausages?
Huntress looked down on Jake and in a calm voice and apologized to him "sorry Jake, turns out you were telling the truth after"
Hearing this Jake smiles gleefully "That may be the only time you've ever apologized to me" Jake said with tears in his eye's but his attention went back to the three bikini clad babes "can you give us a second here?" Jake asked, one of the three bikini clad babes was about to respond but Jake closed the door before a word could be uttered.
Not even a second had passed the door re-opened to see that Jake had changed his form, from his original short and soft form to a big and stout with bulging muscles.
"So what bring you fine lovely ladies to these neck of the woods" Jake spoke in a smooth tone of voice as he flexed his newly formed pecs and biceps.
"I thought you were into horses?" Huntress blurted out only to now find her mouth being covered by Jake's hand.
"We came to give you a house warming gift of frog sausages, because it is the neighborly thing to do"
"Aw thanks" Jake says as he takes the plate of frog sausages "wait, you're are neighbors?" Jake questions himself as he starches his head outside to see where there house was but he found nothing.
"I don't see your house" Jake bluntly said which earned him a little fit of laughter from the three water nymph.
"It's right next to your house, right there" one of the water nymphs pointed to the small pond that had a family of ducks swimming around in it.
"That's your house, its soooo small, I mean no offence I know I live in a tree and all but this tree is big and spacious, there's no way all three of you live in there" again his comments had earned him another fit of fit of laughter from the water nymphs.
"That's not our house, it's more like our front door"
"Yeah, underneath the ground and yes even under your tree house there are a lot of underground waterways and grottos"
"It's really beautiful there you should come and visit sometime"
"Maybe I will, who knows only time can tell"
"I think I'm going to be sick if I stay here any longer, here let me take these frog sausages and put them in the fridge for you, oh and Jake try not to embarrass yourself in front of our new neighbors"
"So is it just you and your friend over there that's living here?"
No, my brother also lives here as well
"Oh so another talking dog lives her, can he stretch and change his shape like you can?"
"No my brothers huuuuuuuuuuuu-adopted" Jake corrected himself "so he doesn't have the same Powers as me, but he is a very good swordsman and can hold himself with the best of them" Jake tried to play it off but noticed the questioning looks they were giving him "but I do have a brother that is related to me by blood"
At the mention of this their questioning looks turn into interest.
"Really now, does he live with you or is he still living with his parents?"
"No, he's gone to a magically University to study and stuff"
"Oh that so wonderful to hear"
"Yeah yeah yeah enough about my brother's already, how about you three and I get to know each other a bit better, what do you say?"
"No thanks" all three of them replied simultaneously "It's just that it wouldn't really work out between us"
"Oh I see, you all have boyfriends I completely understand"
"No that not really it"
"Oh sorry, girlfriends then and don't worry I support that sort of thing so you'll have no problem from me and my brother or Huntress, now that I think about it I believe Huntress will be pleased with that not having to worry about praying another girl from Finn"
"No it's not that it's just that we're water nymphs and you're a dog"
"OOOOOOh I get it now you're not a fan of interspecies relationships" Jake said with a meaner tone of voice than normal.
"No it's just we're made of water and you're a dog and if we got together we would constantly smell of wet dog, much like fire and water they don't mix well"
"TELL ME ABOUT IT, I HAVE TO LIVE WITH IT NOW" Huntress called out from the kitchen
"LIVE WITH WHAT?" Finn called out hearing the commotion from up stairs
"THE THREE WATER NYMPHS DON'T WANT TO GO OUT ON A DATE WITH JAKE BECAUSE THEY DON'T LIKE THE SMELL OF A WET DOG!"
"YOU GET USED TO IT"
"NO YOU DON'T"
"Sorry, no hard feeling right?"
"Yeah no hard feeling, see you around I've got to go see if I could piece together my pride" as Jake was closing the one of the water nymphs stopped him.
"We also came to tell you to watch your self's around here at night"
"Yeah, we've lived here for only a year and you're our 10th neighbor that has lived in this very house"
"On some nights we hear the people that used to live here screaming their lungs out as if they have seen a ghost"
"Phfft ghost aren't that scary, all you need to do is throw some salt at them or hit them with something made out of iron or know some sort of magic and we got all three of those so we've got no problems in defending your selves"
"Others claim that vampires came instead and torment those that live here and when they're good and frighten they feed on their blood, because to them they say that fear adds a certain taste to their victim's blood" Jake visibly tenses up at the mention of vampires.
"Basically all we are trying to tell you is your house is haunted by ghosts and or vampires"
"Anyways have a lovely day now because the night won't be!" and with that the three water nymphs walked into the pond disappearing from sight.
Jake stood still at the door frame frozen in fear at the mere thought vampires may come to his house at night and drink his and his brother's blood.
Sliding down the ladder Finn seeing his brother not moving a muscle walks right up to his brother in order to find out what is wrong with him.
"Hey Jake is something wrong?" Finn ask concerning his brothers mental wellbeing
"Oh yes I'm fine just fine, hey Finn You found which room you're sleeping right?"
"Yes, why is it you ask?"
"You don't mind if I sleep in your room tonight and all other nights?"
"I don't know there's only room for one bed up in there"
"Don't worry about that, I'll just shrink down and sleep in one of your sock drawers"
"Are you sure you're alright Jake you aren't acting like you usually do and you have me extremely worried?"
Before Jake could reply to his brothers question Huntress walked in and filled him in instead "don't worry Finn, Jakes just scared because those three water nymphs told him this tree house is hunted by ghosts and or vampires"
At the mention of vampires Jake physically shivered in fear.
"Aw, what's wrong Jake scared of ghosts are we?"
"What! No I'm not scared of ghosts I've dealt with them all the time even before Finn here even came along, it's just that vampires are another thing though"
"You see Huntress when me and Jake were younger our dad told us some stories about them when he had dealings with vampires that caused Jake here to have some pretty bad nightmares, every time a storm came in he thought he saw the hand of a vampire taping on the windows asking to come, in but it was just a tree branch"
"You didn't get any nightmares form these story's Finn? Because if your brother did reason has it wouldn't you?"
"No it didn't give me any nightmares, reason being I had… other stuff going on in my noggin that and I didn't get much sleep because of Jake's constant sleep talking about vampires hunting his dreams and after a while I just stop caring if a vampire would come or not and just tried to get some form of sleep. And ever since he's been afraid of them till this day even though his never seen one in person"
"I said I was sorry Finn, and let's not forget you and Jermaine all ways use that to scare the crap out of me by telling me there are vampires around"
"Really? That's good to know" Huntress smiled evilly at Jake as if she was some kind of villain with a plan "JAKE! Look there's a vampire right behind you!"
"Haha very funny, NOT! How stupid do you think I am, it's only sunset now and I knew that you would do something like this when you found out about thissss" out of nowhere Jake feels a clawed hand dig into his flesh as a set of fangs brush themselves against his skin.
Now believing that there truly was a vampire behind him Jake wasted no time squealing like a little girl and stretch out of the vampires grip and hid behind Finn for protection.
"Finn! Quickly kill it now before it sucks my blood!" Jake ordered his brother desperately as he didn't want to die.
As Jake was rolled into the fetal position he waited for the sounds of the epic battle that was to come between his brother and the blood thirsty vampire but instead he hears Finn trying to hold in his laughter and failing to do so while Huntress is just full on laughing. Confused, Jake gets back up and looks to the door frame to see two branches that has grown from the door frame. One of them was in the shape of a claw hand and the other in the shape of a set of fangs.
He turns and faces Huntress, glaring at her with seething hatred that could burn a hole through titanium but Huntress just laughed it off as it was the most natural thing in the world.
"Not funny!"
"Oh yes it is, you were like aahh Finn save me! And I was like hahahaha and you were like totally confused on what's going on and then you, and then you hahahahahaha" Huntress laughed wholeheartedly unable to talk properly as she fell to the floor.
"Screw this, I'm going to bed now!" Jake said as he stomped to the ladder to go to Finn's room only to climb back down to ask Finn "Hey bro which one is your room?"
"Second door to the right"
"Thanks bro, and Huntress, don't forget I'm watching over my brother from here on out so I better not catch you doing anything wired like last time" as he emphasized his point by pointing at his eyes then pointing at her.
When Jake said that Huntress immediately stop laughing as her face now had a very serious look on her face as she stood back up dusting herself off.
"Huntress, what was Jake talking about?" Finn asked curiously
"It's nothing Finn" Huntress lied through her teeth not able to look Finn in the face when she said it "I'm going to find a room for me to sleep in now and set it up and probably go to bed, night Finn" Huntress said as she quickly walked out.
"Goodnight Huntress"
As Finn made his way to his room he could hear Jake grumbling something about Huntress but couldn't understand it.
"Are you alright Jake?"
"No I'm not alright! I'll be having Glob flipping nightmares for a week now with what's happen to me now, I mean I could take Huntress's jokes okay but those water nymph just had… something real and genuine about them, in the way they were warning me about this house being hunted"
"Don't worry Jake if they come I'll be here and if you have a nightmare I'll wake you and pat your belly just the way you like it" Finn spook softly trying to reassure his brother he had nothing to fear in his new home.
"Finn I'm not the one here that suffers from nightmares the most"
"I know but I also know you'll be the one most likely to have nightmares tonight and not me" Finn countered Jake's rebuttal as he stripped his concealing cloths to put on his special onesie sleepwear that had a both a hood and a mask attached to it. As the last rays of sunlight reflected off of Finn's pale white body and long shimmering blonde hair Jake found it hard to even look in the direction his brother was in but could still see him and was proud of all of his growing up he has been doing.
"Hey Finn, if you get any prettier guys are going to start asking you out on dates even with all the concealing clothing" Jake joked.
"Goodnight to you to Jake, don't let the vampires bite" Finn as well Joked but sadly Jake didn't take it like a Joke and now found it more harder to sleep all the while someone was watching them from a gap in the ceiling.
"His not wrong Finn, get any cuter and men will start hitting on you"
"I am confused, why would people hit Finn when he is like all good looking and stuff?" BMO asked
"Oh BMO, never lose your innocence"
"Don't worry Huntress I won't, because I wouldn't even know if I have lost it or not"
"Good, now let's go you cute pile of circuits our mission is complete for today" Huntress grabs BMO and then places him on her shoulders and states crawling back to her new room after her peak of Finn in all of his splendor. "Looks like I'll be having some good dreams tonight"
Sadly the same could not be said for Finn and Jake.
(Finn's dream)
It was happening again, where Finn would dream he was a baby in a dark and unforgiving world were pain and death reign supreme, where hope was all but lost and in its wake death and hate became the norm. His past nightmares that he had were all a blur of events that he himself couldn't keep up with or just not comprehend what was going on in the dream.
But this dream he was now having was different from most of the others. It was clear and understandable and that in its self-scared Finn. Was it best to understand the things that tormented him in his dreams or let them play out in blissful ignorance in the hopes of not diving deeper into the darkness that was his dream world?
The dream started simply enough, it was dark and it felt like Finn was being carried somewhere by someone. Ahead of him he saw blinding lights that flickered on and off as if they were running out of power but still had some juice still left to use. Finn looks up to see who is carrying him only to see no face instead he saw a reflective glass helm, looking deep into his visored Finn saw himself again as a baby like he always dose when he has this kind of dream.
"Stop! I don't want to do this please stop!" a woman cry's out and by the sounds of her voice Finn guessed she was no older than 20.
"This is for your own good, we have run out of time so the time table has been accelerated, you know what needs to be done" the voice that Finn heard sounded as if it was static and sounded fake as if it was not a person, even more so then BMO's voice. It lacked any joy or heart, sounding more tired and to the point.
And with that said and done the woman starts to trash around and the sound of four or more men coming to restrain her down on what appears to be a metal alter and as she was finally strapped down Finn could hear her whisper something to the dark figure.
"Will you make it not hurt?" she asked fearfully.
"Don't worry it won't hurt at all, I promise I made sure of it" the dark figure said and as he did he turned to Finn and when he saw his face Finn's heart stopped for a split second.
The dark figure was none other than the Blue skull individual that ripped him away from his dead mother. He looked directly at Finn as he did he slowly walked towards him, each step echoed throughout the room and as he came close he took Finn into his arms even with Finn constantly squirming around trying to wiggle free from him, he never tighten or lost his grip on Finn.
In fact, it felt odd, being held by him, Finn still felt afraid of him but he felt safe at the same time which was very confusing for Finn's relatively young mind to process and understand fully.
"Dear baby boy, you have suffered so much in your sort time on this Earth, you had seen what no man or women should ever see but because you have seen such things you will grow all the more stronger in time. So much so that even the incarnation of death, despair and destruction will fall to you, and with me by your side I WILL! Make sure of it. But now let your worries subside for the time being, for time heals all wounds" the blue skulled figure whispered in his static voice.
Oddly enough Finn started to relax, no longer struggling against his hold as he moves around the room to a certain location and as he reached his destination he placed Finn on what seemed to be a cold somewhat wet table. Taking a second to gather his senses Finn moves his hand around the flat surface to get a feel for it. As he did he felt the surface was smooth, having the same feel as metal but there was more. Finn also felt something wet and thick, raising his right hand he saw his crimson covered hand with droplets of blood landing on his face as the smell of iron assaulted his nose.
Finn didn't have the time to scream out in disgust before the blue skulled man pined Finn's right arm back down along with a good portion of his body as he was just a baby and he was a fully grown man. Finn saw he had a needle in his other hand fill with glob only knows what slowly getting closer to Finn's arm. Finn struggled weakly but couldn't move an inch.
Just before the needle entered Finn's arm the blue skulled man said one more thing before injecting him "I knew this will hurt but this is for your only good, and who knows? Maybe one you may even thank me in time" and with that said and done the needle entered Finn along with a torrent of pain washing over him. Feeling so real he awoke from his nightmares.
(Reality)
"AAAHHHHH" Finn let out a small scream as he breathe in and out heavily as heavy rain was pouring outside tree house.
"You okay bro?" Jake asked
"Yeah I'm okay, just a bad dream, sorry I woke you up, Jake"
"Don't sweat it I wasn't even asleep because… you know"
"Yeah I know"
"So… was it an old dream or something new?"
"Something new"
"Still a baby in this one?"
"Yes"
"Say why don't I go get us some warm bug milk to help us go to sleep what you say to that?"
"That sounds nice, you want me to come with you?"
"Na you stay here and relax, I'll be back before you know it"
As Jake made his way down the kitchen a loud thunder storm was raging outside, Jake looked out a window and saw a long silhouette stand just outside the window being illuminated by a lightning bolt and as it passed and another lightning came the silhouette was gone.
Normally Jake would have been freaking out by now but he simply blew it off as a prank by Huntress and went to turn on the lights but found that they were not working, which again he thought was another prank by Huntress or maybe the lightning storm shorted out the power or something similar.
Jake walk over to the fridge and opens it to get the bug milk and as he does he feel a strong gust of wind suddenly pass over him, Jake jolted up right and quickly turned around to see that one of the windows was open just slightly. Stretching his arm and closes the window and turns back to the fridge, only to see that the bug milk was gone.
Jake was getting very frustrated, first, the water nymphs rejected his advancements, Huntress then scared the crap out of him with the branches, he couldn't get any sleep, and now Huntress was messing with him again.
"Alright quite messing around Huntress, and give me back the bug milk I have no time for your games I'm tired and I want to sleep so hurry up" Jake demanded only to be responded with a carton of bug milk being thrown to his face out of nowhere, Jake had now had enough.
"Alright come out now! I mean it Huntress! I'm not taking any more of this shite! You're not scaring me, not after that stunt you pulled!" Jake called out angrily but the response he gets sent a cold sensation to his very soul.
"Hahahahahaha" an evil laugh responded in the dark.
Jake heard the evil laughter and didn't recognize the voice it belonged to, slowly walking backwards towards the ladder as he kept turning his head side to side trying desperately find where the laughter was coming from only to bump into someone.
Freezing like a statue Jake waited for a few seconds and loosen up a bit but was still afraid to turn around so instead he stretched his arms and pated the person he bumped into. First he pated its head, getting a feel for its hair. It was as long as Finn's but it wasn't Finn's because it lacked Finn's smooth and silky feel, this was more wild and unkempt.
Next he felt out the face, the skin had the feel somewhere between Finn's surprisingly smooth skin to Huntress earthy skin tone and at times leafy skin texture, next he felt the ears which rounded out in a point. Which wasn't good and lastly he felt the face and as he did he nicked his finger on something sharp and pointy"
"Aw shit! That stung" Jake wind as he sucked his finger
"That tasted nice, you don't mind if you shared some more? Hisssss~" a complete stranger whispered into his ear with a dark, thirsty voice.
Reacting solely on Instinct Jake minimize himself down to the size of BMO avoiding the vicious bite that was designated for his neck. without even thinking about it Jake scurried across the floor making his way to the latter to get help from Finn or glob forbid Huntress, to save him from this vampire menace.
Just as he was just about near the latter the vampire scooped Jake in her hand, gripping him tightly. Raising her pray slowly off the floor Jake found himself face to face with his vampire capturer. Jake was so afraid he failed to notice that the vampire was a drop dead gorgeous babe (literally). If she wasn't a vampire Jake would of tried to hit on her on any other day.
Jake squirmed around in her vice like grip in a vain attempt to escape, so overcome by the fear of the possibility of his death he forgets he could of just shrunk down some more or stretch through her fingers in order to escape.
"Aww you looks so cute, you're practically bite size now" the vampire cooed cutely at Jake's small size "I was hoping to have more than a snack from you but I guess I could always suck the blood of your brother. I do like the taste of those mysterious type of people because you never know what you get, kind of like a box of assorted chocolates"
At the mention of his brother Jake had somehow found the courage within himself to snap out of his fear of vampires and with a swift defying act of resistance he morphed his hand into a hammer and donged the un-expecting vampire's head. Say what you want about Jake he may be greedy, lazy, sleazy, a glutton and even a bad influence. However there is one quality that Jake possesses that overshadows his lesser qualities is that he loves his family and especially his brother which he would protect with his life.
"No one threatens the life of my brother, not even a hot crazy vampire lady like you!"
"When did you grow some balls? And thanks for the complement I may only half kill you but oh well it doesn't matter since you've grown back to full size I'll be having myself a full sized meal"
"Hope you can handle a supersize meal" Jake taunted as he grew lager in size.
"I think it can make some more room" she replied as she turned into her monster bat form.
"Oh crap I dug myself into a grave with this one" and with that the fighting has begun
The vampire struck first and struck fast even for its bulk the vampire was as Swift as the wind itself twisting and turning its body all around Jake striking at his openings with little to no effort needed. As Jake was being pounded all around he had noticed the vampire wasn't hitting him as hard as he thought she would. Instead it felt more like she was just toying with him like this was some sort of game to her, like akin to someone playing with their food. And considering what he's dealing with it would not be a surprise in the very least.
"Oh my glob this is all you can do I'm getting bored over here! Try to at least make this a little bit of a challenge for me. Or else I'm going to have to finish this up quickly and go see your brother and see whether or not if he will be a better challenge than you"
The threat she had made to his brother was the final straw with all the crap he had to deal with today from the teasing from Huntress from his lack of sleep he has finally violently lashed out. growing multiple new limbs all over his body in the form of weapons, mostly in the shape of maces and hammers and got in a couple of good hits in, causing her to ram into a wall causing her to revert into her normal form.
The vampire picks herself up pushing aside any loss wood that had fallen on her standing tall and straighten as she dusted herself off like nothing happened.
"Oh come on! That had to hurt you, I literally smacked the monster out of you!"
The vampire looks at Jake with her blood red eye's and smirks "no not really, but I know this will" and in a flash of sudden speed she disappears for a split second only to reappear right under Jake's large body.
She pulls back her fist slowly enough so that Jake can see what's about to happen but not too slowly so that he would have the time to doge or counter. And with a quick jab blow the belt the vampire stood victorious as Jake shrunk back down to normal size falling to his knees then collapsing on the flood and paused for a few seconds until he let it all out.
"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaa" Jake screamed as his voice got lower and lower till it sounded like fingernails on a chalkboard "my meat balls".
"This was fun thou I think I might have taking it a little too far this time" the vampire stated as she was about to lean in and grab Jake but she instinctively jumps back away from the downed dog dodging a sword slash from Finn as he was wearing his blue onesies with a white hood.
"Finn!" Jake called out happily although weakly as he was still cupping his very much damaged balls.
Though Finn wasn't the last of the reinforcements to come to Jake's aid, as the vampire soon found out the hard way when she felt a tree root wrap around her waist as it flings her across the room. Huntress appears phasing through the wooden roof of the tree house landing right beside Finn wearing a single light blue long sleeve polo shirt that was obviously a few sizes too big for her.
"Huntress!?" Jake called out in confusion and distaste "why are you wearing one of Finn's shirts?"
"…"Jake was meant with silence as Huntress refuse to talk to him or even look at him.
Finn turns his head towards Huntress and sees that it is one of his shirts that Huntress is wearing "hey that is one of mine, why are you wearing it?"
Huntress internally starts to panic, this shirt was one of Finn's shits that she had 'procured' a year ago when she help Margaret do some laundry and just took it "Is it really the time to be asking stuff, I mean we are at literally fighting a vampire that is going to suck us dry here and I think I pissed it off very much with that last attack"
"Yes, yes it is"
"Fine! I sleep in the nude happy now" she lied.
"That still doesn't explain why you're wearing his shirt"
"Look I was half way down here until I had realized I was naked and I didn't want to waste time going back up. So I went to Finn's room because it was the closest one near me and took one of his shirts"
"But can't you just turn a leaf into some clothing for you to wear anyways"
"I panicked okay, I didn't know who was in trouble down here. And if I've know it was you Jake I would have taken my sweet time putting on some clothes"
"What's wrong, trouble in paradise?" the vampire spoke as the dust cleared, hearing this the three house mates ready themselves in battle stances prepared to fight to the better end "whoa whoa whoa whoa calm yourself, you don't want to do something that you're going to regret"
"Regret! You punched me in the balls! I'll be lucky enough if my kid doesn't come out with a messed up face or something like that because of you" Jake may have sounded brave during his outburst of rage over his busted balls and the possibility of his messed up children but he's shivering legs give his fear of her away.
"Pfffth like I'm the only one at fault here, I was just mostly playing around with you until smacked me in the face with a mace made of your own flesh. So as to not be outdone by you I punched you in the balls, it's not like there was much to punch anyways I mean look you're standing up right now"
"You bitch!" Jake spat "Finn quick kill it before she has time to suck our blood"
"I don't drink the red of mutts, unless I'm all out of other options and in really desperate need to feed then I may drink the red of a mutt like you" the vampire eye's shift to Finn "Your brother on the other hand" (sniff sniff) "smells quite nice from what I can smell and the girl" (sniff sniff) "smells like a pine tree"
Finn tenses up is combat stance prepared to do battle, as he slowly step forward to engage the vampire in close quarters combat but he feels Huntress pull him in by his shoulder halting his advance.
"Just hold on a second Finn I think I recognize that voice…" Huntress pauses to think where she knows that voice, then it hit her like a ton of bricks when she finally remembered "you're our landlord!"
"WHAT!" bout Finn and Jake yelled in surprise.
"Ding Ding Ding. Looks like we've got ourselves a winner here"
"How did you not know our landlord was a vampire?"
"Hey don't blame me she wore a clock so it was hard to see her face"
"Guys calm down we need to decide whether or not if we're going to fight her"
"Finn we cannot up and kill our landlord!"
"And why not? She's a blood thirsty vampire!"
"If I may interject, I'm not really bloodthirsty I'm not even thirsty… right now that is"
"Then why are you here?"
"well tall blonde and mysterious" Finn jolted a bit at the mention of his hair as he tends to keep it tucked away as it always draws unwanted attention to him, case in point Lumpy Space Princess "that's right I can see it. Shame to hide it though, you should really have it out more. pretty sure all the ladies would love it" she said seductively as she disappeared in a cloud of black smock only to reappear beside Finn curling one of his strands of hair that slipped passed his hood.
"Case in point myself" the vampire leaned in and whispering in his ear "or if you're into guys I completely understand but if not, call me"
Huntress saw this was fuming with jealousy, so much so without even thinking about it, she fires one of her arrows with all the force she could muster at her vampiric landlord's smug face.
Sensing the dangerous amount of jealousy emanating from Huntress the vampire clearly predicted that the jealous stricken forest nymph would act out violently and dodged the arrow fired at her with ease. After dodging the arrow aimed at her face the vampire now found the jealous forest nymph standing in-between her and Finn.
"Who in globs name do you think you are to come into this house at 1:30 in the morning and scare the crap out of this idiot" Huntress pointed at Jake.
"Hey!"
"And then borderline sexually assault my boy-I mean best friend"
"Well for your information I am Marceline 'the' Vampire Queen! I can do what I want when I want when I want and there is nothing you or anyone can do to stop me" "plus you said I could do that and much more"
"No, I haven't!"
"Yes you have, both you and your boy toy behind you both signed a contract stating I can. It was all in the house rules agreement" the now named Marceline pulls out a copy of the contract they both signed and dropped it on the floor in front of Finn and Huntress "page 5, 10, 11 and 14 are the ones you want to read"
Picking it up they both proceeded to read it and as they did Marceline could see the shock of what they had signed their names to, well she could only see Huntresses face Finn on the other had she had to guess. But she could still see his eyes and that was all she needed to see.
"You'd be surprised how many people don't read the contract in its entirety. They simply read the first two pages and maybe the last one but everything in-between is a mystery to them"
"Hole glob! This covers everything"
"From assault, breaking and entering, and all the way too… sexually harassment"
"Hey don't judge me on that one, a girl has needs" looking over to Huntress Marceline slipped into her personal space "this one right here knows what I'm saying" pulling her into a headlock and messing up her hair.
"Wait, hold on I never signed that contract so all that crap you did to me was uncalled for!"
"Page 13 is the one 'you' want to read"
"Wait? Finn hand me the contract. Let see here" Jake flipped to page 13 labeled as House pet arrangement "any and all pets that fall under the ownership of a tenant all fall under the same rules as their owners. As so they are not left out of 'my' fun" after Jake finished reading his arms just fell down.
"I think your dog is broken Finn?" Marceline joked.
"I'm not his dog, I'm his big brother!"
"That's not what the contract says but that could change if you want, that is if you want to start paying rent. Which was really the main reason I came here in the first place so" Marceline reached out her hand as if to receive a sack of coins "pay up"
Jake gave her a very simple look then dropped down to all fours and started to act like a dog "woof woof"
"Hypocrite" Huntress whispers under her breath.
"I'll go get the rent and down payment now" Finn said he was about to walkout to the treasure room.
"No need, I've already snagged it when I first got in. PS Why it is that your treasure hoard is full of mouse traps and honey pots"
"Oh, that would be BMO's doing sorry about that" Finn apologizing scratching the back of his head.
"Oh, you sound so cute and all nervous, let's see what you look like under there" Marceline reached out to grab Finn's hood only to notice Finn's sword pointed at her throat when she got close to him.
"Sorry but no can do"
"Kid I'm two thousand years older then you'll ever be. And a tiny sword like this won't help you in the slightest" Marceline then grabs the sword by the blade and was about to yank it out of Finn's hands but the moment she touched it, it seared her hand"
"HISSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS" Marceline hissed out in pain falling to her knee, she was feeling pain she had not felt in a long time. Griping her hand in pain Marceline could still feel her hand burning even more but pushed the pain a side to stand back up
"Oh my glob I'm so sorry, my sword has never done that before"
"Yeah, it mostly just saps your strength and grows heavy. Trust me that caused sword has done it to me on more than one occasion"
"It's… not… a cursed sword" Marceline manage to say as she pushed the words out despite the pain she was in.
"What was that?" Finn asked not fully hearing was Marceline said
"I said it's not a cursed sword" Marceline repeated this time more clearly and more aggressively
"It must be a holy sword then. I've hear tales of holy swords burning monsters and demons to ashes with just a mere graze" Huntress said snarky tone as she watches the vampire still hissing in pain.
"No… it's a cursed holy sword. Every different" Marceline corrected.
"How so?"
"Caused swords are made from dark and or wicked magic. Holy swords are made from light and or pure magic. But a cursed holy sword as the name suggest is made from both light and dark magic"
"That doesn't sound all that impressive if you ask me" Jake commented earning him a slap from behind his head by Huntress.
"Idiot! Light and dark magic don't mix well together, it's like fire and water coming together in complete and total Harmony. It's never going to happen.
"Oh"
"Enough! We can talk about this later right now our landlord is in pain and we need to help her"
"No no no no no, that won't be necessary. My healing ability is already healing my hand so I'll be fine given time" Finn looked down at her hand and saw the burn mark was spreading and sizzling the flesh albeit rather very slowly.
"Are you sure about that?"
"Yes, I'm fine… I just need to go home and ressssst" Marceline hissed out in pain "but next time let's just skip the fighting and just sit down and have a jam session what do you say? Do any of you know how to play any instruments?"
"Uh I and Huntress knows how to play the flute and Jake for sure can play the violin extremely well"
"Um interesting combination, I guess I could make it work. Smell you later my underlings" and that she flew away through the window at breakneck speed.
"Did she just call us her underlings?" Jake asked concerningly.
Finn still holding the copy of the contract began to flip through it "page 12, signing this here waiver you have pledged your allegiance to the Vampire Queen Marceline for all eternity. Do not worry though, your new benevolent ruler is a very chillaxed boss who doesn't demand or require much from her followers and is a firm believer in no pants Fridays. Except on really hot days for obvious reasons.
"Oh crap" Jake sighed "I don't even wear pants"
