Pair of hearts

Chapter 12

Master of disguise

Fionna and Cake appeared in the nightosphere, they were on their way to Marshall's home- until they found numerous guards posted around it. Every entrance was blocked with guards. Fionna and Cake ducked behind a rock to avoid being spotted.

"what is up with this place? Every time we come here, the place isn't so guarded. Why is it now?" Cakes asked a little concern on how they are going to carry this mission out.

"Ashley…" Fionna grinded her teeth. "she did this, all to keep me away from Marshall! Oh she is going down."

Fiona got up to fight her way in but Cake gasped; grabbing her and pulling her back down behind their hiding spot.

"are you crazy? There are guards posted around every corner! They'll spot us and we'll never make it in there. We need to have a plan other than barging in there!" Cake hissed.

Fionna groaned, she wanted Marshall out of there, but Cake is right. They need a plan before they can save him. She sighed and stayed behind the rock.

"well; what do we do? How are we going to get inside undetected?" Fionna asked as she peaked out from their hiding place.

Cake sat and thought for a while, the clicked her teeth and scratched the ground to help her think.

"Ah-ah! I got it. Remember that time we got in there before when we needed to see Heather?" Cake looked excited.

Fionna raised an eyebrow. "yeah why?"

"well, you see; we can disguise ourselves and slip on in there!" Cake sounded pleased with herself on her plan.

"well- that's a good plan but how are we sure they accept any random demon to go-"

Fionna was cut off when she overheard one of the guards.

"no entry for commoners! Only for party planners!" the guard shoved a demon aside to let another carrying clothes and streamers.

Fionna and Cake watched the whole scene. They looked at each other; Cake with a huge grin on her face.

"Cake this mask doesn't look that believable." Fionna said when she put on a paper-plate made mask.

"oh hush, it looks fine. Now listen; the next demon carrying stuff for the 'party', we'll nab him, beat him up then take his stuff and pose as him!" Cake explained as she morphed herself into a believable looking demon.

Fionna was unsure about this but it was the only way in. they waited behind the rock until they saw a demon carrying a dress with a suit. They eyed the items, wondering what occasion would call for those to be whipped out. They shrugged before grabbing the guy and pulling him behind the rock. They punched and kicked him until he was unconscious. They grabbed the stuff and carried them to the front entrance. Fionna was nervous about doing this; she hoped her disguise was believable enough for the guard.

The guard eyed them suspicious. "what are those for?"

Fionna and Cake froze. They didn't know they had to be asked a question. They started sweating until Cake spoke up.

"oh, these? Oh there for the special occasion of course. We can do this without the suit and dress right?" Cake looked nervous about what she said.

The guard nodded. "of course, it's a good thing too; these outfits are needed for the wedding."

He let them through but the girls were left in confusion. Wedding? Who was getting married? Fionna was thinking about whom, her first thought was Heather re-marrying. She would be happy for her but also kind of feel bad for the groom. They dumped the stuff on the ground and ran around the place. All where they went; they saw decorations all over the halls, the main room; everywhere basically. They couldn't figure out who was getting married and were getting tired of running around. She wanted to find Marshall and get the hell out of here.

"Baby we aren't going to find Marshall if we blindly look around, we need to ask some of the demons here; maybe they know where he is and who this wedding is for." Cake suggested as she panted, clearly out of breath from running.

Fionna sighed, she wasn't panting because she wasn't tired. All she cared about was finding Marshall. She needed to find him quickly but Cake was right. They needed to ask around and maybe figure out what this was for. Fionna asked the demon putting up the streamers but he didn't know. Cake asked a demon in the kitchen that was baking a cake, he didn't know either. He was just here. Fionna was getting quickly frustrated. He kept asking and asking any demon she could find but all they knew was that it was a wedding and nothing important. Fionna groaned.

"Ugh! Who in the joint knows what this is about!?" Fionna screamed.

"uh- I know."

Fionna whipped her head to see a very smallish demon at her feet.

"okay well, what's going on? Where's Marshall?" Fionna's voice was a cross between relief and fear for him.

"oh well, you see. This is just a preparation for the wedding which is taking place in three days. It's a pretty big one so that's why it's taking so long to get together. But um, to answer your question. This wedding is for Marshall and Ashley to commemorate their bond as King and Queen of this place." The smallish demon spoke.

Fionna's face went from fear to horror. It was worst then she thought. Marshall was marrying her! Fionna began to hyperventilate. This was no happening, no; this had to be a dream. She had to be dreaming this whole thing up, she slapped herself but she felt the pain. It was good she wasn't sleeping but it was very bad because this was real. He was planning to marry the wrong woman. Fionna needed to stop it. She needed to crash the wedding.

Ashley was waiting for her dress to arrive so she can do her fitting; she wanted her dress to be perfect. She wanted the perfect dress, the perfect ceremony, the perfect everything! Ashley paced and paced, she was growing impatient about this.

"my lady!" a guard yelled when he burst through the door.

Ashley shot him a glare. "what!"

The guard jumped back; shaking but managed to speak. "my lady, we have intruders. They stole items and used them to sneak in, but I was able to bring you this."

Ashley's eyes widen. This was terrible news; Fionna found a way in and now time was running short. She needed to speed this up. She need to be married now.

"get everyone together; tell them to set up faster!" Ashley grabbed the dress from him and then began to strip down her clothes.

"the wedding is about to begin."