Chapter 25: A Dead Wish Master
"Oh, no... This can't possibly be happening..." Finn suddenly said with a great look of fear in his eyes. Everyone began to notice Finn's sudden change.
"Finn? What's wrong? Finn... Finn!" Marceline said as she shook her boyfriend, trying to get him to respond. Finn's look of fear wasn't gone yet but he managed to speak. "I... I think I've foreseen this event coming..." Finn spoke a little shaken. "Calm down, brother... We still gotta find that bitch, right?" Shoko said as she helped calm him down. Finn finally calmed himself and stood up before standing at the edge of the rock they were on. "But this one's different, guys... I dreamt of all four of us being in that cube... But with the Cosmic Owl..." Finn suddenly said which left Jake shocked and the girls confused.
A Croak Dream. The dream that shows how somebody dies with the Cosmic Owl as a sign of death in the dream. Finn just had that Croak Dream but he had no idea of who died. It could either be him, Marceline, Shoko or Jake. Only time would tell, which was why he and his lawmen gang was jumping on the floating space rocks. They headed for the yellow cube and entered through a square hole. Finn fearfully stepped inside with fear surrounding his heart. He, Detective Finn, the most badass lawman in Ooo was in great fear. Fear of losing everything he had in his whole life. His state of fear and paranoid got worst at the sight of what was inside the cube. An unknown pink man that he saw on the background of his Croak Dream was playing cards with the Cosmic Owl...
Finn was that damn scared but he mustered enough courage to fulfill a responsibility of his. "Excuse me, uh... sirs? We'd like to ask y'all somethin'..." Finn spoke. The Cosmic Owl turned to him before it cleared it's throat and said, "Hm? Oh, yes... You're that detective and that's your lawmen gang. You're all from the Land of Ooo, right?". Finn was shocked as to how it knew them, but shrugged it off and nodded as a response. Suddenly, it sighed and said, "Well, I'm leaving. Goodbye, guys... Goodbye, Prismo...". It flew out carrying it's cards. "Pssht! That owl! Whenever he's losing to me at poker he'll run off... Anyways, detectives! What got y'all here to Prismo's humble little Time Room?", the pink man named Prismo spoke. "Time Room? So time doesn't work here, huh?" Jake asked as he saw his watch stopped moving. Prismo thought for a while before saying, "Well, no it doesn't. But I can grant each of you one wish... For I am Prismo! The Wish Master of the Multiverse...".
That caught their attention. However, Finn first had a question for Prismo. "Wait, Prismo. Um, I'd like to know if you've seen a burning woman. Or maybe any woman that just passed here? She can speak in a female voice or a spooky evil male voice... She's a super scary criminal..." Finn asked. "Hmm, oh yeah! There was one just now... But if she's a criminal then maybe she's been wanting to go to jail because she asked how to get to the Crystal Citadel, the jail for cosmic criminals..." Prismo replied while giggling. They were all weirded out by what Prismo said. "So... What did you say to her?" Marceline asked back. "Oh, I just said it is impossible because the only way is to commit a cosmic crime such as killing a Wish Master..." Prismo replied casually.
"But that is exactly what I'm about to do..." a familiar voice was heard from behind. They turned and saw Canyon with nearly all of her body ripped off revealing bones while she was holding a sleeping old man. "Put down that old man!" Shoko yelled at her. Canyon didn't flinch. She simply shook the old man and woke him up. With that the Wish Master, Prismo suddenly disappeared. "Oh, where am I?" the old man spoke. Canyon showed her horrific face and said, "Silence old man! And give in... For I am the Lich and you are dead...". With that the Lich launched a fiery blast and burnt the poor old man to death.
"Oh, no! It was the Lich! The greatest evil ever known on Ooo that was once defeated by Billy!" Finn said as he began to understand the gravity of the current situation. Marceline pointed at the Lich and said, "HE committed a cosmic crime! HE is a cosmic criminal!". A cosmic rift suddenly appeared behind the Lich with a beam that froze him in crystal and a huge hand pulling him towards a known destination for cosmic criminals, The Crystal Citadel...