Hello everybody!
We have finally reached the upcoming end of the story
But hold on!
There is an epilogue to the story coming soon.
So stick around
Oh and the sequel to the story will be announced at the end of the epilogue chapter.
Disclaimer: PW and NA own this!
"He's in trouble!"
Fionna looks over at the old man with rag clothing that trailed down to his feet as they rode on Cake' s back. They found him in the forest yelling "he's in trouble" repeatedly and wouldn't leave unless they help him.
"Fionna who is he talking about?" Cake finally asks as they ran past their home.
"I have no idea."
"What! Then why am I running!?"
"He's in trouble!" the troubled old guy yells loudly again.
"Who's in trouble?" Fionna asks him.
"Marshall Lee." the old man says softly as if it were a secrete.
To Fionna it wasn't. This just got serious!
"Faster Cake!" Fionna yelled at her older sister.
Cake picks up the pace and heads towards the Vampire King' s cave. Fionna karate kicks the door down and gasps at the sight before her. Marshall is knocked out on the floor.
"What happened to him?" Fionna asks kneeling at her boyfriend's side.
"He casted a sleep spell on himself by accident." the elder informed.
"How do you know?" Cake asks starting to get suspicious.
"I'm...his spirit animal."
"What animal are you?" Fionna asks looking up at him from the ground.
"I'm...uh...a goblin...dog...Pegasus...wolf."
"Huh. I thought it'd be a bat or something." Fionna says thinking about it.
"Yes. Usually spirit animals aren't what you expect." the goblindogpegasuswolf (Oh for flub sake I'll call him a gdpw kay?) said.
"How can we help him?" Fionna says with her voice thick with determination.
"You'll have to travel through Marshall Lee's mind. And find the memory of when he casted the sleep spell on himself."
"Wait why can't you do it?" Cake asks.
"Mind travel is dangerous. And I haven't any arms. Only legs." the gdpw said wiggling his toes. He stretches a foot out and hands Cake a bag of powder and pokes Fionna on her forehead.
"What did you just do?" Fionna asks feeling her face tingle.
"This will let you know if you're close to the memory. Sprinkle that powder on your heads so you can transfer into his mind."
Cake sprinkles it on her and her sister.
"Yeees. Feeling sleepy?" the spirit animal asks.
"Mhm." Fionna says nodding her head as her eyes start to close.
"Good. But know this!"
"Wha?" the sisters say together.
"If you fail, Marshall Lee will be trapped. In eternal sleep. Forever!"
Fionna nods again and let's sleep take over her. Seconds later, she opens her eyes to see that she's still at Marshall' s house. Cake still beside her.
"Do you feel any different?" Cake asks.
"No." Fionna says confused. They get off of the uncomfortable couch and walk to their right. The couch begins to stretch along the wall and ends when they reach an area where trees are fallen and what appears to be a land in ruins. They look around walking through the place.
"If we're in a memory, where's Marshall?" Fionna says looking throughout the land. They spot a woman with snow white hair handing a teddy bear to a young boy who looks exactly like Marshall Lee. Fionna pulls her sister along. "Lets keep going."
They round a corner of a building and enter a movie theater. The room is full of people watching what the screen says "Final destination". Marshall Lee sits angrily watching it next to his mom. In this memory he's at least fourteen.
Cake' s voice brings Fionna out of her thoughts.
"Hey Fi I think we should split up."
"What? But that old guy said that mind traveling is dangerous." Fionna says.
"Yeah but here me out. See we tackle two dreams at a time, we could reach the memory that we're looking for."
"Math. I'll go this way and you through there." Fionna says fist bumping Cake.
"Good. If one of us finds it come get the other."
Fionna gives Cake a thumbs up and walks through another door. This memory is at their old tree house. Marshall Lee is moving a couch in with the help of a girl with silver hair. They drop the couch in a certain spot near the door that leads downstairs.
"Thanks for letting me move in with you Marsh." the girl says collapsing on the couch.
"Hey it's the least I can do since your house caught on fire. Plus you're my girlfriend Ashley. Why wouldn't I?" Marshall says floating over the couch next to Ashley."You're so sweet." Ashley says. Fionna puffs her cheeks out in anger and walks through another door. This time Marshall is arguing with Ashley.
"What the fluff Ashley! Why would you tell her that!"
"You said that you love me so that's the next step up Mar Mar." Ashley says crossing her arms.
"Yeah but why would I marry you when we've only dated for two years!" Marshall Lee yells.
"That more than enough time."
"To you!"
"Look. Your mom wants you to take over the Nightosphere so I'm doing you a favor. I'll marry you. You can go back to being a rocker while I take over the Nightosphere for you. No one would ever know."
"That's the thing! You can't take over because I have to!"
"But do you want to?"
"Hell no!"
"Then just let me."
"You can't!"
"Does this have to do with you not wanting to marry me?" Ashley asks getting suspicious.
"I never freakin proposed!" Marshall Lee says revealing his demon eyes at her.
"Mar Mar we both know you were gonna do it eventually."
"You know what. I'm done." Marshall Lee says throwing his hands up. He flies upstairs and comes back seconds later with a tote bag full of Ashley' s stuff. He tosses it at her. "Take your flubbin junk and go."
"Huh. Are you dumping me?" Ashley laughs.
"Yep. Because all you ever do is pull me into deeper stuff with my enemies and my mom. You know I don't like being around her and yet you find plenty of reasons to try to bring me closer to her and for what? So you can take over the Nightosphere?"
"So?"
"Get out."
"Marshall Lee Abadeer! You can't just kick me out! Where am I supposed to live!?" Ashley says throwing the bag down.
"Up your ass for all I care. I just want you out." Marshall Lee says.
"You know you still have feelings for me-"
"Ashley I hate you! Just get the fluff out!"
Ashley looks at him seeing that really was serious. "Fine. But don't come cryin to me when you find out that there's no one out there who loves you like I do."
"You don't. You're power obsessed jerk and that's the only reason why you stuck around. Just to take over. So get out."
Ashley huffs and takes her bag. She snaps her fingers and with a cloud of smoke she's gone. Marshall Lee looks relieved and goes back upstairs.
Fionna feels her head tingle again and figures that she must be close to the memory. She pulls open a lever door and falls through it.
Cake walks though another door and looks at a memory where Marshall Lee and Prince Gumball are actually getting along.
Well if paintball fighting counts.
She jumps through a hole in the ground and lands on the dirty ground of the Nightosphere. A crowd surrounds Marshall Lee and another vampire fighting each other. Cake looks in horror as the Vampire King snaps his neck. The Vampire falls to the ground in pain. Marshall Lee continuously punches him in the face as the crowd cheers him on. Cake decides to avoid the blood fest and moves on to another memory.
"I hope Fi is having better luck." She mutters to herself.
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Fionna enters a memory where it's dark and eerie. She appears to be in a dark alley way behind a few buildings. She turns a corner and gasps in horror at the sight before her.
Marshall Lee is bent over drinking the blood of what looks like a Candy person. When he finishes, he stands up and wipes the blood off of his mouth. Fionna looks at him one more time before she decides to turn back to another memory, but she locks eyes with the Vampire King. Before she knows it he's already at her side leaning against the candy wall next to her.
"I hope you didn't see that. Otherwise I'd have to kill you." He says with his eyes closed.
Fionna feels her heart race a mile a minute and runs the opposite direction. But when she does, he's already in front of her. He starts walking towards her. Every step he takes she's taking a step back. "Ah so you did see something." He tisks. "Well then, don't want you running back to the authorities now do we?"
Fionna' s mind is spiraling out of control. 'This has to be before he met me. Otherwise he'd be ashamed or wouldn't have done that at all.' Fionna' s back collides with a candy brick wall, but Marshall Lee keeps stalking towards her until he's only inches away from her face.
"I'll give you a choice. You wanna make this quick or slow and painful?"
The old man looks at the clock on the wall and taps his foot impatiently. Time is running out. He needs that memory or else his plan would fail. The spell that allowed them to be seen by the people in the memories should have scared the two enough to pick up the pace. Then it hits him. The problem is is that cat of hers. He needs to get rid of Cake in order to make this quick.
The man pulls out a magic spell book and readies himself for the spell.
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"You don't recognize me do you?" Fionna says barely above a whisper.
"I think I'd know if I've met a kid with bunny ears before." Marshall Lee says laughing.
"Its me! Fionna!?"
"Look kid I don't talk with my victims. Let's get this over with." Marshall says with demon eyes revealed. His fangs jet out and he leans near her neck. Fionna holds her breath and closes her eyes. 'Glob I make sure Cake is holding up better than me.' She thinks. His fangs graze across her neck and she grits her teeth as his fangs sink into her skin. Why hadn't she moved? Why'd she sit there like a weenie. She's gonna die in a memory. The worst way to go out in her book.
Her body trembled and she feels all the blood rush from her body. Then suddenly, a hand grabs her shoulder and pulls her through the wall.
Fionna turns around to meet the eyes of Cake.
"Cake!" Fionna says pulling her sister in for a hug.
"Girl what took you so long I found the memory after looking for like ten minutes. The fifth memory I got to I found where the core is." Cake says. "Why are you so pale?"
"No time! Let's just-"
Fionna' s interrupted by a powder of smoke going off between her and Cake.
"Cake!?" Fionna yells looking around to see that her companion is gone. "What the cabbage!"
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"What the stuff man I need to help Fionna!" Cake yells trying to grab the memory powder. The old man grabs the sack and puts it in his pocket with his foot.
"You can't. After a certain period of time only one can be inside of another's mind." He explains.
"But she doesn't know where it is!"
"She'll be able to find it with the red dot on her forehead."
"But why can't I help!?"Cake yells at him.
"Because time is running out. He'll be stuck this way forever if she doesn't hurry alone." the man says.
"But what about Fi?"
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Fionna trudges alone through the memories and sighs. It's like Cake took her back even farther than she was before.
She walks through a tree and realizes that she's in the grasslands. A portal opens a few feet away and she ducks behind a bush. Marshall Lee falls from the portal dressed in a white tank top with his red baseball cap fitted on backwards, black jeans, and his famous red converses.
"That's it Marshall Lee! I'm tired of letting you treat me with disrespect! I ask you to do me one simple favor as to take over the Nightosphere and you decline!?" Heather Abadeer says throwing a gym bag at Marshall Lee and holds up his axe base. "Come back when you want to respect me and take over like a man! I'll be keeping the family heirloom as punishment."
"Wait say what! Give it back you wench!" Marshall Lee yells as the portal disappears within seconds. He huffs and picks up his bag. An amulet falls out and he picks it up smirking. "A trade for a trade mom. Huh, can't rule without your precious amulet now can you."
Fionna looks down at a real door again and feels her forehead tingle too. She opens the door and falls into black nothingness. She grabs hold of a white tree that had small orbs hanging off it's branches.
"This must be the core!" She says smiling. She looks up at the top of the tree and climbs up to the orb that sits atop it. She feels her head vibrate like crazy and grabs the orb figuring that it must be it. White blinding light fills her vision and the next thing she knows, she's back in Marshall' s living room.
"Fi! You did it!" Cake says hugging her. Fionna looks down at the floor and smiles at the sight of Marshall Lee stirring back to reality.
"Marshall Lee!" Fionna says kneeling next to him. "We found your spirit animal here and he brought us to you after you casted a sleep spell on yourself, so we traveled through your memories to save you. But it's okay now, cause you're safe."
Marshall Lee looks over at the old man and points at him wide eyed. "That's not-"
A loud explosion goes off and the old man actually peels off his skin. Revealing the Lich King.
"That's the Lich! He knocked me out and tricked you guys!" Marshall Lee says standing up.
"Ah fluff no I almost died today for this! You're gonna pay!" Fionna says pulling her sword from her pack. She charges at the king and attempts to stab him. He dodges and kicks her away. He looks at Marshall Lee with his eyes glowing green. Seconds later, Marshall's are too as he transforms into a giant demon bat.
"Marshall Lee!" Fionna yells. She puts the gem that keeps the Lich' s mind controlling biz out of her mind and throws Cake her's. Fitted and ready to fight, she holds out her fist.
"What time is it?" She asks grinning mischievously.
"Butt kickin time!" the say together.
Cake stretches over and tries to tie up the Lich and fails as he punches and throws her across the room. Cake gasps in pain and keels over. Fionna rushed to her aid.
"Cake!" Fionna says. She looks at the Lich and runs full speed at him yielding her sword. But Marshall Lee grabs her by her waist and throws her so hard that she busts through the door.
"Uugh." Fionna says in pain. Marshall Lee hisses at her and bares his fangs. He pins her to the ground as Fionna struggles. Cake jumps on his back and ties her arms and legs around his eyes. He steps back away from Fionna and tries to get Cake off.
"Marshall Lee don't let him control you!" Cake says tightening her grip. Fionna meanwhile has already gotten up and is in a stalemate battle with the Lich.
"Let. Marshall. Go!" she says knocking her blade against the flaming sword or the Lich. The King only laughs at her.
Cake throws a punch at Marshall Lee and gets him in his face. He hisses and punches her back in her side. She falls on the ground and he body slams her.
"Ah! Fi! Help a cat out!" the feline yells as she's being crushed by his body weight.
"Switch up then!" Fionna says kicking Marshall Lee in his face making him get up. Cake runs over to fight the Lich.
Fionna jumps on Marshall' s back and silently apologizes to him as she bonks him on his head repeatedly with the end of her sword.
"Come on, snap out of this Marshall Lee!" Fionna yells. He grabs her off his back and slams her on the ground. He bends over her and is prepared to rip her head off.
At this moment, Fionna's mind recalls to things:
' Sweetie it is your fate. He will betray you. Whether it be on purpose or by accident.' Light Fionna had said. Then she remembers the day Marshall Lee went bloodlust crazy. How he snapped out of it when she kissed him. Fionna stands up and slaps him in his face. He growls at her as she kisses him on his cheek. He changes back to his normal size but is still under the Lich King' s control. He hisses at Fionna, but she only kisses him on his lips this time. He struggles to get her off but she only hugs him closer as she smiles against his lips.
Cake watches as the Lich leaves her grasp and flies away. She looks over at Fionna hugging a back to normal Marshall Lee.
"Fionna I'm...sorry I." He says looking at her apologetically.
"Its alright it was out of your control." Fionna says hugging him tighter.
"No." He says pushing her off of him and shaking his head. "You can't keep doing this."
"Doing what?"
"Being so damn heroic all the time. I almost drained you of your blood months ago. I brought the Ghost Queen here. I almost killed you just then and you still want to be around me!? I'm evil Fionna! Whether you accept it or not I am. It's in my core. Why do you have to be so damn naïve all the time? Wake up and take a good look at who I am! You saw my past! I'm built to kill!"
"No you're not. You're-"
"A monster!? A demon!? Fionna I can't keep putting you in danger like this all the time! It's like you go looking for it on purpose! We have to stop!"
"Marshall what are you trying to say?" Fionna says innocence burning in her eyes.
"I'm saying that what's between us isn't working." He says even though it's killing him to do so.
"You don't love me?"
"I'm not saying that Fi. I'm saying that I love you so much...that I fear that I might kill you if I stick around."
"Marshall..."
"Goodbye Fionna."
Cake watches as Marshall Lee exits the cave without another word. She walks over to Fionna and puts a hand on her shoulder.
"You okay?"
"Yeah Cake. I'm...I'm alright." Fionna lies tears flowing from her eyes as she watches Marshall Lee float off into the night.
Whoa that took a while
So yeah the epilogue will probably be posted between now and Saturday.
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