Um, I wrote this from the ends in (half backwards and half forwards), so I really don't know how it'll turn out, but whatever! It's uber-short and insanely anticlimactic, but whatevs. It's a post.

BladeGuy9: Yeah, well, the shortness gets worse here. My muse ran dry like three weeks ago :/

FadedBurn: Aw, I love you, too! And I mean that with all my heart.

Lileipad: Soon enough? :P

Mr. penguin991: And then the unicorn kicked John off a cliff so he could no longer call people traitors! XD

Ovks and Marceline: You...are absolutely right :D

Guest: MAJOR facepalm moment; I forgot all about that! D:

FincelineForever: That's so awesome! It's nice to know that people do indeed remember Rescue ;3

Kittles: UGH ANOTHER FACEPALM MOMENT I FORGOT ABOUT THE CRAVINGS! And yay! I await your PM! ;D I'm not better yet, but I should be soon!

mkorralover99: Worse; I make things go topsy-turvy!

Marceline of the Nightosphere: In a way, something does...

annabell22: Thank you kindly!

Christian: Oh I'll be okay. The story might become horribly mangled and disfigured, but I'll be waiting on the other side :)

Fionna cake13: No I did not :( I had company over (my aunt and uncle) and my parents were hogging the TV.

SydADVENTURETIME: Yeah, she be a psycho! XD

I'm-Just-you're-problem: Spoiler alert; he does ;)

Random, Ugh, THIRD facepalm moment today! The whole Hambo scene will go down in Azrial.

radicaldizzytacoz: Daily posts...fun for you...hell for me...I'm gonna be a zombie soon.

Bad1027: XD

DSxAssassinx98: Thanks! That means the world to me! :D

He23t: I wouldn't go THAT far...

random kpopper: Yeah well, my brain was giving me poop, so yeah...

slake333: I didn't either; then I wrote it XD

adventurer of Ooo: Aw, thanks! :3
Disclaimer: Still hate bunnies.

Chapter 38: Lucky

As Finn and Jake neared the battleground, the sound of screaming people could be heard.

"Faster, Jake!" Finn leaned forward as though this would have any effect on his brother's speed at all. Flambo, previously unnoticed in front of Finn, jumped off of Jake's back and tried running away, but Jake stretched out a fifth paw and seized him.

"Ouch! Ooh, hey, get offs'a me! I ain't goin' back there!"

"Just cast flame shield on us, Flambo!" Jake ordered. He did, and was promptly dropped. He resumed fleeing as Finn and Jake charged in, plunging through the streets to the heart of the kingdom. "I don't like this..." skeleton ghosts were pillaging everything in sight.

"Course you don't; we're good!" Finn replied.

"Then let's get this baddie!" the brothers pelted through the castle to the throne room, where the Prince of Games was seated in the form of its human host. Finn snarled at his father, and the demon sneered back.

"Hello, Finn. Come to watch my victory over this pathetic kingdom? And over you?"

"You won't get away with this!"

"Won't I?" the Prince snapped its fingers, and twenty-three skeleton ghosts appeared. "Finish them," then it vanished in a cloud of shadow.

"This'll be easy!" Finn boasted.

"Too easy…" Jake mumbled. "Man, I don't like it! What's the angle?"

"It's a coward?"

"Hmm…" the dog didn't seem convinced.

Needless to say, the brothers kicked butt.

"There you go FP, one kingdom saved," Finn dusted off his hands.

"Thanks, Finn. If my dad found out that somebody attacked his kingdom while he was away, he'd lock me up again! Later!"

Then Jake spoke those words, those three magical words.

"Let's go home."

"Marceline wanted to go adventuring the other day," Finn said after a journey of silence.

"What did you say?"

"Too dangerous."

"What? Dude, if you love her, you gotta let her be free."

"I love Marcie!" Finn protested. "I just don't want her getting hurt. Never again," Finn doubted that he would ever forget the sight of Marceline when she had been shot with burning arrows so long ago.

"If you really love someone, you look out for their interests, like when Lady denies my tenth serving of ice cream or when Marceline refuses to turn you into a vampire."

"How is that looking out for my interests? I'm interested in staying with her forever!"

"She doesn't want you getting hurt, bro. Think; everyone you know, dying at your feet. That's her curse; do you think she'd want to share it with the one person she loves more than the world?"

There was a long moment of silence while Finn thought.

"We're lucky people, Jake."

"That we are, brother. That we are."

"Marceline?" Finn shouted as he and Jake entered the treehouse. "Marcie! Marcie, I'm home! Where are you?" BMO looked at him in a way that was half pitying and half terrified. Rainicorn descended from the bedrooms and whispered something indistinct. Jake turned white as his sensitive dog ears picked up her words. Finn took in the expressions of everyone around him, and his own eyes widened. "No."

"Finn..." Jake began.

"No."

"Dude, we'll find her."

"It's gone too far. It took her, Jake!" Finn was snarling and pacing, clenching and unclenching his fists. His expression made BMO and Rainicorn seek shelter behind the dog.

"Finn..."

But Finn had reached the point of no return. He was feral now. Even Jake backed away as he turned. The expression in his eyes was pure, untarnished hatred. Wild fury raged through his mind like a wildfire. The monster had taken his beloved vampire. The monster had to be slain. Who knew what it was doing to her? Thoughts filled Finn's head, unspeakable thoughts. He began to shake with unbridled rage. The thought of the being that had sired him violating his wife brought Finn to the breaking point. He walked to the window and screamed one tortured word for all of Ooo to hear.

"Marceline!"