38: Dearly beloved.
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The engagement has spread around the lands like wild-fire. It's constantly being talked about in every house hold or watering hole; bringing excitement and for some handful, sorrow...
Gumball walks towards his bedroom dragging his feet behind him as he walks. He slams the door open and enters, it bounces as it hits against the door frame, Peppermint Maid comes in as Gumball throws himself against his bed,
"Are you alright my Lord?" she asks as she stands in front of him, he turns his head and shakes his head.
"I'm not," the tears slide down his cheek but he looks away before she can see them, "Leave me please," he mumbles as he tries to keep his voice steady to hide the pain in it. She nods and leaves him to himself, once when the door closes, he buries his head into the pillow to muffle the sobs. "I let her go... and for what? Just because I was too focused on my own priorities? Marshall's right, I am a loser."
Meanwhile, Ashley's high up in the mountains looking down at a small neighborhood of demons in the Nightosphere partying to the image projecting on their giant TV with live footage of the Royal Castle's throne room with news of the engagement and coming towards the end of the war. She snarls out her disgust as she retreats from the cave's mouth and into the safety of the shadows. Pride appears from the shadows, Ashley just ignores him as she passes by him.
"Ashley," he calls out but she ignores him, he grabs her by the arm and she fights against him.
"You bastard if you don't let go of me I will hurt you!" she threatens when he let's go. He crosses his arms over his chest, she throws her hair back when he asks
"Are you pregnant?" she makes an expressionless face,
"Why should you care? I thought you'd more than pleased if you knew nothing about me," she throws out in his face, he rolls his eyes,
"Just answer the damn question, to know whether to stay or not," he confessions, she studies him for some time making him to get uncomfortable, she shakes her head
"No I'm not, if I was," she gets in his face and hisses out "You'd never would get near the child and I that I swear," he nods and hisses out back
"Fine, if you excuse me I have a war to end," he dispenses into shadows; once when she senses he's gone, her hand goes down to her abdomen, "Maybe now isn't a good card to play out, but you will pay."
Love walks into the room where Hatred's being treated at for his injuries. She closes the door behind her, he smiles as he sits up. She sits down on the bed, reaches into her pocket and holds out the card that has Pain sealed up in towards him.
"Here," he grabs it and he just studies it, Pain's saying colorful language at him demanding to be let go, Hatred just flings the card onto his nightstand. He looks back at Love,
"I keep forgetting that you can kill me," he confessions as a smile tugs at the corner of her mouth,
"That's why you shouldn't piss me off; even though I'm a Dream, we were raised on how to kill Nightmares just like how you were to kill my kind." she pats his leg, his hand coils around hers causing her to glance up at him,
"I know, and I'm glad that we happened," she smiles
"Says the one that tried pushing me away when I ran away from my own wedding!" she runs her hands over each other making water to appear, she then throws the water at his face. He deflects it and throws it back at her, it crashes against her face instantly soaking her, she frowns and laughs. "Besides, it's not hard killing you Nightmares using Dream Law, a light so bright that casts all shadows away, and you Nightmares are made out of the shadows." he smirks
"As long as there's a light, there's always going to be a shadow, if a Nightmare survives Dream Law, in the split second they'll overpower a Dream."
"And that's why you bastard should let me out!" Pain yells out as he bangs harder against the surface of the card trying to break free, Hatred narrows his eyes and his Midaregami appears, flames burn up a corner of the card making Pain to scream.
"If you don't want to die, then shut it." Hatred orders and Pain doesn't speak again, he looks over at Love, "I'm tired," she lays down next to him, runs her fingers through his inky hair, he falls right asleep so she kisses his cheek and sleeps too.
Fionna's nervous as she sits down on the couch waiting for Cake to come downstairs, she eventually turns up, Cake drops her stuff onto the floor as she sees Fionna.
"Fionna!" she calls out as if she can't believe she's there, Fionna nods and slowly makes her way towards her
"Hey, I just wanted to tell you that I'm engaged," she shows her the ring, Cake nods and the urge gets the better of her. She throws herself around Fionna and sobs,
"I'm so sorry Fionna! I had to get away to get used to all of this, and I'm so happy for you, I really am. Now I'm the Maid of Honor right?" Cake smiles as her eyes play a playful tint in them. Fionna laughs as she hugs her back and nods
"Of course!" they just continue hugging each other.
Marshall stands next to Abelina, he offers a small smile, she draws in breath nodding. She crouches down, lowers her hands and slowly draws them apart as a small crystal lotus floats out of her hand. It slides across the electric blue colored water surface. Fionna stands next to Marshall, he wraps an arm around the small of her back as they watch the thousands of lotuses float down the river. The lotuses then start hovering off of the surface and dance around in the wind, Abelina can't help herself but let some tears shed out, Marshall hugs her as she sobs in his neck. The lotuses then fly out of the window the room and out into the Nightosphere. Abelina looks up as her crystal lotus she made for Jacob slowly is the last one to fly out. She runs over to the window, she grabs onto the ledge as she tries to reach out for it but it slips out of her fingers. She just studies it for the last time as the wind takes it away,
"At least now you can rest in peace for once my dearly beloved..." she thinks to herself, she looks back to find Fionna giving her a hug. Abelina's arms get stiff but she eventually gives in, she pulls away and smiles down to see the crystal lotuses giving a beautiful light show onto the chaos of the Nightosphere.
The demons and other creatures look up from whatever they're doing and reach out for the lotuses flying around. They look around in awe at the thousands of lotuses, the lotuses eventually fly away up into the Nightosphere's black skies and disappear.
"It was a really good idea Abelina," Wrath announces as he stands next to her watching the last of the lotuses disappear, she glances over to him,
"I wanted those soldiers and the people who died in the war feel that they weren't lost or forgotten. I'm planning to do the "Flight of the Lotuses" for every war that will strike the Nightosphere; no matter how big or small." he nods and they stay there in silence.