The Fifth Element
Chapter 46: Ragna-Rock Candy
The entire Breakfast Kingdom was shaking violently. Pieces of buildings were breaking off, and the ground was beginning to crack apart.
"By royal decree of The Mother Gum, Queen of the Candy Kingdom, I hearby OUST The Breakfast Kingdom from the Citchen Alliance, and with it, I condemn you pathetic lifeforms to death!" The Mother Gum's disembodied voice rang.
The buildings began to shake much more violently, and the cracks began to widen to form huge sinkholes.
Stag ran over to Huntress Wizard and started to slap her face to wake her up. Huntress Wizard started to stir.
"Nap time's over babe. This place is coming down! We gotta book it!" Stag said, as a massive brick made of Hash Brown fell behind him.
"Wuh...Finn?" Huntress Wizard mumbled as she came into consciousness. This practically broke Stag's heart. His girlfriend, the woman he cared about so much about...her first thought was STILL that lunatic who brought them here.
"Nope. Better." Stag said in a jokey tone, hoping it would mask the hurt in his voice. He picked up Huntress and carried her bridal style. "I'm getting us out of here."
"No..." Said Finn, as he was slowly getting to his feet, a difficult task considering that the Mother Gum had all but asphyxiated him minutes earlier. "I still need to get the food."
"Are you insane?!" Snapped Stag, flailing his arms around. "There's no time, the SKY IS LITERALLY FALLING ON OUR HEADS! We need to run!" Stag argued.
"If I don't get it...Frosty Bob died for nothing." Finn said, standing up to full height. He was battered and bruised and out of breathe, but his eyes burned with an intense conviction. He was willing and ready to complete his mission, or die trying.
Huntress Wizard stood up as well. She leaned on Stag's shoulder for support. "Let's get the food."
"WHAT?" Stag cried. He was beginning to feel outnumbered.
"Frosty Bob was a good...person. We can't let him die for nothing." Huntress Wizard grunted, as she rubbed the gash on her belly.
Stag sighed. He looked at Huntress Wizard.
"How strong are you feeling HayDubz?" He asked, with genuine concern.
"I've still got fight in me." She said.
"You're teleport spell? How much can you carry?" Stag asked.
"A decent amount." Huntress Wizard confirmed. "I can only carry so many people, but inanimate objects are so easy I could carry hundreds off them all at once."
"That's good. I have an idea." Said Stag. He grabbed Huntress Wizard by the waist and vanished in a brown blur. He then reappeared without Huntress Wizard and grabbed Finn, and vanished in an identical blur.
Stag reappeared in front of the food storehouse, and dropped Finn rather unceremoniously. Finn was completely unaccustomed to moving at Stag's level of speed. The destruction was getting even worse. Building were toppling and the cracks were growing larger and larger.
"Haydubz!" Stag called out over the noise. "Can you teleport this foodstore out of the kingdom?"
"Easy!" Huntress Wizard confirmed. The ground was shaking even more violently, so Huntress Wizard looked at Stag. "Let's go inside!"
"Sounds good!" Stag shouted over the rumbling, and he went inside the food store. Huntress Wizard looked at Finn, who was staring off into the destruction.
"Finn, are you coming inside?"
Finn didn't respond. He was simple pointing at a tower about to crumble.
"Look!" Finn shouted. A small group of Breakfast People were huddling together and crying. Huntress Wizard saw the look in Finn's eyes.
"Finn, I know what you're thinking. There's no time. Finn. Are you listening to me?"
"GERONIMO!" Finn said as he ran back into the rapidly crumbling city.
"FINN!"
Finn ran into the cloud of destruction, effortlessly flipping, running, spinning and kicking his way through the howling winds and swathe of falling debris.
He found the tower that the poor breakfast people were trapped on. He jumped and clung to the outer wall, and began to climb. His skin was red and steaming. He jumped and landed in front of them, sticking out his hand.
"Come with me if you want to live." He said in a deep, pseudo-german accent.
The trembling breakfast people shuddered, but one of them stepped forward and took Finn's hand. Finn scooped them all up, and jumped from the tower. The 6 breakfast people screamed as they sailed down, but Finn landed gracefully. He bent his legs when he landed. That was the trick.
He tucked and rolled, sheilding the Breakfast People, and then finally let them go.
"Get to the Food Store House. You'll be safe there!" Finn barked.
"But what about our Princess? Is she safe?" An Orange Slice Person said.
"I do not know where you're princess is." Finn said. "But I shall find her!"
Finn leapt into the air, with almost zero thought paid to the fact that he was leaping into a death zone.
"Breakfast Princess!" Finn shouted out. The crashing sound of wrecked masonry was almost deafening, and Finn was now simply leaping through the foggy dust and avoiding the everwidening cracks in the earth.
"BREAKFAST PRINCESS!" Finn shouted.
"GO AWAY!" Finn heard a sobbing voice.
Finn's hawk-like vision spotted Breakfast Princess, crying on her knees in the middle of the ruined castled. Cracks were fast approaching her on all sides.
"PRINCESS, I'M HERE TO RESCUE YOU" Finn shouted over the crashing dust.
"GO AWAY!" Screamed Breakfast Princess. "I DESERVE TO DIE!"
"NO YOU DON'T!" Finn insisted. "NOBODY DESERVES TO DIE! NOT LIKE THIS!"
"IT WAS MY ACTIONS THAT DESTROYED MY KINGDOM! I GOT MY SISTERS KILLED! I WAS TOO WEAK TO LEAD MY PEOPLE! I WAS DESPERATE FOR SOMEBODY TO DO IT FOR ME! IT WAS MY STUPIDITY THAT GOT MY PEOPLE KILLED!"
"YOU'RE PEOPLE WILL BE SAFE! I'M TRYING MY BEST TO SAVE YOU ALL, BUT THEY NEED YOU TO LEAD THEM!" Finn screamed.
"WHY WOULD YOU SAVE THEM?!" Screamed Breakfast Princess. "YOU CAME HERE TO ROB US! WHY WOULD YOU RESCUE US?"
"BECAUSE..." Finn because. Breakfast Princess was looking up at him in aww, hoping that he would offer some nugget of wisdom and kind words that would validate her life. However, Finn was suffering from a small brain-fart, because he actually couldn't think of a reason why he was doing what he was doing. To prevent his brain from entering a paradox, realising he was throwing himself into the jaws of death for nothing, Finn's brain shut down, and rebooted.
"I'm Finn..." Finn muttered in a slight stupor.
"YOU'RE SAVING US BECAUSE YOU'RE FINN?" Breakfast Princess question. A pillar made of sausage collapsed and was about to crush them both.
"WHY NOT?" Finn shouted boistrously. "I'M SAVING YOU..."
Finn scooped up Breakfast Princess bridal style, and carrying her to safety.
"BECAUSE I'M FINN!" He shouted at the top of his lungs, galloping away from the veritable tidal wave of dust and destruction that had seemingly given chase.
"Is he there yet?" Huntress Wizard asked, concerned about Finn's whereabouts. She had her hands on the floor of the storehouse, ready to teleport. 20 or 30 odd Breakfast People were huddled amongst the food. Huntress Wizard was really scared. She didn't know if she could take this many people at once. The food definitely. The over 30 people at once? Not likely.
Stag was standing watch, his head peering out into the destruction from the door of the food store house.
"Babe, he's probably dead. He ran head first into a city thats MELTING!" Stag insisted, pointing out into the veritable maelstrom of chaos. "We need to leave NOW!"
"What about Finn?" Huntress Wizard argued.
"WHAT IF FINN NEVER COMES BACK, HUH?" Stag countered. "Is some lunatic you think you know really worth dying for?"
Huntress Wizard looked her boyfriend in the eye and scowled. He didn't know what she had been through... He just didn't know.
"Yes." She said bluntly.
"HEY GUYS! START THE ENGINES!"
Stag's head snapped back outside the door to investigate, and his eyes nearly exploded out of his head.
Finn was running full tilt, with Breakfast Princess in his arms. Stag opened the door and motioned for Finn to hurry up.
Finn bolted inside, and Huntress Wizard started to cast her spell.
"Razzamafoo!" Huntress Wizard cast. The storehouse pulsed with teleportation energy, but the spell sputtered out. It had failed. Too many people.
"Huntress Wizard, try again, we're counting on you!" Finn cried.
"RAZZAMAFOO!" Huntress Wizard cast again. Same result. The spell sputtered out.
"The wave is getting closer!" Stag warned. The tidal wave of rock and destruction was almost right on top of them.
"RAZZAMAFOO!" Huntress Wizard cast at the top of her lungs. Same result. The spell sputtered out.
"PLEASE HUNTRESS WIZARD!" Finn cried, dropping to his knees. "I NEED YOU!"
Huntress Wizard's eyes snapped open, glowing with an Octarine hue. She bellowed at the top of her lungs.
"RAZZAMAFOO!"
And the storehouse teleported to safety.
