Takes place right after season 8 of Adventure Time. I don't own Final Fantasy or Adventure time.
Chapter 1 - Welcome to Candyland
Despite being late at night and raining, Noctis insisted on driving. Ignis had warned him to be cautious but somehow managed to fall asleep. Prompto, sitting next to him, had fallen asleep nearly half an hour before.
So, he and Gladiolus sat in the front in silence, the only sounds came from the car and the pouring rain. Although Noctis wanted to say something the serious look that Gladiolus had told him that he should probably hold off.
While Noctis was thinking about everything they had been through recently he just bearly saw someone standing in the road. He swerved and just missed him. The commotion woke everyone up and they got out to talk with this hooded man. "What are you doing? You almost got hit!" Prompto yelled at him.
"Do you have any food?" said the man in a deep raspy voice.
"I guess," said Gladiolus skeptically. "Prompto," he turned to him, "go get the bag."
"Yeah," Prompto agreed and headed back to the car and handed him some of the dried meat they had bought as a snack in the last town. As Gladiolus tried to hand him the food he snatched it out of his hand and gobbled it up. "Ah!" Gladiolus was started.
"Believe it or not," said the beggar in a menacing voice, "I'm not actually a beggar. I'm actually a," he ripped off the cloak, revealing a bright but ragged outfit, "~magic man~." His voice suddenly became bright and cheerful as well. "You gave me that food, now I'll do you a favor. A ~magic favor~ for you." He waved his fingers in their direction. "On this day, a magical life lesson comes to you."
"Man," Prompto stepped forward, "we really don't need that."
"Pow," said the magic man and flung his hands towards them. Sparkles and lights swirled around them. The dark colors of the night sky gradually became lighter and more colorful. It felt like all the air was being sucked out of their lungs and the ground was being ripped from away from their feet.
Meanwhile, Magic Man was standing alone on the road. "Oops, that wasn't supposed to happen." He looked around before getting in their car, "Oh well," he shrugged his shoulders and tried to take off but he didn't really know about cars and couldn't figure out how to make it go. He pushed both petals so it should work.
Suddenly, they could breathe again but they were falling. Fortunately for them, it was only a couple of feet. It was possibly the strangest sight that any of them had ever seen. The air smelled really sweet. "Am I dreaming?" Prompto asked.
Ignis looked around as well, "If you are then I suppose we are sharing the same dream."
"What was in that powder?" Gladiolus asked.
"I don't know," Noctis said, shaking his head, "but ready your weapons just in case. I believe that we might be hallucinating."
"Then drawing your weapons might not be the best idea right now." Ignus pointed out
Gladiolus nodded, "Right, we might hurt someone we know."
The four of them were agreement and started walking along the candy streets. In the distance, there was a young boy gathering trash from the streets. He only had one arm so he was picking things up and tucking them under the stump of his right arm.
"Um, hey there," Gladiolus waved him down. The boy turned to him and tilted his head to the side and approached them carefully.
"Um," he looked around, "are you- um," he rubbed the back of his neck, "are you humans?"
"That's right," Ignis said.
Is was a confusing question and the boy's eyes widened, "Where did you guys come from?" He dropped all the trash he was holding.
"It's a long story," Prompto shook his head.
"Because of some magic, we landed here," Noctis said.
"And you guys are OK?" The boy looked skeptical. "You're not going to freak out or anything?"
"We're really fine," Gladiolus assured him. "But tell us where we are. Who is in charge around here."
"Oh," the boy relaxed considerably, "This is the Candy Kingdom. It's ruled by Princess Bubblegum."
"I swear I'm having some sort of fever dream," Prompto mumbled.
"So which wizard sent you here?" The boy asked, picking up the trash he dropped.
"We don't know," Noctis answered darkly, "He was under a cloak most of the time. He tricked us into giving him food before casting some weird spell."
"He was wearing a yellow suit that was all torn up." Prompto offered.
"Magic Man!" The boy shouted. "That nasty guy. He's always donking with people."
"Where can we find him?" Ignis asked.
The boy shrugged, "Mars, I think."
"What do you think?" A yellow... thing walked up to him. He almost looked like a hybrid dog that stood on two legs. But he talked just fine.
"Magic man is on Mars, right?" The boy asked.
The... dog shook his head, "No man, Normal Man is. Or, I guess King Man is,"
"Oh, that's right," the boy snapped dropped one piece of trash.
"Ok," Prompto interrupted their conversation, "But were is Magic Man?"
"Magic man is Normal Man, after he lost his powers. Then he became the ruler of Mars. Then he changed into King Man" the boy explained.
"This person defiantly had powers," Gladiolus said.
"Maybe you're wrong," the dog shrugged at the boy. "By the way, I'm Jake the Dog."
"Oh," the boy realized he hadn't introduced himself, "I'm Finn Mertins."
"Prompto," Prompto reached out to shake Finn's hand. But, since Finn shook with his left hand it was very awkward.
"I'm Ignis," Ignis placed a hand on his chest to keep from extending it out of habit. "It's a pleasure to meet you."
"My name is Noctis," He followed Ignis's example.
Gladiolus smiled brightly and stuck a thumb to his chest, "They call me Gladiolus,"
After a little bit of awkward silence, the boy Finn said, "Want some litter?" he offered some trash. When the others gave him a confused, and slightly disgusted look he explained, "Everything in the Candy Kingdom is made of candy. Even the trash tastes good."
While the others looked a little uncertain Prompto stepped up and took a piece. "Mm, this tastes like cherry."
Finn nodded, "Yeah, Mr. Gumdrop is really bad at littering. You can usually find a bunch of different flavors around his place." He started munching on a piece himself. "So, do you want to go back to the village."
"Hm? Yeah," Noctis said, rubbing the back of his neck, "but we don't really know the way."
"Oh, ok," he turned to the castle quickly, "well, I'll be going in a bit. You can go with me but I have to talk to PB first."
The started walking together, "So, who is PB?" Prompto said.
"She's the princess. Princess Bubblegum rules the kingdom." He exclaimed knowingly.
