For anyone who reads my other stories (which you totally should, they're awesome), you'll know I mentioned a few future fics on my Owl House story. The relevant ones for this author's note are the Hilda fic and the One Piece fic.
Rose Wilderflower is going to be next, followed by Aquaphobia, and then back to updating my pre-existing stories with Lazarus.
So stay tuned for those, and in the meantime, have the next chapter of ZtDP.
Also! Please leave a review telling me what you thought, and what you're excited for, it keeps me motivated to write more of the story!
Enjoy~!
PART 1: No Trouble With Lumpy Space.
Currently in Ooo, just outside the Candy Kingdom, our heroes Finn, Zoe and Jake were currently bouncing on top of rather bouncy mushrooms, along with Princess Bubblegum, Lumpy Space Princess, and Hot Dog Princess.
"Cheers, Zoe." Princess Bubblegum clinked her teacup with Zoe's, who was the only one besides the princess keeping steady.
Both girls were wearing different outfits since the candy zombie fiasco. Bubblegum wore a primarily white dress with shoulders and frills in two different shades of purple. Zoe, however, was in something far more casual, a grey hoody with black lines, a blue shirt that had a picture of a turtle on it, and a plaid skirt. She still wore her bright yellow galoshes, however.
"Princess!" Finn called as he continued to bounce. "This tea party sucks in a big way! But thanks for the invite though!"
"Oh, don't worry, Finn. The Mallow Tea Ceremony takes years to master." Bubblegum assured.
"How come Zoe's good at it then?" Finn asked, looking at his pale friend keep steady.
"I've known PB long than I have you guys." Zoe reminded. "She's made me do these tea ceremonies more than once."
"Oh, it wasn't that bad," Bubblegum said, noticing the groan in Zoe's voice.
"I lost, so many outfits, to tea stains," Zoe grumbled.
"Don't worry guys, I think I just now mastered it!" Finn declared right before splashing his face with hot tea. "Okay, one more bounce." Finn proceeded to bounce down the marshmallows till he hit the ground and stopped bouncing. "Tea partying is hard, huh Jake?"
"Oof! Yes." Jake wheezed out as he landed next to Finn.
"What?! No way! It's super easy!" LSP said, floating above the marshmallows.
"LSP you big faker!" Finn pointed at her. "You're floating, not bouncing!"
"Fine, I'll prove it," LSP said, turning off her floating. Instead of proving it to be easy, she clumsily bounced down the marshmallows like Finn and Jake did, accidentally sinking her sharp teeth into Jake's leg when she landed on the earth.
"AAAAAGH!" Jake yelled in pain.
"Oh. Sorry I bit your leg." LSP apologized, slightly muffled by Jake's leg.
"You're still biting me!" Jake complained angrily.
"Oh, my gosh. Oh, right. Sorry." LSP said as she removed her mouth from the yellow dog's leg and resumed floating.
"Hey Jake, are you okay?" Zoe asked, floating down from the marshmallows she was bouncing on to check on her friend.
"Yeah! I'm fine!" Jake replied.
"That bump says different." Zoe pointed to a bump that was writhing on his leg where LSP bit him.
"Huh, that's... new. It's nothin' ominous, though. Just a bump." Jake dismissed.
"Nah, that's no bump. It's the early stage of the lumps." LSP corrected.
"Is it serious?" Finn asked.
"It just means he's changing into a Lumpy Space guy, on account of my bite," LSP explained. "It's just like, um, y'know... werewolf rules? Ar, rawr rawr rawr!"
"Ohhhh no!" Finn cried.
"What?" Jake said, "You think I'm going to turn all Lumpy like her? Get out of here." However, as soon as Jake said that, his arm began swelling up and becoming just as lumpy as his leg had, which had gotten worse. "Finn? Zoe? I think I'm freaking out guys!"
"Calm down bud!" Finn yelled back at Jake. "I'll, uh, sock the lumpiness out of ya!" He raised a fist to punch Jake."
"Finn no!" Zoe slapped him, before a teacup smashed against the ground at their feet.
"Hey! Royal intervention!" Bubblegum called as she bounced down to them. "Surely there must be an antidote to the lumps." She questioned LSP.
"Yeah. There's an antidote, but you have to go all the way to Lumpy Space to get it. And Jake has to use it by sunset." LSP explained.
"What happens if he doesn't take the antidote by sunset?"
"He'll be lumpy, like, forever."
"And can you take us there?" Zoe asked?
"Yeah, there's, like, a portal right nearby. I can take you whenever."
"TAKE US NOW! TAKE US NOW!" the three heroes chanted, pushing LSP in the direction she gestured the portal being. Princess Bubblegum made to follow them, but a gurgling of her stomach made her stop and begin going the other way.
"I should not have drunk that much tea!" She exclaimed.
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The heroes now followed LSP into the cotton candy forest towards the portal.
"You guys better not go around telling anyone about this portal. It's, like, totally a secret.
Stopping in the forest in front of a mushroom and a frog, Jake, Finn and Zoe looked around for the probably magical swirly vortex that would get them to Lumpy Space.
"Where is it?" Finn asked.
"The portal's that frog and mushroom." LSP pointed at the only other things there.
The frog hopped on top of the mushroom and spoke to them. "Password please."
"Whatevers2009!" LSP yelled at it.
"Good day Princess. Are your parents okay with you entering Lumpy Space with two," The frog paused to croak, "Non-Lumpers?"
"Yes! Say yes!" Finn urged, bouncing on his feet.
"Woah, chill dude." Zoe patted his face. "I'm going to keep patting your face until you're chill."
Finn took a deep breath and calmed down. "Okay, I'm chill now."
"Neat." Zoe removed her hand. "LSP, if you'd please?"
"Yeah, whatever. They can come." LSP shrugged. As soon as she said that, the frog's tongue lashed out and quickly dragged all four of them into its mouth. After a brief flash of colours, they all landed in the, appropriately named, Lumpy space. There were floating islands, passing comets, and everything, and I mean everything, was lumpy.
"Lumpy Space." Finn gasped, staring in awe. "So, where's the antidote?" He asked LSP.
"Hold it. First, you should check out my house." LSP said as show showed them a purple house with a lot of windows and, of course, lumpy. "It's, like, kind of lame, but way less lame than, like, your house."
"Hey! Our house is rad!" Zoe complained.
"Yeah!" Finn agreed.
"Uh, guys, can we please skip to the part about where the antidote?" Jake asked.
"It's up there at Makeout Point." LSP pointed to an orange and green hill with a tree at the top of it.
"That's so close!" Finn cheered, throwing his hands in the air. "We can run there in no... time..." he trailed off when he realized that Makeout point wasn't actually on the same island as LSP's house was, and between them was an endless abyss. "Awww what?! It's like a bazillion long fall into space!" Finn complained, looking down.
"Yeah. You have to travel by car in my world, or else you'll fall into the Lumpy Abyss." LSP explained.
"Yeah, too bad." Zoe said, ignoring the deep voice that had just called out 'Daughter!'. "It would be a lot easier if one of us could fly."
"Yeah..." Finn drooped.
Zoe blinked, unimpressed. "Finn, I was being sarcastic."
Finn looked at her, confused.
"I can fly, remember?"
"Oh yeah!"
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Like, 30 seconds later...
Zoe was now carrying Finn and Jake over the Abyss and to Makeout Point.
"Man, this is super easy!" Jake said happily, laying in Zoe's hoodie after having shrunk down.
"Yeah, this would have been so much harder if none of us could fly!" Finn commented, hanging from Zoe's hands.
END
PART 2: My Old Friend Simon
"Snow day!" Zoe, Finn and Jake cheered.
The three best friends had decided to venture into the Ice kingdom and have fun with all the snow that was there. That, and a lava giant had decided that right in front of the treehouse was a lovely place to have a nap. Zoe and Finn had swapped out their regular clothes for warmer ones, a pale-yellow long-sleeved shirt for Finn, and a peach-coloured sweater for Zoe with the picture of an actual peach on a pocket, and finished off with green earmuffs.
"Okay boys," Zoe announced as they all stopped chanting, "You two have fun with your sledding, I'm going to go work on my Snow art. Meet you back here at sundown!"
"Okay! Bye Zoe!" The boys called, already disappearing over a snow dune. Zoe shook her head with a smile.
"Seriously, how am I the responsible one?" she asked herself before taking a shovel out of her bag to begin scooping snow.
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Carefully putting the finishing touches on her snow dragon by etching the scales with one of her arrow tips, Zoe then floated back to admire her work. Nodding in satisfaction she finally realized how dark it was getting, seeing the setting sun fall behind the icy mountains.
"Dang, better go find Finn and Jake," Zoe said to herself, moving away from her sculpture. A moment later she went back and quickly photographed it.
Gently flying through the Ice Kingdom's snow-topped mountains was oddly relaxing.
'Maybe I'll check in to see how Simon is doing.' Zoe thought. 'And to make sure he hasn't kidnapped any of the princesses.'
Deciding that Finn and Jake could take care of themselves, Zoe changed her direction towards a very specific ice mountain that had a sort of face cut out in it.
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"Siiiiiimooooon!" Zoe began calling out as she drew closer to his... house? Cave? She began calling when she drew closer to his place of abode. "Simon? Simon are you home?"
Floating in front of the 'door', Ice King appeared from further inside.
"Ahah! Zoe, what are you doing here?" Ice King greeted, leaning on the doorframe.
"I was just making a snow sculpture and thought that I haven't seen you in a while. So I decided to say hello." Zoe raised a hand in a wave. "Hello."
"Nice, nice. Hello to you too. How've you been?" Ice King asked, his eyes shifting from side to side.
"Okay... thanks," Zoe replied, suspicious of Ice King's subtly actions. "Just been travelling around. I've settled down now, so I may be able to visit more."
"Oh, how lovely." Ice Kind nodded, still not meeting Zoe's eyes.
"Would you like to invite me in, I'd like to hear what you've been up to." Zoe narrowed her eyes.
"Uhh... I'm... kind of busy right now..." Ice King said, icy sweat forming on his brow.
"Busy with what?"
"Um, stuff?"
Zoe sighed, pinching her brow. "Simon, do you have princesses locked in your house?"
"Whaaaaa?" Ice King gasped overdramatically. "Of course not! That's crazy talk!"
"So you don't mind if I come in then, right?" Zoe declared more than asked, calling Ice King's bluff.
"Well, I..."
Zoe didn't listen and pushed pass him into his house. Her eyes immediately fell upon a corner of the room surrounded by ice bars and filled with seven different princesses as well as her two best friends.
"Zoe!" Finn cried when he saw her. "You gotta get us out of here! That guy's the Ice King! He kidnapped us all and he's a major bum!"
Zoe sighed again. "Yeah, I know. He does this." She turned to Ice King. "Simon..." she growled.
"Alright fine! I kidnapped princesses." He admitted. "Also those jerks Finn and Jake, Happy?!"
"Simon, we talked about this. You can't just go around kidnapping ladies and threatening to kill them if they don't want to be there! Also, you kidnapped my best friends." Zoe then looked at the cage behind her. "And you froze Jake!"
"Wait, Finn and Jake are your friends?" Ice King asked.
"You know Ice King?!" Finn exclaimed in surprise. Zoe groaned yet again.
"I hate being the responsible one..." she whispered to herself. "Yes, Simon, they're my friends. Now let everyone go or I'm using the ice salt!" Zoe threatened, taking a bag of Winter Melt™ out of her duffel bag.
"Whoa! Whoa! Okay! I'll let them go, just don't use the ice salt! Took me a week to fix the floor last time..." Ice King grumbled as he begrudgingly unlocked the cage and stood aside as the princesses, followed by Finn pushing a still frozen jake, exited. Finn made the 'I'm watching you' gesture at Ice King, who also did it back at him.
"Thank you, Simon~!" Zoe sang as she used a fire spell to unfreeze Jake, who let his displeasure of being rapidly unfrozen via fire be known via a 'YOW!'. "Now, we'll be going now, so no more kidnapping princesses, okay?" Zoe wagged a finger at.
"Fiiiine. I promise." Ice king lied, holding a pair of crossed fingers behind his back.
Zoe smiled again as Finn helped the princesses out the door and onto an enlarged Jake's back.
"Thanks, Simon! I'll come to visit you next week!" Zoe waved goodbye before following Finn onto Jake, who took of to deliver all the princesses back to their kingdoms.
"So Zoe," Finn began, "How do you know the Ice King?"
"Yeah! And why'd you keep calling him Simon?" Jake added.
Zoe sighed for what felt like the gazillionth time that evening. "Well, back when I was little, the Ice King's name was Simon and he wasn't a total butt. He took care of my sister and me until he got too bonked up in the noggin and left." Zoe explained. "He still remembers me, as well as my big sister, but he doesn't really remember who has was, and turned into a super jerk who kidnaps princesses. I visit him from time to time when I'm around, but he just keeps staying crazy."
Finn and Jake were silent for a few moments.
"Damn dude, that's messed up." Jake finally commented.
"Y-yeah, I kind of feel bad for the guy now." Finn agreed.
"Heh, don't worry about it." Zoe chuckled, trying to make herself feel better. "Even if he can't help being crazy, we can't just let him steal princesses. So, we'll just have to flip his bricks if he does. Try not to feel too bad about it."
"Ahem." A cough interrupted the friends' conversation. Looking to the side, they saw it was Slime Princess who had approached them. "Excuse me for interrupting, but, Finn, remember when you vowed to marry us to the thing of our choosing?"
"Yeah…?" Finn answered, picking up the small ruler.
"Well, I'd like to marry you."
Zoe did a spit take before bursting out in laughter at Finn.
Finn awkwardly rubbed the back of his head. "Oh, heh heh, well how 'bout that..." He leant over to whisper to Jake. "Jake, help me!"
"Oh, uh, you don't want to marry Finn, Slime Princess. He wets the bed constantly." Jake lied.
This was the breaking point for Zoe, who now had tears streaming down her face and unable to catch a breath.
"Oh, gross! Put me down! Put me down!" Slime Princess shouted, getting Finn to quickly release her.
"Heh heh, I'm sorry." Fin awkwardly chuckled before turning angrily around to his bro. "Jake!"
The sounds of laughter could still be heard as they disappeared through the icy mountains.