Despair, Darkness and Inner Demons

Phoebe, Light, Marceline and Hope

After getting off the phone with Finn, Phoebe and the group carried on heading back towards the tree house. Aside from Hope and Marceline commenting on that there was a bad feeling in the air the trip had no troubles and soon enough the foursome reached their destination. Light and Hope stayed outside to keep watch while Marceline and Phoebe checked inside.

"Phoebe, Fionna's bags still here, do you think they will be okay without it?" Marceline asked concerned.

"I'm sure they'll be fine after all Finn has he's bag with him and we know Marshall's with them and it's not like he'd let anything happen to Fionna, So we shouldn't worry too much." Phoebe replied, sounding less confidently than she had hoped.

"I just have a bad feeling Phoebes... like... something bad is going to happen... the last time it was like this I had to watch Lumen die for Fionna... it's death... death is in the air..."

"Then let's just hope you're wrong this time Marcy..."

"That's the problem FP... it never has been wrong.."

Outside

"Why didn't you tell them what you know about this trial Light?" Hope asked.

"Why didn't you?"

"I wanted it to be different... they know about Mr. Jake and his wife getting infected by the darkness and they know that there is going to be death... how would it be any different in a bad way?"

"...Belle's out there alone that's how... and unlike me and you she never had a father willing to tell her about this past. Lumen and my Dad were both willing to believe that they could come back here one day and told us about it... It's why we both held onto our Mum's and why we both are standing out here... we know that they get attacked here so we are waiting to protect them. However I am still worried about Belle..."

"So am I... she's been working on that machine since we got here thinking we didn't know.. what is that anyway?"

"From what I first saw I thought it was a shield but then she started looking into magic and other stuff so I'm not sure..."

"I'm just worried... she hasn't been the same since Cloud faded back.. She would do anything she thought would help him.. she always has."

"Aha yeah Hope do you remember that time when she heard that snow people really like blueberry flavored things and decided to travel all the way to the Berry Kingdom to get some"

"Oh... glob yes... she was missing for like 3 days and when she turned up with them it turned out that not only did he hate them he was allergic to them... hahaha" Hope laughed.

"And still to make her feel better he ate them all and had to be bedridden for 2 weeks because he had caught...-"

"-a cold hahaha I remember who ever heard of a Prince of Ice catching a cold. But it was sweet of him to eat them still I am glad that Simon and Betty managed to convince her that he preferred raspberry flavored things so it didn't happen again though."

"Yeah... I just hope she's okay..."

"You should be more worried with yourselves than your little friends kiddies"

Back in the treehouse

As the pair, Marceline and Phoebe, gathered up extra supplies and anything they thought they might need Marceline's phone rang. She floated over to her bag to answer it to find that Marshall was calling her.

"Hey Marshall did you find Belle?" Marceline asked hopefully.

"Marcy We need help. When we found her she was already past saving... there was nothing we could do a relic called Link had got to her. We couldn't get her body back either... the Relic hurt Finn bad.."

"Wait... Belle... she's gone.. Marshall.. how can she be gone... she's just a kid for goodness sake! Why didn't you save her!? and What do you mean he's hurt bad?" Marceline began to lose her composure and Phoebe who had been repacking a bag stopped when she heard Finn's name mentioned.

"There was nothing we could do. Belle apparently put a shield over the Ice Kingdom to protect Simon and the others in doing so pissing off the relic... I... I couldn't protect her... Bubba's little girl... but I swear it... I will kill that relic... I'll make her pay." Marshall's tone was dark and full of hate. Hearing nothing more of Finn mentioned by Marceline Phoebe took the phone off of her to speak to Marshall.

"MARSHALL! TELL ME WHAT HAPPENED TO FINN!" she screamed down the phone. On the other side of the phone Fionna had handed Finn over to Marshall in hopes of passing the news to Phoebe better.

"Hey FP it's Fionna... Finn's alive don't worry... he... was hurt quite bad and since I'd left my bag behind and his cyclops tears had been made unusable... we had no other choice to do what we did..."

"AND WHAT DID YOU DO?"

"...Marshall bit Finn and turned him into a vampire... we're heading to Bubblegum's family cabin in hopes that she has a machine like Bubba that cures vampirism." Phoebe was almost speechless on the other side of the phone.

"YOU TURNED MY FUTURE HUSBAND INTO A VAMPIRE!" Upon hearing this from Phoebe, Marceline took the phone back while FP stood there unable to think.

"Yo Vampire Queen here, My double did what?" Fionna repeated what she had said to Phoebe.

"So we need to know did Bonnie ever try to cure your vampirism?"

"Well yeah she did but it didn't work out as my vampire powers were more absorbed than gained from being a vampire so it released all of the vampire's whose powers I had stolen..."

"Well it's not like it can release another Marshall and we really don't have any other options... we could use the back up I don't think Link was alone and I think she's following us."

"Sure thing Fi we'll head there as soon as we can." Marceline hung up and looked back at Phoebe who was still not moving.

"Come on FP we have to go and don't worry Finn's going to be okay I tried that machine for myself before and it works"

"Wait... really? So he's going to be fine?" Snapping out of it Phoebe quizzed.

"Yeah now grab what we need and let's go, my henchman needs help again" The two girls grabbed their bags and the extra supplies and headed back outside to find their children running back towards them away from a wave of black flames that was following them. Phoebe rushed forward and separated the flames in two so that it passed the treehouse. The foursome turned to see move waves heading to the treehouse ones many times bigger than the one that had just struck. Hope and Light grabbed their Mum's and ran back inside. Hope drew an insignia of light on the door and light spread throughout the house awakening the spells that Simon, Lumen and Finn had put in place.

Phoebe went to run back outside but was held back by Light who yelled at her to calm down.

After discussing what had happened Marceline leant against the wall remembering everything and trying to make sense of it.

"So we have a relic in between us and Finn..."

"No Marceline... we have two" Light replied.

"Two?"

"Yeah Mummy it seems like they move in pairs aside from one. Two have already started to fight Dad and Mr. Jake, it seems Uncle Marshy and the others have met one so it's safe to say she has a companion and I think whatever Hunter is doing he's doing well... The relics were angry... apparently one of them has already been destroyed and another is missing.."

"Wait Hunter is destroying the relics?"

"Seems so... but the two we got are called Peace and Chaos.."

"Peace and Chaos? Rather grand names?"

"Well as we were told the relics will be things that meant something to the Angel of Light... well we seem to have gotten her heart..."

"But there's two of them?"

"Yeah... they're both her heart. The darkness tore it from her when she fell to the world's creating the relics. It's the first relic so to say but it couldn't break it... couldn't break her completely... so it tore her heart in two creating Peace and Chaos.. from what I can see... Peace is the good side of the Angel and Chaos her bad... but Chaos controls Peace so there's no reasoning with her."

"How do you tell the two apart? What are their powers? And how do you think we beat them?"

"...Actually that's the easy part... they look exactly like me and Hope just a black flame version of me and a white version of Hope but each has the pattern of a heart over their body in the opposing color. I think they took our forms as their true form is the hearts in the chest. I don't know whether they'll change or just be like us. Their powers... sadly are also just like ours... just... much stronger... especially Hopes powers since she is only part shade being... and well... how would you beat us two?"

"...You.. you two are really strong even for your age right?..."

"Yup..."

"How would you beat... well you?"

"I'm not the problem... but Peace will be since she's a jacked up version of Hope..." Marceline looked over at Phoebe after hearing the news. Phoebe stood up and faced the others.

"Let's go..."

Marshall, Fionna and Finn

Marshall flew through the darkening sky eyes only focused on the distance waiting till Bonnie's family cabin came into view. His mind was ridden with doubt and regret. He could feel the warmth fading faster and faster from Finn's body as he transitioned into a vampire. Fionna kept her eyes behind them looking out for any followers. When she felt that they were safe she let herself lay into the fur of Marshall's bat form hoping that it's warmth would bring her some peace but it only made her worry more. They still haven't been able to get in touch with the Candy Royals or Lumen and Jake so were just praying for their friends safety.

"Hey...Fi?"

"Yes Marshy?"

"..Did I do the right thing?... like... what if this doesn't work and I've just turned this world's greatest Hero into a monster?" Marshall admitted his fears.

"Marshall.." Fionna sighed; she could hear the fear in his voice and realised that he wasn't really talking all about Finn. She had known for a while that Marshall had always been worried that he'd "dirty" her or take away her good since he viewed himself as nothing more than something bad.

"Marshy... You did what needed to be done to save the life of our friend and this world's greatest hero as you put it. Finn's another me, he's made of strong stuff and no vampireness or anything else will change that.. okay?"

"...Okay Fi" The duo fell silent.

Unbeknownst to them both Finn was currently fighting a battle of a different kind within his mind.

Finn woke up back in the clearing with the tree however unlike before their was no longer any snow and aside from the clearing there was nothing but darkness. The area itself was bathed in red light being reflected from a blood moon in the sky. He sat up with a jolt and alert.

He looked down and saw the tears in his clothes and his blood but felt no wound. Finn stared at the area in his chest where there should have been a hole confused when he felt a sharp pain in his neck. He put his hand over it and saw that there were two blood marks but once again no wound.

"Confused? Yeah I imagine you must be..."

Finn drew him sword and scanned the area again looking for the source of the voice.

"You must be able to work out what's happened right? Even you're not that stupid?"

Finn walked to the tree and looked around it. He still could not find anyone when he looked up and found a red pair of eyes meet his blue ones. However the owner was somehow another him.

"Peek-a-boo you found me! Well done Finny you did good!"

"...Who are you?"

"I'm you! Well.. You're me is a better way of saying it."

"I don't get it... Why is there another me?"

"Oh.. no let me clear things up, I'm not like the other world's Finn I'm the Finn of this world."

"...Then what am I?"

"A memory that will slowly fade. You see you were weak Finny and you let yourself almost die with no quick fix other than for me to be born. You see our good friend Marshall-Lee felt like he had no choice but to bite you and turn you into a Vampire in order to save you and as such, I was born. Pleasure to meet you?"

"Wait... am I dead then? And You don't seem very evil?"

"Currently yes you are dead but soon that will be Fine. Marshall and the girl you are heading somewhere where there is a cure for me. I'm just something to keep you alive and well. Hmm I guess you're right I'm not very evil am I? I however have a problem with giving you back this body if you're going to continue to be as weak as you have been"

"Bonnie's Hut... there's a machine that cures Vampirism and your not going to give my body back? You don't have any choice once I'm in that machine I will be me again and you'll be gone!"

"Now now Finny you think that it's that easy? Marceline's vampirism was cured as her vampiric side wanted nothing more than to leave her whereas maybe I intend to stay. This is my body now and I won't hand it back to someone who dies as easily as you do! You are meant to be this universe's savior! The savior of all of these worlds... yet you have fallen to a single relic so tell me? Why should I give back what is rightfully mine?".

"Before I answer your question, and I will. What do I call you?"

"You want me to have a name?

"Yes.. because like you said... you exist too so you need a name?"

"Well what would be a good name for a vampire you that wants your body because, like I said, you are too weak?"

"Somehow... I feel you just want to keep calling me weak which is tots not math. I died yeah... I have before and probably, no definitely will again it's part of the job. I want you to have a name so I can thank you for saving my life."

"..Restoring your Pillow world memories really did change you didn't it Finn? And that's where you are wrong Finn.. it is not in the Hero Code at all to die... in fact in the code it says to succeed even over Death himself to save the day in the most extraordinary way. You are a Hero born to die but have lived every day in spite of that yet you fall for a small trick at the hands of a easily forgotten villain. How many times have you frozen to death? How many times have you been burnt? Cut? Stabbed? Poisoned? Suffocated? Crushed? And broken? You have flew around the world, to space and back. Explored uncharted caverns, lands and futures. You have literally created met deities and demons and still walk this land yet you think it's normal for you to die? No Finn... you are too important to die... now this body has a mission... will you continue to be the driver or shall I take over?"

Finn stared at his counterpart in confusion, this wasn't the talk of someone intending to rob him of his body more someone who wanted him to earn it back. His interaction with vampires so far, even the ones he called his friends, led him to believe they act on instinct, impulse and desire but this one was neglecting all of those.

"My time in the Pillow world changed me and recovering those memories may define me from now on however like those memories are a part of me I feel like you are too... and I've done that much.. huh.. it's crazy when you think about it... How one human boy abandoned on a strange world could amount to so much... I owe it to myself and everyone else to see it through to the end so whatever it is I need to do to prove to you that I can be the Hero that I was born to be... I will do it... My Name is Finn Mertens, son of Martin and the Human Hero Prince of Ooo and I will slay the darkness."

The vampire stared back at the human and with a fang filled smile he dropped to the ground to stand level with Finn. His eyes scanned the hero and he seemed content.

"Call me Fear, because that's what I am, the source of your fear and everyone's else's. Yes you have achieved much Finn but all that was just a warm up for the time to come. You have embraced Strength, Hope and Courage however you can't just go forward with that you need to embrace your weakness, your hopelessness and your fear. You need to understand everything about you, overcome it and embrace what you are before the darkness swallows you whole."

"Well then Fear, what do you want me to do..."

"Survive the night."

"Survive the night?"

"Yes, the night that surrounds us is just the vampirism and fragments of the darkness that invaded your body when you were attacked. The vampirism is negating the darkness but when you are cured you will still have fragments of darkness inside you and have no way to stop them. They will either devour you from inside out or corrupt you like the relics. You only have one chance if you wish to live. Become stronger than them and lift the darkness with your own ability before you are cured of me."

"How do I do that?" Finn asked confused. Fear threw something at Finn which he caught naturally he looked down and recognised the object.

"My sword?"

"Yes, the Angel Wing Sword which in itself is a relic of the first Angel. That is your weapon, your companion and can become your new strength if you learn to master it completely."

"And how do I do that!?" Asked Finn again growing impatient. Fear drew another blade. This one was more of a katana than a blade like Finns. It's grip was black and red and hilt full of fangs.

"You fight. Let's see what is stronger Finn, your Angel Wing Sword or My Demon Fang Katana. When you have the power to break my sword and shatter it into pieces will be the time you are strong enough to reply the darkness within. So take your stance Finn and remember this... you are already dead. You can die no further from here so fear not my sword, fear not your own weakness and fear not Fear itself and through that you will overcome Death. Do you understand?".

"...So.. Normal hero biz? Defeat the monster, save the day and survive to fight another."

"Well phrased Finn."

"Well then... Let's fight Fear."

"...Let me repeat... Do you understand Finn the Human?"

"Fear, My vampire self, I understand."

"Good... because trust me on this... this is only going to hurt a lot." And with that Fear leapt forward slashing his katana at Finn hoping to take him by surprise but to Fear's delight Finn evaded the attack and went to counter attack. Fear repelled his sword and kicked him back into the tree before swinging at Finn from the side. Finn managed to raise his sword to block but was sent flying into the darkness. Finn watched as the tree fell behind Fear. He watched the light disappear leaving Finn staring into the dark with the only sign someone was there was the two red eyes watching him full of bloodlust and the glint of his sword.

Jake and Lumen

Lumen dodged the arrow the flew by his head and then stepped to the side to avoid the slash of the sword that was brought down heavily on him. He stepped on the hand of its wielder before kicking him away. He picked up the heavy sword and threw it towards the archer. She dodged effortlessly before firing a string of arrows straight back at him. He ran while avoiding them towards the swordsman who was still stunned. He was about to strike him when he felt a chill down his neck and instinctively ducked. Overhead the swordsman's blade was spinning in the air before returning to his hand. If he had been a little slower he may have lost his head.

"Brother Lumen... you are not strong enough to beat both Knight and I, you will lose this fight. You are but a shield... you will not be able to defeat us when carrying the weight of those that you must protect." Lumen knew what she meant. He had been careful to make sure that no arrows or Knight himself had headed to where Jake was treating Lady. He had no time to check how their situation was while fighting these two.

"I am not your brother Red, I would not betray those I consider family and as much as you can say that I will protect them because for what other reason am I still alive?... I will survive this fight and I will go on to raise a beautiful daughter alongside my beautiful wife in a world free of the darkness. You can still join me Red, and you Knight... it's not too late I can still save you." Knight and Red could feel that Lumen was saying these words with earnest and hope...

"It's too late for us Brother... We are no longer relics of the light.. but slaves of the dark and that can only end with our death... now if you won't give me that then I will give you yours." She drew her bow and fired towards Lumen again. He started to dodge again but lost focus on Knight till the relic was beside him and was too late to dodge completely. Lumen disappeared into the shadows but was followed by Knight and a few seconds later he came flying out of the shadow of the house and landed on the floor in pain and bleeding.

"Darkness is no longer your friend Lumen... You may think it is your Ally but we were born into it, molded by it... you can no longer rely on the darkness to save you."

Lumen coughed up some blood then stood to face her.

"Somehow Red I feel like you ripped someone off there but now is not the time.. You may think that darkness is only yours but everything has its own light and its own dark..."

"Prove it." Was all Red said before firing another arrow straight at Lumens head. He was about to dodge when he realised that he couldn't move. He looked at the ground and realised a horde of hands was rising from his shadow and restricting him. He looked up towards the arrow that was speeding closer to his skull. He closed his eyes ready for it to hit and waited till he heard the crunch of bone. Blood poured on the ground and he fell to the floor.

The Lost Woods

The relic looked up from the damp ground it was tied to hoping to see a chance to escape or call for help however all he could see was his demonic captor arguing with a strange voice whose origin was unknown. The relic was tired, bruised and in much pain after being tortured by this captor. He had felt the voice search through his mind every time the pair asked a question. He had tried not to betray his master however he couldn't stop the thoughts leaving his own mind. How was he suppose to face the master now? He not only couldn't take revenge on person who killed one of the other relics, couldn't help the remaining relics to fight and couldn't even stop this unknown individual from getting every thing it wanted from him. He had completely failed and just wanted to die... and it seemed the captor agreed.

"Jade why are we even still here? We got what we wanted from him, we know what the other relics are and what they can do? So tell me why haven't we killed him yet and hunted down the next one?"

"Hunter this is why you are still just a child you are missing the bigger picture! This relic was suppose to be one of the most loyal relics there could be however the memory loss left that loyalty open to the darkness."

"Exactly! He's just a stupid traitor now we should dispose of him and then keep going, 2 down 7 to go would be the way to move now Jade."

"You are missing the point Hunter. We can use him. All we have to do is restore his memories and then we may have gained more power for our own forces. I can't believe you did not learn anything from your time with Huntress."

"What's that suppose to mean?" Hunter replied aggressively.

"Don't get tetchy with me Hunter, What I mean is that Huntress would never go into a fight she couldn't win. She wouldn't fight out numbered or out gunned. She would turn the situation around till she had the advantage."

"If that was the case why did she sacrifice herself to rescue Lumen?"

"Are you a fool? Lumen is one of the main forces of Ooo in this time next to your parents and their counterparts. He was necessary for this fight. Not just that she saved thousands of wizards from death. Wizards who can and will fight to survive and finally she left you."

"Okay Lumen and the Wizards I can understand but me? I'm just a time aberration who is weaker than my Mum and has less powers than my Dad... how am I worth leaving alive in her place?"

"Because you have me now."

"You? She couldn't have known that we would end up like this?"

"But she did, in our final moments together she was the one who started the magic that would leave us behind in the seed. However, we realised what she was going for so we made sure that it saved her too. I believe completely that she intended for us two to end up together and that you'd be strong enough to use our powers. She believed in you so how about you believe in her and listen to me?"

"...Sure... so how do we fix it?" Hunter turned to face the struggling and panicked relic as it stared back at him.

"...I spoke to Ghost, Lumen's Relic, and learnt something interesting... how to delve into one psyche and fix their minds. Want to give it a try?"

"...I would love to... lets go fix us a relic."

"Good. Now... we're not the same as Lumen and Ghost so this may hurt... a lot".

Hunter put his palm onto the relics forehead and felt Jades power surround him. Hunters body began to contract he felt his bones start to break and his muscles tear he was being dragged into the head of the relic and with a blood chilling scream of pain and a flash he was gone. The relic unaware of what happened realised he was free from the magic stood up and began heading to the nearest relic he could feel.

So Locations:

Jake and Lumen - Lady's House

Marceline, Light, Hope and Phoebe - Tree house

Marshall and Phoebe - Heading for Bonnie's Cabin

Finn and Fear - Fighting inside his Mind.

Bonnie and Bubba - Candy Kingdom

Hunter and Jade - Inside a Relic's Mind

Dark Relics - Locations

Red VS Lumen and Jake

Knight VS Lumen and Jake

Link - Chasing after Marshall, Fionna and Finn

Grim - Chasing after Link

Lace - Dead

Lock - Heading for Candy Kingdom

Hostage B - Glasses - Heading to find another relic

Chaos VS Marcy, FP, Light and Hope

Peace VS Marcy, FP, Light and Hope

And That's all for THAT'S FIC This time, I'm sorry it took so long to get out and I'll try to get the next chapter done a lotttttttttt sooner! Hope you enjoy and if you like it please leave a review. If you have any questions feel free to PM me and I'll do my best to reply.