Cinnamon Bun hobbled as fast as she could towards the tree house, her huge body swaying like a big weeble wobble. Finally reaching the door, she wheezed sugary breaths.
"I gotta... Gotta... tell..." She huffed. She knocked on the door and Fionna, always on alert, answered in arms.
"What is it?!" She exclaimed, big sword in hand. Cinnamon bun wiped a trail of sweaty frosting off her brow and wheezed pointing towards candy kingdom. Fionna frowned.
"What is it?" She asked again. Shee sighed and began to sputter syllables. Cake grabbed her from behind.
"Come on! Candy Kingdom's in trouble!" Cake said. Cinnamon nodded furiously and collapsed on the doorstep, exhausted. Fionna scrambled up Cake's back, and Cake took long strides towards the Candy Kingdom.
"I wonder what could be the matter?" Fionna asked on the way, shinning up her sword with her skirt. It was the new snake blade she got from a poison dude in the forest. 'Super kick-butt' he had said.
"Oh I don't know, maybe the candy kids got stuck together in a spitball fight." Cake sighed. "You know Prums..." Fionna rolled her eyes.
"Bore. Or maybe PG scrunched up his 'come back to life' experiment again?" She said more excitably. It was one of the only exciting adventure PG had ever sent her on. Most of Fionna's adventures were just cleaning up PG's mash ups.
Cake shook in shivers as she recalled the clammy candy folk.
"Heck no! I do NOT want to touch candy zombies!" Cake said as she made yucky sounds. Fionna laughed.
As they got closer to Candy Kingdom, it grew more apparent that something was terribly amiss. The whole castle was grey. PG was signaling them from the top tower window, the only pink dot in the land, and Cake slipped silently in, Fionna in hand.
"Your castle looks awful!" Cake began. "You didn't bring us here to paint, did you?" PG faked a laugh.
"Ha! No... no offense I don't trust you two to paint anything. No, what I need help with is my people- Look!?" He pointed down to the candy streets and the candy citizens were moaning, hobbling towards the castle like big grey blobs. Cake's tail frilled. Candy zombies!
"Not again, PG! Seriously?! Just let your candy people die in pieces!" Fionna huffed. She had had enough of his messes.
"No, Fionna! Keep your pants on! It's Marshall Lee... He's sucking everyone's glucose... and turning them into vampires!" He exclaimed. Both Fionna and Cake gasped. "AND he turned my castle this hideous shade grey!" Fionna frumpled her forehead for a minute and thought hard. Cake looked around nervously watching the candy folk solely hobble closer.
"Got a plan, girlfriend?" Cake asked. Fionna gave her a blank look.
"Ah... nope. I got nothing. No plan, let's just kick his butt." Fionna said as she sheathed her sword and hopped on Cake. Cake zoomed out of the window and beelined for the middle of Candy Town. The townsfolk were all poo brained and running into walls moaning 'bloood'.
"I'll gather the infected people, go kick butt!" Cake said as she stretched herself into a big scoop.
"Marshall!? Where are you?" Fionna demanded. A strange wind blew and Marshall's sinister cackled echoed inside it.
"I'm right behind you, human girl." He said, pushing her over, and rising into the air, eyes blackened and demon-like.
"Rise my minions!" He cackled. Fionna threw her shoe at him. He hissed and turned to glare at her as it bonked him in the ear.
"Quit it, Marshall! What's gotten into you?!" Fionna screamed. Marshall floated down.
"Nothin, Fi. Just being a Vampire King. Raising an army." He said as he circled her continuously. It began to make her dizzy and she tripped on her own sock. He caught her in an uncomfortable grasp. "You here to get bitten Fionna?..." He said as he breathed in her ear. She gasped and elbowed him hard in the ribs. He 'oomphed' and floated down to touch the ground.
"Why so violent, Fi? I'm not threatening you, just yet." He said mockingly. She unsheathed her sword.
He cackled; the game was on.
"Would you really swing at me, girl?" He teased. He walked towards her now, and she stood still as a statue, ready to fight. He swung his guitar lazily over his shoulders. "Please, I make you weak at the knees, you're a little mouse in my nest. You're not gonna-" She stared hard right into the dark pits of his eyes and swung her sword. he grabbed her hat and pulled it off as he dodged.
"Dang, I didn't think you'd actually try to slice me." Another cackle filled the night. Marshall circled around her, and Fionna was blinded by her own hair. She swung again and Marshall disappeared.
"Augh!" She groaned in frustration.
"Look out, Fionna!" PG shouted from the window. Before she could turn around, she felt ghostly arms wrap around her shoulders.
"Boo." He said laughing. Fionna struggled in his demon strength and her arms felt weak. Her sword clunked to the ground. "Don't fight, me, I know you want me." He said rubbing his cheek against her hair. She groaned and struggled. "Quit talking like that! I only like you as a friend!" She exclaimed. He laughed. "Oh please, you can't lie to me," Marshall said as he sniffed her hair, and then her neck. "I can feel your blood beating faster, I can smell your heart going crazy. You've got it bad, lady. So bad." He said as he bared his fangs. "I'm gonna suck your blood juice, now." Fionna turned her head away and she felt his mouth bite her neck. He chomped, but not hard and twisted her face out of view from the castle. Marshall smiled and whispered by her ear. "Pretend to die, Fionna."
"Wha-"
"Sh..." He kissed her neck and squirted ketchup on her. "It's a prank, get it?" He said winking. Her neck felt weird and tingly where he had smooched it and she was totally not cool with it. She would have to punch him for that later. For now, she played along, and fell limp. She should have known this was all a game.
"No!" She heard PG exclaim. Fionna almost shook with giggles.
"Haha! Who is a real Vampire, NOW?!" Marshall screamed to PG.
"What is your malfunction, you crazy person?! Half my Kingdom is DEAD because of you, don't you think you've taken it a little too far?!" PG lectured.
"Psh, I'll kill the other half if you don't say you're sorry!" Marshall threatened. There was a silence, and then a soft,
"Fine... I'm sorry..."
"For...?"
"For nothing! I am right! You're not a real vampire. You don't have to go and try to prove me wrong. I know you're evil, Marshall Lee! You over reacted!" PG spat. Marshall giggled.
"Well, that's too bad. Because I AM real, and I am taking Fionna to the Nightosphere. We're going to hold hands, and be steady and then... she will be my Vampire Queen! And you know what that means, don't you Pinkie?" Marshall said, winking. PG gasped.
"She's just a child, you fiend!" He retorted.
"Please, you know she's no kid. You're just jealous because she will be mine. All mine, and not yours." Marshall knelt down by Fionna and put his ear to her ribcage. She hated that her heart went ba-bump really hard at that moment. He was sure going to tease her about that later.
"Oh... I think she's coming back from the dead! Rise my Vampire Queen!" Marshall screamed, pulling Fionna up by the hand. He took his hand, and the opportunity to punch him in the face. Marshall barely flinched. He knew that he had deserved it.
"Yeah, I'm up." She said. Marshall laughed off the punch and looked at PG, then back at Fionna
"What do you say, Fionna? Wanna be my Vampire Queen" He said, then added in a whisper, "It will make him mega jealous."
"Don't do it, Fionna! You don't know what that means!" PG screamed. Fionna laughed. It was hilarious to watch PG squirm like that, jimmies ruffled and all.
"Sure, why not?" She said, watching for PG's reaction. He gasped.
"Fionna don't let him-" PG lectured. Marshall turned her face away from PG and towards his own. His eyes were dark orbs and they pierced her right through. He was using a little of his vampire control.
"I'm gonna kiss you now…" He said, softening his eyeballs and leaning towards her. She pushed his face away.
"No... No kissing." She whispered. Marshall pulled her closer.
"C'mon, it will make Gumwad's head explode!" He egged on. She looked at PG and he was gripping the sill of the candy window so hard that it crumbled at the edges. "A little one…?" Marshall whispered.
"Okay fine…" She whispered back and gave him a small smooch on the lips, but Marshall pushed their lips harder together and pried her mouth open with his vampire tongue. It was a not just a little one. The shock sent her knee jolting into his gut and he 'oomph'ed, smiling apologetically.
"Noo!" Wailed PG from his window. He seemed truly upset. Fionna thought it would have made her feel good, but it didn't.
"Oh glob..." Fionna sighed. "Now I feel like plops." Marshall harumphed. Maybe he had taken this too far.
"Fine... don't cry, Gumwad..." Marshall soothed. "It was all a joke." Fionna jumped up and down.
"I'm not dead!"
"And the candy people are just pretending." Marshall confessed. "C'mon, game's over... guys?" The candy people were still sucking on each other, all sticky and sweet.
"Hey!" Came Cake's voice, booming. "All these candies just stuck themselves together. It's like Katamari!" She said, rolling a big ball of candy, and collecting folks on the way. "Look! I saved the day!" She said excitedly. Fionna laughed.
"You sure did, Cake. Let's go home. I'm getting the willies." Fionna said, rubbing her goosefleshies. Marshall laughed.
"It's because I cursed you." He said.
"What?" Fionna asked, turning back towards him.
"That kiss was a curse." He whispered. He watched her eyes grow big as he floated away.
"What was his deal?" Cake asked. Fionna shook her head and pulled her cap back on her dome. It was stupid to have smooched him. He would never let her live it down.
"It was nothing. He was just playing tricks as usual. Let's go home." She said. "And no, you can't take the candy ball back to the tree house, Cake."
"Aw... Fun sucker..." She moaned. Fionna laughed.