My deepest apologies to those who followed my story and were waiting patiently for another chapter. I meant to update it over the summer at the very least, but things happened and eh. Plus I'm just lazy. I'll try and make this chapter decent, but I make no promises.

And now, I present to you: Hanging Out with Friends!

Marshall crossed his arms, turning his head from her pouting face. "Fionna, I don't want to go." he said firmly.

Fionna stood on her tiptoes and moved into his line of sight. "Marshall, c'mon. You and Gumball are, like, best friends. Why wouldn't you want to go to the Candy Kingdom?" she whined.

Marshall glared down at Fionna. "It's sunny outside." he claimed. He then reached his arms up over his face and dramatically faked pain. "Vampires don't like the sun, Fionna."

Fionna rolled her eyes and pointed her finger towards the umbrella Marshall kept at the tree house for emergencies. "There's an umbrella right there. You'll be fine if you stay under that." she said.

Marshall frowned and then floated down, grabbing both of Fionna's hands. "Listen, I don't want you hanging out with Gumball." he said quietly as if someone were eavesdropping.

Fionna blinked at him and her frown grew into a smirk. "You aren't going to be one of those boyfriends, are you?" she said, a glint in her eye.

He shook his head. "No, no. I mean, I know you liked him. I'm pretty sure he liked you to, if only briefly." he said, dropping one of her hands and pulling a strand of hair out from her hat.

Fionna smacked his hand away lightly and tucked the blonde strand back into the hat. "Marshall, you know I like you. Otherwise I wouldn't be..." she paused a bit on the next word, blushing lightly, "..dating you."

Marshall sighed, "Let's go." he mumbled, snatching the umbrella and opening it.

Fionna stared disapprovingly at him. "It's bad luck to open umbrellas indoors," she scolded.

He half-smiled, swinging his head over to her. "Oh please, I'm the demon king. Bad luck comes naturally to me." he chided, gliding out the door.

Fionna rolled her eyes and headed out the door as well, having to jog to catch up with him. Her hands rested at her sides, swinging with every step. She became uncomfortable with that motion and grabbed the straps of her pack, kicking her legs out in front of her as she stepped.

Marshall stared straight ahead, his gaze fixed on the tip of the Candy Castle. He held the umbrella in one hand and the other one dangled at his side. Sometimes he wondered what it'd be like to walk around on sunny days and not be in pain. But, he much preferred the darkness. Sun just didn't appeal to him in the least.

The two arrived at the Candy Kingdom, the Candy people greeting them with bubbly "Hello"'s and "Welcome back!"'s. Fionna smiled sweetly at the Candy people, she simply adored them. There didn't seem to be one bad Candy person in this kingdom, but sadly there were some. She came upon entrance to the castle and knocked, standing back.

They had waited for over a minute, which was much to long for Marshall to just be floating there. He snatched up Fionna by the waist and flew upwards, setting Fionna in the room and then crawling in himself. He looked around, "I never have liked this place," he muttered, a chill going down his spine.

Fionna raised a brow at him and looked around the room, "It's not that bad. It's a bit odd for a guy to have a purple and pink bedroom, but I think it's pretty." she said.

Marshall shrugged. "Whatever, lets just go find Gumball." he said, setting his feet on the ground and exiting the room.

Fionna followed him, but not before taking a small piece of gum from Gumball's bedpost and chewing on it. Marshall seemed to be way ahead of her since she didn't see him. She folded her arms, "Alright. I've been here multiple times, I can find my way around here." she said to herself, taking a left and opening a door to her right. Inside, she saw a familiar black figure curled up in the edge of the room. "Hey Mo-chro," she said. The horse thing said something in Morse code which she could not understand. She blinked. "If you see Gumball, tell him me and Marshall are here." she said, backing out of the room. It's not that she didn't like him, it was just she didn't understand anything he said.

She headed down the hall some, smelling the sweet scent of freshly baked desserts. She inhaled the scent, sighing. She followed it until she came upon a door labeled something, though it was badly smeared. She opened it, hit with the smell of cream puffs. She coughed some and looked up to see Gumball with a tray of cream puffs in his hand.

"Oh, hello Fionna. Wonderful day, isn't it?" he said in his usual tone, setting the tray of cream puffs on the counter and removing his oddly feminine mittens.

Fionna nodded. "Yeah," she said, spitting out the gum in the nearest trash can and breaking off a piece of the counter and stuffing it in her mouth. "Have you seen Marshall? I lost him while we were looking for you." she said.

Gumball turned his head, poking at one of the cream puffs. "I haven't seen him; maybe we should go look for him." he said, looking at her with a worried expression though it looked a bit forced.

Fionna nodded. "Alright," she said, turning her back for just a moment before being hit with what seemed like a cream puff. She turned back, Gumball having a cream puff on his head. He looked annoyed.

"Oh, honestly." he said in an angered tone, raising his arms and taking the cream puff off his head. He looked around when another cream puff hit him in the face.

Fionna didn't even have time to laugh, she was hit with one as well. She wiped the remains of the cream puff off of her face, frowning.

The lights went off.

Fionna felt herself being hit with what felt like millions of cream puffs. She ducked and put her hands over her head. She could hear Gumball shouting something that was barely understandable. Then, the sound of laughing.

The lights came back on and floating in the middle of the room was Marshall with cream puffs in his hands. "Why?" was all Fionna could manage to say.

Marshall tossed another cream puff at her, though this time she caught it with ease. "Because I was bored," he said simply.

Gumball stood up, "You said we were going to scare her! You weren't supposed to throw cream puffs at both of us!" he shouted.

Fionna took a bite of the cream puff. "So, you guys got together and decided you wanted to prank me?" she asked, her mouth full.

Marshall nodded. "Basically." he said simply.

She raised up, grabbing the remnants of the cream puffs and chucking them at Marshall. He tried floating around to dodge them but was still hit with quite a few.

"Hey, hey!" he said, smacking away cream puffs.

Gumball joined in, throwing some cream puffs at Marshall but was to weak to throw it very far.

And, they threw cream puffs at each other for awhile. Laughing and some people, not telling who (*cough* Gumball *cough*) were sobbing quietly to themselves at having cream puff all over them.