CHAPTER 22
Time has jumped ahead a few months, and Flame Princess' belly has grown. Concerned for her and Finn's future child, she is no longer fighting in any more battles and is concentrating on making war strategies for her troops to follow. She makes Finn the Supreme Commander of the Fire Kingdom's army.
Flame King is impressed by Finn's fighting skills and willingness to go head-on into battle. He makes a mental note to come up with an idea to use that to his advantage when he decides to execute his plan to destroy all of Ooo.
Late one night while everyone is asleep, Flame King meets with Councilman Theron and General Kilt. "Now the time has come to enact our plot. We will slowly begin drawing the other princesses and their kingdoms into the battle." Flame King says.
"How will we do it?" Councilman Theron asks.
"Simple. We will stage an assassination attempt on my son-in-law. Such an event will drive him and my daughter to declare war on whoever did it."
"When will we do it?" General Kilt asks.
"When he leaves from the next meeting of the princesses. My daughter decided to send him to them since she wants to focus on the war and she wanted to make sure the Fire Kingdom still had a voice there. No one is allowed to attack a member of royalty on route to the meeting and away from the area as well and that will be the perfect time to attack."
Councilman Theron and General Kilt nod in agreement.
"Very well. Which princess do you want to frame?" Councilman Theron asks.
"I decided on Jungle Princess, since she's one of the few princesses that Finn doesn't know that well. It'll be like taking candy from a baby."
"What weapon should we use?" General Kilt asks.
"This." Fire King says, holding up a blowgun. "Very primitive, very deadly, very accurate, yet very simple. "
Flame King hands it over to General Kilt.
"When you decide to fire upon him, make sure you miss. He must be left alive in order to make our plan work." Flame King says.
"Yes, Sir." General Kilt says.
The viewscreen jumps ahead to the meeting of the princesses. It consisted mainly of the princesses expressing their concerns about the never ending war between the Water and Flame Kingdoms, and Finn addressing them. After the meeting, they all leave. As Finn is leaving Breakfast Princess' domain, several blow darts whiz past him.
Finn falls to the ground and crawls into a ditch to escape the assault. After an hour, all is quiet. Finn slowly crawls out, and finds several of the darts imbedded on a tree. He takes one out and looks at it.
He is shocked. The markings on the dart looks like it came from the Jungle Kingdom. Why would they attack him, he thinks to himself. He takes the darts and rides back to the Fire Kingdom. After arriving back home, he tells Flame Princess and Flame King what happened.
Flame Princess is enraged. "WHAT?! THE JUNGLE KINGDOM ATTACKED YOU?!"
"Yes. I don't understand it. I thought the other princesses said they weren't going to get involved in our feud with the Water and Sea Kingdom."
"They must have changed their minds, or at least just this one did." Flame King says with a false concern in his voice.
"We'll bring this up at the next princess meeting. If the Jungle Kingdom doesn't give us a reason why they did this, we'll go to war with them as well." Flame Princess says.
The viewscreen then jumps ahead in time to the next meeting. The same scenario that happened between the Flame Kingdom and Water Kingdom happens between the Flame Kingdom and the Jungle Kingdom:
The accusations.
The denials.
Swearing.
And then…
"I DECLARE WAR ON THE JUNGLE KINGDOM!"
"I DECLARE WAR ON THE FIRE KINGDOM!"
As Breakfast Princess raps her gavel to maintain order in the meeting, Princess Bubblegum worries more and more that all is lost.
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