Finn looked towards the person on the chair the light of the moon slowly coming to view to see a scratched and beaten up Darren within the chair. He looked the same except for his ragged clothing, it looked more like a bed sheet he tied around himself, his teeth were sharpened and more deadlier, piranha like teeth except longer and crooked, his once red eyes were now silver, and lastly he was missing his right hand, the wrist was now a stump completely heal closed with a large portion of a bone sticking out. "So, you're hear to haunt me for not saving you." Finn asked gloomy head held down.
Darren groaned as he got off the chair as he made his way towards Finn. Darren stood in front of Finn, as Finn waited for Darren to yell at him for letting him die. "IDIOT." Darren yelled causing Finn to flinch he looked up to see Darren's fist connect with his face. Finn landed on his ass, he began to rube his swollen cheek then looked at Darren. "I let myself become bait so human kind can at least be saved, yet I come back to find you mopping. Please at least tell me you didn't give up the hero business."
"What? NO, besides no one told you to be the bait, I could have gotten out of there. And now look you're a ghost." Finn yelled as Darren just looked at him like he was an idiot and gave out a sigh.
"Finn, you're stupidity is extremely too high to make fun of, you're literally the definition of being a blond. Actually scratch that you give blonds a bad name." Darren told him.
"What?" Finn asked dumbfounded for he had no idea what Darren was saying.
"Finn think, if I was a ghost that means I wouldn't know who you are, or how I died, or even be able to punch you. With that information you can at least know what I'm getting at." Darren told him. Finn's eyes widened he got off the ground, hand extended as he touched Darren's face then began to stretch his face to have Darren slap his hand away.
"You're alive?" Finn yelled excitedly.
"Finn, be quiet I'm trying to sleep." Jake grumbled from the window with his eyes closed.
"Jake get your butt down here." Finn yelled, Jake groaned in response stretching his body towards the ground he began to walk towards his bro blindly then stopped when he hit Darren's legs.
"What." Jake groaned.
"Open your eyes." Darren spoke. Jake's eyes shot wide open hearing the similar voice, he looked up to see Darren's wicked smile beaming down at him. Jake let out a girlish scream and begin to kick his feet into the air.
"No, don't haunt me. Haunt Finn." Jake begged, Finn's jaw dropped hearing that. Darren just enjoyed the little fright Jake was presenting he knelled to his eye level.
"Jake, I'm alive." Darren simply told him, Jake stopped his screaming and looked at him to see any sign of lying.
"Darren?" Jake asked.
"No it's Pinocchio." Darren answered. Jake chuckled to know it was truly him Jake extended and stretched his hands and hugged him tightly. Finn joined in the hug. Enjoying the moment except for Darren for having his bones and lungs slowly being crushed. "Gusys you'ee fucking killijgn me."
Bubblegum was in her lab, she has been dissecting and going over the creatures that were found in the dungeon. Except she couldn't keep her mind in one place, each time she would precisely cut open a creature to examine their insides, she would have flashbacks. She wished she didn't, she found out many things. For one that dungeon Darren died in, she designed it, she placed all those creatures within those walls. Every thing from the cracks, to the walls, to the panic room was placed and created by her. But not without the influence of that thing. She remembered little but enough that she made a deal once, that thing would grant her more knowledge to help her within the construction of her Kingdom, in return she would help it in what ever it needed. Each time she would regain herself from her episodes, she would find the creature she was opening up, shredded and mutilated to pieces.
She hasn't had a good night sleep in some time, and these headaches weren't helping one bit, her flashbacks were becoming more apparent and more frequent. Peppermint Butler told her, she has been sleep walking and talking, she looked over the tapes and showed her doing research and experiments in her sleep. She went and found that she has been making weapons of mass destruction in her sleep. She had them disassembled. But things have been spiraling out of control. And this time she couldn't have Finn deal with it for she was the problem. She let out a deep exhale placing her head on the table she has ruined her last and final good liguna specimen no longer to be able to be studied. She has no idea how much longer she could keep this up.
"PRINCESS, PRINCESS." Banging was heard from her door, she fixed her attire to look presentable.
"Come in." She spoke as Finn entered with a smile accompanied by Jake who came carrying a rocking chair with him as he placed it on the corner. "Finn, Jake what are you-"
"Princess, still stuck within this place I see." Darren's voice was heard as a chill ran up her spine, she turned to see him within the door, this time wearing actual clothing. As he smiled at her his jagged teeth not making her feel uncomfortable as she let out a shriek and ran into the closet nearby. Everyone looked towards Darren who raised his hands claiming he didn't do anything. Darren went towards the door and shook the doorknob to find it being hold shut as he just knocked.
"Go away." Bubblegum yelled voice shaking.
"Wow that's rude. Bubblegum open this door." Darren told.
"NO." She answered the door knob now shaking.
"Bubblegum open the door or I'll have Finn bust it down with his foot. And considering this is made out of candy I'll most likely eat my way through, along with you." Darren told as a joke.
"Please I didn't mean to kill you." Bubblegum begged.
"Bubblegum just open the door." Darren told after some time Bubblegum opened the door a little to have Darren widen it, Bubblegum stood there shaking in fear. Darren raised his stump of a hand and poked her face with it, Bubblegum trembled slightly at his touch. "Bubblegum, do you feel me poking you." Darren asked her as she nodded eyes shut waiting for Darren to kill her.
"Good, because I just went over this with Finn. Bubblegum if I was dead, or a ghost would I be able to touch you." Darren told her.
"No, you wouldn't be...tangible!" Bubblegum questioned as she looked at him as he smiled knowing she got it. Bubblegum fainted from surprise, and lack of sleep.
"Wow, scared the crud out of her. Jake place me as the scariest guy in OOO." Darren told.
"You are." Jake told him.
"Really? Not much of an accomplishment then."
Bubblegum groaned slowly getting up, she realized from the comfort she was in her own bed. "Must have been a nightmare." She told herself
"Oh, what was it about." She heard, her body tensed up once again. She turned her head to see Darren within a rocking chair, Finn and Jake sitting on a couch that was resting nearby. She began to panic again.
"Bubblegum calm down, you fainted, and we're worried. Nothing is going to hurt you on my watch okay." Finn talked to her in a calm manner, Bubblegum began to calm down a little her breathing becoming normal.
"Okay, so Darren." Bubblegum asked shakily.
"Hmm."
"How are you-"
"Alive." Darren finished for her. "well it was back in that cave."
~~~Flashback~~~~~~~
Darren was held by a Crystal eye beast by his wrist hoisting him into the air and instantly snapping his wrist breaking his bone and spewing large quantities of blood everywhere, Darren screamed in agonizing pain. The creatures fought for Darren's hand, Darren tried to get up placing his dismembered stump on some slime from a goo skull stopping most of the bleeding he began to run. His footsteps were heard and the monsters followed. Darren was losing energy and his sight, he was slowly going into cardiac arrest, the pain and lost of blood slowly doing him in. As he reached the end, hitting a wall, he puked out some more blood. Darren heard a roar he turned to see a Why Wolf jump at him causing them to be knocked back hitting the wall breaking through it easily as more monsters followed blindly after them, before a pile of rocks came and blocked the hole up. Darren heard rushing water then landed hard on the body of water below knocking him out.
Darren let out moaning groans, slowly opening his eyelids, hearing the birds sing, and the sun blinding him, he saw white everywhere. "What the? No I died I know it, but I can't be in Heaven, hell, I'll take purgatory instead." Darren thought till he heard the sound of a horn. His pupils dilated, he turned his head to see a clown nurse, she was wearing a tutu with a traditional Nurse outfit, she had on a hat with a hat on it, her skin color was yellow, and her hair was orange and she wore a clown nose.
"Well, hello there." She said loudly giving out a smile and chuckle.
" NO, NO WAY I'M GOING THROUGHT FINN'S DEFENITION OF HELL." Darren screamed as he attempted to get up to find him restrained within a hospital bed, some nurses came to hold him down. Darren tried to push them away till he found his right arm missing. Darren was taking in that shock a big clown nurse with light green skin came from behind and smacked him in the head with a giant mallet.
When Darren came to, once again, he was told the situation. The clown nurses found him floating down a river they treated him with magic tears. But said he may need more treatment so he will need to stay for 6 more months. They told him he's been unconscious for 3 days, Darren gritted his teeth as best as he could. They placed a metal bar in his mouth so he wont bite anyone, the metal bar had spikes each time causing Darren pain and causing his teeth to be sharpened. And the worse part was his roommates. Or roommate now, that giant head that was once the Cyclops that wept magical tears. Darren wasn't the only one saved, those nurses also saved the things that tried to eat him, they placed them in the same situation as him but too close to the Cyclops, the Cyclops ate the monsters near him, and Darren was the only one left. The two were now just staring at each other, the Cyclops licking his lips, Darren just trying to get one arm free to escape.
"Okay you two, we're going to be gone for an hour, be good." The head nurse told to the two, too stupid to notice the decline in patients.
"FEDH HIMM FEDH HIMM YIO IDUOT." Daren screamed the best he could, the nurse returned.
"Oops forgot to give you you're breakfast." The nurse said Darren relaxed a little till his stomach sank to the bowels of hell when she presented the Cyclops an apple and left. The Cyclops placed his attention back at Darren, he began to get one arm loose as the Cyclops began to jump towards him, Darren finally getting his arm free took off his mouth piece and threw it at the Cyclops eye instantly beginning to cry, splashing a few on Darren curing some of his wounds as he began to remove the rest of his restraints. Darren was now half a mile away from that place, and with a bag full of some stuff he decided just to take. Now which way is ...anywhere?
~~~Present~~~~~~
"And I got here." Darren told them.
"Wait you got out of there in a week. What took you so long its been 2 weeks and 4 days since we thought you were dead." Finn asked.
"Hey, I don't know this place, I was walking blindly for days. Also I ate an apple and everything went trippy." Darren said dazing out. "Put still, Bubblegum I got a favor."
"And what would that be." Bubblegum asked.
"Can you reattach my hand to my wrist." Darren asked hoping for a yes.
"Darren we buried your hand, I don't think-"
"Actually Finn, that's not entirely true." Bubblegum told them rubbing her head ashamed.
The group was now within the lab again all of them starring at a jar filled with green liquid and Darren's dismembered hand floating inside. "If this was someone else I would find this creepy." Darren said as he looked at his stump then at the jar and placed his stump on the glass of the jar. The dismembered hand moved?
"What the junk." Jake yelled grabbing onto Finn's pants looking at the jar.
"This is fascinating, Darren do it again." Bubblegum asked holding a pen and paper. The hand moved again slowly moving throwing a peace sign. "Weird even though the hand is no longer connected to the nervous system, or any system it still moves like they are connected." Bubblegum spoke somewhat confusing Finn, but was fascinated with the hand thinking if he cut off his hand he could fight evil in two places at once.
"Okay, I may be able to considering for some weird scientific reason there's a connection between the two, but you'll have to give me time so I don't mess up." Bubblegum told them, she began to grab equipment and started to scribble within the board.
"Okay, well, we'll be going." Finn said as Bubblegum waved them away, the tree going back in Jake's back. Finn turned around to see Darren looking to the sky, Finn thankful he was alive.
Finn was outside with Darren and he was having second thoughts about what they were about to do. "Darren come on, you don't have to do this." Finn negotiated as Darren practiced swinging a double edged medium sized sword.
"Yes, I need to become better. Me surviving was literally dumb luck. Back in my time we were on the top of the food chain. Of course we had guns, so now I need to learn to use these." Darren said as he prepared his sword.
"Darren, you do know I'm the best swordsm-"
"I know, that's why you're going to train me. Ever since I've been here I've been looked at as food. I'm not going to die like that. If I'm going to die it's going to be sitting within that chair you made." Darren said as he tightened his grip on the handle it was an even worse thing considering he was right handed. Finn opened his mouth to stop him. "Finn, I have a sword, your argument is invalid." Finn let out a sigh. He picked up his sword from the ground and faced Darren, to dodge Darren's tip of a sword from hitting his face, he also saw the same crazed smile. Finn jumped backwards instantly getting into fighting stance.
"Are you trying to kill me, and you've used a sword before haven't you." Finn questioned as he circled around Darren.
"Yes, and yes. I need you to come at me Finn. I need to get better." Darren growled as he charged at Finn there swords locked as they grunted against each other. Finn pushed Darren's sword back and swinging his sword at Darren drawing blood from his cheek. Finn blocked another swing of Darren's sword, he didn't notice Darren swung his stump of a hand towards him as the bone scratched his cheek as well. They both retreated from each other with the same wound on their faces. Both with a smile as they circled around each other each watching the others foot steps waiting for a chance to attack. "You're holding back aren't you."
"Maybe." Finn answered getting a little closer to him.
"You better not, I'm planning to kill you here, and if I do. I'll go and kill Jake, and Flame Princess right after." Darren told him to try and get him fired up, it worked. Finn let out a yell as he charged full on towards Darren. Finn swung his sword, Darren ducked to see Finn's shoe kick him the force big enough to send him into the air. Darren felt weightless in the air as he felt Finn grab his ankles and spin him around wildly then let him go as Darren flew through the second story window. Finn breathed uncontrollably as he realized what he has just done as he heard metal fall and clank.
"Darren! Darren! Oh grod." Finn said as he ran to check on him as on instinct back flipped backwards as a laser hit the floor where he once stood. Finn looked up to see Darren with a glove on his hand.
"I found the weapon room." Darren told. "And look I found this glove, weird considering I have if on my stump hand and yet I can move it, as well as shoot you." Darren said as he showed the gloves palm and shoot lasers at Finn from the distance as Finn continued to avoid getting hit with one laser as he saw Darren was about to leap. Finn whistled as the grass from the floor responded, leaves and grass combined beginning to encircle his hand as it turned to his grass sword, Finn ran to the house as he jumped into the air towards Darren. Both of them swung their swords, much to Darren's surprise his sword was cut to pieces, his eyes widened in shock. He was about to punch Finn only to have Finn slash the glove he had on in half small sparks of electricity flew from the cut glove. Finn brought his sword backwards as he swung his word around Darren swiftly.
Finn landed on the ground in a kneeling formation his grass sword held above his head. Behind him Darren was falling his body slashed slightly with Finn's sword as blood oozed from his arms, torso, and face as he looked towards Finn. As he chuckled. "Atta bo-" he didn't finish for he collided to the ground.
"Jake faster, I gotta tell Darren not to make his dismembered hand move." Bubblegum told Jake. She was watching the hand as it began to move as it was clutching something. She asked Jake to take her to the treehouse. Jake took her as he kept affirming her Darren might just be playing a prank. Once they got there it looked like a battle had just been fought with smoking craters all over the yard, swords cut to pieces as they saw Finn kneeling his grass sword in hand as it disassembled and returned to the leaves and grass. Then to see Darren in the ground and most likely dead.
"Opps." Finn said as he regained himself.
Finn and Jake brought Darren inside and placed him on the couch. He wasn't moving, nor speaking. "Finn why did you fight him." Bubblegum asked as she tried too stop the bleeding she wasn't going to loose another lab specimen, but she wasn't going to say that outloud.
"He wanted to train so-"
"And yet you went all out. Quick just take me to the first aid." Bubblegum ordered as they went for it as she followed. Darren was slowly gaining feeling again as he looked around to see he was inside. He painfully moved his stump hand as he felt something under the couch he was on as he began to tear a hole in the sac.
"Okay we got the first aid?" Finn said each word being spoken slowly as he saw Darren fully healed and relaxing on the couch.
"Hey what's up." Darren asked like nothing has happened.
"How are you not dead?" Jake yelled for an answer.
"Or are you really a ghost." Finn asked while Darren just gave him a blank expression. Darren reached below the couch and pulled out a flask and tossed it to Finn.
"Smell it." Darren told him as Finn opened it up and it was familiar then it hit him.
"Cyclops Tears." Finn asked.
"Yup." Darren told him. "I stole like gallons of that stuff, I needed something to help me, so while that giant head was crying I grabbed bottles, contianers anything as I filled them with his tears."
"What do these 'cyclops tears' do persay." Bubblegum questioned as she examined the container and whiffed at it.
"Fixes any injuries. Now then, round two Finn." Darren challenged beginning to get up.
"YEAH." Finn said pumped.
"NO, you must take it easy. Trying to examine the hand is hard enough even with you moving it, so no fighting, brawling, arm wrestling, or what Finn calls, tough challenges." Bubblegum scolded. Finn whined as Darren got a bored face.
"Fine." Darren told.
"Good, now I'll be going now." Bubblegum said taking the container with her without them knowing.
"Well I'll be going to Flame Princess. I've been kinda ignoring her lately so bye." Finn said running towards the Flame Kingdom. Darren watched him go as he decided to just relax. 3 hours Finn came back, him missing a shoe and looking slightly burned but with a smile on his face daydreaming while walking.
"Hey." Darren's voice snapping him back to reality. Finn looked to see him outside on the chair he made.
"Oh hey, what are you doing." Finn asked.
"Nothing." Darren answered as he continued to rock back and forth. Finn shrugged his shoulders he walked towards the door. Instantly ducking and jumping backwards slowly getting his footing. He looked up to see Darren has made a hole on the door as he ripped his hand off the door, the hand was just another glove he has found. It was black with red markings on it the tip of the fingers pointed and with a curved design that if it hooked the skin it will be ripping it apart like tissue paper. "Round two Finn." Finn smiled and whistled his grass sword coming back and he got to fighting stance. The two just stood there then gave out yells and ran towards each other both singing their weapons colliding against each other to see who would be the victor this time.