Chapter 8- You Say What?
"WHAT?" Yelled everyone.
Peppermint Butler shook his arms in front of him. "No, no, no. He simply wishes to speak to you guys. Death thinks he can solve our problem." He walked over to the corner of the room. "But, in order to speak to him, we have to either die or open the portal to the Underworld. So, what shall it be then?"
Everyone looked around nervously.
"I thought so. Everybody join me in the corner," the peppermint said.
Once all there, Peppermint Butler instructed: "Stare into where the two walls meet. Now slowly, cross your eyes..."
A beam of light appeared out of the meeting walls, opening a window to a quiet, skeleton infested place.
"Well? Are you coming?" Peppermint Butler asked.
"There's no need to." A voice said. Death stepped into the room and the Underworld Portal closed behind him. "I'm sorry to hear about the Candy Kingdom," he said. "But I have a solution that might work. I can return all the candy people's souls."
Jake looked puzzled. "But what about all the wreckage?" He asked.
"That's the thing I was thinking about too." Death replied. "I might be able to reset time."
"What about the Lich? Won't he come back to life?" Worriedly asked Finn.
"No, what's done is done in time. You all will remember this day, but everything will be normal. Once time is reset, I can return all the souls. It is impossible for the Lich to come back, he had no soul, just life. And if you have no soul, once you're dead, you're dead, and can't come back." The skeleton explained. "That time he came back is because his life took a weak form, and possessed the princess. Once he was strong, he re-attacked. The same happened with the snail."
"That's why he wanted my soul... but anyway, let's get started." Finn said.
Death thought for a minute. "Princess Bubblegum, is there any chance that you have a science lab?"
"Yes, of course, you may use it." The princess replied.
"I thought so..." muttered Death to himself. "Let us go there," and they all started walking out the door.

"Daddy,
Why did you leave me?
You created me,
So don't you wanna see me?
Daddy,
Why did you make me
If you don't wanna take me
To get a burger and shakey?
My Cursed Blood
Is your Cursed Blood
So come on back and be my bud.
I can count your visits
On my finger tips
Come back and give me presents
From your business trips.
Daddy,
Why did you father me
If all you wanna do
Is bother me?
Don't you know that I love you?
And I only want to see more of you...
But Daddy,
Why did you eat my fries?
I bought them
And they were mine.
But you ate them,
Yeah, you ate my fries
And I cried
But you didn't see me cry.
Daddy,
Do you even love me?
Well I'd wish you'd show it
Then I'd really know it.
What kind of dad
Eats their daughter's fries
And doesn't look them
In the eye?
Daddy they're were tears there
If you saw them
Would you even care?"
Marceline dropped her axe-bass in exhaustion. Her zombie poodle walked past and to the door.
"What is it, Schwabl?" She asked him. Marceline flew over to the door and opened it. "Stop it, it's quiet. Like always."
But still, she wondered what was happening outside the cave her little house was in. So, against her words, she told her pet that she would be back. Once her bass was slung over her shoulder, she left her cave.
Marceline didn't hear anything when she got to the Grass Lands. She looked toward Finn and Jake's tree fort, but all was still. Next, she looked at the Ice Kingdom behind the fort.
"Huh?"
The wreckage shown to her was a stranger. Usually the Ice Kingdom would be all neat and white, with blue mountains covered with snow...
But it was gray and covered with ash; mountains destroyed, shattered ice everywhere.
"Oh, plum. What the heck happened here?" The vampire wondered. When she turned to the Candy Kingdom, the words to describe the scene were not to be put in a sentence without choking on your own speech...
But Marceline flew over anyway.
A robed figure appeared in front of her so quickly she jumped back in surprise. "Hey, vampire lady!"
"Wha-?" She looked up to see a dirty, ash covered old man. "Oh, Ice King. What do you want?"
The Ice King looked around. "How did you survive?"
"You say what?"
"The return of the Lich! Where did you hide?"
"What are you talking about?"
"The Lich returned, and you didn't know? How could you not? What do you think THIS is!" The ice wizard gestured to everything behind him.
"Oh, man! That's horrible... was anyone killed?" Marceline asked quickly, unusually showing emotion.
Ice King lowered his voice, "I think Finn, Jake, Princess Bubblegum and the ranicorn did not." He gulped.
"Oh..." she just stood there, mouth open.