Chapter 9- Another Wrong Thing
As Death gathered mixtures and supplies, the princess watched intently.
"Uh, Death, what exactly are you making?" PB asked.
The skeleton measured a blue liquid and threw it in a large pot over a fire in the middle of the floor along with other things. (Don't ask why it was there.)
"This is a Time Potion. Once I add one more thing, it will be complete. We will all reach in and touch the potion, and that should reset time to the point where nothing was trying to destroy life itself." Death explained. He poured in a green substance from a test tube and the mixture bubbled. Everyone looked in as it simmered back to normal. "It is ready."
"So all we do is stick our hand in?" Finn asked.
"Yep."
"That seems easy." Jake added in.
Death instructed, "On the count of three. One, two..."
Everyone's hand hovered over the pot of potion, ready.
"Three!"
BOOM! A cloud of smoke covered everything.
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"So, are you going now to check it out?"
Marceline's surprise and hint of sadness turned to anger when she saw smoke fly out of the castle. "Get out of my way, Ice King."
"Well, are you?" Ice King kept asking.
The vampire turned invisible and made her way over to the Candy Kingdom.
"Hey, where'd you go?" Ice King sighed. "Oh well..." and he flew in the direction of his own domain. "Gunter?" His words pierced the silent air. Sad words.
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"I can't see!"
A minute after, the smoke cleared. Everyone still had their hand in the potion.
"I'm going to check it out. I mean, if anything changed." Jake said and was about to check the window.
"No!" Death stopped him. "You must keep your hand in there."
So, they just stood there. All of a sudden, the potion started to bubble.
"What's going o- aaaaaahhh!" Finn screamed. He tried to pull his hand out, but something pulled him back. "Something's got me!" He used all his strength, and he pulled up hard enough to reveal to everyone that a pale blue hand had a tight grip on his wrist.
He tugged and tugged, his face was turning red. Then, as if the something let go, Finn fell to the ground. Everyone rushed over.
The boy let out a long breath as the door flew open. There stood Marceline, axe-bass ready to strike. She lowered it when she saw everyone helping Finn up. "You guys are... alive?"
"Yeah. Why?" Jake asked.
"The Lich, and the wreckage, and- ugh. Never mind..." Marceline realized she sounded worried. Her cheeks were pink and she quickly asked, "What is that?"
She was reffering to the Time Potion.
"Well, we were going to reset time, but..." Death trailed off when suddenly the same hand gripped the side of the pot. Then another hand.
Then jet black hair.
Then a gray-blue face with fangs.
Then a red and black plaid collared shirt, that exposed enough of its neck to see bite marks.
It swung its legs over the side and floated in front of them.
Marceline held her axe-bass up. She hissed, "Who the freak are you?"
The guy asked, "Who the freak are you?" Also hissing. He, too, had an axe-bass strapped over his shoulder.
"I am Marceline the Vampire Queen. Over there's Finn the Human, Jake the Dog, Bonnibel, Lady Ranicorn, and Death." She replied.
The stranger looked over to the others. "I go by Marshall Lee the Vampire King. Your friends over there look fimiliar. I come from the Land of Aaa. Where am I?"
"You're in the Land of Ooo, and-"
Finn interrupted. "Woah, woah, woah. You're just gonna have a conversation with this guy? For all we know he could be the Lich in disguise!"
Marceline thought. "He is right. There is no Vampire King here."
"And there's no Vampire Queen." Marshall said back.
"Of course there is. I'm the daughter of the Lord of Evil."
"No, I'm the son of the Lady of Evil."
"Dad ate my fries."
"Mom ate my fries."
"I don't like Princess Bubblegum."
"I don't like Prince Gumball."
"Who's he?"
"Who's she?"
As they rambled on, everyone else just stood there.
"Oh, boy..." said Finn. "One more problem for today..."
hey guys, it's me. so if you didn't read in the comments, I have a new prompt for everyone. one of my readers named Ryan has inspired me to write another story in the series. your guys job is to come up with ideas for the story. read in the comments for our little conversation and Ryan's idea. it's righteous!
also, thanks to Andy Sammonds for the Marshall Lee idea.
sorry for the wait. love the reviews! and still, please, no flames. it's not nice. lol. :D
