Princess Bubblegum's P.O.V
I woke up to a cold breeze; I heard Caelestra's voice harshly yelling at me. I instinctively laid there limp pretending that I was still knocked out.
"How do you feel being thrown into some random thief-filled, murderer-abundant city?"
She was digging herself into a bottomless pit in her emotions getting deeper, and deeper.
"You've taken away what was mine, and now it's crossed the line." I stopped looking in her direction and tilted my head back.
"You're going to see what it's like to be taken away from a life…that seems like heaven." She started to walk away, her skin started to turn pink, her hair clumped into one large wad of gum, and her white wavy dress turned into a formal pink gown. I was trying to sum up the nerve to talk to her, but I couldn't.
I don't know where I am, and what I am to this place.
I stare in terrifying awe.
I let her go down a couple blocks before I sat upwards on the half broken splintery wooden bench. What just happened? My head is spinning, what did she mean? Her mother is still alive and well, and she is still the ruler of Eee. What could possibly make her say that I had possibly killed her mother?
I fail to stand up, and I fell to my feet, falling onto the uncomforting ground. Immediately became very dizzy and sick. Stumbling over I supported myself on one of the several dis-configured buildings on the block. The area looked like the bad side of this old city called Chicago, but about a million times worse, I had read about it in textbooks from millenniums ago.
The graffiti covered buildings were high and towering, depriving the streets of any light, it looks like there's no color in the air the buildings, or really anything. The buildings were so clustered and densely placed. How was it even possible to live here without suffocating? The streets had large cracks in them filled with water, with floating bits of plastic in the water. There was litter all over the streets from things like broken lamp posts, shards of glass, bricks, even a few pizza boxes, which were infested with small rodents. I walked over to look around and supported myself on a light post that has ancient pieces of paper plastered onto the pole. The smell of the place was bitter and intoxicating, like gasoline in with a mix of other chemicals I've used.
Eee looked dull, lifeless, and beaten up. It seemed so fictional; there were no peanut brittle streets, no hard candy stone sidewalks, and no chocolate flowing rivers.
Nothing was right. It began sprinkling a liquid from the clouded sky, soaking the garbage surrounding the buildings. I stuck my hand out. Confused, the fluids icy finger tips slithered down my hand and onto the ground. I tasted the mystery, it was water! Huh? OF course I know what water is, the ocean. Duh. But it never came out of the sky! This is like when droplets of liquid sweet syrup would fall from the sky, now that was normal. The water droplets felt cool and refreshing so I stood straighter, the rain relieving some of my headache. I stood there with my bubblegum hair deflecting the cool pellets of water coming from the sky.
I walked around getting used to the hard course ground. I decided to start walking away from the heart of the city. On the way out, the buildings became shorter then wider and the rain pelting me harder, I kept walking, but my dress was becoming dingy, soaked and ripped up, especially around the bottom ring. I was getting cold, my . I stopped at one of the less broken-down buildings it was almost like wedged in-between the neighboring buildings, and stepped onto the front porch under the roof. It seemed abandoned, so I went inside due to the unlocked door.
"Come over here!" a male creature's voice rang through the open room suddenly. I looked around for a source but did not see one. I pressed against the inside of the door, not sure if I should slip out or not. My hand closed around the doorknob as it shut quietly.
"Comin'!" another female voice called back from somewhere else.
I scurried over to what seemed to be the family room and dove behind a shelf. It was hard to move around without moving something else, all want now really is to make myself disappear.
I looked over to see who those people were; they looked scrawny and short but they were like regular humans, so they could really be anything! they can be vampires, shape shifters, wizards, warlocks or a modified human, like Susan Strong. But I couldn't tell; the lighting was dim and was only coming from only a beaten ceramic lamp that gave off a yellowish tint to everything showered in it.
"Did you hear about Princess Caelestrus?" I leaned in to hear better.
"No, why?" the woman looked as interested as I did,
"Well, from what I'm reading, she must've went to the ball in Ooo, and she came back with their Princess Bubblegum, now she's running around somewhere here." He stated grinning, putting down the newspaper.
"Why do I need to know this?" she was confused.
"Cuz who ever catches her or reports her first gets a reward!" the male stood up, throwing his hands in the air. It reminded me of Marshall Lee, he did that whenever I or PG corrected him. With that sudden memory, I wished I was back at the party, home. Not here.
"Why do they need her?" Wait, who was they?
"You know the candy kingdom of course, they're filthy rich and sitting on their own food every second of the day," he paused. "They probably want to blackmail them for money or something, duh!" I stood there petrified.
I hafta get out of here was my only thought at the news. I looked longingly at the door. But while I was trying to untangle myself from the furniture surrounding me, the book case toppled over causing a domino effect flipping over everything else around it, which was practically the entire room. They saw me, their eyes amazed at their stroke of luck.
I stood there in my terror for a paralyzing split second before my conscience slapped my brain. RUN. But before I did I found some sweatpants I could wear later.
I sprinted out the door as fast as I could, I ran out on the course rough pavement. Just run away get away from all people as I can, that's the only goal here. If those people knew that I was out and around here, who else did?
And before I knew it, those people had already called the people probably from the government. My legs are soar and aching. Running on the streets, it seemed like I was running on a treadmill getting nowhere, using a lot of energy, and as much as I tried running, I am gonna get caught.
"In this world no one is my cushion, no one is my Finn who saves me from danger" I screamed at the top of my lungs like I've never before "no one is here to help me! I'm all alone!" I was screamed between my heavy breaths, hoping that that Caelestrus was acknowledging that I was wrong. Caelestrus was right; only the fittest live here and I had always someone to fall on. I felt empty.
I stopped running. What was the use? I lost all hope. I turned around to face the government people running my direction at full speed; it was intimidating to watch seven foot tall ogres running towards me creating a chorus of thumping feet. I was living in a cushion, a box, or whatever it was, it was shielding me from seeing what right front of me is. To think that not knowing at all what was going on it only took one hour to see what Eee is really like. How could I be so… so ignorant! I gave a mental shudder to that word, the one word that I hoped would never describe me. I was wrong, yet again.
The Ogres were only 50 yards away, I was bracing myself but then, out of nowhere, in front of me is my prince in glistening armor firmly gripping my shoulders, my paralyzed self away from the ogres.
"c'mon don't just stand there!" He took me away from the middle of the street and floated into a slanted slim tall building. He floated me to the top of the building cautiously make sure that they wouldn't get caught, and also that the building was really weak that it could fall down.
I looked over to see who helped me and I saw a courageous man staring back. He was smiling but still held a solemn gaze. His eyes were a deep brown color and his hair was shiny and luscious silver, and was messy and a little bit long. He looked real, there was not a way he was artificial.
"Are you alright?" he was looking at me with concern with his bold brown eyes.
"Um...yes, I'm alright," I choked out.
"My name's Aaron." I felt weird, well, besides the fact that the government of Eee is after me and this strange man named Aaron and myself are hiding away from ogres by laying low on a roof that looks like it could collapse any minute.
"Princess Bubblegum, or Bonnibelle." I said. He sat up with his legs spread out, and he stuck his hand out for mine and squeezed my hand. Huh, well that's peculiar.
"Huh, so you're the one the governments after."He was barely surprised, his eyebrows raising slightly.
"Hmm, Ill just call you Boni" I just realized that he was barely floating above the building
"Yeah, Wait your not turning me in, are you?" I shifted away to the opposite side of the building and took a moment to prepare myself to jump onto the other buildings that were close enough to jump to, making me realize that I shouldn't trust him yet.
"'course not, everyone here isn't evil," he was looking down. "just desperate." the building started to shift
"we need to move" a sharp edge to his voice he surveyed the area "quick" he floated me to the next building getting closer to the ogres
"What! are you insane!"before I started rambling he clasped one hand on my mouth and supported my head on his chest and the other to support my waist. I tensed up, what's wrong with this person?
"Yes, to live here you have to be insane"
"You're going to get us killed" I managed to mumble out a couple words. He kept floating up and down, according to the buildings. Soon the other building collapsed, causing the others in the opposite direction to fall down, the debris cascading down unto the ogres. He stopped and let me loose. I turned around to look at him.
"ohhh" and that was the only words I could manage. Guess I was wrong, again.
"Try listening, it'll help you live" looking down he gave a small smile
"So, what exactly are you?" that came out a little weird. It's not every day you have to wonder what species your savior is.
He smiled and showed off his glistening white fangs.
"Half vampire," he floated upwards. "Half warlock." he zapped a piece of brick and it turned into sand.
I giggled, were all vampires show offs? The two I knew were full-on and proud of it (Marcy and Marshy, of course) plus this guy who seemed no different.
"So my turn, aren't you supposed to be a candy person?" he was analyzing me with a confused expression.
"Yes! Of course I am," I tried to grab a lock of my hair but it didn't work. I looked at my hair and I see that it's silky like human hair, but it was still strawberry pink. I look at my skin tone and I see that it's become more of a grayish tan color like his! What the flip!
"Well you look like a human surprisingly," Aaron looked confused at my expression, but brushed off the thought.
"We have to go somewhere safer, let me put your hair up so it's not dragging all the way there"
He started untangling my hair then braided my hair, it felt weird my hair normally was molded, I just don't get it. I started thinking in the last couple hours I've been changed mentally and physically. We started walking, me a little hesitant from the ogres that seemed to have disappeared. Floating down to the ground took a while
"How come this city's so dull?" I looked around. I didn't want to just walk in complete silence.
"No one really knows," he was thinking about his answer. "Apparently people used to believe vampires had sucked all the color out, even the air. But I don't really believe that."
"So, are you a human or a candy person?" I was in as much confusion as he was and I was asking myself that too.
"Uh I'm a candy person," I paused to grip my hair that was tied back in a tight braid. "But I'm not really positive on what happened.
"Weird," Aaron started floating alongside me
"Can't you just float us over?" My ankles felt like they were slowly rubbing away in these flimsy dress shoes.
"Yea of course I can," he grinned. "but where's the fun in that?" I stopped to take off my shoes, I know we're going to be walking for a while.
It was starting to clear up, well not the rain but the sky, we can actually see a large portion! I started feeling a little down; the colors were all faded and mostly musty grey including the air. I hated it. I felt so insecure, just walking around in the streets you have to look out for buildings that might just fall over. When will this dreadful dream end! I squeezed Aaron's hand and sighed, I wanted to be home.
Caelestra's P.O.V
How did she possibly stand this? Pink, gummy, gloppy hair! It's disgusting, well at least it can't be hard to act like an ignorant and stupid piece of gum! I started trying to talk like PB, ugh how can she stand talking so high? I was on the way back and I saw Finn.
"Whoa, Finn what's wrong," He was out of breath, his face was bright red
"I...can't...find... Caelestus..." He sat down exhausted. I felt kind of bad; I mean he really likes me, right?
"Oh, don't worry Finn, Caelestus went back to Eee" I was talking moderately" She said she wasn't feeling at her best. She told me to apologize for her absence, though."
"oh, well I thought she was gonna stay with everyone else until midnight, that's what she had said when we came," Finn looked extremely disappointed "But why are you out here anyway?" he said sort of accusingly. "The Castle is about 13 miles away, and you've only been gone for half an hour" He started piecing things together. "Even I was traveling with Jake, and it took like twenty minutes."
"What? It's nothing," I said sort of annoyed. Why'd HE have to be the Sherlock Holmes type?
"Yeah it's something!" He started to raise his voice. "What did you do?" I hated seeing him mad, that second I hated my guts, I wanted to change back. But like mom said, you're not supposed to associate feelings with impersonating, it's about the worst thing to. his face was red, but with anger now.
"I'm sorry Finn, this is something you can't know," I felt my guts wrenching just saying that, but I didn't let it show through.
"I get it," He shook his head. "I get it I'm just too young," he looked up to me his eyes were pleading, and desperate.
"Finn, you don't get it, just please trust me," I didn't want to lie to him, and I thought of the only thing that would drive away a thirteen year old boy. "It's a chick thing."
His eye went blank for a second, and he blushed. I tilted my head to the side a little, "You alright, Finn?"
"Oh, uh, yeah, maybe I am a little young. But anyway, me and Jake were gonna stop back at the tree house, he ripped his pants while trying to show off to Lady on the dance floor. This obviously wasn't the night to wear heart patterned boxers." He grinned, scratching the back of his hat.
"Shut up!" we both heard Jake whining somewhere in the trees.
"Oh, well alright, I'm just on my way back to the castle, probably catch a taxi or bus back." I said, waving my in dismissal to Jake.
"Did you want a ride?" Finn asked.
"That's sweet of you boys, but I think I'll manage." I said, still feeling a bit guilty for totally lying to Finn. "Good luck with your issues, Jake!" I called, and heard a dog-like growl. I smiled and started to walk away.
"See you in a bit, Princess!" He called behind me.
I forgot to acknowledge it, in this gum-butt's stupid body. I grimaced, knowing what my wicked plan was.