Chapter 8
The war
Black clouds slowly began rolling over the Desolate Fields as thunder could be heard in the distance. As the five armies of Ooo slowly circled around Ninja-Jordan, Finn and Jake stood looking back at Princess Bubblegum lead her army of candy soldiers. Finn was surprised to see the Princess clad in a suit of shining pink armor, and elegant candy rapier hung at her side. Marceline was floating beside her; the two seemed to be leading the whole charge.
"Finn," the Princess yelled "Excellent work!"
Finn was feeling more and more worried about the coming battle and for the fate of his new friend. He looked down with insecurity. "Princess…there's something I gotta tell you something. I dunno if I can do this…" but the Princess cut him off.
"It's ok Finn; I know you're probably tired. You can rest for a bit while we begin our assault."
Finn didn't know how to tell her to call off the attack, so he remained silent. The Princess began walking towards the Ninja, Marceline followed beside her. As she passed Finn she gave him a scary and weird face; what she thought might be comforting. The Princess stopped in-front of Jordan giving him stern look. Jordan kept his head down; the rain started to fall.
"Juno, Lord of the Shadows. Do you have anything to say before the five Kingdoms of Ooo send you to your doom?"
Ninja-Jordan remained silent. He lifted his head up slightly and looked at Marceline. Their eyes widened before donning a horrible scowl. He put his head back down and said "Turn back now Princess, this isn't going to end the way you think it is."
Princess Bubblegum drew her sword saying hatefully "never." She slashed at Jordan, but hit only the air, for the Ninja had jumped back quickly dodging the attack. She let out a vicious growl and raised her sword in the air.
"CHARGE!" she yelled and with her yell followed the yells of thousands upon thousands of Candy Soldiers, Desert Sheiks, Flame Warriors, Samurai Watermen, heavily armored Warriormen; also a handful of extremely tough Rowdy Men.
Ninja-Jordan spread his legs and positioned himself in the ancient "Thief Stance". Time suddenly stopped around him as he scanned his surroundings. He saw every drop of rain, every soldier charging towards him, every weapon being held. In one deep breath, he was completely aware of the battlefield. With a crash of lightning he lifted his head up and moved like a storm through the battlefield shattering the weapons of 100 soldiers. He saw a sword coming down on him, he quickly summoned his sword blocking the attack and kicking the soldier back knocking down several others. He turned quickly to parry a sword behind him, back-kicking his attacker away from him. He was like a blur, moving seamlessly from soldier to soldier, ready for any weapon, any attack. A battleaxe fell upon him, he summoned a similar weapon to repel the blow. A sword came upon his side, he summoned a shield to parry the blow. Weapons came and went, and bursts of black flame filled the battlefield. However, as good as he was the sheer number of opponents was beginning to take its toll. Jordan was caught by a sword slash to the back while defending an opponent in-front of him. He unleashed a powerful kick out of anger, but found himself noticing the coming fatigue. As the fight carried on he continued to receive small blows. The battle would surely be theres unless he used his full power and sent them all to their graves.
Finn stood anxiously behind the battle. The Princess called out to him "Finn! Juno is weakened! We need you now!"
Finn turned to Jake, Jake saying "What are we going to do? The Princess wants us to finish him!"
"I know dude…" Finn looked around hastily until he looked into the battle. He could see Jordan fighting as hard as he could to stay alive. He saw how he slashed at no one, and instead incapacitated them with kicks. He saw what his plan was and Finn knew he had to help him, to prove to the Princess what the Ninja was all about.
Finn drew his sword and looked at the battle with intensity. "I'm going in" he said.
"What?" Jake yelled with surprise
"I'm going in to save Jordan!" Finn yelled.
"But what about Princess Bubblegum?" Jake asked worry
"I'm going to prove to her that Jordan's not evil man! You coming or what?"
Jake looked at the ground for a second, and then looked up with serious determination saying "let's do this."
The two charge into battle screaming. Finn leapt and incredible bound and landed beside Ninja-Jordan helping him repel the attackers while Jake tried to thin out the numbers by stretching to a gargantuan size and carrying soldiers off the battlefield.
Ninja-Jordan yelled in surprise while defending an attack "Finn! What are you doing here man?"
Finn replied "Saving you!" while repelling another soldier.
Ninja-Jordan closed his eyes briefly in contentedness. He was grateful to have such a great, new friend. The two continued to fight against the horde, two expert warriors now made all the more powerful by their teamwork. However, Princess Bubblegum quickly saw the union and yelled to Marceline.
"Marceline! Finn's under some kind of spell! He's fighting with Juno. I need you to take care of it!"
"On it!" Marceline said transforming into her bat-monster form and leaping over to Finn and Jordan. The sudden crash caught the two off guard and Marceline bent down and grabbed Jordan squeezing him between her two hands. Finn raised his hand yelling "Marceline stop! He's not evil!" But Marceline slapped him away.
"Shut up Finn" She yelled, and then looked back at Jordan "We all have our reasons."
Marceline then jumped into the air and began flying as high as she could. Jordan was pounding his fists against her hands.
"Marceline! Stop, please! I don't want to hurt you!" He shouted.
"Oh really?" Marceline yelled, "Well too late!"She yelled, winding up hard and then hurling Jordan to the earth. As he descended he saw a large group of Desert Sheiks drawing bows and preparing to take him out of the sky. Ninja-Jordan summoned his sword as the arrows we fired and quickly began deflecting arrow after arrow. They came at him like swarms of bees, but he cut threw them without a scratch. It was upon this defence that Jordan's heightened Ninja reflex allowed him to see something terrible. Some of the arrows he had just been deflecting were now descending upon Princess Bubblegum. The Ninja had to act fast, he changed his course of decent and dove as fast as he could the save the princess. He burst through the clouds getting closer to the ground. As he did, Marceline burst out behind him. Without a moment's hesitation he turned and hit Marceline with a tremendous energy blast. She was knocked out, and from the smoke of the blast began falling to the earth in her normal form. Jordan landed with a huge crash in front of the Princess, and in a flash, summoned his sword and looked up. In what looked like a single move, a wave of arrows hit an invisible wall, put up by Jordan's sword slashes. He stood up, his sword disappearing in black flame. He turned to the Princess, and quickly caught Marceline as she fell into his arms.