:facepalm: Some of you guys are driving me crazy. But, due to popular demand I'll make Marshall talk. Though I'm not happy about it, I'll make it happen. Now please, instead of focusing on one character flaw, pay attention to my story. I really dislike the fact that some of you are paying attention to minor details. :sigh: enjoy.

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The next morning wasn't very eventful. Cake never questioned my whereabouts and seemed to be more focused on me getting ready for my date with the Prince. I hadn't informed her of my other date with Marshall, but there were some things my favorite cat couldn't know.

"Here Fionna, I picked out a dress for you to wear for your date today!" Cake happily held up a short white dress above her head. I hate wearing dresses with a bloody passion, which is why I never bothered with one. There was no way I'd be caught dead in one of those. I was an adventurer, silly things like dresses with lace and nice shoes didn't click with my personality or occupation.

"No way. There is absolutely no way I'm wearing that thing, I'll look like a sissy!"

Cake laughed and inched closer to me. "Put it on…" she urged, getting closer to me. "It'll look nice, 'ya wanna look good for Gumball, don't you?" I'd be lying if I said that weren't true, because it was. I did want to look nice for my first date ever, but even I had limits.

"I said no, that's my final answer," I folded my arms of my chest just to prove I was serious. "I mean it, Cake.. NO."

The cat then sighed in disappointment. "Fine. Whatever…" she then added a few sniffles to make the scene more dramatic. I couldn't help but feel more than a little bad, and decided to go along with what she wanted. Wearing a dress couldn't be as terrible as I was making it seem.

"Okay, I'll wear the stupid dress!" snatching the white, laced dress from Cakes hands; I left the room momentarily to change. After getting it on, I realized how snug and short the thing really was. It was tight around my chest area, and really fluffy around my knees. It went a little past there but nonetheless, it was short. Black lace was tied around the whole thing and little frills curved around my waist. Needless to say, it was a beautiful dress but I don't think it fit me much. Considering the fact that my thighs were a bit big and I was chubby. I didn't do anything with my hair and let it stay underneath the bunny-inspired hat I wore.

Stepping out, I heard Cake gasp in surprise. "Fionna! You look so nice!" I blushed at her words and looked bashfully towards the floor.

"W-whatever.. let's just go.." I said sheepishly and exited the house, only to be greeted with the one and only Vampire Prince, Marshall Lee. He held up a black parasol, shielding himself from the sun's harmful rays. "Oh, Marshall, what are you doing here?"

He shrugged his shoulders as he pondered a response. Further inspection of the Vampire King made me realize one thing. He didn't have his notebook to communicate with me.

"Uhm… Marshall? How are you going to speak to me, where's your notebook?" I asked with pure curiosity. I had never seen him without it, and it was weird seeing him without one. He opened his mouth as if he was going to speak, but at that moment something completely unexpected happened.

"Ah! Fionna! There's a vampire at our door! Quick, get inside!" Cake yelled as she pulled me inside and quickly shut the door. The cat breathed heavily and ran into our kitchen to grab some garlic and made a dash back outside where a very bewildered Marshall was still standing.

She threw the garlic at Marshall, instantaneously resulting in a hiss from him. "Ah, what the hell? Cake, stop this immediately!" I yelled furiously.

"Yeah, stop! That hurts 'ya know?" Marshall said, and flew his way to go inside my house, shut his parasol and sat on my wooden floor. I then got smacked in the face with realization; Marshall just spoke! For the first time!

"Marshall! You… y-you can speak!"

He simply nodded and walked up to me, "Yes.. I can.." he winked and placed a soft kiss to my neck. His voice was fairly deep and a bit raspy due to the fact that he hadn't spoken in over one hundred years. The King wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me close to him, a hot feeling made its way to my face as I blushed. Marshall certainly was never this … flirty before.

"I haven't spoken in over one hundred years… it's weird, but good. Now, I can begin to write songs again with my bass.." He seemed to be speaking more to himself than to me, and then he pulled away from the embrace and made his way out the door, past a very irate Cake. He winked before opening his parasol and flying away towards the direction of the forest.

"What was that?" Cake screamed, poking me in my chest in a very angry manner. If pokes could kill.. it would definitely be Cake's they were deadly. "You're supposed to be falling for Prince Gumball! Not that vampire delinquent!"

I sighed and shook my head. "There's nothing going on between Marshall and I", I assured her. Which she visibly seemed please about, "there isn't anything going on between me and Gumball either"

Cake huffed and walked away, "It's already 12:30, we're gonna be late for your date." She seemed pretty mad, although I can't see why. I shrugged and walked alongside Cake as we made our way to the Candy Castle. This date better be good…

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"Fionna! You've made it! Simply wonderful!" Prince Gumball announced as he approached us with open arms. The air of the castle smelled nothing but the distinct smell of strawberry bubble gum. It was nostalgic, for sure. But also very overwhelming.

"Yeah.. hah, we did.." I replied, forcing a grin on my face. I could already tell that this date would be extremely awkward.

"Well, let's start our date now shall we? Monochrome would be arriving shortly to take us to the park and until then might I say.. very nice dress…" the Prince's cheeks turned a darker shade of pink as he over-looked at what I was wearing. "You look.. elegant.." he blushed more and nervously coughed into his fist and looked to the side bashfully. "Nonetheless, today will be very exciting.. don't you agree?"

I nodded and looked at my side to look to Cake for some sort of help with this situation and found that she went missing, "Damn you Cake…" I muttered to myself and sighed.

"You don't seem very well… Are you alright?" the pink haired royal asked as he had an expression with nothing but pure concern.

"Of course I'm alright, dude! Why wouldn't I be?" I laughed solemnly and put a hand on his shoulder, and then.. felt bad. I wasn't really acting like I didn't want to be here, and Gumball seemed so excited about it, too. I should probably be putting more effort into this.

Gumball chuckled, took my hand, and led me outside of his castle where Lord Monochromicorn was waiting for us. When I sat on the black unicorn, Gumball seated himself in front of me and whispered in Monochrome's ear and the unicorn tapped its foot rapidly in response before setting off.

I wrapped my arms around Prince Gumball's waist and snuggled up to him a bit to get comfortable. I could feel his head beat quickly as I did so and pretended not to notice, it wouldn't be right of me to point that out now would it? Probably not. He hummed a soft classical tune, and the beating tone his heart made slowly but surely subsided.

"Hey Gumball… why'd you want to take me on a date?" I asked, snuggling up to him a bit more.

"W-well.. this was to pay you back, remember?" his heart began to beat quickly again and I could feel his heat give off a certain type of heat I just could not describe. It was oddly very easy to get used to.

"Yeah, I get that, but still.. why a date of all things?"

"You want an honest answer?"

"Yeah, I do."

"I guess… I've always wanted to take you out one of these days… I just never got around to doing so. I've been busy dealing with my experiments and taking care of my people that I just don't get any time to myself.. And if I were to spend any of my free time with anyone, it would be you, without a doubt." his words were sincere and I could just tell that he was smiling yet blushing at the same time. "you're an amazing girl and need a break too, so I figured 'hey, why not?' and did it."

"That's sweet of you, Gummy… no pun intended." We both laughed and saw the park just a few feet away from us. "There it is!" I guess it was an understatement to say that I had a change of heart about our activities later.

"Yup. That's definitely it." He acknowledged and Monochromicorn set us to the ground before taking off into the skies again.

"Uh… he'll be back right?"

"Of course he'll be back, why wouldn't he come back?"

I shrugged and sat on the ground as Prince Gumball joined me. "So.. What's the plan?"

"Why, you'll just have to catch me to find out" the pink haired price laughed, got up, and started running deeper into the park.

"You're joking.. right?" I huffed as I saw the teen run further away from me. "Right? Oh, fine." And then I bolted after him, eager to see what was waiting for me.

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I hoped you guys liked it, next chapter we'll be seeing the date between the two! It'll be full of surprises and lots of fluff. Looooots of fluff. Hah, review, tell me what you like. Don't flame my story, I do not own a fire extinguisher. Thanks for reading! :bows: Also, now thatI got my own laptop, I'll be updating a lot more. Bye now~ !