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"Marceline, Simon hi! So glad you could make it! Finn and Jake are just in here!" Princess Bubblegum greeted them extremely warmly, offering them tea and biscuits too.
"That's awfully kind your majesty, but you didn't have too y'know" Simon said humbly.
"Just call me PB everyone does."
"Ok then! So do you have your answers?" he said sitting down next to Finn and Jake.
"Partially. Let me explain. I performed many tests on the crown, they all said that the crown had 0% magic in it. But, that alone would have made you slowly begin to die, like last time."
Simon shuddered just thinking about last time. "Ok continue Princess"
"Well I'm still trying to figure out what kept you alive and stopped you from ageing hundreds of years."
"All I care about is that you're back! You seem like a cool guy!" Finn said smiling at Simon.
"Thanks Finn, you too!"
Princess Bubblegum began to talk to them about a device she was going to build to help analyse the crown, when a red light started to blink on a monitor on her desk.
"Huh!? Hold on a sec guys." She got up and stared at the monitor, her pink face getting paler.
"What's going on PB?" Jake asked stretching his head over to the monitor.
"The ooo history museum has been breached!"
"On it PB!" Finn shouted drawing his sword "Simon, Marcy you coming?"
"Yeah!" Simon shouted "A chance to explore "ooo" is what I really need! Will there be a fight?"
"More than likely, if you're with Finn." Jake laughed
"All right!" Simon took off his jacket and rolled up his shirt sleeves "I am ready!"
"Ok? Let's go! What time is it!?"
"Adventure Time!" Finn and Jake chorused
The 4 friends practically sprinted through the various parts of ooo, not showing any signs of stopping. Then, they finally reached the ooo history museum.
"Oh glob!" The entire front looked like it had been torn clean off. The rubble looked fresh and dust was still settling.
"We're not too late! Come on!" Fin shouted running in, his sword drawn.
"Is he like this a lot?" Simon whispered to Marcy
"Mostly, yeah."
"Let's go!" Jake shouted running inside.
"You heard him let's go!" Simon said running, Marcy close behind. They followed the trail of destruction until they came to an empty room. It was made of a rough stone and it was big with a high ceiling. In the centre of the room was a glass case with a golden chalice encrusted with rubies in it. The creature was behind the case slowly taking off the case and reaching for the chalice.
"Hey you!" Simon shouted "Stop!"
"Well well well! If it isn't Simon Petrikov! It's been years!"
"What do you mean creep! And where did you get that crystal!?" Simon yelled pointing at the crystal embedded in his forehead.
"The crystal? Ah yes! You were kind enough to leave that for me during our last encounter. As for the other thing well…." Before it could finish Finn leapt forward and began to attack the creature. "Ugh you moron! Didn't you learn last time!?" he kicked Finn into the wall making a huge hole in it. Wind began to whistle through the hole in the wall as the creature grabbed the chalice from the casing. "Why do you look so similar to the lich, dude?" Jake yelled at him.
"Never you mind you nosey dog!" he shouted back and started to advance towards Finn.
"Jake go!" Simon yelled pointing at the creature. With his long hair blowing out in all directions, he looked more like a warrior than and antiquarian from the past. Jake grew and ran snarling at the creature. "Come on then pooch! Whatcha gonna do!?" suddenly Finn sprung up and cut the creature's arm that was holding the chalice clean off. "Mon dieu!" he screamed in perfect French and disappeared into a spinning disk of green light.
"We did it!" Finn shouted before he fell down. "Everything hurts" he moaned
"Don't worry buddy we'll get home and you can rest." Jake said walking over to Finn "hey look! He left his arm behind!"
"Gimmie that!" Finn shouted sitting up suddenly "We need to take this to PB."
"Ok then but what about this?" he said holding up the dropped chalice.
"Put that back in the case" Marcy said floating over "As long as the creepy guy doesn't get it we're ok."
They did that and then began the long journey back to the candy kingdom. "About time!" Simon snorted. The authorities had only just arrived. As they passed the ice kingdom Simon felt a strange feeling overcome him. "I-is that the ice kingdom?"
"Yeah. Why?" Finn replied looking confused
"I remember. This is where my house used to be before the war." He sighed looking miserable.
"Hey Simon, buddy. We can rebuild it!" Jake said reassuringly
"Yeah! Better and cooler than before!"
"Thanks guys. You're the best."
When they approached the candy kingdom, once again Princess Bubblegum was waiting for them outside. "Guys! Did you do it!? What happened!?"
"Well we have something for you. We'll explain what happened when we get inside." Princess Bubblegum led the way up to her lab, making sure to lock the door behind her. "So what do you have for me?"
"This!" Finn said impressively handing her the arm.
"Whose is this?" she asked confused
"Guess what!? The creature who was draining the candy kingdom essence, broke into the museum and tried to steal some goblet or chalice or something" Jake said.
Princess Bubblegum paled "You mean the chalice of life?" she said looking worried.
"Yeah. Kinda looks like a chalice of life. So what's up with it?" Finn asked.
"It is supposed to give anyone who drinks from it a new mortal life to live. The only trouble is whoever drank from it also went mad."
"Wow. But why would some creepy skeleton dude want a new mortal life?"
"I don't know, but that arm could come in handy for my research into the crown."
Finn handed her the arm and walked back over to the others "Let's go now."
"Hold on a second Finn." Marcy said "I need to do something." She floated over to Princess Bubblegum "Hey Bonnie?"
"What is it Marcy?"
"Well I'm sorry I yelled at you last time. I don't want our friendship to be over."
"It's ok Marcy. I didn't want our friendship to be over either."
Simon was watching them talk. "Hmmmm" he said smiling.
"What is it Simon?" Finn asked
"Oh nothing' Finn."
"Ok guys let's go!" Marceline had floated back over a pleased look on her face. They all started to walk back to Marceline's house not knowing they were being watched.
The creature stopped using the crystal to spy on the 4 heroes. "I NEED something." He hissed "those idiots stole the chalice from me, and I need a new option." He looked even worse. There were more cracks on his face and the end of one of his horns was chipped off. Holes had started to appear in his green cloak, and they had nothing to do with the earlier fight. It was because of his deteriorating state. "You." He snarled at the crystal "You got me into the mess with the chalice, so you can find me a new solution." Suddenly the crystal brought an image of a huge room filled with all sorts of exotic plants and trees. "Of course" he whispered.
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