Today is the last day of the festival and Fionna's birthday. You know, I'm kinda wondering what Marshall was doing when he sent Jordan to hang out with Fionna instead of himself... hmm...
"Man Cake, I can't believe it's the last day of the festival... I had so much fun." Fionna said to her sister as they sat on a wall overlooking the Candy Kingdom as the sun slowly but steadily set "I know sugah! And I can't believe you actually like the water now!" Cake replied "Do you like the water?" Fionna asked "Actually, don't answer that. You're a cat and cats don't like water. Do you still want me as a sister if I like water now?" "Fionna!" Cake said, astonished, "Of course you'll still be my sister baby. And for a fact I do like the water. Don't you remember all those times I tried to get you into the water?" "Oh, ya." Fionna said, embarrassed "Anyway, I spent five years trying to get you into the water and that vampire got you in it in only five minutes. What did he say? Did he dare you? Did he promise to get you a super cool demon sword? Did he promise to give you riches and beat him in everything?" Cake rambled "Um, Cake, can I, um, ya know, tell ya a secret?" Fionna asked, embarrassed "Baby cakes, you can tell me anything! You could even tell me you love ML and I would still love you." Cake grinned, as she wrapped her arms around Fionna in a jumbo hug "T-T-Thanks Cake." Fionna whispered, blushing at the last part of Cake's honorable mini speech "So, um, like one time, like, you know when you and ML take turns distracting me for my birthday? (And don't try to deny it, I'm not stupid) well Marshall told me he had junk to do in his kingdom so he left that other vampire (Jordan, you remember him right?) to hang out with me as a full-in. Well, I can't remember why but A few days earlier I think I got a dream. It was different from my other kick-butt ones 'cause in this one I was swimming in a water park too. It was exactly like how it was on the first day... and... and... I think I *mumble mumble mumble*" Fionna confined "Sugah I didn't hear ya on that last part, please clarify." Cake huffed "I-I-I have *mumble mumble mumble*" Fionna mumbled "Fionna, I got cat ears and I still can't hear ya. SPEAK UP!" Cake shouted "I GOTTA CRUSH on... on... *mumble* okay?" Fionna blushed "Who now?" Cake asked, raising an eyebrow "M-M-Marshall..." Fionna squeaked "I'm gonna tear that vampire limb from limb..." Cake muttered as she started to stretch down the wall "NO! It wasn't his fault, I just realized I had a crush on him. You can't tear him apart for that. He's to handsome- I mean cute, I mean cool, UGH, I mean math! He's fun to hang around. Like who's going to keep me company if you get rid of him?" Fionna asked, blushing furiously at her mistakes. Fionna's jaw suddenly dropped at Cake's face. She had a mischievous look and Fionna did not care for it. "C-Cake, please don't embarrass me in front of him. More than your usual self." Fionna said, twiddling her thumbs. Cake gave her a disapproving look. "Are you sure you ain't under a spell sugah? My baby would never tell me that about a guy." Cake said. Fionna nodded her head. "Something tells me I ain't gonna get anything else from you so let's go." Cake sighed as she shape-shifted into a big bed. Fionna grinned gratefully and hopped onto her sister's back and wriggled under the covers. "I'm going to find somewhere I can get some shut-eye. Maybe in an alley." Cake said, marching forward. Fionna gently nodded her head before falling asleep. Cake smiled. 'I'm not going to let that vampire play with my sister. I will be the love judge! Punishing those who betray other peoples love.' Cake thought proudly. But her proudness soon wore of as she grew more and more sleepy. Finally, Cake found a big enough alley and slowly backed into it (only after checking for rats ya know).
But unbeknownst the two adventuresses (who were sound asleep) someone gently beside Fionna, singing to them (but mostly Fionna) softly.
Go to sleep and let the beds not creak
as the moonlight shines all around
Go to sleep and do not weep
for the guardian of dreams comes nigh
Go to sleep and count your sheep
and let your dreams soar high
Go to sleep and be not meek
because you will not die.
The shadowy figure slowly and softly repeated the lullaby and softly strummed his/her guitar. Fionna shifted in her sleep. "M-Marshall." she whispered. The figure stopped strumming. "I'm here Fi-Fi." the figure whispered. Marshall (AKA the shadowy figure DING DING you won a million bucks(deer) that drowned in a river before they got to you, boohoo) leaned over and kissed her lightly on the forehead. Her eyes fluttered open. Her mouth opened up into a silent scream. Then Marshall doubled over from being punched in the gut. "Geez, *wheeze*, why?" he panted holding his stomach "Why are you here?" Fionna blushed "Well, I came to take you and Cake home but when I didn't see you two I came looking for you." Marshall explained "S-Sorry. About the punch." Fionna said suddenly "Apology accepted?" Marshall said, confused. Usually Fionna didn't apologize when that happened. "A-Anyway, c-could you sing that song again?" Fionna asked "What song?" he blushed "That l-lullaby." Fionna chattered. Marshall sighed. "First get under the covers. I can tell you're freezing." Fionna nodded and tucked herself back under the Cake-covers with a sigh of relief. "The song?" Fionna said after a moment of silence "W-what song?" Marshall asked again "The lullaby. It goes like this:
Go to sleep and let the beds not creak
as the moonlight shines all around
Go to sleep and do not weep
for the guardian of the dreams comes nigh
Go to sleep and count your sheep
and let your dreams soar high
Go to sleep and be not meek
because you will not die
"Like that." Fionna whispered "Um, Marshall?" she waved her hand in front of his face. He blushed. He was so amazed by her singing talent and she barely realized it. "Sorry. Care to sing it with me?" he asked. She grinned. And together they sang until Fionna fell back asleep. And was shortly followed by Marshall.
"Marshall." Fionna said, poking the vampire's cheek. When Cake had woke up she was tempted to scratch the vampire in his sleep but Fionna pointed out that he helped her fall asleep. Cake sighed at this and instead decided to shrink down. Fionna hopped off while Marshall just stayed floating in the air. "Huh, so he wasn't even on you." Fionna said "Never mind that, the horns are blowing. We're going to be late!" Cake said, shaking Marshall to wake him "Leave me alone mom. I don't wanna rule right now..." Marshall groaned wiggling out of Cake's grip. Fionna ran up to Cake and jumped of her sister and landed on top of Marshall. "Marshy, if you don't wake up I'll shave you bald." she whispered into his ear. He sighed and floated to the ground. He grumbled about needing his sleep and junk. "Now's not the time to complain. The horns are blowing at the castle! I don't have Fionna's dress!" Cake wailed "Yay! I can finally go to the ball without one." Fionna smiled. At this point Marshall could've done two things: Let Fionna go without the dress or rush them back, grab the dress, then have to fly them back to the Candy Kingdom. Unfortunately for Fionna Marshall was still a bit salty about the hair thing so he decided number two. And what could he say, he liked looking at her in the dresses. "Cake, if you could act as an umbrella for me I could take you to the tree house and back in time." Marshall said, scooping Fionna into his arms. Cake squealed then surrounded Marshall "Even better!" he said as he flew off. For Fionna it felt like she was on a rocket, a super cool rocket taking to her fashion death: dresses. For Cake she knew she was going to have a bad fur day, but getting Fionna's dress evened it out. For Marshall, he was really indifferent. "Cake, go." Marshall said as his feet touched the ground. "Go freshen up bunny. I'll be back in five." he said, shooting off again with a spare umbrella he always kept at their house. "See ya ML." Fionna said, running into her house. She ran into the shower for a quick bath then started brushing her hair for the remaining time. Marshall floated back. Fionna blushed and looked at the ground to hide her red face. Marshall was wearing a plaid wool vest with leather pants and fancy shoes. "I thought you didn't dress up!" Fionna squeaked "I don't. And if you remember, I always do this for your birthday because you insisted." he retorted "Okay, I'm ready. Let's move!" Cake said, breaking the tense air "So Cake (and I'm only going to call you Cake on Fionna's birthday) can you turn yourself into a carriage? But on the inside..." Marshall droned. Fionna slowly shifted away so she didn't hear the rest.
"Fionna, come on! Stop hiding." Cake called. The girl sighed and came out to face her problem. Marshall lifted her into the carriage. "After you, m'lady." he grinned "I thought you didn't know how to fancy." Fionna scoffed, sitting down "Actually, since I'm royalty I have to know that junk. So wrong." he replied, opening another inside the carriage. Fionna poked her head through there and saw Marshall back inside his normal clothes (which was a relief for her because she was probably blushing at him the whole time) and he was pedaling very fast. "This i our form of transportation Fi-Fi." Marshall said after a while "Meep!" Fionna said, caught by surprise. She quickly sat back down in her seat.
"Ahh, Fionna and Cake. I almost thought you two wouldn't make it. Prince Gumball said as he saw the carriage arrive with Fionna's head out of the window. Gumball opened the door and lowered Fionna out. "Lady Fionna." he said as he kissed her hand. 'Gumball kissed my hand! A-A-And it feels normal?!" Fionna thought "Back off Gummy-butt. She's my date this year." Marshall hissed, flying out of the shrinking carriage. Soon in his hand he had a Cake-umbrella. "Let's book it Fi." Marshall said, floating into the castle. Fionna shrugged. She turned her shoulders and looked back at Gumball and mouthed 'sorry'. Gumball huffed. 'Sometimes I just don't get what she sees in that vampire." he thought, marching stiffly into the castle. "Close the gates!" he called as he passed. The banana guards nodded and started closing the gates.
Marshall sighed as he waited for his date to get dressed. Technically she wasn't his date since he never asked her but he was pretty sure she would say yes because while they were in the carriage she was blushing non-stop. "I-I-I'm done." Fionna said, coming out. "OH! My baby-cakes is all grown-up." Cake purred excitedly. But for Marshall, he couldn't say a thing. She was wearing strapless blue dress with the skirt ruffled and small white heels. Marshall shook his head. "Shall we?" he said, offering her his arm "We shall." Fionna giggled, accepting his arm. "Now presenting, Lady Fionna!" Gumball announced. A spotlight flew to the top of the stairs and Fionna was waiting there with her arm intertwined with Marshall's. The Candy people didn't find this weird because they thought that she wanted to keep an eye on the mischievous vampire. "Let the last day, commence!" Gumball shouted. With a roar the people started to dance and play the games set up in the ballroom. "May I have the first dance?" Marshall asked "S-Sure." Fionna replied. The two twirled around the room dancing together for the longest. "Marshall, as much as I enjoy this *puff* I'm not a vampire. *huff* I can't dance forever." Fionna said, leaving Marshall and heading for the punch bowl. 'Tonight will be the best.' Fionna thought, sipping her punch "Fionna!" Gumball said, weaving through the crowds to her. "Could I have a dance?" he asked "Well," Fionna started, "I'm tired from dancing, maybe later." "O-Okay." Gumball said, leaving saddened. Fionna sighed. She felt very guilty. But then again it wouldn't be fair if she danced with Gumball after she just told Marshall she was tired. It would seem rude and offend Marshall, and that was not her objective for the night.
"Goodbye everyone! Thank you for coming!" Prince Gumball said as the Candy People left the castle. "Thank you for all the gifts!" Fionna grinned. Gumball closed the doors. "So, um, Fionna, want to do one more dance?" he asked "PG, I appreciate it, but if I dance on the ground one more time my feet are going to fall off." Fionna groaned, kicking her heels off. "Yo, Fi-Fi, time to open up our presents." Marshall said, calling her and PG from the gate. "Kay!" Fionna said, running with her heels in her hand. Gumball followed more responsibly. It was a tradition for them to give Fionna her birthday presents after everyone else left. "Here sugah, open mine first." Cake giggled, handing Fionna a light blue bag with white spots. Fionna opened it to see a super cool new adventuring outfit. It was a short black dress with ruffles at the skirt with short black sleeves with dark purple flats and a white bunny headband. There were maroon lines looping around the short sleeves and one around the waist with black high knee socks. "Glob Cake, this is awesome!" Fionna cried, her eyes growing big "It's for when you grow out of those other clothes. And don't worry I got a while other wardrobe of these back home." Cake blushed "Here Fionna." Gumball said next, giving Fionna a long rectangular pink box. She opened it with glee. "Math PG!" Fionna said, giving her friend a big hug. It was a long light pink sword with a blue hilt and a bunny head in the center of the hilt. "Hey, Fi-Fi." Marshall said, poking her. Fionna jumped and karate chopped Marshall's neck. "Sorry!" Fionna said, gasping "It's okay, I'm not going to die, I'm already dead." Marshall joked, holding his neck "Anyway, I got you this." Marshall said, giving Fionna a plain cardboard box. She turned her back away from them and opened it. "Wow! Algebraic Marsh!" Fionna said, hugging him. Cake and Gumball looked inside the box. Inside was a demon blade dagger. It was glowing a bright red. "Sweet." Cake purred "I made it specially from every demon I've killed. And that you've killed." Marshall said "But I already have one like this." Fionna said, confused "This one, even has my blood in it this time." Marshall said, "Which is why Gummy's potion worked." Gumball huffed at the nickname. "Marshall, are you okay? Didn't you say it hurts for that to happen?" Fionna asked, worried "I'm fine now. Anyway I needed it for other reasons as well." Marshall said, producing Fionna's crescent moon earrings. "My earrings!" she exclaimed, taking them from Marshall and giving them to Cake to put in. "You found them!" she said, as Cake finished putting them back in "Actually, I was the one who took them. This time, they have special properties. They will shrink from prying eyes." he said "What is that supposed to do." Cake huffed. Marshall unclasped the earrings and combined them so they formed a full, but hollow, moon. He took the demon blade and nicked Fionna's thumb and let a drop of blood fall through the hollow moon. Oddly, the drop didn't come out of the other end. "Weird." Fionna said, sucking her thumb. Suddenly the moon shook and flipped in the air as if someone flicked it with their thumb. It glowed white and became solid. A light blue blade and hilt slid out of it. A pink ribbon trailed around it's hilt. Fionna stood there with her jaw dropped as well as Cake's and PG's. "Grab it." Marshall said, getting annoyed with the jaw-dropping. Fionna shook her head and grabbed the sword. The ribbon lengthened as it swirled down Fionna's arm. It left the hilt and swirled into a bow around her waist. She slowly lifted off the ground. "Mathematical!" she cried, soaring around. Marshall grinned as he floated up with Cake on his head. Gumball snorted as his gift lay untouched on the floor. "Cake, I want to try on your new outfit." Fionna said, landing on the floor. "On it sistah!" Cake replied, stretching herself to the ground and turning herself into a small dressing room.
"Tada!" Fionna said, coming out. Thankfully, Marshall didn't have blood so you couldn't tell he was blushing unless you were a vampire and since Gumball was already pink you couldn't tell either. "Um, yes. The sword works on your love for things." Marshall said to Fionna, "I couldn't find anything else that someone couldn't get rid of (actually it was because I was to lazy) and since you love like, everything." "Thanks, but how do I get the earrings back?" she asked. Marshall floated over to her and undid the bow on her back. The sword gave a dull glow and the blade and hilt disappeared. The moon's inside slowly disappeared and the two crescents unlatched from each other. They flew up back onto her ears and stayed there. "Let me try!" Cake said, trying to take Fionna's earrings off gently "They, they won't come off." she huffed "Yes, because I put Fionna's blood on it it will only work for her." Marshall explained "Anyway, where did you get those earrings?" Gumball asked "Well, it's a long story." Fionna said "But, she and I are willing to tell it." Marshall said, scooping Fionna up and putting her on his lap. "So, it all began when..."
I got you! Anyway the sword with the bow is not my idea. I got it from Ciaxlia. She really writes some great Fiolee stories so, go check her out! Remember to favorite a mi, y mi cuento! ;)