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Two Tickets to Paradise

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Although Finn's growth spurt in height seemed to be slowing, his body didn't skimp on growing in other ways. About half way through the meadow before the Candy Kingdom, they had to stop, because, his beloved pair of adventuring shorts had given way. His bone structure as well was getting larger and wider, somewhat akin to Billy's, and, with that, the few threads that held his shorts so tightly to his body finally failed. Fortunately, he still had his hero's loin cloth, once worn by Billy himself, and was able to wear it loosely about his body.

Susan, standing back and watching all this, gained the treat of surveying what once stood in the darkness...Finn's manhood. Strangely enough, it wasn't as big as his body was portraying, but, it was still of considerably sizable girth, like a cuddly, fleshy teddy bear. It looked cute, against his body...maybe even adorable in fact, and Susan was soon wondering what it would feel like to hold it in her hands...or other, tighter places.

"Ready, Susan?" Finn asked, after regrettably blocking Susan's view of his little love sausage.

"...Yuuhuusss..." Susan sighed, half speaking through her slightly puckered lips...before she snapped back into reality, fishing herself out of her mindless daydream, and answered, "Huh? Ohyeah...sure."

Finn entered the Candy Kingdom with Billy's loincloth cinched around his waist. After going through a few bakeries and some camping supply stores, he was comfortably wearing it about his hips, and, his height was getting to near even to Susan's. With a nearly bare breasted hunk in a loincloth walking around, the candy people surely began to take notice.

Susan began discretely sharing a few naughty words and giggling glances in agreement with the ladies, behind Finn's back. Along with Lollipop Girl and Chocoberry, many of the candy girls traded a few congratulatory glances...as well as some hot, longing ones, and even some angry, jealous ones, toward Susan. She only giggled it off, enjoying it all, for what it was worth, even if their outing wasn't what they thought it was.

Finn was quickly becoming quite the sensation with all the women in town, yet, him being him, he was totally oblivious, brushing it all off as the candy people being their own, jovial selves. Surely, his head would burst if he actually heard any exchanges the ladies had with Susan, or, more specifically, what they all wanted to know of him...or do with him. Funny enough, this began strengthening a possible resolve to make good on their various questions and suggestions.

Upon climbing the steps of the candy castle, he had surpassed Susan's height by an inch or two, and, his muscles were soon approaching her current thickness. When Princess Bubblegum came upon this sight, she was, least be to say...shocked...and very, very happy about it.

"Hey, PB." Finn said, unassuming in comparison to the way he looked. "So...guess what."

Bubblegum's eyes were like two, gigantic, twirling marbles, glossy and shimmering, admiring Finn's transformation like a large, sizzling, candy steak. "Wh...wah?" the Princess asked, just noticing that Finn said something.

"Looks like your power juice worked, huh? I know, I shoulda called you, but, I figured it'd be a nicer surprise to just see it in person."

"Y...yeahh...I'll say..." Bubblegum spoke like a zombie. "Gehh...buh...but...ahem...but you said it didn't work..."

"Yeah, it didn't...while you were calling, that is. At least it didn't LOOK, like it did. However, something must have catalyzed the chemicals, some time after you called. As to what it was, I can't be sure. I mean, it could be...that I was awake, then, or...hmm..." Finn said, gripping gently upon his chin and tapping upon his lips with a forefinger, while he thought and looked around. "...Oh! It might have been because I was in near contact with a female! Like Susan here!"

Susan winced, thinking she'd done something wrong. "What?! Did I do something..."

"Heheh, oh, no, Susan." Finn waved towards her in reassurance, trying to get her to dismiss any negative thoughts from her mind. "It's a good thing. Consider that you've quite possibly helped save all of Ooo from an abysmal fate."

Susan smiled brightly then and pointed to herself. "...Me? Really?"

"Heheh, don't read too much into it...although, I would say that you deserve at least a footnote in Ooo history."

The three of them started giggling at Finn's high-brow sense of humor.

This didn't last long for Bubblegum, however, as she didn't recall this brand of comedy, or his volley of more brainy speech, to be a regular piece of Finn's repertoire. "Hmm...it seems the cocktail has affected your speech patterns as well, Finn...quite possibly your intelligence itself." Bubblegum said, taking her own turn to clutch and rub at her chin. "We seem to have given you the...uh...full package." Bubblegum blushed at her own words, with Susan discretely giggling along.

"Heheh, agreed." Finn said, looking himself over again...and giving Bubblegum a first class view of his partially hidden and very meaty buttocks, while he twisted around and curiously surveyed his body's growing landscape. The Princess bit her lip in restraint then, also hindering the urge to lunge forward at the nice piece of meat to give it a quick nibble.

"Ughhhare...are you going to go and...satiate Canyon's urg...needses...riiight noww, or...?" Bubblegum asked, and then quickly capped her lips with her hand, knowing that her question came out wrong. The truth of the matter was, she really hoped he had some free time to 'spend' with her. Even Susan picked up on the vibe she was giving out and gently clamped down on her own lips, suppressing a giggle. It was beyond amusing to see the Princess so flirty, and vulnerable.

Finn, on the other hand, had no assumptions upon Bubblegum, whatsoever, especially since their history together painted a fairly thick wall between them, man/woman-wise. "Mmm...I couuuld, but, I think it prudent to let the mixture complete its work, first. My best guess is that, by tomorrow, I'll be fully equipped to handle her needs."

Bonnibel swallowed hard and squeezed her legs together at Finn's words. Susan did the same and pursed her lips together, nearly choking on her tongue, having surveyed Finn's 'equipment' with her own eyes.

"Ssso...you're free then? M-maybe you need to come in. I might need to run some tests, or..." Bubblegum pushed, timidly. She even began holding her hands behind her, gently kicking her toes across the candy pavement, and bashfully looking away from him like a little schoolgirl.

"Nah, that's okay." Finn said happily...yet bluntly.

Bubblegum's face quickly flipped into a severe smack of hurt, then. She even had to choke back a sob and did her best to keep her composure.

"N-no, I didn't mean it that way!" Finn said...even though he couldn't remotely grasp why Bubblegum would take such offense at Finn's reassuring demeanor. "I mean, your work is squarely sound, I'm sure. And, I don't feel anything wrong with my transformation. It's been quite smooth, in fact...well, aside from the incident of my clothes tearing off of my body, eheheh." he humorously announced, blushing a bit and rubbing the back of his head. "That, I didn't see coming."

Bubblegum regained herself emotionally...somewhat. She managed a crooked smile and a half-hearted laugh. "Eheheh, reeealleeee...that's soooh funneeeehh...aheheh...heh..." She clenched again, at the mad thought of envisioning Finn's clothes tearing from his body to reveal this fine specimen of male humanity before her. The fact that his beauty surpassed even the 'Finn' she saw within her tired, little daydream, the night before, did nothing to help the torturous want within her soul.

"Oh, shpleezow! Look at the time..." Finn said, flexing his body in a slight twist and heroically looking towards the sun, while squinting with his eagle eyes and shading them with an open palm.

Susan made another silent 'ooh', seeing him pose again like Greek statue, with Bonnibel biting her lip, again, and furrowing her brow troubled, similar spirits.

"We gotta go." he said, crushing Bubblegum's hopes for a late brunch of some kind, with her newly constructed hero.

"Oh...must you?!" Bubblegum said in a pleading voice that was not her own. She nearly slapped her hand to cap her mouth again.

"Yeah, sorry, PB. Me and Susan have to put in for a, aheheh, leisurely cruise down memory lane."

Bubblegum was heartbroken at Finn's words. Finn interpreted this as something nice that excluded her. He was right, of course...just not in the way she was thinking it.

"...We're gonna float down a sewage pipe on a motorized raft." he then said, plainly, with a hint of embarrassment. "I didn't mean to play it up so much."

"Oh..." Bubblegum said with a strange sigh of relief, flopping a hand against her heart. Finn cocked a confused eyebrow at her reaction. Was she that happy that it wasn't as fun, after all? "OH! Er...I mean...uh...why don't you borrow my inflatable raft? It'd be waaaay nicer than a wooden one, right?" she floundered, looking for anything to deflect from her true feelings.

Susan and Finn perked up a bit then. "Hey, yeah! That'd be way better! Thanks, PB! Dunno how we can thank you!"

Bubblegum suddenly stifled a rather devious smile then, having digested Finn's fortuitous words. "Ohohh...don't worry. I'll think of something...ehem...uh, wait right here! I'll be right back..." she said, turning to go get her piece of possible leverage. At this, running off to grab her proposed raft, she practically bubbled with ideas of how to get Finn to 'thank' her for her service. Quite possibly, with a service of his own.

"Wonder how she even knew we were going to use a wooden raft..." was all Finn said, turning to Susan. Susan could only shrug in response.

Within a minute or so, Bubblegum was bidding farewell to Finn, admiring his backside a bit more while he walked away. As she bit her fingernails, barely quelling her hunger for the boy, even Susan turned to her and mouthed a silent 'good job', paired with two thumbs up, before she chased after Finn. Blushing, again, Bubblegum bit her lip, wishing she was in Susan's place.

She turned to enter the solitude of her castle then, and, she began trying to recall the last time she was in the presence of another intellectually inclined male that attracted her so. Out of the sunlight and into the shade of the great hall, she felt as if she was holding her guts in and wanted to invite herself along for the ride to Beautopia, but, she also felt like an interloper, having not been a part of the original voyage. But she wanted some way to be near her newfound interest. She was indeed dying for one.

Passing through a miscellaneous hallway, she passed the guard's monitoring station, filled with banana guards led by old Colonel Candy Corn...who was asleep at the wheel. She wanted to blow off some steam, right then and there, by running in and giving them an earfull...but then, she recalled telling Finn, in their last day out...or in, that she was trying to be a little nicer and handle things more calmly. She passed on by, leaving her foolish but well meaning garrison of clumsy soldiers to their own devices.

A thought occurred to her, though, as she remembered another incident with her running into the monitoring station. "Hey, waitasecond...didn't my growth serum pack Finn full of multi-purpose nanoits? Isn't my inflatable raft loaded with all sortsa 360 degree camera junk" she asked herself, her eyes widening and sparkling like stars.

She began giggling again and bounded forward, at a full sprint, heading straight towards her personal monitoring station to satiate her voyeuristic thirst for her little boy hero...who was definitely not so little, anymore.

"Hey, Peps!" Bubblegum called out to Peppermint Butler, certain he heard her, somehow, "I needs my cocoa! Triple strength, stat!"

Author's Notes and Replies:

Yeahhh, kinda struggling with this part for some reason, but, still had some fun with it. Little segment got a little bigger than I thought it would, and it's getting a little late for a release, so...release!

Hope y'all r liking it so far. I can't wait to cuddle with Susan, hehehe.

King69 - lol, contrats. And thanks. Hope it gets even better from here.

Jaykingamez - You have a point there, NEPTR, lol. Wells, sorry, I've never been a solid fan of Phoebe. She's a nice, down to earth character and has some backbone to her, but, Iunno, she's never really piqued my interest...not sexually, anyways, heheh.

My best guess though, if I did write a segment with her, that is, is that she'd get nice and interested...and then Cinnamon Bun'd get jealous as hell and possibly challenge him to a duel, where Finn'd have to fake some attacks and either take out CB gently or fake a loss. Question still stands, though, would I go all netori mode for Flame Princess? Maybe, I would. But, like I said, I'm not really into her.

Thank you all for your kind and enthusiastic comments. You are a credit to my mojo.

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