"How long has that been?" She asked, her voice was gentle and calm.

"I... think this morning." Muttered Finn, very unsure about the whole thing. "There's something wrong with me, I can tell... I can see if in that expression of yours..."

"Something is wrong. It's very, very wrong." She paused for a while. "Finn, you're taken out from the mission. Captain banana guard will command the troops. You're staying here for some examination."

"What?!" Exclaimed Finn, shocked to hear her that he was going to stay "I have t be with my men, they need me!"

"Finn, this is an order." She crossed her arms.

Finn didn't say anything for a minute, as he was in shock. His white eyes looked at the ground and finally say

"yes my lady... w...where will be staying? In my room?"

"Yes.. I'm just running a few tests on you! It's not like i'm going to imprison you or anything. Don't worry!" said the Queen, walking to the table to get her things

Finn nodded and bit his lip, only then did he truly realized how much his teeth hurt! He winced and muttered something about his teeth. He reached up and tapped one of his front tooth, it felt loose and painful

"Finn!" The queen shouted and walked over to him. "What's wrong? Are you okay?"

"My teeth!" Said Finn, he can taste blood. Without thinking, he grabbed a tooth and pulled. The tooth he grabbed popped out of his mouth. Finn looked at the tooth in his hand then at the queen then at the tooth again, the poor human paled and looked like he was about to faint.

"Finn!" She screamed. "Why'd you do that?! What the flip, finn?! You just pulled your teeth out!?" She was so confused right now..

"They just hurt so much!" Finn said, rubbing his cheek as he stared at the tooth in his hand. There was no more pain in the spot where the tooth he pull out, though Finn can feel the others throbbing. He kept his mouth slightly open so there was nothing touching his teeth.

"Well if you pull them out that's not going to make it better!" She shouted. "Human teeth don't grow back like sharks!"

Finn started to feel the tooth socket/hole with his tongue as he stared at the tooth.

The tooth in question looked pretty healthy, Finn usually take great care of his teeth.

Finn pause as he felt something sharp in the place where tooth is.

"yea... they.. don't grow back..." Muttered Finn to himself. He turned his gaze at the queen. "What's happening to me?"

"That's what i want to know too.." She walked towards the door. "Come with me to the lab."

Finn nodded and followed the queen out of the dining room. So far, this diner party plan of his turned out to be one big flop and more.

"Don't pull out any more teeth. If it hurts a lot, i'll see if it's safe to give you a pain reliever."

"All right..." Said Finn, walking beside the queen. He was silent for a few minutes, staring at the ground and was deep in thought.

Finally Finn looked up from the ground and asked the candy queen "I don't want my men worrying about me... Just... tell them that I stayed behind to gather information from the general."

"Alright. That will do…" She said, opening the door to her lab. "Have a seat."

Finn walked into the room and sat down the chair the queen pointed to. He placed his hands into his lap and tried not to think about his teeth, as he has a great urge to pull all of them out.

"Just relax." She said, putting a device over his head. "Lay back and you can fall asleep if you want to.." Within minutes she's got a bunch of chords and sciencey looking stuff all over him.

Finn laid back in his chair, making himself comfortable. He closed his eyes and his mind began to drift off.

As the princess continued her tests on him, the dream slowly crawled back to finn's mind.

The little child was back.

Finn's dream self was sitting in the snow, wearing a crown on his head and gold thread around his neck. He never realized how beautiful the snow and ice is. He turned to look at the child.

"You're awake, mister finn! How does it feel to be a king?" He smiled.

"King?" Asked Finn, sitting up a little more. He wasn't aware that he was royalty. "I don't feel like a king..."

"You're a king, mister finn!" He smiled. "A king of ice and snow!"

"Am I now?" Asked Finn, rubbing his neck. He wasn't all that aware of the golden thread around his neck.

"You've got a crown on!" The child giggled. "We can finally play—!"

"I guess so..." Said Finn, "How do we, uh, play this game?"

"You move the snow without touching it!" The little child grinned. "Come on, you can do this!"

"How?" Asked Finn, smiling as he was finding that kind of funny. He did not believed what the child said. He was a man of science and the thought of him doing magic made him laugh.

"I dunno. You just kinda.. Think about it."

Finn snorted then he looked down at the snow all around him. His mind because to drift as the adventurer forced on a pile of snow.

"Can I really control all things snow and ice?"

"Yeah! Just focus—"

Finn stared at the pile of snow, there was an odd sense of power in him the longer he thought about control ice and snow. A sense of power he felt familiar to, like he done this before.

He tilted his head to one side as the snow began to move and form a shape.

"That's good! Keep going! Ooh ooh, make a snowman!" The child jumped up and down for joy.

Finn huffed at the child's voice and somehow make a snowman without moving from where he sat.

"Well, you're right about me controlling snow..." Muttered Finn.

"Yay! You can do this now! Try making them move more! Make something complicated!" The child clapped his hands with a huge grin.

Finn made the snowman move to his left side and Looked around at the snowy field. Even though the place was beautiful, it needed something. Something big and impressive.

Finn thought about it, if he was a king he needs a castle. He thought about it, planned it out and started to get to it.

The first tips of the icy castle began to appear from the ground.

The castle continue to raise up from the ground. it looked much like a mountain only it's made up of ice and snow.

Once the castle finished forming, Finn got up from where he sat and walked towards the castle.

"Explore inside!" The little child followed and they did.

The castle was indeed very pretty inside. The ice and snow glittered in the light. The castle had everything a person needs to live in it, bedrooms, bathrooms, wreck rooms, dining rooms, a lab, library, and other things.

"You did great, mister! You can be a real king now!" The kid smiled and started shaking finn's hands. "Ice king finn! How does that sound?"

Finn thought about the titled for a minute.

"That... sounds all right..." He muttered, trotting in the throne room.

"See see?! Being king is awesome, you'll see!" He laughed and spun around.

Finn watched the child, he started to get used to him. Finn turned his gaze to the throne, his throne.

Finn's feet moved at the words of the strange child. When Finn made it to the fancy chair, He touched one of the throne's chairs feeling how smooth it was. He turned and sat down in the throne, it was surprisingly comfortable!

"Behold the king finn!" The child shouted happily.

Finn didn't know how to react to this. He was a general and a adventure, not a king! He watched the child dance happily, milling over his thoughts as he did so. There was a nagging sensation in the back of his mind, a little voice he couldn't make out. A voice that wanted him to... wake?

The little kid started to sing the secrets of ice and snow. His singing, with the sound of the calls, ringed in his ears. Finn listened to the child and closed his eyes. The nagging feeling grew stronger by the second.

He opened his eyes and saw the face of the queen.

"Finn? Finn, wake up! Finn-" the candy queen shook him lightly.

"wha...?"

"Wake up, finn!" She said, almost slapping him. Her hand stopped midway when she noticed his eyes were open.

"You're awake." She said, standing up straight. "How do you feel?"

"A little warm..." Said Finn sitting up, taking off his jacket so he was wearing only a shirt. "So, got anything from your testing?"

"Um.. Yeah." She blushed a bit and walked over to the machine. "Lemme just get the paper stuff sorted out.."

Finn wondered why the queen was blushing, was it his shirt? He'll think about that later, right now he needed to know what's wrong with him.

Finn followed the queen to machine and watch her work.

She scribbled on her paper and read through the results carefully. "Hm.."

"What is it?" Asked Finn then rubbed his tongue on a sore tooth. He really wanted that thing out and feel the relief of getting rid of the painful tooth.

" well.. Um.. It's not looking good." She glanced at him. "Stop that. Leave your teeth alone."

Finn stopped licking his teeth at the queen's words. As must as he wanted to continue, he has to obey.

"What's wrong with me?" Asked Finn, unsure if he wanted to know.

"Your body temperature is dropping, there has been some odd developments going on. and— would you stop licking your teeth." She said, slightly irritated.

"I wasn't licking my teeth!" lied Finn, holding up his hands. He thought about what the queen told him.

"H-how did this all started out?" Asked the general

She looked to the floor and let out a sigh. It's time she told him..

"Do you remember the crown?" She looked into his eyes.

Finn huffed as he thought. He thought long and hard, was it something to do with his past? He couldn't remember a crown in his childhood.

"No." Said Finn flatly.

"This is related to your childhood.. You were found as a kid. A crazy kid who claimed himself as a prince."

Finn crossed his arms and listened to the queen, trying to process what is being told to him. The queen was not one to lie...

Was he really insane in his childhood?

"Long story short you ended up attacking the kingdom and i somehow got the crown half destroyed and locked away."

Finn looked at the ground as she finished the story of his past. He can hardly believe it! But... he knew it was true, it would explain the voices and that child talking to him like it knew him.

"How... how come I don't remember all of that...?" Finn finally asked.

"You don't remember because that damn crown does stuff to your mind." She grumbled. "It drives a person crazy.."

"I see..." Asked Finn. He was silent again, thinking. This was a lot to take in, plus most likely becoming insane wielder of ice magic in a kingdom of science crushes his chances of forming a relationship with the queen which only made him depressed.

"I'm sorry about all this stuff." She pat him on the back a few times to comfort him.

Finn stayed silent for another minute.

"Is... there any way to stop... whatever is happening?" He finally asked.

There was a little bit of a pause. "I'm…i don't know."

Finn rubbing his hand and tottered back to the chair. He sat down and buried his face into his hands, his whole world is disappearing as he know it and worse of them all he can't have relationship with the queen.

There was a long silence before the queen spoke again. "I'll figure this out… And i need your help too if you want to make it out of this."

Finn nodded.

"Of course I'll help you to stop whatever is happening." Said Finn

"I need you to stay strong." She walked over to him and looked him in the eyes. "We're going to get through this. together. I'll help you… Stay strong for me."

Finn looked into the queens gentle face and he felt warm inside his freezing body.

"I will..." Said Finn, sitting up a little more.

She gave him a hug. "Be strong.. Stay strong for me. For the kingdom.."

Finn was surprised the queen hugged him. The only other time he could remember her hugging him was when she was a princess. He slowly wrapped his arms around her and closed his eyes, enjoying the short moments of time he can spend with her in a sane state of mine.

"I will be strong." Said Finn, for the first time that that he can remember Finn felt afraid. Afraid for the people of the candy kingdom

Afraid for the safety for his beloved queen

"I believe in you." She whispered, letting him go. Finn let the queen go and watched her clean up the lab a little. He just sat in his chair and took the odd helmet off then looked it over. He can still smell the sweetness of the queen's candy hair and felt the warmth around his body, he wished he can hold he forever and nothing will happen to them.

'I'm getting all emotional...' thought Finn

She slammed her hands on the desk in the middle of the cleaning. "I almost forgot! We need to get information outta that guy."

Finn jumped when the queen slammed her hands on the deck.

"What... what guy?" Asked Finn, placing the helmet down.

"The wizard guy! Come on, let's go get him." She said, rushing to the door.

"Come on- we need to bring him Back here."

"That shouldn't be a problem Queebles." Said Finn, carefully running down the stairs and soon he can see the magic proof cell that held the magical general

"Well, if it isn't the all- powerful leader of the magic side." The queen mocked him.

"Shut up! I'll magic- strangle you when I get out of here!" He shouted.

Finn folded his hands behind his back and watched the two talk in silence. The queen can have her fun in mocking him, just venting out stress and all. He just needed to make sure the queen was safe and the wizard locked up.

The two shouted at each other for a good twenty minutes until the queen got mad and asked finn to get her magic proof rope.

"I'll beat your butt up and tie you up!" She shouted to the wizard.

Finn tried not to laugh at all of his, he finding all of this kind of funny. Finn obeyed and went to the locket next the cell that held the magic proof ropes.

"Put him asleep so he wont struggle." Said Finn, getting the rope ready

"I'll punch his ugly buttface asleep!" She yelled, walking into the cell. The wizard tried to put her to sleep after a bit of a struggle, but the magic in the magic proof cell filled the whole thing and both the queen and the wizard ended up falling asleep.

Finn facepalmed as he saw the two fall asleep from the silver gas. He waited for the gas to clean then proceeded to untie the wizard from his chair and retie him with the rope. Then the general picked up the queen and made sure she was hanging comfortably on his shoulder and tucked the wizard under his arm.

Carrying the two was a job to do but Finn someone gotten both of them into the labs. Finn dropped the wizard into the chair he was sitting in earlier, made sure he will stay put if he was the first to say, and finally sat down in a different chair with the queen in his lap and his sword draw.

All that's left to do is wait for them to wake up.