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HEY YOU GUYSSS! I am SOOOOO sorry for making you wait so long! I've had tests that I needed to study. Young readers take this as a note! College is no joke, they make you do exams with in three weeks of going to class. ANYWAY, here is chapter 7! FictionLover12 made a great suggestion of putting LSP in here. Funny thing is I was thinking of putting her in this one anyway! You guys must be reading my mind or something! I hope you don't already know what the end will be.
"Here's a fortune cookie... open it"
"You see what the note says? No? Give it to me."
"It says 'A crazy surprise is in your near future.'"
What could it be? Well read on and you'll find out
This is Chapter 7
Princess Bubblegum awoke and stretched as bright sun rays broke through her pink curtains. She glanced over at the bedside clock which glowed a green 10:00 am. Surprised at how late she'd slept, she looked around slightly panicked. Her and Finn's clothes had messily arrayed her floor. She then smiled to herself and leisurely gazed at Finn, who still slumbered peacefully beside her. Temptation teased at her mind, as she thought of cuddling up into Finn and laying with him for a few more hours but she resisted. Peppermint Butler would come in to check and make sure she was okay soon. Shee couldn't risk him seeing her and Finn in this state. At that, she quickly got up, took a hurried shower and wrapped a towel around herself. She gently woke up Finn
"Fiiiiiinn… wake up. Wake up Finn." He groggily arose. He stared blankly at PB, until his eyes finally focused and he realized it was her. "Oh, hey Princess" he sleepily smiled. At the sight of his smile, PB was overcome with childish glee, unable to control herself; she pecked his lips abruptly and couldn't help but goofily smiling afterwards.
"Finn, I know you just woke up, but I will need you to depart to your room now. I will explain later in the lab, if you wouldn't mind meeting me there in a half hour." PB said after a few moments.
Finn absently scratched his head "Of course I wouldn't mind, Peebles." He quickly put on his shorts. PB happily nodded as she followed Finn to her bedroom's door. Letting him out into the hall, PB gazed at him contentedly, and he her. She looked to the left and right in the hall, stepped out of her door frame and hugged Finn with all she could. He returned the embrace and as they released a short kiss was shared. Finn began walking away as he pointed at her and said "I'll see YOU in a little bit."
PB smiled and nodded as she ventured back into her room. She ravaged through her closet looking for the best outfit she could wear. "I don't wanna be too dressed up, that would just be a waste." She said as she held a sparkly dress in front of her. She put it back. She took a look at her just hanging out outfits. She decided to wear her yellow Lady Rainicorn shirt with her white shorts and red sandals. As she began to walk out of her closet, she heard a loud crash….
"Hi"
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Though Finn had been walking back to his room, he felt he had been floating. "I finally got her." He smiled to himself as he entered his room. He went into his bathroom and stared at his reflection. He laughed happily knowing that the smile was just the tip of the iceberg of what he had felt at that moment. He hopped in the shower. Calmed by the hot water and steam, he felt as if he could stay in there forever, but then he heard a loud thud from upstairs. "Peebles's room...!" he thought as he turned off the water. He listened for voices. They were somewhat muffled but he could still understand what was said. He knew one was Princess Bubblegum.
"What is your purpose for coming here?" PB questioned angrily.
"You know exactly my purpose for coming here, Candyface. Come now, don't be so difficult." another voice sweetly stated as a slight shuffle of feet followed. Whoever it was must have moved closer to Peebles, Finn thought.
"No. Stay back, I am pretty adept at hand-to-hand combat and I am not in the slightest afraid to use it against you." PB warned.
The other voice scoffed " Oh really?! Well what if I do this? OR THIS?!"
"AHH!" PB yowled. Finn had heard enough, he quickly put on his clothes and ran up to the floor above him. As he burst through the door, he had the displeasure of seeing the back of a hunched over man in a blue tunic with an ice-cuffed PB wrapped in his arms flying away. PB looked back at Finn and screamed "FINNNNNNN!"
Ice King laughed gleefully "Ha I already made sure he wasn't here. I swung by Finn and Jake's house before I got here and Jake told me, Finn was out fighting a monster, probably won't be back for a week. NOW WE CAN FINALLY GET MARRY, ISN'T THAT EXCITING!"
"NOOOO! FINNN!" PB pleaded. Finn's face hardened and he curtly nodded.
"Hahaha, he can't hear you. Now quit your screaming, sweetie. We're going to OUR home". Finn continued to watch until he could no longer see them. Then he rushed over to the Tree House. Jake greeted him "Hey man,…. wait why do you look so angry? Why are you all sweaty?" It took Finn a couple of seconds to catch his breath "Ice...King….P..P..PB."
"What?" Jake said confused.
Finn swallowed and took a deep breath "Ice King kidnapped Bubblegum…. again"
"Aww, c'mon man, you know he does that on a weekly basis. Nothing to get bent out of shape about." Jake said coolly. Finn shook his head "No. It's different now."
Jake raised an eyebrow "What makes it different?" Finn nervously replied "Uhh…..just…ummmm...Stuff"
"What kind of stuff?" Jake asked again. "just stuff that changes other stuff." Finn replied, not willing to elaborate what he meant. "Are you going to help me or not?"
"Of course, dude." Jake sighed, letting the previous subject drop. They packed up all they would need and headed off to the Ice Kingdom.
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They slowed down as they grew closer to Ice King's lair. Finn attached suction cups to his hands and feet and began scaling the ice mountain. He reached Ice King's window and peered inside. Ice King had kidnapped more princesses than just Bubblegum. Finn saw Slime Princess, Turtle Princess, Lumpy-Space Princess, Wildberry Princess and Engagement Ring Princess all in cages. Ice King started talking
"I thought it would be nice to have a little engagement/housewarming party of our new home together, sweetie, so I brought some of your friends to celebrate with us. Wasn't that nice of me? I'm already spoiling you see, and we aren't even married yet." he said sweetly. Finn grimaced. PB remained silent as Ice King put her down. She looked around apologetically at her friends, knowing that even if she didn't put them in those cages, it was partly her fault they were in them. As both Ice King and PB stared at the room, the two in completely different mixes of feelings, awkwardness grew. Ice King quickly said " I will go put some music on and get out some snacks and more fun things. Don't miss me too much, darling." He shuffled over to his back room. Finn took this moment to creep into the room, trying his best to remain unseen by everyone except Princess Bubblegum. PB saw him but quickly looked away so she wouldn't draw any attention to him. She asked LSP "How long have you guys been here?"
"GUUUUURRRRRRRLLLL, Ice King just came up into my lumpin camp, and just like kidnapped me, like it was NOBODY'S BUSINESS. Surprised the lumps off me. Happened like a week ago." PB nodded sadly and turned to Slime Princess "Has he been hospitable to you?"
"As hospitable as he usually is when he kidnaps us. If we do or say anything that he doesn't like or want, he threatens us with his ice powers. " Slime Princess answered. PB closed her eyes, somewhat guilty, and said "I'm so sorry you guys. He's doing this because of me."
All of the caged princesses simultaneously replied "No, it's not"
Wildberry Princess followed "It's not your fault he kidnapped us. You're the reason he did, but it's not your fault your made like that." The other princesses nodded in agreement. PB felt so relieved that they weren't mad at her, she felt her eyes brimming with tears but she held them back. "No time for being sensitive. You gotta help get your friends out those cages." PB thought to herself. Just then Finn jumped out from a pile of junk on the floor. All the princesses screamed except for PB. LSP shrieked "WHO IS THAT? He's lumpin hot!" PB tried to calm them down "Ladies, Ladies. It's okay. This is just Fi…" she paused as Finn shook his head. She became confused but continued "Anyway, he's going to help me get you guys out. We have to do this quickly, because Ice King will be out any moment." The other princesses went silent as Finn broke PB out of her cuffs and the two unlocked all of their cages. PB lead them all out to Jake who had stretch into a tall raft like structure so he could carry them all. Finn stayed back, so then Ice King could have a talk with his fists. Ice King came out with a variety of things "Sorry for long wait princesses, I was trying to find to find more fun stuff but I…."
As he noticed Finn, he dropped everything he carried in his arms. He knew that face. He was brought back to a place in his mind that he hadn't been in a while. A suited man had greeted him warmly " Hello Simon. How have you been?"
Another vision showed him being in this suited man's basement full of inventions. "Wow these are very universal inventions Arlen. Many people could use these."
"Yeah but this is going to be my bread and butter Simon. The time machine. As soon as it's done, this city will be able to reach marvelous lengths." Arlen said as wiped sweat off of his forehead. He had been working on his biggest invention for a few hours now. "You really think it's going to work? What if it ends up being a portal system to another dimension?" Simon questioned. "Well if it is, then I will look for a time dimension and connect it to this time machine to enable this machine to view different times. Don't worry, my dear friend, it will work. I will find a way." Arlen reassured. "Well, to change the subject, how are your brother and his wife? Due date for Finn's arrival is coming up pretty close." Simon asked out curiousity. "Oh, yes, I am going to be an uncle fairly soon. They are doing well. Fionna especially." "Its amazing how much I used to be in love with Fionna. But as soon as I saw Betty, and she made me forget all about Fionna." Simon thought, then he said "That's really good." More memories flew by. Ice King was brought back to the present. Finn was staring at him while he was in his daze. Ice King snapped back, as he noticed all of his captured princesses were gone "WHERE ARE ALL MY PRINCESSES? WHO ARE YOU?"
Finn replied as he ran towards him "YOUR WORST NIGHTMARE!" He kicked him in the gut, then uppercutted his chin. As Ice King flew backwards, he hit the wall; slumping against it, knocking off his crown. Finn crouched down, yanking a fistful of Ice King's hair, bringing up his face to make him look at Finn. Ice King tried his best break free from the familiar fiery blue eyes of the young human, but his efforts were futile. Finn growled " If you ever try to kidnap Princess Bubblegum again, you'll be in much more of a situation than just a jacked up stomach, sore chin and a lump on the cranium." Finn let go of Ice King's head roughly as he then walked over to and jumped out of the window, onto raft Jake, leaving Ice King in a daze until he succumbed to his head injury, falling unconscious.
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Finn and PB returned to the Candy Kingdom after safely returning all of the respective princesses to their homes which was a little hard with LSP.
"NOOOOO, I want the hawt hawt guy, to check out my lumps! You see these lumps, hawt guy?!" LSP hollered as she posed to Finn differently every few seconds. Finn looked away, slightly embarrassed and squeamish. "You want these lumps, don't you? Don't deny it. I'm smokin. We should like go back to my camp and hang. Right, hawt guy?" LSP eagerly asked.
"Oh no, LSP, 'hawt guy' here has to continue helping me with an experiment we have been conducting." PB said trying her best to save Finn. LSP replied angrily "UH, PB, you can't trick me, you just want him all to yourself." PB blushed furiously "Ahh, noooooooo."
LSP uncaringly said "Whatever. Hawt guy probably would want to come hang out with me at my camp instead of doing stupid science. Right, hawt guy?" Finn replied slightly uneasy "Actually, Princess Bubblegum and I should finish the experiment. Maybe another time?"
LSP whines "AWWWWWWWW!...Okay hawt guy, next time. I wait for you as long as you need me to." She floated into the woods, back to her camp.
Jake went back to Lady's, knowing that after what he and Marceline saw yesterday, Finn and PB should be alone. Finn sighed as he and PB sauntered back into the castle. "I'm gonna go rest for little while. Beating up Ice King took a lot out of me." He trudged up to his room, exhaustively opening the door and passing out on the bed. PB followed him, very concerned "How far did you take it, Finn? What did you do to him?"
"All I did was power kick him in the stomach and uppercut his face. He hit the wall and then I grabbed his hair, told him to leave you alone and left." Finn replied as he sat up. PB started to think "That isn't too much strenuous activity. He shouldn't be tired at all, not even a little bit. But wait…"
"Finn, how angry were you?" PB asked.
"Well, uhhh, I don't know, really angry." Finn scratched his head.
"On a scale of 1-100?" PB said as she took a seat next to him on the bed.
Finn replied quickly "95."
PB sighed "95."
"Is something wrong with that?" Finn questioned sheepishly
PB stammered "Well… yes. Something is very wrong with that." Finn fell silent, letting his head slightly bow. PB noticed and quickly replied " No, no, no. Its not that I don't appreciate you being concerned for my safety, but you endangered yours. I should have told you this when I told you, you can't be involved with physically strenuous activity. You also can't be involved with too emotionally negative strenuous activity. The brain is a crazy muscle, Finn. When you get emotional negatively, the brain sends out messages to your body that fires up your systems to send out a chemical called cortisol and this makes you use some of your energy sources. How much cortisol is release depends on the intensity of the emotion. If the emotion your feeling is really intense, you will produce a lot of cortisol, meaning you'll burn up some of your energy. If its not too bad, then you won't produce a lot. You burned some of your resources, a little too much." She stroked his face. "You should be fine by tomorrow. Just try to keep you bad emotions leveled so it doesn't happen again."
She pecked his cheek, nestling her head on to his shoulder in an effort to make him feel better. Finn wrapped his arms around her and then pulled her down with him to lie on the bed. The couple remained in that position, so comfortable, neither wanting to leave, they soon fell asleep.
A/N: Did you like it? Ice King, Finn. SHAMOWZOW! And Finn bein all protective of Princess Bubblegum, soooo sweet. Had to put in that little hero saves fair maiden maneuver in there. Its classic of a story and the dynamic that is Finn and PB's. LSP lol... just lol.
The end is coming up soon! But I'm writing a sequel so don't you worry.
No hints for next chapter! Not that I don't have any, but I would like you guys to guess! Who will make an appearance? What history will be revealed? Who does that history involve?
I know you guys are mad at me for not updating sooner, so for this next chapter, I will try my best to have up here in 10 days, but no promises.
Until the next,
Spazzy
