Ch3

As she was coming, downstairs the phone rang. Fionna quickly dashed and picked it up; it was most like ly Cake. She took the phone to the kitchen were she privately talked to Cake, couldn't let her find out there was a baby in the house. "Hello?" Fionna asked trying to keep her voice as guilt-free as possible.

"Hey, baby." Cake said, stomping could be heard behind her. Cake giggled, as she understood a joke. "Baby, sorry I forgot to call. I got entertained with some stuff over here. But is everything okay?"

"Uh…yeah. Its fine, last night Marshall Lee came over and he played a lullaby. I was out like a light." Fionna said. Well, that was true.

"Oh that nice sweetness. What are you doing today? If you're too bored I can come home early." Cake said

"No!" She laughed nervously "I mean, no. I'll be fine. I'm planning to go over to Marshall's house and do junk. We're going adventuring." Well that was true too.

"Ohhhh." Cake implied "Don't have too much fun." She laughed

"Cake, what are-" And then she got it, her face turning tomato red. "What? Cake no!" She sighed, "We're just-"

Stomping interrupted Fionna "Oh, I better go baby. We're going shopping." Cake sounded so gleeful it made Fionna glad she hadn't interrupted her vacation.

"Okay." She sighed happily "Have fun."

"You too. I'll call you later." Cake said

"Actually Cake, I'll call you." Fionna said "In case I end up camping out somewhere with Marsh. I don't want you to worry."

"Okay. Have fun baby." Cake said and the phone line went flat.

"That…was hard." Fionna sighed as she came back down the stairs.

Fionna, Marshall, and baby Scott headed out the front door of the tree fort towards Marshall Lee's cave house in hopes of finding some clues as to where Scott's mother went. "Alright Marshall, show me exactly where you found Scott." She said gesturing to the font of his house. Marshall flew over to his front porch and pointed directly down in front of his door.

"This is where I found him, which is weird that the mom disappeared so fast since I was in my living room playing my axe bass."

"Hmmm..." Fionna rubbed her chin and examined the area, and then an idea popped into her head "Alright what if we recreate the scene!"

"Wha?" Marshall asked not following

"Look I pretend to put Scott on the porch and ring the bell and see how fast I can run before you open the door." She said as she handed him the baby

"Wait what you are doing!" He asked pushing the baby back into her arms

Fionna looked at him "Well we just can't leave him out here take him inside and put him on the couch while we set up!"

So Marshall did as he was told, he closed his front door place Scott on the couch and waited for Fionna to ring the bell. Shortly after Marshall had put Scott on the couch had the bell rang and Marshall floated casually to the door, opening it he saw Fionna trying to run away as fast as she could, they tried this five more times, each time Marshall could see Fionna running. She tried to hide on the side of the house or underneath the porch but that theory was put down since Marshall could smell her wherever she hid "Wait, each time I hide you said you could smell me right?"

"Yeah, why?" Marshall Lee asked. Fionna went deep into thought how could the mother have gotten away so fast as to not have her scent picked up by Marshall. She walked over to the little pond of water near the porch, and then it hit her!

"Lets try this one more time!" She said with a smile on her face

"Are you sure?" He said looking a bit bored

"Trust me I think I figured it out!" She said still beaming with enthusiasm

"Alright..." He mumbled as he floated back inside

Marshall heard the doorbell ring and opened the door "Alright, Fi I see-... where'd you go?" It was odd he couldn't see or pick up her scent at all. It was as if she just vanished into thin air, he floated around the house and even looked under the porch "Alright Fi, where did you go?" Finally, he heard a splash from the pond and looked over to see Fionna take in a huge breath of air

"Figured it out!" Fionna yelled and walked back to his porch wringing her bunny ears of the water.

"Alright so we know how she evaded me, but now where did she go?" he asked

"When I was down there I found this!" She held up a small dagger

"It's just a dagger..." Marshall said nonchalantly
"Yes... but look it's a goblin dagger!" She replied, "It's our first clue."

"Awesome Fi!" He said as he took the dagger and looked it over more

Something wasn't sitting right with Fionna; they found the first solid clue to finding Scott's... SCOTT! Alarms went off in her head this entire time neither one of them had heard a peep out of the baby! Fionna grabbed Marshall's shirt collar "Marshall LEE! WHERE'S THE BABY!" She asked literally yelling in his face; Marshall's face was completely blank since the last time he saw the baby was when they started... an hour ago on the couch where he put him.

"Uh." Was all Marshall said as he and Fionna bolted inside the house.

"He's not here!" She yelled starting to panic "Where is he? WHERE IS HE?"

"I DON'T KNOW! Wait I got it!" Marshall took a deep breath and smelled the air for the baby "The scent is strong he has to be close!" Fionna was freaking out as she flipped over the coffee table looking for Scott. That's when the both heard the baby cooing in the kitchen. Fionna jumped through the little window and rolled onto the floor, there she saw Scott playing with Schwalb.

"You almost gave me a heart attack!" She yelled at the baby who only cocked his head to the side and smiled petting the zombie cat.

"He's playing with Schwalb… See he's fine." Marshall Lee smirked

"Okay… yeah." She smiled "Let's get back to finding his mother…" She said walking over to his table and sitting on one of the chairs. "We should go to the goblin Kingdome. The insignia on the dagger is familiar. I'm sure we can find out more there."

Marshall looked back at Scott who pulled on his cat's tail "As long as we take him back soon." He said picking the baby up before; Schwalb had the chance to scratch at him. "Who ever made up the saying babies are little bundles of joy, was drinking from the elder toad's juice." Marshall Lee said as Scott pulled his hair playfully.

Fionna laughed lightly taking the baby from his hands "Marshy doesn't like it when you play with his hair." Fionna said as she smiled at Scott. Her curiosity was eating at her…but she couldn't handle the answer.

"We're gonna have a talk about that 'Marshy' thing." Marshall Lee smirked as he floated to get his bass, Fionna and Scott in tow.

"You didn't say anything before." Fionna mused, feigning interest in poking the giggling child.

"Because you were being a bad-ass and yelling at Gum wad." Marshall Lee defended as he opened the door waiting for her to exit first.

"Uh-huh….yeah, yeah." Fionna rolled her eyes and exited the house walking towards the cave entrance.

"Yeah, yeah." Marshall Lee mocked her voice grabbing his umbrella.

A/N

From Fioleefan: Thank you for all the reviews you guys rock! Sorry it took a while to update, see what had happen was…writers block mixed with laziness. Forgive me. Anywhoo… work for the next chappie will commence… soon.