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Chapter 6 What time is it?

Tears no longer clouded her eyes as a new found anger welled up inside her chest. Had anyone approached her two days earlier and told her what the future held for her, she would have laughed at them and destroyed them on the spot. Being seen in a dress? Bubblegum naming her as the woman she would have as her Queen? The kiss? Kisses? Never in her dizziest day dreams would she have accepted their words as the truth. Yet, here she found herself. Emotionally torn, pissed beyond all reason, and on a journey to fix a problem she knew nothing about.

If it hadn't been for her sheer hate of a whining voice, she would have never noticed that she was being pursued by Finn and Jake.

"Marce! MARCY! HEY! MAR! Marceline! MARMAR! MAAAAAAAAAARCELINE!HEY! Hey."

Finn was standing on Jake's back waving his arms desperately trying to get her attention. Slowing to a stop, she waited for them to catch up.

"Look Finn, I don't have time to deal with you right now. I have to find out what potion Bonni took so I can figure out an antidote. So, unless you know something, bug off and go adventure bother someone else."

Finn rubbed his chin and looked serious. Pacing back and forth on Jake's back he did his best to impersonate a great detective.

"I see. I see what you are saying, yes. An antidote. An antidote to a potion you say. A potion that PB took. A potion that you mean to cure. A potion that you need to know how to make. An antidote that can only be found in a book. An antidote potion for…" before he could finish Marceline covered his mouth and glared at him.

"Seriously Finn I don't have the time for this." Marceline rose up further into the air and started to leave, suddenly she froze and looked at Finn raising an eyebrow. "Finn, did you say an antidote that could only be found in a book? I never mentioned a book."

Pulling a book from out of his back he posed with it.

"Da da da daaaaaaaa I present to you the book of PB's potionness. She wacked me over the head to make away with my eye water."

"They are called tears man." Jake interrupted.

"A brave warrior like me sheds no tears, just eye water. And she took them from me, so I took this book to see what the Princess was working on this time. She does some wacked out junk in her science dungeon."

Taking the book from Finn she hugged him close and kissed his cheek.

"I could almost say I love you for taking this book… now let us see." Marceline settled on Jake's back and started to flip through the book.

Finn blushed and scratched the back of his neck.

"Shucks Marce, I am glad…"

"Shhh! Not now! Reading."

Flying to the farther end of Jake, Marceline continued to read leaving Finn to stutter through his words alone.

"Courage, courage, courage. Here we go. It says ' Ingredients needed: The blood of a lion, Clippings from a sharp tongued figure and the tears of a brave man. The Lion's blood should be heated over…' Gah, I don't need to know how to make it. How to cure it is what I need."

Skimming down the page Marceline gasped as she read a warning that was located at the very bottom. It looked as though someone a long time ago wrote a warning about the potion.

'The ingredients to this potion are meant to be followed to the letter. Under no circumstance should any of the items be substituted for anything else. To reverse the potion (if made correctly) all one would have to do is get the individual who ingested to potion to take a bubble bath while eating lime jello cubes. Though the remedy for the correct potion is easy, if the potion created and ingested was made incorrectly the remedy is not so easy. You can choose to wait it out and hope the potion will end itself ( this can take a matter of days or a matter of years…..decades in a few documented cases), or you can choose to travel to the 'Cliffs of Eeeeek and Crag' and attempted to face the horrors of the creatures that live there in the hopes of locating 'the flower of Amazement.' Seeing as this flower is difficult to obtain, the possible decade wait is much safer and advised'

Slamming the book shut Marceline started hitting her head off of it.

"A decade? A flipping decade? Bonni like that for a decade? Arrrrrg."

"Pfffft come on Marce. Why wait a decade!? Adventure waits for no man! So I guess that includes Vampires or dogs too. 'Cliffs of Eeeeek and crag'? More like 'Cliffs of Lame and' um 'sag'? Yeah, 'lame and sag'. Lets do this this Marceline. Do you know what time it is?" Finn put out his fist and gave her a large toothy grin

Marceline looked at the young boy and she couldn't help but to smile. She could tell he was trying his best to cheer her up. Though he was young, he was a seasoned adventurer. And getting a bit farther away from the Candy Kingdom and Bonni seemed like it was for the best for now. Bumping her fist against his she allowed herself to Laugh and nod.

"It's Adventure Time."

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Leaning against her bedroom window the Princess watched her people milling around below. Many of them had heard she was taking on a partner, not all knew who it was though. She wanted to shout to the heavens and let everyone know from one corner of Ooo to the other that she had found her queen. Closing her eyes, Bubblegum traced the outline of the Marceline's blushing face still burned in her mind. She was going to remember that look forever, and very much looked forward to seeing it, and causing it again. A knock at the door brought her attention back to the present moment. Sighing she pushed away from her window to answer her door. Suddenly a shock ran down her spine causing her to fall to her knees. Bubblegum tried to stand, but when she did the pain rocked through her body once more. She tried to call out to whoever was at her door, she however found she was unable to speak. With the last of her energy she tried to inch closer to the door. In the moment before darkness took her, she could only think of one thing.

Marceline.