"Hello?" Finn called out. "Anyone there?" Silence. He struggled to sit up. He could hear the storm raging against the castle still, despite there not being any windows in this room. Finn looked around the room. He was still in the infirmary, the white walls bright enough to blind. He always hated this room. But it seemed somehow different. There wasn't as much science-y things in here as he remembered, and he certainly knew of no "Prince Gumball." He thought he would know if PB had a brother. Or boyfriend.
Then it hit him. "This world must be just like mine, but with different people!" He started to get up, to look for evidence. As his feet hit the floor, pain shot up his leg. "Argh! Oh, yeah, that." He looked around and found a large candy cane leaning on the table by his stuff. It had a note on it. "For Human-Boy." He grabbed and supported himself with it. Then he grabbed his backpack and sword.
Using the make-shift walking stick, he headed out the double doors. He saw a few candy people walking through the hallways. Many of them reminded him of people he knew from his world. "I was right!" He whispered under his breathe. Several gave him weird looks, and he realized he must have seemed strange. They only people like him were the hyoomans, who tried to eat all the candy people, and...
That other human. Fionna was her name? "I've got to find her. If there's even the slightest chance..." He left the sentence hanging. He shambled down the rest of the halls until he was finally outside. He could see the sun ending it's set, and the darkness falling in it's wake. As he stepped out, the cold hit him, and almost instantly he started shaking. One of the banana guards looked him over.
"You might need a coat." She walked away, and came back a second later with a thin hoodie. "Sorry, this is all they had. We normally don't need gear for the cold."
Finn nodded his thanks, and dawned the black hoodie, then, leaning on his walking-candy-cane, shambled off. If this girl was his counterpart in this world, maybe she lived in the same tree house.
The wind blew hard, making it difficult to walk, but luckily it wasn't raining, for now. He made it to the city gates with little hardship, but once through, it started drizzling. He walked the pathway he would normally take to go home, and noticed, with pleasure, that the forests and landmarks he knew were still there. Suddenly, something caught his eye. A long black line streaked across the sky, heading straight for the candy kingdom.
"What the flip?" Instincts kicked in. Even though it wasn't HIS Candy Kingdom, he felt the need to protect it. He picked up a nearby medium sized rock, the size of his fist, and waited until the thing was nearing him. Taking aim, he lunged the rock as hard as possible, and watched as it hit it's mark. The creature took a sharp dive, and Finn dodged out of the way as the thing landed right where he'd been standing.
"AAAAAH!" He let out a short scream as he landed on his bad leg. He scolded himself for showing weakness on the battle field. Scrambling up, he ignored the pain in his leg. It was mostly gone, and he knew it was fine to walk on, as long as it wasn't hit too hard.
He looked at the large black thing. It was laying on it's side, and there were some dark shapes near it, hunched over it's form. It was still breathing, and after a second got back up. All he could see were silhouettes of the creatures in the now dark of night.
One of the figures assisting the black monstrosity was stepping towards him, and he heard a *shink* from a sword being drawn. The rain started pouring harder.
He pulled out his sword in return, and the two circled each other for a while. He kept an eye on the other creatures, but they seemed to hold no interest in joining the fight.
He made the first move. Leaning on his uninjured leg, he brought an underhand swipe at the figure. It simply blocked it, and replied with an overhead cleave. Finn rolled to the side, and, ignoring his screaming leg, stabbed at the creatures head. He felt something give, but it was only a glancing blow. A piece of fabric floated to the ground, and long hair fell tumbling out of what apparently was a hat.
They swung and parried back in forth, the rain getting heavier, as were Finn's arms and sword. Each swing felt like he was lifting a boulder, each one bigger than the last. He realized he had to end this, and fast. He swung, intending for a final swing. The figure followed his example. Their swords clashed and they pressed their full weight into the blades.
The two stood their, locked, trying to overpower the other with brute force.
"You go girl!" Finn heard a feminine voice call from the group of unidentifiable figures.
"Wait, you're a girl?" He asked. Now that he paid more attention, the figure had curves, and moved with a grace not found in most men.
Suddenly, lightning lit up the sky, and her face was illuminated. In that brief second, Finn saw a face he had never before seen. His heart-skipped a beat, and he forgot to breath.
She took advantage of the lapse in force, and pushed Finn to the ground. Again, everything was dark. He felt a the sword pressed to his throat. Another flash showed her again.
"What are you doing here, Hyooman?" The girl asked.
"I-uh- the name's Finn." He paused, not sure how to continue. "Finn the Human."
The fire in the fire-place danced, causing the shadows in the room to join the preformance. Finn had a blanket wrapped around himself, despite the fact that the fire had long since droven the chill from his bones.
Finn, Prince Gumball, Fionna the Human, and Cake the Cat all sat around the fire, each deep in thought about the same thing. Noone wanted to break the silence, because noone was sure how to react. They were back at the tree house, since they would be disturbed by other people if they were at the castle.
The storm outside had abated slightly, but it was obvious it wasn't over.
Finally, after 20 minutes of silence, Prince Gumball stood. "If you'll excuse me, my people probably need me." He turned to go out the door, then looked back at Fionna. "Please, don't fight each other." Fionna aknowledged his statement with only a shrug.
Finn didn't see him leave, but he heard the soft click of the closing door. Afterwards, the room was inveloped in silence again.
Finn finally decided to break the deafening silence. "How... how long have you lived here?"
It was a while before a responce came, but it came never-the-less. "A while." Is all Fionna would say. A minute passed, then she spoke up again. "Who are you?" She paused, uncertain, then continued. "Why'd you come here, and how?"
"In order, I'm Finn. I came because supposedly this world holds the answer of how to save my own. And you'd label me crazy if I told you how I got here."
She tore her eyes away from the fire and looked straight at Finn. Her gaze was so persistent, Finn finally responded to her gaze. When he looked at her, he saw tears emerging, but refusing to fall, as if the fact that they didn't fall meant she wasn't crying.
"Why didn't you show yourself sooner? Huh?" Fionna said, her voice rising. The feline on the couch looked at Fionna worryingly. Fionna stood up. "I thought I was all alone!" She strode over to where Finn was sitting, and grabbed the front of his shirt. "I thought I was the only real human left! Do you have any idea the hell I've been through!?" At this point she was yelling.
Finn stared at the ground, refusing to look at the human girl for fear she'd see his own tears. "Yes." He said quietly.
Fionna's eyes widened, and she backed away from Finn. She turned and climbed the ladder upstairs to what Finn asumed was her room. He started to follow her, to talk to her, but Cake got up and stopped Finn.
"My baby just needs time. There's some blankets in the closet if you want to sleep on the couch tonight." Then she stretched her way up the ladder. Finn stumbled back, slightly shocked, then realized just as Fionna was this world's human, Cake must have been this world's super stretchy animal.
He crashed on the couch and Beemo walked up to him.
Finn's head lifted. "Oh, hey, Beemo."
"What?" The small robot replied, a large, pixalated question mark appearing where his face usually was. "I do not know you." With that he waddled away.
Finn stared confusingly as the tiny game-robot walked away, then remembered where he was. "Oh, right."
That night, noone slept. Prince Gumball lay awake in his lofty bedroom, pondering why another human was here and what it could mean for the kingdom. Cake was wondering what could possibly be going through Fionna's mind. Fionna herself wondered if Finn really was human, or if it was an illusion or trick. Finn wondered at first about Fionna, then wondered about how much time he had left. He had to find the savior of his world, and fast.
A small shadow rested above the tree house. It sat there, not touching the tree house, just floating. "Man, this is some crazy jazz goin' on right here." A voice spoke from the dark figure. "If I'm going to eavesdrop, I gotta start doing a better job or I'll always be confused." The figure floated to the bedroom window and peaked in. He saw Fionna with her back turned to the window in her bed, and Cake staring at Fionna, concern written on her face. Neither noticed the figure, so he floated to the bottom floor and peaked in on the new guest of the house.
Suddenly, the figure's eyes narrowed. He spoke to himself, "Whatever that THING is, it's not from our world, and is not good for our world. It needs to leave! Or it shall destroy this world!"
AN: Guess who that person at the end was! Come on guess! So, what did you think of this chapter? I tried adding a few more characters not previously seen in this fanfic. And although Marshall will be in it, it's not going to be FionnaLee, for obvious reasons.
Also, why Marshall thinks that Finn'a presence will destroy the world will be better explained in the next one or two chapters.
As always, read and review. The reason this one took so long was I got so few reviews despite having like 5 favorites and 15 followers. It's quite discouraging when you don't even know if you did a good or a bad job on the last chapter.