Love and Madness
Chapter 6 Help
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own Adventure Time. This is just a story for fun.
Finn, Jake, Marceline, and Magic Man were heading towards the Marauder Village. Magic Man had an old rag Betty had once used to wipe some sweat off her face and he gave it Jake to use his sense of smell to track Betty. According to Jake's nose Betty's scent was near the Marauder Village. Finn decided to ask Magic Man more about the guy who broke into his house and stole Glob's helmet. Magic Man decided to tell Finn about the dream he had before the strange red man broke into his house and stole the helmet.
"The night before I had a dream where I was visited by the King Mars and my brothers. They were extremely mad at...me for what happened to Betty and then they told me I needed to bring back both Betty and Simon's sanity otherwise both Earth and Mars would be covered in darkness. My brothers told me that Simon was the only one who could stop the threat for good." Said Magic Man.
"Anything else?" Asked Finn.
"Yeah they warned me about the guy coming to steal the helmet a few seconds before he showed up! I mean if they wanted to keep the helmet out of the guy's hands they should have warned me sooner!" Grumbled Magic Man.
"Well...sending a dream message from the afterlife isn't exactly easy." Pointed out Finn.
Magic Man continued to grumble as they reached the village. The chief of the village went to greet them and they gave him a description of Betty and asked if she'd been seen around the village.
"Yeah...I think we saw her hanging around the top of the Mountain Man." Said the chief.
Jake sniffed the air saying he could smell Betty's scent coming from the Mountain Man. The group began to scale the Mountain Man, until they saw his face and Betty sitting on his nose humming to herself with a blissful look on her face. Marceline looked sadly at Betty and cast a glare at Magic Man, who gulped nervously. Finn decided to get Betty's attention.
"Hey Betty we want to talk to you and help you out." Called Finn.
Betty looked down at the group in confusion and then an angry look appeared on her face.
"You lot are GUILTY! Except for Marceline."
"Um...guilty of what?" Asked Jake looking a little freaked out.
"Magic Man you are guilty of treachery! I had a little talk with that Tiny Manticore of yours and he told me what had planned, you never intended to help me rescue Simon!" Snarled Betty.
"Um...yeah...I'm really sorry about that and I want to make it up to yo-" Began Magic Man, but Betty zapped him with a blast of magic and a large dirty sock appeared in his mouth.
Magic Man doubled over as he spat the sock out and furiously wiped his tongue with his hands trying to make the bad taste go away. Betty turned her anger towards Finn and Jake.
"You two are the worst! You call yourselves heroes and you know about Simon's condition yet you haven't lifted a finger to help him! Simon is sick and he doesn't know what his doing and whenever he steals one of your precious princess you just run on in and beat him senseless! Your making things worse for Simon and don't get me started on that whole incident you caused with that ex girlfriend of yours Finn!"
Finn and Jake looked at the ground guiltily. Betty...was kinda of right about the way they treated the Ice King. Marceline looked up at Betty and saw the crazed madness in her eyes. There was no telling what the women would do.
"I sentence the accuse to death by sneeze!" Declared Betty as she raised a glowing hand up high.
A giant feather appeared in Betty's hand. Everybody starred at Betty in confusion as she floated off the Mountain Man's nose and began to tickle it with the feather. The giant nose began to twitch and the group's eyes widen in horror as they realized what was going to happen. Marceline quickly took flight.
"Oh Glob! Run!" Screamed Jake as he, Finn, and Magic Man began running for their lives down the mountain.
"ACHOO!" Sneezed the Mountain Man as a wave of boulders flew out of his nose and towards the fleeing heroes.
The boulders bounced to the heroes easily catching up to them. Jake saw a large rock outcropping ahead and grabbed Finn and Magic Man as he dove behind the rock for cover. The rocks bounced by and over the rock just barely missing the three heroes by mere inches. Betty floated in the air laughing like crazy, unaware that Marceline was floating behind. Marceline grabbed Betty from behind and Betty yelped in surprise.
"Let me go!" Shouted Betty as she struggled in Marceline's grip.
"No, until you calm down and stop being crazy!" Said Marceline.
"They need to be punished! They're all guilty jerks!" Snarled Betty.
"Finn and Jake aren't jerks! Yeah I'll admit they could have handle Simon differently when they went to rescue princesses from him, but they always tried not to hurt him to badly. As for Magic Man Man yeah his a flat out jerk who deserves to be punished, but he knows about magic and I'm forcing him to help cure you and Simon of your madness." Said Marceline.
"I don't care! I don't need Magic Man's help! I can fix everything! Simon and I can finally be together again like we were supposed to be!" Shouted Betty as she began teleporting.
Marceline got teleported along with Betty and the two of them appeared at the bottoms of the Mountain Man with Marceline still holding onto Betty.
"Betty please stop! Your mad and you have every right to mad for all the stuff the world put you and Simon through. But you can't help Simon if your insane! I want to save both of you so you can both have a life together. Just please let me and the others help you!" Begged Marceline.
Betty still continued to struggle and she managed to knock Marceline's sun hat off exposing her to the sun. Marceline cried out in pain as her skin began to smoke and she let go of Betty as she fell to the ground. Betty looked down at Marceline in shock and the sight of the vampire in pain brought Betty to her senses. The magic women quickly used her powers to create a cloud cover to shield Marceline from the sun. Marceline blinked her eyes in confusion as she looked up at Betty, who had an apologetic look on her face.
"I'm sorry! I...have no idea what came over me! These...powers, they're driving me crazy and I just don't know...how to deal with! I can't...help Simon like this!" Sobbed Betty.
Marceline sat up and put a comforting hand on Betty's right shoulder.
"It's ok. I know your weren't fully in control of yourself. I promise you my friends and I will help return back to normal and then we're going to save Simon." Said Marceline.
"Thank you." Said Betty with a smile.
Marceline smiled back as she put her sun hat back on. The others were coming down from the Mountain Man. The group had succeed in getting Betty, now they just had to figure out a way to help her regain her sanity.
To be continued.