Love and Madness
Chapter 10 Ice
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own Adventure Time. This is just a story for fun.
In the Ice Kingdom, Ice King was pacing back and forth in thought. The old wizard couldn't shake the image of Wizard Princess from his mind. There was just something familiar about the mysterious women that made the Ice King want to find her. It was the first time in a long time that a women treated Ice King nicely and seemed to like him. Yes there was Marceline, but she was more of a good friend to Ice King then anything else. Speaking of the vampire rockstar, Ice King decided to go pay her a visit and maybe hangout. The Ice King flew from his castle and headed in the direction of Marceline's house.
At Marceline's house Betty and Marceline were justing sitting in the kitchen talking, when they heard a knock at the door. Marceline looked through the peephole to see who it was and her eyes went wide as she saw the Ice King. She turned to Betty.
"It's the Ice King." She gasped.
A cold feeling went through Betty and she thought she heard tiny voices in her mind telling her the man she loved was doomed to reside in a prison of madness. Betty had no ideas if the voices were an affect of the magic in her or traces of doubt, but she quickly got a grip on herself and turned to Marceline.
"Let him in...it's time I face him. If there's any part of Simon still in there maybe I can bring it back up and help him act a little less crazy." Said Betty.
Marceline nodded and opened the door. Ice King smiled at Marcelince.
"Hey Marcy, just stopping by for a visit. Man I met this chick who seems to like me and I can't stop thinking about...her." Began Ice King, but then he saw Betty standing a few yards behind Marceline.
"Hey...Ice King." Said Betty with a nervous smile and a wave.
"Wizard Princess." Said Ice King with a big grin as he came into the house.
"Oh Wizard Princess is just a title, you can just call me Betty." Said Betty.
"Nice...to meet you Betty, um why are you in Marceline's house?" Said Ice King.
"Oh we're friends and she's been telling me a lot about you. You seem like a very interesting guy and I would really like to get to know you." Said Betty.
"You...would?" Asked Ice King in shock.
"I would and I'd be happy if you told me about yourself and gave me a grand tour of your kingdom." Said Betty as she took Ice King's hand.
"Well then let's...be off! To the Ice Kingdom!" Said Ice King as he and Betty flew off.
Betty glanced back at Marceling and winked at her. Marceline smiled a little as she hopped for the best for her friend.
At Magic Man's house Bubblegum was helping Magic Man reconstruct Betty's machine. Bubblegum had spoken to Betty about her theory about magic and the candy lady was intrigued about Betty's study and notes about what magic was driven from. Betty then told Bubblegum about gaining magic and though the forces that drove magic seemed simply, the actual energy that was magic was vast and complex and there were really no words to describe what she saw. Bubblegum was curious about researching into this, but Betty warned her not to, saying that magic was a force of nature that should not be underestimated. Bubblegum sighed as she went about screwing some bolts in. Nearby stood Finn and Jake who were just resting. Finn was thinking about what Betty had said when they encountered her on the Mountain Man and she was right. Beating the Ice King up wasn't really solving anything, they needed to bring Simon back, so the Ice King could be stopped for good.
"You thinking about what Betty said about us not helping Simon?" Asked Jake.
"You read my mind man. I just don't know how to deal with this problem. We both know that the Ice King was a good dude before that crown drove him nuts. I just wished we knew how to fix him." Said Finn with a frown.
"We don't know how to fix him, but I think I know who knows how to do that." Said Jake as he pulled out the card he got from Prismo.
Finn grinned at Jake opened the card up and got a portal to the Time Room to open up. The two of them stepped through it and vanished.
Meanwhile at the Ice Kingdom, the Ice King was showing Betty around his castle and introducing her to all his penguins. Ice King told Betty how he made everything in his kingdom, but then he grew a little nervous as Betty saw the cell, he normally put princesses in. Betty looked at the Ice King, who looked slightly ashamed. The icy monarch didn't know why he felt guilty about this women seeing the cell, maybe because she actually liked him.
"Look I know you have a history about kidnapping princesses, but there's something I have to know." Said Betty.
"What's...that?" Asked Ice King.
"Why do you do it exactly?" Asked Betty.
"Well...I guess I want someone to spend time with and like me. The Ice Kingdom isn't exactly packed with people...and I get pretty lonely." Admitted Ice King.
"But why princesses and not anything else?" Asked Betty.
"I...really...don't know. I have this faint...memory about a princess and I think it was somebody special to me, so I kidnap princesses to see if any of them...are the one I'm looking for." Said Ice King as he looked a little sad.
"I...see. Tell you...what, I'll be your princess." Said Betty.
"You would really be my princess?" Asked Ice King in amazement.
"I will Ice King, but first a few rules. First your getting rid of the cages and you have to promise me no more kidnapping princesses." Said Betty with a stern look on her face.
"You got a deal princess!" Cheered Ice King excitedly.
"Good, I'm going to leave you alone to clean things up." Said Betty as she kissed the Ice King on the cheek.
The Ice King blushed as Betty smiled and flew out the window. The ice monarch grinned cheerfully as he went about destroying the cages. Things were looking up for him.
On a icy hill a few miles away from the Ice Kingdom, the Secret Society and Ash watched Betty fly out of the castle and out of the Ice Kingdom.
"Well this is an interesting development. It appears that two of our targets are seeing one another and the one called Betty has magic." Said Laser Wizard.
"We should tell R about this." Said Forest Wizard.
The others nodded as they flew off to inform their boss about what they saw.
To be continued.