Everyone was in position; the way it was in the dream. Beth in a dress, Chris with long hair, Jake really fat, Wallow in a tux, Danny was on the floor with an arrow through his chest, and Finn was hiding behind a rock to the side.
"Danny, for the last time, get up!"
"No man! I accidentally shot myself when I was practicing my upshot technique! I'm dead."
"No, you're not! You are just some dork who has an arrow in his armpit!"
"You have no respect, for the art of roleplaying!"
"Shut your pie holes, guys!" Finn whispered loudly from the rock. "The beast will be here any minute!"
"Why do I have to be the bait again?" Beth asked.
"It's said that, regardless of their intentions, all scary monsters are subconsciously attracted to hot princesses." Jake said.
"Here it comes!" Chris shouted.
The beast could be seen as a dark shadowy figure from a distance. Wallow developed a face of fear. The beast flew closer ready to sneeze once again. Once the beast came into view, Wallow covered his face as soon as he saw flames being developed in his mouth. Before it could spew fire at Wallow, Finn flew through the air with his foot out, kicking the beast in the face and making him spew fire away from the rest. Jake rolled over to the beast and sat on top of it. The beast was immobile, but kept sneezing.
"Quick!" Jake pleaded. "Stop it from sneezing before my butt catches on fire!"
Danny got up, rushed over to the beast and reached into its nostril. He made some facial expressions of disgust as he was trying to find the pepper shaker. As he was doing this, the beast moved its head back and forth causing Danny to be flung around. Danny was eventually was free of the grasp of the beasts nostril and went flying with the pepper shaker in hand. Jake rolled of Firop and he got up with a sad expression on his face.
"I can't believe this…" Firop said. "It all came true…"
"Don't feel too bad Firop." Beth said.
"How can I not?! I Almost killed your friend, and what's worse I—"
Firop was interrupted by a large quantity of rope being tied around him. He was eventually tied up by seven Banana Guards from the Candy Kingdom. His mouth was closed by a metal mouth covering most likely to prevent him from spewing more fire. Behind the Banana Guards was princess Bubblegum. Most of her hair was burned off from the fire. Singed marks could be seen in her hair and her dress with smoke coming out them.
"For the destruction of the Candy Kingdom from your fires and my hair," PB said, "You are hereby sentenced to death by giant oversized guillotine! Banana Guards, carry him to his execution!"
"PB! Wait!" Finn pleaded.
Before he could get PB's attention, he was stopped by a sudden burst of smoke. Once the smoke faded, the princess was already ways away and in front of him appeared a mystical dark yellow owl that was slightly taller than Finn.
"What the heck was that?!" The Owl said in a southern accent.
"Oh my glob!" Jake said. "The Cosmic Owl!"
"That's right." The Cosmic Owl said. "I came all the way here to guide your friends soul into the other world, and what do I see? Him still living!"
"He's right!" Wallow said. "We did it guys! We prevented my death! Guess it is possible to beat fate at its own game!"
"Congratulations, fatso." The Cosmic Owl said.
The Cosmic Owl went to a nearby tree and broke of a large branch from it.
"Now hold still." The Cosmic Owl said.
"Hey, who are you calling fats—" Wallow said.
Before Wallow could finish his sentence, the Cosmic Owl hit him in the head with the large branch he broke of the tree. Wallow fell to the floor and the Cosmic Owl proceeded to beat him with it.
"Owe man! Stop it!" Wallow pleaded.
"Cosmic Owl!" Finn shouted. "What are you doing?!"
"Yeah! Lay off! Why are you beating him?!" Chris said.
"Dudes, you don't get it." The Cosmic Owl said. "No one can escape their Croak Dream."
"He just did!" Beth said.
"You saw it you crazy bird brain!" Danny said
"Let me rephrase that." The Cosmic Owl said. "No one is allowed to escape their Croak Dream. So, I'm going to finish the job."
The Cosmic Owl resumed beating Wallow with the branch. Finn developed a look of frustration and tackled the Cosmic Owl to the floor. Finn quickly got up.
"Everyone buck it!" Finn shouted.
Wallow got up and began to run with Finn and the others soon followed.
"Finn!" Jake shouted with a tone of disappointment.
Jake began to roll at Finn's pace.
"Finn!" Jake shouted. "What the heck are you doing?!"
"What does it look like I'm doing?" Finn said. "I'm saving Wallow from the Cosmic Owl!"
"Finn, seriously, get a grip on reality, the Cosmic Owl said—"
"The Cosmic Owl is being a butt, Jake!" Finn shouted. "He shouldn't kill people just because their Croak Dream didn't come true. It's his fault it didn't go as he planned since we know it was going to happen!"
They all bumped into the Cosmic Owl and fell to the floor.
"Oh Finn." The Cosmic Owl said. "There are many things about life you simply just do not get, and you're not supposed to. You are just supposed to accept it. I have an order to keep, and if I make exceptions, people will begin to spite me."
The Cosmic Owl picked up Wallow by his tux.
"Come, we shall resume your death in my study." The Cosmic Owl said.
The Cosmic Owl started making circle motions with its wing and a blue portal began to form.
"Oh no you're not!" Danny said.
Danny readied his bow and took out an arrow. He placed his arrow in the bow and pulled it back. He shot the arrow, missing the Cosmic Owl, but scaring it, causing it to caw loudly and dropping Wallow into the portal.
"Wallow!" Chris, Beth and Danny shouted.
Without hesitation, Finn, Jake, Chris, Beth and Danny jumped into the Portal. They eventually landed in a room with a stone titled floor, purple walls, books and papers everywhere and a desk table. They all got up from the floor. Wallow was the last to fall in and he landed on Jake, causing him to spew out ice cream waffle bits. He was then back to his original size.
"Aw! Gross!" Wallow said.
"Ugh…" Jake said while holding his stomach. "I'm never eating waffles again…"
"Where are we?" Chris said.
"Most likely the study of the Cosmic Owl." Finn said.
"Man! That was even more disgusting the second time!" A voice said.
They all turned around and saw an elderly man that was wearing a suit that resembled Chris's. He was sitting on a rusty old golden device with a turn crank, a monitor and a keyboard.
"The Emotion Lord!" Danny said.
"You again?!" Chris shouted
"Yes-sir-e!" The Emotion Lord said.
"You guys know this old dude?" Finn asked.
"Our encounter is… complicated." Chris said. "He claims that he's me from the future."
"Wow, the years will not be kind to you."
"Now you watch your mouth little boy!" The Emotion Lord said. "I doubt you will keep the ability to grow flowing long blonde hair when you get my age!"
"I… uhh… sorry." Finn said.
"What are you doing here?" Beth asked.
"Waiting for you guys to show up so I could make sure I used the machine correctly!"
"What does it do?" Jake asked.
The Emotion Lord hopped of the machine.
"Well, this machine used to be used by the Cosmic Owl to deliver Croak Dreams to unlucky people, until he started doing it using his magical bird powers to do it himself! You just type in the full name of the person you want to send the Croak Dream too, describe it, turn the crank and BAM! One Croak Dram! Of course it isn't the machine that causes the predictions; they go according to what the Cosmic Owl sees in his crazy futuristic seeing mind of his."
"Wait! You made me think I was going to die?!" Wallow asked. "Why did you do that, you crazy old coot!"
"…And how did you know that this was all going to happen if the machine doesn't causes the Croak Dreams to really happen?" Finn asked.
"Keep in mind I'm Chris's future self! I went through all this myself, and since it was my future self who did this, I had to come back to make it happen or it could cause a time paradox, and since I knew how it was going to go down, I could make the dream very accurate!"
"But… why would I…" Chris said. "Oh my head hurts…"
"I heard everything!" A voice said from across the room.
The Cosmic Owl was seen flying towards them.
"That's my cue to leave! Gotta go!" The Emotion Lord said.
The Emotion Lord sprouted wings and flew up into what looked like purple space.
"Ugh, gotta get rid of that thing."
"So… does that mean I get to live?" Wallow asked.
"Yeah you're fine."
"What about Firop?" Beth asked.
"Oh no, his Croak Dream was real."
Everyone developed a look of sadness. A tear formed in Beth's eye and it rolled down her face. The Cosmic Owl sighed deeply.
"Fiiiine…" The Cosmic Owl said. "I'll spare him. Mostly because I really like the guy."
The Cosmic Owl snapped his feathers. The snap echoed through the study. Meanwhile, in the Candy Kingdom, which was crudely repaired from all the damage, Firop was still tied down with his head in a guillotine. PB was about to give the command to drop the guillotine, but a sudden shock wave emitted. PB and everyone else suddenly forgave Firop and he was given a chance to show his kind nature by offering the children of the Candy Kingdom rides in the air. The Cosmic Owl teleported Finn, Jake and the Bravest Warriors to the surface and they went back to the tree house. Wallow, Beth and Danny said their good byes and went into the Space Whale.
"Well Finn," Chris said, "Thank you so much for your help and your generosity."
"And Um…" Jake said. "I'm sorry for being a bad sport about saving your friend."
"Water under the bridge Jake." Chris said while rubbing Jake's head. "Is there anything that we can do to show our thanks?"
Finn and Jake said nothing. Jake shoved Finn forward with a smile on his face.
"Well…" Finn began.
He explained his wish of going into space and seeing what it was like so Chris agreed to take him along with him on the trip back to another planet to get the ship repaired and they would send him back. On the way, they showed Finn how to space surf, so, for most of the way, he was out in outer space wearing a space helmet doing tricks on a board with a jet at the back while holding onto a cord attached to the boat. Chris was also outside on a board, teaching him how it's done.
"You're doing really well!" Chris said.
"Yeah! Wohoo!" Finn said while doing a few tricks.
"Man look at them go!" Beth said from the interior of the ship.
"Finn's pretty good!" Wallow said.
"Yeah, that looks way more fun than I thought it was!" Jake said.
Danny came towards them wearing a chef's hat and carrying two plates of ice cream waffles.
"Who wants ice cream waffles?!" Danny said.
Jake began to make moaning noises and barfed on Danny and all over the ice cream waffles. He then slipped and fell to the floor.
"Yeah… I'm not hungry." Beth said.
"I think I've out grown those waffles." Wallow said.
Jake said nothing for a while with a disgusted look on his face and eventually fell off his chair and on to the floor.
