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Chapter 2: A King's Speech

Below the balcony of the kingdoms castle stood many of its citizens waiting anxiously for the surprise speech their King was about to give. They were all waiting to hear what their beloved King had to say on the recent issue that had arisen. "What do you think our King has to say about the tyrant bubblegum having discovered us?" one citizen asked. "Probably he will say that we should now move from this place so we don't have to get entangled in OOO's politics," responded another citizen. "What no way would he say" shouted another, "he'll tell us to stand and fight for our kingdom even if it means going to war." Before a fight could break out over who was right, they all heard the doors to the throne room open to see their King walking over to them. At that everyone immediately stopped talking so they could hear what their King had to say.

He stood up upon the castles balcony looking down to see his citizens eagerly awaiting his opinion on what should be done next. With that he took a deep breath and started to deliver his speech. "Citizens of our beloved kingdom, as you all know, this kingdom was made so that we could all have a new life away from that which we have grown to hate. We all made this keep from the ground up with one thing in common my people, our displeasure of OOO's royalties," he said in an angry tone. "Some of came here because we saw changes in our leaders that disturbed us or that new laws that we did not agree with were made. I do not need to point out who or what these changes were, for all know too well what I am talking about. Yet some of us came here because…"

The last part of his speech made him pause because he started to feel a lump in his throat form. Thinking about why he himself had left made him almost break down in tears, yet he couldn't let his people see their noble and strong King be defeated by sorrow. He quickly steeled himself from the pain so that he could finish what he had started.

"…we felt like nothing more then used and abused people who once we had outlived our usefulness, who were then forgotten and discarded. Causing our hearts to be shattered beyond repair. Whatever the reason for why we chose to leave, I know that none of us wished that things had come to this. None of us wanted to grow to hate our former rulers and lives, yet fate has such a cruel sense of humor. And now we have been discovered by none other than Princess Bubblegum. We know stand with two choices my people, we can either leave this place or we can make it clear that we are a sovereign nation that is outside of OOO's jurisdiction. I choose to stay, but if you want to leave then we can. Yet know this; we will be the ones to come out ahead of all this if we choose to stay and fight for our freedom.

"For the kingdom" cheered its citizens. "We will not run and abandon this place great King," cried its people.

With a smile on his face praised the strength and courage his people had just shown.

Back in OOO

Bubblegum had immediately called for an emergency Grand Meeting of OOO Royalty once she had returned. She needed to tell the other royals of OOO where their missing people had vanished to and that this new kingdom could be a threat. Many of them where not pleased at having been suddenly called to attend this unannounced meeting. Yet they all wondered what could be so important that they needed to up and leave their kingdoms.

After seeing that everyone was attended for, Bubblegum started explain what she had discovered. Some leaders were shocked at hearing the news of what had transpired there and hearing of why some of their people had chosen to leave their former homes. Others were enraged at the thought that some of their people thought of them as bad leaders. The rest just either snickered at what Braco had called Bubblegum or didn't care about this news.

"So who is the ruler of this place?" asked Flame Princess. "I was not able to meet their ruler," replied Bubblegum. "I was told by Braco though that their ruler is a King. They all questioned at who this King could possibly be. "Was Finny there," asked Marceline. At that everyone suddenly grew quite. She had not thought of the possibility of Finn inhabiting that place. Now that it was brought to light, she thought that there was a strong possibility that he was there. The possibility that Finn was there sent everyone in to a frenzy of what they should do. There was some saying that they should just storm the place saying that no one gets to decide to leave their kingdom. Others said that could be suicide and a waste of lives since they didn't know the power that this other kingdom possessed. After an hour of constant debating, Bubblegum asked for a chance to speak.

"We should form another meeting and see if we can invite their King to come and speak with us. Perhaps he will tell us if Finn is there and what the intentions of its people are."

Everyone silently nodded their heads in agreement.

"Well then this meeting has been adjourned," replied Bubblegum.

After everyone was gone Bubblegum silently thought of what it would mean if Finn was there. She wondered how he would react to seeing her again and if even a piece of him wanted to see her. She knew that he had been very upset at his failures at romance and wondered if he was still upset about it. She only hoped that things turned out well with this meeting.

FP POV

On her way back to the Flame Kingdom, Flame Princess sat in her carriage contemplating finding out if Finn was a part of this hate filled kingdom. She wondered why he would even be there in the first place. She guessed it had to do with the rumors that he had been growing unappreciated with being the hero of OOO. He may have left because he was feeling like no one appreciated his services anymore. She on the other hand would always thank him for everything he had done even the times that his aid hadn't been very helpful. "Finn, wherever you are, I just hope that you're doing ok," she said sadly.

Hey guys another update to this story. Hope you enjoyed it hahaha. Well I'll get to work on the next one and update later. Uh give me any advice or opinions on where this can go and what can be done better. I'm still new to this after all.