Disclaimer: I don't own AT, if I did at least someone would have gotten a happy ending.

Chapter 8: Restored Love

Marceline POV

"What do you mean Finn isn't here," I yelled to one of the palace guards.

"As I told you before, our King has left on important business. We do not know when it is he will return. Nor would he even want to see a Royalty of OOO anyway."

His response angered me greatly. Couldn't he tell I just wanted to talk to Finn? "Then how about you let me know where Finny went off to. I really want talk to him."

"We don't tell a Royalty of OOO anything. The fact that you even dare tell us to is a reminder to us of your arrogance. Please leave now and never return."

At this point I was practically ready to transform into my giant bat form and stomp on this guy. Yet I knew I couldn't do that less I give these guys more ammunition to use against me and everyone else. "Well can you at least please tell Finn that I would like to speak with him? I just want to try and sort something's out with him."

While he eyed me suspiciously, he agreed to tell Finn that I wanted to talk with him. After that I left wondering where he could possibly be. What really sucked was that I was unable to track him down. He had somehow hid his scent from, thus making me unable to find him. Wherever he was, he sure took extreme steps in order to not be found. What could he possibly be up to I wondered.

Finn POV

We had easily made it to the Ice Kingdom using a simple teleportation spell. Now was for the fun part to begin. We found Ice King on his couch writing another one of his weird Fionna and Cake fan fictions again. At seeing me he all but starting jumping with joy.

"Finn," he cried out happily. "Where have you been? When I heard you left I was so unhappy. I even went looking for you with Jake but we could never find a clue to where you went. Is it true that you have your own kingdom now? Did you marry some unknown princess and with that become a King."

"No Ice King I didn't marry into any sort of royal family. I along with my people built The Sovereign Kingdom."

"Oh that's cool that you did all that. So what are you doing here and who's your lady friend? She seems familiar, but I just can't for the life of me remember where I have seen her before."

I could see that Betty was visibly hurt from that but she knew that this was mostly the crown talking. Soon she wouldn't have to worry about that anymore.

"We're here for you Ice King."

"Me," he said surprised. "Are you here to hang out with me and jam? Cause I have so many fun games we can do together."

"Not quite Ice King. We're here to kidnap you so that we bring you to my kingdom. Consider this to be the last prank to be played on you before you become Simon Petrikov again."

"What I don't want to be some lame dude who wore glasses. That's so uncool."

"Trust me Ice King, you'll thank us for this afterwards," I said while knocking him out.

"Simon will be ok right," she asked worriedly.

"Of course he will. Now let's go."

Back in The Sovereign Kingdom and Betty POV

After setting everything up, the three of them were in the throne room atop a powerful magical circle.

"Now is the time Betty. Soon the evil spirit of the crown will summoned through this circle. Are you prepared to face it?"

"You don't have to worry about me. I can take care of myself. I'll show that spirit what it means to stand in the way of true love."

Again I saw a brief flash of longing in his eyes from what I said. Was he really this lonely I thought?

"Let's do this."

With that we put the still unconscious Simon in the middle of the magical circle. I soon saw Finn begin to chant a powerful summoning spell. Where he had learned magic from was unknown to me.

"Finn what are you doing?" a suddenly conscious Simon spoke.

"Helping you to have what I never could. To be with someone who truly loves you and understands you."

"Finn, you... Augh." Simon was howling in pure agony all of a sudden to the point that I was about to tell Finn to stop. But then a heard a scream of anger that coming from his crown. When I looked back at Simon I saw a white mist begin to come out of his crown. It soon began to take a more humanoid form. It was a tall male figure that wore dark gauntleted armor that looked to be made of some sort of black ice. He seemed to possess long flowing white hair like Simons along with somewhat pointed ears. I could see that he was also physically well-built and defiantly didn't look like some you would want to take lightly. Yet it was his eyes that really caught my attention, for they seemed to possess a cold deathly stare directed towards us.

"What is the meaning of this," he asked angrily. "Why have I been summoned here?"

"To end you monster and free Simon from your corrupt influence," pronounced Finn.

"You think you can threaten me boy. I possess complete cataclysmic powers far greater than any of you mere mortals could possess. Your arrogance will be your undoing human. I'll freeze you into a block of ice until the end of time."

"It's not him you will be fighting but I spirit.

"And just who are you supposed to be?"

"I am Betty Groff, fiancée to the man that you possessed and I intend to take him back."

"Do you now? I must admit, those are indeed brave words coming from a human. Usually your king tends to turn tail and run. I will enjoy killing you," he said sadistically.

At that he formed a sword made of ice and lunged at me. Luckily I reacted fast enough to dodge him. I could see this wasn't going to be easy.

"Here Betty take this," Finn said while throwing me a sword.

"Thanks Finn," I said catching it. "Now I have a better chance at beating this guy."

"A sword won't save you. You had better just surrender and let me end this quickly."

"Why do you villains always say that crap?" pronounced Finn.

"You little son of a… ack," he yelled as I hit him across the face.

"Eyes on me pal or are you really going to let yourself get distracted so easily."

Letting out a bestial cry of rage he began attacking me again. He began attacking me barrages of ice bolts shot at me while trying to cut me in two with his sword at the same time. I saw that he would soon overwhelm me if I didn't do anything to stop him. Seeing no other option, I let lose my secret weapon. I shot my own bolt of magical energy at him. Seeing he wasn't prepared for such an attack he had no time to dodge and instead took it full force to the chest. The attack sent him spiraling backwards to the ground. He groaned in pain and then looked at me with nothing but hatred in his eyes.

"Where did you obtain such power," he asked through gritted teeth.

"I obtained this power when I defeated the being known as Bella Noche. He absorbed all of Wizard City's magic at the time and went I beat him he had released it all to where I had absorbed a great deal of it during the explosion."

"Interesting. That still won't save you though."

At that he resumed his attack this time with increased ferocity. I let lose my own attacks but he kept blocking them with barriers made of ice. Yet with each one of his failed attacks, he began to become more and more wilder with each new one. It wasn't too difficult to counter his moves since he was letting his rage cloud his judgment. Seizing this moment of vulnerability, I quickly let loose another blast of energy aimed at his chest. Being too focused on trying to kill me at that point, he didn't see the blast come at him until it was too late.

He let loose a painful screech as the blast ripped a whole right through his chest. At that he fell to his knees while clutching his chest. Then something unexpected happened right after, he completely shattered after letting loose one last cry of pain. Seeing that it was over, I looked over to Simon had been during the whole incident. To my amazement he had already returned to looking like he once was. I quickly ran to him to see if he was alright. I could hear him uttering quiet groans of pain, but other than that he seemed to be ok.

"Thank you Betty," he said all of a sudden. "For not giving up on me."

"You should have known that I would never give up on you right when I jumped through that time portal to be with you," I said happily. "I love you too much to ever live a life without you."

Looking up at me, he gently cupped my face between his hands and bent up and kissed me. I felt so happy that I could die.

"Nothing will ever separate us again my princess. This time we are finally reunited once and for all," he said wholeheartedly.

At that I collapsed right into his arms while crying tears of joy that we were finally together again.

Back to Finn

The battle had been spectacular and I had been truly shocked when Betty revealed she could use magic. I myself had learned a great deal of magic from the wizards who were a part of my kingdom. Yet what was truly spectacular was what came afterwards. Simon had finally been brought with the death of the Spirit of the crown. The final reunion between them was utterly beautiful that it filled me with a sense of joy, yet at the same time I began to feel a dam begin to break within me.

Excusing myself quietly, I retreated back to my personal chambers. After having reached my room the dam in me completely shattered, letting loose a flood of deeply held in sorrow. Crying I yelled at how unfair the world was at how I could never have someone like that.

"Why can't I just like a girl," I cried.

I really hope you liked this chapter. Hopefully the battle was ok but then again that's not what this whole chapter was really about. Right here is where things will start to get more interesting I guess. Tell me what you thought of this and never stop giving me advice and tips. Love people, it isn't easy.