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Chapter 19: Rethinking Things

Finn POV

I was supposed to visit Flame Princess today I remembered, but after this recent development in my life I just didn't feel like it anymore. I didn't feel like doing anything really. All I really felt like doing was closing my eyes and taking a nap for who knows how long.

"Maybe I should just take a nap," I thought to myself. "Yeah a nice long nap could help me get my head back on straight."

Yet before I was able to do just that, I had to be interrupted by someone barging into my throne room.

"What now," I shouted.

"My King, I bring terrible news," said one of my guards.

"And what could that possibly be," I asked.

"It's Flame Princess my King, she's been poisoned."

At that I finally started to feel something again and what I felt was total and utter fear.

"Did I just hear right. Did you just say Flame Princess has been poisoned," I said breathing heavily.

"Yes My King."

Quickly I ran to the guard and crabbed ahold of him while leaning my face in real close. "I want you to tell me everything right now." I said.

"Y-Y-Y Yes my-my King. N-N-No reason to ge-get like this with me ri-Right," he stuttered.

"Of course," I said calming down. "Just let me know this first, is she going to be alright. It just weakened her like before right."

"N-No my King. Whatever she was given has put her in a critical condition. Nobody knows if she'll even last the night."

I then started to squeeze the guard's arms tightly. I heard him let out grunts of pain, but I was under the influence of too many dark emotions to even think straight at this point.

"Who gave her the drink," I said through clenched teeth.

"It was Cinnamon Bun," he cried.

"Cinnamon Bun. Why didn't he check to see if the drink was poisoned," I yelled. "Isn't he her Knight and Champion, isn't he supposed to help protect her. So why didn't he do his freakin job and check to see if the drink was poisoned."

"I don't know my King," he yelled. "Why don't you go ask him because I don't know what happened. I'm just here to deliver the message so I don't know anything of what really went on back in The Fire Kingdom. So can you please let me go," he whimpered.

Realizing what I was doing I quickly let go and apologized profusely. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry," I said over and over again. "I just lost control there for a bit. I couldn't think straight do to so many dark emotions clouding my judgment."

"It's ok my King," he said while rubbing his arms. "I understand you weren't thinking straight when I told you such news. No need to apologize, we owe you so much after all. Besides a little pain never hurt anyone," he joked."

"Yeah, thanks for the understanding. Well, you may go about your day then."

"Peace be with you my King."

Once he was gone I ran for door to leave and go see Flame Princess, but stopped at the last second. It was then that I began to think to myself about why I was even going to The Fire Kingdom in the first place.

"What am I even going to The Fire Kingdom for," I said to myself. "It's not my problem that all this happened. I'm not the one responsible for looking out for Flame Princess, that's Cinnamon Buns responsibility. What reason do I even have to visit her? She who hates secrets and lies yet turned around and did the very thing to me," I shouted out in rage. So many deeply hidden emotions from what I was meant to have already been feeling before this recent news were finally coming to light anger, sorrow, betrayal, hatred, etc. "I don't need to go concern myself anymore with her, I don't need her and I could care less about that no good hypocrite."

"You know that's the problem with you men," said another voice. "Always trying to act tough and hide your true feelings behind things like rage and what not. Why can't you just admit to yourself that you do care about her despite all this and that you want to be there to make sure that she'll be alright."

"I didn't ask for your advice Betty," I growled. "And just how long have you been there."

"Long enough Finn. Long enough to know that you are making a stupid decision by deciding not to go see Flame Princess. And Long enough to know that if you don't go, then you will forever blame yourself afterwards for not being there for her in what could be her final moments."

"Shut up," I yelled at the top of my lungs. "I didn't ask for your freakin advice so just leave me alone."

"Suit yourself Finn, but know this. You are making the same mistake you made before by trying to run away from your problems rather than facing them like the man you claim you are. Hopefully you can make the right decision in the end."

At that she left before I could make any sort of response to her at what she just said.

"Dam you," I whispered. "Dam you all."

With that I ran out of my Kingdom and jumped on a horse steering it towards The Fire Kingdom.

Princess Bubblegum POV

"I have successfully done as I was told Princess Bubblegum," said Cinnamon Bun 2. "Flame Princess has taken the poison just as you wanted."

"Well done," I said while patting him on the head. "I knew you wouldn't fail me. All I have to do know is wait for the poison to finish its job and then I will begin the next part of the plan."

"What is that Princess?"

"To resume the attack on Finn's needless Kingdom. He will obviously be out of commission once he hears the news that his girlfriend has died. That will leave the defenders of his Kingdom leaderless, thus making them easy to defeat. Once his Kingdom is destroyed and he returns to OOO because of it, I will see to his rehabilitation until he is fit to retake his position as the Hero of OOO. This time nothing will prevent me from returning stability to OOO."

"What will you do in the event that the poison doesn't work though?"

At that I smacked him upside the head for saying such a stupid thing.

"The poison won't fail you half-baked dimwit. The chances of that happening are so astronomically low that there is nothing to worry about. The poison will succeed, that I'm certain of."

"Ok," was all he said.

"Good, now leave me alone until I have need of you again. Right now I need to get back to my work."

Once he was finally gone I decided to pay the real Cinnamon Bun a little visit and check up to see how my power supply was doing. Yet when I got there and what I saw only made me scream out in pure rage. There were gone, they had both somehow done the impossible and had escaped.

"How can this be," I screamed. "There's no possible way that they could have been able to escape from this place. Much less without me knowing about it or at least having gotten some sort of warning that they had escaped. How could they have done this?"

Immediately I ran to a nearby computer monitor and looked went through the videos to see what I could find out. What I saw was interesting. The video showed Cinnamon Bun reaching out to touch The Lich and then once he touched him there was this green flash of blinding light. After the light cleared up it showed that they were both gone. They must have teleported somewhere with what those two did. Where they could have gone was beyond me.

I then went to check to see how much power was left for my Goo Monsters. Sadly there wasn't enough to launch a successful final assault against The Sovereign Kingdom. The power that was left was insignificant at launching a successful attack even with Finn not leading his forces. Without The Lich to power my Goo army I had no other way of destroying that meaningless Kingdom.

"I have to recapture The Lich as soon as possible," I said. "And I have to do it before he either regains his full power somehow or something else just as bad happens. Without the Lich my plans will never come to fruition."

Cinnamon Bun 2 POV

I am beginning to understand why the real Cinnamon Bun left this place. Dealing with an arrogant ruler such as Princess Bubblegum is degrading and humiliating. Being treated like I'm a completely inferior being while she acts all high and mighty is just aggravating. No way am I going to live my life as someone's punching bag.

"I have got to get out of here," I thought to myself. "Princess Bubblegum can find herself a new chew toy."

I walked out of the castle acting naturally. Making it look like I was just going to go do another mission that she sent me on. Once I got to the gates on the Kingdom though I ran into some problems.

"Where are you going," said one of the guards.

"I'm going on another assignment for Princess Bubblegum." I said hoping that they would believe what I said.

"We haven't heard about letting you out for any assignment this time clone. What is this assignment."

"It's a very confidential one Banana Guard. One that I cannot share with you. Now unless you want to go ask Princess Bubblegum about it and feel her wrath for wasting her precious time. Then I suggest you let me go and allow me to get my work done."

I could see that he was debating on what was the right decision to make, luckily his fear of Bubblegum won out. With that he opened the gates and let me out. Once I was far enough away from The Candy Kingdom, I ran for it to wherever I could to find some sort of hiding place.

"And just where are you going," I heard a voice say.

When I looked around to see who it was, the only thing I saw just before I was knocked out was a red looking guitar axe coming right for my head.

Well guys I am taking a little break from my other story "Purpose." If you haven't read it then you could always go check it out. I'll be switching between the two and updating them both at different times. Hopefully I wasn't too rusty with this story. Like always keep feeding me reviews and ideas. See ya.