Adventure Time with Fionna, Cake, and Marshall Lee!

Chapter Three: Debt

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Fionna didn't like the look of this spider woman. The adventure gal was born with what she liked to call 'a sense for danger' and whenever her 'sense of danger' went off she would get a cramp in the side of her ribcage. Well, as soon as she saw this strange spider woman she got an incredible annoying pain in the side of her ribs, making her sit back on the couch and look like a dork. She cursed her ASFD.

"Why my dear, I'm Evangeline the Spider Queen," the woman-spider had said with a sly voice. Her golden eyes locked with Fionna's and she smiled deviously. "You're a human."

"Outside, now!" Marshall suddenly hissed, stepping outside his front door and shutting Fionna inside. She was immediately suspicious of this Evangeline woman and why Marshall was so hostile towards her.

There were two things Fionna needed. Milk and answers. The milk because if soothed her stomach and let her rib cages know everything was going to be alright. Answers, because, well she wanted to know exactly who the glob that Evangeline was! Another cramp went through her ribs and she groaned. Milk should come first. Definitely.

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Marshall, being the rebellious vampire he was, was leaning against the door of his house with his arms crossed and his pitch black eyes wary. "What are you doing here, Eve?" he asked.

Evangeline put her hands on her hips (or rather the part of her where her huge thorax began). "Don't play games with me, Marshall Lee. I didn't come all the way out of the Night O'sphere with my army to get interrogated. You know why I'm here. You're in my debt."

Fangs popped out of his mouth with a hiss. "I'm in nobody's debt!" Marshall hissed. "It's not my fault that my father made a promise he couldn't keep."

She laughed. "Your father," she began, "Promised me a thousand souls for me and my army. I have waited forty years and now I wish collect on his debt. It's not my fault that within those forty years he passed on the title of Vampire King to you. Clearly you're just a teenage boy forever trapped in the bounds of immortality. You're no king. How old were you when you were blooded anyway?"

"None of your business!" Marshall yelled. "I don't have the one-thousand souls to give you even if I wanted to. You're better off finding victims in the Night O'sphere. But don't you dare think you'll attack Aaa, this is my home. Leave Aaa alone, Evangeline."

She laughed, and her silver webbed hair billowed in the wind. "You're so cute," she giggled. "You really think you can tell me what to do? I have an army, Vampire King. And my spiders are already out for souls whether you allow it or not."

Marshall's expression dropped.

Evangeline smirked. "That's right. They're out for the kill even as we speak, and until we get one-thousand souls we're staying for the hunt. So you can either get out of the way—or perhaps become another number."

Before Marshall could yell and threaten any further, his window broke and Fionna crashed through it! She rolled through the broken glass and landed in an attack position, her sword gripped in her hands and pointed straight at the Spider Queen. "Stay away from my land," Fionna warned with a sharp voice, "Or deal with me."

Silence.

Suddenly Evangeline started laughing so hard her back legs were kicking. "Now that's cute!" she roared. "Oh my web, that's adorable! Is she your little girlfriend, Marshall? Huh? Ahahahaha! Is your little girlfriend going to stop me? Ahaha!"

Now Fionna's face was bright red from the embarrassment of being laughed at and the fact she called her Marshall's 'little girlfriend'. "Hey! You better take me seriously or I'll slice you to bits!" she yelled.

Evangeline's face lost all playfulness and suddenly she was glaring down at the human and the vampire. "Enough games," she said seriously. She crawled closer to Fionna, and the adventuress held her ground to prove she wasn't scared, but really the sixteen year old gal was frightened she'd end up in web. "I like your spirit," the Spider Queen said. "Humans no longer roam Aaa. You're blood will be a rarity to drink."

Suddenly there was a loud smack! Marshall had flown out and kicked Evangeline square in the face, flipping over and taking Fionna and throwing her over his shoulders. This all happened so fast all she could do is squeak in surprise! Before Fionna could register what happened next she was flying up in the air, Evangeline crawling after them on the ceiling! "YOU'LL PAY FOR THAT!" she hissed threateningly.

With her incredibly long eight legs the Spider Queen jumped through the air! Thinking quickly, Fionna swung her sword and swiped Evangeline on the leg, sending her to the ground. There was another frustrating scream. "I'LL KILL EVERYONE YOU LOVE!" the queen roared, "MY ARMY WON'T STOP UNTIL EVERYONE IN AAA IS DEAD!"

Suddenly Fionna was out of the cave and in the skies and she looked to see Marshall flying faster. "Marshall, we've got to find Cake!" Fionna exclaimed.

"No!" he yelled gruffly. "I'm taking you away from here!"

"Marshall!"

Quickly Fionna shifted out of his shoulder grip and slid down so they were face to face, grabbing onto his shoulders for her life. Their eyes locked and she gave him a serious glare. "That spider I saw earlier—that was just one of many, wasn't it?"

He hesitated to answer. "Yes," he said finally. "Evangeline has a massive army of mutant spiders."

"I heard your conversation," Fionna said, "Who knows how many residents of Aaa the spiders have already killed! Marshall, we need to help them! We need to fight!"

His eyes then had a wild gleam inside them. "We'll lose," he hissed. "We can't fight Evangeline. She's too strong. Her and her army won't stop until they get one-thousand souls. It was a promise my father made to her a long time ago."

"We have to at least try! These are our friends, our family. We can't let anyone here in Aaa die!" Fionna yelled. "If you won't try then I will."

"You'll die!" he hissed.

"I don't care. I'll die trying."

Marshall glowered at the girl and his fangs popped out again, this time they remained out as he stared at her. "Why must you always try to be so dang heroic?"

Fionna bravely held his dangerous gaze. "It's not being heroic. It's doing the right thing."

"Sometimes you don't have to do the right thing. Sometimes the right thing isn't the smart thing."

"I think you're scared, Marshall. Why won't you fight? Don't you love to fight?"

There were five little words that threatened to escape the Vampire King's mouth. Not when you're at risk. But instead the eighteen year old young man stopped flying through the skies and lowered Fionna so she was standing on his feet with her own. "If I help you," he said cautiously, "You'll listen to me. This is my battle, between me and Evangeline. You won't question my tactics, you won't fight me on strategy, and when I tell you to stay out of the way, you'll stay out of the way."

She nodded. "Okay."

"Do you promise me?"

"I promise."

Marshall nodded. "Alright. Now where's Cake?"

Author's Note:

And there's chapter three! Thank you for the reviews for chapters 1-2 guys, you're all mathematical! I'm sorry I haven't replied to each individual review, but I just wanted to say the support and reviews of this story is algebraic! Whoo!

I have now officially seen the Fionna and Cake episode when it played on Cartoon Network. Did anyone like Fionna's dress when she went to the ball? I liked it, but I didn't like her puffy sleeves. The Lord Monochromicorn part was awesome. The whole episode was pretty good actually, in my opinion.

Anyway, thank you for reading and please review.

~Luna