Adventure Time with Fionna, Cake, and Marshall Lee!

Chapter Eight: Blood Red

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It was his eyes that scared her the most. They were blood red like eyes of a monster. Marshall Lee, her vampire friend, her best friend, had blood red eyes like a horrible beast. When a loud shriek sounded off the walls, Marshall had lunged at her to bite her, but instead bit a red pillow that happened to fall between her and her neck. Feathers flew everywhere and Fionna fought out of his grasp, going against the wall of the stuffed closet.

She was stuck, and she hated to admit it. The Vampire King's guards where out looking for them and if they left the closet they would find them and no doubt kill them. But if she stayed in the closet there was very little doubt that Marshall Lee wouldn't lunge at her and bite her. Would his bite make her a vampire? Would she be an immortal blood sucker? No! Fionna couldn't bear the thought of outliving Cake, B-MO, Prince Gumball, any of her friends! Immortality was no something she wanted... not yet anyway... she was only sixteen!

Marshall was stalking towards her, his mouth open and fangs gleaming, a light growl rumbling from his chest. Fionna knew she couldn't fight him- not at first anyway, that would just put his adrenaline into overdrive. If she had to fight him she would wait until that was her only option.

So if she won't fight, what else was there? Running? No. Running will excite him, make this fun for him. He wasn't looking at the adventuress like she was his friend, he was looking at her like she was his prey. Running was just asking to be attacked.

Then what else is there? Fionna asked herself. Her heart was pounding, the vampire was stalking closer and closer, his time to pounce was getting closer and closer!

In a sheer fit of desperation, Fionna cried in a hushed voice, "Marshall Lee!"

He looked at her straight in the eyes, his growl getting louder.

Fionna knew she caught his attention. Maybe talking to him will make him better. "Marshall," she said again, more softly this time. "You don't want to kill me. I'm your best friend. We've known each other ever since I was twelve and you evicted me and Cake out of our tree house." Marshall lunged out for Fionna and she wrapped her arms around his shoulders, gripping him as tight as she possibly could. He immediately growled at full ferocity now and his sharp claws dug into the adventuress's hips.

"I'm not letting you go!" Fionna yelled. "You need to come back to me, Marshall Lee. I don't want to lose you, you hear me? I don't want to stop hanging out with you, playing music with you, going pixie hunting with you! Eating strawberries or anything red, running with wolves, watching scary movies, I want to do those things with you!"

She wasn't crying. Fionna was tough, strong, an adventuress, and she wasn't crying. But she was close, she was so very close to crying over the despair her vampire friend would never come back. That, was even more horrifying than Marshall eating her and drinking her blood. She was more horrified by the look on his face when he becomes himself again, the look on his face when he realizes what he had done.

However, the sixteen year old girl did start crying. But they weren't tears of misery.

They were tears of relief.

Because the claws dug into her hips turned into soft finger tips, and a soft voice breathed into her ear, "Fi."

At the moment the vampire teen whispered her name she started crying, and couldn't help but smile. "Marshall."

He held her tightly and she allowed him, she held him back as tightly as she could. "Did I... did I do anything?"

"No," she answered. "No Marsh, you didn't do anything at all."

"Thank glob."

She eased back so they were face to face, their noses almost touching. Fionna looked into his eyes and saw his pitch black orbs with a sparkling white gleam. Fionna smiled. "You're back."

He smirked. "Yeah Fi. I'm back."

Neither the vampire nor the adventuress were sure who kissed who first. But, they knew they were caught up in the moment, the tender and heart warming moment, and their lips were only a few inches away. So, that distance was quickly closed and Fionna had her second kiss with the dangerous Vampire King. She was determined to make the cold lips molding with hers turn warm, and he was determined to make the pink lips molding with his moan.

Really it was a great tender moment.

But all moments have to be ruined in some way.

The door to the closet opened. There was a shocked and disturbed GASP!

No, wait, it wasn't a gasp.

It was a meow.

Following after- "I'M GONNA KILL YOU MARSHALL LEE!"

Yeah. Tender moment followed by an awkward moment. No wonder Fionna turned red.

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"CAKE NO! YOU HAVE TO BE QUIET, THE GUARDS ARE LOOKING FOR US!"

"HOW DARE YOU! MRRROOOOWWW! FTT! FTT! I'M GONNA CLAW YOUR EYES OUT! MRRRRROOOOWWWW! FTT! FTT!"

"Come on kit-kat, show me what you got!"

"Marshall, don't encourage her!"

"Mrrrrrrreeeeewwww!" Hiss! Hiss!

"Come on Cake, you're the adult here!"

"In human years! In cat years I'm only four!"

These were the yells and threats that sounded off the closet walls. Fionna was holding her fluffy older sister back, while the cat tried to claw to Marshall Lee, and the vampire stood in a defensive pose, ready to fight the feline. This was the third most embarrassing thing that has happened to Fionna. The second one was when she walked in on Prince Gumball and his girlfriend while they were on a date at the Science Fair. The first one had to do with LSP, baked beans, Gumball wearing an afro, Lord Monochromicorn slipping on butter, and Cake unleashing zombies. But, that was another story.

Finally Cake gave up trying to kill Marshall (good thing, he's already dead), and she huffed and puffed in Fionna's arms. Usually the human girl had to hold her magical fluffy cat until Cake calmed the glob down. "We're going to talk about this later," Cake warned. "How dare you smooch that vampire!"

"That was the second time, too," Marshall winked.

"SECOND TIME? You already smooched once? Mrrrrrrrroooooowwww!"

"Cake!" Fionna reminded. "Find your happy place Find your happy place! Think of our tree house, you're in the kitchen, Lord Monochromicorn is cooking enchiladas with you, there's cat nip in the air, the enchiladas are tuna flavored..."

"Tuna..."

Cake shook her head. "Alright. Fine. I'm your older sis Fionna, I have to look out for you. Anyway, onto more important things, I know how we can defeat Evangeline the Spider Queen." From her pouch of fluff, Cake pulled out an old time book. "While y'all were fighting the King, I found his private library. Look, I found this book."

Marshall took the book and flipped through it. "A Slayer's Guide To Defeating Fantasy Creatures? This was in my dad's library?"

Cake nodded. "Right next to his 'Soul Eater Monthly'. Your dad has issues."

"Yep."

"Apple doesn't fall far from the tree."

"What?"

"Nothing."

The vampire gave the cat one quick glare before returning his attention to the book. He flipped through the index and found the species he was looking for 'Arachnid Beasts'. Fionna stepped on her toes and looked over his shoulder to read what he was reading. A few 'oh's and 'ah's' and finally an, 'ooohhh'.

"Well, Evangeline can be slain," Fionna muttered.

"Yeah," Marshall agreed. "But it's going to be difficult." He snapped the book shut. "We're going to have to send Evangeline and her army of mutant spiders into the dungeon grounds of the Night O'Sphere."

The dungeon grounds were of the Night O'Sphere was much worse than the Night O'sphere, but not by much. When you get trapped in the dungeons you're never leaving, you're trapped for the rest of your life, or in Evangeline's case, the rest of her immortal life. In order to send someone to the dungeon grounds, you had to wait until the moon was going to have an eclipse, and perform a spell right at the moment the moon was half eclipsed and half lighted.

But the first challenge our heroes had to face, was getting out of the Night O'sphere and back to Ooo. That would be a lot easier if there wasn't awkward romantic tension in the air.

Author's Note:

Hey y'all. I realize I haven't updated in a long time, and I have a good excuse. You see the computer I had been using was my sister's, and we used to share a room so I had access to it. But now she has moved away and I can only use my dad's laptop, which has cut my internet access. I'm lucky if I'm on once a day for a half-an-hour. So updating might be complicated but that doesn't mean I don't want to update, I do, and I hate keeping you guys in suspense. Good news is, I'm finishing up another multi-chapter story next week so I'll have this one to focus on. Really what I'm saying is, I'm trying :D

And to the user 'soph' I wanted to ask if you wouldn't repeatedly review my story begging me to update. I just listed the reason above and I really am trying. I'm not trying to sound ungrateful, I'm really flattered you love my story, but understand I can't update as often as usual.

Anyway, whoo, long A/N XD Again, sorry guys, keep your fingers crossed I get my own laptop lol.

Much Adventure Time love,

~Luna