Adventure Time with Fionna, Cake, and Marshall Lee!

Chapter Eleven: The Start Of A Long Night

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"Cake, I need to find Marshall, not put on a stupid dress." Fionna crossed her arms and legs, sitting down on one of the wooden chairs in their tree house. After her not-so-successful talk with Gumball, she needed to come back home to relieve stress and sharpen her sword for tonight. It just so happened that sharpening her sword was her stress reliever. It would be working too, if it weren't for a certain fluffy cat.

"Baby, let me explain something to you..." Cake said, trailing off as she went into her dresser drawer. She then stretched out her two paws to Fionna's face.

The adventuress groaned. "Not the puppets Cake!"

Placed perfectly on Cake's two paws were two cute little puppets. One had a blue shirt and a white bunny hat, the Fionna puppet. The other had wild black hair and two cross eyed eyes (to suggest stupidity) which was the Marshall Lee puppet. Making her voice lighter, Cake started to shake the Fionna puppet. "Oh Marshall Lee, tonight we have to try and stop Evangeline! She'll probably most likely be at the party too, since that's where all the Aaa people will be. Tee hee hee."

The girl was not amused. "First of all, I never go 'Oh Marshall Lee' and I never go 'tee hee hee'."

Cake laughed. "Yes you do. Now, pay attention to my puppet show." The cat made her voice deeper and started to shake the Marshall Lee puppet. "Well Fionna, the problem is if we show up at the party ready to attack, we'll give away our surprise element. If we're at the party all nice and dressed up and go undercover, we won't be as easy to spot and can sneak attack."

Fionna groaned. "I don't believe Marshall would ever say-,"

Crash!

The two adventurers turned their heads and saw none other than the Vampire King, staring straight at them with a dangerous gleam. "Oh Marshall Lee!" Fionna exclaimed.

"You see? HA!" Cake cheered.

"What's all the commotion?" the Vampire asked. He saw the strange and ugly puppet that sort of looked like him. "And what in glob's name is that?"

Cake quickly hid the puppets behind her back. "Nothing." She gave a quick grin. "Marshall, help me out, I'm trying to get Fionna in a dress for the party. If we're dressed up nice we can go undercover as party guests."

Fionna scoffed. "How many times do I have to tell you? I. Hate. So. Very. Much. With. A. Burning. Passion. Stupid. Lumping. Dresses."

He smirked and turned to the sixteen year old girl. "You. Would. Most. Definitely. Look. Awesome. In. A. Dress."

She was taken aback. Did Marshall Lee just compliment her? Like, for real, a genuine compliment? Directed at her? What? "Do. You. Really. Mean. That?"

"Course. Baby. Cakes. So. Go. Put. On. A. Dress. You'll. Look. Great."

"Well. If. You. Say-,"

"JUST GO ALREADY!" Cake yelled. "AT THIS POINT WE'LL BE LATE FOR THE PARTY!"

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"What? I wear a stupid dress and all you have to wear is a stupid tux top?"

Marshall smirked. "I make this tux top look good." The vampire dumped his red and green plaid shirt, and was wearing a black tuxedo top, black pants which were still ripped at the knee, and black converses. It was nice... for someone like him.

Fionna on the other hand, wore a midnight blue dress that came down mid thigh, the dress material sparkly and glittered in the light. It had a scoop neck collar and sleeveless with two noodle straps to hold it up. The waist was tight but the rest flowed like a dress, loose fitting and perfecting for adventuring. Of course she kept on her hat. "What time is it, Cake?" Fionna smirked.

"Party time."

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"Oh my glob Gumball, this party is packing!" Lumpy Space Prince exclaimed. He was dressed fancy with a simple bow tie on his neck, holding a cup of punch in his hands as he floated next to the Candy Kingdom Prince. "You see those hot chicks over there? They're like, totally checking us out. We need to go over there with our A game."

Gumball shook his head. "I'm in love with Fionna."

Pfffssshh!

"What the lump?" LSP exclaimed after he spit out his punch. "Since when?" he demanded.

Gumball had his head turned down at the punch mess. "I'm going to have to ask poor Peppermint Butler to pick that up," he sighed.

Smack!

"Lumpy Space Prince slapping is not proper for a party!" Gumball exclaimed as he rubbed his red cheek.

LSP shook his head. "You're in love with Fionna and you didn't tell me. What the stuff! I thought we were friends! We started the Dudes In Love Alliance!"

Gumball gave his friend a quizzical look. "The Dudes In Love Alliance? That's downright silly."

"No!" —slap!—"It's true! The three of us were the Dudes In Love Alliance. We help each other fall in love with hot babes. And now you're telling me you're in love with Fionna without my help? I was supposed to be your wing man! I was supposed to help you find love. You betrayed the alliance. You betrayed our friendship."

There was an awkward silence in the air as Prince Gumball tried to remember ever making an agreement to be in that silly alliance. He doesn't remember agreeing to any of that. He also couldn't recall why or how he fell in love with Fionna. It was like... suddenly he was forced... put in a trance... something happened that— "Wait," Gumball suddenly said. "Who was the third?"

"Pff," LSP scoffed. "It used to be Mrs. Cinnamon Bun, but then I found out she wasn't a dude, she's a girl."

"She wears a dress."

"I THOUGHT SHE WAS GOING THROUGH A ROUGH PATCH!" LSP composed himself. "Well no matter. I'm still going to support you in making Fionna fall in love with you. I can still be your wing man. Lumps, I'm such a giving creature."

"What do you mean help Fionna fall in love with me?" Gumball asked in a confused voice.

"Wake up and smell the beans, babe. Fionna just walked in and she's with the vampire." LSP pointed to the castle entry way doors. Gumball followed his direction, and through the crowds of partying people, there was Fionna in the most beautiful dress he had ever seen. Right next to her was Cake... and then... Marshall Lee. Gumball gasped dramatically. "You've got competition, brother," LSP said. "But don't worry because I'll do what I can to take Marshall Lee out of the picture. FOR THE ALLIANCE!"

Across the dancefloor with our three heroes (well two for sure)...

The party certainly was impressive, as the human girl expected. Decorations hung from the ceiling and music was playing that was loud enough to dance to, but not loud enough to interrupt a conversation. Food tables were lined up neatly, more than enough tables for sitting and chatting, and plenty of room on the dance floor for the guests to get their party on. "Okay, first things first," Fionna sighed.

"Punch?" Cake asked. "We should drink some before Marshall spikes it."

The vampire chuckled. "Your cat is starting to catch onto how I like things."

"No," Fionna said sternly. "The book Cake got from Marshall's dad's library about sealing away Evangeline to the dungeons. It specifically said that we had to do it while the eclipse happens on the moon, when there's an even split of lightness and darkness. It also said we must perform the spell outside, indoors won't work. Gumball has a balcony, that will be a perfect spot. The problem is how we're supposed to get Evangeline outside."

Cake nodded as she listened to her younger sister. "Another problem is her army. She's not stupid enough to show up alone. The three of us alone can't protect the party guests and fight off spiders. No, mutant spiders."

"It sounds like we have a lot to think about," Marshall added. "So I'm going to let you ladies get to it, and I'm going to turn Gumball's fancy bowl of strawberries into gray lumps."

As the vampire started to fly off a hand grabbed his tux jacket and tugged him to a halt. Fionna was giving him a serious look. "Compared to you I look like a prude," she stated. That simple statement threw Marshall off. "I'm not a prude," Fionna continued, "I like to party. I enjoy busting moves. I love parties. I love having fun with my friends and dancing like there's no tomorrow."

"So what do you want, a medal?"

"Marshall." Her look went from serious to dangerous. "I don't want to do all the work while you mess around. This should be as important to you as it is for me."

"It is important, Fi."

"Then why are you acting otherwise?"

Marshall landed on the ground and bent over to her eye-level. "For all we know," he whispered, "Evangeline could be watching us right now. She could be disguised and in the crowd. So if she sees us doing things we wouldn't normally do at a party she might get suspicious and call in her army before we're ready."

Fionna held his stare for a few more moments and then sighed. "Okay," she grumbled. "Sorry."

"I understand where you're coming from," Marshall smirked. He gave her a quick kiss on her cheek and said softly, "And you're not a prude. You hang around me too much." Just like that he was flying off towards the snack table.

Fionna sighed and straightened out her dress. If Evangeline was in the crowd she wouldn't be suspicious of her dancing. One dance sounded good. "Come on Cake," Fionna smiled, "let's go show off our skills."

Author's Note:

Hey everybody! I hope y'all had a great Thanksgiving and what not and such. Haha! I had fun typing up this muffin. Yes, I'm referring my story as a muffin. I'm random like that. I just love writing LSP. I don't even plan half the stuff I write, it just flows, especially with Gumball and LSP scenes.

Anyway, not to sound like I'm bragging or whatever. I'll try and update when I can! Thank you for reading and please review. Now I feel like partying... not like drinking and going crazy party, a cool dance party type party. Okay, I'm tired of saying party. PARTY. Okay, I'm done. XD

~Luna