Adventure Time with Fionna, Cake, and Marshall Lee!

Chapter Fourteen: Impurity

~X~X~X~

Four Years Ago...

A knock sounded off Marshall Lee's front door. He groaned and threw the blanket off of him and got off of his couch. "Zach, if that's you, I'm going to kick your butt for coming here this early," he groaned. The vampire opened his front door. He could honestly say the last thing he expected to be at the other end of the door was the twelve year old girl he met a few months ago. He couldn't remember her name so he simply said, "You."

The twelve year old was Fionna. She was shorter, her voice squeakier, but she was still naive and brave. "Why do you have personal problems?" she asked rather plainly. Yes, Fionna was still just as naive. She wasn't trying to be rude, and she didn't realize coming to a vampire's home when she's only met him once and plainly asking him if he has problems would be rude.

Marshall Lee was thrown off by her question because it's not every day little girls ask him why he has issues. "What?" he asked in confusion.

"Cake told me you have personal problems," Fionna explained.

He remembered Cake was that smack-talking cat friend of hers. Oh, and the little girl was named Fionna, that's right. "That's what your cat told you, huh?"

She nodded. "Yup."

"Well, little girl, even if I did have so called 'personal problems', I'm not about to share them with a kid like you. So you can just turn around and go home to your cat like a good human."

Fionna surprised him when she put her hands on her hips and said, "Don't talk to me like I'm three."

"Oh, I'm sorry, how old are you anyway, kid? Ten?"

"I'm twelve!"

"Great. I don't tell my problems to twelve year olds, so go home."

Fionna put a hand on his door to stop him for closing it. "So you admit you have problems."

This kid doesn't take a break. "What's it to you?" Marshall asked. His tone is defensive.

"Well I was hoping I could help you work out your personal problems."

The Vampire King was thrown through a loop. He met this girl once, and kicked her and her cat out of their tree house, crashed their house party at their cave, even starting fighting them. He was a class A jerk. So here she is again a month later, offering to help him solve his 'personal problems'. What was wrong with this kid? "Why do you want to help me?"

"Because I'm throwing a party and I want you to have fun without worrying about your problems." Her answer is so sincere, she sounds so genuine and kind without knowing just how messed up his problems are. She's actually kind of cute. Marshall is surprised with himself; he actually thinks a little girl is cute. And she wants him to come to her party!

He suddenly smiles, from the sheer stupidity of it, and shakes his head so his locks of black hair sway. "You don't have to worry about me and my problems at a party," he chuckled. "I can still have fun at one even if I've got issues."

Fionna smiled. "Does that mean you'll come? It's this Saturday at our tree house, and the theme is silly hats, so wear one if you've got one."

Marshall sinks down to her eye-level because even at twelve she's a shorty. "Sure kid. I'll go to your stupid party."

~X~X~X~

Present day on the night of the eclipse...

Cake didn't need to ask what happened to Fionna when it was just Marshall Lee who returned to the Candy Kingdom. She could see in the Vampire King's desolate eyes that something happened to her. She told herself that she needed to stop worrying for now and focus of fighting the army of spiders coming their way. It was two against quite possibly two-hundred. Wherever Fionna was, she stood a better chance than fighting in the front lines. Marshall flies and lands beside the cat but doesn't say a word to her. "Just tell me she's okay," Cake said softly.

He won't look at her. He can't. "I hope so," he finally replied quietly. The spiders were crawling over the walls and zoning in quickly. All the party guests were locked in the ballroom so at least they weren't in the way and were so far safe. Cake almost doesn't hear the vampire, but her sensitive ears hear him quietly mutter, "I didn't mean for it to go this far."

"I know," she assured. And she does know; Fionna means as much to him as she does to her. Be safe, sista, is her final thought before rushing out into a battle she was sure she couldn't win.

~X~X~X~

She could sense everything. She could hear the leaves rustle in the wind from half a mile away, smell the damp green moss in the forest floor, see clear images in the darkness. Could drinking Marshall Lee's blood really give her this kind of power? It was almost impossible but if it was impossible how could it be happening?

Fionna crouched low on a high tree branch, unseen from the darkness, careful not to move a single centimeter. She could hear Evangeline crawl on the forest bed below. Fionna wasn't sure if Evangeline had her same senses but she wasn't going to make any assumptions or take any chances. The spider queen eased slowly, waiting to hear the slightest indication of movement.

"Hey, what's shakin' beautiful?"

Fionna snapped her head to the left and saw a small blue butterfly next to her. "Be quiet!" she mouthed.

Evangeline's head snapped. She heard something but she wasn't sure from where. This butterfly was jeopardizing everything! "So my mom makes some really good cheese casserole, and I want you as my date to come eat it with me." Luckily, because the butterfly was small his voice wasn't very loud, a few notches under a whisper, but Evangeline could still hear something.

"Go away," Fionna mouthed.

"Hard to get huh?" the butterfly asked. "That's cool, I like challenges. You know what they say baby, when you go butterfly you don't go back."

Fionna wasn't really sure what the butterfly meant, but she was a little disturbed by it. "You need to get out of here, I have a boyfriend," she mouthed again. Whatever she could say to get the butterfly out she'd say it!

"Where are you, human?" Evangeline challenged from below.

Now she was desperate. "GO!"

"Baby, when your bf dumps you, come see me. I can heal your hurt," the butterfly winked. He flew away. However, because the butterfly was too busy acting cool to impress Fionna, he flew straight into the tree branch, making the slightest and smallest—

Rustle!

That was all Evangeline needed. She jumped high up into the trees and shot off a round of venom! Fionna quickly jumped off the tree branch and avoided the deadly liquid, flipping through the air and landing near the next tree. She started running tree branch to tree branch and the queen hissed and ran after her! The butterfly was left alone with no date to bring home to eat the casserole his mother made.

Fionna didn't exactly have a strategy, she was just trying her best to stay alive. Multiple tears and cuts were all over her body as she bounded through the tree tops. Evangeline was literally a tree behind her and was too busy trying to catch up to stop and throw webs or venom. She has to have a weakness, Fionna thought desperately, Think Fi! She's a spider, what are a spider's weaknesses? Mutant or not she's still an insect!

"You can't run forever!" Evangeline screamed.

"You better watch it, don't step on a thin branch your fat butt will make you fall through!"

"MY BUTT IS NOT FAT!"

"Are you kidding? It's huge!"

An idea finally came to her: water! Normal spiders can't swim, high time to find out if mutant ones can. The closest river is a mile away, Fionna thought. She was getting tired, the blood was getting weaker. No Fionna, you have to keep trying. Marshall and Cake are depending on you!

Suddenly she was pushed back and Evangeline shoved her off the branch, both of them plummeting to the ground. Fionna landed on her back and she coughed from the ache. Evangeline's hands went around her throat. "I'm tired of games, little girl," she hissed. Suddenly the queen's face was no longer human-like and had contorted into something truly evil. Her mouth grew out so it looked like the jaws of a shark, her rows of teeth yellow and pointed. Her eyes grew round and even multiplied so now four evil orbs were glaring at Fionna. Evangeline's true form was revealed.

Fionna gagged and struggled out of her grasp but it was to no avail. The queen's grasp around her was tight like rope and she was crushing Fionna's frail body to trap her. She could feel the air leave her body, the pressure on her throat crushing everything. For one moment, one quick moment Fionna saw Cake, looking at her with big shining eyes. Then, she saw Prince Gumball, staring at her with a confused and sad expression. Finally, she saw Marshall Lee, but he was angry and yelling something but she couldn't hear what.

Her eyes lulled to the back of her head. Her body stopped fighting. Her heart stopped beating.

Evangeline eased her hands off of her neck. "Finally. You're mine." The queen took out her dagger and slit Fionna's arm. She eased her head down and latched her mouth onto the cut, taking her first drink from the dead girl's body. She took a long drink and after a few well-awaited moments she lifted her head, blood spilling off of her chin. "This blood...," she muttered. "This blood is not pure. This isn't... no... this blood isn't human... this is vampire. No... no... no, that can't be!"

WHAM!

Evangeline the Spider Queen flew across the forest floor, smacking into a tree trunk with brute force! The body of the sixteen year old girl stood up, cracked her neck to the side, and brushed off the smeared blood on her dress. The queen looked up at her with big bright eyes.

"Yeah," Fionna smirked. "Drama bomb."

Author's Note:

Of all the chapters I've written in this story, this is the one chapter I think Fionna is at her coolest. Seriously, the very end with Fionna, WIN. She's so cool. Muahaha.

So... is Fionna now a vampire? If you guys want to speculate in your reviews that'd be alright. I'm not going to give anything away or say anything about it but I would like to know what y'all are thinking :D

I love the beginning with little Fionna and Marshall Lee. To me that's just so cute, 'why do you have personal problems?' haha XD There was a point to my flashback and other chapters might have them, I haven't decided really. Oh yeah and it's not everyday you get hit on by a butterfly... but in Aaa, anything can happen ;D

Thank you for reading, and please review. Merry Christmas!

~Luna