Adventure Time with Fionna, Cake, and Marshall Lee!
Chapter Fifteen: Fatality
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She stood over the fallen queen with a smug smirk. "You want my blood, right? That's what this whole thing has been about ever since the beginning." The adventuress looked at her wrist where Evangeline had slit her. She wiped the smeared blood onto her index finger and examined it. "I guess that ship has sailed, huh? Too bad, you obviously really wanted to chow down on some human blood."
Evangeline sat up against the tree trunk, her back too sore to sit all the way up. "Don't play with me, you stupid girl. Your blood may have been my ultimate prize, but it's the one-thousand souls my army are collecting on that was the consolation." Finally she found strength in her eight legs and stood up. "And we both know very good and well that your vampire boyfriend and little cat cannot fend off my mutant army."
Fionna knew that. That was why she had to get there as fast as she could. She reached into a small compartment of her ripped blue dress and lifted up a small glass vial with red liquid swishing inside. "This is what used to be my blood," Fionna stated. She saw the quick flicker in Evangeline's eyes. This could work, she told herself, play smart, Fionna.
"And why, you stupid girl, would you keep a vial of your human blood?" the queen asked her.
"I'm not sure. I figured it was a good idea— considering you'd do anything to get it."
The Spider Queen laughed. "I'm not calling off my army for a small vial of blood."
"I'm not asking that. You think I'd give this to you? Wench, you have to fight for this. Take us back to Gumball's castle and we'll fight each other, one-on-one. If I win... well you'll be dead. If you win, I'll be dead. But you'll also get my blood."
Evangeline scoffed. "What makes you think I've got the juice to transport us to Gummy's castle?"
"Oh I don't know... you had enough juice to break the blood swear between you and Marshall."
The queen couldn't deny that. "You're the most troublesome creature I've ever met. Hold my hands and don't let go." Hesitantly, Fionna put the vial back in her dress compartment and held the queen's icy hands. Evangeline began to chant in a low voice, her words too fast and foreign to understand. A green light began to circle them like a snake. Evangeline's eyes snapped open and she stared at Fionna with a malicious look. "You will die," she uttered. Before Fionna could say anything else the light surrounded them and they were gone.
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Purple-green colored blood splattered against the brick wall of a house in the Candy Kingdom. A loud high pitched shriek sounded through the air. Marshall Lee twisted his sword, the spider shrieking louder, before it slipped off his sword and fell into the street. Dead. He shook the excess blood off his sword and took a deep breath in. The Vampire King just killed his eighteenth spider.
His acute senses tingled and he back-flipped through the air, dodging a round of acid and web. He landed behind the spider who shot the attack and stuck it in the thorax, flying up and finishing it off by decapitating its head. Nineteen. For the quick pause he had in battle Marshall turned his head to the nighttime sky. It was fifteen minutes away from 2:00 in the morning. The eclipse of the moon had already started. The shadow was only a fingernail far into the silver moon, but it was coming, faster than they were prepared for.
He killed six more spiders with his sword and then decided to check up on his partner. "Cake! How are you holding up?"
The cat was running along the rooftops of the kingdom, three spiders running close behind her. "Little busy!" she called. He watched as the cat jumped off of one of the tallest roofs, the spiders jumping off after her. Cake then stretched her paws to another rooftop that was lengths away, successfully flipping herself to safety while the other spiders smashed against the ground, crushed.
Marshall Lee had to admit that was impressive. Well, okay, he wasn't about to admit it to Cake but he can admit it to himself. Cat has skill. You know, for a cat.
Cake propelled off a rooftop and landed beside the vampire, slightly panting as she did so. "This is some serious cardio," she panted.
Before the vampire could reply his senses went off a second time and he flipped to the side. However, he was only a second slow, because acid was able to hit his left leg. "Ah!" he grimaced as he hit the ground. He landed awkwardly because of his leg, and the spider turned and prepared to fire a second time. The acid wouldn't kill him but it would definitely slow him down. His arms went up to protect his face (he couldn't have the acid burning his handsome face) and he prepared for the worst.
Surprisingly Cake enlarged herself and was in front of him just as the acid was sprayed. Marshall watched in disbelief when he saw the acid hit Cake full on but she never even winced in pain or groaned in discomfort. Cake reached out and grabbed his sword, throwing it behind her and luckily hitting the spider in the face.
Fatality.
"What? How? How-are- what the glob?" Marshall stammered. It took a lot to shock the vampire. Cake being able to get sprayed with mutant spider acid and still be okay? Pretty lumpin' shocking.
The cat smirked smugly. "My fur is so fluffy is absorbed the acid and never actually touched my skin. True, my fur isn't delightfully soft and I'll have to brush it for awhile after this affair, but hey, better than burning skin." Cake winked. "Jealous?"
"Pff. No."
"Liar."
"Whatever, cat."
Cake laughed. "We don't have much time. Where do you think Fionna is?"
"I'm not sure," he replied gravely. The eclipse was now a fourth of the way on the moon.
"I wish Fionna was here. Obviously she'd have to fight her way through mutant spiders to get to us, but I wish she'd just appear magically," Cake sighed.
Marshall Lee rolled his eyes. "Don't be an idiot."
CRASH!
Suddenly Cake and Marshall Lee collapsed to the ground, something falling on top of them, almost magically. Cake looked and saw who was on top of her. "FIONNA! BABY-CAKES, IT'S YOU! In your face, vampire!"
The adventuress stood up and dusted herself off. That's the last time I do any teleporting, she thought to herself. "What happened? Are you guys okay? Are Gumball and his guests okay?"
It only bothered Marshall Lee a little that Fionna asked about Pinky. "We're all fine and alive. Well technically I'm dead. But Cake is alive. And... yeah." Marshall took a closer look at Fionna. "How are... you?" he asked awkwardly. Honestly, the vampire wasn't sure what would happen when Fionna drank his blood. He didn't know if it would give her a temporary high, turn her into a vampire, what? It's not like he's met a whole bunch of other humans to try it on. And at the time it was the only way he could think of Fionna protecting herself.
"I'm fine," she answered. "Evangeline and I have to fight one-on-one. I need one of you to take me to the balcony."
"I'll do it," Cake said. She grabbed her sister's arms and stretched her legs up towards the castle.
"Cool, I'll just stay down here and fight these spiders by myself!" Marshall yelled from the ground. He crossed his arms. "Whatever."
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Evangeline was waiting on the balcony when Fionna and Cake arrived. She couldn't see the seal the heroes had drawn on the floor because there was web covering the entire balcony. I hope the seal still works even when it's not showing, Fionna thought, glob, I don't hope, I pray.
"You brought your cat," the queen hissed. "We had a deal."
Cake hissed as well, growling and arching her back. Fionna put a hand on her to assure her. "But you're not alone, either."
The Spider Queen smiled. "You're very observant." She crawled a few steps left to reveal a huge white-webbed figure. It was shaped like a human. The queen laughed. "You know who's in here, don't you?"
Fionna remained silent but nodded yes. "You're an evil, sadistic, mutant queen," she finally stated. "You know who's in there is important to me." Evangeline smirked and used one of her long fingernails to slit one end of the web figure, revealing Gumball's face.
Cake gasped in utter horror. "No! Who else do you have? Who else have you webbed?" she demanded.
"Just the prince," Evangeline laughed. "He's still alive. He's frozen and can't speak or move, but he can still hear us." She threw the webbed up Candy Prince on the ground. Standing up straight, she then took out a silver dagger that gleamed in the moonlight. "Scat, cat. I have a human to kill."
Fionna turned to Cake. "Go on. I'll be okay."
The cat nodded. "You'll do fine, Fionna." She gave her sister the slightest wink, and then jumped off the balcony to continue fighting the army.
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There was no need to waste time. The minute Cake left the fighting commenced. Evangeline the Spider Queen of her evil mutant army against Fionna the only human adventuress of Aaa.
Fionna ran out and immediately attacked the queen, deciding attacking her outright before letting her throw acid or web was the best. She avoided Evangeline's dagger swipe and landed a punch to her face and stomach. She then flipped over the queen and landed behind her on her thorax. The queen bucked and sent Fionna to the ground, where she quickly stomped her into the ground.
She was literally one centimeter off from stomping Fionna's stomach, instead hitting her dress edge. The adventuress quickly flipped to her feet, her kunai blade in her hand, and slashed across Evangeline's spider legs. The queen howled angrily as blood spluttered out from her deep cuts. She threw a swipe at Fionna and managed to cut the human girl's right arm, making her drop her kunai in the process. Fionna grunted and forward rolled to avoid yet another swipe. She knew she could get her kunai back, not now anyway.
"You've been getting slow," Evangeline taunted. "You're a pathetic vampire."
Fionna laughed. "Oh yeah, I forgot to tell you. I'm not a vampire. I'm a human."
"What? NO! You were dead! I drank from you, I tasted vampire blood! You came back to life!" the queen screamed.
The adventuress nodded. "Yeah. See, I drank Marshall Lee's blood and it gave me a temporary high of what I'd be as a vampire. The fact I was dead and then came back to life was a surprise to me too." Fionna held up the vial that Evangeline previously believed was the last of her human blood. "This is punch. Before Marshall spiked it." She took a quick swig. "Tricked ya."
Angry now more than ever, the queen was firing off rounds of web and acid mixed together in a deadly weapon. Fionna desperately flipped around the balcony, each time narrowly missing an attack. She grabbed a potted vase that was near the door of the castle and chucked it at the queen. The potted plant broke against the queen's upper body and she was showered in a layer of dirt. Evangeline snorted, "Ew." She flipped her dagger from one hand to the other and started to crawl closer and closer to Fionna. "This game is over," she stated.
"You're right," Fionna agreed. "This game is over... for you! Marshall! Now!"
The Vampire King descended from the nighttime sky and held down the Spider Queen. Evangeline struggled out of his grip but Marshall held her there with all the strength he was capable of. "We're sending you back to your hell, wench!" Marshall hissed.
Shadow descended upon the two as the moon was now half light and half darkness. "NOOO!" the queen hollered.
"Emaku baya nee cino ata ro percodin haka na yu akkoro nekeema!" Fionna chanted.
The ground began to swirl and a neon yellow light illuminated through the spider web as the seal began to activate. Evangeline's skin began to crack with the same neon colored light. "I WILL COME BACK!" she screamed. "I WILL KILL YOU!"
"Newsflash, drama queen! We're already dead!" Marshall shouted.
"Kimi narro eta akataki tachi imo! Return!" Fionna finished chanting.
More cracks appeared on Evangeline's skin and Marshall Lee flew back when he started to feel his skin crack as well. Somehow in the queen's misery, she was able to sling out a final web and revert it back... with Gumball attached to it. "He's coming with me!" she hissed.
"No!" Fionna screamed. She ran out to try and grab Gumball before he disappeared to the Dungeons of the Night O'sphere with Evangeline.
"No, Fionna, don't go!" Marshall yelled after her.
Everything happened so fast. Fionna ran out and grabbed Gumball, throwing him out of the glowing seal and onto the balcony. Evangeline used the last of her strength and grabbed her arm as the adventuress tried to run away. The neon light shot up and around the two, the light so bright that it blinded Marshall. The light was killed off. There was darkness. The eclipse was complete. There was no more moonlight.
Marshall Lee the Vampire King fell to his knees. There was silence in the air. Fionna was gone.
He never wanted this. This was the one thing he didn't want, would've died trying to stop. Losing Fionna. His Fionna. Gone.
Author's Note:
Please don't be mad at the cliffhanger, okay? I know it's intense. Please, don't hate because of the drama bomb. I will update. I promise. Don't worry. Here, have a cookie to soothe the pain. *Hands you cookie*
I'm just glad I finished this chapter. Whoo it was a lot of work. But you know what they say, working hard, hardly working. Haha random XD
Thank you for reading and please review. Enjoy your cookie.
~Luna