Chapter 2: The Pagos Prince's Jewel?
Finn was riding on Morrow across the big blue sky through the clouds, flying in blazing speed. He was starting to see why Princess Bubblegum liked riding on Morrow so much. She was so fast and could dodge any unexpected objects in an instance. He was enjoying the ride as they saw snow and heavy wind start blowing. They found themselves flying over the Ice Kingdom, and the heavy winds were starting to blow faster and rougher, which was slightly shoving Morrow back. "Jeez! This is bad… you can't get near the fortress, so get me to the back path!" Finn ordered having an idea. They could see the Ice Fortress just in the distance, a tall frozen mountain with multiple hazards surrounding it on the ground below.
Morrow was not going to be able to get any closer to the ground than it was. Finn sighed in disappointment. "Get outta here I'll be fine," Finn reassured Morrow before jumping off the side and diving downwards into the ground. He crashed into the snowy ground. The softness of the snow cushioned his fall He sighed in relief after pulling his head out of the snow. "Thank glob it wasn't ice," Finn told himself with a laugh acting like what he did was nothing past an average day, even though he could have broken his neck after skydiving recklessly.
Finn looked around, pulling his gold sword off his back. The blade looked brittle, chipped and slightly broken, but he just kept it ready in case he got into a fight, since the Ice Kingdom was not the kindest kingdom around. In fact he questioned if the only nice thing in the kingdom at all were the penguins living here. Finn went up the path he had landed on, seeing it as a weird back door with a huge ravine under it. He just ignored it and continued his way into the Ice Fortress.
Once inside, Finn was now in the Ice King's private collection room where he had a collection items lying around. Suddenly he heard his stomach grumbling from being empty. "Man, I wish I brought food…" he mumbled to himself. He saw the poorly lit room with so many items, mainly ninja equipment. Just then, Finn saw something out of the corner of his eye. It was a strange item on a coffee table and it felt like something was calling to him.
Finn went over to investigate and saw a small blue crystal. It was clear blue and sparkly like the stars at night. There was also the hilt of a sword lying beside it. However, that hilt didn't have a sword in it, but only a weird snow flake shaped finger guard. He didn't care for a weapon without the blade, considering it worthless, but when Finn had his attention adverted, he looked back to the blue crystal and saw an apple in his eyes. "Huh? …well, it must have been a shape shifting gem," he thought, but he had never seen one and just presumed it was true. He picked it up and started eating it.
Unbeknownst to Finn, he was eating the crystal, but for some reason in his eyes it was a plain apple. He just ate it up and sighed in relief, now with something to quiet his stomach. Then he remembered what he was supposed to be doing. "Oh, right! Bubblegum and Gumball!" Finn screamed. He ran out of the room, but he hadn't noticed a small sticky note that was beside the sword hilt. "The Pagos Prince's jewel, look away for major safekeeping."
Finn was running from the strange collection room until he found himself running up a huge spiral staircase of ice. He had gone up those steps many times before, having familiar memories in his head from the years of dealing with these kidnappings. Finn arrived to the top of the steps, and saw a familiar person in front of him. She was a girl with a white rabbit hat, a light blue shirt and a dark blue miniskirt, and she had a short red sword beside her. She was sitting against the wall, her longer blonde hair being in front of her face, but in a stylish way.
"Oh, hey Fionna. What are you doing here?" Finn asked but he was glad to see someone else that could help him, since he was worried that he will easily be beaten without Jake's assistance. Fionna was known as the other only human left, along with Finn. She was known for the same old thing, being a heroic adventurer just like Finn. She got up after seeing him arrive.
"Cake told me Gumball and Bubblegum were kidnapped, so we came to save them," Fionna explained, but she looked slightly beat up. "Jeez! What happened to your mother's sword?" Finn asked noticing the unfamiliar blade she was wielding. Fionna looked down with a dismayed expression. "It broke. There were so many ice golems at the entrance. One second I was bashing and smashing. The next I'm seeing blade pieces fly everywhere. Cake's dealing with them, so I was just waiting for her to catch up," Fionna explained what had occurred to cause her to have to pull out her emergency short sword and use it, but right now it wasn't in a better condition.
"I know what you mean. Ever since the Ice King and Ice Queen have started working together, it's been even harder to save them," Finn exclaimed. He and Jake have had troubles with their forces too, but nothing they couldn't handle together anyway. Finn held out his hand to his friend. "Come on, we can handle the two ice loons together," he said. Fionna however didn't feel right. Something was feeling off with Finn. He was acting kinder and having no fear unlike before. She took his hand and stood up getting her sword ready, thinking that her older sister would catch up and save them if they got into trouble themselves.
"Do you want to have the honors?" Finn offered while they stood in front of the door to the main room, which is where the Ice King and Ice Queen kept their prisoners, and surprisingly was their bedroom. Practically, Finn was giving Fionna the chance to kick open the door, which was always done as an entrance. "Nah, you do it. My legs are tired from stomping on Ice Wolves," she declined. Finn snickered at Fionna's response, but he threw his foot at the door, kicking it wide open. He and Fionna stormed into the room.
End of Chapter 2