Chapter 5: The Plan Part 2

Finn and Fionna were at his tree fort, but he knew that she wasn't feeling so good with her home being destroyed along with her most prized sword. "I should have killed the Ice King a long time ago…" Finn mumbled regretting trying to act good by letting him live every time he beat him in a fight. Fionna noticed Finn's now torn hat and sighed. "I think your hat has a rip in it," she told him. Finn took his hat off and looked at it in his hands, seeing a tear on the side of it. "Yeah, it's nothing I can't fix. Thanks," he responded but when he looked at her he noticed a look of shock on her face.

"Is something on my face?" Finn asked but Fionna shook her head. "D-did you dye your hair?" she asked. Finn raised an eyebrow, but he looked at the mirror and saw his hair turned into a shiny white. He was starting to wonder what was happening to him. It was like he was becoming an entirely different person. "No, I didn't," he answered with a sigh while laying his hat on the sewing table he had to repair such damage to his hat. "I'm just… gonna go to bed early. Come get me if you need me," Finn said while climbing up the ladder to his room.

Finn groaned in agony while lying on his bed. He felt his body shivering as he was freezing cold. He lay in his bed just staring at the ceiling. He could see his breath as his breathing was getting weaker and weaker each second like he had drank poison.

Suddenly, Finn heard a voice which snapped him out of the odd trance. "Finn…? Are you awake?" he looked over and saw Fionna standing there in her night gown. Finn sat up to look at her. "Is something wrong?" he asked while holding his head. The boy used to sleep in a sleeping bag but he threw it away when he thought he had gotten too old for it. "No, BMO just keeps playing in his sleep, and… it's just creepy hearing the noise… can I sleep with you?" Fionna hesitantly asked rubbing the back of her head. "Yeah, sure," Finn answered moving over in his bed and keeping his back to hers. Fionna lay beside him and covered up the both of them.

"The snow will probably be gone tomorrow. Finn, should we… uh… tell the others the truth?" Fionna asked while they had their backs facing the other. Finn just raised an eyebrow. "About what?" he answered her question with another question while they rolled over facing each other's eyes. "About the fact that we never broke up?" she simply said it. They had both lied about their break up a long time back to get their older siblings to lighten up around them since they were very protective.

"Jake and Cake have their fair share of secrets from us. What's this one to them?" Finn asked with a smirk. "Yeah, I guess. I remember how we first started dating. You were upset because Flame Princess dumped you and one thing lead to another with us," Fionna talked out the memories with a smile.

"Yeah, she didn't want to hurt me anymore and just broke it off. You know there's one thing I still don't know. Jake warned me about Tier 15. He just kept telling me every day to stay away from it," Finn claimed remembering his brother's words that irritated him, same for Fionna. She sighed while cuddling up to him, starting to fall asleep. Finn smiled while looking down at her before beginning to fall asleep as well to trying to ignore the strange freezing problems he was having.

Later that night, the Ice Queen was approaching Finn's tree fort, presuming that he was in the Candy Kingdom. "Hehe… one down, another to go" she said to herself. The snow had begun to stop too. The Ice Queen formed a giant saw blade out of ice and began to cut into the tree fort base, shaking it wildly in the process.

Inside the tree fort, Finn woken up by the shaking as he growled in irritation, got up from bed and looked over, seeing Fionna still asleep. "She must be a heavy sleeper," he told himself before sliding down the ladder to the treasure room where they had all their gold money and valuables from their adventures. He grabbed his gold sword and ran outside. "Ice Queen!" he screamed and pointed his blade at her.

"Oh, you're here? I figured you'd be at the hospital with the other fools," the Ice Queen responded. She fired a blast of ice at him, but Finn caught it with his sword and froze it. He smashed it on the ground to break the ice. Then he charged at the Ice Queen and jumped at her while swinging his sword, but she dodged it and fired ice sickles at him.

Finn blocked most of them, but he was hit by one in his shoulder. He was standing in front of his tree fort, not wanting to let her get close to it. The Ice Queen shot a huge ice sickle. Finn tried to block it, but his golden sword shattered on impact, and he was stabbed in the stomach by the large sickle and pinned to his tree. He just looked in shock as he fainted from the pain that shot through his body while he was pinned to the tree and bleeding from his severely damaged stomach.

The Ice Queen laughed maniacally. "One hero down, one more to go!" she said. She flew away, planning to search for Fionna, but she didn't know that Fionna was in the tree fort.

End of Chapter 5