Chapter 11: The Ice Prince and Flame Prince
For the past few days, Pagos had been searching high and low for Flame Prince. He was looking everywhere in the Land of Ooaa. After all he knew that the only jewels left were the Flame Prince, Bubblegum and Prince Gumball's. He just was starting to get annoyed at this point. "Maybe he died in a cave or lake... or maybe the ocean," Pagos thought and sighed. He was unsure where else he could search. That was until he had an idea. "Maybe another flame being can help me," he thought, remembering someone else from Finn's past. He had a grin and started his next trail to try and find him.
Pagos soon found Finn's friend, a small flambit from the Fire Kingdom which always played informant for Finn and Jake, but mistook Pagos for him just like everyone else had. "As always, Finn. You know my info don't come cheap," Flambo told Pagos wanting a piece of charcoal like he was normally given. Suddenly he felt a freezing pain around his tail, looking and seeing it frozen stiff, suddenly and slowly melting out. "Is letting you live a fair trade?" he responded with a glare, terrifying the flambit.
"Y-yeah, man right. You wanna know where Flame Prince is, right? H-he's hanging out in the forest in the snow Kingdom," Flambo answered. Pagos just grinned, showing his sharp teeth at Flambo. "Wasn't that easy?" he asked before walking away from the terrified flambit whose tail was still trying to thaw out.
In the Snow Kingdom, there was a small blaze in the jungle. In that blaze was a boy with blazing bright hair and wearing a red outfit with similar matching boots, and a jewel on his forehead, and having pointy ears too. He was the Flame Prince, a practical wandering warrior as of now since he would always help if he could when there was a problem in the same area he was in. He just sat there, burning the snow around him while he was resting.
"Long time no see, Flame Prince!" a voice flew onto the Flame Prince's pointy ears. He stood up, looking around and seeing Pagos step out from the forest surrounding with a smirk across his face. "Oh… hello, Finn. What are you doing here?" Flame Prince asked being confused by his white hair and pale blue skin. Pagos just chuckled. "I came to help. You've heard of all the royal jewel stealing, haven't you?" Pagos started hoping he could get away with using trust to steal the jewel from his forehead just like he tricked flame princess.
"I try to avoid as much royal responsibility as living plausibly," Flame Prince replied and sighed. He didn't particularly like the princesses and princes for the same reason Pagos hated them. They all wanted help, but for the most part there was practically nothing in return. "Well, someone appears to have been running around and snatching all the jewels from all crowns and tiaras. The only ones who haven't had their jewels stolen are you, Bubblegum and Gumball. I'll get to the point. Just give me your jewel so I can protect it," Pagos explained.
"Are you kidding? I'm pretty sure I can defend my own jewel on my own forehead. In fact, I don't know how anyone could even grab it without burning their hand," Flame Prince claimed still seeing him as Finn. Pagos just glared at him since he wasn't going to give it up. "The first victim…" he mumbled. He pulled out his katana blade with the snowflake finger guard. "What happened to you? You're not the Finn I know!" Flame Prince declared, which just gave Pagos more incentive to try and kill him.
Pagos threw a slash, but the Flame Prince barely dodged it. "Let's see you when you're put out," he taunted. Flame prince lit his hands on fire, shooting out a wave of fire at him. Pagos swung his katana upwards, making a thick wall of ice shoot up from the ground that barely blocked the flames, but it melted to the point it fell over and nearly crushed him, but Pagos slid out of the way.
"Just who are you?!" Flame Prince shouted, making a ball of fire in his hand and throwing it at Pagos. He was somewhat terrified since he was in a snowy area against the Ice Prince. Pagos just chuckled, cutting the fire ball in half with another slice, but then saw the pieces he cut explode around him in a blaze, shooting up a cloud of smoke. Flame Prince unfortunately saw Pagos walking through with a shield made of ice frozen onto his other arm, which he used to block the attack. "I'm the Ice Prince, and it's ice to meet ya," he claimed with his bad pun of an introduction. The Flame Prince shot out another burst of fire, melting the shield. He then charged at Pagos and punched him in the face, leaving a burn mark on his face as well.
Before Pagos could react, he was punched in the stomach and knocked onto his knees. Flame Prince made a fiery ball around his hand, holding it up to his face. He was about to use it on his opponent as the ice prince just glared, smashing his fist into the snowy ground while he was on his knees. He shot up a massive icicle that hit the Flame Prince's hand and cut it straight off. Flame Prince let out a scream while holding his now handless arm. Pagos stood up and slashed him across the chest before kicking him back into a tree that then started to catch fire as a result.
The Flame Prince just sat against the tree and chuckled slightly, making the ice prince grin back at him. "Well what do you know? It looks like you've become hysterical. Allow me to help," Pagos claimed. He ripped the jewel out of his forehead, burning his hand in the process. He threw the jewel into his mouth and ate it right in front of him. Pagos grinned while raising his sword, ready to attack the Flame Prince once more. "I have no control!" he mumbled still laughing, making him raise an eyebrow. Pagos looked at the Flame Prince's severed hand behind him that had the ball of fire in it. It shot out a huge blast of fire that hit Pagos in the back, burning right through his clothes. Pagos fell to his knees and fell over, dropping his sword as the blade was melting away into a puddle only leaving the hilt and fingerguard.
Flame Prince stood up, seeing his hand that looked burnt out. He took a look at Pagos. "You're not my friend," he claimed while panting after the battle he just got in. He knew what he had to do. He took the ice prince by his shirt collar and started dragging him away with his one arm that still had the remaining hand on it.
End of Chapter 11