Chapter 15: Fighting the Ice Prince

Prince Gumball and the Ice Prince charged at each other, their swords clashing while they were face to face. Gumball could see the look of insanity in Pagos' eyes. With ease, he broke Prince Gumball's candy rapier and slashed him across the chest, knocking him straight to the ground. "As I figured, you're too weak to defeat me!" he taunted, but Gumball stood up and stabbed Pagos in the stomach with the broken remains of his candy rapier. Pagos didn't hesitate to slam his head at him and kick him back to the wall of the Candy Kingdom, freezing him onto it with his power.

"You stay there while I get inside," Pagos told Gumball before punching him in the jaw and knocking him unconscious. Pagos left him frozen to the outside wall. He could do nothing for his injury to his stomach, so he just froze the wound over trying to ignore it. Pagos began to walk into the gate that was being held up by the giant ice hand he had created to pry it open. Once inside, he used his ice magic to make the ice hand vanish, seeing the gate slam into the ground with a lot of force as a result. "Now to find Bubblegum," he claimed, but unbeknownst to him, Gumball had already forced Bubblegum to leave the kingdom in case it did not end well.

Pagos just began laughing, seeing the snow falling from the sky as he began freezing everyone in sight, every candy person being frozen before him. However, a voice stopped him. "Hey, buddy! Take this!" Pagos turned around, getting punched in the back of the head. He growled, snapping his head and trying to see whatever hit him, but it was gone.

Pagos was hit again in the back of his head, swinging his sword behind him while starting to get irritated. "Come on out, cowards!" he shouted. "Up here, ice dork," Pagos looked up, seeing Cake standing on top of one of the houses, stretching her arm at him to inflict another punch, but this time making her fist grow in an attempt to crush him, but he made a wall of ice shoot up, freezing her arm in it. He walked up to her stretched arm. "I could use a snack anyway," Pagos claimed while using his sword again. He was about to cut her arm off, but suddenly he heard another person call to him. "Yo! Over here!"

Pagos looked to where the noise came from, seeing Fionna and Jake there. Jake was using his stretchy powers to form a slingshot with Fionna loaded up on it with her sword in hand. "Great, more people to kill," he said with a laugh as he charged at them. "You ready, Jake?" she asked. Jake gave a thumbs up, and he let go, catapulting her at the ice prince. Fionna thrust her sword at Pagos, but he shot an icicle at her. Fionna was stabbed in the shoulder while impaling Pagos through the chest. He was coughing up blood and groaning. "You nearly killed my boyfriend…" she mumbled at the ice prince who was now realizing something. He growled over hearing upon the words 'nearly killed'.

"I can't die… not yet…" Pagos said while ripping her blade out of his chest, watching a lot of his own blood spill onto the ground as he froze Fionna's legs. "Hey! Get back here!" she shouted watching him walk away, dripping blood and leaving a trail. Fionna started bashing away at the ice while Jake was too distracted with trying to help Cake get her arm out of the ice.

At the Candy Kingdom hospital, the nurses and doctors were getting frozen alive as Pagos walked by. He was bleeding from the wound he received from Fionna while he was dragging his sword behind him. While it dragged the ground, he grabbed one of the nurses. "Where is Finn?" he interrogated the panicking nurse. "R-room 102," she hesitantly answered. Pagos let go of her and continued along, still leaving a trail of his blood.

Pagos finally arrived to Finn's room, seeing him lay on the bed awake. He was eating some hospital food but choked upon seeing Pagos. While he was choking, the ice prince punched him in the stomach making him cough up the food. "So you're still alive… good…" he said, sitting beside him while still bleeding. "And what are you doing here?!" Finn asked, thinking that the Candy Kingdom had been taken over by him. The ice prince sighed while holding his head with his blood stained hand. "I came to let you finish me," he claimed, sighing while looking at his sword.

"What?" Finn asked confusedly seeing Pagos' injuries, still trying to figure out what was going on and questioning if this was one of his games or not. "Conquering the land is a lot harder than I thought. I think I prefer to be a mental being in your mind," Pagos explained what made him start thinking about it. It was too hard to rule the Land of Ooaa especially with all the heroes roaming around as of now. "Trust me, man. You wouldn't have lasted if Flame Prince and Flame Princess got involved," Finn claimed while starting to get up and tearing off the medical equipment.

"You liked it better in my mind?" Finn questioned. The ice prince nodded. "Your imagination creates an endless landscape of infinite adventures of its own. You're pure clear and clean, like ice in a tough hard end form of power. I think I'd prefer to reside within there, and relinquish my crown and sword… to you," Pagos answered with a saddened sigh. "…alright. Come on...friend," Finn told him while changing out of the hospital gown and getting his regular clothes back on. He then started to leave with Pagos.

End of Chapter 15