Chapter 16: The End

Finn spent the time walking alongside Pagos. They had left the Candy Kingdom and unfroze Prince Gumball from the wall, but he was still unconscious from the blow to his skull. The duo was walking along the hills of the Land of Ooaa. The snow was melting and the icicles that had been shooting from the ground were starting to shatter as well. "You really want to stay in my mind?" Finn asked, seeing Pagos hand over his sword with the snowflake finger guard, along with his makeshift icy crown. "Yeah. Let's face it. They'll eventually get the Fire Kingdom's help if I stayed alive. I'm pretty sure I've committed enough crimes to be put to death five times," he claimed and sighed.

Pagos and Finn arrived to a forest area. They continued walking deeper within it, the light slowly fading and being blocked by the tall trees. "I still don't see why you see me for a friend…" the ice prince said while walking with the heroic boy. Both were stumbling from being recently hurt. Finn couldn't help but laugh a little. "Because, you did save my life, even if you took advantage of my body. We're friends, even if we're exact opposites. You're an insane, murderous and powerful mastermind!" Finn exclaimed. Pagos couldn't help but smile. "And you're a heroic, lifesaving, powerless, idiot," he added with a laugh starting to notice the opposite personalities.

They got to a very thin tree in the forest. Finn cut it down with the sword which Pagos gave him, and the tree fell over, leaving nothing but the stump. "Are you sure about this?" Finn asked while seeing Pagos put himself into an execution position on the stump, his head resting on it. "I'll just turn back into gems when you decapitate me. Just don't forget. My gem is clear and oval shaped…" the ice prince said with a sigh. Finn nodded while he looked at him, taking in a deep breath, raising the blade and gripping it hard. He slammed it downward, and the sound of it cutting right through Pagos' neck and into the tree stump echoed through the forest.

Finn had his eyes closed for the whole time. When he opened them again, he saw every jewel of the princes and princesses in place of where his body was. Finn just sighed while sliding the sword onto his backpack. He crouched down and picked up each jewel one by one, filling his backpack with them until he found Pagos' jewel. It was the same one he had eaten to cause all of this trouble. He just chuckled while looking at the gem. "A hero never goes back on his word," he said while eating the gem. It was hard and it hurt to swallow, but he did that and looked at his hands. "No blue skin… no white hair…" Finn said, thinking that the ice prince had kept to his word as well.

After collecting all of the jewels, Finn began to make his way back to the Candy Kingdom, now having dealt with the problem he had been worried over for a long time, and having made a new friend through it all. He was just glad to have it all over and done with.

Meanwhile, Fionna, Cake and Jake were helping out the frozen people when they saw Prince Gumball come by, rubbing the back of his head. "Hey, Gumball. Where were you?" Fionna asked since it was like he vanished. The prince let out a sigh. "I was frozen to the wall by the front gate. What happened to Pagos?" Prince Gumball asked his friends while sitting down tiredly. "We don't know. Fionna stabbed him, and he just left," Jake explained, all of them still puzzled by this. Jake turned his arm into a pickaxe and started breaking some of the ice away, Prince Gumball getting up and starting to help with the ice removal since the guards were frozen as well.

Suddenly, they saw Finn come along. It surprised them all to see him out of the hospital. "Finn! You're alright!" Fionna exclaimed while Jake was just as shocked as them. "Dude, welcome back to the land of the living! Hehe!" he said to his younger brother jokingly. "Thanks. Jake, Cake, I need you to do a big favor and return these to their rightful owners," Finn said, showing the bag that was full of jewels while they were shocked. Cake and Jake nodded as they stretched their hands into bag shapes, filling them with the jewels before running off to return them to the kingdoms.

"How did you get them back?" Fionna asked Finn, still awestruck by all the recent events until she saw the familiar katana like blade. "He's dead," Finn simply lied, since Pagos may be defeated, but he was still alive in his mind.

Prince Gumball patted the hero on the back. "You've done a good deed for the kingdom," he said while walking away to clear out more ice. Finn gave Fionna a big hug. "I owe you a lot for making you worry like that," he said, apologizing for upsetting her when Pagos possessed his body, but Fionna put a finger on his lips. "Alright. In that case, Tier 15, tonight," she said, but this made Finn raise an eyebrow. "Wait, I don't even know what that is," he said. Fionna nodded and let out a soft giggle. "I asked Marshall the other day, and he told me all about it. I'll do a demonstration for you," she said seductively. Finn nodded since he was ready for anything, even if he didn't know what it was.

With that, Finn and Fionna went off to help Prince Gumball and the unfrozen candy people there were to get rid of the ice in the kingdom.

The End