When Bubblegum first saw the person that they found her first instinct was to kill it.
Why?
Well first off, she was a demon.
Second, demons where the enemy.
Third, the enemy was evil and was trying to take over Ooo.
But Bubblegum felt something for this woman. She left like she should help her. She didn't know why.
When they found her, she was apparently, crushed under a huge rock. It was true. Bubblegum witnessed her trapped under it as her people tried to remove it off of her. When they finally removed the huge rock, they took her back to the Candy Kingdom to be treated and questioned.
"You have to pose as a non-threat to them."
"How the hell do I do that?"
"Act innocent and weak."
"Expand." She commands her father,
A sigh, "Act like you got hurt and have them take care of you. Maybe you can even say you lost your memories. I don't know, just do it. You're kinda good at that stuff" he smirks, proud of his daughter.
Marceline smirks at his idea, "heh. I get to lay around and do nothing. Fine, I'll do that."
"Excellent."
When she passed through the portal, she immediately found a way to get in the enemy base. She saw scouts nearing a destroyed town. She remembered that town. It was where Ash charged in to show off. He sent meteor showers down on the enemy and destroyed the town, completely voiding the objective of taking over that town.
She took a big rock and dropped in onto herself. Using her shape shifting powers, she made it seem like she had a couple of broken bones and some sprains. But the impact of the rock against her sent her Axbass skittering away. Her last view of it was when a young knight tripped on it and took it.
Someone found her and took her away. She was taken to a place that smelled extremely sweet.
She was then examined and put in the infirmary. She pretended to be unconscious for that time, and it was pretty easy.
When she was finally left alone, she sat up and stretched.
"Man this sucks." she said quietly. She looked around if they had placed her Axbass in her room. No luck. They probably don't know it belongs to her. "Bullshit..." she says under her breath.
Before she could get out of bed, she hears someone approaching the door. She immediately resumes her previous position and fakes the injuries once more.
The door opens and closes. Some one walks towards her, pulls up a chair and sits down.
"Fuuuuuuuucckk..." Marceline thinks, "What the hell do I do now? I need my bass back..."
Her thoughts were interrupted when she heard a tape recorder click and a sweet voice speak into the silence of the room,
"Day 1: She has been unconscious since we found her, which was about 5 hours ago. She has 4 Broken ribs, a sprained ankle, and multiple bruises and cuts." A pause, "According to my research, Demons should be able to regenerate and heal at a short amount of time. If or when she wakes up, I will conclude if the theory is correct.
"We think she had run away from the enemy's base. She might be a captive turned into a demon. We've encountered them before..." Her voice cracks, "But they don't remember ever being on our side. They say they only serve The Lich. How this woman escaped is a mystery still, but we will soon find out." she pauses and what seems like, purses her lips. "End." She says and clicks the recorder to a stop.
The whirring of the tape halts and Marceline hears it being put down. A sigh and a slump, "Who are you?" the person asks, it seems directed at Marceline, but it seems more like a question to herself.
Bubblegum just sits there, looking at the demon girl covered in bandages, wondering who she was, what she was, and how she got there. She shifts her head towards the door when she heard a knock,
"Princess?"
It was Peppermint Butler,
"Yes, Peppermint? Is there anything I can help you with?" She asks politely,
"I have brought you some tea." He says and walks in holding a tray up. He closes the door and approaches the princess. "I believe you would like something to drink while you watch over our, ah... our guest."
Bubblegum smiles at her most trusted adviser, "Yes, I would. Thank you, Peppermint." Peppermint puts down the tray,
"My pleasure your Majesty." He says and bows. "So how is our guest?"
Bubblegum takes a sip of tea and looks at the girl. "She still hasn't woken up." She says, "But I believe she will, sooner or later."
"Yes, well I do hope she is alright."
"Me too Peppermint."
A moment of silence, then another knock.
The two look at the door and see Lady Rainicorn, a Wizardress clad in a rainbow robe. "Peppermint?"
"Yes."
"Your services are required by Sir. Chet."
He sighs, "Alright then."
Lady nods and leaves, closing the door.
"I'm afraid I must go your majesty."
"It's alright Peppermint. I can watch her alone."
"Just be careful." He warns,
"You know I am." She smiles.
He smiles back and leaves her with the demon girl alone, again.
After waiting for so long for the princess to leave, Marceline actually fell asleep.
She woke up when she heard a young shrill boy voice shout into the room,
"Priiiincesss!"
"Finn! Quiet down!" The princess commands,
"Oh... Oh! Sorry!" He quietly apologizes, "Sorryyyy!"
"It's okay, just please. Shhh." She whispers.
The princess had her back turned to Marceline so she opened one eye to peek at what was happening.
She finally saw the princess for the first time, she was pink all over and this Finn person was a knight. What she saw in his hand made her angry and happy at the same time,
Her precious Axbass.
'At least I won't have to go look for it anymore.' she thought and decided it was time to wake up.
She fake groaned and rubbed her eyes,
The princess looked at her with surprise all over her face. She just stared at Marceline, speechless.
Finn on the other hand was estatic, "HOLY COW! SHE'S AWAKE!" He screamed at the top of his little boy lungs.
"Huh?" Marceline said, and sat up. "Wh-Where am I...?" She asked in her, oh-so innocent tone.
The Princess had finally regained her composure and answered Marceline's question, "You are in the Candy Kingdom. Don't worry you are safe here." She says reassuringly,
"Candy... Kingdom?"
"Yes." She says, but the blank look on Marceline's face gave her a terrible idea, "You don't know what I'm talking about... do you?"
"I-I-I don't know..." She says quietly and looks at Finn and stares at the Axbass, "Hey!"
"Huh?"
"That thing is mine!"
"What!?"
"That-That was the only thing I had... That's the last thing I remember...!"
"This thing?" Finn waves the Axbass,
"Y-Yeah! Give it back!" She growls, almost loosing her act there.
"Oh, I'm sorry! I didn't know." He says, "Here." He hands her the Axbass and Marceline smiles.
"This is yours?" Bubblegum asks,
"Uh-huh."
"How did you remember?"
"Well... The last thing I remember was appearing in the middle of a town... I had this in hand and then a huge rock fell on me..." She says, "and it hurt a lot."
"I see..." The Princess says, "Finn."
"Yes, M'lady?" He asks and salutes,
"I need you to call Peppermint Butler."
"Right away." He bows and hurries off.
Then the princess looks at Marceline as she straddles her Axbass and starts strumming,
"How do you do that?"
"Do what?"
"That?" She asks pointing to Marceline's strumming, "How do you remember how to play it?"
Marceline shrugs, "I dunno, I just do. Instinct I guess." She says and keeps on strumming, "By the way, you never mentioned your name."
"Oh yes. My apologies. I am Princess Bubblegum of the Candy Kingdom."
"Bubblegum?"
"Yes."
"No really? What's your name?"
Bubblegum looked rather offended, "That is my name. You think I'm lying?"
Marceline studies her for a moment and says, "No, you're just not telling the whole truth." She smirks, "So spill it Princess..."
Bubblegum was rather stunned at how confident this memory lacking demon has gotten in the past few seconds but she rather admired it as well, "Well, since you insist. My full name is Bonnibel Bubblegum."
"Bonnibel." Marceline tried it out and she rather liked it, "I'll just stick to that, alright Princess?"
Bubblegum smiles, "I guess I am alright with it. So now that you know my name, what would yours be?"
"My name..." Marceline acts as if she doesn't know again, "I have no idea."
Bubblegum frowns, "You can't even remember your own name?"
"Nope."
Bubblegum notices something on the Axbass, a marking. It looked like an M. She pointed to and Marceline looked,
"I believe your name starts with an 'M', if that's what that mark stands for." she concluded,
"An 'M' huh?" Marceline puts her Axbass aside,
"If you are going to be staying here, I think you should have a name."
"Well then Princess, name away." She smirks,
"Let's see... 'M' 'M' 'M' 'M'..." The princess ponders, "How about Marmalade?"
Marceline looks at her like she just said, 'I want to eat my own foot' "Marmalade? You're kidding right?"
"Well if you don't like that we could just call you..." She taps her chin with a finger, "Marshmellow."
"No way..."
"How about Minty?"
"Seriously?"
"Mika?"
"Where'd you get that from?"
Bubblegum puffed out her cheeks and pouted, making Marceline a bit curious? had she made her mad?
"Whoa, hey? I didn't mean to offend... I guess I'm naturally like this..." She says, "It's just that, I really don't like those names."
"Why don't you think of some?"
"Uhhh..."
"Isn't as easy as you thought huh?" smirks the Princess
"It is hard to think of a name, since I don't know many." Marceline replies,
"I have an idea!" Bubblegum proclaims, "We'll look for some names." She stands up and heads over to a book shelf and picks out a book." She walks back to Marceline and pries the book open,
"Let's see..."
"You have a book full of names?"
"Indeed we do." Bubblegum smiles, "Candy people love to pick out names when they have children, so in every hospital room, we provided books that can help you pick out names. There are also books that list thousands of names which you can choose from."
"Seriously?"
"Yes."
Marceline had to bite her tongue to keep herself from laughing, "O-Okay then...show me what you got." She smirks,
"There's;
Maxine
Misty
Marlene
Meepo
Megan
Melany
May..."
The Princess kept on talking and all Marceline could do was stare at her, waiting for the right name to pop out of her mouth. But at the same time she was admiring the princess.
There ya go! Part 2 ^^ If you have a good name for Marceline, other than Marceline. Please review it ^^
Also remember that this is AU. Jake and Lady are humanoids here. Jake is Half human, half dog. and Lady is a sorceress.
Hope you liked it!
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