Wow im getting worse at putting these out on time, im sorry again not trying to excuse my lateness, i got poo brain from excitement for the new adventure time ep that i completly forgot to start writing, so im late but dont worry i feel my writing has improved mroe and i like where the story is going, please enjoy and remember to follow if u like it, always makes me happy to see people are following my story, thanks you and enjoy
After a short delay everyone renters the hall, where the tables in the centre were set is now clear along the side are two guards with a table of assorted plates and jugs covered by a thin cloth, the kings are gear to start along with Finn and Fp they are standing ready in front of the table, A huge smile is across Finns face as the guards move around the table, Flame princess seeing how excited Finn is moves closer to him.
"Finn I'm glad you are having fun, I was worried the tasks would be a bit much for you because they are made for cloud people, and you know how powerful they are" she shakes her head "no I'm sorry, I know you are much stronger than everyone else, give it your all in this contest" he smiles then Peppermint moves in front of them.
"The second test is a test of wills, each contestants will face one of their weaknesses, going through the whole test equals a pass, so unless every person but one fails there wont be a winner, the kings have nominated to take double the planned test" Peppermint moves to the table removing the cloth "First test will be Lsp, you are required to put your hand into the jar of spiders, all of them are not poisonous"
Lsp looks at everyone then back at Peppermint "no way, I'm not putting my lumping hand in that jar of creepy spiders" they all laugh and Peppermint nods placing a cover on the jar.
"Next we will test princess Bubblegum, you are asked to resist fixing this scientific equation for one whole minute" a smug smile comes across her face and she nods, Peppermint reveals the equation then hands Bubblegum a marker "the one minute starts now".
Not 20 seconds past and Bubblegum completed the equation and created a harder equation for the same result "Princess bubblegum has failed her test" Flame king laughs unlike Cloud king who looks very stern.
"Next is Flame princess, you are to place your hands into a bucket of water for 10 seconds" she nods and moves to the table.
"Wait Flame P wont water kill you" Finn rushes up to her.
"No Finn its only a little bit ill be alright" she smiles at him happy that he is worried for her safety.
Flame P places her hands into the bucket, steam instantly rises from the water, struggling to hole back her screams, Peppermint counts reaching five before all of the water evaporates, shocked Peppermint raises his hand "Flame princess has passed her test, as there is no water left" Flame princess falls to her knees, her hands a pale red.
Finn runs to hold her hands rubbing them, "are you alright princess, dose it still hurt?".
"No Finn its fine" she laughs and smiles "its weird but your hands are warmer than mine".
"Guess since you passed yours I don't have much choice right?" He looks at Peppermint "I'm next".
Peppermint nods revealing a bucket of oil, he signals everyone to move back then slowly draws a circle around Finn in oil "you will take a trial by fire, you must last 1 minute in the circle, after the time is up it will be put out" Finn nods and Peppermint lights the oil, the fire rises around Finn singeing his clothes.
"This isn't so bad, 1 minute will be easy" the Flame king laughs.
"Is that so, then I'm sure you wont mind this" the Flame king steps onto the circle, instantly the flames explode rising just short of the roof, Finn screams in pain, a small smile on the kings face.
"Stop dad, you are going to kill him" Flame princess begs her father.
A look of disgust comes across Cloud prince's face, "he knows very well a human cannot survive a heat like that, he probably passed out right after that scream" Cp moves back and sits down "if he dies they might never get to my test, I'm sure many people here would be upset" Cp smiles to himself, after all his tenacity he is still human".
"Don't stop!" Finn screams from the flames "your heat is nothing compared to the heat your daughter creates, if I cant take this how can I ever hope to be with her" sizzling can be heard from the flames, with each second the heat increasing.
"What how can you possibly be conscious, YOU ARE JUST A HUMAN" Cloud prince yells into the flames.
Nothing can be heard from the circle of fire, Peppermint slowly counts down the seconds until only 10 remain, everyone is silent looking into the flames, its impossible to make out Finn's figure behind the wall of fire, the heat causing the audience to cringe.
"Hang in there Finn I know you have it in you buddy" jake yells out holding up the banner he and Lady made, in the center is Finn's face with his hat, above and below the picture it says 'never give in Finn', the audience screams out to Finn.
Peppermint counts down the final seconds and cues Flame king to stop, the flames abruptly disappear leaving only smoke behind, as the smoke clears a figure can be made out standing, the smoke is still think but the dark figure is standing tall with his arms out, with the smoke finally gone all can see that Finn is still conscious, his eyes are focused directly on Flame princess, a smile shoots across his face with the entire audience left in shock.
"I told you I had no choice but to win, like I said if I couldn't take that flame how could I ever hope of withstanding yours" he smiles and the crowd going into and uproar, everyone is happy Finn is alright, almost in the same moment Finn falls to his knees then onto his face.
Peppermint moves close to him, "he's alright but that heat finally got to him, he wont wake up for a while" Flame princess rushes to his side Finn now on his back, she holds his hand in her soft cold hands, her flames small and warm, just like her flames her glow is soft and pale.
"Well I guess he couldn't take my heat, I was a little embarrassed when he lasted the whole minute" the Flame king laughs rubbing his hands together.
Flame princess places Finns hand softly on his chest, standing up and moving away from him, her flames quickly engulf her, "DADDY!" She yells with flames exploding off of her "why did you hurt Finn" she looks at him with rage across her face, Flame princess creates a fireball in her hand clenching her fist around it "How could you ever hurt Finn, no one should ever want to hurt Finn" her fathers smiles drops "WHY?".
Flame king rases his hand but before he can reply Finn choughs "Flame princess where are you" her flames shrink down again, leaving her pale.
She runs to his side holding his hand again "I'm right here, what is wrong" Finn smiles and hold her hand tighter.
"Don't let go for a while, I like this" she smiles pushing her hair from her face "are you alright, you look pale".
"Finn I'm fine just make sure you get better OK" Finn nods and smiles.
"If that brings back your glow then I'm happy to get better" Finn passes out again, with jake entering the stage.
"Ill take him to the infirmary, you can come too Flame P" She stands and follows Jake, shortly after so do Lady and Pb.
Peppermint moves to the front, "we are almost done, next is the Cloud prince and he will come into contact with a pure blood demon, if he can stay conscious after one tough he passes" the demon enters with a smirk on his face, Cp walks towards the demon and abruptly punches him in the face, then walks out of the room, "the Cloud prince passes his test, next is the cloud king who is doing the same test but with two demons".
"I don't see the point of this, the fun of this test is gone, quickly bring them" two more demons enter, the Cloud king grabs both of their shoulders, "I think I passed" Peppermint nods.
"Well last is the Flame king" the king nods as they bring out two buckets of water, the king grabs them both and tips them over his head, everyone shocked Peppermint falls back "you were only supposed to place your hand in" the king looks at him.
"The human took my flames and didn't complain, why should I avoid my weakness after he showed such bravery" the king looks down extremely pale "begin preparing tomorrows events" Peppermint nods.
Finn slowly opened his eyes in the infirmary, next to him is a sleeping Flame princess, Jake, Lady and Princess bubblegum sit on a far table talking quietly, he reaches up stroking her cheek, Finn flinches back seeing his burn hand, "seems like the rest of me in fine" Finn smiles and rolls onto his side "id like to stay like this for a while".
"Finn your awake, how are you feeling man" Jake rushes to his side "you werent burnt but Pb said you should have heat stroke" Finn sits on the edge of his bed.
"I feel fine to be honest, except my hand" Finn laughs and looks at Flame princess "how long was I out".
Jake looks at Finn "about 5 hours man, she stayed the whole time though" Jake looks at Princess Bubblegum "we should wake her and head home, you need to rest" Finn stands next to Fp.
"Yeah I need my strength if I want to participate tomorrow" Jake smiles at him "don't want to disappoint anyone".
"Finn you cant fight tomorrow, you may not be wounded but your body needs to rest if you push it to hard it might give out on you" Finn shakes his head then grabs his pack off the floor.
"No Peebles, I'm fine, sorry to have worried you" Finn leans in close to Flame princess "time to wake up, you shouldn't sleep here" she opens her eyes slowly then realises who was speaking.
"Finn what are you doing up" she looks around the room everyone is smiling "you should have woke me when he work up, I'm sorry I didn't mean to fall asleep I just wanted to be here when you woke up" Finn smiles and rubs his hands together.
"No problem princess but we all need sleep, ill see you in the morning" he leans in and kisses her cheek "good night" Finn and Jake walk away, Flame princess smiles and moves out of the room after them.
"I don't get that boy, he normally pushes himself to far but when he's with her he goes that much further it scares me he might get himself killed" Lady shakes her head and wraps around Pb, "I just don't understand his feelings".
As soon as the sun rose Finn was awake in the house, running back and forth grabbing all of his equipment, his pack filled with food and potions of different effects, placing his sword on his back he burst out the front door, the sweeping fields of the grasslands quickly disappeared behind Finn as he bolted towards the candy kingdom, his energy was not lowered as he reached the castle, jumping through each doorway and window on his path, finally he reached the hall where the event will be held, Peppermint butler is alone in the hall, spare the help cleaning the area, the small candy looks up at Finn and smiles.
"You seem to be in good health master Finn, I'm sure you are excited for the event, considering you are 4 hours early" Peppermint looks at his watch "sorry 3 hours early" Finn sits down next to Peppermint, then opens his pack removing the Enchiridion.
"I thought I would be early because I wanted to read this, and I normally get so absorbed in it so I forget the time, I don't want to realise its over, so if you don't mind tell me when it is about to begin" Peppermint bows then gestures him to a seat, "thanks Peppermint".
The hall begins to fill with spectators and the participants also fall in, with Finn still reading Flame princess moves over to him "what are you reading" she bends down behind the book "the Enchiridion?, What is that" Finn looks up at her and smiles closing the book.
"Its a legendary book, is also called the heros manual, gives all the rules and tips needed to be an awesome hero, many hero's stories are in this book" he looks up at her confused face "its really cool do you want to see?" She smiles and nods, her hair falling down in front of her face.
"What is your favourite part, read that to me" Finn blushes and opens the book.
"Ill show you my second favourite part" he opens to a page near the center, the connection to the spine is slightly ripped and has round stains on it, "I've read this part a lot, its about the heros of the past who fought great evil, long before the lich" he begins to read the book, Flame princess looks confused.
"Does that book have anything about kissing princesses" Finn blushes and closes it again, before he can speak she continues "the stories my dad told me about heroes normally involved them kissing princesses, then being incinerated because they let their guard down, most of the stories were about him so I'm not to sure about their truth" she giggles "does it have a part about that, Finn shakes his head and puts the book in his pack.
"nah heros are just meant to know that stuff" he smiles then Peppermint calls everybody attention.
"Please everyone we are beginning shortly, do not worry we will not be much longer, if all of the contestants could please come to the center so I can explain the event for today" Peppermint clears the area of cleaners, and pushes cinnamon bun to his seat, "please hurry".
Thats chapter 4, hope u liked it, took longer than normal to write but as you can expect some parts needed stronger writing than others, if u liked it please follow and any opinions are great, so please reveiw, remember im always trying to improve my writing tips will always help, thank you and i wont be late next week