A/N: Hi guys. So, um, first things first, thank you so much for the reviews! I'm really glad you guys are following this fic and have given feedback. And this is my first, so don't expect much from me ahahaha... I apologise for the somewhat long wait, it only took me about a few nights to put this together, and the rest was because of procrastination (/shotshotshot) and tests. I honestly didn't think that an Adventure Time fic would be my first, or would it not be a oneshot. I guess I got lazy. I should let you guys read now.

Oh, and, um, if you shared my fic, thank you, I guess? (hello my kanpeki Miga-senpai)

It was cold, like how it would be on any other night.

The full moon was out, looking all white and pure. The clouds moving past blocked out little of its light from time to time. The forest trees were silhouetted against the starry night sky, swaying gently and whispering among themselves.

The soft howls of the wind seemed to provide a certain melody to the sounds of his pacing, accompanied by the prince's breath, while Prince Gumball was pondering on the situation he was placed in. Now that it was almost nine, Gumball was half furious, half nervous, and maybe just a but grateful.

The prince looked out toward the woods which lay beyond his kingdom. He saw no floating figure nor movements above or through the woods. Even if there was some movement, it would just be the passing Candy people returning from their work out of town.

9.02pm and twenty-three seconds. He was late.

With one powerful step, the candy teen ran out and leaned over the rails of the balcony.

"MARSHALL LEE, YOU BUTT!" he shouted out before retreating back inside. His voice echoed off the houses, buildings, and trees in the woods.

Why was he even waiting? Why did he even bother waiting? Why couldn't he tell Marshall that he simply could not go? Gumball stumbled back toward his bed, not bothering to look at his surroundings anymore. He closed his eyes and fell face first onto his bed.

"Ow! Dude, hey...!"

Lifting his head up, the prince tried to make out what he was currently lying on, and found himself, once again, looking at the vampire king's face, which was currently filled with amusement.

"You called?" Marshall chuckled, patting the other teen's head.

Gumball felt the blood rush to his cheeks, turning them pinker than they already were. He immediately got up and staggered off the bed.

"Exactly how long have you been here?"

The vampire shrugged and casually floated off the bed. " 'Bout nine sharp."

The prince's shoulders sagged a little. "But when did you- how-, ugh, never mind. Marshall, I must certainly tell you that-"

"You were pretty loud, man," the king cut straight in, as if he weren't at all listening to Gumball's words. "The whole kingdom probably heard you."

"Listen, I can't-"

"You can't go out in those clothes, I know," Marshall quickly floated over to and opened Gumball's closet-which the prince strongly minded-and sorted through every single piece of clothing, finally picking out a black shirt and tossing it to the candy teen.

"That's the best looking shirt you've got, nobody really knows you have it and it's also the shirt I gave you, so wear it."

Gumball tossed the shirt onto the bed.

Marshall frowned. "Hey!"

"Please just listen, Marshall. I have no time to be going out for whatever it is you want to do. I don't have the time. Now, it's almost 9.15 and Peppermint Maid will be here any second now, so you need to-"

...tap...tap...tap...

"What's that?" Marshall said uneasily, turning his head toward the door.

"Peppermint Maid. Please leave now!"

"I'm not going anywhere without you," the black haired vampire said firmly, moving quickly over to the prince's desk. He grabbed a pen and paper and hurriedly scrawled a note:

Dear castle staff,

We're borrowing Prince Gumball for a little while. We'll return him ASAP, and he'll be in his room by sunrise, we promise.

-MLVK & Fionna

Gumball looked at the note. "Fionna's coming?"

"No, once you use that girl's name for anything, you're free. The castle won't send out a search party or anything. Now let's roll, and whatever you do, don't scream." Marshall pulled the prince by the arm, ran out to the open area, and (extremely) dangerously dived off the balcony.

Before Gumball knew it, he was being dangled more than fifty feet above ground in mid-air, with only Marshall's arm to hold on to. A small 'eep' escaped from the pink candy teen's lips, while clinging, clawing, and gripping onto Marshall's poor one arm for his life.

"Dude, ouch! Stop that! Your nails...!" Marshall winced under the grip of the prince, before swinging his other arm down offering his hand to Gumball.

"Marshall Lee! Are you crazy!?"

"Grab my hand, and I'm swear you'll be okay, just as long as you don't claw at it again."

Gumball did whatever to save his dear life. He quickly shot his hand up and fumbled around for a better grip on Marshall's hand.

"Now, hang on, and don't scream. You won't die." He quickly told the prince.

Now, as a child, Gumball thoroughly enjoyed being thrown up in the air and landing back down in the arms of any older, stronger, person. But in this case, not so. Maybe if it weren't for the fact that he was already high up in the air and that Marshall was pretty darn strong, it would have been less frightening.

And there the prince was, looking down below at the whole town from a bird's eye view as he found himself too shocked to let anything out of his mouth, breaking the wind and freefalling before landing abruptly in the vampire king's arms bridal style just as he started to think of the whole, work constructed life he had ahead of him.

"There, that wasn't so bad, was it?" Marshall said softly, starting to move north.

The candy teen in response buried his face into the other boy's shoulder. He was scarred enough today. "Please just take me away..."

"I'll take you someplace beautiful." Marshall Lee chuckled, before floating off swiftly in the direction Marshmallowy Mweadows.

A/N: End. Okay. I'm sorry that it's quite short! And about the wait! (it's not my fault that inspiration only comes to me at night when I'm not in the vicinity of my computer and am forced to work with my phone that cannot access internet and my low vocabulary range due to my insomnia)

Thank you for reading this chapter and I hoped you enjoyed it! It'd be great if you could drop by some R&Rs~!

Thank you once again and have a nice fanfiction-filled day. (◕‿◕✿)