Authors Notes: Who here saw the new Adventure Time episode. I did and I did not see that coming at the end and neither did Jake XD. Anyway on with the chapter! I own nothing except the things I've created.
Chapter 6: Through The Canyon and Into to Forest
Like a coin there are two sides to a person. Only one can be controlled the other shall run wild. DubbleDuelSword
Finn once more
Finn had been scaling the tower walls climbing up towards the top of the castle. He reached the top looking down upon the destroyed he smiled completely satisfied by his own doings. He looked up seeing a hole in the stone ceiling with moonlight shining down.
"Well. This shouldn't be hard."
The then sliced off a part of the tower atop of the tower as it fell down on the roof floor. He then climbed up on top it an jabbed his sword into it. He then jumped onto the blade shooting him self off it and grabbing the blade flying towards the hole. He then flew out landing on the blue rock surface as he looked around. The area was perfectly clear no one and nothing other than blue rocks were in sight.
"This must be the Canyon clearing. The exit shouldn't be far."
He then took a step forward but stopped. Something was happening to him, he dropped his sword placing his hands on his head and shouting in agony. He fell to his knees still shouting until he fell over and blacked out.
Going to Adam
Adam had finally found a path and no longer needed to continue wall run and jump to avoid a bottomless pit.
"I (pant pant) hate (pant) this (pant) place!"
He laid on the floor looking up at the sky seeing the many stars and stuff in the sky.
"Well I need to get moving."
He then got up continuing to walk the swerving path not paying attention to where he was going. The moon had shined down upon him acting as his light in the dark and exhausting path.
"Man! When will it end!"
He had then bumped into someone causing him to fall.
"Hey watch where your going!"
"What are you talking about?" Said the feminine voice turning around to see Adam. "I wasn't even going anywhere-Adam?"
Adam looked up seeing who was talking to him. Before he even did he noticed the orange glow that she at created and has he looked up he felt pretty not noticing that at all.
"Oh, hey Seraphina. What brings you here?"
"I don't know the path."
"Well that makes sense. So how was your path?"
"One word...traps."
"Well my path basically had no path I was running on wall for crying out loud!"
"Well seeing as thou our paths cross into one I'm sure everyone else's does too."
"Well then let's get walkin'."
Back to Finn
His eyes opened he awoken in the bed of a hotel room. He looked around no one was in sight all he could remember was seeing Raven and then falling down the pit and everything went black. He got up from the bed noticing that his clothes were still but he didn't feel right he felt weird. One could say 'It's just puberty' but he didn't feel like himself he felt...evil. He left the room trying to figure why the mystery man brought him here.
"Okay guy, why'd you bring me here this time?"
He walked down the swerving hallway coming up upon a metal door. He opened it with cation, twisting the knob 'til he heard a click and pulled the door open. He entered the room it was very spacious with no furniture or nothing as if it was a sparing room. As he took a few more steps into the room the door slammed shut and disappeared. He turned and ran to where the door once was and banged his fist on the wall where the door used to be.
"Come on man this isn't funny!"
He stopped his pointless banging and shouting. This wasn't the mystery man's doing. Someone else was behind this but who. Finn had drop to the floor his back leaning on the wall as he thought.
"What's going on here?"
"Yes. What is going on here."
Finn jumped up turning his head and body in every corner of the room searching for the origin of that voice.
"Who said that?"
"You did."
At that moment Finn had felt that evil presence once more. He fell to his knees hold his hands on his head. Something over came him, something evil was happening to him. His mind was in some type of cosmic conflict with his subconscious or something.
"AAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH! GET OUT OF MY HEAD! WHO THE HELL ARE YOU? AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH!"
"I told me. I am you. But if I don't believe yourself I shall show you."
Finn saw his shadow grow taller and it detached from him and had begun rising up from the ground manifesting into a body. Finn had looked up unable to believe what he was seeing he was looking at a dark version of himself.
"What the-"
Finn had been cut of from a kick to the side of the head from his shadow sending him crashing in a wall leaving his imprint on the wall as he fell to the floor.
"What's wrong me? Don't you recognize yourself."
"Y-you're not me." Finn had said weakly while trying to get back up to his feet.
"Hahaha. Don't make yourself laugh. Of course I'm you. I'm just a better you a more stronger, charming, and eviler Finn."
"What are you talking about." Said Finn now standing on his feet. "I'm not evil. I'm a hero!"
"You still believe that nonsense of being a hero. You still don't get it do you? No matter how much good you do no matter how much evil we may have slain there will always be a hint of evil within you and that's me."
"Then I'll just have to kill you."
"Think before you act me." The shadow Finn said smiling showing his rather sharp teeth. "I told us that there is always going to be evil within you which is me and that there is good within me which is you. We are yin and yang, light and darkness, good and evil. Killing me will result in the death of you. One can not live without the other. You see one can only suppress the other until the other takes over. You might be good now but wait for the right time to come and I shall strike and you shall fall into darkness."
"Shut up! Stop trying to put that crap in my head! I'm a pure hearted hero! You are nothing like me! You don't know anything about me!"
"But I do, 'cause I am you. Or have we forgotten? Just ask me anything and I'll answer it."
Finn thought for a moment he had to think of a series of questions that only he could answer. After about a good minute he knew what he wanted to ask him.
"Alright I'm going to ask you some questions. Answer one wrong and I'll kill you."
"Very well then me. Shoot."
"Why do I help people who are in need?"
"Because when we were a baby you went boom boom on a leaf, fell in it and no one came to help us."
"What's my best weapon to use?"
"A sword."
"Who was the first person I fell in love with?"
"Flame Princess. Unless you count that whole puppy love ordeal with Princess Bubblegum real love. 'Cause we both know she would never truly love us."
Finn looked at him with anger. He was right but he wasn't going to accept that he was actually him.
"What's my favorite food?"
"Meatloaf."
"Who was my real father?"
"Adan."
"What are some of my fears!"
"The ocean, the Lich, clowns, that weird thing from when Jake had pranked you hardcore three years ago, and more recently Gearhead."
Finn couldn't believe it, this guy answered all his questions. But he couldn't believe that he had an evil side to him it was impossible.
"What is it that I want to ask Seraphina when all this is finally over?"
"Her hand in marriage."
"Grrrrrrrrrrr! What happened when me and Jake hid in Marceline's closet three years ago!"
"Jake asked us to scope the seen and you went to check the bathroom and saw Marcy naked."
"What's my number one fear?"
"Losing Fp forever. And number two...is becoming evil."
No matter how much he didn't want to admit it this guy knew everything about him. But Finn decided to ask him a question that not even both of them would know the true answer.
"How did my father die?"
"That foolish man killed himself trying to defeat Gearhead."
"WRONG ANSWER!"
Finn had drawn the Valor from his back pointing it at the shadow him.
"Gearhead had killed him! Now take back what you said!"
"I speak the truth. He had no choice but to give up his life if he wished to seal up Gearhead. But if it's a fight you want" he then opened up his right hand and darkness began bubbling around his hand and formed a shadow version of the Valor "then it's a fight you'll get."
Finn had charged after him and swung his blade at the shadow him who had jumped up and landed on the blade and kicked Finn in the side of his head and caused him to fall back in pain. Finn had quickly recovered and continued to attack him only for him o dodge every move from Finn and landing blows and cuts on Finn. Finn had attempted one more swing with his sword only for his shadow to dodge it completely and punched Finn dead in the gut causing him to cough out blood and followed with a shot with his sword handle to the forehead of Finn causing blood to flow freely as Finn laid on the ground unable to move.
"You can't defeat me Finn." He said slowly walking towards the fallen hero. "I have slowly begun taking over your body this is why you can't beat me. I over power you."
He grabbed Finn by his throat picking him up of the ground has he had begun to choke him causing Finn to gasp desperately for air.
"And soon once I've taken over your body I will make all but one of your fears come true. Because that one fear I want you to witness it for yourself. The day that Flame Princess leaves you forever."
Finn had heard enough from him he manage to kick him in the gut making all the air come out of him causing him to release his hold on Finn as he clutched his stomach. Finn had then picked up his sword and begun slashing and jabbing away at his shadow ending his combo with a swift kick to the jaw sending him crashing into a wall as he slid down it sitting on the floor with his hair covering his face.
"NO! I won't let ANY of that stuff to happen!"
He rushed over to him kneeing his skull into the wall and held his sword over the downed shadow's head.
"Cause I'm ending you!"
"Then do it." He said as if nothing ever happened to him. "Go on kill me. Oh wait you can't cause your too weak. I told you what would happen if you were to kill me you would be killing yourself. So go on end me and make all the ones who ever loved you suffer at your suicide." He looked up at Finn with his red eyes as he saw the angry expression on the hero's face. "So go on. End us."
"You sick twisted bastard!" Finn had slammed his sword deep into the wall right above this shadows head as he bent down looking into his demonic red eyes. "You would want that wouldn't you! You want me to kill don't you!"
"Yes! So what's stopping you? Huh coward! Scared of death? 'Cause I sure as hell AM NOT! SO FINISH ME OFF!"
"No."
Finn had pulled his sword from out of the wall and walked away from his shadow.
"We are quite smart aren't we. You know this won't be the last time you will see me."
The metal door had reappeared in front of Finn and he placed his hand on the knob.
"Then I'll be waiting."
Finn had opened the door exiting the room making the door disappear without a trace of the room he once was in.
"Is there really evil within me?"
"Unfortunately there is."
Finn had turned around seeing the mystery man once again.
"You! Why didn't you help me?"
"As much as I wanted to I couldn't this was your fight with yourself. I know you don't want to hear this but you must. No one is pure everyone has good and evil within them. But you must learn to tame that evil. It is the only way to defeat it. Now, leave."
He snapped his fingers creating a light that had blinded Finn.
Finn awakens
Finn's eyes slowly began to open everything to him was a blur. He had sat up rubbing his head, groaning in pain feeling like he had gotten run over by a train.
"Ah. Where am I?"
Finn looked around his surroundings noticing that he was actually sitting on blue grass.
"What the? I swear I was in the canyon."
"Well look who decided to wake up."
Finn turned his attention to the voice seeing Basilisx laying on the grass.
"Basilisx? What are you-how did we-where is everyone?"
"Let's see: Adam's sleeping, Rosa's sleeping, Seraphina's sleeping, I'm awake, and you just woke up. All the paths make in the canyon all connected at some point I forgot when thou. Anyway some where towards the end we found you out cold laying on the ground so I unfortunately was left with the task to carry your unconscious body to our next destination, Shadow Forest."
"And how many more places do we need to go pass before we reach Moonlight Tower?"
"Just this last place. Anything else you care to ask Sir Questions A Lot?"
"Yeah. Have you felt different in any way? You know like as if there was an eviler side to you that you didn't know about."
He sighs looking down at the blue grass, not making eye contact with Finn.
"I don't really now Finn. I've dealt with this before when I first became a half vampire. I always wanted to do got but another side of me wanted to kill everything. But you might be feeling this way 'cause of the darker atmosphere that you're not used to. But when we return to Ooo I'm sure that you'll feel better."
"Wow man. When did you become so wise and stuff?"
"From my master. He thought me all this stuff about not letting things get you down and to never give into your inner demons."
"Wow. Benjamin must be a really wise guy."
"Like he told me; you learn a lot from being alive for thousands for years. But I think you should sleep you're going to need all the rest you can get."
"Oh right. Well I'm going back to sleep."
Finn had laid back down he still felt very uneasy about himself. About what his shadow said to him back in the spiritual plane the memory of him had come back to him.
'And soon once I've taking over your body I will make all but one of your fears come true. Because that one fear I want you to witness it for yourself. The day that Flame Princess leaves you forever.'
He tried to forget about it but how could he. He looked exactly like him he had over powered him at one point. Could there actually be an evil side to him?
No that's impossible!
He denied it. There was no way how he was going to except it nothing was going to make him believe it. He's done nothing but good his entire life how can three months making him become evil? Perhaps the boy just needed some sleep. He closed his eyes wanting to have a blissful slumber instead of being sent to the spiritual plain. But that's not his decision to make.
Back to his dreams
He opened his eyes seeing that he was in the main foyer of the spirit hotel.
"Come on man! Twice in one day that's so not fair!"
"Sorry Finn but life isn't fair."
Finn turned towards the fountain seeing the mystery man. He still wore the white jacket with the orange flame design and he had a blue sword on his back as if it had been bathed in the midnight sky itself looking much like the demon blooded sword Finn once used except the sword had a crescent golden moon for where the cross would be on the demon blooded sword.
"Really man! You brought me here twice in one day! What the hell!"
"I don't know what you are talking about Finn. You brought yourself to the spirit plain the first time. That is the other you."
"The other me?"
'I'm just a better you, a more stronger, charming, and eviler Finn.'
The memory of his shadow came back to him, remembering everything that he said.
"Oh the other me."
"Yes. But I must tell you something important."
"What would that be?"
"As you saw there is an evil and there is in your friends. I have no idea how this happened but you can they can be calmed. Anger is what makes them to become evil. Yet I have no idea how to defeat that evil. This is a paradox to me. Tell me Finn do you know anything that could make such a thing happen."
"No not really."
"Hmm. Well then not much I'm going to be able to do then. Now then awaken!"
He clapped his hands blowing Finn away.
He awakens once more
"Sup Finn."
Finn sat up looking behind him seeing Adam.
"Hey Adam where is everyone?"
"My guess...in that forest."
He had pointed to a forest entrance that was out in the distance.
"If they are in there...then what are you doing here?"
"Getting you man. I told them to go one ahead while I stayed here to get you."
"Oh. Then lets go!"
Um this is actually the half way mark for when they are in Darkside. Also unfortunately there won't be much updating since I'm going to be staring school in September. I know, it sucks. So I am going to try to update all current fics that I am working on before school starts and I might start one of my crossovers. Not saying which. So review.
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