Authors Notes: I got a day off so know you get another update. Yay! All questions will be answered and someone will leave this world. Who's it gonna be? Read and you shall learn the next person's fate. I do not own anything just the trilogy and OC's.

Chapter 8: A Game of Die

One must never blame themselves for the things that others say they've done. Once a person truly believes such stuff then they've done something horrible. DubbleDuelSword.

"SURPRISE!"

Everyone quickly looked up look up at the source the voice. At the very top of the tree-house stood Raven. His arms were out stretched and he had a wide evil, pleased smile. Like he was happy with what had happened.

Is some kind if sick joke to him?! Finn thought to himself has the evil feeling of hate began to consume his body. Did he do this?! Is this his "welcome back present" for us?! He thinks the death of all our friends is fun?! He did do this! "You did this?" Finn said in a low monotone. Something snapped within him, he felt these feelings of something he's always tried to old back. Hate, anger, sorrow, depression, rage, all these feelings filled his being and fueled him. "YOU DID THIS!?"

Link drew the Valor in pure rage and it instantly caught on fire, a blue fire, everyone was took-en back by how easily the sacred sword combusted into flames. All but Raven who continued to smile and slowly clap his hands.

"Congratulations Finn. You know how to read. and here I thought that you didn't."

"SHUT UP YOU BASTARD! YOU SON OF A BITCH! GET DOWN HERE SO I CAN RIP YOU DAMN HEAD OFF AND SMASH YOUR FREAKEN SKULL INTO PIECES!"

"Sounds fun." He said no longer clapping. "But I don't think that's anyway to act to someone who's brought you a welcome back present. And all your friends showed up too."

"Oh I'll act better. ONCE I'VE SHOVED MY SWORD DOWN YOUR DAMN THROAT!"

"Now, now no need to say such things that you'll never be able to deliver."

A fireball was thrown at him he easily tilted his head avoiding it.

"SHUT UP!" Seraphina screamed. "I'LL PAY FOR WHAT YOU DID! I'LL BURN YOU TO DEATH!"

"Now, now. Let's not get ahead of our selves. After all, we don't want Jake to get hurt do we."

Finn's eyes opened wide at the mention of the name Jake. He looked at all the bodies on the tree none of them were Jake.

"Where is he? WHERE'S JAKE?!"

"Right here."

From below the treetop's horizon he pulled up a golden furred potato shape dog. No denying that it was him. He was unconscious, and had multiple cuts, scars, and burns all over his Jake.

Jake. What hell has this man put you through?

"Me and Jakey here hang out all the time. I blew up his wife, murdered his kids, I tortured him before that vampire and gum princess showed up, and recently we played a game of die where I easily knocked him out. Isn't that right Jake?"

He forcibly shook his head up and down like he was some kind of puppet. This sickened Finn.

"LET HIM GO YOU SICK FREAK!"

"Oh I will. At the Candy Kingdom that is. If you want to save Jake come to the candy castle Finn, alone. And we will also play a nice game of die. Win and Jake is yours. Don't be late."

A portal appeared behind him and threw Jake over his shoulder holding him by his neck fur and entered it.

"Come on!" Adam shouted. "Let's go kick his ass!"

"No." Finn had said looking down at the ground.

"What?" Seraphina said now confused. "I thought you were going to kill him."

"I am. But you guys stay here. If we all go he's just going to kill Jake on the spot."

"He's right." Benjamin said. "If we all took him one at once he would just kill Jake and run. What's best is that Finn goes to fight him and we stay here and give these bodies a proper burial."

"Right." Basilisx said. He turned to Finn looking at the angered hero. "Bring his head back!"

"Yeah." He then ran off in the direction of the Candy Kingdom.

...

He saw the castle in his sights and looked in shook. The cotton candy forest surrounding it had been reduced to ashes the remaining trees were engulfed in flames. The wall surrounding the kingdom had been reduced to rubble and the castle top and inner top parts were blazing with fire and black smoke exploding from it. Finn doubled his speed reaching the kingdom in a matter of seconds. Upon his arrival a gruesome sight laid before his eyes. All the buildings were nothing but candy ash, giant craters were in the ground most filled with some type of acid looking thing and others filled with thousands of dead candy children, fire's were everywhere and the fountain water had been replaced by lava, and the shattered remains of the candy people. Finn had no time to stop and look around the chaos that was once the joyous Candy Kingdom the best thing he could do was avenge their deaths by killing Raven.

"Uhhhhhhhhhh..."

Finn stopped steps away from entering the castle and turned and saw a heavily injured Cinnamon Bun.

"Cinnamon Bun!"

CB wasn't even given a chance to speak. The half-baked pastry was shot in his forehead by a metal arrow and a second later exploded spreading chunks of his sticky body. Finn looked up at castle and saw Raven who had his hood on holding his metal bow in his hands. He looked at Finn while putting away his bow. He took one of his lightsabers activating it and fell back into the window throwing out three heads of the now decapitated Banana Guards. Finn growled in anger and charged into castle. He climbed several floors before appearing in the throne room (yeah I don't know the exact layout of the candy castle) seeing Raven slice the remaining guards into pieces and shot an arrow at the head of Peppermint Butler nailing him the throne chair.

"Boom."

The arrow exploded leaving the throne chair completely obliterated and pieces of flaming red and white peppermint surrounding the chair.

"If you came here earlier you could have saved them." Raven said without turning to face Finn. "You dare call yourself a hero. Ha! You couldn't even help that half-baked profit you call a friend from that explosive arrow."

"Shut up!"

"Well aren't we feeling pissed off. But I suppose you want to kill me for what I've done." He turned to face Finn and pulled off his hood smiling like he was enjoying this. "Then just try. You get the first shot."

Finn wasted no time and charged after him with his blazing sword in hand. Raven quickly sunk into the floor just as Finn swung his sword at him. A portal took him under and he soon reappeared on the other side of the room. He stood up to face Finn and quickly pulled out his two lightsabers giving the hero a cold possessed look. Both men ran at each other meeting in the center of the room colliding sword and saber. Red static was flying ever where as the sword and sabers fought each other. Raven pushed Finn back and came back to him with a jump kick to the gut with enough force to cause Finn to spew some blood. Finn tumbled to the floor and rolled back up being greeted by a kick to the side of the head. Finn crashed into a wall and a loud tremor was had and it shock the entire castle. Raven put away on of his sabers and took out his pistols and shot at Finn. Finn deflected all the shots fired at him and quickly got back up to his feet now bring the sword and saber fight back. Finn slashed at Raven missing him by an inch. He quickly put away his pistols and replaced them with one saber. Both weapons collided and Raven took this opportunity to take out his other saber aiming to cut off Finn's head but only cut his cheek. Finn recoiled, he jumped back placing his hand on his burning cut has he continued to look at Raven in hate. Raven went back on the offensive, swinging his sabers like crazy. Finn and defended from the sabers, quickly clashing them with his sword deflecting them back. Raven then did several backflips increasing the distance between them. He then threw his sabers at Finn making them look like flying red desks of death. One came in low towards Finn's legs, he jumped over them seeing it hover above the ground and into the wall. The other one was aimed at his neck, he deflected it with his sword causing it to spiral into the ceiling. He then ran towards Raven swinging his sword at him. He used his metal bow to defend against the many attacks from Finn. Rage filled the boy and his sword strengthening him and the sword with one blow he broke the bow in two. Raven no longer had anything to defend himself with and was wide open. Finn saw the opening and slashed at his body causing Raven to bend over in pain as blood dripped out of him. Mercy was never an option and vengeance would soon be his. Finn kicked Raven over onto his back and stood over him holding the Valor high above his head. He looked at Raven who had pleading eyes.

No mercy! No remorse! No forgiveness! VENGEANCE IS MINE!

"DIE!"

Finn used all his power and jabbed his blade into Raven's body however the stab was not fatal, Finn wanted him to feel every once of pain that was coming towards him for everything that he did. He continued to stab him and blood spread all over the place. Finn could no longer control himself and stabbed the blade into Raven's shoulder and began beating on the his nearly lifeless body.

"DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE! DIE!"

Finn unleashed all of his fury into killing Raven he became a monster if he knew what he was doing he wouldn't believe what he was doing. A gun shot was heard and Finn snapped back from his bloodlust feeling the blood flow from his cheek. He held his cheek in pain and looked back to see who fired that gun shot. The person was slowly clapping their hands like he just finished watching a show.

"Well now Finn the "hero" you killed me. Congrats."

"Raven?" Finn got up and walked towards Raven, looking at him from the far end of the room and then looked at the one he was fighting. "Two? WHO WAS THIS?!"

"What's wrong "hero"? Are you not satisfied that you avenged your friends? But wait, I'm still alive, So he could that person be that you killed in cold blood? Well "hero" I will show you. But this person's death was brought by your hands."

He snapped his fingers and a murky shadow like mist rose up from the other Raven disappearing in the air revealing the identity of the man Finn killed. Finn looked in horror, his eyes widened and tears fell.

No. This can't be. It's an illusion. No. NO!

"Jake?!"

He pulled his sword out of the dog and put his hands on his head and shaking his head in disbelief and slowly backed away.

"No. This isn't real. This isn't real!"

"This is all real. You dare call yourself a hero. What kind of hero comes to save his brother but ends up killing him in cold blood. You are no hero."

"NO!"

He ran towards the bleeding dog and tightly held his lifeless body sobbing uncontrollably.

"I DIDN'T KNOW! I DIDN'T MEAN TO! JAKE! PLEASE! FORGIVE ME! I'M SORRY! I DIDN'T KNOW!

He buried his head onto Jake's body as another rumble was made through the entire.

"Seeing as thou you've failed here I might as well tell you what I've done and what has happened. You and the other have been gone for months. With all you gone I've started the revolution in freeing this land from their oppressors. However, with this kingdom I learned something quite interesting. After I easily killed that weakling idiot of a princess I learned a formula that could come quite in handy. A decorpsinator serum. Deciphering the formula was child's play. I learned that it has the power to bring back dead candy people so I simply reversed engineered the formula in a way that would suit my needs. I created a serum that brings back any dead thing as a super powered zombie that will only obey Gearhead, Lich, and my command. And I've equipped each serum with a bomb and spread it out though the entire ground level of this kingdom not to mention it's also surrounding the walls of this castle. Once the bombs go off this castle is coming down. And the best part of all this is that it couldn't have been possible without you. You did this, Finn the killer."

"NO! I DIDN'T! I WOULD NEVER HELP ANYONE KILL INNOCENT PEOPLE! YOU DID THIS RAVEN!

"True I did kill all these half-baked candies, and leave this stupid kingdom in ruins. But" he summoned a portal and turn to face it "I wasn't the one who killed Jake."

He entered the portal leaving Finn in the burning castle. Finn had picked up Jake's lifeless body and began running back to the first floor of the castle, He managed to get out of the kingdom and saw the castle collapse of the castle. The entire kingdom and become engulfed in a green mist cloud.

Months? But how? And the other kingdoms, what's happened to them? Why wasn't I here! I could have stopped this! This-this is my fault. They all died because I wasn't here. And Jake...he died because...of ...me...

"Jake..." The fallen hero placed his dog friend on the ground he couldn't even look at what he had did. This was something far worse than any evil could have to him. He did this to himself, he can't forgive himself for this. "I'm sorry." He walked away. The possible grief he would face if he was to bury Jake. Jake's death was brought by his hands but a grave wouldn't. What kind of person would he be, what kind of person is he?

"You still believe that nonsense of being a hero. You still don't get it do you? No matter how mush good you do, no matter how mush evil we may have slain, there will always be a hint of evil within you and that's me."

The thoughts of his shadow raced though his mind like a wild-fire.

"You might be good now but wait for the right time to come and I shall strike and you shall fall into darkness."

Could it be that his shadow as begun to take over? He never thought that this would happen, no one thought that this was possible. But what could he do to restore Ooo to how it was. He took out his compass seeing that the needle was spinning lest and right and now was emerald-green and the black symbols were now gold and were circling the needle and under them was a pool of lava.

"I guess the best thing is to find that journal and get those pieces of map to get the Cosmic Shield."

He gripped the compass tighter and made a weak smile. He ran towards the direction of the tree-house. If anything he was ready for the things that were waiting for him. Especially Lich and Gearhead.

Well the journey for the four map pieces has begun where will the road take our heros, what has happened to the of kingdoms, and what will Adan's journal hold? Find out some other time I'm gonna work on OWE.

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