Authors Notes: Before you read this story I want to say something about one of my OC's, Raven. Now I never knew this but I basically made a reference out of him to The Star Wars Knight of the Old Republic game. I never knew that until Khaos The Elder and Dragonbornmatt asked if Raven was based on Revan. I thought it was really funny. Alright on with the story. And of course I don't own AT or anything else only the story. Do I even need to continue saying that.
Chapter 9: Map Piece One: Journal Discovery
A picture can say a thousand words but a book can tell a life story. DubbleDuelSword
Finn had returned to the tree-house seeing that the bodies were taken down and buried in the ground.
"Hey Finn!" Adan shouted. "Say where's Jake?" Finn marly looked down at the ground not saying a word. "Oh." Adan realized what might have happened to Jake and it might be best to drop the whole conversation.
"I think it's best if we got some rest." Benjamin said. "It's been a rough return for you guys."
"Yeah."
Later during the night
The night was extremely quite, so peaceful. Benjamin slept in the treasure room, Basilisx and Rosa slept on the couch in the den/kitchen area, and Adan slept in the boat completely passed out. In the bedroom Finn and Seraphina slept however Finn was stirring in his sleep as if he was having a nightmare.
In his dreams
Finn realized that he was back in the spiritual plane as he walked down the winding corridor ending up at the steel metal door. His hand was trembling as he placed it on the knob. He felt that familiar evil feeling in his chest and quickly took his hand off the knob. His eyes were wide open and sweet began trickling down his forehead.
He brought me here. What does he want? Probably wants me to open this door for him. There's no way I'm gonna do that!
Finn turned his back on the door as he was about to take his first step he heard the familiar shout of a friend.
"AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!"
"Jake!?"
Finn quickly turned back around and pushed the door open. "Jake where are you!?" He looked around the room noticing that it had changed from before. The walls were no longer there, they were replaced with black metal bars and behind them was a mystic blue fire. Finn continued to search the room yet found nothing.
"Wow. You truly think that he's alive? You killed him with our own blade fool!"
Finn looked up seeing his shadow hang from the ceiling with his legs holding onto the bar as he looked down at Finn.
"I thought you were better than this then that. Or perhaps, I'm already taking over your body."
"No! Your not!"
"I'm not uh?" Finn's shadow then fell from the ceiling landing perfectly on his feet. "Then you must have been in control of what you were doing back at the Candy Kingdom. Cause if anything my rage took over and fueled you which led to Jake's death. Unless, you knew what you were doing."
"Shut up! I didn't know it was him!"
"Sure you didn't but what you have yet to realize is that I've already started to take over your body."
"Stop talking crap!"
Finn pulled out the Valor and charged at his shadow swinging his blade at him. He bent backwards avoiding the blade and punched Finn in the gut knocking all the wind out of him as well as making him cough up blood.
"Hurts doesn't it? That's because my power is much stronger than yours." He turned around and slowly walked away. "While your here I can easily beat you to a pulp. Not only that but I can now hurt you without even touching you."
"What are you talking about?"
"This!"
Finn's shadow punched himself in the face causing himself pain but some how making Finn toss to the left and lay on the floor.
"How did you do that?" Finn said as he lifted himself off the ground feeling the bruise on his face.
"Our subconscious minds are becoming one. However my mind is much stronger than yours and so I can easily cause you much more pain then you can imagine."
The shadow then stretched arm out making one of the metal bars radlie until it lunged out towards him with him catching it in his hand.
"Alright me, shall we play a game?"
The shadow then swung the metal pole at Finn knocking him in the head creating the vibrating metal sound as Finn tumbled all over the floor.
"Come now me surely we are better then this. No? Then suffer!"
The shadow then slammed the pole down hard on Finn and then brought it under Finn's chin swinging it up knocking Finn up into the air. He then began turning and swinging the pole around himself and soon grabbed it by the end and swung it full force at Finn's side knocking him into the metal pole barrier. As he slid down the shadow looked at Finn smiling so evilly at him.
"Is this all the fallen hero can muster? Ah if only your will power was this weak then I would have completely taken over your body. No matter, I'll just continue punishing you."
The shadow then released the pole and placed his right hand on the right side of his face and slid it down until his ring, index, and middle finger met his eye. He then placed his index and ring finger on the bottom eye lid and stretched it down so that his middle finger was in direct alignment with his eye.
"You know Finn, this is going to hurt you a hell lot more than it's going to hurt me."
He then pushed his middle finger onto his eye pushing it back with as much force possible causing blood to flow from the eye socket. Finn began screaming in pain clutching his right eye with both hands to try to stop the blood from flowing, but it continued. The shadow began laughing like a mad man as he continued to apply more pressure to his own eye.
"Yes! Suffer! Suffer like I have!"
"AAAHHH! PLEASE! STOP IT!"
"Never! Never! I want you to feel all the pain and suffering that you've suppressed over the years! This is nothing to me! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
"AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!"
...
Finn instantly woke up sweat covered his face and he panted like an animal. His eyes were wide open and gave off that thousand yard stare that an animal would have when a car's head lights were coming towards it. Finn got out of bed and ran towards the bathroom slamming the door and ran towards the toilet vomiting in it. After about a minute or so he stopped and picked himself up using the sink as support and looked himself in the mirror. He moved the hair from his face and checked his right eye. It seemed perfectly fine, he was relieved and turned to open the door. But he realized something completely strange. He turned back to the mirror and noticed that his blonde hair now had black streaks surrounding it.
"What the what!? What's going on with my hair!?"
He grabbed a chunk of the black strands and ripped it out hurting himself in the process of doing this. He looked back in the mirror now seeing that the strands he ripped out were gone but soon re-grew and replaced a few strands of his blonde hair.
"What the hell is going on here!?"
"Isn't it obvious."
Finn looked at the mirror intensely staring at it as if he was crazy.
"Did my reflection just talk?"
"Yes I did me."
Finn jolted up and punched the mirror on reaction shadering it into several pieces and cracks but his reflection was still some what clear.
"What's a matter, can't handle change? Well get used to it. Cause once I've taken over there will be no turning back!"
Finn punched the mirror once again breaking down the already broken pieces of glass and now leaving blood on it.
"So it's the shadow that's doing this. I can fight this! I know I can. But I don't want them to see me like this. Wait a second."
Finn left the bathroom and headed back up to the bedroom noticing that Seraphina was still asleep. He quietly grabbed his backpack and quickly left. He search thru it until he found a very familiar item, his hat. He held his white bear eared hat in his hands only looking at it and admiring it.
"It's been awhile since I've worn this."
He then placed the hat over his head putting his hair within the hat 'til none of it was visible.
"Well I hope this works."
...
Hours later Finn explained were it was they needed to go. He told them all about the mystery man and where they would need to go to, that being the mountains.
"So this mystery man is some sort of cosmic being that's contacting you thru your dreams?" Basilisx asked.
"Yeah that's pretty much it. Anything else?"
"Yeah," Adam said "what with the hat?"
"Oh this just feeling nostalgic I guess. Now let's go."
The trip to the mountains was easy, there was no one in sight and it was so quite you could hear them breath.
"So this mountain" said Adam "we got to climb to the top of it?"
"Yup."
"Perfect."
"Alright guys" said Benjamin "we're here."
They arrived at the foot of a mountain valley. Each mountain was taller than the last until they went past the dark clouds above.
"So umm, you want me to make a magic basket and carry you guys in it?"
"I think that won't be necessary. You and Basilisx can just fly up, I'll transform into my wolf form and carry Rosa, and Seraphina can carry Finn."
"I still like my basket idea better."
...
After about hours of climbing, complaining and falling they reached the summit.
"Man it's c-cold here." Seraphina said.
"No it's freaken hot here!"
"Alright Adam calm down. There should be a cave here, the book should be in it. Spread out guys."
Everyone checked the area searching for the cavern thing to find this journal. Eventually Finn had found a small cavern that was covered in grass. Towards the center of the room a brown leather book laid on the floor. Finn picked it up and examined the book. He opened it, the pages were old and the corners were torn yet the writing was clear as day.
"Could this be it?"
Finn flipped the pages back and forth until ending at a page with various symbols and drawings of volcanos, the ocean, and clouds. Finn took out his compass matching it to the book seeing that all the symbols on the compass matched some of the symbols in the book. The symbols translated to "ALL CREATIONS ARE ALL CREATED WITH FIRE OR A SORCE HEAT. THE FIRST OF FOUR CAN BE FOUND WITHIN THE DEPTHS OF THE FIRE GOD'S CASTLE."
"What does that mean?"
Finn continued to turn the pages until he ended at the twentieth page or so.
"Entry one since joining the Hero's program
I've decided to join the United States Hero's program to help one day end this terrible war this world has entered. A few of my friends as well as my two brothers have also decided to join. The program is a lot like the military except you use swords and stuff like that and we're still in school. It reminds me of the show "Code Name Kids Next Door" only we're in war."
"Entry two since joining the Hero's program
Well it didn't take even an entire day for the entire school to know that I was in the Hero's program. People keep asking me if I've killed any mutants yet and girls just drool all over me like if I'm there boy toy or something. It's actually really annoying, its times like these I wish Cassandra was here. I sure do miss her."
Finn knew that this had to be his father's journal if not then it's a really weird cook book. Finn left the cave rejoining his friends telling them that he found the journal.
"So where we go?" Rosa asked.
"I'm not sure. It said something about a fire god's castle."
"A fire god's castle? Perhaps it's referring a volcano." Benjamin said.
"Hey Phina does your dad know anything about a fire god?"
"I think he does. I guess we're going to the Fire Kingdom tomorrow."
"Alright." Benjamin said. "We'll get off the mountain and camp out for the night."
...
Night time came (not like there's much of a difference anymore) and a warm breeze went across the grasslands. Everyone but Finn and Benjamin were asleep, Ben went out to find water leaving Finn with the sleeping group. Finn was reading his father's journal wanting to know more about the things that he as done and happened to him. He decided to start from the beginning.
"Writing because I feel like it
To whoever is reading this I want to say that this is in no way, shape, or form a diary. This is my journal to keep my records for when I join the army to end this war.
I am thirteen years old in a family of two other brothers I'm the oldest. Xavier ,the middle child is eleven years old, looks up to me. I guess I'm like his role model or something. Cyrus, the youngest is eight years old, is like a lone wolf but people bully him and stuff. I really feel bad for him. Our mom and dad are currently in the war. They told me if they don't come back that I'd have to look after my brothers for them. I try not to think that will happen to them."
"Tragedy
I hate this war so much. Yesterday I was told that our mother and father died and their funeral was today. I couldn't bare to tell Cyrus and Xavier but I had to, they have a right to know. The funeral was quite grim and my friends showed up too to support us. Cyrus and Xavier cried but I cried the most. I didn't care if anyone saw me, this war has taken so much of my family, it hurt me so much to see them go like this. But I always try to find the bright side to everything and thankfully there was. I met this girl today, her name is Cassandra. She had long blonde hair with red streaks in it. I never meet her before yet I felt something. I asked why she was here and she told me that she came here to visit her mother and father she said they died during the war much like mine. I just needed someone to comfort me, and she did. She didn't mind that I was soaked from the rain or that I was crying over her shoulder she must know what I'm feeling. Do I like her? No, it could just be hormones."
"Cassandra
Its been about two weeks since or parents died and I'm still torn about it. I decided to go for a midnight stroll once Cyrus and Xavier were asleep. It was quite peaceful, the full moon was out and glowing, I enjoy nights like that. I walked over to the park and sat the fountain and kicked off my shoes and let my feet enter the cool water as I looked at mine and the moon's reflection. My life's been a mess as of the last two weeks, I've been falling behind in school, I've been a jerk to my friends, and I've even snapped at my own brothers. I probably know how Cyrus must feel now. I hate myself for how I've been acting and how I've treated people. I'm better off drowning myself just to escape this war, but then I saw her again.
Has I was looking at the water I saw Cassandra's reflection and turned to see if my eyes were lying to me, they weren't. She asked me what I was doing here but a better question is what was she doing here. I told her that I always come here when I need a place to think or to get away from everything. She said that she needed to get some air cause of her uncle. She said that he's became a drunk ever since his wife died, I felt sorry for her. She said that she's seen me around school looking all miserable, she also asked my friends about me and they told her that I never act like this. I guess she wanted to know me a bit more, people really haven't bothered talking to me ever since they died. I told her what this war has done to my family and how all that remains is me and my brothers. She never knew what it's like to have siblings, she's an only child, I would never know how that feels. We continued to talk and the enter time I felt something inside me, it made me feel warm. I didn't know it until she pointed it out but we were slowly getting closer to each other. We both blushed and turned our heads away. She was going to go but I asked if she'd like to stay at my place for the night seeing that her uncle is drunk and all. She asked if it would be weird seeing as thou that I'm a boy and she's well a girl but I'm not like that I would never take advantage of people.
We arrived at my house I said she could have my room and that I'd be sleeping on the couch but she wanted me to sleep with her, she didn't want me to feel lonely. At first I told her that I'd be fine but she talked me into it. This might be the closest I've been to any girl I mean she is literally in my bed but I still wouldn't take advantage of her like that. She cuddled my arm making me blush and I could tell that she was blushing too. Was she cold or did she just want to get closer to me? I guess the moon or my hormones are making me act different tonight, all I know is she makes me feel warm."
Finn decided to stop reading so that he could get some rest for his travel into the Fire Kingdom. He put the book back in his backpack and laid next Seraphina and soon fell asleep.
...
The morning sun rose (or it would have if the dark clouds weren't blocking it) and yet everyone but Ben and Adam was asleep. Nether of them felt like waking them up so Ben allowed Adam to put them in a magic basket.
"Wow this is actually lighter than I thought." Adam then tied the basket to his and back went into the air along with Ben. "So, you know where the Fire Kingdom is?"
"Nope not a clue." Ben then opened the basket and reached into it taking out Finn. "Finn where do we go exactly?"
Finn was slightly awake, well awake enough to know that he was talking to Ben, and reached into his pocket taking out the compass and then into his backpack taking out the journal.
"The instructions are in the back."
Finn fell back asleep and Ben simply took the compass and the journal and tossed Finn back into the basket. He turned the pages until reaching the back pages finding the translations for the needle.
"It says that it's northwest from here."
"Awesome. You wouldn't happen to know flame shield would you?"
"No."
"Great more work for me."
...
The group arrived at the border of the Fire Kingdom seeing well lava and other such fire things as well as the pile of volcanos that makes up the Fire Kingdom castle. About half way everyone woke up and got out of the basket via electrocution which resulted in Adam carrying Basilisx in his basket, nice plan right?
"Alright everyone line up for your flame shield vaccination! I want this done yesterday afternoon while eating a ham sandwich with extra bacon, cheese, and fall off the backbone ribs with a some type of tasty drink on the side!"
"He's kidding about that food stuff right?" Finn asked Basilisx and Rosa.
"Maybe," Basilisx said "then again maybe not."
In some other place
Raven walked the halls of Gearhead's hideout quite pleased with the results in the Candy Kingdom. As he continued to walk he heard footsteps behind him and stopped but didn't turn to face the person, or persons.
"What are you dong here? Come to join your friends?"
"No." Said a familiar boy voice.
"Then tell me, did he send you here?"
"He did." Said a slightly deeper voice then the one before.
"He also sent this." Said a familiar girl voice.
Raven turned to face the group and an evil smile came across his face as he walked towards the group and placed his hand on the handle.
Sorry for not updating when I should have lazy-ness and Super Mario Strikers Charged got the best of me yesterday so I decided to make this long-ish. Not really sure if it's my longest chapter you decide. I'm gonna watch to new Adventure Time, go to school, and then update OWE sounds like a good plan right? Well let's hope so. Review.
L-ater.