"Good, then if you would fly me up to that ledge behind the fall right there it would be my pleasure to show you my place." I spoke sweetly and he rolled his eyes. Then, faster than my eyes could catch, he picked me up bridal style and flew me up to the ledge I had pointed out. I grabbed his hand and pulled him along with me as I entered the slit.

"How'd you find this place I probably would have passed it at least 50 times before I even saw the ledge? Much less this slit." He sounded just a bit amazed and it was finally my turn to smirk. We continued walking and I wasn't able to answer right away because we had stepped into the entryway. I led him to the living room and ran to the kitchen.

I grabbed two glasses and filled mine with milk, and his with red Kool-Aid. I didn't know if he could drink it but I decided to see anyways. Then I grabbed a bowl of strawberries for myself and joined him on the couch.

"I had gotten lost when I was nine" I said as I sat down and handed him his glass.

"What?"

"You asked me how I found this place."

"Ah yes, you do know I'm a vampire right, I thought we had covered that pretty well."

"Ya I just wanted to see if you could drink anything else" I shrugged.

"Well Blondie you're correct, congrats I drink the color red." To prove his statement he snatched a strawberry from my bowl, despite my protests, and stuck it on his fang. I watched in amazement as the color drained, leaving it white, Marshall then stuck it in my mouth. I gave him a muffled protest but found that it tasted no different than when it was red, maybe a little sweeter, he smirked.

"Well how was it?" He leaned his head on his hand and gazed at me.

"Good I think it was only a little sweeter but other than that the exact same."

"Alright than let's hear that story while we eat strawberries," And that's exactly what I did too.

"You see when I was nine…" I started.

"I'm going Cake I'll see you later ok"

"Ok Baby Cakes see you when I get home"

I left the Candy Kingdom, and started walking in the forest that leads to the tree house. Then I heard a roar and looked up, there in the sky was a gigantic dragon, and it was heading straight for the Candy Kingdom. I mean this thing was huge, bigger than the Candy Castle it would wipe them out with one blast of fire. I knew it was stupid, but I just couldn't let it hurt anyone there, so I did something that would probably kill me.

"Hey ugly, ya I mean you! Big stupid, clumsy, thing up there. What are you, an oversized ogre with wings or something?" The dragon turned to me and roared. Word for the wise dragons' are prideful about their flying abilities. If you call one clumsy, your dead meat, as in, they won't stop till your dead, kind of what I was going for. I know, WTF right, I told you it was stupid and would cost me my life.

He started to chase me down then and I turned and ran. I was only nine and had never defeated a dragon that size before, or any dragon, without Cake. Since it was flying it caught up quickly, and tried to blast me with fire. I dodged to the left and continued running. I know what you're going to say, I probably should have shut-up right then, but I didn't, again, stupid, stupid, stupid, me, but I had to keep its attention.

"That all you got, you clumsy beast, really I expected more. Who knew flying ogres blasted fire anyways, I sure didn't." I yelled up at him. Then his shadow disappeared, oh no, no, no, no, not good not good, I mentally panicked. It's kind of hard to dodge attacks if you don't know what direction there coming from.

Suddenly I saw his head right in front of me and he blasted me with fire. I tried to dodge, but it hit my left arm, and I could hear the skin sizzling. His paw, which was twice my height, swiped me to the left and into a tree.

"Filthy little girl, I could crush you to pieces yet you taunt me, I am a dragon, mighty and great who are you to defy and dishonor me?" He, it sounded male anyways, screeched at me, almost making me deaf because it sounded like metal scraping against metal. People say that if a dragon wants to they can make their voice so alluring it would flow like silk and sound like angels singing. Too bad for me this dragon forgot about that ability.

"Fionna the greatest Heroin and Adventuress in all of Aaa, are you really a dragon I wouldn't know because your butt ugly and clumsy. I thought dragons were supposed to be the most charming and graceful beings in Aaa?" he snarled and swiped me again, straight into a fast flowing river. It was moving swifter then I could run when I was pumped full of sugar and adrenaline. Then if I was given the opportunity to eat the entire Candy Kingdom on top of that.

The dragon must have forgotten about his previous objective and started to directly focus on me and only me. This was working in my favor, but as I was being carried further down the river I started to second guess that. The dragon was trying to get to me by flying above the river and swiping at the water, occasionally blasting fire.

The rapids carried me into a place I didn't know, a dark one, the further we went the denser the canopy. Soon it was so thick the dragon could no longer fit without being stuck and had to turn around. I watched for his shadow and noted that, fortunately, he was flying in the opposite direction from Aaa royalty and instead toward the mountains. Unfortunately I was still stuck in this darn fast river. The rapids started to move faster and faster, but it was too deep for me to touch the bottom and too wide for me to try and swim to shore, so I was stuck in it.

Later

I was exhausted; I had been fighting to stay above the waterline for what seemed like forever but was really just a half an hour. Finally it widened into a small pool, and with a rush of energy I swam to shore. When I got there though some type of ugly creatures were standing in a group, waiting to get me. So on the bad side; I had to run for my life. On the bright side the dark goblins, that's what I decided to call them, weren't as fast as I was, but I was exhausted so we were about the same speed.

I kept running till I found a waterfall with a lake beneath it, I jumped into the lake and swam towards the middle and only then did I dare to look back. There wasn't a single dark goblin in the clearing, I looked harder towards the tree line and saw one of them running away. It looked like they had all retreated when they had seen the clearing; I was too tired to think of why they ran though. I climbed up on the grass and looked at the waterfall, to me it was beautiful.

Then I realized it was night time and I could see the stars, it must have been later then I thought, Cake was going to freak. But that would have to wait till daylight if the forest was dark during the afternoon; it was going to be pitch black at night. When I focused back on the fall I could barely see a ledge sticking out, it was so small that I thought I must be imagining it. Even so I started to look for hand and foot holds on the rock surface, if I could get up there I should be safe till morning.

It took me five tries to get even close to the ledge, and I had to take my sword and carve out hand and foot holds. Once I got on the ledge I was so tired that I didn't even realize that there wasn't a single drop of water on the entire thing. I felt along the side of the rock wall and fell down into some kind of slit that was in the side of the wall. Then I crawled in a little further and was knocked unconscious from exhaustion.

As I finished my story I could tell that he was shocked.

"Ok now and only now do I believe you're an adventurer, don't get smug I never said the greatest in AAA." I did have a smug look on my face. "Oh, how did Cake react when you got home?" He asked after a few seconds.

"Well I was here for longer than I thought, about two days plus it took me a couple more hours to get out of the forest on foot. So when I got home, well… I almost went deaf and by the time I was able to go outside again… umm let's just say I was almost as pale as you."

"Cake?" he asked.

"Yea, Cake." I replied as we both laughed, from then on I had a dance partner.