Ladies, Gentlemen, we've just reached a grand accomplishment... The number of Adventure Time fanfics has now surpassed the number of Hey Arnold fics. Feel free to give yourselves a round of applause.

But it in all seriousness... This just means we have to dig in even deeper and start cranking out enough stories to beat the next biggest series, Xiaolin Showdown. Good luck, and good night.

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Alright that's enough of that I guess.

The Ivory Pillar

Part 5

Jake slid a silver ring on one of his fingers as both The Ice King and him went towards Lumpy Space Princess's camp. Jake was almost a little surprised to see that the camp had indeed been ransacked, he had considered the possibility that The Ice King had lied about what happened or at least that he was just crazy and confused.

"What are we doing here? I saw Finn take everything useful from this place." Jake just shrugged at him, the chances that Finn would come back seemed pretty low but there wasn't anywhere else to look. The Ice King began picking through LSP's remaining belongings. Jake looked around the edge of the campsite and sure enough, such a large gathering of people had damaged the forests foliage, leaving a faint path.

"I think we can try to figure out where they all went by following the trail they left." The Ice King flew over to catch up with Jake as he moved away from the camp and into the woods. The path was fairly easy to follow if only because it was pretty much a straight line. The mob that had attacked The Ice King pretty much all came from the same direction.

Jake rubbed the ring on his finger as they walked through the woods. "I really hope this thing works..." Princess Bubblegum called in a favor and had an enchanted ring brought to her, but she admitted she wasn't sure it would actually work against whatever this was.

The path they followed ended at the edge of the woods and near a mountainside. Unfortunately the actual path had vanished since even a large group of people wouldn't have left any trail they were skilled enough to follow.

"So... What now?" The Ice King looked around a bit, trying to see anything useful in the empty area. Jake scratched the back of his head thinking about what options they really had. "Well the path was pretty much just a straight line so... Maybe we should just keep walking"

As the minutes passed Jake's faith that they would find anything began to dwindle. He had hoped he would see something important off in the distance, maybe a town, or evil lair or... Something. It took about a half hour of walking before they reached the mountain. They didn't see anything particularly special as they looked about their immediate surroundings.

"Maybe... We should just..." Jake cut The Ice King off as soon as he realized the guy was considering giving up the search. "No. Finn's out here somewhere, and we are going to find him. I'm not going to give up." He stretched himself up high before The Ice King could respond to his statement. He used his height to help look for any sign of where Finn could be.

His let out an audible gasp when he saw a lumpy purple thing nearby moving towards the side of the mountain. "Lets go!" Jake shrunk back down and rushed to where it looked like he would intercept LSP. He caught her just as she was reaching out towards an old wooden door.

Alright, I think I'll stop it there. I might be able to finish this story off tomorrow. Which is good, because I am not happy with how it turned out.

I really hope I can turn the quality of my stories around with the next one.