Jake's Best Friend
Part 3
Tiffany tackled Finn to the ground. He kicked Tiffany off of him. "Dude, what is wrong with you!?" Finn attempted to grab Tiffany's collar and drag him to his feet but he took a small knife out of his pocket and cut Finn's hand. "What's wrong with you! Jake's my best friend, so leave us alone!"
Jake instantly crushed Tiffany into a candy wall with an enlarged fist. There was a threatening look in Tiffany's eyes as he got back up. Whatever he was about to do didn't matter, several of Princess Bubblegum's candy guards showed up and arrested him.
One of the guards broke away from the group to talk to Finn and Jake. "Your house was set on fire, I'm guessing by him." Finn and Jake immediately made a mad dash to get back to their house at the word that was on fire.
Some smoke was rising out of a window. Beemo was outside talking to some candy people that had arrived to help. The blank scroll from the box was lying in the grassy field just outside their house. The grass around it was completely scorched. A few candy people were standing watch over it with buckets of water.
Jake stretched up towards the smoking window to see the damage. Finn walked over to Beemo to see what happened. "How did the house catch fire?" Beemo turned to face Finn revealing various spots of slightly melted plastic on the front of his body. He pointed at the scroll. "That thing exploded. I had to throw it out the window. Who sent it?"
Finn grumbled under his breath for a moment as he tried to calm down. "Tiffany." Beemo seemed to be thinking about what Finn said for a few moments before responding. "Who is Tiffany?" Finn shrugged. "I think... Jake used him to make me and lady Rainicorn jealous. Or something, I can't really remember. It's been a while..."
One of the candy guards handed Finn a phone. "It's the princess, she needs to talk to you." Finn took the phone expecting her to ask about the fire. "Finn? There's been a... problem." Finn immediately thought back to Tiffany being arrested. He took a deep breath. "What happened."
"Tiffany escaped. He will probably try something again." Finn thought about the problem for a few moments before responding. "Me and Jake will just have to wait for him to do something, then take him down."
Jake was examining the burnt living room. The fire had pretty much completely wrecked it. Fortunately Beemo and the candy kingdom people had apparently gotten it under control fairly quickly as the other rooms were fine. He noticed a scorched trail leading to the open window. It looked like something burning had been carried and thrown out of the window.
Aaaaand I fail to deliver on the increased word count. I promise I was planning to end this story at this chapter but I was going moment to moment in the story and... It kinda got away from me. So I'll just stop guestimating when these things will end. For realz this time!