Edit: Yeah! That format change did not translate to the site well so... I fixed this chapter.
Jake's Best Friend
Part 6
Finn wasn't sure what time it was. He knew it was late, or maybe even 'early'. Something had woken him up. He didn't hear anything in the house, but regardless he had been stirred him from his sleep. His eyes remained shut for the following minutes, but he didn't allow himself to fall asleep.
He still didn't hear anything. Finn sat up in his bed as quietly as he could, trying not to disturb Jake. He glanced around the dark room seeing nothing unusual. Jake slept in his bed, everything remained undisturbed.
Finn slowly slumped back into his bed. As he sunk into the mattress he hesitated to close his eyes. Simply laying in the bed, Finn felt the moments slipping by quietly. A creak crept through the tree house.
Finn rose less cautiously than before, quickly rising up and scanning the room. It remained the same, but he didn't feel that the house was safe. There was no reason to wake Jake up for hearing a few strange noises so Finn sneaked out of their room, leaving him undisturbed.
He tiptoed down their stairs as quietly as possible to keep from waking Jake and to not alert himself to anyone. The living room was the same as it had been earlier. Sections of the damaged floor, wall and ceiling were gone. Finn was glad the moon was more than half full, otherwise he wouldn't have been able to see very well without a light.
As he sneaked around their home he found a closet that was slightly ajar. Finn opened it as slowly as he could manage. He felt silly being so worried that something was going to jump out at him, especially when nothing did. The closet was unremarkable, containing random boxes of trinkets that they had collected from their adventures over the years.
It was when he was about to shut the door he spotted something peculiar on the closets floor. A set of clothing, similar to what the workers were wearing, lay there. He picked the clothes up briefly, examining them. Finn dropped them to the floor as a thought entered his mind, Tiffany was in the house. He could kick himself for not checking on who those workers were, but it was too late for that.
Finn cautiously made his way back upstairs to wake Jake up. He stopped dead in his tracks when he reached the kitchen. Tiffany stood before him, holding a stolen butcher's knife in his hands. He appeared to be just as surprised as Finn was. An long silence hung over the two as they studied each other.
Tiffany spoke first. "I... " He stumbled to say something before awkwardly moving the knife behind his back, attempting to conceal it. "Hello, Finn. I came to talk to Jake."
"Uh huh." Finn said with an incredulous tone.
"So... If you could just... Turn around and leave?" Tiffany forced a wide toothy smile.
Finn stood with a blank expression on his face for several seconds before lunging at Tiffany. He narrowly avoided a few defensive swings and stabs from him before grabbing Tiffany's wrist and wrenching the blade from his hand. Finn Simply tossed the blade to the side grabbing Tiffany and putting him in a headlock, attempting to knock him out.
Tiffany struggled fruitlessly for a few moments before making a desperate grab for another blade on the counter. Finn responded by slamming Tiffany into the electrified window, cracking it but failing to set off the alarm or shock. He dropped the stunned Tiffany and opened the window, setting off the alarm.
He briefly heard a sound from the bedroom, it was likely Jake waking up to the alarm. Finn ignored it in favor of Tiffany, who had recovered and grabbed his previous butcher's knife from the floor. Finn took a deep breath waiting for the attack.
Tiffany launched himself forward with attempting to stab Finn. He responded by waiting till the absolute last second he could, before leaping away from Tiffany. Tiffany's blade briefly went through
the window panel causing a bright visible arc of electricity to jump from the windows mechanism to his weapon, causing Tiffany to let out a loud yelp before collapsing on the floor.
Finn released a sigh of relief, glad that the problem was dealt with. He could hear Jake talking on the phone in the next room. Apparently someone in the candy kingdom had called to check if they
were in danger. Finn dragged Tiffany's unconscious body into the room to show Jake.
"I won!" Finn proudly announced. "Also you should tell them to bring someone to arrest him."
So I had some fun with the formatting(Edit: And it didn not translate :P) don't know if the style will stick. (Edit: It wont!) And now we start on a shiny new story!