Author's Notes: Well guys, here's chapter 5. This whole chapter is got a twist to it. I hope you enjoy it!
This is the longest chapter I've written so far; I'm so proud of myself.
Oh and for those who are awaiting chapter 3 of my other story I started, don't worry, I'm working on it(;
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Betrayed Lies
~ Chapter 5: Lies ~
The concrete was freezing, it didn't suit a person or anyone to try and sleep on, no matter how exhausted they were. As minutes turned into hours to what felt like a century; she felt like the walls were caving in on her. She felt enclosed, as if she was in a box, but she had to remain calm. She felt like an animal, trapped in a cage, like people would come looking at her through glass thinking she was a dirty, filthy creature who deserved to die in a hole. Her body temperature was dropping slowly, the water was in-cable of drying as fast as she would've liked it. There was no warm air ventilating her surroundings, only a harsh, spine chilling breeze coming from a nearby vent. She had no weapon to free her from this imprisonment and no cry for help could be heard. She had tried, and no one responded, didn't even give a glance. Even no she was unable to see who exactly they all were, but she knew they were there and could hear her. The glass that lies in front of her is sound proof, yet she can hear everything going on beyond it.
She has all curled up in a ball, trying to capture as much warmth as possible. It took every bit of her not to cry, she had to be strong, she had too. Suddenly, someone walked in, she could hear it. But she stayed right in her spot ignoring the footsteps. She could hear this person flipping a switch, and hear an indecidable noise. She then heard a voice pierce her ears, a very familiar voice indeed.
"Hello Fionna, do you want to know why you're here?" His smile was dark and filled with hate.
She jerked her head up and gasped at the sight of who she thought it was.
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Marshall Lee was siring around almost awake. You could hear grunting sounds of grouchiness that was going to come apparent when he was completely awake. He felt a slight burning sensation on his arm, like heat was being pressed on it. The Vampire King jumped up in utter pain, while grasping the wounded area. He soon realized it was the sun beaming on his gray skin, from the window with the drapes not closed all the way. He hopped away from the light source and gasped at the fact he was in Fionna's house. Now wide awake, Marshall Lee wasted no time levitating up the ladder leading to the second part of the tree house. He swiftly went left and right to get to the room the bunny capped teenager slept in. When Marshall Lee swung the door open, he spotted no sign of Fionna. Her sleeping bag was neatly on her bed like no one had slept in it. Her room was intact; there was no sign of her presence being here all night. Thinking in a glimmer of hope maybe she just cleaned, he dashed to the bathroom. Slowly opening the door with a creek sound, she wasn't there either.
A thought occurred to him, 'Maybe she's at my house.' In a spite of hope, Marshall Lee grabbed her hat then also snatched Fionna's umbrella. He opened it up and took off as fast as he could go. He slammed the door wide open when he entered his own house. As soon as he walked in he knew she wasn't in the living room or kitchen. He floated up stairs quickly to look into the bedroom she lied only the day before. But, it was empty; it was the same as it was before. Slightly messy bed with his guitar in the same place as it was. He searched all over for her, now very worried, his face went white. Thinking the worst possible scenarios that could have come across to her, he panicked. His knees smacked the ground with no hesitation, his mouth was gaped opened, a few tears made their way down both cheeks of Marshall Lee. He couldn't help but blame himself for the disappearance of her; of his bestfriend.
It was cold and rainy that night, and he knew she had no weapons on her to defend herself. She could be hurt somewhere, bleeding, freezing, and possibly..he didn't want to think she could be dead. Trying so hard to push everything horrible thought creeping into his subconscious; he heard a knock at the door. He jerked up immediately from the kitchen floor where he had his emotional breakdown and raced to the door. Leaving the hat he clenched onto, on the tile. Smiling in the hopes of it being Fionna safe and sound.
He opened it to see someone else he didn't expect to see.
"Hi there Marshall Lee. Hey, what's wrong?" The pink man asked in a very caring tone while grabbing his hand.
Marshall Lee was bewildered. He thought how this was the most inconvenient time he could have came at. But he was happy to see him at the same time. "What are you doing here?" He asked dazed.
Prince Gumball hesitated a bit with an unsure expression, but managed to speak, "I just wanted to see you, I thought last night went all too fast" He had a genuine smile from ear to ear.
The Vampire smiled roughly while looking down; his hand was still griped firmly by his hand. He gulped anxiously as he searches for the words he wants to speak. "You know Fionna right?" He finally asked nervously.
PG's face went blank, he released his grip from Marshall Lee's hand and looked in the other direction. "Yea..I know her," His tone was bitter. Marshall was a little surprised that Prince Gumball just said that in the most rudest way possible. He hesitated to respond to that cold remark, but somehow he did, "Well...um..Have you seen her at all? Like when you were walking here and all." The vampire thought PG was getting jealous so he quickly added, "I was just wondering because I think she might be in trouble.."
The pink prince giggled. Marshall Lee was a little confused at the gesture, but then PG started talking again, "It's Fionna we're talking about here. She's one of the bravest creatures I know in all of The Land of Aaa." The gray teenager nodded in agreement. He knew she was strong and brave, but she was still very young and inexperienced at certain things. He wasn't fully certain that she was okay, if she was, she'd be back by now.
"Maybe just to be safe, we go on a hunt for her. Please? It would mean a lot to me." Marshall pleaded with big brown eyes of sorrow. With now another cold expression, PG sighed and grunted, "Fine...whatever my dear." The Vampire's face lit up in excitement, next thing you know he clanged onto his partner; giving him the biggest hug he'd ever given him. "...thank you.." He whispered into the prince's ear. Now completely smiley, he grabbed PG's hand while grabbing the black umbrella quickly in the other hand, and started gliding up with him. A little scream made its way out from the prince's mouth. Marshall just smirked as he continued to float about.
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After searching in many different kingdoms, they found themselves deep in the woods. Shockingly, Prince Gumball showed no fear what so ever; his face made an appearance that he was deep in thought. Suddenly he came to a halt, staring into what seem just like trees. He nodded his head at the dead like trees, as Marshall Lee gave him a curious expression. He had his head tilted to the side with one eyebrow raised. But PG didn't even glance back at him, he was still gazing at the trees. Marshall slowly walked in front of where he was staring at, before Prince Gumball could say or do anything, Marshall Lee stepped in the wrong spot where he was sent underground on a slide like tube.
You could faintly hear PG scream 'NO!' As if this wasn't supposed to happen. Marshall Lee found himself on a dirt floor, where the air was chilled, and the only light was the hole he came from. Unable to glimpse anything, he knew right there and then, this was a jail like environment. He felt a chill crawl down his spine has he almost panicked, but remained calm. He thought PG was going to come help him, so he stayed right there; sitting on the dirt flooring.
Meanwhile, Prince Gumball was smirking has he gestured his head to 'come out' at the trees. Peppermint Butler came jumping out avoiding the hole right in front of both of them.
"Just how we planned, Who did you know he was going to fall in if you started long enough?" The candy servant asked with an evil smile.
PG laughed a little and said, "I didn't. I was going to do something else completely different. He wanted to grab my attention so he walked right in front of me." His face had a creepy smile of brilliancy.
"You realize what you have to do now, right?" The butler asked already knowing the answer.
"Hehe I do..that I do know for sure," He roughly chuckled as he crossed his arms with his eyes shut. A smile creased across his face.
"Alright sir, well I'll meet you down there in a bit through the other entrance. Good luck," He said with a thumbs up for luck as he disappeared in the distance.
After that statement, he hopped into the tunnel. He landed right next to the vampire.
"Oh thank glob you're here, I got worried. What is this place?" Marshall asked slightly jumpy.
"..I'm afraid this is a place where there's no way out..." He lied with a convincing dramatic effect.
The vampire was shocked, he gasped, but he was kissed on the cheek by the fellow man beside him. He blushed a little and managed to make out in a hoarse voice, "We're..g-going..t-too di-ee?"
"I'm afraid so Marshy." It suddenly went completely dark. The hole above them as been closed.
"...How do you know?"
"When I was a kid, I had this friend and one day we were playing in the woods and he fell in here. The hole closed, and when I tried telling people that he fell.. no one believed me because there wasn't a hole anymore..and I never saw him again," He started to tear up knowing it would had be convincing the naive Vampire King.
"Oh my glob, I never knew that! I'm so sorry..."
"It's okay my love.."
"But I just don't want to lose you."
"I don't either," He lied once more, "I have a question Marshall lee?"
"Sure anything for you PG," He smiled in a bright expression, but you couldn't see it through the darkness.
"Do you love Fionna?" There was a click sound that echoed just before he asked that question.
He hesitated to answer that question, but decided to answer it anyways. "Not like I love you.."
Even no you were unable to see Prince Gumball's face, he had an evil smile pasted on it. "Really? I thought you had feelings for her?"
Weirdly enough, Marshall Lee didn't hear jealousy in his tone, but brushed it off as if it was nothing more than just a curious question. "No.." As he thought more and more on the question, he realized that they started to bend into a lie.
"That's great, that's all I needed to hear," He whispered.
"Yea.."
"We've been dating for about 8 months now, right?" He asked already knowing the answer. Everything was falling into place in his mind.
"Yes we have.." His voice became weaker and weaker with every question. He was still worried of where Fionna might be.
"And you love me..please say that you do," He asked smiling knowing this will be the last question.
"Of course I do, don't think I don't!" He hollered, allowing his words to bounce off the walls of the underground prison.
"NOW PB!"
Peppermint butler came dashing in with a blunt object and knocked out Marshall Lee with one hit to the head.
"Do you think he's dead, sir?" PB asked in a concerned tone.
"Nahh, he'll just be out cold for a while," He said for sure, "Turn on the lights."
The Candy Kingdom servant did what he was told and flipped on the lights. Prince Gumball walked over to the cage where the girl sat. Her face was all bruised up with a bloody nose and a black eye. Duct tape covered her mouth with rope tied around her writs behind her back. Her eyes were glossy with tears dripping down her cheeks. She looked up at him with anger and sorrow. He then ripped off the tape as she screamed in pain.
"We made a deal, now come with me bitch."
~;~
"Hello Fionna, do you want to know why you're here?" His smile was dark and filled with hate.
She jerked her head up and gasped at the sight of who she thought it was.
The clicking sound was the lights being turned on, and the other noise was the glass disappearing. She thought it must have been like a sliding door; it went to the slide of the cage-like-room she lied in. Fionna was smarter than she appeared to have figured this all out.
"Prince Gumball..?" Her voice was faint, but was heard by the prince.
"Who else?" He stated in a nasty sarcastic tone.
"Why am I here..?" She asked disregarding the snappy tone he had just given her.
"You're going to step down from being a hero and serve me," He said in a cocky attitude.
She was a little shocked by the statement, but shuck her head and said, "Excuse me? I will not do such a thing!"
He slapped her in the face as hard as he could go; leaving a big black and blue mark on her cheek. She placed her ice cold hand over her cheek in surprise.
"Don't back talk me. You're going to do what I say for now on."
"Wait until Marshall Lee knows I'm missing, he-" She was cut off by a punch to the nose; it started to ache in severe pain as a drop of blood dripped out.
"He doesn't care about you."
"YES HE DOES, HE-" But again she was cut off by a hit to her left eye. She could feel it pulsating in pain. It was beginning to swell.
"What did you think? He loved you? He doesn't love you at all, he loves me dumb bitch," He snapped with a harsh force in his voice.
Fionna couldn't find the words to say, and she was afraid to speak. 'What real man would ever hit a girl?' She thought inside her head. She started to tear up. After twenty-four hours of wanting to just break down, she finally did.
"Awh look at the poor baby cry, wh-" But he was stopped in mid-sentence by a slap across his face.
"Don't you ever call me a baby you ass. I can take you on and win, and you know that," She snapped in sudden anger.
"Well now, we can't have that now can we? PB come here."
The little peppermint guy came running out from the shadows with rope in his clenches. They started whispering to each other to where Fionna could not hear. Prince Gumball then gave her a good licking on the side of her face to where she gasped in pain; holding the side of her face. Peppermint Butler then rushed over grabbing the hand over her cheek and the one on the ground to tie up; he was successful. Her legs now to weak to stand, she collapsed to the dirt flooring.
Despite the pain coursing through her body she managed to whisper out, "He does love me.." Her face was staring at the ground, unable to make eye contact.
"What's that?" He asked with an evil smile.
"I said, He does love me.." She restated in a snappy matter.
"Wonna make a deal?"
She hesitated but said, "What kind of deal?"
He chuckled, "If he says he loves you, then I'll let you go and you can have me thrown in prison. But, if he doesn't, then you have to step down and be my servant. And do whatever I want when I say it."
She didn't want to be evil like him and do things for him, so she spoke, "What if I refuse?"
He laughed a little louder than before, "Then I'll have to kill you, Dear."
The word Kill pounded in her head, she thought for a second she couldn't breathe. "Alright.." She whispered.
"What was that?"
"ALRIGHT I'LL DO IT!" She yelled with a bitter tone.
"Excellent! Now, PB tape her mouth shut." Fionna didn't squirm or make a peep, she stood there motionless, awaiting how the outcome of all of this...
~;~
Fionna sat there with her heart ripped out from her chest trying to grasp the concept of the situation. "Okay..what do you want me to do first sir?" She asked in a weakened voice.
"I'm only going to say this once so listen. You are prohibited from telling ANYONE about this, and if you break this, we'll find out and kill you without hesitation. Do you hear me?"
Her face had no emotion, she simply nodded.
"Oh I almost forgot, your first mission is to assassinate Marshall Lee in the next twenty-four hours. Failure to complete this task will not result very well for you, trust me," He stated in a very disturbing way.
Before she could say anything, she blacked out with a blunt object to her head.
