Back again ;) I know this is a little odd but I saw this trend going around on Twitter of an earthquake in Indonesia and they now have a tsunami warning and I'm really worried because I have a friend and his mother over there. I really hope they're safe right now and that they will continue to stay that way. So this chapter is dedicated to him and his mom
~Em-chan
(POV: Finn)
"Dude are you nuts?" Jake yelled at me after I stated my request. I simply shook my head no. "Well I'm pretty sure you are unless you didn't just ask me to set up a bunch of coals and light them on fire for you to walk across barefoot!"
"Dude just trust me on this." Jake sighed and walked off to get the materials; mumbling about how I was in love with a psycho. I quickly slipped off my socks and shoes and met up with Jake outside who was lighting the coals.
"You sure you wanna do this?" I stood before the path of fire and nodded; sealing my fate. Jake just sighed and stepped back. He knew he couldn't change my mind. Hesitantly I pressed my foot down on the coals; a sharp pain shot up through my leg making it feel like it was being split in half slowly. I yelped loudly and jumped back, falling on my butt. Jake just snorted from the sidelines as I rubbed my tender foot and I tried to keep my tears of pain at bay. Quickly I shook off the pain and hopped back up; taking a few steps onto the coals and just standing there. The pain was excruciating but I promised myself I would go through it for Flame Princess. I took a few steps further onto the hotter coals and a few tears escaped my eyes; hitting the path and causing little puffs of steam to rise up. I squinted my eyes shut to keep anymore tears from escaping and kept on walking, it felt like an eternity till my feet hit the cool soft grass but I at least I made it through.
(POV CHANGE: Jake)
It had been hours since I'd left Finn to his crazy task and he was still going at it. I watched him from the upstairs window as I munched on my everything burrito; he'd mastered walking across on his feet without any trouble so he got down on his knees and began to hobble across. While I watched him I began to sort of understand why he was doing this. I had been thinking back to that night and how Finn told me what'd happened between him and FP while I was saving the goblins.
At first I thought it was just some kiddy love but then I realized that Finn really loved this girl, why the heck else would he be walking on burning hot coals. It was really sweet…in a sadistic way. As I plopped the last piece of the burrito in my mouth I almost choked on it. Outside Finn had taken off all his clothes except his undies and went face first into the new set of flaming hot coals. I screamed as I watched his whole body tense up, his golden locks began to burn a little, and his skin began to redden in protest.
I was about to stretch out the window and stop him when he leapt up, panting but not crying. He saw me about to jump out and help him and he firmly shook his head no. Once night had fallen he'd done the same exercise a few more times then came inside to go to bed. As he entered the house I thought I saw a small bat fly out of a nearby tree.
"Marcy?" I quickly shook the thought from my head; the full moon was probably just getting to me. With that I snuggled into my drawer and waited for Finn to come up for bed.
. . .
(POV CHANGE: Marceline)
I quickly flew across the border between the snow and fire kingdoms, heat assaulting my cool skin. Using my stealth I snuck into the mountain like castle to look for FP's room. After a few minutes of creeping around and peeking into bedrooms I found the young girl and shook her awake.
"H-Huh? Who are you?" She asked groggily as she rubbed her eyes.
"I'm a friend. Listen there's something I wanna show you." I pulled a little holosphere out of my pocket and held it up; soon it showed all the footage I'd gotten of Finn walking on the coals earlier. The volume would turn up sometimes and she could hear him mumble "For Flame Princess" to himself as he trudged on further. By the end little fire tears cascaded down her cheeks and her mouth hung open in awe. "He really loves you Princess."
"I know." She said quietly to herself.
"Don't you love him back?" She blushed and nodded. "Then why don't you tell him that?"
"Because it doesn't work that way."
"Listen Flame Princess you need to stop thinking with that," I pointed to her head. "And start thinking more with this." I indicated her heart. "I know you believe that you two can't be together because of some elements crap but don't you see? Finn is willing to defy those elements because he loves you so much, now will you do the same for him?" At that moment I heard the yelling of guards and the tramping of footsteps towards the Princess' door and I made a swift escape through the open window in the bathroom. Well now that that was done all I had to do was make a little trip to the candy kingdom and my mission would be finished.
I flew down and into Bonnibel's room, placing the holosphere on her nightstand with a little note and flew back out to get back to my cave, the sun would be rising soon and that could only be trouble for me. Once I got back to the safety of my house the sun was beginning to peek over the horizon and I let sleep take hold of me; wondering what would happen with Bonnibel when she saw what I'd left for her.
. . .
(POV: Narrator)
"My lady, are you alright?" The head guard exclaimed as he burst through the door and surveyed the room, no one else was there.
"Yes I am fine; you may go back and rest now." The guards bowed and walked out, closing the door behind them. She sighed and fell back onto her bed; thinking about what that mysterious lady had said and showed her. I can't believe Finn would do something like that…for me. She began to think about what she would do to make their love work. It was risky considering she'd have to actually get out of the fire kingdom first, but she would do it for him; for their love.
. . .
"What the heck?" Princess Bubblegum had just woken up and was about to call for some breakfast when something over to the right caught her eye. "What's a holosphere doing in here?" Once she lifted it she found a note, she could tell it was from Marceline just from the handwriting.
Dear Bonnibel,
Thought this'd be something you'd wanna see. BLEH BLOO BLEE!
Marceline
PB shook her head sadly and reluctantly played the video. It was probably just something the vampire queen had set up to scare her. But what played before her eyes was even more disturbing than some vampiric prank. There was Finn, physically harming himself for no reason at all! He'd done plenty of crazy things in the past; he went on random quests for no adequately explored reason and came back half maimed, he went diving into sea monster swamp to see if he could grow gills, and he took on monsters fifty times his size on a regular basis. But this definitely took the cake. Was he trying to become impervious to fire?
"Why would Marceline want to show me this?" But her bored expression soon turned to one of shock when she heard what Finn had been mumbling: "For Flame Princess." The holosphere dropped from her clammy grasp and shattered into a million pieces. But the video still played, as if trying to torture her. She sat there for what seemed like an eternity. Peppermint Butler came in at one point to ask her what she wanted for breakfast but she wasn't listening to him. She saw him cleaning up the remnants on the holosphere and trying to get her attention but she didn't care. All she could think of was her Finn and that damned Flame Princess. What could my Finn possibly see in that little girl? Wait wait wait! Hold up! Did I just say MY Finn? I don't own him! I must be a little out of it this morning, yah that's it.
"Just some raspberry tea peppermint butler," Her voice was a little shaky when she spoke. The little candy man bowed and exited, leaving the princess to her thoughts. "No way could I like Finn, he's fourteen! And not even my type! He's not that bright either, but it makes him really cute…wait what?" She gasped in shock at her last words; she couldn't like Finn that way…could she? Cackling laughter sounded behind her and she spun around to find Marceline the Vampire Queen lounging on her window sill.
"You're in denial." She smirked.
"Am not!" PB retorted.
"Oh Finn, I love you sooo much! Save me from the Ice King Finn, you're so handsome Finn!" Marceline mimicked her voice and made girly faces as she spoke.
"Shut up!" She stormed out of her bedroom.
"Denial~!" Marceline called after her in a sing song voice.
Well hope you all liked it! Don't really have an ending note. :/ Still worried bout people in Indonesia, hope everything is going okay over there If you're reading this and you live there can you tell me what's going on? Thanks a bunch people!
~Em-chan!
