Chapter 5

Marshall-lee's P.O.V.

I had been gone for about 20 years wandering the world, I had been looking for something but sadly I didn't find it, I decided to come back to the land of Aaa because I was tired, not because I gave up looking for...

"woah this place has seriously changed in the past 20 years, I can't believe I've been gone for so long.," I said floating through the forest which I remembered having been claimed by demons. I decided to go pay the candy kingdom a visit, I wondered whether or not that old crone of a queen had passed her seat on. When I arrived at the giant strawberry candy doors I hesitated. Did I really wanna ruin my last image of the candy kingdom? Last time I had visited the candy kingdom it's last traditional color was a dark purple, which I loved. I pushed open the giant doors and looked inside. Pink, all I saw was pink and I'll be damned if it didn't piss me off.

"I'm gonna talk about this to the new queen," I said putting my hands on my sides and stomping off towards the castle at the middle of the village.

"heeeeeyyy!," I said slamming the giant doors open "is anyone home I wanna talk to the new queen!," I yelled, I thought I heard someone in the kitchen and walked towards it. "hey wheres the new queen?! I need to talk to her about this..." I was saying but stopped in my tracks. Standing there was a... Guy... A pink guy... holding a tray of cookies and boy did he make me want slap him. He put the tray down and took his apron off casually and then walked over the sink and started washing his hands off, never meeting my eyes. I kinda just stood there, a disgusted look on my face. "hey did you hear me?! I said I need to talk to the boss about all the damn pink!," I said walking over there and trying to get this weirdo's attention.

"I heard you the first time. Can't you see I'm busy? I'll get to you in just second." he said not looking me in the eyes and finishing cleaning up the mess I guess he made.

"don't you know who I am?!," I said seriously pissed off now "I'm the friggin' vampire king! So don't just ignore me!," I said pointing to myself and getting all up in the the idiot's face.

"patients, do you have any? I'm done now. What did you want to ask me?,"

"No I need to speak to the boss, princess," I replied snidely.

"well I'm afraid she's gone, I've taken her place, I'm the prince. Prince Gumball, if you will." he said sticking his hand out stiffly, I shook it resentfully "it's nice to meet you vampire king," he said, I saw him wipe his hands on his pants. What a jerk.

"so what's up with all the damn pink around here?! Change it back to that purple!" I said, spreading my arms to show that I meant 'change the entire castle and village'.

"No I think it suits the kingdom perfectly, now leave don't you see I'm busy?"

"THATS IT!," I yelled, finally snapping.

Fionna's P.O.V.

"hey cake let's go visit Prince Gumball today," I said sitting at the kitchen table with my chin in my hand. Lately it had been more quiet than usual so we had been sitting around gossiping with LSP on the phone, I always felt so girly when I did that, even if LSP was a guy.

"sure let's go do that!," she said getting excited and jumping up from the couch, "I wanna go see lord monochromicorn." she said, her eyes lighting up. We both got ready, me putting my mary janes on and cake putting her makeup on. We left the house, the sun setting and realized that we were both hungry, we decided to have dinner there because it usually took us about a half hour to an hour to get there because we got caught up in some random thing, but today it took us like twenty minutes to get there.

"hey cake, think Gumball likes me?" I asked thinking about him and it made me blush

"oh sweetie, I don't know." she said, her eyes closed.

"what's that supposed to mean?," I asked seriously confused. Does that mean he likes me or not? I thought to myself. Oh well. When we got to the candy kingdom everybody was inside their houses eating dinner so the village was empty. We decided to raid Prince Gumball's kitchen first and then go look for him. When we got into the castle there was a ton of noise coming from the kitchen which was strange because it was usually so quiet in there so we ran over to it and burst in. Gumball was staring at something up on he ceiling yelling and throwing pots, pans, trays, and utensils.

"goddamnit you! Give me back ma dang crown!" he yelled which surprised me because I had never heard Gumball swear before and it was weird.

"make me, you pink pansy!," said a voice I had never heard before.

"hey...uh... what's going on in here?," I asked just standing there a little bit confused.

"that jerk took my crown!," he said pointing at the ceiling, I finally decided to look up. This was new to me, I stared at what seemed to be a guy floating close to the ceiling but was acting like he was lying on a couch with his legs crossed, he had the crown on his head and was teasing Prince Gumball, dodging all the things he threw.

"uh cake can you throw me at the guy?," I asked, me and her were a little dumbfounded.

"yeah, sure sweetheart," she said casually not moving her eyes from Gumball, who kept throwing things, she picked me up but just as she was about to throw me, Gumball also threw a giant pan which made a huge noise which scared cake and made her throw me not as hard, I was soaring but missed the guy by an inch, my hands just grazing the sleeve on his arm, I watched as cake was distracted with Gumball and wasn't paying attention to me... I was falling, the ceiling was about sixty feet high and I was falling from that height, I was going to hit the ground and go splat, I screamed but it was to late for cake to reach out for me. I was about two feet from the ground when someone caught me and was cradling me.

"it's ok I have you now, stop shaking, I got you now." the guy said looking me in the eyes with gaze that looked like he was truly worried. I tried pushing away from him. "um you do realize that we're floating about thirty feet off the ground...," (he floated higher after he caught her) he said holding me tighter, this was strange, this feeling I was feeling it was strange it was almost like my feelings for Gumball but... Stronger... It scared me.

"let me go! Let go of me!" I said staring at him making a pouty lip and trying push away.

"I could, but that would mean letting you fall again"

"well please put me down then! The ground preferably," I said looking away from his face. Glob, if I was blushing now... I wish I could go crawl into a hole, a deep dark hole that no one knew about. He set me down on the ground gently, cake ran over to us and started attacking him.

"what did you do to her!," she said quite hatefully

"cake it's ok, unlike you, this guy saved me from hitting the floor." I said ripping her off of him. I smiled at the guy and...I think he replied by blushing.

"stupid cat." the guy said.

"stupid vampire!" cake replied back.

"WOAH YOUR A VAMPIRE?!" I said getting really excited. I reached out and opened his mouth and revealed two pure white fangs. "that's soooooo cool dude!" I said getting really excited.

"um... Yeah, you couldn't tell that from the floating?" he said looking at the ground with his hand on the back of his head.

"nope I didn't really think about it"

"what about the grey skin?"

"nope"

"so you were so solely focused on getting this crown back that you didn't even think about your surroundings?" he asked twirling the crown on his forefinger

"yup I guess I do that a lot" I said, although I didn't mean it to sound so cheerful

"um excuse me?! My crown, can I have it back please?!," said an annoyed Prince Gumball.

"snatch!," I said teasingly as I quickly took the crown from his finger with my ninja skills.

"hey!," he said reaching out for it but stopped, lowering his hand.

"here ya go Prince Gumball!" I said handing the crown to him and smiling.

"why thank you very much Fi! Why don't we settle down by having dinner on the patio?," he said smiling at me.

"what about... Ohmygosh! I'm sorry I haven't asked you name yet!," I said staring at him wide eyed.

"oh me?... Uh, its Marshall-lee the vampire king," he said startled

"nice to meet you Marshall-lee the vampire king! I'm Fionna the warrior/adventure and protector of Aaa, and I'd be happy to serve you any day,!" I said jubilantly, I stuck my hand out for him to shake, which he did.

"you can just call me Marshall-lee, you know"

"okay thanks! It's very nice to meet you I hope we can be good friends in the future!," I said smiling at him

"uh how old are you?"

"I'm thirteen"

"oh really cool"

"what about you?" I asked curiously

"oh me? I look like I'm twenty but I'm actually a thousand years old." he said a little embarrassed.

"that is so cool! What was it like when the world was 'normal'," I asked but saw his face warp through anger, sadness, and despair. "um forget I asked that ok?," I said quickly and hugged him, I guess he didn't really know what to do but he ended up hugging me back after awhile, I guess I had suprised him.

Marshall-lee's P.O.V.

we had walked out to the patio Fionna, me, and Gumball, cake had decided to go visit this horse thing person I guess, I don't really know, leaving the three of us alone which was great because I could get to know this Fionna girl better, she made me feel funny, she was annoying in a good way but she was heroic, strong, sweet, funny, and...really...beautiful. Gah! What am I thinking she's a just some random girl I just met. I started thinking about random things to get that stuff out of mind. We sat the the table on the patio and were served tea before the big meal came but of course I wouldn't want it because I drink red not eat food so I asked for an extra strawberry milkshake.

"your new here aren't ya? I haven't seen ya around," Fionna said excited, leaning forward in her seat.

"yeah I've been wondering around the world for the past twenty years and decided to come back and live in the land of Aaa cus I got bored ya know?" I said fidgeting with my fingers.

"really that's so cool, did you find anything interesting on your trip?" she asked gleaming

"yeah this rose," I said reaching into my pocket and taking out a glass gold tipped vial with a rose in it, "I got it from this wizard in the ice lands at the top of the world, apparently it will bloom, then wither, then bloom again and will keep doing that for eternity, I want you to have it, just make sure it stays in the glass tube or else it will turn to dust if you take it out." I said smiling at her but I guess it was one of my lonely smiles because her face turned sad and she jumped across the table and hugged me... it was a warm hug and I didn't really know what to do back.

"thank you so much I love it! thank you!," she said excitedly and looked at the vial, "I promise to cherish it for-"

"how tacky, not even paying attention to the handsomest prince in the land, your so rude, stupid human." I heard a high pitched voice say and turned to Fionna as I saw her fall to ground, ice stars slicing her everywhere, blood spurting from her neck, face, arms, and legs. A snow witch had hurt the girl I thought was cute. She is so gonna get it.