Chapter 9

Marshall's P.O.V
I stared at the ceiling and thought about Fionna, her abnormally pale face when I saw her at the fire kingdom scared me I had only realized this hours later though. And that flash of pain in her eyes? What was that all about? Did flame prince have her hostage? I highly doubt it but I should go check with cake just in case. It took me a awhile to drag myself over there because well I really really liked Fionna and what she said really struck a chord in my heart, a bad one, and I have to admit I guess I was little heart broken which is super stupid because all I've ever been to her is that invisible guardian angel, I've never tried to show her my feelings but... I trudged passed the ponds and forests that are on the way to the treehouse and thought about how to go along with this since Cake probably hates my guts for not being awake and missing the birthday ball. When I got to the door I took a deep breath and knocked. Cake answered the door and frowned at me.
"what do you want?" she didn't exactly say it rudely but it did imply that I was welcomed...
"Do you know what happened to Fionna? I'm worried." I said but didn't say anything about her and Flame Prince just so I could see what her reaction was.
"yeah... Why don't you come in for tea..." she said turning but looking at me from the corners of her eyes. After we had gotten comfortable she took a sip of tea and then pulled something out from underneath the storage bench she was sitting on.
"here watch this..." she said and handed me a holographic card, it was white and had a bow on it. God how could I not know what this was? I've ignored so many in my thousand years. I cautiously opened the wedding invitation.
"greetings!" Fionna said cheerily, "you're invited to the wedding of the prince of the Fire and the heroine of Aaa! We would love you to come! The wedding is in three weeks." she said then faked a smile and waved goodbye the card continued on to fuzz out and end.
"what the hell was that?!" I said a cold sweat forming on my forehead.
"yeah I know I don't approve of him either..." she said staring into her cup of tea solemnly.
"no...no...no... You didn't see it did you?!" I said, my hands were shaking violently and I dropped the card on floor.
"Marshall? What happened it was just a wedding invitation! Get over it man!"
"no Fionna was being puppeted by someone! She's been kidnapped, held hostage!" I shouted. Rage was making my sight blurry or were those tears for being so blinded.
"how on earth did you get that notion?!" she shouted getting mad at my unexpected shouting.
"I'll show you!" I said and touched her forehead with my forefinger and middle finger "numi kon wentai itsu" I mumbled. The spell let anyone see what you were seeing. I replayed the card's message and we watched as Fionna's soul hovered above her body.
"please save me! SOMEONE PLEASE SEE ME! I beg of you...please...see me..." she screamed her face was soaked with tears and her body was shaking with fear. I stood there with cake, watching her scream herself senseless and I felt my heart shatter inside of me. Why hadn't I realized? Why hadn't I stayed? I should have gone back and kidnapped her myself.
"dear lord..." cake whispered "my baby..." cake started sobbing and she turned her face from my line of sight. "Marshall-lee."
"yes cake?" I asked
"we need to save Fionna." I nodded in agreement.

We walked to the candy kingdom to ask for Prince Gumball's stupid help and when we got there we saw him ordering peppermint maid around.
"hey Gumbutt!" I yelled, I was still a little peeved at him for what he had said to Fionna at the ball. It took him a little while to realize our presence and when he did he finally stopped ordering poor peppermint maid around and sent her out of the throne room.
"can't you see I'm busy?!" he said in a burning tone directed mostly towards me.
"we'll eeeeexcuse me princess gummy it looks like someone is on their period..." I said in a snide tone. Prince Gumball walked up to me his face an inch away from me.
"shut up you stupid leech I don't have time for your petty pranks and conversations right now," he said pointing a finger at my face, "the kingdom's hero is gone and I need to do all I can to save her."
"wait you mean..."
"yes Fionna." he said gathering papers from a nearby coffee table.
"why?" I asked and then I realized everything why this had all happened. "wait. This is all your fault." I said. He had started walking out of the room and turned around.
"what is?" he asked a little surprised, all his anger washing away.
"your the reason she was kidnapped! Your the reason she has to marry that creepy flaming turd!" I yelled clenching my hands as the realization hit me.
"ah yes... That incident." he said his eyes were suddenly sad and he looked down at the ground in shame, "I must tell you something vital to this situation vampire king."
"oh yeah and what's that you pink idiot?" I Snapped
"that wasn't... That wasn't me." he said looking me in the eyes with the most honesty I've seen in years.
"w-what?" I uttered feeling a little dumbfounded, what on earth was he talking about? "so then what was happening?!"
"I was being possessed, in truth I wanted to ask Fionna to dinner, I wanted to tell her that I was in love with her and I wanted to hold her and dance with her all night." he said covering his face with his hand.
"who possessed you?"...damn more competition, I thought.
"I don't know. I doubt it was Ice queen though because I can tell when it's her I've been possessed by her so dang much."
"is there a possibility that..." I began to say then stopped
"yeah that psycho probably did it." Gumball uttered. He started chewing on his thumbnail and I went over to the wall and leaned my head against it so I could think. How did this even start again?
"Gumball."
"yeah?"
"assemble an army, I shall find a weapon suitable for slaying that hothead."

I walked home slowly thinking of all the weapons I had stored in the underworld and which one I should pick, when I smelled it. That horrible smell.
"charcoal..." I mumbled and stopped walking. I stared for a second analyzing the slight smell then looked up and searched for the direction it was coming from. 'Phooom', 'shhss', something hot had flown past my face and and I looked around. Searing pain seemed to engulf my body and I shouted, I watched as flames quickly traveled all over my body and badly burned my skin. I looked up to see flame prince smiling maniacally, his flames seemed hotter and his eyes were wide with anger and what seemed like vengeance.
"s-stop! STOP FLAME PRINCE" I screamed as I started to see my skin bubble. I almost fell to the floor but got up and lunged at him he only swiftly dodged it and threw another flaming ball at me luckily I could still dodge it, I realized there was a pond of water behind him and sighed with relief as I started running for it but he round house kicked me, sending me flying backwards. I flew into the air, flipped and landed the back of my foot on his skull, he then collapsed to floor as I did and climbed over to him to the pond, cold water has never been such a blessing in my life, I watched as my skin started to heal. While I was admiring my skills of quickly healing the orange light that flame prince always seemed to hold, slowly faded. I only realized this minutes later and looked to see if he was still there, if I had accidentally killed him (which I'm sure no one would really care) I parted the bushes with singed hands as I observed the ground expecting to see a body but instead a burned patch of grass was in his place. It took me second to realize that he had gotten away and when I did realize it I cursed many times. I got up and started walking back home again and trying to forget that Flame Prince had just tried to get rid of me.

Fionna's P.O.V.
I lay in the bed in what seemed to be a trance, thinking about what reasons I could deserve this and even thinking about what it would be like if I just disappeared. I heard Flame Prince stomp through the door downstairs, he seemed a little frantic, ordering maids around and telling guards things that I could make out. He suddenly burst through the door, I didn't snap out of my trance I still gazed into the distance as he roughly picked me up and strewn me over his shoulder as he carried me out of the room.
"Flame Prince" I said monotonously
"What my darling" he replied back in a somewhat harsh tone
"Where... Where are you taking me this time"
"To a secret room" he said determinedly
"Why"
"Because"
"Because why"
"Because I've killed Marshall-lee" he said flatly. Now that right there snapped me out of my trance, no slapped me, and I struggled and screamed and pounded at his back.
"NOOOOOO! NOO NO NO NO NO!", I screamed again and again only to have him silence me by putting the puppeting charm on me, which he did by literally grabbing my soul and ripping it out. I really should have been paying attention to where he had been taking me because soon we were at a room at the very end of a dark hallway. We entered what seem to be an isolation room.

He threw me down on the bed, after connecting my soul to my body; and stared at me while I sobbed.
"Why are you doing this to me?," I asked fear striking my heart. "I will never love you, EVER," I shouted at him and collapsed into the bed burying my face in the pillows.
"I only want to love you and soon one day you will love me." He was abrupt and it shut me up to the point where I was in a trance again. He left the room silently but left the box of wedding rings at the bed. And that's when I remembered and I screamed and screamed for Marshall, screamed and sobbed so much that my voice went out, I ran out of tears, and my mind was completely numb. I'll just lay here and waist away.
"That sounds like a good idea, for the next couple of days you should just lay here and then you'll be with Marshall," I sounded like I was going crazy but I didn't care anymore my heart literally felt like it had been ripped up by a weed whacker.

Only a couple of days till the wedding and no one's going to save me...