What happened last:
After Marceline's mind was free from the grasp of her nightmarish past memories, her ever growing feelings for the human boy assisted them in surpassing the barrier. After breaching the force field, they were greeted by Maja and Crabbit her familiar. Marceline lost consciousness without warning and Finn lost his battle. What will come of this failure?
Finn found himself waking up in a cold, dark and damp cell somewhere in the castle. He was obviously in a dungeon due to the fact that there were bars on the door to escape the small stone room he was in. His arms were chained to the walls and his feet were tied to the ground with old rope. His hat, backpack and sword were taken from him. There was cold water dripping on his head from the ceiling; his head was soaked at this point, indicating that he had been there for some time.
He was completely disoriented. The first thing he did was to get his bearings. He saw a bed off to his left, or at least, a rusty metal bed frame. There was also a toilet in the room that appeared to be broken. That was all that was in the room, there was nothing he could use as a weapon. Unless if he could break off a piece of the bed to use, but if it were that weak then it would be a useless weapon.
Finn tugged on the chains to test their durability. They appeared to be sturdy, but the walls that they were connected to seemed fragile enough to break. So he began to pull on the chains with all his might.
Finn found it very difficult to exert himself to break the chains due to the fact that he had not eaten in over a day. He was weak. He thought to himself that hunger was not an acceptable reason to be weak, and he began to become angry once more. He tried once again to break the chains. He pulled as hard as he could; getting angrier with each unsuccessful attempt.
F: "Globbit... Break darn you." Finn whispered in a frustrated voice.
Eventually the left chain broke from the wall. The entire 5 foot long chain was stuck to his wrist along with a small piece of the stone wall.. He thought that it was good because it could be used as a weapon if need be. Next he had to get the other arm free. So Finn grabbed the other chain and used both arms to break free, holding onto the ring attached to his wrist.
After a few tries he broke the chain off except the chain broke at the link connected to his wrist; leaving him with a slightly stylish wristband.
F: "Hmmm… Not bad. Not bad at all." Finn said as he looked at his rustic looking metal wristband.
After that he was able to easily untie his legs from the old ropes that he was tied down with. He was free at this point. He had completed step one of his mission. Now he had to find a way to escape his jail cell.
F: "How come nobody's watching me?" Finn thought.
He shrugged his shoulders and took the opportunity to find a way out. He looked at the ancient rusted iron bars that were keeping him in his jail cell, thinking of a way to somehow break them. He didn't have many ideas or any tools to work with so he tried to simply break the bars off by pulling on them.
He tried this a few times, pulling harder and harder. The bars didn't move an inch.
F: "Ok… this has gotta work somehow…" Finn whispered to himself.
Finn then closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
F: "I've gotta do this for my bro, everyone is counting on me so I can't glob this up again. I need to do this for… Marceline."
Finn opened his eyes and wrapped his hand around the bar once more preparing to pull the bars away from the old corroded stone walls and ceiling. He had the thought of Marceline's beautiful face in his mind. He could feel himself gaining extra strength, and he finally realized that Marceline makes him stronger. She always had, he just never noticed it. Not until now.
The determined hero boy pulled on the iron bars with all his might. He could hear the concrete beginning to crack from his efforts. He didn't know if it would work and he was quickly losing his burst of strength but he was determined to do this. He had to do this for people he cared about so failure was not an option. He closed his eyes due to pain that exerting this much energy was causing him.
Suddenly the door to the jail cell suddenly opened up. It was an old style dungeon door, it was made of bars just like the rest of the entrance except for the fact that it had a lock… and it was a door.
Finn instantly stopped and stared at the open door, dumbfounded.
F: "What?! How the…" Finn whispered to himself, feeling extremely irritated.
He walked over to one of the walls in the room and motioned as if he was banging his head against the wall. He felt soo stupid that he didn't try to open the door in the first place. After his small fit of rage from his stupidity, he took a deep breath to calm himself down and walked out the door.
The first thing that he noticed is that there were many more jail cells just like his. And about 3 floors and his jail cell was on the top floor. The first thing that came to his mind is that he needed to start finding everyone. He suddenly felt incredibly in control, he's determined to right the wrongs and make Maja and Crabbit pay. He started looking around the large room he was in, trying to find anyone.
He checked out the top floor with no success, when he got down to the second floor he could hear what sounded like someone snoring. He followed the sound, sneaking as quietly as he could. He didn't know who or what was snoring, so he was being cautious. The snoring was coming from a jail cell on the bottom floor.
As he approached the sound, his heart began to beat faster. He was preparing for an ambush of some sort. He got to the door and all he saw was a metal dog kennel in the back corner. He finally found his brother, Jake. The front of it was an iron screen instead of the normal metal bars. Maja was obviously smart enough to put a door on the kennel that Jake couldn't just shrink down to get past.
F: "Jake!" Finn said, almost yelling in his excitement, forgetting that he should probably be quiet.
Jake was facing away from the cage door, lying down.
J: "Nah Maja, go cast your weakness spell somewhere else." Jake said, sounding grumpy as if he just woke up. Because he just did.
F: "No man, it's me."
J: "Finn!? Man, it's soo good to see you." Jake said, relieved to see someone other than Maja for a change.
F: "Yeah bro. Now I just need to find Marcy and kick Maja's butt so we can get the plop out of here."
J: "What? Marcy's here too? That's not good man. I heard Maja's got some crazy witch rituals and stuff and needs Marceline to complete some sort of spell. She said something about Marcy's sentimental essence or something… And I may just be paranoid, but my doggie senses are telling me that Maja didn't even need me and Lady in the first place."
F: "Well, we gotta go find her now! Let's go!" Finn said as he got up and ran towards the first doorway that he saw.
J: "Finn!" Jake yelled at Finn. He entirely forgot that Jake was still locked up.
F: "What, man?" Finn said, sounding confused.
Jake just stared at Finn with a blank face, hoping that he would realize that he was still trapped in the kennel.
F: "Uh… Right… I should probably unlock that cage."
Finn rushed back over to the cage and reached for the simple locking mechanism to open the small door.
J: "Ummm… Finn? Jake said in a stern voice.
F: "No mom, I didn't eat breakfast this morning." Finn called Jake "mom" as he usually did when Jake asked him about eating breakfast. Their mom thought that breakfast was one of the most important things of every day.
"I love you Finn and Jake but you two must always remember to eat your breakfast or else you'll end up in the Nightosphere."
~Margaret the Dog
Finn unlocked the cage and his brother was able to get out of the kennel, still seeming to be weak from the fight earlier.
J: "Ok Finn, just follow me. I kinda know where Maja might be."
F: "How do you know that?"
J: "I've been here for like a week man. You really need to like, bring food with you on adventures next time."
F: "That's a good idea actually…" Finn said, having a small epiphany.
The two brothers then got up and Jake led Finn to what he thought was the room that Maja was holding Marceline. They looked around the castle for a few minutes. After taking a few wrong turns, getting lost and ending up where they started, they could hear the faint screams of Marceline.
They knew she had to be in trouble so they both began running in the direction of the sound. Finn was sprinting as hard as he could, not trying to be quiet in the slightest.
They quickly approached the door to the room where they heard Marceline's screaming coming from. What Finn saw once he took his first step in the doorway enraged him. He began seeing red once again. He was horrified and furious at the same time. His mind was set to kill.
So that was chapter 13. How do you guys like the story so far?