What happened last:

The party ended, Marceline and Bubblegum were resting up before their trip to see the Ice King and Finn and Jake were attacked by assassins. Now Finn is seriously injured and there's a bounty on his head by the Guild of Assassins.

Jake was running as fast as he could without possibly shaking Finn too much. He was running back to the tree house to get some of their healing tears that they still had. He had to get there before Finn's conditions became… deadly. The human boy was slipping away quickly. He was hemorrhaging and couldn't possibly stay alive for long if it continued.

J: "Stay with me bro! I'm gonna fix you up!" Jake yelled. He was terrified for Finn who was on the verge of going into shock.

Jake's vision began to blur as he sprinted as hard as he could. It was due to a mix of his own shock and exhaustion from sprinting for what was close to a mile. He wouldn't let anything get in the way of saving his beloved brother.

Finn attempted to speak but he just coughed up blood. Jake didn't know the full extent of Finn's injuries but it was obviously very bad. There was no telling when he could die. Time was running out.

Suddenly Jake was hit with an arrow and fell to the ground in mid-stride. He did his best to soften the fall for Finn and in doing so, he face planted into the dirt. They were being ambushed again. Only this time, there was only one assassin; the one who was possibly shooting the arrows.

Jake, in a fit of uncontrollable rage, stretched his arm to grab the arrow lodged in his back and snapped it, leaving the end still in his body. He grew 100 times his regular size to face his foe that was about two times the size of Jake's normal height.

J: "Enough!" Jake roared as he rammed his giant fists into the single assassin. He didn't give his enemy a single second to react and it was quickly destroyed.

Jake's eyes were bloodshot red as he scanned the area for any more potential threats. He was prepared for anything and knew that time was precious. Anything to cross his path right now would meet its end in less than a heartbeat.

When Jake shrunk back down to normal size, the arrow wound was insignificant to him at this point due to his anger and the tip end of the arrow had already fallen out from him growing in size. He basically healed himself for the most part, using his stretchy powers to cover up his wound, although he was still bleeding slightly. He ran back over to his brother and picked him up to continue carrying him back home. Finn's face was turning pale and he had very shallow sounding breaths. His eyes began to roll to the back of his head. He was dying.

J: "Don't die on me buddy! Just hold on a bit longer!"

Jake finally made it to the tree house and laid Finn face down on the couch. He placed a towel that he found nearby on top of Finn in attempt to slow his blood loss. After that, he ran to where he left the spare bottles of the healing tears that him and Marceline got recently.

J: "Ok bro. I'm gonna have to pull this arrow out so I can fix you up!" Jake's body was overflowing with anger, sadness, adrenaline, stress, and various other extreme emotions and stress related chemicals.

Jake wrapped his hands around the arrow stuck in his brothers back and mentally prepared to pull it out.

J: "I know this is gonna hurt man and I'm sorry! But this is the only way!" Jake was still yelling out of fear.

He took another second to ready himself then counted down to force himself to do it.

J: "3… 2… 1!" As soon as he was done saying one he ripped the arrow out of Finn. There was a sickening grinding sound when he pulled it out.

F: "AHHH!" Finn screamed then started coughing up more blood immediately after.

Jake didn't waste a second and quickly grabbed the bottle of the healing tears and poured the entire bottle on Finn's wound. He realistically only needed a small amount but Jake didn't care; he was going to make sure that Finn was ok.

Finn's wounds immediately healed as they should and not even a scar was left.

J: "Finn, Are you ok?!"

F: "…"

J: "C'mon Finn!" Jake said as he opened up one of Finn's closed eyelids.

Finn's eyes had rolled to the back of his head and his face was entirely pale. His blood loss was too much for his body to operate and he passed out from going into shock.

J: "Oh glob… Globbit… oh man… what do I do Finn?!" Jake yelled frantically as he paced back and forth.

Him and his brother always figured out everything and solved every problem together. They were the perfect adventurer team. Now Jake is on his own and began to panic. He had no idea what to do.

J: "Oh man… what would Finn do…?" Jake thought.

J: "Princess Bubblegum!" Jake yelled with the sudden realization that she could help Finn; she always could.

Jake picked his brother up once again and made his way to the Candy Kingdom as quickly as he could. He ran just as hard as he did before and didn't stop to take a break regardless of how painful it was.

As soon as he arrived he demanded the banana guards to tell him where the princess was. He heard the worst possible news. The princess wasn't in this castle.

Jake's mind was racing and all he could think to do was to bring Finn to the emergency room once again. He ran into the main lobby to find Dr. Ice Cream and Nurse Poundcake gossiping about random things.

Nurse Poundcake: "Mr. Cupcake is soo muscular."

Dr. Ice Cream: "Oh girl believe me, I know."

Jake approached them and got their attention.

J: "HEY! Please help! My bro needs help!"

Nurse Poundcake: "Oh my glob!" She was shocked at the amount of blood on Finn and Jake. It was everywhere.

Dr. Ice Cream: "Nurse, get every non-occupied doctor in the building into my operating room, stat. And Jake, follow me. Quickly." She didn't even think to make these decisions; she knew what she's doing. She was very stern but that was because she knows what needs to be done to save lives in the fastest and most efficient way possible.

The doctor led Jake to her operating room and motioned for him to lay Finn on the operating table.

Dr. Ice Cream: "I see no substantial wounds, what's wrong?" She said in a monotonous voice while performing basic checks on the human boy to check his vitals.

Jake explained only the essential points, stating that Finn was hit by an arrow and Jake healed him with healing tears.

Dr. Ice Cream: "Ok. Based on what you told me he's going to need a blood transfusion. And you may have just saved his life with your quick thinking."

J: "But where are we gonna get the-"

Dr. Ice Cream: "We have synthetic blood that works with any blood type. The princess isn't only a genius in the field of science. She's just as competent as a doctor that's been practicing for 20 years."

Nurse Poundcake suddenly busted through the door with a group of other candy doctors and nurses.

Dr. Ice Cream: Nurse, prepare for a blood transfusion and bring others to help you. Time is running out so we need to hurry.

Everything was all happening soo fast for Jake. He was looking back and forth at the doctor as she barked orders at the other doctors and nurses. She was using a lot of medical terms that Jake didn't understand. His senses were overloading because of the stress that he was feeling.

Dr. Ice Cream: "JAKE!"

J: "Huh?" Jake said, finally realizing that the doctor called his name out multiple times already.

Dr. Ice Cream: "You have to leave. Now."

J: "Wait what? No! I have to be here for Finn!" He yelled.

Dr. Ice Cream: "I'm sorry." She said resentfully.

Then two of the doctors pushed Jake into the hallway and locked the door.

J: "NO!" Jake screamed in desperation as he slammed his fist on the door.

Jake wanted to grow in size and smash through the door but he knew that it would only make things worse. The doctors were doing everything they could to save Finn. There was nothing that he could do now except to wait. His heart felt like it was broken because of the horrible thoughts thinking that he could lose his brother. He began to go through some of the phases of the grieving process.

Jake couldn't understand why this happened or who would want to do this. He began to blame himself then quickly began to blame the assassins as he should. He wanted to swear revenge on the attackers but they were all destroyed and the Guild of Assassins was much too big and wide spread to take down in one attempt. He convinced himself that he would figure something out to avenge his brother, or at least to make this horrible tragedy up to him.

One hour later

Jake was pacing right outside the door to the room for a little over an hour. This was the same room that Finn was in only a few hours before for a different injury related reason. Doctors periodically ran in and out of the room, looking as if they were trying to find something. There was a lot of commotion going on in the room and Jake knew that he couldn't go in. If he interrupted the doctors while they worked he could possibly prevent the doctors from helping Finn with 100% of their ability.

In the emergency room

Dr. Ice Cream: "Globbit! Where's the princess?" She said in anger from frustration.

Nurse Poundcake: "I don't know doctor. The Princess and Marceline said that they were going somewhere tomorrow morning but they're already gone."

Dr. Ice Cream: "Ok. Just make sure to log EVERYTHING that's happening here. You know how she is about being "in the loop" with stuff happening in the castle. Now, let's just finish with this blood transfusion."

The princess liked knowing absolutely everything that was going on in the castle. She believed in total transparency and thought that it was a more efficient way to rule a kingdom when the ruler knows what's going on. Bubblegum cared about her kingdom more than anything else and she made it apparent.

In the waiting room

After what seemed like an eternity of waiting, Dr. Ice Cream came from the emergency room to tell Jake the news.

J: "Dr. Ice Cream! Is Finn ok?!" Jake said while getting up to try to walk into the room.

Dr. Ice Cream: "Yes Jake, he's fine. After finally finding the synthetic blood that Princess Bubblegum made a while back… well, that's weird… why would she just have random synthetic blood just lying around? Well, I guess she has her reasons and I guess-"

J: "Ummm… You were saying?!" Jake was getting irritated with the rambling doctor. He didn't intend on being rude, he was just under a lot of stress and it was obvious.

Dr. Ice Cream: "Yes, of course. After a few blood transfusions and treating Finn for shock multiple times he's stabilized. You can go see him now." She said and opened the door and motioned for Jake to enter.

Jake walked in the familiar room to find his brother on the same hospital bed as before. There were a few doctors still in the room, writing things down and seeming generally occupied. They left after a few minutes. Finn looked like he did last time he was here. Jake was beginning to feel anger building up in his heart. He was fed up with Finn being injured like this. Even if the physical wounds can be healed easily with healing tears and fancy medical equipment, there's still the mental aspect of the injuries.

J: "Finn?"

F: "Sup Jake?"

J: "Hey buddy, you ok?"

F: "Yeah, I'm actually feeling pretty good." Finn said as he got up and jumped out of bed, trying to show that he was feeling much better.

He immediately fell down when he touched the floor. The human boy was still weak from the massive blood loss that he experienced.

F: "I uhhh… guess I'm still kinda weak cause of the whole… thing." Finn said as he struggled to pick himself up. Jake helped him of course.

J: "Maybe we should stay here for a bit until you get better, man? I mean… the note on that arrow was pretty ominous."

F: "Huh? What note?"

J: "Someone put a bounty on your head Finn and that was the Guild of Assassins who attacked us."

F: "Oh glob man… We might need PB's help with this one. Maybe she can do some crazy political biz with the leader of the guild?"

J: "Yeah man… cause I don't know what else we can do at this point." Jake was feeling terrified for his brother.

The Guild of Assassins is a very real threat and some of the most dangerous and experienced assassins in Ooo are in that guild.

The two brothers stayed in the candy kingdom and Finn regained some of his strength in the process. They were only waiting for a few hours until Jake got the idea to bring Beemo over. He didn't think of the possibility of another attack and just went without second guessing himself. Once Jake returned, time peacefully passed and Finn, Jake and Beemo patiently waited for the return of the princess and Marceline.

Back to Marceline and Bubblegum

The two girls entered the Ice King's lair, in hopes to find him relatively quickly. It had been a while since either of the two were in his home so the layout was a bit shocking.

Ice King's home was completely trashed. There were things scattered all over the floor and there were some things that were broken. There was broken glass and debris all over. It looked as if someone came to rob the Ice King's lair; or a hurricane came crashing through. It was an upsetting scene.

What happened here? Did Maja do this? The assassins?

PB: "Gob… What happened here…?" Bubblegum said, sounding uneasy seeing everything like this. She picked up a broken picture frame that contained a photo of a young bearded man and a beautiful young woman.

M: "I think I know. Follow me." Marceline said with a heavy heart after she quickly glanced at the photo.

Bubblegum never really cared much for the Ice King because of their long history of kidnappings and abductions but she learned over time that he's just a crazy old man and he never meant any real harm. Although her feelings are indifferent for him, this was still something depressing to see. The Ice King, however annoying he may be, is still someone that could always put on a smile no matter how broken he was on the inside. No matter the pain, the misery or desperation, he would always force a smile on his face and whole-heartedly drive on.

Just a crazy old man…