What happened last:

The fighting continued and in the end, the enemies retreated. But something horribly wrong happened. Something that turned the tides of the war and devastated all of the inhabitants of Ooo. What will become of the Candy kingdom in Finn's absence? Who will defend everyone? How will Jake live without his brother? How can Marceline live like this?

PB: "Peppermint Butler…" She said without facing him. She was assessing Finn's injuries.

P. Butler: "Yes, your highness?"

She just lowered her head and clenched her fists. That sent a clear message to Peppermint Butler.

P. Butler: "Uh… Y-yes, Princess." He ran back towards the Candy Kingdom to get what the princess wanted.

PB: "Please hurry…" She said as tears started running down her face.

Once Bonnibel assessed the physical damage done to Finn's body she came to the conclusion that not really much actual damage was done. She was confused by what killed him, it tore her apart to even think about it but she knew that knowing what happened to Finn in a scientific way could help her defeat Maja in the long run.

If they survive that long…

Then the princess heard a sound and felt a rumbling in the earth. She wiped the tears from her eyes so she could see. She turned her gaze to the horizon.

PB: "My Gob…" She was mostly speechless by what she was seeing.

30 seconds ago…

M: "Finn, please wake up! I need you, Finn! Don't die on me!" She was screaming at Finn's lifeless body, not caring that it was futile.

Marceline died inside at that moment. She was experiencing the first step in the grieving process. And was hitting harder than it ever had before. Her mind was trying to buffer the immediate shock from the loss of her loved one by denying what just happened. That step only lasted a few seconds.

Then she quickly moved on to step two:

Anger.

Her blood began to boil and she was getting more furious than she's ever been. She began to see red and her eyes immediately became blood shot. Her eyes then blackened and blood began slowly flowing from her eyes. This has never happened to Marceline the Vampire Queen. Her anger was taking over 100% and she lost control of everything. Anger fueled evil was washing over her like a tidal wave.

The horde of the undead was very far away by the time Marceline's rage was triggered and her mind was set to kill. She wanted everything dead. She darted towards the army at such an insane speed. She moved through the air for only a second or two before she had to stop. She didn't understand the feeling but the dormant evil in her heart was purging and was aching to be released. She couldn't control it due to how furious she was so it overtook her and she fell to the ground.

Marceline hit the cold earth and grabbed her chest as if her heart was trying to tear itself out of her chest. She was writhing in pain but it wasn't even from the broken heart this time. The demon inside was going to corrupt her and she wasn't going to be able to stop it.

She then transformed into the largest demon-like creature that she's ever become. Standing almost 100 feet tall, she was filled with even more evil than her father. She had large black horns on her head and her skin was tougher than hardened leather. Her claws were as razor sharp as her teeth. She was hideously terrifying. She was just pushed too far this time. Finn's death was the last straw for her. She's experienced the grieving process more than anyone and it never got any easier.

M: "I'll KILL YOU!" She roared at the top of her lungs. She sounded like a wicked and malevolent force of evil. It looked as if fire was coming out of her pitch black eyes. Blood was still slowly dripping down her face from her eyes.

She began to storm towards the retreating army with the intent to kill everything. She flew most of the way right before she transformed so it didn't take long to catch up. By the time she or anyone knew it, she was within striking distance of the evil army. The horde of the undead was silent and motionless as they stared with awe at this angel of death.

Marceline glanced over this army full of traitors, cowards and criminals. She knew why and how these demons were here and not in the Nightosphere. They've been here for years since the Great War in the Nightosphere when her father took control of everything. When the Nightosphere was chaotic and lawless demons would find ways to escape the Nightosphere and they would live in Ooo. They've been hiding in all corners of Ooo without causing much trouble for fear that Hunson Abadeer would come and slay them with the legendary battle-axe that he created or worse… force them to return to the Nightosphere.

After she took a second to look at everything that was about to die, she attacked. She began tearing her enemies apart with ease. With one swipe from her razor sharp claws, she could easily defeat a hundred of the undead.

Nobody could move. Marceline's evil essence was gripping all of the demons' physical will to do anything. And as for the skeletons and the undead that were nothing but a dead body infused with magic, the evil was also enough to immobilize them. Her maleficent aura was like a poison that was saturating the air. It was actually darkening the area around her.

She kept ruthlessly attacking the monsters until she saw Ash, floating in mid-air staring at her. He was also frozen in terror.

Ash's mind snapped and he broke from his fear induced trance. His fight-or-flight mechanism was much faster than any of the undead so he was able to react sooner. Obviously he fled...

Ash: "Oh globbit!" He yelled once he realized that the enraged vampire queen noticed him.

Ash: "Ashicus Flyicus-" He was saying the chant he uses to fly away at almost light speed. But Marceline was able to just take a step forward, reach out her long arm and grab him.

M: "Not this time, Ash" She said as she tightened her grip on Ash slightly. She brought him up close to her face to intimidate him more than she already had. Her voice sounded much deeper than usual and it also sounded as if there were multiple voices combined with hers.

M: "Give me one reason to not kill you right now." She said while tightening her grip further.

Ash: "Ashicus Protecticus!" He casted some sort of protection spell on himself. Marceline had only seen him do it a few times many years ago and it always made him seem invulnerable.

He didn't say anything that she wanted to hear. She wanted him to plead for his life. She wanted to hear him beg for mercy right before she crushed him like a grape. But that wouldn't happen. She squeezed him harder but she couldn't tighten her grip enough to cause any real damage. She tried to crush him but she just couldn't squeeze hard enough to hurt him. He casted his cowardly magic and she didn't think she could do anything about it.

M: "Wrong answer." She angrily said then raised Ash in the air and slammed him into the ground with enough force to make a small crater. She was incredibly angry when she slammed him down and somehow caused physical damage to Ash. She thought it was impossible but apparently it wasn't because he was there, lying on the ground, unconscious. She didn't quite kill him like she wanted to but maybe it was better this way? Maybe it wasn't? She didn't know. All that was certain was that he will pay dearly.

Marceline, after defeating Ash, scanned the battlefield for Maja but she was nowhere to be found and that made her even angrier. She began thrashing about, destroying more of the undead by shredding them to pieces and crushing them. She began to foam at the mouth from her uncontrollable anger.

The monsters and demons were finally able to move despite the paralyzing fear and they all scattered. They were running in all directions besides towards the Candy Kingdom. Marceline tried her best to destroy them all but she just couldn't. There was just too many. She was getting more and more furious from her frustration and grief until her body just couldn't take it anymore. The evil was finally wearing her out and dying down. She was losing her energy like a fire with depleting oxygen.

She roared one more time into the sky before her mind shut down and she fell backwards then slammed into the ground. When she fell down, the ground shook as if there was an earthquake. After her demonic episode passed, the battlefield was quiet except for the soothing sound of the rain hitting the ground.

Marceline began to turn back into her regular self. Her body was covered in massive plates of keratin which was as tough as steel. As she shrunk, her body became more exposed. Once she was back to normal, she was on the battlefield, unconscious and completely naked. But it didn't matter much because nobody was around.

Marceline slipped into a coma after she exhausted more energy that her body should have ever been able to handle. Her body was actually suffering from shock the whole time while she was in her pure evil form and it finally gave in and she collapsed. She was unconscious because of the extreme use of energy but she was in a coma for a different reason.

Because her heart was broken.

So the vampire queen, in her state of comatose, remained on the ground in the pouring rain in the most depressed state that she's ever been in.

A few moments before…

PB: "My Gob…" She was speechless because Marceline turned into a beast that was completely fueled by evil and anger. She was massively terrifying and she had nothing but a thirst for the blood of those who betrayed her or wronged her.

She sat there, as she watched Marceline destroy everything in sight. She was truly an angel of death and nothing was able evade her will to kill.

P. Butler: "PB, I've returned. But I think you should-" He said as he approached the princess empty handed.

PB: "Hey! I wanted you to get something! Where is it?!" She was angry with his failure to follow her orders. She didn't mean to be soo rude and demanding but she was under a lot of stress and she couldn't help it. Finn the Human was dead or, "scientifically" to her, decaying and time was running out.

P. Butler: "Princess, I apologize but if you'll just listen-"

PB: "NO! Finn is dying! You need to-" As tears of frustration began to form in her eyes, Peppermint Butler threw some sleep powder in her face and she fell asleep instantly.

Peppermint Butler caught the princess before she hit the ground and laid her down gently. He didn't like to do things like this but even she didn't always make the best decisions… especially when her heart got in the way.

P. Butler: "I'm sorry PB, but I have to do this…" He said to her unconscious body as he moved over towards Finn.

P. Butler: "And I'm also sorry, Finn…"

Peppermint Butler then drew a circle around Finn, followed by a star and some other odd symbols. They were all very abstract but he knew exactly what he was doing. He centered himself on Finn's body once the preparations were complete and chanted something…

P. Butler: "Revertere anima tua, ut de nuptiis votum faciens vasis obscurum! …I think that's how it goes…" He chanted his demonic words.

After a few seconds, the star began to light up. The red glowing light illuminated everything nearby. Finn's body lifted up into the air a few feet and became encased in a sphere of blue light.

Evil magic usually doesn't contain "protection" spells but Peppermint Butler knew what he was doing and he was working with a few loopholes that he's figured out over the years. Finn's body was technically lifeless but it wasn't in the process of decaying. It was a much more complicated situation so he decided to do whatever he could to preserve Finn's body while someone could figure out to do from there.

Finn's existence wasn't contained in his human body. His soul was split from the physical vessel that it was attached to. Maja didn't have the magical ability to destroy a human soul or body at the same time because sky magic simply doesn't allow that sort of thing. Instead, she just split Finn's soul from his body and that would surely kill him after a short amount of time passes. It's happened in the past many times before so why not now?

Peppermint Butler continued to do what he needed to while the princess remained asleep on the ground. Peppermint Butler took the human boy away from the battlefield and was nowhere to be seen for a good amount of time.

Only a few minutes later, Princess Bubblegum woke up and tried to get a grasp on what was going on.

PB: "Finn?!" She jolted as she sat up. She felt very confused with why she was on the ground in the pouring rain. She looked around in all directions, not seeing a single person that she recognized.

She kept looking around until she saw someone very light skinned and pale lying on the ground.

PB: "Marceline…" She said, realizing who it was.

She was shocked that Marceline didn't end up killing everything in her blind rage, including Bonnibel. Bubblegum knew about the vampire queen's fits of rage and was surprised to see that the environment was still relatively in the same condition as before.

Bubblegum had nothing but sadness as she approached the unconscious vampire queen to help her.

PB: "When will this madness end?"

How'd you guys like Chapter 57? :p