Marceline floated down the stairs leading to the entrance. Marceline opened the door to find someone else at the door. "Hi, Marceline, where's my niece and nephew at." Jake asked at the door. Before Marceline could respond she was immediately tackled to the floor by the pups, who have grown up since the last time but were still overly excited to see their favorite aunt.
"Aunt, Marcy." They cheered all giggling and laughing on the floor.
"The rest of the family here." Finn asked floating down the stairs.
"Yes." Everyone yelled in delight.
"Finn, how you doing, brother." Jake asked going to his brother giving him a giant hug, Finn returning the hug. "So, how you feeling having your little girl grow up."
"Too fast." Finn responded.
"Well that's life Finn, you gotta deal with it." Jake told.
"Life sucks." Finn told.
"Okay enough pouting let's get ready for dinner." Marceline told finally getting off the ground from the attack hug.
"So where are Fionna and Marshall?" Lady Rainycorn asked. (Translated but still speaking in Korean.)
"I believe Fionna shall be arriving in a few. As for Marshall, I got no idea where that boy is." Marceline told bringing in the long table for guest.
"I keep calling his cell, but no answer." Finn told.
"Eh, he's a grown up guy. He can handle himself." Jake said stretching his hand to swipe a piece of pie to have his hand hit with a spoon by Marceline.
~In the forest~
Fionna and Ash were floating towards Fionna's house. Fionna smiling happily floating next to her boyfriend. Ash was glad to make her happy but he also was counting for answers on how he died. He didn't want to alarm Fionna but his head was pounding like crazy. Occasionally he would zone out remembering when he was alive, he would be walking down this same path but in the dark. His body covered in bandages, his one hand clutching a wand in anger while trudging through snow, the vision shall stop then gradually return. Ash tried to keep the memories in check but kept getting harder to ignore with every new vision.
"Ash...Ash?" Fionna yelled snapping Ash out of his thoughts. "Ash, everything ok?"Fionna asked looking at him.
"Yeah, I'm fine. Maybe I'm just a little nervous." Ash told rubbing the back of his head.
"Don't worry, besides were here." Fionna told showing that they were there already at the house. Ash put on a smile. Fionna smiled as well reaching for the doorknob while she was doing that another vision hit Ash. Him reaching a doorknob to a different house the sound of people's voices were heard. He grabbed his wand ready to use it. The door opened and-
"Surprise." Everyone from the inside yelled scaring Ash out of his flashback.
"Come in." Fionna told dragging Ash into the house moving past many of her family members going towards her parents. "Mom, dad, I want you to meet my boyfriend." Fionna told introducing them.
"Nice to meet you." Ash told extending his hand to shake Finn's hand.
"Same here." Finn told trying his best to sound courteous extending his hand to Ash. Finn placed a little too much pressure on the hand shake. Ash would have minded if it wasn't for the small vision he had when he grabbed Finn's hand. In the vision Ash saw an ordinary room, followed by a sudden flying refrigerator coming at him.
"Ahh." Ash let out a yell falling backwards to the ground his face full of shock.
"Oh my glob, you alright." Fionna exclaimed going towards Ash. Finn stood there slightly shocked at the situation till Marceline slapped his arm.
"I told you to be nice." She hissed at him.
"I didn't even do anything." Finn defended holding his arms up.
"I'm sorry for my husband." Marceline told walking towards Ash. She extended her hand for him to grab, he was going to reach for it to instead have him pull away. Marceline raised an eyebrow to his action but she wasn't seeing what he was seeing. Ash saw his beating heart on the palm of her hand.
"I think I can get up by myself thanks." Ash told getting off the ground.
"You must be tired, let's go rest for a bit." Fionna told helping him towards the living room turning around to glare at her parents to only give her a shrug in return.
"What was that about?" Finn asked.
"I don't know, but he seems familiar." Marceline told.
"Anyone you know?" Finn asked.
"Maybe."
"Ash, you alright. Wanna sit down for a bit." Fionna asked him guiding him towards the sofa. Ash shook his head letting Fionna guide him. Fionna floated slowly, looking forward to see her uncle, aunt, nephews and nieces relaxing on some of the couches and chairs. "Uncle Jake." Fionna whispered.
"Yes, little Fi." Jake said stretching his head towards her.
"Please, I'm begging here. Can you please make my boyfriend feel relaxed and welcomed. My parents didn't exactly do a good job making him feel either of those things." Fionna asked with pleading eyes.
"Sure, come here you." Jake said stretching and wrapping his hand around Ash dragging him towards the living room. "PARTTY" Jake screamed, Fionna was kinda regretting the decision. But he shall be better with Jake and the pups, turning around she floated towards the kitchen to have a word with her parents.
Jake dragged Ash to the couch gently placing him on the couch. Ash was about to speak until Jake gave him a glass of what seemed to be white wine the bubbles sliding to the surface one by one. "Well go ahead drink." Jake told while he drank his glass. Ash looked around to see the rest drinking it and decided to let loose a little.
"So how did you and Fionna meet." Lady asked.
"Sorry, what?" Ash asked for not knowing what she just asked him.
"Sorry, she only speaks Korean. She asked when did you and Fionna meet." Jake told.
"Oh, we met 1 year ago. She found my body just out in the open so she made me a small burial for me. She placed rocks around my body for a coffin of sorts. When I woke up I saw what she was doing, I thanked her, we talked a little. And after sometime we kinda began dating I guess." Ash told sheepishly.
"So when is Fionna gonna be preggers." Jake Jr. asked out of the blue. Ash spit out some of his wine into his glass coughing a little.
"JAKE Jr." Jake yelled astonished she would ask that.
"What, it was a simple question. You don't have to have a barn dad." Jake Jr. told crossing her arms.
"Well, we haven't really thought about that yet. We talked about naming them if we had them-"
"You have, can you tell us." Viola asked with anticipation.
"Well, uh." Ash tried to find an excuse considering Fionna told him not to tall anyone, he was hoping Jake would step in. "Your father may not want me telling you."
"Oh no, I actually wanna hear this." Jake told getting himself comfortable on the couch letting out a satisfied sigh. Ash looked around to have all eyes on him.
~With Finn, Marceline, and Fionna~
"I asked for one thing. One. Thing. And you guys couldn't have done that for me." Fionna ranted floating side to side in front of her parents they were on the second floor of the house so the guest wouldn't hear them. "Dad, why did you scare him." Fionna questioned her face becoming more like a bat with every second, her hair slowly escaping her bunny hat swirling across the air sometimes hitting Finn's face.
"All I did was shake the guy's hand. You should have told me he was easily scared." Finn told backing himself up a wall.
"Ugh. Mom, what did you do." Fionna asked towards her but much nicer.
"I offered him my hand then his face looked grim. Honey, are you sure he's just not, you know, a little frightened of us. Your father a guy who could kill anything in his path. And me the heir to the Nightosphere and Queen of Vampires?" Marceline asked nicely. The question slowly sinking in. Ash has been acting strangely since coming to the house and he hasn't really met her parents.
"Yeah, you must be right." Fionna told slowly changing back to her normal form both parents letting out a breath of relief. "Sorry, I did see signs of him zoning out. Sorry." Fionna apologized.
"Good, now let's go meet, I didn't get his name." Marceline told.
"His name is Ash." Fionna told simply. The simple mention of the word brought back horrible memories for the two parents. A sinking feeling was felt within the bottom of their stomachs, they felt as though they were placed within a black abise. "Mom, Dad, you alright?" Fionna asked concerned considering they looked as they have been placed on a trance.
"FIONNA." Both parents shouted grabbing her by the shoulders scaring her a little. "Fionna we gotta ask-"
"THEY WHAT?" A yell was heard from downstairs.
"Ash?" Fionna screamed escaping her parents grasp rushing downstairs. "Ash are you...alright?" Fionna's voice slowing down from what she was seeing. Jake using his stretching powers to make himself bigger, his hands enlarged into fists using his body to protect his family. Turning to the side she saw why. Ash was in the middle of the room, his body changing to a green hue while illuminating a dark aura. His hands turned to long claws, his hair waiving wildly in the air, his legs replaced with a ghostly tail. "Ash?" Fionna spoke close to a whisper. Ash's head spun towards her, she let out a gasp. His eyes were now a black void, his teeth jagged and sharpened to a point.
"You traitor." Ash growled throwing a table at her. Fionna floated there unable to move. She closed her eyes waiting for the object to hit her. She heard the object hit the wall instead opening her eyes to see her father had cut the table in half standing in front of her sword in hand.
"Why can't you just stay dead." Finn asked preparing his sword. Ash letting out a howl making the house quake, windows shattered, paintings fell of their spots, and priceless vases fell to the ground breaking upon impact. Everyone covered their ears from the loud shriek.
Once the shriek was over, Finn opened his eyes quickly blocking Ash's attack. Ash's claws trying to slash throught Finn's sword. Finn cringed trying his best to keep Ash off him. Finn letting out a yell swiped his sword through Ash's torso. Fionna let out a gasp as Finn continued to attack his sword moving too fast to track as it continued to cut through Ash. Finn breathed heavily looking up with a smile which slowly faded to see that there was no damage anywhere on Ash..
"Uh, truce." Finn offered. Ash grabbed Finn's face smashing him onto the marble ground shattering the ground causing for cracks to stretch and spread to the walls. Ash grabbed Finn's leg and began to slam him onto the ground, the floor shaking with every impact of Finn's body to the ground. Ash was about to slam Finn for the 15th time.
"Vampire Kick." Marceline yelled kicking Ash back. "Finn you alright." Marceline asked going to his side.
"Yeah, he just got a few lucky hits." Finn said getting up from the ground. Marceline saw he was bleeding from the top of his head the blood trailing down his face.
"A little help here." Jake told. The two looked over to see Jake wrapping himself around Ash. Ash trying to break free from Jake's trap. Grabbing Jake's head, Ash began to suck the life out of him. Jake's body losing color, his skin becoming prune, his life almost sucked completely out before a ray of light hit Ash in the chest. Releasing Jake, Ash tumbled backwards, Jake's body returning to normal with him unconscious.
Letting out a growl Ash looked toward his new targets which were the pups in their combined form. The pups glaring at him, Ash glaring back. The pups letting a yell before charging head first towards Ash. Ash growled going towards the pups. The pups going for a punch at Ash's stomach. Ash blocking the punch to grab hold of the pups to do a headbutt to Jake Jr. for being the head of the body. The impact causing the pups form to break down. Ash used his tail to wrap around the pups beginning to squeeze the life out of them.
The pups groaned and squirmed feeling their bones begin to break. Ash smiled seeing the pups in a weak state to soon have his eyesight taken by a blinded light, blinking and squinting he tried to gain his sight back. Once he did he believed he saw a rainbow. He was half right cause it was Lady flying straight towards his face. Lady wrapped her body around Ash's face. Stumbling backwards Ash released the pups as he struggled to have Lady removed from his face while she constantly bit and stabbed him with her horn.
"Marceline keep him distracted, I'll be right back." Finn told while he stumbled towards upstairs. Marceline turned towards Ash who had grabbed and thrown Lady to a wall. Ash floated towards her ready to smash a couch over her.
"*Whistles * Hey Ash have you forgotten all about me." Marceline taunted hoping he'll place his attention on her. It worked, Ash dropped the couch placing his attention on Marceline, Marceline turned to her giant bat form. Ash stood there for a moment then phased through the floor. Marceline checked around her and decided to fly off the ground knowing that's where he'll attack her. Marceline waited patiently for Ash to reappear from the ground and smash him. She knew she couldn't win against a ghost but she still had a chance to beat the snot out of him one more time.
"Oh, Mar Mar, heads up." Ash's voice was heard Marceline turned around to be hit in the face with the wedding 'ring' Finn gave her. Her body hit the ground causing more cracks and for debris to spread around the room. Ash hovered over Marceline lifting his claw over his head preparing to strike her down.
"Hey, leave my wife alone." Finn yelled floating down the stairs holding a new sword entirely made of gold. Forgetting about Marceline, Ash focused his attention on Finn instead. Both of them squaring off against each other. Ash was the one to make the first move turning invisible he sneaked around Finn. Finn stood still looking everywhere trying to detect Ash's attack. Ash flew closer once at range he drove his claws through Finn's chest. He felt Finn's organs as his claw broke right through his back. Ash lifted Finn off the ground looking at his face seeing his eyes closed, motionless. "Is that all you got." Finn spoke opening his eyes, grabbing Ash's hand he lifted the sword cutting off Ash's arm off.
Ash let out a shriek of pain stumbling backwards holding were his arm once was while it oozed out black goo. "Like it, I melted down a suit of armor called 'The armor of Zeldron' forging it into this sword and this other armor." Finn spoke lifting his shirt to show a plate of golden armor. "Thanks to it your attack did nothing. So Ash will you leave with your tail between your legs or die...again." Finn spoke pointing his sword at him. Ash responded with the extending of his claws. "Fine but let it be known I gave you a chance, Marceline now." Finn yelled, before Ash could move he was wrapped around by Marceline's tentacles. Ash struggled to get free till his body stiffened and began to tremble. He looked forward to see Finn right in front of him looking down to see the sword penetrate his chest. Marceline let go of Ash knowing he was finished. "For the last time, stay away from my family." Finn hissed into his ear before twisting and swiftly cutting through him. A bright light emanated off him turning to a sudden explosion.
After the dust settled Finn and Marceline checked if everyone was alright. Jake said he was alright but said he'll feel better with some food. The pups had minor injuries nothing a good night's rest couldn't fix. And Lady only had a bruise on the left side of her body. The sound of crying filled the room, everyone walked closer to it to see Fionna on her knees holding a charred remains of Ash's shirt. "Sweety?" Finn mumbled once close enough.
"STAY AWAY FROM ME." She screamed quickly flying up the stairs away from everyone.
"Hey, Mom, Dad I got some..." Marshall came into the room with Bubblegum wrapped around his shoulder. Looking at the living room which seemed more like a battle field has gone off, both couple just stood there unable to make heads or tails of what has happened in the room. "What the heck happened here."
