Authors Notes
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Serafina Flame- Flame Princess
Ash Riddle- Ash
Jordon Wolf- Werewolf Queen (I know there hasn't officially been an introduction from Werewolf Queen, but she was mentioned in one episode so I decided to add her in the story.)
Chapter 4: Taking a Step In the Wrong Direction
"Marceline" A young voice called as Marceline turned her head from her locker toward the noise. Her and Marshall had been at this school for a few weeks now and had been introduced to many of Finn and Fionna's friends.
"Hey Kiddo, what's up?" Marceline asked as she noticed the young red-headed girl in a wheelchair coming toward her.
"I kinda need your help," The girl stated as she stopped a foot before the older black haired girl, "I left one of my textbooks in Big Brother's car and he can't come out with me to get it. Can you come with me Marceline?"
"Sure thing kid, lead the way," The younger girl smiled and started towards one of the school's handicap exits to the parking lot so that they could get the book out of Rowtag's car.
"Hey Sera, do you always have to go out this way?" Marceline asked as they exited the school in the near back of the building. There was a low fence about three feet high and barbed wire on top surrounding the small unattended garden that Marceline assumed must have been planted years ago and forgotten about.
"Yeah, this is the only handicap exit the leads to the parking lot." Serafina stated as she let the wheelchair roll down the ramp and stopped to wait for the older girl. Marceline frowned; it was unfair that the younger student had to leave school every day through this small forgotten section. Why couldn't they just get ramps by all the doors so the younger girl could come and go like all the other students at this school?
"They should change that."
"Big Brother says the same thing," Serafina laughed as she started towards the break in the fence so they could get to the parking lot.
"Hey Flame" A voice called as the two turned to see a young man about Marceline's age with a white Mohawk wearing black jeans, a t-shirt, and a leather jacket.
"Marceline Abadeer" The white haired kid addressed, "Long time no see."
"Ash," Marceline growled in distain as she placed herself between Ash and Serafina. "What the hell do you want?"
"Well I was here to tell the young little Flame child that I need to have a word with her brother, but I suppose I should be saying hello again to you babe."
"Go to hell"
"You know him?" Serafina asked as she looked over at Marceline with a confused look.
"We used to go to school together before him, Marshall, and I got kicked out along with a bunch of his chump friends."
"Don't down play it baby, we used to date."
"Used to" Marceline reminded him, "Before I saw how much of an asshole you are. Now leave her and Rowtag alone or else."
"Or else what, you'll get your brother to kick my ass?"
"Why bother him? I'll kick it right here."
"Marceline," Serafina reached up, pulling on the sleeve of the other girl's red plaid shirt. There was a sense of urgency in her voice as Ash's two friends started to surround the two girls. Marceline and Marshall had been good the last couple of weeks and had managed to avoid getting into any trouble. But now staying on her best behavior was far from Marceline's mind.
"I don't like your tone,"
"I don't like you"
"I'm getting sick of your attitude Abadeer." Ash stated as he stood closer to Marceline, "Maybe we should fix that."
Ash nodded his head towards his friends before Marceline heard a surprised shriek, the hand on her sleeve quickly disappearing as she turned to see the two brutes had knocked the poor girl out of her wheelchair and were laughing as the girl shot them an angry look.
"What a little snot, next time she'll come out here with her brother."
"I'll kill you!" Marceline yelled as she threw a punch, fist hitting the boy square in the face. Ash staggered back a few feet before wiping blood from his chin and looking squarely at the black haired girl.
"Bad move Abadeer." Ash growled as she charged forward, Marceline side-stepped past the first blow aimed for her stomach; however, she couldn't move fast enough to avoid the second punch aimed at her temple. The blow sent her back, her right arm tangling in the barbed wire of the low fence. Without thinking the girl went to throw her right arm noticing quickly her mistake as a harsh pain rushed up her arm as the wire and barbs stuck into her arm tightly.
"DAMMIT" Marceline yelled out as she felt something hot and sticky run down her hand and fingertips. Red blood dripping down her arm as she struggled against the wire holding her
"Ash let's get out of here." One of the punks stated before Ash nodded lightly, not wanting to get caught having forced Marceline into the wire. That and he was certain her yelling would attract unwanted attention.
"Let's bounce." The three ran back towards the school building and disappeared. Serafina crawled over looking up at the black haired girl.
"Marceline stop moving!" The girl cried as blue eyes met dark brown, "I'll go get help, you stop ripping your arm up!"
"How are you going to get help?"
"Shut up and leave it to me." Serafina stated stubbornly before crawling towards the front of the school, "I can handle it."
_B_
"So then you divide 42 by 7 in order to find out what X is." Bubblegum stated as she took a bite of her sandwich. Finn had asked her to help him in math since it was his worst subject. She watched as Finn scribbled away at his notebook. Fingers hitting the number buttons on his calculator.
"So X equals 6?"
"Very good," Bubblegum praised with a smile as blue eyes looked up at her with cheer.
"Mathmatical" Finn cheered as Bubblegum put her own books away.
"I think that's enough for today, Finn, you did very well." Bubblegum stated as she rested her backpack on the seat beside her so there were no more books in the way.
"You guys always study this hard?" Marshall asked from his seat next to Gumball as he took a bite from his apple. "During lunch too, isn't this supposed to be a break from school?"
"Finn needed help in algebra and since Bubblegum's a genius when it comes to math and science stuff, she helps him during lunch so he gets all his homework done." Fionna explained as she watched Finn finish putting away his books and settle down to finish his lunch. "Maybe you should try studying once in a while."
"I don't know what you mean by that." Marshall smirked, "I study you all the time."
"You know that's not what I meant"
"Now now, are the two of you really going to waste a perfectly good lunch bickering?" Gumball asked as he looked up from the book he was reading.
"She was bickering, I was flirting,"
"Clearly," Gumball rolled his eyes at the other teen male at the table.
"…I wonder were Marceline and Serafina are." Finn interrupted as he realized the two had been gone for a long period of time. Serafina had told him that she and Marceline were going to go get a book from her brother's car however that was almost twenty minutes ago. Lunch was over soon and the two of them had yet to show up.
Marshall seemed to be thinking the same thing; he was unused to being with a group of people without his sister for a long period of time. Bubblegum looked around the courtyard trying to see if she could spot the two missing teens. Something quickly caught her eye as she looked over to see a young girl on the ground trying to crawl around the corner.
"Serafina" Bubblegum yelled as the rest of the group ran over to the girl. Finn darted ahead and was the first to reach the girl.
"What happened? Are you OK?" Gumball asked as the young girl looked up.
"Where's Marceline?"
_R_
Rowtag walked out the back entrance to the parking lot hoping he could catch his sister on her way back from retrieving the book. He usually had a boxing club meet every other day during lunch. This time the meet had let out a little earlier then he expected so he decided to see if he could catch up with his sister.
"Marceline" The young boy quickly noticed the wheelchair on the ground and the girl leaning heavily against the short fence with her arm bleeding. A look of panic overtook his face as he realized that his little sister was nowhere to be seen. "Where's Serafina? Is she OK?"
Rowtag quickly worked at the barbed wire trying to get it loose enough for the girl to get her arm through it without cutting it more. His eyes narrowed as he worked at the wire to get it to slacken around the girl's trapped arm. Marceline watched him wincing as he moved the wire out of her arm.
"She's fine, she went to get help."
"Well then I have to go find her…here." Rowtag stated as he managed to work the wire until it was slack around the girl's arm, "Stay here and try to keep pleasure on the wounds while I go look for Sera."
Rowtag turned and sprinted around the corner, he was quickly met by the site of the group before him a few yards away.
"Big Brother" Serafina called as she noticed the male running toward them. Marshall had offered to piggy back the young girl while Gumball stood next to Marshall in case the girl lost her balance. Finn stood on the other side of Marshall with the same intentions.
"Are you OK? You're not hurt are you?"
"No, Big Brother, I'm fine, just a few scratches from crawling over." Serafina explained as a relieved smile graced the young man's face.
"Is Marceline OK?" Marshall asked quickly.
"Yeah, I got her out of the barbed wire, she's cut up but she'll be OK."
"Trade you" Marshall offered with a smirk. Rowtag gave in grinning at the other male.
"I'll give you your if you give me mine." Rowtag stated as they turned the corner, his grin quickly fading. "Where did she go?"
"Marceline" Marshall called as he allowed Rowtag to get Serafina off his back and onto the seat o the wheelchair.
_M_
Marceline stormed down that hallway, ignoring the pain in her arm as she focused on finding her target. Sure Ash could bully her all he wanted but she would put her foot down when it came to Serafina. The younger girl couldn't defend herself as well against Ash. It seemed to justify why Marceline wanted to go after him now.
"Ash, you coward, come back here and finish what you started." Marceline called as she caught site of the male's white hair and leather jacket. Ash turned and snarled at the oncoming girl.
"Back off Abadeer, I got class."
"Like hell you care about that!" Marceline shot back as she stopped a few feet away from the group.
"You're going to regret this." Ash warned as he came toward her, fists ready to strike.
_M_
The group walked into the school trying to hunt down some trace of the missing twin.
"Hey do you guys hear that?" Fionna asked as the group stopped and listened.
"Fight…fight…fight!"
"Sounds like a fight," Rowtag stated as Marshall sprinted ahead until he came across a crowd of students standing in a circle cheering and chanting. Marshall pushed past them, cursing as he came to the front of the crowd.
"Marcy" He called slightly as he noticed his sister standing there with blood on her knuckles and shirt. Blood trickled down her temple and from the corner of her mouth as well as from her barbed wire cut arm. Some of the blood on her shirt was hers while some of it could be her opponent's… "Ash"
Fionna pushed to the front and stood my Marshall while the others followed in suit.
"Hey break it up! Enough" Fionna called as she stepped into the ring. The two fighting turned to her.
"She's right, this distasteful behavior will not continue." Bubblegum added from the side. "Both of you will seize this at once,"
"Back off Princess," Ash shot his was covered in blood as well, his nose and both corners of his mouth were dripping blood, "Or do you prefer President Princess? The Student Council President had no power to interfere."
"You asshole, picking fights with girls now are you!" Marshall yelled as Gumball kept him from joining the fight with an arm holding him by the elbow.
"Come on Marshall," Ash teased with a smirk, "lighten up Marshy-Boy"
"Bastard," Marceline called out suddenly before charging at the weakened boy. The very action startled Fionna and Bubblegum as Fionna side-stepped to avoid getting knocked to the ground by Marceline as she charged at Ash.
The attack was sloppy as Ash grabbed at Marceline's arm, throwing her back. This caused her to fall to the ground in a heap. She became aware that she had slid a few feet when her back hit the lockers with a loud thud. Now it was Ash's turn to go after her, he was quick as be aimed to kick her while she was down. And Marceline had nowhere to run from the incoming blow.
"STOP" A voice yelled as Marceline notice a blur of blue stop before her, blocking Ash's attack. "I WONT LET YOU HURT HER ANYMORE"
"I WONT LET YOU HURT HER ANYMORE" Leroy yelled as he stood before an injured Marceline. Their father stood before them, drunk as hell with his fists clenched.
Seven year old Marceline watched from her position on the floor. Her left wrist hurt too much to move and her whole body was sore from the beating she had just taken from her father. Marshall lay in a similar position knocked out on the floor a few feet away. Leroy was the only one who could still stand, his messy black hair sticking to his forehead as tears poured down his young face. His oversized red T-shirt clung to his body from him sweating from running around the house away from the drunken parent.
"Leroy don't" Marceline whimpered from her place on the floor as she watched her father backhand the small boy.
"Don't," Marceline murmured as the memory faded. She looked over to see Finn standing before her with his arms stretched out to protect her. Rowtag had tackled Ash to the ground to prevent him from getting to Finn.
"Are you OK?" Marshall was next to her, a hand on her shoulder snapped her back to the present.
"Yeah,"
"Mr. Riddle" A thick voice started as Principal Phantom walked up to the scene. "Miss Abadeer, Let me save you both some time. Mr. Riddle, two weeks detention and two week suspension from the football team. Mr. Flame please let him up so he can have his friends take him to the infirmary."
Rowtag snorted as he got up, the two thugs with Ash aided him to the infirmary.
"Miss Abadeer," The principal started, "Since I see that you have been making an effort to stay out of trouble and Miss Flame here says you were trying to protect her. I will allow you a warning with a detention so you understand I am very serious when I say your punishment next time will not be so light. Now off to the infirmary with you as well."
"Here" A soft voice began as Bubblegum offered the injured girl her hand. Marceline looked at the offered hand, confused, "Come on, you're covered in blood, we need to get you cleaned and patched up."
Marceline blinked before taking the offered hand, Bubblegum and Marshall aided her in standing up before walking her to the infirmary.
End Notes
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