Chapter 7 Eli's Little Monster

Finn and Jake were being chased through a portal by a Marceline's father, Hunson Abadeer. He was absolutely livid. No one can leave the Night'O sphere without his consent, and these two heroes are about make it out alive, only if Jake hadn't tripped on his own foot. It took only seconds for Hunson to reach Jake and just as the soul was about to be sucked right from Jake's body, Finn struck the back of Hunson Abadeer's demonic head with his sword as a distraction so he could drag Jake away from his attacker. Finn was about to sling Jake over his shoulders and run. But the only thing that kept him from doing that was the black pus that began to erupt from the wound on Hunson's head, like molten rock from a volcano. Some of it landed on the two adventurers. Once the pus was no longer erupting, a black mass slowly emerged from the wound. Finn didn't know what to make of it.

"What the?" was the only words that left his mouth.

As more of the black mass came out of Abadeer, the more a face appeared, Marceline's face.

"Marceline!" Finn and Jake said in both surprise and unison. The Vampire Queen managed to squeeze her arms and shoulders out of the wound.

"I'm gonna close this portal! You're forbidden to come back to the Night'O Sphere!" Marceline hissed at her two friends.

"But Marce', let us help you." Finn said as Marceline was being sucked back into the bulbous head.

"It's too late. Stay away from me, FOREVER!" she said as she pulled the portal shut, leaving Finn and Jake floating seven feet in the air in their living room. Gravity kicked back in the second the portal was completely shut. Jake grunted as he landed on the hardwood floor. Finn would have done the same, but something broke his fall. But he didn't realize it because Finn's mind was focused on his friend who was neck deep in trouble. Finn looked around the room and when he saw Jake, he told him the first words that came to mind.

"We have to go back. We have to save her."

Jake stood up and said, "Alright, but I'm gonna take a shower first, I smell horrible."

"Hey, before you do any of that. Would you please be so kind to get off of me?" Finn looked under him and found that the object that had broken his fall was Eli.

"Oh, I'm sorry man." Finn said as he immediately stood up.

"No it's cool, my dad and Anna sent me over here to find you 'cause we hadn't heard from you in almost a month. And well…" Eli stood up and placed his hands at the base of his spine and pushed "…found 'ya." He said sarcastically. Since Eli had gone on numerous adventures with Finn and Jake, his attire had changed slightly. All of his shirts had either been torn, burned or both, so he now mostly wore shirts lined with leather and thin but hard plates of metal. He also had customized a belt so that he could carry his two swords wherever he went, and he took a note from Finn's book and got himself a black drawstring bag. "Where were you guys anyway?" Eli asked. Jake spoke up before Finn could say anything.

"We'll explain after my shower, thank you very much." Then the dog walked off so he could clean himself. Eli looked down at his friend hoping to get a reason for their disappearance.

"I would tell you now, but it will make a ton more sense after we watch the videos on…" He stopped in mid-sentence and realized what Jake had hidden in the flaps of his fur, and ran after him, screaming. "Jake, don't take the shower yet! You've got the phone!"

Finn retrieved the camera phone and its charger and gave it to Beemo to charge it. Jake finished his shower eight minutes later. He came down stairs in a towel and bath cap, holding one of the bananas from the pile the two adventurers awoke in and sat next Finn and Eli on the floor, directly across from Beemo.

"Hey Beemo, you done charging that phone or what?" The computer was forcing the charge as a person would force a turd.

"Almost, finished." Beemo began to smoke as he completed the charge, making the phone beep.

"Thanks Beemo." Jake grabbed the phone and turned to Finn. "Alright man, we're gonna figure this out right, now." Jake flipped open the phone and loaded the mysterious videos that it held. Eli looked over Jake's shoulder so he could see as well.

The first video started with Jake's face appearing on the small screen. "Yo yo, yo, check it! This is Jake on my new camera phone." Jake zoomed in and out on face. "Wow, wow, wow! Yo Finn, say hi to my new camera phone." Finn came on to the screen.

"What up camera phone?" Jake began to zoom in and out again as the two made ridiculous faces. They continued this even as a pale green light filled the room. Jake turned the phone to see a portal open against the wall. Marceline popped out of the portal, her hair in a big pony tail with two locks dangling in front of her ears. She wore a grey and red sweater with a red cat face in the middle of the chest and the two were happy to see her. Finn walked up to her while Jake stayed where he was so he could keep filming.

"You guys wanna come party in the Night'O Sphere with me? I'm visiting with my Dad and it's crazy boring."

"Whoa Marceline, last time I saw your Dad, I sliced open his soul sack. I think he'd want to get revenge and, ya know, kill me." Jake turned the angle of the camera down to his shuffling feet as he moved to the portal.

"Oh no, he's totally chill now."

"Okay, but I'm keeping an eye out for your old man, in case he pulls any…" Finn turned back to the camera, flipped his hands onto his face to make a mask and deepened his voice "…sneak attacks." Marceline let out a small laugh and said.

"Don't be such a weenie." She looked at the dog holding his phone. "You coming Jake?" Jake gave his response as he brought the camera back to his face.

"WHOA, ya baby!"

While the second video was loading, Eli spoke up. "How come she didn't invite me to party in the Night'O Sphere." The second video started and it showed a balcony view that overlooked a picture that most people would describe as an image from hurricane Sandy, only all of the water was replaced with fire.

"Alright, so, this is the Night'O Sphere, I guess." Jake tied to move his face in front of the camera, but only got about half of it in the frame. "It looks bana-nas. Marceline says they got tons of crazy ways down here."

Eli raised his eyebrows. "Oh, because the Night'O Sphere is the new name for hell. That kinda makes sense."

Eli turned back to the phone screen and the image was that of Jake's hand in the shape of a crab pincher that was close to the camera so that it looked like it was squashing Marceline's head. Finn and Marceline were enjoying themselves as they were playing instruments, Finn had a tambourine and Marceline had a banjo.

"There you are Marceline." The two stopped playing when they heard that ominous voice. Jake zoomed out so the enlarged body of Hunson Abadeer. He turned to see Jake filming him and he gave the closest thing to a battle cry, making Jake scream in fear. "Oh, hello dog." Hunson raised his hand to greet the two visitors. "Hello Finn." Finn was an inch from attack mode.

"Stay away from me old man." He said pointing at him and shaking the tambourine between his legs.

Jake found this amusing and let out a small laugh. "Nice one."

Hunson shrank down to normal size and tucked his swollen head back into his body and replaced it with his normal one, a creepy smile plastered onto it. "Enough Finn, come on there's no bad blood here. Come on, let's bury the hatchet." He quickly wrapped Finn up in an awkward hug. Well, awkward for Finn. "See how I'm not killing you."

"Uh, Dad stop." Hunson put Finn under his arm like a newspaper.

"Oh right, I don't want to embarrass my little girl." He set Finn down and walked closer to his daughter. "So young lady, have you thought about my offer." Instead of answering, Marceline grunted in anger and slung the banjo over her shoulder.

"What offer Marceline's Dad?" Jake asked. Hunson was joyful to explain his offer. "I want Marceline to take over the Night'O Sphere. Finally join the family business."

"Business?" Marceline said abruptly. "Dad, what do you even do?" He motioned Jake to look over to a window and Marceline went over to her father.

"Check it out sweetie…" Hunson put his arm around Marceline. "…see how chaotic it is out there?" A column of fire that was twenty-five feet in diameter shot up like someone had placed a few hundred gallons of lighter fluid on it, burning a demon that was flying to close to a crisp. "How everyone's confused and frustrated. The Night'O Sphere is sustained by chaos." Jake quickly turned the camera to Finn, who was jiggling his checks to and fro, then Jake tuned back to Marceline and Hunson.

"Ahh, I just don't see myself doing this biz." Marceline said with a small smile.

"Okay, but I know you'll come around eventually, or maybe you won't. I don't know, you're an independent woman." Hunson stretched his mouth wide open, showing his big sharp fangs. He roared and it caused both Finn and Jake to flinch, but they recovered when they realized he was only yawning. "Well, I'm gonna take a nappy." Hunson said as he began to trot off, but he stopped after three steps. "Oh, I almost forgot…" He removed a purple amulet from his neck. As he took off the amulet, his black tuxedo went with it and was absorbed into the jewel. Leaving Hunson standing in a stained white under shirt and red and white boxers.

"DAD!" Marceline screamed, she covered her face in pure embarrassment.

"Whoop, ha ha. You should put this amulet on, it'll grant you whishes for ponies or for whatever kids like." Marceline's eyebrows went down in frustration.

"Dad, I'm a thousand years old."

"Ha, yes you are sweetie." Hunson ruffled Marceline's hair. "Daddy's little monster." Hunson walked off, leaving Marceline utterly embarrassed. She noticed her friends were staring. She put the amulet in her pocket and leaned back in the air.

"Look, let's just play something, okay."

"Okay." The two began to play again once Marceline began to sing.

I know you just wanna give your little girl the world

But Daddy I'm not just your little girl

I've got my own life, I've got my own plan

I hope you understand and like the way that I am

Because I want your respect and I wanna be here

But I don't want to rule the Night'O Sphere

Marceline exhaled and took out the amulet from her pocket. She pushed air through her lips and put the amulet on. "Whatever Dad." Once it was on, the amulet placed Marceline in a black tuxedo and transformed her head into something that looked almost exactly like Hunson's bulbous head. Horns, tentacles and all. Once she began to laugh evilly Finn drew his sword and told Jake to get the amulet. But Marceline had sent Finn backwards and he hit Jake, hurting his camera phone and ending the video.

"Well, that explains how we got amnesiaed, but what about banana?" Jake said.

"Hey man, there's another video." Finn said and pointed to the camera phone. Jake loaded the third video. It showed the guard of the Night'O Sphere's prison, dragging the unconscious bodies of Finn and Jake. He threw Jake in the cell first, right next to a big pile of bananas.

"We got mad prison overcrowding here fellas." He threw Finn directly on the pile of bananas. "So I gotta put you in the cage with the stuff, sorry about that. But ya know, not really." The guard slammed the cell door and he suddenly got a case of indigestion, he grabbed two bars of the cell and began to force something out of both of his ears, a banana. All three looked at the unpeeled banana in Jake's hand, the dog threw it away in disgust before he took a bite out of it.

"Now that you guys know what happened to you, can we go to this Night'O Sphere and save her?"

"Yeah, we'll get back using that one portal spell we know." Finn said as he ran over to the fridge and pulled out a carton of bug milk and chalk. Why they keep chalk in their fridge is anyone's guess. Finn drew a smiley face on the wall, threw the carton at the face and chanted "Malaso vobiscum et cum spiritum." The wood began to crack and the crack began to widen to show flames that gave the room an eerie glow.

"Whoa dude, she told us never to come back."

"Oh yeah!" Finn put his hands together so he could think and then an idea hit him.

Finn ran up stairs to his room, Jake not far behind him. Eli stayed at the portal to keep the flames from coming out and catching to the rest of the house on fire. Finn went to his dresser and pulled out his red pajamas. "Jake, can you turn into a gross demon?" Jake nodded, raised his arms and pointed his ears pointed his ears as the towel around his waist fell to the ground. Finn wasn't impressed. "Grosser." He said. Jake then turned himself into a grosser demon. With insect like legs, long pointed teeth, and cat like eyes.

"What's your disguise?" Jake said in a deep, gravelly voice. Finn cut into something with scissors and turned around with paper plate mask.

"Paper plate mask yo." It received a "nice" from Jake.

The two of them rushed back downstairs to Eli who was ready to spring into action, in fact he went through the portal before Finn and Jake. The three of them landed at the door of the Night'O Sphere's throne room, filled to the brink with demons. At the far end Marceline could be seen, sitting on the blood mist cloud.

"Who's next, who's next?" she roared. And a shy demon came forward.

"Uh, me, my Lord Abadeer."

"What do you desire cowering spec, pain, pleasure or, weird punishment?" Marceline asked.

"Uh, pleasure."

"No, weird punishment!" Marceline screamed as she fired a beam of energy at the demon, causing it to start vomiting bananas. As it stumbled away, the next demon took its place. "And what do you desire, p p or wp?" Marceline asked the demon.

"I, pain." Marceline shot another beam of energy and half of the demon's body disappeared.

"Come on, come on next."

"I'm just gonna go." Said one demon with an ant like head, as he walked out of line.

"You sure dude, don't you abs?" the demon immediately turned around and said

"Yeah, gimmie abs!" Marceline shot a third beam at the demon's head, turning it into a six pack. Marceline laughed manically, causing almost every demon in the throne room to shake in fear.

"I think we just charge up there, and rip the amulet off her neck."

"Sounds like a plan." Eli said as he took point. As the three ran they were stopped by a demon with a coffee cup and small yet thick mustache.

"Hey! What are you guys doing. You can't run up to the front of the line. These good people have been waiting forever. Shame on all three of 'ya. Everybody shame them." The crowd of demons began to boo at Finn, Eli and Jake. "Boo sirs, I boo at what you're doing." The demon began to poke all three to the back of the line. "Step back, back. You will not cut the line again. You stay back here, and wait your turn like the rest of us." The demon then squeezed their abdomens with every word it said. "Under, stand, me!" the three rubbed where the demon had grabbed them. For a small demon, he sure did have a tight grip. The demon made his way back to his spot in line as he said, "I'll be watching you." It said as it slid it way back into line, but was stopped by another demon.

"Sorry dude, you got outta line, I…"

"Dang it!" the demon with the coffee cup yelled, and then ran off.

Marceline noticed the commotion. One of her tentacles reached all the way through the crowd and grabbed Jake's arms. Before she could pull Jake up to her, Finn and Eli grabbed hold of Jake. Marceline brought them up to her eye level.

"Who are you?" she asked in a menacing voice. All three started scream, the only thing that anyone could understand was that 'they were her friends, Finn Jake and Eli and not to kill them. Marceline squinted at Eli, she was trying really hard to remember him. "E-Eli." Eli realized what she was trying to do and helped her.

"Yeah that's right Marce', Eli. The guy who helps you write songs when you can't think of anything. Eli, the guy who wanted to give you a present on my birthday. The guy who can't resist making a joke when even I know it's wrong. The guy who would leap head first into hell, if you were there and needed help. The guy…" Eli turned his head so if the real Marceline was seeing this, she wouldn't see him blush. "…the guy who's in love with the Queen of the Vampires. Marceline, I love you." Marceline's eyes widened in surprise. Then her shoulders shrugged and Marceline raised all three of her friends above her mouth that was wide open. But before she could drop them in, Jake formed his hand into a two pointed prong and jabbed it into her demonic eyes. Marceline threw them back as she cried out in pain. Jake shifted his body into a hang glider and carried Finn and Eli back to the ground safely. But when they landed, they ducked and weaved to dodge Marceline's big feet.

"Run!" Finn screamed, stating the obvious. The three of them made their way through a door way, down a hall, and stopped in a kitchen to recover. Eli gazed out of the small kitchen window and saw Marceline, who had returned to torturing the demons. He placed his hand on the window and whispered her name.

"Did you really think that was the best time to spill your guts, Eli?" Finn said sounding annoyed. Eli's nostrils fared with anger, but his face did not look away from the window.

"If Anna was a thirty foot monster being controlled by a magic amulet, I'm sure you would've done the same thing, Finn!" Eli's face turned from anger to uncertainty. "That, by far, is the strangest sentence I have ever said."

A small noise came from behind the three, and the awkward silence only amplifying it that much. Everyone turned to see Hunson Abadeer, holding a fifteen layered sandwich, and slowly picking up a bottle of mustard from the opened fridge.

"What are you doing?" Finn asked.

"Just grabbing a mid-night snack." Hunson answered as he shut the fridge door.

"It's Marceline, that's her out there." Finn said, pointing at the monster outside the window. "

I know, isn't it fantastic."Hunson said, placing his sandwich on the table and squeezing mustard on it. He said that as if Marceline had just graduated from an ivy league school.

"Fantastic?!" Eli screamed. "That's your daughter, your flesh and blood."

"But this is what I've always wanted. My girl, following in her Daddy's footsteps."

"But, that's not what she wants." Finn said.

"That's boulder dash baby. The wearer of the amulet is filled with chaotic evil. Which is how I grew up, so…" Hunson took a bite out of his completed sandwich. Eli, out of anger, removed one of his sword hilts from the straps and waited only for the blade to appear in a burst of flames to slice upwards at Hunson's sandwich, slicing a hole in his white undershirt as well. It sent the sandwich flying, pieces of the sandwich covering the floor, cabinets, and even several places on the ceiling.

"If you won't help her, I will." Eli said as he ran out of the kitchen and back to the throne room. The only thing stopping him was Jake's enlarged hand.

"Eli stop, you can't just run up there. We need a plan."

"Oh yeah, what do you have in mind." Finn looked around the room at all of the demons he could see and said

"Well, maybe we can get these dudes to help us." Finn suggested, pointing to all of the demons that filled the throne room. All of them had the faces full of sorrow and an eternity of torture.

"These guys won't help us, they're all compliance and shepal." Jake said as he saw the depressed expressions on the demons faces. He began to beat box out of boredom and it gave Finn an idea.

"Wait, that's it. Were gonna free style a political rap, to get these guys to rise outta their systemized demon apathy."Jake and Eli looked at each at each other and then back at Finn with very uncertain eyes. But since it was the only plan they had, they had no choice. Jake began to beet box again and Finn started his political rap. "Yeah, uh, political rap. Yo Yo demon apathy, Yo zapity. Get ready, government. Where you went. Yo, farmers market, ride bikes, get on it, G.O.D.'s and domes. Science. You heard!" The demons cheered as if they were just handed the key out of the Night'O Sphere. And as they started to chant 'freedom', Eli talked to Finn over the roar of the crowd.

"I'll question your methods, but never your results."

Then the demon horde began a charge on Marceline. Several demons picked up the three and carried them to her. To try and stop them, Marceline shot multiple lasers to keep back the demon horde. Once Finn and Eli reached the back of Marceline, they ripped the amulet off of her and she then turned into a giant pile of black slime. Out of the top the Marceline's back appeared, Eli pulled her out and held her close.

The demons started to devour the black slime like vultures feasting on the rotting flesh of an animal carcass.

"Ugh, sick." Jake said to his two friends in his arms. Finn noticed that the portal on the ceiling was still open and said, "Jake, the tree house."

"I'm too freaked out to move Finn, these demons are nibbling my legs." All three looked down and saw demons climbing up Jake's legs. Eli had seen this scenario in movies and video games all too often, and he knew what he had to do.

"Jake, take Marce'." Eli handed her over to Jake, who had grown a third arm to hold Marceline. "I'm going to hold off these demons so you can get Marceline out of this hell hole and make sure she's safe."

"How are you gonna hold off all of those demons." Jake asked. Eli frowned and eyed the amulet in Finn's hands.

"I got an idea, you're just probably not gonna like it." Eli ripped the amulet from Finn's grasp and jumped off of Jake's arm. As Eli pulled the amulet around his head, he heard Finn scream.

"You're right, I don't like it!"

As Eli hit the ground, he multiplied six times in size as he was transformed into a bulbous headed monster with a dark suit, looking much different than Hunson and Marceline when they wore the amulet. But before he was completely filled with chaotic evil, Eli grabbed Jake and stuffed him, Finn and Marceline through the portal. After that, Eli completely lost it. He started to attack the demons closest to him, and scaring the rest out of the throne room with a blood curdling scream.

Finn and Jake laid Marceline on the floor, where she began to regain consciousness.

"Hey guys." they heard from the portal. All three looked into the portal and saw Eli staring at them with eyes without pupils. "No one, leaves the Night'O Sphere!" Eli stretched one of his tentacles through the portal that filled most of the room. Jake wrapped Marceline up and Finn stood in front of Jake to try and protect their friend. Throughout all of the chaos, no one had noticed Hunson come into the throne room. He knew a mortal had his amulet around its neck and he would never let something like that rule the Night'O Sphere. So he ripped the amulet off of Eli and put it back on himself before Eli wasn't but an inch from reaching Finn, Jake and Marceline.

When the loud noise rang through everyone's ears and when they opened their eyes, they saw Eli hit the floor.

"Marceline." Hunson said, making Marceline to look from Eli and through the portal at her father. "Uh, I wonder what happened to him. Kids these days, am I right."

"Dude, seriously." Jake said with one eye half closed.

"Dad you, tricked me." Marceline said sounding hurt. Even though Hunson was about forty feet away, Marceline cold still see his wicked smile. "Dad that sucks!"

"I know, I'm sorry. But I thought you'd want to… wanna make your old man and take over the Night'O Sphere."

"Yeah I want you to be proud, I want you to be proud of me."

"No I didn't mean, baby of course I'm proud of you."

"Dad."

"And your friends, they're all right. Anyone who's brave enough to destroy my sandwich and then put on the amulet, is ok in my book."

"Okay, okay, I gotta go Dad." Marceline said before she closed the portal, eliminating the red glow from the room. "Woof, that was a nightmare."

"So, you're alright, then." Eli said as he lay on the floor, twitching ever so slightly. Marceline looked down at him and smiled.

"Eli, let me tell you something. I couldn't see or hear much of anything, but I could see and hear you." Eli's eyes widened and his cheeks turned a bright shade of pink. Marceline shot a glance at Jake, because she knew someone like him would now where she was leading and he did. Jake grabbed Finn and pulled him into the other room to give the two some privacy. "And I'm not going to lie to you Eli, I feel the same way."

"R-really, that's great." Eli said with the biggest smile he could manage, twitching less and less. That made what Marceline had to tell him all the more painful.

"But, even if there's any sparks between us, it could never happen." Eli's smile quickly faded and he looked up at the ceiling as he sighed.

"It's because you're a vampire, isn't it?"

Marceline nodded. "You're a mortal and I'm not. I've made a lot of friends throughout my existence, if they weren't immortal they would just die and turn to dust. Just like Cody, Lewis, Scott, Griffon, Samantha, Zartan, Wendy, Booboo, Gregory, and eventually Finn, Jake, even Bonnie too. And the friends at were immortal are just plain assholes." Eli sat up so he could look straight into Marceline's eyes

"Then turn me into a vampire, make me immortal."

"Eli, I could never do something like that. You're part of an endangered species, why do you think I eat the color red instead of blood."

"Then, can we at least try, for this mortals sake." Marceline smiled and gave Eli his answer as she leaned in for a kiss. It took Eli by surprise, but after a second he relaxed, closed his eyes and began to kiss back.

Once they pulled apart for air, Marceline was the first to speak. "So you're dating a vampire, and out of curiosity, I have to know what's going through your mind right now."

Eli shook his head with small frown. "Only that if my sister makes a Twilight reference, I will take pleasure in hitting her up side her head."

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