Author Note: Here it is ladies and gentlemen, we are getting into the world beyond Ooo, what will we see and find out as Finn continues on with his greatest quest? I can't wait for it myself haha. I enjoy writing for you all and I hope you enjoy the chapter. Also "The Hero & The Bandit" my second Fanfic will be updated a lot more after this chapter of Finn's Souls so feel free to check it out when I release even more chapters! Anyway let's see what Finn will do in the upcoming events. Enjoy reading and I'm looking forward to all your reviews. You all fill me with inspiration and happiness when you review or even read. Well I hope to see all of you lovely readers at the end of this epic journey and inspire some of you as well. You're all lovely readers!
P.S: I wrote a lot of this late at night so sorry for them errors. XD
Finn was surprised when his eyes opened in an wide empty meadow of grass, the sky was pitch black, but there still seemed to be the light of day hitting his face and his surroundings, he let out a sigh as he realized within seconds he was back in a dream realm. "Who is it this time? Francis, Soul Sword, some other cosmic being?" Finn only got a soft chuckle as a reply as a shadowy humanoid silhouette floated in Finn's view with its arms behind its head as if it was relaxing, violet eyes glowing grandly among the shadows. Finn let a small smile cross his face. "Well if it isn't my cryptic ally Francis, what news do you bring this time oh great one?" Finn spoke with a sarcastic attitude that only caused the Element Creator's eyes to scrunch up in annoyance. "Funny Finn, really, classic." Francis began to clap which caused Finn to laugh in surprise at the beings returned sarcasm. "Sorry, I just woke up… kind of. So what's going on? You usually don't visit me unless it's important." Finn got straight to business with a stern expression, he could feel his body tingle in anticipation as Francis spoke.
"You catch on easily, well if you must know in about ten minutes your house and everything inside will be blown to smithereens. I have no idea what you two did last night to sleep through until afternoon in your world, but you won't survive, even with the Soul Sword. You will have to use everything you know and what I taught you." His face turned red at the mention of the heated night before, but Finn's eyes then widened at the mention of what happened in his dream with Soul Sword, his home being destroyed by red lightning, enveloping and killing anyone inside. "Who… Who would do such a thing?" Francis's eyes were emotionless as he replied with little remorse. "You know him as Ash, he has become fully corrupted by an Element Creator, one of the worst one's at that. You see Finn each Element Creator can attune to the aspect of certain individuals, if they do not resist they will be consumed fully by their own malice and be a puppet to the Element Creator. Ash is completely corrupted and wields an Element Creator's weapon…" At the mention of a weapon Francis let out a worried tone as thunder crackled in the distance. "We are running out of time… Fuck." This is the first time Finn had heard the being be in a panic, even if it was slight at best. "Finn listen to me very carefully. You need to use everything in your arsenal to kill this man, he is after you. Use the full extent of you power to prevent a rip in spac-" Francis was cut off as the world flashed white and Finn's eyes popped open in his room Marceline asleep nearby. Finn quickly, yet silently got out of bed causing Marceline to grumble in resistance, but soon faded back into a deep slumber.
Finn climbed quickly down the ladder and ran into the weapon room waking up Finn Sword easily with all the racket he was making. "What's up Finn?" The alternate version of himself said with a worried look. Finn quickly walked over and grabbed him off the weapon rack above the fireplace and let out a soft sigh before gathering his pack and the Soul Sword by the front door when he reached it. He quickly ran outside counting down the time in his head. "Only have five minutes left… I need to hurry!" Finn took a deep breath as this thought crossed his mind, his heart rate increased as he became more anxious. "Ash is about to attack the tree fort to kill me in five minutes, he is a lot stronger now since he has the powers of an Element Creator." Finn Sword was confused by all of this new information, but his expression became serious at the same time, knowing very well that the threat was no joke. Finn held out his right palm towards his home as he held Finn Sword in his left hand. As Finn let out a stressed groan his right arm's skin faded revealing a grassy arm with large thorny spikes across its surface, the arms fingers claw like and incredibly sharp as the grass and earth shifted around Finn's home. After another important minute passed the entire tree fort was incased in a giant cocoon of grassy tendrils. Finn began to pant as he looked at his arm and let out a sigh, clenching his grassy fist tightly to test if the arm was really still his own. Finn still could feel with the arm so he knew he didn't lose control of it thankfully. He shook his head rapidly as he sprinted with incredible endurance far from the protected tree fort. "I am afraid, but I refuse to let that bastard lay even a finger on Marceline or anyone else. I need to protect them, even if it costs my whole body and soul." Finn thought as a cold expression crossed his face, Finn Sword gave Finn a worried look, but he was reassured without any words as a grin crossed Finn's face. The alternate Finn then gave a smile of his own and gave Finn a much needed moral boost. "Let's go get this trash-bag Finn Mertens."
Finn stood in an empty field of grass and rocks, a mile away Finn could see the cocoon around his home, he looked up into the sky, dark ominous storm clouds overhead with constant thunder and lightning crackling and roaring with an undying rage. Finn counted down the time in his head as he duel wielded Finn Sword and the Soul Sword, the chains of the Soul Sword wrapping tightly around his left arm, all the way to his elbow. "five, four, three, two, one… zero." As Finn reached zero on the countdown a bolt of scarlet lightning struck in front of Finn a haunting grin a scarlet red eyes being the first things to appear in Finn's vision as the lightning faded to reveal Ash. "Well, well if it isn't the scumbag that defiled my Mar-Mar." Ash's grin faded to a scowl of jealousy and animalist rage. "He has told me so much, given me so much, and all he asks for this kind of power is for me to kill you! You, the little hero, the pathetic fucking mortal! You have no idea how screwed you all are!" Ash raised the Element Creator's spear a stream of red electricity flowing to the spearhead from the copper covered blades, crackling filling the air with intensity. "Finn we should move." Finn Sword said in a stern manner. Finn nodded before making one last snide remark to start the fight. "We all know Ash that I'm a better man than you, and Marceline would rather die than be with you, so get over yourself you ass!" Ash's face looked hurt for only a second before he let out an animalistic battle cry and pointed the spear towards Finn as a blast of lightning shot out of it, thankfully Finn was prepared and dove out of the way fast enough to see a boulder that was behind him explode into literally hundreds of tiny pebbles. Finn quickly got to his feet and ran at Ash with a glare, slashing horizontally with Finn Sword then leading up with a diagonal slash from the Soul Sword. Ash only smirked as he jumped back a few feet to avoid the first attack and blocking the second with the spear, causing a thunderous clang to fill the air before the wizard slammed his fist into Finn's face, a blast of pressure launching Finn back. Finn's feet dug into the grass as he tried to stay on his feet after he was knocked away a few meters. "Do you like my magic? I'm not the weak wizard from years ago. I am above all of those fools in Wizard City now!" Ash spoke with the look of a mad man as he twirled the spear swiftly causing after images to appear before he pointed the tip at Finn sending a continuous ark of red lightning at the human, Finn hesitated in surprise before he began to ran, barely avoiding the arcs as he dashed in an arch around the crazed wizard before biting his lip as time slowed for his thoughts. "I need to make a move or else I will die here at this very moment! That weapon alone is putting me in a tough spot." Time speed up to reality as Finn passed a boulder, rolling quickly under the lightning as he ran out from the other side of the boulder. Finn dragged the Soul Sword into the ground behind him tearing into earth and creating a fissure of cracked rock and grass covered dirt as he made a B-line towards Ash.
Ash smirked and stood in a guarding position as he prepared to block Finn's obvious attack. Finn knew he had a chance at this point. "He may be stronger and crazier than before, but he is still a dingus!" Finn slashed the Soul Sword upward out of the ground the runes glowing brightly blue as a sharp blade of cracked earth shot out towards the wizard with several other sharp rock shrapnel. Ash's eyes shot open with surprise as his mouth hung agape, time slowing between the two as the blade grew inches from Ash's face. Suddenly time stopped with Finn's heart as he saw a smirk cross the wizards face. "That's close enough." The wizard stated in an amused tone before his entire form zapped out of existence turning into a stream of lightning streaming down the rock towards Finn like a snake ready to strike. Finn couldn't believe his eyes as Ash's body reformed from the lightning, preparing to stab Finn in the gut with the Element creators spear Suddenly the Finn Sword came up Finn's vision parrying the spear before Finn reacted to the moment by smashing the Soul Sword into the ground below forcing Ash to jump away as the earth cracked and lifted below him. Finn looked at the Finn Sword in his grass arm seeing his alternate self in the sword with a barbaric scowl and luminescent grass green eyes, as grass tendrils surrounded him, the blue orb starting to radiate a green hue. "Finn Sword, don't let it control you!" Finn exclaimed in fear of his other self being consumed by the Grass Sword's curse. Ash looked on before laughing out in ecstasy. "Looks like your sword is breaking both physically and mentally! How pitiful!" Ash laughed until suddenly Finn ran forward with a battle cry of his own slashing with both Finn Sword and Soul Sword, the force of his attacks causing the earth below them to crack and crater inward well particles and small rocks where blown away. "This must be because of Finn Sword and Soul Sword both increasing my physical strength." Finn thought as he continued his attack, noticing the destruction he caused. Ash blocked all the attacks with a strained expression on his face his death gritted before he parried a vertical slam from both swords and slamming a kick into the side of Finn's stomach and sending him flying causing his body to bash against a large boulder with a blood curdling crack filling the air. Finn fell off the rock his eyes beginning to glaze over as he coughed up blood, his vision blurry as blood dripped from his side, a wound formed from the blunt trauma of the kick.
He let out a chilling cry of pain when the feeling of broken bones and normally fatal injuries coursed into his system. "Fuck! It hurts so much!" Finn screamed as he slid his pack off, his hands quivering as he noticed Ash approach him. "Good, because I'm going to make you suffer for a little longer." Ash smirked as he drove his spear into Finn's left hand, splitting it open and disintegrating bone easily. Causing Finn to cry out in agony until his voice was hoarse. Ash laughed like in enjoyment like a sadist as he twisted the spear in Finn's arm, completely unsuspecting of the sharp thorny grass tendrils behind him. The tendrils flew in for the kill with a hiss of movement. Ash twisted around too late, getting stabbed in the chest before his form changed again and he zapped to normal on top of a dumb looking rock. "What the fuck!" Ash stated as he held his wound, that was serious, but not fatal. Finn's eyes were glazed over, dried blood all over his clothes and mouth as he sat on his knees his grass arm pointing the Finn Sword at Ash, the spherical orb now had a yellow eye with a black slit for a pupil inside it as the edges still radiated a green glow. The Soul Sword in Finn's other hand was wrapping completely around Finn's arm, going past his elbow and up to his shoulder, the atmosphere seeming to change and fill with pressure as Ash stared in disbelief as the grass around Finn bounded his wounds and stopped bleeding well a grassy tendril slithered into the hero's bag. It removed a red vial and managed remove the cork as it began to pour the vial's contents into the obviously unconscious hero's mouth. "I won't let you heal him you fucking freak show of a plant!" Ash screamed in distaste as he recognized Ron's creation. Ash charged his spear as an obsidian necklace of a runic symbol fell out of his black full body suit. Ash shot a blast of titanic blast of lightning at the healing hero grinning as he anticipated to see only a pile of ash in his wake. His hopes were crushed when a wall of thorny tendrils absorbed the blast, a flower bud spun out of the center tendril and opened, revealing a beautiful flower with four blue buds and a green center. Ash was confused until he saw a blast of light shoot out at him, which he managed to barely avoid as the beam melted through all it touched before the flower wilted. "So you can absorb my attacks and use the energy against me huh you fucking plant?" Ash's expression grew with even more rage as he unleashed a barrage of lightning as the Grass Sword was the new opponent of the wizard as Finn's wounds and bones healed spontaneously.
Finn was lying in a field of grass again, but this grass was overgrown around him, and flowed in the wind. "Am I dead?" Finn asked with a trace of fear and dejection in his voice. Finn received an answer from an ominous deep toned voiced. "No child, you're just in my mind scape well we heal you and protect you from the foolish parasite." Finn sat up and turned his head to see a grass and moss covered giant being with an octopus like head and two yellow eyes with black slits encased in a mountain covered with grass and other kinds of foliage. Finn felt even more fear and even caution fill his being as he gazed at the giant. "I am the embodiment of the Grass Curse. You have gained much loyalty from my spawn…" The being stated telepathically in its deep tone as Grass Sword shot out of the grass and floated next to Finn, whistling sharply. Finn gazed at the weapon in disbelief, he had gained the most unpredictable weapon's loyalty? "I see… So why even bother to protect me, why not fully consume Finn Sword and me when we both know you could?" The being let out an amused laugh, which sent shivers down Finn's back as he locked eyes with the being initiating it to speak again. "Your soul has already melded with my spawn and defy fate itself with that…thing?" The being asked questioningly as Finn noticed Soul Sword in his left hand. He was unsure how he didn't see or feel it until now, but he could feel the power flowing from it. "I stops us from corrupting you, which has caused my spawn to grown akin to you and your cause. I wish to help my child with this one gift, the power of grass itself. When you awaken, wield my spawn and fight as one with that sinful weapon of yours and break the other sinful weapon that the parasite wields. I will enjoy the look of terror that crosses his face." The being let out a choirs of laughter and whistles before Finn looked at both the Grass Sword and Soul Sword. Finn reached for the Grass Sword, hesitating before gripping it tightly, the world blindly turning white.
Finn opened his eyes as rain bombarded the real world around him, he could see craters and destroyed terrain, making it look like a war had occurred at his feet. He stood up, his body still aching with pain as blades of grass fell off his body. His wounds were completely healed, leaving only a temporary scar on his hand and side of his stomach. Ash was panting a few meters away, his necklace crumbling as he returned to normal from changing into electricity for the fiftieth time to avoid death. "You really are a fucking freak." He said as his eyes began to glow slightly, he held the spear as if preparing to throw it, thunder and lightning blasting in the clouds above in a beautiful display of colors as they formed in the center above Ash to blast a large amount of lightning into him and the spear, causing the entire spear to turn into scarlet red energy. "With my ace attack I will destroy you and blow that whore to smithereens as well! I won't die thanks to my magic and potions, enjoy the afterlife Finn!" He laughed as he threw the spear, a blast of sound of a thousand lightning cracks filled the air as the spear glided at Finn, time seeming to slow as he threw the Finn Sword high into the air, forming the Grass Sword in his grass arm before he slammed the cursed blade against the spear head, catching it and managing to stop it even though the blade of grass seemed fragile. The force of the impact caused Finn to convulse for a few seconds and be pushed back as he was electrocuted. "Definitely a lot more electricity than I'm immune too, but this is my chance!" Finn thought as he slammed the red metal plated blade of the Soul Sword down on the energized shaft of the spear. Causing it to crack as the runes on the Soul Sword turned red again. The energy dissipated from the spear as Finn was able to resist the force pushing against him and hold his footing and stance. Finn began to pan as he repeatedly struck the weapon, cracking the spear further causing Ash to scream out in anger and horror at Finn, but Finn didn't care, it was already done. The Spear broke in half with one final stroke of the Soul Sword as it erased the energy the spear gathered from existence. The spear fell to the ground with a thud. Finn stared down at it in exhaustion feeling victory in his hand.
This feeling was taken away when Finn felt a sharp pain as he was hit by blasts of magic from an enraged and panicking Ash. "You fucking mortal, I will kill you for damaging the Fulgur Spear!" Ash laughed as the last string of sanity he had snapped as he blasted Finn with his strongest spell, a bomb of flesh eating magic that created a cloud of blinding magic light. "You like being dead you piece of shit! You mortals are all the same you all deserve to be consumed by the Element Creators! You and that whor-ackk!" Ash's voice turned into a gurgle as his body lurched. The magic faded away to reveal the Finn Sword stabbed through Ash's abdomen, a phantom white aura sizzling around the Finn Sword as Finn's alternate self smirked at the insane wizard. Finn's left arm was surrounded by the phantom psychic arm as the dust cleared, an icy expression and pitying stare meeting Ash's expression of horror and agony. The Grass Sword shot out of Finn's Arm, surrounded by the white aura now as Finn guided the blade of grass into the Wizard's heart, causing it to explode in his chest cavity from the force of the impact. Ash bled from every hole in his head, falling to his knees as he looked up in complete shock at Finn. "Enjoy rotting in hell. This is what you get for threating my woman, hurting her and abusing her, and calling her a whore. You piece of fucking trash!" Finn with all the rage he could muster decapitated the wizard with the Soul Sword, his head disintegrating ironically into ash as his corpse was devoured by a pair of knife like grass jaws after he removed the Finn Sword. What was left was the Grass Sword, extended into a curved sword with a serrated edge of sharp thorns. The new form of Grass Sword slithered into Finn's arm before the skin re-appeared on his grass arm. He shivered in discomfort as he gathered his things and began to repair the land absorbed by the battle. He felt satisfaction, yet pity towards Ash. Finn honestly hated taking lives, but he was not afraid to do it if the safety of Ooo was at risk. He was also confused at the entry of a new being into the fold. Finn honestly could not tell what was going on anymore, but he shook his head and put it behind him. "I need to remain strong and stable for everyone, I need to stop these fucking monsters from destroying us all." Finn said as he picked up the remains of the Fulgur Spear. The weapon of an Element Creator. He then looked up to see the cocoon fade from his home as the clouds parted for rays of sunlight to shine down on Finn. This lifted Finn's spirits as he looked on to the future, knowing he could do something to prevent the worst outcome and the pain of fate.
End Note: Well there we go, that took me awhile, but I enjoyed writing that action filled chapter. So much stuff and I probably made my usual errors hahaha. Its late though. Anyway I have something important to say. I will be using the rest of my free time to write chapters for my other fanfic "The Hero & The Bandit" since it only has one chapter. I can't wait to see all your reviews and reactions. *Smiles in joy.* Well I hope everyone has happy holidays and a wonderful day. Your all lovely readers!
