Cake walks ahead of Fionna and Marshall Lee with Flare sitting on the top of her head. The vampire walks next to Fionna rambling about the recent party he has crashed, how his mom bothered him when he steps into the Nightosphere and all of his adventures the past week. Fionna only caught up with the first two since her mind wandered off on thinking of Prince Gumball.

Her cheeks turn slightly pink with frustration, but they quickly return to normal when shrieks from nearby are heard. She gasps, "Trouble!"

"Fire!" yells Cake as she morphs into a giant while Fionna hops on her back. "I smell fire Fi...right at that village of goblins! Oh man it's burning bad! Flames everywhere!"

"C'mon we gotta help them," says Fionna in a confident voice. Marshall Lee groans, but stops when a pair of piercing eyes met his. "Find water nearby."

Every foot taken closer made the smell of smoke stronger as well as the heat of the flames. Luckily, Fi and Cake had flame shield on and made their way through the fire while Marshall Lee flew over the flames to fulfill Fionna's command. He spots a lake, "Fi! Lake about less than a mile away!"

She jumps off Cake with Flare in her arms, "Cake can you morph into a walking tub to get the water?"

"Sure thing babe! Hup!" the cat stretches herself out of the flames.

Fi puts Flare down, "I'm going to run around and help anyone who's hurt, you stay put, but when Cake comes back you find shelter!"

"All right!" Flare waves her little paw in the air as she watches the determined hero vanish in the flames. She ponders for a while, "These...flames seem so familiar." A shadow rises over her and she gaped, "Flame Queen! What are you doing here?"

"Teaching my son how to start small when taking over a village, what are you doing here?" the Queen of the Fire Kingdom is anything but merciless and is one of the most evil beings to ever accidentally encounter. Flare began to answer, but Flame Queen holds up her hand, "Say it when you return, now I want you to watch over my son and see to it that he takes over this place, understood?"

"Yes, your majesty," Flare instantly answers as Flame Queen seems to mesh within the flames as she took her leave.

"Oh man...don't tell me, the Prince is causing this?" she remembers the plan of Fionna's. "Oh no, I got to get him out of here or else he'll be extinguished...maybe...for good!" in a panic she runs absent-mindedly, pleading to bump into either Fionna or Prince of the Fire Kingdom.

...

"Thank you...so much," weakly coughs the last of the villagers that Fionna carried out. Everyone else behind him cheers for her and she grins gleefully.

"Happy to help!" she puts her fists on her waist, "Who did this to you?"

The villagers point to the the brightest flame burning. Fi couldn't make out the shape, but seeing that the flames were all linked to that one she knew where Cake should aim. Cake hurriedly, but carefully, comes rushing to the village, stops, and waits for Fionna. Marshall Lee floats down, "Cake's here, where you wanna start?"

Fionna jabs her finger where the villagers' pointed at, "There Cake!"

"NO! FIONNA WAIT!"

"Huh?" a howl of pain makes all heads turn to where the flames used to shine. Cake wouldn't stop, the sound of the water pouring down is too strong, because of her heroic instinct, Fionna rushes over to the victim. She can the silhouette of a boy surrounded by smoke, falling, trembling...

"Fionna, wait!" cries Flare and begins to whimper "Oh no...Flame Queen is gonna extinguish me too!"

Now that she is closer she can see his skin seems to be a faded orange and his hair is a grey-ish red as well as his clothes. The red jewel on his forehead gleams faintly under the night sky. (Use Natasha Allegri's artwork of "Flame Prince" as a visual, I love it:3)

Unconciously, her hand began reaching out to his head, but Flare breaks between her and the boy. "Flame Prince! Flame Prince! Please, answer me!"

Only a groan came from his lips, but it was very weak and quiet...Flare starts to get jittery. "Oh...your mother will kill me..."

"Flame...Prince?" Fi quickly stands up, "So...does that mean he started this?" Her heart settled down.

Flare fidgets by pawing the rocks and sighs, "Yes...well, it isn't his fault, I mean, his mother wanted him to."

"He pretty much burnt down the village," mentions Marshall Lee. "Maybe we should just leave him here to die," he ignores meeting eyes with anyone, "He technically caused it, right?"

Fi turns from Marshall Lee to Flare's face. "Is he...evil?"

"...his mom is," she didn't want to make Marshall Lee's reason more optional to do. Fionna turns her head, "B-But! Maybe he isn't!"

"Huh?"

"I mean, he's not purely evil, I promise that! His mother is influencing him to rule after her, to be as evil as her! Oh man, I'd get ice poured all over me for saying this, but please don't leave him like this!" Flare pleads with teary eyes.

Marshall Lee scoffs a bit and Cake has an uneasy look on her face, knowing that boy is part of causing the chaos. "C'mon Fionna, let's just di-"

"Okay...Fionna says and avoids taking a peek at Flame Prince. "Marshall, can you carry him?"

"Are you mad? He's made of fire."

"He's extinguished right now," explains Flare, "It's fine to carry him as is."

Marshall Lee stoops down to put Flame Prince's arm around his shoulder, "Fi, I hope you're not going to start hanging 'round this guy after this is over."

"I hang around you, don't I?"

"BURN!" yells Cake.

...

Cake laid out a good length of foil for Flame Prince to lie on. Fi sat next to him with her knees up to her chin, watching him, waiting for him to wake up. Marshall Lee left right when he completed his deed and Flare had her own piece of foil to lie on. BMO studies the new face in the tree fort and concludes this, "He's handsome."

Fi puts a hand on Flame Prince's head, "He's freezing!"

Flare stands up quickly, "That's bad! He needs a source of heat!" Cake came from the kitchen with a piece of paper being burnt with fire from the stove. "That should revive him a little."

"What do I do?" asks Cake.

"Let him touch the fire."

Cake hands the burning paper to Fi, "...Fine, I'll do it." She leans forward, reminding herself he is a fire element and would't be burnt. As soon as the flame touched his hand the tip of his hair starts to flicker. His color returns, but his flame is still weak. He didn't move, yet his eyes opened to Fi gazing over him.

His flame grew stronger, not because of the fire Fi held, but because of a new kind of warmth flowing through the prince's body. Fire crackled and their gaze didn't break even after he abruptly sits up.

"That tiny flame was able to heal him?" Flare stared in awe.

Fionna and Flame Prince ignored Flare's exclamation and unknowingly, Fi commences slowly to reach for his face. Instantly, Cake grabs her back, "Fi! You wanna get burnt?!"

Flame Prince gasps and viciously glances at Cake, "You! You poured the water on me!"

"Uh oh," mutters Flare.