"NO!" Fionna digs her sword into the ground, "I won't!"
"Oh? I thought you were the most evil like your servant said?" says Flame Queen with growing impatience.
"I-I-"
"If you aren't, then you are not suitable for my so-"
A fireball hits her cheek only leaving a small scratch. She furiously looks down on the direction it was thrown tracing back to her son who is glaring at her immensely with anger. He grits his teeth, "The match is over..." he keeps his arms up in case of a sudden attack.
Fi slowly wraps her fingers around her sword handle while Cake keeps still, hoping to not make one move that would get her involved with the rising tension between the mother and son. The crowd even hushed and sat still as statues. Flare burped.
Flame Queen packs a huge fireball in a quick second and hurdles it at Flame Prince. He uses his flames to recede himself and transfers to the back of his mother to shoot back a dozen more fireballs which only made dents against her metal dress. If he aims at her head it would only leave scratches like the last one since his flames can be absorbed by hers. Plus, he can't keep throwing his flames for they won't even pierce through her armor. Fighting fire against fire is a method that is not working for him for the time being, especially if one flame is stronger than the other. Distracted in making a plan his mother forms her own fireball and hurls it straight at his chest. It nearly knocks the life out of him as he crashes into the weapon rack.
Cake jumps for aid and Fi sprints towards him, sword in her hand, "Flame Prince!"
He groans, sees his mother approaching and grabs the handle of a spiked club. He blindly begins throwing all the weapons he can grab at the direction of her. All of them seemed to bounce off her armor. She stands right in front of him. Unable to move, he lowers his head in shame.
Noodle arms wrap around Flame Queen and pull her back as Fionna lets out a war cry wielding her sword. However, she winces from the blow she took earlier and does a clumsy hit against the armor. Flame Queen breaks through Cake's hold and starts to shoot fire at Fionna through her fingers. Flame Prince immediately dashes in front and absorbs all of his mother's flames.
All that pulsed through the fire is anger.
"Flame Prince, stop this!" demands his mother.
"YOU STOP THIS!" yells Flame Prince at the top of his lungs to overpower her voice.
"If you can't find the perfect bride you can't be a true-"
"RULER?!" he clenches his fists, "I WOULD RATHER NOT BE PRINCE OF THIS PUTRID KINGDOM IF I HAVE TO SPEND THE REST OF MY LIFE DOWN HERE! HIDDEN! SECLUDED! ALONE AND CONTROLLED BY THOUGHTS THAT AREN'T EVEN MINE!" He takes a breather, "And...I hate being considered evil..." he takes another deep breath, "Since..." his voice grew shaky, "I'm not."
The crowd in the whole arena gasps, Flare stood with her mouth open, the three girls who were supposedly knocked out on the ground sat up with awe and Flame Queen couldn't say one thing. Someone farted. She shot a flame at him, but still kept her silence.
Flame Prince felt his heart tug. He has deeply disappointed his mother, avoids to even look at her, and faces Fionna. She also didn't know what to say, but took his hand and squeezed it gently. She cracks a tiny smile and he does so as he felt the spark of happiness he felt when he first saw her come back to life. The fact that he has broken his mother's heart did not matter to him anymore...is that evil?
He begins to pull her arm and starts heading to the exit of the arena. All the spectators still stayed silent. Even Cake didn't say anything as she hops to the couple's side. Flare hurries along with them to avoid making a conversation with Flame Queen and the four just keep walking without talking.
...
As the night light touches Cake and Fionna their flame shield wore off, but Fi forgot and kept gripping on Flame Prince's hand. Until she smelt something burning she starts jumping around screaming, "HOT! HOT! HOT!" Freaking out Cake spits on it and Flare tried joining in, but Flame Prince held her back. After Fionna's hand cooled down she wipes it on Cake's fur to get the slobber out. "Did you brush your teeth?!"
"...Maybe."
Flame Prince laughs and continues to carry Flare in his arms, "Hey sweetie, you okay with what just happened back there?" The two girls stare at her, "What?! C'mon! We can't ignore what happened didn't hap!"
"Me burning my hand and Cake spitting on it?"
"No! Ya know what I'm talking 'bout," Flare turns to look up at Flame Prince, "This means you aren't part of the kingdom anymore. You can't return home!"
He stares at her with a blank face, "That might be true, but that place never felt like home."
"But what about your mother?!"
He stays silent.
"And...this means...you can't rule the Fire Kingdom!"
He trails away and says silently, "It's selfish...I know, but I already resigned myself from being a prince, I never even wanted to be one." He really couldn't find his words to argue with Flare. All he knows is what he is doing is selfish in order to be with whom he loves. "It's worth it."
"Aw man, neither you and I can go back there..."
The four continue walking in awkward silence listening to the grass crunch under their feet. Somehow Cake found a rhythm in their walking and starts to beat-box and Fi begins whistling some random tune off her head. She peeks at Flame Prince hoping someone will start singing a verse, but he kept staring down at his feet with his head hanging slightly low. Without any luck of someone breaking out into song Fi makes her whistling quieter. Flame Prince notices and walks closer to her, "Whistle louder."
"Why?"
"I like the music you and Cake make," he replies with a genuine smile.
She blushes and tries to continue whistling, but for the first minute she was too nervous to produce any sound, just air until she got her groove back. Cake's beat-boxing became weaker for she grew weary instead she tells Fi to take over, "I got a song to sing!" [I'm sure everyone knows this, I love this song, and my best friend recently got me a shirt from Cali with Jake cooking them]
"Bacon pancakes makin' bacon pancakes! Put some bacon and I'll put it in a pancake! Bacon pancakes that's what we're gonna make bacon pancakes!" she keeps repeating the verse until her stomach growled, "Aw...I know what I'll have when I get home!"
"Bacon pancakes?"
"Nope! Sausage!"
Fi snorts and looks at Flame Prince. She whistles nonchalantly as she inches closer to his side, "So...you still going to stay in that cave? I-I mean maybe we can find you a-a different place to stay in."
"A different venue?" Flame Prince ponders and stares at the stars. "I don't know, I'm content with the cave. Rock can't burn."
"Yeah...but don't you have trouble sleeping?"
"Not if I think of you before I do."
Immediately, Fi's face turns as bright as an apple with her face furiously burning. "Uhm, uhm! G-Glad you sleep comfortably!" she says in a high squeaky voice and then giggles.
"What were you gonna ask him?" questions Cake with a brow stuck in the air.
"Uhm...nothing! I just thought-well...nothing! It's stupid!"
"You were gonna ask him to stay over!" Flare lets out uncontrollable laughter. "He still fire! He gonna burn the place down!"
Flame Prince gazes at Fionna's pouting face as she puffed her cheeks up and furrows her eyebrows. He thought to himself how cute that face is. "Well, we're here," he says awkwardly as they approach the tree fort. He turns at her and spots the immediate disappointment cloaking her face. He lightly kisses her forehead, "Heh."
"W-What?" the kiss and his chuckle surprised her and made her completely nervous that she pulled on both of her bunny ears.
"I left a small black mark on your forehead."
"EH?" she begins trying to rub it out making him laugh harder. "Aw c'mon! You're starting to tease me like Marshall!"
Cake joins in the laughter, "Is it permanent?! If it is that's hilarious!"
"Haha! That way he doesn't have to give you any hick-" Cake stops her with a harsh glare.
Fi's brain went overload with impure thoughts as her face, already seeming to be lit on fire, turns pure deep red. Flame Prince's flame tremendously flickered as he looks the opposite way from Fionna.
Her speech became really garbled as she struggles to say, "Good night." Instead it sounded more like, "G-Gui-Gwo-Gya NOIT!" She didn't wait for a response for she sprints right back into her tree fort.
"LOOK WHAT YOU DID!" yells Cake. "YOU TAINTED HER MIND! TAINTED!"
"S-Sorry," apologizes Flare. Secretly, she found Fi's reaction pretty funny, "All right Flame Prince let's go."
"Ah, but I didn't say good night to her," he gets ready to open the door, but Cake stops him.
"WHOA WHOA! You can see her tomorrow hot stuff!" she walks back into the tree fort, but before closing the door she turns around to say, "You and Fionna did great today."
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[I'm sorry guys it's short, but I wanted to put something up after a long time of not updating. Funny thing is I started cramming in the last few days on two major final projects I thought were due dis week...Its actually due next week...So this is what I got so far, sorry for huge delay I hope you enjoy it I'll still cont writing, but there will most likely be huge gaps]