Flame Prince laid flat on his back deep in the den of the flame lions. He decided he would try and sleep the day off because yesterday was probably the most tiring he ever had. He sometimes wished he could take back what he said, but then he doesn't feel absolute regret of saying it, just making his mother sad. Hurt. Pain. Did she even feel those things when he said it? Was she only just surprised? Too stunned to say anything? No, she must be furious. She must be literally burning inside with rage. Hopefully her angry flames won't stretch out towards him or Fionna any longer.

So tiring...he stayed in his cave for two days.

Finally, he turns his head to the left to see if Flare is still asleep. Slowly, he began to creep out of the cave to avoid waking her for he did not want her nagging about what happened yesterday. He lets his head swing back and forth while he stared at his feet avoiding stepping on any sleeping flame cubs. When he did lift his head he came nose to nose with Marshall Lee who jumps back hoping they didn't make skin contact. "WHOA!" he covered his nose and then looked at Flame Prince, "Dude, you look terrible."

"...Thanks," he groans. "Aren't you not a morning person?"

"I don't visit you every morning," replies Marshall while spinning his umbrella. "Fi in there? I checked out her fort, but she ain't there."

"...No."

"Got any plans?"

"...No."

"Let's go to the Candy Kingdom, she might be there with Gumball," he offers as he starts heading towards the kingdom's direction.

"Why would she be with...him?" even though he had no hard feelings over Gumball he still felt the burning sensation inside whenever he thought of those two together. Yet...she assured him that night out on the balcony that they were just close friends.

"What you say bro? I wasn't listening," asks Marshall as he swoops down by Flame Prince.

"Uhm...how close are Fionna and Gumball?" he feels embarrassed just asking about them.

Marshall looks the other way to hide his mischievous smile and replies, "Oh...didn't Fi tell you? Gumball is sort of her...ex."

"Ex?"

"Ex-boyfriend, it means she dated him and then they broke up," explains the vampire. "Oh, man, she was head over heels for him before."

"...Before," mutters Flame Prince as his eyebrows furrowed. This means...she loved him first. He had her first. Flame Prince's lips shuddered as he asked, "Did...they kiss?"

This time the vampire hesitated whether to answer his question or not. He didn't really know the details since Fi refused telling him anything that would give him a reason to tease her. "Uh...sure, yeah they did."

"...Oh," is the prince's response. "So...why would she still visit him?" He began taking smaller steps for he is starting to want to head back to the cave.

"Sometimes she helps Gumwad with experiments like we do sometimes. It's no biggie man I'm just pulling your leg," assures Marshall.

He can feel it.

Jealousy.

"Uhm...Marshall, I'll come by again later...I er...forgot my aluminum boots," he can feel his stomach twist uneasily as he turns back.

"Huh? Uh...'kay dude."

Flame Prince didn't want to go back to the cave, he wanted to shoot fireballs at something to get envy out of his mind and heart. It was already twisting his heart as if it was piercing him with needles. He couldn't get the thought of Gumball and Fionna kissing. Her face blushing at Gumball and not him. Her embarrassed actions towards Gumball and not him. Knowing that he wasn't her first love hurt him. She is his first love...

What hurt the most is knowing that her lips have already been touched by those that are not his.

It hurt.

Worse, it made him angry.

He is tempted to shoot down everything in his path, but controls it. The hardest part is keeping his emotions in tact while walking for if he lets them burst out he would leave a fiery path. He puts his hand on a tree accidentally setting it on fire. It hit him that he forgot his aluminum gloves back in the Fire Kingdom. The fire climbed to the leaves and began spreading to the other tree tops. He began a forest fire. Cursing silently under his breath he tries killing it with a stronger fire bursting from his hands. He twitches when he hears a piercing scream behind him.

"THE MONSTER!" he turns and sees a goblin.

Flame Prince pauses and reaches out a hand, "Wait I-!"

The goblin screams again, runs, trips and continues to sprint away from Flame Prince. He suddenly realizes that is one of the goblins he terrorized when he burned down their village. He looks at the burning trees and then the direction where the goblin ran. He grits his teeth and continues to kill the weak fire which continued spreading from tree to tree. No matter how strong his fire is he couldn't control the sparks that flew and lit other trees. Frustrated he transforms into his fiery demonic looking form and starts shooting out flames and puts out all the fire he set off. He caught himself laughing maniacal and evilly, so he stops right when the fire was out and returns to normal. He sees the trees that have already turned to soot and the burnt bark and leaves.

"Least...the fire is out." He rubs his head knowing the sensation he felt earlier is the same as when he was burning down the village.

"THERE HE IS!" the familiar goblin voice.

"WHERE?!"

"WHERE IS THE MONSTER WHO BURNED DOWN OUR VILLAGE?!"

Voices accompanying him. Growing closer. He uses his heat sense and felt the warmth of more than a hundred villagers. He remembers how he left them crying, hurt, in pain, burnt, coughing, sick and scarred. He remembers how evil he was. He is a monster carved in their hearts. He prepares to run, but hears their cries and starts sprinting to their direction and gets hit with a nostalgic chill. Lowering his arm he is surprised to see all the villagers frozen in gigantic ice. Immediately, he reaches out to melt the ice, but someone grabs him. It's cold.

"Ice Q-Queen," he stutters from the freezing touch.

"Hey hottie, guess it's just me and you now," she chimes happily. Flame Prince snatches his hand out of hers and gets ready to lay it on an ice block trapping the goblin who ran away from him. He pauses as she says, "Flame Prince, you really want to save them? When you chip them out of there they will come after you."

"They'll die if I don't."

"You'll die if you do."

He stares at the goblin's frozen frightened face which still twitched at the sight of Flame Prince. He furrows his eyebrows.

"C'mon, let's go before tomboy gets here," offers Ice Queen with her hand out.

He reaches out to her...and releases a huge fireball that blasted her out of his sight. He doesn't know where he aimed, he doesn't care, as long as she's as far from his as possible.

"Who's the monster now?" he asks himself while staring down at the goblin who is letting out fearful muffled sobs through the ice.

The ice hurt. It really hurt badly on his hand as he laid it on top of the ice. He emits small bursts of heat to make the ice start melting. The goblin gasped for air and continued to scream. He stops noticing Flame Prince holding his hand which turned grey. "W-Why?" he asks.

Flame Prince responds, "So I can at least feel the pain I caused you guys." He grunts and his hand bursts into flames, "Plus...it's where I met her."

...

"AND THAT IS HOW YOU MAKE THE PERFECT CHERRY DOUGHNUT!" exclaims Gumball as he held out the pastry he's been working on for two straight days. Marshall Lee slurps up the red of the cream on the doughnut. Gumball stares at his grey creation, slowly puts it on the table, takes off his glasses, sighs and gets ready to toss a glass plate.

"BRING IT ON PINKIE!" yells Marshall.

Fionna laughs as Cake gulped down the rest of the doughnut and Marshall chases after Gumball. "Oh, man! That's a good doughnut! Mm mm mm!" exclaims Cake. Fi snorts, but everyone pauses as they hear a scream come closer and closer.

BAM

Ice Queen flew through the window, crashed against the wall and laid there looking lost. Her hair is slightly burnt as well as her dress and Cake quickly grabs her crown off her head to avoid the risk of ice getting shot at them. She placed it on her head as Fi asks with her sword drawn out, "What do you want Ice Queen?!"

The powerless queen ignores her question and slurs, "Your...boyfriend likes playing hard to get. Geez! I save him and he blasts me to...out there!"

"Flame Prince? What you do to him Ice Queen? Tell me or Cake will...ice you!"

"WAZZAM!" threatens Cake with her arms out.

"Okay! Okay! Geez! I froze these guys chasing after him and he just pushed me away! I saved him and he does that?! What a jerk boyfriend you have! Then again...playing hard to get is hot," she lunges at Cake, grabs her crown and before jumping out the window blows a kiss at Gumball. "I'll come for you when I'm in the mood sweetheart."

"Ugh, gross," Cake fake barfs as Fi runs at the edge of the castle to see where Ice Queen is heading.

"Marshall, I thought you said he was just getting his boots."

"Maybe he wanted to fool 'round with Ice Queen," teases Marshall.

Fi responds by punching his arm hard, "Quit it! There are people frozen!"

"Chill, chill, you know Flame Prince, since he's all good and mushy like you he'll probably thaw them out. Hell, he probably is already done by now," assures Marshall.

"I think we can leave this in Flame Prince's hands," says Cake as she relaxes by rolling on the floor.

"Y-You sure? You're just saying that 'cause your lazy..."

"If he has great control in his powers I'm sure he's fine Fionna," says Gumball. He stares at the hole Ice Queen left, "...I need to move my lab."

"Well...okay," Fi turns around and gasps when she almost smacks into Flame Prince. "What the hay?! Flame Prince!" she jumps up to tackle him down.

When she jumped everything seemed to go into slow motion. Flame Prince is leaning back, Cake stretching her arms to grab Fi's waist, Gumball reaching out to grab her arm, Marshall Lee adjusting his umbrella and Peppermint Waitress waving from outside the hole. Gumball was able to grab Fionna first and accidentally pulled her arm too hard she ends up falling on top of his chest. Cake had to clamp her paw over her mouth to let out an "OOH!" Marshall gets ready to laugh, but Cake uses her other paw to shut him up. Fionna intensely blushes as she struggles to push herself off Gumball who is quite dazed of what happened since he hit his head on the floor.

"S-SORRY FLAME PRINCE IT WAS AN ACCIDENT!" yells Fionna while violently waving her arms.

"Oh, no, it's fine," he says with a smile.

"A-Are you sure?"

"Yeah."

"FP...you're burning the floor..." mentions Marshall.

"WHERE YOUR BOOTS?!" asks Cake.

"Well, I really have forgotten the matter of getting my boots after releasing goblin villagers from their frozen chambers and went straight inside the castle. I saw that if I had control over negative emotions I can easily walk on the floor without burning it."

"Oh! You're feeling negative stuff 'cause you saw all that junk!" exclaims Cake and the flames surrounding Flame Prince's feet increased.

"STOP TALKING CAKE!" yells Fionna. "Flame Prince," she touches his hands unconsciously and realizes how cold they were as well as doused. Immediately, the flames dispersed and replaced with ashes as she squeezes his freezing hands and holds them with hers to transfer warmth. Suddenly, they were bright and orange again, "You're hands are hot again!" she exclaims happily. "THEY'RE HOT AGAIN!"

"LET GO FOOL!" yells Cake as Flame Prince releases her hands. "LEMME SPIT ON THEM!"

"I CAN SPIT ON THEM MYSELF!"

"ALLOW ME!"

"NO CAKE IT'S FINE!" Fi waves her hands rapidly in the air away from Cake who is desperately aiming her spit at her. Marshall couldn't stop laughing as Gumball finally stood up.

While everyone is distracted he nonchalantly walks over to Flame Prince. The stubborn prince refused to meet his "enemy" in the eye, but didn't move away when Gumball approached him. "Sorry, about what happened earlier," apologizes Gumball. "I didn't mean for her to-"

"It's fine," interrupts Flame Prince. "Uhm...choose your words carefully or your floor will burn again."

"Oh! Uh-"

"Did you and Fionna date?" he asks straight out.

"What?!"

"Marshall Lee told me you two used to date and that you were her...'ex-boyfriend.'"

"What?!" Gumball quickly shoots a glare at Marshall. The vampire didn't notice, he is still laughing at Fi's burnt hands. "No! No! We were not dating! Just friends! Always friends."

"But...she loved you first. You must be really lucky."

Gumball sighs, "And she loves you now. So the lucky is really you Flame Prince."

Flame Prince's face heats up and floor began to burn once more. "Gumwad did you make him angry again?!" exclaims Marshall. "Dude listen to my voice and it will calm you down."

Cake pushes him away, "No! Give him Fi and he'll calm down!" She pushes Fi to stand right in front of Flame Prince, "Give him a kiss on the cheek or something!"

"W-What?! Cake!"

Flame Prince stares down at Fionna's face and continued thinking of what Gumball told him. He is lucky. She loves him. The heat on his cheeks matched the same temperature as the flames among his feet.

Outside the castle the candy people can already see flames engulfing one part of the building and different people yelling.

"GET FIONNA AWAY! GET FIONNA AWAY!"

"MY LAB!"

"FLAME PRINCE WHAT'S WRONG?!"

The only sound that stuck out from the yelling is someone laughing his head off.