Chapter 25: One Day's Enough

"Let's get this madness past us," says Gumball as he began turning on his machine. He grabs the helmet while Marshall pushes the doused Prince on the chair.

The ice already melted away but luckily Flame Prince is too weak to recharge himself. He glares at Marshall who decided to crack a pun, "Dude, chill out."

Cake was the only one who laughed.

Fi rolls her eyes as the helmet is placed on Flame Prince. "You sure this will work?" she asks with concern.

"Yeah, Marshall was my guinea pig," responds Gumball. He clears his throat when Marshall furrowed his eyebrows at him and turned away. "It is supposed to show the most precious memory in their life." They then wait for the machine to produce an image. "Fionna…" she looks at him. His eyes are filled with worry, "If…if he remembers nothing, I'm sorry."

Fi nods with a slight smile and Cake places her hand on her shoulder, "I'm sure he's in there somewhere."

The screen crackled.

Everyone stared into it with anticipation. Even Flame Prince is managing to tilt his head to take a peek at what is in his head.

The screen dimmed and then turned black.

Fi bit her lip and looked away. Marshall and Gumball exchange looks and then stare at her with guilt. They have done the best they could do.

Now what?

A gasp escapes her mouth when she saw the screen begin crackling again. An image is produced. "Huh?"

She sees herself.

(insert lover's quarrel)

"Whoa!" hoots Marshall. "Fionna takes the lead!"

Fi ignores his comment and continues watching with confusion.

(insert almost kiss)

"This…just happened today when you guys were going to the Ice Queen."

Gumball places a hand on her shoulder with an enthusiastic grin, "Don't you see? This is his most precious memory!"

"But…what about the rest? Before all this?"

His grin disappeared and he slid his hand off, "I'm sorry Fionna, but I guess that part is gone."

"Sweetie," Cake shrinks tiny and whispers into Fi's ear, "It's okay, you know why?"

"Why?" she sniffles.

"You're precious to him still."

Everyone's glance now turned to Flame Prince, to their surprise he had flicked his head away from the screen and stayed silent. "Flame Prince?" concerned, Fionna walked around to look at his face.

He stubbornly avoided eye contact with her.

However, she saw how flushed his face is.

In the background Gumball is talking to Cake about retrieving Flame Prince's memory from Death. Marshall is actually telling Fionna something, but her eyes and mind are focused on how adorable Flame Prince is.

"All right, I'll get Peppermint Waitress," Gumball finished talking and then turns to her, "Fio-"

In an instant she held Flame Prince's warm, wet cheeks and crashed her lips into his.

Flame Prince's eyes widen, but as if he is used to this, he closes his eyes and responds to the kiss. Her lips felt just as he imagined: soft, warm, and tender. He let the warmth sink in…

Fi jumps back when she felt an immediate spark between their lips and sees Flame Prince back in his normal state.

Still dazed by what happened everyone else in the room didn't move. When Gumball finally realized Flame Prince is capable of attacking he panics, looks around the room and holds up a spray bottle.

Marshall just whistles, "…Like I said, taking the lead."

Flame Prince ignored everyone around him. He kept staring into Fionna's eyes, "S-So...we dated?

"Yeah?"

"And we..." he blushed and blinked at the wall. "A-And...we kissed?"

Now Fi blushed and stared at the same wall, "Y-Yeah! We did..."

Marshall, Gumball and Cake just stared at the couple's awkward silence.

"That wall's beautiful, no?" asks Marshall.

"Uhm, Flame Prince," Gumball raised his empty hand to wave at Fi and FP. "Whose side are you on?" he raises the spray bottle for caution which FP snickered at.

"Get my memories back and we'll see."

...

"Are you sure you guys can get along while we're gone?" asks Fionna with one brow cocked in the air. She especially stared at Marshall.

"Pfft, yeah yeah no problem, we can all get real chummy again," he says with a forced smile.

Peppermint Waitress waves her arms, "C'mon you two! The portal is open!"

Cake rubs her eyes after crossing them. "All right! Let's go get his memories!"

Before Fionna could put her foot inside the portal she felt heat around her arm. She turned to see that Flame Prince was just about to grab her arm. He quickly moved it and began awkwardly scratching his head. "Uhm...good luck...I guess."

A raspy annoyed voice crept behind him, "Good luck getting out."

Flame Prince felt something ghostly push through his body leaving him cold as Fi and Cake find themselves thrown through the portal. The bony hands...the voice.

"LICH!"

(I know the water from the River of Forgetfulness is supposed to make the one who drank from it forget everything such as who they are and such. However, my theory for this story would be smaller doses would wipe out recent memories. In Adventure Time we all saw Jake take huge gulps of it; I am also making chapter edits b/c everything is pretty much happening quickly. I mean I realized FP got taken over by Lich in one night and the next day all of this happens. So you will see little edits such as "Three days later" back in the previous chapters; I will probably go back and do updates. Thank you for the reviews, favorites and everything.

And I didn't proofread this chapter so it's probably...bad.

Sorry that this is pretty short...I'm...as you can tell really lazy. I tried to wrap everything up in one chapter, but I'll just end it here and start another one. Maybe it'll be the last, maybe not. We'll see;)

And now that I think about maybe I'll do a Halloween special too since it is my favorite holiday:D

-Mik