Hey guys, back for round two! First off, s/o to the first follower of the story, adventureNowAndThen. Meant a lot to get a response that quick. Anyways, something I may have mentioned last time, I have only a part of this written already, so hopefully I can space out what I have already to make it easy to read and keep up on updates while writing and such. I lied when I said I'll only say it once, I'll say it often so I don't get my arse fined. Disclaimer: I don't own Adventure Time, at all, period.
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-Chapter 2, A familiar face (structure)-
Finn felt the familiar warmth of his bed, oh how he missed that poorly-put-together bed. The small pile of animal hides provided more comfort than a fireplace.
'Oh my Glob, I never thought I'd love my bed this much.' Finn smiled inwardly, enjoying his newfound nap-vana. 'I'm so glad we made it back from that dumb cave. I really need to give FP a call when I get up…man, IF I get up. A few more minutes can't hurt though.' He nodded as he repositioned himself.
'Wait…how the heck did I get here?' Finn opened to see his nightstand, and the window beside it letting in nothing but moonlight, thankfully his lamp was on. Finn slowly sat up, feeling his head throbbing like before, leading him to groan softly in discomfort. "Oh stuff, my head is killing me." He reached for said head and felt tightly wrapped bandages around a stiff knot on the back of his noggin. 'Huh? Did Jake do this?'
"That should about do it!" a familiar voice said from Jake's side of the room. Finn looked and saw their savior form before, the colors of his clothes and his voice let the memories start flowing back into his concussed cranium. Finn saw him wrapping similar bandages around Jake's head.
"Finn! You're awake!" Jake happily cheered. The stranger turned to look at Finn, his face mostly covered by the shadow of a thick black hood. All Finn could make out was the bottom of a deep scar and some 5 o'clock shadow.
"Well rise and shine nap-time princess!" The man said chuckling. He threw the rest of the gauze into an open backpack sitting next to him. "Luckily you guys didn't bleed a whole lot, I'm surprised both of your skulls weren't cracked, you both heal fast. Still, don't do anything too cray for at least a week, gotta make sure y'all don't get poo brain. I'll check again in a little bit to make sure the bandages hold, then I'll be out of your hair." He said looking out Finn's window.
"How do you know so much about medicine and stuff?" Jake asked rubbing his head
"I learned some basics back home, but when you travel as much as I do, you pick up a few things." He said with a sincere smile.
"What happened back there?" Finn inquired while trying to get a look under his hood.
"You two goons were ambushed by the notorious Boar Bandits, from what I heard they were after your little treasure trove downstairs, you may want to find a different place for that by the way, I could literally see that from outside." Finn wasn't really sure how react to being teased by a complete stranger. "Speaking of treasure, I wonder what kind of bounty I can get by turning in their leader…" the stranger said while holding his chin.
"You beat all those guys by yourself?!" Finn focused on the more important issue as he remembered just before he passed out.
"Oh man! You should have seen it Finn!" Jake decided to join in. "That magic glowy stick doohickey is a work of art with the changing thing it did, plus he beat down all those jerks and their rides with his BARE HANDS!" Jake exclaimed with big hand gestures. "I've never seen someone tear through bad guys so fast." Finn looked at the stranger with wonder.
"Shoot guys, it was nothing, really." He said while scratching the back of his hood trying to hide a bit of embarrassment.
"I woke up right as he started going ape of those bandits, I wanted to help, but they had me tied up with some kind of magic rope. He cut me loose after he was done and helped me walk and carried you back here. Jake explained to his brother.
"Th- thanks man!" Finn gratefully said while trying to process everything.
"Don't mention it! I was just passing by, and no way I wouldn't help some fellow heroes out." He said with a toothy.
"Oh yeah!" Finn can't believe he hasn't introduced them yet. "I'm Finn, and this is my brother best friend Jake." Jake made a small wave, while smiling.
"Cool! I'm- oh wait, forgot I had my hood still on." He pulled his hood down and ruffled out his short, messy hair. "My name's Spencer!" He said with a toothy grin.
Finn almost didn't believe what he saw. He saw a head of hair like he had. He saw two eyes like he had. He saw a nose and mouth like he had. He saw peachy skin like his. He saw a human before him, like he was.
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In an instant, Finn was able to take in everything about him. He had shorter dark brown hair that was messier towards the front. Some thick stubble went across his face to connect his unruly hair. The most striking features about him were his near-glowing steel blue eyes, and a deep scar of a single line started above his left eye and ended under his right ear. Finn wouldn't say this out loud, but he had a big head and jaw to match his body. This dude was big. He was easily a head, if not a head and a half taller than Finn. He had a barrel-chest and broad shoulders that narrowed in a V-shape to his wait, witch split off into equally big legs, and no homo, this dude was pretty ripped. Finn definitely didn't want to try fighting this guy, not yet anyway. His gear confused him, he wasn't wearing armor, albeit pieces of it. The most prominent was a blue-colored steel shoulder guard with a spike on his right arm, and a smaller guard with no spike on the left. Each had their own leather strap holding them on, the spike guard's strap being thicker and holding a couple vials and a pouch while the left held a small metal plate over the heart area. Finn guessed the bigger strap helped hold his backpack on. There was black wrapping around both elbows and metal-plated black finger-less gloves. Moving down, Spencer wore a utility belt with a butt load of pouches along the sides, and a blue thunderbolt buckle, huh, appropriate. All that was left was a hip pouch on his left side and black combats boots. Under all his gear Spencer wore a sleeveless black muscle shirt and loose blue jeans with black patches on the knees.
"You…you're human?" Finn barely chocked out.
"Um, yeah? Why is that weird to be?" Spencer asked with honest confusion.
"We haven't seen any real humans besides a super old guy down in the MO factory." Jake explained to their guest.
"What?!" Spencer chocked on a water bottle he pulled out of his backpack. "There was at least five human villages last time I was here, plus there's all kinds of humans where I'm from! I live in a temple with a bunch, plus there's a few villages around there too… I can't believe things have changed so much here." Spencer said looking at the floor.
"There's THAT many humans there?!" Finn would jump out of bed if not for the headache. "Can I go there?!" Finn saw this as his chance to truly connect with his people and maybe find something out about his past.
"…here's the thing…" Spencer started sheepishly. "I'd take you there in a heartbeat, don't get me wrong, but my boat crashed into the rocky shore on my way here. I'll have to build a whole 'nother boat to get back home. I'm pretty sure it's uncharted waters as far as Ooo is concerned." Spencer finished giving Finn an apologetic look.
"So, if you're not from Ooo, what else is there? I don't know much about anywhere else." Jake rolled on to his stomach after listening to Spencer's story about home. Spencer walked over and sat at the foot of Finn's bed. Finn and Jake got comfortable in anticipation of a story.
Spencer starting wringing his hands and took on a thoughtful look as he was getting ready to describe his home. "Well, I live on an island south the shores of here. It's summer all year long, and that's pretty awesome…"
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BOOM, how was that for a somewhat mind bomb? Seriously though, thanks for everyone giving my little old story another go. Let me know if you want the chapters longer or shorter, and when you want me to update. Till next time!