Narrator POV
"I still don't understand why you're not repeating school, Cake." Fionna wondered aloud while walking along with her cat sister.
"Like I said, I'm a cat. it was optional for me."
"I wish I were a cat."
"Why? So you don't have to go to school? I thought you were excited."
"I am! I still wish I was a cat though, cats are pretty rad." Fionna announced her simple thought to Cake, it was one good thing of her sisters naturally childish personality.
The two sisters climbed over boulder after boulder up the side of the steep and rocky hillside. "Hey baby cakes, where are we going anyway?"
"Oh I didn't tell you? I wanna try seeing if FP knows anything-"
"ARE YOU OUT OF YOUR MIND?"
"What?"
"Fionna, we can't visit the Flame Prince. He lives in a volcano, we'll burn to crisp before we even make it up all the way!"
"Oh glob you're right! I completely forgot to bring our suits..." Fionna cried in realization.
"Man you're lucky I'm going with you at school, you wouldn't make it." Cake scolded, but Fi was too busy beating herself up over the fact she forgot her heat resistant suit, it's not like she hadn't already been over a million times. But as if by some miracle, or the author making everything miraculously work out, there was suddenly a breeze of hot air felt against Fionna's skin.
"Fi, are you okay?" FP asked, he would've crouched down and gave her a comforting pat, but the reasons why he didn't were obvious.
"What the-? When did you get here?"
"It's especially sunny today, so I thought a walk would be nice."
"Well that's an odd yet convenient thing to have happened! Is it alright if we talk for a bit?" The way Fionna had worded the question made him think it was something series, something to do with their relationship- "I wanted to know if you knew anything about school!"
"Oh..."
"I really get to chose what classes I wanna take?" Fionna excitedly asked, "What kind of classes do they have?"
"Well, for electives I know they have a lot of different things from cooking classes to gym classes."
"Gym?"
"You know, like sports and stuff. It's basically a class where you play around outside-"
"THERE'S A CLASS FOR THAT?"
"It's just an elective, but yeah it is-"
"FP, we have to take that class together!"
"T-together?" Flame prince thought lovingly of the way she implied that they should do something together, just the implication made his flames go a little warmer
"Yeah! Me, you, Marshall-"
"Marshall? Isn't he kinda over a thousand years old and ya know... a little past the age limit?"
"I guess not since Gumball's lettin' him back in and all. But wouldn't it be fun? The three of us at school, and we can make even more friends too!"
"Yup, me you and... Marshall. But it'd be fun with just the two of us too, right?"
"Well yeah sure, but more the merrier!"
"But I think the two of us would be just as fun too, don't you think so too?" He asked again in hopes of the answer he wants.
"Yes but like I said. More the merrier." She stated a bit more sternly. She didn't understand what he was trying to imply at all.
"Never mind, anyway it's getting late, you should probably get back before it get's too dark to see anything."
"Oh glob you're right! C'mon Cake, we better get going!" Fionna announced to her sister who had fallen asleep and rudely awaken by Fionna, "See ya at school a week from now FP!"
"Y-yeah! See ya!"
~One Week Later~
"Wow, it feels like just we were talking about this school thing a few moments ago!"
"Which means all this crap came way too fast." Marshall grumbled standing at the school entrance with Fionna watching as many others walked by.
"Oh come on Marshall Lee, it won't be so bad. At least you have me here!" Fionna smiled happily, she was in such an impossibly happy mood even Marshall couldn't bring her mood down. The blood sucker glanced over from under his umbrella to Fionna who just sat there with her stupidly happy face, excited to start studying at this stupid school.
"Yeah, whatever. Who are we waiting for though?"
"Cake, she wanted to say one last good bye to Lord Monochromicorn."
"Fantastic, that means we're going to be here all day waiting for that hair ba- Ouch!" Marshall winced at the fresh scratch on his cheek.
"Don't talk behind people's back, that's what gets you in trouble. Now let's get going." Cake sneered.
"Yaay, c'mon Marsh, we've only got a little while longer to pick our things up!"
"Yeah, yeah, I'm right behind you guys." He breathed fixing the guitar strap on his shoulder.
"So what kinda classes are you taking Marshall?" Fionna eagerly asked as her eyes glanced from place to place, looking at all the different buildings and statues.
"I dunno, whatever they have."
"You should take gym class with me!"
"No way in hell am I doing that."
"What? Why not? It'll be so much fun, Flame Prince said it's a class where you just play outside!"
"I think what you just said pretty much justifies why I can't take that class, I would literally be burnt to a crisp."
"Oh yeah, I guess that's a pretty good reason of why you can't take that..."
"And wait, when did you see Flame Prince? I mean, why? Didn't he give you a real nasty burn the last time you were with him?" Fionna gave him a quizzical look.
"What are you talking about? I go to see him all the time, the last time he gave me a burn was when I was like 12 or some junk like that."
"All the time? Don't you realize how dangerous that is!"
"What! It's not like he's burnt me at all since then, he's 16 now. Once you reach the age 16 you become all mature and junk, like an adult!"
"I'm looking at someone who proves that statement terribly false." Marshall lightly laughed to himself.
"What d'ya mean? Who? Is it one of the students here?"
"Yeah, you know her pretty well." Fionna glanced around wondering who he could be talking about, she didn't think Marshall knew anyone here besides herself.
Cake couldn't help but laugh knowing perfectly well what Marshall was implying, despite her deep hatred for him.
"Oh look, we sign up for our classes at that table over there!"
"You can go ahead, I'll just take what they give me."
"But what if they give you gym class?"
"...Fine" The bunny eared girl dragged him over to the decorated. At the table sat a woman who looked far too old to even be able to hear, with her snow white hair and worn face.
"Names?" The woman croaked, the way she gripped her pen made it seem as though it would break her thin fingers right off.
"Yes, I'm Fionna the Human and this is Marshall Lee." The woman took a moment of shuffling through papers before she handed the both of them packets with a list of possible classes and black inked pens. "Just circle the classes you want and give them back when you're done."
"Wait, I had some questions about some classes-"
"Just pick the classes and give them back when you're done, I don't have all day."
"Uh, right." Fionna squeaked taking the pen and paper from the woman's grasp just as Marshall had done. She scanned the options available and gawked and all the classes she could possibly take.
"Remember you can only pick up to 8 classes." Marshall smirked at the blonde.
"Y-yeah I know, I'm just excited." She looked back at her long list of options, the top said she had to pick one math, science, and social studies. She looked her options over and over but couldn't bring herself to even pick one. She glanced over at Marshall and noticed he was already done picking his classes and had already handed his paper in. "How are you already done?!"
"I picked easy classes, a bunch of music classes along with the lowest of low math, science, and social studies."
"What exactly did you pick?"
"Pre-algebra, can do that in my sleep, astronomy, I'm outside at night all the time, and physiology, I mess with people's minds anyway so I probably know half of that already. And the rest were music based classes like music appreciation and guitar and a bunch of that other stuff. What've you picked so far?"
"Umm," She peeked down at her blank paper, "I can't really decide."
"Didn't you say you at least wanted gym? Pick that and a bunch of other classes and you're good."
"It's not that easy! What if I pick it and don't like it?"
"Then you can just change your stupid schedule if you don't like them."
"Really? You can do that?"
"Um, yeah..." He answered unsure, he couldn't exactly remember if you could do that or not. "Here, to make things go by quicker I'll pick your classes for you, and then you can get them changed if you don't like them!"
Marshall snatched the pen and paper out of her grasp despite her protests and started circling at random, hardly even looking at what the pen was circling over. "There, now I'll just turn it in for"
"No, wait-!" Her protests were useless as he turned the paper in before she could snatch it back. "What'd you do that for? I don't even know what classes you picked for me!"
"What does it matter? You can just change them if you don't like them." Fionna looked weary.
"But still..."
"It'll be fine Fi, I made sure to pick at least a few classes that I chose for myself too. So look on the bright side, at least we might have some classes together." She sighed and nodded in agreement.
"Yeah, I guess that's a bright thing to look at."
"That's the spirit," He patted her on the back, "Now take this, you'll need it to get in your room." She effortlessly caught whatever he thre to her, a key connected to a tag with some numbers on it.
"Huh? When did you get this?" She asked confused.
"The hag gave it to me, you're room 215 dorm 6, sadly I'm in dorm 2 so we won't be seeing too much of each other."
"How many different dorms are there?"
"15, each five stories high and 50 rooms per a floor."
"Woah."
"Heh, yeah well you figure every kid whose old enough is here, so you gotta have a lot of room"
"That's true." Fionna caressed the smooth silver of the key and the tag that told her what room and dorm she was in.
"Well I'll catch you at dinner!" Marshall called from behind as he walked away from the scene.
"W-what? Why are you leaving, I thought you were gonna walk me to my dorm!"
"I got my own stuff to unpack too ya' know. Don't worry I'll find you at dinner!" He quickly shouted to her before floating off to wherever his dorm was located.
"Guess I better go find Cake then." She sighed taking her blue duffle bag from the ground and throwing it over her shoulder. It didn't take long for her to find Cake taking a cat nap in the grass not too far off from the registration tables. "C'mon cake, I got our room"
"Oh, sorry must've dozed off by accident sugar." She stretched herself and gave a small yawn, "I thought you would take longer to pick your classes?"
"Yeah well..." Fionna decided it wasn't the best idea to tell her Marshall picked all her classes out. "Anyway, I have our room so let's go check it out!" She held up the key to show.
Cake followed along the map she had picked up earlier while Fionna took the time to look around at all the people and buildings. It was really a nice campus, with nice brick walls that still looked brand new and the landscaping was well maintained and watered, she couldn't imagine how much work was put in on the upkeep of the place. Fionna couldn't stop noticing all the detail that went into all the buildings and statues around the campus, that she ran into somone by complete accident.
"Sorry, that was my fault- FP?"
"Fionna!" The familiar prince perked at the sight of the young adventuress, "It's good seeing a familiar face, I think I'm lost." She was just as happy to see him too, but something didn't seem right.
"Oh hey, why didn't I get burnt when I ran into you?" She asked confused.
"Ah, that," FP raved proudly, "Prince Gumball was nice enough to work on an elixir that cooled my flames down to a persons normal body temperature. It's only temporary sadly, I have enough for the time I'm at school hardly. But at least I won't be burning people left and right!"
"That's great! Now I don't have to wear a ridiculous suit to get within five feet of you!"
'She doesn't have to be afraid to get closer to me' He thought happily, like a kid with a crush. "FP, you're getting warmer!"
"Huh? O-oh, sorry. I must be... nervous?"
"Oh, that makes sense." He sighed relief when she bought his pathetic cover, though it wasn't hard with her. "So where's your room at?"
"I can't find it, I forgot to grab a map. But I'm in dorm 6 room 216-"
"Really?!" She shouted making him jump and almost drop his key, even grabbing the attention of a few students passing by. "FP, you're dorm's right next to mine!"
"Really?" He exclaimed, no where near as loud as Fionna though. "T-that's great, that means the two of us can hang out-"
"Three," Cake corrected the fireball.
"Cake? What're you doing here? Last I checked you were older than us."
"There ain't no rules saying you can't have cats here, and I don't think I could bear being away without little Fionna for so long!"
"You mean you didn't trust her being on her own for so long." FP corrected, knowing what her actual intentions were.
"Oh hush up you match." Cake growled.
"Hey I think that's our dorm over there, I wanna see what my room looks like so Cake and I are going ahead. See ya later FP!"
"Wait, we're in the same dorm so let's walk together!" He called after her, but it was as if she didn't even here him as she ran off into the crisp clean, brick building.
I would've finished this A LOT sooner if I hadn't watched Doctor Who on Netflix every time I went to go write this chapter (Sweet Jesus I love the 11th doctor and I don't know why). I only have 16 more days of school left, so yaay for me, till the next update!
P.S.- I need some OC characters (both boys and girls), so review a character (or characters) and I'll put them in eventually