"Do you think she's dead?"

"Nah bro, she's breathing... just. She sure needs some help though. I mean, she's all bent out of shape. It's a little gross. "

"Dude! Do you still have any of those magic Cyclops tears?!"

"Ah mathematical! Theyre in my backpack... AHA! Shall we just put them all over? I mean she looks like she needs it..."

The wetness ran down my skin and jerked my eyes open. One of the drops made its way down my throat but caught the wrong pipe, and I started choking on it. I sat up like a shot, nearly bumping my head on something and leant over to dislodge what I thought was something choking me, and instantly felt better. It was only water after all.

Then it hit me. I had sat up. I ought to be dead, but there was grass under my hands. I grinned at the knowledge that I hadn't died but... My hands looked funny... And... Shouldn't I be in a hospital, not sitting in some field somewhere? Shouldn't I be in immense pain? I was run over for goodness sake! But I wasn't. I flexed my fingers experimentally. They were fine. I stood up and stretched, my laughter filled the quiet.

Wait. There were voices. I turned around slowly, and spotted two cartoon characters. As in literally, Jake and Finn from the Adventure Time series. I rubbed the back of my head. I must've hit it really hard and be hallucinating. But I couldn't remember how one was supposed to get out of a hallucination.

"Haii, mai nayme iisss Jayke,ahnd thhisss iss Fihnn" The magical dog over articulated his words, obviously thinking I was stupid or something. I could hardly blame him, I must've looked like a real doofus, just staring around. But really, this couldn't be real.

"Oh, sorry, I'mAlli. It's... nice to meet you guys..." I could hardly contain my laughter. I'd just introduced myself to two cartoon characters. I was literally chatting to the figments of someone's imagination. This was insane.

"Are you okay? I mean you seem a little... And you took quite a fall out of that portal..." Finn asked. Portal? His face scrunched up at my obliviousness, and he pointed to the sky. My head snapped up, and sure enough, there was a rapidly decreasing swirl of black and white.

"OH MY... I died... I really did die... There's no way I could've survived that so... I'm here... Something brought me here, when really I ought to be dead... Right... Great... WHAT?!" I was pacing, a sure sign of deep stress. It was all a little bit incomprehensible, I mean, come on! I had died today, and now I had a whole new life in a crazy place, full of real monsters and talking dogs and princesses and candy people and... And her. Oh. She was real in this world. And that just made everything a million times more complicated. I took some deep breaths to calm myself before turning to the two heroes. "Hey guys, this is going to sound really weird, but I'm supposed to be dead and I'm not. Princess Bubblegum is meant to be smart, right? Do you think you could take me to her?"

"Schmow-zow! Sure we can!" Finn grinned like the cute kid he is. I looked around finally noticing my stuff had come through the portal with me. I checked my pockets finding my phone with a chip in it's glass screen and my iPod looking okay too. I tried turning it on, and instead of the usual opening screen, a smiley face appeared. Then out popped two tiny arms and legs.

"Hello, my name is iPod." I screamed and dropped the now alive device. "Are you allright Alli? We had a big fall, no?" My heart was thundering in my chest.

"Oops, Finn! I think you put too much of the tears on!" I glanced up at Jake. Well, at least that explained it. I scooped my iPod back up and tucked her back in my pocket having been assured that she would just sleep until we got to the Candy Kingdom. I checked out my bags. My book bag was on top of my guitar case and I winced, already knowing what I would find. No acoustic guitar could survive a fall like that, especially as it seemed to have cushioned the blow for my other stuff. A quick check inside confirmed that it was smashed to pieces, but I figured if we found a witch or something they might be able to fix it.

"Okay boys" I hefted my bags up onto my shoulders. "What time is it?" I asked with a huge smile. I chuckled as they high-fived while both staring at me incredulously. After a small stunned silence, we set of, heading west-ish, when I judged by the sun. It looked as though we would need to pass through a small stretch of forest, but then I could see the pink dome of the Candy Castle in the distance. I'd never really liked walking. I mean, it's just so boring. So I decided to learn a little more about my companions as we walked. "So.. Finn, still crushing on Princess Bubblegum?"

The poor boy nearly choked on his own tongue and his eyes grew wider than I'd ever seen them. "Okay, seriously! How do you know so much about us? I mean, no-one knows that I have a crush on PB! I only told Jake yesterday!" Finn looked so adorable, all indignant and stuff and I realised how small he was in comparison with me. I supposed it was understandable as there was a five year age gap. I just hadn't thought about it before.

"Well in the world I came from, you guys are like... famous heroes." I say uncertainly. Would it be cruel to tell them that they weren't real? Or maybe this was real and my old world wasn't? I was getting a headache. Their whoops and cheers brought me out of my philosophical moment. They started dancing around and singing about their own awesomeness, and it was good to know that young boy's antics didn't change no matter which world you were in! Suddenly the trees parted and we were walking down a long driveway, towards the gates of the Candy Kingdom.