Fionna's eyes widened as she looked at Marshall Lee in front of her. Never before had she seen him like this.
Marshall's now clawed hand had a firm grip around Ignus's fist that he couldn't escape from no matter how hard he struggled. His eyes glowed red and his fangs poked out from his lips. Two ivory horns curled up out of his slightly longer hair. Fionna thought he even looked taller, and maybe even more muscular.
Fionna could feel Gumball tense up beside her. She couldn't blame him, even without the physical transformation the aura Marshall Lee gave off was . . . frightening. Those eyes, that expression could strike fear into anybody, as it obviously was with Ignus. One thing was for sure, this was a different Marshall Lee than the one she knew.
Marshall Lee spoke, his voice low and dark:
"Let's get a couple things straight, Ignus. First, you're going to apologize to Fionna."
He paused for a moment, but when Ignus remained silent, he dug his claws into his fist and ordered,
"Now."
Ignus shreiked.
"I'm sorry! I'm sorry Fionna! I'm sorry!"
"Good." Marshall said. "Now second, you're going to go back to the Fire Kingdom and never come near Fionna again, or else you'll have to deal with me. Fear me. Hate me. I don't care. Just know this: if you ever try to hurt her again, you'll only live long enough to really regret it."
Ignus nodded his head frantically. "I will! I mean, I won't! I mean, I understand!"
Marshall Lee released Flame Prince, throwing him backwards in the process. He scrambled to his feet and disappeared into the woods, the light his body gave off quickly fading from view.
I released a held breath. As I relaxed, my horns receded back into my skull, my claws retracted back into fingernails, and my eyes and fangs returned to their normal state. I turned to Fionna and Gumball, who were both staring at me. Fionna was looking at me with pure shock, and Gumball was about frozen solid in fear. I felt bad. After what he had seen me do in the past, it was understandable that even a slight reappearance of my demon form would scare him.
"You two ok?" I asked them.
Gumball shook his head, snapping himself out of whatever trance state he had been in.
"Uh, yes. Yes I'm fine."
"Fionna?"
"Yeah..." Her voice was quiet, and she looked away from me. "I'm ok."
I looked at Gumball. "You should take her back to the castle. Get her arm treated and such. I'll go tell Cake."
Gumball nodded and took Fionna towards the Candy Kingdom. I flew off towards the treehouse. As much as I wanted to go with PG and Fionna, y'know, to make sure she was ok and junk, I figured it'd probably be best if I wasn't around them for a bit. Gumball was still uneasy and Fionna...well, I don't know what she thought. Anyways Cake needed to know. She'd have mine and Gumball's head if we didn't tell her what had happened. So, I went to the tree house, explained what happened to Cake, and returned home. I figured I'd check in on Fionna in a day or two, and probably stop by Gumball's just to make sure he wasn't back to being utterly terrified of me.
I laid down in my bed just as the sun was beginning to rise, thankful to finally get some rest after an all-around exhausting evening.