A/N- So, sorry for not posting this sooner, but I've been looking for my cat that my idiot of a roommate let out of the house. I mean she is an inside cat, why would you let her out you know what I mean? Anyways I decided that this would be a more fluff chapter, but I think that its till good. Up to yall to decide that though. Review please. Oh and the now for the disclaimer.
Flame Princess: He doesn't own any part of Adventure Time and all rights go to Pendelton Ward and Natasha Allegri.
So hey FP how are things with Finn going?
FP: He's my boyfriend and he is so much fun.
Yall are such a cute couple.
FP: *Head grows and sends flames everywhere* Shut up!
All right, all right. To the chapter.
I enter the forest looking around for a suitable tree to sleep in, looking around at all the different kind that grow high into the sky. There seemed to be many different trees in this forest unlike most of the others that I have explored in my long time of wandering around of all of Ooo, and at one point another land that seemed similar to this it, though thinking about it that might have been another dimension. "Wasn't there a candy kingdom with a prince there?" I ask myself trying to remember it. "Oh well, I'll remember later probably."
Looking around again, I notice a large oak tree with a few low hanging branches that could easily be used for climbing up the tree so it was ruled out. Next to it though is a tree that had no branches withing thirty feet of the cold ground, and I smile looking up at the bottom branch. I bend my legs and start to tighten my muscles, then dig my heels into the ground preparing to jump. Before I jump though I realize, 'I need to take my shoes off before I do this.' I straighting up my back, then lean down and pull my shoes off and throwing them into my backpack real quick. Tightening my muscles again, I feel a little twinge of pain in my legs as they start to change, the top half growing more muscular while the bottom seemed to get thinner. Then releasing the power built up in my legs I jump up, over shooting the branch that I was originally aiming for and hitting my head on a higher branch.
Hanging on for dear life onto the pavement of the bridge I look up seeing Marceline's stunned face...
'No brain, can't think of that now.' I think forcing the fingers of my right hand into the bark or the tree as soon as I snap my brain back. I feel bark break my skin, and leave pieces of it in my fingers. I yell out in pain thinking about all of the pain I have felt through the years...
I'm weightless, but then I feel the impact against the...
"NO!" I yell to myself, forcing my mind not to go to that memory. I can't stand to go to that memory, the pain of that memory, and the full heartbreak of it. Then, hearing a few birds fly up from the trees in surprise, and I pull my bleeding fingers out of the tree jumping down to the branch that I originally meant to hit. I land on it, not even hearing a squeak from it and smile. "Seems like a good branch then," I say to myself, looking at my bleeding fingers again. I then roll my pack and case off my back, and hang them off a branch that intersected with the one I'm on. Reaching in my backpack I feel around for first aid pack that I had, and quickly find it after knocking over a pile of books. Pulling it out I search quickly for the tweezers that are in it and start to pull the splinters out, seeing that the cuts were already starting to heal. "Should only be a couple of hours before I heal. Better hurry get these damn pieces of wood out." I say pulling out a larger piece that was stuck in my middle finger.
After about an hour I see all the splinters are out and I wave my hand back and forth to get the numbness of holding it still for so long out of my fingers. I look at the skin and see the pink of it almost completely healed already. The feeling is weird though even after nine hundred and eighty two years. "Forever a twenty-two year old. Well at least I'm old enough to drink, and out of puberty," I say thinking about how it all happened that I became immortal.
A flash of a face crosses my mind and a twinge of anger hits me"That man is the whole reason that its like this, but I have to thank him I guess." I say, the anger evaporating with the thought. "I get to stay alive as long as she does. I wonder how my sister is? I wonder how Marceline is?" I ask myself quietly.
Looking around I can't think of anything that I could do while I'm sitting there, so I put my backpack behind my head, and just lay it back against the tree relaxing. I then decide that I should sing. "Happy or sad song," I wonder aloud. I lean forward grabbing my case and pulling out a very old, and very beat up guitar. It had marks where old stickers had once been. Here and there you could see part of the old stickers, a black one that once said Three Days Grace, and had little white stick people on it, another that still had the word fight on it. I, for the life of me, can't remember what the sticker had once said, but knew that it had something to do with the government that had used to be. I hug the guitar to my chest for a second, thinking of all the memories that I had created with this guitar.
Playing with Marceline and Simon in the basement... Playing on top of a building to get the globs attention so that Marceline and Simon could sneak around them... Me barely holding onto it as I'm dangling from the bridge...
With that my mind snaps back to the present, " I can't think about those memories, it will just end up backfiring on me." I say to myself and start to strum on the guitar.
Step one you say we need to talk He walks you say sit down it's just a talk He smiles politely back at you You stare politely right on through Some sort of window to your right As he goes left and you stay right Between the lines of fear and blame And you begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life
My mind flips to the time hanging on the bridge, to the time that he attacked me, to every time that I had been in a life threatening situation. There were a lot.
Let him know that you know best Cause after all you do know best Try to slip past his defense Without granting innocence Lay down a list of what is wrong The things you've told him all along And pray to God, he hears you And I pray to God, he hears you
Marceline hugging me...
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life
As he begins to raise his voice You lower yours and grant him one last choice Drive until you lose the road Or break with the ones you've followed He will do one of two things He will admit to everything Or he'll say he's just not the same And you'll begin to wonder why you came
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life
My voice drifted off after that line, then came back strong in the next one as I think about how I couldn't protect her.
How to save a life
How to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life
Where did I go wrong, I lost a friend Somewhere along in the bitterness And I would have stayed up with you all night Had I known how to save a life How to save a life
How to save a life...
My voice trails off with the last word, and I can feel the hairs on the back of my neck standing from the feeling of someone watching me, the same feeling that I got while in the princess's throne room. I jump up the guitar strap catching on a branch as I getting into an attack position. Straining my ears I try to hear every sound that was around. Either whatever was watching me was very good at not making a sound, or it was just to far away for me to hear. I take in a deep breath, hearing all the little animals scurrying around the forest. Nothing seems to be within a small radius of me, but that was a normal occurrence because they could sense danger from me. The thing was I could hear that there was another spot about a hundred yards away that didn't have anything creature around it either. I quickly reach for my backpack, but before I do the feeling disappeared and creatures started to roam to the area again.
I sit down with my backpack in my hand and reach around in it, feeling for a weapon just in case I needed it. My hand brushes against a piece of clothe that I knew was the thing I had pulled from the chest. "I could give this to her before I go see her in person," I say to myself, and then feel a knife and quickly pull it out stabbing it into the tree for easy availibility if I need it. "I think I'll wait a few more days to see her, just give her a few things to let her know that I'm around. See if she can figure out that I'm still alive after she did that to me.
With that I lay my head back against my backpack and start to fall asleep in an endless swirl of Nightmares.
The song belongs to the Fray, and all rights go to them.
Let me know what yall think of it.