A/N: Hello you lovely, lovely people you! I know that most of my followers are FioLee shippers and I assure you that I am as well, but this is going to be a long story. Long stories are kinda like journeys. Like journey's the way isn't fun unless its paved with twists and turns. So please don't run away just because of a little ship here or there. Please be patient and you'll eventually get to the awesome. (AKA Please don't abandon my story because my FioLee is hiding behind some FionnaXFP) ((FLAME PRINCE HAS A COOL CHARACTER DESIGN OK!? DON'T JUDGE)) Also, please review! Because it inspires me and an inspired NFE makes more posts!

~NFE

A/N2: Hashtag: If you do draw some fluff from my stories pm me the link! I;d love to see it and thanks so much for your kind words.

A few days had passed and Cake had noticed Fi was in a slump. Not even Cake's famous bacon pancakes had been able to cheer up the girl. She tried to get her to open up, but true to her form she would just laugh it off and tell Cake that everything was fine, she was fine, nothing was wrong.
They received a distress call from the goblin kingdom. Apparently there was a giant fire and they couldn't put it out themselves. Cake told Fi and she grabbed her adventure pack and her favorite retractable crystal sword, a gift from Gumball after the one from the Ice Queen turned out to be a fake, and they took off for the goblin kingdom.

When they got there, Cake quickly began to stretch into a giant basin and collect water from a nearby lake as Fi beat some of the nearest flames with a blanket from her pack. She thought she heard an angry voice from the flames, but it was fire and fire certainly couldn't talk so she didn't bother stopping Cake from dumping the contents of half the lake onto the raging inferno.

An agonized yell came from a few blocks down where a boy of fire stumbled out of one of the burning buildings and collapsed on the ground. As he fell into unconsciousness, the blaze around them began to lessen and fade, he didn't look so good, but then it only stands to reason that if he was the cause of the fire and Cake had dumped a whole lake on it, he would be hurt. The girl, against better judgement (that she didn't actually have, she had never met a fire elemental before) , picked up the poor boy and took him safely out of the goblin village.

"Cake! Cake! What do we do?" The young girl called desperately to her shape shifting friend. She stretched over from where she had been talking to some goblin citizens, assuring them that the problem would be taken care of.

"I say we leave that boy somewhere to recover on his own! He was attempting to take over this city." Cake said glaring at the slowly recovering humanoid flame. Fi brushed the damp pieces of hair out of his face that was slowly regaining its luminosity.

"We can't do that!" She said. "We are heroes! We help everyone in need!" Cake sighed at her idealistic surrogate sister. She was so sweet she was bound to get hurt sometimes.

"Babycakes... I don't think that's a good idea. He's an elemental, a powerful one, and a royal by the looks of it. The Flame royals are evil!" Cake pleaded, but Fionna was having none of it and she stubbornly refused to leave from the injured boys side. Cake sighed heavily and began to gather and build a large fire and Fionna allowed a relieved smile to cross her face. She began to set up the tent she had jammed into her pack. She didn't understand how it fit in there, the tent was actually quite large, but she wasn't one to question what she could or could not fit in her pack or why; she probably wouldn't understand it anyway.

It was about midnight before the boy came too. He sat up rubbing his aching skull, his orange hair flickering atop of his head. He looked around confused and slowly scooted closer to the fire the girls had made sure to keep going. Fi came back from her patrol around the perimeter of the camp and noticed he was awake. Their eyes caught each others and she smiled kindly at him.

"Oh you're awake! How are you feeling?" The boy stood up abruptly and bowed low at the waist.

"Thank you for taking care of me, Miss..." He looked up at her,his yellow cheeks tingeing orange.

"Fionna! My name is Fionna." She blurted, her face also heating up in a blush.

"Miss Fionna." The boy finished, and he straightened up once again.

"You don't have to call me 'Miss Fionna', dude, 'Fionna' is just fine." She said blushing, flustered and unsure of herself.

"Alright, Fionna then" The boy said with a smile. The two young teens just stood there for a moment, Fionna fidgeting slightly under the weight of the silence.

"I'm sorry," the girl stated after a few moments of unbearable quiet, "I didn't catch your name." She smiled sheepishly, hoping the apparent royal wouldn't be too offended at her lack of political knowledge.

"Oh" He said a little abashed, "How very rude of me. I am Flint Ignatius, Heir to the Flame Kingdom." He bowed deeply again, "Pleasure to make your acquaintance, my lady." He moved to take her hand and brush his lips against it, and she would have let him too, but as he took her hand in his, her tender human skin began to burn and she yelped in pain and pulled away.

"So, Flame Prince, huh." She said trying to hide the pained expression on her face and shaking her burned hand. "What are you doing all the way over here in goblin country?" She hadn't even seen him cross the grass lands. She would have thought she'd notice a fire in the grasslands. His back went rigid and he looked a little nervous.

"I ran away from home." His tone suggested that he would prefer not to talk about it, though Fionna couldn't understand why anyone would ever run away and leave their family behind. It tugged at a heartstring she thought was no longer there, but she shook it off. This boy needed a place to stay and she would figure something out.

Soon it was time for Cake to take over watch duty and Fionna to go to sleep. The Flame Prince said he'd be fine out in the open as long as he was near the fire, so she gave in to the sleepiness that filled her up and allowed it to overflow onto her pillow as she slept soundly. Ok so the stuff overflowing onto her pillow might have been drool but whatever.

In the morning Fionna the human insisted Cake help them build a shelter for the Flame Prince . She said it was her duty as a hero and an adventurer to make sure royals were safe.

"Are you sure it's not just cuz you think he's cute?" Cake questioned with a catty grin on her face. Fi blushed and spluttered at her more about duty and junk. The cat just shrugged, glad that for once Fi liked a boy closer to her age, even of he was made of fire.
While they were building the house for Flint to occupy, Fionna had an epiphany.

"I know how to get Marshall back! But I'll need your help Cake." Both Flint and Cake looked at her. Couldn't she just do one thing at a time?

"Girl that vamp is gonna get your goat." Cake said as she continued to hammer the wood together on the prince's new home.

"But I can't let Marsh get the last laugh! He'll never let me hear the end of it." She whined at the cat. Flint's eyes went wide.

"Miss Fionna, you prank the vampire king? Don't you know how dangerous he is?" She gave him a look.

"Marshall Lee is my best bro, he'd never hurt me." Came her flippant reply. "Besides, everyone says you're evil and I'm helping you."

"Helping and pranking are two different things" Flint said his brows furrowing.

"Well he started it, I'm just finishing it. All I wanna do is build a maze in his house." She puffed out her cheeks.

"Oh sugar, how are you even going to get him out of his house long enough for that?" Cake questioned sort of patronizingly. Fi waved her off.

"I figure I'll just get Gumball to distract him." She put the last nail into the new structure then turned to the fiery prince. "Welcome to your new home, Your Highness." She said with a smile. Cake just watched silently.

"Please, call me Flint." The prince replied, a dashing smile on his lips. Fi blushed.

"O-okay" she stammered, wringing her hands nervously and looking down. Flint angled towards her and went to take her hands in his but stopped at the last second, remembering the pain he had caused last time.

"Can I see you again?" Fionna let out a nervous chuckle and ducked her head.

"You mean as buds?" She stilled the wringing of her hands and braced herself for the preemptive rejection.

"I mean can I take you on a date." Flint amended and Fi's head shot up, a goofy smile on her face and she laughed happily.

"Of course dude!" And now they were both blushing and sheepishly looking away from each other so Cake decided usher things along.

"C'mon girl, we gotta get goin. Patrols and all that."

"Okay Cake!" She turned to the prince. "Bye... Flint" she said blushing. She didn't call any of the princes by their first name, not even Gumball. Some how it had never seemed appropriate. She turned to leave with a smile on her face.