omg guys it's been about two months.i wish o had a good excuse but in reality it was a whole bunch of huge pity parties and making cosplay and being sick. literally I even feel a bit nauseous as I write this but I missed this
esorry and I missed you all my dear readers. this chapter isn't my favorite but I hope it's ok. please forgive my unintended and unannounced hiatus. hopefully I'll be back top regular updates now but I promise I won't give up this story till it's over!
The heroine finally made it to the edge of the Ice Kingdom; huffing and puffing though she may be, she was determined to save Gumball, even if it meant doing so by herself. She sighed. By myself. she shook her head, slapped her cheeks twice, fisted her hands by her side, catapulted herself over the clear boundary between kingdoms and pressed on with urgency. She had already left the gummy prince alone with that crazy cougar for too long. Who knew what was happening?
She ran the last few yards to the bottom of the ice mountain stronghold and launched herself at the door. she twisted in the air landing her feet solidly on the door and kicking heavily off. it screeched on its icy hinges which were giving way as it slowly fell in. There was a loud, resounding thump as it hit the ground and the blonde wasted no time in locating the stairs. two flights up she was holding her side and crawling on all fours. It really was much easier when cake just stretched them up to the window, but there was no time for that nonsense. She steeled herself again and continued her way up the stairs to find Gumball and beat up an old lady. Not necessarily in that order.
When she reached the main room of the ice castle ("Psh, castle my butt.") She heard the sound of glass shattering. She searched around and found that the noise came from up another flight of stairs.
"UGH! You've got to be flipping kidding me! Of all the days for Cake to flake..." She let her anger trail off seeing as talking wasn't getting her any closer to rescuing her bro. She scampered up the last flight of stairs to see Gumball flailing underneath a mostly-uncovered Ice Queen. The prince caught sight of her and gasped.
"Fionna!" The prince cried, caught between relief at her presence and embarrassment. The Ice Queen took his momentary distraction as an opportunity to slide one hand from his wrist and up his disheveled shirt. The prince, face flushed, bared his teeth angrily, shook her remaining hand from his wrists, and slapped the woman.
"Unhand me you frigid tart!" He shoved the stunned witch off of him and stood quickly. smoothing his shirt, he sniffed and then glanced down to the queen on the floor then to the girl in the doorway, whose sword had fallen to the side and she had a bewildered look on her face. It suddenly struck him that he had struck a woman. Him. The portrait of chivalry and grace. Even if she was evil he should not have struck her. His righteous anger faded and turned into disgust with himself. He looked to Fionna for comfort only to be met with her same shocked expression, which only served to make him feel worse.
"P-please excuse me," He said, briskly walking past the adventuress and out of the room to hide his upset.
"Uh, yeah dude, I'll be right out too, just gimme a sec." and Fi advanced on the queen in front of her rolling up her sleeves.
Marshall Lee, having grown bored of laughing at the magazines he found under Gumball's bed, began to wonder what the other two were up to. he checked the kitchens, and then Fi's quarters and then checked back at his royal hiney's bed chambers; down into the dungeons, out in the gardens, in the royal banquet hall and finally down into the science wing where he came upon what remained of Gumball's lab. he scrubbed a hand across his face in exasperation and flew out of the hole in the wall to go find the two idiots. Seriously, he couldn't leave them alone for even half a day without them doing something stupid. how was she planning on getting his candied butt home without him contracting freezer burn flu? but it was Fionna and she didn't think about things, she just did them.
He raced through the sky, hurtling towards the Ice kingdom. He hoped that Fionna hadn't had any trouble fending off the Cougar Queen's unwanted advances on everyone's favorite junior monarch. Usually she didn't, but usually she had Cake with her. as he sped towards the craggy ice fortress he passed two people on their way out, one on the others back and shivering heavily. He spiraled out of his current direction and silently doubled back to the two.
"Hey, need a lift?" he said sticking his tongue out at the younger pair. The prince frowned around chattering teeth while Fionna pumped a tired fist into the air, and let out a tired whoop. The playful vampire lifted the candy monarch up off the human's back and landed in front of her allowing her to climb up on his and he took off once again towards the candy kingdom.
Back at the palace, Fi saw the prince to doctor Ice Cream and then went to her rooms to take "an extreme nap". neither of the guys understood quite what an extreme nap entailed, or how it could possibly differ from a regular nap, not did they really care. Gumball was tired, and chilled, and very, very cross. Had Marshall Lee not continued this childish prank war with Fionna, Cake would have been around to help and none of this would have happened. at all. this was all that good for nothing vampires fault the prince thought to himself.
Marshall was hanging around awkwardly, not knowing what exactly he should do in this situation. He cleared his throat and Gumball leveled him with a disdainful glare.
"What did I do now?" Marshall's soft feeling from before quickly dissipated and he glared right back.
The prince just turned up his nose.
"Tch, whatever man. If this is the thanks I get for helping you out, you can bet I wont be doing it again. I'm out" and he disappeared.