Family

Chapter 47 Captured

By: Major144

Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.

In the Fire Kingdom Crimson and Pyro had ordered Flame King to take them down to the lower chambers to see what was kept down there. The End organization had spied on the Fire Kingdom for several years and they knew everything that was in the castle, except for one thing. In the lowest level of the castle there was a massive ancient door with ancient writing on it. Crimson thought there must be something important behind the door, that needed to be investigated.

Crimson and Pyro accompanied Flame King to the ancient door.

"Open it." Ordered Crimson.

The Flame King touched the door and the writing lit up. The door slowly opened. Crimson and Pyro entered the room and were met with an amazing sight.

"I think I'm in love." Said Pyro.

Before them were six large grey metal statues in a meditating position. The statues had blue lines over their bodies and they were twenty feet sitting down. Pyro turned to Flame King.

"Hey pops, what are these things?"

"These are the Sleeping Fire Giants, they are the Fire Kingdoms greatest treasure and also it's most powerful weapons. They serve as a emergency energy source and are the last line of defense. Said the Fire King in a zombie like voice.

"I like the sound of that most powerful weapon bit. Let's turn these bad boys on!" Said Pyro.

"Not yet Pyro. We still have a lot to do, but once we trigger the war, you can turn them on and wreck as much havoc as you please." Said Crimson.

"Fine." Muttered Pyro in annoyance.

A tiny metal spider scuttled into the room and looked at the Sleeping Fire Giants. The robot took a few pictures and scans. The robot was one of Sylvester's creations and it was sending the pictures and the scans back to the evil science cat.

Back at the secret lair, Sylvester starred at the pictures and scans with interest on a computer.

"I must say, these machines are quit impressive. They would certainly be a force to reckon with, when activated, wouldn't you say so Ash?" Said Sylvester as he turned around to look at Ash, who was strapped to a table with needles and hoses in him.

Ash just moaned in pain. Sylvester chuckled and turned back to the computer.

"I got the scans and pictures, master Crimson." Said Sylvester into a nearby microphone.

"Well done. No matter the outcome of the mission here we will have are own personal Fire Giants." Said Crimson into a communicator.

"Awesome!" Said Pyro in excitement.

"Now come, we have work to do." Said Crimson as he walked out of the room followed by everyone else.

Crimson, Pyro, and Flame King returned to the throne room, while the robot returned to the secret lair. There was still some work to be done.

At the tree fort Finn and Phoebe were hanging out. The two of them were trying to come up with an adventure, but so far they had come up with nothing. Finally Phoebe had an idea.

"Let's head to the Fire Kingdom, I'm sure we can find something there we could do." Said Phoebe.

"Sounds good, but won't I die?" Asked Finn.

"Don't worry, I'll find someone to put a Flame Shield on you." Said Phoebe.

"Alright then let's go." Said Finn.

The two of them grabbed their stuff and headed out towards the Fire Kingdom, unaware of what was going there.

At the Fire Kingdom, Don John had used his magic to take over the minds of all the soldiers. The military might of the Fire Kingdom was completely under Pyro's control. The soldiers shuffled around the city and the castle in a zombie like daze. The citizens stared at the soldiers in confusion as they wonder what was with them. Flambo watched some of the guards walk by him.

"What's up with you guys? The king have you running drills?" Asked Flambo jokingly.

The guards didn't respond and continued to move on. Flambo was curious and decided to go see what was going on at the castle. The little flame bit snuck in through the main gate and made his way to the throne room, when he got there he was surprised to see a young fire elemental that slightly resembled the Flame Princess sitting in the throne wearing the crown. Flame King stood nearby with a dazed look in his eyes. Flamo heard a noise and looked out over at the balcony to see a large tarp covered object surrounded by Crystal Ants. A masked figure wearing a cloak was giving out orders.

Flambo had no idea what was going, but the masked guy creeped Flambo out. The tiny flame bit decided to sneak out and go get help. Flambo exited the throne room and quickly scurried off.

On the outskirts of the Fire Kingdom, Finn and Phoebe had just arrived. The two of them looked at the kingdom.

"You just wait right here Finn, I'll be back with someone that can cast Flame Shield real soon." Said Phoebe.

"Alright." Said Finn.

Phoebe was about to walk into the kingdom, when she heard someone calling from afar.

"Yo princess that you?"

Phoebe and Finn looked to their right to see Flambo heading their way.

"Hey Flambo what's up?" Asked Finn.

"Nothing good I can tell you that." Said Flambo.

"What's wrong? Is my dad ok?" Asked Phoebe.

"Your old mans fine, though his not sitting on the throne right now." Said Flambo.

"What do you mean?" Asked Finn.

"Let me start at the beginning. The soldiers have been acting strange lately, wondering around with weird zombie looks in their eyes. They don't respond to anything, so I decided to go see what was going on at the palace. I snuck into the throne room and I see this young fire elemental sitting on the throne and wearing the crown. The Flame King was there, but he had the same zombie look in his eyes like the soldiers. Then I see these weird crystal guys who look like bugs around this big thing covered by a tarp and some weird creepy guy wearing a mask and a cloak was giving them orders." Said Flambo

Finn and Phoebe exchanged worried looks. The description Flambo had just given sounded like Pyro and Crimson. The question was what were they doing at the Fire Kingdom. One thing was for sure it wasn't good.

"Ok Flambo I need you to cast Flame Shield on me and we need you to go get help." Said Finn.

"Alright, but who should I get?" Said Flambo after he cast Flame Shield onto Finn.

"Get the Peace Protecters." Said Phoebe.

"You got it princess!" Said Flambo with a salute as he ran off.

Finn and Phoebe looked at one another.

"Let's figure out what we're dealing with first, then will attack." Said Finn.

"Sounds good to me." Said Phoebe.

The two of them headed into the Fire Kingdom. Several minutes later the two of them were creeping through the city streets, every now and then they would have to duck into an alley to avoid the marching guards. It was like Flambo told them, the guards now seemed to be under someone's control and they marched around like zombies. The young couple didn't want to fight or hurt the guards, so they stayed out of sight. Little did they know, someone had already spotted them.

Up above the city streets, Laser Wizard floated. The evil wizard had been taking in the sights of the city, when by chance he spotted Finn and Phoebe walking down below. Laser Wizard couldn't believe his good fortune. He quickly pulled out a small crystal ball and called Crimson on it. The masked villains face appeared in the orb.

"Master Crimson I just spotted Finn the Human and Phoebe the Flame Princess walking through the street." Said Laser Wizard.

"Interesting. Well done Laser Wizard." Said Crimson.

"Shall I capture them?" Asked Laser Wizard.

"No. I'll send some of the others to deal with them. You just return to the palace." Said Crimson.

"Yes sir." Said Laser Wizard as the image of Crimson vanished from the orb.

Laser Wizard turned around and flew back to the palace. Inside the palace Crimson was sending Scorcher and Fury to go capture Finn and Phoebe, he also told Don John to have the mind control guards on high alert around the palace. Scorcher and Fury soon left the palace to go accomplish their mission.

Elsewhere, Finn and Phoebe were just reaching the palace front steps. They've managed to avoid detection so far, but when they set foot on the steps they heard the sound of shuffling armor and a bunch of guards walked out of the shadows and surrounded the couple with spears. Finn shot his hands out grabbing one guards spear. The young hero then broke the spearhead off and started to push the guards back with a jab from the shaft. Phoebe saw this and did the same thing with another spear. The two of them managed to push all the guards back and get a little breathing room, unfortunately Scorcher and Fury joined in on the fight. The two silent fire elementals charged forward and attacked!

Scorcher chopped Finn's staff in half with a flaming hand, while Fury chopped Phoebe's shaft in half with his sword. Before either of the young heroes could react, Fury blasted them with a glob of webbing with his spider wand. Finn and Phoebe fell to the ground in a tangle of web. Scorcher then stepped in and delivered a powerful chop to the back of the neck for both Finn and Phoebe knocking them unconscious. The guards came forward and picked up the two heroes and carried them into the castle and to the throne room.

Pyro sat up from his throne and starred at the two unconscious heroes with excitement. Crimson starred at Finn and Phoebe. Their arrival was unexpected, but right now they were no threat to the plan.

"What should we do with them?" Asked Don John.

"Chain them to the wall. Once they wake up will tell them what were doing and then will give them both a horrible death." Said Pyro as he indicated the guards to go chain the young couple up.

"Are you sure, that is wise?" Asked Crimson.

"Don't worry about it, we have this place completely under our control. Nobody else knows what were up to and I plan to let my new monster deal with Finn. Will see how that so called hero deals with a true terror." Said Pyro as he pulled out the egg the Lich gave him.

"Very well, but before you have Finn killed. I need to grab something from him." Said Crimson.

"Whatever you say master." Said Pyro as he put the egg up.

An hour later Finn and Phoebe regained consciousness. The two of them blinked their eyes in confusion as they looked around. The first thing they noticed was that they were chained to a wall, the second was Pyro sitting in the throne not too faraway with the rest of the villains standing around him.

"Ah rise and shine sleepyheads, we wouldn't want you to miss out on the festivities." Said Pyro with a grin as he stood up.

"What...are you talking about?" Asked Finn.

"Oh we're going to start a war in Ooo. Will get the Fire Kingdom and Candy Kingdom to declare war on each other and then the rest of Ooo will be dragged in." Said Pyro.

"Your nuts! Why would the Fire Kingdom and the Candy Kingdom go to war with one another? They're allies now and they have peaceful relations with each other now." Said Phoebe.

"Aw my poor little sister, your so clueless to how the real world works. The Fire Kingdom and Candy Kingdom don't really trust each other, they're just saying they do so they can keep a better eye on each other. Bubblegum is a very paranoid person who sees the Fire Kingdom as a threat and a possible threat to her authority over Ooo." Said Pyro.

"That's...not true! Bubblegum gave me a sincere apology and told me she wished for peace between our kingdoms." Said Phoebe.

"She did didn't she or was it a clever ruse? Bubblegum is quit skilled at manipulating people into doing what she wants and telling them what they want to hear. Just ask your boyfriend about how he once loved Bubblegum and she used those emotions to make him do what she wanted and then she ripped the poor boy's heart out once he confessed his feelings to her." Said Crimson.

Phoebe glanced over at Finn, who starred at the ground. The boy then looked up and glared at Crimson.

"Yeah I had feelings for Bubblegum and she knew about them, but she didn't completely use my emotions to get me to do what she wanted. I helped her out because that's what heroes do. Bubblegum did...kind of reject my emotions to her, but that was only because it wouldn't have worked out and she didn't like me like that. I still consider Bubblegum one of my best friends and your wrong about her lying to Phoebe." Said Finn as he looked over at Phoebe.

Phoebe smiled at him.

"So what's your big plan to start a war?" Asked Finn.

"Oh it's simple really the Fire Kingdom is going to launch an unprovoked attack against the Candy Kingdom killing tons of it's citizens. Bubblegum will then launch a counterattack and then the kingdoms will declare war against one another." Said Crimson as he walked out to the balcony to the large tarp covered object surrounded by Crystal Ants .

Finn and Phoebe watched as the Crystal Ants took the tarp off to reveal a large cannon made out of crystals. Pyro laughed with excitement.

"Once we fire this bad boy and hit the Candy Kingdom, will have a big glorious war on our hands!"

"Father would never let his kingdom go to war like this!" Shouted Phoebe.

"Oh dad had no choice in the matter. You see I'm king now, so I'm in charge." Said Pyro as he pointed at Flame King who was standing to the side and then at himself.

"Why are you doing this man? This destruction your causing is senseless!" Shouted Finn.

Pyro looked at Finn as if he was a complete idiot.

"Make sense? Destruction isn't supposed to make sense! It's only fun when it's senseless!"

"Why...are you like this?" Asked Phoebe as she starred at Pyro.

"Oh...its a long story. Crimson can explain, but first he needs a little something from the hero." Said Pyro.

Crimson walked over to Finn, pulled out a bottle and began to say a spell.

"Creature of gut wrenching festering fear come forth and tell us this boy's deepest darkest fear!"

Finn felt his gut groan as a smokey black creature came out of his belly button and went over to Crimson. The creature was the Fear Fester and it knew Finn's greatest fears. The Fear Fester whispered something to Crimson and the villain chuckled. Crimson raised the bottle and the Fear Fester went into it. The masked villain closed the lid and put the bottle back into his cloak.

"What did you...do?" Asked Finn.

"I simply took your Fear Fester, you'll still have fear, but the Fear Fester won't be around anymore. I'll take it as a reminder of you." Said Crimson.

"So what...is Pyro's story?" Asked Phoebe.

"Ah yes. Several years back, when you were born I went to the Fire Kingdom to kidnap you. I killed your mother and after I had taken you away from your home, I managed to take some of your blood, and you managed to escape me." Said Crimson.

"You...you...killed my...mom?" Asked Phoebe in stunned shock.

"I did and as for your blood I had it used to create Pyro." Said Crimson.

A few tears fell from Phoebe's eyes as she looked up at Crimson.

"You MONSTER! You killed my mom, created a psycho brother from my blood, got me locked up, and now your going to start a war!" Roared Phoebe as she strained against her chains, but they were to strong for her.

Crimson just laughed at Phoebe. Pyro rubbed his hands together.

"Time for you to experience a horrible death!" He laughed as he summoned some guards to drag Finn out to the balcony.

Finn struggled, but his captors had a tight grip on him. Finn looked out from the balcony and saw a lake of lava a few hundred yards away. In the center there was a tiny island with a big column and chain.

"You will be placed on that island where you have two options. You can either fall into the lava or you could take your chances with Magwood and my other pet as they attack. Either way your going to die!" Laughed Pyro as the guards dragged Finn away.

"Finn!" Cried Phoebe as she tried to come to her boyfriends aid, but she couldn't break free and she broke down into tears.

Pyro watched Phoebe cry with amusement, before he reached into his armor and pulled out the egg.

"Time for you to hatch." Said Pyro.

The egg started to glow with dark energy. Pyro tossed the egg into the lava and it disappeared underneath the surface. The lava then started to bubble as something big moved underneath. Pyro grinned with anticipation. The fun would soon start.

Outside the Fire Kingdom, the Peace Protecters and Flambo were arriving. Gearga, Momo, and Slippy were wearing protective suits of high tech armor. Drake was just wearing his pants. The dragon man sniffed the air and a worried look appeared on his face.

"What is it?" Asked Gearga.

"I smell something incredibly evil and destructive. We need to strike fast and hard." Said Drake.

"Alright. Peace Protecters let's move out!" Said Gearga as she pulled out her sword.

The group headed into the Fire Kingdom.

To be continued.