Family
Chapter 57 Argument
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
Finn, Jake, Marceline, Lucinda, Susan, Lance, and Henry accompanied Simon and Betty to the Ice Kingdom. Finn rode on Jake's back holding the unconscious form of Phoebe. The young hero looked down at the girl he loved and felt bad about not being able to truly come to her aid. The fight with the clones had been close and it seemed like they were going to win, until Phoebe turned the tide of battle. Phoebe's powers had saved the day, but it looked like they exhausted her. The fire elemental's flames were a little lower and less bright then normal. Finn was worried about Phoebe and hopped that she would recover soon.
The group soon reached the Ice Kingdom and made their way to the mountain castle. Phoebe was placed in her bed. Betty grabbed her medical tools and examined the young princess.
"Is she going to be ok?" Asked Finn with a look of concern.
"Phoebe is ok. Besides some bruises on her body, she is just exhausted. We just need her to rest and give her some time to recover." Said Betty.
Finn relaxed and looked at Phoebe. The young hero bent his head down and kissed the princess on the cheek. The group left to let Phoebe rest.
"So Finn and Phoebe are real tight." Said Lance as he and Marceline were hanging outside the castle with Henry and Lucinda.
Finn and Jake were a few yards away showing Susan how to make a snowman.
"Yeah they're real tight. Finn and Phoebe really do love one another." Said Marceline as she watched Finn put the head on the snowman.
"So you felt that cold dreadful feeling when we fought that clone of us?" Asked Lucinda.
"I did." Admitted Marceline.
"So that clone of yours has both of your DNA. I get the feeling that's bad." Said Henry.
"It is. That clone has a mixture of werewolf, vampire, demon, and angle DNA. I have a bad feeling we only saw a sample of that clone's power." Said Lucinda.
"Well don't you ladies worry, if that clone shows up, your handsome knights will chase her off." Said Henry with a grin.
"Ah that's sweet! Thank you merman." Said Lucinda as she kissed Henry on the cheek.
"Anytime angelfish." Replied Henry with a grin.
"Man you two already have pet names for each other?" Said Marceline.
"Yep." Said Lucinda.
"Alright then, we can come up with pet names to." Said Lance.
"Yeah and I already got one for you. Sparky." Said Marceline.
"I like that. Ok...I'll call you Mar Mar." Said Lance.
"Weird, but I like it." Said Marceline as she kissed Lance on the cheek.
A few hours later most of the heroes began to leave the Ice Kingdom. Finn said goodbye to the sleeping form of Phoebe, before he and Jake went back to the tree fort, Lance and Henry said goodbye to Marceline and Lucinda before they headed to the Candy Kingdom with Susan, and Marceline and Lucinda decided to spend the night at the Ice Castle.
All throughout Ooo everybody was asleep and having peaceful dreams, that is except for Phoebe. The fire elemental was having a terrible nightmarish dream.
In the dream Phoebe was surrounded by scorched earth, dead trees, and skeletons with blackened bones. The princess looked around nervously and off in the distance, she saw the Fire Kingdom. Phoebe flew towards it and made her way into the castle. For some strange reason there seemed to be nobody around.
"Hello is anyone there?" Called Phoebe.
Then Phoebe heard someone singing in the distance. It sounded like a women's voice.
There was a time before, when we were still...
Afraid of the dark
Then came the first spark, a fiery birth...
It totally rocked
Sentinels crashing down, out of the blue...
Creating a kingdom of red hue
Now there's only few...
These sleeping Gods have tremendous power...
Can cause a new kingdom to flower...
So burn as bright as the Sun
My fiery one
If light starts to dim
Awaken again
The slumbering ones
Phoebe recognized the song as 'A Kingdom from a Spark', but she had no idea who was sining it. The fire elemental followed the voice to a large bedroom. A older fire elemental wearing a dress an a tiara stood facing a window, with her back facing Phoebe. The princess studied the women in confusion. The women then turned around to face Phoebe and she let out a gasp! It was Phoebe's mother Flame Queen. Though Phoebe had never met her mom, she had seen some pictures of her.
"Mom?" Said Phoebe as she stretched a hand out other mother.
Flame Queen smiled at her daughter, but then a look of shock and pain appeared on her face. Phoebe starred at her Mom in confusion, then she saw a blade sticking out through her chest!
"MOM!" Cried Phoebe as she raced to her mother.
Phoebe watched in horror as her mom's flames died and she disintegrated into ashes and standing behind her holding the blade that killed her was Crimson. The masked villain raised his glaive up like a staff and faced Phoebe.
"I have already robbed you of your mother." He said.
Phoebe felt tears of rage drip down her cheeks as she leaped into the air at Crimson with a flame sword in her hands. The villain calmly raised a hand and the attacking princess froze in the air. Crimson casually waved his hand and Phoebe smashed through a wall and into the throne room.
"Glad you could join the party sis." Said a voice from the throne.
Phoebe looked up with horror to see Pyro sitting on the throne dressed in his copper armor and wearing Flame King's evil prince grinned at his sister.
"I'll tell you what, dad sure did put up one heck of a fight, but in the end, I killed him and took what was rightfully mine. Now I can lead our people to greatness." Said Pyro.
"NO! This can't be happening!" Cried Phoebe as she stood up.
Before she could do anything the ground seemed to rise up around her and a few seconds later Phoebe found herself trapped in the lantern. Crimson appeared next the lantern laughing.
"Oh my poor dear princess, this is only the beginning of what we've done."
The lantern and Crimson flew up through the celling and into the sky. Phoebe looked around in horror as she saw both the Ice Kingdom and the Candy Kingdom in ruins. Crimson and the lantern flew through the air towards the Grasslands and landed. The tree fort was scorched and crumbling nearby.
"How...could this have happened?" Asked Phoebe.
"Oh it was easy. We took out all the so called heroes." Said Crimson as he pointed at something behind Phoebe.
The princess turned and was met by a gruesome sight. Several bodies laid on the ground and Phoebe saw that they were all her friends and allies. Django laid scattered about with his skull and mystic guitar shattered to pieces, Tobe laid on the ground covered in scars and his swords broken, Slippy, Momo, and Huntress Wizard had arrows sticking out of their chest, Susan was missing her arms, Drake had a huge hole in his chest, Gearga had a sword stabbed through her gut, Lance was missing his legs, Henry was covered in burns, Betty was bleeding heavily, and Jake was covered in bruises.
Phoebe soon realized that four people were missing.
"I saved the best for last." Said Crimson.
Phoebe turned to see Simon, Marceline, Lucinda, and Finn all chained up and beaten.
"You monster, I'll kill you for what you did to Henry!" Shouted Lucinda as she yanked at her chains.
Crimson pointed up at the sky and a bolt of lighting came down and struck Lucinda! The werewolf let out a horrible dying scream, before she dropped to the ground smoking and lifeless. Phoebe just stared at the burned body of her cousin in horror. Simon glared up at Crimson.
"Dam you Crimson! How dare you! Leave these children alone!"
Crimson pointed a finger at Simon and fired a red beam of energy out of it. The beam struck Simon in the chest and he started to bleed and cough up blood, before he fell onto his side.
"Simon!" Screamed Phoebe and Marceline.
"Girls...I want you...to know...that raising...you both...as...my own brought me some of the best years of my life. I...love...you!" Gasped Simon as the life left his eyes and he died.
Phoebe felt tears fall from her eyes as she stared at the body of the man who raised and protected her. Marceline let out a roar and with a mad burst of strength broke the chains that restrained her and charged at Crimson clawed hands extended. The masked villain dodged out of the way as Marceline's claws slammed into the ground creating a crater. The vampires glared murderously at Crimson, then she glanced at the lantern and slammed a fist into it shattering it. Phoebe got out and looked at her older sister with thanks. Before any words could be said a silver stake flew through the air and stabbed the vampire in the chest! Marceline screamed as her body burst into flames and she fell to the ground. Phoebe watched in horror as Marceline was burned to ashes. The princess turned to face Crimson, who was now standing behind Finn with his glaive raised.
"FINN! No!" Screamed Phoebe.
Crimson rammed his blade through Finn's back and out through his chest! Finn starred down at his shirt as it began to turn red with his blood. The young hero then looked up at Phoebe.
"Phoebe...I love...you." Said Finn as Crimson removed his blade from his body.
Finn toppled over to the ground dead. Crimson held his blade up as blood dripped from it.
"And so ends the tale of the heroes of Ooo. You see princess, you and your friends are destined to lose and I will take everything you cherish in this world!"
Crimson began to grown, until he blocked out the sky. The villain raised his weapon up high.
"Now it is your turn to die."
Crimson slashed his blade downwards towards Phoebe.
Before it struck, Phoebe woke up in the real world breathing hard. It had all been a dream. The princess got out of bed and looked at her bedroom mirror. Phoebe began to wonder if the dream was just a nightmare, or perhaps a horrible vision of the future. One thing was for sure, Crimson and those who worked with him needed to be taken down. The princess needed to avenge her mother and protect the people she cared about.
The next few days were a bit of a blur. Phoebe told everybody about her dream and at first everybody was concerned, but after thinking about they simply told Phoebe it was just stress from the battle with the clones. Phoebe decided to go with that and she tried to get the others to search for Crimson. Finn agreed to help her, but after a week of searching for any leads they came up with nothing.
The couple were hanging in the Grasslands after a long search. The search had turned up empty and Phoebe was becoming frustrated. Finn noticed his girlfriends frustration and became concerned.
"What's the matter Phoebe?"
"It just that we can't find Crimson or my brother. They're out there planning something bad for all of us and pretty soon they'll launch a big attack and destroy us all!" Said Phoebe as she clenched her fist.
"Relax, Phoebe will find them and when they do show up will kick their evil butts to the curb. Besides didn't you smash your brother into a mountain and smash him to bits?" Said Finn.
"I just have this feeling that Pyro is far from dead and that he'll come back stronger and more determined to kill us. Right now the guy I'm after is Crimson, he needs to pay for everything his done." Said Phoebe.
"Will get him." Said Finn casually.
Phoebe whirled around to glare at Finn. The princess's emotions flared up and she began shouting angrily.
"I wish you would take this more seriously! Crimson killed my mother and I never got to experience what it was like to have a mother figure growing up. My father was devastated by my mom's death even to this day! I had a good time being raised by Simon and Marceline, but then Crimson came up with that scheme that got me locked up for eight years of my life. That was eight years of my childhood that I will never get back! Then I was finally free and I meet you and then Crimson came along with that psycho brother of mine and has been trying to kill me and all the people I care about! We need to take Crimson down, before he actually succeeds in killing us, but this is all one big happy adventure for you and your just enjoying yourself!"
Finn was taken aback by Phoebe's rage and outburst. The hero felt his own rage building up.
"I am taking this seriously! Phoebe I care about you and everybody else. I'm a hero and my job is to help and protect others. What happened to you was wrong and messed up! We're going to make Crimson face justice, but I have no idea where he is and neither does anybody else! I'm scared to about what Crimson has planed. I barely managed to stun that evil clone I fought and I almost died during that last fight and that freaked me out! I'm just trying to be positive and brave, so nobody else freaks out!"
Phoebe just starred at Finn, not sure how to reply. Finally she spoke.
"Well at least you had a mother figure growing up and maybe your birth parents are still alive out there somewhere. I hope that you find them someday and you'll introduce me to them, but right now I'm going to hunt Crimson down with or without your help."
"What are you saying?" Asked Finn.
"I need to stop Crimson and avenge my mother. That monster has done me so many wrongs and I'm going to put a stop to him. He...just makes me so angry and I think we...need a little time away from each to work things out." Said Phoebe.
"Are we breaking up?" Asked Finn.
"No...I still love you, but I'm so angry...and confused right now. I just need...some time alone to figure things out." Said Phoebe.
"So...dose this count as our first be argument as a couple?" Asked Finn.
"I...guess so. It...feels strange." Said Phoebe.
"Yeah." Agreed Finn.
"I guess...I'll see you...after I get all this worked out." Said Phoebe as she rose up into the air.
"Yeah...se you later." Mumbled Finn.
Phoebe away back to the Ice Kingdom as Finn headed back to the tree fort. Both teens were greatly confused about the argument and were not sure what to do. Finn halfheartedly played games on BMO as Phoebe began a mad search for Crimson and his whereabouts.
(Author's Note: Don't worry they'll work things out and I promise they'll be back together.)
To be continued.
