Family
Chapter 122 Nightmare Adventure
By: Major144
Disclaimer: I do not own anything, expect the OCs. This is just a story for fun.
(Author's Note: Special shoutout to: a sexy monkey and my pal Fiery Crusader. The stuff they asked for will be in this chapter. Also there will be a bunch of horror themed goodies in this chapter, so enjoy.)
The storm clouds over the Dream Kingdom continued to span and the dark energy produced by Nightmare Princess began to warp the realty in and around the castle. A few of Bubblegum's machines picked up the massive surge of energy and it greatly concerned the candy monarch. Bubblegum quickly called the Peace Protecters and Finn to come to her castle, so she could explain the situation. Phoebe, Jake, Marceline, Lucinda, Henry, Lance, and Django, also got calls from Bubblegum to come to the Candy Kingdom. The heroes were gathered in a dining room, with Bubblegum standing before them.
"Thank you all for coming. As you may be aware there has been a strange weather formation above a strange kingdom in the far off lands as well as a bunch of sightings of monsters heading that way. At first the weather formation just stayed where it was, but over the past few days the clouds seem to be spreading and my instruments have been picking some extremely unusually energy readings. Whatever energy is causing that storm it also appears that it's warping reality itself! If this continues to spread and go on, all of Ooo will be in danger." Said Bubblegum.
"Do we know the name of this kingdom?" Asked Gearga.
"Unfortunately no, which in itself is strange. Every kingdom has a grand map that list all the other kingdoms, villages, and major landmarks of Ooo, but there seems to be a empty space on the map where the strange kingdom should be. It's an Unknown Kingdom that seems to just appeared out of thin air." Said Bubblegum.
"Could the unusually reality warping energy be responsible for brining that kingdom into existence?" Asked Django.
"Possible, but we still don't have enough information about it to be sure." Said Bubblegum.
"Well I guess will just have to go there and find out." Said Finn.
All the assembled heroes nodded and prepared to leave. Gearga stayed behind and looked at Bubblegum.
"I have to ask, where are Tobe, Huntress Wizard, and Hunter Wizard. I know Simon and Betty are recovering from their fight with Evergreen and Icilia, so they can't help, but what about the others?"
"I asked Tobe, Huntress Wizard, and Hunter Wizard to go to Castle Lemongrab to see what's happened to Lemongrab and Cookie. I also want to know if King is up to anything." Explained Bubblegum.
"Makes sense, those three are good at stealth." Said Gearga before, she turned around to leave.
The heroes either loaded up into the tank or used their own powers to head towards the Unknown Kingdom.
Elsewhere near the edge of the Unknown Kingdom, Bill, Beast, Klarion and Teekl appeared in a flash of light and took in the sight of dark clouds and monster filled area.
"Whoa this is my kind of place! Just look at all those monsters roaming around. This is going to be fun!" Said Bill.
"I detect a great amount of despair at the center of all this." Said Beast.
"Just look at all that chaos that wishes to spread, it's just delightful." Said Klarion.
The four villains headed into the kingdom and towards the castle. A few seconds later Nero and Dimentio appeared and looked at the kingdom.
"We need to destroy that GOLB statue and free Night Princess from whatever power is controlling her." Said Nero.
Dimentio nodded and the two of them headed into the kingdom.
From the South, Jack, Jasper, and Xeexi were approaching the kingdom and studying it. Jack had a big grin on his face.
"Now that's a chaotic party! All that dark energy is just waiting to be harvested! Oh this is going to be fun!" Laughed Jack.
"At least I have something to beat up." Said Jasper as she cracked her knuckles.
"Just keep your eyes peeled for anything that we can use." Said Xeexi.
The three of them entered the kingdom.
Miles away at Castle Lemongrab, Tobe, Huntress Wizard, and Hunter Wizard were sneaking around the castle through the air vents, trying to find Lemongrab and Cookie, when they stumbled upon a dinning room and saw King and Sedusa sipping wine. Sir Slicer and Jordan entered the room and approached the two villains.
"My lord, according to Jordan's magic that strange cloud formation from that Unknown Kingdom is growing rapidly and attracting more monsters. By my calculations that storm will reach Castle Lemongrab within a week." Said Sir Slicer.
"Well we can't have that now can we. I've worked to long building this place up to have to be ruined by a dumb storm and some monsters. I won't stand for that!" Said King.
"What would you have us do?" Asked Jordan.
"Assemble a team, go to that kingdom, and destroy whatever is responsible for this mess." Ordered King.
Jordan and Sir Slicer saluted and marched off. Huntress Wizard sent a quick tex about what was going on to Bubblegum, before she and the others went back to looking for Lemongrab and Cookie.
The heroes arrived at the Unknown Kingdom and they made their way in. Finn was riding Jake, when they heard a tiny voice.
"Help me! Help me!"
The two heroes looked around and then they saw a spiderweb between two branches. Near the bottom of the web was a regular size fly, but it had the head and arms of a human man. In the center of the web was a large brown spider making its way towards the fly man.
"Ok that's...just creepy!" Said Jake.
"Don't worry little fly...guy I'll save you." Said Finn as he plucked the insect from the web and knocked the spider away with the hilt of his sword.
The spider scrambled away on the ground.
"Oh thank you!" Cheered the fly guy as he flew away.
"I have a feeling this place is going to get weirder as we get deeper." Muttered Jake.
The heroes continued on and Gearga got a tex from Bubblegum alerting her about the trouble that was going to come from Castle Lemongrab.
"Well that's just another problem were just going to have to deal with." Muttered Drake.
"Hopefully they're the only villains we have to deal with on this mission." Said Slippy.
"But knowing our luck, were bound to deal with a ton of bad guys." Said Momo.
The heroes readied their weapons as they moved forward.
On the Westside of the kingdom, Sir Slicer and Jordan were leading a large group of criminals. The group conceited of Bandit Princess, Sid the leader of the slider guys, Candle Jack leaders of the hooligans, and several slider guys, hooligans, and Bandit Princess's henchmen the Bandit Thieves. The Bandit Thieves were blue skinned humanoids covered in bandages that made them look like a cross between a mummy and a ninja all of them were armed with bows and arrows. Sir Slicer halted the group for a little rest as he looked at the kingdom ahead with a spyglass. The evil knight watched some flying monsters fly by, before he turned to glance back at his forces. Sir Slicer knew he could rely on most of his forces in a fight. Jordan had his magic and Bandit Princess was good with a sword. The knight cast a glance at Sid and Candle Jack. Sid looked like most slider guys, except he had a small mustache and wore a black beret on his head. The gang leader also wore two spiked metal gloves on his hands. Candle Jack wore a white shirt with jeans, boots, and a black leather jacket, with his black hair styled in a pompadour. The hooligan had a flamethrower/jetpack on his back. Everyone in the group was dangerous.
"Alright let's move out." Said Sir Slicer as he lead his forces forward into the kingdom.
Deep within the castle Nightmare Princess sat on the ground with the dark one eyed cloud hanging over her head. The cloud sensed the presence of several unknown beings entering the kingdom and decided to whip up some special nightmares to deal with them. The eye glowed with an intense red light and shadowy dark flames leaped from it's dark body and began to take two shapes.
The first appeared to be a pale demon with two large-white ram horns coming out from the top of it's head, a red scar on the right side of his face, and the left side of his face had no flesh; instead there was only muscle. The exposed muscles of it's arms and legs were covered with black nerves, which pulsed slowly. It's feet were shaped like cloven hooves.
The second took on the appearance of a human that was completely black with a red outline around it's entire body giving it a silhouette-like appearance. The figure had hair styled in a pompadour, a pointed chin, pointed nose, two large yellow eyes, and a pipe that was in a lipless mouth.
The cloud looked at the two beings quit pleased with itself. Then it used Nightmare Princess like a puppet to speak to them.
"I name you Magician and I name you Father." Said the controlled body of Nightmare Princess as she pointed to the demon first and the dark man next. "Some people are going to break into the castle and I need you to deal with them."
(Author's Note: Magician is from House of the Dead and Father is from Kids Next Door.)
"They shall fall." Said Magician.
"We'll make sure to give them a proper welcome." Said Father.
The two vanished in a burst of flames. The cloud released it's hold on Nightmare Princess and she just sat there.
In another part of the kingdom, Jack, Jasper, and Xeexi were getting closer and closer to the castle. The trio had seen a couple of strange sights since entering the kingdom. They saw a ghost hitchhiking, a creepy pale guy hiding in a cave and muttering the word precious repeatedly, and now they saw a headless man riding a horse and carrying a jack-o'-lantern riding about. Jack had a nasty grin on his face as he climbed up a nearby tree and waited for the headless rider to run by, when he did Jack swung his scythe and knocked the rider from his horse and jumped on. Jack let out a crazy laugh as he rode off with the horse, with Jasper and Xeexi behind him.
Meanwhile the heroes had arrived at a pair of large gates that lead into a cemetery. Near the gate were five statue busts of old men. As the group approached the gate the busts sprung to life and they began to sing.
When the crypt doors creak and the tombstone quake
Spooks come out for a swinging wake
Happy haunts materialize and begin to vocalize
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize
Now don't close your eyes and don't try to hide
Or a silly spook may sit by you're side
Shrouded in a daft disguise
They pretend to terrorize
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize
As the moon hangs high over the dead oak tree
Spooks arrive for a midnight spree
Creepy creeps with eerie eyes
Start to shriek and harmonize
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize
When you hear the knell of a requiem bell
Weird ghouls gleam where the spirits dwells
Restless bones etherealize
Arising spooks of every size
Grim grinning ghosts come out to socialize
(Author's Note: the song is Grim Grinning Ghost from A Haunted Mansion.)
The busts stopped singing and the gates opened up allowing the heroes to go through them.
"Well that...wasn't ominous." Said Jake nervously.
"Oh relax scaredy cat, ghost aren't that scary. Your with me the Queen of the Vampires, my cousin the Queen of the Werewolves, the Son of Death, the Daughter of War, and a dragon man. We're way more terrifying then a few ghost." Said Marceline rolling her eyes.
Jake just grumbled as the group continued onward. The graveyard was full of graves and statues of people. It was at that moment the heroes encountered Sir Slicer's group, which had entered the graveyard through a different gate. The two groups eyed each other for several seconds, then Finn spoke.
"What are you guys doing here?"
"Oh we simply came to destroy the source of this evil storm. You see it threatens Castle Lemongrab and my boss doesn't want that, so he sent us to deal with it." Said Sir Slicer.
"So right now our goals are the same. We want to stop the storm and you want to stop the storm." Said Gearga.
"I suggestion we put any past conflicts aside and join up. A joint effort between our two forces would be more successful then either of us going at this mission alone." Said William.
"You do have a point, but here's another. If a certain group of heroes, were to be eliminated then my master's plans for expansion would go a whole lot more smoothly. My group and I would also be paid quit way for eliminating these heroes." Said Sir Slicer with a smirk.
"Well so much for working together with this lot." Grumbled Lucinda as she and the heroes readied their weapons.
However, before either group could attack each other, there was the sound of a clock striking an hour and letting out a might ringing sound. The ground started to rumble and several decomposing zombies burst from the grave and surrounded the heroes and criminals.
"ZOMBIES!" Screamed Jake.
A zombie wearing a candy-apple-red jacket with black strips with several zips and a "M" logo, with the angular, rigid shoulder work protruding out over the tops of the arms, shuffled before the group's. The heroes and villains prepared to get attacked, but the zombie did something else entirely. The jacket wearing zombie grinned, raised his arms in the air, and began to dance. The groups starred at the zombie in open mouth astonishment. The other zombies mimicked the jacket zombies moves and then the jacket zombie began to sing.
It's close to midnight and something evil's lurking
In the dark
Under the moonlight you see a sight that almost stops
Your heart
You try to scream, but terror takes the sound before
You make it
You start to freeze as horror looks you right between
The eyes
You're paralyzed
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
And no one's gonna save you from the beast about to
Strike
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer
Thriller tonight
You hear the door slam and realize there's nowhere
Left to run
You feel the cold hand and wonder if you'll ever see
The sun
You close your eyes and hope that this is just
Imagination
But all the while you hear the creature creepin' up
Behind
You're out of time
'Cause this is thriller, thriller night
There ain't no second chance against the thing with
Forty eyes
You know it's thriller, thriller night
You're fighting for your life inside a killer
Thriller tonight
Night creatures call
And the dead start to walk in their masquerade
There's no escapin' the jaws of the alien this time
(They're open wide)
This is the end of your life
They're out to get you; there's demons closing in on
Every side
They will possess you unless you change the number on
Your dial
Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close
Together
All through the night I'll save you from the terrors on
The screen
I'll make you see
That it's a thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost
Would ever dare try
Girl, this is thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, diller
Chiller
Thriller here tonight
That it's a thriller, thriller night
'Cause I can thrill you more than any ghost
Would ever dare try
Girl, this is thriller, thriller night
So let me hold you tight and share a killer, diller
Darkness falls across the land
The midnight hour is close at hand
Creatures crawl in search of blood
To terrorize y'awl's neighborhood
And whosoever shall be found
Without the soul for getting down
Must stand and face the hounds of hell
And rot inside a corpse's shell
The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of the thriller
(Author's Not: That's right folks it's Michael Jackson's Thriller!)
The heroes and villains starred at the zombies not sure what to do. Then Marceline and Lucinda began to clap and cheer followed by Django. This seemed to please the jacket zombie and the other zombies who grinned and bowed. Unfortunately the music had attracted some other company. Perched on a little chapel in the cemetery was Kee-Oth.
"Well. Well. It looks like we have some company. I see Joshua's brats and I see you brought some friends." Said Kee-Oth with an evil grin.
Finn shook slightly as he put a hand on his right arm. The memory of Kee-Oth breaking the arm sent a shiver of fear down Finn's spine. The demon seemed to sense Finn's fear and laughed wickedly. Jake looked at Finn and put a comforting hand on his shoulder and glared up at the demon.
"Leave my brother alone creep! You mess with him you mess with me and about everybody else here and there is a lot of us and one of you." Said Jake.
"Yeah! You come down here I'll burn you to ashes!" Said Phoebe as her hands glowed red with energy,
"Oh you won't have me outnumbered for long." Sneered Kee-Oth as he flew into the air and let out a loud screeching whistle.
The sound could be heard throughout the kingdom and every monster that had been attracted to the dark energy came rushing to the cemetery and smashed the fence around it surrounding the heroes, villains, and zombies. The zombies seemed incredibly angered by the monsters invading their territory and they prepared to attack. The heroes and villains raised their weapons prepared to attack.
Off in the distance Jack, Jasper, and Xeexi had heard the screeching whistle and saw a bunch of monsters charging to the cemetery. Curious as to what was going on they went to see what was happening. Jack saw the scene that was fixing to happen in the cemetery and he let out a mad whoop.
"Now that looks like my kind of party! I'm going to get me a slice of that action!" Said Jack as he rode his stolen horse forward.
Jasper and Xeexi followed.
Bill, Beast, Klarion, and Teekl were near the castle and they also decided to investigate the noise they heard.
Nero and Dimentio were at the castle and fixing to head into a cave beneath it, when they heard the noise.
"I sense that Finn is incredibly uneasy about something, his going to need a little peep talk." Said Nero.
"Alright, you do that. I'll wait here for you." Said Dimentio.
Nero nodded and hurried off.
Back at the cemetery, Kee-Oth raised his hands and shouted a battle cry to his fellow monsters.
"Monster Mash!"
The monsters charged forward and the battle was on.
To be continued.
