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"Meow!"
The wooden cat stamp that Finn had left behind suddenly appeared, violently knocking into him and pushing him forward. Finn did not expect such a thing to happen, and the fact that he was fully focusing on Marceline made it even worse.
He tumbled forward, and the cat head came to him once again, meowing annoyingly and urging him to get on so that they could leave.
Finn had never been so annoyed in the entirely of his life. First, he urged this greedy creature to leave, and it refused to leave because it was eating and now that he had found something to da and it had had its fill was when it wanted to carry him back! He almost pulled out his ninja sword and slushed the stupid cat in half. It was practically asking to be smashed.
"Ehem. Didn't your mother ever tell you it was rude to peak on people Kid." Marceline finally spoke, a teasing annoyed smile on her face. The sight of the cute kid staring angrily at the cat was quite amusing.
Finn's attention quickly moved away from the annoying little punk who was now trying to act all cute Infront of him and went back to the vampire now hovering Infront of him.
"My parents are gone. I'm kind of the last human in the whole of Ooo." Finn blurted out. It was kind of the truth. His mom had sacrificed herself, turning into a sort of cybernetic being living in cyberspace and his dad had gone mad and somehow managed to commit a cosmic crime that landed him in the citadel.
And now that he though of it, he wasn't really the last human in the whole of Ooo. There was also Susan who had lost her memory and Dr Gross who had augmented herself with cybernetics. Any other human-looking race in Ooo as he had come to know wasn't human, they were just species that looked like humans. There was also the Simon, but Finn wasn't sure if he could be classified as a human.
"Oh sorry…wait did you say you were human!" An awkward air had been created. Marceline could understand the pain of the young Finn in a way. But what she had heard was this little kid, a human. But that should be impossible. Humans were extinct in the land of Ooo. And the ones she knew were alive were somewhere on some sort of island. Whether they were even still alive she was unaware of. So how exactly was this possible.
She zoomed in, picking him up into her hands and took a big whiff of his smell. And yes, now she was very sure he was human. His smell perfectly shouted it out. She would know, she was a vampire, and human blood was a vampire delicacy. It was the main reason no human should exist in Ooo after all.
"I know I'm cute and all but isn't this kind of rude. You haven't even introduced yourself" Finn said giving her a sort of bored amused look. Maybe she was just happy to see a human after who knows how long. She was the one who had saved them from being wiped out by the Vampires
He wouldn't lie though his heart did skip a beat a little. Being this close to her, he could appreciate her beauty even more. She was perfect. The demonic vampire genes were really doing it for her.
"Hahaha. You're a funny kid. My name is Marceline. And I'm a demon!" Marceline transformed her face into a demonic and her tongue became snake-like. She hissed edging for a reaction. She expected to see the normal shock and a girl-like scream, that would make her day.
But the kid other than an increased heartbeat remained normal. He was actually smiling a little. A nervous smile that Marceline found somehow to be cute.
And Marceline quickly went back to normal. She was kind of embarrassed herself now. What do you do when your prank doesn't work anyways. The only possible answer was to silence all the other witnesses!
"I'm Finn Campbell. Was that supposed to scare me. It's kind of cool though. The whole transformation thing, maybe you should try it on kids, I'm sure it would work. "Finn punched right back and gave a small chuckle.
He could already see her earlier embarrassment now layered with an annoyed look. She was 100 years too young is she though she could break his poker face with a jump scare. He was the king of watching thrillers after all. And he also knew she was a prankster, like Jake. You never lowered your guard around pranksters.
"So, Finn what're you doing alone in the forest peeking on people. Don't you know monsters roam this land. Some nearer to you than you would expect. "Marceline quickly changed the subject. But her voice grew daker as she spoke. The surroundings darkened, even the subtle light from the moon becoming darker. She would let Finn have his little glory moment after her failed prank. She was the older one after all.
"Stop that. Too creepy. "Finn said goosebumps rising down his arms. While he may have been good at handling jump scares, horror was another thing. He believed he would be the first to run if he were ever in a horror story. In fact, he was booking the first flight out of the country.
"Hahaha. "Marceline laughed and casually waved her hand making the creepy environment disappear.
"Huhh, okay then, it all happened earlier…" Finn went on to explain about the wizard fight, his eventual blasting off by the shockwave, how the wooden cathead had refused to go back and how he had heard the voice of an angel and decided to investigate.
"…and that's what happened. You have a nice voice though. I like the song you were singing." He complimented one of his favorite goth waifu, the other one was obviously Raven. But unfortunately, she wasn't here.
"The voice of an angel, that's the nicest thing anyone has ever said. That's so nice of you" Marcleine rubbed away fake tears.
"Ehem. What about you Marceline, why are you out here alone instead of enjoying the festival. "Finn asked trying to hide his own embarrassment. All this time Marceline had in fact not put him down at all. She had only pulled him closer to herself. Taking occasion sniffs of his hair when she thought he wasn't aware of it. This was the advantage and disadvantage of being a child. He pushed against her ample body snuggly, yes what a true disadvantage.
"Well, you know Finn, sometimes adults such as me need a breather. Like playing music away from the crowd or looking up at the moon." Marceline said these words with a strange mystical air to her. Her head was raised, and she talked proudly.
"Sounds like the overdramatic words of a teenager to me. "Finn said jokingly putting Marceline's talk to a pause. She tried speaking, to save whatever ounce of face she still had but nothing came to mind.
This was the strategy Finn had come up with to handle someone with Marceline's character. He knew from his memory how she was a natural prankster and tease at heart. If he gave her any leeway, he would be the one on the receiving end. So, Finn was simply always on the attack.
"You cheeky brat." Marceline started squashing his cheeks together. Her pale cheeks gaining a little pink.
"Sorry, sorry. Okay you did look a little cool. "Finn decided to compromise as he finally rubbed his equally red cheeks.
They finally both looked at each other and both burst out laughing.
"You want to be friends or something Finn." Marceline asked her smile wide and predatory.
"Sure, why not. "Finn said casually. And now that he recalled, weren't they leaving in Marceline's house kind off. Hmmm, that was a problem for him to handle in the future.
"By the way, what were you recalling earlier while singing your song. You had that sad longing air around you." Finn felt he might have known the answer but still asked. Sometimes having knowledge of what had happened was truly burdensome.
Her eyes turned watery, but she did not cry. Finn could see complicated emotions pass through her eyes.
"Well, I was remembering someone very important. You shouldn't worry about it. "Marceline rubbed away her watery tears. There was a certain relief in her actions.
"Anyways, let me take you back to the festival. You never know out here in the cold dark forest. You could find a scary monster, or even a new cool vampire girl." Marceline puffed out her chest in pride and laughed at her own joke.
Finn easily accepted her words, but he still though of the expression she had shown. Marceline was one of the people Finn had wanted to help Immediately after he knew he was getting a second chance in adventure time.
Lost her mother, who Finn recalled, the young Marceline believed had abandoned her. She even lost Simon who was falling under the curse of the crown. And her dad was kind of a jerk.
But how exactly was he going to help her. There was one possibility of him swooping in making her fall madly in love and filling the rest of her life with eternal happiness…Finn quickly shook his head; he was letting to many of his thoughts leak.
The other more complicated possibility and the one Finn was unwilling to deal with was Time travel. A practical fix for everything. Past traumas, bringing the dead back to life. All you had to do was build time travelling machine. Finn thought about it and concluded.
He would do both! If Simon could time travel, so could he. And about making Marceline fall in love with him. That needed more detailed planning. But he was quite confident he could do it. If the other dense Finn could somehow, do it, so could he.
"Whatever cool goth vampire girl. "They both chuckled together and Marceline still strangely refused to put him on the ground, he wondered what that was all about.
It was only when they wanted to start leaving that Finn heard movements, from the surrounding greenery. It was happening all around them. He could here the movement of little feet, mild muttering and then finally a figure walked out.
It was a man, a very short man not short like a dwarf but far shorter. The figure had a long shaggy beard, a red pointed heart and wore suspenders.
'What's a gnome doing here.' Finn thought oddly able to immediately tell what species the creature was. His confusion only rose with his knowledge of where he recalled this gnome from.
...…. Adventure Time...
A/N: Yoo to everyone still here, it's been a while since I've posted. I hope everyone is well. For the short reason I haven't posted in a while, Life happened. For the long version, I started writing this other Fanfic of mine called Myriad Realms: Dream of infinity, one of my very first one and its difficult as heck to write. In simple terms, it takes inspiration from the infinity flow genre[Books like ultimate evolution and Infinite terror], and most of my own ideas.
I wanted to focus on one book so I had to unfortunately put Adventure time on hold. I'm truly sorry. But I want to assure you all, Adventure Time is not dropped, it just on break, and that break will end soon. I'm almost at a place on the Fanfic where I can be confident enough to write another book so please hold on a while longer.
For my main point, I wanted to ask for anyone interested in my work to check out that Fanfic, it's called Myriad Realms: Dream of infinity. I didn't want to post it these early originally but a fanfic competition came out and I decided to try out my luck. So guys, please go check it out and support it by Reviewing, commenting, dropping power stones and adding it to your libraries. It would mean a lot to me.
Thank you for reading