Adventure Time: The Human and The Shadow

A Girl and Her Prince

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Finn and Lumen sat around the fire trying to gather a little bit more warmth. The fire crackled and spat out sparks that seemed to dance in the night’s sky. Finn was staring attentively into the flame picturing the one who filled his heart with warmth. Since being with Lumen Finn’s life had changed dramatically, now a Prince to the Shade Kingdom he felt that he now had more to offer the fire monarch. It wasn’t just his status that had changed. The light Lumen had used to cleanse the evil within the IK’s crown had rid Finn of his doubts about Flame Princess and Finn knew that when the sun rose he’d be ready to see his separated love once again.

“Hey… Lumen?”

“Yeah Finn?”

“What was that light you used back there? Like how did it fix the IK?”

“That light is sacred to the people of light that live in my kingdom, when my kingdom started it was actually through force of the first Shade King and his wife. The King was a man of the shadows and his wife was a woman of the light, their love was unheard of and both were shunned as traitors. It would have been a tragic end to a lover’s story if not for the baby that the Shade Queen bore. When I was first told about it, it was by my handmaiden, it is actually a fairy tale told to children at night to help them sleep. The child was the first Shade being, a mix of light and dark, she was the hope of her kingdom and while understanding the balance with the dark she shone brighter than any other. It became a sacred light the people treasured deep in their hearts, the light shone it cast away the darkness in their hearts so that every shade individual’s heart blossomed with this sacred light. The kingdom was forged the same day the Princess of the Light was born. I’m not sure how much of the story is true but it helped me understand why they went through so much effort to get me to be their Prince, the royal blood is that of the Light Princess and we are literally the people’s beacon of hope. They’re not really keen on me leaving the kingdom it makes them nervous so I made this lantern that is at top of our kingdom, it resembles the sun in shape and in the day it shines with holy light and in the night it absorbs the dark from the hearts leaving my people happy and fulfilled. Pretty nifty huh?”

“So wait… can you use that to like banish evil?” Finn asked excitedly

“Aha I wish but sorry Finn it’s sort of a little charm it can remove little things such as spite and doubt and cure broken hearts. The most it could do would be cause them a little tingling unless they were like mega evil. I don’t know why it had such an effect on Simon but I guess his love for Betty kept him alive in that insanity all these years and when I healed his heart the crown responded and answered the call of his heart… pretty rom-com like but it works so if it isn’t broke don’t try to fix it”.

“Yeah I guess your right” Finn yawned, he was a little disappointed thinking it would have made an awesome weapon but he couldn’t deny it had its uses. He suddenly felt a wave of tiredness fill his body, he had been through so much in that one day and honestly felt more knackered than he had fighting the crystal dragon that he had the week before. 

Sensing that Finn was getting pretty tired Lumen suggested they hit the hay, he explained to Finn that he didn’t actually need to sleep but just enjoyed the feeling it gave him. It was a side effect of the Shade transformation and sleeping two years so he said he would stay up and guard the camp. Finn was comforted by this and while moving closer to the fire started to drift off to sleep. Lumen stared at the stars lying on his back; he loved looking at the sky at night it reminded him of his home with the white light filling the black sky. He wondered how Leaden was doing and wondered if the old guy was missing him. “I need to remember to get him a present… He’s been so good to me this last year and I want to show him he means everything to me” Lumen smiled at the thought of his withered friend.