Love Bites!

The hang of it

The vampire had stayed up later then normal. By the time it was noon he was so over tired that he just couldn't sleep even if the bags under his eyes were getting worse. It wasn't any fun. "Glob it" he groaned scratching his stomach as he lazily floated into the kitchen. "Apples, Juice, strawberries, cherries" he mumble and after glaring at the contents of the fridge for about another two minuets he slammed the door shut causing everything to rattle. Why couldn't he just sleep? Gumball would be there soon so why can't he just- suddenly he collided his fist into the wall. This was agitating him to say the least. Finally he sighed dropping his head so that his hair fell into his face. "I'll just force my brain to sleep!" He grumbled angrily whilst floating up the ladder.
  Back at the candy kingdom the prince was just waking up. And later then usual. Work still needed to be done and he had a meeting in about an hour. There was a soft knock at the door. With a grunt he lifted himself from the messy bed and opened it. Peppermint pushed herself in "Alright price Gumball it's time for you to get dressed we have a meeting with the head of the constructions company for that remodeling job you wanted to do on the east side of the kingdom". She smiled sweetly, but her voice was heavy with discipline. He knew she was only bossing him around because she knew he wouldn't of wanted to get himself collected otherwise.
"Thank you peppermint but I'm old enough to dress myself" waving his hand as if to dismiss the matter he turned away. She chuckled "I remember when you were so young you couldn't even tie your shoes!".
  Yes it was true she had been serving him for a long long time because even though he may not look it, the handsome pink haired prince was hundreds of years old. "Yes it's been a while hasn't it" He stopped "Thank you for your loyalty to me Peppermint" she blushed at his kind words "O-of course Prince! Well I'll be leaving you to get dressed.. ring if you need anything" he glanced at the servants bell next to the door then back to her " will do" he added and continued to walk to his dresser.
  Fully clothed in his normal pink dressy attire he made his way down the hall to a large room with a round table full of candy subjects in suits. "welcome gentlemen excuse my being late". They all got up respectfully as he entered. "Oh no Prince Gumball it's quiet fine by us!" They all nodded "Yes sir re bob!" Another added. He waved them all to sit once more. "Let's get started shall we?". And the chatter began, it was then the prince started to hope he would make it to his appointment with Marshall lee and that he wouldn't have to reschedule.
The meeting didn't take as long as he thought it would, although it felt like forever and his back ached from sitting in the hard chair for so long. When he got to his room he removed his vest. Surly he wouldn't need it with the swordsmanship lesson he was attending and Marshall would just make fun of him for it. He found himself heading to the garden of the castle. MC would most likely be there. When he turned the corner he found the horse with cake and quickly stammered out many different sorry's for interrupting. Awkwardly he asked for a ride to Marshall's and off they went, even though it was still a little early he wanted to get MC back ASAP so he would be able to spend time with Cake. He never really had a love but if he did, he would want every moment to be spent with that person. He loved science. Maybe that's why he barely appeared outside his lab?
Anyway, he arrived at Marshall's house. The vampire hadn't even locked the door. Try as he might Gumball hadn't gotten a reply no matter how hard he knocked. So of course to make sure his "friend" was alright so he entered. But as soon as he walked past the door way the door slammed shut and a huge black bat swooped down snatching the pink haired boys crown. "What the math Marshall?! Marshall not funny! Give it back!" He yelped chasing after the creature. "Come on Marshall!". The king only snickered and threw the crown at Gumballs chest. " No pranks huh?"he spat.
"Hey!" Piped the black haired boy " if it wasn't funny then why that grin". Gumball stopped himself from what he was going say. He hadn't notice he had smiled. "Well" Marshall started "You're a few minuets early I hadn't expected you to be, if anything I'd expected ya to be late" he snorted
"Well I'm still a prince after all so I won't treat you with any less respect then my subjects" the king cocked his brow, adding another snort through his nose. "I am NOT one of your subjects Gumwad so don't ever think you can treat me like one" the prince waved his hands as if to dismiss the problem almost like he had done earlier with Peppermint and with a small glare he said quietly "Not what I meant" the vampires arms were crossed and his head was up. "Whatever let's just go practice so you don't get yourself killed" Marshal grabbed his base and a sword Fiona had lent them for Gumball. They walked out his back door in silence.
Marshal tossed the weapon into Gumball's arms. "Okay first I'll show ya how to hold it" he winced thinking it would cut him but found it was dulled down. " How are you planing to do that when you don't have one to?". "I'm going to use this" he held up the red axe blade "same difference" he smirked. Then off he went explaining how to hold it, how to swing and how far to hold it from your body. Gumball picked up quickly although he lacked force. "We've been at this for a while" the prince  panted, a weak feeling filling out through his body, lungs burning with each inhale. "Yeah well we ain't stopping til' you put some back-bone into your blows K? Come on Gumwad get angry" suddenly he stepped forward pushing the Prince against a tree, that's when he realized how strong Marshall was and how tall he was.
"Just stop"
Marshall got close to his face "Come on babba.." he leaned even closer his eyes glowing dark red practically forcing the pink prince to whip his head to the side. "Make me" the prince glared daggers at him from the corner of his eyes and finally pushed him away drawing the tip of the blade to his face. "Good job!" Marshall cheered sarcastically. "We should practice more so I can teach ya some of my moves" he Floated a circle around Gumball until he gave in,agreeing to continue the lessons . "Every other day you come by, same time, and I'll show ya what I got to show" the king chuckled and winked at Gumball. Some how the Prince figured that his new tutor was going to make his life extremely interesting or maybe just difficult.