A Struggle Against Storms - True Adventure Time

A Change In Situation

Chapter Two – A Change In Situation

Without warning something heavy and hard rammed into his side, nearly knocking the human over. Finn flinched and snapped his head over to the direction of his attacker. There was only the stone elemental, Herick, pointedly looking elsewhere trying to appear innocent but a smile forced its way onto his face as he looked over to the man he undoubtedly just bruised.

"Sorry boss," his rumbling voiced drawled, "just trying to keep your head out of the cosmos." He winked at him before turning back to the rest of the group.

Finn quickly put a relaxed appearance back on, that was... an unsettling experience to say the least. He only realized now that his attention had been completely captivated by the appearance of that bluish girl. He was actually grateful to Herick for waking him up so he could start thinking clearly again. Finn winced painfully as he rubbed his bruised arm. Having solid rock casually plow into the side of your arm unexpectedly though, was not a pleasant experience.

Finn shook his head and cleared his thoughts pushing anymore thoughts of the blue girl out before they could take hold and then he jumped back into the conversation at hand.

"-be the work of Vampires, I'm telling you. What else could or even would result in their insides being removed like that?"

"I'm 'ith Crusty on dis one," Herick agreed, "them leeches are the only ones who could get away wit' 't. Plus," he added, "we all know vampers 'ave always been 'messy eaters.'"

Finn's mind recalled the various scenes of carnage that had been cropping up recently and couldn't help but be reminded of that day again. "I highly doubt there is any vampiric involvement guys, Vampires are only interested in blood, not guts. Besides, if a vampire was involved Marceline would have informed us."

At the mention of the Vampire Queen Herick raised an eyebrow, nudge-nudged Thints and gave a wink in Finn's direction. Finn rolled his eyes in exasperation. Thints, still trying to contain a smile, offered,

"How I see it we've been too lenient with the vampires, considering their power and potential they should not be allowed the amount of freedom we've allowed them. Letting them roam free with that kind of power and influence is dangerous. We all know that vampiric crime is among the highest–"

“That's enough, Thints.” the human's voice cut in authoritative and finalizing. “We aren't here for discussing work, this is a celebration. Let's talk about something else.”

“Anyone hear about the new Kingdom?” The magi offered, still with an amused expression, “Apparently it only made contact with the rest of Ooo a mere month ago, it's a nation of cosmic elementals.” Finn felt the heat rise in him. He knew what Bersi was doing, and scolded himself for letting it affect him.

“Ya I heard about them,” said Crust, “apparently they've got the best whiskey.”

“I say welcome to the family!” said Herick.

Everyone laughed at this but they were cut short when a short, round candy man made an appearance in their group.

“How you doing, Peppermint Butler?” asked Finn warmly.

“Well, thank you. Pardon the interruption gentlemen but I just wanted to let you know that the Queen and King will be making their appearance shortly.” replied the peppermint man giving Finn and the rest a meaningful look.

Finn nodded, “Understood.”

As the group went back to their conversations Finn observed the members of his circle. There was Crust who, ironically, was a living marshmallow. While not a good fighter, he was excellent at strategy, planning, and policy. Of the group he was the observer while not afraid to start a conversation he liked to generally sit back and see what everyone had to say. There was also Thints, a member of a rare cat race in Ooo, very strong headed and opinionated and a dextrous fighter. Finn could remember when he first sparred with Thints the feline within the first few seconds had knocked him on his butt. Then there was Herick, a stone elemental with a rough, accented voice. He was a surprisingly passive person, always trying to lighten the mood with humor and the man was tough. He'd once seen him take a direct hit from a giant and not budge an inch.

Finally, there was Bersi. His second in Command. Bersi was not by far the most powerful mage in Ooo, but he was damn clever and used that to his advantage when he lacked power. But Bersi gave Finn a very 'cloak and dagger' impression. He knew that Bersi was consistently attempting to discredit Finn, whether he intended to usurp him though he was unsure. Bersi was intelligent and observant, he of anyone was Finn's number one threat. Which is why Finn kept him close, very close.

An announcer appeared in the hall, “Ladies and Gentlemen! I present to you our superlative majesties! Queen Bubblegum and King Twizzy!”

The two monarchs appeared on a balcony overlooking their guests, waving and smiling. The crowd cheered and cheered. The candy citizens loved their monarchs, and even the none candy citizens held great affection for the monarchs as they were idols of peace and equality throughout all of Ooo. While everyone was focused on the candy royals however, Finn was distracted. He was alert, observant. He felt something... off cue. He became restless. He glanced in the direction of Bersi. The mage was looking intently over the crowd to the left of the balcony. He made eye contact with Finn and looked back to the same spot. Finn ventilated the front of his suit, and began to sweat. He looked over in the direction of Bersi's gaze. The air over the jubilant party-goers was still.

Finn began to sprint. Knocking people aside effortlessly he jumped into the air as Bersi conjured a current of air to propel him like a bullet. The went dead silent as the human flew straight for the monarchs, his left hand outstretched and his right curled back in a fist.

A figure appeared before him.

Finn grabbed the floating being by the throat and slammed his fist into his mouth. The human and immortal being slammed against the wall and then to the floor. The human scramble over the th dazed figure and groped in a pool a blood and picked up a large, curved fang before ending the vampire's life with a quick thrust to the heart. The figure stilled instantly.

A blood splattered Finn looked down at the corpse with fear in his eyes.

Author's note: Hey everyone, I must say I absolutely love cliffhangers. Hehe. I LOVED writing this chapter and I hope it'll give your minds a million questions to begin asking. Like how did Finn know he was there? What was Bersi looking at? Why was Finn scared? This and much more will be answered in the next chapter so stay tuned! ;)

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