The Vampire, The Prince and The Wayward Cave

"Heeey! Prince Gumball!" Fionna, the human, calls out to the sugary prince. She runs over to him, it's night time in the land of Ooo and Gumball has agreed to take time out of his princely duties, it's not something he's used to as he's known for being quite the workaholic but Fionna had insisted time and time again that he take a break. In her own words, "You have to let yourself live a little! All that work's not good for your gummy brain, dude!" As she puts it. Gumball had meticulously picked out the one day he was available away from royal, science or baking related duties to finally just hang out. Gumball turns his head, smiling warmly at the blonde girl and her furry companion "Hello Fionna, hello Cake, how have you both been?" He asks, "Oh man! I'm so glad we met up tonight because just the other day me and Cake totally smashed this Goblingobbler! It was HUGE- I had never seen a Goblingobbler grow that size before." Fionna makes exaggerated gestures with her bruised hands 'it was thiiiis big' she stretches out to really add that emphasis to it "Mhmm, I don't know what those Goblingobblers are feeding their little Goblin-rugrats these days. Must be good, I wanna get in on that!" Cake laughed "Listen, I gotta go. I need to take a catnap because little ol me is getting to that age where catnaps are all the rage. Go on you crazy kids."

Gumball chuckled in response, Fionna and Cake are good company. Gumball envies Fionna's determined nature and the real joy she has on her and Cake's adventures. Gumball never really got to enjoy his childhood, he was always preoccupied with work. Even now, he didn't change, maybe if he could go back he could be a little more like Fionna. But what happened, happened. "I'm glad you had fun yesterday, but pray tell Fionna, where exactly are we going tonight?" "Oh man! It's gonna be great, it's an adventure! Cake and I found a cave a few days ago we haven't explored yet and we wanted you to come!" Gumball grimaces "Oh Fionna, you know I'm not really skilled at these sorts of things. I'm just a guy who does science and bakes cakes, really." Gumball downplays it for the sake of looking demure, hoping Fionna would change her mind on taking him to a musty, dangerous cave on his day off. "C'monnn Prince Gumball! You know you should really try new things, and tonight is perfect for that!"

The prince makes an uneasy noise, "Hrnn…I'm really not sure about this Fionna." Fionna frowns and scratches the back of her neck awkwardly. "Oh...it's ok you don't have to come." She looks to the ground not making eye contact with the prince, she's too embarrassed to look up. "I just wanted to hang out with you because you've been so busy and stuff.."

Gumball feels bad, Fionna really was excited about this whole 'Cave Adventure' and he wasn't giving it a chance. He takes a deep breath and exhales "Okay. I'll come with you, I'm putting a lot of trust into you right now." Fionna's face lights up "Yes! This will be so much fun!! I bet we'll find so many cool things at the end of the cave- if it DOES end that is!" Glob, let's hope it does.

"Ohh wow! The royal candy Prince is taking risks? That's crazy." A familiar voice perks up from behind the two, a familiar unwanted voice. "Marshall Lee!" Fionna grins "You came!" Huh?

"Sorry, what?" He was invited? "Oh- yeah, I invited Marshal to hang out with us. Is that um, ok?" She leans over to Gumball with a whisper "I know you guys don't really like each other so um I can tell him to leave..I just thought it'd be fun with him around." Gumball would not be caught dead hanging out with Marshall Lee, he has before of course but only when Fionna is around. If she wasn't in between the two to mediate then it would just be a shoutfest. "Haha- you know I can hear you right? I'm a vampire, remember?" He gave a toothy, smug grin. "OH! Well uh-" "No, it's fine. I'm not opposed to us three hanging out." As long as it was those three, Fionna was really a glue who held them both together. She'd stop Marshall from trying to suck the pink out of Gumball's hair, or Gumball trying to lecture Marshall to sleep. It was all well and good, as long as she was there.

The trio came to a halt in front of a large mysterious cave, it was large and imposing. He was having second thoughts and Marshall? He could tell "What? Gumwad afraid of a little ol cave?" He pushes Gumball slightly toward the cave entrance "Augh!" "Hey! Marshall cut it out. It's his day off, you should be nice!" Marshall blows a raspberry "Oh come on Fionna, I'm just messing around. We're cool right, Gumball?" Gumball is already getting irritated and they haven't even gone inside the stinking cave, "Yes, we are 'Cool'." He says through gritted teeth, he wants to try to keep it together for Fionna's sake. The cave is large and dim, light hasn't touched the inside of the cave for a very long time. Fionna takes off her bag and rummages inside her belongings, she takes out a match and strikes it a few times before it lights a spark. "Is there a stick around here?" Marshall leans down and picks up a sturdy branch that had been on the cold cavern floor "Yo, here." He throws it over to Fionna, catching it skillfully and lighting it ablaze with the match. "Let there be light!" As the light engulfed a small portion of the large cave, bugs and small creatures scattered about away from the blinding light.