Marshall lee and the half vampire (adventure time fanfic)

Ch 12: bloody noses and empty hearts

Marshall lee's POV

It wasn't long since the five of us left the candy kingdom. Prince Gumball was riding lord monochronocorn, Fiona was on cake and I was flying solo as usual. I was far ahead from the others, needing to see Franki, just to make sure she was okay.

"where are we going?" Fiona asks as we fly into the forest,
"to find Franki" Gumball and I say at the same time. I glare at him, wishing he didn't have to come on this mission.
"you know, you didn't have to come" I fly up beside gummy, Gumball looks at me with a furrowed expression
"I know that you hate me, and I must admit, I strongly dislike you too. But that doesn't mean we have to be as far away from each other as possible" Gumball says, not making eye contact with me,
"I didn't say that we had too" I started, but I didn't finish what I wanted to say. I don't want him knowing my feelings for Franki. I don't even know how I feel towards her.

"there she is!" Fiona shouts, pointing to a dark figure walking towards us. she walks into a patch of sunlight and I could see her face. I smile and fly down towards her, only to get punched in the face.
"fuck!" I curse, dropping to the ground and clutching my nose.
"that's what you get for leaving me" Franki says angrily looking down at me,
"thank glob your okay" Gumball gets off Mochro and hugs Franki,
"yeah, I could have gotten murdered" she hugs Gumball back as she glares at me. I feel something snap inside me.
"I had to go home!" I stand up and take a step towards her, she turns around to face me
"to what?! Get your grim reaper costume? It's not time for dress up Marshall!" Franki growls, clenching her fists.
"what's wrong with you? One minute you want me to take a bath with you, the next you want me dead!" I shout, Gumballs jaw drops,
"you had a bath with Franki?" He asks, Franki shakes her head,
"he's too much of a pussy" she spits, "but he had the chance" she folds her arms and turns away from me.

Franki's POV

I couldn't believe Marshall just left me earlier, for the first time in a while, he made me feel alone, it was as if he didn't care about me. And to make it worse, he stunk of cat.
"maybe we should just get on with the mission" Gumball speaks up, I nod. "we need to go into the Far East forest and retrieve the only crown in the area. We don't have any idea what this crown looks like or the exact location, so we need to look thoroughly" Gumball explains.
"it might help more if we split up" Fiona suggests,
"good idea" Gumball smiles, "but we'll decide that when it comes to the time"
"can we just go?" Marshall asks impatiently, I wanted to agree, but I was so pissed off with him I didn't want to speak up.
"okay" Gumball nods, he jumps on a black horses back, "Franki, would you like to ride with me on lord Monochronocorns back" he asks, I smile and nod. Gumball takes my hand and pulls me in front of him onto the long horse. I could feel Marshall glare at the both of us, mostly Gumball though.
Lord Monochronocorn took off to the sky, defeating the glare between Gumball and Marshall, the tension was so thick you could almost feel it.

Gumball places his hands on my hips, making sure I don't fall off,
"you're not going to sing to her, are you?" I heard cake ask, Gumball chuckles and shakes his head,
"I won't start that again" he smiles, pulling me closer to him,
"uh- gumwad. I'm not going to fall off, you can let go of me" I try to nudge myself forward, but he had a tight grip.
"I know. But your just so warm" he buries his head into my neck, the side with my vampire bite marks. I could tell Gumball was trying to make Marshall jealous, and it was working.
"GumAss. What do you think your doing?!" Marshall growls as he fly's up beside us,
"making sure Franki is safe" Gumball replies, taking his head away from my neck.
"she's perfectly fine by herself" Marshall narrows his bright red eyes at Gumball, "and besides, you couldn't protect her even if your life depended on it!" Marshall flys closer,
"that's enough you two" I cut in, "if you guys are going to fight like this the whole mission, I don't want to be here. Marshall you have no right over me, I'm not yours. And Gumball, acting like this isn't very royal is it?" I state, the two boys shut up. "thank you. Now if you don't mind, I would like to walk"
Lord Monochronocorn starts to lower himself to the ground,
"hey baby cakes" cake winks at mochro, the black horse paws at the ground and nods, cake giggles cheekily. I slowly get off Mochro, questioning the relationship between the talking cat and mono coloured horse.
I shake the thought out of my head, "hey Fiona" I smile to the human girl,
she smiles back, "hi" she pauses for a second as she looks at cake, then back at me. "sick of the guys?" She asks, I nod
"yeah. They think girls are food to pass around" I state simply, Fiona laughs and nods, agreeing with me.
"take it you don't have anyone special then" I put my hands in my pockets.
"I do" she says, sounding pretty proud of herself,
"what?" I ask, raising an eyebrow.
"yeah. Don't think I can't get a boyfriend?" She questions,
"no, I didn't mean it like that!" I start, Fiona starts to laugh,
"it's alright, I understand" she smiles and nods. I laugh awkwardly and nod back. There was a long silence between us,
"so..." I pause, "is he hot?" I ask,
"I guess you could say that" she laughs more.
is she crazy? Or am I saying something funny?
I started to feel warm inside, like something just lifted of my shoulders.
I felt light, weightless. Is this friendship?