Your Happiness... [Adventure Time Fan Fiction]

Chapter 2: Heads over heels

The heat from my now flushed face rushed down to my ears. "Eh!?" I squeaked in disbelief.
Prince Gumball was at the door.

"Oh- goodness, right on time as per usual!" Cake chimed, stretching herself to the door way.
Her motions of turning the door handle and pulling it open all seemed to move slowly. All the while my heart beat grew louder and pounded in my ears.

"Cake! Good morning, how are you on this fine day?" He greeted, voice as smooth and as friendly as I remember it being.

"Not bad, you?"

"Never been better..."

Fionna walked up to Prince Gumball and gave him a friendly punch in the arm, "Hey there, dude. Ready to get to work?"

"Fionna! Hello, I think you forget who you're talking to sometimes." Chuckled the prince. He looked away from Fionna and his attention was immediately drawn to me. I , of course looked at him in return, but I immediately turned away embarrassed.

"What are you so flustered about? He's a cartoon character!" I cursed to myself in my head.

"Whose the guest?" He asked with a sparkle of curiosity.

"Oh- That's Ángelique, we found her on our doorstep early this morning. She doesn't remember how she got here though." Fionna answered.

"We are busy treating her bangin' migraine. Poor girl." Cake added sympathetically.

Prince Gumball walked towards me, and I backed up on the couch, hoping that wasn't the case.

"It's quite a pleasure to meet you,miss." He said, extending his hand out to me.

I looked down at his hand with hesitation and uncertainty. Prince Gumball noticed and frowned with concern.
"Are...you afraid of me?"

My mouth was shut tightly and I couldn't even utter a word. I wasn't afraid. No. That's just ridiculous. I was more skeptical about the events unfolding before my eyes and questioning whether this is real or not.

"Um..." was all about I could muster before he put his hand on my head and pet me. As patronising as this was, I was weak to it. I leaned my head into his hand and with every scratch I sighed with satisfication.

Prince Gumball looked down at me with a grin. "You can trust me."

He studied me with his eyes and squinted. "Exquisite...seldom do I see hybrids around here anymore. Where do your kind hide nowadays?"

His eyes light up with intrigue and I bit my lip in nervously, never did I expect him to show any interest in me.

"In...places? I'm not allowed to talk about it..." I lied in a mumble, still unsure to how my life fits into this world at this point.
Prince Gumball had a subtle face of disappointment because I didn't give him a straight answer, and turned back to face Fionna and Cake.

"So, to business. Prince Handsome sent a distress message through this note saying that he needs assistance in discovering cause of the members of his gaurds bone's getting dismembered. It always seems to occur during the midnight hours so keep a sharp eye out. Begin your investigations there as it is still light and catch the culprits before they act again." said the Prince, standing up and handing the note to Fionna.

"Nice. We will be on it as soon as Angelique gets better." 

Prince gave me a anxious look.
"This mission is urgent, so I suggest you either take her with you or have someone watch her while you're away..."

"I'd like to go with, I'm sure I'll be fi-" Mid sentence as I stood up, my brain felt like it was being torn at its ends. I fell back almost immediately as my feet pecked the ground. My hopes of hanging out with my favourite heroines were crushed by this migrane of mine.

Fionna let out a sigh and gave me a side ways smile. "I think it's best you stay and recover...now who do I call?"
Fionna paced up and down until her face morphed with realisation.

"Can you watch her, I mean I know you're busy with all kinds of stuff but we need to know she's safe with someone that she trusts already."

Prince Gumball smiled at me charmingly without even realising it and I turned away from his gaze as we made eye contact again.

"What do you say, Angelique, do you really trust me?"

I nodded slowly, still not looking up at him, my timid nature at full force.

Cake claps her paws together with anticipation and grins at me with relief, "Great! That means we can get this job done and then we'll be right back to looking after her until she recovers."

"I'll be keeping her in one of my guest rooms back at the castle for a day or two while you're busy, depending on how long it takes you to complete this task. Angelique will be under our expert Candy medics care until then."

Prince Gumball hands another item into the hands of Fionna and looks at her knowingly. Fionna retuned the gaze and nodded, her now eyes fixated on the item placed in the groves of her fist.

"I will call to check on your progress..."

Fionna gave Prince Gumball a thumbs up and tied a plum coloured gem around her neck. I recognised those from one of the episodes where Finn had to tote tarts to a ceremony. I eyed the gem, wondering whether Prince Gumball shares the same intellect as Princess Bubblegum. Which is pretty likely.

"Well then, since we all seem to be sorted. It's best we depart." The Prince gave the duo a sweet grin and a friendly pat on their backs.

"Usually, Handsome's rewards are super mega dope, lets go, honey!" Cake says exictedly, raising her arms in the air and Fionna joining her as they dashed out their treehouse. Leaving me and Prince Gumball alone.

I immediately became flustered and tense. Why was this all happening and when am I going to wake up from what was hopefully a dream.

Prince Gumball opened up a window and gave a high pitched whistle out into the open, summoning a long, dark and mysterious unicorn from the sky.

"Our lift has arrived, we will be back at the Kingdom in approximately a few minutes depending on air pockets but it will be a brief trip nevertheless." Prince Gumball said, his patient eyes looking at me fully.

I looked up at him and gave him a small nod. I attempted to stand up again but slower than the last time but the result was the same. A shot of pain in the head. I put my hands over my head and found myself falling forward over my feet instead of back and just before I hit the ground I landed in the arms of the Prince.

"Easy now. I'll just have carry you there myself." The Prince says lifting me up by the legs and supporting my back.

I shut my eyes as he did and hid my fave with my ears. My face was most likely crimson at this point. How much more of a cliche can this get?