Of Good and Evil (Fiolee) - Ch.2

“…And he thought I was a Princess!”

Fionna was still steaming over her strange encounter with that boy. As soon as she arrived at the tree house, she sat down with a slice of Cake’s delicious pie, and told her all about it. Cake was happy to listen, and Fionna was grateful Cake was good at this boy stuff. As Fionna’s voice rose, Cake could tell she was clearly flustered about her story.

“Hmmm…” Cake nodded in thought, stuffing some more pie in her mouth.

Fionna gestured to herself. “I mean, who thinks I am a princess?! WHO?!”

“I don’t know, sweetie. That is just trippy…”

“I don’t even know who he was! I’ve never seen him before.”

“Oh honey! I bet your ol’ girl Cake knows him! What did he look like?”

Fionna wracked her brain. “He definitely wasn’t human. He didn’t really look like a prince either… He didn’t look like a candy person, not one that I’ve ever seen.” She put a finger to her mouth thoughtfully. “He was floating a bit, but he didn’t have wings. His hair was black… It was really nice too…” Fionna lost her train of thought.

“OH! I KNOW WHO IT IS!” Cake smashed her pie plate down on the table, snapping Fionna out of her daydream of fluffy black hair.

“Wha-Who!?”

“Marshall!”

“Who?”

“Marshall Lee! He’s a vampire!” Cake said as if she had just won the lottery.

Fionna pondered this. “A vampire?”

“Yeah…” Cake sat down, calming a bit. “He isn’t the best of characters to hang around with, so I’ve heard. I can’t really say anything bad about him; I’ve only run into him a few times around town. But he seems to me like a rough, rowdy sort of guy.”

“Hm…” Fionna seemed lost in thought.

“Hey! Forgot to tell you—” Cake stretched her arm over to the counter and grabbed a folded piece of paper. She thrust it towards Fionna. “Mo-Chro stopped by earlier and gave me this. You know who it’s from.” Cake winked.

“Ha ha, you’re so funny.” Fionna rolled her eyes at Cake. She opened the note and read:

My Dearest, Fionna!

Sorry for a last minute favor, but I was wondering if you and Cake could stop by the Candy Kid Daycare tomorrow and check on all the little ones. I hate making you do such mundane jobs; I know you are capable of such amazing things, but I was supposed to be visiting the daycare all day. Then, unfortunately, we had to schedule a last minute meeting with the Candy Council, because of an incident.  Thank Glob I have you Fionna!

Love,

~ Prince Gumball

Fionna’s eyes lingered on the last three words, gazing at Gumball’s horribly romantic handwriting as it scrolled and looped across the page.

“Okay,” She said as soon as she was back from having her head in the clouds. “So you’re good with this?”

“Yep, got my diaper changing supplies all packed!” Cake held up a large bag of baby powder, doctor’s face masks, disinfecting wipes, latex gloves and hand sanitizer.

“Cake… Don’t you think you packed a little too much?”

“Nonsense, honey! You never know what’s going to happen when you’re dealing with kiddy doo-doo. Anyways,” She smiled, handing her another slice of pie, “You still have to tell me ALL about your date with Prince Gumball!” She wiggled her eyebrows.

“Oh!” Fionna blushed, giggling in remembrance. She put all thoughts of the mysterious vampire out of her head before gushing to her cat about her somewhat-magical date with the prince.