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War of Despair part 2

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The castle was not in its best condition, to say the least. It was dirty looking and the walls were chipped in places. The entire kingdom itself had lost its colorful glow it had the last time i'd seen it. As we walked towards the Secret Entrance i turned to Jake,"You think it was this way before the riots? With Lemongrab ruling?" I said. He just gave me a shrug without even looking at me "I don't know, could have been anything that's gotten this place so run down, with this war and all." he said. I looked back to the path ahead of us and continued walking as we neared the entrance. Marceline opened the entrance with a pass code, without regarding us what so ever, "I'm guessing your girlfriend told you how to do that?" I said to her, She shrugged and floated through the doorway.
The stairway was much less dangerous to go through than i thought it would be, the only monster that was there to defeat was a troll, which was easy to kill as it was shorter than any of us. When we had finally reached the bottom of the stairs Marceline came up on my left, "So, how are we gonna kill this guy?"
"What?"
"This lemon dude."
"Marceline, we are not going to kill Lemongrab!" I almost yelled.
She scowled at me and said "Well, how are we going to get these candy people free if we're leaving him alive!"
"Well, we're at least going to try to talk some sense into him first, if it comes to it we'll knock him out." I replied.
She rolled her eyes as we opened the door to the dungeon, Lemongrab was sitting at a table sleeping. All of the candy people were huddled together behind the cell, looking rather terrified. There weren't many of them there, 15 at the most. "Great," Marceline whispered into my ear, "Now what are we going to do!" I sat in silence for a second then turned to Jake, "Jake?" I said to him. He just sat there and stared for a moment with a stern look on his face, analyzing the situation. Then he looked up at me and said "Okay, Marceline you make sure Lemongrab stays asleep, and yell if he wakes up. Me and Finn are going to free the candy people." Marceline and I nodded. Marceline floated by Lemongrab and stared at him for a moment, then she reached down grabbed a key and tossed it at Jake, who swiftly caught it. Marceline nodded toward us to say you can go, he's asleep as if we hadn't even known that. We snuck toward the cell doors and the candy people who were there looked up at us appreciatively. Jake opened the door with the key, and I knelt down and asked one of the candy people "Where are the others? Is this all of you?" Someone in the back of the small crowd started silently sobbing, and the candy person i asked answered softly "No... We-......We're the only ones left.." I looked back at Marceline, who frowned at me. Then i looked to Jake holding open the cell door who was frowning as well. "C'mon." i said beckoning for the candy people to follow, they quietly followed me towards the stairs. After we got to the door the one i had talked to a minute ago looked up at me and said, "Thank you, hero. For helping us." i nodded and motioned them to go up the stairs. That's when i heard the loudest most ear ringing shriek, "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!" I turned around and Lemongrab was kicking and screaming as Marceline pinned him down in his chair. "WHAT ARE YOU DOINGGGG?!!?!?" he yelled "THEY'RE GOING TO KILL USSS!" Marceline, still pinning him to his chair, turned toward me and Jake and said "CAN I KILL HIM NOW?" I gave her an angry look and sternly said "No! You can knock him out." She scowled her famous scowl and used the side of her bass to hit him on the head as he flailed, he went out. Marceline looked at me with a partially satisfied grin, then tied him to the chair with an old piece of Liquorice, and floated to us and through the doorway. "Let's Go." she said in a hushed voice, I nodded and we all made our way up the stairs.
When we got back outside it was dark, as we walked towards where we had last left Princess Bubblegum we saw a lot of the candy people we'd just saved wandering aimlessly through the wreckage of the kingdom. It was quite sad to look at, but when we got back to the princess the little gumdrop had been reunited with its mother. Marceline and Bubblegum went to each other and held hands, "How did it go?" Princess said to her softly, "Pretty well, i got to knock some guy out." the princess gave her a smiley glance then looked to the ground, and Marceline kissed her forehead. The mother of the little gumdrop then looked up at us and said "Thank you so much for saving us, is there anything we could do to repay you?" It was silent for a moment then i realized that they were all looking at me to answer "Oh, uh." I began, "We actually were looking for somewhere to stay here in the kingdom, could we stay with you guys for a few days by any chance?" The mother smiled kindly and said, "Of course you could." I gave her a small smile and she said, "Here, follow us, our home is this way." she held hands with the child and began walking, i looked to Princess Bubblegum who was still holding hands with Marcy, and she shrugged. We followed them to their house, which was bigger than most of the little houses in the kingdom, but still nothing compared to the castle. It had boards nailed onto the windows and the walls were cracked, but it looked better than most of the houses around it. We went inside and the mother turned and said, "Give me a moment to bring her to her room to sleep, then you all will be staying right over here in the living room." She pointed to the space beside the kitchen, where two couches resided, then she disappeared into another room. Marceline scooped up Princess Bubblegum and floated over the long couch and said, "We'll stay here." Princess blushed and giggled softly and they laid down on the couch. Then the mother came out of the other room, "I'm sorry," she began, "We... only have the two couches... One of you might have to sleep on the floor." "It's alright." I said, "I can stay on the floor." She gave us three blankets and some pillows, and i made myself a little spot in between the two couches and got comfortable. When i had almost finally gotten to sleep Jake turned to me and said, "Finn?"
I gave a small sigh and replied, "Yea, Jake?"
"What are we going to do now?"
I sat there for a second and thought.
We'd already checked the ice kingdom to find no sign of damage, the grocery kingdom, with huge damage, and the candy kingdom, which was really bunked up. There were countless other kingdoms in Ooo that i didn't even know if we would be able to save. It was difficult decision to decide which kingdom to help next, because each moment we were there, another kingdom would be going unprotected, or even be engulfed in the riots.
After i thought for a long time i realized Jake was still waiting for an answer, "I don't know." i whispered. He turned back to face the ceiling and in a few minutes he fell asleep. I turned to face Marceline and Bubblegum who had fallen asleep "cuddling" with each other, I stared for a moment then turned to face the ceiling, and after a few minutes I fell asleep.
i stayed up until 4AM last night working on this. and worked on it for another 3 hours today...
It might be a little tiny bit rusty but still. I put my heart into it, War of Despair part 2.
If you have any questions concerning the story, don't be afraid to ask me. ^u^
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