•Marshall•

"Yes!" Marceline cheers as she and Bubblegum enter the kitchen. "I smell pancakes!" She and PB sit down at the kitchen table.

I shrug. "Yep. I felt like pancakes today."

Marceline gives me a look as she eats her pancakes. "Um, Marsh, you should feel like pancakes every day," she says in a duh voice. I roll my eyes at her playfully before I sit down and begin to eat my pancakes.

I sigh happily as the taste of pancakes hits my tongue. These are good. I can cook! Just, not like Gumball.

However, my improved cooking skills aren't why I'm happy.

I'm happy because Fionna and I had sex for the first time last night, and it was even more amazing than I thought it would be.

Not only that, but I marked her last night, making it official that she's my mate, the person I'm destined to be with forever.

I smile. The thought of being with Fionna forever makes me so happy that nothing can possibly dampen my mood.

Now that I marked her, everyone will know she's mine--my girlfriend, my mate, the love of my life. All mine.

That makes me smile even more.

I have marked a handful of things throughout my life; my axe guitar, which has my Vampire's Mark on the back of the handle, small so you almost can't see it (maybe I should have marked it someplace else, but oh well), Marceline and I had marked our cave and house, and I had long ago marked Hamba, my long lost stuffed animal from childhood, given to me by my good friend Simone.

I had never marked a person before, because I had never found my mate before.

Until now.

It brings me instant joy that the girl I've been madly in love with for awhile now is my mate. I couldn't have gotten a better mate anywhere.

This is exactly what I want, and by the way Fionna reacted, it's what she wants too.

My life is pretty darn good right now and I couldn't possibly be more content with how things are going.

I've always wanted to be happy like this, ever since the Great Mushroom War, back when I thought I'd never be happy again. Everything had been destroyed and taken from me, and my family had nearly died.

But now, I live in a good house, I have amazing friends, I have a wonderful girlfriend/mate, and I'm as happy as I've ever been. I have everything I've ever wanted. I'm finally as happy as I've always wanted to be, and it feels good.

We all continue to eat our breakfast contently, when suddenly the front door is yanked open.

We all look up from our plates to see Finn and Flame Princess standing in the entry of the house.

I smile at them. "Hey, Finn. FP. Come on in, guys!" I say before I pick up my plate and wave it around. "I made pancakes~!" I sing convincingly. "You want some? I could make more. I have some leftover batter, so--"

I cut myself off as I suddenly realize Finn and Flame Princess both have horrified looks on their faces.

Marcy, PB, and I all stand up and make our way over to our friends.

"What's wrong?" Bubblegum asks them, now concerned. All three of us are.

"Yeah! You guys look like someone died," Marceline points out as Finn and FP stay silent. Then, Marceline's eyes widen. "Someone didn't die, did they?!" She now sounds freaked out.

Now I am starting to get freaked out. "Finn, Flame Princess, did something bad happen?" I ask them slowly.

Finn swallows before he speaks. "I-It's Fionna... Something's happened to Fionna..." he says, looking terrified.

The second he says that, my eyes widen and I panic.

"What?! What do you mean by that?! Something happened to Fionna?! What happened?!" I say all at once, now really freaked out. What could have possibly happened to Fionna?! I just saw her! She was just here earlier!

This time, Flame Princess talks. "F-Finn and I were walking along the valley, just out for a nice stroll after the night we spent together for Valentine's Day... and that's when we saw it...," Tears begin to fill FP's eyes and run down her face, and they make little sizzles and turn into smoke as they fall on to her cheeks. "F-Fionna and Breakfast Princess were having an argument or something in the middle of the valley. Then Ashley suddenly came out of nowhere and... and..." It seems Flame Princess can't continue as she just cries harder.

"What?!" I demand, looking at the both of them, pleading them to tell me. "What happened?! Why was Ashley there?! What did she do?!"

"Marshall," Finn says as tears make their way down his face, "Ashley took her. She took Fionna! She knocked her out and then she took her! And BP too!"

WHAT?!

"Ashley took Fionna?! You mean she kidnapped her?!" I shout.

"We tried to stop Ashley, but she disappeared with both Fionna and Breakfast Princess before we could get to them!" Flame Princess wails.

"Oh my God..." Bubblegum clasps a hand over her mouth as tears fill her eyes.

Marceline clenches her fists and slams one against the wall. "That bitch of a witch!" she snaps angrily, and I can practically feel the anger seething out of her.

I feel the exact same way.

"I swear to God," I say, also seething. "I swear to God, if Ashley hurts a hair on Fionna's head I will rip that miserable bitch-witch to shreds!" I hiss, my fangs popping out as I make my scary Vampire face, a face only Vampires can make, reserved for whenever one gets super pissed off.

Like right now.

"I'll gladly help you," Marceline growls, just as pissed off as I am, as she makes her scary Vampire face also.

"Trust me, I want nothing more than to kill Ashley myself, but we have to keep our heads!" Finn says, looking extremely angry like Marceline and me. "We need to call the police so they can track that bitch down and arrest the shit out of her! They'll search for Ashley and we can search for Fionna!"

I'm glad Finn said we'll be searching for Fionna ourselves before I had to say it, because there is NO WAY I'm going to just sit around while my girlfriend is God knows where and going through God knows what. If the police are going to search for her, we sure as hell are going to help, no questions asked.

Bubblegum takes out her phone. "I'll call them right now," she says before she immediately dials 911. She then goes back into the kitchen to speak with the operator and tell them our dilemma.

"What's going to happen?" Flame Princess whimpers.

"No telling," Marceline says, shaking her head. "But it won't be good. Ashley may be a petty mean girl, but I know for a fact she can get violent if she wants to; she used to get into fights all the time when we still lived in the Nightosphere, and she'd usually end up drawing blood. She's definitely not afraid to get her hands dirty. She has magic too, which really doesn't help Fionna's current situation."

I curse. The love of my life may very well be in danger because my crazy, psycho, bitch of an ex-girlfriend kidnapped her and is planning to do God knows what to her!

I feel like ripping my hair out. If anything happens to Fionna--

I shake my head. No! I'm not going to go there! No way! Fionna is fine and will still be fine when we save her and kick Ashley's ass!

Bubblegum comes back into the room. "The police are on their way here," she says before she eyes Flame Princess. "I suggest Flame Princess and I stay here to talk to them while the rest of you go out and begin searching for Fionna. And don't forget that Breakfast Princess was kidnapped as well, so if you see her, then it's likely Fionna is with her. I also called Cake and Jake as well and some police officers are on their way over to the tree house to talk to them too. I told both of them to stay home in case Fionna somehow manages to return on her own."

"Then what the hell are we still standing around here for?!" I demand as I throw my arms in the air. "Let's go save Fionna already!"

With that said, Marceline, Finn, and I immediately race out of the house and cave, Marceline and I making sure to grab our umbrellas on the way out.

I swear I'll search every inch of Ooo if it means finding Fionna.

Don't you worry, love of my life. We're coming for you. We will get you back.

We have to.