//------------------------------// // Adventure Time: The Glowing Lands 01 // Story: The Many Destinies of Sunset Shimmer // by ratedoni //------------------------------// He felt… lost, almost completely devoid of feelings inside. No, that wasn’t truth, he could feel a lot of pain everywhere in his body, but mostly in his stomach and it had nothing to do with something he ate. Among the fog that was governing his body, Finn tried to remember what the last thing he ate was. Maybe it was Jake’s pancakes, no, that was so long ago. As he tried to remember, his eyes closed and once more, Finn the Human blacked out. Next time he could open his eyes he saw a figure, it was nothing more than an amorphous blob that was in front of him, but he still felt so weak, he couldn’t even raise his hand. He tried to speak, to mumble to do anything, but the figure simply put a blanket on him and Jake once more closed his eyes, leaving the waking world behind. The third time was the charm because not only most of the pain had disappeared, Finn finally felt good enough to open his eyes and take a clear look of where he was. Well, to say that he had a clear look will be a little too nice since his vision was still foggy as hell, but after several seconds and blinking a lot, Finn could see a steel ceiling with a metal fan slowly rotating. He still felt as groggy as if he had been trampled several times by every single monster he had fought against, but he was a hero, he defeat evil every time so he will conquer the pain and rise up… slowly if possible, everything was tender. He tried to remember what exactly had happened for him to end up… whatever this place was, but he couldn’t quite remember what was going on. Maybe PB had been doing some kind of experiment and he was her guinea pig? No, he would at least remember her asking; there was no way PB would simply grab him and experiment on him without his consent… right? Standing upright he began to walk towards the door that was present on the other side of the room. Slowly at first since his legs still felt like jelly and his brain was trying to reboot so he could remember exactly what was going on. Just as he was about to reach the door, this one was opened and Finn quickly realized he was not on Candy Kingdom. In front of him was a girl he had never met, one that in a small way reminded Finn of Flame Princess. The girl was taller than him but not too much to be dwarfed and maybe she was a fire elemental due to the way her body was glowing, but it wasn’t the same type of light that was irradiated by the living flames, more like as if the glow came from inside of her. Her long hair was not done in the same way as the other fire elemental and instead flowed freely into her back, well groomed and it seemed as soft and cozy like a blanket on winter. This was a girl that really put attention to her hair. “Well, you are awake, you had me worried for a moment there when you kept passing out,” she said walking inside and taking some kind of tablet from the table at the side of the bed he had been occupying a few moments ago “now, don’t move because I still need to do a check up on you.” “Wait, what? What is going on?” Finn would have been a little more vocal on his questions, but sadly, he was still feeling tired and in pain. “Right, I was about to give you this,” she said taking something from the inside of her jacket. Looking at the girl and what she was wearing she made him remember Marceline. With the turquoise jeans, a shirt of the same color with a bizarre red and yellow sun on it and a long jacket that was more like the lab coats Princess Bubblegum liked to wear when she went all mad scientist. He also liked the chevrons at the sides, it made it look badass and nice at the same time (now, Finn has no idea what the color was or what a chevron is, he just thinks it is a nice color and that those are arrow heads) which only made Finn be more curious about what was going on. On the hands of the girl there was what looked like a thermos with a crystal clear liquid and Finn finally noticed the extreme thirst that he was feeling. He quickly grabbed the thermos from her hands and with one move he began to empty the thermos on his mouth. The feeling of the cool water refreshed him, making Finn smile in satiation. “I put some serum on the water, nothing extreme, just something to help on your tissue degeneration. What are you doing here? I mean, not everyone is crazy enough to venture into my home, unless they are planning something, but you don’t look like a bad person.” “What do you mean? I don’t even know where I am.” “Looks like your short term memory were affected due to all that exposure, which isn’t exactly that weird, I mean, the brain probably suffered minor damage and most of the recent memories were erased. Either way, you were lucky that I wanted to take a walk because a little bit longer and neither you nor your dog would have survived.” “Jake! Is Jake okay?” “Yeah, he was more resilient but still needed some medical attention. Thankfully I’m a very good doctor, even though I never got any kind of license,” she said slightly whispering and reminiscing about something. “So, where am I?” “You are on the Glowing Lands, right where the Mushroom Wars started,” Sunset Shimmer said making Finn spit the water that he had been sipping. “WHAT?! This whole place is forbidden! How can you stay here? Forget that, how do you know this was the place where the Mushroom War started?” “Because I was right beneath the bomb as it exploded.”