An: Welcome to the end! Please don't mind the massive cliff, or the large and scary flaming lich.

I'll admit, sort of not loving how i did the last chapter, i was tired out of my face, and my newest story is tickling my brain. Now, since i'm me, and i want to get you all wet in the pants, I'll tell you a bit of information on it. It shall be called "Silent Kingdom" and it will involve Flame Princess and Finn becoming trapped in a dimension that looks exactly like the Candy Kingdom, if it was full of horrible monsters and regrets.

And, if anyone can tell, i am taking inspiration from Silent Hill, the first being the one that has caused me to simply turn off my the game, and refuse to play it until the sun is up and someone else is around.

And yes, this will be a horror tale, and hopefully it will be SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOKY!

Now lets wrap up this story so we can move onto big-Oh shit, i forgot. DarkCzar13 will be proofreading it. This means we will have a one day delay for the first chapter, but you'll be getting a chapter a day after that, yes?

Now, let us wrap it up, hm?

Chapter 16: Checkmate

The Lich decided this was the best idea, after all. The power was...intoxicating. He felt himself laughing loudly when he set the strange metal beast on fire, the stupid thing not even dodging it. These flames out powered his magic by miles, and that this would make it very easy to turn the world to ash. Looking towards the boy, he was about to mock the boy, when he heard that ear shattering screech, and looked back towards the mass of flames. They dissipated under the scream, the sheer sound apparently extinguishing them. His armour was now black as night, and the colour behind the eyes red as blood. The Lich laughed, the thing could reach him, anyway, he was safe over the pit of-

Looking down, he watched the thing point it's hand, and a jet of water came rushing from it, turning the protecting lava pool into solid rock. Landing on it, Both Finn and the grey being approached him. 'Might be best to flee and begin razing the earth, let them get caught in the blast...' turning to open a rift, he found a odd empty feeling coming from his chest. Looking down, he saw the massive blade that was Father Knight's arm sticking out of his torso, before ripping it out roughly, taking one of what was once Billy's arm with him. Frowning, The Lich flew backwards, to avoid the next blow, only to find himself ducking the blood red sword that Finn now wielded. He tossed flame at the boy, and watched it bounce off of him like it was nothing, the only affect was leaving a large singed hole in his shirt.

"Ah man, this was my favourite shirt! I only have ten of these!" he cried, before charging at the Lich.

Dodging the blows, he became confused, and continued tossing flames at the boy, only to bounce off like they were nothing at all. "What on earth are you, boy!?" he growled out, refusing to quit the barrage.

Finn mentally thanked Smithy, but watched the ring that he wore turn to ash after yet another barrage. However, it seemed the lich had given up on the ashen flames, resorting to the black magic he was so fond of. Tossing spheres of purple energy at the boy, Finn found his massive companion blocking them, before charging at the Lich with reckless abandon.

Dodging another flurry of blows from the massive beast, he frowned. 'Might be best to claim a new body, perhaps this things one...' gaining enough distance, the lich spoke the string of phrases required, and felt himself leave the body of the once great hero, Billy. He laughed wickedly as he floated towards the beast, prepared to absorb the creatures mind and take it for himself. However, when it swung the blade and cut through his spiritual being, he felt something he had not felt ever before; pain. Howling, he attempted to fly back towards the body, but found the blade swinging at him, and another emotion came to him; fear. He felt relief as he slipped back into the corpse, and rolled to avoid being cleaved in half. He went to summon the energies of the amulet, but found nothing happening. That was when he realized the boy now wore the amulet, and his body became covered with white flames, and the lich wondered exactly how he would escape.

Looking at himself, he watched the amulet snake flames across his body, creating a shell of fire around his body. The power he could feel sweeping through him was indescribable, and could not find a word to attempt this. Looking over at the Lich, who was still dodging the angry protector's blows, he found he wasn't angry anymore, or upset. He felt sad for the necromantic creature, it would never truly understand at what folly it acted. He felt the flames come to life in his hands, and frowned. That was too simple, too obvious. Instead, he focused on the Lich, and watched the undead monsters corpse burst into white flame, which he briefly attempted to pat out, before apparently discarding the body. Father Knight apparently knew this, and attempted to skewer the spirit, but seemed to not be successful, stomping the ground angrily.

He felt something inside the amulet trying to speak to him, and frowned. He watched the ground coming towards his face, and blacked out.

Finn was confused, he decided, when he found himself sitting in a very comfy chair, and in front of him, sitting in the same chair, with a cup of tea in one hand and a cookie in the other, was what he immediately knew to be the previous wielder of the Regalia.

Laughing lightly at the boy, he spoke up. "So your the new Hero? Hm, your as pure as need be, at least. And your clever enough to use your power correctly...Glad to see this." he said, and Finn realized that the man was somehow indescribable, as he couldn't actually 'see' any features of the man, but simply knew he was there.

"But..." he attempted to say, and the man laughed.

"I see. You may have a point, boy. This world doesn't need a hero like you, it has plenty already. You don't want to live forever, and watch everyone you know grow old." Sighing, he took a drink noisily from the tea, before continuing. "I Didn't want to either, to tell you the truth. But I survived for 800 years, making sure to leave humanity where it should be. But, you don't need the Regalia. It's power is not something you desire, you wish to win of your own merit."

He went to speak, but just nodded silently. This man was reading his mind, and speaking would only waste time.

"The Regalia is tired, as well. It wishes to flee to another dimension and rest, until it is needed by another great hero. I, frankly, agree. As such, We will leave with it, and disappear from this dimension. Your hero's heart gave us power, and we can now do as we please."

He felt the world fading away, but heard a final line. "Your tale will become greater and greater, me boy. Make us born of Hero blood proud"

Yawning loudly, he looked about to see that he was being carried down the mountain, Father Knight quietly stomping down the side. He looked down at the boy, and nodded at him. Finn smiled, and leapt off of of him, running down the steep cliff, laughing the entire way down, even as his legs burned and he nearly fell onto his face.

Reaching the bottom, he saw the fight had been decided, the Heroes standing over the corpses of the dead, speaking to each other happily, before turning to the boy and cheering loudly. Out of the group, came Billy, who approached and put a hand on his shoulder. "Good work, Finn. I am glad you are still here to carry the title of Hero." Bending down, he whispered something in his ear, and Finn grinned. "Make sure not to let it become dusty, eh?" he laughed, before returning to the group.

"Lets give him a battlecry, so that he may remember what the title Hero truly means!" cried a buff looking earth elemental, who raised his fist in the air. The other warriors did the same, giving out the cries they screamed when going to war, to battle, or to their graves. As they did, the simply disappeared, nothing remaining of them except the corpses of the undead they left.

Looking around, He spotted Smithy sitting on a rock, apparently thinking. However, as he approached, a door seemed to appear from nowhere, and a women walked through. She was a tad shorter then the smithy, and a few runes marked her arms. She wore a light blue skirt and shirt, and she was glaring seethingly at the man, before smacking him over the head multiple times, crying loudly. "YOU STUPID IDIOT MAN! I told you not to do anything stupid, and look what you did, you nearly damn died! Your lucky i don't make you sleep in a tree for what you did to me!" she screamed, the man smiling slightly, before embracing her in a large hug. She growled at him, but hugged him back and cried into his chest. "You stupid man! Hmf..."

Finn laughed at the show, and watched Smithy pick her up and kiss her, before carrying her bridal style over to them. "Hello, Little Hero. You denied the gift, then?" he spoke simply, his wife trying to kick him in the head and escape his grasp, which he ignored with a smile.

"I did. Shouldn't you put her down?"

"I should, but-" His sentence was interrupted by a large gust knocking him over, the women landing on her feet and laughing. He glared and grumbled. "Thats what i get for marrying a wind mage..."

Standing on his chest, she bent down and stuck her tongue out at his face, giggling. He however, looked down and laughed. "I can see under your skirt, dear."

After stomping on his face, she made a sound that was a cross between a sigh and a growl, and looked around. "So we are stuck here, hm? Well, at least it is pretty here." Watching her husband stand up after rubbing his bruised nose, she took his hand and leaned into him.

Turning towards Finn, he nodded at him and they began trekking home.

As they went through the cave, Father Knight had left the group, being swarmed by the small children who were trying to hug him to death, judging by the screams of happiness. You see, on the way back, he had found a small pack of dogs, which consisted of nothing but a mother and father and a large horde of puppies. Father knight had approached them slowly, and after his helmet was licked furiously, the small group of dogs had followed them back, before each dog was claimed by a different child, naming them and yelling about how much they loved them. They left them to their hugging, Father Knight attempting to stand up to no avail, and continued walking.

Epilogue

After some time, The Rune Enchanter had decided to build his home next to Nikolai's, deciding that even if they had tried to murder each other, the fact that they both had children on the way (turns out Smithy had gotten her pregnant shortly before the event, and was now trying his best to not scream when he had been asked to go to the nearest kingdom and pick up various foods in the dead of the night. Where as Lily and Nikolai had gotten quite close, and had found out that birth control doesn't work on immortals, leaving Nikolai to build a crib and other child necessities) and that it would be best for the two couples to stay nearby, as they could entrust their child to the other group if need be.

The enchanted built the home using various forms of magic (read: he made enchanted tools for some builders in exchange for building a nice home) and set up a enchanting business like he had back in Uuu, quickly drawing him into many silly adventures (that's another tale, I'm afraid.) Fnn had been his first customer, buying several of the fire protection rings, saying "just in case"

Marceline made a full recovery, pulling pranks on the poor pink princess as soon as she could walk, and was eventually kicked out by Peppermint Butler, after he had found that Princess Bubblegum had been particularly not pink one day.