"One of the caves on the Candy Kingdom border is infested with something unauthorized. I want you to find it and destroy it. I don't want my citizens harmed." Bubblegum said over the communicator that Jake the dog had just answered.

"Okay" said Finn. He put down the stalk of bananas on the front steps of the tree house he shared with Jake and BMO, a small computer thing with legs.

"I guess we can take a break from playing Butter Tag, Princess B. What are we supposed to find?" asked Jake, an anthropomorphic dog, who was at the moment smeared in butter from head to foot.

"Probably some sort of demon." said Marceline the vampire queen who was refereeing, from under her parasol where she was also floating upside while eating erasers from a small paper bag, "I smelled it last week when I was looking for pixies to stomp. It was a little weird, even for a demon."

An hour of riding Jake stretch-walking later, they arrived at the cave. The drained bodies of mice and rats lay strewn about the entrance. "Ewww, gross!" Jake said when he accidentally stepped on one, "That was like stepping on a burrito in the dark on the way to the bathroom!"

"This has got to be a Vamp cave." Marcellene added, "Nobody but a Vamp would leave a mess like this." She bent, picking up a small papery rounded object with one burnt end. "I haven't seen one of these for centuries." She picked up another, and another and another until she reached a small mound of them just inside the entrance. "My dad used to "smoke" these back before the mushroom wars." She looked up and read the rusty metal sign over the opening, "S-ny -da- Muni-pal Park-g Gar-ge." She sniffed, "There's a demon all right, but a weird one." She folded her parasol as she walked into the shadows further in the cave with the other two close behind.

"That was a great game of butter tag, Jake." Finn said as he lit a torch, "Next time, let's use the toaster to launch BMO out the window."

"Nah," said Jake, "That'd be a waste of burritos if you ask me – I say we use pizzas, instead."

"Be quiet!" Marcellene whisper-yelled, "I smell something up ahead!"

"Wow, do you see that blue glow?" Finn loudly whispered back, "What do you think it is?"

"Duh, maybe it's the demon – no, it's an awesome, toast-tastic blue lamp!" Jake added, stretching his body so that he could look around the Vampire Queen and Finn without even having to move his back legs. "So much for the surprise!"

"Surprise." A gaunt face with one of the papery roll things hanging out of the corner of it's mouth rose up behind the elaborate blue light fixture that was standing on a battered end table.