You might want to read another one of my earlier story first, 'Before the Mushroom War', before continuing on. Or else, you may or may not be slightly confused in the later upcoming chapters. But besides that, I hope you will enjoy reading my final story.

Ascension: Rise of a Hero

A New Day

Everything was perfectly quiet and peaceful, there was naught a single sound to be heard amongst the wide open fields of seemingly never-ending grass. Besides the occasional uninteresting rock randomly dotted across the open fields, their hidden remnants and true origins were already long buried in the past; there was but a lonely giant of a tree in the middle of the massive grassy expanse. Ever carrying the burden of a comfortable and usually far from peaceful house, the giant tree looms into the distant horizon, seemingly lifeless at the still hour of dawn as it continuously waits for the new day with avid anticipation. It didn't have to wait any longer, it seems...

The bright and cheerful sun at the distant edge of the horizon was already encroaching into the blue skies up above ever so slightly in its own enchanting pace, clearly excited to join its joyful cloud brethren whom were already dancing happily in the skies and getting ready to usher in another beautiful new day for the slumbering world below...

A world already long forgotten but now, simply known as the Land of Ooo...

With the sight of the sun finally present and clear in the blue sky, it was the sign (more of a signal actually) for all types of life in the massive Land of Ooo to finally rise up from their enclosed slumbers and enjoy the clear day that was given to them by the 'great and wonderful' Grob Gob Glob Grod, a benevolent four faced deity that rests on the distant planet of Mars as it carries out its entrusted duty of watching over the denizens of Ooo.

The very first one to embrace the bright new day was unsurprisingly, the beautiful kingdom of Candy; its cheerful citizens are already bustling in the winding candy-laden streets of the kingdom as they merrily go about in their peaceful and relatively safe lives. But none of them were ever earlier than the Princess of the Candy Kingdom itself, the esteemed Princess Bonnibel Bubblegum, whom was always known to sometimes rise earlier than the sun itself so that she may engage herself in the various royal duties related to being a dutiful princess of a massive kingdom.

Honorable, caring, righteous, kind-hearted and a pretty awesome leader was just a few of the words that was labelled onto this pink bubblegum woman by her very own citizens and the many loyal subjects of the kingdom. She was always seen with a loving and happy smile as she eternally takes care of her Candy Kingdom with as much justice and equality she could possibly uphold. But the Princess of Candy was also known, at least to a lesser extent, to be darkly serious, terribly sadistic and sometimes even horrifying when it came to the important matters of safety for her kingdom.

But besides her generally important role in being a honorable and righteous ruler to the Candy People, Princess Bubblegum was also well-known for being a scientific genius as she constantly embarked in another scientific adventure after another scientific adventure, all in her endless pursuit for a deeper understanding and greater knowledge of everything related to science and mechanical junk. Thanks to her countless efforts though, she has created a variety of different and oddly peculiar machinations that was designed to ease the many lives of the Candy Kingdom and all its close allies.

At least, it was supposed to in paper... She still needs some work in that part though. But basically in the end, she's a pretty kick-ass nerd.

And one notable friend of this kick-ass nerd was another special woman, not exactly quite of this world, but she was nonetheless born and raised in this once forgotten and faded world. This woman, who I assumed is doing the complete opposite of what others are doing right now and instead of waking up to greet the bright new day, I bet she is currently slumbering it all away in the isolated purple little cottage she had called home. Maybe this time, it would finally be a permanent home for her. But, who can say? She was always a strange one...

Why was she a bit strange?

Well, this peculiar and slightly odd woman was actually a 1000 year old woman trapped, willingly or unwillingly, in the body and mind of an 18 year old immortal half-vampire half-demon girl. If that's not somehow the least bit confusing and perplexing way to introduce someone, she could also be much more easily described as, according to some of her friends and fans, one simply awesome and radical dame. This rebellious woman's name was Marceline Abadeer, or going by her more vastly popular and sometimes even dreaded name: Marceline the Vampire Queen.

This pale woman with long obsidian hair used to be very famous when she was a part of a rocking band which was illustriously named as: The 'Scream Queens'. With the manager skills and the overwhelming help they received from Princess Bubblegum, the band had played their rock music in various places and different kingdoms, garnering much fame and popularity throughout the Land of Ooo. But after a number of certain interesting 'events' pertaining to one bad review, Marceline decided to briefly retire from the music business and spent the rest of her eternity of a lifetime by simply partying whenever it is possible, chilling with all her various fans when she has the mood, occasionally just playing around with her world famous Axe Bass (which was fashioned by an old family heirloom, interestingly enough) and sometimes, she would even do completely nothing but just hang out with a couple of her friends till the end of the day... or night.

And one of these particularly noteworthy friend of hers happens to still surprise everyone when he proudly admitted to being close friends with someone such as Marceline the Vampire Queen. Truth be told, he was already particularly infamous in his own creepily annoying and slightly disturbing way but it was still quite a stirring shock to some people, especially to most of the citizens of Ooo, when he had said he knew of the Vampire Queen's true origins. But on the other hand, who in this world would ever believe the nonsensical, disingenuous and just plain crazy words of someone completely insane like the Ice King?

The Ice King; a scrawny, decrepit and ancient old man with a pretty cool beard, was quite a well-known villain throughout the Land of Ooo. But instead of being known as someone evil and dastardly that could possibly threaten the safety of everyone that inhabits the Land, he is actually known to be nothing but just a sheer annoyance to everyone that had the pleasure to meet him. For you see, the Ice King had this particularly annoying habit of kidnapping various princesses from their very own kingdoms and locking them up all the way in his Ice Kingdom, which is just nothing but snow-capped mountains and icy buildings as far as the untrained eye can see.

With the princesses trapped helplessly up there with him, the Ice King would continuously force them or maybe even try tricking the princesses to somehow marry him. The Ice King would try to do such inane and stupid things until a princess is finally betrothed to him or at least, until all the princesses are eventually rescued at the end of the day... It really wasn't that difficult considering the only thing that's stopping you from rescuing the princesses was an old wizard whose clearly past his prime, if he ever had one, and just a few mindless penguins. There are other minions in the Ice King's disposal such as Ice Golems or Ice Bulls, but the old man doesn't seem to know how to really control them, let alone utilize them very effectively...

But moving on; who were these gallant heroes that constantly spend time from their endless days of adventuring, as if there was some kind of unwritten schedule, into saving the precious lives of the princesses from continuingly being disturbed by the Ice King's rudely intrusive behaviours?

Why, it was the very same heroes that saved entire villages from destructively dangerous dragons.

The very same heroes that had slain vicious blood-thirsty monsters when they were mindlessly terrorizing the Land.

It was the very same heroes who constantly embark in epic and most often, life-threatening quests as if it was nothing but just a daily part of their own lives.

These were the very same heroes that have worked hard to become incredibly famous, maybe even legendary, in the entire Land of Ooo.

These heroes who, much against to what some people may have expected when they try to imagine a couple of legendary heroes, is none other but just a young boy with unnaturally long golden hair and his incredibly loyal and super-powered dog brother.

Who in this entire Land of Ooo hasn't heard of the names of Finn and Jake, the Dynamic Duo of Ooo...

And speaking of Finn and Jake, this particular day happened to be a very special and important day for them, at least it was for the young lad known as Finn. Living in their giant Treehouse in the middle of the expansive Grasslands, Finn was already incredibly excited to greet the bright new day in Ooo. Wearing his red... footie pajamas and lying comfortably under the many fur blankets and animal skins atop his bed, the young boy was already slightly peeking through his eye lids in eager anticipation at the first sight of the glimmering sun. And as soon as he had saw the very first sunlight piercing through the glass windows in his bedroom, the young boy simply threw off the fur covers and leapt off from his bed, an excited grin was plastered all over his face.

"Aw yeah! It's time! It's finally time!" He had cried out as he grabbed the white hat resembling a bear's ears from his wooden bedside table and immediately putting it on around his head. He had always wore that particular hat everywhere he went, it was almost like a symbol to him, but the young boy soon stopped wearing it to bed when he found it difficult and uncomfortable to sleep in.

Standing motionless at the side of his bed for a few seconds in a heroic and jaunting pose, Finn could see that his loyal companion and dog brother, Jake, was still sleeping in one of the drawers of the wooden dresser right next to the young boy's bed, snoring the day away as loudly as he possibly could. Finn couldn't help but slightly sighed and briefly shook his head at the sad sight of his brother's lack of any enthusiasm. He couldn't believe it but he knew what he had to do next...

With slanting sly eyes, the young boy immediately pressed his nimble body to the ground and crept his way closer and closer to his brother until he finally made it all the way under the very drawer where Jake was still slumbering away. He silently but carefully peered out his head from under the drawer and gazed into the pudgy orange body of the sleeping dog, still snoring with the occasional wheezy cough. A glinting and slightly evil smile creeped across the boy's face as he slowly raised his right arm above Jake's entire body; Finn's menacing plan was about to come into fruition...

With the speed of a thousand hedgehogs, Finn immediately poked the living daylights out of the poor dog without any clear signs of ever stopping his sadistic wrath. He just kept stabbing and stabbing his very own brother with his own finger...

"Ow! What in the crud is-?" Jake exclaimed in shock as he suddenly found himself prodded from every single direction. Finn continued, increasing the intensity of his non-stop poking...

"Finn?! What's going on?! What are you doing?!" Jake desperately pleaded for an answer as he bared witness to the young boy's monstrous actions firsthand. Finn continued nonetheless in deathly silence...

"Stop it, man! Just stop it!" Jake begged and begged for his brother's mercy. Finn continued heartlessly...

"NOOOOOOOOOO!" Jake bellowed and cried out in despair as he desperately outstretched both of his arms and gently pushed his brother a few feet away, immediately making him to stop.

"Oh my Glob! What in Glob's name is wrong with you, Finn?" Jake quickly looked up from the drawer of his bed and immediately demanded to know why Finn would ever do such a horrible thing when the first thing he saw was his pajama-laden brother suddenly bursting out laughing.

"Did you flipping lose your buns or something?!" He angrily shook his fist into the air as his brother kept on laughing with eagerness.

"Can't you remember, blockhead? Don't you know what day it is today, you dummy?!" Finn exclaimed, grinning teeth to teeth, as he was literally hopping madly in one place and shaking both of his arms around the air like he simply didn't care.

"Oh? Ohhhhhhhh .. Oh! OH!" Jake loudly bellowed, bobbing his head up and down before he simply fell back down onto the drawer of his comfortable bed, his mouth largely agape as he immediately let out a massive yawn.

"It's about that time again, isn't it?" Jake softly smiled as he sighed in satisfaction and stretching out his weary limbs until he had completely filled in the drawer, finally understanding what all the nonsensical hubbub with his brother was all about.

"That's right, Jake! That's right!" Finn immediately leapt into the drawer alongside his surprised brother, almost breaking the old wooden dresser as he immediately grabbed onto Jake's bewildered puffy cheeks, pressing his grinning face completely against his poor brother's.

"It's my birthday!"

"It's my birthday!"

"IT'S MY BIRTHDAY, JAKE!"

"ALERT THE MASSES, MY BROTHER!"

Jake simply smiled as he gave his beloved brother two giant thumbs-up composed entirely from the rough skin on his elongated forehead,

"ONE SUPER AWESOME MEGA TRIPLE FUN PARTY DELUXE SUPREME, COMING RIGHT UP, FINNY BRO!

Hello there! This is ParagonFlynn!

So if you happen to be one of my old readers, remember that Adventure Time saga that I had planned to write spanning multiple stories before it all finally culminates with one epic finale story? Yeah, terribly sorry about that... I wanted to do something like it, I really do, but that was before a hideous beast called 'Life' suddenly grabbed me out of nowhere and carried me away helplessly. "GROW UP! GO TO COLLEGE! GET A JOB! BE NORMAL!" The monster screeched into my ears as it clutched onto me with its razor sharp claws before the beast finally gobbled me all up within its endless abyss of a hideously deformed mouth.

Anyway, getting back into subject as I stopped being an overly dramatic poncy; I didn't want to leave behind two unfinished and poorly written stories when I stopped writing all these fanfiction stuff. I felt completely unsatisfied with all of it and frankly, a little bit disappointed with myself. So after all these busy months, I decided to come back and just TRY, I repeat, TRY to write and finish the finale story instead. I certainly hope you wouldn't mind if we just skipped all the previous stories in the unwritten saga but trust me when I say you don't really need to know most about it to understand what is about to happen next. Just read 'Before the Mushroom War' and you're basically set!

Also, since I'm more or less a hopefully better writer now, I will now try my very best to make my stories a less of a painful mess and hopefully a bit less difficult to read. But in case I still have any massive problems with my horrendous writing, please feel free to leave a review and tell me what you think of it so far. Any honest feedback is completely appreciated!

Aaaaaand that's all, really. Thank you for taking the time to read my story out of so many others and I wish you a very good day, my dear readers!

-ParagonFlynn