Chapter Three Part One: Fire and Cloud
One hour later...

"Finn, why do you do that?" Flame Princess asked, annoyance easily detected in her voice. I wondered what was wrong now.

"Do what?" Finn was probably in the same boat as me. She sighed dramatically.

"You always insist on packing torches. What's the point?" Her flame burned more intensely for a moment and she held her arms wide. "I'm made of fire, remember?"

Finn stared at her for a moment, thinking. Then he looked at the burning torch he held in his hand.

"Huh," he said, shrugging his shoulders. "I don't know. For effect, I guess." I smiled.

"Effect," I said quietly. "What do you mean?" He smiled back at me and held the torch high, lighting up the ceiling of the dark tunnel we were in.

"Going through a dungeon just isn't the same without a good torch." I giggled, and Flame Princess grunted. She's such a jealous brat, I thought to myself. She was probably thinking that I'm trying to steal her boyfriend. As if.

"Hey, guys, check it out!" Jake ran on ahead, making use of his stretchy legs and covering half the tunnel in a few short moments. He stood at the end of the tunnel, torch in hand, in front of another dark opening. "Let's see where this one leads."

Finn raced ahead, calling out to us.

"Come on, princesses! Let's gooooo!" I ran after him, laughing. Then suddenly I felt myself being jerked back.

There was a sizzling sound and I felt a sudden pain in my arm.

"AAAHHH!" I screeched, and so did Flame Princess, who immediately dropped my arm, which was now steaming. I looked down at it and watched as it regenerated itself, cloud billowing up where her flame had evaporated it. Thank Glob I can do that.

"What is wrong with you!?" I was mad. Really mad. I didn't care a bit that her hand was smoldering and the flame there had nearly gone out when she grabbed my arm. No, she can light it up again. She's an elemental, like me. But she isn't anything like me.

We couldn't be more different.

She flared up, her girlish form changing into that of a monstrous, flaming beast.

"What's wrong with me!?" Her voice started off dangerously low and spiteful, increasing in volume and ferocity as she continued. "You are what's wrong with me! Finn is MY boyfriend. Mine! DO YOU UNDERSTAND!?" I stomped my foot on the smooth floor of the tunnel.

"I'm NOT trying to steal away your precious boyfriend," I argued, dark clouds gathering over my head. "He's my FRIEND, the only real friend I've got- besides Jake and BMO. Finn hoped that WE could be friends; but that obviously is NOT going to work out." Thunder rumbled, punctuating my sentences with loud crashes. Lightning flashed in my eyes.

Flame Princess stood her ground, ready to fight back. She opened her mouth to lash out at me, when suddenly something caught her attention. She was just staring at something, open mouthed and glassy-eyed. Her flames died back down to their normal heat and form, and I now saw her as a curious girl. A curious girl whose burning gaze was fixed on something behind me...

I turned around, and there it was. At the end of the tunnel floated a small blue light. It was beautiful, captivating, mesmerizing... I felt the sudden urge to go to it. I wanted to see it up close, to touch it, hold it...

I walked forward, slowly, toward the pretty little light. Flame Princess seemed to have the same idea; she was walking with me, her steps almost in perfect sync with my steps. I didn't care so much about that, though.

All I cared about was the light.

Ooooohhh, what's going to happen!? Stay tuned for part two of this chapter... You will soon learn the true identity of the mysterious floating blue light. And something big is about to happen! Will the girls be able to get through this without killing each other? You'll just have to wait and see...

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