Adventure Time - The rift of two brothers.
Chapter one.
“What’s the point. I put my life on the line countless times for her. I have travelled far and wide, completed every quest, killed every beast and still my love for Princess Bubblegum is unrequited. There is no point”.
To most people, it was another ordinary day in the land of Ooo. The birds were chirping, the worms were squirming and the sun was burping. You would expect Finn and Jake to be out in the world looking for adventures, but this day was no ordinary day. The human boy fin, for the first time in his life, had given up. After years of being in love with Princess Bubblegum, Finn finally found the courage to tell her the night before that he was in love her. Princess Bubblegum only saw Finn as a friend, this caused Finn to fall into a dark abyss that is impossible to get out of, Finn was cast into the Friend Zone.
Finn’s dog, Jake, knew Finn was feeling down and thought he’d try and cheer him up, “cheer up man! I hate to see you like this, lets go some where fun!” Jake said. Finn slowly sat up in his bed, turned to Jake and simply said “no”. “No!? what do you mean no? We have grown up together in this tree house and not once have I ever heard you say the word no! We’re going on an adventure!” Jake said. Finn hesitated, he didn’t want to ruin Jake’s day by being in a bad mood, so he rolled out of bed onto the floor and continued to roll until he ended up at Jake’s feet and said, “this better be worth my time”. Jake had nothing up his sleeve, he had no idea how to get Finn excited, so he had to lie, “don’t worry man! I have a surprise for you, you’re gonna love it!”
After Finn and Jake had a hearty breakfast consisting of flapjacks and Toblerone, they set off to the surprise. They headed towards the Desolate Desert of Ooo, a forgotten land where the ancient civilisation of the clay people formerly existed. There was an awkward silence on the way to the desert, simply because Jake had no idea what to say. Should he try bring up the awkward topic that was Princess Bubblegum and try to consult Finn on his love issues or should he just try and do whatever he could to distract Finn from even thinking about his depressing life? Before Jake could come up with a decision, Finn spoke, “hurry up Jake, where’s the surprise? I’m getting sick of walking when I know I could be at home sleeping”. “Well Finn, to tell you the truth...there is no surprise. I was hoping we would find an adventure to engage in while we were here, sorry Finn”. Finn came to an abrupt stopped and stared at Jake while Jake took a few more steps. Jake could see the anger in Finn’s face. Finn’s pale white face had turned into into a shade of blood red. His eyebrows became inverted and his teeth started to grind and Jake knew he was in trouble. “WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE’S NO SURPRISE!?” We’re now in the middle of no where in this god forsaken land with no end in sight all for a wild goose chase! I’m going home Jake, don’t follow me” Jake was stunned, he had never seen Finn so angry or even shout at him for that matter. Jake knew he was in the wrong, but he didn’t mean any harm. “Finn I’m sorry” Jake said, “I was just trying to do the right thing and cheer you up”. “I don’t care Jake, you lied to me, I’m going home”.
“Finn wait!!”, Jake tried one last desperate effort to change Finn’s mind. Just as Finn turned around to look at Jake a final time, a small dark cloud, about the size of a van, appeared from the sky. Finn and Jake were confused. Where did this cloud come from? There weren’t any other clouds in the sky, let alone any black clouds. Finn and Jake stared intently as this cloud slowly hovered towards Jake until it was right above his head. “Drip, drip, drip”, the cloud was producing a few drops of rain but, it was no ordinary rain, it was a gold colour and smelt of lemon. “Look Finn! A lemon rain cloud, how cool is this, who needs a lemon squeezer when you have a lemon cloud!” Jake said enthusiastically. “Haha yea I guess that is pretty cool!”, Finn said.
As the two friends continued to talk, the rain was pouring even harder on Finn, making his fur sticky, “oh man this is just annoying now!” Jake said. Jake kept trying to run away from the cloud but it would keep following him, not even letting him have a single second of peace. “Ok Jake quit it, lets go”, “I can’t Finn, it won’t leave me alone!”. As Jake was saying these final words, the cloud split into two halves and produced not rain, but a single beam of light onto Jake and within a second, Jake was beamed up into the cloud. “Jake!!!!” Finn sprinted towards the cloud to try catch it, but he was not fast enough. The cloud closed off and sped away into the distance. Finn fell to his knees, “Nooooooooo!” Finn screamed at the top of his lungs, almost fainting in the process. Finn didn’t know what to do, he didn’t know what happened and he didn’t know who did this. Until he spotted a single lemon in the sand. Finn went up to inspect it and it was upon inspection, he knew who took Jake. Finn finally realised who it was and was angry at himself for not realising it sooner when the cloud rained. It was a Lemon. The calling card of Lemongrab....
Reference:
Ward, P (2008). "Adventure Time With Finn and Jake". United States of America: Cartoon Network
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