Epic Tales from Adventure Time by T. T. MacDangereuse

Author:T. T. MacDangereuse
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Penguin Group, USA
Published: 2014-06-05T16:00:00+00:00

Chapter 8

After an hour of using her hands to paddle, Fionna gave up. All her effort was getting her nowhere fast. She was hot, tired, and thirsty, and her skin itched from the saltwater. She’d have to think of something else. She picked up the giant tooth and turned it over and over, watching it gleam in the gathering dawn. At least she’d gotten something cool out of this whole mess. She couldn’t wait to show it to Cake. They’d hang it on the wall in their tree house, right across from the couch.

A breath of wind slipped across her cheeks. Fionna lifted her head, scratching absently at the salt dried onto her neck. Clouds were massing on the eastern horizon. The sun rose a few fingers above the water before the clouds blotted it out. Fionna shivered and rubbed her arms as the breeze grew stronger, teasing wavelets from the ocean’s surface, and pushing the cloud bank toward her. Gray streamers of rain, like smudges of charcoal, darkened the air beneath the clouds. Lightning flickered deep within the clouds, and Fionna counted the seconds until the peal of thunder reached her ears.

Not just clouds.

An entire swarm of flying jellyfish, each at least as big as a truck, floated toward her, their scalloped, deceptively delicate-looking tendrils trailing inches from the water’s surface. Fionna’s stomach roiled. The last thing she needed was to get caught in an electrical storm full of poisonous jellyfish. Quickly, she unlaced her skirt and stepped out of it, grateful for the giant pair of bloomers she’d decided to wear. She tore the skirt down the middle, tied a corner to each of her ankles, and knotted the other two corners around her wrists. Facing into the wind, she spread her arms and legs. Her heart pounded as she waited to see if her idea would work.

At first almost nothing happened. Wind filled the makeshift sail, and Fionna could feel the fabric strain against her limbs. She held her breath. Then, slowly, the boat picked up speed. She let out a delighted whoop as she skimmed across the waves. Now she was getting somewhere. She’d head for shore, get someone to help her track down Cake and Gumball, and then they’d rescue the hostages. If she could just stay ahead of the storm—

The boat coasted to a stop. Fionna froze, dumbfounded. The wind was steady, her sail billowed around her—what was the problem? Brown kelp floated in the water, but the mats certainly didn’t appear thick enough to block her boat.

Something slapped against the stern, and Fionna whirled toward it. A leaf. A flat tan kelp leaf slipped over the boat’s side. It slithered across the bottom, moving toward her. Several more followed, dragging their long stems behind them.

“Oh great!” Fionna snatched up the fish tooth and hopped up onto the seat, away from the kelp.

The mass of kelp gathered together, stalks and leaves and translucent floats writhing and twisting. It took on a vaguely humanoid shape. A mouth opened in the lumpy, misshapen head.

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