Epic Tales from Adventure Time--The Virtue of Ardor by T. T. MacDangereuse

Author:T. T. MacDangereuse
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Penguin Young Readers Group
Published: 2016-05-20T16:29:22+00:00

Chapter 12

Light shone into Phoebe’s eyes, and her cheek rested against a warm, slick surface. The light was so bright that even through her closed lids, it was blinding. She blinked and lifted her hand to shade her eyes. Her head swam. Slowly a scattering of strange, fragmented bright shapes took form around her.

Glass. She was surrounded by gently curving glass.

“What the—” she croaked, struggling to sit up. Her hands slipped on the glass walls surrounding her. She was down in the bottom of what she realized was a giant flask. Huge ropes supported the flask, and beneath her—

She gasped and scrabbled at the sides of the glass, searching instinctively for handholds. The crevasse was beneath her, filled with the bubbling mass of Fire Elementals.

“Whoa, don’t swing it around too much!”

Phoebe glanced upward. Princess Bubblegum dangled from a rope overhead and was in the process of dropping a big cork into the flask’s opening.

Phoebe leaped to her feet. “Get me out of here!” she shouted. Being this close to the Elementals made her case of the heebie-jeebies a million times worse.

“Okay, now, the way I figure it, what you want to do is keep those Elementals tamped down,” Princess Bubblegum said with maddening nonchalance. “I wouldn’t let them get too much higher in the chasm, because you’d probably end up getting a wee bit toasted. Now, I gotta get going, so good luck with everything, and thanks again for your service.” Princess Bubblegum cupped her hands around her mouth and squawked explosively. She had just enough time to smile and wave at Phoebe before her falcon swooped down and carried her away.

Nothing in her entire life had flat-out shocked Phoebe more than finding herself in this predicament.

“I can’t believe she did this to me!” she shouted. Her voice rang off the glass and she winced, pressing her hands over her ears until the reverberations had died down.

“Well, this is just great,” she muttered. As she flopped down in the bottom of the flask, a piece of paper slipped from a fold of her garment. She picked it up. It was her invitation to Lumpy Space Princess’s party. Phoebe scowled as she crumpled the paper. “So much for that party.”

As if to remind her not to get too comfortable in her prison, the Elementals in the crevasse bubbled, and three leaped up toward the glass. Phoebe cried out and shoved them back down with her power. The Elementals glared up at her, hissing. Phoebe scowled right back at them. Something in her gaze must have gotten across that she meant business, because the Elementals found other things to glare at and withdrew a bit.

“Forget this,” she said. She had no intention of spending the rest of her life sitting in a flask. She stood. The protective gear Princess Bubblegum had given her was gone. The cork was about eight feet above her, and the flask’s neck stretched upward about three or four feet of that distance. If she could perch on

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