It Came From the Nightosphere (2 page)

The wall where the happy face had been suddenly cracked in two and, inside the walls, an inferno raged.

‘Huh?’ Marceline asked, finally turning around.

Finn screamed as Marceline’s father, the Lord of Evil, walked through the flames and into the room.

Marceline yelled out in anger.

‘I…I reunited you with your family,’ Finn stuttered as he watched Marceline’s dad, dressed in a sharp suit, walk into the room.

‘Is this kid your evil servant?’ the Lord of Evil asked when he saw Finn standing in front of him.

‘I’m not evil, Marceline’s dad!’ Finn protested. ‘I’m super good!’

‘Super good?’ the Lord of Evil asked sceptically. ‘Well, no sense in letting a ‘super good’ soul go to waste,’ the Lord of Evil thought to himself. He opened his mouth wide. A loud, sucking noise filled the room.

Finn shrieked. He recoiled from the noise and the strange sensation that he was losing a piece of himself.

‘I’m stealing your soul,’ the Lord of Evil answered aloofly while he continued to try to suck Finn’s soul from his body.

‘Dad!’ Marceline screamed as she ran in between her dad and Finn, freeing Finn from her father’s evil clutches. ‘You always do stuff like this.’

‘Oh, Marceline, I never know what’s going to set you off,’ the Lord of Evil chuckled. Then he realised that Marceline was holding something. ‘Whoa! Is this the family axe?’ He roughly grabbed her guitar out of her hands.

Marceline screamed as she watched him fiddle around with her most prized possession.

‘Did you turn it into some kind of lute?’ the Lord of Evil asked as he strummed the instrument.

‘Give it back and get out!’ Marceline ordered.

‘Okay, I’ll go,’ the Lord of Evil agreed with a shrug. ‘I’ve got business to attend to anyway. I’m sucking up all the souls in Ooo.’

Finn screamed in horror as he listened to the Lord of Evil’s horrible threat. The sweet citizens of Ooo were in danger! And it was all because of him.

‘See you kids later!’ the Lord of Evil yelled cheerfully as if he had just been on a friendly visit. Then he disappeared with a diabolical laugh.

Marceline cried as she watched her father take off with her guitar. Finn, too, cried, realising the magnitude of what he had done.