It Came From the Nightosphere (5 page)

‘Dad, I don’t want to destroy you,’ Marceline said sadly before getting angry again. ‘Just stay out of my life!’

‘You’re not even alive,’ Marceline’s dad reminded her as she flew off.

‘You blew it, dude,’ Finn told Marceline when she flew up and sat next to him on the cliff. The Lord of Evil had escaped – probably to feast on more souls. ‘We’re supposed to be a team – a team whose sport is “stop your dad from sucking souls”.’

‘I just want my dad to care about me,’ Marceline sighed sadly.

‘Of all history’s greatest monsters, you are by far the most evil thing I’ve encountered,’ the Lord of Evil told the sweet-looking penguin he’d come to see. ‘Offer your soul to me, dark one.’

‘Quack, quack,’ the little creature replied.

‘No! You can’t have my soul!’ the Lord of Evil answered. ‘I don’t even…Look, just in here.’

The Lord of Evil opened his mouth and tried to suck the soul out of the tiny penguin.

The penguin slapped the Lord of Evil in the face.

‘Keep your crummy soul!’ the Lord of Evil yelled as he kicked the tiny creature, who went flying through the frosty air.

The Ice King, who ruled over the penguins, caught the bird just before it hit an iceberg.

‘Gunter,’ the Ice King said to his feathery subject, ‘who told you that you could fly?’

‘Quack,’ Gunter answered as he pointed at the Lord of Evil, who was busy sucking souls out of the other, more easily persuaded penguins.

No one sucks the life from my penguins – except me!’ the Ice King proclaimed before considering the facts. ‘And maybe polar bears, because that’s just nature, Gunter.

‘You darest encroach upon my domain!’ the Ice King yelled as he approached the Lord of Evil. ‘You’ve raised my frosty dander! And for that I shall…’ Just then, the Lord of Evil turned and released a horrific scream and showed his fangs.

the Ice King yelled in terror. ‘I have soiled my tunic – completely by choice.’ The Ice King fled in terror, leaving the Lord of Evil unopposed to complete his diabolical task.

‘Yes!’ the Lord of Evil yelled as he grew larger from all the souls he had trapped.

‘Aw, man! He’s growing huge,’ Finn said to Marceline as they ran to catch up with her dreadful father. This evil being was insatiable. He was sucking souls from birds in the air and all the creatures on the ground.

‘I’m going to take him down!’ Finn threatened.

‘Finn, you’re like an ant to him,’ Marceline reminded her friend. But Finn would not be discouraged. He had to save the citizens of Ooo.