They moved forward, past the crowd of various kinds of people and species, past talking animals and machines, past even some elementals from the other kingdoms. The gathering was a congregation of all types of people.
The outside of the colosseum was packed with stalls offering different services from food to the odd assessment of trinkets. There were also diverse groups of gatherings, some of friends just talking to each other and sitting on picknick mats simply enjoying the constellations above and even the suspicious few who wore dark cloaks to completely covet their bodies.
They glided through the crowd, their feet not touching the ground nor did they bump into anyone. These types of people gave Finn a certain chill as he looked at them. They fit perfectly the image of a dark wizard that Finn had in his mind.
Compared to the others in the area, Finn was surprisingly among the most casually dressed, despite his equally suspicious cloth. And his otherwise talking dog companion.
"This is beautiful man. "Jake watched the clear view of the stars above; the twinkling lights and a sudden urge came to him as he wondered. How cool would it be to also be up there as well?
To be like a star, simply just twinkling and relaxing all day, shining down on the small inhabitants of an equally small planet. Living for so long that only boredom remained.
"Yeah, bro, I know." Finn agreed as he pulled Jake along the way noticing how Jake had grown distracted by something.
Finn had identified some of the People form the Farmers market, their colored skin making them easily to spot. He could see their happiness as they mingled in the crowd, and he nodded to the ones who recognized him as he continued to move on.
This was truly a weird festival.
But Finn had noticed that the colosseum's huge doors remained closed, it's huge gate still unmoving. And from the constant gazes the people would give the gate every now and then, Finn could only tell something was to happen.
"Oh, hello there young Finn, it's quite nice to meet you here. "They had managed to run into Cornifer on their small exploration of the outside stalls. He was carrying a surprisingly large bag in comparison with his body, but he easily carried it without any effort, not breaking any sweat at all.
Finn had known Cornfer would be here, and he therefore offered his own happy response.
"It's nice to see you here as well Mr. Cornifer. Would you mind explaining to as finally what this entire festival is about?" Finn asked expectantly as he gave the old bug a smile in acknowledgement.
Finn could see that Cornifer as well had a sort of excitement for him, and that was sort of odd. The only time the Cornifer had been in such a state was when he was engrossed in making his maps as Finn had come to find out.
"Well Finn, the reason is quite simple. Every blood moon festival, the layer between different worlds and dimension significantly weakens. Think of it like barriers acting as protection to the world. In normal conditions, the layers would be about five, but during the Blood moon festival, the number of layers drop to one."
"This results in the strange unnatural events happening through out of Ooo. Maybe because of the interaction between the weakened layers of the different worlds"
"This unnatural events usher what happens next, the splitting of reality and the connection to other worlds. Meaning people from other dimensions can enter this one through portals of the sorts. "Cornifer explained and gave them enough time to process all his words.
"Well at least that's how I understand it. "Cornifer said casually, but there was an excitement in his voice, like a professor speaking to his favorite student.
"Is that why your happy Mr. Cornifer. Does one of those portals lead to your home? "Finn aske curiously. It was an assumption on his part but because of how happy Cornifer was along with how heavily packed, it checked all the right boxes.
"Oh yes Finn, that is one of the reasons for my happiness, to be back to good old dirtmouth and be able to see sweet Iselda once again, what Joy! "
"But the thought of all the different people from different unexplored other world does bring a certain joy to these old bones, The fact that Cornifer the greatest Mapper will forever have different lands to explore is exciting to me. "Cornifer spoke passionately, and Finn saw the seriousness in his voice.
He found himself clapping in encouragement at the Bugs dreams.
"I hope you achieve your dream Mr. Cornifer." Finn could only offer this type of encouragement for such a passionate desire.
"Me to young one, me to. "Cornifer stared at Finn, an odd look to him, he gave the young hero an appreciative gaze and then he also remembered the young heroes dream, and an idea came to mind immediately. He decided he would act on that idea, from one dreamer to another.
[EARTH SHAKING]
The ground shook, resulting in some people falling and some others swaying slightly. It was nothing that serious, but it was enough to destabilize certain unprepared people.
"Look It's happening!" Someone among the crowd shouted, an excitement in his voice as he pointed at the opening doors.
The fact that the opening of these doors resulted in such a result made Finn wonder how heavy the doors themselves were.
It was this that allowed Finn's attention to focus on the wooded doors themselves as he finally managed to see the intricate carvings on the wood itself. Of a great city, and a floating figure holding a sort of flaming sword, the sword itself acted as a sort of beacon, releasing some sort of spell or even maybe light and a crowd of other people wearing pointed hats gathering about the figure, their hand raised to the sky.
A ray of light broke through the crack of the door, slowly but gradually, this went on until Finn could hear blasting music, loud that it could be heard well enough over the screams of excitement from the crowd.
"Ladies, gentlemen, and all weird creature, welcome to the blood moon festival, where all are welcome! "A voice boomed loud and powerful, reaching the crowd outside.
The speaker of these words was a large figure, a figure that wore a thick white jacket covering completely the whole of his body, apart from his arms which exposed yellow skin. The large man had a crown on his, a golden crown that brunched upwards and set with a single green jewel and the most noticeable feature of this figure were his striking eyes, eyes that resembled green cut emeralds.
'The Grand Master Wizard. 'Finn thought. He wondered how powerful the man was; to stand as the leader of a city such as wizard city would require an immensely powerful person. At least in Finn's reasoning.
The image of the Grand Master image soon disappeared as the crowd finally rushed forward, entering the arena. A genuinely interesting display of projection magic.
"Would you like to accompany me young Finn and Jake." Cornifer offered Kindly and the two agreed. Jake did not know the area well and Cornifer looked to be experienced enough to function as a guide.
They followed behind Cornifer gazing around expectedly within the Wizard battle arena. And immediately, Finn was able to tell how truly magical the place had become.
It was not that different from what he expected, like a normal football field with green grass, but there was something different about the arena now. Despite how the outside looked quite small, the inner parts looked to have enlarged significantly. Stretching widely to fit in all the new guests. Even the walls that should have been near now were pushed further back.
"Amazing isn't it. The wondrous things magic can do. "Cornifer muttered to them, he looked to have grown used to such a sight.
Other than it being packed, Finn could see there were different separations to the arena, or more precisely, different groups which attracted different groups of people. In each of these separations, there existed portals, large portals that allowed a wide range of exit and entry of people into the arena, and guarding these portals were tall bulky sort of guards who wore bandanas around their eyes and held weird sort of sticks in their hands.
Finn wondered why the wizard police guarded these portals.
The portals looked like something had torn the space they inhabited apart, like a tear in reality.
"Umm Finn…" Jake pulled at his hand which quickly attracted Finn's attention, he wondered what had attracted his friend's attention.
"Look upwards dude. "Jake seemed to have been enchanted by something, and Finn followed his eyes to also equally stare at what had caught his attention.
"Wow. "Finn muttered in equal part amazement and intrigue. At least he was now aware of why the festival had such an odd name.
Up in the sky like the silent observer that it was, was the moon, but there was something odd about this celestial body of theirs, normally, it would possess assorted colors throughout its existence, from the calm milky white, to the otherwise dull orange even.
But today the moon had an unusual color to it. A crimson color, a deep red color that solely existed now. A color that Finn fully found also attracting his attention completely.
"It's beautiful. "Finn uttered gently.
.......Adventure Time........
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