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So this is way unexpected, but it's not like it's the first time Marceline's run into a strange interdimensional portal. It's definitely the first time she found one in her fridge, but that's life.

And hey, there's no sunlight, so why worry about all that junk? Nah. Marceline's just gonna float through the hallways and explore, because she's just chill like that, as most Vampire Queens are. She's even got a box of strawberries that she's eating one by one, poking a fang into one and sucking out all the red color. She's even being nice and putting the lifeless gray ones back in the box.

"Man this place is so weird," she says, floating two feet off the ground as she explores.

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No matter how many times Bella told herself she wasn't looking for him, she had to admit to herself that she was. Not actively. She wasn't going all stalker, because she knew he wasn't Edward. Still, she couldn't stop looking for him when she walked around the Nexus. Just checking on the new arrival.

Something like that.

Yeah. Right. She couldn't lie, even to herself.

Still berating herself about that, Bella turned a corner and looked ahead of her. She stopped short when she saw someone (something?) floating above the floor.

"Um. Hello?"

Marceline twists in the air and it's like she's hanging by her knees from playground monkey bars. "Yo, this place is wild. Strawberry?"

She holds out the box of half-grayed strawberries as an offering. "The gray ones still taste like strawberries."

"And getting wilder all the time," Bella said softly, watching as the other woman dangled upside down with no visible means of support.

"Ah, thanks, no. Strawberries aren't really my thing. Can I ask why they're gray?"

"'Cause I drank all the red out." Marceline picks up a fresh red one and pokes it again with her fang, draining out the red.

"Delicious!"

"And here I thought I'd seen everything," Bella said with little laugh and a shake of her head. "Guess not. So...going on the fang there, I'm guessing you're a vampire?"

"Yeah. I'm Marceline, the Vampire Queen," she said, floating over.

"How about you?"

"Well, I'm not a queen, if that's what you're asking?" Bella said, not really revealing what she was. Though, when she thought about it, what was the point of secrecy? It's not like people here didn't know already, and not many of them had even blinked an eye.

"But I am a vampire."

"Weird. I don't meet a lot of others," Marceline says. She drifts down to the ground, hovering only a few inches over it now.

"I just opened my fridge and there was a weird portal in there. Does that happen to you?"

"Well, there are at least two others here, and one guy with fangs that I know of, but he's not a vampire, so I guess you're among friends?"

Bella laughed. "I don't have a fridge, but I don't think that's the most relevant part of the question. I don't see portals, either. I just opened a door to my house and ended up here instead of home and now I can't get back."

Marceline makes a face at the thought of being trapped here. It's way uncool.

"Did anyone try making a portal to the Nightosphere?"

Bella blinked a few times, even though she technically didn't need to do it. "Um, no? I'm not sure what the Nightosphere is, so I guess I can't be sure. Maybe ask around?"

"Nah, don't worry about it. It's just another portal. Only worse 'cause my dad's through there." Marceline makes a grossed out face, shaking her head.

Bella was starting to feel a little like the other Alice and started thinking she should be looking for a white rabbit somewhere.

"Don't get along with your dad, huh?"

Marceline flaps a hand before nodding. "He's kind of a butt. And he stole my axe bass the one time."

"Your axe bass?" Bella asked, unable to stop herself. She was charmed by the other girl and, what had the wolves said? She was good with weird.

"Yeah. It was the family axe, you know, for causing death and mayhem and junk." Marceline spreads her hands apart to give the approximate dimensions.

"And then I made it way more radical."

"Don't keep me in suspense. What did you do to radicalize the axe?" Bella asked.

Marceline grins and summons her Axe Bass into being. Not only is it a sharp, two-bladed battleaxe, it's also a fully functioning bass guitar.

"Sweet, right?"

"Impressive," Bella agreed. "I'd hope hitting a wrong chord doesn't result in losing a few fingers, but overall pretty cool."

"Nah. Fingering's all at the handle."

She plays a few patterns to demonstrate, grinning broadly.

"La da da da da. I wanna bury you in the ground..."

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