Author's note: Yes, I know that there is already a season four episode coming out about Darwin's backstory, for those of you who don't know, there is a season four episode coming out about Darwin's backstory. I can't wait, i'm sure they will do it better than I will, but until then enjoy this silly little story.

Seven year old Gumball Watterson checked his alarm clock, wondering if it was to early to get out of bed. Usually he had to be dragged out of bed by his mother, but today was Christmas, the one time of year where he could actually get up early. By 8:00 he couldn't take it anymore and bolted downstairs to open his presents, attacking them in the way that only a child can. After he opened his last one he saw his parents standing over him with expectant smiles.

"Now, we have one more present for you, but it isn't wrapped" his mother said. Gumball was excited at the prospect of another present. "Now listen, this present is a big responsibility, can you handle it?" Gumball enthusiastically nodded yes, he knew it, he was finally getting a puppy! He closed his eyes and waited in anticipation when he felt something weird in his hand. He opened his eyes and saw a fish staring at him through a plastic bag. Disappointment flickered in his eyes for a second, but quickly faded away.

"Cool, a goldfish! Thanks mom, thanks dad." Ok, so it wasn't a puppy, but unlike the Watterson's last two goldfish, this one was all his. "I'm going to call him Darwin."

"But, dear, you name all our goldfish Darwin." his mother said

"I like that name." While this was technically true, really he was just too lazy to think of another one. "I'm gonna go put him in my room." He ran upstairs to his bedroom to find a fishbowl already waiting for him, he must not have noticed it in his rush to get downstairs. He filled the bowl up with water and placed Darwin inside. "Hi!" he said to the fish "my name is Gumball, and this is where you live now. That's my bed over there, and there's my computer, and there's the dresser." He continued pointing things out to Darwin until he ran out of things to identify. "I'm going to take such good care of you, that will prove to my parents that I'm "responsible".

"Yeah"

"What? Who said that?"

"I did" Darwin replied

"What the what? You can talk?"

"Yeah dude, everything in Elmore can talk."

"Yep" the lightbulb confirmed. Gumball looked slightly disturbed by this new information and slowly said "Well, that's good to know."

"You really never noticed?"

"No, not really, why didn't you guys ever say anything?" He shouted at everything in his room. "I don't know" His lightbulb replied. "Nothing really to say, I guess." Gumball sat in silence for a bit before he continued, "well, I guess we should have a proper introduction, hi, I'm Gumball."

"I'm Darwin."

"I know, I just named you."

"Well, what about you? Is your name really Gumball?"

"Not really, it's just a nickname, but that's what everybody calls me."

"Oh, that makes more sense.'

"Dude, I'm having a conversation with my pet goldfish, nothing about this makes sense."

"We can stop if you want."

"Nah, I like talking to you, and besides, this will be easier, now instead of feeding you whatever amount of fish food every four hours or so you can just tell me when you're hungry."

"And I don't have to wait for you to remember to feed me."

"See, it works out for both of us, and if what you said was true and everything talks, I should probably get used to it."

Later that day, over Christmas dinner Gumball asked his family "hey, did you know my goldfish could talk?"

"Of course honey, everything in Elmore can talk." his mother replied

"Am I the only one who didn't know that?"

"Probably." Richard chimed in

"So he started talking to you already? Most pets don't do that until they really feel comfortable around you, and even then they don't usually say much." Nicole said

"Well, the fish you got me seems to be a real chatterbox." Nicole and Richard were glad about this as Gumball didn't have any real good friends at school, he had some acquaintances, like Banana Joe, Anton and Carrie, and this girl Penny who he had a crush on, but they weren't really close. This way he at least has someone to talk to. When Gumball returned to his room to read his new Captain Punch comic he got for Christmas, the fish was surprisingly silent. Oh great, Gumball thought, he'd scared him off by talking about how weird it was, now he was only going to say something whenever he was hungry. So he was pleasantly surprised when he went to bed and he heard him say "Goodnight Gumball."

"Goodnight Darwin." He replied