Hey mah readers :D. Welcome to chapter deux of my story. I'll shut up now and enjoy!

I DON'T OWN THE AMAZING WORLD OF GUMBALL A!Z"^

CHAPTER 2 - NIGHTMARES

2 days ago, Monde had showed his red eye and his ability to use spells to Gumball. He had tried to tell someone, anyone, but Nicole had said that it was just his over-active imagination and for a few hours until he saw the mark. On his book. Two eyes. One and infinite black, the other a blood red. They terrified him. He didn't sleep much that night. However, fatigue forced him to sleep the next night. He regretted it.

Gumball sat on the roof of the house of the Watterson household. Gumball tried to blink the sleep from his eyes. When he closed his eyes, he saw a red eye. Then suddenly, the whole world became grey, and time started to go backwards. Then, the moon turned red and became... he didn't even know. It was impossible to describe. It was completely incomprehensible to anyone else. He tried to look away. It hurt so much, but he couldn't tear himself away.

"Hello, Cat," The thing suddenly erupted into blue flames as he smirked. he recognized that voice. He could recognize that voice anywhere. Monde. "Have you figured it out yet?"

"Please, don't kill me..." He said quietly.

Then, he burst into laughter.

"Geez kid, let's not get carried away. Why would I?" He floated over and sat on the roof next to Gumball. He grinned. And it wasn't the good kind.

"I can use you," Then, he stood up.

"What?" Then he wrapped his arm round Gumball, and moved his fringe to the side and saw deep into his soul.

"19-16-5-1-11!"

"P-penny Fitzgerald"

"Penny Fitzgerald, hmm?"

Gumball let his mouth hang open. Then the whole world around him warped into an infinite black. He could feel his presence behind him.

"Let's make a deal. I can get Penny to love you, and then, you let me do anything I want."

"I need some time to think about it."

"Well, I'm always around, kid!" He practically laughed.

"I'll be watching you!" He smiled, like a maniac. Then there was a flash of light, with a streak of red.

Gumball suddenly jerked up in his bed and gasped. He was terrified. He was drenched in sweat. He went out of bed to go and get a drink of water. His heart was beating a million miles and hour, and he was still panting from exhaustion. Every time he closed his eyes, he saw a picture of a blood red eye. He knew that he wouldn't be able to sleep again. He looked over at the clock in the kitchen. It said 4 o'clock. He decided that he might as well watch some cartoons.

He curled himself up on the sofa and grabbed the blanket. He turned on his favourite cartoons. His eyelids were heavy, but if he closed his eyes, all he could see was a red eye, staring deep into his soul.

At 6 o'clock, Nicole Watterson woke up and walked downstairs for a coffee. She heard the television was on. She frowned. Maybe, it was left on over night, she thought to herself, but, she didn't hear it when going to bed. What she didn't expect was Gumball curled up on the sofa watching cartoons at 6 o'clock in the morning.

"What are you doing up so early?" She asked.

"I..."

"Yes?"

"Well, there was this new kid in class. His name is Monde. And I met him after school and he ... well, I don't know but he has a red eye and he erupted into blue flames and he appeared in my dreams and he said to make a deal and I don't know if I can trust him." Gumball blurted out.

"You have such an over-active imagination." She chuckled.

"What? But it's true!" He replied in desperation.

"You might as well get ready now, then, you can get back to your cartoons."

Gumball hesitated. He knew that he couldn't convince his mum that Monde was bad no matter what he did, so he gave up and complied.

"Okay."

A couple hours later, Darwin Watterson woke up in his fish bowl, to the horrible buzzing of the alarm clock. He was having a dream about a man losing a sea soccer match and being chased, then, putting on a disguise and hiding from him (True story, two nights before I had a dream which was the same except it was normal soccer and with another person). Expecting to hear his owner turned brother's tired voice, he said "Good morning, Gumball"

He turned to look at Gumball's bed. There was no-one there. He furrowed his fishy eyebrows.

"Maybe he already got up," He mused to himself. he had to admit, that would be very unlike Gumball as usually he didn't mentally wake up until mid-day.

He jumped up out of the fish bow and landed on the carpeted floor. After stretching and yawning. He drowsily made his way down the steps and glanced around the living room. There was a small bump under the blanket. He tiptoed over to the thing under the blanket and suddenly threw the blanket away. Darwin gasped. Gumball was sitting in his normal clothes - the clothes that he would wear to school, his favourite sweater and his jeans.

"Good morning, Darwin." He said, smiling.

"When did you get up?"

"Before mum did, that's all I know."

"But mum wakes up at like 6 o'clock!"

"Yeah I know,"

"This isn't like you."

"I know."

He turned back to his cartoons.

Darwin walked into the dining room to have his normal daisy flakes.

"Bye boys!" Nicole Watterson said from the doorway as Gumball and Darwin walked onto the bus.

"So, Gumball, why did you wake up so early?"

"I guess it was just a fluke." Darwin decided to stop for now. But, he couldn't help but watch Gumball as he glanced around the bus. His eyes froze as he saw Monde. Darwin furrowed his eyebrows. He didn't know what it was about Monde that made Gumball so uneasy, but he was determined to find out. Then a though struck him. What if he reason Gumball got up so early was something relating to Monde. Why would Gumball wake up so early anyway? A nightmare maybe? Come to think of it, that was the only probable reason that he would have woken up so early. Why was Darwin even thinking this hard about this anyway Maybe Gumball just happened to wake up earlier than normal. Of course that it! He felt like such an idiot. He groaned and face finned as he sat down in his normal place next to Gumball.

"Why did you face palm- sorry, face fin yourself?"

Break time, Gumball's second faourite time of the day. Once again, Mode dominated the playing field, whether it be soccer, basketball or whatever the hell else.

Gumball noticed Anais sitting on a bench, eating the sandwich that mum had packed for her. Gumball ran up to her and sat down.

"Hi Anais."

"Umm... Hi?" Gumball really never talked to Anais at school. There was never any need. his was a relatively rare occasion. Gumball only talked to Anais at home or if he situation is desperate.

"I want to tell you something. I've already told mum, but she didn't believe me."

"Okay, I guess."

Then, Gumball recounted the whole story to his sister, making sure hat he didn't miss out anything.

Afterwards, Anais, who had been listening intently, sighed.

"Gumball, no offence, but, you sound like a deluded maniac. I mean, just listen to yourself."

"But it's true!" He said in desperation. Then he groaned. Of course no-one believed him. He was probably just making things up to fuel his "over-active imagination" as Nicole had so eloquently put it.

"Come on Gumball. You have to live in the real world."

"I-," Gumball lifted his finger, but then, he realized just how idiotic he sounded.

"Ok" He conceded. Anais stood up and left to play with her friends. He decided that he might as well try and befriend Monde. So, he ran up to Monde and asked if he could play basketball.

"Sure Cat! You're on my team." Then he lifted his head up to Gumball's ear.

"D'you remember our little deal, Cat?"

Gumball gasped and froze up. The hairs on the back of his furry neck stood up on end as his hot breath brushed past his sensitive ear.

"Yes." He whispered back.

"What do you say?"

"Fine. I'll do it."

Then he grinned a toothy grin.

Gumball shook off his terrified feeling. 'I'm sure that he's only playing around.' He mused to himself. He continued to play basketball with Monde.

Gumball had already left school hours ago. He lay in bed contemplating what had happened. He sighed. He probably did sound like whatever Anais had told him he was. A deluded maniac? He couldn't remember. He closed his eyes and drifted off into a deep sleep.

Gumball floated in a seamless void. He simply floated around, feeling content. then a voice rang out and sliced through the delicate silence.

"So cat, you decided to make the deal?" the voice asked. Gumball could almost see the smirk playing on his face.

"Yeah, I thought I had already told you."

"There's a part I left out. Never make a deal with the devil."

"What?" He appeared out of thin air and smiled his signature vampire grin.

"Don't make a deal with the devil?" Gumball asked. His eyebrows furrowed.

"That implies that you're the devil."

"Way to point out the obvious. 9-1-13-20-8-5-4-5-22-9-12."

Then a flash of light ripped Gumball out of his dream.

It turned out that the light was simply sunlight pouring out of the window. Gumball dragged himself out of his bed and went downstairs. he blinked the sleep out of his eyes and yawned.

He walked into the kitchen where his family was eating their daisy flakes or toast.

"I was wondering when you would wake up." Nicole said as he took a seat and poured himself a bowl of daisy flakes.

Gumball ran onto the school bus just in time, as the doors closed with a hiss behind him. He breathed a sigh of relief. He looked around the bus, trying to fins Darwin (He was also looking for Penny, but he would deny it.) He found Darwin at the back and smiled at him as he made his way down to where Darwin was sat. However, looking around, he couldn't help but notice Penny's absence. He brushed it off. Gumball also noticed Monde sitting in a window seat next to Banana Joe, who was telling a joke that went like this: "What do you call a joke that makes you feel bad going down the stairs? (At this point, Gumball said 'You' under his breath as they had coincidentally been going down the stairs at the time Banana Joe told him the joke.) A condescending, con descending!" Monde smiled at Gumball as he sat down. His normal smile. It seemed friendly, but it sent chills down your spine.

"Alright class, register! Alan?" Mrs. Simian croaked

"Here."

"Anton?"

"Here."

This went on, until...

"Penny?"

The room was silent.

"Penny?" Mrs Simians said, with slightly more ferocity.

"Her mum called me and said that she didn't feel very good and wouldn't be able to go to school today."

Gumball cringed at the thought of not seeing Penny for a whole day, and maybe even longer. He sighed.

Then, he remembered what Monde had told him a while ago.

He said something along the lines, "My name is an anagram. Figure it out."

His eyes widened as he realized.

Demon.

Blah blah blah. I'll probably update like every month or something now that I'm pretty much back to school.

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~TheCheeseNub :D