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Here's Chapter 3 I hope you enjoy this dark turn of events hahaha.

Gumball's Dark Amazing World

Chapter 3: - The Nightmare

There was darkness; it was all around as far as Gumball could see. He had no idea where he was, or why he was there as he walked aimlessly around the dark void, trying to find some sort of answer.

"Hello?! Is anyone there?" he called, confused.

There was no response, so all Gumball could do was walk around without any reason. He began trying to find out where he was, and why. After a short while, he decided to try and call someone again.

"Hello? Somebody?" Getting unusually scared, his eyes darted all around him, looking for something, anything, which could help him.

This is when, in the distance, a very small, dim light was pulsating a purple colour. He knew he had seen it before. It occurred to him that it was the small pebble that he had found on Thursday. Finally recognizing something for once, he cautiously walked towards the flashing, purple pebble and looked down at it from a short distance.

Unlike the previous times he had stared at the eccentric stone, he was not being put into any hypnotic-like trance.

After staring at the pebble for a while, wondering what to do, he decided to go a bit closer and leaned down, reaching his hand out to grab it.

That was when he heard it.

"Gumball, what a surprise! You managed to come here I see." Again, it was the same deep, miserable voice that had spoken to him every time he had looked at the pebble.

This is when something unusual happened: the outer part of the pebble cracked open like it was a shell, revealing a glowing, purple-coloured gem inside.

It surprised Gumball to the extent where he almost fell backwards as he stumbled from the sudden change in the small stone.

"Whaaa!" he yelped as he stumbled backwards. His voice echoed through the dark area that surrounded him.

What happened next was even more surprising; it actually made Gumball fall onto his back as he slowly moved away from the purple gem.

With a flash of light coming out of the gem, a figure appeared. It looked quite like Gumball, the only difference was that he had dark blue fur instead of his usual light blue coat. He wore a black cape which reached down to his waist. His face was twisted into a terrible expression. Looking at his face, he could see that his eyes were almost completely black with only slits of white in the center of his pupils.

Gumball wasn't really sure what to say. Looking up towards the newly-appeared figure, who was floating in the air above the gem where he had emerged from.

"Wh-who are you?" Gumball managed to stutter out after he observed the newcomer for a while.

The shadowy figure didn't reply at first. Instead, he floated down towards the ground and casually walked over to where Gumball was laying. Offering his hand to help him up, Gumball hesitantly accepted the offer. He pulled himself up with the help of the mysterious character that stood in front of him.

"Thanks! I think? Who are you?" asked Gumball a second time.

"I am you, just all the bad, evil and dark parts you hide within yourself." A huge, what could only be described as evil, grin appeared on the almost look-alike's face as he finally answered the question.

"Wha-what do you mean?"

"I mean that you released me." He began glaring at him with a smile. "Thanks for that by the way." He let out a small chuckle but slowly came to a stop as he continued his explanation. "You see, the stone you found only gave you, or me, I should say, power." He quickly darted his gaze towards his hands and just as quickly stuffed them into his pockets as he continued. "It resonated with me and let me speak to you through it."

Gumball raised his eyebrows, looking all over the dark-furred cat. "Wait, so you mean that you're like Zach?"

"In a way I suppose, yes." Taking one of his hands out of his pocket, he stroked his chin in thought. "Though Zach is a completely different part of you, which you erased! Remember? I'm much worse than him. Even more so now that the gem has given me the power it held!"

After glancing up and down at the cat that stood in front, he looked at his face making eye contact and asked questioningly, "But then, how are you here? I-I didn't do anything to create someone like you!"

"You did plenty. You see, all those times you felt angry, even over the simplest things…that was because I was slowly seeping through the depths of your mind into your main consciousness." He turned his head and lifted his arm, pointing towards the gem. It was left lying on the floor behind him. "That gem, which let me feed ideas into your head, helped greatly with that!"

Gumball followed his twin's movements to look at the gem. "No! But that would mean…" He lifted his gaze from the purple rock and glanced back at the similar looking figure, "you-you're responsible for everything bad that happened today!"

"No, no, I wouldn't say everything. Firstly, Anais helped significantly by slapping you. Even if it was to help, it still hurt and caused pain which led you to be slightly mad at her and slightly is all I needed to slip into your mind."

He then began walking in circles, around where Gumball stood, his cape flowing behind him as he moved. "You're the one who chose to be late to class, as you could have made it and let Darwin be late instead, which again, led to you getting angry. You're also the one who tripped over on the wet floor during lunch and left Darwin covered in food. I just fed to your anger in each of those moments"

Gumball didn't know what to say to this, he knew something was wrong with him as he had gotten angrier every time something small or big happened.

"Why?" Gumball managed to shakily ask his darker version. The lighter-haired cat hesitated for a moment, but eventually spit it out. "Why are you doing this to me? You're ruining my life."

"I already told you, most of it was your fault to begin with. I just fed to your desire of being angry using the gem to talk with you and feed questions into your head. You might remember this one in particular: 'they clearly hate you!'' That was me talking!"

"Why-what do you get out of putting lies in my head?" Gumball demands.

"Lies? LIES!?" He began laughing uncontrollably, "You think they were lies? I was just telling you what you already knew. You just decided to hide it away in the depths of your conscience trying to ignore it!"

Gumball paused at this, realizing it wasn't a lie. He actually did think that.

His mother always yelling at him. Darwin getting mad at him over simple mistakes. His dad, more often than not, ignoring him to watch TV and Anais - even as a kid - tried to kill him.

"Yes, they really do," the darker one spoke, knowing what Gumball was thinking.

"They do…" Gumball reiterated, confused as to how the other knew what he was thinking. He looked at him wanting answers. "Wait, wha-what? How did you? Who are you really?"

"As I've said before, I am you and since I am you, I'm able to know what you are thinking. However, if you must require a name I suppose I could come up with something." Once again stroking his chin in thought, he finally thought of something. "Yes, YES! This will do nicely. You can call me Dark Gumball! D-Ball for short."

At this, Gumball couldn't help but fall on the floor, laughing at the name, "Dark Gumball? That's the best you could up with? How original." He stuttered each word as he was laughing too hard to be able to speak properly.

"ENOUGH! I will not have you laughing at me," D-Ball growled. Dark Gumball watched Gumball laugh at the name he came up with. He began to float up into the air and charged some type of purple energy in one of his hands, aiming at the ground next to Gumball and finally released it by chucking it like a ball.

Gumball froze up, instantly silencing his laughter as the bolt of energy landed right next to him. "Wh-what the…what was that?" he nervously yelled, scared that it almost hit him.

"Are you not listening?!" He began to get ready to fire another bolt of energy, but quickly calmed himself down before he just decided to explain. "It was the gem! It didn't just allow me to have a larger presence and more control in your mind. As you held it, it gave me power, real power! The dark energy it carried was being absorbed into your being and transferred over to me!"

There was silence as neither really knew what to say to each other at this point. Gumball knew someone had to break the silence. To do this, Gumball decided to ask his original question, the one that he had at the start of all this.

"Well, what you've said explains a lot. But there is one thing I still don't get." He looked around the dark space, only seeing the fading light of the once brightly-lit gem. "Where are we? Where am I?"

"I will say, I'm not too sure myself on how this is happening." D-Ball then grew a large scowl on his face. "However, I do know where we are, as I'm always here being pushed aside by you!" He said this in a vicious tone, his anger for Gumball and their family clearly visible on his face. "This is inside your own mind. As you went to sleep, you were brought here. My theory is that the gem's depleted power probably had something to do with this!"

Gumball wasn't sure what to make of this. Talking to someone who almost looked like him in his own mind? That sounds crazy! How would that even be possible? His evil clone had to be correct; it must have something to do with the now colourless gem. It was the only thing that made sense at this point.

"You know, I'm grateful to that rock. It set me free from being trapped in the back of your mind. I have always hoped to be free, but your good side was always too strong. Now I have power to go along with my freedom."

Gumball could only think about how this was some type of nightmare. He would wake up soon in his bed like he does every morning. He was only kidding himself. This was all too real, he knew it; it was he just didn't want to accept it.

"You're thinking that this has to be a nightmare and that it can't be real, am I right?" Gesturing towards himself, Gumball, and the surrounding dark void, he said: "I assure you, this is all real. Your body is basically an empty shell right now, only appearing on the outside to be sleeping."

"What do you mean by that?" Gumball questioned, wondering how his body could be empty. It didn't make any sense to him.

D-Ball thought about this for a moment, crossing and tapping one of his fingers on his arms. Eventually, he finally answered:

"Well… you have actually been here before," D-Ball stated, quietly chuckling at how little Gumball knew. "You and Darwin both came here when you tried to stop a nightmare about Darwin kissing Penny."

Gumball wasn't sure what to make of this, but he remembered what he had just heard him say: "Only appearing on the outside to be sleeping." But for how long? How long have they been here talking? Is it still Friday or is it now Saturday morning?

"Hey, how long have I been here and," with a nervous look on his face, he asked, "how do I get out?"

Dark Gumball looked at his good side and began to laugh with a look on his face. That laugh could only be described as sadistic. To him, what Gumball asked was a completely and utterly ridiculous question. He couldn't help but laugh even harder than he was already until Gumball decided to interrupt him. His hands becoming fists with and with an annoyed look on his face shouted, "HEY! What's so funny…?"

D-Ball looked at Gumball, his brows furrowed, eyes as sharp as knives and his mouth in the shape of a grin of unpleasant darkness.

"You're never leaving here. You will be trapped here as I have been for so many years."

Gumball panicked and yelled, "WH-WHAT!?" The blue cat became increasingly worried over what he had just been told.

Dark Gumball glanced over the room, his eyes landing on the gem. Walking towards the gem that was once full of colour, he picked it up, examining its condition. He then came up with an idea, one that would let him finally leave this place without any interference. "Fine. You wish to leave? Come over here." The darker-furred cat was facing away from Gumball who was walking towards him from behind. Dark Gumball continued facing away from Gumball hiding his grin, as it would reveal that he was lying.

Gumball knew his dark twin was untrustworthy, but he didn't really have any other options since he couldn't just wait around and hope for something to happen. As he nervously walked towards him, he finally came to a stop at his side. It was then he knew it was too late, he caught a glimpse of his twin's devilish smirk.

"SURPRISE!" He had charged some energy in the hand that was holding the gem and shoved it into Gumball's chest, effectively making a hole in the center of his torso. As he let go of the gem, he pulled his hand back out. It was dripping with a red, sticky substance. He couldn't explain it really, he just had a hunch that this would do something, something which would benefit him greatly.

"AHHHGHH, MUM!" The heart-wrenching scream was heard by no one since he was alone with the darker version of himself. He fell back onto the floor, blood pouring out from the hole in his chest. He touched his torso and lifted his hand to his face to look at the blood. He began calling for his mother even more than he had before. He just wanted her to fix the unbearable pain he was feeling. His cries for help just ended up echoing into the dark void of nothingness. Despite knowing she wasn't there to help, he continued calling for her, coughing up blood as he spoke. He kept hoping she would save him like all the times she had previously. He kept going until eventually, his eyelids became droopy, his vision started fading, and his breaths were shallow.

The dark, twisted, terrible twin just watched, floating in the air in a seated position with a treacherous smile as Gumball was on the verge of death. D-Ball kept waiting for something to happen.

Suddenly, he could see a faint light coming from the hole in Gumball's chest as the cat was screeching in pain with a voice that could break a mirror. The longer Gumball laid there, the brighter it got. Instead of being a purple colour like it had been previously, it now featured a light blue colour that was almost identical to Gumball's fur. Once it became as bright as it used to be, it started floating upwards out of Gumball's chest, healing the wound while a stream of light was flowing from Gumball into the gem, sucking all of the angry and happy emotions out of him.

The blue-glowing gem had been filled with most of Gumball's emotions, leaving his body with just one emotion: depression. The gem fell to the floor and slid its way across, landing underneath the dark, floating figure that caused these events to happen.

Gumball very sloppily stood up, not caring about anything that was going on anymore. The thoughts of his family and friends hating him were ringing through his head even stronger than they ever have before. Thoughts of him even hating himself now flung through his head. Among them, there were even thoughts of things he would have never dreamed of doing before. Now, these through seemed like good ideas.

Before the depressed Gumball could go anywhere or do anything, D-ball picked up the gem and put it in his pocket before he made his way over to him.

When the corrupt being got close enough, Gumball looked at him with soulless eyes that showed no happiness or anger. They were just hollow, void of anything that could be called hope.

"Hey...Dark Gumball or D-Ball or whatever...I think you were right, my family and friends do hate me," Gumball spoke in his new state of mind.

This is more than I could have ever hoped or for!" Dark Gumball commented, adding a maniacal laugh to his statement. His posture even became that of a maniac: he was laughing, looking upwards with his arms by his sides, bent upwards while his fingers were stiffly curled and pointed into the air.

"Well...I'll have to agree with you there. Also, I'm sorry, but I can't have you wandering around since you won't be doing much of anything anymore," D-Ball spoke to the depressed being after he calmed down. With a click of his fingers, chains came out from the floor and cuffed Gumball's ankles, waist, arms and neck to the ground. "You'll have to stay like that, just like I had to since the day you created me. This is goodbye, Gumball! We'll never see each other again." Saying his last words, he turned his back and walked off into the distance using the newly-lit stone to guide his way to the exit...

Credit goes to the great lilie-pucisse on deviant-art for the appearance of Dark Gumball and the cover art! :D

Credit also goes to HitmonchanMan also on deviant-art for the name Dark Gumball! :D

Wow that took a turn didn't it? I told you it was gonna get dark haha. Expect it to get worse the longer this story goes on for :D

I will say, I'm not entirely sure on when I'll get chapter 4 out. Like before I will try to get it done within a week more or less but things can get in the way.

For example, I'm going to insomnia 63 later this month where I won't really want to write much as I'm there to play games. :P

Also, I'll be going back to college in September It's gonna be longer wait between chapters which is why right now I'm trying to release 1 a week.

Remember I try to keep characters personality's as canon as possible so please tell me if I stray too far from that. (Don't count angry gumball)

(Distractions may get in the way as Attack on Titan S3, My Hero S3, Overlord S3 are airing right now not to mention Discord, Random Vids and many other reasons such as college and games.)

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