Yo, guys, what up? It's NiteOwl18 again. Sorry for taking so long; this one was a long chapter, but this chapter will be worth it. This is the part where Gumball will read his story and his chance of going to the next grade. Let see how that turn out.
Chapter 7
Gumball stood behind the doors of the gymnasium, and with a deep breath, he went inside. He saw that the people that he knew from his grade are here, and the rest of them were from different grades, from pre-schoolers to the twelve grade. He was surprise that they were a lot students just not to see the pep fest, but to see Gumball reading his story in front of everyone. He saw that Miss Simian, Principal Brown Mr. Small, and Rocky were here as they were seated at a large table right behind the students. Gumball suspected that Miss Simian is behind this. What was he saying? Of course he suspects her. She just couldn't wait for him to be embarrassed himself in front of everyone and failed the grade. Gumball's nervousness came when he saw the massive crowd. There were muttered and a few conversations from within the crowd. Gumball saw Darwin and Anais sitting at the middle row of the bleachers. He went up to the stairs and trying to avoid not to anger most of the upper classes. At the sixth row, Gumball walked in and says "Excuse me" and "Pardon me" until he finally sat right next to his brother and sister.
Darwin and Anais both greeted "Hey, Gumball."
Gumball replied "Hey, guys."
Anais asked "You all set for your speech, Gumball?"
Gumball answered "I'm a little nervous, sis. I didn't expect it to be of a massive crowd. I just thought that it would be everyone who is in my grade."
Darwin said "Just use the old method that people get when they feel nervous. Imagine them in their underwear."
Gumball shakes his head negatively. "Darwin, I'm not going to imagine everyone in their underwear. That's just stupid. Beside, I try that once and I only imagine my own underwear."
Anais said to her brother "Just try to takes some breathing exercise, Gumball. You need to let in all of your stress and lay it all out."
Gumball took a long deep breath, and keep it all in. His entire face was slowly trying to turn dark blue. His eyes were start to water from it as it grows massive. Both Darwin and Anais looked at their brother as he was started to get all choke up.
Anais said "Gumball. Gumball, breath! Breath, dang it!"
Gumball finally lay out as he open his mouth wide. He started breathing more rapidly, and coughing a bit. Anais patted on the back of his brother.
Darwin asked worryingly "You alright, man?"
Gumball coughed "Yeah, yeah, I'm alright." He lay out a thumbs up to his brother and sister. He kept on breathing less and put his hand to his heart. He could feel his heart pumping.
"Didn't it work?" Asked Darwin. "Did the breathing exercise worked?"
Gumball nodded "Yeah, kinda."
"Do you feel anymore stress?"
"Nah, I don't think so." Lied Gumball. "Man, I only wish I had more time to practice but Tobias and Banana Joe came in and talk to me, making me miss my time."
Darwin saw Rachel coming up the bleachers and waves at her. Rachel sees this and, with a warm smile, she went to him. Darwin had save a seat for her by the time he and Anais came in. He patted at the seat as she sat down right next to him.
Rachel greeted "Hi Darwin."
Darwin smiled warmly "Hi Rachel. Where you been?"
"I had to care some...business."
"Like what?" Asked Anais.
Before she could answer, Darwin interrupted as he pointed his fin at something. "Hey, look."
The four friends saw Tobias and Banana Joe coming up the bleachers, with massive bruises all over their body. Black and blue bruises were seen; Tobias got a huge black eye, a massive bump on top of his head, and dislocated arm. Banana Joe had a dozens of bruises, both black and blue, all over his body, one of his googly eyes had been ripped off as he is holding it, and his banana body has been smash, laying out parts of his naked body. When they saw Rachel, they immediately went further up before finding a seat.
Anais said with wide eye "Whoa, what in god's name happen to both of them?"
Rachel answered "Let just say that both of them was dealt with." She crackle on her knuckles at the end of the sentence. Gumball lay out an amusing laugh in his mind as he cross both of his arms and with his eyes close.
Suddenly, the lights from the ceiling begin to dimmer down until it was in full darkness. The entire school felt silence.
A few seconds later, the stage lights lid up from the ceiling and move around random. There were many whispers from the crowd. The sound of drumming was heard and the lights move to the center of the floor at the same time. Then came Principal Brown on the center of the spotlight with a microphone in his hand.
He move his furry mouth on the mic and a loud feedback was heard from the gym, whining the audiences as they cover their ears. He pound it with his hand a few times until it was stop.
The principal cleared his throat before speaking in the mic "Sorry, folks. Good afternoon, students of Elmore Junior High. Today is our last pep fest in celebration of our students going to the next grade."
The entire crowd clapped their hands, including Gumball, who knows that he's going to the next grade.
"In honor for our students moving forward, we will first present our cheerleaders as they give you a farewell routine of the 8th grade. Here they are, ladies and gentlemen, our own cheerleaders! Give it up for them!"
The crowd clapped their hands, and the principal clap as well as he walk from the spotlight and sit down on the long table with the rest of the facility.
The lights then started to move around again and somewhere in the audience, Juke had started to play his jukebox. The music started with a few drum beats.
At the center of the floor, the lights kept moving around until four lights were left in the stage. Then four girls went to each lights, and putting their hands behind their backs.
The drum beats was over, then came a techno rhythm.
The four lights quickly brighten it up, revealing the cheerleaders. As the music kept playing, they started kicking their legs high above and swing their arms around in perfect rhythm and flipping through the air. Their synchronize moves were almost breath taking to the audiences; it was magnificent. Gumball was immediately blown away from Penny's incredible moves.
At the ending of the song, the cheerleaders did one last move; they perform a mid-flips in the air, one by one. Standing on two feets, Molly stood with two hands high upon the air. Then came Teri on the left, Carmen on the right, and with the two cheerleaders held one hand high up, Penny came in on top with her white pom-poms high above in the air.
The entire crowd then clapped their hands and cheered louder. They were whistle calling and wolf calling, probably among the guys. Some of them pump their fists in the air in excitement. Gumball hooted and hollered at the same time as he raise up from his seat. His cheers is consider the loudest than the crowd.
After the cheering died down, the cheerleaders then went to their seats at the first row. The lights were all turn on from the ceilings. Principal Brown came in to the center of the stage again with his microphone.
"Okay." Stated the principal. "Thank you, ladies, for that wonderful performance. Let's give them another round of applause, everybody."
The crowd give the cheerleaders another cheer and clapping like the principal had ordered them to before dying down again.
Principal Brown continued "Now before we end our final pep fest, we have one more entertainer."
This is it. Thought Gumball. He had taken his story from his backpack and was gripping it with his hands.
"One of the students from Miss Simian's class is going to share us a story as part of his chance to make it to the next grade. As the audiences, you all are going to listen to his story, and judge him by the amount of clapping. Here he is folks, Gumball Watterson!"
The entire crowd clapped their hands, and Darwin pull himself onto Gumball before saying "Good luck, man."
Gumball shallow hard on his throat before standing up and went down the stairs with his story in his hand. Rocky got a tall microphone at the center before going back to his seat. As the dying went down, Gumball stood at the center and locked eyes with everyone that he knows. Most of them weren't familiar to the young blue cat. He sees his teacher, principal, counselor, and janitor/bus driver/cooker; all were looking at him.
Principal Brown said "Mr. Watterson, your story."
With his story still in his hands, Gumball move his mouth against the mic, but his head instead came in contact with the device, staging a loud feedback against the entire crowd. They all yell and cover their ears at the same time. Gumball pounded a few times on the mic before Rocky came in and twist a button down at the bottom of the mic, getting rid of the feedback.
Gumball put his hand up into the air and said "Sorry, sorry, everyone. My bad."
There were a couple of amusing chuckles from the crowd; the rest of them were recovering their ears from the feedback as they muttered.
With a clear throat, Gumball spoke clearly in the microphone. "The title of my story is called Tale of the Gutless Fearless Ninja."
The title of it receive some responses from the crowd with a few mutter and interesting looks. Gumball sees Penny as she was listening to hear his story.
Gumball continued as he kept reading from his paper "In the land of sky country, hidden in the clouds, stood a small peaceful village. The villagers had live with prosperity and protection from a guardian that they had never seen before. Some say that he lives in the shadows or somewhere from above or below them. They never saw or even sees his face before, but they describe him as he was 'Gutless' and 'Fearless'. Then one night came the most unimaginable thing.
"A dark storm had came out of nowhere, and cover the entire village. It was soon being plague by an unstoppable force."
"The villagers had looked upon the darkness from the skies and saw shrouds of demons coming out the clouds and attack the villagers."
The villagers saw the clouds from above before seeing the demons coming out of the clouds. The demons had launch themselves onto buildings before they were destroyed with a dark black. The villagers started running away as the demons continues to destroy more buildings.
"The villagers kept on running from them, but they couldn't get away from their preys. The demons had suck the life out of a couple of villagers before persuading for more."
Three demons had caught three fleeing villagers by blocking their paths. The demons were cover with black energy all around their bodies. They had no eyes nor mouths; only their black shrouded heads. Their mouths were suddenly open after being revealed and a little bit of wind were blow right into their mouths. The villagers were caught in the wind, and light green energies were suck out from their bodies before going into the jaws of the demons. Their skins turn into wrinkling from their lifeless bodies and their eyes became white before being drop dead.
"As their village was being invaded, the councils had seen their armies to go up against the demons."
An armies of soldiers dress in light green vest with a symbol of ク, which is the Japanese translation of "Cloud" and light brown pants. Armed with kunai knives, the soldiers charges in against the demons. With each moves they made, the soldiers weren't no match against them. Even with kunai knives attack with scroll bombs wasn't affected; it either went through them or swallow it before using them against them. The soldiers were evaporated by the explosions.
"However, their forces against the demons was something they had never seen before."
A couple of soldiers were up against a group of demons. The soldiers draw their blades and charge at them at full speed. The specters dodge them and one of them had raise its long arm, revealing its shadowed three sharp fingers. Its fingers was brought down onto one soldier, turning his whole body into a large green energy before being suck into the demon's mouth. Two soldiers went up against the demon that took one of theirs and swing their blades onto them. Then another demon came in and with the other demon, they both lodges itself on the three soldiers after merging together becoming a version of a large shroud of darkness. The three of the remaining soldiers look on and sees in horror as the two demons were separated, but they couldn't see the two soldiers anymore. With five demons against the remaining soldiers, each demons open their mouths and instead of sucking their energies, they did something else. Out of nowhere, energies were draw all around in front of them like a sphere. The sphere grew larger and larger until it was bigger than the three soldiers. They draw their blades to defend themselves; big mistake for them. The dark energy sphere was suddenly blasted by the five demons and the sphere evaporated the soldiers into total darkness and destroying everything around it.
"Not even the leader couldn't stop the invasion."
The leader of the village stood behind from his temple and dress in a black jumpsuit with a armored hood on his head, shoulder pads, gauntlets, and holding a large blade from his hands. He jump from his temple and landed safely from his legs. He weld his blade onto a couple of demons, this time he manage to defeat them. His sword was drawn from his energy before he went into battle. The steel blade was cover with a deep dark red energy. With one strike, he cut a demon in half before disappearing. After cutting off a couple of demons, the leader was now being face an army of demons.
The demons fly onto him; the leader uses his sword onto them, earning him two demons being disappear. More demons flies on to him, and suck a few energies from him before being cut in half. The leader kept defeated more demons as they were coming at him. But the demons manage to steal his life energies from him. The leader felt weaken as he saw his hand shaken and wrinkly. Keeping on both of his legs, the leaders kept striking anything that comes to him, but at the cost of that was more of his energies being suck out from him. He couldn't keep up; he felt his whole body turning weaker and weaker. The rest of the demons then wave around him, trapping him. Still weaken and feeling old, the leader kept swinging his sword around, but couldn't earn a strike like before. More and more of his life was being suck out from him, the leader couldn't keep up. He was on both of his feets and hands. His life was over.
"Then, just when the leader was about to join to the darkness like those who had fallen, he appear."
"Lighting tornado!"
A tornado of lighting was erupted, sending the demons evaporated in a bright light. Once the demons were gone, the leader stood up and saw something that immediately stopped. Dressed in a white jumpsuit and wearing a headpiece with a symbol of ク. He was also had two more symbols on his front and back. The front had the symbol of 弱い, which stands for "Gutless" and the back had the symbol of 大, which stands for "Fearless." He was wear a mask that covers his mouth, except for his thundered eyes. His right hand was cover with electricity.
Sensing a strong energy nearby, the rest of the demons respond by the call and fly toward it. The army of demons fly their way into the two person, one of them was recharging electricity from his right hand. The demons were almost close of sealing their fates.
Then, with enough lighting in his hand, he put his hand onto the demons and yelled "Lighting shield!"
A huge wave of lighting energy surrounded him and the leader in a glass orb. The demons felt impact upon reaching the shield, eliminating them all in a cosmic blast. The smoke cleared up, both of the heroes saw that all of the demons were gone, except that the dark storm was still up.
"The armies of demons were just the beginning for the ninja. There, right above the clouds, stood a figure hovering."
The ninja and the leader both saw the figure hovering from above them. The figure's body with a dark jumpsuit that everyone, including the ninja, thought that it was cover with shrouds of darkness. He had both of his arms crossed and eyed the ninja with his dark eyes. The ninja could sees his face since it was way above him. The figure's face was covered by a black mask, blending it onto the clouds.
The figure hover down right in front of him to see his face. The ninja said "So you're the one causing this mess, aren't you?"
The mysterious figure nodded in response.
"So what do they called you?"
Before the figure could its name, a loud honking noise had erupted the scene.
Gumball went back from reality and nearly loses his balance. Finding the source of the noise, he saw Miss Simian holding a large air horn at the top of the air. The crowd, and the facility, were covering their ears from the loud horn as they cover their ears. Gumball rubbed his ears from both sides with one finger.
Gumball asked "Uh, what's seem to the problem, Miss Simian?"
Miss Simian put her air horn down and scowled "Watterson, what was it you were reading?"
"This-This was my story, ma'am."
"No, this wasn't a story, Watterson. All I heard was some random load of beans!" Shouted Miss Simian as she bang her hand on the table, scaring those around her. "You clarity made up a another lie and copy something from the Internet!"
Gumball shakes his head negatively. "No. No, I didn't, ma'am. I-"
"I don't want to hear it!" Shouted more Miss Simian. "It's clearly that you didn't do your homework, and just made up another of your pathetic excuses! You fail!"
Gumball almost immediately fell down before remained standing up by her answer.
Principal Brown calmly said "Miss Simian, don't you think that you pushing Gumball a bit too much? He's giving us a story and you must show him some respect."
Mr. Small said "I agree with Principal Brown, and you did say that he will be judge by everyone based on his clapping."
Miss Simian sighed before saying "Fine!" She stands up from her seat and step aside Gumball for the mic. "Listen up, based on your clapping, how many of you all love this...story?" She ended the sentence with disgustingness.
Gumball had his finger crossed and eyes close for hope that he'll pass to the next grade. The audience held it in thought of what they think of the story. Gumball's answer then came, but not what he expected. Somewhere in the crowd, a few claps was heard from Darwin, Anais, Rachel, and Penny very loudly. The rest of them were from his grade and different grades, same as theirs. Gumball's joy was started to break. Soon he saw Rocky and Mr. Small clapping as well.
Miss Simian then yelled through the mic "NO FACILITY!" Her shout had silence both of the adults, ending their clapping. She turn her head onto the young blue cat, whose dreams are about to get crush.
"Looks like the audiences had finally gotten your answer, Watterson." She smirked through the mic. "I'll be seeing you again in the same grade. Now take your seat."
Gumball wanted to say something, but couldn't think of nothing. With his head down, Gumball walked back to his seat while the crowd looks at him. Penny look at her boyfriend with sympathy and try to say something to him, but he passes her.
Principal Brown, trying to break the silence, goes up to the stage and took the mic from Miss Simian before she left to return to her seat "Uh, okay, let's hear it for Mr. Watterson's story, everyone. Now it's time to end the pep fest with another encore from the cheerleaders. Ladies, if you please."
The cheerleaders then went back to the stage again and started doing their routine again as the crowd cheered and the music started playing again. However, while the crowd cheered on, one wasn't happy. The young blue cat has lost the ability of watching her girlfriend perform again. He put his head down as he was trying to keep his eyes close from crying. He remained there throughout the whole pep fest. His chance. His one finally chance of going to the next grade is now gone.
Unknown to everyone in the room, high above the ceiling, stood a black crow. Its eye was seeing the young blue cat as his head was done.
Most troublesome, lad. Thought the crow. Maybe I can help him with his story.
Then, out of nowhere, he vanished into thin air.
So pretty sad, right? His one chance of going to the next grade has failed. Poor Gumball. Anyway, it's almost at the start of the story. Next chapter is where Gumball is about to meet someone that'll help his story for improvement as you saw the crow. See ya guys soon or later.
