Hey everyone, this is my very first Fan-fiction and I would like to say that I appreciate anyone who reads and gives constructive feedback, negative or positive. I have tried my best to keep characters as close to their canon personalities as much as possible, so if you feel that I have strayed too far from that, please let me know.

I would also like to add that I got inspiration for this story from reading many depressing but happy and interesting Gumball Fan-Fictions From both this site and Deviant art.

Mr. Page: - The Loop

Red Marks : - Scars

DNA-Do-Not-Abominate : - The Feral

Mr. Bda241 : - Misunderstood

Special Thanks goes to

One, Deviant-art User lilie-pucisse : - Dark Gumball ( Nightmare Ball )

Though grammar in her story isn't great and the fact that chapters are short, it's still both a great concept and enjoyable read. Also her Gumball art is just amazing and she allowed me to use one of her pieces for the Cover Art :D

And two, a huge thanks to my Beta Reader for this story Circus4APsycho8

Even though this story is still just on it's first chapter, Circus4APsycho8 has helped me improve it by making sure that Dialogue had a nice flow, Spelling was correct and removing unwanted commas, full stops and capital letters etc.

Circus did a great job on this chapter and I hope to continue our work together until this story is complete. :D

Before you begin reading I would like to say that I'm not the best at knowing when to create new paragraphs, use commas or full stops. Though, I do like to think my spelling is excellent (UK English if you think some words are wrong)

Finally this first chapter is mainly world building, character building and story building so not much actually happens but in later chapters it will get darker with, stronger language and violent themes so be warned.

Gumball's Dark Amazing World

Chapter 1: - The Beginning Part 1

It was the final day of the school week where everyone could finally go home and relax all weekend once the Friday was over. This is what Gumball Waterson, a blue, furry cat, was hoping to do at the end of the day as his Friday morning began.

As the morning alarm went off at 6:30am (which was one hour before the school bus arrived) Gumball, while very groggy, pushed himself out from the bottom of his bunkbed, silencing the annoying and irritating alarm.

Once he had turned off the alarm, Gumball turned towards where his best friend and adopted brother, Darwin, was sleeping. Darwin was a bright orange goldfish, who, after being accidentally flushed down the toilet, learnt how to talk, breath oxygen, and grow arms and legs through the power of love and friendship which he and gumball shared at their young age.

"Morning Darwin! It's time to get up," Gumball said with little excitement as it was still early morning.

Darwin heard Gumball knock on his fish bowl since the alarm had already woken him up enough to be able to acknowledge sounds. Unlike Gumball, Darwin didn't want to get up so early even knowing he had to. If anyone refused to wake up on time it would mean their mum Nicole coming to get them herself, and when that happens, the morning becomes much worse.

Hesitantly, Darwin opened his eyes and stepped out of his undersized fishbowl which desperately needed an upgrade. With a loud yawn and a few bubbles floating upwards from out of his mouth, Darwin finally replied, "Good morning Gumball."

"Come on, buddy! If you don't hurry mum will get impatient and we both know what that's like!" As Gumball said this, a shiver went down his spine, which made his blue, furry tail spike straight up into the air, almost pulling the rest of his body up with it.

Shaking the thought away, Gumball quickly pulled the curtains open, leading a beam of sudden heat and light into the room from the sun which made both Gumball and Darwin blink for a few seconds before getting used to the sudden change of brightness. Once opening the curtains, Gumball quickly went to get dressed himself and said to Darwin that he could go ahead without him. "Hey, Darwin, you can go ahead to the bathroom, I'll meet you downstairs for breakfast when I'm ready!"

"Okay!" Darwin simply and eagerly replied, as he was starting to become more awake. Darwin could always get used to the mornings a lot faster than Gumball could; actually, it was just getting out of bed which Gumball could do faster than Darwin.

As Darwin left the bedroom, he closed the door behind him and headed towards the bathroom. Gumball finished getting dressed into his favourite tan-coloured sweater that had brown around the end of the sleeves and collar before he jumped into his slightly grey-coloured pants which had a tan colour around the two bottom leg holes.

As he was leaving the room to go into the bathroom and head downstairs, he remembered something and took this chance to grab it. This was something that he had found outside Thursday evening as he was taking out the trash as a request from his mother. He had decided to hide it under his pillow, next to the picture he tried to but unknowingly failed to hide of Penny, his not-so-secret crush.

The small object he found looked very bland and boring, but for some reason Gumball was drawn towards it like it was calling to him and he didn't understand why. When examining it after picking it up again, it still had a bland and boring appearance. It looked like your average pebble on a sidewalk, but Gumball couldn't resist and decided to keep it, secretly, to himself.

-FLASHBACK-

"GUMBALL! I TOLD YOU A MILLION TIMES ALREADY TAKE OUT THE TRASH!" Nicole was getting very impatient with Gumball as she had asked him to do this multiple times throughout the evening.

"Sorry mum, I'll do it in a minute!" Gumball was with Darwin watching funny videos on the local video sharing site known as Elmore Stream.

"NOT IN A MINUTE, NOW! DON'T MAKE ME COME UP THERE!" With this, she finally heard a door slam upstairs. Out from the corner of the upstairs wall appeared Gumball.

He suddenly came rushing quickly down the stairs, grabbing the bags as he flew past his mum and literally went crashing through the door into the front yard. He put the bags in the bins outside. Gumball was going so fast you could say it resembled another speedy blue creature we all know and sometimes love.

After putting the trash into the bins, he paused his speedy momentum to have a look around. He swore he heard something calling his name. Eventually, he shrugged his shoulders and continued back towards the house when he suddenly heard it again.

In a very ghastly tone he heard it once more after pausing to take another look around for a few moments.

"Gumballllllllllll!" he heard it say, and again a few seconds later "Gumballlllllllllllllllll."

This is when a strange, completely normal pebble caught his attention. Even though there were more than just the one, this particular pebble, he knew, was what was calling to him somehow. After staring at it for a few minutes he suddenly heard his mother call his name again. "GUMBALLLLLL! GET BACK HERE RIGHT NOW!"

This snapped Gumball out of the weird trance he was in. Staring at the stone, he decided to pick it up and stash it away into his pocket. When he did, though, the eccentric whisperings of his name came to a sudden stop. Later, after getting yelled at for making a hole in the front door, he went upstairs and put it under his pillow.

-END OF FLASHBACK-

After grabbing what he wanted from under the pillow, he decided to put it in his back-pant pocket. He made his way to the bathroom before he went downstairs to join everyone. Once he had finished getting ready, it was 7:00am, which he read on the clock once he made his way downstairs into the kitchen. He noticed the hole in the door was boarded up with some planks he knew were in the shed outside.

"Good morning, Mum, Dad, Darwin, Anais. What's for breakfast?" Gumball asked, though he knew perfectly well what it was; he could smell it as he was coming down the stairs a minute ago. The smell of the oily, crispy bacon and frying eggs, the nicely toasted bread, and the hot baked beans drifted through the air. The meal was in every sense a traditional English breakfast and Gumball was excited to dig in.

Though he was excited, someone else was way more excited than anyone else in the house; it was his dad Richard. Their dad was a lazy, unemployed, fat-ass, but a very happy and cuddly fat-ass whom Gumball and his family could count on in serious situations, like at one time in a junkyard, where he had saved him from falling into a pit of death meant for cars to be crushed.

"Look who's here on time for breakfast. This is very unusual, normally mum has to shout at you at least once to get you to come down here on time." This arrogant remark was made by his cute, intelligent, but sometimes annoying, four-year-old sister.

"Hey Gumball!" Richard said in a hyped-up tone. "We're having a fully cooked English breakfast." Richard said this while drooling over the food that his mother was about to serve to everyone.

As Nicole walked into the dining room with all of the food ready to serve, she noticed Gumball heading towards his seat. "Gumball, sweetie, good morning. Glad you could make it on time." After pausing for a brief moment, she continued on. "Now come over here and get some breakfast before the bus arrives."

As Gumball made it to his seat, which was in between his father and little brother, he said to everyone, "Yeah dad it smells great. And thanks mum but…what's the occasion?"

Before Nicole could say a word, Darwin quickly said what she was about to say, effectively stealing her moment: "Mrs. Mum said that today, they will pick the Employee of the Month and she hopes to get it again like she had done a few months back!"

Gumball, now with understanding of what was going on, replied with a simple, "Ohhhh! Okay, that makes sense."

Nicole slowly sat in her chair, looking at Darwin with a slightly sad expression so he would know that she wanted to tell Gumball herself.

Both Darwin and Gumball noticed their mum make a weird face at him, so Darwin decided to lean over towards Gumball to whisper to him, "Why does Mrs. Mum look, like, a thousand years older all of a sudden?"

Gumball whispered back, "I don't know buddy, she was happy just before you…told…me…" Gumball, towards the end of what he was saying, realized what was wrong and changed what he was saying to Darwin mid-sentence "You...told…me…actually, I think I do know, you told me about mum having the chance to become Employee of the Month."

Darwin, hearing what Gumball had told him, thought he now understood and decided to say a completely wrong guess out loud. "Oh, because I told you Mrs. Mum had the chance to become Employee of the Month, she misunderstood me, and thought I meant a different Mrs. Mum!"

At this, both Gumball and Anais face palmed, with Richard soon following, deciding to join in as well, even though he didn't know what face palming actually meant. He kept his hand on his face because he couldn't see that Anais and Gumball had removed their palms from their faces.

At this spectacle, Nicole had to let out a slight chuckle at how silly her family was being. Especially Richard, who suddenly asked with his hand still on his face, "Wait is face palming a type of food?"

While finishing up her food, Nicole decided to say something, "No Richard, it's not food and you can put your hand down now. Eat your breakfast before it gets cold, all of you. Don't worry about it, it was just something silly I was sulking over."

With breakfast finished, Gumball, Darwin and Anais said their goodbyes to their mum and dad as they went out the front garden to wait for the bus, which - the time being 7:28am - would arrive any minute now. Rocky, the school caretaker and bus driver, was always punctual with his timing.

Right on cue, the bus was in sight down the road, driving up towards where they were standing. It came to a slow stop outside the Waterson's house. Rocky opened the bus doors and happily greeted the three siblings.

"Hey guys! Looks like you three are having a good morning. Come on, we don't want to miss the morning bell."

As Darwin, Anais and Gumball stepped into the bus, they each greeted Rocky themselves and shuffled their way to the back of the bus. As the three of them were reaching the back seats, Gumball noticed Penny and he gave her an awkward, love-struck smile and wave which made Penny blush. She let out a light chuckle while waving back towards Gumball.

Once the three of them settled in their seats, the bus started moving off again, heading towards the last day of school. Gumball had hoped they would have a great last day leading into a great, relaxing weekend where he could play video games with Darwin.

"Gumball."

He didn't just want to play video games though, he also wants to help his mum with some cooking which he enjoyed doing ever since he made a soufflé in his home economics class.

"GUMBALL!"

He even wants to forcibly help with Mr. Robinson's chores, which was his and Darwin's favourite neighbour though, the feeling isn't mutual.

"GUMBALLLLLL HELLOOOO"

Finally, what he wished to do most of all (if he could find the courage) was ask to hang out with Penny to talk about things. Subjects that didn't come out as a bunch of jumbled words.

Suddenly, Gumball felt someone or something hit the side of his face.

"OUCH! Huh? What? Where am I? Hmm…oh, hi Darwin, Anais what's up?" Gumball, confused what was going on, had to ask, silently hoping that it wouldn't be a stupid question. To no surprise, his hope for that vanished as Anais and Darwin were both looking agitated and annoyed at him, telling him what he was confused about.

"Gumball," Anais said, still annoyed her voice becoming slightly more worried she continued. "We've been trying to get your attention for a few minutes now, we're at school and the bell will go off any minute now. You know what Miss Simian will do if you're late, even by a single second."

After hearing these words, Gumball shot up like he had just been electrocuted. He grabbed hold of Darwin's fin and pulled him along with him as he ran towards his classroom. It reminded him of when he had to take out the trash. It seemed to be a skill that, when in tough and pressuring situations, Gumball suddenly felt like he could run one-thousand miles per hour.

He thought to himself that, maybe it could be something he inherited from his mother? After all, she could run really fast whenever she had to chase Gumball and Darwin around the neighbourhood for trouble they had caused, like when they tried to return a DVD back to Laser Video, even though it was way passed its return date.

As they were running down the hall towards the classroom, they could see Miss Simian standing outside by the door with an evil grin and glare to go with it. This meant she definitely saw them rushing to get there on time. To make the situation even tenser, she began counting down in a very hopeful voice, hope that they would fail to make it on time. "Thirty, twenty-nine, twenty-eight, twenty-seven, twenty-six, twenty-five, twenty-four, twenty-three, twenty-two, twenty-one, twenty…"

"We're not going to make it!" Darwin screamed, the worry in his voice very obvious to Gumball. He didn't want to spend the final day of the week in detention, and, knowing Miss Simian, he would have to do it on the Saturday instead of Friday just to ruin his weekend.

Gumball, though he had a plan, knew this was his fault and wanted at least one of them to make it in on time. He grabbed his brother's other fin and started spinning in circles as fast as he could.

"Duuuude, whaaaat are yoooooouuu dooooiiing?" While being spun around this fast, Darwin couldn't speak as clearly as he wished to, but still hoping to get an answer, he waited patiently while still being spun around.

Darwin started to get confused when Gumball shed a tear and said, "Live on without me! Only one of us can make it. Don't worry about me! You must move forward and leave me." Of course, he was being overdramatic and overly exaggerating the entire situation like he usually does.

Miss Simian could still be heard in the background as she continued her evil count down: "Twelve, eleven, ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five…"

Making sure to time it right, he let go of Darwin as Miss Simian reached the last 5 seconds. It was so fast no one could have made out what it was. It flew by like oranges in an automatic baseball machine on its max settings, leaving behind scorch marks and fire from the speed he was thrown at.

It was when Gumball let go of Darwin that he understood what Gumball was doing and a loud "NO!" could be heard. It was getting quieter and quieter as the orange blur went straight into the classroom and crashed into the side of the teacher's desk.

"NOOOO!"

As the speedy orange blur slammed into the side of the teacher's desk, Miss Simian, in a state of shock, was able to shakily let out a single word with a burnt face.

"One."

Straight after she whispered that, the morning bell to signal that class had started rang throughout the school.

Gumball then continued to play out the scene he had created and kept going with it saying, "Darwin, my friend, my brother, you must live and escape the fate known as detention to live a happy life." Finally, he collapsed onto the floor, acting dead.

Darwin got up from where he lay by the teacher's desk and walked over to look outside the classroom, towards Gumball so that he could hear what he was saying. He then also decided to continue playing along and let out a loud screech that possibly everyone in the school could hear

"GUUUUUUUMBALLLLLLLLLLLLLL NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO" He began crying fountains he continued weeping, "You deserved better! How could this happen? Why is this world so cruel?"

Once the morning bell finished ringing, Miss Simian got her senses back and snapped, "STOP FOOLING AROUND! DARWIN SIT AT YOUR DESK! GUMBALL 5 HOUR DETENTION…ON SATURDAY…AT NOON! NOW GUMBALL YOU TOO COME SIT AT YOUR DESK!" Once Gumball and Darwin finally sat down at their desks. Gumball, still feeling miserable that he could no longer feel excited for his Saturday, sloppily sat in his desk with his head on his arms using them as a makeshift pillow as he laid his head on the desk.

Miss Simian had calmed down and started her lesson by saying "What a bunch of losers you all are…you know what losers deserve? A SURPRISE TEST! HAHAHAHA." This comment made everyone let out a huge sigh in annoyance, as always, when they were given surprise tests by Miss Simian.

Miss Simian went around the classroom with evil delight in her eyes, slowly banging a test onto each student's desk from a pile of papers she was holding. As she made her way around the room, she could see the anguish in her student's eyes which made her job that little bit more enjoyable.

Since Anais slapped him on the bus, Gumball had a weird feeling that was coming from his pocket. He could only guess that it had something to do with the odd little rock that he had brought with him. It was now the middle of class and Gumball still had this weird feeling he couldn't explain, so, he decided he needed to check it out. "Miss Simian?" Gumball asked to get her attention.

After gaining her attention, Miss Simian responded with a sigh, "What is it, Gumball?"

"Can I go to the bathroom?" After getting his question out, he decided to jokingly add on, "I would rather use the toilet then do it in class."

With this Miss Simian answered Gumball with an annoyed tone, "Fine Gumball, BUT! Only five minutes max." After all, she didn't want someone to have an accident in her classroom. This is why she often let people use the bathroom when they asked, despite being a terribly grumpy teacher.

Gumball got out of his chair and opened the door to his classroom, closing it behind him. He then made his way down the hall to where the bathroom was. Once inside the bathroom, he did use the toilet since he was there, but, after he flushed, he stayed by the sink to check on what he actually came here to check on.

Gumball took out the strange, small pebble from his pocket and to his surprise, he could see that it was very faintly pulsating a dark glow in the center of it. Like before, Gumball could have sworn that the stone started whispering his name.

"Gumballlllllllll…Gumballlllll…Gumballlllllllll" With a pause of a few seconds between each time it called his name.

Gumball could feel it in his head, whatever it is. Similar to when he first picked it up, he could feel himself falling into a trance, staring into the pulsating dark colour coming from the stone. To Gumball it felt…peaceful. He wanted to stay like this, forever if possible.

"Gumball, bro, are you in here? Miss Simian asked me to check on you, it's been almost ten minutes."

This made Gumball snap out of his weird trance since he recognized the voice and was surprised to hear it. It was his little brother Darwin. As he quickly darted his eyes around the room, waking himself up from the trance he was in, he noticed as he looked back towards the small object, that it had stopped glowing. Gumball, confused, swiftly put it back into his pocket. For some reason, he had a strong feeling that he needed to keep it hidden from everyone.

"Gumball? Hello?" Darwin continued calling his brother's name until he finally got a reply.

"Oh, hey Darwin. I'm coming now," Gumball said while giving his brother a wave as he walked towards the bathroom door where Darwin was standing.

Darwin had his arms crossed looking at him with a questioning face. "Why were you taking so long? Miss Simian said five minutes max."

"I know, I'm sorry buddy, making you have to come get me." With a slight chuckle Gumball added, "I guess I was just that desperate for the loo, heh."

"Come on dude, we need to get back."

"Okay, okay, I'm coming."

As they entered back into the classroom and walked towards their desks to sit back down, Miss Simian (once again angry) shouted at Gumball-

"I TOLD YOU FIVE MINUTES MAX! WHAT WERE YOU DOING TO BE GONE FOR TEN MINUTES?" Again calming down, she decided her punishment: "For taking too long, I am giving you an extra hour of detention tomorrow so six hours starting at noon. YOU BETTER SHOW UP!"

This day was putting Gumball in a bad mood. First, he got slapped by Anais, though he knew that was his own fault for day dreaming about the weekend. It still made him agitated for some reason, despite the fact that something trivial like that hadn't made him upset in the past.

Next, he was late to class and got detention, again, knowing it was his fault, he still couldn't help but put some blame on Darwin as well as Miss Simian. Mostly Miss Simian though, since she was the one who gave the detention and extended it. Not to mention she gave the class a surprise test.

Once the morning lessons ended and the lunch time bell rang throughout the school, she ended class by saying-

"Alright class, remember to hand in your assigned homework when it's due." Of course, everyone ignored Miss Simian's comments about getting homework in on time and instead, sped past her like a stampede out the door and down the hall towards the cafeteria, ready to eat and play outside.

Well… That's it for now. :D

As I said previously, any constructive feedback is appreciated negative or positive.

Chapter 2 should be up in the next couple of days since it's almost done. It's almost done because it was originally going to be part of this chapter, but in the end I thought it would have ended up being too long.

Thanks! Until next time. :)