I know I uploaded chapter 3 not too long ago, but I also know that many of you wish for me to update this story, so here's chapter 4 of: The Survivor

"Just let me change my outfit, Gumball and we'll go eat, ok?" Cathy told her young nephew.

"Ok, Aunt Cathy" he said while playing Infamous: Second Son on his brand new PS4. Cathy then went upstairs to change her clothes. She was staying the weekend so naturally she'd be staying in the guest bedroom.

[10 minutes later]

Once she was done changing, Cathy stepped out of the guest bedroom.

"Where are you going?" She heard a voice. She turned to see her sister to the right of her. Normally when Nicole appeared out of no where people got spooked, but since Cathy grew up with her she had grown accustomed to it.

"Nowhere, just taking my nephew out to eat" she told the older feline. A light smile soon grew upon Nicole's face. "Just call this a temporary time out from your challenge"

"Ok. You two have fun" Nicole placed a hand on her sister's shoulder.

Cathy then proceeded to head downstairs to have a fun night with her favorite nephew. Once she made it to the living room, she saw that Gumball was still playing his game.

"Ready to go?" she asked. Gumball turned his head to see that his aunt had indeed changed her outfit. Not by much, but still.

She was still wearing a dark red shirt, but this one had no sleeves and a picture of a black broken heart on it. She had changed from a black skirt to blue jeans, with a black leather belt that had a golden buckle to hold them up. She still wore her gray colored boots and to top it all off, she was now wearing a black collar around neck and a black digital watch on her left wrist. Other than that, there wasn't much of a difference.

"Sure, just let me save my game" he said, pressing a button to save the place he was currently working on in the game. "Ready" he said.

-Pizza Kingdom-

Gumball and his aunt were at a local pizza restaurant for dinner. The two of them had decided to sit at a nearby booth where they could chat.

"May I take your order?" A waiter came by and asked them.

"Two extra large meat lovers pizzas and two sodas, please" Cathy ordered for them. The waiter took the order and walked off.

"Thanks for bring me here, Aunt Cathy" Gumball said to his aunt.

"Hey, I love spending time with favorite little nephew" Cathy said, playfully rubbing the top of her nephew's head. A purr of delight had emanated from Gumball, enjoying the sensation of having his ears scratched. "When was the last time you ate anyway?"

"I had lunch today at school" he told her. No soon than he had said that, both of the pizzas and sodas had arrived. Gumball hungrily licked his lips at the sight of the meat covered pizzas before them.

"Looks good. Let's dig in" Cathy said, both she and Gumball grabbing a slice of from their own individual pizzas, taking a bite out of them.

"So, I gotta ask, Aunt Cathy" Gumball said with a mouthful of pizza, and then swallowed. "What made you want change your outfit this evening?" he asked.

His aunt chuckled lightly. "What? You didn't think I'd actually dress like that, did you?" Cathy smirked with an eyebrow rose. Gumball's cheeks burned red with embarrassment as he looked of to the side. "Well, let me tell you something, dear nephew. Your mom and I maybe sisters, but that doesn't mean we have to dress or act the same" she told him.

"Right. Sorry about that" he replied. "So why buy two extra large pizzas? Would one just be enough?" He asked, taking another bite of pizza.

"Yeah, but I wanted to make sure you were really full" she replied.

"Well, this food certain will make me full. It's so good" he licked his lips of the cheese and finished off his first slice.

Cathy smiled at how cute it was the way Gumball ate. However, a thought crossed her mind, one that could be vitally important. "Gumball, sweetie, there's something I want to ask you…"

"What is it, Aunt Cathy?" he asked, looking at her with a straight face.

"Have you been feeling… different lately?" she asked with a curious eyebrow raised.

"Different how?" he asked back.

"Please, for the love of god, don't be what I think it is…" Cathy thought in her head. "Different like you've had an insatiable hunger for meat. Like you'll hunt and kill anything that might look tasty" she said.

"I'm not sure. I have been waking up with the taste of blood in my mouth lately though" Gumball said to her. His aunt lightly narrowed her eyes.

"Ok, have you felt any physical changes with your body? Like with your teeth, or your claws?" she asked.

"Hmm. Now that you mention it, I did have this one weird dream where I bit a pigeon's head off" he said, looking down. Cathy simply listened. "And then there was this other dream that was even weirder. I was fighting a raccoon for some reason, and then I ended up snapping its neck with my jaw and eating it"

Little did Gumball know, those were no dreams, they had actually happened to him. The problem was, after those events had accrued, there was no way of him remembering what happened the previous night.

"That's doesn't sound good. There's only one question left…" Cathy thought as she looked at her nephew with concern. "Ok. In these 'dreams' did you notice a change in your eyes?"

"Oh yeah. For some reason, my pupils turned into slits and my eyes became green" he told her. There was a short pause. "Eh, I guess it's not really that big a deal. I mean, they were just dreams, right?" Gumball said, taking a bite of his second slice of pizza, and then took a sip of soda.

"Right… dreams" Cathy said in a fake casual voice. "It couldn't possibly be in him… could it? I guess there's only one way to be sure…" she rubbed her chin in thought.

-Hours later-

With their bellies full of pizza and soda, Cathy had drove Gumball back home in her car. Speaking of which, due to all the food he had eaten, Gumball had fallen asleep in the car in the passenger's seat. Cathy took the liberty of carrying her sleeping nephew to his bedroom.

"Have fun?" She heard her sister who was standing near the stairs.

"Yeah, the pizza really filled him. He even fell asleep afterwards. He actually looks kind of cute when he's asleep" Cathy commented, looking down at the sleeping blue in her arms.

"He sure is…" Nicole agreed. "Hey, Cathy?"

"I know, I know, your challenge is back on" Cathy rolled her eyes with a smirk.

"No, it's not that, it's just… Thanks, for being so nice to Gumball" Nicole told her.

Cathy chuckled lightly. "Hey, I'm his aunt, it's my job" she said, and she and her sister walked of in different directions, with Cathy heading to Gumball's room to put him to sleep.

Cathy then lied him down in his bed and kissed forehead. "Goodnight, dear Gumball" she whispered to him softly, stroking his cheek. She then left and quietly closed the door behind her.

Once the door was closed, Cathy released a sigh of relief. She then lifted her arm to check her watch.

"It's only 8 o'clock. It's probably best I test this out at midnight…" she thought to herself in her head. "All I need is a fresh animal carcass…"

-Midnight-

Gumball was sound asleep in his bed, curled up in a comfortable position. Knowing the young cat, he was most likely dreaming of him and his girlfriend kissing in outer space or something…

Unknown to him, however, an adult cat figure was standing near his bedside, holding a wild gray rabbit in her hands. When the moonlight shun in his room, the figure was revealed to be his aunt and she had a slight look of regret on her face.

"Sorry Gumball, but this is the only way to see if you have it in you" She said in a sympathetic yet regretful tone of voice.

She held the rabbit over her nephew's head and unsheathed her claws, slashing the critter's throat, killing it almost instantly. No soon than it had been killed, the rabbit's blood had splattered on to Gumball's face.

Gumball groaned in his sleep as he turned his body to a different position. He licked the side of his mouth and smacked his lips.

Cathy looked at him closely with a look of concern and waited. There was a long pause…

Gumball's eyes quickly shot open… though there was a difference. Instead of his normally innocent eyes, his eyes were now that of a beast, that of a predator, that… of a tiger.

"I was right. He does have it in him…" Cathy thought to herself. Gumball sat up on his bed and looked at his aunt, who now was wide eyed in disbelief. "Easy there, Gummy. Don't want to do anything hasty" she tried to reason with him.

Gumball however, got in a ready stance as he let out a low growl from his throat.

"GAH!" Cathy gasped as she was pounced to the ground by Gumball. Gumball bared his teeth and brought them down towards his aunt. However, he aimed, not for Cathy, but for the rabbit carcass in her hands. He then leapt off of her and burst through his bedroom window, glass shattering behind him. "Gumball!" Cathy shouted with worry.

She turned to see Darwin still asleep in his fish bowl and Anias still asleep in her bed.

"How can they possibly sleep through that?" Cathy raised an eyebrow. She shook head to focus back on her now beastly nephew. She then leapt through the shattered window with ease and landed graceful on the ground on to her feet.

She looked to see the young feline eating the bloody rabbit. She had arrived just in time to see him finish off the last of the rabbit meat. Gumball backed away from the dead body to look up at his aunt.

"Eyes and teeth. Seems that he's already gone through the first two phases" she thought as she looked at Gumball with a serious glare.

Gumball soon got on to the crouching stance once more.

"Gumball. I don't know if you can hear me, but don't want to find you…" Cathy said as she reached into her pants pocket. Gumball roared at her. "But I will defend myself if I must" she said with seriousness, pulling out a pocket knife.

Gumball growled as his front paws unsheathed his claws. Unlike most times, this time his claws were bigger and sharper, capable of sinking deep to flesh. Cathy's eyes widened slightly.

Gumball soon pounced at his aunt once more, claws pointed at her. He attempted to slash her, but she was agile enough to dodge-roll out of the way just in time.

"Tiger claws. That's phase three. This really isn't good" She mumbled to herself. She looked up, just in time to see Gumball pounce at her for the third time in a row. "Let's try this…" Cathy dodged to the right, while also slashing the bottom of his paw with her knife.

Gumball roared extreme irritation.

"Ok, Gumball, time it's time to end this" Cathy said. She then leapt into the air and preformed a back flip over Gumball. Before he could react, he was struck in the back of the head with a karate chop, knocking him unconscious. Cathy walked up to her nephew's unconscious body and scooped him up in her arms. "Oh Gumball. Of the people for this to happen to… why you?" she thought with concern as she held him in her arms, nuzzling his face with hers.

She didn't want to believe it, but her nephew now had a dangerous form buried within him. Question was: how was she going to help him?

What a dramatic yet somewhat awesome chapter. Hope you all enjoyed this. See you all in chapter 5.