So, this is a thing. Welcome to Flames of Fury, a new story where I crank up the angst heavily. Pretty much, I saw this awesome drawing by FranticAce on DeviantArt (check him out he's awesome), and I thought "hey, what if that fire thing destroyed stuff?" So I drew a concept, and began working on this.

Huge thank you to my friends on Discord for helping me out with some of the medical facts, this fanfic would probably be full of plot holes without their assistance. ^^

With that said, enjoy the story.

WARNING STORY CONTAINS GRAPHIC VIOLENCE, ANGST, AND SOME FORM OF GORE IN SEGMENTS. PLEASE DO NOT READ IF YOU ARE SENSITIVE TO THAT.

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It was what seemed to be a rather normal day for our young feline, as he was trudging through the hallway of Elmore Junior High. Gumball sighed, having an annoyed expression on his face. Let's just say, he wasn't having a good day.

His father had eaten the entire table this morning, including the breakfast, therefore he was really hungry at the moment. Miss Simian had yelled at him for losing his homework, and gave him an F- for the grade. Sure, that was normal, but he knew he would get even worse yelling from Nicole.

Anais had also criticized that as well. "You shouldn't have lost your homework last night. At this rate you'd be graduating at 80."

He didn't take kindly to that.

And of course, Darwin was angry with him. The goldfish was keeping distance from him, silently glaring.

"You don't have to do that dude." Gumball said, as Darwin accidentally crashed into another student. "Just because I forgot to grab your lunch before the bus squished it doesn't mean you should be mad at me. Besides, you dropped it."

"No, you did! Ugh, I can't believe you're such a jerk where you can't even admit it was you!"

Gumball sighed, doing his best not to snap at Darwin for saying that, growing annoyed. He zoned out for a moment, thinking about how horrible today was, unfortunately bumping into someone.

"Hey watch where you're-" Tobias paused, realizing who it was. "Oh look, it's you."

"Sorry." The cat was about to continue on his way, but the rainbow colored boy stopped him.

"Look I'm sick and tired of your excuses! You don't just throw that word around whenever you feel like it!"

"Uh… What?"

"Don't act so innocent! You always do it! Like when you threw me out the window when I was unconscious that one time! Or when you hid behind me and knocked me out, or.. Or that.. That slap incident! And even then I NEVER got an apology for any of those!"

"Dude I'm sor-"

"THAT WON'T WORK ANYMORE!" Tobias looked furious, as he pointed at him. "I'm not dumb enough to fall for your stupid apologies, especially when you don't mean them!"

Gumball could feel his fists shake, as Tobias continued to yell at him. He tried to repress his tears, as anger built up inside.

Darwin stood in the back, wanting to interfere but was afraid to, as he watched it go down.

"Gumball Watterson you are the worst, selfish, pathetic loser I've ever seen! You don't deserve anything for how you are! You don't care about anyone do you?! You'd rather just cause destruction and walk off like nothing happened while we suffer for your mistakes!"

The cat did not say anything, much to the annoyance of the rainbow colored boy.

"Well? What are you gonna say?" Tobias narrowed his eyes. "Where's the dumb sarcastic quips now huh? Waiting for something bad to happe-"

"...Shut up." The words were barely uttered, as Gumball was staring at the floor. His expression was cold, almost threatening.

"What was that?"

"I SAID SHUT UP!"

Gumball could only feel rage, as he finally looked up, tears in his eyes. Fire suddenly appeared at his feet, as a creature came out from behind him, looking almost like the cat himself.

This of course startled Tobias, who slightly stood back, but didn't run away just yet. "That's not scary you know."

"Oh, you want scary?" Gumball's anger slightly grew, as the fire became larger, almost surrounding him. "I'll give you scary."

Smoke alarms went off, as the fire covered him, the cat embracing it, arms outstretched as he disappeared into the heart of the beast, the flames almost reaching the ceiling. A burning face appeared out of the fire, vaguely resembling Gumball's but not as much, its red eyes and yellow pupils looking right directly below at Tobias.

"Uh.. I take back what I said…" The rainbow boy quickly tried to run away, but the flame beast grabbed him, hurling him out to the other side of the building, some fluff burning away. A loud crash was heard, along with crumbling bricks.

Students screamed, beginning to flee the scene. The fire monster roared, swishing its tail as it spread the flames throughout the hallway.

The ice cream girl Sarah was not as well spared, as half of her face had melted off. She took off, but soon stumbled and crashed to the ground. Horrified, her friend Teri ran faster, trying to keep her fragile paper body away from the chaos.

In front of her, Juke was frantically beatboxing, trying to help her out. "Juke help me!" Teri cried, as she ran to him. The beast however was faster. With a swipe of its fiery clawed hand, the paper girl screamed, as she disintegrated into ash.

Juke looked down at the remains of her, tears building up in his eyes. In a sudden rage, he charged towards the monster, heavy beatboxing heard from him. Just as he was close to the creature, it looked agitated, as it lifted its hand again and smacked the boombox in the face. Juke flew back into the ground, feeling a singeing heavy burn on his face as he let out a ear piercing screech of audio in pain.

"Gumball stop!"

The fire beast turned around almost angrily, as it stared down upon Darwin.

"Dude please this isn't you! You're not some… Uh.. Whatever that is right now.. We can fix this I promis-"

Darwin was harshly cut off, as he was suddenly thrown to a wall, tears streaming down his face as he screamed in agony at the burns on his fins.

The beast only watched with hatred, before turning and wrecking havoc somewhere else in the school. Anais was quick to run to the goldfish's side, examining the scarred hands in concern.

"What do we do now?.." Darwin asked in tears, as his sister let him go.

"..I'm not sure.. He's never been like this.." Anais replied. "That fire is at third degree burns right about now, it could get worse."

"But we can't even touch him! Nobody can!"

"I know but-" The bunny cut off, as a thought came to her head. "We might not be able to, but someone powerful could stop him. Someone like…"

"Carrie?"

"Hm, that could work, but she could only contain him, and I don't think that would help."

"And considering everybody else.. Wouldn't that just leave us with-"

The bunny cut him off. "Mom? Most likely."

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And that's the first chapter! The suspense will definitely rise in the next chapter, believe me.

With that said, let me know what you think! Was it good? (I really hope so it took a while to write)

See you in the next chapter! :)