TAWOG: Instinct

The Loss

The Loss

Within the Dark Place, Gumball, still in abyssalis cat form, and Green were interlocked, tumbling end over end weightlessly in the expansive void of swirling shadows as they brawled, swiping and biting at each other relentlessly, though neither inflicting any extravagant damage to the other. That is, until Green threw Gumball off with a swipe of his tail, bashing him in the chest and sending him spiraling into the encompassing void of swirling darkness. Before Gumball could even begin to reorient himself some of those double-tipped stalagmites sprang up from the darkness, wedging Gumball's limbs between their points; same as Rob and Penny before. Gumball didn't even try to break free though, for what was the point? He was trapped in a parallel world of perpetual darkness with no way home, his only company a being that might as well be malice incarnate, so what was the point of if he was bound or not?

“Never…”  hissed Green as he closed in on Gumball. “Never…” He repeated as he now loomed over Gumball and spread his wings intimidatingly. “NEVER…in all my millennia of schemes and plots have I been thwarted so! All of my efforts, rendered for not with your miserable gesture of self-sacrifice!” Green grabbed Gumball by the chin and forced him to look him in the face. “You will suffer! Oh, you will suffer greatly!”

Gumball, despite growing ever fearful at Green's words, didn't react however. He had resigned to his fate. He knew that there was no point in resisting Green's retribution, so he wasn't going to. He remained in abyssalis cat form however. If he was going out for the long haul he was determined to go wearing the imposing figure of his brutal, savage ancestors. He'd spent his whole life Gumball Watterson, someone everyone knew as weak, but, now that he had the opportunity, he was going to go out as someone, or something, that was the epiphany of strength.

It seems Green was going to begin with his favorite method of torture, raising two pinched claws and snapping them.

Gumball flinched as arc's of electricity danced suddenly over his body, but, surprisingly, it didn't hurt. In fact, the streams of electricity were surprisingly pleasant. Green's vengeful snarl then became a look of confusion, snapping his claws repeatedly, sending more arc's of electricity coursing through Gumball's body, but, again, there was no reaction of pain from him. In fact, the sensation became so euphoric Gumball was almost lulled to sleep.

“Wait…” hissed Green, ceasing his snapping. “That's right, your kind have a natural affinity for electricity.” 

Green frowned, the fact that his preferred method of torture was going to be inaffective against this current victim another source of annoyance for him. 

But then he grinned sinisterly.

“No matter…” he said, bringing his tendrils to bear, spikes poised, Gumball looking on in unrestrained horror. “I have other methods of inflicting pain.”

Green was going to instigate his wrath by any means necessary, even if he couldn't alleviate his frustrations through the electric torture like he usually prefers. After all, he had a thousand years until he could penetrate the barrier between worlds again and he was going to have precious little to do in the meantime, so he'd better get his amusement where he could. And he'd best savor this brief moment of it as well. After all, as a mortal, Gumball wasn't going to last long; a month at most, and whether he starves to death or perishes from the wounds Green intended to inflict was anyone's guess.

But either way, in Gumball's case, it was going to be excruciating.

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Back at Elmore the site where everything had gone down had become a proverbial media circus. After all the harrowing events had passed several reporters and filming crews had arrived on scene, the night lit up with the flashes of cameras, and not just from the News crews, but the police officers and detectives beginning an investigation as well. The angry mob had also disbanded after everything was over as well, the Donut Cop and his lieutenants finally following proper protocol and documenting the area, mainly all the damages.