FANFIC Never Ending Nightmare

Never Ending Nightmare

Bate / Gordon / Meta / Arthur / Nonsurat

It was like any ordinary night for a certain elder Star Warrior by the name of Bate. Once catching up on a few pages of his favorite book, and jotting down some of his thoughts in his own, personal book, it was time to finally settle down and turn in for the night. The warrior made his way out of his room and headed to the room across from it. He opened it and saw three little Puffballs playing.

“Time for bed,” He called,

A small wave of disappointed groans filled the room, “But Teacherrrr! Can’t we stay up just a little more?”

Bate shook his head and motioned them to the bathroom to brush their teeth, “If I do, then how to you expect to wake up in the morning for class?"

“We promise we’ll get up,” Arthur added to Meta’s previous statement, “Just 1 more hour?”

Bate dwelled for a bit to humor them but unfortunately didn’t budge, “Maybe next year when you’re older.”

The three whined in unison as they grabbed their toothbrushes and started brushing. Once the three finished, they made their way over to the living room where they saw Bate and Gordon.

The Gordo looked over and smiled, “Ready for bed?”

“Not really…” Meta frowned and faced Bate “Can you at least finish the story you were telling us from last night?”

“Only if I see you lot in bed by the time I get there” He said, starting to get up.

All three nodded and made a dash to their respective beds. Meta, however, quickly jumped out and headed to the toy chest to grab some of his stuffed animals,

“Meta, Teacher Bate’s gonna be here, hurry!” Nonsurat called,

“I…I know, but-“ He rummaged around the chest to find the one he was looking for, “I can’t the one want,”

“Am assuming it’s this one?” Bate stepped in, holding a worn teddy bear plush he gave the young warrior a few months ago to help him get to sleep one night. “You left it on my bed last night, remember?"

Meta smiled and cuddled the stuffed bear when he took it from the elders hands. “Thank you, Teacher!!”

“Hm, yes…” He mumbled, “Though I don’t know how many times I need to tell you to stop coming in my room during the night.”

“But Teacherrrr!” Meta jumped in bed and wrapped himself in his blanket, “The monsters won’t attack if you’re there.”

“There are no monsters, Gumball,” He sighed, “And I expect you to sleep in your own bed this time, not mine. If anything, please talk to Gordon if something wakes you up tonight. I have an appointment early in the morning tomorrow and I can’t be late.”

Meta gave a small, disappointed nod and proceeded to curl up with his stuffed bear. Bate grabbed a chair and sat in the middle of the room to finish the story his was telling the three. Eventually after thirty or so minutes, the trio fell asleep and Bate quietly made his way out.

“Asleep?” Gordon spoke when he heard Bate enter the room again.

“Like logs,” He smiled and took his seat next to the Gordo. “If it’s alright with you, I told Meta if he could wake you if he gets up. He’s been coming in my room this whole week, and it’s been quite exhausting. Since I need to see Mends tomorrow, I want to try to get some hours of peace without being disturbed.”

“Of course, I’ll leave my door open tonight,” Gordon gave a nod and went over to the kitchen to brew themselves some tea. He came back a few minutes later and handed Bate a cup.

“To a peaceful nights sleep,” Gordon raised his cup,

“Yes, let’s hope.” Bate raised his as well.

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“Hmmm….”

Gordon softly mumbled when he felt something touch his spike. Without opening his eyes, he summoned one of his hands to shoo it away. That seems to work…for a few seconds. The tickling sensations came back, and with a tremendous amount of effort he opened his eyes, but couldn’t see anything.

“Meta, is that you?” He tiredly called out, assuming that was him; although his taps were way too soft, in his opinion. When no one answered, he turned on the light and looked to the floor only to find no one was there.

“Huh?” He said, but quickly stopped when he felt it again. He glanced at his side where he felt the tapping, and his eyes widened in absolute fear, “M—m…..m…ma…mar….”

A considerably small Mariel was perched on his spike, and in less than a second Gordon thought it would be best if he slammed his spikes against the wall to squish it. Not knowing that he already killed it, he continued to smash into anything around him.

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“D-did you hear that?” Nonsurat spoke as he sat up from bed, “It sounded like someone was screaming.”

Meta and Arthur, who also woke, quickly got out of bed and headed to Nonsurat’s. All three trembled in fear, as the echoes got louder and louder.

“It…it’s a monster, I knew it!” Meta cried, “It’s going to eat us!"

“B-BAAAAATE!!!” The voice screamed,

“No, it’s gonna eat Teacher Bate!” Arthur shouted and looked at the other two, “We….we need to stop it!”

“B-but….then it’ll eat us!” Meta cowardly burrowed deeper within the covers, “T-Teacher’s strong enough to defeat it, right?”

All three jumped in fear as the monster started banging on his door. Arthur swallowed a lump in his throat and jumped out of bed. He knew the others were too scared to do anything so it was up to him, the leader, to stop it.

“There’s no way I’m letting some monster eat my teacher!” He ran towards the door, and with much hesitation gripped the handle. “I…I’m not afraid. T-teacher Bate trained me, and he trusts me to protect everyone.”

Meta and Nonsurat watched as Arthur opened the door and ran out into the hallway. Within only a few seconds, Arthur came running back screaming,

“Aaaahh!!! It…it’s attacking Teacher Gordon!!! I saw it!!"

The other two yelled, and it was at this time Nonsurat got up from bed and picked up a small, plastic bat near their toy chest. “Well I’m not gonna let it hurt Teacher Gordon!! If I can get to his room and grab Duet, then I'll be able to stop it!”

He looked back at the two, before leaving, “G-get Teacher Bate up! If he knows Teacher Gordon’s in trouble he’ll stop him if I can’t.”

Both of them nodded and all three split up.

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Meta and Arthur quickly burst in Bate’s room and jumped on his bed.

“Teacher, Teacher, Teacher!!” Meta shouted, “Get up!!!”

Because of their louder than usual shouts, Bate responded though still in a dazed, confused state.

“Meta….” He grumbled, extremely agitated from being woke, “Quit shouting….”

“N-no, Teacher Bate!!” Arthur shouted and tugged on his wing, “You need to get up now!!”

When he heard Arthur, this caught his attention. Arthur was never the one to wake him up during the night. Because of it, the elder slowly flipped over and sat up. His angry features were quickly replaced with fear when he heard Gordon shouting about something trying to kill him. Meta and Arthur both pulled on his arms to get him out of bed.

“Hurry, it’s attacking Teacher Gordon!!” Meta cried,

“W-wha? Who?” Bate stumbled out of bed when they forced him out, “What’s going on? Did someone break into the house?”

“YES!” Both shouted in unison, “Hurry, it’s eating him!!”

“Both of you stay here! Wait, where’s Nonsurat?” Bate looked around when he couldn’t find him,

“He’s attacking the monster!!” Meta pointed out the door,

Hearing that triggered his parental instincts, and Bate quickly ran to Gordon’s room to get Nonsurat. The elder swung open the door and saw the tiny warrior hitting Gordon with Duet.

“I’ll protect you!!!” The little Puff shouted as he continued to hit Gordon’s face. Gordon, who was now passed out from fatigue, didn’t respond to any of his hits.

“W-what in Nova is going on here?!!!” Bate shouted when he didn’t see an intruder of any kind.

“T-teacher Bate!! Hurry, it’s attacking his face, kill it!!!” Nonsurat yell as he hit Gordon again.

The elder stomped forward and picked Nonsurat up with his wing to halt him. Ignoring his cries, Bate took this time to look around the room. Every, if not all the walls were covered in holes due to him smashing against the walls. The window was broken, and even the door and floors had cracks in them.

“I’m going to believe I’m in nightmare because there is no possible way this is happening right now.” Bate clutched his hands in anger and tried to calm himself from saying anything he’d regret later on. “Nonsurat, why are you attacking Gordon?”

“B-because it’s attacking him!!!” He pointed to the Gordo’s face, “Can’t you see it?!"

Bate gave a confused stare and glanced over to take a closer look at Gordon. From what he could tell there was nothing out of the ordinary, except for what he wears every night to help maintain his bite. Was that the "monster" Nonsurat was talking about? He thought back, and never recalled anyone but him and Ramset seeing it. A small smile began to form, and even though part of his house was destroyed, Bate couldn’t help but chuckle from Nonsurat’s actions.

“O-oww….” Gordon mumbled and rubbed his head, “W-what happened?”

“Teacher Gordon!!” Nonsurat shouted, “It’s on your face! It’s on your face!!”

"M-my face…?” Gordon questioned, and let out a loud gasp when he remembered what happened. He saw Bate and dashed towards him for help,

“BATE!!! Get it off, get it off of me!!”

“W-wait!!” Bate shouted to try to explain, but it was too late. The elder fell to the floor when the 1 ton ball smashed into him; quickly knocking the warrior out. Nonsurat slipped out of Bate’s talons and started attacking Gordon again.

“Aaaah!! It attacked Teacher!!” Meta shouted when he peeked in Gordon’s room and saw Bate passed out.

“H-hurry!! Let’s help Nonsurat!!” Arthur shouted and dashed towards the Gordo.

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“Clear out, everyone, I think he’s waking up.”

Bate opened his eyes and saw four blurry figures staring at him. He waited for everything to become focused before trying to get up, but gasped out in pain and clutched his newly wrapped head.

“Easy, Bate,” He summoned his hands to push him back down. “You, ah…fell pretty hard.”

“Fell…?” He asked, “When did I fa-“

Just then, all the memories of that horrific nightmare came flooding back. Even though his head was pounding, Bate got up from bed and marched straight into Gordon’s room. His heart sunk when he saw the mess. It looked in even worse shape than before, and with teary eyes Bate shouted to the top of his lungs.

“I want to know what the hell happened here!!!” He shouted at the four. “All I asked was for one simple night of peace and quiet, and I end up with part of my house destroyed and a mild concussion!!

Gordon raised his arms in defense, “B-Bate, it….it’s actually quite a funny story, actually….”

“Really?” He raised a brow, “That’s funny, because I’m not laughing…"

“N-no, really!!” He started to explain, “I…I woke up because I thought Meta came in my room…like you said, remember? But it turned out it was a giant Mariel on my spike.”

“We heard loud crashed and thought it was a monster!” Meta decided to cut in, “It was calling your name, but…”

“It turned out it was just Teacher Gordon…” Arthur said,

“B-but we didn’t know, so I went to save Teacher Gordon while Meta and Arthur tried to get you up.”

“So here’s where it gets funny, Bate…” Gordon let out a small laugh to lighten the mood, “Apparently Nonsurat thought my headgear was the monster and attacked me. I ended up passing out not too long after, but when I woke and Nonsurat told me it was still on my face, I assumed it was the Mariel…”

“Then we ran in and saw you knocked out, Teacher. We thought it was the monster and helped Nonsurat.”

“S-so as you can see, it was just a huge misunderstanding,” Gordon gave a nervous chuckle, “You can’t really blame us, I…I mean it was an accident."

“An accident? You call that an accident?!!!” He shouted, his temper now rising, “Gordon, you destroyed my house over some stupid spider!!!"

“N-now Bate, is wasn’t just any spider….” He cautiously backed up, “You know how I get when it comes to Mariels. I would hold no grudge if you did the same.”

“Teacher…” Meta timidly spoke when he saw that Bate wasn’t calming down, “W-we’re sorry. Don’t be mad at Teacher Gordon, he was just scared…."

“Gumball…” Bate sighed. He wanted to tell him that this was definitely not okay, and that destroying walls and breaking windows was not normal behavior when one’s scared but he, at this point, was too exhausted to deal with it. He set his head back down and pointed out the door,

“Just leave….” He said while rubbing his sore head, “I can’t deal with this right now. Come back when I’m mentally stable enough to think this through….”

“O-oh…ummm….” Gordon nervously inched towards Bate, “I know you’re mad right now, but….”

Bate didn’t speak, but he had an awfully good feeling what Gordon was about to say.

“Well, I don’t know if that Mariel’s still in my room, so…could I sleep with you tonight?”

Aaaaand he was right.

“What?!!” Meta shouted and crawled up next to Bate, “Hey, I wanna sleep here too if Teacher Gordon’s gonna!”

“If Meta’s gonna do it, then I wanna too!” Arthur pouted that Meta was getting special treatment and sat on his bed as well.

“I, ummm….” Nonsurat quietly shifted towards Arthur and didn’t say a word.

“Has everyone completely lost their minds today?!!” Bate stared at them in disbelief, “You’re lucky I don’t kick all four of you out of the house after this ordeal. Now go back to your room and let me sleep in peace!!"

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“Goodnight, Teacher Gordon,” Meta beamed as he snuggled next to Bate.

“Goodnight, Meta.” The Gordo said, “Goodnight, Nonsurat,”

“Night night, Teacher Gordon,” Nonsurat said, letting out a small yawn, “Goodnight, Arthur”

“Goodnight, Nonsurat” Arthur said while curling up next to the elder, “Goodnight, Meta,”

“Goodnight, Arthur!!” He responded, settling in and closing his eyes, “Sweet dreams, Teacher!”

“………….”

“Teacher….?”

“…………."

“Teach-“

“My appointment’s in 15 minutes…..just go to sleep.”

“O-oh….okay."

And with a tired yawn Bate watched as Meta and everyone around him dozed off. The elder, wide awake from the whole ordeal couldn't fall asleep and eventually left the group when it was time to leave. Closing the door behind him, he didn't bother looking back and made his way to the hospital.

“For once….” He tiredly looked up at the building in front of him and gave a weak smile,

“I’m actually glad to be here…."

-The End-

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All because of one little spider. Poor Bate couldn't catch a break that night. >x<;;