The DIY Amusement Park

Chapter Two

"Are you ready?"

Carrie and Gumball are at The Forest of Doom now. They're standing in the middle of one of the clearings. Gumball is looking around the clearing, he turns his attention to Carrie.

"Huh? Ready for what?"

"Are you ready to ride The Stomach Destroyer?"

Gumball waves his arms about. "There's nothing here!" Gumball facepalms. "I can't believe I thought there was going to be an amusement park here."

"There is."

"Where?"

"Grab onto my hands and I'll show you."

Gumball goes to Carrie but then stops and says, "Is this some sort of really elaborate prank? What are you planning?"

"Nothing, just grab my hands and we'll ride the roller-coaster."

Gumball sighs. "Alright, but I really wish I knew where you're going with this."

"You'll see." Carrie and Gumball hold each other's hands and she begins to lift him off the ground and they fly upwards to the sky.

"Ohh…" Says Gumball. "Now I get it. You're the amusement park!"

"That's right!" Carrie confirms. "For you, I'll be the roller-coaster, the tilt-a-whirl, everything!" They fly past the highest trees. "Keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times, and enjoy the ri-"

"AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" Gumball plummets back to the earth, falling at an incredible rate. On impact, dust flies everywhere and the ground shakes. Carrie flies back down.

"Gumball?" Cries out Carrie. "Gumball? Where are you?" She couldn't see anything with all the dust around.

Eventually, the dust soon settles down and Carrie finally spots Gumball lying down in the middle of a meteor-sized crater. She goes up to Gumball.

"You're not dead, are you Gumball?"

Gumball starts to move, he stands up and stretches. His back makes several gruesome sounding cracks, but other than that, he appears to be fine.

"What happened back there?"

"I'm so sorry Gumball." Carrie raises her hands. "It's kinda hard for me to grab onto stuff."

"It's alright, I guess." Says Gumball. "Just be more careful next time."

"You sure you don't want to go to a hospital or anything?"

"Nah, I'm fine."

"Are you trying to impress me?" Asks Carrie. "If you need a doctor, then we've seriously got to go."

"I'm alright Carrie." Gumball grabs Carrie's hand. "This was your idea in the first place. Now pick me up, let's go again."

Carrie is surprise at this action, the action of Gumball touching her. She blushes and then smiles.

"OK, let's go." Carrie begins to lift him up again. "Please keep your hands and feet inside the vehicle at all times and please enjoy your ride on The Stomach Destroyer."

And then, Carrie makes a sharp and sudden nosedive, heading for the ground at an incredible speed. At the last moment jets back upwards. A small flower grazes Gumball's leg.

"Now here comes the fun part." Carrie says. She flies into the thickest part of the forest. She swerves and spins around the trees and branches. Zooming this way and that.

"Doesn't this feel great Gumball? Gumball?" Carrie looks down and sees that she's holding nobody.

Right now, she realizes that not everyone can go through solid objects like she can.

She searches low on the dirt floor for Gumball, she spots him at the base of a large oak tree, she sees strange markings on one side of the tree, it looks like as if someone scraped their teeth across it.

"Gumball!" Cries Carrie upon finding his body. "Are you all right?"

Gumball turns from lying face down to looking up at Carrie hovering above him. He coughs up wood chips and they land on his face.

"Is it already over?" He asks weakly.

"Maybe we should stay clear of the trees from now on." Suggests Carrie.

"Yeah. Good idea." Carrie couldn't help but feel that there's a tinge of annoyance in his response.

Gumball passes out. Carrie sighs and drags him back to the clearing.

"The Stomach Destroyer wasn't my best idea, but this next ride will be much better!"

"What is it?" Asks Gumball, looking perfectly fine.

"For this ride, I'll need you to hold my hands again."

Gumball looks at Carrie's hands cautiously before finally taking a hold of them and saying, "This won't end well. Are you gonna hold tight to me this time?"

"I will. Promise."

"And we won't crash into anything, will we?"

"I promise Gumball. You won't get hurt this time."

"OK, let's do this!"

"Get ready for…The Tilt-A-Whirl!"

Carrie lifts Gumball up from the ground, but they didn't go too high up like last time.

They start to spin around. They spin in the same way couples do in a field of flowers. Carrie gains momentum, meaning the spinning gets faster and faster.

"WHOOO!" Cheers Gumball. "Faster! Faster!"

"OK, you asked for it!" Carrie goes faster, so fast, they're almost at the speed of light, Gumball's face goes to one side because of the massive force on him. The world around them becomes blurry to them.

Carrie's enjoying this, she closes her eyes and feels the wind blow through her hair. She feels so happy until-

"Carrie, stop!"

Carrie opens her eyes and sees Gumball greeting her with a fountain of vomit. Fortunately for Carrie though, the vomit goes right by her and sprinkles the trees instead. Carrie puts Gumball back on the ground. When his feet touch the dirt, he has trouble standing up, being too dizzy from the ride and also possibly from just throwing up the entire contents of his last meal. He falls.

"I need to lie down for a minute." Says Gumball.

"I guess we could take a break for now."

"Uh huh."

"Maybe the next thing we'll do is just a game."

"Sure."

"So what are the rules?"

While Gumball was resting, Carrie has set up a small booth for Gumball to play at. Sticks protrude out of the ground, Carrie had put them there. She hands Gumball a branch that's tied together to form a ring.

"It's simple." Says Carrie. "Just throw the ring to one of those sticks over there. When you do, you get a prize."

"What's the prize?"

"I found it right here in the forest."

"What is it?"

"It's a surprise, you'll find out when you win."

"Fine."

Gumball concentrates, he focusing his mind on winning. He tosses the ring and it hits one of the sticks.

"You won!" Announces Carrie.

"Alright." Says Gumball. "Where's my prize?"

"Close your eyes; I'll go get it for you."

Gumball closes his eyes, waiting eagerly for whatever the prize might be that Carrie will give him.

"Open your eyes." Says the sound of Carrie's voice. Gumball opens his eyes and sees a dead squirrel staring right back at him. "Pretty cool, hu-"

Gumball interrupts Carrie when he starts screaming his head off. Have you ever seen a dead animal up close before? Trust me, it's terrifying. Gumball is rolling around the ground, covering his eyes and hyperventilating. Carrie throws the squirrel away.

"Oh no, not again!" She says. "Don't worry Gumball, I'll get something better!"

Carrie looks around the clearing and sees her ring toss game. She pulls out all of the sticks and uses the ring to bundle them together. She shows it to Gumball.

"Sticks! You've won a bunch of sticks!" Gumball takes it. He holds it like a stuffed animal. "Yeah, sticks are nice."

They're walking back home now, by the time they get there, the sun will be setting. Gumball is carrying his prize while Carrie looks down in shame.

Carrie knows that Gumball had a horrible day with her. He didn't say anything about it, but she knows that's how he feels.

As they were almost close to Gumball's house, Carrie looks up at him.

"Gumball?" Gumball looks at her. "I'm so sorry about today."

"Are you kidding me? I had a great time with you, Carrie!" Gumball wraps his hand around Carrie's head?"

"What? Do you really mean it?"

"Yeah. I thought this day was gonna stink but then you showed up." Carrie looks deeply at Gumball's sincere smile. "You've really made my day!'

"Do you really mean it, Gumball? I mean, you got injured a lot of times."

"Yeah…But that happens to me plenty of times, I kinda got used to it by now." Explains Gumball. "Like I said, I had a fun time with you Carrie, and I really appreciate it. This is the most nicest things any one has ever done for me."

Carrie looks at Gumball, touched by his kind words. She gets closer to him, rest her head on head.

"You're welcome." She says.

The sun is setting, just a few more steps until home, Carrie's home. Carrie has fallen asleep, resting on Gumball, so Gumball is walking to her house first.

When he's at the front yard, he hears Carrie mumble in her sleep, it's the first time she says anything since sleeping. Gumball stops in his tracks to listen what she's saying.

Carrie says, "Someday we'll be together…" in a soft tone, almost like a prayer.

Gumball smiles. "Hey. Hey Carrie." He says, trying to gently wake her up. "Carrie, we're here."

Carrie awakes from her slumber; she gets off of Gumball and sees she's at home.

"Oh, I'm home now." She rubs her eyes. "Did I fell asleep?"

"Yeah."

"Well… thanks Gumball." Carrie starts to go to the front door. "Guess I'll see you later."

"Carrie." Gumball says. "I had fun. Do you want to do something else again someday? How about tomorrow? We can go see a movie, have some din- see two movies?"

"Yes... I would like that."

The End.

You know, when I was writing this, a song came into my mind. It was Grum's Someday We'll Be Together. I SERIOUSLY suggest that you give it a listen. I thought it was beautiful. It kinda reminded me of Daft Punk's Discovery. Have you heard of that album? Kanye West took a sample of it for his song Stronger.

Anyways, go listen to some of Grum's songs, if you didn't like this story, you might like the song. Or perhaps you'll hate the song but enjoy this story. Or maybe there might be a small chance that you'll like both.