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Dawn had begun to rise against the black sky of the previous night, shades of orange and gold flowing through the rays of sunlight.

Gummy was peacefully sleeping, cuddled within his layers of blankets and snoring lightly.

However, his dreams began to take over his outside actions. Gummy began to sing "The Gummy Bear Song" deep within his sleep.

"I'm a gummy bear... I'm a gummy bear... I'm a yummy tummy funny lucky gummy bear..." He mumbled, gently snoring between each line of lyrics.

The sound of his voice woke himself from his slumber, as his eyes slowly began to open, his bedroom lit up by the sunlight coming into view. He yawned loudly, stretching his arms across the mattress. He sat up wrapped in his blanket, adjusting his eyes to the morning light.

Suddenly, he noticed the blanket was risen into almost a tall lump underneath the cover, right down at the end of the bed. Gummy gasped, quickly tugging the sheet in panic and confusion of what might be creating the strange shape.

The far end of the blanket flung towards Gummy as it gently slid from what a appeared to be...

...an egg?

Gummy leapt from his bed, curiosity within his eyes, and ran towards the mysterious egg. He gazed at it with a confused expression painted on his face.

"It looks like... a ginormous egg!" He stated, throwing his arms up into the air out of pure surprise.

Gummy quickly looked around the room, scratching his head in thought as he considered all the possible places this enormous egg could have appeared from.

"Now where did that come from?" He thought aloud.

Gummy concentrated his gaze against the interestingly large egg, eyes squinted and fingertips against his chin.

He took his knuckles to gently tap the egg's shell. Surprisingly, it began to shake in response to the soft knocks.

Gummy examined these movements, a curious expression on his face.

"This egg's got rhythm, just like me!" He stated happily.

Gummy continued to examine his bedroom, searching for any places the egg could have come from. He bent his knees and turned his head so his eyes could send his view underneath the bed. He leapt onto his mattress to throw his pillows across the room, just to see if there was any possibility of the egg appearing from beneath these sources of comfort.

After realising he couldn't find anywhere that the egg genuinely could've come from, Gummy bounced back down his bed, sending the egg springing into his grasp as he landed flat on his butt.

"Bam boozie! I think it likes me!" He happily cried, cuddling the egg with his hands into his chest.

~

The egg was balanced onto the floor of Gummy's bedroom, morning sunlight spraying rays across its speckled shell.

Gummy waddled over towards where it was placed and gently threw it into his hands. He began to slowly carry it across his room.

"Eggs are fragile; so I've gotta be super careful with it..."

However, as he gently carried the egg towards the doorway, his foot met the head of a rubber duck that was plopped onto the floor.

He shrieked in surprise and panic as his foot flew into the air, sending the egg out of his grasp.

Gummy landed onto the ground with a thud, noticing the egg heading for where he was sat.

He quickly threw his body down so his legs wiggled in the air and the egg landed within his feet. Gummy rolled the egg with his legs, catching it as it fell towards his chest.

He sighed in relief. "Humpty Dumpty! This could've ended badly!" He sat up with the egg between his curved legs.

Gummy sprang to his feet, clutching the egg with a hand on each side of the shell. He examined it once more.

"I'd like to know what's inside it! I need to give this some serious thought..." he said.

An idea jumped into his head like a lightbulb being switched on. He stepped back from the egg as it gently balanced against the floor, performing a little dance in front of it.

As his performance came to a close, the egg began to bounce up and down in what seemed like excitement and interest, as it recreated the moves. Gummy's smiled, although his expression became more confused as he stood over the egg, diving into deep thought.

"OK... it's got rhythm, just like me. And I guess it loves singing and dancing, just like me..." the thoughts spun around in Gummy's mind as if they were riding a roundabout.

"Oh my gosh! It is just like me!" He shouted in excitement and slight shock.

He ran to the door, dashing through his apartment and across the corridors, knowing just who to tell.

"(Y/n)!!!"

~

(Y/n) was still peacefully snuggled up within her bed covers, soundly asleep - as it was only about 6am.

However, she began to stir as she heard footsteps within her room and the sound of someone stood beside her.

It was Gummy, of course, incredibly excited to tell (Y/n) the news, although he became a little distracted after watching her in deep and peaceful sleep.

He snapped back into reality once (Y/n) slowly opened her eyes. Her (e/c) eyes blinked into focus as she saw her crush excitedly bouncing up and down beside her bed.

"Gummy?"

"I laid an egg!"

"What?"

"I said I laid an egg!"

(Y/n) rubbed her eyes with her clenched fists to try and focus.

Was she dreaming?

No... Gummy really was stood by her bed in the early hours of the morning... and he really had just blurted out "I laid an egg."

She groaned, processing the events of the last few seconds. But within that time Gummy had already rushed out of her bedroom screaming "We've gotta go tell Harry!"

(Y/n) yawned, lazily sitting up and swinging her legs over the side of her comfy mattress, placing her socked feet gently onto the rug beside her bed.

She yawned again, a little quieter than the previous time, slowly wandering out of her room, not even bothering to fix the blanket the was lazily strewn across the bed.

Gummy was bouncing in excitement against the wall beside the open doorway. (Y/n) slowly came into view as she pulled the sleeve of her baggy pyjama shirt up towards her shoulder.

"C'mon! Let's go!" Gummy grabbed (Y/n)'s hand, quickly tugging her down the corridor and towards Harry's apartment - which wasn't actually that far away.

(Y/n) smiled and blushed as she saw Gummy's fingers intertwining with hers.

~

Harry was peacefully fast asleep, his blanket neatly wrapped around his body from his shoulders to his toes.

Gummy ran into his room, an expression of excitement painted across his face, while (Y/n) rolled her eyes and giggled at his cuteness while slowly following him.

"Harry!"

Harry quickly opened his eyes, shrieking and sitting up on his bed. He turned around while gasping, then realised who it was who had woken him up.

"Harry! Snap out of it! I've got great news!" Gummy shouted, throwing his arms into the air out of pure joy.

"Who!? What!? When!? Where!?" Harry cried, throwing his arms in the air out of pure frustration mixed with utter confusion.

"I laid an egg!"

"What!?"

"I said I laid an egg!"

Harry glanced over to (Y/n), who shook her head and smiled, experiencing serious deja vu.

"That's exactly how I reacted..."

Gummy tugged Harry's hands, pulling him out of his bed and making (Y/n) giggle.

"Come! Look! See! Quick!"

~

Back in Gummy's room, Harry and (Y/n) stood watching Gummy as he plopped himself on top of the large egg that had appeared at the end of his bed.

"I'm keeping him warm!" Gummy said, looking down towards the egg his butt was neatly placed on top of. Harry and (Y/n) watched with complete interest and confusion flowing through their thoughts.

Gummy slid off of the top of the speckled egg shell, grabbing a small blanket and wrapping it around it.

"There you go, say hi to Junior!" Gummy said proudly.

"Oh... hello, Junio-" (Y/n) started.

"What!?!" Harry gasped, interrupting (Y/n) with complete disbelief filling his voice. "Just for the record, Gummy, my tail doesn't like this. ONE. BIT." Harry growled while (Y/n) watched with folded arms and confusion painted on her face.

"He's got rhythm, just like me!" Gummy said proudly, looking down at his new egg friend. "I mean, check this out!" Gummy patted the top of the egg with his clenched fists in a musical pattern. After finishing his recreation of the beats, Gummy waited for Junior to jump to the tune. Soon enough, the oversized egg bounced to the very same beat Gummy just tapped.

Gummy smiled proudly at his egg companion. "That's my boy..." He gently patted the top of the egg's shell. "I mean, when I lay an egg, do I lay an egg or what!?" Gummy asked rhetorically, but proudly, making (Y/n) giggle.

Harry cracked the happy atmosphere by throwing in some reality. "But Gummy you couldn't have laid that egg!" He gasped. "Birds lay eggs!" He threw his arms in the air before pulling out an image of a bird. "Are you a bird?" He sternly asked Gummy.

"Well, no..." Gummy stated, his confused expression in response to Harry's question becoming a happy smile as an idea entered his thoughts.

"But I can dance the funky chicken!" He cried proudly, jumping away from Junior and performing the 'funky chicken' dance, humming a tune as he did so. (Y/n) couldn't help but laugh, although Harry shook his head down towards the ground in what seemed like disappointment.

He pulled out another card, decorated with an image of a turtle. "And reptiles like sea turtles lay eggs. Are you a reptile, Gummy?"

Gummy held his hand to his chin in thought. "Um... I once dreamed I was a T-Rex!" He ran over to his silver -blue bedroom wall, turning on a torch that was strewn across the floor, projecting light onto the paint. He fiddled with his hands to create the shape of a dinosaur, holding them in front of the light. The dinosaur's shadow fell against the wall, making Harry jump, shivering, and (Y/n) laugh.

He switched the torch back off, the dinosaur's reflection disappearing. "Pretty cool, huh!?" He cried enthusiastically, holding his thumbs up to his friends.

Harry quickly returned to his previous stance, whipping out another picture, this time of a platypus. "And finally, platypuses lay eggs! Are you a platypus!?"

Gummy laughed nervously, almost interrupting Harry's ridiculous question. "Now that's getting a little out there, buddy..."

"OK, you're not a bird, a reptile, or a platypus..." Harry stated.

"So how did you lay an egg?" (Y/n) finished the question with curiosity running through her tone.

"Maybe the stork brought it!" Gummy guessed, taking one of Harry's cards and pens, doodling a picture of a stork carrying a silky piece of material containing an egg. He passed it back to Harry, pride in his eyes.

Harry examined the picture, a frustrated groan escaping him. (Y/n) giggled and sighed. She always liked how Gummy had an answer for absolutely everything, and how he'd always put a positive spin on any situation.

"Nature has it's ways!" Gummy laughed.

"YOU. DID. NOT. LAY. THIS. EGG!" Harry slowly and loudly stated. "It's illogical! Do you get what I'm saying!?'

"Absolutely!" Gummy replied, adding a light tone to the angry atmosphere.

"Positively!?"

"And double definitely!"

Harry and (Y/n) smiled towards each other and sighed in relief, hoping that this meant their message had been passed.

"So I laid the egg, let's take Junior to the park for some fresh air!" Gummy quickly grasped his egg with a hand on each side, wandering out of his bedroom.

(Y/n) closed her eyes and shook her head. Harry tried to begin another sentence, but then realised there was no point. He composed himself and let out a sigh.

"I give up..."

~

The sunlight brightly shone against the morning dew that sprinkled across the green strips of grass. The sound of calling birds and late summer breezes flew through the trees surrounding the local field.

"I tell you, Harry, there's nothing like a little exercise in sunshine to make a perfect day even perfect-er!" Gummy happily stated, pushing Junior in a small baby carriage while Harry and (Y/n) followed him though the park.

"Actually, Gummy-" Harry started, until (Y/n) nudged him in his shoulder with her elbow to prevent him from breaking the cheerful atmosphere.

"Ooooh! Soccer ball!" Gummy cried, letting go of his grasp against the pram's handle and running over towards the grubby little football he'd just noticed in the middle of the field.

He grabbed the ball, panting from his running. "So Junior, it's time for us to have some fun fun fun!" Gummy cried, kicking the ball across the field.

Harry groaned while (Y/n) giggled.

~

Within a few minutes, Gummy and his friends managed to find the football goal that the ball had come from. It looked as though a match had been taking place in the open park a while ago, and the small net and dirty, old ball had been left.

Gummy plopped Junior onto the ground, leaving (Y/n) to guard his baby carriage while Harry rolled his eyes and groaned, watching Gummy's silly behaviour.

He placed the soccer ball in front of his egg companion, aiming towards the goal net.

"Aren't eggs kind of, well, breakable?" Harry asked.

Gummy completely ignored the question, cheering for Junior to kick the ball. (Author's interruptive note - see what I did there?)

"Come on, little guy! Show us your stuff! Kick it!"

Gummy looked down to see Junior keeping completely still, a disappointed expression then controlling his face.

"Focus! Always keep your eyes on the ball, Junior!"

(Y/n) sighed, then giggled. Why was Gummy asking an oversized egg to kick a ball and use its eyes? She slowly took her grasp off of the baby carriage handle, wandering over towards where Gummy was supporting his egg companion.

"You have to try harder to kick a goal!?" Gummy cried, raising his hand towards the back of his head, scratching it in thought.

"Maybe he needs a better target?" (Y/n) suggested, earning a warm smile from her crush.

"OK Harry, you be the goalie, while Junior practices his shot!" Gummy commanded.

Harry sighed, slowly wandering over towards the goal. "My tail has a very bad feeling about this..."

He positioned himself between the goal's long side poles and within the slightly torn and worn out net.

Gummy smiled, waving to his friend who was now quite far away.

"ALL SET, HARRY!?" Gummy called.

"NO!"

"GREAT!"

(Y/n) laughed, not sure if Gummy responded in that way because he couldn't hear Harry from so far away, or because he really didn't care about his answer.

Gummy ran in front of Junior, gently pushing the ball towards him with his toes so it bounced from his shell.

"And it's Gummy over to Junior, back to Gummy and then back to Junior, Junior kicks the ball straight towards the goal!" Gummy built up to a disappointing result of his egg companion only wiggling a tiny bit from side to side.

Gummy sighed. "Much better, you're getting the hang of it, Junior..." He then noticed (Y/n), watching from a slight distance.

Gummy smirked. "Check this out!" He called, making (Y/n) cross her arms and smirk back in response.

"Kick a goal, Junior! I know you can do it!" Gummy grasped his oversized egg with a strong grip on each side of the shell, whacking the little football with its bottom. The ball flew through the air at an extreme pace, aiming straight for the net positioned behind Harry's shivering posture.

Harry quickly slid to the side, landing flat onto the slightly damp grass out of shock and fear. The football shot into the goal's net, ending it's journey of great speed.

"Wow..." (Y/n) whispered to herself, earning a smirk along with a half-lidded gaze from Gummy, making her turn away in a blushing mess.

"GOOOAAL!" Gummy cried, picking up Junior out of excitement and pride.

He twirled around in happiness, his feet bouncing against the soggy grass. "You did it, Junior!"

"Yes, Junior!!" (Y/n) joined in with the celebration, while Harry was still recovering from the last few seconds, collapsed on the ground.

Gummy giggled happily, but his egg friend's weight eventually pulled against his arms, causing Junior to shoot across the field, at a greater speed than the soccer ball. Gummy's laughter slowly became a nervous gasp, watching his egg fly through the bright blue sky.

"NOOO!!" Gummy, Harry and (Y/n) cried in unison.

Harry shielded his eyes in panic. "I've heard of birds flying, but eggs!?" He groaned in fear.

"What should we do!?" (Y/n) cried, nerves and fear filling her voice.

"Um..." Gummy wracked his brain to think of any way to rescue his egg friend. Soon enough, his worried expression became relieved as he saw a familiar face running in the opposite direction.

"KITTY NINJA!!"

(Y/n) smiled as she saw her sister leap into the air, performing multiple ninja moves and eventually grabbing onto Junior. She sent herself flying towards the ground, gently landing with a rescued egg in her hands.

Gummy and Harry followed (Y/n) as she dashed over to greet her sister.

"Hi, sis!"

"How's it going!?"

The kitty sisters hugged after Kala carefully passed Junior over into Gummy's grasp.

He cuddled the large egg close to his chest. "Thanks for saving Junior, Kala!" Gummy said.

Kala moved her grip from her sister, her hands sliding onto her hips as a confused look crossed her face.

"Junior?"

"I laid an egg last night and its got rhythm and he really likes me and his name is Junior!" Gummy cried quickly out of pride and excitement.

Kala processed what he'd just told her, then softly laughed, earning confused looks from her friends and sister.

"You are silly, Gummy! That's not Junior! It's my surprise present for you!" She said proudly.

Gummy smiled, then turned his attention to his present, as the top of the speckled shell began to crack.

"You know, that robot dinosaur egg toy you said you wanted!" Kala cried, joining the others in watching the egg burst open, revealing the said robot dinosaur.

The robotic dino wiggled its legs connected to its large artificial feet. Its bright lime green digital eyes that were within its golden robotic face looked towards Gummy as it flipped its body around inside the egg shell.

Gummy gasped in surprise and joy. "The one that can dance... that can dance just like me... WELCOME HOME, JUNIOR!" He happily cried, hugging his new toy.

Kala and (Y/n) softly giggled and smiled at Gummy's happiness. Kala then turned her attention to her sister.

"Have you told him yet?" She whispered.

(Y/n) sighed. "No..."

Kala sighed. "I won't try and force you, just go for it whenever you're ready..."

"OK..."

It'll only be a matter of time...