  Diverse cosmological and astrophysical observations strongly hint at the
presence of dark matter and dark energy in the Universe. One of the main goals
of Cosmology is to explain the nature of these two components. It may well be
that both dark matter and dark energy have a common origin. In this paper, we
develop a model in which the dark sector arises due to an interplay between two
interacting scalar fields. Employing a hybrid inflation potential, we show that
the model can be described as a system of a pressureless fluid coupled to a
light scalar field. We discuss this setup's cosmological consequences and the
observational signatures in the cosmic microwave background radiation and the
large-scale structures.
