Disclaimer: I don't own Ben 10, neither the song. It's a pity xD
K o e
Watashi no koe...
Iie.
Watashitachi no koe...
Chapter 1 – The contest.
It was a long time ago, when Benjamin Tennyson had found the Omnitrix, a device that gave him unbelievable powers like being transformed into ten different aliens. His cousin Gwen was with him on the moment, after that, they travelled with their grandfather along the country; helping people and, of course, creating problems…
Ben and Gwen learnt to live together peaceful. Although on the beginning they fight like cats and dogs, you can say that the cousins become good friends after all.
After five years without kicking butts of villains, the boy needed to put on the clock again and help his cousin to save Grandpa Max, which somehow disappeared. That day on, they created the Alien Force with Kevin. Yes… their enemy, when they had 10 years, that accepted being on the good side for once in his life.
On the school Ben could never been so popular in his life, he was the captain of the football team and all the girls of the school got a crush on him. They keep asking to date with him, however, he never went out with none of them. All the students wondered why.
"Ben?" Gwendolyn, his cousin, called while waving her right hand in front of his eyes. "Is anybody inside?"
"Huh?" His mind came back from his thoughts.
"Thanks God, I was getting worried." The girl had smiled to him and continued eating her lunch.
Considering the circumstances, probably the Alien Force could be in some mission chasing trails of something the aliens may had left behind, but today everything seemed calm and peaceful.
"What did I miss?" Kevin asked, sitting on the bench on the left side of Gwen.
"Nothing at all." The redhead responded, had finished eating her spaghetti, gulping her water. "The day is quite serene, don't you think boys?"
"Yeah, you're right." Her cousin finished his spaghetti too.
The oldest boy, with black hair, quickly finished his food too and soon the trio went to throw off the trash. Looking to the scene now, it was SUPPOSED to be a normal day… Until the enchantress saw an advertisement on the wall of the refectory.
"Hey boys, take a look at this." She murmured, moving her head forward with her eyes to alert them.
"What is this?" Ben questioned, looking to the girl in front of him.
"Here it says:
'Singer's Contest
Free registration now!
If you are someone that loves music, write songs, knows how to play instruments and, of course, sings well. This is your place!
This is a weekly contest, which we are going to judge the lyrics, the performance of the singer and the voice. The winner is going to record a CD on the most reputable and famous recorder.
Take part in now and prepare yourself to be a famous star!'
"Why did you make me lose my precious time reading this? Are you going to enter it?" The brown-headed boy inquired, startled. The question caught the girl by surprise and she simply turned her gaze to another thing.
"Well, I'm thinking seriously about it… I think I can win." She played with her hair and crossed her arms.
It was the time to Ben and Kevin burst into laugh, making Gwen really annoyed.
"What is so funny about it?" The red-headed had her arms on her waist and lift her eyebrow.
"Be serious Gwen, you're not entering it… I never saw you singing!" Kevin stated the obvious.
True, the two boys had never saw the girl singing, neither playing something and it was hard to imagine she taking part in a singer's contest. It couldn't be true, right?
"Imagine Gwen singing…" Her cousin mumbled astonished with Kevin laughing out loud on his side.
"I just CAN'T imagine it!"
It was the last straw to our redhead and with a mighty push the black-haired guy fell on the floor; she ran out to the corridor, leaving two surprised boys behind.
"Look what you have done!" Ben shouted and ran towards her way, looking for her, but falling in the purpose. "I think she went to her house. Gwen looked so hurt…" And then, the bell ran and almost all the students were on the corridor.
The boy with the Omnitrix took a deep breath, walked through the door of the classroom feeling like something was missing while looking outside the window.
The rest of the classes passed with an extremely agility, at the end of the last one they had to go downstairs to the auditorium. Ben sat behind Kevin's place and wasn't looking so happy.
"Good afternoon, students! Today we're going to have a contest between the people who signs the inscription!" A gabble of voices could be heard and the director proceeded. "The contest is simple…"
"Now, I'm really thinking that this is going to be a very boring contest…" Kevin said to Ben, making a bored expression, while the director continued with the rules.
"Think positive, we could be at the Math class at this exact moment…" The green-eyed boy said kind bored too.
"And so, you'll vote along with us, it'll be a weekly contest. Each day, the competitor has to sing two songs… Okay then, let's start the show!" He sat down and another judge started calling a name.
"Please, enter Mister Robert Windsor!" The guy entered and the competition started.
Forty minutes passed and the boys of the Alien Force were yawning, making faces. Almost ten competitors had made the performance, only one more to go! (Thanks God!) The judge read the last name on his list, then looking to the stage and calling out the name.
"Miss Gwendolyn Tennyson!"
The brown headed boy almost strangled with the candy inside his mouth after hearing the name of his cousin.
Everybody on the crowd made a loud murmur, they seemed curious about the girl that was about to enter the stage. So, she entered… All the looks were upon her, she was wearing a dress, but not a simply dress… The dress was green like her eyes, on the height of her knees, with flounces almost on the end, and on the end there was a shade of darkest green. On the middle of it there was a dark-green kind of ribbon.
"Welcome to the contest, Miss Tennyson." The first judge said, while playing with the pen on his right hand. He bent his body to take a good look at her. "This dress, did you buy it?"
"No, I kind of drew it." Everyone made a sound on the audience.
"I see…" The man whispered and gestured to another judge, who understood it.
"I can see here that you play guitar, electric guitar and piano. Is all that true?"
"Yes, I learnt to play these instruments when I was little." She seemed secure enough and gave them a shy smile; the last judge took part in.
"Okay. I'll make you some questions now. When did you write this song? What is the name of the song? And why did you write this song?" He looked at her, waiting her answer.
"Well… First, I write this song when I was 10. Believe or not… The name is 'Truly Madly Deeply' and I wrote it to someone that I really love. He is always by my side, but I cannot tell who he is."
The judges switched looks between them and then smiled, agreeing.
"On 3, we'll play your record, okay? Be prepared…" The second one informed with the control on his hands.
She nodded and prepared herself to sing… Sing the song that she always wanted to sing to him. Gwen took a quickly look to her friends, especially Ben. He smiled to her, making a gesture to give strength to her.
"She looks so beautiful on that dress…" Kevin made an observation, making Ben really jealousy about her.
"It's about my cousin you're talking about." He said, annoyed with the comment of his friend. Just annoyed? Okay, he was very jealous. Why? He didn't know … Maybe because the boy liked her, not the family love, but the… boy and girl love…
"1, 2, 3, GO!" The men with red hair had shouted, pressing the plat button on the remote control.
The melody started and the girl closed her eyes, feeling the music she longed to sing to her true love. The song she wrote during that summer vacation with her doofus cousin.
"I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy.
I'll be your hope; I'll be your love be everything that you need.
I love you more with every breath truly madly deeply do.
I will be strong, I will be faithful
Cause I'm counting on a new beginning.
A reason for living, a deeper meaning, yeah."
At that first part of the music, the audience and the judges were startled with the power of the voice of that girl and more, with her feeling while singing it. Her cousin couldn't take his eyes off her, he had noticed her collar… It was the same collar he gave her on that vacation.
FLASHBACK:
"Ben, here… You have to give this one to me!" Gwen said, while pushing the boy to the store.
"You're so annoying, Gwen!" He said, while looking at her sparkling eyes looking to the showcase. "Did you like it?" It was a collar with a pendant on the shape of a green heart.
"You're lucky, kids…" A man appeared on the side of the cousins."If you win the game, the collar is yours. It's just a simply game of throwing the ball on the clown. I'll give you 5 balls; you need to hit the 4 balls on it. Do you accept it?" Ben looked to his cousin and smiled.
"I accept."
To sum up, Ben won the collar to Gwen. When he was taking it, the man on the shop stopped him.
"Good game, boy." Looking outside the shop and seeing the girl."I heard that this collar has some special powers. They say that it brings you and the person you love together, doesn't matter the time it got to make this. I'll wish you good luck with the girl; she really seemed to love you…"
The boy with green eyes just took the collar, walked towards her and gave it to her. She gave him a hug and kissed his cheek, not believing what her cousin did to give it to her.
"Thank you, Ben! I'll never ever forget this!"
"If you say…"
"Now, tell me… Why are you blushing?"
"Stop that, Gwen!" He showed his tongue to her.
END OF FLASHBACK.
The teen had smiled to his own memory and continued to pay attention to the singer on the stage, the singer that was singing to him with all her heart.
"I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me
And when the stars are shining brightly in the velvet sky,
I'll make a wish send it to heaven then make you want to cry.
The tears of joy for all the pleasure and the certainty,
That we're surrounded by the comfort and protection of
The highest power, in lonely hours.
The tears devour you."
Gwen put her hand on the pendant, closing her eyes with tears in them.
"I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me.
Oh, can't you see it baby?
Don't have to close your eyes.
Cause it's standing right before you.
All that you need will surely come…
I'll be your dream, I'll be your wish I'll be your fantasy.
I'll be your hope; I'll be your love be everything that you need.
I love you more with every breath truly madly deeply do.
I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea.
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me.
I want to stand with you on a mountain.
I want to bathe with you in the sea, yeah
I want to lay like this forever.
Until the sky falls down on me.
I want to stand with you on a mountain…"
The song had stopped and the girl stopped singing with her melodious voice. After one second of silence, everybody on the audience stood up, clapped their hands and shouted out loud her name, what kind of surprised her.
"In my entire career, I have never seen such a beautiful performance… And such a melodious and powerful voice." The first judge said, while writing something on his list.
"I have to agree with him… You're talented, has somebody ever said that to you? What do you think, James?" The last one was looking to her with intensity and smiled.
"I don't have words to describe this girl. She really surprised us, didn't she?"
"And all I could say it that you are the winner today. With the agreement of the entire judge and from what I can see…" He turned around and saw the crowd. "The audience approval, too."
"Thank you, guys!" Gwen shouted to the students and left the stage with her eyes sparkling with joy.
"Come on, Kevin. Let's see her!" Ben whispered to his friend, running to the backstage, wishing to see his cousin. His beautiful cousin.
Hey guys! :D
I love Bwen, so I decided to write this story.
Hope you all follow me and enjoy this!
The name of the song is: Truly Madly Deeply by Cascada.
Any mistakes, please, tell me!
Many of you are asking right now: "WHAT?! What does 'koe' mean?" It's japanese, it means v o i c e.
Hope you all like it! I promise to not abandon this fanfic.
See u,
Bela Waterfall