Well, here's my third story. just so everyone knows, this story should technically be classiffied as a crossover between Ben 10 and UBOS, Ultimate Book Of Spells, so to fully understand what's going on, i recommmend finding a couple of episodes of UBOS on the net, or at least going to wiki. You can read the story without doing that though, i'm trying to ensure that you don't get confused by anything i write. The show's basically a cartoon version of Harry Potter anyway. well, enjoy

Disclaimer: I don't own anything but the plot

Namine's Run-in

Deep within America's country land, away from the hustling, modern cities, the morning sun shined warmly over a small, old fashioned town.

The buildings were mostly made of wood, allowing the town to blend in with the natural fields around it. There was a road, but few cars drove around, most people preferring bikes or walking, or the train if they were going out of town. The place used electricity, but again, it was only lightly used outside the home, just in old fashioned street lamps. The only thing that looked modern was a prestigious school at the edge of town. All in all, it was a nice place to live, but not the kind of place most people would go on vacation too.

Namine however, was drawn to it. The place was completely different to what the world usually had to offer and being the beauty loving artist that she was, she just had to check it out.

A grin crossed her face as she walked through the streets, her sketch book and a pencil in hand. Stopping in the middle of a street filled with stores, she stared up at the signs, all of them made by hand.

"Now this is my kind of place." She said to herself, putting more detail into her sketch before looking around again, making sure she'd gotten all the details and marked each part of her drawing with the right colour symbol for later.

She was about to move on when a pleasant aroma wafted her senses. Her stomach grumbled in desire as she followed it to a bakery.

"So that's the smell of freshly cooked bread." She noted, entering the shop.

"Hello there young lady." A middle-aged man said, giving her a friendly smile. "It's not often a new face shows up here, especially one so young. Are you from the school?"

"No sir, I'm just visiting the town. When I heard about this place, I had to check it out." Namine replied with a warm grin of her own, pulling out her purse.

"Really, why's that?" He asked curiously. "This is an old fashioned, peaceful place. Not much here that really says 'tourist attraction'."

"That's what attracted me." Namine answered, grabbing a few bagels. "I'm an artist. I spend most of my free time going to unusual places and drawing what I find. This town is perfect for what drawing, once you take out the giant building on the edge." She added, showing the man her sketch while she pulled out a few dollars.

"You definitely have talent." The man said, a little surprised by the level of detail the unfinished sketch possessed. "But what about school, or your parents?" He asked, taking the money and bagging her purchase.

"Don't you watch the news?" Namine asked, frowning confusedly.

"No, most people around here don't worry about it. We're so secluded, nothing that goes on in the rest of the world bothers us much." He answered. "Why, are you a run away or something?" He asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh no." Namine replied with a smile, shaking her head. "It's just that usually when I'm in inhabited areas, everyone recognises me. Now I know why everyone else has let me be. It feels nice to be able to blend in for once."

"So why are you on TV, and how does it tie in with my question?" The man asked, getting more confused.

"If you don't pay attention to the outside world, then you wouldn't believe me if I told you." Namine responded. "But putting it in basic terms, you could call me a good Samaritan. My friends and I go around helping people a lot."

"Oh, ok." The man said unsurely, still not exactly following, but not wanting to invade her privacy.

"Here, I'll give you an example." Namine smiled understandingly. Reaching out to a small burn on his wrist, she smiled amusedly as he jumped in fear. "It's ok. Look at your wrist."

Not sure what was going on, he did as she said and his eyes widened even further, if it were possible, in amazement. The burn was completely gone.

"What? But how…?" He asked, unable to finish his sentence.

"My friends and I have abilities. One of mine is the ability to heal." Namine answered, grabbing all of her stuff and heading to the door. "Thank you for the food sir, and have a good day." She added before opening the door.

"Yeah, you too." He said slowly, looking at her with amazement.

Namine hummed happily to herself as she left another shop fill with art supplies. She'd been running low on few paint colours and couldn't resist buying a an easel and a few canvases. Not feeling like carrying the larger item around the town, she opened a portal to her room on Valour's Light in the walkway between the art shop and it's neighbour, so as to avoid catching the people's eyes.

"Now let's see what else I can find." She muttered to herself, heading down the street. Turning a corner, she found that she was approaching the outskirts of the town and scowled at the large, business-like building sitting right in front of her.

"That thing ruins the town's appearance." choosing to ignore that direction, she turned to find another street. However, just as she finished turning, she noticed the building flicker through the corner of her eye.

"What the?" Whipping back around, her widened eyes focused on the building again. This time however, she reached out to it mentally with her telepathic abilities. She was utterly amazed by the sight before her. The building disappeared from her view, and in it's place was an ancient looking, stone castle. However, despite the fact that it was clearly centuries old by design, it looked completely untouched by time.

"That's pretty strong magic." She commented, observing the high, castle walls and the enormous amount of land they surrounded. "Not even Gwen could do something that big." Needless to say, her curious and artistic mind wouldn't ignore such a place and she headed straight for it, a look of childlike wonder planted on her face.

By the time that she was halfway to the castle, Namine had already completed half of another sketch, her sharp eyes taking in the smallest details she could see on the structure and comparing it to what she'd drawn.

"Ok, so the archway at the gate is a bit more detailed. It almost looks like a face." She mused, her voice changing from focused to light hearted as she altered her drawing. She was so engrossed in her work, it wasn't until her telepathy sensed up a dark presence that she became aware of the panicked cries around her.

"Huh?" Snapping her head up, her eyes widened in slight fear as a two headed dragon soared through the sky before her.

Namine knew the instant that she saw it that it wasn't one of Jake's kind, or even Dojo's, the size shifting dragon of the Xiaolin Temple. Aside from having two heads, it was much bigger then the American Dragon and it's body shape looked more like a traditional, European dragon, as opposed to the traits of their Asia counterparts. To finish it of, it had blue scales covering most of it's body, with a creamy-yellow underbelly, leading up the front of it's necks to it's evidential heads.

"I can't believe we're finally on the surface world." The skinnier, rattish shaped head cheered in a high pitched, whiny voice.

"I know. It feels great to be under the sun." The chubbier head responded, his voice much deeper and earthy. "Now enough talk, we have a job to do for Master Zarlak."

"I know, you don't need to remind me." The first head snapped angrily before turning to the town below him. "How about we start like this?"

With that, he took a deep breath blew a flamethrower at the nearest house.

"AAAAHHHH!"

"MOVE! GET AWAY!"

"MUMMY!"

"This is bad." Namine stated, leaping behind a stone wall. Pulling out her communicator, she quickly activated the main line. "Guys, I need help. I've got a two headed dragon burning down the town. Is anyone listening?"

"I'm here, Jake and I are in Chicago and are starting up the jet now. We'll be there shortly." Gwen responded as her face appeared on screen, the humming of the jet activating echoing behind her.

"Just be quick, I can't take on Jake, much less this flying lizard." Namine replied before putting her communicator away. Looking up, her eyes widened as far as they could as a blast of flame shot straight down at a teenage boy. Not wasting any time, Namine leapt to her feet and raced towards him, knocking him to the ground, out of the way mere seconds before the flames would have hit him.

"Are you ok?" She asked, quickly surveying him for any sign of fire.

"Y-yeah." He stuttered, staring wildly at the dragon.

"Then get out of here." Namine responded, pulling him back to his feet and pushing him on his way. As he left, Namine pulled out her purple handled daggers from her shorts' pockets and aimed for the flying beats.

"Wait." She muttered softly and nervously, eyeing it warily as it descended, aiming for a building behind her. "You can do this Namine."

Just as it was about to fly over her, she threw a dagger and made a mental note to thank Kim for the targeting lessons as it sunk right into the middle of the dragon's front, right paw, eliciting pained screams from both heads.

"ARGH! Who dares attack us?" The skinnier head screamed as the dragon pulled the blade out.

"That girl right there." The other snarled, glaring heatedly at Namine. "Let's get her."

"Yeah, we'll teach her to hurt us."

Namine shook slightly as the dragon dived right at her. However, despite her fear, she didn't back down. Frowning in concentration, she focused on the beast's mind, only slightly surprised when she found two.

"Lunch t-AARRGGHH!" The skinnier head's cocky smirk twisted into a look of agony as it and it's counterpart screamed, a paw covering each head in an attempt to block the pain. Unable to concentrate, they crashed into the ground with a thunderous bang, sending tremors through the ground.

"Mmm!" Namine groaned tiredly, rubbing her temples. Attacking minds wasn't something she was used to doing and attacking two at once proved to be a taxing experience for the inexperienced, young lady. "Please let that last a while."

"Augh, that was painful." The deeper voice whined as he rose his head, causing Namine to stiffen.

"You said it. What happened?" The other asked, staring stupidly around the area.

"I happened." Namine stated firmly, trying conveying an air of power, despite her energy drain. "And unless you want to go through it again, you'll flap your overgrown wings back to wherever you came from!"

"You threaten us?" The skinnier head asked in disbelief. "We can crush you with one fist and you think that you can take us on?"

"Better yet, let's just turn her into ash." The other sneered darkly. A split second later, he opened his mouth and released a powerful stream of fire right at the blond.

There was no time to dodge and Namine knew it. Terrified, she closed her eyes tight and raised her hands to her face, instinctively trying to protect herself as she waited for the immense heat and pain.

However, it never came. Instead, the light managing to get past her closed eyes dulled and the air cooled. Confused, Namine opened her eyes to find Gwen before her, her arms out, holding up a blue, magical dome around them.

"Gwen! Talk about perfect timing." Namine smiled in relief.

"Really, I thought I cut it a little close." Gwen responded jokingly before turning a heated glare at the magical reptile before her. "How dare you try to incinerate my friend, you two headed, overgrown gecko!"

"Hey, who are you calling a gecko?" The skinnier head cried indignantly.

"Yeah! Snerrot, what's a gecko?" The other head asked confusedly.

"Um, I don't know." The skinnier head, Snerrot replied stupidly, scratching his head.

"Oh man, these guys are making me ashamed to call myself a dragon." The two headed dragon turned to look behind itself just in time to see a red blur swoop down, eliciting a scream from both heads as the red dragon's right hand slashed deeply into it's blue scales as it passed, landing next to the girls.

"Ow, ow, ow, that hurt!" Snerrot whined, tears falling down his face. "Rowce, let's get him."

"Yeah, make him pay." Rowce growled, glaring down at the American Dragon.

"Just try to catch me." Jake grinned, taking off into the air.

Rowce and Snerrot quickly took after him, both shooting flames, only for Jake to dodge them effortlessly.

"You guys couldn't hit a mountain." Jake sneered, performing a loop, dodging another flamethrower and heading back down. "Let me show you how a dragon really does it." Jake smirked as he reached his adversary's heads and slugged each one with his tail, leaving them dazed. As he passed the rest of their body, he righted himself from his dive and shot his own stream of fire, right at the beast's left wing.

"AAARRRGGGHHH!" Many people watching in the distance had to cover their ears from the dual ear-splitting screams pierced the air of the entire town, growing louder as the giant, blue reptile fell from the sky.

"Gwen, don't let it damage the town." Namine cried, watching in panic as the dragon fell. "It's damaged enough already."

"Ok, saving the town's our job anyway." Gwen responded, raising her glowing, blue hands. "Creatura shrink!"

A blue glow, exactly the same as the one covering the sorceress' hands, encased the beast as it plummeted. The magical glow quickly got brighter and brighter, until the only way of knowing that the dragon was still there was by the screams. When the magic finally ran it's course, it exploded outward, dropping two, small creatures, one green and skinny, the other blue and chubby, on the ground with a thud.

"Ok, the spell was only supposed to shrink it, but this works too." Gwen stated, a little confused as she looked them over. They looked like small dragons from the shoulders down, but their heads seemed to be a cross between a dragon and a rat, emphasised by the whiskers at the end of their pointed faces.

"Um, Rowce, I think we're in trouble." Snerrot said whimperingly as he and his blue comrade pulled themselves to their feet, only to find the three Guardians towering over them, glaring at the devious creatures.

"What do we do Snerrot?" Rowce whimpered, shaking under the glares and staring fearfully at Gwen's glowing hands and the smoke coming from Jake's mouth.

"Sleep." Namine answered before Snerrot could. Scrunching up her face in concentration as she raised her palms towards their faces, she accessed their minds again. A moment later, the duo felt their eyelids become heavy and fell asleep, snoring before they even hit the ground.

"Well, that was fun." Jake stated, changing back to his human form. "Now what should we do with-"

"Using magic in front of Morties?" Jumping in shock at the outraged, strict sounding voice, the trio turned to find a chubby woman with red hair and glasses staring at them in anger and disbelief.