Hi, this is my first Ben 10 fanfic, and please don't tell me cousins can't be a couple because where i live, there is no wrong with that.
I hope you like it ^_^
Ben and Julie took their way home from the school. Ben saw Kevin's coming. "Just at time." He said. "Hi guy! Julie you want a ride?" Kevin asked. The black heard girl smiled and greeted Gwen who was setting next to Kevin.
"Actually, I'd like to go to . I would be happy if you come with me Ben." Julie looked at her boyfriend hoping for a "yes". "Well, no offense Julie, but I can't... you see..." Ben looked at Kevin hoping that he will help him putting the words together. "He wants to hang around with guys, right Gwenny?" Kevin was teasing Gwen who looked annoyed. "You know what? I can find a funny name for you too." The Green eyed girl answers. "
Why didn't you say that from the first place Ben? That won't bother me." She smiled, but from the look of her eyes, she was disappoint. "I tried to say it in a good manner, and it seems that Kevin didn't help at all." The hero of earth looked angry at his friend. "What? Stop looking at me!" Kevin said with the "I didn't do it" look in his face. "It's okay Julie, I'll come with you. At least I'll stay away from the boys." Gwen glared at Keven smirking. "Alright, you got me"
The car stopped at , and the girls left it. "Ah finally! C'mon Kevin, Grandpa is waiting!" Ben sat next to his friend. "Oh yeah! Especially if he asks us to taste his food! I may faint... again! Or worse" Kevin answers after putting his hand on his stomach. "It's not that bad Kevin." The boy smirks.
"It is Ben."
"No it's not!"
"Yes it is!"
"I'm going hero Kevin!"
"You won't!"
"What makes you feel that I won't?"
"What makes me feel that you won't is the fact that you were spelling Julie's name while you were sleeping in my car yesterday and I have the video on the phone! I can put it on the internet!"
"Wait!" Ben let a scream. "I thought you didn't have a phone!" He says. "Well, Gwen does!" Kevin answers with a smile of devil.
Few minutes later.
Max greets the two troublesome boys. "I'm glad you're here, something wrong is happening these days." Max says with a serious tone. "There were a lot of victims due to a strange attack, and the only thing they saw before death, was the fog." The old man adds. "I thought it was easy for plumbers to fix this kind of problems." Kevin says. "They couldn't detect anything. What we are dealing with now is far too dangerous than before. I'm sure it's an alien, but no one stood alive against him." Max answers.
"Where do you think we can find him?" Ben finally enters the conversation. "I detected a weak signal. I believe this is where he is right now, it's getting closer to ." Max notices two shocked faces. "Gwen and Julie are at ! We must hurry!" Ben runs to the car. "C'mon Grandpa! Bring your weapons!" Kevin gets in the car. "I hope we're wrong! I really hope we are! Please stay alive!" Ben became nervous.
"It's at the place! We're late!" Max screams. The car stopped by full of mist. Ben tries to use the Ometrix but it doesn't work. "It's because of the fog?" He asks in confusion. "Ben...?" He follows the voice to find someone laying on the ground.
A black heard girl swimming in her blood. The hero takes the girl into his arms. "Oh no! Julie! What happened here?" "He was everywhere, I only saw a silhouette of him... He killed people with such a violence... he even cut them into pieces..." Julie stops and breathes heavily, as Ben's eyes looked with horror at the bodies, he notices that Julie's body became colder. Kevin comes to find the terrible scene, and to see his friends. "Kevin! I believe you had a first aid kit in your car! Bring it!" Ben orders him. "It's too late ben... Julie we're sorry..." Kevin looked away letting a tear falling from his eye. "He's right Ben... It's over for me..." Julie puts her hand on his cheek. "No! If only I came with you..." Ben lowers his head. "It isn't your fault Ben... I should thank you for the moments we spent together... they were the best in my life... I love you Ben... Please find Gwen, I know she's still breathing... she's a strong girl..." Julie's hand falls, Ben closes her eyes and puts her on the ground. "Kevin, rescue the injured ones and I will find Gwen."
Gwen hardly walked into the fog holding her injured arm. "Julie...? Where are you...?" She sees a figure. "Julie...?" Gwen almost fell but she opens her eyes to see the person who catched her. "Ben... Julie is..." Ben hugs her tightly. "Ben?" Gwen calls for her cousin who seemed so sad. "She is dead." The words were hitting her like thunders but the real shock was the tears falling from Ben's eyes, he was silent, crying in silence. "Please, don't leave you too Gwen. Please don't let me alone." Gwen hugged him back ignoring the pain. "I won't Ben, I promise..."
four days later.
"How is he doing?" Kevin asks while fixing his car. "Aunt Sandra told me that he didn't recover from the shock..." Gwen took her breath before adding. "He wasn't eating, and never left his room since what happened... and today is Julie's funeral. I'm worried about him..." Gwen stops and looks at the sky, it was a rainy day, the sky was crying in silence, just like Ben.
Gwen never saw him crying, he never let the pain beat him, but this time, he was broken... living in his own cage made of sadness and regret. He couldn't protect a loved one, almost lost his cousin, and couldn't do a thing for the innocents who were killed in violence ways that his eyes closed in horror. Even the worst criminals would cry at it... "Go and comfort him while I fix the car. But don't think that it's because I care." Kevin breaks the silence. Gwen smiles at him than leaves the garage.
Sandra opens the door to find the green eyed girl waiting. "Oh, thanks god you came Gwen... Ben is... You should talk to him." The blond women says. Gwen gives her a sad smile, she opens the door to see her cousin setting on the bed and giving no reaction to his guest. She closes the door and sits beside him. "Ben, I know how you feel,but killing yourself isn't the right thing to do." Ben looks at her. "No you don't Gwen." He than looks away.
"I lost Julie, and almost lost you too... you were in a terrible state... the idea of never seeing you or Julie drives me crazy! And if I couldn't find you... if you died too... dying would be heaven for me then..." Ben felt a strong slap, but the only thing that really hurt was, Gwen's tears. "Stop it! Stop hurting yourself! Stop having these ideas! Don't blame yourself Ben...!" "Gwen I..." "You're not hurting yourself... you're hurting everyone around you! Your parents, Kevin, even Julie won't rest in peace! And the one suffering the most here... is me Ben..."
"I'm sorry Gwen." He said after wiping her tears. "It's nothing. You should go to the funeral, and say goodbye to Julie for the last time." Gwen says then kisses Ben on the cheek which made his face becoming redder than a tomato. "Alright, wait for me in the living room." Gwen leaves the room. Ben put his and on his cheek. "Gwen..."
Gwen waits for her cousin to get out, all what she can think about was his condition. He was never like this, which really scared her. finally something got her out from her thoughts, it was her phone. "Oh hey Kevin." She answers. "I forgot to ask you, did you that monster's face?" Kevin's voice was serious. Gwen shakes in fear, but manages to answer. "Yes... and I may have an idea where he is..."
"WHAT?" The scream was worse than Echo's. "Where? How? Did you tell Ben? What did he said? What will we do? How can we...?" The questions were coming one after another. "Kevin! first, at everyplace he attacked there was a plumber or a related to a plumber! Like me and Ben! Second, I can't tell him because he will seek revenge. We should keep it a secret." Gwen lowers her voice so that Ben doesn't hear her. "The last time I kept a secret peoples got killed." Kevin says disappoint.
"But if we don't, Ben will die... I can't let something like this happen... you didn't saw him, he is no longer the Ben we know, he is a person living in a world of regret..." Gwen holds her tears. "Yeah, you're right... I'm coming to take you guys." The conversation ended here.
"Ben! What takes you so long?" Gwen asks. The boy finally left the room. "Sorry, I got a little dizzy." Ben answers. "You okay? Maybe it was a bad idea..." "No, I'll do it." Gwen holds his hand. "C'mon, Kevin is waiting for us."
The funeral was over, only Ben stayed before his girlfriend's grave. "I don't know if you can hear me, but I need to tell you, I love you too. Thanks for being by my side, for trusting me, helping me. It was my fault that you died, and I'll fix it." Kevin gets out from his car. "That guy needs a punch on the face to stop talking to a grave!" Gwen stops him. "You just go home and I'll talk with him, if you guys spend 5 minutes together the grave will be gone." "Alright, just don't let him do something stupid, and don't think that I said that because I care!" Kevin leaves, and Gwen smiles, then walks towards Ben. "Hey, it's getting late, we should go..."
Ben turns to face her, they were so close that their noses touched each other, Gwen blushed madly at it. "Thank you Gwen, you always made me feel better when I was sad. You've done too much to me but I did nothing to you..." Ben stopped Gwen put her finger on his mouth. "Can you stop this? You saved my life a million time and don't tell me that if you didn't wear the ometrix nothing would have happened, then you're wrong because id you didn't a mad person would have took it and destroyed the world."
"Wow!" Ben says. "Do you have a spell that helps you read minds?" He asks, Gwen smiles. "You know what? I think I need a hug." Ben says with a child's face. Gwen laughs then hugs him. "Here you are, but don't think that I'm your teddy bear." The sentence made Ben smile, the smile that faded 4 days ago finally returned.
At night.
"Keep on running Ben. But the guilt will keep chasing you. The souls will keep hunting you. You are a murderer!"
Ben jumps from his bed. "What a... nightmare..." He leaves the house. "I'm sorry Gwen. I will end your suffering tonight." "You think it will work?" The voice asks. "Get out of my head!"
"I'm not inside your head, you just can't see me. I can help you end this nightmare. Hero." "DON'T CALL ME THAT!"
Ben runs away, a black shadow was looking at him. "Ben Tennyson, soon, you'll meet with your darkest self."
The fog appeared. "He is mine! Don't take my target!"
"Oh yeah?"
The fog was gone. " I didn't though so." The dark figure says and fades.
"You killed as!"
"Why?"
"Ben!"
Into the darkness, he heard these voices.
