The summer was certainly going to be more exciting than Ben had expected. They had seen a real sea monster...and the Krakken; along with a lot of other strange things.
One of them was bothering Gwen now.
"Ben,"
"Yeah, Gwen."
"I'm sorry about wishing to see you lose a fight."
She could have lost him. They were good friends, in there own way, but she guessed that he's kind of grown on her; like a fungus she said to herself.
Still, while she would expect seeing anyone die to be awful, it bugged her more than she would have expected that her favorite dweeb might get himself killed.
"It's okay. I guess I had to learn the hard way to think things out. Raw muscle isn't the only kind of power, huh."
She smiled, proud of him for seeing that. He interrupted her thoughts.
"While we're apologizing, I'm, uh, sorry about the Ghostfreak prank."
"I was kind of mad about that but not so much now. Apology accepted. What did you mean by being him was weirder than normal?"
That one's just...really weird, even being a giant bug doesn't feel that way. Kind of creeps me out to be him."
"Funny thing about that one," Gwen said, "He's the only one of your aliens that scares me a little. You can be a bug, or a living wall of flame or a big alien dog or what ever but I'm not afraid because I know it's you. Ghostfreak just feels like...I'm not sure if it's you."
"Yeah, sometimes when I use that one I wonder the same thing. I kind of feel like I could fade and Ghostfreak would be all that was left."
Ben suddenly really wanted to get to a different topic. "Sparksville was fun though, until the megawatts anyway."
She smiled at him. "Yeah it was. I got some great pictures to. Want to see em?" She held up her camera.
"Sure, that would be cool." He moved over to sit next to her as they looked at her photos.