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Chapter 8: That Night
Ben and Gwen were in the guest room. There was an awkward silence between them.
Gwen was furious at Ben, while Ben had no idea what was going on. When Gwen looked at Ben he was wrapped in his towel and she could see his toned upper torso. She could see his lean physique and the movement of his muscles as they stretched and contracted as he picked up his clothes.
Not wanting to change in front of Gwen, Ben decided to change in the bathroom. Changing into more comfortable clothes he got out and going back to the room he was met with Jack-jack or John.
"Hey Jack-jack." Ben said awkwardly
"Call me John."
"Alright, John."
John had a very similar physique to his but he has a bit more muscle than Ben. His his was jet black like Grace's but it was cut short and his eyes were a shade lighter than hers. He had a very kind look to him if he wasn't making it a mask of impassivity. He was about a couple of inches taller than Ben.
"You were pretty reckless when we fought, next time try relying on your peripheral vision you will be less obvious to where you strike."
"Uh, thanks for the advice."
When Ben returned to the room Gwen was still ignoring him. Picking up her bathing gear she headed for the bathroom with her clothes and when she came back to return her stuff, Ben heard grandpa Max call out to them
"Kids dinner time!"
"Yeah grandpa!" Ben answered.
"Come on Gwen lets go."
"Yeah alright." She said still angry at him.
Going down the stairs, Ben and Gwen went to the table expecting that the food would be like their grandpa's but the food looked strangely normal. Ben sat next to Grace and Gwen sat next to John.
As they ate Gwen tried to start up a conversation with John and Grace.
"So, are you guys still on summer vacation?"
"Yeah we are, but our school starts on the end of June." Grace replied
"So your summer is about to end?"
"Yes but we'll be joining you guys for your trip to Boracay as our end of summer trip."
"What level are you guys?"
"Grace is turning second year high school and Jack-jack is a freshman in college." Pablo said.
"What! You guys are so young." Gwen said surprised.
"Yes, well its not uncommon over here for people as young as us to be at those levels of education." Said John.
"I thought you were in high school, and that grace was in middle school."
"Well you should know that we have a slightly different schooling system her than over in the US. We have grades 1-6 sometimes 7 and 4 years high school."
"Oh, so you guys must be really smart." Ben asked
"Yes most filipinos are very intelligent, I had a friend that was a failing student here and when his parents got a job in the US and moved over there he became an honor student."
"So what were you studying last year Grace." Gwen asked.
"I was studying advance geometry and basic trigonometry, with biology and other stuff." Grace answered.
They kept at the subject of school until desert was served. Their desert was mangos, which were very sweet and delicious.
After that they went to the living room to talk some more. When Pablo decided to tell them a story from one of his Plumber missions.
"Alright, this is a story that was told to me by one of the members in the squad I was leading years ago. The story goes like this. Hundreds of years ago a planet was living in peace and prosperity, as much as it could be before their ability to travel to space. They knew that there were other beings out there since they had grown out of the primitive worshiping of gods. The water was pure, the food was plentiful and after many decades of research and experiments they had achieved interstellar travel. Now since every new species that comes to the galactic community a ambassador is sent to the home planet to invite and inform the planet of the community. Now this part is true but the next part could be true or may be just a myth or legend. After the ambassador had invited the planet to the community a warlord came. No one knows or remembers the warlord's name but as soon as he had gotten wind of the planet that had not formed a treaty with the intergalactic republic community wished to take over the planet and turn them all into slaves. Since they were a peaceful race they could not fight back and they were quickly enslaved by the powerful warlord. Now here comes the legend, for their people had survived and are free to this day. There came to the planet a man who had started a rebellion with those who had not been enslaved yet, but without weapons they could not hope to win but they were clever and they freed their entire race from the slave camps that the warlords soldiers had made while they rounded up the last of the aliens. Now in the legend they were told to gather in one location as if they were building and army. Fearing that the aliens were going to try and fight the warlord built his army. Now the inhabitants of the planet were not going to fight the man was."
"Thats impossible!" Ben interrupted.
"Ben!" Gwen scolded him. Ben was now very quiet.
"Now now Ben, as i said that this part is mostly legend but it could have happened. Now where was I?"
"You were about to describe the battle with the warlord's army with the one man." Gwen said engrossed in the interesting story.
"Ah yes thank you Gwen. Now the inhabitants thought at first that the man was insane trying to beat the giant army by himself. For there were 10 million soldiers at the warlord's command. As the inhabitants watched they could see the man just standing in the middle of the field as the army surrounded him and they waited. Then the army went and attacked the man but he had just stood there. Fearing that the man was going to be killed and their efforts to escape and that they were going to be put back into the slave camps. But then they heard a giant crashing sound and when they had looked they saw that the man was destroying the army their numbers counting for nothing. The fight went on for days the army not resting or stopping and each one the man destroyed was replaced by a fresh one. But their savior never tired and he never seemed to be injured. Finally the battle was over all of the 10 million soldiers were destroyed. The warlord had fled and the planet was at peace. but a few minutes after the warlord had fled the strange man had disappeared and that was the legend of the planet and its savior. Now the Plumber that told me this story was a bit of a historian and he had found that this particular story was common among dozens of planets and species legends and he believes that it is not a legend but reality. Now the stories slightly differ such as the number of soldiers in the army or whether it was just one warlord that conquered the world by himself but the center was always a mysterious savior that looked like a man."
"Woah" Gwen said.
"A very interesting story lolo." John said.
"Well i was caught by it at the time too." Pablo said then looking at the clock it read 9:30 pm.
"And all of you should get to bed our flight starts at 8:00 am. tomorrow." He said looking at the kids. Then it had started to rain.
"Hm, thats a good sign."
"Why?" Gwen asked him.
"If it's raining tonight then the next few days will be bright and sunny."
"Well i hope so." Gwen said.
When the went up to their respective rooms the rain began to get harder. When they entered the room it became noticeably cooler from the rain. Ben got into the bed first not really feeling tired but decided to follow Juan's advice back in the car and get some sleep and adjust to the time zone.
After a while Gwen got into the bed next to Ben. He was getting nervous she was very close to him, so close in fact that he couldn't sleep. Gwen also couldn't sleep but not because of being close to Ben, well maybe it was part of it. But it was the storm that was going on outside. Ever since she was little she was afraid of storms, even now with her new found powers they made her feel small and insignificant to the power of the storm.
Then lightning flashed and soon came the thunder. Closing her eye she yelped at the sound. Then again lightning and thunder, she was so scared she felt so small. Tears were beginning to flow from her eyes. She just wanted the lightning and thunder to disappear to stop to leave her be and let her sleep.
When the thunder sounded again Ben heard Gwen's yelp in fear at it. He knew that she was afraid of storms but he never teased her for it. He knew that it was wrong to tease Gwen for her fear even when she had teased him for his fear of clowns when they were 10.
"Gwen?" He asked
"Y-y-yeah?" She responded her voice quivering in fear.
Without thinking he asked her "would you like to come closer? Just so you know I'm always here for you."
Hiccuping Gwen nodded. At first she was tentative to come closer but she eventually went into his arms and the moment that she had rested in them she felt peaceful, all her fear was washed away by the simple act of Ben holding her.
"Thanks Ben." She said quietly and she fell asleep.
"Your welcome." He said silently,
He could hear her heart beat beside with his and the peace that emanated from her face as she slept, the scent of her hair and skin also gave him a sense of peace as if they were the only two people in the world and no one could touch them. They were perfect for each other they matched better than anyone in the entire world. Ben wished that they could stay like that forever but the peace that came from Gwen brought him to a dreamless and restful sleep as the storm continued its howling and growling of wind and thunder.
AN: Alrighty then! now how was that? now this chapter may or may not be important, i just wanted to have a bit of fluff this time. I did this pretty much on and off the entire day so you guys could have a extra update. Now i know that some of you may complain about the used situation that i used for the ending but i was waiting for a chance like this so i had to take it. so it was a bit of fluffiness and hope you guys enjoy!
Please leave a review and now on to write the next chapter! (man I'm chugging these things out like crazy
