A/N: I am so, so SO sorry. I've been away quite a while. Miss me? (If you didn't, boo to you.) The computer broke! Anyways, on with my story…
Disclaimer: Nope. Don't own Ben 10.
"What took you so long?" asked Hex as Gwen rushed in. He was standing at the entrance of the castle's many towers
"Got lost," she lied."You didn't wait. And the guard got up again." she waited for him to enter.
"We cannot go in," said Hex."The entrance is blocked by some invisible enchantment."
"Did you try to do anything about it?"Asked Gwen mockingly.
"If I had, would I be standing here? And you have my staff in case you have forgotten."
"Loser," muttered Gwen. She aimed a hex at the open doorway. The spell passed right over the threshold and into the open space beyond.
That's strange, thought Gwen. Didn't even rebound. Looking around, she picked up a stone on the ground and aimed it at the open door. The stone hit the invisible blockage, and fell down. It didn't pass the threshold. Okay, but solid stuff doesn't pass. She turned to hex.
"Can we make ourselves... uh... like air? As in just free moving particles?"
"No, unless you mean I obliterate you. "
"Because we need to become like free moving particles-because only solid objects can't pass through."
As if the enchantment itself was free moving, as if it were made of air. What if it was made of air?
Gwen conjured up a small flame at the end of the orb, and touched it to the invisible barrier. He watched on, not bothering to ask what she was up to. After a minute she extinguished it-and stepped into the courtyard.
"The barrier was made of air," she explained." Fire uses up air."
"Such a weak defense… it must mean the guardians are very powerful." said Hex.
As he said that, something like a dodge ball hit Gwen in the stomach. She fell back, and looked around. Nothing."The guardians are invisible!"She cried.
"Or too fast to be seen," said Hex. He too was on the floor. He fired a spell directly in front of him- and a Kineceleran seemed to materialize out of nowhere.
Gwen did the same- she fired a couple of the same spells around her, but she only caught a few.
"The spell is temporary," warned Hex as he shot the same alien with four spells- it fell to the ground, motionless.
"These aliens are actually not that strong- it's just their speed that makes them so deadly. Electric impulses, magnetic fields make them go off balance. Any ideas?"
Hex raised his arm- his staff came flying out of Gwen's hand and into his. He chanted off a long incantation. A small sphere slowly issued out of the staff- and it broke. Immedately all the surrounding kinecelerans became visible.
They fought them for a while, but even though they weren't as physically strong as the other gaurds, they recovered quickly, and Gwen and Hex were becoming tired.
Finally, Hex's brain seemed to have caught up with him. With another incantation, he conjured up a vortex. This mini tornado caught all the kinecelerans, and since they weren't fast enough to escape the vortex, they got caught in it. With another wave of his staff, the vortex disappeared.
"Now, for the final stone," said Hex. "We have to set the stones in such a position so that when light passes through them, the intersection of the reflections of the stones will show the whereabouts of the last stone."
"Look, "started Gwen suddenly."You have your all powerful staff, and one of the stones. Why don't you just use that to take over the world or whatever?"
"What?"asked Hex. Gwen was talking utter nonsense. "That is utter nonsense! Even if I had all three stones, it will only be equivalent to my staff. I might as well use another staff! No, the power of the four combined are as great as the charms of Bezel!"
"Why don't you just enchant some other stone…you know, so it has all the properties of the other two? Or just use some other charm- there has to loads of other kinds of charms and stuff lying around…"
"Didn't I tell you before, you ignorant fool?"Hex was really losing it now."Another stone would contaminate their power- and all the stones must be present so they don't work in a destructive order!"
"You're talking as though you're going to have all four stones," said Gwen."Two of them are for me- remember the deal?"
Hex slashed his staff in the air. A dozen of gargoyle-like creatures swooped in on Gwen and caught her, lifting her off her feet, dangling her over the castle tower. The moment these creatures let go, she'd fall some 500 feet down to her death.
"Deal's off," laughed Hex. "With your death!"The gargoyles let go.
A steak of grey streaked past and jumped over the wall as Hex as he said this-and Kevin caught Gwen in mid-fall. They landed on another tower, which was only a few meters below where Hex was.
"About time," said Gwen.
"Hey, you said ONLY when he was about to kill you. I wanted to come in earlier; I got so bored of waiting at the door. You didn't have to talk all that nonsense with him, I was there already!" He set her on her feet. "Now what?"
A/N: Now all my exams are over. Whew! The air blockage thing didn't make sense, I know. But I'm too lazy to think up another one. Okay now listen up. I've already started on the next story BUT I seriously need a beta reader. Any volunteers? Cuz the next story is a sequel, yes it has Ben in it, and Kevin too (but not so much Gwen) so I need someone who's read this story since its different from the present Ben 10 storyline.
And as always-REVIEW PLEASE!!