Gwen awoke to a bright sunny day. She looked at her alarm clock and it read 9:00am. She knew that she would have to perform the spell tonight or wait a month till the next full moon. She grabbed her phone and sent a message to Ben.
"I have found a spell for Kevin. Meet me at Mr. Smoothy's in an hour."
After the message had sent Gwen picked up the spell book and looked at the spell again. Memorizing the word she was going to have to say to change Kevin back. She then stopped and put the book down.
"Why am I even doing this? It's not like he's going to say thank you or anything."
"You're doing it because you love him" said a familiar yet strange voice.
"Who's there?" Gwen said getting two balls of manna in her but they just disappeared. She looked at hands confused. "Huh? That's never happened before…"
"That's because you can't use your power without me." The voice said again.
Gwen looked up to see an anodite floating in front of her. It looked exactly Grandma Verdona in her true form but this anodite was a little bit shorter than Verdona.
"Grandma?"
"No I'm not our grandma but we do take after her don't we?"
"Well who are you?"
"You mean you haven't figured it out? I know we're smarter than this but since we have a lot on our mind I'll tell you. I'm you or your Anodite form."
"If you're me then how…"
"I'm simply projecting my image through our powers. But that's not problem I wish to speak to you about. Do you really want to alter your human appearance?"
"If it changes Kevin back to what he was like before then yes I do."
"But what if the spell doesn't work?"
"It has too. There's nothing else and he's losing all hope."
"Gwen listen! If you change your appearance, you won't be able to use our powers!"
"What?"
"If you change your human appearance you won't be able to do all the things you can do with our powers. You would only be able to use Kevin's powers."
"So how could I use our powers?"
"The only way to use our powers would be…"
"To turn into you; my anodite form."
"Correct. Verdona would be able to sense it too & be on Earth in a matter of seconds. Leaving us with only one alternative; leave Earth to train with her for 75 years on Anodine."
"Isn't there any other way?"
"No."
Gwen looked over to her alarm clock which read 9:40am. She was going to be late for her own meeting with the boys. She looked back to where her Anodite had been only to see she had disappeared.
"I'm always here Gwen. Inside you…" her Anodite said in her mind.
Gwen grabbed the spell book and headed towards Mr. Smoothy's.
By the time Gwen arrived at Mr. Smoothy's Ben was on his fourth smoothie and Kevin wearing his I.D. mask sipping on a soda. Ben spotted Gwen and waved to her to come over.
"Where have you been? Its 10:10 and you're always here before me & Kevin!" Ben asked as Gwen took a seat next to him and opposite from Kevin who was avoiding all eye contact with her.
"I was having a chat with someone. That's not why I asked you here. Kevin although I'm still really mad at you and hurt by the things you said yesterday. I found a spell that will change you back."
Kevin looked up at Gwen. He could see that she was still hurting after yesterday.
"Thank you Gwen."
"Are there any catches with the spell you found Gwen?" Ben asked slurping down the last of his smoothie.
"No none that I saw" Gwen lied hoping both boys would buy it.
"Ok when can you perform the spell?" Kevin asked.
"It'll have to be tonight. At the garage; just you & me." Gwen replied
"Anyway I can help?" Ben asked Gwen
"No. Just stay out of trouble."
"No promises. But I'm sure there'll be a robbery. And I can help catch the crooks."
"Again with the robberies Ben? Ok no more Mr. Smoothies for you."
"Gwen you can't keep me & Mr. Smoothie apart. We are a force like no other in this galaxy! Speaking of which I'm getting another one."
Ben hopped up from his seat and walked to the counter to order another smoothie.
"Okay I really don't want to know how many he's had."
"Well he's going for his fifth smoothie today which means he'll be sick when he walks home this afternoon." Kevin told Gwen as sipped on his own soda.
"I'll meet you at the garage at 9:00pm."
Kevin looked up at Gwen.
"It's when I go to bed. I'll catch you later I need to prepare for tonight." Gwen started to get to get up when Kevin's hand grabbed her wrist.
"Kevin!"
"Gwen I need to tell you something. Even though you choose to accept me in anyway I look… I'm going to make this up to you one day. You are the most magical girl I've met in my life. Although Charmcaster got really jealous when I told her something about you."
"And what was that?"
"That you are made of magic."
Gwen looked into Kevin's eyes saw what he said was true but snapped out of it when she knew why Charmcaster was jealous.
"She was jealous because I was born with manna & she had to work for her magic. I'll see you at 9pm."
Gwen quickly left the table and headed straight for her house. She had thoughts of doubt in her head. How would Kevin act once he knew that she would bear his "curse"? Ben would accept her & try help find a way to change her back but Kevin… she just didn't know.
