Chapter 9

Gwen was getting tired.

They where still getting carried, but the hand that held them covered the barrier completely, so the children couldn't see outside.

They were sitting down, ben, out of boredom, and Gwen out of weariness.

Ben was fiddleing with the -now recharged- omnitrix.

Suddenly he stood up.

'I have an idea! quick, come here for a minute.'

'Ben, you've already tried using HeatBlast, you know it didn't work.'

'No, its not that,'

And you've tried FourArms, and DiamondHead, and all the others!'

Gwen pointed to a few diamond shards that where sticking in the side of the demon's hand.

'Not this one!'

Gwen walked over.

Ben hugged her, and pushed the omnitrix down.

'Take your barrier down, and take ten.' Cannonbolt said, who was curled up in a ball around her.

Gwen did, and, trusting to warn her when the ten minutes were up, and sank into a fell, back, relaxing.

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InuYasha's group were closing in fast.

The scent was still strong (to InuYasha), and were within attacking range of the massive demon.

Kirara flew up to the demon's clenched hand, and Sango shouted, 'Hirikotsu!', throwing her weapon.

The demon didn't even notice, it was that big.

---

There was an ever so slight nudge on the inside of the hand.

Enough for Ben to notice.

Ben nudged Gwen, who woke with a start.

'What's happening?' She whispered.

'There was something from the outside.'

Ben flashed red.

'What do we do?' He asked.

Gwen created her barrier again, just as Cannonbolt transformed into Ben in a flash of red light.

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Sango leaned back, momentarily stunned by the bright sudden red light that emitted from inside the hand.

'Miroku!' She shouted. 'InuYasha! They're up here!'

'BackLash wave!' InuYasha shouted, slamming the sword down, and the demon hopped up and down in agony, clutching at the stump where it's foot used to be.

'That's it!' InuYasha shouted, and raced up to it's shoulder.

'Adamant Barrage!'

The Demon's head came clean off.

---

Suddenly Ben and Gwen were falling.

The hand that had kept them prisoner for so long had finally let them go.

They plummeted to earth for a short second, and landed on something soft and furry.

'Kirara!' Gwen shouted.

Kirara flew down, and landed behind Miroku, who sucked the demon up.

InuYasha, being sucked along with the wind, landed on Miroku and knocked them both to the ground.

---

Soon after, they had started walking back.

Upon arrival, the group split up, and Kagome, Gwen, and Ben walked back to the well.

'How do we send you two back?' Kagome thought to herself.

Ben sat down.

Gwen started reading out of a small book and lent against a tree.

Kagome glanced up.

'Did you say something?' she asked.

'No, wait. Do you hear that?' Gwen replied.

'Yeah, I think. That weird, high-pitched sound?'

'Your mobile phone doesn't work back here, does it?'

'No, I never bring it. How about yours?'

'No, I left mine at the rust bucket.'

'The what?'

The van that Ben and I...' Gwen's voice died away.

'What?'

'Where's Ben?'

Kagome looked around.

'Wasn't he just there?' She said.

'I'm sure he was. Where could he have gone?' Gwen said.

'Dont tell InuYasha, and stay right here. I'll check on the other side of the well.'

Kagome jumped into the well.

There was a flash of green light out to her right.

'Ben!' Gwen shouted. Gwen flew up in a barrier, and watched Accelerate zip into the night.

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Back at Kaede's, Shippo stuck his head out the door again, looking for Kagome.

'Hey you guys! Look at this!' He shouted suddenly.

Sango walked outside.

'There!' Shippo pointed at a glowing pink ball rose up into the sky.

'That could only be two people. Naraku,' Sango paused, and watched as InuYasha joined them.

'Or Gwen.'

'We'd better check it out.'

---

Gwen rose up further, watching ben until he was out of her sight.

She glasnced down, to see a small group of people directly below her.

She lowered herself down as fast as she could.

'InuYasha, it's Ben. He's gone!' She shouted.

'Gwen?' Miroku shouted.

InuYasha glared suspiciously.

'What was the first thing Ben turned into when I was there?' InuYasha interrogated.

'GreyMatter, a small, grey, frog-like creature, but what has this got to do with anything?'

'Just checking it's you. Now where's Ben and Kagome?'

'Kagome went back to our time to look for Ben, but when I started looking for him, I saw Accelerate' Gwen paused, watching InuYasha's face of confusion. 'The fast one he turned into when you were battling the guy with the moon on his face, speed that way.' Gwen pointed out in front of her.

'InuYasha. Go and get Kagome, and we will go after Ben. You will have to catch up.'

'Feh.' InuYasha jumped into the well, his black hair bilowing out behind him.

'We had better go after Ben.' Miroku stated.

'Lets go, Kirara.' Sango said.

Kirara transformed into her large self, and Sango, Miroku and Gwen jumped on her back.

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InuYasha tried to jump out of the well, but didn't even end up leaping up higher then he was tall.

One of his bangs fell across his face.

'Damn it! Of all the nights, it had to be this one!'

He climbed up and out of the well by the ladder.

'Kagome?' He shouted, running over to the house.

He opened the door, to see Kagome stuffing various metal objects into her canary pellow bag.

'What are you doing? We have to go after Ben! He's raced off as that speed demon!'

'I explained everything to Max, and he's giving me a few things to help.'

'It doesnt matter! We need to go NOW!'

'Let me grab one more thing.'

Kagome reached out and grabbed a small thing off her dresser.

She turned and looked at InuYasha.

'Oh no, not now!' She exclaimed. 'You have got the worst timing, you know.'

'Feh, It's not like I can control it.'

Kagome pushed her backpack into InuYasha's arms, and pushed him out the door.

'I've just got one more thing to do. wait for me at the well.' She said, shutting the door in InuYasha's face.

InuYasha shrugged, and ran down to the well.

Kagome quickly joined him, wearing the wierdest outfit InuYasha had ever seen.

It was skin tight, and had a belt with all these accessories hanging off of it.

The suit was an off blue, and looked very lightweight.

InuYasha stared at it.

'I know it looks weird. Lets just go already.'

InuYasha shouldered the backpack, grabbed Kagome, and jumped into the well.