A/N: another chapter. shorter, but this is really all i need in here. Back in Gwen's POV.

Disclaimer: I own no part of Ben 10. This plot was sent in by Crushed Hale.x

The next day, we found ourselves in some serious trouble again. More Necrofriggins surrounded us. They were practically everywhere. "Kevin, what in the world did you do to piss them off this bad?" I asked, hanging onto him tightly and hoping he could protect me in a fight. "It's like there's a nest of them somewhere!"

He shot me a sheepish smile over one broad shoulder. "The cave... it's really nice, isn't it?"

"You took a nest from a bunch of monsters and you assume they won't attack you again to get it back?" I growl through gritted teeth as they close in on us. "Kevin, I want to hit you but you're the only thing keeping me alive around here."

"Oh, thanks a lot. That's good for my ego." A choked, hoarse laugh escaped him only a millisecond beforeI saw him topple to the ground as one of the Necrofriggins finished passing through him, his body turning cold as ice under the one hand that I kept on him for comfort and safety. One pass through him was enough to send him to the dusty, red ground.

"KEVIN!" I cried out, clutching to his fallen body desperately as the hissing, clicking cerulean-colored creatures closed in on their prey. My emerald eyes found him again. "Come on, Kevin," I begged to his unconscious body. "Come on, please, Kevin." I looked up at the Necrofriggins as they kept snarling and growling at me with bared teeth. "I need you now."

When I realized he wasn't waking up anytime soon, I turned to find a monster breathing down my neck. Fear clutched my throat and I held my hands out frantically as a pathetic form of defense with my eyes shut tight in panic.

Power seemed to surge from within me and I felt my body jolt backwards, falling onto Kevin's slowly warming form and feeling his now heated skin against mine. A dull, thrumming headache worked its way into my skull and I blinked open one eye into the world of bloody crimson.

All the Necrofriggins lay around us in a stunned circle. They lay flat to the ground, scarcely moving except the air drawn into their lungs.

Confused, I stared at my palms. A light blue tint was fading from them. And I blinked a few times, seeing the creatures rising again. They were hissing.

"Come on, Kevin," I begged, shaking his large, limp body. I would've done whatever I did again if only I knew how I did it in the first place. "Please get up. Please, Kevin. Please."

When I looked up at the Necrofriggins again, they were all backing away. They were all collecting each other and walking off with snarls and growls and hisses directed back at me. Their wings wrapped around their lithe, slender bodies. And the silent retreat ensued, the blue beings trudging off to find another place to call home.

Kevin's head lifted. "I got 'em, right?" he asked, sounding a bit delusional or delirious. "They gone?"

"Um... Yeah," I told him, unsure on how to say "I somehow sent out a blue blast that knocked them all down and then they got pissed and walked away". "Let's go with that," I finished, stepping back to give him room to get up without his wings or tail slapping into me.

He rose to his feet, shaking himself out. "You did something," he remarked almost knowingly, "didn't you?" His eyes were focused on me intently, anticipating a good answer.

I just nodded, speechless as to what exactly I did. I would've loved to explain it to him and see the shock crawl across his fanged features if only I knew what it was and how to describe the pulsing headache that now throbbed at my brain.

"What did you do?" he questioned, eyes boring through me like lasers and turning me into Swiss cheese.

"Ha. That's the best question I've heard all day."

And our lives in the Null Void went on, me finding magical powers and us becoming closer, stronger, and teaming up to find a way out of this Hellhole dimension.

A/N: ah, no worries, I got the rest of this pretty well worked out in my head. Be grateful, or else this would be a slow-going story. Now review or die!

~Sky