Note: first fanfic, will improve as I go along, I have been a gamemaster on my past RP site so the action should be good, and I do not own Ben 10 or anything that is remotely like Ben 10.

AUTHOR'S NOTE OF GLORY: So after the Earth Trial I am going to update this into Action/Adventure/ROMANCE. So this story will indeed have some (if not a lot) love in it. And it should be an interesting experienced because I never have written a love story before (mainly Science Fiction). But I have read some romance stories that will help me! Like Fruits Basket! YAY Fruitsbasket! It is soooo funny and cute! I was surprised when I found out that it was a girl's manga (since I'm a guy and I'm reading it). And all of the characters in story are soooooo cute or hot! And the guy characters are sooo cute too! cough well anyway….the point of this ramble is that the relationships are going to start after this trial.

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Diamondhead was looking up at the mountain. His green eyes squinted as he tried to find the top. The wind blew at him from all directions as he was searching. He looked for a little bit more and gave up. He turned to his female comrades.

"I don't see the top yet. And we have been climbing for some time, but never fear! We shall make it!"

Blizzard smiled at him and continued on setting up the tent. Ripjaw (who was in many layer clothes) said nothing.

Diamondhead looked at the two of them, he then had that urge again. He tried to repress it but it was too strong. He ran up to Ripjaw with his hand up and said,

"Hey Ripjaw! Give me a high five!"

He held out his gloved hand to hers, she finally smiled at him and gave it to him. He then ran up to Blizzard. With one large finger up in the air he said,

"Now give me a high finger!"

Blizzard laugh and gave it to him.

"AUSOME!" yelled Diamondhead, his voice echoed through the mountain range. He then yelled,

"I shall now go get some fire wood!"

He ran off leaving the two girls by themselves.

They said nothing to each other for awhile, and then when Blizzard was done she said,

"Well Ripjaw, now that Diamondhead is gone, what should us female creatures talk about?"

Ripjaw, who was in her own little world, was brought back suddenly by this comment.

"Uh…", she stuttered, "boys?"

Blizzard pushed back her long flowing hair and sat down cross-legged next to Ripjaw.

"Okay, who shall we start with first?"

Ripjaw looked at the direction on where Diamondhead was previously standing. Blizzard followed her gaze and made the connection.

"Ah…so you have an eye for Diamondhead eh?"

Ripjaw shook her head vigorsly.

"Then you don't like him?", said Blizzard.

Again, Ripjaw shook her head.

"Then you just want to be friends?"

Ripjaw nodded her head.

"Do you have anybody that you like besides us?"

Ripjaw paused. Should she confess her extreme liking of Heatblast? Up until now she has not told this little secret to anybody. She was afraid somebody might laugh at her or tell Heatblast. When I am certain that Heatblast likes me back, I'll tell her.

Ripjaw shook her head.

"Oh…well, I'll get the mattresses out and start pumping air in them."

Blizzard walked over to the large backpack that Diamondhead was previously carrying. She opened it up and pulled out two large deflated mattresses. She unzipped a smaller pocket and pulled out an air-pumper. After a some fiddling around, she started pumping air into them.

Piff…whoosh.

Piff…whoosh.

The soft sounds eased Ripjaw back into her deep thinking. She closed her red eyes and was breathing deeply.

I feel it. The cold is beginning to slow me down, I'm feeling drugged. Oh Earth Creator, give me the endurance that you have long so forsaken me of. Give me the energy to fight on, to live. Diamondhead please hurry up with the fire wood. I must be around heat otherwise I will go into a hibernation so deep that it would kill me. Please Diamondhead hurry.

Piff…whoosh.

Piff…whoosh

She put her hands in her pockets and felt something there. She pulled it out.

It was a hand size blue gem. It shown brightly from the pure snow and reflected Ripjaw's image many different times.

She suddenly remembered a memory from an old planet that she called home.

"…here it is Ripjaw." Said the Interpreter, "this Water Stone has been dawn with the great Sea Creator's power. He has heard my calling and as answered it most generously. Carry the Water Stone with you at all times, for the place you are going to will not be as wet as home. If you carry this gem wherever you go, your body will not run out of internal water and you will stay wet and alive.

Piff…whoosh.

Piff…whoosh.

Ripjaw held the water stone tightly in her gloved hands.

Please Sea Creator. I don't want to die. I want to see my home again. I want to live.

"HEY GUYS!"

Diamondhead came back to the camp with a plentiful amount of firewood. He set the wood down in a circular pattern and took off his gloves.

"Well I'm going to get the fire started so then we can be toasty!"

Blizzard, who was done pumping up the mattresses. Looked at Diamondhead and said,

"Well, I'm going to get something to eat, what do you want Diamondhead?"

"Oh, if you can find any Granite in this area that will be great. But if you can't, then I'll settle for some shale."

Blizzard nodded, and walked 20 feet away. She began to pack lots of snow together into little round balls. She then went searching for rocks to please the hunger of Diamondhead.

During this time, Diamondhead was getting the fire started. He rubbed his hands in hard and fast. After a minute, sparks began to appear and before you could say Earth Trial, Diamondhead got the fire started. In the middle of the fire he put a large skittle with a fish on it.

Ripjaw edged closer to the fire.

Blizzard had returned with the "food", in her hands were several tightly packed snow balls and rocks of different kinds.

"Here ya go Diamondhead."

She handed him the rocks. He looked at them and sighed.

"Rats, sandstone, oh well."

He crunched into the hard rock and began to eat loudly. Blizzard meanwhile was eating the snow balls daintily and politely. She took small helpings of each bite and waited until she was done chewing. Ripjaw didn't touch her fish yet.

After five minutes of silence (except for Diamondhead's loud chewing) something extraordinary happen.

Actually two things happened in the course of just three minutes. In this short time, the quiet scene turned into a disaster.

Ripjaw was sitting cross-legged on the ground, she began to wobble and fell down. Blizzard looked at her.

"Ripjaw?"

No answer.

"Ripjaw?"

Still no answer.

"Ripjaw!"
Blizzard stood up so fast that her food went flying. She ran to the unconscious Ripjaw who was now laying face down on the cold ground.

"RIPJAW!"

"What is it!" said Diamondhead who too got up.

"Ripjaw fainted! She is not responding!"

Diamondhead went nuts.

"OH MY GOD! WHAT ARE WE GOING TO DO! SHE IS GOING TO DIE! OH MY GOD! WHATAREWEGOINGTODOWHATAREWEGOINGTODOWHATAREWEGOINGTODO!"
"DIAMONDHEAD!"

Diamondhead stopped running.

She grabbed hold of him. She looked at him in the eye with a piercing gaze.

"Calm down."

She hated to do it, but there was no choice, he had to do it.

"Please, calm down."

Diamondhead looked at her, his body slowly grew untense, his face seemed to change as if he was molding to another person. His eyes turned to a slate grey.

His yin/yang necklace sparkled against the snow.

"Right.", he said. Gone now was the wild, happy Diamondhead. He was replaced by someone calmer, someone who can plot and plan fast and greatly. Yang.

"What we first need to do," continued Diamondhead, "Is to get her near the fire. Blizzard, I want you to find all the snow you can and melt it in the fire. We will then pour the water into her mouth. Hopefully that will get her going."

Blizzard nodded. She was about to do so when the second incident happened.

She saw something in the distance, it was a tall, grey humanoid thing. It looked like it had its arms raised. It shot something towards them.

A rocket.

The rocket came zooming in there direction, Blizzard began to panic.

"Uh…Diamondhead?"

Diamondhead saw it too.

"GET DOWN!"

He pulled her down to the snowy ground. The rocket went speeding over their heads and into the mountain. An explosion happened and all hell broke loose.

An avalanche started.

Blizzard screamed despite the fact that snow avalanches can not kill her. She screamed because it was out of pure terror of something so monstrous that it was threatening to kill her. The avalanche roared down the mountain like a mighty lion charging at its prey. The giant slide took down trees, rocks and other debree. No one was spared from the onslaught. Without a moment's hesitation, Diamondhead held out his hands and formed a crystal dome around the three of them. The snow fell down on it, the dome hold but it was beginning to break. Large cracks appeared as Diamondhead tried to hold his ground. After a awhile he too was beginning to shake from the sheer force of nature.

"Can't….hold…much…longer…going…to…"

Diamondhead stopped for he fainted, and the dome shattered.