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: Here it is! Sorry it wasn't here earlier. Something was seriously wrong with my login acount. Oh well!

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Feces.

Diamondhead sniffed the dung that had steam coming out of it.

Fresh.

The tracks that were nearby the freshly laid excrement were deep. Diamondhead measured them with his large finger.

Hmmm…about two inches. I'm on the right track!

"Here I come Ripjaws!" yelled Diamondhead.

He jumped in the air and then started to skip. He skipped with gleeful joy as he was searching for his kidnapped friend.

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In her deep hibernation Ripjaws was sleeping peacefully.

She dreamt of being back at her home planet. Where the humidity was over 95 and large parts of the world were covered in shallow swamps. She saw herself in the greenish waters swimming like a graceful and beautiful mermaid. Her legs morphed into her tail and she swam through the water at full speed. She smiled a toothy smile as she saw fish dart around her and seaweed trying to reach up and grab her with their flat fingers. She loved home. She loved everything about her home. The life, the plants, her family, the air. It was perfect.

Except the war.

The water turned from its calm color into an acid green. She screamed underwater as the acid bubbled around her skin causing it to rot. Pain, unbearable pain seethed across her body. She felt her skin cells peel away and her nose and mouth began to deteriate. She swam up and broke the surface. She looked up in the air and saw them. They are destroying her home, they have finally reached her home. The acid flew through the air like bombs. Trees fell, the life-filled water bubbled, fish floated up to the surface dead. In the background she could hear her loved ones dying. If she only had the power to make the enemy stop. Make them go away.

And a scent caught her nose. One that she had never smelt before. As the victims from both sides fell she smelt something so powerful that it stayed in her brain until the day she died.

Fresh blood.

Ripjaws began to softly cry out "no, no, not again, please Sea Creator, not again". The bumpy ride turned her pleasant dream, into a nightmare. A nightmare that was real.

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"Wow, what a view!"

Blizzard looked out at the great scenery. With the sun's last gleaming rays, light was slowly departing. Even though it was, the snow that covered the ground for miles across made it brighter than it seemed.

Blizzard breathed in the fresh air.

I love the winter.

She bent down to pick up the Earth flag. She smiled and thought,

This is such an easy trial! We will be back to the academy before midnight!

As she was about to head back down the mountain slope, something caught her eye.

It was another flag.

She picked it up and examined it. It was an exact duplicate of her flag.

Hmm…I wonder how this got here…

A gust of wind suddenly blew the flag out of her hand. It was carried high in the air and out of sight.

Whoops, there it goes. Oh well, I still have this one.

Making sure this flag doesn't get away, she stuffed it deeply in her pocket.

I bet Diamondhead somehow lost Ripjaws, well, better go find them.

With that, Blizzard made an ice sled and started traveling down the mountain.

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As Diamondhead was prancing along, he was suddenly confronted with a large problem.

No more tracks.

Not only that, but the feces is gone too.

Diamondhead stopped. He looked around.

"Where have the tracks gone? If I can't find her then…" Diamondhead stopped, he started crying.

"Then…I will never see her again! WAHHHHHHH!"

Diamondhead sat down and started bawling. Tears with small traces of minerals in them started sliding down his smooth face.

"I'm not a good friend! I can't even take care of myself! WAHHHHHHH!"

By now Diamondhead was crying up a storm. He couldn't help it, he felt so sad on what he had done. He started feeling bad about himself and started feeling worthless.

Whenever Diamondhead gets in this mood, he usually reverts to his Yang mode. When in Yang mode he goes through a depression that is after an hour soon recovered. However, since Yang is still unconscious from using too much energy, Yin's spiritual energy came back to him very quickly.

"Don't worry now," he said to himself, "I'll find her…and when I do we will be united again! Yeah!"

The tears stopped rolling down his face. A combination of determination, stubbornness and happiness was on his face.

"Here I come Ripjaws!"

Diamondhead was about to run in a random direction but he stopped. He scratched his head and said, "The question is though…where?"

Diamondhead cried out.

"Are you awake Yang?"

No answer.

"Dang, he still is asleep. What should I do now?"

Still figuring this one out, Diamondhead leaned against a wall. The wall collapsed leaving an entrance to a large cave.

"That might be it." he said.

Diamondhead walked forward, uncertain of what he may see. The cave grew darker and darker as he got farther and farther from the exit. His eyes adjust to the continuing dimness. After walking for five minutes, he saw a bundle of blankets on the floor.

"Ripjaws!" he cried.

He ran forward to the blankets, only to find that she was not there.

"Oh my god! Where is she?"

He started looking around frantically.

"Have they already eaten her?"

He stepped forward onto the blankets.

"RIPJAWS!" he yelled.

Only the repeating echo answered him back. As the last of the echo was dimming, he heard another sound.

"Grrrrrrrrrr……"

Diamondhead turned around. There facing him were the same creatures that he fought earlier.

"Oh no! The animals have come back to eat me!"

The animals began to surround him. Diamondhead got into an odd fighting position.

"Bring it on furballs! I know karate!"

Diamondhead started to punch and kick the air to warm-up. The animals looked at him oddly.

"Hooya! I'm ready! Now prepare to be-"

An animal jumped on his back. Diamondhead was caught off surprise but he was able to quickly recover.

"Hey! Let me finish my sentence!"

Diamondhead grabbed the animal and threw it down to the floor, it whimpered.

"It's rude to interrupt!"

The animals now started to jump on top of him attempting him to bring him down by weight. Caught off again by surprise, Diamondhead was brought down quickly. The animals now were clawing at his diamond skin and biting on his hard neck.

For all good that had done, they might as well have poked him.

With this heavy weight pressing on all his sides of his body, Diamondhead could not get up.

But this is where Yin can come in handy.

With a surge of energy, Diamondhead was able to jump back upon his feet sending the creatures flying.

"HA!" he yelled.

Finally, in the midst of darkness, Diamondhead saw Ripjaws laying in the corner of the room.

"Ripjaws!"

He ran over and picked her up gently.

"I finally got you!"

He turned around, the creatures began to recover and were coming after him.

Holding her tightly to his chest he yelled out loud.

"Coming through!"

With his head bent down, he ran forward knocking the creatures down. After much running he was able to reach the entrance. He turned around and cried out like a mad Mineralist.

"See ya later you freaks!"

He jumped up and slammed the ground with his feet. Snow caved in and blocked the entrance.

"BOOYA!" he yelled.

He then did a mini-victory dance with Ripjaws still in his large arms.

Suddenly, once again he was knocked down to the ground by something heavy. He groaned to see who attacked him.

It was Blizzard. Apparently, the sled that she was on crashed into Diamondhead. His first reaction when he saw her was,

"Blizzard?"

"Diamondhead?" she said. She looked down at the still unconscious Ripjaws in his arms.

"RIPJAWS? What is she doing all the way out here?"

"Well-you see-it was….uh….perfect explanation!"

"Diamondhead." She said in growing anger.

"Hehehe…well…OH MY GOD! LET'S GET OUT OF HERE!"

Blizzard turned around, apparently, another avalanche has started, this time because of incident when Diamondhead slammed the ground with his feet.

Without thinking, Diamondhead heaved Ripjaws to his right arm and put Blizzard onto his shoulders. With his left hand, he formed a snowboard. He jumped onto his diamond snowboard. Blizzard screamed as she went cruising down a mountain at high speeds, she held on Diamondhead with all her might.

The avalanche was crashing down the mountain, gaining speeds and destroying everything in its path.

When things couldn't get any worse, they did.

"CLIFF!"

Blizzard forced her eyes opened, they were heading towards a cliff at high speeds.

"STOP!"

"I CAN'T!"

The snowboard sled over the cliff. For awhile it hovered there motionless. The silence seemed to last for a minute, hour, day, week, year. Diamondhead was dimly aware of him falling off the snowboard with Ripjaws tumbling out of his arms. Blizzard also separated from him. They fell in silence as their bodies tossed lazily through the air.

Foomp!

Foomp!

Foomp!

Their land was broken by soft snow. By now, Ripjaws came to, she sat up and gave a big yawn. Her large jaw unhinged as it reached a large diameter. She smacked her lips to get rid of the odd taste in her mouth.

"Where are we?" she said.

Diamondhead sat up, snow covered his entire body.

"We're on the ground." He said.

Yang too seemed to wake up.

Yawn. Did you get the flag?

Diamondhead turned to Blizzard.

"Did you get the flag?"

She smiled and held it up.

"Yep!"

Diamondhead smiled sheepishly.

"Good." More to himself he said, "For once I feel tired. Why don't you take over Yang?"

Yin fell asleep.

Diamondhead closed his eyes and shook his head. He opened his eyes reaveling steel, color eyes. Smiling to himself he said.

"I love it when Yin does the dirty work."