Alright boys and girls he is my next chapter sorry for the long wait meant to have this out a lot sooner but a number of things came up which slowed stuff down. The biggest been I kinda got hit by writers block I had most of this chapter down weeks ago but near the end I was dealing with some issues of how I wanted stuff to go and after some trial and error I finally got it down. But enough excuses now I wanted to first thank you all who has reviewed my story and those that sent me ideas of OC's some of them are pretty interesting and creative. Now still trying to see where I can place some of them in the story or places they be of help also again not all of them will make it into the story so if you don't see any of your OC's in future chapters I apologize but I never made any promises that said everyone's OC would make it in. Now I'll answer a few questions people have asked me in reviews.
DanceOfTheCrystalRose1993: Yes Ben is half Anodite though I will be making his Anodite form different from Gwen's.
T-Biggz: Yes Gwen has shown to be the smartest but Ben isn't as stupid as everyone thinks he just doesn't apply himself like the episode where the three of the go to plumper academy in UA. Ben did very well on his test and even mentions that even though people think he isn't paying attention but he really is. Plus I feel like magic isn't just about been smart but also creative which Ben is as he has shown from time to time when he would get the wrong alien in battle and would have to make it work.
Well that is all the questions I got also thanks for suggestions for girls I might add EightEight not sure the only reason is cause I have no idea what she looks like under the mask. So it's hard to judge the only people shown partly are SixSix and SevenSeven so I might take some ideas from that but enough talk lets continue on to the story
Chapter 2 – Ledgerdomain Part 1
Ben's head was throbbing, as well as his legs, his back, and oh hell his whole body was hurting it reminded him of the time he tried out for pee-wee football. He tried to remember why he was feeling so banged up he knew it, had to involve some kind of villain but he couldn't member who or what had happen it was just all a big blur. But slowly it was all coming back he remember the museum, the strange man, the charm that gave him power of electricity. That allowed him to become a temporary hero and lead him to battle the creepy warlock guy at the haunted house. But the man was to powerful and got the charm from Ben, the man then had tried to go on and destroy the city. But with the help of his cousin, Gwen and her alien forms they able to put a stop to that though wasn't easy. Suddenly the two most important memories came to mind the first being Ben had fired out an energy beam of his own without the need of anything to help. The second been the vortex that was made from his and the dark wizards powers hitting together and the fact that Ben himself was pulled into said vortex.
As that last part came to mind he instantly shot up as his eyes snapped open. But that sudden movement was bad idea as surge of pain went through his body causing him to wince in pain and curled into a ball on the ground. As the pain slowly faded Ben got back up but much slower this time. Once he was sitting up, he open his eye to take in where he was at. Though what he saw was shocking surprise he never seen anything like it the sky was a mixture of dark purple and pink. They're where also a number of stone path miles long going through the air some of them connected to big or large size masses of land. Their we're also just chunks of land floating in the air on their own like something out of a sci-fi show.
He looked around the area he was in and appeared he was on one of those large landmass connected to some of the stone pathways. The whole area was just deserted no plant life well not completely their seemed to be a few tree's but they were completely dead.
"Oh man were did I end up?" Ben asked himself as he slowly got wincing a bit as he did so as his body was still quite sore
"Man what am I going to do? I have no idea where I'm at or how to even get back if there is a way to get back?" Ben sighed out as he asked that to himself
Ben hopped on to a rock to sit down and take a few moments but no sooner did he sit down, the rock started to move and shake. Ben soon hopped off as the rock turn around to reveal that it was one of the stone gargoyles, it turned around and glare at Ben just as the other one came flying down landing on some stones behind Ben.
"Oh man this isn't good." Ben looked up as large stone creature raised an arm with its fist clinched
Ben just barely got out of the way as the creature brought its fist, down making a small creator in the ground along with spider-web of cracks around it. Ben winced as he hit the ground but he didn't have time to relax as he heard a screeching sound from behind. He turned around and looked up to see the smaller creature coming down at him, but he rolled out of the way just let the stone monster slammed into the ground. But the assault wasn't over yet as Ben came to see a large chunk of rock coming down at him, but thankfully he was able to get to his feet and run out of the spot before the rock smashed into the ground.
"Hey I thought you guys were after my cousin not me if you haven't notice I'm not her." Ben said but it fall on deaf-ears as the stone monsters kept attacking
Ben raced and dodge around they're attacks but it was getting hard to do so as unlike Ben the creatures didn't seem to feel fatigue. While are young hero was panting and sweating hard it was getting hard to keep himself ahead of the creatures it also didn't help that his body was sore to start with. After a large hit that caused a small dust cloud, Ben used it to get himself between some boulders to hide so he could catch his breath and if lucky enough the creatures wouldn't find him and just leave.
"But if they don't leave I'll have to come up with a plan. But how can I deal with those things damn if I had my charm or any of those other charms I could fight back or even if I could summon up that power like before. But I don't know how I did even did it before or if I can do it again? Maybe if I concentrate I can do it again." Ben asked himself before that memory of when he fired his energy beam came to mind
He didn't know how he did or even that he could but he did wonder if he could do it again so he decided to close his eyes and tried to focus on the thought of energy he used before. It had started to work too as blue light was slowly glimmering to life around his hand. When suddenly the boulder to his back started to move causing him to lose his focus and the blue energy to die away. Ben turn to see the large gargoyle had found him and now had the boulder over his head and ready to smash down on to the young boy. That was until Ben had notice something on the ground and to his luck it seemed to be one of the charms. Not knowing what charm it was or even caring Ben quickly grabbed it from the ground and pointed at the stone monster hoping whatever it was would help him defeat the beast.
To both Ben and possible the creature's surprise (it's hard to read stone face) a blast of concentrated fire energy came shooting out of the charm and destroying the creature's right arm. Which without its arm other arm to help allowed the boulder to came down on the beast trapping it under the heavy rock.
"Ha take that rock for brains." Ben cheered out with a big smirk
But his victory was short lived as the smaller one came out of nowhere and elbow slammed into Ben throwing him some considerable distance.
"Ouch damn, ok should have seen that coming." Ben groaned out as he put a hand on his shoulder rubbing it a bit before he noticed the flying one was staring at him from just ten feet away as if taunting him.
"Ok granite breath you want some then how about a FIREBALL" Ben growled out before yelling and putting his hand out to release a fireball but to Ben's surprise no fire came out.
It was then that Ben noticed that he no longer had the charm on him, he looked around only to see it was laying just a few feet behind the small gargoyle.
"Oh that's not good" Ben groaned to himself trying to think of something but nothing came to mind without
"EEERRRRKKKK" The gargoyle let out a loud screech as it took off towards Ben
'OH MAN OH MAN OH MAN WHAT I'M GOING TO DO I DON'T HAVE THE CHARM I DON'T KNOW WHAT I CAN DO? Wait there is that other power of mine but I don't even know how to use it well I guess it's now or never lets hope this works.' Ben screamed in his mind as time seemed to slow down for him as he watched the small stone creature come towards him
He had no idea what to do as he was without his charm but he did remember about his power from before. But he had no idea how to wield it or even if he could again though he didn't have a choice he throw his hands out in front of himself. He then closed his eyes as he tried to concentrate like he did earlier just keeping the blue energy blast in his mind and it seemed to work as blue energy gathered around his hands before shooting out. The energy blast collided right with the creature as it got within a two feet the blast was enough to reduce the stone monster into dust. Though with how close the creature was when the blast hit caused Ben to be hit with enough force to blow Ben back a few feet making him land hard on his back.
"Ow damn, well I guess a bit of pain is better then what that thing would have done." Ben groan out as he got up rubbing one of his shoulders while he strangely felt a bit tired
Suddenly though they're was a crashing sound as Ben looked over to see that the boulder on the other was pushed off and the one armed gargoyle was getting up again.
"Oh come on really now?" Ben sighed out
"Well at least I get to test this power of mine out a bit more." Ben stated with a smirk as he brought his hands together
The large gargoyle scanned the area before it spotted Ben and charged at him like a rhino, while Ben concentrated on his power. Soon blue energy appeared once more in his hand then he trusted them towards the stone monster firing another beam of energy. But the large creature moved to the right to avoid the blast letting the beam hit into the ground just behind it while it kept coming at Ben.
"Ok got to work on my aim later." Ben said sweating a bit but brought his hands together again
He thrust his hands forward to release a third beam but to Ben's surprise no beam came out, instead a small ball came out and it wasn't to impressive looking. As it was blinking in and out like a flash light about to go dead while it moved through the air like a snail before it popped like bubble.
"What the? Why isn't my power working? Oh man why do I feel so weak and tired?" Ben said shocked as he looked at his hands before suddenly he fall to one knee for the first time he realized how hard he was sweating and panting.
'Damn it am too tired to move. Damn this really looks like this really is the end for me.' Ben thought as he looked up to see the one armed gargoyle still coming at him like a freight train but couldn't move a muscle to avoid it.
Ben just watched as the monster got closer the creature had its remaining fist ready, but just as it got within four feet of Ben something smashed into the side of the monster reducing it to dust.
"You ok kid." Ben turn to the voice he could see a person walking up to him but at this point Ben's vision had become a blurry and couldn't make out the face but from the voice could tell it was a man.
"Hey kid you ok" The man came up and knelled in front of Ben who was about to say something before his vision became black as he passed out though person grabbed him.
(Sometime later)
A strange odor filled Ben's nose a strange yet delicious odor filled it as he sniffed more of it kind of smelt like ham with honey and bit of a banana scent to it. He slowly open his eyes and saw gray rock over him, he sat up and looked to see that he was now laying in cave he looked down to see that they're was blanket was on him and pillow.
"Ah I see you're up finally."
Ben looked behind himself to find an elderly man sitting near a fire that had slab of meat floating over it while it cooked which was probably giving the aroma that Ben was smelling. But Ben took his eyes off the food to look back at the old man who had full set of short gray hair that was brushed back, he had gray color eyes, a square jaw with small clean beard and mustache. The man was wearing black shirt, with a long red coat over it, matching red pants, a pair of brown boots, some dark yellow bandages around his hands and brown belt that had many pouches on it.
"Who are you and where I'm I?" Ben asked confused and bit afraid
"About time too are dinner is almost ready." The man told him looking at the slab of meat
"Hey I just asked you question tell me now or I'll make you." Ben told him a bit annoyed now as he lifted up a hand as he concentrated on his power as blue energy appeared around it
"I won't if I was you, you have fired off two beams like that earlier but sure you're not fully recover." The man said who looked over to a more confused Ben
"The energy you use to fire off those beams is called magic or mana in some cultures. Magic it-self is compose of the life-force of all living things including you. That's why you felt tired after you fired off beam you were using your own life-force to do so. Now you fired off two beams already and that knocked you out hard as you saw now you have regain some strength but not too much so firing off that beam would just weaken you more and cause you to pass out once more." The man explain to him as he turn back to look at the meat cooking, while Ben was still looking more confused by being told all this
"Well who cares even if I only have one shoot I can't miss you from this distance so answer my questions." Ben said shaking his thoughts before glaring at the man
"Are you sure about that." The man said smirking
"Yeah I – what the?" The man had disappeared right in front of Ben's own eyes
"Behind you boy." The man said behind Ben who was startled enough to turn and back up so fast that he fell on his ass
"Come now did you really think you're the only one with magic after all I didn't destroy that gargoyle with my good looks." The man said smirking before disappearing and reappearing where he was moments ago in front of the fire
He turn back to Ben to see look of awe on the young boys face, but notice there was still look of concern about the man before him.
"Look kid I'm not your enemy do you think if I was I would have bothered saving you?" The man asked him with a sigh
"Maybe you want something from me." Ben replied with glare
"And what could I want from a ten year old kid huh." The elderly wizard with a raise eyebrow and deadpan look
"Well you seen what I could do maybe you want to take my power or use me as weapon." Ben said crossing his arms trying to look more intimidating then he really was
"Thahaha; really kid you think I need your power." The man chuckled out before he put a hand up a few feet just right of Ben's head
Suddenly blast of red energy left the man's hand Ben could feel the intense power from the blast then heard a large explosion behind himself. Ben turn his head slowly to see that the cave just got several yards deeper, then turn back to the man that was still watching the meat cook.
"Look kid as I said I'm not your enemy I don't want to kill you or use you just thought I help a kid who somehow ended up in this world." The man said looking at Ben from the corner of his eyes
"How did you know I wasn't from here?" Ben asked curiously now
"Hehehe, kid no offense but not many people who live here that wear clothing like yours boy" The man chuckled out
"I'm guessing you're from earth right." The man added
"You know about earth." Ben said happily feeling that he might be getting home soon
"Oh yes earth was one of the few worlds that had strong connection to that world they're were gates; such as Stonehenge that allowed people from are world and your world to travel between both worlds." The man told him with a distant look
"Really, wait you said had." Ben said happy before catching one of the words
"Yes some events on this side the connection to your world has been closed off besides random portals every now again appearing it's nearly impossible to travel between here and earth now." The man told him with sad look
"So they're isn't anyway for me to get back home." Ben said with a frown, making the old man frown too
"No not entirely as I said at times random portals can appear and their few other ways but many of them all hard." The man told him
"Like what?" Ben asked a bit more hopeful now
"Well if you find another mage strong enough they can possible open a portal for you or there is also the main entrance but sadly that way might not be an option as that doorway is usually highly guarded by powerful beast." The man told him, Ben frowned at this but then brighten up as he looked at the man
"Hey you seem strong maybe you can open a portal or defeat those beast." Ben said with a large hopeful smile
"Well I appreciate the confidence but making portals isn't easy as for the beast I might be able to beat them but then I have to deal with Adwaita and he isn't easy for anyone to take on." The man told Ben with a small chuckle
"Who's Adwaita?" Ben asked
"A very skill and very powerful warlock who doesn't like anyone so asking him to use the door is out of the question as well as is fighting him." The man explain
"So then I really am stuck here." Ben frowned as he hugged his knees to his chest
"Hey now don't give up hope, now it won't be easy but I'm sure we can find you away home." The man told Ben hoping to cheer him up
"We?" Ben asked looking up at the man
"Well can't just let a kid like you who isn't from here wonder around hoping to find their way home if I did that you die in a hour or less. No you're going to need my help if you wish to survive here until we can find you away back to your world." The man said smiling which made Ben smile back feeling better
"Now it looks like dinner is ready so let's eat ok." The man said as he waved a hand and caused the meat to float up towards him and away from the fire
Ben looked at the meat closely for the first time and notice it was one of the strangest color meat he ever seen and his grandfather eat some strange stuff. The meat had a dark green outer skin and dark purplish center though despite the weird looking color it smelt delicious. Plus at this point Ben finally notice his own hunger, which was pretty big he would even eat his grandfather's cooking without a second thought. But then Ben notice that he had no plate or any utensils to use, for a moment he thought he have to eat it caveman style. That was until he looked to the old man as if he read his mind the man waved his hands causing some stones to fly to him. With another wave of his hand the stones started to glow and start to change shape until their two sets of plates as well pair of knifes and fork. The old man then using his pointer and middle finger made a swiping motion and as if by a invisible blade the meat was sliced and piece fall on to each plate.
"Here you go eat up boy" The man said as he made a plate along with a knife and fork float to Ben who took them without a second though
"Oh man this is good. It kind of reminds me of baloney yet with slight salty and fruity taste to it." Ben said with his mouth partly full
"What is it?" He asked the elder wizard
"Kid you shouldn't ask questions you might not want to know." The man told him making Ben give him a curiously look
"I know you haven't been here long but you won't find any of the animals you're used to such as cows or pigs. So you might find any of the beast here a bit strange probably won't eat normally." The man added, making Ben look at the meat he was eating with a squeamish look
"Hey kid you're not going to find any fast food place around here and if anything this food has tons more nutrients then that stuff anyway. Plus you said it was good and that's what counts right as long as it taste good and is good for you, and if it doesn't help then just pretend it's a steak, or burger or whatever else it is that you like to eat." The man told him with a smirk at the end
Ben looked down at his food with confused look not sure what to do but after his stomach growled he just decided to suck it up and ate.
"So you never did tell me what is this place, where am I?" Ben asked as he ate
"Well this place goes by many names but most people around these parts call it Ledgerdomain it's the realm strong with magical energy if not completely made of magic. It's also what supplies most of your universe with magical energy." The man explain
"Wow really! Wait what the whole universe?" Ben said amazed before stopping as he asked that
"Yes universe as I said earlier your planet was one of few world's that had strong connection but their others all throughout the universe. You see you can look at Ledgerdomain like an underground river that spread out throughout the whole universe and some of the worlds out there have a certain level of connection to this place." He told Ben
"Wow that's pretty amazing never thought that aliens could use magic as well." Ben said amazed by this info
"You don't seem to surprise by my alien comment." The man asked a bit curious
"Well my cousin has a watch that lets her turn to different aliens but all the aliens I've seen have their own set of powers or abilities anyway so never thought any of them would have magic or need it." Ben said with a shrug
"Well not all aliens have special powers plus just cause some do don't mean they still don't learn other things like magic." The man pointed out
"I guess that's true." Ben said with a nod as he continued to eat after another two piece Ben was laying on his makeshift bed rubbing his stomach
"Man that hit the spot." Ben said smiling
"Glad to see you like the food." The man said as he placed what meat was left over in a bag that seemed to small to hold it
"Yeah it really was good or I was just really hungry." Ben said with a small chuckle
"Well whatever helps you eat huh. Now why don't you get some sleep that food helped you regain some strength but with good night sleep it will help you get back to full strength." The man said as he put his bag away
"Yeah ok" Ben said as he grabbed his blanket
"Hey can I ask you something?" Ben said as he propped himself on his elbow as he looked at the old man
"Of course you can." The old wizard said as he stared at the fire
"Since I will be here probably for a while and with you I was thinking would you teach me magic? I mean really how to use it I mean I don't even know how I did what I did before and you seem to know a lot about magic." Ben asked with his eyes sparkling with hopefulness
But the old man looked over to Ben with a deep sad look and frown at him, before he looked back to the fire.
"Sorry kid I really don't take students I tried once and...and it didn't work out well so decided not to teach anyone, anymore." He said in sad tone making Ben frown
"I'm sorry to hear that but I am going to be stuck here for who knows how long and I like to learn how to use my powers to protect myself and I like to learn them from someone who knows lot about it." Ben frowned as he spoke but gave the man the puppy dog look at the end
"Look kid I said no." The man said frowning but felt his resolve faultier a bit as he saw how sad Ben looked.
"But I'll think about it but no promises ok now get to sleep." The old man said with a sigh as Ben smiled again
"It's better than nothing; well night." Ben said feeling a bit happier as he laid in bed
The old man gave a smile as he watched Ben go to sleep after a few minutes Ben was giving a soft snore, the old man waited a bit longer. But once he was sure Ben was fast sleep, the old man got up and walked to the entrance of the cave when he was outside it he leaned against the rock wall and gave another sigh. The man then waved a hand over his face which caused his appearance to alter his square jaw became more pointed, his nose grew out and became a bit pointed as well, and finally his hair thinned until he was bald on top.
"You looked stress out my old friend." A voice said causing the old man to look up
He saw standing just several feet away was man who was at least six feet in height, he had short mostly black hair with a bit of white on the sides combed back neatly. He wore a pair of black trousers, brown boots, white shirt, with an orange vest over it and a white lab coat on top it, and around his neck was a black tie and pair of lab googles. The man before the wizard was giving a kind smile which seemed to cause the wizard to glare harder at him.
"I wouldn't be stress out if you hadn't shown up today and made me come out here Paradox." The aged wizard said with a sigh
"Well you didn't have to come out Bezel." Paradox said with a shrug
"And leave this poor boy by himself in this world it's not like it was before it's not safe here and don't see why I most train him here or even why it has to be me to train him." Bezel asked with a sigh not to fond of the idea
"I know this isn't the best place but Ben will learn a lot and certain events of his life here will help shape him into a great wizard and you are the best person one of the strongest mages I know." Paradox nod as he explained his and smiled at the end
"See one of them but not the only one." Bezel pointed out
"Yes but you're the best for the job. Look I know what had happen to your last two pupils didn't work out like you had wanted but Ben will surprise you. He will test you at times but I do believe that you're the best for this, so my friend will you do it." Paradox asked his friend again, Bezel looked up from the ground to the time walker with a serious look.
Ben had woke from his sleep feeling quite refresh and lot stronger he stretched a bit as he sat up he saw that the old man was sitting still by the campfire staring at it.
'Man is this guy a statue or something.' Ben thought to himself
"About time you got up come on lets go we got to move." The man said as he stood up
"Are we going to try looking for a portal back to earth?" Ben asked as he got up as the man told him too and made their way to the mouth of the cave
"Yes we are but after we get some training in." The wizard said with a small smile on his face
"What really you'll train me." Ben said his face lighten up like the sun in joy
"Hehehe, yes I decided I'll train you a bit while we look for a way home for you. I thought be good way to kill time and it probably be safer for all if you know how to wield some of that power you have especial for myself don't need you blowing me up by accident." The man said with a small chuckle
"Awesome I can't wait to learn some cool amazing magic spells." Ben said jumping around
"Alright calm down now we just aren't going to dive into it for now we will start with the basics you need to build up your control and other things before you can start doing the 'amazing spells' as you call them." The mage said with a shake of his head thinking on the situation he got himself into now with the young boy.
"Ah man that sucks I thought with magic you can just do whatever." Ben groaned out as his shoulders slouched
"You can but first you have to learn to wield it properly otherwise when you try something you might cause whatever you do too blow up in some ones face or even your own its how a number of stupid magic users get themselves killed." The mage explained
"Ok I got it so what do I call you, you haven't really told me your name and if you're going to be teaching me I should know your name at least?" Ben asked as he put his hands behind his head
"Well if I'm to be your teacher you will call me master but if you want to know my name well its Zebel now let's get to work." Zebel told him with a smirk, causing the young mage to get a chill down his back as he was about to learn that magic was lot more work than he had always thought it would be.
Well I hope you all liked it I will get to work on the next chapter as soon as I can but I am working on other stories as well so please try to be patient with me if you will. Also again if you have some OC idea's let me know again can't promise that all of your OC's will make it in but if I think any of them can work I'll add them in. Also I'm look for names of some of Gwen's aliens as well as what they should look like so if any of you have suggestions I'd love to hear them thank you.