Research and Gwen

The next day.

Today, me and Gwen are on patrol during the day while grandpa Wes shall be on night patrol. For some reason he believes that the creature will only show itself on the Full moon like yesterday. There is only one thing that slipped his mind, the wolf may not come out but we can still go after it.

We will be hunting the monster down on the third night. By we, I mean me, Gwen and Kai cause Wes is a buzzkill. For today I am studying the blood I extracted from the first extraterrestrial to make contact with humans( except the plumbers) via misplacing my fist into its face. I know, a very scientific method.

Anyways the blood was pretty normal and didn't really show that much deviation but the little deviations were very telling. This was basically an extremely advanced wolf. Like the most evolutionarily intensive, natural selection with selective breeding for more than a million years.

It is the absolute pinnacle of wolf and it shows a lot of things. The proteins in the blood are very different but are more effective and the nerve signals are transferred through electrons at light speed. This is one of the very few things I was able to analyze by studying one drop of blood but that is to be expected when working with alien dna.

The structure was weirdly not human like but earth like, I guess that this alien is ancient and has been mixing its own genes with the humans or other animals in the areas for long stretches of time so it is more manageable. I, of course stored some other blood separately for my benwolf or blitzwolfer transformation.

I mean blitzwolfer was a name from omniverse and that was the 4th installment in the perfect trilogy. One of those two or maybe I won't name my aliens at all and be like Ben 10,000? Maybe but some of the alien names were either pure cringe or stupid puns.

Anyways enough of that, I was walking with Gwen through the desert/ shrubs. Her expression was basically screaming that she had something in her mind that she was focused on.

"Trouble in paradise? Gwen, can I help?" My voice was smooth and I made sure to keep it even. I was really curious about what was in her mind but I couldn't read minds...Yet.

"Well,, I was just thinking."

"Well you can tell me. I can do my best to help"

"I was just thinking about we should do even if we capture this alien? Sell it? Research it? Kill it?"

"Research it, maybe cure a few diseases, make major changes to modern biochemistry using its dna? There is a lot of potential for this creature just with the blood but the entire species can probably kickstart a revolution in bio chemistry plus if that doesn't work out. Magic. We are magicians and mages. There is a major different and one can only win with both.

Mages use actual magic but are mostly traditionalists with unchanging views while magicians are a masters of deception and are ever changing. We must be both smart and wise. Using the same magic in the same way every time is limiting your magic and chaining yourself to a certain limit."

"Yes master, Ben. When are we hunting down the alien?"

"Tomorrow night. We have to ditch Wes and go on our own with Kai as support."

"I still can't believe how nonchalant that girl was when we asked her to ditch her grandpa."

"We have known each other for nearly half of our life. Plus she is in 3rd grade, she isn't that mature in comparison. Let's get on with the 'patrols'"

"Walking in circles around a camp isn't patrolling but do whatever you wanna do. This is a free country for good or for worse."

"Careful Gwen, don't wanna be to full of yourself. There is a very thin and transparent line between pride and arrogance."

"How can I get a big head in anything with you always ahead of me? You make me feel like a dweeb."

I think irony just slapped me in the face with that one.

"I mean I am only ahead in sports, education, finances, maturity, practical knowledge and well,,, everything? I am sorry for being better, but compared to the other 7 year olds who are smelling their own farts, you are basically perfect."

"Thanks for the compliment now let's get back and have some of that pasta you made. It is heavenly, when did you even learn how to cook?"

Last life's instincts." It is extremely important part of one of my backup plans."

"Which one. You have like a million and you only told me about half of them"

I only told you a tenth of them but you don't need to know that.

"The one where I get into a fight with mom and dad. I have enough for a apartment and am earning enough to live on my own Indefinitely. I learned cooking for that."

"So.. you can just live on your own? Most 30 year olds don't have a definite career and their house, and here you are a 7 year old earning enough to live on his own."

"Gwen I am a magician. Deception is my forte. I have more money then a lot of people, plus I can duplicate money with magic, on the fly. That isn't even counting that most of my investments haven't cashed in yet."Most prominently Bitcoins. They haven't even launched but I will defiantly be investing in those.

"Come on let's go and have some 'asta with no 'auce."

"Ben. I said that once when I was 4. That isn't fair, I don't even remember having a lisp."

"But you are so cute, you would run up to me with a plate in your hand and I would serve you some 'asta with no 'auce. Sometimes I would even spoon feed you like a little baby. I even have the videos that your dad took."