Well guys, here's mooooooreeeee! :D Hooray! I hope you guys will enjoy all the events that are to come! Now, I'm not entirely sure how long this story will be. I have the events planned out, but how long they'll all be, I don't even know yet. So, stick around and we'll see. :D Maybe it'll be short, or long, who knows. X3

You know the disclaimer, so let's begin.

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Breathing hard, a lot harder than he usually did, Brainy somehow managed to find it in him to take out his inhaler, and take some breath from it a couple of times. His eyes never left the man standing before him, which was a pretty big surprise in itself.

"You're quite speechless, I see."

The man standing before him was dressed in white-gray floor length robes, with bell sleeves, carrying a mystical staff. On his head he wore a pointed hat, like a witch's hat. He was older, looking very wise, and had long white-gray hair along with an equally long beard. His overall design reminded Brainy of an ideal live action Gandalf from J.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings book franchise. His voice however, was thundering and yet sophisticated, sounding something like a cross between Jeremy Irons and Patrick Stuart, given that the man had a notable English accent.

But the question remained, who was this man, what did he want, and why was he dressed like this? Halloween was long over, and no one wore costumes outside of a convention for no reason. The Fantasy Convention held in downtown Hillwood wasn't for another three weeks, so it didn't make sense here either. Not to mention, why was he in an old abandoned house, and how did he even know his name?

"I can see that you have many questions, Brian. ...Or perhaps I should call you Brainy?" Said the weird Gandalf man.

"Uh...I don't care..." Brainy said. "...Who are...you?"

"My name is Forthwind." Said the man. "I am the Great Wizard of the West. And it seems to me, young Brian, you have many desires within you that you don't speak of."

"Uh...I guess..."

"There is a young girl, Helga, I believe...you wish for her affections."

Brainy took a swig of his inhaler. "How do you know?"

"As I had said, I am a Wizard, and therefore I know of these things. Tell me Brian, she is currently infatuated with a young man by the name of Arnold, is she not?"

"Uh...yeah. She is."

"As I thought." Forthwind nodded, tapping the end of his staff on the floor. "And though you are happy for them, deep down you are jealous."

"Not really..."

Forthwind held his hand out toward him, concentrating in silence for a few moments and then lowered his hand. "Tell me then Brian, if you were given the chance to have Helga's affections, would you come to take it?"

"Uh...yeah..." Brainy smiled. "I really would..."

"But you can see you two are not meant to be."

"No..."

"Then how do you think, would things have turned out, if she never met this boy Arnold?"

Taking another swig of his inhaler, Brainy thought for a moment before answering. "She'd...have it pretty differently, and maybe I'd be like her Arnold. She'd never have fallen in love with him if she never...met him."

"At times you wish for that."

"...Kinda."

"You wish Arnold were not in the picture. If not for him, you could have her."

"Yeah, I could...maybe..."

"Well then Brian, if this is what you desire...to live in a world where Helga's affections can and will be yours, will you take it?"

"I...I don't know..."

Forthwind raised his staff, the orb attached to the top end surrounded in spidery vines began to glow and pulsate.

"You can have this, Brian... You can live in a time and world, where young Helga has you as her Arnold...she will love you, depend upon you, and not anywhere in her life will she come to know this young Arnold... He will never be what he is to her today. They will not meet, she will not confess, he will not confess, I can start it all over... What do you think, will you take this, and live upon your desires?"

"Um..." Brainy blinked, unable to believe what he was hearing. Could he actually live in a world where Helga was all his? ...Would he want that? "How? How is that possible?"

"I will show you, young Brian. Now, tell me...do you wish to take this?"

A world where Helga never met Arnold, never fell in love with him, never confessed her feelings out of passion on the rooftop of the FTI building, and never received a reciprocation of her feelings, a world...where they weren't meant to be. A world where Helga could be all his.

Brainy smiled at this. At least Helga wouldn't suffer in the hands of never being with her love, because she wouldn't know him. Not directly, at least. Not like she did now. He did want to be happy, with her specifically, and he felt he did deserve it, even if he didn't ask for it.

Maybe now he wanted to get the girl.

"You feel he doesn't deserve her...you feel his denseness within was truly an annoyance...you feel they would not come together if they never met, you feel...that you deserve her. You see her for all of her worth. Does he? He does not."

"No...he does not..." Brainy repeated, as if in a trance.

"Take it, Brian. Tell me of your desire."

"I...I..." He took a swig of his inhaler. "I want to live in a world...where Helga loves me, where she doesn't know Arnold...where she doesn't love him. A world where I can have her... and give her the love she deserves. I wish...for this world..."

Before Brainy could process what was happening, he felt himself growing sleepy, as sparkles and orbs of light danced all around him, his eyelids grew heavy, and he felt warm and relaxed... Was this really happening? Was his wish going to come true? This was all a part of it?

"Go Brian...go and see your new world...go and see...what you will have...now and forever..." Came Forthwind's voice as everything faded all around him.