My Heroes: A Hero's Journey
Brian's Journey part 3

"Sic vis pacem, para bellum," Brian kept on mumbling as he headed towards the evil castle. "Sic vis pacem, para bellum."

"That's Latin isn't it?" a voice came as he suddenly stopped as turned round to see Kirsty standing there.

"You won't stop me!"

"Who said I was?"

"Look, I know what your thinking."

"What? That you blame yourself for Yugi's kidnap and now you want revenge?"

"No."

"Oh good, because that was a long shot and I would have hated it if I was right!"

"Look, this is not vengeance. Revenge is not a valid motive; it's an emotional response. No, not vengeance…it's punishment!" Kirsty smiled and then took something out of her pocket.

"Well punishments good and all, but you won't survive by just blasting up way in!" she said as she walked up to him and then put gold locket with a red ruby in the middle of it, around his neck.

"Is this what I think it is?" Brian asked as he looked down at it.

"Yep, sure is. It'll turn you temporary invisible and get you into the castle undetected."

"Thanks."

"Don't mention it. Oh and Brian, say hi to Kyra for me," Kirsty said as she winked at him and then started walking away.

"Kirsty…" Brian said as she stopped and looked back at him. "Your right…it is Latin."

"I knew it," Kirsty replied as she smiled.

"It means, if you want peace…"

"Prepare for war!" Brian and Kirsty said together before they both turn around and went their separate ways. Brian had walked a few steps before he turned his head to look back but Kirsty and disappeared. He then turned back and looked down at the locket around his neck.

'Let's just hope this works for me as it did for her…' Brian thought.

--Flashback--

Brian stumbled down the corridor towards his apartment wearing his long black trench coat and holding a black carrier bag, after coming back unleashing his final act of punishment towards those who murdered his family. Suddenly, he stopped and turned his head to look behind him, thinking he could hear footsteps of someone following him. But everything was quiet and no one was in sight. He then shrugged his shoulders and went into his apartment.

Suddenly, at the end of the corridor and behind the wall, a girl appeared. She had medium length dark blonde hair, green eyes and wore dark blue jacket with really long shelves that went over her hands (kind of Japanese style), a white tank top underneath, which was ripped and blood stained on the left hand side, black jeans and some sort of gold locket around her neck with a red ruby in the middle of it. Suddenly, the ruby on it turned light blue and she disappeared again just as Brian was about to close his apartment door.

Once Brian had closed and locked his door, he sat down on his chair next to a small table with a bottle of drink, a glass and a photograph on it. Brian reached over, grabbed the bottle and tipped some of it in the glass and set it back on the table. He then picked up the glass as well as the photo. He knocked back the drink down his throat as he stared as he stared at the photo in his hands of him, Tea and their son William.

He then put both the glass and the photo down back on the table; he then pulled out his gun from under his black trench coat and pointed the end of it under his chin as his lip quivered.

"Can't do it can you?" a female voice said as Brian suddenly jumped out of his chair and looked around to see the girl from outside sitting on the table behind him, he looked at her confusedly. "Tell ya what, five bucks says you can't," she said as she took out the money and put it on the table. "Although you'll have to make do with English money."

"Are you saying I can't!" Brian responded. "Cause I will!" he then lock and loaded his guns and pointed back under his chin.

"You know you can't," she replied as Brian's hand that the gun was in started shaking. "I wonder what Tea would say if she could see you now?"

Suddenly, Brian lowered the gun at the thought of his beloved wife as images of her flashed in his mind of her looking shocked and upset and also staring right at him as if she was in the room.

Brian then put the gun on the table where the photo of him and his family was and looked back up at the girl sitting on the other table.

"I didn't catch your name," Brian said as he walked up to her.

"I didn't give it," she replied as she stood up and held out her hand. "My name's Kirsty."

"They call me the Punisher," he said as he shock her hand.

"Come on, let's not be super. What's your name?"

Brian paused as he looked at her, figuring out whether to trust her or not he could trust her.

"Brian…my name's Brian."

"Nice to meet you…I need your help."

--End flashback--

Brian continued his pursuit uptowns the castle of evil where his friends where held captive.

Meanwhile, Malik sat on the roof of the house, where they sheltered in, mediating. As he meditated, a voice kept going through his head.

'You know the way Malik…' the voice in his mind said as his mind flashed images of him training with a stick a weapon with a man with a turban on standing behind him, watching him. 'Kimagure, the ability to control time…future, even life and death…'

Suddenly, that image disappeared as a new image appeared in Malik's mind.

-Image-

It was black and white (just as his predictions normally are); he saw the house they stayed in from the outside. Three men started working up to it.

One of them wore a sleeveless red trench coat, with a blue top and trousers underneath it, a black and red headband on; long black hair tied back, green eyes and played with a dice in his hand.

The second one had an orange/yellow suit with a few tubes sticking out of it, red hair and blue eyes.

And the third one had long brown hair on his head as well on parts of his body and also purple bangs and a brown trench coat on.

"Knock, knock," the first one said before he threw his dice.

-End image-

Malik immediately opened his eyes and gasped.

"Oh Ra!"