Disclaimer: I own nothing except Kirsty and Kyra. And kilnorc owns Brian.
My Heroes: A Hero's Journey
Chapter 22 -The Origin of Punishment
Kirsty looked back and forth between Kyra and Brian, trying to figure out what to do.
"There is no choice here," Kirsty whispered as she rinsed her hands with the blast in them as Kyra's eyes widened.
"No!" Kyra screamed and shielded her eyes with her arms as Kirsty threw the blast. But when nothing happened Kyra, removed her arms from her eyes to see what had happened.
Where the swirling black hole was now covered with Kirsty white shinning blast and with in seconds the blast destroyed it and everything returned to normal.
"I wise choice," Kyra replied. 'Now it's time to make my leave.'
Meanwhile, Kirsty dropped down onto her knees as she returned to her normal form of her dark blonde hair and black jumper with a hood on it and jeans look. She gasped for air as she took her first breath back in her normal form and then remembered something.
"Kyra!" she yelled as she looked up to see her dark half, but she was nowhere in sight. "Grr…Kyra!" Kirsty angrily yelled as she got up and slammed her fist into the main door.
The door fell forwards as Kirsty turned and walked over to Brian. Meanwhile, Mai looked at the fallen door with two arms sticking out of it. One arm was red with a bit of blue on the bottom of it and a web pattern on it and the other of was blue along the arm and a dark blue glove on the hand.
"See Yugis, that's what you get for ease-dropping!" Mai said to Yugi as he laid under the heavy metal door with his eyes swirling. Meanwhile, Kirsty knelt down aside Brian's body.
"Brian," she said softly to him as her eyes started to well up and she looked down to the floor. "Hang in there!"
"Kirsty…" Brian whispered in a croaky voice, as Kirsty immediately looked back at him.
"Brian!" she replied as she smiled at him.
"Kirsty…l...lo...look in my pocket…"
Kirsty nodded as she did what her friend had told her to do, she looked in his trench coat pocket and pulled a folded up blue papers. Kirsty slowly opened them up to reveal some kind of plans of a machine.
"Wait a minute, isn't this…Kyra's machine?"
"Yes…it is," Brian said before he suddenly coughed violently, so much that blood came out with it.
"Brian, just hold on! We gotten out of situations like this before, and we will again now!" Kirsty said as she came closer to Brian as put her arms around him as Brian remained quiet and the tears started running down Kirsty's face. She looked down into his fading eyes and reminded her of something. She held Brian closed and started to sing quietly but softly as well. "How can you see into my eyes…"
"Like open doors…" Brian's weak voice sang back as Kirsty's eyes widened and continued on sing.
"Leading you down into my core."
"Where I've become so numb."
"You remember!" Kirsty shockingly replied as Brian weakly gave a nod back at her.
"Without a soul…" he continued.
"My spirit sleeping somewhere cold."
"Until you find it there," they both sang. "and lead it back home…"
--Flashback--
"Wake me up!" a boy, about 18 years old with short brown hair shouted out as he jumped on his bed.
"Wake me up inside," a girl, not much younger than him sang as she lightly jumps on the same bed.
"Can't wake up!"
"Wake me up inside."
"Save me!"
"Call my name and save me from the dark."
"Wake me up!"
"Bid my blood to run."
"Can't wake up!"
"Before I come undone."
"Save me!"
"Save me from the nothing I've become," the girl finished before they both jumped down and landed on the floor.
"Ha! That song gets me all the time Kirsty!"
"Yeah, me to Brian!" the girl replied to the boy as they both laughed and the song still played in the background. Suddenly, Brian noticed something sticking out of Kirsty's bag.
"What's this?" Brian asked as he took it out of her bag and looked at it. It was a book with an old cover on it. Brian's eyes widened and smirked at the book in his hands. "Oh wow, let's just have a little preview…" he said as he was about to open the book. Suddenly, Kirsty ran up and hit him on the head. "Ouch!"
"That's mine!" she yelled as she snatched the book back and then walked to the other side of the room.
"Ouch," Brian moaned as he rubbed his head and then walked over and sat near her.
"So how are they coming?"
"They're okay, but I just can't think of a yugioh character for this guy…" Kirsty said, as she looked though her book.
"What guy? What's he like?"
"Well…his name is the Punisher and according to this," she said as she read the information sheet in front of her. "And…whoa, he's got a lot of guns!"
"Sounds like my kind of guy!" Brian replied. "Maybe he should be me!" Brian joked as Kirsty laughed.
"Yeah, that's rich…" Kirsty said as she started writing in her book. "Brian Berg stood wearing his white skull T-shirt and many, many weapons in hand. "Call me the Punisher," he said," Kirsty read out load as she wrote.
"Ha, ha, very funny," Brian replied as he noticed the song was still playing. Kirsty was about to pick up her rubber to rub the sentence just written out, but then Brian started singing again. "All of this time I can't believe I couldn't see…"
-End Flashback-
"Kept in the dark," Brian weakly sang. "But…"
Suddenly, before Brian could finish, his eyes closed and his body went limp.
"Brian?" Kirsty said as she shake him a little, but no response. "BRIAN!"