Author's notes: Hey, sorry I haven't updated in a while for this! Darn college work! Which then lead to writers block…anyway, I'm back updating for this now, I hope you enjoy.

My Heroes: A Hero's Journey
Chapter 24: Awakening

Meanwhile, across town, a girl laid on her hospital bed motionless. A breathing mask over her face and a hocked up to a couple machines to keep her alive.

This girl had short black hair and a black eye patch over one of her closed eyes.

Suddenly, the life support machine started to beep as her hand moved a little and her remaining eye began to squint…

Kirsty quietly hummed a song to herself as she sat alone working on something. Suddenly stopped humming and looked up from what she was doing as she stood in the lab sorting out some equipment.

"Can it be?" she mumbled under her breath, but then shock her head. "Na, can't be." she said before continuing what she was doing as the hummed song began to turn into words she quietly sang to herself.

"We're chilling out with the crew in the sch…" Kirsty sang, but suddenly an explosion was heard, which shock the whole building and knocking her of balance. "Whoa!" she responded as she fell onto her knees. Kirsty then sighed angrily before getting back up and leaving the lab. "Not again!"

As she walked out the lab door, turned left and then turned a few corners until she came to a long corridor with a red carpet, creamy coloured walls and with light brown/light yellow doors along it. But at the end of the corridor, she could see a few people crowded around watching something. Kirsty let out another sigh as she closed her eyes and disappeared, but then she reappeared again right behind the crowd of heroes.

"What's going on here?" she asked.

"Joey and Valon are fighting…again!" Tristan replied as he watched Joey and Valon roll around on the floor fighting off each other.

"What is it this time?"

"Well, apparently these two fools want to be in the room next to Mai," Bakura replied. "But there's only one room left that right next to hers."

"Oh."

"Hey back off! I got here first!" Valon yelled as he had Joey pinned to the floor. But Joey suddenly, managed to turn around and pin Valon to the floor.

"No way! I got here first ice-boy!"

"Okay, there is only one way to settle this," Valon said as he stood up along with Joey.

"You're right," Joey replied as he and Valon glared each other. But suddenly they rinsed their fists as the audience braced themselves for a fight.

"Rock, paper, scissors!" they both yelled as the others immediately fell down backwards anime style as they continued chanting. Suddenly, they both stopped as Joey had his hand wide open and Valon still had his hand still closed up, but his fist was covered in a ice block.

"What's that!" Joey yelled.

"Iceberg," Valon replied. "Nothing beats that!"

"Oh yeah? How about fire! Flame on!" Joey said as his opened out hand suddenly ignited into flames and melted the ice right off and Valon's hand caught fire.

"Aaaahhhh!" Valon screamed as he immediately ran around with his hand of fire. "Hot! Hot! Hot!"

"Ha, ha! Well, it's been a pleasure playing with you," Joey said, as he was about to go into his new room. "But now…Ouch!" Suddenly, Joey had knocked into the room's, now shut, door. "What the?" he yelled before seeing the sign hanging on the door which said, 'Mana's Room'. "MANA!" Joey screamed from the top of his lungs.

Meanwhile, Kirsty just shock her head at them and disappeared again.

Tea came out of the medical room, looking very worried about something. Suddenly, she immediately looked up, sensing something or someone and twirled around to see Kirsty leant up against the wall behind her.

"Oh, it's you Kirsty," Tea said as she saw her.

"The one and only!" Kirsty replied before she walked up to her. "How's Brian doing?"

"Great, he's made a full recovery…although."

"What?"

"He keeps on insisting that I give him a complete physical in make sure!" Tea said as both girls started to laugh.

"Yep, sounds like he's back to normal!" Kirsty replied as she glared through the clear glass front wall of the medical room at the other patient in there. "How's he doing?" she asked as Tea shock her head.

"It's not looking good, it's already gone deep down into his blood stream and I'll take some really advanced medication to cure him now, which is the one thing we don't have here," Tea said, before an idea suddenly popped into her head. "Hey, why don't you materialise some? I mean, if you can bring the X-Jet here, why not this?" Tea asked, but Kirsty just stood there and shock her head.

"I'm sorry, I can't," she replied sadly. "With the jet, I knew what it was, I could easily focus on it…but with this, it's different."

"It's okay, I should know more than most people about the limits of powers," Tea said as Kirsty looked up and nodded at her.

"Although…" Kirsty began.

"What?"

"There is a hospital across town, maybe you can find what you need there."

"Really? That's great!"

"I would prefer it if you didn't go by yourself though, this is still Kyra's world as much as mine."

"Of course," Tea replied as she nodded back at her.

"Great, go round up your group and meet me in the main hall," Kirsty said before Tea agreed and ran off to find her group. Meanwhile, Kirsty turned around and walked on as she continued softly mumbling the song under her breath from earlier. "From tough times, to rough times, we'll make it all together, but right now, lets go..." she sung.

Suddenly, across town…

Two strange orbs of light appeared in the middle of the town centre as they started to shape into human form. Once they had finally taken full form, the lights died down to reveal two people standing there. They both opened their eyes at the same time and looked at each other.

"Oh no! Not you again!" the first one said.

"Well hello to you to!" the second one replied.