Wordsmith 3

Brutus picked up Emma and instead of placing her into the carriage he let her climb in herself. There was room for 6 people in the back, and it now had 4 people. Brutus went back to his lower half that was severed in the fight and took whatever he could from it. He used clean to make everything look better and then used catch fire to burn his lower half. Brutus left the orcs how they were. Burning the corpse was a sacred ritual from his home world, from his first life, and these monsters did not deserve it. Emma tried talking to Arnold, Beth, and Charles on the way down the mountain, but they didn't say anything back. They still could not understand what they saw. Emma had arrived hours after it happened, so she could have no idea what otherworldly horror they saw. It was late at night when Brutus stopped. In case of reinforcements he wanted to be far from the mountain. Brutus made a few beds with commands and some bowls of high quality soup. He then said, no nobody in particular, that he was going on a walk and their would be confortable beds and hot soup for them when they left the carriage. He told them not to come looking for him, and he would not come back until the sun had risen for an hour. He then told Emma to wait with the others and left. Brutus had spent 10 years of his life alone, sleeping by himself in a cold and dark place was nothing special. He wasn't able to save his friends and now the kids in the orphanage were dead because of him. In addition, his only friends in the whole world hated him. They would probably tell Emma what happened and then she would make it seem like it was not a big deal, but there would always be something in Arnold, Beth, and Charles telling them Brutus was not of this world. Which was technically true. There is going to be some disaster only he will be able to solve, or something has been going on in the world for as long as history was recorded that he must fix. Either way, he did not need friends to help him through. He only needed more power. Brutus looked at a bird in the sky against the radiance of the moon. FALL. Brutus yelled his command with deadly force. If there was a person nearby, and if he had not ran at least a mile from were the children were, it would make anyone piss their pants. From the sky, the bird fell and hit a tree and continued to fall until it hit the ground. The hardest to learn secret to wordsmithing, using wordsmithing on living creatures. It had to be done with a will strong enough to overpower the creature's will. Birds were one of the hardest to do this with. Essentially, the more hope and freedom a living creature has, the more resistance it will have to a wordsmith. Brutus did not dare use this technique near humans because it was strictly forbidden. Brutus learned in his travels of a king who used wordsmithing on human to make them his slaves, and in return the humans gave him control of everything. Things were well for a little bit, but once the king started to get old and died, all hell broke lose. Nobody else knew how to use wordsmithing on living things, so wordsmiths were not outright targeted for annihilation, but they were banned from ever holding any political office ever if they had anything over low ability to use it. The kingdom collapsed creating several smaller countries with the center one having the most wordsmiths living in it. Brutus had been keeping a few of his abilities secret from the children, including this forbidden technique, but they had just seen the worst of them all. Brutus came back to the carriage only after the sun was up from 2 hours. They might need a little more time. Sure enough when he got back, all 4 of them were in the back of the carriage. Brutus returned the beds to the earth and the soup bowls too, then got back into the driver seat and told the horses to go. He had plenty of money, and time was also something he had a lot of in the long run. Part of his regeneration was a little perk called immortality. Brutus would live until the age of 28 and then his regeneration would stop. He could live as a 28 year old indefinitely, or be killed the next day by a sword. It was because of this that Brutus imposed a soft cap on how long it could take to accomplish his task as set by Winrar, the god he was an apostle to. Brutus came to a large ravine in a mountain and pulled the carriage up to it. He got out and walked around to the back. He spoke to them. He gave them choices. 1, he could leave everything he had with him in the carriage and jump into the ravine, and they knew that this would overall be only a minor set back for him, or 2, they keep going like they were before the mountain town. Emma said something but Brutus quite her. This was only for the other 3. After a pause of about 20 minutes Charles and Beth were both looking at Arnold. He had been with Brutus the longest. Arnold remembered what Brutus had told him the first day they met. That he would never have that much power in his entire life. What he didn't say was the power he showed was not even a fraction of his true power. Brutus was still many times stronger than that, and yet he was traveling the country with a 6 year old kid. He provided everything for him and never got anything in return, but did he need anything in return? No matter how badly Arnold messed something up, Brutus's wordsmithing was strong enough to undo it, and if he was hurt, he could use that demon power again. Brutus had nothing to gain and nothing to lose bringing them along. In the end, all he knew about Brutus was that he was stronger than anyone alive, probably anyone in history. Arnold made up his mind. He might not have liked what he saw, but nothing had actually changed. He had even seen Brutus kill 8 people in just a moment with just a sword. Arnold wanted to keep going. Beth and Charles both agreed after him that they should continue like nothing happened. So they did.

It was just a few more days until they stopped in a large city on the other side of the mountain range. This was currently the largest city they had been to. Fritz and Schultz were moved somewhere to rest during the their stay in the city, and they would be resting for quite a while. Emma was the daughter to one of the wordsmiths who was given up by her mother just after birth and then she fled the town. The wordsmiths were evil people in that town, and they worked together with the orcs to oppress the people and send tools for war to a far away land. Emma was enjoying riches she never thought possible. Brutus had taken two three rooms at the best hotel in the city. One for Arnold and Charles, One for Beth and Emma, and one for himself. He had plenty of money and was going to find some more work while in the city. Brutus made some noble looking cloths for himself and went into town looking for something to do. If he could find a construction project it would be great. As he walked down the street, Brutus was silently using Clean on many things. Brutus tried going to blacksmiths to refine their materials, but here in the large city they had their materials shipped to them already refined. There just wasn't enough room in the city to have a smelter. Brutus offered to make some things out of metal, but the shops in the city already had enough of every object. Brutus then went to the local lords mansion. He would surely find a bounty here. When Brutus went inside he immediately went to the notice board. There, people would put up jobs that they needed done. Most could be done by a wordsmith or team of wordsmiths, but they paid low. Brutus was only interested in high paying jobs only possible with high ability wordsmiths. Brutus could hear someone crying though. Brutus looked around but he did not see anything. Then he heard a slap and more crying. Brutus had better hearing than most people, but it was nothing super-human, so he could not use echolocation to find were it was coming from. Brutus instead picked up a leaf from the ground. Locate Nearby Crying. Brutus released the leaf and it suddenly went towards a brick building. There was a large crack in the wall which the sound must be leaking though. Unfortunately for Brutus he did not know how to get inside the building. Brutus tried listening in on what was happening. A made was being punished for not properly doing something. No, their daughter had done something wrong and they were being punished for not training them well enough. This was really non of his business, but Brutus stepped in anyways. Separate. A rectangle outline for a door appeared in the wall. Brutus did not know how much space was on the other side of the wall so he made a handle for it and pulled it down towards himself. Untie. There was a maid tied to a chair being whipped. Brutus had seen this before in other worlds, and nothing good could ever come from it. Brutus told the woman to get her daughter and meet him at the entrance to the mansion. The noble tried to stop Brutus but before he could do anything Brutus used another command, Raise Wall, and with it the stone at the nobles feet rose up to the height of his head blocking his sight. Crumble. The noble used this command and a small amount of the wall in front of him on two sides turned to dust. He was then able to kick down the wall. Brutus told the noble he did not deserve to have these people as servants and he would be taking them with him. The noble objected and summoned his guards. Raise Wall, Harden, Close, Harden. Brutus used these command to fully encase the noble. It would take the strength of several men to open the stone wall with his harden on it. It was still possible though, and he might run out of air if not careful. Outside Brutus met with the maid who had already gotten her daughter. Brutus told them to closely follow him. Brutus changed the clothing on the maid and her daughter to be something more noble like and told her to look confident. She tried to and they walked out from the mansion without issue. They went to the hotel Brutus was in and he gave them his room. He told them not to leave the room for anything and that he would be back in a few hours. Brutus went back to the mansion. There were several people trying to open the rock walls Brutus had made. Brutus used Crumble on them and they fell. This showed the huge difference of their powers. Brutus then offered to buy the maid and her daughter from him. The noble requested 1,000,000 coins. She was a worthless maid and the daughter was bound to be the same thing. Brutus clarified that he would be doing a wordsmithing task. Brutus told the noble that he was the strongest wordsmith in existence and nothing was too difficult for him. The noble laughed and asked him to re-shingle his roof. Brutus went outside to look at the shingles. According to the noble, those shingles were make from a special material only available in the far east. Brutus looked at them one more time and asked the noble to confirm that, with two guards as witness, if he can reshingle the who roof he can have both women? The noble accepted and Brutus put both hands forward and make a rectangle shape. Brutus then stopped and asked where the shingles were at that were going to be placed on the roof, the the noble told him probably the far east. The noble and a few other people who had gathered laughed at this. They knew it was impossible create materials with wordsmithing. Brutus told him it wasn't a problem and put his hands back up. Reshingle With Copies Of Original Shingles. There were popping sounds being heard and clouds of smoke as thousands of shingles popped off from the roof. They were clearly there for dozens of years and even those many were broke, were not being replaced by how expensive they were to get. The old shingles slid down the roof as new perfect condition shingles replaced them. Brutus felt this act heavy on his strength. Sure he could have used something like become new shingles, but using the reshingle word was more important in this situation. Brutus turned to the noble with visible drops of sweat on his face and told him their transaction was complete. Brutus turned around and left the mansion. The noble was still looking at the roof as people came around to tell him what happened, that many hundreds of tiles just came sliding from the roof. They were all surprised to hear it was a wordsmith replacing the tiles. Brutus went back to the hotel. The maid and her daughter were still in the room, but it had only been a few hours. Brutus told them his name and what he was doing, and that if they wanted they could travel with him. The woman told him she was kidnapped from a country to the south a few years ago and made a slave maid for the noble in the mansion. She was pregnant at the time and she was fortunate she was allowed to keep her daughter. For the longest time Brutus did not know where he was going, but this would be a goal now. Take the maid and her daughter back home. Brutus told her that he was willing to escort her back to her village along with her daughter. The maid thanked Brutus and he left. She asked him were he was going and he said to get another room. It was a surprise that he did not want them to stay in the same room, and things like that were not uncommon in the nobles mansion. Brutus moved the maid and her daughter to a different room and they stayed in the large city 2 and a half weeks longer until Brutus was approached by some guards. They were taking him to jail for theft of property. Brutus argued against it, but he was hit on the head with the flat side of their spear and he felt dissy. A normal person would fall to the ground after such a hit, but not him. Unfortunately, he could not take the second hit and was out. When Brutus woke up he was in a dungeon with his hands bound behind his back. Brutus could feel it was wordsmith resistant. Brutus looked around at the bars and they too looked wordsmith resistant. Once again Brutus was going to have to remove his hands. But when he tried to stand his feet were also stuck. Looks like they will have to go too. Brutus prepared himself for the wave of pain about to home to him. Burst. A large section of Brutus arms had blown off. He was free from the restraints, but it would take about 5 minutes to heal. Then he looked at the feet restraints. Burst. Brutus laid on his back while he waited for his arms and legs to regrow. It was surely an ugly sight, and for half a body to be remade it must have taken half an hour at the least. 10 minutes later Brutus had his arms and legs back and with a full range of motion. Brutus pointed at the wall next to him. Crumble. The wall did not crumble but instead Brutus received a large amount of rebound. Brutus's entire body was now very bloody as he rethought his options. He looked at the ground and thought it was a good enough chance. Lower. The floor moved down a little bit and then stopped. He was really stuck. Brutus covered his hands and feet and waited for someone to arrive. Someone like a prison guard came over and looked into Brutus's cell. They saw his hands and feet detached from his body and laughed at him. Brutus then stood up which got the guards attention as he still had his hands and feet and then Brutus yelled at him. UNLOCK THE DOOR. The guard got an empty look on his face as he pulled a key from his pocket and unlocked the door to Brutus's cage. Brutus then punched the guard on the forehead. The guard fell like a sack of rocks. Brutus picked up the keys and looked in the other cells. He found Arnold and Charles in a cell, and then Beth and Emma in another. Brutus unlocked their cells and told them to follow him closely. They heard him yell earlier and did what he said. Brutus did not see the maid or her daughter so he went to find them with the children following him. Brutus changed the clothes everyone was wearing to look more elegant and they walked calmly from the dungeon. Though only Brutus was calm. Brutus walked up to a guard. TELL ME WHERE THE MAID AND HER DAUGHTER ARE. The guard next to him and a few people in the court yard were shocked at someone yelling so loud at another person, a guard non the less. The guard got the same empty look and told Brutus to look inside the mansion of the third floor 2nd room on the left. Brutus told the children to follow him and he turned back to the guards. GO TO SLEEP. Both guards fell over and were instantly asleep. Brutus walked with the children into the mansion inside while being stared at in all directions. A wordsmith using forbidden techniques. He must really want to die. Brutus would be hunted by the law from now on, but he did not care. Brutus went to the room he was told about and kicked open the door. Both the maid and her daughter were in the room. Brutus picked up something from the ground. Become Sword. Harden. Brutus then hit the cuffs the maid and her daughter had and told them to leave with him. Brutus was being followed by 6 people as he walked from the mansion. Outside the mansion, there were 40 guards looking at him and pointing their spears. Brutus looked around. Become Mud. All 40 of the guards fell into the mud until they could not be seen anymore. Brutus walked with his followers behind him in a straight line. Harden. The mud solidified in the path he was walking, the guards were still trying to get out from the mud. Brutus and the children and the maid and her daughter went back to the hotel to get their things and left the city after buying a large amount of food. It was slowly becoming known that a wordsmith followed by a group was children was using live wordsmithing. Another one of Brutus's powers were let slip today. The maid's name was Daisy and her daughter's was Haley.

They stayed on the road going south for quite some time while Brutus explained why he had 4 children smaller than himself with him. He was training them to be wordsmiths, and one to be a swordsman, but in the current situation their training was on hold. He would be willing to teach the woman and her daughter how to wordsmith, or a combat ability if they wished. Daisy and Haley both declined. They could not use wordsmithing in their country, and neither of them was meant to be a warrior. They would help out as much as they could until they were back to their village. Daisy and Haley did not know very much about wordsmiths, so when they saw him turn a courtyard's floor into mud and even the previous night make a comfortable bed from a pile of sticks they thought he was just a strong wordsmith. Eventually Beth told Daisy and Haley that Brutus was not just a strong wordsmith. He was the best. There was nothing he couldn't do, and he constantly pushed the limits set by god. Then Charles spoke up and said he was closest thing to the God of War that anyone could become. Daisy and Haley were shocked though. How could his followers talk about him like that, and when they escaped, he didn't hurt a single person. Sure they got dirty in the mud, but he could have solidified it with them still inside. Daisy told him she didn't think he was too bad and Haley then for the first time spoke, agreeing with her mother. Brutus made a funny face telling them to stop with the flattery and Haley laughed. Arnold and Beth both had to hold back laughter as well. They slept outside the carriage for the night on the beds Brutus made next to the fire he also made. They ate food that he cooked and prepared for him to take them further south the next day. Emma had not taste the food Brutus can summon, so she did not know how bad a cook he was compared to what he could produce. She hoped Daisy and Haley would stay with them and take over cooking. Haley was 3 years old and followed her mother everywhere. She tried to help with things but most of the time ended up dropping things and breaking them. It was not a problem though, and just like the analysis from Arnold earlier, Brutus could fix everything with his wordsmithing. Taking Daisy and Haley along would just be a minor inconvenience. The next day while they were moving down the road, Brutus asked to have Haley come to the second driver seat next to him. She did not want to go at first but was urged by her mother. Haley climbed over and into the seat and looked at Brutus. She was scared because she was away from her mother, not because of Brutus. Brutus knew this, so everything was fine. Brutus talked to Haley in a voice that could not be heard over the sounds of the carriage moving. Brutus closed the curtain separating the driver from the passengers, but the children in the back reasured Daisy that Brutus was not going to do anything funny. He was only a 15 year old after all. This was the first time Daisy had heard of Brutus's age and it shocked her a little. Her husband who was the manliest man she knew was still a brat when he was 15. Brutus was clearly on another level. When they stopped for the night, Brutus helped Haley out from the driver seat and sat with her saying things in her ear the entire time. Nobody got close, and even Arnold and Beth were getting a little creeped out. They ate dinner and Haley separated from Brutus, but once she finished he called her back quickly. Brutus and Haley slept in the same bed that night, which made things not easy at all with Daisy. 15 or not, he was doing something to her daughter. But Charles stopped her. He reminded he that Brutus could do anything. He might not be doing it now, but if he felt inclined, nobody could stop him from doing whatever he wanted. The next day as they prepared to leave Daisy was asking Haley if Brutus anything strange to her. She kept saying that he had not though, and just like Brutus said she was going to wait until they got in the carriage and were on the road for 20 minutes before saying anything. 30 minutes passed and they were on the road for 20 of them. Haley pulled a rock from her pocket and set it down on her leg. The next instant it floated a few inches into the air. Everyone in the back was shocked. Mostly Daisy, she could not wordsmith, Haley's father could not wordsmith. Nobody in their family could wordsmith, but the rock had clearly moved an was now floating. Arnold and Beth were shocked too. Brutus could use wordsmithing to make something move without speaking and without pointing, but for Haley to do it... Not even they could and they had traveled with him for months. Haley spoke. Apparently Brutus told her that she kept dropping things because they wanted to be with the ground and she was just helping them get there. She changed her mind a bit, what if the stone wanted to float in the air, and only she could help it by saying float. This did not explain how she was doing it without pointing or actually saying the word when she was not touching it, but somehow Brutus had taught Haley how to wordsmith in one day. Wordsmithing was a skill that would be useful for someone's entire life, and now Haley could use it in a way that was more practical than many people ever learned. Sure she was not very strong with it, but she was 3 years old. Arnold, Beth and now Haley were junior wordsmiths taught by Brutus. They would never become as powerful as him, and if not for the little bit of brainwashing on Haley she might not have been able to wordsmith, but they would become powerful when next to any other wordsmith. Daisy and Charles were the only ones who could not wordsmith now. Brutus did not call Haley to his side again and Daisy felt relieved that everything he did really was for the best and with good intentions.

Another 2 weeks and the group has arrived in a town. Brutus thinks he might want to get a bigger carriage soon, but he could always wordsmith it into becoming larger if they gained more people. The first thing they did was get baths in a community bath house, and then get something to eat. They would later buy more clothes for Daisy and Haley who only had things Brutus used his wordsmithing on, and then fill there food. They chose to eat at a large diner in the center of the town. They had great meat and everyone could get whatever they wanted. Brutus still had 2,000,000 coins with him, so he wouldn't need to take another job for a few more stops, but he was getting to the point were he could not find any more jobs. Feeding 7 people took quite a bit of coins every time, about 2,500 coins for every meal. Brutus dropped a large amount of cash for each person to use to eat, and when he did he wanted it to be peaceful. In the diner though, it looked like this would not be the case. A group of 4 people and a group of 6 people were arguing in the center of the diner. There were sounds of mugs banging on the table every few seconds and then a worker running up and filling it with beer. Brutus was getting a little tired of their antics, so he pulled a trick on them that he hadn't used in a while. All the glasses of beer exploded and beer flowed from the table onto their laps. They looked in shock at what had just happened and then they all stood up. They yelled for whoever did that to show themselves. Eventually the started picking up people from their tables by the collars and Brutus stood up. Brutus told them he was trying to eat, so he would like it if they left. One of them threw a plate at Brutus which stopped in midair and fell on the ground. Brutus told them maybe they should take it outside. The men grunted and left the diner. Brutus told his followers not to watch. His followers still crowded around the door to get a look at what was going to happen. 10 vs 1. Unfortunately for the 10, Brutus had the strength of 100 people. When the 10 people lined up facing Brutus, Brutus asked them one at a time or all together? They came one at a time at first, but as one punch put them on the ground, after three people they came all together. In a dance of speed and power Brutus hit each one only one time and sent them to the floor. Brutus told them to scram. They did nothing. Brutus yelled this time for them to scram. A few of them pulled out knives and Brutus yelled again. SCRAM. All 10 stopped what they were doing and ran away in random directions. Brutus went back into the diner and sat down at the table and continued to eat. His followers were the first to come back to their seats. Everyone else was scared out of their minds. A living wordsmith had immense power and was able to command 10 people at the same time to run away. He could probably tell someone to kill themselves and they would be able to do nothing. Brutus looked that the table the men were at and pointed to it. Fix. All the mugs reassembled and the chairs straightened. Clean. The beer on the ground and table was now gone. The worker tried to wave his check, but Brutus paid for himself and for the men at the other table. The other table had to pay 12,000 coins. It was amazing as Brutus pulled the coins from the backpack he had on and put them on the table. He and his followers shortly left. They didn't say a word the entire time after Brutus interrupted the men at the table. They were back on speaking terms, but not as easily as before. Right now only Daisy, Haley, and Emma spoke to Brutus like he was their friend. Arnold, Beth, and Charles saw him as more of a teacher who didn't care if you ever learned the material. They would not stay long, they had to get to Daisy's village as soon as possible, though they did not know why. Brutus had not shared much of his past with his followers, just that he had been training for almost his whole life, and left home before he turned 5 years old. Late that night, someone came into Brutus's room. They hovered over him as he slept and three more came in through the window. There were now 4 figures in black in the room. They slowly moved over Brutus and cut his neck with their knives. Blood came gushing out in huge amounts and Brutus was dead. The assassins looked at each other with looks of accomplishment. They actually killed him. That wordsmith that made 10 people flee the village in terror. If he hadn't done that, they would not have found the village or him. As they looked around the room for the backpack that they knew Brutus held millions of coins in, something flew up, and something fell down. The assassin closest to the bed were Brutus was killed was not laying on the floor, his head rolling several feet in front of him. The three remaining assassins looked at Brutus and the wound on his neck had healed. Brutus picked up a lamp from the table next to the bed and threw it at another assassin. It exploded in a fiery blase impossible for such a small lamp, and in addition pieces of it flew into the assassins, forcing them to the ground in pain. Brutus picked up a knife from the floor and shoved it into each assassin. Brutus looked outside and saw around 80 people carrying Arnold, Beth, Charles, Daisy, Emma, and Haley away into a wagon. Brutus jumped from the window onto the ground 13 feet down. It was not a far jump, but it hurt a little. Brutus looked at the people taking his followers and putting them into the wagon. Brutus kicked the ground which sent dirt into the air, and as he did it turned into fire. 10 or so of the attackers went down with that attack. Brutus then picked up a sword that was forming from the ground. He looked at it and it suddenly turned black. His followers were looking at him from inside the wagon with desperate looks on their faces. Brutus walked forward and swung the sword at the attackers. They went down easily. Some were shooting arrows at Brutus, but when Brutus tried to explode them in the air, he received a rebound. He tried to explode 5 arrows at once and the rebound he received was huge. Brutus chest burst apart and threw bits of flesh over the ground. Brutus knelt down for a second and then got back up. As he kept walking into the crowd of attackers, black worms slowly formed in the holes in his chest. The attackers did not stop like the orcs did though, and they kept with the arrows and trying to attack him. Brutus was slowly filling with arrows and was starting to take cuts from their swords, but at this point Brutus had killed over half of them. The wagon began to move away, but just as it started moving a huge wall came in front of the horses pulling it. The holes in his chest had nearly healed and only 15 attackers were left. The attackers threw a bomb at Brutus filled with a strange liquid, and then shot arrows that were on fire at him. Brutus was able to block 3 arrows but the last one hit him and turned him into a walking torch. Brutus's screams woke up quite a few people in the town. Brutus fell to the ground still on fire. The attackers thought they had won again, but just as he had fallen, Brutus got up again, still on fire. Brutus ran forward at the attackers and killed the rest of them. He was still on fire, so he laid down on the ground. The ground suddenly turned into mud and swallowed Brutus. A few seconds later Brutus came out of the mud and cleaned himself off as much as he could. His clothes had burnt almost completely off and he made new ones for himself, then he went to the front of the wagon and saw the driver. Brutus stick his sword out and it extended into the drivers neck, killing him. Brutus walked back towards the inn but collapsed a few steps in. When Brutus woke up the next morning he was still in the street and all the bodies that were around him last night were gone. Even the wagon was gone, but the huge wall was still there. Brutus sent the wall back to the ground and went into the inn. He went into his room and found the corpses of 4 people. Brutus turned them into potted plants and set them to the side. He still had all of his belongings and then went to check his followers. They were still asleep. Brutus left a note in there rooms to meet in his room. Arnold and Charles were the first ones to come. They had both seen the carnage of last night before, so it was not going to change much for them. Brutus was more worried about Daisy and Haley. The mother and daughter came in shortly along with Beth and Emma. Brutus explained to them that he could not die, and the reason Arnold, Charles and Beth were cold with him when they first came to the group was because they had seen that power of his before. Brutus told them about when he was almost 5 years old and his town adults were killed and the children taken to be made slaves in a foreign country. Brutus then told them about how he used the power to explode both of his hands and escape, but after 4 days of not being able to find help he gave up. Everyone understood what kind of life Brutus had lived before his traveling. Arnold thought Brutus had left home to become a great wordsmith, Beth thought he just wanted to make friends, Charles thought he wanted to fight stronger opponents, Emma thought he wanted to help people, and Daisy and Haley thought he was just trying to take care of a bunch of kids who lost their families. They all had the wrong idea. Brutus was out for revenge. Brutus was playing a game of search and destroy with the entire country as his battlefield.