Sora lies in bed at the infirmary with a sour expression on his face as Riku chastises him for letting his guard down.

"Be honest..."

Riku leans in and whispers so that Aqua doesn't hear.

"...You were distracted by her...water balloons, weren't you?"

Sora looked appalled by the insinuation as his face turned bright red.

"N-NO! I wasn't even looking!"

Lea raised an eyebrow; unconvinced as Aqua just looked confused as she whispered to Lea.

"What are they talking about?"

Lea coughs.

"Uh...Hey! I think there's someone at the door! I'll go see who it is."

Hitting the emergency escape to the conversation; Lea opens the door just before Erza could knock. Erza was impressed with his awareness.

"Amazing. How did you know I was coming?"

Lea gets a smug look on his face.

"I'm just that good. But regardless of my amazing response time... What are you doing here?"

Erza reaches further into the hall to pull an ashamed Juvia out of hiding.

"I believe we owe you and your friend an apology."

The two girls enter the infirmary as Riku eyes them up.

"And you are?"

"Erza Scarlet. I'm a member of Fairy Tail. We're here to apologize for the way we treated you."

Befuddled; Sora tried to wrap his head around her actions.

"Juvia I understand. But why are you here? You didn't do anything to me."

Erza answered him clearly and concisely.

"We are a guild. A family. We share in our shortcoming and mistakes. And if someone is wronged by one of us...they are wronged by ALL of us."

Taken aback by her forwardness and commitment to honor; Sora couldn't respond. But his attention wandered over to Juvia silently standing off to the side as if she wanted to retreat so far inward that she'd implode.

Erza; not reading the room as usual; just walks up behind her and slaps her butt to get her to get on with it as Juvia squeaks from the shock. She gets the picture and steps closer to Sora's bed.

"...How's your stomach?"

Erza cringes at Juvia's awkwardness at dancing around the subject, but Sora just smiles warmly.

"Not bad. That was a good punch though. You're a lot stronger than you look."

Erza couldn't believe how easily he made Juvia's tension just melt away with a smile and few words as she got more comfortable and got a little closer.

"Thank you. Juvia had been training a lot recently."

Sora sat up more in his bed.

"It shows."

Riku tried to keep them on track.

"Well, if you hit him a few inches lower...I don't think he would've forgiven you so easily."

Aqua grabbed him by the ear and led him and Lea out of the room.

"Ow! Hey! That hurts, Aqua!"

As she closed the door behind her; leaving the girls alone to apologize, Juvia wondered if Riku meant that last part.

"You...forgive, Juvia? ...So easily?"

"Of course. It was my fault. I overstepped. I gotta learn when to keep my mouth shut."

Erza felt the lightest form of deju vu from that. But Juvia shook her head.

"No. Juvia crossed the line. Juvia acted dishonorably and is deeply ashamed. Even if you forgive her, Juvia must do something to make it up to you."

Realizing she wasn't gonna let this go until her conscience was satisfied; he quickly thought of something.

"Um...Ice cream. A bunch of it."

Reinvigorated; Juvia pumped her arms in excitement.

"Right away! Juvia will get you so much ice cream you won't be able to stand up for a week."

She rushed out of the infirmary, leaving Erza behind.

After an awkward silence, Sora opened his mouth to speak, but Erza beat him to the punch.

"I'll be honest. I didn't JUST come here to apologize. I came to ask some questions."

He adjusted himself in preparation.

"About what?"

"Your magic. Keyblade. At first I thought it was like my own Re-quip magic. But something is clearly different."

Sora is caught off guard and tries to come up with a way to skirt around the question.

"Oh. Uh...Why do you wanna know?"

She answers bluntly.

"If it is a form of Re-quip magic. I'd like to learn it. Would you be willing to teach me?"

"What?! Me?! Ow!"

His overexertion during his reaction caused him to cramp up from his sore abdomen as Erza quickly grabs his shoulder and gently helps him lie back down.

"Oof. That pink haired old lady is not gonna be happy with me moving around like this."

"You mean Miss Polyussica. Yeah. I would recommend your refrain from angering her as much as possible."

As she lets him down, she gets a good look at the the burn from Juvia's attack and wonders why Sora was so readily willing to forgive her.

"What did you say to Juvia that got her so riled up in the first place?"

He shrugged.

"...You got a few minutes?"

She pulled up a chair to prepare for his story.

Meanwhile; in the arena outside, preparation for the day 2 event was underway as the teams were picking out who would represent them in the game. Aqua was concerned that Sora wouldn't recover in time to be ready, so they'd have to pick someone else to go up for them.

"Based on the name alone. I'm sure Sora would've loved to play this game."

Terra reads the crowds excitement.

"Sounds like it's an old favorite of the audience."

Lea mentally kicks himself as he realizes the missed opportunity.

"Dang it! Those Fairy Tail guys picked Natsu to go up. I missed my chance to show him up."

Riku crossed his arms as he locked eyes with Natsu.

"Don't worry. I'll take home the win for you AND Sora."

Lea patted Riku on the back reassuringly.

"Yeah. But if you're avenging Sora, wouldn't going against Juvia be more fitting?"

Riku's game face was messed up by a cough.

"Uh...yeah. But...She already apologized, so that wouldn't be good form."

"Uh huh. And good thing too. We wouldn't want her to...'distract' you, right?"

His sarcasm was hardly subtle as Aqua scowls at the two of them and Riku puts his hand over Lea's mouth.

"Shh! I never said that!"

Doing his best to diffuse the conversation before it blew out of proportion; Terra drew their attention back to the matter at hand.

"Still though. They aren't gonna tell us the rules for the game until we pick our candidates? Isn't that a little unfair for those who've played before?"

Aqua gave Lea and Riku the 'I'm watching you' gesture before exiting babysitting mode and returning to team leader mode.

"Apparently, the rules are a bit different this time around, so it doesn't really matter. But what kind of crazy game must this be for it to be called...Pandamonium?"