Back at the ski-resort, Professor Nova was sitting outside the building, holding a cup of hot cocoa in her hands. She was looking up at the cloudy sky, seeing nothing but snow coming down from them. But just as she was sitting there, feeling bored, ends up getting a shocking discovery happen above the ski-resort.

The vortex that Petal and Pine-Cone opened above the trees, as the two mentioned elves flew out of the portal. Petal landed face-first into the snowy ground below, and Pine-Cone next to her. The two stood up off of the ground, and then looks over to the ski-lodge building that Nova was sitting at. Professor Nova took notice of the two elves that have came out of the vortex, just as the portal disappeared.

Nova ran over to the two elves, just as they were getting up from the ground. She ran, helping the two onto their feet, in hopes that they are okay. Petal crushes herself off, noticing that there was a human coming over to them.

"I don't think..." Petal said, before brushing herself again. "...Me and Pine-Cone are here to find a friend of ours around here. I assume that he must be in this part of the world. If you saw anything, you haven't seen anything."

"Are you elves just like..." Nova asked, rather quickly, and surprised by what she just saw.

"Elves?! You know about elves?!" Pine-Cone asked her. "How did you even know before we even introduced ourselves?"

"Isn't it obvious?" Nova points to Pine-Cone's ear, showing it to be just as pointed like Leaf's ears were. "...I seen an elf at the ski-resort days ago. You must be his friends, aside from my nephew and his girlfriend."

"You mentioned an elf came to this...location...does he have messy gray hair, with a green hat? He never wears a shirt under his jacket? Does that ring any bells?" Petal asked the older woman. "Me and Pine-Cone are trying to find him, because we're protectors of nature. I know us elves are suppose to be keeping these things to ourselves, but this is really all I can say, also because it's urgent for me and my friend to find Leaf and bring him back." Nova seemed a little concern for her nephew if he were to end up in trouble with these elves if he is found by them.

"I did say my nephew was actually friends with Leaf, as well as his girlfriend." Petal blinked a couple times, before looking at the girl again.

"Uh...by girlfriend, does Leaf have one now, or do you mean your nephew?"

"My nephew is dating. Leaf doesn't seem to have any sort of girlfriend with him when he came to the ski-resort. Or was with James, I mean." Nova points to the road out to the forest. "They should be in the next town, or heading back to America right now. I don't exactly know where they are at the moment in this part of the world." Petal looks down, shaking her head.

"Great, I thought that you meant..." Petal shook her head, not wanting to reveal her crush on Leaf to a strange just yet. "...Nevermind. Listen, I already said that it's urgent for us to be getting Leaf back to the Forest of the Elves, considering your nephew and his girlfriend are probably going to be who we are looking for, do you mind telling us what they look like?"

"My nephew has short black hair and a black jacket, while his girlfriend has long black hair with a dark blue beret on her head. They should be driving a dark blue car right now."

"A car? Never heard of that." Pine-Cone said.

"Oh, those things shouldn't be too hard to find. They are pretty much everywhere. Just find a giant thing on the road with wheels." Nova points to a car that was literately in the parking lot of the ski-resort. "They looks like this."

Pine-Cone walks up to the car, tapping the hood of the vehicle, hoping that it wasn't a threat to themselves. Once he taps the hood of the car, never happens to him. He took a sigh, before he turns to Petal, giving her a thumbs up. Petal shook her head, before facing Nova again.

"Thank you, and...don't worry about us punishing you or your nephew for having Leaf around him. We won't do anything about that." Petal said, bowing her head, before walking off to the street. "Come on Pine-Cone, we got to go find Leaf now." Nova nods her head.

"Of course, of course." Nova said.

As Petal and Pine-Cone headed down the road, Nova headed inside of the ski-resort so that she can talk to James on the phone. She didn't want to have Petal and her friend go to him without a warning.


Sitting in the car, it was almost nighttime while James was driving his group back to town. It was pretty silent in the car as they were driving along the dark road ahead of them. There was a motel coming their way, so that was going to be where the group was going to stop and sleep at for the night.

Leaf was just looking out the window, keeping his eyes out there, not looking away from the window as he was sitting there. Makoto kept her eyes on him as she was sitting next to him. She didn't say a word to Leaf after what she had asked him. She wanted to know Leaf a little bit more after he had saved her back in the cave. She sat there silently, before looking forward.

James drove, until he finally found the motel that he had found along this road. He pulls his car up to the parking lot, and he and Jenny got out of the car. Leaf and Makoto soon left the car as well, however, the robot girl stopped in her tracks, wanting to talk to Leaf. The elf looks behind himself, noticing Makoto was behind him.

"Leaf, you didn't say a simple thing after what I just asked you." Makoto said to him. "Do you mind explaining why you didn't say anything during the entire car ride?"

"Sorry about that..." Leaf turns himself around, facing the girl now. "...I am pretty much in a dark place right now when it comes to relationships. I never had a girlfriend, nor did I ever really thought about dating, like...at all. Call it me lying there, but...it's the truth." Makoto looks down. "I don't mean to sound like an asshole, Makoto...I just...felt like it was crazy that I needed to hear something that I was...just asked that, despite what I'm going through..."

"What are you going through?"

"I...I felt like I was in love, but..."

Leaf looks up at the night sky, not so sure how to tell Makoto about Petal being a person that he also had a crush on. He rubs his forehead, feeling stressed out that he had to be honest with somebody like her. He didn't bring up Petal in awhile now, and how he always had his heart and mind set on her when it came to being in love, but now he has to mention her. He thought he should've brought it up to James back at the ski-lodge when he and James talked before. He probably should have mentioned it back there, the more he thought about it.

Taking one more deep sigh, Leaf spoke. "It's just that...I kind of had a crush before...in my forest..." Leaf confesses to her. "I never said anything about this before because that is something that I don't want to get into. The Forest of the Elves is full of pricks, and...my crush is on their side when I try to say that...the humans are not bad people. That's there's hope that they are friendly people out here." The elf sat down on the hood of James's car again, before Makoto walked over to him. "I mean...Preston and Esma, and a couple more people seem to be pretty much terrible, as James says it...but...there's a part of me that has hope, while they are just...not wanting to take a chance on you guys. James and Jenny are nice. I don't see why they'd see the humans as terrible." Makoto walks over to Leaf, sitting next to him. "You know, I didn't even tell James about Petal, my crush."

"Why didn't you tell him?" Makoto asked him.

"Because I suck at expressing my emotions to other people. That's why."

"Well, you're expressing them to me, correct?" Leaf nods his head.

"Well, you're the first person to ask about my feelings, you know?" Makoto chuckles again, scooting closer to Leaf, placing a hand on his hand. "I feel better talking to you, Makoto. Thanks for this talk."

Makoto giggles once again, before Leaf kept his eyes on the sky above him. The robot girl waited a moment for two, before deciding to kiss Leaf on the cheek. The elf was caught off-guard by what Makoto just did. He blinked a couple times, before Makoto blushed.

James and Jenny finally got the two pairs two rooms here in the motel. James and Leaf had one room, Jenny and Makoto had another. Once that was settled on, the four of them went to the two different rooms, that were right next to each other.

Still rubbing his cheek, Leaf stood there in front of his motel room, just as James walked in there. He looks over to the room that Jenny and Makoto were walking into, as the robot girl was still standing by the door. Makoto looks at the elf, as Leaf was looking back at her. She waves at him, smiling softy, and blushing, before walking in the motel room. Leaf proceeded to walk into his own motel room.


Meanwhile...

Back in Preston's house...

Beebee was still enjoying her time by herself. She was in the kitchen of Preston's house, with the radio, playing the song 'Wannabe' by the Spice Girls playing loudly through the living room. She was taking out a couple carrots from the fridge for her rabbit friends, as she was singing the song happily to herself.

Little did she know, Preston and Esma were both in the house, just as she got the carrots for the rabbits. As she closed the door, Preston and Esma stood by the front door, silently, with their arms crossed, staring at Beebee with blank expressions. They had a feeling that this would be happening while they were gone from the house.

"Beebee, didn't you and I talk about you bringing rabbits into my house?" Preston asked. Beebee stood there, looking left and right.

"There are no rabbits here." Beebee said. "...And if there were, they wouldn't break a single thing in this house."

Preston still stared at his girlfriend, as rabbits were literately coming out of the nearby furniture. From the couch, to the kitchen cabinets, to even the basement of this house. Rabbits were fleeing the house through the front door, as Preston and Esma were unfazed by the fact there was a horde of rabbits passing by them at the moment.

After all of the rabbits were gone, Preston shook his head, before sighing. Beebee awkwardly pressed the button on the radio, turning it off. Then Preston started to speak.

"Right...well...rabbits aside..." Preston mutters, before talking normally. "...It turns out we need you for something. It's vital we have you join along for what me and Esma are planning to do."

"What is it, Prezzy-Wezzy?" Beebee asked.

"It turns out, while me and Esma were out collecting the rare metal that we need for our new Nightmare Crown, it turns out...James, Jenny, and Leaf, with the help of another girl have came and attacked us out of it." Preston places his hands behind his back. "...Also, I need to inform you that Leaf, the boy with the hat that's all of the sudden friends with James...is an elf. We saw magic used right before our very eyes...and we had no idea until he raised his hand to defend his friends." Preston looks over to Esma. "Isn't that right?"

"It is." Esma said. "As much as it annoys me to have me even be around you...I believe it's only best we have you join along..."

"Why should I help you, you meanie?" Beebee asked.

"Because..." Esma closes her eyes for a couple moments, before opening them again. "Because Preston can't do this without you, alright? He...said constantly to me, that he was wanting you to join and help us out, because he thinks that your love might actually give him a little more confidence." Esma glared at the rabbit queen now. "...Is that enough for you to help us out?"

"Well..."

"Try to talk circles around me, I may as well give you an eyepatch...just like my last colleague..." Beebee stared at Esma, completely terrified by that being said.

"Okay, I'll join!" Beebee said, quickly.

"Grand." Preston said, smiling. "I'll assure you sweetheart, that you will not be regretting this one bit." Preston then steps out of his house, with Esma and Beebee soon following him.

"I hope I'm not going to regret bringing her." Esma mutters, bitterly, glaring at Beebee. "We are already facing problems between you and I, no need to add another one." Beebee blinked a couple times, before nodding her head, and following the two to the car.