Xena watched Gabrielle beat the warriors sensless with her staff. She then sensed someone behind her, and swung her sword around to block another, in which she hit it so hard that the man lost his balance and fell backwards on the ground. Xena smirked and kicked him in the shins with her left foot, causing him to groan.
Ugh, Gabrielle thought, it's sure been awhile since these men have bathed. She scrunched up her nose while continually hitting two warriors in the stomach, making them weaker with each strike. Once she got them down, the bard looked around to realize that the battle was over with. All the conscious men were running back to where they had come from, leaving the unconscious ones to lie there. Gabrielle sneezed and walked over to Xena.
"Who were they?" she asked.
"Draco's men. You know, raid a village, get their supplies and weapons, of course."
"Draco...figures," Gabrielle mumbled. "So what are we going to do?" she asked again.
"We're going to confront him, and maybe, try to reason with him," she informed her friend.
"Yeah, like that'll work..." Gabrielle said sarcastically, then paused, "Draco doesn't need reasoning, he needs a good kick in the head," she continued, leaning on her staff. Xena smiled.
"Yep, maybe that, too," she suggested, and they both laughed, walking into the woods to find Argo. The two women spotted her standing there, next to the young mother and her daughter.
"Thank you so much, for saving my daughter, and directing us both to safety, I am forever in your debt," the woman told Xena.
"You don't owe me anything, just as long as you both are safe," the warrior princess assured her.
"Are you sure?" the woman asked Xena, who replied with a nod. "Well, thank you again, but my daughter and I must be going on our way, we need to find someplace to stay until our village can be re-built," she informed the warrior princess. Gabrielle looked at Xena, and they were both thinking the same thing, in which the young bard nodded.
"Well, why don't you let us come with you? It's pretty dangerous along these premises, you never know who's in these woods," Xena told the woman and her daughter with a hint of warning in her voice.
"All right, thank you again."
"Thank you, nice warrior lady," the small girl said in her little voice, and both Xena and Gabrielle grinned. The warrior directed the woman further into the woods, while Gabrielle stayed back a few feet.
"Hey, is she coming with us?" the little girl asked Xena.
"Well, actually, she's coming, she just needs to stay back because she needs to rest a minute, that's all," Xena told her, smiling. The small girl kept silent after that, and the dark-haired warrior assumed she had figured it out.
Gabrielle stood there until the others had begun to walk a ways, and whispered,
"I wish they would find an abandoned village as soon as they exit the woods." The blonde ran and caught up with the other three, and they all walked through the woods together.
"By the way, my name is Evadne, and this is my daughter, Adonia," the woman declared.
"This is Xena," Gabrielle announced, "and I'm Gabrielle."
"Xena, the warrior princess?" Evadne asked, and Xena nodded. "Wow...it's nice to meet you," she said. Xena nodded again, and smiled. Then they all looked in front of them, and realized they had exited the woods, and approached a small village, which looked to be abandoned.
"Well, looks like you've found a place to stay," Xena announced, and Evadne nodded.
Gabrielle and Xena continued to walk along the ground, leaves crunching under their boots.
"You know, I wish Joxer was here, then I could listen to him babble on, and at least then I'd get more joy out of just walking, because then I could tell him to shut up." No sooner had Gabrielle said this, Joxer suddenly appeared out of nowhere.
"Hey, how'd I get here? Oh, hi Gabby. Hi Xena."
"Joxer...," Xena uttered, and turned to the bard. "Gabrielle!" she whispered, "why did you do that?!"
"I'm sorry, Xena, I'm not used to this, and by the time I realized I had actually said 'I wish', he was here."
"Well, wish him back!" Gabrielle looked at Xena with a 'come on, have a heart,' look on her face, which made Xena grumble. "Fine!" This made Gabrielle giggle.

"Okay, so what you're telling me, is that whatever you wish for, it'll come true, just like that?" Gabrielle had just finished explaining her new 'power' to Joxer, and she half-expected the questions to come rolling in.
"Yes, Joxer."
"Yeah, right. Like that could ever happen! All right then, if you're so sure, wish me up some dinars, wish girl!" Joxer sarcastically demanded. Gabrielle and Xena both exchanged looks, and rolled their eyes. Then the bard mumbled,
"I wish you would just fall flat on your face," and no sooner had she said this, that the would-be hero slipped and fell face first into the dirt.
"Hey, that doesn't--," Joxer cut himself off as he got to his feet, then continued, "that doesn't mean you have wishy powers. It was just a co--a coincidence," he told her, although in his mind he wasn't sure he believed the words that had come out of his own mouth. Frustrated with him, Gabrielle mumbled something else, and Joxer's armor transformed into a light pink nightie much like the one the blonde owned. Gabrielle and Xena found this incredibly hilarious, because it made them burst into giggles. "Hey, that was not funny! Wish it away, Gabby!" This caused the two friends to laugh even harder.
"Oh, come on Joxer, you seemed to like wearing those kinds of things before," Xena exclaimed.
"But--but--that was because I was under a spell, and so were you!" he cried. Then Xena looked at Gabrielle seriously, who glanced at Joxer, who was almost to tears. "I believe you, you have the power to wish, please, please take it off!"
"Fine," the bard muttered, and wished the poor guy back his regular armor.
"Thank you!"
"Yeah, yeah, well, you looked like you were about to cry, anyway," Xena told him, obviously doing a poor job at trying to hide the fact that she was trying not to start laughing again.
"I did not! I was not going to cry!" he defended himself greatly, which almost got Xena going again, so Gabrielle had to elbow her friend in the ribs to keep her from losing it. The warrior princess shot a 'thanks' look at her friend, who nodded in understanding. "So, what are we going to do now? Go out and do some good with your wishing? You know, we could get us a nice place to stay for the night, you know, free food and drinks, and...," Joxer trailed off as Xena and Gabrielle turned and began to walk away from him. "Hey, you guys! Wait for me!"