Author's Notes: ^.^ Well, K-sama prodded me into writing more of this. As usual I don't own Slayers nor the song, "Everywhere" by Michelle Branch. *looks over the 4th chapter and winces* Never again will I do a dance scene… *while the readers read Riven goes and sulks at her 4th chapter, yes she is whiny about it*

~ ~ ~ (Turn it inside out so I can see,) ~ ~ ~

            The following morning found the Slayers gang having breakfast, in the usual fashion.

"I wonder where Ms. Filia and Mr. Xellos are." Amelia asked as she fed Fluffers a carrot. "I didn't hear either of them come back last night."

"They were acting very strange last night." Zelgadis commented before sipping his morning coffee.

Lina nodded. "I wonder what's up with them?"

"They probably both got into some Verin and were drawn together by the atmosphere of the festival and their unacknowledged love." Gourry said before he bit into a sausage.

"…" Was everyone else's intelligent reply.

"We'll have to go out and look for them." Lina pointed her fork, with the bit of egg on it, upwards. "After breakfast!" And then she dug back into her meal.

~ ~ ~ (The part of you drifting over to me.) ~ ~ ~

Filia yawned and stretched. This inn sure had an uncomfortable bed, very narrow and hard. She bleary opened her eyes and stared up into… the forest canopy? That wasn't the inn's ceiling!

Filia sat up too quickly and fell off her tree branch. Luckily she landed on the next branch down, but someone was already there though she didn't know that.

Waking with a start, (a dragon landed on him… that should wake anyone up.) Xellos looked at Filia's surprised face before the branch snapped under their combined weight sending them falling into the foliage below.

THUMP!

Filia dared to open her eyes and looked up. She had been on a surprisingly high branch, and the fall should have hurt more.

"You really are a heavy dragon." Xellos grunted as he winced slightly.

"Am not!" Filia retorted as she looked down. Then she realized that she must have landed on him twice, and sure enough she was sitting on top of his stomach.

"From my point of view currently, you are." Xellos decided he preferred a different wake up call. Then he noticed the surroundings, he decided then he preferred not falling out of trees with a dragon on landing on top of him twice as a wake up call.

Filia scooted off but sat nearby. "… what direction is the town in?" Filia looked around trying to get her bearings.

Xellos sat up still wincing a little, "Your asking me?"

"…yeah…" Filia drawled.

Both were trying to think about how they had arrived at their destination, and then they remembered about the recording devices.

"I'm going to go look over here." Filia stood up and walked off in a direction. She walked until she thought she was out of Xellos's sight and then picked her crystal up.

"Jewel of memory, show me the past." Filia intoned and the crystal grew a flicking gold aura. Filia waited and then

"Like a… just like… a dream… are a mystery…" Though it wasn't very loud, it was her voice and it sounded like she was singing. It didn't seem to be working correctly, the words were sometimes clear, other times garbled, and the images flickered and were fuzzy.

"What in Cephied's name did I do last night?" Filia muttered as she turned around heading back to the tree. She dropped the crystal in her pocket on her way back.

~ ~ ~ (Just tell me how I got this far.) ~ ~ ~

Meanwhile Xellos had recovered from being used as a landing pad, twice, and was leaning against the same tree he had fallen out of earlier.

He was having the same results with his ebony orb, which gave off a violet aura. "Your voice… no choice… think I'm falling… take me there…" Was he singing? What in Shabranigdo's name did he do last night?

~ ~ ~ (Just tell me why you're here and who you are.) ~ ~ ~

Defeated, Filia walked back. "It's not over there."

Xellos quickly but inconspicuously threw the black orb to the side and then draped a part of his cape over it so it was hidden. "I didn't think it would be."

"You should have said something then." Filia stalked over and sat against the same tree not to far away from Xellos.

Xellos just shrugged. Both didn't notice that they hadn't turned off their nifty recording devices…

…nor did they notice that Filia's crystal had fallen out of her pocket and landed a mere inch away from Xellos's orb…

…nor did they notice that the auras were mixing slightly, and it seemed to have a good effect on their 'recorded' events…

(…nor did the author mind doing the '…nor did they notice' about 4 times…^^;)

"When you call my name it's like a little prayer…" Both Filia's and Xellos's gaze snapped down to where the two artifacts were singing (with both their voices) in harmony with each other. After the brief shock wore off both immediately went to snatch their respective magical item, but they each grabbed the wrong one.

Filia blinked at the black orb. She wanted to know what happened last night, and for that she needed both of them.

"Perhaps we should just dispose of these, we may be better off not knowing what happened." Xellos said standing.

"But I need to know!" Filia also stood up. "Can't I just have it back?"

"Nah-uh." Xellos shook his head no. "I don't want anyone to know, I'm sure it's bad enough.

Filia frowned and tried to think of a plan, she had to do something… something unexpected…

Xellos was prepared for a mace swing, Laser Breaths, Fire Breaths, and Chaotic Disinigrates, he hadn't expected what she actually did.

Filia put on her widest grin. "It's a lovely day! It's wonderful to be alive!" Filia threw her arms around Xellos's neck.

"Your not getting it." The mazoku held the crystal further away, despite stiffening and going a bit pale.

"It's a great day to be alive! Life is wonderful!" She mustered all her positive feelings and planted a kiss on the surprised Xellos's cheek.

That did it. Xellos didn't quite feel up to standing anymore, so he keeled over.

Filia snatched her crystal and bounded a small distance away. "I got it!" She sat down beaming.

"Filia! That was mean!" Xellos whined and sat up. "And underhanded for even a mazoku!"

"Is the great Xellos embarrassed, hmmm…?" Filia twiddled her thumbs in an attempt to look innocent.

"…"

"So he is!" Filia was glad she wasn't sitting nearby; otherwise she would've poked him.

"Ah! I see, your still under the Verin's effect." Though still a bit pale, Xellos seemed to have recovered.

"Am not." Filia looked at both the recorders, and held them together and waited.

As before the auras synchronized, and Filia waited.

Xellos mentally sighed and decided to give into his curiosity, it couldn't be that bad… could it? He got up and walked over.

Filia held the recording stones away, "I want to see, then you can have yours back."

"I just wanted to watch." He stopped about a foot and a half away from Filia and sat down.

Filia gave a slightly wary look at the mazoku before she placed the recording stones back on her lap.

"From the beginning now." She tapped the stones to make sure they heard.

A hazy image began to form in the flat 2ft aura, and Xellos and Filia leaned forward to watch.

~ ~ ~ (I sense it now, the water's getting deep.) ~ ~ ~

"I wonder where they could be?" Lina looked around with her hands on her hips.

"I wonder what we'll find when we find them?" Amelia pondered on the idea, while Fluffers acted as a lookout on her head.

"I say we give Filia one day to come back. We can't wait to long." Zelgadis gave a pointed look to everyone.

"But we can't leave them." Lina walked back.

Gourry just watched, after all he had a pretty good idea about what happened and where they were. He just liked to watch … oh look at the bug on his boot, no wait the shiny jewel on Lina's shoulder guard, wait Amelia had Fluffers he liked Fluffers, oh and Zel's hair was really shiny, then there was that big dance floor…

"Gourry! Have any idea of where they could be jellyfish brain?" Lina interrupted his train of thought.

"Dance floor." Gourry pointed at the empty dance floor in the square.

"…" was everyone's reply.

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Author Notes: … Well that's that. *dusts hands off* this chapter is done, though short… *sniffles* Sorry it's not the normal size... Reviews will help me write more (I believe it's going to be the last chapter…), so please leave a review! ^-^