The hottest day they had yet to encounter came. The seaside town—has there been an actual sea aside from sand—of Cape Aznable was suffering a heat wave. Virginia was suffering alongside of it. She ditched her dress. She loved it, but it was much too hot. She decided to go with a sleeveless white shirt that showed off her bust which she did want to display, but it was not noticed. Too sad for her. She will never get far with looks alone. Her skirt had been replaced by underwear covered over by a skirt she made of a small sheet of cloth and tied.

Again it was, "H-O-T! It's hot!" She remarked fanning herself as she walked the streets near to the coast. "Why is it so hot?" She stopped abruptly. Shaking her head and kicking her feet out when she got a pebble in her sandals. She rubbed her eyes and looked ahead again. "Man...it must be hot. I could swear I see Sakura coming."

"What the?" Sure enough, a similarly dressed Sakura was slowly approaching. However, "Virginia Maxwell!" She was now coming fast. "I knew you'd be here!"

"What? It isn't a mirage?"

Sakura comes to a stop. "Before anything else is said...I must apologize for last time. I wrongfully accused you of ruining my doll. That was not true." Sakura bows.

"Apology accepted." Virginia grinned.

"However," Virginia's face falters. "I recalled why I really wanted to beat the snot out of you."

The brunette slumps her shoulders. "You mean we're still going to fight?" She moaned.

"The night I left Boot Hill I was going to swing by your house to talk about my doll...but I saw you there will Bobby! You knew I had a crush on him!"

Virginia stared at her in disbelief. "That? Look, Bobby and I were only friends. I wouldn't move in on your guy, even if you did leave, which I didn't know at the time that night."

"Enough!" Sakura shouted. "I will make you pay!" Sakura draws her sai.

"C'mon, it's too hot for this." Virginia moans as she dodges and attack. "That was close! Fine...have it your way!" She takes out her ARMs. "Can't we ever get along?"

Sakura comes on full force and barrages Virginia with a medley of various attacks. Sai with the left, sai with the right, a kick, and all of them blocked or dodged. Sakura is able to jump away from the shot fired upon her by Virginia. The women charge one another with equal intensity as their weapons connect with each other. A struggle brings them to lose their weapons once again in a jumble. In this moment Virginia gets a punch in, but Sakura returns with a knee to her gut. In an effort to recover Virginia shoves Sakura away. In that moment as Sakura was falling off the street for the lower docks she threw out a rope and snatched the brunette's wrist pulling her along for the ride. The two roll along the wooden docks onto a narrow bridge across the shallow part of the sea of sand. Coming to a stop the two lay out on the dock. A moment passes of inhaling and exhaling before they stand at the same time and read themselves.

"Want to make this a little interesting?" Sakura mused.

"What do you have in mind?"

"The first to fall off the bridge will lose."

Virginia hesitates. "Okay. You're on!" Virginia charges forward and lashes out, only to miss and instead hit the bridge punching a hole into it. From behind her Sakura comes with a flying kick. Virginia dodges, and in the process nearly falls over into the hole she made. Staying steady Virginia stands and sends a melee of punches for the other woman. Falling to the wood Sakura stands in a crouch sending an attack downward at the bridge. The punch creating a fissure in the bridge that causes Virginia to jump away from the splitting bridge.

A wind passes as Sakura stands. A broken and jagged line in the planks between them. When the two look to one another the wood between them fall into the sea of sand. Taking a risk Virginia jumps from her plank to the area behind Sakura. The wood she had been on falling into the sea as well. At least the posts remained for what was left. Sakura turns around and strikes downward at Virginia who jumps to the air. The planks in the other direction break and fall into the sea. As Virginia plummeted for the sandy sea she sent an attack at the plank Sakura stood on breaking it as well.

The two fall into the sea of sand at the same moment and use the planks to find their way to the coast. "I guess we tied." Virginia shook her hair free of sand. Sakura remained silent. "I didn't like Bobby in any way. You were the only person who liked me when we were kids." She sadly admits.

Sakura looks to the dirt. "C'mon...now you're making me look bad."

"Can we call a truce? If we ever fight again let it be only for matters that CURRENTLY matter."

Sakura nods. "Agreed."

"Hey? Virginia, you okay?" Jet questioned as he made his way down to them. He had found their weapons on the street and he had a bad feeling about it until he heard the fighting.

Sakura went pink. "J-Jet?"

"Jet? We're over here!"

"Who's we?" Jet questioned when he got there.

Virginia looked to her side to find Sakura had left. "Well...there was a we a few seconds ago...wonder what happened?"

"Here." He helps her to her feet. "Here's your ARMs, and...some sai."

"We'll have to wait until Sakura comes to get them."

"S-Sakura?" Jet questioned with interest.

"Yeah, she was here fighting me until just when you got here."

"Oh yeah?" He looked around a bit, and that was noted by Virginia. She grimaced a bit. "Yeah...well, I'm going to go get some lunch."

"I'll come with." Virginia immediately replied. He stared at her.

With hesitation, "O...K."

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Sakura sat on her knees on the roof of a building within the town. Her heart beating fast and confusion in her mind. "What was that? Why did I run?" She questioned. Breathing raggedly. "Jet...I love him?" She had been seeing him in his mind a lot since the day she met him in Golden Dodge. She had never met someone like him before. That, and he was handsome. She still did not think much about him even when they met again. She saw him when she met up with Virginia, and following that she began to think about him even more. Then curiosity got the better of her. She could not find Virginia. But, she suddenly became more interested in the man who traveled along with her rival. So, she tracked him to Luck's Best. That brought her to see him in prison, and she suddenly had doubt. Now that time has passed, she realized just what she wants from him. His heart, and then for him to take her hand, and then to give him a little Jet. She blushed at that thought.

"Sakura!" A man with auburn hair approached her, and she stared at him in more confusion. "Are you okay?"

"Adven? Yeah, I am." She stands. "What are you doing here?"

"Uh...well, I...I'm still looking for that guy. Y'know? I tracked him to this town." He half lied as he tugged at his green silk shirt. He had come following her. He also did know that the man he was looking for was in this town as well. So...it was all good in his book. Too bad he was a bumbling idiot. "Are you okay?"

"You asked that already." She laughs.

"Oh, right."

"Huh?"

"What is it?"

"I dropped my sai somewhere. I have to go get them."

"I-I'll help!" He follows after Sakura who already ran ahead of him.

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"How is it?" Virginia wondered.

"Uh...just good." He ate his sandwich.

"My pasta is great. You want some?" She questioned as she had a forkful ready for him.

"Uh...no." He went on to his drink.

"Why not?"

"Just...because I don't want it."

"You worried about germs? It can't be that bad."

"Uh...no, I'm...uh...full."

"Then, no dessert for you." She dismissed in wroth as she went on to eat her meal. Stupid jerk!

Sakura shows up at the table. Trying her best not to look at Jet. "Uh, I...I-I n-need my sai. You have them right?"

"Uh, yeah, you okay?" Virginia looked on with a raised brow. Adven appears running out of breath. Jet catches his countenance and Adven stopped when he looked at Jet. "Is this...you're friend?"

"Adven." Jet stood.

"Enduro." Adven stood straight. "So I was right. You're here."

"You don't think I will really give it to you, do you?" Jet questioned as Sakura and Virginia went into confusion. Looking to one another in question.

"No, but I didn't come thinking you would. I expect that I will have to fight for it again."

"Can't you see I'm eating right now. I ain't fighting you."

"What's the matter? Chicken?"

"No, I'm eating a BLT." Adven stared at him as Jet gained a grin,

"Something's...different about you. Don't tell me you've gone weak in the time since we last met?"

"Well...there has been a lot going on. Saving the world and all."

"Ha! And getting on the world's most wanted list for awhile." Adven scoffed. "Can't believe you could get there."

"Well...I can tell you could never."

"You don't know what I'm capable of!" Adven defended himself. "So, back to the subject at hand."

"Go home. I'm not getting involved with you today." Jet sat back down. Adven snatched up a glass of water and poured it on him. "Did you just do what I think you did?"

"Uh-huh."

"You wasted water." Jet pointed out and sneered. "I should rip out your lunch from the exit, but...that's what you want me to do." Jet remained silent a moment. "I'm not going to fight you."

"Ah c'mon! It's not even worth anything to you!" Adven argued.

"Still...I've had it for awhile and I'm not giving it up."

"Fine!" Adven huffed. "Not today, but someday, I will find you again and take you down."

"Uh...here." Virginia hands the sai to the equally baffled Sakura. Sakura holds a warm look for Jet.

Adven catches it, but instead looks back to Jet. "I'll be waiting for you then, Adven." Jet replied eating some french fries.

Sakura realized what she wanted and looked to Virginia with determination. "Listen up Virginia!" She said sternly. "There is a reason I have to fight you. I will continue to attack you until I win it. Watch your back." She gives the ultimatum. Still, she did leave the whole situation vague. Like she would ever actually say she wants to fight Virginia for Jet. "Let's go Adven." She storms out of the room, and Adven returning to his erratic state follows after knocking over a table, hitting a waitress and food to the floor, and then slipping on some butter on the ground before actually following her out.

"What was that about?" Virginia mutters. She shrugs. "Hey...what do you have that Adven wants?"

"Uh...just...something." Jet looks away.

"Well, will you at least tell me how you know him?" She moans.

"He and I are both treasure hunters. We both tried to steal the same thing, but, someone...else got to it first."

"Who?"

"Do you remember that girl we met at the Graveyard?"

"Mizu? You met Mizu then?"

"No, her brother." Jet replies with neutral face. "He got to the treasure that day before Adven and I. Adven and I just bicker a lot and never get anything done, so Mizu's brother slipped past us."

"So that's how you know him?"

"Just about...there were about...three other times I met him. All before I got caught up with you guys, and after your father was training me and all."

Virginia almost twitched upon Werner's mention, but did not. "Oh, OK then."

"Well, let's get going. It' shot as Hell and we want to get to the Twilight Gemini by tomorrow morning."

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I guess...I had to add Adven to this eventually. I'm not sure why I did. Sakura had been doing a wonderful job filling in for the original Mizu and Adven, but I like it this way anyway. Gives Jet more character as well as a new guy. Just what is this thing Jet has that he wants? I have no idea either. I just added that today into the original story. I'll have to think of something absurd and weird for Jet to have and Adven to want.

Obviously we now have a horrible love square being that it's obvious Virginia likes Jet, Sakura likes Jet, Adven likes Sakura, and Jet likes...I wish I knew that one too. I'm just as in the dark as you. I could take this and put Jet with Adven for all I want. Ha-ha! Fan fiction is fun. Well...Jet nor Adven are gay, so let's not even think about that.