The group gathered around the small area that lay in a cave behind Nemo. This area was known as Niche, and was even better known around this area as a hot spring to relax those tired muscles. Emilia was ecstatic and was stretching out her arms in the air and then behind her back. "This is great," she remarked, "We can finally relax some. Especially after all of that Devil's Hand crap."

Jet simply shrugged. "I guess that if we're about to go to what may be our final showdown with Nobuo we should be at our best." He remarked, but inside of him he was starting to become a bit confused. He was becoming overcome with feelings of hatred and he desperately wanted to kill Nobuo and beat the older man senseless. Still…after having used the Raven's Wing he started to realize that he should not be fighting Nobuo for that reason alone. He had to start thinking about he and Nobuo as well as what he was doing by even facing Nobuo in the first place. This break would give him ample time he supposed.

Adven merely brought his ears to attention but let them down in a sigh. "Oh…that Twilight thing again." He had been bored out of his mind in detailed accounts of what was going on. Why they had to force so much information into his mind at once was beyond him. As the group was now heading for the hot springs themselves they were becoming lax with each step.

"Hey! Jet! Adven!" Sakura quickly ran up to the group out of breath. Her many breaths escaping to the air. She had seen them as she was headed for the hot springs herself and when she did see them she went into a sprint. With her long hair back and her face visible Gallows, Jet, and Adven had to stop to catch their breaths for a moment. A thing that did not go unnoticed by the two women of the group.

Adven stepped forward to meet her while rubbing the back of his head nervously. "Ah…Sakura."

She simply put her hands on her hips with a 'hmph' and looked on at him with a disappointed scowl. "I come looking for you Adven and I find you lounging about with friends at a hot spring?" She lost that look for a slightly relieved look. "At least you're well and fine considering what you told me about that Dal guy. So why are you with Virginia and her gang of all people?"

"Er, well, they helped me get the deed to my house back." He nervously replied, but it was like seeing a different Adven once again like back when he and Jet faced off with the Positive and Negative Cannons. Adven was becoming less nervous and awkward around Sakura. "In order to repay them for their aid I decided to join up with them."

"Is that so?" Sakura wondered as she began to think. She glared at Virginia for a moment and looked fondly at Jet for a split second before nodding her head. "Then…I suppose they wouldn't mind me staying with them as well?"

"I see no reason not." Jet commented and a glare escaped Virginia. "Uh…if…it's okay with our leader, Virginia, that is."

It was silent as all eyes fell on Virginia. "Hmph…let's go to the hot springs then." She started her way as the rest looked to one another.

"I think that was a yes." Clive simply noted.

Soon enough, the group was in the springs themselves wearing only towels. The spring was split up for the genders so the three women were not here in the same area as Clive, Gallows, Jet, and Adven. "Ah!" Gallows happily exclaimed. "That's more like it."

Jet watched him with a hooded glare. "You haven't even been in a fight for a week or so…" He muttered.

"I don't understand why he would even need to relax." Clive uttered. "We were only in McNale Resort about two months ago."

"Speak for yourselves." Jet interjected. "While you two were off having fun and relaxing I was just trying my best not to become someone's wife."

Adven looked at Jet with surprise. "You were in prison?"

Jet simply stared seriously at Adven causing the brunette to simply look away with a hum. "It was nothing big, so don't let it go to your head."

Gallows meanwhile had his attention drifting elsewhere now that he had realized his situation and setting. But whilst he was up to what he does, the girls were relaxing in their own right now away from those idiotic boys. Sakura was stretching and working her muscles as she relaxed in the water.

"I've been travelling for DAYS trying to catch up with Adven so this feels great!" She remarked.

Emilia glanced at Virginia, noticing that woman's expression, before turning to Sakura. "You've been…spending a lot of time with Adven lately haven't you?"

"Huh?" Sakura looked over to Emilia. "I suppose. He's been a real good friend. Helping me out and all." She looked down at the water with a downcast expression. "The thing is…I grew up a very lonely person. I am a bastard daughter after all." The remaining two women glanced at one another uncomfortably. Sakura simply shook her head freeing her of those sad thoughts. She completed that with a cough. "Anyway, I wouldn't like to be alone again…that, was the worst period of my life."

Virginia was caught with interest. "And…now?"

"Now?" Sakura wondered. She was going to say that now with Adven around it was better than before with no one who watched after her, but then the wall that separated the males from the ladies broke from the weight of Gallows and Adven. Gallows had suggested they peek in on the womenfolk, and Adven and Jet were against it while Clive was unbiased and sat on the far side of the room not getting involved. Adven slowly was persuaded by Gallows into looking to see Sakura, but that just set Adven into a moral conflict within himself over whether he should or not. Jet was still against it and was grabbing onto Gallows who was against the wall. In the end, the three broke the wall, falling into the woman's spring as Clive abruptly turned away from the women knowing what would happen next. In the end Gallows, Adven, and Jet were beaten to pulps in the water by the three women as Clive noted that he had nothing to do with it and remained facing away.

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It was the cold of the night in Nemo. Night existed even in Blue Crane because the reflected sunlight eventually went away creating a very black darkness. Thankfully fire lit up the sutton for them. As Jet settled down on a rooftop of a Nemo building in order to see the moonlight that came in, Sakura was soon beside him.

"You're not bothered that I am coming along with you guys, are you?" Sakura wondered.

"No, I have no reason to be bothered." Jet finally came to a decision just before she showed up. He needed to let it out before he forgot it. "Listen, Sakura, I want to make you a promise."

"A promise?" She questioned.

"Yeah, a simple one." He never bothered to look at her though. Not at all while she was here with him. "I promise, that as long as someone has a place for me in their heart, I will come back to them." He simply said. "But not just that. I promise also to protect those people, but I will also protect everyone. People here in Nemo have a quiet life outside of the happenings above. This way of life…someone wants it to end…and I'm sure I can make that impossible."

"Is that so, Jet?"

"Yes, because I was being an idiot. So I have to make a promise, but I can't make it to myself alone. That's why I made it to you as well."

"You have a way of making the impossible possible?"

"More like the possible impossible in this case." Jet noted. "I was being selfish before, but after helping Adven…I think I see now that I can't think of myself alone anymore. I've been noticing it for awhile now…but this is definitely the end of those thoughts."

Sakura nodded. "Then I accept that promise."

Jet stood upward from his spot. "We should head back. It's getting late now."

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The Maxwell Gang—or rather Maxwell Gang Plus as it should be called with new members—met on the bridge one final time before tomorrow. A planning meeting. Clive was at the head and was finishing their plans about getting to the Twilight Lone. "We should be getting to Twilight Lone in less than a week." He noted. "Any questions? Questions that aren't 'what is Twilight Lone?'?"

It was quiet for a little while. "If not, I'm turning in." Jet commented and went off for his and Clive's room. Sakura was now bunking with the other women, being that their room was big enough to fit at least one more sleeping space for her. Adven remained on the floor where he was. Still, late at night Sakura could not get to be and was walking out to the roof of the sandcraft when she noticed someone else was already there. A person with brown hair and a green bandana. "Adven?" She wondered. She questioned why he was out here when it was so cold and dark.

Adven lightly hit the metal roof with his fist. "What am I doing with my life?" He muttered to himself, but Sakura heard it regardless, even over the sound of the sandcraft as it made it's way through Blue Crane via auto-pilot. He looks up quickly, "Sakura I will…She doesn't…" He faded off becoming confused on his thoughts as Sakura simply continued climbing up onto the roof.

"Adven?"

He looked to her with a sudden jerk of his neck startled. "S-Sakura? What, what are you doing out here?" He was hoping she did not know what he was thinking about.

"I was going to climb up here to think…but it looks like you beat me to it." She laughed as her silver hair trailed behind her in the cold wind. "What were you thinking about?"

Adven hesitated. "I was thinking about my future. You know, the basic stuff, like…who I'd like to spend it with and all."

She looked ahead to where the craft was headed, the path illuminated by lights on the front. "I was sort of thinking the same thing." She looked to him with an embarrassed smile. "Can I tell you a secret, Adven?"

He awkwardly nodded. "Yeah, sure."

"The man I want to be with someday," She paused as his hopes built up, "Is Jet."

"Jet, huh?" He said as if unaffected and in a normal voice. Whether his built up hopes crashed and burned or not was only known to him, but it was safe to say they did crash and burn and fade into near memories. They were still there, but small and scattered to blackened pieces. "Well, yeah, I can see how you'd say him, and want to be with him. He is an attractive guy and all."

"Do you know who you want to spend your life with?" She wondered.

"Uh, yeah, you wouldn't know her, so there's no point in saying her name." He simply replied.

She nodded with a smile. "Well, I hope that we can get the lives that we wish."

He nodded slowly, but with a neutral face. "Yeah, exactly…"

"Well," She hit his leg. "I should go to bed." She turned away. "You should too."

"Yeah, I will in a bit."

"Okay, just don't stay up too long. I don't want you to get tired." She remarked as she climbed down to the craft.

Jet stared off into the illuminated dark and before long it was morning as the group had finished breakfast and they were now centered in the bridge once more with Gallows at the helm and Emilia standing behind him watching the gauges. The group had just hit the area that runs between one part of Blue Crane and the other where the snow was absent and desert was the norm. A stale desert sort of area. It was still an enclose tunnel, but the tunnel was now surrounded by dark brown rock and soft sand.

Adven stood behind all the rest of the group, and after he saw the new area he simply walked away from the group to the other part of the craft. He hit the wall lightly once out of view of the others. "Maybe I better make a new decision. Rethink my future." He simply stated to himself. "I have my house back now, so I should just head back there and then look for a new life."

"Hey, Adven." Jet said as he caught up with Adven who stood upward without his previous thoughts. "Why'd you leave the bridge?"

"Tell me, Jet, what do you think about Sakura?"

Jet looked at him perplexed. "She's a good friend to me. I just hope not to get in the way."

Adven shook his head in confusion as he sighed. "Nothing. Forget it."

Jet watched with a creased brow of his own confusion as Adven departed for the kitchen area.

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Well, that was pretty long so I will leave the next part for tomorrow. The next two chapters are a two-part one-shot sort of deal that doesn't affect the story all too much. It does have a little bit to do with a certain relationship that people favor. But anyway, Chapter 64 is where we will pick up where we left off in this chapter for real. It will be a good fight that you will not want to miss, being that it will be the final showdown and what I believe to be the actual final fight between these two characters in all of NDS. Book Ten wasn't called 'Loose Ends' for nothing. It's here to close the aspects of the story that haven't yet that don't deal with Gaea, Nobuo, Carole, or the Twilight Elements. That's what Book Eleven: 'Onward into Dreams' is for. Anyway, I'm tired, I wrote this at eleven at night, so I won't bother explaining the Raven's Wing right now. Chapter 65 is the beginning of the end so I need to be rested for that. But first 62-64 to deal with.