(Welcome to my next installment, guys. Hope you're excited to see what I have to show you.)

It was after school one day, and in class 3A, all of the girls, Dustin, Negi, and Zyphon were busy putting together their Haunted House project for the Mahora Fest. The girls were painting scenery's making makeshift ghosts, bats, and monsters, while Satomi, Chao, and Chisame were using their combined talents to make special affects to give their haunted house that special haunted touch.

Negi spoke up to the class, "That's good work, girls. Everything's coming along nicely."

"At this rate we'll be finished with our whole project in no time flat." Dustin added, as they monitored the girls.

Soon, everyone was taking a break to rest themselves, as Satsuki and Chao were providing treats for their fellow classmates and teachers. As Negi and Dustin were each enjoying a pork bun, until they saw the cheerleaders walk up to them, "Hello, girls." Negi greeted them.

"Can we help you with something?" Dustin inquired.

Sakurako spoke up, "Well, ya see, boys. We're having a live concert during the festival."

"And we'd like you to come and watch, would you?" Kakizaki pleaded.

"We guarantee you it'll be a real blast." Madoka assured them.

"Well, you girls put on quite a show, so we'll be sure to check it out." Dustin admitted.

Suddenly the Narutaki's spoke up with Fumika being first, "Hey, that's no fair, you guys!"

Fuka added, "Yeah! They should come to our club's academy walking tour!"

Their outburst got a majority of the class' attention, and the girls started bombarding the boys with invites.

Makie spoke to Negi, "Negi-kun, you'll come to the rhythmic gymnastics exhibition won't you?"

"Well..."

Ayaka spoke up, "How about coming to watch the Equestrian exhibition, sensei?"

Ku jumped in, "Disciple, you must come to the Chinese Martial arts club to show new members your training. That goes for you too, Dustin-bozu." Dustin looked nervous.

Zazie approached, "You two must come to the Nightmare Circus. Our performance is meant to me spectacular."

"And I shall also be attending it." Poyo added.

When more of the students continued to make requests of the boys, Kazmi whispered to Zyphon and Chamo, "Well, boys, this is where we step in."

"Agreed." Zyphon agreed.

Kazmui announced, "Reign it in, people! If you want to book time with our sensei's you'll have to take it up with me and Zyphon; their managers."

"Kazumi, who died and made you their managers?" Ayaka asked in outrage.

"Ayaka, not my fave kind of expression." Sayo voiced her discomfort.

Kazumi answered, "I called it, Ayaka. So girls, if anyone wishes to make an arrangement with Negi and Dustin please form a line and we'll work something out."

And so a majority of the girls did so, while Negi spoke to Dustin in concern, "Should we really be having those two manage our schedules?"

"I trust Zyphon with my scheduling," Dustin answered, "Plus Kazumi's good with this kind of stuff."

"I see your point." Negi admitted.

"Negi?" Rin asked, as she walked up.

"Oh, yes, Rin?"

"I don't wanna get too caught up in all the scheduling, but perhaps sometimes during the festival if you have free time could we may be go together?" she asked, sheepishly.

Negi's eyes widened, before looking back to see most of the girls were distracted by Kazumi, and answered, "I'll see what I can do. Hopefully Kazumi will leave me plenty of time to myself."

Dustin spoke, "I'll make sure she does." Dustin said, as he went over to see Kazumi doesn't overstock their schedules.

After school, Negi and Dustin were walking with Zyphon, Kaede, Mana, Zazie, Poyo, and Rin. The boys were currently looking over their schedules seeing how many activities they promised to see for their students.

"Kazumi, you're fired as our manager." Dustin scowled at her.

"Sorry." she said sheepishly.

"With all we have here, it'll be impossible to have any free time for ourselves." Negi sighed.

Kaede patted his head, "Sorry this happened to you."

"Negi! Dustin!" a voice called out. Running over to them was Kotaro and Alistair.

"Hey, you guys. What's up?" Dustin asked.

"What's up is this!" Kotaro showed the two child professors a flyer.

Negi read it, "Martial arts tournament at Mahora Festival, sign up before Mahora Fest."

"This is a perfect chance for us to pit our skills against newer opponents." Alistair explained.

Dustin looked at the flyer, "Says here blunt objects and projectiles are forbidden in fights."

"Won't be a problem for us." Kotaro replied.

"But don't these tournaments have certain divisions for younger students and older students?" Negi asked.

"Not this time," Alistair answered, "It's opened to all."

"You guys have to sign up," Kotaro said, "It's perfect for us to have rematches since Kyoto."

"Kotaro, that was a long time ago. Are you still not over it?" Rin asked.

"We never had a proper rematch since then!" Kotaro argued.

"Talking about a martial arts tournament?" a voice asked, as Fate, Eva, and Chachamaru approached.

"Hi, Fate, Eva, Chachamaru." Rin greeted them.

Eva looked at the flyer, "Hmm. This could be a great opportunity to see how far my apprentice has come."

"But master, we've sparred before." Negi reminded her.

"Only practice rounds. This time we'd go all out." Eva retorted.

"So all our practices have never been you going all out?" Negi grumbled.

"If Eva's joining I may as well too." Kaede said.

"Huh?" Negi looked at her.

"I hear the first prize is a very heavy cash award. Can't pass that up." Mana smirked.

"You too, Mana?" Dustin asked.

"I myself am intrigued. I'll take part in it as well." Fate spoke up.

"More the merrier, pretty boy." Alistair said hyped up.

Fate looked to Rin, "How about you, Rin?"

"Me? Well, I don't know..."

"Come on, Rin," Eva began, "You're the one whose been telling me you've been wanting a chance to fight new opponents. And besides not using your magic could be a good challenge for you."

"Well, you got me there. So count me in." she smiled.

"Then let's go sign up already!" Kotaro called, as they all hurried to register.

After registration, Negi and Dustin were taking a walk while contemplating about the situation of their schedules.

Negi spoke, "With some of these activities times intertwining with one another we may have to skip the end or the middle of certain events just to get to the others."

"That's the biggest problem with our schedules. If only there were a way to be in two places at once." Dustin began, until he remembered, "Wait a minute. Negi you still have those paper copies Setsuna gave you?"

"Dustin!" Negi gasped, "Using those so that we'd be in two places at once would be dishonest. And what if they girls found out they were fake?"

Dustin thought about it an envisioning the class looking dark and grimly. He started sweating at the possibility and answered, "That wouldn't be a pretty picture."

"Exactly." Negi nodded.

The two sighed not seeing any way out of their situation, until they were brought out of thought by a call to them, "Negi! Dustin!" the two looked around and saw Chao running up to them, "Hey!"

"Hi, Chao." Dustin greeted her.

"Can we help you with something?" Negi asked.

"No, but I can help you," she smiled. The boys were confused, until she continued, "Follow me to the lab." So the two followed Chao.

When they reached the lab, Chao started looking through some stuff, "SO you can help us with our schedules for Mahora Fest?" Dustin asked.

"That's right." she smiled.

"And how're you going to do that?" Negi inquired.

Chao smirked as she held up some gold pocket watch, "With this."

"A watch?" Dustin asked dryly, "Chao, are you trying to make a joke with us?"

"No joke, Dustin." Chao assured her.

"Forgive me, Chao, but how is a watch supposed to help us?" Negi asked.

"Yeah. We know the times of when everything in the festival is going down." Dustin said.

"This watch isn't for you guys to keep track of time." Chao began.

"It isn't?" they asked.

Chao shook her head, "It's to help you guys reverse time."

"Reverse time?" Negi wondered.

"Chao, are you telling me this watch has the power to turn back time?" Dustin inquired.

"Precisely." Chao smiled.

Dustin started laughing, "Oh, you really know how to pull a good joke, Chao!" he laughed.

"This is no joke, Dustin, this watch does have the power to go back in time." Chao assured him.

Dusitn sighed, "Chao, it's not possible. Believe me as an inventor of robotics, I myself have tried to invent the means of traveling through time. And I could never succeed."

Chao retorted, "Maybe you're just not smart enough to figure it out." Dustin pouted, and replied.

"You can say some mean things some time."

Negi spoke, "How did you managed to make something like this work?"

Chao enlightened him, "You see the watch runs on the magic of the one holding it or in Dustin's case spirit energy."

"Seriously?" Dustin gasped, and she nodded, "Then could we use it to change certain events?"

Chao clicked her tongue and finger waved, "I'm afraid not. It's not wise to meddle in past affairs. Besides it can only send you back through time a days worth."

"A days worth?" Negi asked, and Chao nodded.

Dustin started pondering, "So if we use this in conjuncture with our schedules we'll be able to be there for everyone's events and activities."

"Correct." Chao smiled.

Dustin looked to Negi, "Negi, our problems are over."

"Let's not get ahead of ourselves, Dustin." Negi warned him.

"If you want, we can take it for a test." Chao offered.

"Really?" they asked.

"Yes. However we must be careful when we arrive in the past."

"What do you mean?" Dustin asked.

"We can't be seen by our past selves or those we recently talked to at that time." Chao explained.

"A paradox." Dustin gasped.

"Exactly."

"Well, shall we put it to the test?" Negi asked, as Dustin and Chao stood close to him.

Chao explained, "Just channel your magic and concentrate."

Negi did so as a magical aura surrounded them. They watched around them as the scenery was playing in reverse watching people come in and out and doing stuff backwards until it stopped and they were standing in the exact location they were before activating the watch.

"Did it work?" Negi asked, as they looked around.

Dustin saw the clock in the room reading eight in the morning, "Looks like it did," he checked his cellphone and saw his phone's clock read 8 o'clock, "But my phone's time is still the same as when we left."

"Yeah, that'll do that." Chao said, while rubbing the back of her head sheepishly.

Negi spoke, "Should we go elsewhere at this time?"

Dustin gasped, "You're right. We can't be seen here on campus."

"Then let's go elsewhere." Chao said, as they left the lab and were outside seeing the bright glow of daybreak.

"I can't believe it actually worked." Dustin gasped, as they were getting the dejavu feeling.

Negi looked over, "Look, there we are!" he gasped.

Dustin and Chao looked seeing Negi and Dustin from this morning walking to class with Mana, Kaede, Zyphon, Zazie, and Poyo, "It's past us." Dustin gasped.

"Remember, we can't be seen by them." Chao reminded them.

"Won't be a problem, since we spend most of the day after school working on the haunted house." Dustin said.

"That's a relief." Negi sighed.

Dustin started smirking, "So we have a whole day to ourselves while our past selves go through the day."

"Yes..." Negi said, realizing Dustin was planning.

"So let's have some fun, you two." he declared.

"Sounds like a plan." Chao smiled.

Negi spoke, "But what if we run into someone who knows we should be at school?"

Dustin smirked, "Then we'll just have to change our looks." he reached into his pocket and pulled out two familiar pills.

"That helps." Negi admitted.

So Negi and Dustin downed their pills and poof they were Nagi and Duncan. Duncan looked at Chao and smiled, "Chao, you're a genius. And I love you!" he pulled her into a kiss, which she returned without a second thought.

When they parted, Chao spoke, "Let's go have some fun, boys." Nagi and Duncan nodded, and the three took off.

The three spent the whole day out in the city, shopping, going to the arcade, having lunch, and just relaxing.

When it was getting late, Nagi who had turned back into Negi checked his watch, "It's almost at the time when we first traveled through time."

"So once it hits eight, we'll be back on track with our own time?" Dustin asked.

"Right." Chao nodded.

"Do you think we should tell the rest of the girls about this time watch?" Negi asked, as he looked at the watch.

Dustin answered, "I think for now it's best we keep this between the three of us. Although we can tell Chamo, Domino, and Zyphon. Not even they would spill the beans like that."

Negi turned to his student, "What do you think of that, Chao?"

She answered, "It's fine by me." Negi and Dustin smiled, as they headed back to the dorms.

In Mana and Zazie's dorm, Dustin was at his laptop, sending a message to his close friends from New York, "So you're all set to come to Mahora and celebrate the festival?" he typed in and waited for some responses.

First came a message by Alice and Alicia, "You know it."

"Wouldn't miss it." Jethro's message came.

"Plus it's a perfect chance to see Japan again." Jade's message read.

Elroy's message came, "So count on us to be there."

"And Burai and Mitsukai will come with me too." came Aria's message.

Dustin typed his message, "Perfect. And make sure this news doesn't get out to the Psycho Hosebeast Trinity. If they come to the Mahora Fest I won't be able to enjoy myself for a second!"

Jade's new message came, "Don't worry, we'll make sure this news doesn't get out to them."

"Thanks, Jade. Well, catch you guys, later." Dustin said, as he ended their chatroom. After he closed his laptop he climbed into bed with Mana and went to sleep.

Meanwhile at Ragnarok's lair, the Shadow Master, Diabound, and Thorn were at meeting.

"So Mahora Fest is underway?" Ragnarok inquired.

"Yes. Just as my plants have told me." Thorn confirmed.

"Excellent," Ragnarok replied, "It'll serve as the perfect battleground for when we put an end to those boys and their partners."

Diabound spoke, "There is still much preparation to get done thought."

"Then we best not waste any time." Ragnarok replied, as he stood up and walked out. He entered his prison room where he looked at Arika seeing her still lifeless, "Queen Arika, soon your son will be joining you." he snickered.

(And that's the chapter. Don't miss next chapter where it's the start of Mahora Fest and it's nothing but fun for the boys and their students.)