The next chapter is done. If I write Kagura OOC at any point by accident, please let me know. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy! And don't forget to review!

Jason and Kagura were ready to partake in their battle to decide who would walk away with the captured Karina while Sakura, Flora and Aura stood on the sidelines to watch the fight. After a few intense and long seconds of standing in place, both Jason and Kagura charged at each other.

"Zephyr Blades!" Jason sent forth a large gust at Kagura.

Kagura swung her unsheathed sword around accordingly to block the cutting attacks from Jason's attack. Kagura then quickly closed the distance between the two and went to swing her unsheathed sword at Jason, but he used a gust of wind to send himself up into the air to dodge the attack.

Kagura briefly closed her eyes and upon opening them, there was a sudden change in gravity around Jason that caused him to crash into the ground in an instant. Jason could feel that several bones in his body were almost broken.

"What just happened?" Flora asked.

"It's Kagura's specialty." Karina replied. "Gravity Change Magic. She can manipulate the gravity of any target, including herself."

While Jason was still lying on the ground, Kagura had jumped into the air and was about to stomp on him with her foot, sending her downward further with the use of her Gravity Change Magic. Jason quickly rolled out of the way and avoided the attack as Kagura hit the ground which didn't even seem to faze her at all.

"I see your reputation precedes you." Jason complimented.

"Flattery doesn't concern me." Kagura simply said before almost instantly appearing in front of Jason and striking him with her unsheathed sword.

Jason could feel like he got cut by the blade despite the fact that it was sheathed, although he didn't see any tears in his clothes or skin. Kagura then followed up with a swift kick to his face which knocked Jason onto the ground. Blood started dripping from the edges of Jason's mouth due to the last blow.

"Jason!" Aura shouted. "You should just surrender! That last attack almost broke your jaw!"

Jason simply got up, clearly suffering from the damage dealt by Kagura's attack. He then wiped the blood off his face and seemed to shrug off the pain. Kagura leered at Jason for a moment before trying to close the distance and strike him with her unsheathed sword.

"Zephyr Guard!"

Jason's arms were surrounded by gusts of wind again, crossed his arms in front of his chest and quickly used them to block Kagura's sword attack.

"Zephyr Scissors!"

Jason uncrossed his arms and Kagura was hit by an X-shaped wind slash that sent her back a fair distance. Her bruised face made it evident that Jason landed a fairly powerful attack.

*Even after receiving my attacks, he was still able to land such a powerful attack.* Kagura thought. *Then again, I did use the same tactic twice and he quickly found a way to counter it… but not this time.* "Slashing Form!"

Kagura lunged at Jason with her sword and was about to strike him with her sword.

"Zephyr Vacuum!"

The gust around Jason's left arm enlarged and started to suck Kagura into it, but this caused her sword to strike an intense blow to his abdomen. Jason let out a pained groan from the attack, but after that he simply smirked.

"Gotcha." He muttered.

Before Kagura could react, Jason had used his wind to shoot Kagura high up into the air. As Kagura was reaching the peak of the upward shot, she could see that Jason was charging up a large gust of wind in his hands.

"Time to end this…" Kagura muttered. "Slashing Form!"

Kagura used her Gravity Change Magic to make herself shoot toward the ground faster and amplify the power of her next attack. Jason then swung the wind in his arms toward Kagura just as she was right on top of him.

"Zephyr Tornado!"

A massive explosion completely surrounded the area in smoke and a powerful shockwave forced everyone else around to brace themselves, though they were sent flying a little bit but not by much. The girls were all lying on the ground on their stomachs while smoke still floated around the area.

"Is Jason okay?" Sakura wondered, trying to peer through the smoke.

"I hope so." Aura responded.

"Mfu-mfu!" Flora muffled while she was being pressed underneath Sakura's body.

"Flora, where are you?" Sakura asked.

"Unferfeath fyou." Flora muffled back.

Sakura lifted her body up a bit and Flora popped up with a very loud and long gasp.

"Thank you!" Flora panted from the lack of oxygen. "Why do you complain about your breasts when I almost got crushed by them?"

"Wait, I think I see something." Aura said.

The smoke started to thin more and more until they could see that Jason and Kagura were standing on the ground with their backs facing each other.

"… You win." Kagura said.

"No…" Jason responded.

Both started to fall to the ground.

"It's a draw…" Jason stated before he and Kagura hit the ground.

"I don't believe it…" Karina whispered with surprise. "He actually managed to go toe-to-toe with Kagura… and muster enough strength to end it in a draw…"

Even though Jason and Kagura were on the ground, they were still conscious.

"… Honestly, I went into this battle thinking I was going to lose." Jason admitted. "I guess I don't know my own strength."

"You truly were a worthy opponent." Kagura said. "During the entirety of our battle, I could sense an unbreakable will. Not only that, but you were also pretty creative with the use of your magic."

"I could say the same thing about you." Jason complemented.

"Um, what is that?" Flora's voice broke their conversation.

Aura and Sakura looked to where Flora was pointing at and saw that a battalion of Rune Knights were approaching them with a tall, lanky and grey-haired old man wearing a large red and white robe at the front. When they finally stopped, the old man pointed directly at the group of wizards.

"By the order of me, Connor Athene (Age 67), all of you are under arrest!" The old man ordered his knights.

"What?!" Sakura exclaimed. "What for?!"

"If you resist, your friends will be killed on the spot!" The old man motioned his hand toward the knights.

Some of the knights moved out of the way to reveal that they had apprehended Spiral and Static.

"Spiral!" Aura shouted.

The knights had forced Aura, Sakura, Flora, Jason and even Kagura into their wagon with magic-nullifying cuffs around their wrists and ankles.

The wizards were taken to the central wizard prison and placed in various cells. In one cell, Spiral was holding onto the bars while Static just sat down leaning his back against the wall.

"Let us out of here!" Spiral shouted. "Why are they keeping us here?!"

"Because the asshole that had us arrested wants his secret to remain a secret." Static answered.

"So that guy…" Spiral put the pieces together in his head. "He's the politician responsible for the experiment that killed your wife?"

Static nodded. "The moment I saw that man…" He clenched his fist in rage. "I immediately wanted to punch him in the face until I got to his brains!"

"If only these bars didn't cancel out our magic, we could get out of here."

"Yeah, I could just bend regular prison bars with my Magnet Magic, but like you said these bars cancel out magic."

"I wonder how the others are doing…" Spiral looked to the wall in their cell.

"Give me back Flora right now, you righteous pricks!" Sakura shouted as she shook the bars violently.

Sakura was in a cell with Aura and Karina, and Aura had a look of disgust after hearing Sakura use such vulgar language.

"Do you kiss your mother with that mouth?" Aura asked. "That's not ladylike at all."

"Screw manners!" Sakura kept shouting. "Who knows what they're doing to her!"

In the room where the guards sat around to keep an eye on the prisoners, Flora was lo ked up in a carrier cage with a key-operated lock. The guards were all playing some card game while drinking ale, completely distracted by the game.

*I need to get out of here and help the others out.* Flora thought.

She looked back and forth to see if anyone was looking at or paying any sort of attention to her, retracted the claw on her index finger and started to pick the lock with it. After several seconds she managed to successfully unlock the cage, which caused it to make a sound loud enough to alert one of the guards. She quickly pulled the cage door back while holding onto the bars. When the guard looked back to see what the noise was, he just saw Flora holding onto the bars like nothing else happened.

"Ehh, must be my imagination…" The guard groaned as he turned back to his fellow comrades.

Flora quietly sighed as she checked for anyone paying attention to her again. When the coast was clear, she gently and quietly pushed the cage door and slipped out of the room without drawing any attention and kept hidden in behind whatever cover was provided.

In another cell, Jason was lying on the poorly constructed bed with the back of his head resting on his arms.

*I don't understand why the two of us are sharing a cell.* Jason thought as he looked at the other person in the cell.

That other person was Kagura, who was simply standing and leaning against the cell wall. Upon her arrest, the guards also took her sword Archenemy.

*We are the only ones they captured where two people of the opposite sex share a cell.* Jason analyzed in his head. *Did they not have enough cells or-*

"Do you have any idea why the Rune Knights arrested us?" Kagura asked.

This broke Jason's train of thought and when he looked to her, she still had her typical serious expression on her face.

"… Apparently, Karina got some dirt on the politician that had us arrested." Jason answered. "That's why she had a warrant for her arrest. Since we know about it, the politician wants to make sure he secret never gets out. My guess is the Rune Knights and guards following his orders were lied to, bribed or working with him. Any one of those wouldn't surprise me."

"Psst…" A voice whispered from outside the cells.

Jason and Kagura turned their heads to the cell doors and saw Flora.

"Flora, you got out!" Jason whispered excitedly. "Do you have the keys?"

"Just as good." Flora whispered back as she flew up, picked the lock with her claw and with a click the cell door was unlocked.

"Thanks." Jason said as he walked out.

"Thank you." Kagura lightly bowed to Flora.

"Let's get everyone else out too." Jason said.

The others' cells were right next to each other so it didn't take long for the others to be rescued as well.

"I'm so glad you're okay, Flora!" Sakura hugged and cuddled Flora like a protective mother.

"Before we leave, we should grab our belongings." Spiral suggested as he stretched his body from being in such a cramped space. "Our weapons, provisions and money were all confiscated once they arrested us."

"Good call." Jason agreed. "But what's our plan for afterward?"

"The only way to clear our names is to force Athene to confess his crimes." Karina answered. "But once they realized we escaped, they'll send their elite officers to confront us."

"That settles it then." Spiral smiled. "Let's go!"

A/N: I hope you enjoyed the fight! I thought I'd end the battle in a draw, though if the battle were to have a winner it would have been Kagura. With the draw, I feel I could establish a better connection between her and Jason. Why? It's a secret. Anyway, the next chapter is the final one for the story arc. Stay tuned.