Sorry this chapter took so long to write. I was busy finishing up another story and a friend of mine was forcing me into a couple of things. And to the guest reviewer about his OC, I'm sorry, but I can't accept your OC as submissions are closed. Anyway, I hope you all enjoy!

Jason and Chelia continued to sit around the forest path, waiting for any of their friends and allies to come by.

"Hey, are you Jason of Phoenix Dawn?" Chelia asked.

"Yep, that's me." Jason answered.

"I read all about you in Sorcerer Weekly!" Chelia said. "You're a really big hit with the ladies! If my cousin wasn't engaged, she'd want to date you."

"Ohoho, I-I don't think so." He chuckled. "That's just some kind of practical joke."

"Yeah, the article mentioned you're ignorant when it comes to women, too."

Their conversation came to an abrupt end when Spiral and Lyon walked up to them.

"Your fight must have gone well." Jason said to the boys. "Spiral, can you tell how the others are doing?"

"I don't know." Spiral replied. "I might be able to sense where people are, but I can't tell who they are. I also can't hear them right now."

"Let's just hope for the best then." Jason sighed.

"Lyon, you're hurt!" Chelia said as she ran to Lyon and started to give him first aid.

As Chelia healed Lyon up, Jason looked at the ground with his hands closed together.

*Those words that woman said…* Jason thought, recalling what Xyla had said to him. *My heart sees Kagura differently? What does that even mean?*

"Hey, guys!"

Everyone looked over to see Heart running over to them with the Trimens following behind her.

"Heart!" Spiral said. "Thank goodness, you're okay."

"If she's here, that means at least three of Silent Orochi's heads have been taken out." Jason surmised.

"Make that four." Jura said as he walked up to them. "It's good to see you safe, Lyon, Chelia."

"Jura!" Chelia exclaimed upon seeing him.

"Wait? Jura? As in Iron Rock Jura of the Ten Wizard Saints?!" Spiral asked. "It's an honor to be in your presence, sir!"

Spiral started bowing to Jura like he was a king.

"No need to be formal, Sir Spiral." Jura said.

"'Sir'?" Spiral raised an eyebrow.

"I just contacted Jenny." Hibiki said while he was trying to connect to his guild mate with his telepathy. "She's tending to the wounds of one of your guild mates… A man it seems like."

"That must be Eden." Heart said. "Is he okay?"

"Jenny says he won the fight, but he used up a lot of magic energy and lost consciousness." Hibiki responded. "She also needs our help to carry him back."

"Maaaaan!" Ichiya posed stylishly. "Hibiki, Ren! You two and I will head to Jenny's location and assist her. Eve, you stay here and protect Miss Heart and Chelia."

"What about us?!" Spiral shouted at the Trimens. "Anyway, after I've recuperated I'm going after the Guild Master of Silent Orochi."

"Lady Blaise requested us to bring you back to Roseshade." Chelia said. "You're going to stay pu-"

Lyon placed his arm in front of Chelia and simply shook his head.

"Wait, are you all that's here?" Jason asked. "That must mean Sakura's still out there somewhere. I'm gonna go search for her while the enemy's numbers have thinned."

Jason walked off into the forest to search for Sakura while Chelia was giving Spiral first aid.

Foster and Meredy had just finished off the last of the dark wizards that had surrounded them and took this opportunity to take a break.

"Man, I didn't even break a sweat!" Foster said.

"I kinda wish you did…" Meredy mumbled to herself with a blush on her face.

"What was that, Meredy?" Foster asked.

"Oh, nothing!" Meredy answered nonchalantly.

"You're both pretty powerful wizards." Flora said, standing right by the unconscious Sakura's side. "Then again I should expect no less from members of Crime Sorcière." She then looked at Sakura. "Is she STILL asleep?"

"She ate some of Cobra's poison and gained its powers." Foster said. "While she managed to expel the poison from her body, eating a different element has rendered her unconscious. Don't worry though. She'll wake up in a few days."

"SAKURA!"

Foster, Meredy and Flora heard Jason's voice in the forest calling for Sakura.

"Jason!" Flora flew in the direction she heard Jason's voice.

Flora continued flying until she managed to find Jason.

"Flora! Is Sakura all right?" Jason asked.

"She's fine." Flora answered. "She's just resting right now is all. I'll take you to her."

Flora flew back to where Sakura was with Jason following her and when they arrived, she noticed that Foster and Meredy were already gone. Jason walked over to Sakura's side and examined her.

"Looks like she used up a lot of magic energy during her fight." Jason said.

Flora just looked around, searching for any sign of the two Crime Sorcière mages, but the only people within her vision were Jason and Sakura.

*… Where did those two run off to?* Flora wondered.

Elsewhere in the forest, a 23 year old man and a woman of the same age were walking down the forest path away from the mountains. The man had short purple hair and wore a black T-shirt with a purple Silent Orochi guild mark emblazoned on the chest and blue jeans and the woman had long white hair and wore the same attire as the man only with her midriff showing and the guild mark was white. They were the Twin Lightning of Silent Orochi's heads Orfeo Highmore and Zola Highmore respectively.

"The intruders have done well in severing the heads of our guild." Orfeo said in a monotone voice. "Haven't they, dear sister Zola?"

"We certainly underestimated them." Zola said in the exact same tone as her twin brother. "Haven't we, dear brother Orfeo?"

"Indeed, dear sister Zola." Orfeo said.

They stopped walking upon seeing two figures standing next to each other in the middle of the forest path and glaring at the twins. Those figures were Kagura and Milliana of Mermaid Heel.

"Speak of the devil." Zola said. "It seems we have our opponents. Don't we, dear brother Orfeo?"

"Why do those two talk so funny?" Milliana wondered in exasperation.

"Shall we take them out together, dear sister Zola?" Orfeo asked.

"Let's, dear brother Orfeo." Zola said.

Kagura managed to close the distance between her and the twins in an instant and was about to slash at them with her sheathed sword, but Orfeo turned into purple lightning and Zola turned into white lightning and they slipped toward Kagura's blind spot. It was at that moment their bodies returned to normal and they tried to kick Kagura in the back, but she managed to turn around in time and block the kicks with her sheathed sword which sent her skidding across the ground for a few meters. The twins then ground themselves wrapped by a whip with a cat paw at the tip of it and looked behind them to see Milliana had restrained them.

"Are you pumped up?"

"Purple…" Orfeo said, closing his eyes.

"White…" Zola said doing the same thing as Orfeo.

"Shock!" They both shouted.

They tried to shock Milliana by electrocuting the whip, but their magic was cut off due to her Binding Magic.

"It appears this whip cancels out our magic." Orfeo said. "Right, dear sister Zola?"

"It appears so, dear brother Orfeo." Zola said.

Kagura tried to take this opportunity to slash at the twins while they were tied up, but they twirled their bodies and pulled Milliana off the ground so that she slammed into Kagura before her attack could hit them. The whip's grip loosened and Orfeo and Zola freed themselves from Milliana's Binding Magic.

"Ready to finish this, dear sister Zola?" Orfeo asked.

"I am, dear brother Orfeo." Zola said.

Before the two readied their attacks, a pillar of earth rose up from underneath Zola and catapulted her into the air. She was in the air for several seconds until hitting the ground and losing consciousness.

"Looks like we got here just in time."

Kagura and Milliana turned toward the voice and saw Phoenix Dawn members Tristan and Shroud arrive on the scene. Tristan twirled his large gun with his fingers and pointed it at Orfeo.

"Good work, Shroud." Tristan said. "Your Transmutation Magic really came in handy there."

"Could you please stop calling me that?" Shroud asked.

"Ammo Augment Magic: Homing Bullet." Tristan said and his gun flashed white for a brief second. "Try to run away and this bullet will follow you to the ends of Earthland, even if you turn yourself into lightning. So what do you say? Surrender?"

"… I can't fight without my dear sister here." Orfeo fell to his knees. "You have bested me."

"… That was quicker than I thought." Tristan said as he raised his eyebrow.

Contrary to his demeanor before, Orfeo was now completely frightened and scared of everything around him without his twin sister by his side.

"Yeah, they seemed to be pretty quirky before the fight, too." Milliana said as she and Kagura stood up.

Tristan then looked up and stared at Kagura for a few minutes. "Wait… You must be that girl Jason's showing off to his parents to get them off his back."

"Meow?!" Milliana exclaimed. "Kagura, you never told me that!"

"I'd rather not talk about it." Kagura simply said.

"Come on!" Milliana begged. "Give me all the juicy details!"

Milliana continued to pester Kagura while Shroud used his Transmutation Magic to form a rock prison around Orfeo and Zola.

"The enemies have been restrained." Shroud said.

"No need to tell me that." Tristan said.

"You slept with him?!" Milliana exclaimed.

"No, we slept in the same bed." Kagura clarified. "That's it… Okay, he might have cuddled me, but he was asleep and didn't know what he was doing at the time."

Milliana quickly examined Kagura's face. "… Are you… Are you blushing?"

"What? No." Kagura replied.

"I can see that small tint of red on your face." Milliana said. "Admit it! You liiiike him!"

While Kagura and Milliana continued to bicker, Tristan simply sat back against a tree and relaxed himself.

"Shouldn't we stop them?" Shroud asked.

"Nah, just enjoy the show, kid." Tristan said. "I say there's no need to interfere in a catfight unless they get really violent and try to draw blood."

"… I'll never understand people." Shroud said to himself as he sat down next to Tristan.

Vance continued to make his way into the mountain ruins until he stopped in his tracks and turned around.

"How long are you two going to keep following me?" Vance asked, looking toward the moss covered statues behind him.

Two figures stepped out from behind the statue were Jellal and Ultear of Crime Sorcière.

A/N: I really hope you enjoyed the chapter, my fellow readers! So the other morning I had this sudden idea for a JuviaXOC fanfic since the only one out there is a fem-slash. I might not work on it right away as I still want to work on my current fanfics, but otherwise I think I might do it at some point. Anyway, stay tuned for next time!