past7 "What are men her for?" She asked innocently, batting her eyelashes at him. Filia laughed her agreement. Xellos and Kenji had the same mock scowl.

"Say, Rika. Where is your engagement ring?" Filia asked suddenly.

"Huh?" Rika asked. Kenji grinned.

"See this is what happened. Rika and I were dating and I finally got the courage to ask her to marry me." Kenji said enjoying the story already.

"I also finally got the money to buy a decent engagement ring. So I go to the store and see this wonderful ring I wanted to get her. So I get ready to buy it and all… but they don't have her size." He paused tragically. Rika fought the urge to roll her eyes but instead smiled at her fiancée lovingly.

"What happened next?" Filia asked.

"Well I decide I can't wait to ask her so I go to her shop and run to her and ask her to marry me. With the customers there and everything. She looked all surprised but agreed. So I hugged her and everyone started clapping. It was just my luck to have old hopeless romantic ladies in there." Kenji ended his story with a big smile. He leaned over and gave Rika a kiss. Filia sighed.

"Oh that's just so sweet." She clasped her hands. "Xellos was to scared to ask to marry me too. But he got the courage and invited me out to dinner and asked me. That's the first time I've seen him sweat so much." Filia joked. Everyone laughed.

"Anyone like any ice cream?" Filia said pushing her chair out. Val, Xellos and Kenji nodded enthusiastically. While Xellia just smashed the remainder of her peas.

"Seriously, I don't think Kenji is going to ever…" Rika's voice faded off as she and Filia went to the kitchen to fix the ice cream.

"Filia and Rika seemed to get along good." Xellos commented.

'Well duh! She is talking to herself!' Kenji wanted to scream. 'But wait! I'm insulting myself.'

"I sense an evil presence off you." Xellos whispered so Val wouldn't hear.

"Yaah! Sore wa himitsu desu!" Kenji replied winking.

"So since I can't do anything really evil or Filia would like kill me, how about if we play a harmless joke?" Xellos coaxed.

"You're trying to make me do a harmless joke." Kenji replied coolly.

"Come on! The girls won't get mad." Xellos wheedled. In both his and Kenji's mind they had chibi filia's chasing them with mace-sama.

"If you want to do a joke use frogs! That always works with the girls at school." Val piped up. Xellos and Kenji looked at him in surprise. Xellos looked like he was about to tell his son it's wrong when he thought about it a second time.

"Good idea… I bet that would annoy Filia. Now Val you have to swear secrecy and I'll let you in on the deal." Xellos said making a deal with his son.

"Only if you promise to treat me to ice cream." Val said importantly.

"You drive a hard deal. OK fine." Xellos agreed. Kenji stared at Val in amazement.

'Uh what has Filia been teaching this boy?" He asked himself.

"So Kenji, you game?" Xellos asked. Kenji was going to answer when Rika and Filia came back.

"Yeah vanilla ice cream is my favorite." Kenji said giving Xellos his answer. Xellos's smile spread across his face.

"I like 'nilla ice cream. But strawberry is my favorite." Val said happily.

"Well you both are in luck. Vanilla for you two and strawberry for Valteria." Filia said placing down the bowls ice cream. Val scrunched his nose when Filia said his full name.

"Seriously do you ever think of anything else but food?" Filia asked teasingly.

"Well I think of ice cream parlors." He opened one eye into a wink at Kenji and Val.

"This is good mommy!" Val piped up with his best smile to his mom.

"Thank you Val. It took me a month to finish it. No thanks to Xellos." Filia glared at her husband who winced.

"Uh oh… What did you do now." Kenji asked.

" Oh nothing but use my ice cream to scare people off from my store. Doing his usual mischief, he 'accidentally' spills it on my customers." Xellos twitched.

"Of course you can imagine what my customers thought when they had cold liquid gushing at their feet. Lots of negative attitude." Filia said pointedly which made Rika laugh.

"Come on sweetheart, you really don't need to bother people with stories." Xellos said in an 'I'm innocent!' voice.

"I'm sure I'm not bothering them, am I Rika?" Filia said equally innocent. Rika shakes her head.

"Oh I've got to tell you this story Xellos mom told me when we got married." Filia started.

"Oh I can't wait to hear." Rika laughed. Xellos rolled his eyes and stood up.

"Kenji? Want to play some cards?" Xellos suggested.

"Sure. I'm a master at cards." Kenji smirked.

"Not better n' me!" Val exclaimed jumping out of his chair to his dad.

"Great! Three players! I can teach you that game of strip poker." Xellos told Val.

"Xellos…" Filia said warningly.

"What? OK strip go fish!" Filia glares. Xellos pouts. Kenji stood up.

"I guess I should show some affection, ne fiancée?" He whispered, bending down to say this in her ear. He leaned forward and gave her a kiss. Then smiled when she blushed. He waved his hand with a smirk then left with Val and Xellos.

"So he's like, where's the mustard for the hot dogs. He couldn't see a thing!" Rika exclaimed while drying Filia's dishes.

"Oh really? That probably got annoying." Filia laughed and handed Filia another dish she washed. "Sorry to have you washing dishes with me. Our dishwasher is broken."

"Dishwasher?" Rika asked.

"Yeah. You know the machine you put dishes in to get them washed without you washing and drying them yourself." Filia said, confused that Rika didn't know.

"Oh yeah." Rika laughed. "My mind is kinda like out there."

"Having a husband like Xellos, my mind does that often. But I love him." Filia smiled.

"Hmm? Did someone mention me?" Xellos walked over to Filia and gave her a kiss on the cheek.

"What are you spying? Don't worry, I didn't say anything good about you." Filia teased, rolling her eyes at Rika. Rika watched them.

'Could Xellos and I really act like that? Does he really love me?' She asked herself.

"…Needed some drinks." She heard Xellos say.

"OK get some out of the cabinet. And no spilling! Tell Val it's almost bedtime." Filia ordered.

"Yes ma'am!" Xellos said, grabbing some soda and cups. Giving her a mock salute he marched out of the room.

"Honestly! You think he would have…" Filia stopped in mid-sentence when she looked at Rika. "Rika! Is something wrong?" She asked worriedly. Rika had her hand on her stomach and looked a little green.

"I… don't… feel so…good." Rika moaned.

"Oh no. Here let me help you to the bathroom. Try to hold it in." Filia said slipping her arm around Rika's waist. Rika smiled and nodded feebly. When they got to the bathroom Filia stood outside and waited and Rika collapsed in front of the toilet and threw up her dinner.

"Ooooh." She moaned and leaned back on the wall.

"Rika? Are you ok?" Filia asked peeking in the door, then stepping in. Rika nodded.

"I don't know what's wrong. The food was fine." Rika said. Filia starred into Rika's face the sat down next to her.

"You must be pregnant." She said simply. Rika gasped.

"Pre-pre- pre- pregnant?!" She exclaimed. Filia nodded.

"It's called morning sickness. But it doesn't exactly mean you can't get it in the night or noon." Filia explained. Rika was in shock and didn't say anything.

"Maybe you should go to your room and rest. I'll finish the dishes." Filia said.

"No, No. I want to help you." Rika said.

"No that's alright. You go to your room and rest. Do you want me to send Kenji up?" Filia asked gently.

"Uh no not right now. I'll have to tell him later." Rika said nervously.

"Alright. Do you want me to help you upstairs?" Filia asked.

"No I can do it myself..." Rika said quietly, then exited the bathroom. When she got to the room she threw herself on the bed and starred at the dark ceiling. She soon fell asleep

A big picture of a purple mazoku appeared before her.

"You think I'd take care of a baby? Let alone a gold dragon!" Kenji mocked her.

"You are forbidden from the sanctuary!" The elder appeared.

"You heard? Filia UL Copt slept with a mazoku!" A female dragon priestess whispered.

"For real? She was the most powerful priestess here! Who did she sleep with? Another gold asked.

"I heard its HIM!"

HIM? Not Him!" The girls gasped and looked in Rika's direction. Rika fell to her knees and covered her face and cried. Darkness was surrounding her.

"I didn't know ryuzokus where such sluts!" Kenji's voice echoed.

"You are forbidden!" The Gold dragon elder said, His voice echoed too.

"She slept with HIM!" She's unclean!" "I couldn't even go so far as sleep with a mazoku! Let alone HIM!" The gold priestess voices echoed.

They all lined up in a circle around the crying Rika. They spun around her so fast. They words mixing with each other.

"Stop!" Rika said out loud sitting up in her bed. She started breathing really hard. Her tail sticking straight up. She looked at the clock. 12:00AM. Only midnight. She looked over at the sleeping figure next to her. Kenji looked so peaceful sleeping there. She shook her long blond hair and walked to the window.

The moonlight poured in the window as the soft summer wind blew in it. She leaned against the window, tears falling silently down her face.

'What was I thinking? Xell... er Kenji doesn't love me. And I just gave myself willingly to him. He's not in to commitment. I really blew it.' She thought to herself, sniffing. Kenji silently teleported behind her and wrapped his arms around her.

"Why are these beautiful baby blues crying?" He asked softly. Rika stiffened for a second in fear.

"Wha...wha...what are you doing up? She asked. She certainly is doing a lot of stuttering today.

"Well I heard crying. And if you know me I hate crying." He made a face that made Rika smile. "But I saw it was you and I decided to give a try at comforting you." He smiled at her opening his eyes. Mazoku eyes...

"Oh..." Rika said. He looked sincere...

"So why are you crying?" He asked.

"Huh? Oh, uh, um I ah er don't want to talk about it right now." Rika said sniffling.

"Ok. Well if you do want to talk you know me. But feel free to say Sore wa himitsu desu." Kenji teased her. Her lip quivered and she burst into a new set of tears.

"Huh? Fii... what did I do? Did I say something wrong?" He asked worriedly.

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