A.N. I've got it! An Inspiration... actually I have a scene from one of the later chapters in my head. @.@ I think my brain hates me. Why won't it work!! *clanks her brain* @.@

Filia hummed a light tune, dusting the area around her precious egg.

"Hi Val. How did you sleep? Really well, huh? The shop's been going great. Your pal, Gravos, has started a 'count down till Val is born'. Jirras plans on making firecrackers in the celebration of your birth. Ms. Lina said that she would visit once you are born. Her and Mr. Gourry... They would be in the peak of their lives.

I haven't spoken to Mr. Zelgadis, though Ms. Amelia is doing extremely well as a Princess. She is now nineteen and is looking for a Prince to wed. I know she is secretly wishing Mr. Zelgadis would show up. And then there is Xellos… Why do I keep thinking of him. He is a Namagomi. A evil mazoku. A destroyer of good. He killed a whole clan of Dragons. Why am I attracted to him?"

Filia grimaced at this, remembering her race killed the Ancients. Which was more than a clan. She leaned over the basket, picking up the egg and held it to her breasts. "I wish the High Elder was still here. He may have answered my question. Yes he did do wrong, but I loved him like a father."

She stood up and placed the egg back. She straightened her dress. "Xellos… I know you are there." She sighed. "What do you want?"

"Iiiiya! I didn't think you would detect me!" Xellos appeared a few steps in front of her, scratching his hair.

"Of course I'd detect someone as annoying as you." Filia muttered, going about her cleaning.

"How are you Filia? I notice you were, err, talking to a egg. Are you going crazy?" He asked, hopping up on the table she was cleaning.

"I was cleaning that! Get your dirty self off of there!" Filia growled.

"Oh am I in your way?" Xellos asked innocently. "I just wanted to visit an old friend."

"Old friend?" She looked at him with a frown. "I bet you are just here to kill me. Please Namagomi, wait till Val grows up ok?"

"Well lucky you, I don't have to do that yet." He teased.

"Well when that time comes, beg your Mistress to spare me a few hundred years." Filia's voice was dry.

"I'll try my best Filia!" Xellos said cheerfully. "Oh look! Customers!" He skipped over to the main room when the small bell on the front door rang. Filia walked over to the door separating the Shop and her house, watching Xellos tend to her customers. He sure was convincing.

She sighed again and dusted her hands on her apron. She watched Xellos and his movements. Why wasn't she getting up tight and whacking him with her mace? Why wasn't she trying to drag her customer away from him, claiming he was a mazoku and would try to corrupt them? There was definitely something wrong with her.

Zellas wrapped her arms loosely around the 'sleeping' figure in her lap. She sat there calmly in thought, thinking on the things Xellos told her. Being his creator and mother-figure, she knew things that even Lord Shabrignigdu couldn't get out of him. She was of course the closest to him.

He was, again, telling her about Filia and why he was always drawn to her. He didn't have a clue, but she did. She didn't know what would happen if he remembered. But she knew she wanted to prevent it. She knew he would listen to her no matter what. Though she didn't really want to do this, she knew she may have to order him to kill her. That was one assignment that she wondered if her would fulfill. That definitely would be interesting.

Lina's teeth were chattering, hugging herself. "F-F-Filia… W-Why do we have to b-b-be out here in the cold?" She chattered.

Filia closed her eyes. "You agreed to join me on my way to the Fire Dragon King's temple." She replied calmly.

"Ms. Lina!! Keep the Justice in your heart and it won't be so cold!" Amelia called from a tall pole.

"Hey Amelia! Do you see any food yet?" Gourry called.

"N-No not yet Mr. Gourry." Amelia called back.

Lina sighed. "I'm traveling with idiots. Where is that Train that we used?" She asked.

"You destroyed it." Filia said shortly.

"It wasn't all my fault!" Lina exclaimed, fangs bearing.

"Ah! I've figured it out. If we take this route…" Filia pointed on a map, running her finger over the map to get her point across. "We could reach Michani Island and meet Mr. Zelgadis, take this detour and we'll be able to reach the ruins by nightfall on the seventh day."

"My, My Filia… sounds like a good plan." An annoying voice sounded from behind her ear.

"Argh! Namagomi! What are you doing here? I didn't invite you!" Filia exclaimed, taking out her mace and raising it above her head to strike him. She stopped in the middle, lowering the mace slowly to her side. She dropped it on the ground, running off on her own.

"What, What, What? What just happened…?" Lina asked, Amelia sliding down the pole witnessing the scene.

"I'd like to know that myself Ms. Lina." Xellos said darkly.

'What was with me? Why did I spare Xellos from my mace? Why did I run off?' Filia thought wildly as she ran through a forest of trees, her body shaking a bit fearfully. She felt as if fire was burning through her body and as if she was getting burned. She tripped over a tree stump, landing on the ground face first. She didn't really try to move out of the way of it. She laid there, her eyes clothes and her body still shaking.

Then she did something she never thought she would do in all her life. "XELLOS!! HELP ME!!!!!" She screamed at the top of her lungs, then breaking down into uncontrollable sobs.