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Relena turned to the Puppet and stared at him. The puppet wasn't kidding when he said he was in hurry to get back to Ceunon. The puppet must have been right on her heels after she landed earlier nearly. She gave a small nod as she walked up to him, "Fine. Lead the way."

Despite her appearance, Relena was ever so much on guard and ready to pick a fight if someone wish to start something with her. She was ready to remove the Puppet if need be. At the current moment, Gwen and Kaida had her full attention. If and only if Sang and Mai prove to be real would she change her mind set, if she did at all. Too many things were happening at once and need less to say, Relena was getting old and rusty. She failed to remember the last real time she slept and did not simple have her body slowly fad away day by day. She doudt she was as menacing and dangerous as she looked.

Relena was so not amused by the Puppets actions. She didn't even give him time to stop as the house came into his view. Her legs slip through the puppets grasp and were soon panted on the square of his back. Relena quickly crouched down and kicked off sending the Puppet head first into the mud and muck as it skidded to a stop. Before the Puppet had a chance to get up from the ground, Relena was upon him in her dragon forms that was slightly larger than he previously seen earlier. Her large claw paw engulfed him as she pressed him into the ground. Only his head was visible.

"Lets get one thing straight Puppet," growled Relena, "Ever, EVER, do that again and I promise I won't be the cure you seek for Mai. I will become the exact opposite in fact!" She pressed him further into the ground to prove her point before she jumped off of him and looked around at her surroundings ahead of her. The house was behind her however.

She gave a shutter at the vibrated through her hold dragon body. She felt it again, but this time it was closer than before.

Turning back to the Puppet halfway, she glared down at him from the corner of her eye, "Now, we better be close for your sake," said Relena as she snapped her jaws at him.

Relena turned to Sang voice and set her eyes upon him for the first time in a long time. Time went still for her. He was real, flesh and blood. She didn't truely believe the Puppet until this very moment. Her expression soft and her stance relaxed slowly as she finally lowered her guard in over 500 years. She had truely thought she was alone all these years, that the those of her past were either killed in the war or passed on as time went by.

"Sang," she said quietly and gave a bow of her head. "It has been a long time." Suddenly Relena looked her age. Every single year of the pass 500 became etched in her face.

Relena's form shifted as she took her human form and took him up on his offer, flowing him inside. She instantly smell the scent of disease and sickness when she entered the dwelling. It was same one for so long ago when Mai was once within the Varden borders. "How long," asked Relena as she press the flat of her palm against the door that seperated her from Mai person in the bedroom.

Relena looked to him and shook her head, "Not if it is a posion affecting her. Is there anything she has been taking that no one else has , or doing, or possibly performing, since she has become ill or little beforehand? Such things that would involving the children can be ruled out."

Relena followed him and gazed upon Mai form. She looked as wary and faded as Relena was on the inside but was unable to keep it from showing to the public though. She walked over to Mai that woke up slightly at feeling her magic's presence and that one of an old friend. Each exchange a brief and silent hello with a simple nod of their heads before Mai became unconsicous once again. "Oh my dear friend," whisper Relena quietly as she brushed Mai's hair from her forehead gently before replacing the cold wet cloth that previous adorn the area.

Deep down inside Relena had seen Mai as the sister she lost. She had become overprotective of the woman. It pained her to see the woman like this. "You are sure the children, nor yourself, are infected to the slightest degree," asked Relena in a gentle tone, her eyes never leaving Mai's form as she study the toll that the illness took on the outside of her body.

"poisons hit the blood stream Relena if it was something like that it would pass to our children, and possibly me if it was our water supply." Sang commetns softly before he herd Mai scream. sang nearly left the twins alone in a viscous wake but he did his best to keep calm as he walked up to Mai's side and gently took her hand. checking for her pulse he lets out a long sight. "She is vary week Relena, She hasn't moved from her bed in ages and i cant keep this up forever... Can you help us? ... Please" Sang pleads nearly begging as he drops to his knees his lips kissing Mai's skin as he fight back his tears as Surete and Rain looked through the windows their eyes filled with worry and fear.

"Dont make me trade my wife for a dear friend Relena. please." He comments softly as he stands up. heasatently moving to the twins he takes them both into his arms before moving into the living room. taking a exhausted seat near the fire place. the twins would fall asleep quickly with the warmth from the fire place and Sangs relaxed state as he looked straight into the flames. his mind turning blank as tears started to trickle down his cheeks, mostly when his eyes closed and his mind retreated into a deep dark sleep.

Relena remained still during Mai's fit, watching her intently. She could feel Sang coming towards them in worry and fear but she was quick to throw up a barrier to keep him out of the room. She had enough to worry about already and didn't need another thing else to add to her plate for she was no doctor. If it was poison or simple illness that had greatly become worst then a simple spell could heal Mai, but things had so, SO, changed now.

Walking up to Mai and setting on the edge of the bed, Relena spread her fingers out wide across Mai's belly. Sure enough...it was there. Faint, fading..., but there never the less. Another's heart beat that had the rhythm of dragons was still inside Mai's womb. For once, in all of Relena's life, Relena wished desperately for an elf...trust worthy or not. She wasn't sure, at all, if she could save Mai...or the child for that matter. Relena closed her eyes, concentrating as she slowly pull every bit of knowledge she knew in attempts to find something, anything, to help but no spell, chant, medical, or whatever seem to work that was looked within the knowledge deep within Relena's mind.

Relena's outside was calm and cool but it began to shake slowly. She had found two of her friends again and despite her earlier meeting, she was uplifted and full of joy. She felt alive again and wanted to fight to keep going. She wasn't alone, the only one left that fought in that blasted war. Now she was trembling because she believed she would lose Mai and then Sang because of it and be alone once more. How selfish of her, to think of herself, but she was so lonely and suddenly had hope she didn't want to lose so badly. Surely the elves would have heard of a dragon half-breed, possibly, beginning born of an egg or human and would knew what to do but there was no time!? Mai would not last the time it took for them to arrive. Relena had wasted too much of Sang's time with taking her own in insuring Gwen's and Kaida's safety and being overly cautious. She truly had become cold and the monster she so looked like in the new generation eyes that looked upon her in her old partners form.

A thought then raced crossed Relena's mind.

....a...new....chant..., a...new....spell....

Dangerous and deadly even to the oldest, strongest, and wisest of users of magic. In the end it was that that destroy the King truly and not them. His own chant, newly created by only him, had back fired. Sometimes the chants wouldn't even work at all before given the chance to actually backfire, the toll killing the user.

Relena simply watched Mai for a minute. Others die to create a new spell for others to use safely. Relena knew it would kill her because it was an extreme rarity for someone to survive a new spell. The King had been overconfident in his power. Relena made up her mind. She could not bear or survive the lost of Mai and Sang, so either way, she would die. Even if Brom was out there, she was unsure and she was sure he too was at the end of his rope as well.

As if on cue, Sang pounded on the door damning to be let in. He must have felt the change in the atmosphere and Relena's mood and mental state, and that of Mai's as well. However, he was too weak to even tackle Relena's makeshift and poor barrier. Exhaustion and excretion was beating at him.

"I am sorry, Sang," muttered Relena to no one in particular, "It is one or the other and I am only a friend, not a love one, a wife,...a mother...."It was a long shot to even get the spell to work before it turn on Relena but if she could, then at least the two would be alive. Only the user got hurt.

Relena's eyes began to turn to white as her hair began to tumble and turn as if a strong breeze was playing with it. She had zoned out Sang's yelling and her own voice as she began to chant pouring in all of her magic and reserves and even more. She was sure she would need everything she could muster and offer to Mai for this work even in the slightest.

"See the pain, See the suffering. See the unseen before me through my eyes," spoke Relena as she open her eyes wide. There her white eyes sudden became midnight black eyes staring down at Mai's form, looking over her form with a life of their own...hungrily. Black web-like veins began to form over Relena's body, as they moved along her skin up to her face slowly. "Do you see, see my wish!?" The wind suddenly kicked up into a storm rattling windows and doors, forcing the house to bend and sway under the force. "I give my all, to this request, my body, my soul, my mind, and my life...everything." Items on the shelves and floor and furniture of all sizes but the bed were caught up in the wind and force to flow in a circling motion above their heads. "My request! My request is this...." The black webbing suddenly engulfed Relena's face, merging into one another as they connected when they came across her face. " S...ave...t..h...em...," spoke Relena as she faded away and began to fall backwards away from Mai like lifeless corpse.

Suddenly Relena's form jerked upright and gazed down at Mai with a monstrous smile gracing her face. She cocked her head to the side and a long tongue ran out pass her lips and dangled there for minute tasting the air. The tongue was pulled back in quickly as she raised a clawed beast like hand above her head, grinning widely. The hand was brought down swiftly and fast as the hand plunged into Mai's stomach, ripping through skin, muscle, and much more. Soon the large beast like hand began to pull out of Mai's stomach holding something within in its enclosed hand. There a newborn infant rested in the centers of the hand that was twice its size, the claws twitching above it the newborn. She looked down at the infant with a gaze that seemed to be considering whether or not to eat the small meat bag in its hand. A tongue once again darted out and licked its lips but something jolted through Relena's forms and the child was dropped two feet on to the soft mattress below with another care or thought. Cocking her head to the side once more, Relena looked down the bloody and torn mess called Mai's body. She looked something like a dissected science animal with her chest and stomach ripped open and to shreds some areas. The form was silent and she could smell death in her nostrils. Tears began to flow from Relena's face and fall into the wounds of Mai's form. With each tear Mai began to heal and become whole once more while Relena looked down at her as if she was a meat just waiting to be devour. Still she remained perfect still as the tears flowed. Now Mai's still form, covered in blood, was whole. The wind turning around them began to shift and flow into Mai's open mouth like a small clear, whitish tornado. Her chest expanded greatly nearly to the point of exploding and suddenly the wind stopped, sending things crashing to the floor. Slowly Mai's chest flatten out and air began to escape her lungs in breathes as if life has been force back into her.

There, in a bloody mess, bloody sheets clinging to her, with a crying, healthy infant beside her, rested a live, a healthy, and a waking Mai to the sounds of her calling child....

"Request is...completed," echoed from Relena forms as her arms and hand return to normal, the webbing vanished, and a lost expression adorned her face. Suddenly Relena, herself, was looked down at Mai with a sadden, a tired, and a fading, but happy expression. She looked like an old woman as she smile lightly. "It is done....," spoke Relena in a barely audible voice before she crashed to the ground loudly....her barrier vanishing.