"Mphh nmmum mmhhpi! mmhyus!"

"Eh?" Filia sipped a glass of water.

"Mpphhukku!"

"nope. Don't get it." Filia shook her head and snatched Xelloss' food. "Try speaking once you emptied your mouth."

"I thought of something." Xelloss said, snatching the food back. "They say there's a fountain, the water from which can cure curses and reverse spells. I mphin..."

"Food." Filia Sighed.

"I think thats our best hope."

"Sounds it" Filia replied, picking at the food. "Where is this fountain anyway?"

"Well... That is a secret." He said.

"This is neither the time nor the place for that!" Filia said through Gritted teeth, leaning closer toward her own body.

"Relax! It's so secret that even I don't know... that's all." Xelloss flicked a small sweatdrop from him. "But I know someone who should know."

"Oh, let me guess... Lina?"

"Yup. She'd know of this. Greed often knows more than age."

"Well, where is she?"

"restaurant?" Xelloss suggested.

"What one...?"

"Erm..."

"Erm indeed!!" Filia exclaimed hitting Xelloss on the head with Staff-sama. "If you're going to suggest things... at least make sure they're useful!" She bashed him again for good measure.

"Itai!" Xelloss exclaimed standing up to retaliate, tail angrilly sticking out, giving the people behind the mazoku in dragon body and good view of Filia's panties. Which Xelloss had neglected to change since the swap had taken place.

"Sit down." Filia growled, suddenly remembering that she'd been asked to take her own tail back to Wolf Pack Island. "Tell me something... how patient is Zelas?"

"Not very." Xelloss replied, tucking back in to his meal. "If ever."

"Well, thats good news." Filia sighed.

"What did she ask?" Xelloss asked with a narrow eyed look.

"Sore wa himitsu desu!" Filia excliamed indignantly.

BASH BASH BASH! Xelloss had finally managed to work out how to free mace-sama from it's hidey place.

Filia cringed and then picked herself back up from the unrelenting attack, glaring back at Xellos.
"Does that actually hurt you?"

"sore wa himitsu desu!" he replied, in response to her having stole his quote from earlier. " I don't actually have to tell you anything.... namagomi."

"Then I shan't tell you what Zelas-sama said." Filia replied tauntingly. "I shan't tell yoooooou!"

"Oh well, I guess I can adapt to living like this." Xelloss said with a shrug. "By the way Filia-chan, you should have worn more revealing clothing. After all, what I've seen isn't half bad!"

Filia tipped the table up and walked out.

"I can find a way by myself."

"Just one minute Filia!!" Xelloss called, scrambling from under the table and running after her. "Hey come back here you stupid dragon! Get back here!"

"...no.' Filia replied flying into the air. She was getting quite used to this, but it would have been more satisfying if she'd learnt to vanish.

"Filia!!! Get back down here!" By now, Xelloss was in a fully-fledged Filia temper, fangs bared and tail straight out. "Get back now!! Filia!! Filia!! Filia!!"

"Nah..." Filia returned coolly, coming to rest on top of a church spire.

"THIS IS NO TIME FOR PETTY REVENGE!!" Xelloss yelled stamping his feet. "UNLESS YOU WANT TO STAY LIKE THAT FOREVER!!"

"Let me think about that." Filia said with a smile. "Well, now I'm thinking about it, this is kind of fun."

"AUGH!! JUST GET DOWN HERE NOW!!"

By now the mazoku's yelling had begun to attract a bit of a crowd. Most of them were standing behind, examining something...

"Filia! Come on! stop it! FiliAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!"

"Filiaaaaaaaaaaaah?!" Filia asked herself, watching her body transform to it's dragon form and begin stomping the townspeople. "Filiaaaaaaaaaaaah?" She shrugged and hopped off the spire and landed head first on her own head. "Oops. Umm... Xelloss.... Stop it."

"They pulled the tail!" He screeched. "Do you know how much that hurts?!"

"Yes I do." Filia responded in a flat tone, stamp one foot on the dragon's head. "Now lets move it and find a cure already. The townspeople are mad at you!" She giggled smugly.

"So good.... Or bad!" He added hurriedly, seeing the townspeople approach.

"Fly!" Filia prodded him.

"Okay!!"

Xelloss didn't do anything.

"Fly!" Filia said again, coming to hover infront of the dragons face. "Fly!"

"....how?"

"Flap your wings."

"...how?"

"moving them up...and down...and up and down..."

"...how?"

"Well you umm... like you'd move you arm up and down."

"And how would you describe how to do that?"

"I don't know I just do it! So run then!"

"I'm running I'm running.... you're heavy. Takes a lot of...energy to run like this."

"You're.... I'm NOT heavy!" Filia yelped indignantly. "It's not my fault you've gotten used to weighing as much as an over-inflated balloon!"

"I think we're far enough away now anyway." Xelloss panted, skidding to a stop and crashing through several trees.

"Oh boy, that must have hurt."

"It did!" The dragon roared, stomping back. "Now how do I change back to human form?"

Filia sighed. Explaining this was going to be tough. She pulled out a quill pen, some paper and a tea set and began the task of explaining.
"After all, " Filia thought to herself "if we are going to get anywhere with finding a cure, I can't have a big fat dragon crashing around next to me..... wait... I didn't really just think that did I?"