" You can't ?" Max asked and gave a look to Carly knowing now was the time to tell Artie about the Dragon Council.

Artunia shook her head. "No, and I've tried," she admitted before noticing the look between the two. "What?"

" We should tell her Carly. " Max said and told Artie about the Dragon Council.

"Tell me what?" Artie asked.

"The Dragon Council...they can give you your human form back. They aren't able to take away your Eraser form, but they'll stop the timer," Carly said.

" They can?" Artunia said in surprise and hoped the council remembered who she really was.

"They can," Carly said in response. "Though they won't do it just for any old reason," she added.

" I knew about them when I was human and maybe someone there remembers why they respected me. I don't remember much about my past." Artie said.

"Then hopefully when we go, they'll remember why they respected you so much Artie," Carly said with a light smile. She hoped that after all of this was over, they could head back to the Dragon Village.

" I hope so too. " Artie said. " Can we continue or do you want to head to bed?" She asked.

"I think bed sounds good right about now," Max said, yawning lightly.

" I agree. Tomorrow we can do a mock battle with Alex if he agrees. " Carly said and also yawned.

"Sounds like a plan," Artie said, yawning lightly.

( time skip to morning ?)

(works for me. What about David's plan, should it have failed?)

( it should have failed. )

(just making sure. So all we have to do now is to have the authorities capture David and Henry, and Janet staying at the hotel. I think they should stay until that happens, as well as having bonding time between Janet/Mary and her daughters.)

( sounds good to me. )

Henry was getting nervous and started to pack a bag. He needed to get out of this town and find a safe place to hide for a while. He knew that if He was exposed he would lose everything that he had worked hard to get.

"Going somewhere so soon...father?" Carly asked with a grin on her face as Artunia and Max stood behind her. She wouldn't admit it to anyone, but she was having a little fun with this idea that Max had thought up.

" How did you guess dear daughter?" David said and hoped Henry was out of town by now.

"Mama told me everything...and Dea should be taking care of your partner. But you wanted to use my Bishie to plant the seeds of distrust in her...how dare you," she said angrily.

"Sakura, make sure he doesn't escape," Deanna said as she watched Henry just flee the gym with a suitcase in hand. She scowled that she wasn't able to get to him sooner.

Sakura nodded and used her ice card to make it hard for Henry to escape and was glad that her quick thinking had worked when David slipped on the patch of ice.


" It was only my pleasure. If you you had only listened to me and not became a trainer then my plans would still be in place. " David said with a scowl.

Henry yelped as he slid on the ice, annoyed that his "wife's" daughter was doing this. "So...a magical girl huh? Perhaps I should return in kind," he said before he opened one of his Bishiballs, the female wizard appearing out of thin air. "Caster...end this quickly," he said as he fingered one of the Slave Balls that David had given him. After he captured Sakura, Caster could make her an apprentice or an experiment, he didn't care which.

"Not become a trainer? Are you out of your mind?!" Carly shouted. "It may be true that if I never met Max then we wouldn't be where we are right now, but if that was the case...I would have never known how it feels to have the wind dancing in my hair, the thrill of an adventure! I may have wanted us to be the perfect family once, when it was just me and Dea...but now? Now...now I wouldn't trade Max, Artie or any other Bishie in the world for this! Especially since it let me meet him..." she muttered after finishing her rant, a light blush on her cheeks as well.

" Sakura get behind me ." Deanna said and didn't want to lose either of her bishies. Sakura used her tree card to have a wall of vines surround them and hoped Thalia would be able to finish this.

(Sorry for being a stickler here, but Sakura doesn't have a "Vine" Card. She does, however, have a card that can produce vines, "The Tree" Card.)

Thalia saw Sakura get behind Deanna and used one of her cards to create vines to protect them both. Summoning lightning to surround her, she knew that this would also protect her from the effects of the Slave Ball that they saw Henry take out. Now all she had to do was defeat this magician.

( I can fix it. Sorry about that.)

" What card should I use next?" Sakura asked Thalia feeling unsure what to do.