The moment they arrived at the mansion, her friends came pouring out of the building to greet her.

"Kaa-san!"

She cried tears of joy when she was able to feel her two precious jems by her side again. Skype was good and all, but she had need to feel her children beside her, needed to see them with her own eyes and not through the lens of a webcam.

"We've missed you so much, kaa-san!" Koyuki cried.

"And I have missed you. Both of you," she spoke, her arms moving slowly but as fast as she could manage to embrace them.

"Come on, then," Luella spoke up. "Let's get you inside and settled."

Mai couldn't wipe the smile off her face as her children talked animately about what they'd been up to while she had been away. Movement to the side caught her attention and when her children were too caught up in their story telling, her eyes slid over to the left. Naru had sat down on the lounge suite with his parents and Lin, but his eyes were settled on the kids. His eyes were softer and he still had the 'first time parent' look on his face. The look that said he still couldn't believe he was a father and they were his kids.

She watched as his lips turned upwards slightly when Kairu jumped on his sister after a small disagreement and they burst into laughter. When he looked at her and saw she had been watching him, he cleared his throat and looked back to Lin who was speaking quietly while he bounced Daichi on his knee.

"Alright everyone, bring it in," Martin called.

Ayako wheeled Mai over as they all moved to where Martin stood from his seated position.

"I've come up with a plan on how to deal with the demon," he started. "Since the demon seems to be focused solely on England, I've called all the other psychic's in the country here where we will make a stand against the demon."

"Is that really such a good idea, Martin?" Madoka asked.

"There really is no other way."

"How can we be more of a threat and less of a buffet?" Houshou asked.

"I'm open to ideas."

"There's got to be something we can do!" Mai sighed impatiently. "We aren't just psychics. We have a monk, a priestess, a priest, an omniyoji, a medium, Naru and his PKLAT and my...everything."

They all looked thoughtful for a moment.

"Alright, everyone, we should hit the books. Our own specialized art books. I'm not talking about general demon killing. I'm talking about all the many different ways our ancestors and successors handled unbelievable evil. I will call Hana. She has wiccan background and books from her mother's side. She'll give us another religion to go through."

The team all nodded and headed out to gather information on their practices but Mai called Lin back.

"Lin, wait."

He turned around to look at her.

"Could you have Madoka stop by my house and go through the books in my library? She was an excellent informant back when I was part of SPR. I'll have Yasu go there too."

Lin nodded and left. Mai turned back to her children who waited to know what they had to do.

"There's something I've been meaning to teach you two. Something I learnt that helped me with my abilities."

Having gained enough energy back since her little stunt at the hospital, she rose shakily from the wheelchair before moving forward a little and then getting to her knees. She hissed in pain a bit when the skin and muscle tightened in her thighs and calves but otherwise tried to ignore it. When she had finished shuffling about, she was kneeling, sitting on the balls of her feet, spine straight.

She only had to look to her children for them to scramble into a resembling position before her and she couldn't help the affectionate smile that pulled at her lips when she saw how eager they were to learn. To grow.

'My babies are growing up so fast,' she thought to herself as she spotted the tell-tale signs like the patience in Kairu's eyes or the confidence in Koyuki's posture.

Allowing her a couple of minutes to look over their forms -and get used to the idea of them growing- she eventually nodded.

"Now, Hana taught this to me. Power comes from the universe. We accept it...here," she explained, tapping their heads causing Kairu to smirk and Koyuki to giggle.

"Now imagine, we're taking so much energy from the universe into our bodies where we just store it. We only use small amounts, it's like we're wasting it. Like food, the energy does begin to spoil. That's why sometimes, we feel bloated and gross. By keeping this bad energy in our system, we make ourselves sick and leave no room for new, clean energy. Do you get it?"

"So it's like when you have to wash our hair?" Koyuki asked. "If we don't clean our hair, it gets greasy and yuck."

Mai nodded. "It's like that, yes. Good girl."

"Then how do we get rid of it?" Kairu asked.

"Every morning that I wasn't busy, I would do this exercise."

She raised her hands till they were pressed to her chest, over her heart and closed her eyes.

"I would close my eyes and just feel my heart beating in my chest, giving me life. I would imagine a small stream of white light flowing into my head, filling me with pure energy. I would think of all the bad things that had been bothering me and any other mean thoughts and let it be carried by the stream, down. Down into my chest. I would take a deep breath and let the two energies -both light and dark- swirl around together and when I was ready," she paused to inhale and a moment later, she exhaled. "When I was ready, I would breathe out, letting the bad energy leave my body in a puff of air, then bend."

She lent forward so her open palms were touching the carpet.

"And then I was let the stream flow around in my chest then down my arms and into the ground, back into the earth."

She opened her eyes to look at the children and they nodded. It was their turn.

"Now, you don't have to do what I did with my heart. Do what feels right with your hands."

They nodded and closed their eyes. Kairu brought his arms up and made an x over his chest, like a barrier. Koyuki moved her hands so they rested above her stomach and below her ribs; her diaphram as if to help her breathe. Mai nodded, even if they wouldn't see it.

"Now imagine white light flowing down into your head."

Neither moved which was remarkable, considering children hated to sit still.

"Breathe in."

They two noticeably took a breath.

"Now imagine everything that has annoyed you this week and any anger or sadness you hold right now. Let it stir inside your stomach. Feel it mixing with the good energy, but not changing it and when you feel like you're ready, breathe out."

Everything in the lounge was still for a moment, then in sync with one another, they breathed out.

Before my told them the next step, they both bent forward and touched the ground with their hands.

Her surprise turned to love as her twins opened their eyes and looked at her, their gaze noticeably sharper and bright and she knew. No matter what happened with this demon, her children would make it.

The universe would be a darker place without them.

Holy Commander Shepard! This chapter, I swear guys. I have been (and still am) considering discontinuing this story. It's taking too long for me to come up with anything good enough.

I have fixed the big mistakes in the previous chapters when I reread them. Don't know if anyone noticed Hana turned to Jessica. Fixed it and called her Hana.

If I ever finish this story, I might rewrite it since I'm not happy with my writing style back when I first started this. And I repeat IF

Still having decided yet.

My internal consensus has yet to reach a decision. Many people seem to love this story and I don't wanna disappoint anyone, but is it just me that can't stand the story at the moment?

Anyway, review and advice would be nice.