Disclaimer: I do not own Vash the Stampede or any of his affiliations or partnering characters. There is only one character within that I own and that is Chaotica Angelous "Chaos" if you wish to use him please ask me for his info and other such things so that my character is not misrepresented.

Legend: thoughts "spoken words"

And now on with the story.

Vash coughed and let the dust and sand spill from his cloak. He shook himself off climbing down from the train and looking back up to see if the two women were still behind him.

they should really stop following me!

He thought this as he slipped into the crowd heading for the tavern. Chaos fell out of the bed shaking himself off and yawning on the floor. The woman rolled over and fell on top of him snuggling closer. He stood up dumping her back on the bed.

"Your money is on the table although I doubt you'll get to use on the things you should."

The woman sat up shaking her hair out and shrugging her shoulders. Suddenly she fell back onto the sheets and her blood began to soak into the pillow and mattress as he turned the doorknob and called the Jain back to his side. Vash settled down on a stool at the bar shaking his head the two women stumbled in.

How do they keep finding me?

Chaos came down the stairs as they stumbled in and he eyed them shrugging his shoulders and pulling his hat down further making sure his unique eyes were shielded. It had been a long time since he had come to this dimension. He took the stool beside Vash and slapped the bar. The bartender jumped and turned around handing him a bottle of Whiskey and a shot glass. Vash looked over at him out of the corner of his eye focusing more on the bottle than the person. It had been a long time since he had completed his task and avenged her death. Yet they still followed him. Chaos slid the bottle over to him and then hit the bar again the bartender spun with a glass in his hand.

"I see you've got somebody else to drink with yet again."

"Just give'em the glass."

The bartender nodded and put the glass down in front of Vash. He filled it up and downed it in one shot. Shaking his head and feeling that familiar burn in his chest as the whiskey ate its way down to his stomach. The girls in the back that had been eyeing Vash stood up and moved forward.

Oh boy here comes trouble

Chaos stood up and shrugged off his cloak letting his wings sweep outward. He used them to conceal Vash as he rolled over the counter and creep beneath the bar slipping out the back door.

"Um could you move your wings please?"

Chaos turned around and let his eyes reveal their true state.

"Who might you be?"

"Well I am called Sempai by this young lady and her name is Millie."

They both took a bow then Millie knelt before his left wing picking up his fallen feather. Before they could continue the conversation with him however he spun grabbing his cloak and forcing his wings back within himself he slipped the cloak on and was out the door. Vash was waiting for him sitting on the roof across from the bar. Chaos leapt up to the roof grabbing Vash and flipped down to the other side slipping into the room that he had rented just for this purpose.

They stood there facing each other for what felt like eons. Then suddenly they both burst into laughter and shook hands.

"Vash my man its been a long time, how you been, still on the run I see and missing a arm."

"Well that's what I wanted to see you about. You remember the flying city, well it's not flying anymore."

"Let me guess the Twelve, right?"

"Yeah, but how did, oh never mind can you make it?"

"Yeah Vash I can make it but you know what this means right?"

"Yeah."

Two hours later Vash had two arms again and the both of them were walking out of the town. As they made their way out of the town the girls followed behind them at a safe distance. Hours passed and then days as they moved along until one night as the girls were camping in what they thought was a safe distance from the boys an explosion erupted in the distance at the their campsite.

Chaos swooped in low over the girls landing in the middle of their site.

"Get up quickly and be quiet about it. If you must insist on following him then you must be prepared to move at the drop………"

Chaos spun facing the night away from them.

"Go……………NOW!"

The girls leapt up running zipping right past Vash who moving straight toward Chaos.

"Yo what took you so long to get here."

Vash stepped up beside Chaos and looked out toward the darkened horizon shaking his head. He drew the gun at his side and shook off the smiles of the day. Chaos became suddenly sullen and turned back.

Two figures stepped up into what little light the moon cast staring back at Vash and his companion before darting forward to stand directly in front of them.

"We are the death bearers and we have come for you Chaos and Vash the time for peacefulness has long since passed away."

In that moment two things happened at once. Vash truly awoken and Chaos fired one shot. In the moment after……………all hell broke loose.

The fire in Vash's eyes matched that of Chaos's the enemies standing before them let their cloaks fall to the ground revealing the bullet hole on one and the guns on another.

"Why must you two make this so difficult?"

The first death bearer darted forward lunging at Chaos two reports were heard in the night and then the sound of a body being tossed through the air followed. The second death bearer looked at Vash and snapped up his gun pointing it at a distance in the darkness. A woman's scream suddenly pierced the night and Chaos was off and running letting his wings lift him into the air. Vash ducked at the gun swiveled around to him and kicked out rolling straight toward him. Chaos swooped in low to find Sempai and Millie surrounded by wolves and a herder standing in the middle of the wolves. He swung in low grabbing Millie's hand as she grabbed Sempai. As he lifted into the sky he swung around flying back to grab Vash before while he moved the two girls onto his shoulders. Vash stuck his hand up grabbing Chaos's out stretched hand and then they flew off all four believing their own points of view.

"Vash so this is how you've been living for the past couple of days."

"Try years dude, try years."