Submitted: March 17, 2012

Even now, staring up at the burning building, Xyla couldn't help but smirk. Her fang pertruded her lip as she felt warmth radiating off of her skin. A window broke. Then another. The whole building up until the tenth floor was in flames.
"Mission Accomplished. The building is secure and the tamers are sealed inside." She confirmed, scanning the building for traces of the man. He had to be in there somewhere- unless he had gotten sealed inside as well.
There he was.
The man was on the roof, looking down at her, seemingly nothing but a shadow. His green eyes reflected the fire as it neared. Opening his palms, he ran off the building, jumping into the air and spinning fast enough so that he was a blur. His body was consumed with data and his body twisted and shifted, creating the classic demon-like appearance.
Xyla turned towards the right as Impmon landed beside her, punching the ground as he did so.
"Late." She said harshly.
"Late ? Aw, come on, Xyla ! That was perfect ! I had the angle right like you said. And I nearly got caught by the fire on my way up too." Impmon complained, standing and trailing behind her as they slipped into the crowd of people. He reached up and clutched her shirt, walking in time with her own steps.
"Exactly. You could have been burned and we'd have to explain to Emperor what happened. And it'd be all your fault." Xyla growled underneath her breath, cutting a corner and ducking underneath a canopy for a rest. She sat on a windowsill, crossing one leg over the other and crossing her arms over her chest.
Impmon frowned, sitting underneath the windowsill to where he'd be hidden behind her. "Don't need to be so mean about it, Xyla..." He mumbled, saddened by his tamer's sudden harsh behavior for so long. She used to be so nice to him. What had happened ?
"Don't do it again." Xyla snarled, clenching her fists.
"Yes...ma'am..I won't.." Impmon said in a monotone voice, letting a sigh escape him. He tried not to cough from the smoke- both from the building and from Xyla, who had pulled out a cigarette and lit it boredly.

~The Building~

Henry was gone.
All three, Rika, Caroline, and Takato, couldn't find him. They were frantic, searching what they could of the building, before deciding to continue moving.

"Upstairs. The roof !" Rika coaxed, pointing to the staircase. She ran over, but Takato cut her off and touched his hand to the door.
"What are you doing ?" Caroline asked, raising an eyebrow.
"Checking for heat. I saw it in a movie- when you put your hand on a door and it's cold, it means there's no fire !" Takato said, attempting to be cheerful. "And it's cold. So no fire." He recited, gripping the door knob and opening it. The moment he took a step inside, he realized that the roof of that section of the staircase was about to collapse, and that fire was spiraling down towards him. Stepping backwards, he slammed the door shut once more, pressing his back to it as on the other side fire slammed into it.

Caroline and Rika were both equally unamused.
"Funny."
"Your argument is invalid." Caroline mumbled, turning away and searching for another way out. She began to walk, cursing underneath her breath for her stupidity. That man was suspicious from the beginning.
Wait a second-
"He set the fire." Rika seemed to have had the same thought, walking towards the hallway that opened up to another section of the level.
"He had to- but how ?" Takato asked, running up ahead of her and looking side to side, jutting to the right towards a line of desks, offices, and supply rooms. He pointed to another door. "Another flight of stairs. Let's head there." But when he turned, he realized, Rika had disappeared. Caroline stood there, frozen, staring at a computer screen.
"She just...what..She was.." Caroline fumbled, pointing at the screen, which suddenly turned black as the fire entered the room.

Both gasped and made a sprint towards the stairs. Takato swung open the door, tripping over himself nearly as he jogged upwards, the girl following close behind him. The stairs were leading higher and higher, and neither were stopping at the doors- until the second to last floor.
"There !" Caroline pointed, pushing Takato into the room. The fire was spiraling up the staircase.
It wasn't long, as they searched together, that the room was full of smoke and flames licked off each side of the room- which was full of technology. Computers, monitors, security cameras, everything.
But no people.
Takato couldn't see two feet infront of him.
Let alone Caroline, three feet behind him.

It was getting hard to breath. Their coughs filled the air.
Takato wavered to the left, Caroline to the right, seperating. Both called for the other, but their voices were drowned out by the coughing fits they erupted in.
A light erupted from the side of the room, from one of the computers, as Takato fell to his knees. The light combined with another coming from his pocket, and then, he was gone.
Caroline was a different issue.

Stumbling over just about everything, Caroline was a mess. She was nonstop coughing, taking breaths that came out was staggered gasps. She felt her heartbeat accelerating as her vision clouded, blotches of black filling her line of sight.
"Takato ?" She coughed, spitting blood onto the floor.
"Help..Anyone..Takato ? Tak-" She couldn't speak anymore. Her voice was gone as she fell to the ground, eyes rolling back in her head as she passed out from the smoke in her lungs.

A scarlet light ignited in her pocket, combining with the light of another computer, consuming her.
And she was gone.

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Ooooh.
It's going down.