Long awaited chapter 13! I luv ya all, and I would like to thank Stary Angel, Alucard, Noble Kitsune, Twilight Tsukasa, Queen of Demon Dragons, Honorable Blue Dragon for allowing me to use your characters in my story! You guys really saved me! (I had a whole bunch of characters written down in a notebook, but I lost the notebook. Stupid closet that I never clean. ^..^)

Anyhow, Thanks to all who reviewed, and I will have a sequel up sometime real soon after I finish this story! I am so excited! Sorry, I had a lot of sugar today. Well, nuff rambling, on to the fic!

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Chapter 13

Fire

Iris, Alu, Angel, Tsukasa, and Den sat around the makeshift cot in Den's room. They were going over the plan.

"If I remember correctly from my days as a bodyguard, I always had to fix that damn locking system because every time the fire alarm went off, which was quite often, it would fry the whole system. So when I set it off, which won't be hard, there are stupid little pull things all over, that will be when we attack, I want you guys to tell everyone that they will need to trust the three that come to help. We have to make sure that they all make it out, then we will all meet up again and...." Iris was cut short as some one walked in the room.

It was a male who appeared to be about 17, he was 5 feet tall and thin. He had jet black hair, in a style similar to Vash's. His eyes were vermillion. He wore a blue kimono wilt orange trim, red sandals, a gold belt, and a smoke grey bandana wrapped around his forehead. He had a ninja sword tucked in his belt. A blue dragon tattoo wound around his arm and rested his beautiful head on the back of the man's hand. On the back of his jacket were the words Aku, Soku, Zan, Slay evil immediatly.

Den stood up to introduce this newcomer to the group. "This is my friend, and my partner, as well as my roommate here. His name is Nazo."

Nazo nodded.

"Nazo we may require you're help, if you would be so kind as to assist us, we would like you to aid us in getting Lady Iris to the Master so she may defeat him."

Nazo nodded again, agreeing to help. "You are my partner Den, if you do something, I feel it is my duty to help you." With that Nazo sat down near the group of people to listen to the plan of what was going to happen. Iris was a little weary of him at first. He reminded her of a black raven. Mysterious in its actions.

However, Iris continued. "When we get past the first guards outside of the these doors, we will have to follow a long corridor. It will lead to another set of doors. This is the another place where there will be many guards. That is because through these doors is a stair well, we will need to follow that up, and it will lead to the master's room. This is the most guarded place. If any of you are wounded by the time that we reach this location, I want you to stay back. The guards here will find you're weakness and attack it. And please, everyone, be careful."

Iris stood up and walked to the door. "I'm going to go rest now, I suggest that all of you do too."

In the morning Iris woke up to the sound of birds singing outside. She walked over to her barred window. 'Vash, I'll be with you soon.'

She tubbed her eyes and left for the cafeteria. She sat down at a table with the small group she had rallied and ate her breakfast silently.

Angel walked over by Iris and whispered in her ear. "Will you do it tonight?"

"No," Iris whispered back, "it must happen in the day, if we do it at night, some of the guards may be sleeping, we need to know where they all are. We don't want them sneaking up on us do we?"

Angel shook her head then went and returned to her seat. Iris sighed. She couldn't stop thinking of Vash. She missed him. It had only been about two days. But maybe she was worried.

She got up and attempted to walk out of the cafeteria, but bumped into somebody on her way out.

"Hey! You're the girl who was planning the escape right?"

Iris looked at who she had hit. It was a girl who had short brown, baggy blue jeans with a chain, a black peasant shirt and a spiked collar around her neck and wrists. She had red eyes that could have easily scared Iris if she had been concentrating, but her mind was wandering.

"Um. Yeah. But. Shouldn't you keep it down, I mean, we don't want the workers knowing."

"Oh, yeah. Hey, I'll help ya if ya want me to. My name is Demonix."

"Sure, yeah, we could use your help. I'm Iris. If you talk to that group over there, they can fill you in on what's going to happen."

Iris walked away. Suddenly her head hurt. She had been confident, but now she just couldn't see what she was going to do. She knew she had to keep a clear mind to make sure she didn't make a mistake that could cost her, but she just couldn't concentrate.

She wanted to see him. To make sure he wasn't angry with her, and also, to make sure he was alright. She had a gut feeling something was wrong.

Iris slowly walked back to her room She had had to grab onto the wall for support a few time, but she had made it with out anyone noticing her weak state.

She walked over to her window. She looked out to the see the little town, and a blazing fire in the middle of it, where the Inn should have been.

Tears sprang to Iris's eyes. 'What if they were hurt!' And she could not leave to help them. Iris grew frustrated. She had to get out of there now.

She ran out the door and down the hallway. She found the first fire alarm she could, and pulled it out and down, sending off the alarms all over the building. All the doors suddenly flung open, they're locks unable to work. Iris pushed past the various people trying to get out. She found the doors that would lead her away from the crowd. She pushed through them. Everyone was there. Alu, Angel, Den, Nazo, Tsukasa, Demonix. They were already to go and take on the challenge that awaited them.

However, Iris's mind was only on the fire behind them. If Vash, Nick and Ryu were ok, they would be here, away from the fire. Angel had to grab on to Iris's wrist to bring her back and to make her follow the running group.