Serena sniffed the air faintly as she lay in bed. A familiar smell aroused her 
nose. Something was burning and she could smell it. She thought nothing of it, 
her neighbor burnt stuff every day so it wasn't anything new to the young angel. 
She just blocked it out as she tried to catch up on some sleep. She needed all 
the energy she could get in the future, she wasn't going to waste it now. With a 
yawn she curled up a bit tighter and hoped the smell would go away soon. 

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Kazin wandered through the halls to get his bearings. This was the third time he 
had lost his room this week. His memory had always been extremely sharp so he 
just chalked it up his getting used to the giant building. He treaded silently 
through the halls as to not disturb any resident. 

Then he smelled it. Sulfur and thick carbon. He was all to familiar of that 
smell, it was a fire. This could not have been a good omen. He decided to 
investigate. 

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A sharp knock came to Serena's door. She just mumbled something about Burner and 
turned over. No one needed to come to her, their couldn't have been a reason, and 
nobody was that close. Even so it barely roused her as she laid on her 
comfortable sheets. It was amazing how much this room suited her, the only thing 
it was missing was furniture for her child. If it had that it would have been 
more than perfect. 

The knock came again, louder this time. Serena jumped from her bed to her feet. 
"What do you want!?" she yelled as she put on a light dress to answer the door. 

"Madam!" came a rather strange voice from the other side of the door, "You have 
to leave now! There is a fire in the building!" 

Serena rush to the door and flung it open to find a strange lizard creature 
looking up at the ceiling keeping it's huge crest to the ground. Serena almost 
fell over at the sight of the creature but was not really effected due to the 
shock of the news. She looked down the hall to see a billow of smoke starting to 
come toward them and flood the small space. The Creature grabbed her and through 
her to the ground face first. Serena still stunned didn't do much. "We are 
getting out of here!" The Creature snarled as it crawled forward. 

Serena just stared at it, thoughts flooding her head. She couldn't believe there 
was a fire, and this creature was stranger than she had ever seen. She stood up 
and walked toward the billow. If there is a fire it would only be right if I die 
in it, there is nothing outside of here for me and my child. Besides, she would 
go out in a way Burner might be proud of. Yes, that would make everything right. 

Serena felt a sharp blow to the back of her head, then it all went black. 

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Kazin and two other people crawled down the smoke filled hall, he knew he had 
seen a fire escape route somewhere in this direction. He had to get out, he just 
had to help these people. So the pressed on as fast as possible, hoping to out 
run the flash over that he knew would come soon. That is when he saw it, a giant 
lizard beat a young woman over the head with it's own fists. How barbaric and 
during such a time to. He couldn't risk a Blaze now, the temp increase would 
cause the flash over to accelerate immensely. He just rush forward and covered 
the fallen woman with his body to absorb any further blows. "Don't hurt this 
woman anymore beast!" Kazin shouted. 

"Harm her? I preventing her from getting killed, she was walking toward the 
fire," The lizard muttered as it looked at Kazin, "I know the way to the fire 
escape. Please follow me." 

Kazin sighed and nodded as he slung the young woman over his back. The other two 
nodded as well and the five continued to move along. 

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"Madam? Are you okay?" 

Serena faintly herd the voice as she came to. She could also feel the cold stone 
against the back of her head. She couldn't remember a thing, let alone think of a 
face to go with the voice. Her head hurt and somebody was talking that was all 
she knew at this moment. She slowly opened her eyes. It was dark and the air felt 
damp, she came to the realization. She was in the caves and she must have been 
pulled from that fire. A shiver went over her spine thinking of what might of 
happened in there. A young elf sat in front of her with his hand on her forehead. 
She smiled lightly to him but was only met with a stale look. 

"Are you okay?" He repeated. She only nodded and he took his hand off his head 
and turned to a large lizard. 

"So that's two dead of burns and bleed?" The lizard stated bluntly. The word burn 
tapped a nerve in the back of her brain, she shifted for comfort. 

"Yes, at least this one is okay, save the bruises from transport," the elf said 
with a hint of sadness in his voice. She just looked at them, her rescuers. She 
owed them her life. 

"Well then, I shall be off," The lizard said as it turned down toward a fork on 
the tunnel. 

"Why? Where are you going?" the elf questioned. 

"Else where, I need to be alone," the lizard replied. The Elf only nodded and 
lifted to his feet. The Lizard walked off . 

Serena reached up her hand as the elf assisted her to her feet. She only then 
noticed her broken leg and his heavily bandaged mid section. They leaned on each 
other for support. "So back to rubble madam?" The elf asked. 

"Sure ain't anywhere else to go. By the way the names Serena," She smiled at her 
rescuer. 

"They call me Kazin, I only I hope that I could be as helpful as could to you," 
He said trailing off near the end. 

"I'm sure, but thank you for the assistance," Serena replied as the two started 
awkwardly down the corridor. They wobbled like a some sort of old broken machine. 

"You should have thanked that creature, he saved your life back there," Kazin 
smiled as they continued to edge along. Serena was silent further more all the 
way back to the Hotel sight. 

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Caborros lay dead, all of his reserves depleted. He used the last of his strength 
to help pull those people from the fire, now he would sleep in peace.