Oh boy, now it's getting interesting.

Now that my work practice is finally done, I can safely get back to writing. It's rather ironic that I'm posting a new chapter for a DiaSukko love triangle fic right in the beginning of Diakko week. Kind of makes me wish Sukko week was a thing, though.

Purple prose, mean-spirited insults during Diana and Sucy's fight, and then it gets a tad angsty near the end of the chapter. Yup, it's a Wham Chapter. And hopefully it's going to be effective and not too narmy.


Review responses all over again!

GeminiAlchemist: Yup, Akko just can't do many things right. And, well, in this chapter, she reaps the consequences big time.

Horseshoejfijzer: Work practice went perfectly fine - 98 points out of 100, which I honestly didn't expect of myself, especially with how much trouble I had during program testing, the one part that I hated the most. As for the fic proper - I'm just trying my best. Like I said in one other fic, it's kinda hard for me to write Diana since she is not the type of character I can easily write.

IVIT: Why yes, she was shoving them like no tomorrow XD Glad you're enjoying the fic so far.


The week afterwards, Akko decided she'd be better off trying to forget the incidents that happened during her respective dates with Sucy and Diana. Or rather, that's the conclusion she came to after she just barely made it through a more recent test, with failure being avoided just thanks to a cram study session with Lotte – the brunette knew for certain that she would have certainly failed that one without her close friend's help.

On this particular Saturday, the Japanese witch decided she might as well take her time with broom practice. Throughout the summer, she made quite a bit of progress in her broom training – whereas during the end of the first year she could just barely float a few meters above the ground, now she was at least a half decent flyer, going at more notable heights and flying rather quickly. That being said, however, one thing she understood during her practice was that broom control was one of her weakest points in her flight skills, so she went with exactly that. It helped that her friends from both the Red Team and the Green Team were doing much of the same – well, Amanda was teaching Lotte some broom flying tricks, Constanze was testing out one of her new Techmaturgical Brooms, and the others were just watching from a slight distance away.

Sucy in particular had her attention rather heavily focused on Akko's flight, her normally stoic expression replaced with a subtle smile

"Truly, she is making quite a bit of progress in her broom flight practice, won't you agree?"

Ugh, Miss Stuck-Up all over again. Sucy angrily glared over at Diana, who was standing just nearby and also watching Akko fly around on her broom, having surprisingly good control but currently having had slowed it down to slowly drift through the air.

"I guess she is." – The violette replied, a tiny note of suspicion in her tone.

"A lot more progress than in your dates with her, wouldn't you agree?" – The low blow was unexpected, and it was but an ember that caused a tiny smolder of an imminent fight.

"Speak for yourself." – Sucy retorted, immediately looking over at Diana, who had the tiniest hint of a haughty smirk on her face. – "Nina's ranting when Akko shoved you right at her could be heard throughout the entire dormitory section. Nice kissing attempt, I'd give you that."

"Says the girl that came back in soaked clothes after being shoved off a bridge after her failed kiss." – Oh, now the smoldering began to grow into a small flame of heated debate, threatening to go into a full-on wildfire if both girls continued to toss more fuel in.

"Hey, at least our date went a lot better than yours did – she must have been bored to death at that fancy restaurant of yours." – The violette retorted, her expression now a toothy smirk.

"At least I can afford to take her on proper dates, and not just fly a couple circles around the countryside on a broom and call it a day." – The blonde demonstratively readjusted her hair as she said that, her haughty smirk now more prominent. From that point on, the girls' fight went over to the subject of how successful their dates with Akko were.

As for Akko herself, she noticed that the girls began debating over her all over again and sighed. Ugh, if only these two understood how much their constant debates get on her nerves! Exhaling sharply, the girl switched back to flying at reasonably high speeds, and decided she might as well see how well can she do on tight turns.

Meanwhile, not too far away from Akko, Amanda and Lotte also noticed the two arguing girls back over on the ground, with the latter actually stopping mid-loop and now rather comically hanging off the broom as she held on to it for dear life with both her hands.

"Oh, would you look at that, Miss Stuck-Up and Miss Creepy are fighting again." – The redhead remarked while Lotte struggled to get back into a more reasonable position.

"I swear, these two are going to fight over her all the way to graduation." – Lotte added, shaking her head in dismay as she gave up on her attempts to get back up onto her broom and continued hanging. As Amanda helped her get back onto the broom into a more proper position, the ginger continued: "Next thing you know, Akko might just choose someone else entirely just so that they'd leave her alone!"

"Hey, you yourself said she loves them equally. Why can't she just have 'em both if she's so lovestruck?" – Then, under her breath, the Irish-American added: "Although seriously, if I were in Akko's place, I'd stick with Sucy. Diana just needs someone who is just as high-class and stuck-up as hell like her, y'know?"

Constanze seemed to have taken some interest in the heated debate going on between Diana and Sucy, as she had continued just silently hanging in the air on her broom, listening to the verbal fight between the two girls.

The remaining ones on the ground – specifically, Jasminka, who was joined by Hannah and Barbera at around the same time Diana arrived. – continued watching the debate unfold from a safe distance, with Jasminka teleporting in a popcorn bag out of her stash and casually munching on the corny goodness.

"Seven bucks says their debate is going to go further than just words." – Barbera remarked, secretly rooting for Diana but deciding not to speak out on it. As for Hannah, she just sat there with a minor "WTF?" look on her face.

"And three more says magic will be involved." – Jasminka remarked just before grabbing a couple more kernels from her popcorn bag and tossing away a few unpopped ones.

"Alright, alright, bets accepted." – Hannah deadpanned. Wow, since when did she begin getting involved in this nonsense?


As for Sucy and Diana, their debate had, as predicted, gone into a full-on wildfire as they went on to personal insults.

"And if anything, Akko would never want to hang out with a creep like you. Not to mention that a mushroom-obsessed girlfriend is the worst thing that can happen to anyone." – Diana remarked when Sucy went silent after one rather scathing remark about her choice of dating places when going on dates with Akko.

"Neither would she want a stuck-up snobby bitch like you! Oh look at me, I come from a famous as hell family and I have the right to look down on everyone like they're some trash, and the fact that I even bothered with Akko is but an act of charity, ho-ho-hoh!" – This sarcastic impression seemed to have hit a nerve with Diana as well, as the blonde grit her teeth in anger upon hearing it.

"At the very least, I come from a well-known family. And what of you? You're an orphan, left by your parents to accidentally kill yourself by drinking poison because even they thought that you were a freak! So naturally you latched onto the one and only girl that even bothers putting up with you!" – Now it was Sucy's turn to grit her teeth in anger, as Diana's remark was downright mean-spirited. Most of the side observers gasped at that one – Diana wasn't the type of person to get to such scathing personal attacks during debates.

"Speaking of parents, how's your mommy doing? Did her sickness worsen from finding out that her daughter is a lesbian and that House Cavendish will be left without a heir because of that?" – Now the debate wildfire was going through anything that was a "fire hazard" so to speak, getting ever-so-stronger as it went into outright mean-spirited territory.

"Think we should be concerned now?" - Lotte asked sheepishly as she and Amanda continued listening to the ongoing debate.

"Yep, we should. When a fight gets to the point of personally attacking your opponent's family, that means that things are not looking good at all!" – The redhead remarked, sounding rather worried for the first time in her academy years. She just knew that this fight between Diana and Sucy was probably going to have quite a bit of effect on any bystanders, not just on Akko.

"They're reaching for their wands. Think we should take cover now?" – Jasminka asked, tucking her bag of popcorn away, with the only response from Hannah and Barbera being a quiet, scared nod. This was going to get messy…

And then they went to using magic, just as Jasminka predicted. Spells were fired left and right, turning objects into random stuff or knocking things aside. One particular spell – which nobody even saw who fired it – just so happened to fly off a little higher up than needed, and hit Akko square in the chest. And considering that she was at a high altitude, and that the spell was a disarming one, she was tossed right off her broom and plummeted down screaming.

"Akko!" – Both girls immediately rushed over to get on both their brooms and sped off to at least catch Akko on the way down. As the brunette continued falling, she could see that even in their attempts to save her, neither Diana nor Sucy wanted to cooperate, trying to shove each other off their respective brooms and culminating in them both also falling down – mercifully enough, they were just a couple meters off the ground, so nobody else had to "rescue the rescue team", so to speak.

But that still didn't change the fact that Akko was plummeting down to her doom!

"Welp, that's it, their nigh-constant fighting has resulted in their close friend being left as nothing more than a messy splat on the ground! Oh, this so gonna leave a mark…" – The brunette shut her eyes tightly, waiting until she would inevitably hit the ground and feel the intense pain from the resulting impact…

Huh? She was seemingly caught in mid-air by not one, but two people.

As the brunette opened her eyes, she saw that Lotte and Amanda had grabbed hold of her, with the former looking incredibly concerned.

"Yikes. Had we been a bit too late, you'd be a witch pancake!" – Amanda remarked, trying to lighten the mood. Judging by Akko's still persisting panicked look, her attempt was a failure, so both girls had no choice but to just let her down to the ground.

When Sucy and Diana noticed that the object of their affections was safe, they immediately rushed over to check on her. The look on Akko's face was still of heavy shock, considering she was just saved from a near-death situation.

"Akko, are you alright?" – Both the blonde and the violette asked at once, then gave each other a death glare. That seemed to have been the last straw that broke the camel's back. Or rather, the last glare that made Akko snap.

"Enough!" – Akko suddenly shouted out, startling everyone. – "Did it really take putting me in a near-death situation for either of you to get it? For all your talk of how dense I am, you two are none too smart yourselves if you couldn't figure out that your constant fighting is downright hurting me – first emotionally, and now physically!" – The brunette's eyes were getting teary as she shouted that out. – "I decided to date you both equally and let you know about it, just so that you both could be happy! I couldn't choose either one of you in favor of the other because I cared about you both equally, but now I see that neither of you deserve such care!"

"Akko, you had a pretty nasty fall, maybe you should just-"

"Can it, Lotte, I'm not done yet!" – Akko interrupted, making the ginger fin recoil in shock herself. – "Yes, neither of you deserved it just because you two are selfish! Through and through selfish, with neither of you at all caring about me! "

"Akko, that's not true…" – Diana attempted to speak up.

"We were trying to make our respective dates with you as memorable as you wanted…" – Sucy added.

"Credit where credit's due, you did. But all of them were taking a toll on my emotional well-being, my academic career, and now it's your incessant fighting that almost left you two with a bloody splat on the ground instead of a friend!" – Now Akko was downright crying. – "You two are horrible as friends, and I don't even want to think of how my romantic relationships would turn out with either of you! I… I hate you both!"

Both Diana and Sucy once again recoiled in shock at that scathing statement.

"Yo, Akko, that's little too harsh, don't ya think?" – Amanda asked, a look of slight confusion and disbelief on her face. The other witches watching from a safer distance away were also rather shocked by Akko's, fairly enough, rather expected but overly extreme anger.

"I don't care! Now both of you-" – She looked back at Sucy and Diana – "Get out of my sight! Leave me alone!"

"I think she needs to spend the remainder of the day away from you two." – Lotte said to both girls, her tone indicating that, as much as she didn't want to admit her own words, there was certain, painful truth to them. And on that, Lotte and Amanda went to get Akko back over to the academy building and lead her into the Green Team dorm, with Jasminka, Constanze, Hannah and Barbera following them shortly thereafter.

Constanze gave both girls a silent glare, shaking her head in disappointment.

"One has to try really hard to tick Akko off like this. And you two managed it without even trying." – Jasminka remarked as she passed by the two girls, her normally gentle voice sounding rather cold and disappointed.

"You two screwed up, big time. Not even the worst of love triangles have this kind of thing happening in them!" – Barbera said as she and her girlfriend followed the other students as well.

"Fighting over the object of your affections is one thing, but ending up hurting her in the process? That's a whole new level of awful." – Hannah added to the other girl's statement.

Well, guess Diana and Sucy had no other choice but to head back into their respective dorm rooms. As they went back into the building and passed the corridor leading to the dormitory section, neither of them even dared to say a word due to how ashamed they felt after the incident. Neither did they when they've had to part ways at a certain intersection in the dormitories corridor.

As they made their way back to their surprisingly empty dormitory rooms – seeing that everyone else seemed to have followed Akko over to the Green Team dormitory – and crashed down onto their beds, one single thought surfaced almost immediately in both their minds.

"Akko hates me now, and I can't fix it."


Ooh, look who decided to get angsty. I guess this is going to get largely ignored due to Diakko week and all that, so I'll try to make things a little less bleak in the next chapter.

With my work practice finally done, I have more free time on my hands than usual, which means that I'm probably going to write new chapters for either this, The Witchborn or Some Spicy Sukko Stuff a bit more often.

Funny fact, just before finishing this, I've had a brief idea of writing some sort of quote about wildfire near the end of the chapter, but I've figured there is enough purple prose here already.

And with that said, and a lot of free time spent non-stop playing as Ivara in Warframe and re-completing Skyrim (not the latest remaster, blame mod incompatibility)...

Darky Out!