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Chapter 27- Flight of the Angels

The wind rapidly picked up speed until the two where having trouble staying on the ground. The side wall exploded into hundreds of pieces as a tornado burst into it. Chunks of stone were flung into the sky and came crashing down loudly. Sora looked up and gasped.

"Watch out!" Sora grabbed Iji out of the way as one huge chunk landed. "Are you okay?" asked Sora.

"Yes." nodded Iji. She looked over at the Wind Titan, who laughingly stared down at them with empty eyes. "We can't beat it with our weapons, Sora. It'd be hopeless if we did!"

"How do we beat it then?" yelled Sora over the roar.

Iji looked back at Sora and smiled.

Sora's brow knit into bewilderment. "What are you thinking, Iji?"

"I'm thinking it's about time I protected you for a change." Iji struggled to her feet to face the Wind Titan. Blood flew away in droplets from her wounds.

"No! You're hurt!" Sora tried to join her, but she pushed him down.

Iji shook her head. "This is only something I can do. Okay, Sora?" She gazed into his blue eyes.

Sora's shoulders slumped. "I guess…"

Iji smiled once more. She turned her attention back to the tornado. "Hey! Ugly! Why don't you come and get me already?!"

"Ugly?!" screeched the Titan.

"Yeah! What are you going to do about it, huh?! How about you come and teach me a lesson, you windbag!" Iji spread her wings out wide.

"But, Iji, you don't know how to fly!" Sora gaped.

"There's always a first time for everything." Iji jumped into the air, letting herself get pulled up into the Wind Titan's air currents.

"I kill you!" roared the Wind Titan, and swiped at her with its whirlwind-like arms.

Iji prayed it would work. She flapped her wings down and soared above the attack. Success! A rush of happiness flowed through Iji's body along with the somehow-familiar feeling of flight.

Sora watched in amazement as Iji flew through the air, dodging the Titan's attempts to hit her. Iji seemed to be winning!

The Wind Titan flailed its arms wildly, trying to suck in the girl who had called her names. Anger boiled up in its eyes. "I'll blow you away!!" it wailed in its wind-like voice. The direction of the wind changed and the Wind Titan started blowing everything away from it.

"What?" Iji gasped and was somersaulted through the air as a jet hit her. Iji righted herself and flapped harder to try and get closer to the Wind Titan.

"I haaave youuuu!" laughed the tornado and threw its arms together.

The strong torrent of air flung Iji down onto the ground. The angel crashed into the arena, leaving a mess of cracked tiles and blood.

"Iji!" Sora crawled over to her.

The whirlwind-like Titan changed the wind's direction again.

Iji groaned and smiled at Sora. She was looking paler with each passing second. "Maybe you were wrong after all… I'm not as strong."

A tear formed in Sora's eye. "I'm not wrong! You are strong! Like you said, only you can do this! Iji, use your Heart, fight with it!" He grabbed her hand.

Iji closed her eyes and breathed lightly. "I'll use my Heart to fight." Iji rose to her feet and confronted the Wind Titan face-to-face. "I'm not gonna lose to you! I'll keep fighting till I'm dead!"

The Wind Titan laughed.

Suddenly Iji's body pulsated with a bright glow. White pulses, followed by black pulses. They grew more and more powerful as she slowly stumbled towards the Wind Titan.

Sora shielded his eyes from the glare; he could only make out Iji's outline now. He watched in bewilderment as the pulses of light and darkness split off from Iji's body.

The radiance dimmed, allowing Sora to see clearly. He nearly fell back in shock when he saw what was before him. Two more girls had appeared. They looked just like Iji, but there was something different about them, apart from the fact one glowed white with matching wings and the other black and the same also for her wings…

"More bugs for me to blow away!" sniggered the Wind Titan.

The first Iji walked up to join ranks with the other two. "Are you ready?" she asked them weakly.

The other two nodded. Together the trio flapped their wings and took to the sky.

"Trinity Chains!"

Three beams of grey, white and black light shot out of the three girls and towards the Wind Titan. They twined around the whirlwind's body and fastened simultaneously. The Wind Titan's eyes widened as the beams became tighter and tighter. The tornado gave a deafening roar as the Titan's body could take no more. The wind composing its body burst apart and dispersed into the sky. The magically sealed gates flung themselves open.

Sora cheered. "Iji, you did it!"

The three girls turned around in synchronisation and smiled.

Sora blinked. The glow from the two other girls had vanished, letting Sora see what they truly looked like. The girl with the white wings had familiar silver hair and piercing aquamarine eyes. He stepped back in shock. It wasn't this one that scared him though; it was the one with the black wings. She had brown hair and sapphire blue eyes, exactly the same as him…

The two strange girls faded into the air, their whispery forms rushing back into Iji. Iji fell from the sky, landing with a loud thump on the ground.

Sora bent down beside her. "You did it, Iji." He healed her wounds with some Cure spells.

Iji smiled. "Of course I did. I used my Heart, just like you told me to."

Sounds of furious yelling reached their ears. Red flames shot out of one of the alcoves. "Arrrrg!!"

Sora grabbed Iji's hand and laughed. "Come on; let's get out of here before Hades blows himself up."

Iji giggled and ran with him.