Disclaimer: I do not own Angelic Layer, or any of the characters portrayed in this Fanfic, Misaki, Shouka and Hatoko all belong to Clamp and I in no way own them. Yuka and Cago are sole property of the people they have been based on. The angels Hikari and Ankoku are sole property of Yuka and me. Those characters may not be used in any Angelic Layer fanfic or any fanfic for that matter without my prior consent. Thank you.

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Chapter 3- Misaki Suzuhara, Wings of the Angel

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The emotions ran through my head. The feelings of longing, helplessness…. Each striking me in the chest. In my heart. I sat there, watching helplessly as Suzuka plunged towards the icy blue water.

The vast crevasse of no hope.

Quickly I sprung into action. Thinking out my plan in my head. If only…. If only Hikaru could somehow get down there.. If only she could somehow halt Suzuka from smashing into the dense darkness.

"Hikaru!" I called, gasping for breath. My pulse racing, my voice catching in my throat, "Get down and stop Suzukas decent!" I commanded before thinking out my strategy in my head. Hikaru quickly hopped off the pillar on which she was perched. She fell towards the water like an angel. I could almost see the wings which were helping her glide. She quickly flipped over before landing, feet first on the water. Once again I thought it through.

It would work…. It HAD to work…

Hikaru ran along the water, quickly heading towards what I thought would be Suzuka's point of entry. Ankoku and Heiwa stood up on the pillars near where I sat, their deuses wearing smirks like a scarf spread across their face. Heiwa and Ankoku seemed totally relaxed. No, why would they have anything to worry about? Their team mate wasn't the one that was heading for the instant road out of the championships. Once again I focused on Hikaru, she ran along before halting abruptly under where Suzuka was going to hit the water. She fell closer, Hikaru let out her arms.

She may be small, but we wont get pushed over that easily.

Suzuka landed into hikarus arms, almost plunging Hikaru below the waters surface. Her balance was just there though.

Just enough to keep her standing there.

Hatoko quickly sprung into action, commanding Suzuka to stand up and get back up. They both headed towards the pillars, looking as if they were going to climb.

But they didn't.

Hikaru quickly sprung up, grabbing onto Suzukas hand. I quickly commanded her to use her latest attack, one which used the energy created by Hikarus movement and the energy made upon Hikaru's jump. Hikaru span in a circle, a blue light surrounding her violent red frame. She seemed slightly startling but everyone knew that you couldn't judge her by her appearance. Bouncing up, her and Suzuka flew up towards the top of the pillars. Ankoku and Heiwa had sprung into action, they were charging themselves for their finishing manoeuvres.

Black Death and Holy Light.

They both leapt up in sync, hovering in the air right above Hikaru and Suzuka's heads. All four angels looked ready to smash into each other but they didn't. The two angels on the top let out their attacks, the black energy blast was only visible for a second as it sped through the air towards Suzuka. The white wave that came from Heiwa was almost only visible for a second but that was enough for Misaki to anticipate the attack and decide on the perfect means to dodge.

"Hatoko! Shield!" she called to her partner before telling her angel to do the same. Both angels brought their arms in front of their faces and braced for impact.

Then impact.

The bright light flashed all over the stadium. I shielded my eyes from the blinding white light. This was it. It was over. Hikaru and Suzuka must be down. No one had EVER shielded an attack like that and got away with it. I slowly moved my hands from my face as the light dimmed. I glanced down, noting the ruins of the stadium. The broken pillars. The Smashed floor below the sea. I scanned the scene, looking for Hikaru and Suzuka's mutilated frames.

But I couldn't find them…

Instead I saw the frames of Heiwa and Ankoku lying on the waters surface. They were slowly sinking down… down… down. Finally the last strand of their hair fell below the surface and a loud noise resounded around the entire stadium. That of the angel running out of power.

Ankoku and Heiwa were powerless.

We had won…..

WE HAD WON!

I was lowered to the ground, cheers erupting from around the stadium. I smiled slightly- not too much, I didn't want to look like a mad man… like Tamayo. I finally stopped the decent and stepped out onto the cool black floor. The stadium was filled with cheers, victory music played and the commentator asked for silence. He beckoned Hatoko and I up onto the stage. I saw Hikaru sitting beside the edge of the layer, she hadn't fallen out but was near to it. Suzuka was also in a similar position. Both Hatoko and I picked up our Angels before walking up to beside the commentator. Cheers erupted when the spotlight was shone on us and Im pretty sure I could hear the faint calls of "YOU GO MISAKICHII" coming from somewhere around the 20th row. The silence came back, all I could hear was my breath.

"Misaki," The commentator said calmly before continuing with, "That was one close match. You, Hatoko, Yuka and Yanyan all held us on our seats for the whole battle. Can you explain to us how you won the match as we can see it was all pretty close"

I felt the eyes lock onto me. I was slightly taken aback but that is the effect that 100's of pairs of eyes can have on you. I slowly looked up, the light shone in my face but it was okay now. I noticed Yuka and Yanyan heading towards the exit, back to the Deus waiting rooms. I thought about calling out to them but I could tell by their faces that they wanted to be left alone. Once again I turned to look at the commentator. He wasn't bad looking I guess but I already had a boyfriend. I thought of Kotarou and I am pretty sure that my face went red like Hikaru's outfit. I breathed in and out before I started to try and explain the victory.

"I'm not sure what it was exactly. All around the edge of the layer was sand and in the center it was all water. I think that what happened was Ankoku and Heiwa flew downwards when they launched the attack. The blast was strong and took a lot of energy out of them. They simply plunged into the sea. I think the only reason we didn't draw was because Hikaru and Suzuka went flying along the sand. They fell diagonally and skidded along the sand. This then stopped them from moving any further and they ground to a halt right before layer out. Ankoku and Heiwa were already in the water and it would be almost impossible for them to get back out. They were also nearly out of energy and their energy bar was quickly drained as they fell deeper into the water."

I glanced up at the scoreboard and checked the energy that was left in our angels. Suzuka had around 10 left and I was down at 5.

"Our energy was taken down by the blast but it partially blasted off of our shields. This then hit them back and whilst we were drained of energy and severely damaged, the damage to them was significantly greater." I looked round at Hatoko and beckoned her to come up and take the microphone. I stood back and listened to what she had to say.

"I think everything that Misaki said was true," she started with, "I may be small but I understand where she is coming from and I think that her theory is probably what happened. But more to the point, I think another reason we managed to win was because we believed in our angels more than Yanyan and Yuka. They do believe in their angels but I am not that sure that they have had the experience or have had to rely on their angels as much as we have"

Hatoko stood down and walked towards me.

"That was a great fight, I hope we can fight like that again"

I smiled at her kind words and replied to her in much the same way, adding in that I hoped our next fight together would come sooner than we had expected.

We both walked over towards our exit from the layer. Standing at the sides, I noted my friends Tamayo and Koutarou as well as Tamayo's boyfriend Ohjirou along with my Aunt and my Mum. I felt my heart go light right then. My friends, family, they had all seen me fight that well. I reached them and Hatoko quickly bounced over to her brother. She talked to him about how it had felt and asked if he had seen this. It didn't seem like Hatoko but then again, she was spontaneous. I never knew what she would do.

We all walked through the tunnel before exiting out into the lush suite. The furnishings were beautiful, consisting of Blue and cream interior. We all sat down around one of the tables when I noticed them standing there. I sort of was intrigued. I stood up and quickly and made a quick excuse that I would be back in a minute or two. Walking over to them I smiled at them but they didn't return the gesture.

They looked angry.


Cold hearted.

It scared me.

"You can come sit with us if you wish" I said before pointing over in the direction I came. They glared at me, the shivers running up my spine.

"No. We don't want to sit with you. Why would we? You just destroyed our dreams of getting into the World Championships"

I looked at them puzzled…


Championships…. No one had told me about any championships

"This battle was for the place in the Championships for this region of Japan. YOU and your stupid little friend there won but we wont be defeated that easily." They spit at me but I moved out the way. How rude I thought to myself but I wouldn't say that aloud. "We," they continued, "are going to head back to our home town, well, city. Sapporo. We will enter the championships there and fight you in the final. You better watch out, were on your back" they said before pacing off. I stood staring at the wall where they had just stood, my eyes were glazed I think and I wasn't thinking straight.

"Misaki," Tamoyo called, " Why don't you come back and sit down?"

Turning around I put on a fake face filled with Happiness.

"I'm just coming" I called, Thinking about what had just happened.

Had I just found Hatoko and I an enemy?

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That is the end of Chapter 3 :D I hope you enjoyed it. I'm once again very sorry that I didn't update this a long time ago but I have been busy with other things and I am just finished an important thing in High School. I promise Chapter 4 will be with you hopefully around the start of May… I hope. Now to get Chapter 3 I wanna try and get 15 reviews. I only have 8 so far and I hope to get to 15 before Chapter 4- The Championships Begin is posted. Now to hand you over to my beta reader. Thanks for reading ^^

My beta reader is not available today, she has not had the time to read this so I will just leave that out of this. She might be back for my next chapter, I aint really that sure.

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