Hey readers, I know that many of you were disappointed with the quality of writing last chapter and now I'm determined to make it up to you this time. Thoughts are in italics. I also have new beta readers, they are: Keida and my bf. I hope you enjoy!!

Sincerely,

Trouble

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Fallen Angles

Book one the Origins: chapter two

The Entrance

The Night Demon headquarters, an abandoned warehouse filled with all the tools that a car mechanic would need (i.e. car lifts, spare parts etc,). At one end was a storage room that housed the tools and other spare parts while HQ was empty. Next to it was an empty room. On the other end was a loft where the gang had couches, a refrigerator stocked with beer and sodas, and a laptop located on a desk next to the wall.

As Rika pulled up to the warehouse in her Mustang, she surveyed the stillness of the warehouse, knowing that within the next 15 minutes it would be filled with the sounds of people working on motorcycles, cars and trucks. As she checked the time on her flame covered Razor, she heard the not so distant sound of engines.

"4:30, right on time as usual "

She turned and greeted two of her core members, Naoko, and Cece. She also greeted the core of the Fallen Angles.

"Hey Ry, Rei, Shiza… where's Ayon??

"He's gonna be late." Replied Ryou matter-of-factly

As he said this Rika could hear the sounds of cars and bikes heading towards her. She went to unlock the huge garage door that took up the majority of the north-facing wall. She pressed a red button and the door rattled to life. As it opened the other core members climbed the stairs to the loft where they held their meetings. When the door was finally open Riku heard the song "Hollaback Girl" (by Gwen Stephani) floating up from the front pocket of her tan hip hugger cargo pants. She answered the phone,

"Talk to me … ok see you in 5 Lena"

She ended the call and returned the phone to her pocket. She then turned to her sister Naoko

" Lena and the rest will be here in 5"

"Cool, I can hear them now" Replied Naoko, her mind preoccupied with thoughts of her best friend Aero who hadn't shown up for the core meeting.

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Lena Ookami was riding her dark purple Ducati 99s when she saw a group of bikes and cars whose drivers all wore either the Demon's flaming seven blades or the Angel's black wings. As they turned the corner they waved at her and she waved back. With her Demons jacket zipped snugly around her she felt once more like a part of a family.

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Back at HQ, the core meeting was getting underway as Ryou watched his girlfriend and leader of the Night Demons in her Demons jacket, white cami, and tan cargo pants, talking about the weekly Saturday races and repairs that needed to be made. Unfortunately, Riku noticed Ryou's stairs and decided to comment on them.

"Any thing wrong Ry??"

Startled Ryou was jerked back to reality.

"What? Oh, um… no please continue babe." He replied

But his eyes said something else. While she had waited for her boy friend to realize he was being talked to, Rika had watched his eyes and now saw the message that lay within them and smiled.

Love you too Ryou.

She returned her thoughts to her work but was interrupted again by the sound of gravel crunching under tires while the drivers chatted about the race and other things. Knowing that trying to continue the core meeting was futile Rika walked over to the railing and addressed the teens before her.

"Well you all took your sweet time getting here!! We have tons of work to do before Saturday so lets get started!"

As soon as she'd started talking the chatter had stopped and the engines had died. All the members were listening to their leader with rapt attention. When she was finished the group dispersed and went to work on their specific projects, be they fixing bikes and cars or testing them out to make sure they ran fine. As they did so Lena removed her helmet revealing her gleaming silver hair and startling yellow-gold eyes. She then walked up the stairs to report to Rika and the other core. She was aware of a pair of piercing silver eyes following her; She turned around to find that Gaara was watching her. This same Gaara also happened to be her boyfriend.

Rika watched this romantic episode with mild amusement. All to soon she remembered her responsibilities as the leader of the Night Demons.

"Lena, what's the news from the west part of town??"

Lena, surprisingly, was a neutral party between the two gangs of the east (the Night Demons and their allies the Fallen Angles) and the west (the Seraphim and the Flames). She was useful as a spy or when the gangs needed to negotiate about the location of the Saturday races. As she made her report Rika noticed that Naoko was waiting on the stairs to talk to her about Aero and why she wasn't there.

" Thanks Lena."

With that, Rika ended the report and turned to Naoko,

" You wanted to talk?"

" Yeah, it's about Aero…." Replied Naoko, unsure that she should continue.

" I know that she was grounded for sneaking out to come here and she won't be kicked off the core because of it."

"Thanks Rika"

"No problem" said Rika ending the conversation and returned to her desk as her sister walked over to see what needed repaired on Aero's Lamborghini Diablo, which was the members pride and joy. As she was working Rika thought about how hard she worked to keep her family's secrets and keep the gangs together. She eventually decided to go and talk to Aero. As soon as she left Ryou gave the signal for everyone to stop his or her work.

"Ok people we need to get set up before she comes back"

At his words everyone started cleaning up what they were working on while the core went to get Rika's present out of the storage room. All of this took them about ten minutes and by that time Rika was on her way back to the warehouse. As she drove she couldn't help but remember that today was her birthday and that no one had said happy b-day to her. Feeling slightly unappreciated Rika turned the corner into the lot next to the warehouse. As she turned off her mustang and walked up to the warehouse she noticed an unusual silence.

"SUPURISE"

When she opened the door she was almost deafened by the shout coming from all the members who were at the warehouse that day. She saw Ryou and Naoko wheeling out a black Honda RVT with wicked lime-green flames along the front.

" Wow guys, thanks," said Rika astonished as she hugged her boyfriend and sister.

" And you thought we'd forgotten" joked Ryou, he was reveling in his girlfriend's amazement.

"Why don't you go try it out?" suggested Cece.

She was glad that her best friend finally had something to smile about. However, before Rika could leave she asked, " You still want me to come over tonight?"

"Well duh, it's gonna be a girls night and yes Naoko, Aero's coming too, I already asked her mom"

She smiled then went to get her grab her helmet off the rack. She got on her new bike, turned on the engine and roared out of the warehouse and onto the track. Whoa this thing has power, Thought Rika as she did a flip off a ramp. She finished testing the bike and returned to the warehouse pumped full of adrenaline.

"It's amazing, thanks everyone"

She then put the bike away and returned to the loft and resumed organizing the riders for Saturday's race. When she was done the warehouse was empty except for the core that remained talking on the couch behind her. Cece went and dropped her bag in Rika's 'stang. As she did Shiza came over to her.

"Hey babe can I come over later?"

"Sorry but no, Rika said it's gonna be a girls night, no boys allowed not even Ryou"

She wanted to be with him but she knew the rules about girls' nights and that Rika only called one for an important reason. Shiza also knew the rules and decided to try to crash the party with the other guys.

"Hey Ry, I got an idea…."

As Shiza told Ryou and the others of his idea Ryou's thoughts drifted off to their orders for that night.

" Sounds fun Shiza but we can't waste a lot of time there, remember we have our orders from Kasumoi"

Shiza knew about the orders, as did all the core members of the Fallen Angels. He also knew that none of the members would pass up a chance to find out what their girlfriends did on "Girls Nights".