Okay, chapter 13, Mona. She's probably going to get a long chapter. By this, I actually might end this by chapter 15-16, a first ever for me ending something within a reasonable amount of time. I guess this really was enjoyable to write. Though, one of my new editors, they've been joining me since the last chapter, suggested for me to revise Barbara's sex scenes, for Barbara to be tied to a tree and choked while being impregnated as something Barbara was into, so… might get onto that after this story has ended, and I look through the earlier chapters. Alright, so let's get into the meat of this chapter, which, like the first chapter, will be pretty depressing.

I knew where Mona was, I just didn't expect to see her in the situation she was in. A fair skinned man, naked, and saying, "I'll knock you up! And I'll pay you!" as she continued to plead, tears clearly forming from her eyes. "No… please, we didn't agree to this… Please, let me go! Fischl! Save me!" She tried to scream, but was quickly silenced with a punch to the stomach knocking the wind out of her, as I saw through the window. I felt like I didn't hear anything, besides the beating of my own heart, in rage.

The man thrust himself into her as she wriggled in pain. Trying to escape but to no avail as she was out of breath with her hymen just broken. I saw the man pump in and out of her blood dripping onto the bed, as she was wincing in pain. The man threw her against the wall, preventing her from doing anything else. Her hands were forced onto the cold wall cutting her hands, blood slowly dripped from her hands, and the bed she was on just a few seconds ago, now stained with her blood. My eyes started to see blood too.

"Try calling out to someone… you won't get anyone." He said, still thrusting inside her, as he filled her with his semen. He didn't look like he wanted to stop.

"Aether…" I heard her muffled call, as if I was the last person she could trust at this moment. I wasn't even sure if she saw me, but I didn't care. I was enraged at him.

'No… not again…'

"Mona." I floored the door, kicking it down, with a distinct lack of empathy towards the man who was inside her, forcefully.

"Oi, who are you?!" After he took himself out of her, the man dropped Mona on the floor, her body dropped to the floor, as if she was nothing to him.

"Sorry, Mona, if I damage your place." I still had the decency to say that to her, and she was merely confused. Not even bothering to take a weapon out, I held out my arm, to control the Anemo, and felt a distinct feeling of wind flowing in front of my hands, pulling the guy into my range, and slicing through his body with anemo, cutting into his flesh.

"Aaaaggghhh, you bastard!" He tried to cut through it all, with him picking up his blade, and cut at me specifically. "You're taking my bit-"

I looked up at him, which might have terrified him, with darkness surrounding me once again. I ducked, as I felt the power of geo in my hands, and sent him out of the house.

However, with him midway through the door, I felt the power of electro fill my veins, and I channeled it throughout my body, and lastly, through my sword, where I sent electro pulses towards him, shocking him, as he fell across the stairway, and cleared the railing.

"Huh… Aether?" Mona spoke. I looked back at her, tears still flowing from her eyes.

"It'll be alright, Mona. I'm here."

I jumped off the railing, to land near the guy. "Hey, guards!"

I yelled over to the air, and within a few minutes, I saw Miles show up at the scene.

"What's happening, Honorary knight?" He looked at the man, who was still on the floor.

"This man… he had put himself onto Mona, and forced her to sleep with her… he was raping her, and hurt her deeply."

Miles, surprisingly, became deadly serious. As serious as I was about the situation.

"I'll make sure he never sees the light of day. You have my word, Aether." He, not even bothering to cover him, forced the abusive man, naked, to just keep walking in the night.

"Hey, do you know who I am?! I can remove your rank with a single talk with Acting Grandmaster Jean!"

"I doubt that she'd approve of what you were doing. Plus, who said she'd listen to you?" Despite his clamoring, and the rapist claiming he did nothing wrong, Miles heard none of it,, and I merely went inside towards Mona, who was now crouching on her bed, covering her body, lathered in that other man's cum.

"No… No…" I saw her saying, over and over again, covering her body, ashamed.

"Mona?"

"I lost my virginity… I look so pathetic… I'm probably pregnant with that guy's child…" She said, seeing me.

"No. You are not pathetic, Mona. It's alright…" I hugged her, without any regard with the bodily fluids covering her body, and I felt her hair, with her hat on the floor, messed up.

"I'm sorry, Aether… I was too weak. He said he had money, and he would pay me for a job, and it looked like so much…" She sniffled, on my shoulder, before continuing. "But then, he came inside my room… he took off my clothes, he hurt me, my hands…" I felt her hug against me, gently, and felt her blood on my back.

"I lost my virginity… I got fooled by him, thinking he wanted to have an astrological reading, or something like that…" She kept crying, and I kept listening to her.

"But… I'm ruined…" She buried her head into my shoulder, breathing out in pain. "I…" Before she could say anymore, she broke down into tears, and I felt her naked body against mine, feeling nothing but angry at this happening to her.

"You're not ruined, Mona." I separated from her, and looked at her hands, as I held them softly on my own, inspecting it.

'She… has broken wrists, her fingers are cut open…' It was so gruesome to see, and so horrifying. I pushed down any feelings of guilt that I had, thankful I could even save her this much.

"I'll get you healed up."

I looked down at her, still but holding onto me, burying her face into my chest.. "Mona, I'll get you to Barbara. She can-"

"No! Please…" She looked down, towards her bloodied bed, and didn't even look into my eyes.. "I don't want anyone to see me like this…"

That enabled some of my guilt, as I clicked my tongue. 'Stupid Aether.'

"Okay, then… I'll heal you up at my house. Is that okay?"

She nodded, lightly.

"Okay, let me get you to my house." While she still held onto me, I opened my backpack, and found that familiar Teapot that I hadn't gone to in several years.

'Man, I miss this place.' I held it in the air, where it floated in the air. Mona looked up, no longer burying herself into me, towards the floating teapot.

"Is that… your home?" She looked confused, at the teapot, as she spoke to me.

"It's a lot bigger inside than it looks." I tried to sound confident, but it ended up sounding rougher than I intended. "I'll show you, okay?" I spoke softer, and held her lightly.

She nodded slightly again.

"Can… you carry me?" I got a view of her legs, and it seemed like they were broken too. It was just painful to see her body broken, both physically and spiritually.

'... Just like Amber.'

"Of course. I'll be careful, Mona." I didn't smile, but I did look at her to comfort her, as I slowly lifted her up, and she still held onto me.

"Let me get your clothes." The scraps of her clothes that were left, as well as her hat, which, thankfully, was fine, and put it in my bag behind me.

"Let's go home, Mona." I tried my best to give a smile, to reassure her. Thankfully, she did get slightly reassured, as she brought her face closer to my chest again, this time, without crying into it.

I felt the familiar feeling of space and time closing, and swallowing me whole, along with Mona feeling it for the first time, to enter the teapot.

Eventually, we came upon a familiar place, one that Mona marveled at as it was lit up automatically with the passing of the night. Tubby was also nowhere to be found.

'Hopefully, he's not in one of the rooms, but where did he go?' I shook that thought away, focusing on the astrologist clinging onto me, while looking at the house I went to with wonder.

"What… is this place?" She looked at how massive the house in front of her was, as I opened the door with one hand to bring her inside.

Then, we were met with the disorganized mess that was the living room/kitchen.

'I need to spend more time cleaning this place up…' I felt disappointed in myself.

"Hey, sorry, it's not that clean, I'll try to-"

"You're kidding, right? This is amazing!"

She looked up at me with wonder, and I noticed how she didn't seem to cough, or feel inclined to hide herself with me.

"Eh… it's still a mess. I'll need to clean it up."

I looked off, thinking about what I needed to do.

'She's probably hungry… maybe I should get her something to eat.'

I looked at the table, and how messy it was. Dust covered the table, and it didn't look comfortable for her to eat.

'All of the rooms are empty… but I guess I should probably get a room close by, so I can feed her.'

I looked towards the room closest to the entrance, towards the left, which looked dusty.

"Sorry Mona, but…" I nudged the door open, as it made a creak. "This is your room." She looked at it, disorganized as it was, and she looked as happy as she could have been.

"This… is where I can live?" She had an unrestrained smile, as I looked at her with a smidge of pride.

"Yeah, you can live here." I smirked, probably the first genuine smile since seeing her.

She was speechless, but I laid her down on her bed.

"Hey, Mona. I'll get something to make for you."

Before I could leave to go whip something up, she grabbed onto my arm, which made me look at her still injured hand.

"Oh, hey, Mona." I cupped her body. "Don't overexert yourself."

"Please… stay here." She was in so much pain, her eyes showed as much.

"... okay." I said, after swallowing.

"Here, I'll get you something from my bag. Is that alright?" I looked at Mona, as I rummaged through my bag. She simply nodded, and I found a soup.

"How do you manage to fit so much inside that bag of yours…" She chuckled, a bit, but it was a slight laugh.

"Beats me. Things just get stored here." I removed the Radish Veggie soup, and a soup spoon, and moved it to the nightstand.

"Now, Mona, would you mind me moving you? Against the wall, for now."

She nodded once again, her eyes closed.

"You're in so much pain… and yet, you're still so amazing, acting strong." I touched her back and her calves, and moved her to lean on the back of the wall. She hissed, feeling the cold wall on her back.

"Here. I'll feed you." I held the soup spoon to her mouth, and she willingly let me feed it to her.

"Is it good?" She smiled, but I could see her crying as well, and trying to blink the tears away.

"Yeah… it's good. Thank you, Aether." I swallowed, feeling my heart break hearing her sound like that.

"It's alright, Mona… I love you, I'll take care of you." I said, as I fed her. She didn't seem to mind that I said that, with her having a slight blush, but otherwise, she was accepting me feeding her.

As she ate, I saw her hands stop bleeding, and her body healing itself. She was being put back together, physically, at least.

After the soup was done, I laid the empty bowl back into my bag.

"Uh… Aether." I looked up at her, she had the strength to open her eyes back up.

"Can… you feed me something else? Like something with rice?" She looked slightly embarrassed, but she said it nonetheless.

"Okay, I'll do that. You want onigiri?" I looked through my bag for some.

"What's that?"

"It's something I got from when I was at Inazuma. It's basically a rice ball, with a fish filling." I held it in my glove, but then saw her hands, still healing.

"Can I still feed you, love?" I looked at her very affectionately, which Mona seemed to appreciate.

"Yes, Aether. Please… can you feed me this?" She opened her mouth, and I had the onigiri touch her lips, and felt her bite off a piece of the onigiri. She chewed it a few times, before swallowing, and opened her mouth again.

I kept doing it, till she got to the last of the onigiri, where I felt her lips touch my fingertips, as she chewed.

"I'm full…" She huffed, as she laid back on the wall of the room.

"Do you want me to help you lie down?" I looked at her face, and she seemed to nod.

"Okay, I'll be very careful-" She flinched, as I spoke, and backed into the wall.

"Wait…" I facepalmed. "Did I say something bad?" I clicked my tongue, hating my phrasing.

"No… it's alright. It's… not your fault." She held her hand at her chest, as she looked down at her legs.

"I'm… ruined." She started crying, again, and I lightly hugged her, as she lightly hugged me.

"You're still here, with me. Mona… I still love you."

She kept crying, but I kept staying next to her, rubbing her head and comforting her.

"Let it all out, I'm here for you, Mona." I looked at her, softly, as I felt her tears slow on my arm, and her chest become more relaxed as she hugged me tighter.

"Please… can you sleep with me tonight? I… don't want my first time to be like that…" She sniffled.

I sighed.

"Mona." I held onto her back, feeling her skin and shoulder blades tighten as I softly brushed against it.

"You're afraid. I understand. I don't want you to be in fear." I started stroking her back, and she got progressively more relaxed, as I rubbed her back.

"But… I don't want you to regret your time with me, either." I started tearing up into her.

"I don't want you to feel like your body is only that for sex… you're so much more than that…" I started crying into her, as she also slightly cried into me.

"It's not that you're not beautiful, you are so beautiful, Mona." I grabbed onto her tighter, as she did with me. "But we can have our time later, if you want. I don't want to have you go into something you're not prepared for… I'm sorry… I don't want to hurt you…"

She and I both cried, against the wall, together, for until we ran out of tears. I didn't know how long had passed, but she and I looked at each other in what was now the dark, and she said, "Can… you stay with me, tonight?"

I nodded to that.

"I'll be here for you, Mona. I promise." I carried her to lie down, and then laid next to her. The bed was just big enough for the two of us, but I was hugging her tight to my chest, as she hugged herself to me.

"Thank you… Aether."

Those were the last words I heard before I slept, with Mona sleeping next to me as we both fell to the darkness.

Sorry, this is a heavy chapter. I promise, most of these chapters won't be this heavy. But anyways, that's the final girl for Mondstant, but I do want to have her heal before I get into the sexy stuff. She deserves some healing after all. Anyways, thanks for reading.