Ok so there was a long flash back but flash backs are finished for a while. You know how they met, how they became betrothed and how she went missing any flash backs from now on will be short and only be fore the how's. How did she disappear, how she survives and how she came to be on the straw hat's ship. Etc.
Chapter Four: Nami, Arlong, Avery
The Knight of The Sky had saved them. All eight of the people on the Going Merry. He spoke to them all, except for the small orange haired girl with a horse voice that claimed to be the other orange haired girls younger sister. She had claimed feeling sick so she went to lay down. Gan Fall didn't mind, the seven people in front of him were more than enough trouble.
Avery came out from the room, she had actually fallen asleep, as they were on their way up the Milky Way. She yawned widely and covered her mouth with her left hand. Had her eyes been visible they would have been dull from still being tired and half lidded. "So cute! Avery-Swan!" Sanji called. Sanji didn't like her like he did with most woman. While he loved every woman he met he just thought she was cute. And Avery was perfectly fine with that. "Robin-Swan, did you see that? She was so cute!" But him announcing it to everyone, and pointing anything childish she did out, was something that she could live without.
"Of course Cook-san. Avery-Chan does many cute things." Unfortunately Avery's bangs weren't long enough to cover the pink blush creeping over her cheeks. "See Cook-San." Robin said with a mostly innocent look on her face. Mostly because Robin was anything but innocent. Zoro laughed from somewhere and she knew he was laughing at her.
So Avery turned away from everyone and looked at where they were headed. She was standing to the left of the goat's head where Luffy was sat. "Why don't they ever call the childish things you do cute?" Avery questioned.
"I'm not cute. Girls are cute, not boys." Of course. Luffy didn't think like an adult so he'd only answer the question with a childish answer. "We're almost there." Luffy pointed out. His entire demeanor changed. "Are you really going to leave Avery-Chan?"
"Yeah." Avery said simply. She looked at Luffy. "Even though I'm leaving, are we still Nakama?" Luffy grinned widely. Avery took that as a yes. Once at the top of the Milky Way it didn't take long for them to dock at Angel Beach. As soon as they got off of the boat everyone started to do their own thing. Avery, not really sure how to start her journey out yet, just stood there. She was looking at the Going Merry wistfully.
"If you don't want to leave then don't." Nami said from besides Avery. It had startled Avery but she didn't show any signs of it.
"You don't understand, I have to."
"No you don't." Nami said viciously. This time Avery looked at Nami. "If someone up here is forcing you to-" Avery's laugh cut her off. This was the first time that Nami had heard or seen her laugh.
"It's not that. God no. If it was that I'd never return and say that I couldn't find a way to. But it's- I'm n-" She sighed heavily. Her head faced the sky this time and she chewed the inside of her cheek. "I don't think you'd understand Nami." Avery finally settled on.
"No, I do. Before you knew us I was different." Avery glanced at Nami from the corner of her eye but Nami didn't see. "I Hated pirates all because of Arlong. He was forcing me to steal to buy back my village. I couldn't stay with my family or friends. And then Luffy came along and we became Nakama. When I finally got around to remembering that I had a duty it hurt to leave."
"I guess you might understand." Avery said. "I was born up here, I had fun, grew up and fell in love. We were betrothed you know. Then I fell down to the blue sea. Imagine how you felt when you believed you couldn't stay with Luffy and them. That's how I felt, for six years. And now that I'm back, I don't know. I still love him. I do but I'm afraid. And I love you guys too."
"Oh." Nami said. She thought of how it felt to believe she would be stuck with Arlong and have to give up her Nakama. Avery must have felt the same way. This man must have been equivalent to Nami's Nakama while the Blue Sea was Avery's Arlong. "I can't tell you what to pick. Us or him. Here or there. I wasn't forced to choose. Luffy fought and defeated Arlong and I was able to become his Nakama."
Avery gave Nami a strained smile. "I think you and Luffy are cute together." It was a moment before Nami registered what Avery said. "Ow! What was that for?" Avery cried while holding her throbbing head.
Nami clenched her fists and closed her eyes yet her right eye still twitched. "Don't say stupid things like that." Even though her words contradicted her actions. Across Nami's cheeks was a bright pink blush. Avery would have pointed it out if she wasn't so terrified of getting a concussion from the navigator.
Beautiful music started playing and everyone looked that way. A beautiful woman stood there playing a harp. Her hair was in that weird antenna up do that most of the Skypian's sported. And the rest of her hair was in two long braids. Her soft smile and gentle eyes softened Sanji's heart. Not long After Conis introduced herself her father showed up.
When Luffy tried to ride the waver and failed Avery laughed. She was going to miss these people. And Nami was wan expert at riding the waver from know how the sea's moved. "Pagaya, do you have another waver I might borrow?" The man thought and then nodded.
"Conis, can you take this young lady to your old one?" Avery knew what that meant, a child's waver. But at this moment Avery wasn't going to be picky, she would accept what she cou-
"I'm not going to use that." Avery bluntly said when she saw the child's waver. It was a bright pink and light blue duck. It had the trainers so that while learning children did not flip over. "I'm sorry but there is no way." Avery said with a shake of her head.
"It's the only child's one we have." Conis said while glancing around.
"Well I'm not a child." Conis sighed and put it back. She came out with a much bigger and adult looking one. It was a normal one, though it seemed more used than the one Nami was using. This one Avery was perfectly fine using. "You need to know how the controls work?"
Avery shook her head and set the handle bar low enough for herself. "No, I'm good." Conis was shocked to see that Avery know how to stand in a waver without instruction. Then Avery stepped on the petal and twisted the handle. She flew out of the barn and with expert like moves maneuvered it into the white sea before hitting more speed and catching up to Nami. Avery slowed down near Nami to let the other girl know where she was headed then parted ways.
"Where is she going?" Conis' father asked as he watched Avery turn one way hand head out like she knew where she was headed. Conis shrugged and looked to the girl's friends. They neither knew where she was going but the seemed to now what she was doing.