FTS! Fucking open office won't let me get to my saved Wyper 12 or rather the twelfth chapter. Yeah, corny title last time, hopefully I don't do a very corny one this time too XD
Chapter Twelve: The Past Has Returned
Avery woke up before Wyper again. She kept her eyes closed as she listened. Her small head was resting on his chest and she could hear his heart beat. Thump-thump, thump-thump, it went. Avery smiled as she listened. Her fingers twitched and she felt nothing but the little heat sensors processed the warmth. Her left hand was resting on his stomach. She cracked her eyes opened and her breath stopped. Perhaps his wearing a skirt to bed wasn't the best idea for modesty. Though he didn't seem to ever care about modesty.
He was just hanging out though. That wasn't what she expected to see when waking up. He shifted under her. Avery closed her eyes and evened her breathing out once again. Wyper continued to shift until he was awake, she was sure. His light curse enforced her theory. Then his hand that wasn't resting on her side moved down to fix the grass skirt.
It was another minute before Avery decided she could wake up without embarrassing either of them. So she started to stir. She yawned then looked up at him. He was looking at her with a scowl on his face. "You gotta do something about that hair." His free hand, the one not already holding her, moved and pushed her hair out of her face. "I like seeing your face." Her cheeks reddened and she hid her face in his chest.
She mumbled to him but he couldn't understand her. Kamakiri entered the tent, forgetting that Avery was in there with Wyper. After he looked at the two people on the bed he decided that because they were both decent it didn't matter. "Wyper, we need to get ready to go." Wyper nodded but didn't move. His eyes were locked on Kamakiri though. So Kamakiri figured Wyper wanted a moment alone with Avery so he left.
Avery got up then and went to grab her bag. "Where do you think your going?" He questioned. His intentions seemed to clash with hers. "You need to stay here in the village."
"No," she corrected. "I need to be heading to the Upper Yard. My nakama are in there somewhere." Avery shifted the bag until it was comfortably on her back.
"You do not need to worry about them anymore. You are home so stay here and wait for us to return." Avery didn't reply. She didn't know how to. Her eyes locked onto her single sleeve. It seemed useless now so she gripped it and tore it off making her once long sleeve shirt into a tank top. "Avery."
"I have to go." She said. "Whether I'm home or not, whether I stay with you or go with them it doesn't matter. They're my nakama. I can't just abandon them." She looked over at him and he sighed.
"But you stay with me." She grinned and immediately hugged him. He blushed slightly and put his hand on her head. "Come on, let's go." They let go of each other and headed out. They met up with the group of warriors and Wyper went to talk with an unhappy looking Laki. Avery, not wanting to get in the middle of their dispute anymore, went over to Kamakiri
"Hello, Kiri." She greeted and smiled up at him. His face twisted into a grimace as Braham laughed.
"Still calling him by that childish name, Little Birdy?"
.~:*:~.
"So what's her name?" Kamakiri asked Braham as they watched Wyper get up. God and his people had just left. And the girl had left too.
"I don't know. I think she was called Aviary." Braham replied. Wyper was getting close to them now and Genbo joined the conversation with a scuff.
"Then what is it?" Kamakiri asked Genbo.
"No idea." said Genbo. Wyper was near enough now for them to converse with too. "What was her name, Wyper?"
"Didn't they call her Aviary?" He questioned. That's when Laki came into the conversation.
"It's Avery." She said with a roll of her eyes. Men.
"I like Aviary better." Kamakiri said and Braham nodded in agreement.
"Isn't Aviary a place for birds?" Genbo questioned and they all went silent.
"Aviary it is." Wyper said. She was a wingless bird. The irony would make the four men laugh for years to come.
It was days after the incident with God that Wyper met her again. She was walking through the forest with no weapon or any protectors. Wyper and some of the warriors were scouting out the place, trying to find the bell. He didn't find the bell but he found her. What was her name? He couldn't remember but he knew it was close to Aviary. So he called her that. "Aviary." She hesitated in her step and looked around.
"My names Avery." She called out to a hidden Wyper. "Who are you? You're not supposed to be here." She was getting twitchy. Her eyes were flicking every which way. Wyper decided to come out. He knew she was alone and that if she tried to attack he could take her down. "You're that man." She said like it really specified who he was. "The one from the village."
"And you, Aviary, are God's daughter." Wyper said. He purposely said the wrong name and they both knew it.
"Wyper!" Someone shouted. "Where you at Wyper?" A man came though the brush and found them. "It's her."
"What is it Kamakiri?" Wyper asked. His voice was gruff sounding. So different from the almost playful tone he'd used when making fun of Avery.
"The men are pulling back." He didn't take his eyes off Avery. "I'm Kamakiri. Pleasure to meet you , Little Birdie." Wyper smirked as she huffed.
"The pleasure is all yours, Kiri. I'll be going now." She turned and headed in a different direction.
"You do realize you're headed away from the Giant Jack?" Wyper questioned.
"Now you wait a minute!" Kamakiri shouted at her. "That's a girls name! Not my name. My name is Kamakiri! You hear me Little Birdy?"
"Of course I hear you, Kiri. How could I not? You're shouting loud enough." And this time she turned and headed in the correct direction.
.~:*:~.
They were once again in the woods now. Running and flying on their skates as fast as possible. Avery was, like Kamakiri, on a board. She had never liked the skates before. Half of day had already gone and they had gotten quite spread out. Kamakiri, Wyper, Braham, and herself were the last in the original group. The rest of the warriors were spread out and fallen behind. Braham dashed to the right leaving the group.
The sound of his flash guns alerted the remaining four to the enemy he was taking care of. Then Kamakiri went to their left and the screams of another enemy were heard. It was now only Wyper and Avery. The two travel silently and fast trying to reach their destination. Wyper so intent on making it to his destination did not notice Avery. Slowly she fell behind, going slower and slower until she was fully stopped.
She'd known that they were being followed for a while now but could do nothing about it because of the other people. No matter what Wyper had to make it to Giant Jack and to Enel. "I see you've realized I am here." A disgusting voice that haunted Avery's nightmares called.
"I've known you were there for a while now. Just couldn't stop and say hello before now." She sarcastically bit back.
"Why my dear, I'd expect nothing else from a fighter as yourself. You never were bark but all bite instead. That lovely arm of yours would have been mounted on my mantel had Enel not destroyed it before I could retrieve it." The man exited the shadows and entered her view. "You remember me, don't you?" His sickly voice rasped.
His body was well made. He was tall had a full head of long luscious black hair. He wore no shirt and his loose fitting pants moved in the wind. The bare feet of his made no sound as he walked over branches and dried leaves. Avery looked into his maroon eyes and she was positive it was him. No ones eyes could ever be as sadistic as his and his grin held more malice than one should be able to conceive.
She said nothing in reply to his taunting question but moved in a position to fight. "You know you can't defeat me without any weapons." He hissed. Still she said nothing and stayed silent. The man before her was angered now. He was not one to take being ignored lightly. He ran at her and she pulled her left arm back before releasing it and throwing her punch forward. Little spikes littered her knuckles and the man twisted to dodge. "Ah." He said. "I see." He looked at the metal arm and grinned. "The arm itself has become a weapon, has it not? Then you should be thanking me, I suppose. After all I am the one who rid you of the useless other one."