Gasp! The man that took Avery's Arm! Oh no! What will happen? Will she fight him and win? Loose? Will Wyper be the hero and show up and save her? Who the hell know. Cause I don't' XD Not yet anyway.

Chapter Thirteen: The Past, I Love

There was a clash behind him and Wyper looked around. Avery was no longer there. He cursed and stopped he needed to decide what to do and quickly. But then, a blue sea dweller showed up. The one in the red vest and a straw hat.

Avery's punches were matched with a dial the man held. It was easy to see what Dial it was. The Reject dial. "Now don't you worry." He said. "I'm not going to use this immediately. I'm going to get all of your fight and when you can't anymore I'll do what Enel stopped me from doing last time we met." He licked his lips like he was looking at food. Enel, bad as he was, had some compassion. He didn't let the bastard rape her. But he allowed the man to cut her arm off and throw her and her father into the sea. "You have grown quite pretty over the years. And I'd bet you still saved yourself for him. I'm going to love taking that from you."

"First your going to have to beat me." Avery growled as she landed another punch on the dial. Her right arm shot forward shocking him. The knife in her hand drove into his upraised leg. But all that did was stop her from gutting him like a fish. He screamed in pain and with the same leg managed to kick her away. "I've gotten stronger."

"I will kill you!" He yelled at her and charged. The anger radiated off of him and they battled. Her threw a punch and hit her square on the jaw. She flew back and hit a tree. No sound left her agape mouth yet blood trickled out. "You bitch!" He jumped into the air and pulled his arm back. Avery barely managed to get out of the way in time. She was lucky she did. Where her head had been moments ago was a large crater and the tree groaned. There on the ground was the-

She jumped forward and reached what had been on the ground as another of his punches barely missed her. Avery grabbed it and tuned just as his fist met her stomach. He continued to push until she flew up into the air and he saw a grin on her face. She had a plan.

Everyone of his punches connected with her somewhere. The stomach, her hands that protected her face, her sides. Punch after punch hit their mark and she was starting to feel pain. Finally he seemed to be tiring. On weary legs she stood. He walked forward and she had no intention of moving, as if she could that is. "I'm not going to kill you." He finally said. "I'm going to keep you alive until I break you."

Aver lifted her left arm and set her palm against him. It landed mid chest. "You really think that?" She questioned. Blood and sweat had her hair in clumps and her bangs stuck to her face. She looked up and he hesitated. Her lips were quirked in a malicious smirk and with her bangs plastered out of her eyes he saw the glint there

"And just what do you think you can do about it? You're half dead already." He took another step forward and he heard it. His eyes widened and she braced her left arm with her right.

"Indeed, I am. Reject!" She yelled as the blast threw them both away from each other. She managed to keep her footing, barely, because she had anticipated it. Him, not so much. He'd flown back and into a tree. On his chest was a large indent. The reject dial had done it's job but she wasn't satisfied. She ran sluggishly forward. Her left arm wasn't moving from the elbow down. But still she had to finish this. She straddled his in caved chest. He hissed in pain and gurgled blood. She hand moved to his face and he tried to beg, to plead. "Don't." She said. "Just don't. It will make no difference. Did my begging and pleading make any difference?" She questioned. She pushed her arm down. "Reject!" She yelled again and blood pooled around them as his face was destroyed. "Reject!" This time nothing of his head was left and her metal arm exploded. She flew back and landed on someone.

Please don't let it be an enemy, she begged in her mind. It was the same Shandian that she had met yesterday. The one that had carried her to the village. She was on the ground now and she watched as he crawled forward to the destroyed man. Her mind blacked out as he screamed.

When she came to Laki was leaning over her, tears were streaming down her face. "Laki?" Avery asked and Laki opened her eyes. "Are you alright? Are you hurt?"

"How stupid are you?" Laki said through tears. "You could have died. And Wyper wouldn't have been destroyed by that."

"I'm sorry. I wasn't thinking." Avery said, her mind was still fuzzy. "Are you alright?" Avery asked again.

"Kamakiri's been hurt. He's-" Laki told Avery what had happened. "I don't know what to do. I need to find Wyper but he needs help too."

"Leave Kiri to me, just get me my bag. You go to Wyper." Laki did as asked. "I have some medical stuff in here. Go, I couldn't make it to Wyper if I wanted to." Laki nodded and ran off while Avery dragged herself to where Kamakiri was supposed to be.

She finally found him. He was laying down and panting heavily. "What are you doing here?" Kamakiri said when he saw her. "What happened to your arm?"

"I lost it somewhere I guess." She joked. "I need to-" She cut herself off as her vision swayed. "Here." She gave him her first aid kit just as her mind blacked out again and she lost consciousness.

.~:*:~.

Wyper was meeting with Avery again. He'd just confronted her and her father about the betrothal. But he still needed to talk to her alone. "Avery." He called as she ran into view. She spotted him and ran right up to him. Her arms flung around him as she crashed into him. But he'd braced himself and they didn't fall. She was crying. "What's the matter?" He questioned her distress.

"I'm sorry!" She cried. "I just thought that you wouldn't mind. I mentioned it to my father and he went over it with your Chief. You had said that you wanted to be with me, together you'd said so I thought that with it like this we could be together and end this stupid war. I'm sorry." He wrapped his arms around her and held her tight.

"It's alright." He said. He lifted her up and brought them to a large tree to sit against. As he sat he seated her in his lap. "But are you sure about this? You are still young. And I am technically your enemy."

"You have never been my enemy Wyper. You and your friends have protected me and helped me. I love you, Wyper!" This was the fist time she'd said it. And he couldn't feel happier.

"I love you too, Avery." He said and held her to him. That night they fell asleep like that right there.