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Chapter Sixteen: Bitch Deserves To Be Punched, Too Bad I Forget Important Details
Wyper woke up in the morning and his arm was killing him. He uttered not a word about it to anyone. Avery entered, carrying more things than he though she could carry two handed. Her mouth was being put to good use. The bag of hers, which he had been surprised at the weight of the other day, was dangling by the handle in her mouth. On her shoulder she balanced a box that clicked with each step she took and in her hand she had a little piece of paper along with a cup of water.
She got to a spot in the back of the tent, her legs spread a little further than should length and she opened her mouth. The bag dropped with a loud clanking sound. "What would you have done if I was asleep?" Wyper questioned.
"Wake you up." She smiled even though he couldn't see it. "Or this." She skillfully knelled and slowly leaned back. Making sure the water didn't spill and neither did the medicine was a task alone but she had a large box filled with metals. Yet she leaded back far enough that even though she'd been kneeling and her knees were still bent she was laying flat and the box was partially on her shoulder. Reaching back to him she passed the water and medicine along to him.
Or tried to. He didn't take it. "How the hell can you get into a position like that?" Questioned Kamakiri from the tent flap.
"I could show you if Wyper took the shit from my hand." Wyper still didn't take it, he was too busy trying to imagine how she was able to do that and all of the things that they could do with her body like- Kamakiri took the stuff from her. "Move to the side, please." Kamakiri did as bid.
Avery pushed the box off of her shoulder and with her one arm did a one handed handstand from the position she had been in. Them she lowered her legs in front of her and when they toughed the ground she stood up. "How?" Kamakiri questioned then changed it to a different one. "Why?"
"When you have one arm you have to learn to move so that if a fight occurs you can either defend yourself, or move fluently so that you don't get in the way. I learned fluency before fight because it could help when fighting too." Kamakiri handed her the medicine and water back shaking his head.
"I can't even remember why I'm here anymore." He mumbled as he exited the tent.
"Take it." Very said as she once again held out the things in her hand. "It's mild pain meds."
"I'm fine." He grumbled.
"No your not. I know it hurts." She said and just as he opened his mouth to say something but she wiggled the little stub of metal. His eye twitched and his mouth quirked. Again she wiggled it and he smirked trying to hold a laugh in. "Just take the damn medicine." His eyes flashed to her arm again and she once more wiggled it. He burst out laughing. It was just so funny looking.
The wires moved around how she moved her arm and they sparked when hitting each other. Then there was the fact that it only being a stub made it moving around odd. And the serious look on her face. He stopped laughing. She'd moved her bangs out of her face. Albeit it was a black bandana holding it back, but it was out of her eyes. "You look," He struggled with his words. "Nice," He finally settled on. "With your hair out of you face. Her entire face became a flaming color. And she covered half of it with one hand before she realized the other was missing and left her face half open. So instead she turned around.
"I have an arm to build. And you have medicine to take." From the corner of her eye she saw him take them all in one gulp before watching them down with water. "I'm sorry." Her shoulders fell forward and she faced the ground. "I sort of lied. Kamakiri told me that if I told you the truth you wouldn't take them." Wyper looked alarmed. He felt something pulling at his mind. "I'll be here the entire time, so don't worry, but one of them was a sleeping pill." Her eyes watered.
"As long as you're here." He managed to get out before his eyes closed. He could hear her dragging something next to him and the clinking made him think of the box. There was more shuffling then a thump. Her bag. Avery set everything up next to Wyper. Usopp, in tears about her new of staying on Skypiea, had gone above and beyond. Her bag had gained at least another ten pounds of crap and then there was the box and three more Zoro and Sanji were going to bring later. Every spare piece of metal and tools he had he gave to her. He could always get more on the blue sea but up here she couldn't.
When he'd showed her everything he was giving her she felt bad until he justified it with him being able to get more. Then she'd clung to him with her one good arm until he passed out from lack of oxygen. She was going to miss those people. In the short time she'd known them they had really become her family. With a sad sigh she spread the plans out on the ground and going through her bag and the box started the tedious task of finding every nut and bolt, wire and screw, and all of the other little pieces she needed.
It was hours before all of the inside was gotten. Now she had to work on the outside. With her good arm she brought several metal pieces outside and with the cutter Usopp had willingly given her, the job of cutting each needed metal piece out to the correct dimensions was one of the easiest parts yet still took a good hour. "Avery?" Wyper mumbled from in the tent.
"Right here." She called. With the cutter turned off in her hand she pushed the flap back and he looked at her. There were goggles covering her eyes and the bandana on her head was covered with sweat. "You need something?"
"I thought you left." He mumbled falling back to sleep from his temporary consciousness.
"Too dangerous to do this inside." She said quietly even though she was sure he was asleep. The task of bending the metal into the right shape would have to wait until she could get a fire going and for that she would need wood, and two arms to start the fire, two things she didn't have. She brought all of the metal back into the tent and began to work on the inner skeleton of the arm. That's the base for the entire shape and the inner workings will all need to be based around that.
She wasn't even half way done with it when Kamakiri entered the tent. "Ah, just the person I wanted to see." She said like she was expecting hm. "Just stay here for a few minutes, watch him and make sure nothing of mine gets messed up." She stood up and dusted her ass off as good as she could with one hand. There were several things she could so one handed but none of which would help without Wyper. So she pushed the dirty thoughts aside and left the tent.
"Wait!" Kamakiri called after her. "Where are you going?"
"I gotta pee." She retorted and lifter her hand in a small wave. "I'll be back before he wakes up." Of course as soon as she was out of sight and Kamakiri started to look at the very complicated designs for the arm Wyper woke up.
"Where is she?" He asked as he sat up. His arm was weak from sleep and the drugs but the other one was numb enough not to feel anything. "Thought she'd be here." Kamakiri shrugged. He did not want to tell Wyper that Avery had gone to pee then be drilled about how he knew that. "Damn it." Wyper grumbled and Kamakiri helped him to sit completely up.
"I'm sure she won't be gone that long. It can't take that long for her to," He cut himself off and came up with the perfect save. "To do what ever it is that she's doing."
"What a disgusting girl!" Autumn said as she entered the tent without even asking permission. "Screaming about peeing in the middle of the camp." Wyper just gave a slightly blushing Kamakiri a look. "How can you want to be with a girl like that?" She questioned.
"Perhaps it's my devilishly handsome humor." Avery's voice rang out from right behind Autumn. "Or maybe it's because I'm not a pushy snob." Autumn spat at Avery's feet.
""I still don't see why a whore like you gets him." Autumn retorted. Kamakiri snuck out before he could be put in the middle of this.
"Maybe it's because he's not a possession and I don't get him, he chose me and I chose him."
"You ugly, little, one armed, whore!"Autumn yelled at the top of her lungs. Wyper was about to yell at her when Avery threw the punch. She pulled her arm back, fisted her hand and with as much force as possible threw the punch. Avery's teeth were clenched to the point her mouth was in an angry scowl. The perfectly sculpted eyebrows of hers nearly met in the middle of her forehead and her eyes blazed with fire.
Autumns eyes were wide with fear and Avery hissed though clenched teeth. "Damn, I forgot." Inches from Autumns perfect nose was the end of Avery's stubbed arm. "Get out of here before I use my right arm." Autumns ran from the tent tears of fright running down her tanned cheeks. Avery put the stump forward and her eyes looked in the middle of the air ahead of it. Wyper wondered what Avery was doing. "See what I mean? I felt like I pulled my arm back, I felt my fist clench and I threw it. But it's not there and I forgot. That's what being one armed is like." Her eyes weren't looking at nothing, but at a hand that was no longer there.