Afternoon, Astri says she would like to go to the river. Wayde and Dieg take her there to play. She jumps in the water and swims in the crystal clear water.
"Don't go far." Dieg tells her as she swims away.
"Why?" She asks.
"Because I can't reach you if I need to."
"Don't worry. I know how to swim." She says.
"Still. Don't go far."
"Just in case." Wayde says to her. Also worried.
She nods and keeps swimming close to the land.
"Did you get the males to keep the cabin guarded?" Wayde asks Dieg.
"Yes. The best ones will be guarding her."
"I will kill you if something happens to her."
"I would kill myself if that happened."
Wayde sighs.
"If she accepts you... Be gentle with her."
"Of course." Dieg answers with a smile.
When the weather started getting too cold, Astri got out of the water. At least she's bathed already.
They go back to the cabin, but they get shocked when they get inside. Everything was turned upside down. The bed sheets were torn, and the table and closet were broken. But what made Astri more shocked was to see her notebooks ripped and her books ripped too. Her art gears were all thrown on the floor and some were broken.
Wayde knows how important that was for Astri, and Dieg imagined it was something she liked a lot because every day she uses it.
"Astri…" Wayde goes to her.
She's trembling and crying in anger.
She releases herself from his hands and then leaves the cabin. She walks fast in the direction of the village.
"Where are you going, Astri?" Wayde asks, following her.
"Was it Ana?" She asks, still walking.
"Astri.." Dieg is also following her.
"WAS IT ANA?!" She asks, angry.
"Yes. But what are you going to do?" Wayde asks.
Both are shocked to see the always calm and gentle Astri so angry like that. They found Ana near the path to the rock mountain that leads to the Chief's cave. She was with three of her mates.
"Oh. Look at the strange female. Hard to see you here. Hi, Wayde." Ana says, very satisfied.
"You invaded our cabin." Astri speaks, seriously.
Her serious energy is making Wayde and Dieg's blood freeze.
"Your cabin? No, that cabin belongs to Wayde. I just went to check what people were saying. Everyone was saying that Wayde and Dieg were building things there. I just saw trash there." Ana says, with an air of a queen.
"You asked your males to destroy my mate's things?" Wayde says, angry, and stepping forward.
"She's not..." Ana starts saying, but then she sees that Wayde's beast mark is different, showing that now he's mated. "I don't believe it… You mated with this.."
Wayde growls louder and releases all his energy, making everyone feel the pressure. Her males instinctively looked down.
"You better start showing respect for her, Ana. " Wayde speaks.
"Ana, you did wrong. That was too low even for you." Dieg says, very serious.
"So what?! What will you do? You can't do anything!" She says, angry.
Before Wayde and Dieg say anything, Astri holds their arms. They stop and look at Astri, who steps forward.
"You're right. They can't do anything." Astri says getting closer to Ana.
Then from nowhere, Astri's fist hits Ana's face making a boom!
Ana fell on the ground, her males quickly went forward, and Astri kicked the balls of the first one that came to her. He falls to the ground screaming in pain, dizzy, and holding his precious jewels.
The other one, Astri twists his arm, making him low down his head and then she kicks his chin strongly. He falls knocked out.
The third one, Astri rushes forward and uses her right leg to make him stumble back and fall, then she kicks his nose.
Ana was standing up holding her bleeding face, Astri held her hair and Ana tried to punch Astri, but Astri was faster and yanked Ana's head down and hit her knee on Ana's face.
Then Astri punches Ana's face again, Ana falls with her back on the ground. Astri rides on Ana, holds Ana's arms down with her knees, and then punches her face again and again.
Everyone around was looking at Astri in shock.
Wayde and Dieg are the most impressed. Another two of Ana's mates arrived running, and then after him, the chief also arrived. Astri decides to stop when she sees that Ana is almost unconscious.
"Wayde and Dieg might not be capable of doing anything against you, but I can. Do you understand, you disgusting bitch?" Astri says, holding Ana's cheeks with one hand.
"Y-yes.." Ana cries.
"You destroyed the things that Wayde and Dieg made. They used their time and did it with love. And you destroyed my things. Nothing you do can repay it. So STAY AWAY from our things or else we will have another round. Do YOU understand?!"
"F-father!" Ana cries.
Astri punches Ana again.
"DO YOU UNDERSTAND?!"
"YES! I UNDERSTAND."
"Good." Astri stands up, she bows to the chief. "I'm sorry for the mess. Excuse me."
Then Astri turns around and walks away pulling Wayde and Dieg. When they were away from the village, they stopped her.
"How did you do that? How did you learn to fight like that?" Dieg asks, impressed.
"I had to learn to protect myself." Astri answers.
"That was amazing. No one could ever beat Ana like that. I'm so happy." Dieg says laughing.
"Sorry. I didn't want to cause problems. She just.. took me to the edge." Astri sighs.
"Why are you apologizing? You just protected your territory. I'm just shocked you could beat three males and Ana." Wayde says.
"Astri was so awesome." Dieg says.
Both were so proud of Astri and looked happy about what she did. She was afraid she would bring problems to them, but apparently, it's a normal thing.
"Are you saying that your father won't be mad and kick me out?" Astri asks Dieg.
"No. He would kick you out only if you killed innocent people. If you're protecting your territory it's not his business. If you didn't protect it, we would have fought her males to make them apologize for her." Dieg says.
"They didn't do it. They fear Wayde. It was her hands. But are you serious? No one ever fought with Ana?" Astri speaks.
"As hot as you? Not that I know." Wayde says with a proud smile.
"And you were angry that she broke the things we made for you. That was…hot." Dieg speaks.
She could sense the lust in their faces and voices. She looked down quickly and saw that they were excited.
"Ok! I can see you're too happy. I have the cabin to clean." She quickly turned and walked away blushing.
They follow her back to the cabin. Astri sighs sad, she tries to put the pages of the book together and in order. Wayde finds a drawing Ana didn't rip, it was a drawing Astri made of himself. He smiles, he didn't know Astri made a drawing of him.
After they cleaned the house, they fixed the bed and Astri went to sleep after eating some roasted meat.
"I'll give you the money I have. If you find paper in the market, buy the most you can." Dieg says in a low voice to Wayde.
Wayde nods.
"Those books were important to her. While she lived alone, almost all her life, all these were everything she had to make her happy."
Dieg sighs sad.
"It's my fault. Astri asked me to keep Ana away and look at what happened. She wouldn't have lost her things and hurt her beautiful hands if I had been more careful." Dieg speaks.
"Now it has already happened. Hope she won't be sad for too long."
Wayde lays down on her side. Dieg lays down near her too, Wayde didn't complain, as long Dieg didn't cross too much of the line Wayde would always let him near Astri.
Next day morning, Wayde and Dieg wake up and decide to make a special breakfast for Astri. She told them that from where she came from couples would do breakfast in bed for each other. They prepared scrambled eggs with smoked meat, cut some fruits, and made juice.
Astri wakes up and when she sits down she's surprised with a warm breakfast ready for her on her side. She smiles at the two males next to her, they are checking if they can fix the table. Those two know how to be gentle, that is something she doesn't miss from the other world.
"Good morning." She says.
"Good morning." Both answer with smiles on their faces.