Well, Amira sure doesn't want to be here

Delia walks off the boat only to look back and see Amira still on the boat not wanting to get off. Adine was in her arms looking around. "What are you waiting for?" Delia hollers. "The boat to leave with me still on it" Amira hollers back as a response making Delia roll her eyes

Thanking the captain, Eddy hopped off the boat and onto dry land. He stretched his arms; the boat ride had been a long one. Luke simply drifted onto the shore, feeling grimly satisfied with what was to come.
"Well, Delia," he said, "where to now?"

"To drag Amira off the boat" Delia grumbles marching back up the ramp and starts trying to pull Amira down it but she stubbornly stays on the boat

"It may be a bit hard for her, considering her history here - And for good reason," said Luke delicately, implying that Delia should probably take this one step at a time.

"Well she doesn't have anything to be afraid of with us here with her" Delia huffs before just picking Amira up and walking off the boat with Amira complaining and kicking the whole time. Once on the dock Delia waits for the ramp to be put up before setting Amira down so she couldn't get back on the boat

"Well that's that," said Eddy, putting his hands on his hips and looking around.
"Lead the way, Delia."

Delia starts walking but Amira stays stubbornly where she's standing. Delia grumbles. "Some help?" Delia asks having had to drag Amira off the boat already

Eddy and Luke both shook their heads.
"I don't want to help do something to Amira against her will," said Eddy.
"And I know why she doesn't want to go," said Luke, "so I fully understand her restraint."

"Amira please come on" says Delia. "No" says Amira. "And whynot? With us heres nothing to be scared of" Delia says. "I am scared but that not why I don't want to go. Even after everything they did to me I don't want them to get hurt on my account" says Amira. Delia stares at her with a look of disbeleif

Luke looked shocked.
Eddy looked lost.
"You mean after all that, you still forgive them?" asked Luke, unsuccessfully trying to hide his awe.
"Hang on, them who? What? Where-?" Eddy still had no idea what any of them were talking about. He wasn't going to find out any time soon though, since Luke shot him a look that very clearly said, Shut up. Right now.

"Look who it is. Long time no see freak" a boy on the dock jeers. Amira flinchs back reconising him and the two other boys with him. "So where have you been freak? Running off without saying goodbye" another boy chimes in. Delia starts for them but Amira grabs her arm stopping her

Luke was too far away for Amira to grab, though. He simply appeared behind the three boys, and suddenly they couldn't move their arms. They rose up off the ground a couple of inches and floated towards Amira, dropping down to their feet in front of her.

"Is there anything you want to say, Amira?" he asked. Eddy was about to say something, but Luke shot him another silencing glare.

"I doubt 'Leave them alone' is in order" Amira says ducking behind Delia.

"Not quite," said Luke. He walked around to face the boys.
"Is there anything you would like to say to Amira?" he asked, glaring menacingly at each of them in turn.

"Yah, call this freak lucario off" the 'leader' says

"He doesn't listen to me. And I wouldn't get him mad if I were you" warns Amira
"Yah, whatever freak" the leader says

A large, covered plastic tube suddenly appeared around the boy. It began to fill with water. Luke allowed him free reign over his limbs - it wasn't as if he could harm the tube anyway. It was reinforced with an unbreakable aura shield. Luke calmly observed the water's progress up the boy's legs.
I know what you're thinking, but I won't let him drown, said Luke to just Amira, Eddy and Delia.
"Now then," he said for everyone to hear, "first thing's first: You are all going to stop referring to Amira as 'freak'. Understood?" He glanced at the other two boys.
"Don't think I have a limited supply of tubes or water."

"Never going to happen freak. Let me out now!" the leader says kicking at the tube.
The other two weren't looking so certain

The water level stopped rising. It was at the boy's midsection. It began heating.
"The way I see it, you have three options. Drown, boil, or call Amira by her name. Oh, and you have to apologize. And prove how apologetic you are."
Luke, Luke heard. It was Eddy's voice, speaking just to Luke. Is revenge really the answer?
Yes, replied Luke without a second thought, forgiveness and friendship are good and all, but in this case, that simply isn't enough.
The water inside of the tube looked quite warm, probably leisurely. But it was heating all the time.

"I prefere that to apologizing to a group of freaks which you all are" the boy says. His friends were backing away

"That's it, let me at him" Delia says drawing her sword and starting forward, slowly because she still had Amira trying to stop her. The two boys who could take off running

Luke returned the water to normal temperature, and began filling the tube with water again.
Eddy looked questioningly at him.
I don't actually know how hot is dangerous, he admitted sheepishly, and I don't want to do any serious harm, like I said before. That's actually the reason I'm leaving him in the tube- to protect him. He glanced pointedly at Delia's menacing, armed prowl towards the boy.

The boy stands there with his mouth clamped shut refusing to do anything, not even showing he was scared

"Luke, drop the shield so I can dice him" Delia says now only a couple of feet from the boy

"That isn't quite what I had in mind for him," said Luke, watching the water pass above the boy's shoulders. The tube suddenly expanded outward until it was wide enough to hold 50 people, yet somehow the water level stayed put. A Sharpedo swam lazily in front of the boy, then turned and eyed him hungrily. It stopped moving and turned to face him.

"That works to" says Delia.
Amira looked horrified. "LET HIM OUT" she screams punching at the shield. The boy looked the sharpedo in the eye till Amira started banging then he looked surprised for a moment but quickly wipes it from his face

Don't worry, said Luke to just Amira, it's just a projection. It has an aura shield inside it to make the water move and stuff, but I control it completely. See? The "Sharpedo" winked, which Luke made sure only Amira saw. It glided lazily through the water until it was almost within the boy's reach. The water stopped, and it was just as high as the bully was tall, so that he couldn't just stand there. The Sharpedo bared its many teeth.

The boy trends water but doesn't react to the sharpedo