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sú•ton
noun
twilight; the approach of death or the end of something.

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THE TEENAGERS all raced after Lo'ak knowing he won't stop until he reached Payakan whether it killed him or not. "Lo'ak! you skxwang!" Elyä yelled Neteyam following behind her concern and anger pouring over him, all the stress he has to deal with it was finally his breaking point.

"Lo'aks going to get Payakan!" Neteyam told Kiri and Tuk as they sat on their ilu.

"Wait up!" Kiri yelled following after the two teenage lovers who seemed a mix of sad and annoyed glued onto their faces like masks.

"Hold on," Kiri mumbled to Tuk racing off after the teens who followed after Lo'ak.

Lo'ak crashed through the clear water, Elyä following seconds behind. The sound of Payakans yell to the youngest Sully son.

"Payakan! Brother!" He screamed not seeing the red tracker pierced into the Tulkuns skin like a broken sword of an old king.

"Lo'ak wait!" Tsireya screamed at the boy as he asked Payakan, "what is it? what's wrong?" hearing the beeping of the red tracker, "shit!" Lo'ak muttered hoping off of his ilu onto Payakan.

"Stay calm, stay calm," the youngest Sully boy mumbled jumping over to the tracker pulling on it, "shit!"

The sight of the demon ship filling Elyä's eyes as she got closer to Payakan going to help Lo'ak with the tracker hurting Payakan.

"Bro, help me! the ship is coming," Lo'ak asked both Neteyam and Elyä.

"I'm going calm down," she grinned pulling on the metal part letting its warmth stab into her skin making light blood bloom onto the silver metal.

Neteyam helped Ao'nung up joining her in pulling it, "this was not on my plans for today but okay," Lyä half-joked hands turning a light shade of purple from how hard she tugged on the sky people thing.

"Hurry!" Tsireya yelled glancing at the silver ship shining the sun of it piercing her blue-green eyes.

"Call dad, just go. do it!" Neteyam commanded Lo'ak as he took a hold of Elyä's hand who was still trying to pull the red tracker out of Payakan.

"Dad-I mean Devil Dog. Do you read me?" He asked Jake waves hitting his spirit brothers body splashing the group with water as Kiri and Tuk tried to calm Payakan down.

"Lo'ak?" Jake quickly questioned his son gripping onto his necklace Lo'aks voice filling his ears.

"Yes," he said quickly, "we are with a tulkun who is under attack. Gunships inbound. It is two clicks out." He explained to his father glancing at the silver ship coming closer.

"Who's with you?" Tsyeyk asked his son concerned for who's all with him.

"It's all of us!" the voice echoed filling Neytiri's ear fear churning in her stomach the war was coming they had to do something and quick.

"Ao'nung and Tsireya too. We're at Three Brothers Rocks," he mumbled quickly panic pounding through Lo'aks fragile body frantically trying to calm down.

"Get to cover and do not engage. Alright?" Jake commanded not wanting to lose his kids.

Neytiri gasped covering a hand over her mouth, everything was wrong she's felt it before and now it's happening again, all over, the same story.

"You hear me? Do not engage. We are coming," Jake said going to explain what is happening to Tonowari and Ronal, "yes sir," Lo'ak nodded going back to helping.

Sometimes helping the ones you love can end up with you shattered at the end.

NERVOUSNESS pounded through Elyä's blood stream, her heart racing, breathing fast as she pulled on the tracker falling into the water from not being able too. "Neteyam can you help me up?" Lyä asked quickly wanting to help even just a little.

"Yeah," he bent down pulling her up easily holding her arm on Payakan trying to get that annoying thing out.

"Can we have a talk after this?" She asked a dark shade of purple coating her cheeks like summer rays on a hot summer day, "of course," He grinned.

"Can you two love birds stop and help?" Ao'nung bitterly glared as Tsireya said, "It's getting closer!"

Everything was happening so fast, the sky demons were finally gonna kill her like her father, all for some money and glory from the devil.

"three, two, one, pull!" Neteyam yelled everyone getting a bit of the red tracker out of Payakans rough armor.

Black spots filled Elyä's vision the ache in her hands growing, she glanced at Neteyam breathing slowly sweat dripping down her face leaving a dewy touch to her blue skin.

"Is Jake ever coming, oh my Eywa please let us survive safely through this," she prayed, anger from it not coming out, slowly building, brick by brick.

Gods sometimes don't hear the pleas glancing at you until you feel nothing but broken pieces of glass, painful but beautiful even in death.

ESME'S CORNER!
hello! i am so so sorry for not updating for a while school has been beating my ass so much and i'm also sorry for the very short chapters recently. my motivation is getting low bc i'm burning out from how much stress i'm putting on myself but hopefully Neteyam & Elyä will kiss at some point in these next few chapters!!

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