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          LĒIA SWAM around on her ilu, the girl enjoying the peace and quiet. But it wasn't long lived as her brother swam up to her, guilt written all over his face. "I did something bad, Lēia. Really bad." He mumbled as her eyebrows furrowed.

          "What have you done? It can't possibly be that bad." Lēia tried to calm her older brother down, who quickly shook his head. "Me, Faeui, Kasta and Anax took Lo'ak outside the reef and left him there. He is still yet to return." The younger girls eyes widened, worry and concern englufing her body.

          "How long ago? " Lēia asked. "Before eclipse." Lēia cursed her brother out in Na'vi before grabbing him by the ear, pulling him along as the ilu swam towards the Sully's hut.

           Every few seconds Aonung arose from the water, he cursed the girl out. She often did this to him when she was mad at him. It did no real harm to her older brother, it just made him mad.

          "Skxawng." Aonung mumbled under his bretah as Lēis dropped his ear, the boy immediately reaching up to massage it. "Neteyam!" The girl shouted at the older boy who had just walked out of his mauri.

          He turned to look at her, sending a smile to her before noticing Aonung and glaring at him. "What is it?" Neteyam questioned, stepping closer to the pair as he looked down at them.

          After a few moments of silence, Lēia elbowed her brother in the ribs as the boy hissed before telling him the situation. Neteyam's eyes darkened, dragging Aonung from the water as the two boys disappeared into the Sully's hut.

          Lēia contiuned swimming around on her ilu for a few hours, her mind not being able to settle as she thought of Lo'ak. Was he okay? Safe? Hurt? Dead? On the verge of death? Lēia took a few deep breaths to calm herself down as she sat on the sand, her eyes darting between the four skimwings lit up in the dark sky.

          She knew that her father had ordered for a few of his warriors to go and search for the boy. They had been searching ever since Neteyam forced Aonung to tell Jake. After another hour, Lēia was beginning to loose hope, the girl walking away towards her hut but stopping mid way as she heard the sound of the skimwings coming closer.

          It could only mean two things. They had either returned with Lo'ak alive or dead.

          Lēia ran over to the crowd, making her way through it as she noticed her brother kneeling down to the Sully's with her fathers hand resting on the back of his neck so he didn't try to stand up. Lēia made eye contact with the boy, a relived smile forming on her face as she noticed he wasn't hurt. He returned the smile, his tired eyes still glistening with happiness at the sight of the girl.

         "Come on!" Jake Sully demanded his son as the family got out of the water, walking away. "What did I miss?" Lēia asked as she turned to her sister, blocking out the sound of her mother and father scolding Aonung.

           "Lo'ak took the blame for Aonung. You have gotten yourself a good boy, little sister." Lēia's eyes widened at the last comment as her sister began walking away with the younger girl following behind, trying to get to know what her sister meant. "What do you mean?" Lēia questioned.

          "Oh please, Lēia. I am your older sister, I know everything. I also recognise the way you look at each other. You are both hopelessly obsessed with one another." Tsireya voiced as Lēia looked away from her sister, trying to hide her blushed cheeks.

         "We are not obsessed with eachother, we are just simply friends. I barley know him." Lēia spoke in an unconvincing voice making Tsireya chuckle before changing the subject, knowing her sister would come around sooner or later.

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         Lēia, Neteyam, Kiri, Tuk, Tsireya, Aonung, Rotxo and Lo'ak were all sat in a circle, Lo'ak had told the group prior he needed to tell them something. Lēia's eyes widened slightly as he told them he had been saved and became friends with a tulkun.

          "I wish I had been there, the ocean blessed you with a gift brother." Kiri spoke, a true smile playing on her lips. "The tulkun have not returned yet. And no tulktun is ever alone." Aonung spoke, bending forward slightly from the tree he was leaning against.

          "This one was. He had a missing fin, a stump on the left side." Lo'ak spoke towards the group but mainly maintained eye contact with Lēia. Lēia paused for a few seconds, processing the information before realising he was talking about Payakan.

          An outcast tulkun who had killed a Na'vi down south and several other tulkun's.

          "Payakan." Lēia mumbled before turning to Aonung, Tsireya and Rotxo. "Payakan." She spoke again as Kiri chimed in, "Who's Payakan?"

          "A young tulkun who went rogue. He's outcast, alone. And he has a missing fin." Rotxo explained before Lēia turned back to face Lo'ak. "They say he is a killer." Lēia contiuned as Lo'ak grabbed ahold of her hand in a comforting way, trying to get her to understand.

          "He killed Na'vi, and other Tulkun's. Not here, but far to the south." Aonung voiced as Lēia rubbed her thumb back and forth on his arm in a soothing matter, noticing he was beginning to get mad. "No, he's no killer." Lo'ak stressed, looking at Aonung before back to Lēia.

          "Lo'ak, you are lucky to be alive." Lo'ak shook his head, the boy was desperate for someone to believe him. "I'm telling you guys, he saved my life. He's my friend." Neteyam chuckled lightly, making his way over to his younger brother.

          "My baby bro, a mighty warrior. Who faced the killer tulkun and lived to tell about it." Neteyam joked, shaking his brothers shoulders as Lo'ak dropped Lēia's hand and pushed his brother away from him. "You guys aren't listening." Lo'ak huffed, standing up.

          "No I'm listening, Lo'ak." Tuk shouted as Lo'ak began walking away. "Lo'ak come back!" Lēia shouted after the boy, who ignored her. A sigh escaped the girl as she watched him swim off on an ilu.

M speaks !

i watched avatar in 3D yesterday
and i'm now properly grieving over
Neteyam's death.