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𝗟𝗢'𝗔𝗞 𝗪𝗔𝗦 𝗡𝗢𝗪 𝗢𝗡 his ilu, in the oceans water as he moved up to where Ao'nung, and a few of his friends were. The Sully teen didn't want to make amends, especially after what they did to (Y/N), but he was also afraid of his father's wrath, so here he was trying to make peace.

"What's tree boy doing here?" One of them questioned with dislike, as they see Lo'ak approaching them from behind some massive rocks inside the ocean, the top halfs appearing outside.

Lo'ak gave the male a look, before his ilu moved him sideways to Ao'nung, "I'm sorry I hit you," He tilts his head, cockiness a little in his words, "so many times."

Ao'nung looks the male up and down, then to his two friends as they smirked at him. Ao'nung made a scoffing noise, not worried by it as he holds out his arm for a shake, "We should be friends."

Lo'ak was very weary of this, not trusting his words but grabbed ahold of his arms, as they had a firm hold in between them.

"Come hunting with us, outside the reef." Ao'nung tells him with a smirk, and adds on for extra measures, "It's where the men hunt."

"No way, I'm not allowed." Lo'ak straight away disagreed with the idea, knowing if he did he would be in serious trouble.

Ao'nung removes his arm from him, and hisses a little in disappointment as he turns to his friends, teasingly, "I must be asking the wrong brother." He glances back at the quiet Lo'ak, next words hitting where he knew would affect him, "The brother who doesn't wanna impress the girl dear to him." He raises his brows knowingly, smirking still.

Lo'ak frowned at this, ears going sharp as his face becomes determined, "Let's do this." He grunts, the thought of impressing his beloved filling his mind.

Ao'nung makes a celebrating noise, handing Lo'ak the tool to catch the fish as he yips to his ilu, and the other three go to follow him under the water, swimming right away from the safest place.

...

The four teens were down deep within the blue oceans waves, their ilus diving out and going back in as they all yell out in excitement.

Some of the ilu's did some twirls in the air, and dived back down into the water, as one green Na'vi was holding on by one hand as his ilu sprang into the air just above the surface.

"Keep up forest boy!" Ao'nung call in challenge out to Lo'ak next to him, as they both go to jump out of the water with their ilu's, and now were approaching the hunting area.

ROCKS THREE BROTHERS

Three great rocks were seen in the waters ocean, as the misty clouds created a foggy atmosphere around them. A lot of greenier and forestations were on them all, as many more smaller rocks were scattered down below. A flock of birds pass by, squawking in their wake as the groups ilu's appear above the waters' surface.

Lo'ak broke the surface also with a deep breath of air gulped in, and excitedly yelled out to the others, "That was insane, Cuz!"

Ao'nung laughed with the two, as he motions his head beside him, "This way, I know a good spot." But, what Lo'ak doesn't know, was that Ao'nung was trolling the poor Sully teen, as he looks at his friends with raised brows, and they snicker back quietly.

The group go to dive underwater, and get off their ilu's as they swim down below with the sea creatures. Ao'nung stops behind some reef, as he peers out to what was in front, his two other friends joining him as he looks to Lo'ak, "Call the fish." He signs to the teen, and makes a throaty sound to demonstrate the noise.

Lo'ak, not getting this was a dangerous prank, gives him a thumbs up as he swims a little bit out to where he could see some bigger fish, the two circled tool in his hands still. He outstretches the tool, showing the spear that was located on the tip, as he starts to make throaty calling noises, the same ones Ao'nung made underwater.

Ao'nung smiles hurmously at the sight, turning back around to his friends who were doing the same, and commenting on his lack of knowledge, and how dumb he was being. He signals for them to go upwards, and they do as they leave poor Lo'ak all by himself in uncharted waters to him.

Lo'ak was still focusing on capturing a fish, he didn't notice the other teens leaving, as his eyes land on the fish swimming in front of him and he shoots the weapon, the spear piercing the fish's skin.

His eyes light up seeing this, and grins a little with proundess as he spins around to the others, but finds no one there, making his face drop.

...

"Hey guys!" Lo'ak shouts out into the vast sea, the teen on his ilu as he tries to spot where the other three went, but couldn't see no one, "Hey! Come on, this isn't funny!" He contuines to yell, his panic rising by the second as he looks from side to side.

He was going to yell some more, but before he could do so, something had jumped out from the depths of the sea, right underneath him and it caused Lo'ak to be knocked off his ilu, with a scream.

The creature that did this, was a much bigger sea animal as the three land back into the water with splashes. Lo'ak spins his body around, seeing his ilu just barely escaping the jaws of the new creature as his ilu squeals in pain, when the jaws grazed one of its flippers, creating blood to pour into the water a little.

His ilu continues to squeal, and click as it hurriedly swims away from the creatures grasps. Lo'ak tenses his treading water, as the long finned creature looks back at him and growls as it now gains speed to where he was.

Lo'aks eyes went wide, and he turns his body around to try and swim back away from it. He kicks with his legs, pushing with his arms and ends up in-between a coral reef shelter away from creature. It bumps into the front of it, its massive jaws open up as it tries to break through and get him.

As it does this, many pieces of reef start to break off from its constant chomping, while Lo'ak aims the weapon at it, and fires to spear into its mouth, making it screech in pain and grab his weapon in its jaws, chomping that down.

Lo'ak presses his back against the coral wall, as the long finned fish tries to push in the small hole, that was not big enough for it to swim into. He knew he had to move, as the front of the reef was coming down from the constant hits.

Lo'ak pushes through the coral, and swims out from it as the creature was distracted with still breaking it. He quickly turns back, eyes going wide once more as he sees it coming out from where he was, and goes to attack him, but he thinks fast and dodges it.

He swims between some more coral, getting in between the small space as the creature uses its teeth filled mouth to break, or chomp at the coral around him, hoping to get through.

Lo'ak moves further down into the hidey hole, and he glances around to spot the animal again. He panics as it comes diving head first, and it causes him to swim backwards down the coral, while the animal breaks its way through.

However, he pauses when his back hits the end of the coral, and he places his hand around the edges, watching the creature headbutt its way in where he was.

Lo'ak frantically looks around where he was, hoping to find a way out as the sea animal was about to get him. His eyes narrow down when the creature turns away from him, and swims away, making him to believe it was gone.

The more he looked around, the more he got panicked seeing no creature, and suddenly he was very aware that he was still underwater. Lo'ak makes a muffled coughing noise, bubbles appearing from his nose as he was having trouble holding his breath.

This continued for a few seconds, the need for air getting to him as he looks around the water for any signs of the giant fish. He tries to remember what (Y/N), and Tsireya taught him, as he closes his eyes and focuses on calming his heartbeat.

Though the need for some air was strong, and he needed some now, as he pushed off from the sides of the coral and shuffles his away upwards. He swims through the water, kicking his legs more but he paused seeing the creatures big head coming around some rocks in front of him.

The creatures teeth bared now, as it spotted Lo'ak in the water and it picked up speed with its swimming. Lo'ak goes to reach for his dagger attached to his side, holding that up in a fighting stance, and before anything could be done, another massive creature rams the other one into the corals wall with its mouth.

The two of them fight, while Lo'ak was trying not to be swept away by the tails moving around in front of him. His need for air was still strong, as he makes a choked noise again and tries to swim up towards the surface.

However, the distance was far for him to make it in time, as his dagger slips from his grip and he starts to lose conscious as his world eventually became dark.

...

Up above the waters' surface, a bruised up Lo'ak was laying on something as he had his eyes closed, still unconscious from before. The waters waves splashed up to him, and that made his eyes fly open, head lifting up from what he was resting on.

He blinks rapidly, trying to see where he was as he wiggles up a bit more on whatever he was already on. He finally realises that he was saved, as he looks around at the area. His eyes than glance down at the thing he was laying on, and sees the thing puff some air out, causing him to exclaim, "Oh, shit."

What he was laying on was a, Tulkun, one of their most important native animals in the Metkayina clan. The massive whale like creature had saved Lo'ak, and was currently supporting the male on its side flipper as he floats in the water.

Lo'aks tail flicks curiously, as he goes to jump down into the water, and gets a better look at who saved him. He grabs onto the Tulkun's flipper, and its eye was already staring at him expectantly, making clicking noises.

The Sully teen breaks the surface, water dripping down from his hair as he sits on the Tulkun's flipper, "You're a Tulkun?" He goes to question the animal, receiving a sound of agreement back. "You saved my life, thank you." He now repeats his appreciated words with a hand sign, "Thank you."

The Tulkun makes more noises of agreement, its eye focused on the male as it blinks. Lo'ak laughs breathily, smiling a little, "Buddy, I have no idea what you just said."

The Tulkun moves it eye towards where his flipper was, causing Lo'ak to follow it and finally notices the metal, rusted thick spear stuck inside of the skin. "They hurt you, don't they?" He asked the creature, getting clicking noises back, as Lo'ak moves to try and pluck the object out, "I'm gonna try and pull it out, okay?"

He gets a firm grip on it from underneath, trying to tug the thing out, but it wouldn't budge. He takes a deep breath of air, and jumps back into the water, as he moves to where the spears end was. He gets ahold of the clip attached to it, spinning it around once and twice, as he finally twist the end of it off.

He now grabs the spear again, and lifts it out with much ease this time round, as he chucks it away, letting it float to somewhere in the water. Lo'ak gets back up from the water, sitting on the Tulkuns long flipper, as he goes to hand sign, "Friends?"

The Tulkun makes some happy noises, causing Lo'ak to laugh happily also, "That's right, we're friends!" He continues to grin widely, but yelps as he was taken down under the water by the creatures flipper.

His head pops back up, exclaiming his protest when the Tulkun went to places it big flipper down onto him. He ends up back under the surface, throwing his arms up in confusion as the animal clicks and goes to swim around him once, before stopping in its original position.

And in that moment, Lo'ak knew (Y/N) would of loved to see this beautiful creature being so friendly with him, as he smiles warmly with his teeth showing, and goes to grab ahold of its flipper and the two of them go swimming gracefully through the warm waters.

...

Later that day, it was now nighttime as it had developed over the environment, and (Y/N) was sitting on the edge of the pathways between the homes, her feet in the water as she watches it peacefully.

Her feet kicked a little bit, and many little yellow fish come to surround her limbs, going in between her feet or circled them with their backs glowing. Her eyes were bright, as she watches her feet glow in the the water, from the bioluminescence everytime she moved them around.

(Y/N) was so focused on the beautiful water, she didn't even notice Jake coming to sit down next to her. But, she did went the platform dipped a bit, and she looked away knowing it was Jake.

After a few seconds of peaceful silence, Jake goes to softly question the teenager girl, "So what is it, babygirl?"

She didn't answer him at first, and wipes a hand down her face as she sniffles a little bit, making Jake places a gentle hand on her shoulder for reassurance.

(Y/N) takes a deep breath in, and looks out to the water as she fiddles with her shawl around her, "I feel her, Jake."

He furrowed his eyebrows confused at this, leaning forward a bit more to read her expression, "Feel who?"

"Eywa." She now looks at him, her cheeks wet from the crying she did early, as she controls her shaky voice, "I hear her breathing. I feel her heartbeat, and I know that must mean something." She glances at the purple strips on her skin, making her cover them up a bit more with trembling hands, "I mean, look at my different skin to yours."

(Y/N) had always felt this was, ever since she was old enough to understand she was different. And lately, ever since moving to this water clan, she's been noticing her differences a lot more, and it's making her become even more lost and confused. Even if she had the brothers by her side, and always there to reassure her, the girl never felt so utterly alone.

Jake listens to every word carefully, his own face turning into a sad expression as he understands that she disliked her differences more than anything. It made his heart ache for her, and it destroyed him even more seeing her always wearing that shawl to cover those differences up.

"She's so close, she's just..." (Y/N) continues on explaining what's been happening to her lately, pausing as her voice becomes stuffy, "...there. Like a word about to be spoken." She takes a sharp breath in when Jake doesn't answer her, and she turns to him with teary, lost eyes, "I know you think I'm crazy."

Jake sighs softly at this, placing an arm around her shoulders as he leans down to press a kiss against the top of her head, mumbling gently, "You're not crazy, babygirl."

(Y/N) sniffles a bit more, leaning into the fatherly touch as she closes her eyes for a second, and opens them both back up, as Jake removes his head from hers.

"So what does Eywa's heartbeat sound like?" He questions her gently, his eyes looking between her two different ones, as his thumb rubbed smoothing circles over her shoulder.

(Y/N)'s head snapped up at this, her dots scattered around her body seeming to glow brighter now as she answers him in a strong tone, "Mighty."

Jake was a bit surprised by her change of mood, and also her response as he takes in her words, as well as her glowing features. These were more signs pointing to how special she was, he knew that much.

However, before the conversation could go on, the two of them heard heavy footsteps coming their way, and turn to see Neteyam holding Ao'nung by his shoulder, forcing him to walk in front of his father.

"Tell him what you told me!" Neteyam demanded roughly, pointing a finger at Jake who stood up and helped (Y/N) up who was already staring concerned.

Ao'nung shoves his hand away, as he looks at the confused Jake with a heavy, ashamed sigh. (Y/N) could only guess something bad had happened, and she proved her point when she couldn't see Lo'ak anywhere, making her stomach drop.

...

When some of the Metkayina clan soldiers had found Lo'ak by the shores of their waters, someone signalled the horn as they approached the Marius, which had most of the people gathered around on in waiting.

Tonowari, his mate and son were there first, as the leader stares at him and Lo'ak halfy glares at Ao'nung for what he did, but didn't really show it as Tonowari was still watching.

Jake appeared from the side, as he pressed his hands against Lo'aks chest, stopping him from moving, "Hey, you okay? Let's have a look at you." He scans his sons body, only seeing a few scratches that could be easily healed. "He's fine, he's fine." He reassures everyone gathered around.

"Lo'ak!" A distressed voice exclaims, as the green Na'vi on the higher platform part a little bit, and made way for (Y/N) who was coming through, and leaped down to where he was as she straight away runs into his open arms. He sighed in content holding her, as her arms wrapped around his neck, while his were tightly around her waist.

His eyes met Ao'nungs over the girls head, making Lo'ak hold her more possessively and tighter against his chest as Ao'nung looks down, guilty.

"Oh, you're okay, thank the Great Mother you are." She breathed out, sighing in relief as they pulled apart and went to run a finger across his cheek, making him smile loving at her with a hip squeeze.

"I pray for the strength, that I will not pluck the eyeballs out from my youngest son!" Ney'tiri now scolds the teen, a she joined them down below and she hisses a little bit, making the said motion at his face.

"No." Tonowari speaks up from her words, gaining their attention, "My son knows better than to take him outside the reef." He places a hand behind Ao'nung neck, and forces him to kneel down on one leg, "The blame is his."

Jake releases a heavy breath, and nods his head in understanding as he outstretched his arms a little, "Okay..everything's cool."

Lo'ak goes stiff at the comments, looks down at (Y/N), who was tucked into his side, her hand flat against his chest as his arms were wrapped around her waist.

He thinks for a moment, racking his brain as he knew his beloved would understand why he said these next words, "No. This is not Ao'nungs fault."

(Y/N) snaps her head up at Lo'ak, staring a bit bewildered as she knew that was a lie, but also got why he had to say that. Ao'nung had a similar expression to her and his ears were folding back a little.

"This was my idea. Ao'nung tried to talk me out of it." Lo'ak finishes off firmly, as Jake shuffled in his spot and Ney'tiri gives her son a confused stare.

Tonowair looked at Ronal, who had a suspicious expression on her face as she tilts her head a little, not knowing who to believe, but had a sneaky idea this was her sons fault.

"Come on." Jake tells the two teens next to him, giving Lo'ak a strict look as he holds (Y/N)'s hand, and helps her up onto the Marui, and he gets up as well, continuing holding her hand in his.

"I'll handle this." Jake reassures Tonowair with a nudge of his head, as he passes him and leads his family away from the oceanic Na'vi.

As they walk away from the scene, Lo'ak clenches his jaw with a breath and turns on his father, "Dad, you told me to make friends with these kids, that's all I was trying to do—"

"I don't wanna hear it." Jake interrupted his son annoyed, as he stares down at him with a disappointed gaze, "You brought shame to this family."

(Y/N)'s eyes went wide at Jake's words, feeling her heart clenche as Lo'aks hand trembles badly in her own, and she tries to give him reassurance by squeezing softly.

Lo'aks expression went to neutral, as his lips were in a straight line. Whatever he was feeling, the girl next to him couldn't see it, "Can I go now?"

"Any more trouble and you can knot your tail. You read me?" Jake hissed at him in a strict tone, glaring at this son to show he meant it.

"Yes, sir. Lima Charlie." Lo'ak answers back with a emotionless voice, giving his dad the same stare as Jake motions for him to go.

Lo'ak rubs his thumb over (Y/N)'s knuckles briefly, before his hand slips from hers and he goes to walk away. She wanted to chase after the teen, but a warm hand grabbed her wrist and pulled her gently back.

She tilted her head a little, and saw Neteyam shaking his head softly, the one who had grabbed her. (Y/N) bites her bottom lip a little bit, sighing to herself as she slips her hand into Neteyam's and joins his side.

"Where were you?" Ney'tiri spins on her oldest son, not scolding him but had a cross expression shown nevertheless.

"Yeah. What happened to keep an eye on your brother?" Jake also joined the question, turning to his oldest expectantly.

Neteyam dips his head a little, feeling guilty as his parents were disappointed in him and Lo'ak, "Sorry, sir."

This isn't fair on them... (Y/N) thought to herself, hearing this conversation and the last one that just happened with the brothers. She purses her lips, and glances towards her and Neteyam's intertwined fingers. Not fair at all...

NOTE;; yeah i won't lie, but this kinda sucked 💀 and so sorry for the lack of scenes with the brothers... this chapter is more for my plot line with (y/n)..

also, i don't even know why i have to talk about this but, for the love of god, DO NOT copy my plot line with (y/n) nor my writing... guys i've already had some people use both and i don't appreciate it because i worked hard on plotting my shit out & writing it. im sorry if i sound rude, but its what im feeling and experiencing right now ☹️☹️

i don't mind if you use my story as inspiration, because i love seeing my stories inspire people, but not when i see 'writers' taking my words/ideas and just rewriting it to look like their own...that i won't stand for.

anyways, leaving that silly and annoying note i hope you all enjoyed this new chapter & i'll see you all in the next one! mwah ily <3