RIPTIDE - Neteyam fanfic

eleven

It was hard keeping what they had to themselves, but stelle' was afraid of the backlash she might receive otherwise. and it only became harder and harder to hide what went on between them when they trained everyday or practiced their signing or Ilu riding with the others.

Stelle', announg, tsireya, and the sullys were at the beach playing a game the sullys had introduced to them called "zombie". Apparently it was something Jake sully had passed down to his children as a previous sky person. One person was chosen and their goal was to tag everyone, but once someone got tagged they now became part of their team. The game went on until everyone was tagged.

It was fun. Stelle' enjoyed running and feeling the sand against her feet. They all ran around cheering and yelling happily.

Neteyam was it, he chased Lo'ak for a while before switching to chase after stelle'. Stelle' ran in zig zags to avoid getting caught but once he cornered her by the shore and the beginning of trees it was hard to escape.

He ran to tag her and somehow they ended up on the floor, Neteyam towering over her. In that moment they both felt dejavú. Something similar had happened when training a few days earlier only the roles were reversed. Now it was Neteyam who had pinned her down to the sand.They breathed heavily from all the running, taking the moment to catch their breath.

Neteyam looked at stelle's as she lay underneath him with a vibrant smile. "I want to kiss you. I want everyone to know you are mine."

Stelle's eyes widened. She hadn't expected that. "You cant", she said with a smile. As much as she wanted it, there was a chance that eyes were on them and word could get out to her father. But she liked that he couldn't in a way too because it gave her a chance to tease him.

She placed a hand on his stomach. "So are you gonna tag me or what, netty?"

Neteyam's ears quirked up at her touch, eyes widening.  "Um. Uh."

"Ew, just tag her already!", kirri yelled from the other end of the beach.

Instead of tagging her with his hand he kissed her on the cheek, before hurrying away. "Tag, you're it!"

Stelle' gasped, getting to her feet and starting to chase Tuk who ran surprisingly fast.

The game went on until everyone was too tired to continue and they all collapsed on the sand, out of breath. They chuckled and talked but only one thing polluted stelle's thoughts.

Neteyam, Neteyam, and Neteyam.

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Stelle', tsireya, and announg sat at the dock, letting their feet hang nearly touching the water. That was their spot to talk as siblings about anything. They often met there at night to talk about friends and joke around. It hadn't happened in a while and Stelle' was happy they were starting to do it again.

Stelle' noticed a pendant hanging around announg's neck that he'd never worn before. It had a seashell at the end. "Where did you get that, ung?"

"Oh uh. Kirri gave it to me." He was clearly hesitating to speak the truth, knowing tsireya and Stelle' would squeal and giggle exaggeratedly.

Stelle' and tsireya gasped.

"So you and kirri?", stelle' mocked, nudging him with her elbow. "Never saw that one coming."

Announg looked at his reflection in the water, holding back a grin. "It's nothing really."

"You can't expect us to believe that.", said tsireya. "You don't believe that yourself."

"You're right I don't but let's just leave it at that.", he said.

Who knew the three siblings would all fall for the sully's. If you told them that a year earlier they wouldn't have believed it. But now they sat at the dock thinking about the blue people and smiling at the thought.

-

Tuk, kirri, and Stelle' sat in a circle by the ocean, looking at their finds. They'd gone out into the water in search for more things to add to each of their collections. They brought back shells and interesting looking rocks. Stelle' brought back herbs and spices for the kitchen.

"That was so fun!", tuk said. "We need to do this more often."

"Defenitly." Kirri grinned.

Stelle stood up with her herbs and spices. "I'm going to go bring these to the kitchen."

"Can we go again tommorow?", tuk asked excitedly.

"Let her breath, tuk. She's probably busy.", said kirri.

Stelle smiled. "Of course we can go tommorow. I'll see you then."

She left to the kitchens. The chefs were preparing dinner and Stelle slipped inside greeting all of them. She was familiar with them and they were familiar with her from all the times she entered the kitchen. She was the main producer for a lot of the herbs and spices that went into the meals.

She stayed in the kitchen helping prep the food until dinner time when people started gathering around the area. She helped hand out the food and went to sit down with her siblings and the sully's like usual.

She slid in the seat by tuk and in front of Neteyam with a smile. "Hey guys."

"Stelle'! I was just showing netty what I collected today!"

"Oh good." Stelle turned to face Neteyam with a smile. "Did he like what you found?"

"He said all the shells looked the same.", tuk muttered.

"Hey that's not true!" She chuckled at him before placing a comforting hand on tuk's shoulder. "He just doesn't know anything about shells.", she whispered in her ear causing tuk to smile.

Neteyam gasped jokingly "Hey I heard that!"

"Good.", said stelle' and tuk in unison.

Neteyam ate some of his rice, looking over at stelle' "will you teach me then? after dinner at our spot?"

Stelle' shook her head. "Why not." She knew there wouldn't be much teaching occurring but she looked forward to it with a smile.

Shorter chapters but I hoped you guys enjoyed!! lots of Neteyam x Stelle' content in this one ur welcome babes 😌