Like Water || Neteyam

Chapter 1: Puppy Love

Months after Neteyam's birth, Kiri was born from Dr. Grace Augustine's avatar. Her pregnancy remains a mystery until this day, therefore leading to the question on who Kiri's father was. Jake and Neytiri welcomed her into the clan as their adoptive daughter; from then on, time seemed to fly.

After another year, Jake and Neytiri's second son, Lo'ak was born. It took a few years, roughly eight, until they finally gave birth to a daughter, Tuktirey, now known as Tuk to all of you.

Once you were four and Spider was five, you had grown big enough to visit the Omaticaya's temporary village outside of Hell's Gate despite Norm and Spider's foster parents, the McCosker's disapproval in the two of you venturing out alone. They know the two of you never stay near by, and always end up running out into the forest with the Sully kids. The forests of Pandora are filled with unpredictable dangers, it was reasonable for them to worry. The more time Spider spent with the Sully family, the more frustrated the McCosker's grew, for they had attempted to spend more time with their adoptive son to little avail. Norm however, was a lot more easy-going. He came to understand that nothing stopped your  love for your forest friends, and he too, shared the same love.

You and Spider were always the odd ones out when it came to visiting the Omaticaya. Norm at least had his own avatar, you two did not. This did not stop you from showing love to everyone in the clan, whether it was playing the violin for them as your dad had taught you, cooking for them as you had taught yourself, or singing for them, mostly in English of course. Your dad did start teaching you the Na'vi language at a young age, but you eventually claimed to have found a better teacher, and that teacher was no other than Neteyam.

Neteyam would tell you stories about their ancestors, the ways of the Na'vi, and about the Great Mother Eywa. Easily intrigued by these stories, you might had been too little to know how much of them you really believed, but you knew that you loved hearing Neteyam talk. He would take your little hands in his much larger ones and lead you through the forest, most of the time it's just the two of you, but sometimes Lo'ak, Spider, and Kiri would follow along. With him, you learned and witnessed the ways of nature, the balance of life, and the beauty of Pandora, which you grew to love more the more you explore and see.

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"Oh look who goes there, it's the one and only Toruk Makto!" Norm looked up from the computers as he saw Jake entering, making his usual little jokes.

It took Norm little time to notice the anxiousness on Jake's face, as he paced back and forth while looking around the labs as though searching for something, or someone.

"Jake what's wrong? Did something happen?"

Jake stared at Norm with a questioning face, "What time is it?"

"About two hours past eclipse?" Norm answered with a shrug of his shoulders, still not sure where this conversation is heading.

Jake rolled his eyes, finally getting to the point. "Where's Mo'ira?"

Norm paused for a moment before he finally came to realization. "Oh crap..I got too absorbed into my work, I didn't realize...she's not with your kids?"

"Why do you think I am here? I was looking for my boy, thought he might be here with her."

"Wait, one of your boys is missing too? Which one?" Norm asked before even thinking, and once he earned another glare from Jake, he slapped his own head in how slow he was. "I mean...of course, who else can it be?"

Of course it's Neteyam when it came to his daughter, it's always been Neteyam. She would even rather learn Na'vi with that kid than with her own father.