Lone

1

"TERINA!" My ears pricked up to the sound of Jake's voice echoing throughout the forest. I was completely dead. We weren't supposed to even step foot here since we moved up to the mountains, neither were we supposed to come alone, but this is where I felt at peace, this is where my mother and father laid to rest.
I climbed up a tree and looked over the forest, my eyes scanning for Jake and my ears listening for his loud stomps and growls that had suggested if I got caught, I would be scolded. Massively.
"You're in so much shit Ter." I spun around, hearing Lo'ak's whisper as he smacked me round the back of the head.
"OW!" I flipped him off like Jake had taught me too, and heard another thud, this time the other side of me, Lo'ak and I both turned our heads to see his brother.
"You're going to get us all in trouble." Neteyam's accent was strong as he also clipped me round the ear, muttering at me under his breath.
"Skxawng." Idiot.
When we were younger, Netayam and I mainly communicated with the Na'vi language, it made me feel closer to my parents who had passed during the attack from the sky people when I was three, Netayam was Six, and Kiri was Four, Lo'ak was the same age as me, but being born after him meant a constant state of "I'm older. Listen to me." And "It's the rules, you're young so you wouldn't know." And even now, at the age of eighteen, I was still treated like the child of the family, when the actual child was Tuk, age five, and a half.
"I'm going to get dad." Neteyam mumbled, he turned his back as I shifted around and he spun round to look at me.
"Terina. 'I'awn.' You too." His fingers pointed to both Lo'ak and I as he told us to stay.
I groaned and threw myself back into Lo'ak dramatically, who caught me as I had suspected.
"I'm so dead."
"You are."
I hit him.
"You're supposed to make me feel better Lo." I groaned.
"I can do that."
"You're such a perv." I hissed and he let out a laugh.
"Should we run?" I asked and he gave me a smirk before nodding, the both of us took off, my hand in his as we jumped from tree to tree . That was the problem with Lo'ak and I, we were bad influences on each other. Very bad.
I leapt down onto the ground to get some more speed and avoid getting hit in the face with the leaves of the trees, and there Jake was in front of us. Neteyam behind him, giving us a disapproving look.
"RUN!" Lo'ak yelled and we turned around, attempting to sprint the other way just as our queues were both pulled.
"OW!"
"DAD!"
"THIS IS ABUSE!"
"Eywa help me." Jake mumbled before spinning us around.
"Terina. Baby. What have I told you about coming down into the forest?" He looked at me with pleading eyes, I know he was just trying to keep us safe but the mountains were no fun.
"You say not to." I grumbled.
"Please don't anymore." He was always less harsh on me then he was to Netayam and Lo'ak, although he took me in, he knew he had no authority over me or my life, that wasn't his job, so he did the best to advise me against things... sometimes more stern than others.
"My parents are here. Ma sa'sem." My parents.
"I promise you can still come here. Just not on your own."
"But-"
"Teri." He warned.
"Okay." I told him in defeat.
"It isn't safe." He added on.
"Yeah Jake." I snapped. "I got it."

I rode back to the mountains on Sezila, My Ikran, she let out a sad noise, feeling my own emotions through the bond as we left the forest, where my parents laid to rest.
"Come on Ter, don't be like this." Neteyam bumped my Ikran with his, I rolled my eyes and Sezila shoved him back, I let out a chuckle as Neteyam rocked, giving me a glare.
"You're on." Was he all said before we started to race back to the mountains.
I shot past Lo'ak and Jake and heard him laugh, speaking to Neteyam who was behind me at a distance.
"You've got no chance."