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Chapter 24

Men and women came to offer their strengths. Painting their faces with white and yellow and taking their own weapons as fast as they can then gathered around the shore, calling their own ilus from outside the net.

"Tuk, stay behind." I commanded Tuk as I brought her to our Marui Pod.

She gave me a grumpy look with her unfinished painting on her face. "I'm already eleven, brother. I can fight now." She reasoned out.

I sighed and caressed her hair. "I need you presentable as much as possible when we get my mate back so I can introduce you to her properly, hmm?" I gently leaned forward and put a kiss on her forehead.

Even though her face was sad she still gave me a nod and a smile. After that, I grabbed my weapons and ran back to the gatherings where all of them was already there and preparing their ilus. The chief and dad were talking when I approached them.

"Neteyam, Ao'nung, you, and I will lead the people in the attack. Some group will stay to protect the village and the kids. Some will protect the forest and the soul tree." Tonowari explained hastily.

My dad nodded. "Tsireya and Lo'ak can lead the people to protect the forest and the soul tree and my daughter Kiri will lead the people in protecting the village."

Tonowari nodded and both of them made their own ways to tell it to them while I went to my brother. He was putting the weapons on his ilu's back.

"Hey, Lo'ak..." he turned to me. "...you and Tsireya must lead the people in the forest. Use the cave below to go hidden and if they happened to enter the forest, you know how to take them by surprise." I told him and he nodded. He instantly ran to find Tsireya and gather people.

I looked at the ship and saw that they're putting down four boats now on the water. I bit my lip and ran to find dad and the chief, luckily, I found them about to meet with Ao'nung.

"They're setting up. We have to hurry." I warned them and they looked at the ship as well. They became tensed and we ran to our ilus and rode them.

"Half of you, follow us and the others follow the other leaders." Tonowari raised his spear as he lead the attack, diving down the water as we follow him.

And it started...

From underwater, we can see the boats' bottoms and how its machine worked. They didn't notice us coming so we took it as an advantage and with force, we rose up and using our spears, we were able to struck three out of eight sky people from the air. We saw their shocked faces looking up as they also prepared fast. We dived down back.

We heard loud noises above even underwater and how the sky people prepared their big guns. Unfortunately, the next group of Na'vi who rose up wasn't lucky enough as us because there was a big explosion that welcomed them then they dropped down the water with some of them wounded, some unconscious, together with their ilus.

The next group didn't attempt to attack because of what happened. I looked at my dad and signed. 'Let's go under the ship'.  They nodded and followed me underneath the ship, observing the movement of the water.

Ao'nung signed, 'Let' s take them by surprise. Let's attack from all sides.'  he suggested and once again, we all nodded. Ao'nung took some of the people to go to North, dad to the south, the chief to the east, and me to the west. In a couple of seconds, we signaled each other and prepared for another attack, flying in the air.

"AHHHH!!" everyone exclaimed and readied their spears but this time, some of the sky people were prepared and pulled their gun's triggers, but they weren't prepared that we will take them by surprise so some of them wete also hit by our spears. The big problem was, there was a lot more Na'vi who were hit by the explosions and fell down the water.