Aching Heart ☆ Neteyam

☆𝔞𝔩𝔱𝔢𝔯𝔫𝔞𝔱𝔢 𝔢𝔫𝔡𝔦𝔫𝔤 𝔭𝔱1☆

I waited, hovering idly by, for the moment in which I should attack. It was not long before Payakan pushed himself free from the demon boat and the war cries of my Na'vi were heard. Pulling my bow tight, i swooped down towards the ship, firing arrows at anyone that was not my family or my people.

Each arrow i shot imbedded itself in the enemy's chest, I trusted Lüjan with my life and he never failed me as we flew out of the way from all shooting bullets. Stopping for a second, i reevaluated where the threat was most present and it was down below me.

Smaller boats armed with large machines that fired rapidly were aimed at my people, shooting wildly between the people in the water and the people in the sky. The boats had not yet attempted to shoot at me so I took the opportunity to eliminate them.

Willing Lüjan down, I pulled my bow taut, letting my shoulders relax and my arms tense before releasing the arrow. It struck the shooter through the back of the chest, it's line of fire diminishing before I continued to work on the rest of the humans, embedding arrows in all of them.

I then set my eyes upon the colonel, he was armed with a gun, firing at Jake. He was to preoccupied on him to see me coming as I attacked from behind. Lüjan latched his teeth onto his Ikran, causing him to turn and face me with a cry of anguish. I hopped of Lüjan and onto his Ikran, pummelling my fists into his face.

I didn't leave him enough time to react and his body fell from his Ikran, he grabbed a hold of my arm, pulling me down with him. Our bodies collided together as we grappled against each other before we plunged deep into the water. A slight pain erupted across my back, the impact harsh against my skin but I did not hesitate to continue my attack.

Our grips had been released upon hitting the water but that did not cease the fight as he wrapped his hand around one of my legs, dragging me towards him with his gun aimed at my face. With my free foot I kicked the gun out of my face before using that same foot and harshly smacking him in the face with my heel.

His grip released from my ankle as his face contorted into one of pain. Taking the opening, I wrapped my legs around his body from the back, placing my arm around his neck and putting him into a choke hold. Instantly he began to thrash around in the water, his fingers digging into my arm, tearing my flesh but I did not stop, not until his body went limp under the water.

Removing my arm from his neck, I broke to the surface of the water, calling Lüjan. He came swooping above the water and as I held onto the riding gear to pull myself out of the water a large splash drew out from behind me. Just in time I turned to see the colonel above the water, gun aimed high at me. I tried to get on Lüjan before he could shoot but I didn't have enough time as a bullet rang through the air.

Before he could shoot again, i willed Lüjan to fly upwards and out of the way of his fire. I didn't stop to check myself over until I was in a safe spot away from immediate danger. Looking over my body I could see a large scrape across the side of my abdomen, the bullet had graze my skin but had luckily not gone into me.

Reassessing where I was, once I made sure i was okay, I scanned over the demon ship to see Neteyam and Lo'ak run under its upper deck. What on Pandora where they doing. Quickly and safely I landed on the ship, covering myself as I ran after Lo'ak and my mate. I ducked behind cover as more gunshots came in my direction and I had no weapon, my bow no longer with me.

Scouring around me I saw a gun strapped to a dead avatar, I didn't waste a second before retrieving it from the body. I held up the gun, aiming it at the shooting enemy from a gap in my cover. Although it was very different from a bow I treated it the same, I took a deep breath, relaxing my shoulders and strengthening my arms before pulling the trigger.

The instant backfire from the gun wounded my shoulder but I had managed to shoot one of them in the chest. I moved out of sight from the other now raging avatar who was wildly shooting at me. Poking the gun out around the side of the container I was hiding behind, I couldn't see where I was shooting but once I released half a dozen shots the fire stopped and I could hear a body fall to the ground.

Peaking my head back out the gap I could see both avatars lifeless bodies laid next to each other and I could help the smile that formed. If I wasn't in the middle of a battle I would have done a celebratory dance as I had mastered the human weapon of choice. With my new found confidence I remembered what I was here for and chased after where I thought the two brothers disappeared too.

Not knowing where they were I decided to follow the sound of gun fire and unsurprisingly I found them cowered behind a large metal box with a swarm of shooting avatars making their way towards them. Running from out of where I was hiding i aimed my gun straight at the enemy, shooting wildly from the other direction. This caught them off guard and they did not have enough time to react before their bodies dropped to the floor, one by one.

"Run" I yelled towards the boys who now had Spider by their side. I watched as they jumped from the ship, down into the water below. Running after them I made it to the edge but as I was about to jump someone wrapped their arms around my waist, lifting me from the ground and pulling me back onto the ship.

I struggled desperately against their grip but they had my arms pinned down on either side of my so I could barely move. My only chance left was to kick my heels into them but my adolescent self was no much against their fully grown body.

"Get off me" I screamed as I continued to writhe against their grip. "Not bloody likely" the man spoke and I could tell it was the colonel. "You should be dead" I screamed, continuing to kick at him. "And it's taking everything in me not to kill you now but you serve a better purpose to me alive" He laughed sadistically, throwing me to the ground but keeping ahold of my wrists, cuffing me to a railing.

A male and a female avatar walked over to the colonel, the woman's eyes thinned when she saw me. "This is the brat that killed Lenny with her teeth" she spat, her tone filled with malaise. "What, this little thing? She barely old enough to walk, she couldn't do that" the male avatar next to her laughed, walking towards me with a cocky grin on his face.

"I wouldn't do that if I were you" the colonel warned but he just brushed him off. "Look at her teeth, they couldn't do any damage" he jested, pointing at my mouth. "Why don't you come closer and I can show you what they do" I hissed, exerting my body forward, as much as it would let me. I was only an inch away from biting the sucker before he lurched backwards with a scowl on his face.

"I'll kill you" The woman screamed, raising her gun to my head. "Nope, we need her alive if we want to lure in Jake" the colonel said and i couldn't stop the rage that overcame me. I began to thrash around more, the material cuffs digging deep within my skin causing blood to seep through but I didn't care.

The metal clanged as I bashed my feet against it attempting to get myself lose from the hold. "You sure that things going to hold her?" The now petrified avatar asked. "If it doesn't I'll shoot her" the woman scowled to which i hissed.

The colonel turned to look at me, pressing the com against his neck. "Jake, I think it's time you surrender yourself" he spoke into the mic, he must have stolen Lo'ak's as there would have been no other way he would have one of ours. "I have the purple freak here with a gun aimed at her head so I wouldn't test me Jake" he raged through the com.

"You have two minutes to come alone before I put a bullet through her skull" he stated, removing his hand from his neck, walking over to his team. He began to whisper in their ears but i could not hear what they were saying, my hearing too muffled from the gun shots. The two avatars nodded towards their boss and all of them dispersed in different directions, leaving me seemingly alone on the ship.

The sound of their footsteps drowned out by the continuous banging sound I made from trying to set myself free. I didn't know how long it had been since they had disappeared but I knew it had been longer than two minutes.

I couldn't shake the feeling that no one was coming for me. I wouldn't blame them if they didn't, they had their whole family together, their was no point risking their lives for someone like me, someone who wasn't even a true Sully.