Unfair
Kemwiä
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Soon, Hia's children spent more and more time out of the Marui. Including Naraya. There was a common skin condition once within one of the Metkayina villages and they needed a certain paste that could protect the skin underwater from the sun. Ronal was kind enough to teach Hia the recipe. Naraya too, was swimming and learning with her siblings, becoming an adept diver at the age of four.
They'd spend their time outside away from their parents which gave them plenty of alone time, and they even found a spot just to be together that was unclaimed by anyone else. They were starting to feel normal, happy. They had become providers within the clan by learning their ways of hunting, using spears and crossbow-like weapons. They were on their way to really becoming Metkayina.
However, Tsu'tey did have a stubbornness to him about it. He didn't enjoy using the crossbows, his arrows were just as, if not superior to their methods. He wasn't a perfect swimmer either and his bandwidth for holding his breath was substantially reduced. His lungs were technically smaller than Hia's and the Metkayina's. It wasn't perfect.
Soon, even Jake succeeded at flying and swimming with the Tsurak.
Even with all their success, all their efforts, something always had to happen.
Yorä always underperformed, it became something to worry about. Especially with the bullying. Aonung had a sharp tongue but a dull brain as far as boys go. Yorä had suddenly become an outcast, even by Kiri's standards, but Kiri was kind enough to stick around. They'd admire the sands patterns and the worms and fish in the sand. It was one of these times that Aonung found them with two of his friends.
"What are they doing?" Aonung chuckled.
"I don't know."
"They're just looking at the sand." Aonung smirked.
Yoräyu had sharp ears and she heard what he said.
"Huh?" Kiri asked, her head popping up, "what did you say?" She asked cluelessly.
Yorä's glare pierced through Aonung, a scowl on her face.
"Are you guys freaks? Look at her face!" He laughed loudly.
"He asked if you are freaks?" One of his friends, a duller looking one asked.
Kiri shook her head lightly, looking for a better answer than what she had, maybe something mean to say back.
"No." She said, trying to walk away.
"Talk to me again and I'll cut your tail off." Yorä responded with all the venom she could muster.
"Woah!" The boys from his group chuckled.
"The jungle freak has claws!" He snickered.
"What? Are you winning some sort of victory from this? Is this what makes you a man?" Yorä got up in his face, she was just too short to do anything, "all I see is a boy." She spat.
Aonung chuckled and raised his hands defensively.
"If that's what you think." He shrugged, "doesn't change what you are." He circled her pinching her tail at the end, her thin near-fin tail. She winced and hissed.
Yorä took the brunt of their bullying to keep them off of Kiri's back. And in turn Kiri returned with Eyte'lan.
"Hands. off." Eyte'lan said lowly. He had grown a bit since he came here. He was a little bit taller than Aonung. With all that pushing he made himself do to be strong enough, he had become a little built, not as thin and spindly like the Sully boys. More like his father, but smaller.
Yorä pushed Aonung away.
"Another freak come to save a freak?" Aonung laughed.
"Look at his weak arms!" His friend escalated it.
"You heard what I said, didn't you?" Eyte'lan turned with something burning in his eyes, those experiences from the year of war he lived had turned from fear, into anger. Aonung's little fan club backed up.
"You should respect my sister. She's seen battle, unlike you." Eyte'lan turned sharply, coldly regarding Aonung before motioning for Yoräyu to follow.
"They're all freaks, their whole family. Lo'ak, Neteyam, Kiri, that little annoying-" Aonung didn't get another word in. Yorä turned on her heel and tackled him to the ground, she got in one hit, two, and then one of Aonung's friends pulled her hard off of him, bruising her arm.
Lo'ak saw an opportunity to jump in and this wasn't the first instance of bullying, so he was happy to beat up a couple bullies.
That prompted Eyte'lan to hop in, pulling Yorä away to make way for Neteyam who charged in like and angry 'angtsìk.
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"What did those boys do to you?" Hia angrily inspected her daughter's bruised tail and arm, the scrapes on her knees from the sand.
Yorä tugged her arm away from her mother and frowned bitterly.
"Maite, if they hurt you, and you don't tell us, we can't do anything." Tsu'tey said, he was clenching and unclenching his fist. If they weren't just boys, he would've beat them worse than he wanted to beat Jake when he mated with Neytiri. This was his girl, his daughter.
"It's not worth the trouble." Yorä turned her head away.
"It is, Yorä. I should've taught you how to defend yourself in a nonlethal way." Hia murmured. The combat she taught them was meant to maim and cause serious bodily harm and kill, not take care of bullies. And one look at her son and she saw that he wanted to kill Aonung.
"That's it." Hia stood up sharply, "I'm going to talk to Ronal. Her boy is becoming a problem and I won't let him get away with this." She turned her back to her family as their eyes fell on her.
"Wait wait wait." Tsu'tey caught her arm.
"You will not stop me. I know what it's like to be bullied, and our children are above this. They are strong and proud. Descendants of Eytukan and Ateyo, Mo'at, great warriors and teachers who led the Omatikaya. They are our children! You, the former Olo'eyktan of the Omatikaya, me, a demon from a whole other planet, and these boys think they can get away with this-"
"Calm down, my love." Tsu'tey said exasperatedly, "they're just boys. They don't need the wrath of a demon mother or a former Olo'eyktan. I agree that our children are worth all that and more, but we are not their parents, and all we have to go on are the bruises on her tail and arm." Tsu'tey said firmly.
"Lo'ak and Neteyam were bruised and bloodied. I'd call it enough. I'm going to talk with Ronal and Tonowari about this. And then we will have all the kids apologize to each other." She said reassuring him before stalking off to Ronal's marui.
