Not the same

all grown up

chapter two.

It was a midday in Pandora. Lo'ak, Kiri, Spider and Tuk made their way across the Hallelujah mountains to explore.

"Woah!" Spider yelled as he jumped across the branches.

"Go monkey boy!" Kiri yelled to him.

"Guys wait up!" Tuk yelled as she trailed behind them.

On the other side of the mountains was Za'nara and Quaritch's blue team. They made their way towards the old shack. The last place Quaritch saw before he died. Where him and Jake had their fight to the death 17 years ago.

The helicopter landed, Quaritch's blue team hopped out and carried their AR's through the forest slowly to assure they didn't stir up any of the indigenous wild life.

"Okay Za'nara I need you to be my eyes in the sky." Quaritch told Za'nara. "You are going to be my spy. If you see anybody, give us a heads up."

"Yes sir." Za'nara replied firmly.

"Good."

"Meet back here in an hour or two." Quaritch said before signalling for Za'nara to go off.

Quaritch's team made their way over to the old shack to find any sign that may lead them to Jake Sully.

As Za'nara ran off, she took a moment to admire the view that she had been dying to see for ten years. Which she sadly grew to hate. She was startled when a couple baby palulukans ran past her.

She was dressed in the proper traditional Na'vi clothing. For a second, she imagined what it would of been like to grow up here. To become a warrior like her Mother and Father. She took her bow and arrow and put it around her back, looking for a place for her to hide and wait.

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Spider, Kiri, Lo'ak and Tuk~

"Tuk! Keep up!" Lo'ak yelled to his little sister.

"I'm coming!" Tuk yelled.

"Bro why'd you even bring her anyways?" Spider asked.

"She's such a crybaby. She's all like- I'm telling, your not supposed to go to the battlefield. I'll tell Mom if you don't let me come!" Lo'ak mimicked Tuk.

"Don't pick on her!" Kiri yelled.

Tuk stuck her tongue out at Lo'ak.

Lo'ak rolled his eyes and continued running towards this old helicopter that crashed years ago.

"Come on!" Lo'ak yelled to Spider.

The two of them climbed up to see if they could find anything interesting.

"Are they're any dead bodies up there?" Tuk yelled from down below.

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Za'nara waited patiently on the tree. Suddenly she heard voices from the distance. Kids who couldn't be much younger than her. She decided to creep down the tree and hide through out the bush to see if she could get any closer to the noise.

Spider and Lo'ak continued on walking when they stopped in their tracks to discover some fairly large footsteps below them.

"What is it?" Kiri asked.

"We're always supposed to be home by eclipse." Tuk whined.

Lo'ak and Spider kneeled down to the foot prints to figure out who's they were.

"That's what too big for a human." Lo'ak explained.

"Avatars?" Spider asked.

"Maybe, but there for sure not ours." Lo'ak replied.

Za'nara hid behind a bush nearby to the kids. She stared over at them as she saw them looking down at the footprints. She couldn't make out their faces but their voices sounded oddly familiar to her.

Lo'ak, Spider, Kiri and Tuk followed the footprints to where they lead.

Once they got closer, Za'nara was finally able to recognise the kids below. None other than her old friends. She stood their frozen, not knowing what to do. Seeing them after all this time completely tripped her out. They were grown up, taller, their voices were deeper. She recognised Kiri, Lo'ak and Spider almost instantly but not Tuk who she had never met yet as Neytiri was pregnant with her when Za'nara went missing.

She decided to move out, quietly to not get noticed by them as she wasn't ready to face them just yet. As they all followed the footprint trail, Za'nara slowly followed them from the trees, trying to be as stealth as possible.

They hid behind a bush where they saw Quaritch and his blue team investigating the old shack. They were confused as Na'vi don't wear camo, or ever even visit the old shack.

"We are never supposed to come here." Kiri whispered to Lo'ak. "Dad is going to ground you."

"Shhh, can you stop?" Lo'ak asked out of annoyance.

"For life!"

Lo'ak ignored Kiri and turned to Spider.

"Bro we have got to check this out." Lo'ak said to Spider.

The kids crept forward closer to the old shack, remaining hidden behind the bush.

"Bro, that's where your dad and my dad... fought." Spider told Lo'ak.

"That's your dads actual suit." Lo'ak laughed.

"I gotta call this in."

"No dude, we're going to get in trouble." Spider replied.

"I have to."

Za'nara waited above the trees, not knowing what to do, as soon as she heard that Lo'ak was calling it in, she instantly became anxious.

Jake, Neytiri and Neteyam were out on lookout, flying over the Hallelujah mountains when Lo'ak called over the necklace.

"Devil dog, Devil dog this is Eagle eye over." Lo'ak spoke.

"Eagle eye, send your traffic." Jake replied.

"I got eyes on some guys." Lo'ak explained. "They look like avatars, but they're wearing full camo and carrying AR's. There's six of them. Over."

"What's your pos? Over." Jake asked.

"We're at the old shack." Lo'ak said hesitantly.

"Who's we?" Jake said with a hint of worry in his tone.

"Me, Spider, Kiri." Lo'ak explained. "And Tuk."

Neytiri's face lit up as soon as she heard Tuk's name. A serious expression spread across Neteyam's face.

"Son you listen to me very carefully." Jake spoke directly. "You pull back right now, don't make a sound. Get the hell out of there! You copy?"

"Yes sir, moving out." Lo'ak replied.

"I told you!" Kiri said to Lo'ak.

They four began to move out from the bush as quietly as possible. Za'nara followed them in the trees, trying not to lose sight of them.

"You're going to be in so much trouble!" Kiri told Lo'ak.

"Kiri stop!" Lo'ak said clearly annoyed.

"Guys come on!" Spider said to them both.

"It's almost eclipse, come on!" Tuk yelled.

Before they could go any further, Quaritch's blue team jumped out from the bushes and grabbed Tuk and Kiri. Lo'ak and Spider put up their bows and lined them up, getting ready to draw but to protect Kiri and Tuk, Lo'ak yelled to put it down as the guards all carried guns and they knew they wouldn't be able to take on all of them.

The blue team grabbed them all by their braids and held them to their knees.

Za'nara watched above as Quaritch captured them, not sure whether to help Quaritch take them down or to help them all escape. She thought she had grown so much hate for them but seeing them again, she didn't know if she could go through with it or not, so she froze once again, hiding amongst the trees.

End of chapter two.