Reborn - Pandora's Box (Book 2)

-.-New Star-.-

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A new star - and suddenly, it was like no time had passed at all. Fifteen years gone, and the RDA returned. Now that they had had a taste of Pandora, they wouldn't let it go. The Na'vi would faithfully defend their home -  now they all had more to fight for.

How much trouble can a handful of scientists and a couple of kids on an alien planet get into? The answer: a lot.

Phoenix cracked open the cupboard looking for her favourite coffee mug. "Who keeps putting this on the top shelf?! I know you're just doing it to mess with me!" She had a good idea of who kept doing this: her daughter. 

A tan hand with painted blue stripes reached up and snatched the mug down, setting it on the counter for her.

"Why thank you, this is why I love having you around."

"Why you love me." Spider grinned. He was sixteen and already six feet tall which meant he towered over her - it wasn't fair. Not at all. 

"Gotta have my energy - we're taking out a train today."

Under Jake's leadership, an air team on the backs of Ikrans and a ground team on the backs of Pa'li charged an RDA train. The ground team took  care of the train itself, while the air team took down the scorpions guarding the train and line of tracks that sliced through the forest. 

While she had been trained to use a bow and arrows for years now, Nix still didn't feel so comfortable with it, and still gravitated towards a rifle. She carried both though, just in case. 

She thrust her weapon up into the air as the train was blasted off the tracks. "Hell yeah!"

The air team landed to assist the ground team with retrieving supplies from the crashed train. They only had a couple of minutes before RDA backup would be on them.

"Shit," Jake suddenly cursed.

"What?" Nix turned and followed his gaze to where Lo'ak and Neteyam were, helping collect weapons.  "Oh, shit."

"Do you mind?" he sighed.

"Not at all." She stalked towards the two  boys. "What are you two doing down here?"

"It's my fault, Auntie Nix-" Neteyam began.

"Gunships inbound!" came Jake's alert. 

"Get down!" She jumped in front of the boys, but they were all knocked down by a blast.

"Auntie Nix? Can you hear me?"

Disoriented, she had a faint image of Lo'ak leaning over her, trying to get her attention.

Jake appeared at the corner of her vision.  "Nix, you okay?"

She just groaned.

The war party hastily returned to their camp, high up in the mountains. 

Jake was livid, and on the boys as soon as they landed. "You almost got yourselves and your Aunt killed!"

"Well your aunt is actually bleeding, so I'm going to go take care of that," Nix piped up. 

"Take care of your boys, Jakesully, I will care for Txep." The low voice drew their attention to Tu'Same's awaiting figure. 

"Thank you, Tu'Same."

"Don't be too hard on them," Nix told Jake.

"No promises."

Tu led her away to the medical tents. 

"Auntie Nix!"

"Mum!"

Gracie and Spider came dashing over, followed closely by Kiri.