Through The Valley • Ao'nung

Chapter XXXXXII

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Ao'nung followed the girl under the water, reaching for her feet to pull her back but without success. 

At'anau had turned quick in the water, using her surroundings as ways to increase her speed in search of the sister, but only looked up empty pods from inside the water.

The girl searched the area, but soon became prone to a target as well. She had exited the dark plants in need of the light to find her siblings yet it almost seemed as no one had been in the surroundings. 

She looked behind her repeatedly to see if the boy was still with her simply because she felt a fear if that wouldn't be the situation. 

Swimming between the tall algae she halted in her movement when the echolocation of ilu's sounded through the dense water. 

Looking for the sight the two kids searched for the source of the sound but only saw ghosts until the girl looked up and the animal floated on the surface, a flapper pierced with a string attached to the helium filled balloon. 

Ao'nung quickly recognised the animal to be his sister's and grew panicked to the position of the missing rider. The two wanted to help the animal, but were too terrified facing whatever awaited them above that they had to turn their back to the distressed animal calling for aid. 

Catching sight of lightbeams inside the water the boy snatched the girls wrist, pulling her away back in the hiding of dark plants as the air filled flowers were too far from their spot. 

Both kids watched the submarine search around from their spot, but the girl soon turned to cover their backs as she wasn't going to be making the same mistake twice. 

Squinting her eyes she thought to have seen movement from inside the large cup-sized flowers and her skin grew an itch to go towards it, but her fear to get caught kept her besides the boy. 

Tugging on Ao'nung's arm the boy shortly averted his attention to where the girl looked at, but turned back to the shuttle searching for them underwater quickly. 

At'anau watched the robotic piece turn its back to them and she bit her lip for a scond before cutting the knot in the rope and taking it as her cue. Using her hands she crawled lower to the bottom where darkness would become her shield to vision and quickly swam towards the air pocket. 

Using different roots of the plants every couple of steps away she used it to look behind the two of them for reassurance and soon pushed herself off to break the surface inside the flower petal. 

Inside it the people screamed, At'anau gasping when meeting the air and watching the three pair of eyes. 

"Lo'ak-" The girl met the boy's relieved look first before it fell on the youngest and she finally released the air of anxiety. 

Ao'nung growing less nervous at the sight of his sister who had stuck with the youngest boy, but quickly shifted when the sister only looked more anxious and plunged her head back down, looking under their hidden spot and coming back up panicked. 

"They're coming!" 

At'anau frowned at the exclamation, looking down herself and watching the light reach them. 

She almost inhaled the water at the sight of them having found a literal jackpot of the kids. 

Before At'anau could reach out to Tuk, Tsireya had already done so as At'anau herself was taken by the girl's brother again.