Calm Before The Storm, Jake Sully

013, The Perfect Kill.

♯┆calm before the storm .ᐟ
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     Denahi's chest was heavy. If Jake completes this kill— a perfect kill. She will give him the pass for his Iknimaya. "Remember what I told you?" Denahi said to Jake as their bodies moved through the forest. Jake smiled, "Be stealthy. I got it." He didn't feel nervous. He felt ready. Everything relies on this moment.

Her head nodded towards the lone hexapede. Jake breathed in and held is bow high and strong, like Denahi had taught him. He then exhaled and let the arrow go. She smiled at him before dragging him towards the hexapede. "I see you, brother, and thank you. Your spirit goes with Eywa and your body stays behind to become part of the people," Jake spoke in the Na'vi language before stabbing his knife into the airway, completely ending the hexapede's life.

Completing the perfect kill. Denahi nodded her head in agreement to her own thoughts, "Jake. You are ready." Her fingers moved a stray piece of hair from out of his vision. It had taken months. Many months to get Jake to this stage. Jake took her wrist into his hand and joined their fingers together.

"I am?" He asked, unsure of himself. He had the confidence and he was ready to complete all of his passages. But, he still had doubts. He stood, their hands still conjoined. "Tomorrow. I will come with you, if you would like me to," Denahi mentioned before Jake nodded his head. He would be nowhere without her, yes, he wanted her to come.

When they reached Hometree, Mukata ran towards them, "Has he done it?" Denahi nodded proudly, Jake understood what Mukata had asked since understanding with the Na'vi was starting to get better.

Denahi nodded proudly, "I didn't doubt him a second, Kata." Mukata couldn't help but smile confidently at Jake. He was still wary of Jake, and his hate for humans didn't come to an end, but Mukata could agree to get along with Jake. He wasn't too bad, right?

"We should drink to celebrate!" Mukata announced as he pressed down on Jake's shoulders. Denahi gasped at the sentence. Her younger brother, drinking? "You are sixteen! Too young to drink!" Denahi told her brother was a scowl on her expressions. "If I know any of you have been drinking, I will tell your parents..." Denahi warned Mukata's friends whom celebrating the drinking.

Mukata knew she had been lying. Besides, they were just teenagers experimenting and looking for fun. Something she hadn't been able to do since her parents had died. "Come on, bro, let us go!" One of Mukata's friends exclaimed before running off from the area.

"What did you say to them?" Jake asked, noticing the way his friends had ran after Denahi warned them about something. "A little warning..." Denahi laughed.

"Tsu'tey, we have to talk!" Denahi shouted to the man standing with his friend, Otanu. Jake still had his fingers intertwined with Denahi's which caused the two of them to hiss at the slight touch. Otanu looked down at the intimate moment between the two of them which caused Denahi to grow confused. Why did he seemed to be so bothered? It was a known fact Otanu was seeking a mate. However, Denahi didn't have a slight inch that he was going to choose her. So, why did he seem so disappointed with their hands?

"Jake has passed a clean kill. He is ready for his Iknimaya," Denahi announced to Tsu'tey, whom only responded with a laugh. Otanu's laugh being more deep, more disbelieving. "He is ready for the Iknimaya? Him?" Otanu couldn't help but input on the matter.

He should not have an input on it. He barely knew Jake. Barely spoke to Denahi since Jake walked into her life. "All because it had taken you many years and Jake only a few months..." Denahi said to Otanu with a hiss, his bright mood dropping immediately. Otanu sucked on the teeth to the sentence. How dare she? "Oh, Eywa..." Denahi whispered before dragging Jake with her.

"So... Tomorrow if your Iknimaya," Denahi told him with a soft smile.