Avatar the Way of Water (My Version)

Taquamares and Tulkuns

(I chose this musical piece from Black Panther 2 because I thought it could go really well with this scene. It doesn't belong to me. Credit goes to Black Panther Wakanda Forever and song writers. Please play it, when you see 'Please play it' at some point in this chapter). 

Jake and Neytiri were doing lunch in the tent with Kiri, who was rather moody. Neytiri had tried to comfort her but she had pushed her away. She tried again when they heard loud booming from outside the hut. They rushed outside and they could the storm brewing powerfully beyond the reef. And already many Skimwing riders and ilu riders were retreating to shallower waters for safety and many children were being told to go inside.

"Mum! Dad!" shouted a voice. They turned around and saw Neteyam and Atuiko, both pale-faced as ever, rushing towards them.

"What is wrong?" asked Neytiri.

Neteyam gasped for breath.

"Where are your brother and sister?" asked Jake.

"Please don't be mad..." he panted out.

"Aonung abandoned Sylwa out at sea!" Atuiko blabbered out, unable to be calm like Neteyam.

"What?" Neteyam said.

"Then where's Lo'ak?" Jake demanded.

Neteyam shut his eyes knowing he was going to get into big trouble for this. "He went to try and find her. I tried to stop him," he tried to defend himself.

Before he knew it, Jake was already dashing out of the hut, the frantic Neytiri behind him. He and Kiri exchanged worried glances with one another, afraid for their twin siblings.

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"How could you?" snapped Tsireya to Aonung. After she had told her father what had happened, he dragged his son back to the hut by his ear. Ronal, who had been informed as well, was flabbergasted. Though she really disliked Sylwa, she was extremely mad at her firstborn for doing something so atrocious like that.

Aonung couldn't answer.

"You have shamed our family," hissed the highly disappointed chief. "You know better than to take newcomers to a territory of akulas. What were you thinking?"

"I wanted to get back at her," he retorted angrily. "For humiliating me,"

"Serves you right for being so unfriendly to her and her family," said Tsireya. "And for calling them freaks,"

Ronal was speechless a little. A part of her felt guilty for saying the twins and Kiri was not true Navi back when they first arrived. Perhaps it wouldn't have led to this. The storm brewed harder outside. Tsireya's heart jumped at the sound of lightning. Already many fishermen were coming in to take shelter. They were in for heavy rainfall any moment now. "Father, you have to send warriors out to find them," she feared for her friends, Sylwa especially.

Before Tonowari could say anything, Jake and Neytiri came bursting towards them. When Neytiri saw Aonung, she snarled at him but she was in no mood to punish him for abandoning her daughter and inadvertently swaying Lo'ak into leaving to try and find her.

"Our kids are out there!"

"There's nothing you can do!" argued Ronal. "It is too dangerous out there,"

"I don't care!" shouted Neytiri. "Send some of your clan to search for them now!"

Jake did not want to leave them to die out there. He sent a face of beseeching towards the chief. "Chief..."