Syulang

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𝑾𝒐𝒓𝒓𝒊𝒆𝒅

Liyanin became worried for her brother. She wondered where he was. Is he dead? Is he alive?

Would I ever see my brother again? These thoughts swirled inside Liyanins head. She didn't want to lose her siblings. Liyanin had heard Aonung as he told her father what he had done to Lo'ak and she couldn't believe her ears. She thought he would be her friend after he had found her beads, that maybe she could trust him.

But that trust vanished after she heard him. Liyanin had thought that he may have changed but he clearly hadn't. Liyanin was waiting for Lo'ak to come back, but she hadn't heard anything from him. Jake had sent out a search party for him and they still hadn't heard anything yet. Liyanin prayed to Eywa that Lo'ak was alive.

"The boy has returned" Liyanin heard a metkayina women say. She ran out with her sister Kiri who had watched her so she wouldn't go out and look for her brother. Liyanin would do anything for her siblings, even risking her own life for them. As Liyanin sees her brother get up from the water she ran as fast as she could to reach her brother and called out for him. "Pooh" Lo'ak didn't hear his sister, he was to busy glaring at Aonung. As Liyanin reached her brother she hugged him, but Lo'ak brushed her off, making Liyanin sad.

Lo'ak isn't like he used to be, he was different in Liyanin's eyes. He was not the same loving big brother as he was when she was little. Jake rushes over to Lo'ak and looks him over for any wounds. Liyanin felt an arm around her shoulder and she knew who it was right away. She brought her arms up, wanting to be carried. Neteyam smiled at his sister and took her up into his arms. Liyanin was glad that she had one brother who didn't abandon her, who still was there for even when he had his bad days. Neteyam never took out his anger at his sister, he never would.

"He's fine. He is fine. Just a few scratches" Jake said as he had finished looking over Lo'ak. Liyanin was glad that her brother was okay. Neytiri calls out to her youngest son as she rushes through the crowd with Kiri behind and Neteyam with Liyanin in his arms. Neytiri grips his shoulder and inspect his figure. "I pray for the strength that I will not pluck the eyeballs out of my youngest son" Neytiri snarls as she claws at Lo'ak's face causing the boy to move his head out of the way, his eyes shut from the action to avoid the woman's hand.

"No" Tonowari spoke up. "My son knows better than to take him outside the reef" Gesturing to his son who stood beside him. Tonowari forces his son to kneel down in front of the Sully family.
"The blame is his"

"Okay. Let's go" Jake said as he gestured for his family to follow him."No. This is not Aonung's fault" Liyanin couldn't believe her ears. Why did he take the blame for something he didn't do? Why was he lying? And he said that I was bad at lying, Liyanin thought as she rolled her eyes.

"This was my idea. Aonung tried to talk me out of it" Lo'ak said as he looked at Tonowari. "Really"  Jake shares a look with Tonowari as he escorts his son. "I got this"
The family follows after Jake and Lo'ak. Liyanin was still in her brother's arms, knowing that her father wasn't happy with her brother.

"Dad, you told me to make friends with these kids. That was all I was trying to..."

"I don't want to hear it" Jake cut off his son, meeting his son's gaze. Liyanin tried to get down from her brother's arms. She wanted to comfort Lo'ak or at least try if he would let her, but Neteyam shook his head at her. Now wasn't a good time. "Dad" Lo'ak said but Jake words shocked Liyanin.
"You brought shame to this family" You could see the hurt in the boy's eyes as he heard the words spoken to him by his father.
"Can I go now?" Jake narrowed his eyes at the boy.

"Any more trouble, I jerk a knot in your tail. You read me?" Lo'ak looked down and blinked his eyes. "Yes, sir. Lima Charlie" Jake dismissed his son and Lo'ak heads off by himself with Liyanin's eyes following after her brother.
Neytiri looks at her oldest son who still had his little sister in his arms.
"Where were you?" Neytiri asks her son.

"Yeah. What happened to keep an eye on your brother?" Neteyam didn't say anything to retort to their claims, but he still apologized.
"It wasn't Neteyam's fault" Liyanin said as she looked into her father's eyes. "You're the adult. The parents" In Liyanin's eyes or what she had learned from her surroundings, it was the parents job to look out for their kids not the siblings. Jake couldn't believe his ears when his youngest talked against him. Liyanin was never one to talk against her parents.
"You always blame Neteyam" She argued.

"Enough" Jake said a little too loud making Liyanin ears fold back against her head. She wiggled out of her brother's arms as Neteyam sat her down. Her dad had never raised his voice at her. Ever.

Liyanin's lip trembled as she looked at her dad with hurt. She threw the bracelet she had fixed, it was finally finished at the ground in front of her father's feet and turned around and ran away from her parents. Jake's ears folded back regret in his eyes.

He never meant to raise his voice at her. He looked down and saw the bracelet with different beads from his home and some trinkets from his home planet and one from their current home. Liyanin had asked Norm if he could give her some things from her dads home planet because she wanted to make her dads bracelet special.

She was so angry so she threw it at him and to Jake it was special, not because it had things from his home planet, nor from his old clan nor from their new home, it was special because his little girl had made it for him. Jake ran after her and called out for his little girl. Liyain ignored her father and continued walking away from her him.

"Syualng" Jake called out to her. "Please, don't walk away from me" Jake pleaded as he scooped up Liyanin into his arms as he reached her.
"Put me down" She argued, but Jake never let her go. It was hard on Jake trying to look out after his kids. He never wanted to lose them and he always was hard on them so they would learn, but to Liyanin he was stupid. She thought his methods were bad, but she was just a 4 year old. How would she know?

"Noooo" Jake said as he buried his head into her stomach. Liyanin couldn't help the giggle escape her lips as her dads hair brushed her stomach. Jake smiled and made his daughter look at him. "Did you make this?" Jake asked as he brought up the bracelet. Liyanin nodded.

"It's so beautiful. Have you made this all by yourself?" He asked her. Liyanin nodded and shook her head at the same time. She had a little help at the beginning. "Kiri helped me with the first one"

"First one?" Jake asked. There was only one and what happened to the other. "Yes. I had finished making you the bracelet. I started at home before we went here, but I didn't finish it and then I found a bead I wanted to add to it, but..." Liyanin stopped hesitating if she should continue or not. Jake brought up his hand and stroked his daughter's cheek lovingly. "Aonung had broke it" Jake became mad, so that's why she was so sad that day, it was because Liyanin had finished the bracelet she made for him. Liyanin saw the angry look in her father's eyes. "But he found all the part and gave them to me"

Jake was glad that he had regretted making his little girl sad, but he was still mad at the boy because no one make his little girl sad.
"Are we okay now?" Jake ask. Liyanin tapped her chin with her finger thinking. Jake rolled his eyes playfully and tickled her, making her scream for him to stop. Jake ran out to the water with Liyanin in his arms and jumped in. As Jake came up from the water to the surface he laughed as Liyanin's hair got tangled. Liyanin took the hair out of her face and laughed as she saw how her father's hair looked. The both of them laughing at each other the incident was forgotten for now.

Hi here is another chapter. I'm sorry if I make them so short but what do you guys think?