The wolf of awa'atlu

Chapter 10

But I simply pushed it to the back of my mind and walked into the marui and sat the bag in the open living space I walked into but before I got the chance to sit down I heard tonowari and ronal speaking to Aonung " son what are you doing standing outside and why is your mouth open if you don't want a bug flying in there you better close it" I heard ronal say as she walked to the marui and entered she still had a stern look on her face but her eyes seemed kinder as she walked in she got closer to the bag and opened it " I do not know some of these plants you have brought with you tell me what are some of these" she asked taking things out one at a time by now tonowari and Aonung had walked in tonowari walked next to ronal and started to pick things up examining the things already pulled Aonung stood to the side he stared at me actually more like glared I hadn't been surprised I felt like he would do something like this be nice in private but as soon as somebody else was around gone was the nice guy I had just met well if he wanted to act like that so be it " most are medical herbs my mother used while she was pregnant the bundle that looks like grass is used to make ointment for the skin around your belly when your stomach starts to grow the flowers are very good for tea that nurtures the body of both mother and child and the round rock shaped roots are very good for a snack especially when you add the fruit preserve in that jar" I told her as she continued to go through the bag she came across the baby stuff my mom had included inside there was lots of toys dolls, stuffed animals ( as Jake called it), and rattles but then she came across the large silk blanket mom packed and the many hand crafted jewelry for when they were older " this blanket is supposed to be used to wrap the child in it is very soft and cool to the touch" ronal asked picking it up again and rubbed the cloth with her hand her facial expression had changed now she held a faint smile and a gentle gaze Tonowari and Aonung had also seemed interested in the blanket cause they both got closer and started to feel the blanket " yes ma'ma it's so you can carry them with you lots of mothers in my clan all use it differently but the easiest way is to put your child on your back and then use the blanket to secure them to you my mother would do it often with my youngest brother especially when she had her duty's to take care of" I told her she had seemed pleased with my explanation I assumed she would have made her own but the one we gave her was light and had cooling properties which I think she liked especially from what I was experiencing awa'atulu was very hot and tropical and although I'm sure her baby would have gotten used to the heat it would have still been a danger if they over heated as she was getting closer to the bottom of the bag the last thing she pulled out was a mobile it was jakes idea whe had never heard of it before but when he explained it to us it sounded like the perfect thing to give so as ronal pulled it out she marveled at the beautiful round about and what it was " I'm not sure if you will like it after I explain but it's what sky people call a baby mobile it's just supposed to spin round and round singing lullaby's to the baby while they fall asleep it doesn't sing lullaby's but it has an rose quartz used to spin around with a exact replica of pandora in the middle and the outer part of it has all the creatures of the forest" when I explained to her what it was her face had turned sour but as I kept explaining she had seemed to still like it " thank you ni'awtu we appreciate these gifts especially the blanket and this baby mobile though it's a thing used by sky people the decorations and make obviously where created by you and your parents but there's something more important I wanted to talk with you about" she said starting to hand herbs and flowers to both men who proceeded to put everything in organized place's while ronal started to fold the blanket " I have heard a lot about your people from stories about how they were cursed to stories of being eywas own personal clan of warriors but so far only one has stuck with me my grandmother when she was a child had gotten swept up into a storm that caused her drift off to the forest she said a na'vi of black and white had helped her and took her to their clan for food and shelter until she was okay enough to go back home she told me of your many rituals and customs of your people she also spoke of how your people posed magic blessed to you by eywa" she said as she put the blanket and mobile in a spot that looked to be reserved for the baby but what she said made me nervous someone not apart of our clan knew of our secret she wasn't supposed to know no one was it was dangerous especially if word were to get out to the ash na'vi or the sky people about my clan it would mean my people in danger anyone would want our powers I didn't know why the ash na'vi was targeting us all I knew was that they were our enemy tribe but the sky people would use us to carry out their plans to take over our planet so this was really not good but kept a straight face and a cold stare " I had a feeling you would try and disprove this but the same na'vi gave my grandmother a crystal infused with magic that would show a picture of their time together I have it know if you would like to see" she continued walking back over and sitting down the two me looked surprised magic in pandora not only that but a whole clan of Na'vi who could preform magic and ronal's grandmother saw it all " what mother why didn't you tell us about this why didn't you say something when she landed on our island she is dangerous she shouldn't be here" Aonung spit out he looked to me with a venomous look as if I was a foreboding cloud of darkness that came before a large storm " because she is no danger to us she is a protector this magic was a gift to her clan from eywa isn't it ni'awtu" ronal defended there really wasn't much I could do I didn't want to confirm it but what she was saying was being backed up by a story my own grandmother told me about a Metkayina woman who was found by her and her father when she was young the woman had been swept away by a storm and had drifted all the way to the cliffs by the sea my grandmother and her father was doing shape shifting training when they spotted her " I'm willing to deny or confirm this claim of yours once I see the crystal I can't do anything without this confirmation it goes against what I was taught" I calmly explained to them I couldn't deny it especially if this crystal was real and I couldn't confirm that what she was saying was true if it wasn't real this was a secret not meant to leave the whispers within our clan the power we held would easily intimidate the others and that would leave us as enemies to all but ronal only nodded got up and went into a space that was blocked of with another panel of wall I'm guessing it was their bedroom she later came back with a necklace that was adorned with many crystals but the one that stood out was the glowing purple amethyst that hung in the middle of it all she walked closer to me and placed it in my hand and as it touched my palm it began to glow brighter then a small mist came from it and began to form a picture and just like ronal said a picture of a metkkayina woman standing between my grandmother and grandfather but when they were younger I couldn't mistake them my grandmother had a large cross on her head as her marking and my grandfather like wokan had a viper wolf image on his head but he had died before the war had started so I was mostly going based off the pictures my grandmother had and her description of him I sighed this was a little overwhelming we weren't allowed to tell others about our powers the sully's knew because my parents deemed them safe enough to keep our secret but this had confirmed something else my grandmother told me she said to tell an old friend of hers hello when I got to where we were leaving too " yes your correct we do possess magic and abilities granted to us by eywa at the beginning it was because of our deep connection to her but we soon found out what we could do would better help in the fight against the sky people" I said ronal looked neutral and tonowari was surprised but Aonung glared he looked at me as if I was wild animal " like you we weren't interested in fighting but they had burnt down our village in apart of the dark forest close to base of devils mountain currently it has healed to become a plain but the damage they had done was devastating so many people lost loved ones and all they cared about was getting rid of us to mine the minerals in the mountains we couldn't stand for that so we fought the war with Jake and decided we would become the protectors of pandora well that's what I was told" I finished I had just confirmed her suspicions and I was waiting for her reaction ronal looked to me and smiled " thank you for telling me and on behalf of my grandmother thank you I'm willing to keep quiet on this matter so does my husband and son also I had something else to talk about I've decided my son will give you extra training if you're marking is anything to go by I'm sure you would like to do warrior training and hunting as soon as possible" she said I couldn't believe it she was keeping our secret and she was thanking us instead of being intimidated and assuming she listened and rationally thought about everything fairly but I wasn't sure about Aonung he had proven that I couldn't trust him he had been rude so far than he has been nice so I started at him and he was already looking at me so glared and voiced my opinion " I'm truly grateful that you are willing to keep our secret and I am very happy that you're offering me more training but I can't trust your son he's already shown a disliking to us being here and has already expressed how he thinks I'm a danger to your people" I told them tonowari was about to say something when ronal stepped in " please I can assure you that he will keep quiet about everything so please rest assured, Aonung will bring you to the same marui pod as the sully's so get some rest for now we'll be having a communal dinner later and I'm sure you would all like to rest" she said as she gave her son a look with that I thanked them again for keeping this secret and for the training they were giving me with that done me and Aonung began our trek to the marui everything was silent between us especially with the new information given to us and I believed it would stay silent for the rest of our walk until he finally spoke " I will keep your secret it's not mine to tell anyway but that doesn't mean I like you being here any less even those freaks you seem to care about so much I mean aren't you angry their father caused the war that destroyed your clans homes" he spat out reluctant to say anything he had i point I should be angry but I couldn't " your right I should be angry at a guy who came to pandora to help achieve peace between sky people and na'vi but ended up falling in love with pandora and it's people and when received a order to get rid of those people he fell in love with went against it warned them and even when they turned their backs on him he fights for them not to mention he's been with me since I was a child yeah I can't think of a reason why I don't hate him" when I finish saying all I had to say we were already a little ways away from the marui tuk poked her head out of the door way and screamed my name telling me to hurry up so we could play I yelled back telling her to give me a second as I was going to continue talking to Aonung but he had already walked away back the way we came rude we weren't even done talking but I couldn't even dwell on it as tuk once again called me to play but before we could do that Jake called a family meeting it wasn't about anything important just for us to be good and try and not be useless with an added stress on us not causing trouble which was mostly pointed at me and Lo'ak then we did the little sully salute as I liked to call it but then tuk said she wanted to go home and if I was being honest so did I