Avatar: {Hybrid and Alien]

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Things started to go down instantly, and not in a good way.

When Layontsin opened her eyes once again, she saw that Asim was being held captive in another place. Several adult skypeople that were from the metal village had his limbs restrained so he wouldn't escape. On the other side, a skyperson with a white coat, similar to the ones Layontsin saw on the skypeople world, started to approach Asim. They reached into their coat...and pulled out a needle with the same red-colored liquid that she saw before. Layontsin realized with horror that they were going to inject it to Asim, and have him under their control. "No...No! Don't do it! Let him go!" Layontsin shouted as she slammed her four hands on the hard crystal wall that separated her and the other skypeople. It was to no avail as the white-coated skyperson began to place the needle on Asim's shoulder to insert it. "Please..." Layontsin pleaded as her claws scraped on the crystal wall, watching helplessly as Asim stopped struggling and his eyes started to become weak. Slowly...his irises began to cloud and then gradually glow red, like Layontsin had seen him with them while he fought. Some moments later he stopped resisting and looked up, his eyes and face no longer showing any form of expression. Layontsin gasped and covered her snout, heartbroken by the sight of Asim having been captured and imprisoned in the clutches of the evil skypeople. So much that she felt something slide down out from her eyes. When she moved up a hand to feel it, she felt that it was liquid and smelled a bit salty. Then she remembered what na'vi and humans used to do to express their grief and sadness, and realized that she too was feeling it. Layontsin no longer could contain it inside of her, the hatred she felt for the evil skypeople burning more and feeling more compassion to Asim and others like him.

Then the memory changed in an instant as she saw in the corner of her eye how the rest of Asim's group was hiding in a place. This place was secluded and dark, a small light illuminating them. "What do we do now? Asim is no longer with us, and we don't know how to make an antidote(?) to cure him and free him" Emeralda said, expressing the same amount of worry like the others were. "I'll try to get some materials so that I can work on it. It will be risky, for all of us, but we are not giving up on him." Kentaro said to them, trying to enlighten them. "What if we are too late? And he leaves us before we could reach him?" Mikhail asked as he looked outside at a gap on the walls, ensuring that they were safe and unbeknownst to the skypeople heard walking outside from where they were. "We won't be. We are not giving up on him, the same way we haven't given up on each other." Shaka said to him. Lily was also with them, looking down and looking sad. Shaka noticed this and went over to cheer her up. "Hey. We'll see him again. He...is just busy right now" Shaka said to Lily, trying to comfort her. "I'm scared. I don't know what will happen to him." Lily sniffed, wiping away the tears that were staining her cheeks. Shaka moved his hands to pick her up and hug her, rubbing her back to soothe her. "Don't worry. Asim will return to us. I am sure of it" he told Lily, sighing and looking towards the small opening towards the outside.

Once again, the memory changed, and this time Layontsin was back in the forest that was her home. Everything was peaceful, with the sounds of the forest and all of it filling the air all around and making her feel a sort of relief. Though, her relief was cut short when she heard the thundering noises of skypeople weapons and the war cries of the na'vi filling the skies above her. The anthro thanator wasted no time and tore across the forest floor in the direction where it was happening. She climbed up the tallest tree she could find and looked up at the sky. Up in the clouds, in between the floating mountains, a battle was taking place. This wasn't just a battle, as Layontsin soon remembered, but the great na'vi war that she had witnessed a long time ago from afar. The flying metal beasts were shooting their weapons at the na'vi in their ikrans, who in turn shot their arrows at the enemy. The fighting was intense also on the ground as she also spotted the metal giants and skypeople fight and shoot against the na'vi that rode on direhorses. Back up in the sky, she saw one of the flying metal beasts flying through the battlefield and over it, evading some attacks from the na'vi warriors in their flying mounts and carrying some skypeople inside it. Some of the skypeople inside were using their weapons to shoot at whatever came their way so that it won't take them down. This one lasted a good while while the others were falling out of the sky towards the ground. However, Layontsin spotted one na'vi on their ikran get very close to the flying metal beast and shoot their arrow at it.

The na'vi must have succeeded in hitting their target, because one skyperson fell down from the flying metal beats towards the ground.

Layontsin gasped as she saw them fall, not seeing who they were but noticing that they had an arrow impaled right through their stomach. They fell down from high in the sky before disappearing under the forest foliage. A tug in her interior was felt inside her chest, and Layontsin followed it as she began to climb down from where she was perched. Ignoring the ground battle between the skypeople and na'vi that was continuing, Layontsin ran through the forest as she tried to locate where the tugging led her. As the sounds of the fighting and battle were left behind and muffled by all the trees, Layontsin slowed down before stopping as she felt the tug in her heart ease. She moved her head around in search for the skyperson that fell, hoping it was Asim and that he was alright. Then she started to remember what Asim had said; that he was injured in the battle between the skypeople and the na'vi. Could this be his memory about how he survived the battle all this time? With this in mind, Layontsin began to hurry again as she tried to find Asim in the forest where she was sure he had fallen. The quills and crest plates on her head moved and twitched as she tried to locate any sign of the skyperson. Very soon she picked up the signs and the scent associated with skypeople, and she hurried up more.

Moments later she found Asim in a clearing, sprawled on the ground over a pool of blood. An arrow stuck out from his abdomen.

The anthro thanator gasped as she saw the scene, her heart stopping momentarily before she quickly went over to the injured skyperson and kneeled down. Layontsin used all of her four arms to try and pick him up, but like before they went through him like smoke. "Asim....no....please...don't perish..." she said, voice breaking as her eyes began to fill up with tears. She saw Asim struggling to move even with a wounded body, still bleeding, until his eyes started to cloud and close before his body went completely limp. Layontsin's heart ached with pain that was not felt before ever in her entire life as she stared at the body of Asim, reaching for his face with one of her hands despite knowing the fact that she couldn't literally touch him. She could feel the warmth of his body leave him as the life that was inside him slowly vanished. Even if it was all a memory....Layonstin still felt tremendous amounts of pain in her chest and her mind. So, for the first time, she began to weep intensely as she saw the lifeless body of Asim. Then her mourning got interrupted as she noticed the whole forest start to darken more quicker than before, making her stop shedding tears and look up. The night of the forest soon ended and was replaced once again by the day, and then abruptly the night came sooner than expected. It repeated over and over again, confusing Layonstin as she stood up and looked all around her while not leaving Asim's body. Then she sensed something in the ground and looked down at it, something that she spotted making her eyes widen. In the small fragments of night that lasted, she could see some sort of vines or roots that had a greenish glow slowly make their way from all around the clearing towards the body of Asim. Layonstin stepped back as she saw all of this, watching how the glowing vines make their way to Asim and began to cover him. Soon he was covered in the strange roots from head to feet, the glow pulsing more with the green light. Before Layonstin could move closer to Asim again, a strong breeze began to blow all around her as it blew leaves and twigs as well as dirt. Then it became a strong storm wind that made the anthro thanator shield herself with her four arms and try to grab on to something. Yet the wind picked up more fiercely to the point that it began to lift Layontsin up from the ground, making her yelp and yell in fright as she was carried up into the air. She tried to balance herself as she saw that she was now floating high above the forest, the rapid change of day and night soon halting into night fully. When she looked down, she saw the same sight of the glowing forest in the night, but now it seemed...different to her. The roots that spread all across the ground were glowing more intensely this time, to the point that she could see it take a sort of shape. When Layonstin saw it, she gasped when she saw that the shape was similar to that of an eye, which stared right back at her. Whispers in the na'vi language were heard all around Layonstin, some of them calling out the name of the Great Mother, Eywa, herself. And then, slowly, from all of the horizons around, fires began to spread all around the forest and including the eye shape. Now the whispers turned to wailing cries of despair, the eye on the ground seeming like it was on the verge of shedding a massive tear as the fires continued spreading.

"I mourn for them...I mourn for all of them. No matter who or what are..."

Layontsin sucked in a breath when she heard the voice of a woman echo all around. Before she could react, Layonstin was then dropped from the great height and to the ground.