The Way Of The Heart

Chapter 4

Mila pov

"Get on the ship find a seat and keep out of the way." Quaritch told Spider as we walked to the ship we would be going on. I laughed as I sat down next to Spider as Quaritch explained if Spider ran he would whup his ass.

"What are you laughing at?" Spider said giving me the stink eye.

"He treats you more like his kid than his kid of the same species." I said growling at him. Of course I'm jealous! Like come on!

"What do you mean?" He asked me confused. I just ignored him.

"We good? We up?" Quaritch asked around.

"Teams up." Wainfleet answered. Then Quaritch signaled to the pilot to go.

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"Alright listen up Jake Sully's gone to ground. Don't matter. Wherever he is we'll find him, and his batshit crazy wife too." Chuckles rang around the remaining Blue Team. It wasn't funny though. And Spider? He was already acting like a monkey.

"To do so we go Na'vi. Full tilt all the way. That means we eat Na'vi. We ride Na'vi. Think Na'vi. And that starts with speaking the language." He said the last part in very bad Na'vi. Me and Spider just happened to laugh at the same time. Everyone turning to look our way.

"You call that speaking the language? You sound like a three year old!" Spider said making me laugh more he has a point he did sound like a little kid.

"He's got a point." I said in Na'vi smirking and pointing over my shoulder to Spider that was standing on the log behind me.

"Alright smart guys. You just went from our monkey mascot to official interpreter. Both of you." Quaritch said looking at both of us as the others laughed as I groaned. Like I need to draw more attention to myself!?

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It's been around a week. We where in the mountains now following Spider. Climbing up the vines and jumping from the floating rocks. At first it scared me. But once I learned to balance and trust my instincts it was thrilling and I had no trouble keeping up with Spider. My animal instincts told me what to do. Where to grab and how to move. It came naturally. Having claws helped as well.

"Come on! Keep up losers!" Spider yelled I laughed before running up a rock and jumping over him grabbing a vine and pulling myself up. We were headed up to get ikrans as the Na'vi called them.

"You keep up Spider!" I yelled down to him as I pushed him with my foot slightly. We were no longer wearing shoes, everyday I could run farther and move faster as my feet toughened up.

As we made it up to where they were I started hearing their screeches. They are beautiful majestic creatures. They varried in colors and patterns.

"I got this." Quaritch said as he grabbed a loaded trank gun from Wainfleet. Spider laughed as Quaritch started aiming at an ikran.

"What?" He asked Spider.

"Na'vi kids younger than me do this with their bare hands." Whoa. I wanna try it that way now.

"Jake Sully did it the hard way?" He's so obsessed with him jeez.

"What do you think?" Spider answered sarcasticly.

"What we doin Colonel?" Wainfleet asked him as he handed the gun back and hopped over the log we were behind.

"This is gonna be good." Spider said smirking before going closer as Quaritch neared the ikran.

"Alright move up." Wainfleet ordered. I walked forward with my gun at the ready. I wasn't going to shoot anything cuz that's wrong.

"Just you and me cupcake." Quaritch said to an ikran that was hissing and snapping at him. He hissed back patheticly in my opinion. When the ikran lunged at him he dodged and punched it. Dodging as it snapped at him again. He ran to the side and jumped on it. It moved around a lot trying to get him off.

"Did I mention your supposed to tie the mouth shut first?" Spider said as Quaritch struggled to stay on.

"Thanks a lot kid!" Quaritch screamed back. I just laughed at him struggling to stay on it.

"Whoa... Whoa!" Quaritch yelled as the ikran dove off the cliff. Shit! I ran forward towards the cliff. Seeing him and the ikran falling down and into the clouds. I couldn't see them anymore.

"You see them?" Wainfleet asked.

"No..."

"Alright let's go. We're Oscar Mike." Wainfleet said and the squad started walking away. I still stood at the edge of the cliff, so did Spider. He can't be gone. Not like that.

"Let's go Mila! We're out of here." He said as I turned to him and started walking towards him. Then I heard wing beats and a whooping come from behind and turned around quickly.

"Yeah!" Quaritch yelled pumping his fist up as he rode his ikran. "That's right!"

"Yeah Colonel! Get some!" Wainfleet shouted as the rest of the team cheered.

"Woo yeah!" I whooped jumping up and pumping a fist.

"Who's next?" Quaritch yelled at us as he flew around. Everyone cheered as he passed over us. I dropped my heavy gear on the ground before running up towards Spider.

"Hey. How do I know which to pick? Or it doesn't matter?" I asked him as I heard the squad cheer me on as I was going next.

"Uhm well you should pick the one who tries to kill you." He said I just looked at him as if he was an idiot because well he is.

"What?" I said dumbfounded.

"Just do it!" He said pushing me forward. I growled at him flipping him my finger. I turned back towards the ikran.

"Alright. Let's do this." I said cracking my fingers. I walked forward extending my claws. An ikran hissed at me but flew away when I hissed back.

"Chicken." I said as it flew away. Then I heard a thud behind me. As I turned around a bigger and a bit different looking, white with navy blue markings ikran stood there towering over me.

"Whoa a ikraruk..." I heard Spider say in an amazed voice. Then it lunged down at me. I jumped quickly out of the way and kept rolling away as it kept snapping at me. Then it nicked my tail. I let out a yowl. Now I'm mad.

"You gonna pay for that birdy!" I growled as I jumped up on it's back digging my claws in to stay on as it rose up on it's hind legs. It screeched and hissed as I made it up to it's neck trying to grab its queue. That's when it barrel rolled off the cliffs.

"Holy fucking shit!" I screamed as it continued diving and rolling around. Finally I grabbed the queue connecting it with mine. And just like that it stopped diving and rolling and just flew straight.

Oh thank God I'm not dead.