Akaia growls once again, death staring the woman who was openly disrespecting her family. The women moves towards Akaia, Neteyam and Lo'ak reaching for Lo'ak's hands
Neteyam grabs a hold of Akaia's wrist and pulls the girl towards him and away from the Tsahìk worried the his sister might lash out.
"They have demon blood in them!" The Metkyina gasp as the woman holds up Lo'ak's hand. Akaia hisses loudly as Ronal makes eye contact with the girl hissing back.
Jake notices the exchange and frantically sticks his hand out to the Tsahìk showing her his fingers.
"Look. I was born of the sky people and now I am Na'vi. You can adapt. We will adapt. Okay?" He says pulling Ronals attention off his daughter. The Tsahìk moves away from Akaia and her siblings and stands next to her mate once again.
"My husband was Toruk Makto." Akaia watches her father wince as her mother spoke. "He led the clans to victory against the sky people." Neytiri approaches the Tsahìk with a glare matching her daughter's.
"You call this victory, hiding amongst strangers?" The Tsahìk spat towards her mother. Akaia eyes narrowed into slits as she watched how the woman spoke to her mother.
Jake turned to face his daughter.
"Akaia calm." he whispered towards her as Neteyam begins rubbing her back once again. The girl begins to focus on her breathing as she tries to calm herself.
Ronal walked towards Jake."It seems that Eywa has turned her back on you, chosen one."
Almost instantly Neytiri began hissing at the woman, the Tsahìk promptly responded with her own hiss as the two women began to circle each other.
Jake stood between the two women separating them both.
"I apologise for my mate, she has flown a long way and is exhausted.
"Do not apologise for me Jake." Neytiri says obviously upset with him. He turns and looks towards his mate sending her a desperate look. She glares at him before turning away from Ronal and returning to her previous position next to Tuk. The atmosphere was now awkward as Jake and Tonowari make eye contact with each other as both of their mates retreat.
Tonowari suddenly extends his hand out towards Jake before turning and addressing his clan.
"Toruk Makto is a great war leader. All Na'vi people know his story but we Metkayina are not at war."
"Dad." Tuk calls out to her father as she jumps into his arms.
Tonowari turns back around to face Jake. "We can not allow you to bring your war here."
Akaia sighs before looking towards Lo'ak and wrapping an arm around his shoulders pulling him towards her. The boy places his head on Akaia's shoulder. The sibling's mentally preparing themselves to leave yet another clan.
"Im done with war, okay? I just want to keep my family safe." Jake says pleading with the couple.
The Tsahìk and Olo'eyktan look towards each other.
"Uturu has been asked." Neytiri reminds them with a glare on her face.
Ronal and Tonowari silently communicate with their eyes and after a minute Tonowari turns and faces his clan.
"Toruk Makto and his family will stay with us." Lo'ak lifts his head of Akaia's shoulder and looks to her with a smile on his face.
"Treat them as our brothers and sisters. They do not know the sea, so they will be like babies taking their first breath. Teach them our ways so they do not suffer the shame of being useless."
Akaia scoffs towards the end of his sentence. He didn't need to call them useless that was extremely unnecessary.
Jake turned towards his children "What do you all say?" He said looking at each of us we all mutter out a thank you towards Tonowari and Ronal.
"My Eldest son Mak'korro along with his two siblings Aonung and Tsireya will show your children what to do." He said pointing towards his children.
Mak'korro, so that was his name.
The girl shamelessly stared at the boy once again. He looked away from his father and looked towards her, their eyes met and Akaia could swear the she almost saw Eywa. His eyes were beautiful, the colour of the ocean. Akaia couldn't tear her eyes away from the boy as they both observed each other.
A sharp elbow in Mak'korro's stomach made him tear his gaze away from the captivating girl. He looked down towards his brother who was sporting a cheeky grin as he had noticed who his brother was staring at. The oldest brother smirked before gently pushing him away rolling his eyes.
He quickly looks back at the girl as he could see that her family had begun moving towards their Ikrans, unpacking their belongings. He watched as she walked towards her Ikran. The purple and black beast affectionately rubs his head into the girls body making her giggle as she unloaded her possessions.
His eyes zeroed in on the copious amounts of bruises and scratches that covered her body. The boys eyes widening at the discoloured skin around her neck. Mak'korro made a mental note to mention the bruising to his mother.
Her laugh broke him out of his thoughts, a small smile emerged on his face as he watched her interact with her Ikran.
"Mak'korro, come with me." The boy turned as he walks after his father, sparing one more glace at the girl whose eyes were on him yet again.
Akaia sighed as she watched the boy leave before turning back to Sar'zoo who looked at her knowingly. The girl scoffed at the ikran gently hitting his snout. The Ikran screeched after her as the girl as she followed after Tsireya with her belongings.
Akaia walks behind her family as they follow in a line behind Tsireya. Akaia smiles as she watches Tuk hop on the netting the were walking on.
Tsireya leads the family to a spare marui pod.
"This is for you, your new home." The girls says stepping out the way allowing us to walk into the pod.
"Yeah, this will work. This is great." Jake says looking towards his mate.
Neytiri walks into the pod with a rolled up mat in her arms. She takes one look at the pod before dropping the mat with loud sigh.
Akaia looks away from from her family and looks towards the horizon with a certain ocean eye'd boy in her mind.
Little did Akaia know that that boy was thinking of her as well.
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This is a long ass chapter im so sorry lmao i just couldn't stop writing.
MAK'KORRO IS HEREEEE!!!! Im so happy that i've finally gotten to introduce him.
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