One of the People ~ unedited

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"sign language and any form of speaking except English" in italics

"Na'vi speaking" in italics and bold

~ Called to a new home ~

???? POV ~

It's hard to say how long I've been in this tree, but when I heard loud leaves crunching and twigs snapping, I knew it'd been a while. I then hear voices underneath me and when I look I see two men in suits one black and one blue and another two men in army uniforms, I watch as they walk past me oblivious that I'm above them "we need to find her" who's her, I was curious and wanted to follow them but couldn't as I heard my brother calling for me.

Not wanting to be seen by the four men I hid my presence and run back to my brother, it took longer to get back as I didn't want to startle trigger-happy army men. When I finally got to my brothers he looked at me worried "did they see you sis" I titled my head but shook it I didn't like speaking so I began signing "no I wasn't seen I stayed in the trees then hid my presence" my brother smiled at me.

As we are talking well he's talking and I'm signing I hear footsteps behind me and I move behind my brother "she wasn't where you said" my brother laughs at them "she was there and she even got back before you did, you can come out" he said while looking me so I did the men all gasp when they look at me and I again tilt my head.

I look at my brother who shook his head and said nothing about that so I left, the men stepped closer and I raised my bow making them take the same step back. Again I don't trust them "we want the girl to be a part of the Avatar Programme, so let me ....." my brother raises his hand and stops the man "we know of the Avatar programme, my question is why you have come to my home she is not a scientist and she's only 18" my brother signals for me to leave.

One of the army men raised his gun at my movement, which caused my brother to step in front of me "you have to largest area in the world that still has basically forest in their backyard" that's a stupid reason why then, I look at my brother and we turn to leave "leave" was all I said I heard a gun being loaded and when I looked back it was raised at one of the animals. I was now mad "you wanted to do this the hard way so you either come with us little lady or Bambi and Seabreeze die" I growl.

I sign and I could tell none of them could understand me "tell the fucker I will go with him" my brother sighs "she will go with you" I drop my bow to make them think I'm defenceless they fell for it. When I got close to them my brother looked at me worried "keep the forest safe for me and send my weapons and my clothes I refuse to wear their uniform, I love you Aaron" he signed back he loved me and we left, the taller man in the suit told me that they would send someone to collect what I wanted.

Nodding at him I stayed quiet as I had nothing to say to him, he obviously didn't like this and groaned at me "just speak" I turn to him "I rather not you son of a bitch" I have never been more grateful that Aaron made me learn other languages. I knew Spanish, French, Swahili, Japanese and Na'vi I also knew the sign language that came with each country the reason why my brother taught me all these languages, this was because his land was a place of refuge so people would turn to us.

The Na'vi language was because my brother knew scientists and whatever he was taught he then passed it on to me I was grateful as I love learning. I zone out and was taken to a research facility "here they will get some of your DNA to then create your avatar and it will be ready by the time you fly out" I nod at him, I learnt that the army man that threatened my animals was called Jackson sitting in the car with these men I got a good look at every one.

Jackson is a tall white man with brown eyes his head was almost touching the roof of the car though it was more like a shuttle bus I saw tattoos on his arms and his hair was shaved at the side, I then look at the other guy just told me he preferred to be called Ace he knew a bit of sign language but he was still learning and was spelling out nearly all his words so I did the same when signing to him.