Avatar: {Hybrid and Alien]

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Layontsin tore through the forest as fast as she could, running across the ground and even climbing trees and fallen logs without stopping.

The anthro thanator continued to run and move as fast as she could, and then stopped when she realized something. Asim must be already on his way to the Ash clan territory with the flying metal beast he and his friends had. Which meant that going to their metal village would have been a waste of time and she would be too late to stop them. Luckily Layontsin was halfway there to the village, which meant taking a slight detour to change course so that no more time was consumed. The only thing was the extra distance it would take to get there, and regrettably there was no mount she could use to shorten that distance. After a moment she decided to stop and rest momentarily so she could catch her breath. "Oh, Eywa. Please, let me get there in time before the fighting starts..." Layontsin said to herself, praying that some sort of miracle were to happen. Although it would be hard to get there on time both ways, Layontsin hoped fiercely within her heart that she would at least try and do what she needed to stop what would begin. The lights around the forest didn't help much, as the glowing of the plants started to dim low despite the time being night when they should be glowing brightly. Still, Layontsin closed her eyes for a moment before after a while regaining her strength once more and starting to continue her journey.

However, she stopped when she heard and noticed something.

Behind and to the side of Layontsin, the sound of leaves rustling was heard and made her turn around in the direction. Taking out her spear to defend herself if attacked by a predator, Layontsin readied herself to fight what came or retreat to continue her hurried trip to the Ash clan territory. Immediately after a group of viperwolves came bursting from the bush foliages, yipping and growling as they approached her. But instead of attacking the anthro thanator...they simply evaded her and continued to run across the forest...in the direction that Layontsin was now headed to. "How in the great mother...?" Layontsin said extremely confused, her head turning when she heard the sounds of a direhorse trotting and calling. Another sound made her look up, noticing up above the canopy that a small group of banshees were flying also in the same direction. That's when she realized that those creatures...were the ones that bonded with the skypeople! They were headed in the same direction that the humans must have gone to. Layontsin was now convinced that Eywa must have told them about this and sent them to aid the skypeople. Just like when she witnessed all of the creatures storm against the evil skypeople in the mountain battle some time ago. What solidified her belief when a thanator suddenly appeared behind her, giving a fierce roar in greeting. Layontsin stiffened and readied her spear in case this wasn't one of the bonded animals, but she confirmed it was once she noticed one of its front teeth missing. Furthermore, the thanator, which Layontsin was sure it belonged to Mikhail, simmered down and went to her before bowing its front body section to her. Layontsin let out a gasp of amazement as she saw this gesture, now firmly believing that this was Eywa's doing. "Alright. Take me to where they are. And please, I won't claim you as mine" she assured the thanator, quickly making her way to her relative predator and climbing on its back. When she was about to connect to the predator using her queue, the thanator abruptly started to continue rubbing. This made Layontsin give a frightened yelp and dig her claws on the predator's back so she wouldn't fall off, failing to make the temporary bond but surprised that the thanator kept going. "Alright then, take me there!" Layontsin shouted, tightening her hold as she rode the thanator through the forest.

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When Layontsin got there, she arrived just in time when chaos was unleashed around the volcano.

A sort of white fog covered the place, stinging the lungs of her and Milhail's thanator and making them wheeze when they breathed it. Layontsin remembered by the smell that it was the same things used when she first encountered Asim's group in the metal hut village. From within the fog, muffled faraway screams of terror rang out as Layontsin saw the shadows of na'vi running away. Flashes of light and the light of scattered fire lit the smoke inside for brief moments as the sounds of skypeople weapons crackled though the air. From within the smoke Layontsin caught quick sights of the skypeople with their weapons out, firing at the na'vi that belonged to the Ash clan. Seeing that she could get wounded by the weapons or get caught by any Ash clan na'vi that emerged from the smoke, Layontsin decided to hide behind one of the scorched trees that were nearby while she took out her spear. Mikhail's thanator went off immediately into battle, much to Layontsin's shock...and started to attack the Ash clan na'vi. More noises of skypeople weapons shooting were heard from above, this time being loud banging noises. When Layontsin cranned her neck up to see, she heard and saw the shape of the metal beast hovering above the white fog that covered the ground. From the side on the inside she saw one of the skypeople, Kentaro due to the symbol painted on his mask, using his long weapon to shoot at the na'vi below.