Many of the Metkayina people gathered around, after a family had landed on their land. A family of Na'vi.
The father put his hands up as a sign of peace, showing the Metkayina people that he was not there to start a war. His wife stood next to him, holding their youngest daughter, Tuk. Their other four kids were stood behind.
A boy then walks out from the crowd, in front of the Sully family. His hair in a bun at the top, a plait coming down, reaching the end of his knee. His eyes were clear blue. His hands had four fingers, but his hands were much more fin like, compared to the Sully family.
The Sully family give their greeting to him, as they say "I see you."
He eyes them up and down. It is unusual to see the forest people on their land. A friend then follows behind him. They walk past the forest people, and go around to the back, next to the Sully kids.
"Look at their tales" he says, following with a laugh as he looks at his friend.
"How can they even swim?" His friend answers back, laughing with him. They're both holding on the tails of Sully's sons, Neteyam and Lo'ak.
A girl then steps forward in front of them, slapping them both on the hand.
"Roxto. Aonung. Enough" she scowls at them.
They then turn to find a man, coming towards them riding an Skimwing. It is the leader of the Metkayina clan, Tonowari. He then gets off his Skimwing, and comes to greet Jake Sully.
The family do the same gesture again, as they greet Tonowari with, "I see you."
"Jake Sully. What brings you here?" Tonowari asks Jake.
"We are here to seek uturu" he speaks.
As the adults are speaking, Aonung is walking around the back, as he comes to Jakes adopted daughter, Taneya.
Her eyes were emerald green. Her skin was the same as the Sully's; dark blue. She had the same body type, as she was still part of the Omatikaya clan.
"You don't seem to belong to this family?" Aonung speaks to her.
"How so?" Taneya asks.
"You have a different eye colour to them" Aonung observes her.
They are cut off as Ronal, Tonawari's wife holds up Taneya's hand.
"Demon blood" she says, showing Taneya's hands to the rest of the clan.
Taneya yanked her hand out of Ronal's. She faces down, feeling embarrassed as being called a demon.
"Look. Look" Jake puts his hand up, showing how he has five fingers.
"I have adapted. We will adapt" he gives himself as an example to Tonowari and Ronal.
"We do not want any war here" Tonowari tells Jake.
"Neither do we. I just want safety for me an my family" Jake replies.
Tonowari and Ronal give a glance to each other. Tonowari then looks back to Jake, "very well. We will welcome you here to our land. Tsreiya, my daughter, and Aonung, my son, will help you teach our ways" Tonowari promises the Sully family.
The girl, who slapped Aonung, steps forward in front of the Sully family, with a big smile on her face.
"I am Tsreiya" she introduces herself.
"Father, I do not want to-" Aonung tries to get out of the job his father gave him.
"It is final. You will welcome them, and help them" his father replied and walked to Jake. He shakes his hand before he leaves, following his wife.
"Come, I will show you where you will be staying" Tsreiya says to the family. She walks in front of them and they follow her, as she leads them to their pod.
It is a pod big enough, that fits all the family in.
"This is where you will be staying" Tsreiya says, as she welcomes them in.
"This looks good. This will do" Jake says as he lands down his bags.
"You should get unpacked. You can join us later on at the beach. I will introduce you to everyone" Tsreiya says. She gives a quick glance and a smile at Lo'ak before walking away from the pod.
Taneya walks to Lo'ak.
"I saw the way you looked at her" she whispered and nudged him.
"She is beautiful. I've never seen anything like it before" Lo'ak says, as he's dazing into the air.
"Hey, what are you two talking about?" Jake calls out to Taneya and Lo'ak, as their backs are faced towards him.
"Nothing" they both said at the same time, as they turn around to face him.
"Lo'ak, I expect you to be on your best behaviour, understood?" Jake says sternly to his youngest son.
"Yes sir" Lo'ak responds, his gaze facing downwards.
"I will be here to look after him and keep him out of trouble sir" Taneya replies.
Jake chuckles, "I know. You and Neteyam always do."
"Always will" Neteyam says as he joins in.
"Always do" Taneya looks to Neteyam with a smile on his face.
"We are the Sully's, what do we do?" Jake gets his family to surround together.
"We are the Sully's. We stick together" they all say together.
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Lo'ak and Neteyam walk out. Followed by Kiri and Taneya behind them. Tuk was resting, as Neytiri decided she was tired and it would be better for her to joint the others later.
They then join Tsreiya.
"So glad you made it" Tsreiya said with a smile on her face, welcoming the four siblings.
"She seems really sweet" Taneya says to Kiri.
"She does. I think you seem sweet to someone else" Kiri says back to Taneya.
Taneya looks to Kiri, giving a confused look.
Kiri signals with her eyes for Taneya to look forward.
Taneya looks forward and her eyes lock with Aonungs.
She blinks a couple of times before looking away.
Kiri let's out a chuckle and rolls her eyes, seeing the reaction of Taneya.
"What is your name?" Tsreiya approaches Taneya.
"My name is Taneya" She looks at Tsreiya, her big, emerald green eyes opened wide.
"You are, different" Tsreiya notices.
But she doesn't say it in a hurtful way. She says it more of a way of her noticing Taneya a lot more.
Taneya gives a smile, "yes I am. I am not the biological child of the Sully family. I was adopted. Neytiri bought me in. My father was a friend to her. And he was unable to look after me, after my mother had passed, giving birth to me."
Tsreiya gives a warm smile and a pulls Taneya in for a hug, "Hi Taneya, we are happy to have you."
Taneya hugs her back.
Tsreiya then goes to Kiri.
"Lo'ak, I hugged your girl. Jealous?" She raises her eyebrows, giving a cheeky grin to her little brother.
Lo'ak rolls his eyes and looks the other way.
Neteyam and Taneya give a knowing glance to each other and laugh.
Tsreiya then walks in the middle, so that they can all see her.
"So the first step for you guys to adapt, is to be able to swim. Now, you won't get it within the first try so do not worry," she gives them a reassuring smile, "if you keep trying you will get better."
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They all make their way to the water. They watch Tsreiya and Roxto jump in. Aonung is stood to the side. He wants to observe how they dive into the water. Lo'ak goes in first, followed by Neteyam.
Taneya holds onto Kiri.
"I'm scared" Taneya says to Kiri.
"It's going to be okay. Come, we can do it together" Kiri persuades Taneya to get in the water.
Taneya shakes her head. She takes a deep breath and they both dive into the water.
"They call that a dive huh? Something the forest people must do" Aonung mutters to himself. He then dives in himself, swimming to catch up with the others.
As they are underwater, Kiri let's go of Taneya's hand. Taneya watches Kiri, and Kiri swims perfectly through the ocean. Like she's so used to it already.
Taneya watches her, feeling a joy in herself that Kiri is enjoying herself.
But that feeling is interrupted when she feels a sharp pain in her stomach. She is feeling a sudden pain, unable to hold her breath under water.
She moves her arms and legs around frantically.
Someone then holds onto her arm. It's Aonung.
He looks at her concerned, but then realises she's unable to breathe.
He holds onto her waist, as he swims up, helping her to surface.
She takes a loud gasp, as she's no longer under water.
She grasps tightly onto Aonungs shoulders, his arm still around her waist. He becomes concerned, as he watches her breathing frantically and heavily.
"Hey hey" Aonung makes Taneya look at him.
"Breathe. It's okay" he looks her in the eye, and breathes in an out slowly. Taneya then follows him, getting her breathing back to normal.
"It's okay, just breathe" Aonung calms Taneya down.
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Hope you guys like the first chapter. I'm going to try my best to make them long as possible.
Btw the ages of the characters, I've made older. For pg purposes.
Aonung and Taneya are 18.
Kiri is 20
Neteyam is 19
Lo'ak and Tsreiya are 16.
Tuk I kept at 8 years old.
Lastly, this is what to picture/imagine what Taneya looks like. But with dark blue skin and emerald green eyes.