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Tears came out of my eyes non-stop. Aonung arms were around me, trying to calm me down. Ronal was screaming, in pain for her sister, her song compositor. She was broken, angry, sad, upset, mad. She was not her, she couldn't feel.
"Lìra'y please, stop crying." Aonung whispers were almost inaudible to my ears, I was scared. "Please." His lips kissed my forehead.
Everything was perfect 2 days ago. What happened? Why?
Reya was shocked. Speechless, she was hugging herself with Lo'ak next to her. The outsiders didn't know what to do.
I'm scared. Where is 'Tia? Did she get killed too? Is she safe?
Why is it so hard to breathe?
"Lìr, breathe please." His hand removed my hair from my face, Aonung made me look at him. "I need you to breathe. Follow me, do what I do."
Inside and out. Inspire and expire. Inside and out. His eyes with worry and anger and sadness. His hands in my cheeks. His heart racing and his voice trying not to crack in front of me.
My eyes stopped tearing and my head rested in his chest. He kissed my forehead again before hugging me, stopping the eyes of others to see me so weak. "It 's fine Lìr."
The immediate reunion the whole clan had was violent, aggressive and I found it fair. I stood next to Reya, we hugged each other, watching our people thirst for revenge.
Ronal and Tonowari talked about killing, destroying, burning like the sky people had burned the houses of others. Claiming what was ours and getting our revenge.
Aonung was angry. Rotxo was angry. Everyone was angry.
Tsireya's hand squeezed mine when Jake and Neytiri started talking, trying to make the chiefs think about what could happen, about how the sky people would destroy everything we loved.
Ronal touched her belly and Aonung looked at me and Tsireya.I stopped crying a while ago, there were no tears left.
"You have to tell the Tulkuns to go away, before they dare to kill another." The words of the older Sully made me gasp and tremble.
"Why are sky people doing this?" There was silence after my question. Neytiri looked at me with compassion. I didn't want people looking at me like that, I wanted people with answers. "I asked something!"
"Lìra'y." Ronal talked. No. She commanded me to stay quiet, just with my name. I remained quiet, I was just a kid before their eyes.
I am a kid. But I suffer too. I feel pain, anger, sadness. I am able to be happy, I am supposed to feel happy.
I'm just a kid, as they would say.
The meeting ends and I hurry to go tell 'Tia about the dangers. But before I submerged into the water I heard the screams of my friends, they were talking to Neteyam and Lo'ak.
I went ask. "What is wrong?"
"He is crazy! He is going to tell Payakan!" Neteyam was angry. "Lìr tell him. Make him understand that he can't go! Tell him it is dangerous!"
I looked at the brothers but no word came out of my mind. The younger one looked at me, and then he submerged. "Lo'ak! Wait for us!"
Reya called her ilu and followed her dear Lo'ak. We all went with her, following the boy. I hold Neteyam's hand the whole time. He was so scared.
We all got on top of the Tulkun and I almost started crying when we saw that he was trapped just as how Ronals spiritual sister was before dying. "C'mon! We need to help him!"
The sky people notice us. Oh, how much I wanted to cry. I can't remember which of the brothers told his father that we were in trouble and danger and that we needed help.
I was scared, Reya was scared, Tuk was scared, Kiri was scared, Aonung was scared, Lo'ak was scared.
"Oh my Eywa, we are going to die!"
"Lìra'y don't say that!"
"I'm so sorry Aonung, but the different ways of dying are coming through my mind right now!"
He grabbed my hand, drawing me into a hug. It wasn't too long because of the sky people attacking us. We got into the water trying to escape from the humans, the water was furious, hotter than usual and darker.
I searched for Aonung. My head hurts all of the sudden. Something hit me.
I try to grab some plants to stop me falling deeper into the waters of the ocean, my hands are weak. I don't see blood, I don't see more sky people machines, I hear nothing more than the sound of the waves above me. I got to hide inside one the diverse plants of the ocean, it covers me completely so the demons aren't able to see me.
"I need to find them." I talk to myself, I'm scared or terrified. I can't describe my feelings. "It's cold. Where is Aonung? Reya? Neteyam?" It's stupid to ask Eywa, she wouldn't help us while we are at war. War destroys and Eywa creates, protects, saves. "I need to find them."
I submerged again and swam back to where we started running away. I couldn't find anyone, there were screams from everywhere. Blood and fire, but no Aonung, no Reya, no Neteyam. I swam to a piece of metal, I needed to rest. The tiredness was consuming me.
I watched the chaos from the plataforma I was floating in. "I'm tired." I rested my head on my palm, it was warm. All of me was warm, not a comfort warm, it was suffocating. It was hard to breathe.
"Lìra'y!" I turned my head to the familiar voice, it came from the water. "Lìra'y!"
"Aonung!" I found him, he found me. We found each other. "Get up here!"
I helped him to get closer, closer to me, with me. He was with me. I hugged him. "MaLìr...you are fine. I thought I lost you."
"I was lost but you found me, MaAonung you found me." I kissed him, it was maybe not the perfect time, but it was necessary. "Are you hurt?" I checked every inch of him, making sure nothing was hurt.
"No, no. But they got Reya,Tuk and Lo'ak. Neteyam and I are going to help them."
"I'll go with you"
"No"
"What? Yes I am!"
"Lìr, stay safe please. Stay out of the danger." I looked at him incredule.
"You can't ask me that Aonung. I have to go and save my friends! Save you in case you are in trouble!"
"I promise you, I will stay out of trouble. I will make sure everyone is okay. You go and stay at that rock. It's near us, I will go back to you after getting my sister, okay?" His eyes were begging me to agree.
"Okay. But if I see that you fall. I will go and get your ass out of there before it is too late."
"Alright MaLìr."
"Come back Aonung, I need you." He kissed my forehead as he jumped back to the water. "Bring them back to me..."
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an- I am so sorry for updating so late, but I didn't know how to write this. It actually turn out quite good. I repeat, im so sorry.
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