"Who's got a date with the chiefs son?"
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"Okay, let's run through them again."
She holds up at picture of Neyt's mother.
"Mo'at. Dragon Lady." You tell her as you wheel toward your pod.
She changes the picture.
"Eytucan." You say, but apparently spell it wrong so Grace corrects you.
"Eytucan. He's the clan leader. But she's the spiritual leader. Like a shaman." She tells you.
"Got it." You say and park your wheelchair to get out of it.
The next picture makes you stop and grab the tablet.
"Neyt." You whisper.
"Neyt. He'll be the next clan leader."
"So, who's this Eywa?" You then ask.
"Who's Eywa?" Norm scoffs in disbelief. "Only their deity. Their goddess, made up of all living things. Everything they know. You'd know this if you had any training whatsoever." He tells you.
You smirk and hold the tablet up.
"Who's got a date with the chiefs son?" You ask smugly.
"Oh, come on. That's not-" Norm tries to argue.
"All right, knock it off, you two." Grace scolds like she would children and you laugh. Loving this sibling type of friendship you had going on with Norm, him not so much, but you didn't know how much you missed having a sibling. "Let's go. Village life starts early."
As you lay down in the pod Grace leans down over you.
"Don't do anything unusually stupid." She tells you.
You just smile.
...
Neyt has brought a direhorse up to you. You look at it in awe. He watches your awestruck face for a moment.
"Easy, boy." You mumble to it.
"Pale is female." Neyt tells you.
He starts speaking soothingly in Na'vi to it.
"Okay. Easy girl." You say and climb on its back.
You try to find a comfortable position on it while Neyt continues to soothe it in Na'vi.
He grabs the tendrils on it and brings it to you. You grab it and do what Neyt had told you.
The creature whines and jump slightly after you make the bond. Your eyes widen as you feel it.
"That is shahaylu. The bond." Neyt tells you. "Feel her."
You exhale as you concentrate.
"Feel her heartbeat. Her breath."
You listen to Pale breathing.
"Feel her strong legs."
You feel her strength. Her heartbeat beating as if your own.
"You may tell her what to do. Inside." Neyt then says tapping his head. "For now, say where to go."
You look forward and point.
"Forward." You tell Pale.
She runs off and you loose your balance. Falling off, you grunt when you make hard contact with the ground.
Neyt's hand flies to his mouth, trying to hold back from laughing. He turns away from you to hide it. But a chuckle leaves his lips and he then can't manage to hold it in.
You sit up from the ground, as Pale runs off. Neyt is on his way to help you up, when Tsu'ti comes riding up to you. Seeing her, you sigh.
"You should go away." She tells you.
"Nah, you'd miss me." You tell her. "I knew you could speak English."
You try to get the mud off yourself as she laughs at you. She then turns to Neyt, speaking in Na'vi to him.
You try to get mud out of your mouth as they speak.
Neyt eyes were on you the whole time, before he chuckled softly and smack Tsu'ti's direhorse for her to leave.
Tsu'ti grunts in anger and leaves.
"Again." Neyt tells you.
...
(Scene with Y/N and Quaritch.)
"What else can you tell us about the structure?" Quaritch asks you.
Max comes up the stair and stops when he hears you.
"I'm guessing this is secondary ring, that's also load-bearing." You tell him.
...
"So, where are we going?" You ask, wheeling into the lab.
Max glances at you with slight disapproval and continues helping Grace pack up.
"Getting out of dodge. I'm not about to let Seilfridge and Quaritch micro-manage this thing. There's a mobile link up at Site 26 we can work out of, way up in the mountains."
"The Hallelujah Mountains?" Norm asks.
"That's right."
"Are you serious?"
"Yeah."
"Yes!" Norm laughs happily and then sees your questioning look. "The legendary floating mountains of Pandora. Heard of them?" He asks sarcastically and you give him an unimpressed look.
...
(Flying to the Hallelujah Mountains.)
"We're getting close." Grace tells you.
"Yeah, look at my instruments." Trudy says and you glance over norms shoulders, seeing them glitching.
"Yep. We're in the Flux Vortex."
"We're VFR from here on."
"What's VFR?"
"Means you gotta see where you're going."
You're surrounded by fog as you look out the window right now.
"Can't see anything." Norm says.
"Exactly." Trudy chuckles. "Ain't that a bitch?"
(Flying through the floating mountains.)
"Oh. My. God." Norm says looking around in awe when you fly out of the fog.
You look around with the same expression, seeing the mountains floating around. Trudy laughs.
"You should see your faces." She says.
...
(Arriving at Site 26.)
...
You look at the pictures on the fridge door. Recognising one face in particular, Neyt.
"Grace didn't miss a thing. She knew I was talking to the Colonel. But I had what she needed, a way back in with the clan, so she's playing nice."
Neyt is smiling to the camera, with his arm slung over a younger girl who looks to have a lot of similar features as him. But you haven't seen her around the village.
(Might add a part about Grace telling about what happened to Neyt's sister. If I can find the deleted scene somewhere.)
"Alright. Y/N, hang a left. You'll be at the link at the end. Unit one. Beulah. She's the least glitchy."
...
You run up Hometree, trying to keep up with Neyt. Panting you stop a few feet behind him as he looks around making a noise. You bend down holding your knees as you pant.
A dragon like creature appears and you step back in surprise, looking up at it in awe.
"Do not look him in the eye." Neyt tells you.
You look down, but find it hard to not stare at the incredible creature.
"Seyzey." He gives him a treat, speaking softly to him in Na'vi and the creature purrs.
"Ikran is not horse." Neyt tells you. He takes his braid up to Seyzey's tendril. "Once shahaylu is made, ikran will fly with only one hunter in the whole life."
He tightens the ikrans saddle and climbs it.
"To become Taronyu, hunter, you must choose your own ikran and she must choose you."
You nod excitedly.
"When?" You ask and Newt smiles a bit at your excitement.
"When you are ready." He tells you and jump down the branch with Seyzey.
Watching them fly, you can't help but stare in awe.
He then turns and flies toward you. The ikran squawks and you dive down on the branch to avoid it and turn around watching after it as he flies. You see Neyt turn and laugh. You chuckle at antics.
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