Everything goes dark for a moment after we hit the water, but I feel Jakes hand on my arm and he tries to pull me up, I gain consciousness again quickly and swim up with him, gasping as we break the surface of the water, the Thanator roaring from above us, Jake helps me grab onto a tree root and we hold onto it as we catch our breaths for a moment.
We manage to climb out of the river and Jake grabs a branch and starts to fashion it into a spear, he gives me it before making himself one, I hold onto it shakily, soaking wet and trying not to panic "Jake what do we do...?" I ask, looking around us "I don't know yet, but for now we need to find someplace safe, the suns starting to set already" he says and I nod, following him as we head deeper into the forest away from the river, not wanting to cross paths with that creature again.
As the sun sets and the forest gets dark, the noises around us get louder and scarier the longer we are in the dark, I stay close to Jake as he turns his spear into a torch, lighting up the area around us in a small circle, I move closer to him nervously, jumping as a howl sounds from behind me, I turn quickly, pointing my spear with shaky hands, a knot forming in my stomach as I see the many eyes glowing from the light of the fire, my grip tightens on the spear as the small creatures snarl, one snapping toward us a little, Jake gently nudges me to start moving away from them and toward a larger tree, I flinch as they starter to circle us more, blocking us on all sides now "Jake...they wont let us go" I whimper shakily, he shakes his head "no, we got this, we can do it" he says seriously, trying to keep me from freaking out more.
I jump as another snarls, Jake jabs towards them and yells to try and scare them off but it only seems to agitate them and as I face him he's suddenly pounced on, I scream and nearly fall backwards as they tackle him to the ground, I try and stab toward it but before I can an arrow comes wizzing past my ear, hitting the creature in the chest, Jake shoves its body off and stumbles to his feet as we hear yelling, we look up as a beautiful Na'vi woman appears, swinging her bow around and hitting the creatures away, managing to scare them off, panting before she looks too us, almost rolling her eyes before she grabs the torch from the ground, tossing it into the water as Jake try's to stop her, then she hears the whimpers of the creature she shot, going over she kneels next to it and says a soft prayer over it before slitting its throat then she pulls out the arrow, killing it quickly and cleanly. I glance around us, seeing all of the natural lights starting to glow from the plants and trees.
My eyes are wide as I look to her nervously, Jake moves closer to her "look, I know you probably don't understand this. But...thank you...thank you" he says, crouching down as he's trying to get her attention "that was pretty impressive..." she looks to him now "we would have been screwed if you hadn't come along. It was..." he pauses as she stands and starts to walk away, he stands quickly, motioning for me to follow him,I do so quickly, afraid of being left behind with those wolf like things.
Jake follows her quickly "hey, wait a second. Hey, where you going?" He asks quickly, carrying his spear still but I had dropped mine "wait up!" He says, following her through the leafs of large plants and under the branches, I follow him as best I can, slipping a few times here and there on the muddy and wet ground "Just...Hey, slow down!" He calls "Look, wait up, I just wanted to say thanks for killing those things" he goes to grab her arm and she quickly turns, using her momentum to swing her bow into his face, sending him stumbling back and onto his butt in the dirt"damn!" He spits in surprise, I gasp and flinch back, watching her nervously "don't thank. You don't thank for this" she sneers obviously very angry at us "this is sad. Very sad only" she snarls "Okay. Okay. I'm sorry. Whatever i did, I'm sorry" he apologizes quickly, his hand up in surrender, I shiver as she glances over me, thinking for a moment before she looks back to him, pointing back toward where we had fought them "all of this is your fault, both of your fault. They did not need to die" she says seriously, I flinch back nervously "our fault? They attacked us. How are we the bad guy?" He asks "your fault!" She snaps, jabbing him with her bow angrily, him flinching back from it and gasping in surprise "Your fault!" She growls again, Jake gently pushes the end of the bow away from his face a little "shh. Easy. Easy" he says gently, as if trying to calm her.
"You're both like babies. Making noise, don't know what to do" she says, I frown at that, Jake holding his hand up again in surrender "Easy, shh...Fine. Fine" he says cautiously, slowly standing with his hands still up "If you love your little forest friends...why not let them just kill our asses? What's the thinking?" I pause as does she, now I was more curious than scared for the moment, she looks him over a moment "why save you...?" She murmurs, he nods "Yeah. Yeah, why save us?" She pauses more, looking us both over this time "You have a strong heart" she says to Jake before looking to me "and you...you have a strong soul" I watch her more curious now, she looks back to Jake "no fear" Jake glances back to me confused for a moment before looking back to her as she glares at him again "But stupid! Ignorant like a child" she snaps, almost growling it out, her tail flicking around behind her, she turns and starts to walk away again, Jake scoffs and grabs his spear he dropped when he fell before following after her again, I quickly follow after him.
"Well, if I'm a child, then...Look, maybe you should teach me, teach us" he says, running after her over a log, I quickly follow, slipping a little but not falling thankfully "Sky People cannot learn" I frown at that "You do not See" My heart sinks as she moves onto a huge root from the massive tree above us "Well, then teach us to See" Jake says, following her onto the root without hesitation, I on the other hand definitely hesitated, my heart racing as my fear starts to build, Jake motions for me to follow before continuing on, I shiver a little and take a deep breath before slowly following after them, moving slowly and carefully "No one can teach you to See" she says seriously, I whimper as we get out over the huge drop, nothing under us but the root, and the ground far below.
"Look, come on, can't we talk? Say, where'd you learn to speaks English? Dr. Augustine's school?" He asks, I manage to catch up but moving faster now I slip, yelping I'm only saved as the Na'vi woman jumps past Jake, grabbing onto my hand and pulling me back up to my feet, I grip onto her hand shakily with wide eyes, she pulls away as Jake looks me over worriedly, I nod shakily to tell him I was ok "your both like babies" she snaps, tail flicking about again before angrily speaking in Na'vi. I frown nervously before Jake sighs "we need your help" he says seriously "You should not be here" she says, raising her hand and making a motion as if to brush him away.
"Okay, then take us with you." He asks "No! Go back." She says angrily, moving to walk away, Jake goes to follow her "No!" She stops and turns, shoving him back and snapping at him in her native language again "Go back" she snaps before suddenly looking up as she hears something, me and Jake both look up and my eyes widen, little jellyfish like seed creatures slowly floating down toward us, as they get to close Jake goes to slap one away and the woman growls out in Na'vi, grabbing his arm to stop him but he try's again, only making her snap again, I look up and watch in wonder as a few float down, I stiffen as one floats down and lands on my shoulder, shivering a bit at its touch I reach up and very gently poke it, making it float up a little then back down onto my shoulder, I look over to Jake only to see him covered in them, he looked stunned and very confused at the same time, I almost wanted to laugh at the sight.
After a few moments the beautiful creatures float up off of us and away, Jake and I look to the Na'vi curiously, she seems to think for a few moments "Come...Come" she says and starts along the root again, Jake glances to me before we continue on after her, me nearly slipping multiple times, soon the ground starts to rise under the roots until we weren't at a dangerous height, I begin to relax a little until suddenly somethings comes flying out of the trees, the ropes hitting me in my side, wrapping around me and sending me to the ground below, I scream in shock and whimper in pain when I hit the ground, Jake yelps as he's hit with the same rope like thing, falling to the ground near me, I panic and try desperately to get out of the ropes as Na'vi warriors surround us, appearing from everywhere around us, whooping and yelling, the Na'vi woman quickly jumps down and starts talking with who seems to be the leader of the hunting party, a male Na'vi sitting high up on a horse like creature, I watch him with wide fear filled eyes as he looks me and Jake over, sneering a little before we are pulled to our feet, the ropes falling to the ground and they grab our braids, holding a knife to them, I shiver and whimper again, terrified as we are forced to run along with them toward a massive trees, twice as large as the ones around it.
As we are shoved inside the tree, Na'vi start to swarm around us in wonder, a few reaching out and touching our arms or tails, I flinch and pull my tail up to my chest, holding it close so they couldn't touch it, glancing around I notice how the whole tree seemed to be mostly hollow, but there were large root like branches going up the inside of the tree as a sort of staircase, I was to lost in thought to realize I was supposed to step over a small root so it makes me trip, falling and screaming in pain as the Na'vi warrior holding my braid stumbles and accidentally slices a little into the braid, cutting a few of the small tendrils, causing a pain I had never experienced to radiate through me, Jake nearly yells to try and get them to let him go so he could come to me, the Na'vi all around watch on in horror and sorrow as I lay in the dirt, sobbing in pain, the cut hair and tendrils falling to the dirt next to me, the warrior looks horrified and drops his knife quickly, unsure what else he could do, the tribes leader comes over quickly to see what was going on, the Na'vi woman from before comes over quickly and kneels next to me, quickly telling another female to run and get the tribes doctor, I clutch onto my head in pain, my vision swimming and fading in and out, the pain starting to make me sick, I close my eyes to try and not lose my lunch, not long after the tribes doctor arrives and has me moved away from the rest of the Na'vi before forcing me to drink something that only makes me more dizzy before slowly everything goes dark for me.
Chapter three is done!
What do you think of it so far?
Also! I'd love to know if anything is misspelled or missing! I have a hard time with writing and words in general, its one of the reasons I wanted to start writing again, I want to get better with words! Alright, enough about me! Ill work on the next chapter a little tonight and hopefully have it up tomorrow!
...I just looked at the clock and its nearly midnight XD oh dear, maybe I wont work on the next chapter tonight lol, but again if you guys liked it, please give it a follow!
~Rose~
