The water rushed beneath my feet as I gazed out onto the misty horizon. I often came here now. It was my place of solace and thought where I would reflect deeply upon every thought and feeling. I would always come away feeling happy.

In the distance I heard Era growl so I smiled and went to her, purring with her as she stepped into view and nuzzled me. Several cubs bounded around her feet, two to be exact, and she looked very proud as she finally became the mother I knew she had always wanted to be.

They came crashing through the bushes, screaming and yelling as they searched for me, their sensitive noses picking my scent up easily. "Children! You should not be so far from Hometree!" I scolded them lightly, unable to feel angry. They were all as adventurous as I was.

Our eldest, a beautiful girl with silver eyes whom we named Yavana after my mother, smiled at me. "But mother, father is coming too! He's carrying Jake with him." As she spoke my mate walked calmly through the bushes, carrying our youngest son in his arms. He was still a toddler but he hated being left behind his brothers and sisters so he was rarely away from them.

He reached out for me, gurgling so I lay down my bow and accepted him into my arms, smiling as Tsu'tey reached down and nuzzled noses with me. Era growled and Tsu'tey shot her a nervous glance. "Calm down, my Tsu'tey, she knows you are my mate. She will not harm you or the children." As if to prove the point, Yavana leaped onto Era and squealed as the large palulukan rolled onto her back, rolling her tongue over Yavana.

My eldest son leaped onto his sister with a cry as he pretended to slay Era, who knew this game well. He was Tsu'tey's exact image, stern in looks and expression but handsome all the same. We named him Tsunam. Next was his brother, a fine mix of both Tsu'tey and I so we called him Anatsu. He had his father's serious countenance, my silver eyes and sense of adventure.

Yavana's only sister was Neytiri who apparently had her father's mother's eyes, a beautiful shade of glimmering blue. Both girls had the voices of spirits and all of my children played music and danced beautifully. I was so proud of them.

I put Jake down as he was kicking out and he toddled off to join Neytiri and Anatsu as they played with the pups. "You and Era have become rather close. Should I be jealous?" Tsu'tey teased me gently as I leaned against him, his hands resting on my swollen stomach.

"No. We've just been in many battles together. Blood thickens the bond, after all." Which was true. The threat of danger never ever rested. We had had attacks from many different kinds of dangers over the years. Rival clans, new predators and many more but I was always there, riding Era, to lead the charge into battle on the ground whilst Jake flew on Toruk in the skies.

I always admired Torukmacto, he seemed to change from the giddy, excitable young male to a seasoned warrior whenever he stepped onto Toruk's back. Era and I were a force to be reckoned with. Many rival clans had fled at the sight of us as we charged in, painted up for battle with a cry as loud as thunder…

Tsu'tey pulled me from my thoughts as he leaned in and kissed me tenderly. I smiled then looked up as Era herded the kids away from the water's edge, calling out to me. "Children, away from the edge." I should have known they would try to get closer. They were as bad as I was.

"Mother, father, Tomsully has been putting foul berries in my hair again. Can't you go and kick his butt?" Tsu'tey growled, all too happy to oblige but I stopped him with a firm hand on his arm.

"Yavana, you should do it yourself! I've always said, if you're going to show a male how strong you are, do it." She grinned at me, clicking her fangs together. She was so much like me.

"I do but he doesn't stop. He's such a bone headed moron. Does that mean I can beat him up properly this time?"

"Yes."

"No!" Throwing a glare at Tsu'tey he scowled back at me. "We'll sort it out later." I promised then sat down, feeling heavy with the twins I was carrying. Tsu'tey sat behind me, watching our children proudly as he stroked my hair.

"That boy cares for Yavana greatly. It is why he won't leave her alone." Tsu'tey spoke darkly in a protective tone as he looked at our eldest daughter who sang with the others.

"You know full well that she likes him too. They are nearly old enough to begin training and they progress at such a fast rate it will not be long before they both pass their tests." I looked around to smile at him. "Then they will claw at each other's throats for a while until they finally realise their love for one another."

"He is not touching my daughter." Tsu'tey growled but I purred in amusement, instantly silencing him as he drew closer to the sound, smoothing his hands over my belly. "How long, my Ana?"

"Not long. A few more days at least." I informed him. "They are both boys."

"I have never been able to understand how you have been able to tell me exactly what our children will be and never be wrong on any of them. Neytiri was the same." Grinning I clicked my fangs at him as I continued to purr.

"Jake spoils his two girls." I mused then chuckled. "And Norm is worth with his little one."

"Rita does not dissuade him. For a long time they thought she could not have children." This is true. It was many years until Rita fell will child and she gave birth to a single baby daughter. It was enough to make Norm weep for days although he insisted it was just the pollen.

Tsu'tey remained to this day the best warrior in the clan and I remained the best hunter. However now that our children were growing up, our titles will no doubt soon be passed on. Keke had also been as close to me as a little sister so when her mother was taken by illness, she had wept in my arms for days at the closeness of her time to deliver. She had asked me to stay with her so I had, holding her hand as her mate held the other and helped her through.

She too had a large family now although not quite as large as ours was shaping up to be. My mother had come to me in a dream and tapped each bead in my hair, all nine of them, and told me that each bead represented a child that I would one day have. Tsu'tey did not seem to mind, in fact he was a very proud and loving father.

Everyone but his children and I feared him, apart from Jake and Neytiri. Only with us was he gently, loving and affectionate. He only ever smiled for his children. He only ever smiled for me too. Wrapped in his arms I sighed contently and leaned into him, feeling blessed with the life I had.

Although I loved being a mother, sometimes I could not help but love it when Tsu'tey and I would leave them with one of the nurses and take to the skies, flying for hours on end before returning to the bright, beautiful smiles of our children.

Everything was so perfect in my life, I could not believe how much it had changed. I owed it all to the male who had been dumb enough to fall out of the sky. "I heard that." He whispered, touching the connection of our queues where he had linked them together just to have me closer to him.

"You were meant to." I twisted around to smirk at him. "Moron."

"Hothead." He shot back with a bright glint in his eye.

"Dumb brute."

"Lazy beast." Grinning I pressed my mouth to his, ignoring the disgusted sounds made by my children as they saw us. Tsu'tey held me close, tilting his head into me as his lips moved rhythmically against him. "I love you my Ana." He whispered as we nuzzled noses. I chuckled then flicked my tongue on the end of his nose which he replied with the same.

"And I love you…my Tsu'tey." Leaning into his embrace he wrapped me close to him. "Mine…"

"And mine." He agreed as we turned to watch the setting sun, Era settling down behind us so that we leaned against her as she nuzzled her two cubs between her paws, our children climbing into our laps. Jake rested his head against my belly, grinning as he felt the babies kick.

Holding my children close I never felt so happy, watching the beautiful sunset sink down towards the horizon, once again shooting out every bright and wonderful colour imaginable in a palette of warmth and light that seemed to never end as the bioluminescence of the forest burst into life, the soft song of my life filling our ears in a gently harmony with the sweet sounds of the forest and my children, who could not help but sing their peace and joy with me as Tsu'tey leaned back and listened, wondering how in the world he had ever been so foolish to think that he would be like the lonely sun in the sky.

For the sun is never alone. Never. It has colours and clouds, skies and creatures that flew high so that it could kiss its wings. The sun was never alone, not when it could sink below the horizon and smile at the family who watched him, giving them all the beauty he had within him as a gift of his love for them as they admired him nonetheless.

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