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After my speech, the hunters brought out their banshees, and all went into different directions, Neteyam, Loak and I leading the way. Loak went into one direction with his group of hunters, Neteyam with his, and myself and Na'yori, along with other hunters, another way. Na'yori wanted to be my translator, and despite all things she did to me, I decided to leave it in the past.

We all went out to different clans. The horse clans of the plain, the ikran people of the mountains. We called for their health, and they answered. Soon enough, we created an army to fight against the sky people.

All the clans came with us to the Well of souls, the Omaticaya greeting them and offering food and water. The people around bonded, but also prepared for the war. Sharpening their weapons, archery training and such. We were not going to let the sky people win this battle.

The other day, Trudy, Norm and I went to check with Max Patel, a scientist ho was on our side, the situation at the lab. Selfride lost control, and Miles took over the pan. They were bombarding and lighting up everything in sight. The Well of souls was the last connection the people had to Eywa, and they were going to ruin it too. We will not allow it.

I wont allow it.

That night, I decided to walk around the Well of souls, to see everything we put together. Everyone was preparing for battle. Painting the bodies of their Ikrns or horses, preparing weapons and painting each others bodies, and putting piercings on. The drums were playing as the were hyping themselves up for battle. We were ready, but I needed to do something before battle.

I kneeled in front of the Mother tree.

"I know Im probably talking to a tree right now, but it's worth a shot." I sighed. "If you hear me, I need to warn you." The tendrils swung back and forth as I spoke.

"Look into Graces memories. The world we come from has no green. They killed our mother, and they are planning to do it with you. If you can hear me, please help us."

"The Great Mother does not take sides Y/n." Someone spoke from behind me. I quickly turn around, only to see the one and only Neteyam. He had freshly braided hair, and paint all over his body. He kneelt down next to me, cupping my face. "She protects the balance of life."

"Worth a shot." I mumbled. I looked up into his eyes, staring into them for a while, before breaking the eye contact and kissing him. Our mouths connected like magnets, considering all the time we spent away from each other.

We pulled away, putting our forheads against each others.

"I see you Y/n." He said.

"I see you Neteyam."

The next day, we were completly prepared for this fight. We had hundereds of hunters on their banshees, gripping onto the cliffs. Neteyam, Na'yori, Loak and I sat on our banshees waiting for Quaritch and his man to come.

On the ground, Norman was waiting on his horse with the other direhorse riders. We all had earplugs in, allowing us to speak amongst one another. We were prepared to attack from all sides.

We heard a loud noise, sending vibrations, making the mountins rumble. The dragon arived, along with a lot of samsons on his sides. The dragons wings opened up, hooking ampsuits and robots with ropes to the ground.

"Get ready Norm." I said over the mic.

"Already on it." He answered.

As soon as the men below started firing their weapons, Norman and his men started attacking from below, bringing them down one by one. Above, the banshee team was waiting for my sign to attack the dragon and the samsons.

As the dragon moved closer, I finally gave a signal to attack. One by one, each of the banshees got off the cliffs and started flying towards the ships. War cries were heard, and everyone brought out their bows and arrows. Neteyam was flying next to me on my right side, and Loak on the other once we took off.

I let out a loud scream, and the battle was on. Each of the banshees attacked from different sides, and attacked the smaller ships. The banshees grabbed onto them, swinging them around and throwing them into the distance.

Toruk and I rode next to a bunch of the ships, shooting their drivers with a gun I stole a while back, into the head or the chest. One of the samsons tried firing at me, and Toruk dove down, avoiding the bullets. He rode under the samson, giving me a clear target the moment she flew back up. I shot the driver in his right eye.

"Bullseye!" I yelled out, as I watched the samson fly into a cliff. I looked around, and saw the samsons struggling against the banshees, and the drivers constantly being hit by the hunters arrows.

Just when I was about to put bullets in my gun, the dragon starting firing at us, making me drop the gun as Toruk suddenly flew up to avoid being hit. "Shit!" I said. Luckly, I had a back up. I brought the bow Neteyam made for me, along with a bunch of arrows. The bullets from the dragon hit everyone that came in sight. I quickly moved closer, and continued to shoot arrows at all the samsons I passed by.

I looked around, and we were outnumbered as more and more ships came by. I flew up with Toruk, and he spinned around as I was now upside down, shooting more and more of the samsons. 

From the corner of my eye, I saw Neteyam falling to the ground. 

" Neteyam, whats going on?" I asked over the mic.

"Y/n.." He panicked. "They shot Tanzei.." His banshee got shot.

"Hold on bro, I'm coming." Loak said, before flying down to Neteyam, and picking him up. However, I couldnt see them anymore as there was a crash in the forest.

"Neteyam? Loak?!" I said.

"We're fine Y/n. But Tanzei's dead." Loak sighed, and I could hear Neteyam cursing under the mic.

I looked behind me, and saw a Samson getting prepared to attack me from behind. "Neteyam, get on Loaks banshee, and be strong for me. I love you."

"What?" He asked, and no response. There was no way I was getting out of this.

I put my bow up, ready to shoot, but suddenly another samson attacked it from the side.

Trudy.

"You're not the only one with a gun, bitch." I heard her from the mic.

Even tho we were succeding with a ton of them, the others were getting closer and closer to the well of souls.

"We have to stop the ships" I said on the mic.

"Y/n, things are not going great down he-" Norm said, and then he was cut off.

"Norm?" I said. No reply. "Fuck!"

"Neteyam, how are things down there?" I said.

"Thank Eywa, I didn't lose you." He said, clearly upset. "Ma Y/n."

"I'm here, whats wrong?" I said.

He was silent suddenly. "Woah!" I heard Loak.

"Y/n." Neteyam said.

"What, whats happening?!" I said annoyed. Suddenly, a herd of banshees with no riders came attacking the ships.

"Eywa has heard you." Neteyam said. "Y/n, Eywa has heard you!" He yelled out.

I smiled widely at the sight of the banshees and the hunters winning against the people. I screamed out as I flew closer with Toruk and attack them too.

"Y/n we're winning!" Loak yelled over the mic.

Suddenly, the dragon started to shoot at me before I had the chance to celebrate. I flew with Toruk left and right, but the dragon somehow kept up. Before I knew it, it ended up shooting me on my shoulder, knocking me off of Toruk. I fell into a forest with those large leaves, making my fall soft. But my shoulder still hurt like hell.

I let out a huge breath, as I hit the cold ground. Coughing out blood as I rolled over.

"I'm down." I groaned into the mic.

"Y/n!" Neteyam said with a shaky voice. " Hold on, were coming to you.."

"The machine is getting closer to the well of souls." Na'yori said.

I looked up into the air, and saw Trudy's samson coming in full speet at the side of the Dragon.

"Trudy, no!" I yelled into the mic.

"At least I die doing what I love." She said. "Tell Norm I love hi-"With that, she was cut off, a loud explosion seen from above.It caused the dragon to go down. Trudy was dead.

Out of the dragon, I saw someone drop down in an ampsuit. 

Quaritch. He was going toward the shaq, to shut me down.

I made a run towards the shaq, to stop him. I made it just in time, right when he was to shoot the link where I was asleep.

"It's all over Miles." I yelled, getting his attention.

He turned around and snarled at me. "Nothing's over while I'm breathing."

"Then I'll take care of that." I pulled out my knife, and before I could fire at him, something jumped from the side. It was a Palulukan, with a blue figure on top. It was Neteyam. He jumped on top of Quaritch, fighting him off. 

At the end, Quaritch ended up killing the animal, getting Neteyam stuck under it's body.

"Fucking hypocrites." Miles said to Neteyam, earning a hiss in return.

He turned around to face me, but as soon as he did, I shot an arrow at his ampsuit, making him fall down.

I quickly ran over to Neteyam, helping him release from the animal. "Neteyam!" I smiled, hugging him tightly. "We won!"

He smiled back, but it faded once he looked behind me. "Y/n!"

I looked, only to see Quaritch's human body getting out and running into the shaq, my arrow nowhere near his body. I missed.

"No!" I said, but before I could react,everything went black. I woke up in my human body, choking for air, Quaritch standing over me.

"I'l be back before you know it, you cunt." He said, before he collapsed onto the ground from no oxygen. I tried to use all the strenght left to grab onto the oxygen mask, but fell to the ground. I was weak, and about to choke to death. I laid onto the ground, and suddenly felt the shaq shake as Neteyam entered it.

He grabbed the oxygen mask, and pulled me up to lean against him as he put the mask onto my face. I continued to breath for air harder and harder, looking at him deeply into his eyes.

"That's right Y/n.. Breath." He said.

I looked behind him, and Loak entered. He kicked Quaritch's dead body, and came over to us. He cringed at me. "Damn you're ugly."

"Loak!" Neteyam hissed at him.

I laughed weakly. "Thank.. you.." I breathed in between words.

Neteyam smiled at me, ebfore observing my human body, curious.

"I know I don't look as good as I do as my avatar.." I chuckled.

"You're beautiful.." Neteyam added. He put his hand on the side of my head, and we smiled at each other.

"I see you." I said.

"I see you too, Y/n."