( Okay so I had someone else write korra's part in this one but I will be taking over the character so it might be a slight change in personality. This one is sad for Jake and sad/plot moving for Spider. Next chapter it gets a bit of excitement. Writing this started off wanting to roleplay it and now im writing the entire movie 🙃)
Her light ocean blue and light purple lavender eyes adjust quickly to the increasingly lightened atmosphere and finally open wide, but what she sees is uncomprehendable to her still drowsy mind. At least that is the silent thought that passes through her consciousness, 'I must be dreaming still.' Before her is a very primitive hut but almost a crude hospital-like space. The coldness of the white health machine too stark and foreign in these wild surroundings. Her keen ears almost immediately pick up on the rhythmic beepings of her monitored heart. She feels them prick up as the sound registers through her mind,
'...wait...no that's not right...my ears don't move when they take in sound.' Simultaneously she feels the cold medical nodes stuck to the sides of her head and around her chest. The cords cascading around and over her make her feel worried for her health and mental state.
She questions her mental state even more by the blueish figures surrounding her bed. The larger of the two, pure blue, had left before she could fully take him in...but this striped blue green other one was hovering so close.
'What a strange color to be', is the thought that swims quickly through her addled brain before her spike of fear of the formidable creature as he suddenly advances. But he is holding and offering life-giving water and she purses her lips together feeling the cracks as he puts the familiar plastic bottle to her lips. She understands this thing as his masculine alien voice speaks and asks her calmly to drink...but then just as quickly speaks absolute gibberish with a grin. She wrinkles her nose in bewilderment and is immediately transported to Wonderland with thoughts of this strange cheshire cat's grin.
Recalling the ever popular Alice quote that rises through her subconscious, 'If you drink much from a bottle marked 'poison' it is certain to disagree with you sooner or later.'
When she finally snapped from the daze she was caught hovering in, The girl let out a terrified scream.
Warr ak was taken aback by the girls unsettling reaction of fear and confusion, he could only offer comfort and safety in words.
*be calm, be calm* he ushered out the words in na'vi before realising she was not able to understand him, and his curiosity peaked.
"It's okay- We found you in the water, but your okay now, it's going to be alright" he spoke slowly and leaned back to give her space, his tail twitching from the intensity of her screams.
'Sully, where the hell did you go?' He thought frantically as the waves crashed around them in the far back ground.
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Jake took to the skies as his way of scanning the island for abnormalities and in this instance, a kid. Focused eyes overlooked every inch of the grounds below while he grew close to the place that he knew Spider would have filled the jug. Out of the corner of his eye he spotted something small and wooden bobbing up and down in the settled water of a puddle. He landed instantly and jumped to the ground to investigate, his heart falling deep into his core as he put two and two together now as he reached to pick up the jug he had sent the boy with.
"Damn it! " He yelled out in frustration and anger before filling the jug halfway and strapping it to him as he quickly returned to the skies. He knew his children would never forgive him if he didn't try to get Spider back this time, but what could he do?
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She screamed her alienesque scream and watched her fairytale companion's shocked features melting back into worry. She hears his absolute gibberish again trying to rise above her screeching and involuntarily her nose scrunches at the strange sounds. But then an entire English sentence...as he leans away from her. The space gives her the moment she needs to compose and cease her wail as she finds herself staring at his erratically twitching tail. The tail slows as her piercing screams minimize and she finds herself using its slowing to help slow her uncontrolled heaving breaths in time to its rhythmic swish. Calming, her heartbeat stops beating out of her chest, but leaves her in absolute bewilderment at his words. She scrambles further backwards, up toward the head of her raised pallet bed, and curls her new strange body to her as she wraps her weird striped arms about her even weirder striped legs protectively. She buries her face into her arms and terrifyingly wonders if her mind is completely broken and is breaking the english language into that utter madness... She raises her gaze back up to find him still intensely staring at her...'or is this thing switching back and forth instead', she questions herself with her rising sight. She stares back at him, into him, her eyes hyper focusing on his deep dark blues. Instantly drowning. There is something so familiar and calming about his eyes...so alluring she can't seem to look away.
It was as though time itself halted and the dangers around we're swept away with the tide, his dark orbs absorbing the light from her own. Mesmerized by the sudden feeling of deja vu, Warr ak cleared his throat nervous to speak again, was he scaring her? She was acting as though she had not a clue of her now being Na'vi, and or even has ever seen one.
"Hey there.. " He reached slowly towards her arms, but hesitated only inches away from touching her decorated skin. "I am not going to hurt you, im friendly, friendly alien" He explained, the last bit more pronounciated and as though he were speaking to a small child.
Shaking his head he restarted trying to find the right words for her perked ears to hear. "Your human right? I am too.. I mean not right now, but I was" He said, holding out a hand to show how human like it's appearance was.
Jake flipped back the curtain in haste as he watched the action jump scare the two huddled near the small pallet they had made her.
"They took spider" He addressed with a tone unmatched. "I shouldn't of let him go alone, what was I thinking" He angrily and frantically spoke feeling guilty for not being aware.
"Quaritchs dead, but they won't cease until every Na'vi has been-" He stopped his onward spiral and lifted his gaze to the two.
"I am Ajake, You are welcome to stay with my family until you gather yourself, " his eyes moved to warr ak, "Take her to the forest, don't let my family return until I deem it safe" He commanded softly and with hope.
The pull she felt towards him was magnetic insanity...almost as if they had always known each other. She felt so lost but could feel a guiding light staring into his dark deep orbs. He recovered first, trying to cover his awkwardness and the spell was broken. Part of her longed for that almost forgotten feeling...but another felt relief that she was back and more in control of herself...'But...who is myself here', she wonders as she listens to his calming reassurances of being a friendly alien. 'At least he is self aware of this strangeness', she thinks trying and failing to keep eye contact. She looks up, and uncurls coming to sit on her knees, as he admits to being human, 'Yes! That! Why am I not that...and why must he speak to me like I am incapable of understanding english?' Then it dawns on her...she has yet to speak aloud...'Oh...no wonder he thinks I don't have a thought in my head you ditz.' She internally berates herself and as he shows her his hand she seizes it between her own. 'His creature hands are much less feral than mine', she thinks before finally opening her mouth and guiding his offered hand to her cheek...
a move of dreamlike familiarity...on pure instinct and softly, "I hear you...I... understand you." She is taken aback at the feral alien tone to her voice but presses quickly on, "I mean...I don't understand this...but I understand what you are saying." She pauses with a small smile and her nose scrunches, "Well...most of the time." She swallows painfully after waking her vocal muscles from unuse, "Is...the water still on offer? I do wish I hadn't screamed...that was a ditz move on my part...but you are quite...ummmm..." She pauses in her quick ramble not wanting to say the word 'monstrous' but stumbling through her mind for a less hurtful term, "formidable...in this form." She drops his hand having just realized she had been squeezing it to her this whole time and embarrassedly wonders if these creatures blush...because she surely would be after that stunt. She bites her aching lip and looks down away from his piercing stare. She absently twirls a few strands of her hair...musing at the familiar comforting action of her purple and brunette strands...and admits softly, "I suppose I am too though." She finds herself involuntarily glancing back up at him and her body jumps back and squeels in startlement as the larger blue creature bursts into the space with a furious energy. Her bright eyes wide, as she watches and listens to his erratic display. Her ears prick up at the mention of someone's death and she sees the fear that he hides so well beneath his stern exterior. She sees him address her, appreciates the hospitality, but worries now for all their safety and muses aloud, "...Is your missing spider monstrous and venomous...if that's the case maybe it's best it stays missing...Oh how do I awaken from this crazy dream? Cause this rabbit hole is quite the doozy."
Warr ak was taken by surprise now hearing her voice for the first time since first seeing her awake, and he was happy she spoke English. He gave a small gasp as his hand was grabbed and pulled close to her face, cupping her soft cheek. It had brought his entire being closer to the other in a swift unexpected move. He dare not move or let his gaze drop as a small bead of sweat fell from his chin. 'who are you?' He thought, still trapped in a daze. The magic seemed to vanish the moment Ajake announced his concerns, and Warr ak leaned back with a chuckle when the girl misunderstood whom the missing one was.
"He's one of *My* Kids" Ajake stated in reply, in a way he was the younger boy's caretaker, and in a way he was a father as well.
"He's human too- sorta" Warr ak added, hoping that the girl was following along and understanding the two men's answers.
"You two should get ready to depart soon, I need to talk with Tonawari, but regardless it isn't safe here anymore, they will use the kid to get what they want" Ajake explained, pointing up to the sky towards the direction where the sky people used to be.
Warr ak nodded towards the man giving orders, and reached to take the water bottle that sat beside him. He carefully lifted it to her lips and smiled soft as he nodded for her to drink.
"first we need to get you hydrated enough for the ride" he spoke.
As the girl watched the laughter of this close one course through him at her words, she inherently knew she must of misspoke, but seeing him chuckle was fascinating. Her strange ears pricked up as the larger one addressed her and she was surprised how difficult it truly was to divert her attention. But this was a serious matter and she listened to the grave news and orders more somber out of respect for the missing child. 'Another human... non human...what was going on in this dream world, where it seemed as though nothing was as it should be?' She pondered the questions swimming through her mind and her gaze fell upon the water bottle sitting beside her pallet companion...just out of reach. She pursed her parched lips and as if he had magically read her mind, watched with elation as he easily reached and secured the bottle. She couldn't help but smile at that bit of dream magic. The older creature finished giving his orders out and fell silent. She felt obligated to try to amend her mistake from moments before, "I am so very sorry that you are missing a child. That is a very grievous thing to be missing."
She pauses seeing her condolences well received and can't help but add too quietly for the worried parent to hear, "At least it is not a giant alien dream spider though." Filled with a moment of worry she mentally ponders and glances up at her closer alien, 'I hope he didn't hear that either...how good is their hearing...our hearing...mind reading...can he read my mind?' She watches the progression of the bottle up to her lips and with it his progression in closing the gap between them. He smiles that cute smile and nods, and she leans in closer to meet the bottle as it kisses her lips. This time she slides her hand up to help steady the bottle and finally drinks deeply. The cooling water flooding her tongue with wet euphoria makes her wiggle in joy. She happily takes multiple sips and runs her tongue over her lips providing the much needed moisture as she listens to him speak. Her eyes widen at his words, "Ummmm what kind of ride are we talking about? A horse? Do y'all have horses? We are too big for horses. An extra large carousel horse maybe...Everything is so topsy turvy in this dream." She giggles and boops his quite close nose with her playful feral claw.
Ajake felt his heart sink low into the pit of his stomach, her words reminded him of his late son, Netayem. He hears Warr ak laughing at her next statement and shifts to crouch low as he grabs his gun from under a small wooden table. "That would be bad, yes" He agrees to her next words whilst hiding the sorrow he felt from losing one son, and now spider.
Warr ak chuckled still at her loopy talk while hoping Ajake refrained from being too authoritative in this tender moment. She hadn't a clue of what had happened to Netayem, and it was not her fault to bring up such memories.
"Horses? I almost forgot about those" He says and swallows hard, slightly embarrassed. "No, uh, we will be taking a Mountain Banshee, actually... Kind of like a horse... If it flew" He rambled on and reached to scratch behind his head awkwardly.
When his nose was booped by the girls unique hands, Warr ak felt his eyes widen as a quick memory escaped into his minds eye. 'This had happened before' When he was much younger at the bus stop, a girl had given him her scarf and booped him on the nose in the same playful way.
"What's your name?" Both warr ak and Ajake asked in unison.
Her giggle ceases as she looks away from her strange one's nose and up to the other, "Oh...of course! I'm..." Her easy smile falters a moment but she rallies quickly and tries again, "So silly of me. Sorry. My name is..." She looks down and wrinkles her nose in confusion willing the memory to return to her as she begins to flood with embarrassment, "Well I'm... I...Ummm..." She falters as she struggles with her broken mind and looks worriedly up to see him staring so intensely at her...awaiting her answer...an answer she is unable to gift him. She bites her lip anxiously and her gaze swings to the leader's as she asks with a slight plea, "Who am I?" She shakes her head 'no' slowly as if to rattle the thoughts and memories and shake them back into place. The memory does not come and she sighs in resignation accepting her fate. She puts on a fake smile and tries for a brave face to keep the threatening tears and devestation at bay, "I suppose...it doesn't matter really here...and given the other more pressing concerns...it's not that important...but ummmm a banshee is nothing like a horse...nor do I particularly wish to take a ride on one of the wailing demons." She suddenly finds herself absently twirling several strands of her hair anxiously between her fingers.
Watching her struggle in attempts of remembering her name made both men glance to another in complete perplexion.
"Right we'll that is not a top priority at the moment, name or no name, we need you safe" Ajake directed his voice at the light-eyed girl before them. "Leave in five" He declares now addressing Warr ak as he moved to open the curtain with one hand. "I'll follow behind after I check the skies one more time"
Warr ak turned back to face Jake now with a nod of agreement he tilted his head and returned his gaze to the girl. "They aren't scary, it's fun actually, to fly like in your dreams" He explains in a way he hopes would spark her interest enough to get her on one willingly.
He stood and offered her his hand to help her up to her feet, biting his lower lip before giving a "hmm.." as he looked her over.
"What should we call you...? " He asked as he helped her up, and their bodies now we're closer than before. "err- sorry about that" he said as he quickly moved back to give her space.
"I think Korra fits you most, at least until we find out who you are..." He spoke through a small laugh trying to ease the seriousness of the situation, but he had to act fast before it became too late.
"Come, I'll show you a banshee" He moved to open the curtains for her to pass beneath.
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Once departed with Spider in front of the older, crouched low and holding on to the creature's neck with ease. He yipped as they always would do when they dove down close to the ground, earning a roll of eyes from the Colonel.
"You do this often?!" The Colonel asked over the sounds of the wind hitting their faces.
"Only Lo ak and Neteyem can ride, unless it's with them or Mr. Sully" the boy replied, feeling sickly as he was reminded of Netayems's passing. "Why do you hurt people?" He found himself inquiring now that the tension had passed mostly.
"Because, if you don't... They will walk all over you, people hurt people every day, kid" He explained as openly as he could spare to show. "No matter what side your on, sacrifices are made for the greater good of your- of -our- people... " He hoped his son would see the world from his point of view and not that as Na'vi.
Spider hated the way the fabric of his pants rubbed up against his thighs and ankles as the wind hit them with immense force. He did listen to Quaritch if only to draw out more time for him to plan, but now the other awaited a reply.
" why do you need me? Ajake won't come for me, so what is it?" The younger asked momentarily changing the subject.
Quaritch furrowed his brow and scanned the skies around them for any activity. "Who said we needed you?" His tone was slightly more cold than their previous conversations.
"We need what you have stored up in your noggin, you just so happen to be in the wrong place at the wrong time, kiddo" He chuckled, "Easy snipin" he adds as a joke and takes them higher up into the sky.
"What are you going to do with me?" Spider felt uncomfortable about asking the forboding question lingering in the back if his mind, 'when will this be over?'
Hands gripping the reigns tighter and pulling on the left side to turn the banshees direction, Quaritch debated telling the kid the truth.
"Well, that's the thing, we haven't decided yet... Send your ass back to earth I reckon" He said nonchalantly and with an affirmative nod as the kid jerked his head to glare at him.
"I'm not going there! You've gotta let me go! Here, here is my home. You need to see the na'vi as I do, but you won't!" He spat back loudly as the Colonel aggressively forced the kid to turn back around as he navigated them down closer to the tree tops.
"I get it, your emotional, but it's not a good look, kid, makes you look weak" The Colonel replied coolly and with patience. He knew Miles would fight tooth and nail not to enter a cryo destined for Earth, and so he expected the Tantrum to come at some point, now just hadn't been the time.
Spider did not fight the other's force as he was forced to look ahead once more, and with it his anger turned to fear. His greatest nightmare is that of him stranded on a distant planet full of the Tawtute, away from his true family.
"No. You'll have to kill me" He states with a wavering tone, yet death is not what kept him so unsettled in this flight. He heard the other snicker and give a long dramatic sigh.
"Spider.. You know you really are just like your mother" Quaritch admitted to his son. "Spittin image too"
"Stop. I don't want to hear this, not from you" Spider replied and used a hand to cover his ear closest to hearing the words. He only retrieved his hand when he was sure the other was not going to continue. They ended up staying quiet for the rest of the ride, Spider hopping down from the creatures back and looking up at Quaritch with a blank stare as he waited on the man to join him on the ships docking platform.
