It had been a few days since Aila and Lo'ak told his parents, now Lo'ak's siblings knew.

Aila had slept over at Lo'ak's for the past few days, it was nice.

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Neteyam came barging into Lo'ak's room, waking both Aila and Lo'ak up.

"Lo'ak come on. Tonowari wants to see us." Neteyam said, shaking his baby brother.

"Teyam, what do you mean." Lo'ak grumbled.

"Sorry to wake you Aila, but your dad needs us." Neteyam stated.

"Neteyam does my dad know I'm here?" Aila questioned getting out of Lo'ak's bed.

"No, but he still thinks your with your friend." Neteyam replied.

Aila had told her parents she was going to be spending a few nights with a friend and not to worry about her but instead of going to a friends place she went to Lo'ak's because she only wanted to be with him, all the time.

"Ok thank you. Lo'ak come on skxawng." Aila said shaking him, violently.

"Fine, fine. I'm getting up." Lo'ak said as he raised his hands in defense.

"Atleast someone can get him up, thank you." Neteyam snickered.

Lo'ak got up and stretched as he pushed his brother out of his room.

"Lo'ak your hair is a mess"

"What do you mean, I think it looks fine." Lo'ak said looking in a mirror.

"No, let me fix it for you. Sit down."

"Anything for you." Lo'ak smirked.

Lo'ak sat down on the floor as Aila sat on the bed. She started to grab pieces of his hair, braiding it. Aila loved playing with Lo'ak's hair. It was different from her hair, it was much thicker and smoother.

"You need to listen to you brother" Aila said as she pulled back on Lo'ak's hair.

"Owww, no I don't." Lo'ak hissed.

"Sorry, yes you do. He's your older brother. Plus you might actually arrive on time if you wake up when he tells you to." Aila snickered.

"Ha ha very funny."

"Ok, done. Does it look ok?" Aila questioned.

Lo'ak got up from his seated position and stood in front of the mirror. He touched the beads on the end of his braids and noticed that they were his favorite colors.

"How did you know my favorite colors?" Lo'ak questioned turning and gazing at Aila.

"Your brother told me." Aila smirked.

"Skxawng"

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Aila and the Sully's were sitting in a circle around Tonoawari and his family.

"The sky people are looking for you, Jake Sully. They had burned a clan's land west of here." Tonowani stated.

Jake looked towards the ground, pained.

"They did not let the sky people know where you are, on my order." Tonowari stated.

"Thank you, sir. I'm sorry about all of this." Jake replied.

"What's gonna happen dad?" Tuk questioned.

"I don't know." Jake replied.

"I pray that they don't come here but prepare you weapons. We need to be prepared." Jake stated with a look of sorrow laced on his face.

"We are not at war, you brought this upon us." Ronal interrupted.

Jake slouched in distress, "I know and I can't express how sorry I am."

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The meeting ended, Lo'ak could tell how scared Aila was. Well, more like he could feel it. He wasn't used to feeling her every emotion but he liked that she couldn't keep her feelings from him.

"Aila come with me." Lo'ak said as he grabbed her hand.

"Lo'ak where are you going."

"Just behind the hut."

Lo'ak led her behind the hut, out of sight from their fathers who were still talking even though the meeting was over.

"Aila, I'm so sorry." Lo'ak said with sadness in his gaze.

"Lo'ak you couldn't have known. It's not your fault."

"Aila that's not all I'm sorry for. I know your scared and I don't know how to help you because I'm also terrified."

"Atleast your here. That's all I can ask for." Aila said as she hugged Lo'ak tightly.

Aila backed away from Lo'ak's embrace as she wiped a few tears from her face. All she could do was hope that Lo'ak would survive all this and they could be happy, together.

Back on the other side of the hut, Tonowani had asked Aonung to go get Aila. He protested but Tonowani stopped him and said go, so he did.

He saw Aila and Lo'ak together, but they didn't see him. He heard them talking and decided to listen to their conversation.

"Im just glad I mated with you. If something were to happen to you and I didn't get the chance to I don't know what I would've done. I would have hated being mated to someone I didn't love." Aila stated.

"Me too. I love you." Lo'ak said as he kissed her on the forehead.

"Aila, your coming with me. You to, freak." Aonung said as he came from around the corner and grabbed Aila's and Lo'ak's wrists.

He was somehow much stronger than Lo'ak and he couldn't free himself.

"Aonung, what are you doing. Were you listening to us?" Aila said pulling at his hand.

"I'm taking you to father." Was all he muttered out.

Aonung brought both Aila and Lo'ak inside the hut where Ronal, Neytiri, Jake, and Tonowari were standing talking amongst themselves.

"Father, I think Aila has something to tell you." Aonung stated, forcefully releasing his grip on both Aila and Lo'ak.

Aila was on the verge of tears. All she did was look down at the ground and start to rub her forearm. She knew what Aonung meant and she didn't want to tell them.

"Daughter, what is it?" Tonowari questioned.

"Nothing" She replied.

"Aila, tell him or I will."

Aila just shook her head negatively. She was choked up, she couldn't talk. Lo'ak felt her pain but it was covered up by anger, for Aonung. He wanted to beat him up all over again.

"Ok I will then. Father, Aila is mated." Aonung simply stated.

Tonowari gasped, "is this true, Aila?"

She shook her head slightly, positively.

"Who is it?" Tonowari questioned.

Aila stood there, silent.

Aonung rolled his eyes as he sighed, "this five-fingered freak." He said as he grabbed Lo'ak's hand.

"Let go of me, Skxawng." Lo'ak hissed as he pulled away from Aonung's grip.

"Is this true?" Ronal interjected.

"Yes." Aila whispered.

"How could you? He isn't even true Na'vi." Ronal stated.

Aila looked up at her parents, gazing into their eyes and then to Tsireya. She knew she was hurt by this but more that Aila didn't tell her. Aila could tell that she was on the verge of tears by hearing this information from someone other than her.

She stepped closer to Lo'ak but Aonung put his hand between them.

"Move" Aila snarled as she picked up Aonung's hand and moved it to the side.

"Or what?" Aonung smirked.

"You really wanna go there?" Aila whispered as she looked at Lo'ak and then back at Aonung.

Aonung stepped back. Aila moved over to Lo'ak as she grabbed his hand.

"He is Na'vi, either way and I love him. Is there something wrong with love?" Aila stated.

"If you choose this path, you will never be Tsahik." Ronal said as her voice grew louder.

Aila raised her hand to Lo'ak's chest as she gazed into his eyes. There was no question about it for her. She knew what she wanted,

"I choose him..."

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I love this chapter and Aonung needs to back off fr. I hate him so much. He's so annoying fr.

There's only like 3-4 chapters left and I've been putting off writing them because I don't want to end this book. This is gonna kill me. 😭

Well anyway I hope y'all liked this chapter and if you did a vote or comment is always appreciated<33

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