Hello everyone, I know its been a while since I updated, but I had been going through some issues but I managed them and am getting my life back in order. So I apologies for taking so long to update.

This chapter had been a pain to write, doing all these translation, finding the right words figuring out how to rephrase things so that the Na'vi translator could work properly. I promise that in the next chapter I won't be doing this again, what I'll do instead is that whenever they speak in Na'vi I'll just write it out in 'italics'. So much easier.

Beta read by the wonderful Kuro Mitsu!

Chapter 5: The intruder

Tsu'tey was sleeping in the treetops when it all happened.

The Na'vi heard the roar before seeing it, golden eyes startled open in panic. A blue hand reaching out towards his bow and arrow that he kept beside him in self-defence. He looked around him for any signs of danger, but relaxed when he saw none, that is until another roar echoed through the forest. This time the blue creature jumped up and rushed towards the area where the sound came from. Tsu'tey jumped from branch to branch, his lean agile body keeping its balance with no problem as he moved. He stopped abruptly when he noticed that the forest came to an abrupt end, revealing the sheer drop of the waterfall beneath him.

He frowned when he noticed the agitated palulukan (Thanator) clawing and stomping near the edge of the cliff as if it saw some sort of tasty snack at the bottom. It huffed angrily before leaping away back into the jungle. He looked down and was surprised when he noticed something distinctively blue at the bottom of the waterfall, it was a person. Panic ran through the Na'vi's mind and Tsu'tey jumped down to the ground; keeping low to the ground and using the shrubbery as a cover he crawled towards the edge of the cliff to have a better look. Maybe this person was already dead, a drop like that would kill most.

Suddenly there was a huge splashing sound and the Na'vi quickly ran behind the boulder and saw the unknown Na'vi emerge from the deep. He did not like what he saw.

It was one of those damn uniltìrantokx (dream walker bodies), those twatute (sky people) coming to their home, taking their land, and even worse now taking their shape. Stealing every part of their identity that their dirty hands could grab on to. He kept himself hidden, picking up his bow and arrow, getting ready to take aim and shoot the uniltiranyu (dream walker) as he was struggling out of the water.

The male was clawing himself out to the bank, and Tsu'tey slowly took aim, but he stopped when he noticed something, or rather, scented something. It was the scent of a female. The Na'vi frowned, staring closely at the male in front of him, watching every struggled movement; the scent was coming from him. He gritted his teeth together and reluctantly lowered his bow, hating himself for not being able to shoot; but you don't kill a breeding female, it was as simple as that. Even if this one looked more like a tsamsiyu (warrior) unlike the other uniltiranyu that came to this land.

Tsu'tey strapped the weapon back onto his back, and deciding that for now he would simply watch the invader, but if he did cause any more trouble then Tsu'tey would break his vow and kill this abomination.

He stayed hidden, not taking his eyes off the uniltiranyu male as he lay there heaving and coughing trying to catch his breath. The creature looked afraid as he sat up quickly, obviously very tired. He took off his shirt, wringing the water out of it before putting it back on before wearily standing up and staggering into the forest. With Tsu'tey close behind.

They kept on going like this, with Tsu'tey wondering why uniltiranyu was on his own. They normally moved around in groups for safety and protection and not too far out from their camp either. This one was a long way from his home; he didn't have the confidence that the others had. This one wasn't as sure footed as the female Karyu (teacher), he was almost timid in his nature. Tsu'tey didn't think this creature would survive very long out here in the wild. Not with the amount of noise he was making; more predators would come, there were plenty around.

And nightfall was coming.

The creature had picked up a stick and was using it to beat the long plants and leaves around him as he moved. Not caring at all that he was alerting everyone in the forest to his presence, foolish little creature. Maybe an arrow through his skull was not enough.

"Tsu'tey…" came a whispered voice that was almost as light as the wind.

He turned around and saw the daughter of the tribe leader Eytukan, Neytiri. She was a beautiful Na'vi, with bright golden eyes, a smooth round face with a pointed chin, her ears pierced with part of a braided hair coming down the side of her face.

"Neytiri, Ole nagti kameie (I see you)," he greeted.

"Ole nagti kameie," she replied, moving to sit down beside him, her gaze directed in the same direction as Tsu'tey's.

"Uniltiranyu..." she gasped when she realized what Tsu'tey was watching. "…fitseng? Pelun? (in this place? Why?)"

"Yaymak uniltiranyu (Foolish dream walker)," he hissed out.

Neytiri put a hand on his shoulder. "Peu nga ne si? (What are you going to do?)" she asked, golden eyes filled with worry.

"Ka omum (Don't know)," he replied.

They both continued on their way, following the dream walker as he tried to fight his way through, but it was obvious that he was starting to panic more with the darkness moving closer in on him. He watched closely as the creature grabbed smaller branches and dry grass, piling them together before sitting down by it. He took some odd device out of his pocket, flicking it open to reveal a flame, and he used the device to put the dried kindle on fire. Tsu'tey wanted to smack that creature right then for his ignorance, Neytiri must have felt the same way because she was hissing angrily at the man.

Seeing the fire made so close to plants must be worrying her, as her role of the future Tsahik (spiritual leader) she had a strong connection to all of Eywa's children, and seeing such reckless endangerment of their mother's land must be angering her. He didn't stop her as she raised her own bow, readying to take a shot. He didn't care if there was one less skywalker around to pollute their planet.

But she didn't.

Instead her eyes had gone wide with shock, and when Tsu'tey followed her eyeline he noticed why she was wasn't.

It was an atokirian, a woodsprite, the seed from the Tree of Souls, a pure and sacred spirit. The little tuffs of white light, almost like a glowing flower dancing towards them, one of them coming to rest on Tsu'tey's finger as he reached towards them. He looked towards Neytiri who was watching the scene with awe, her bow now lowered. He wanted to know what she saw, as the future Tsahik she was the interpreter of the will of Eywa.

"Neytiri?"

"…" she didn't say anything, but kept on staring from him to the human. It looked like however that she wasn't going to kill the dreamwalker.

"Neytiri?" he asked, again.

"Ayoeng pey (we wait)," she answered simply.

Tsu'tey couldn't help but frown, was this tawtute really that important? What kind of destiny did Eywa have for this creature? It didn't make any sense to the young warrior.

By now the skywalker had taken out a small sharp knife and was using it to hack away at a long branch, stripping the bark of its leaves and thorns until it was a just a long stick. Jake ripped cloth from his shirt, wrapping it around the top of the stick. He then looked around himself trying to remember some of the things that Grace had taught him. There was a tree nearby that released a highly toxic sticky resin that was flammable. The tree had striped yellow colouring, easily distinguishable, but in this dim light the markings were difficult to make out. It took him a while to finally find the damn tree, by now it was almost pitch black, the campfire he had made had almost gone out, and the forest was alive with the most amazing screeches.

He had to act quickly.

Jake rubbed the clothed stick against the resin, covering it in the sticky dark fluid. Then using the embers from the dying flame, he gasped when cloth suddenly burst into flames. Highly flammable alright. The sound of screeching grew louder as the animals were startled by the burst of flame. He himself was as anxious, right now this flame was possibly his only weapon against whatever kind of hell beasts existed on this planet.

He heard yelping sounds, like that of an injured dog, scuttling of the bushes. A growl right behind him, too close behind him in fact. Shadows rushed right past him, their shapes deformed and made more intimidating by the flames. He waved the baton around, hitting it against the ground in an attempt to scare the beasts but they just seemed to get bolder, growling angrily, snapping at his feet. Jake hissed out in pain when suddenly he felt something razor sharp dig into his tail. On reflex he jumped, using his momentum to throw his body to the side so that he could flick the creature off him.

He took his knife in one hand, using the butt of the hilt to slam one of those creatures away from him. Slicing at the air hoping to at least get one lucky hit, but these dog-like things were too quick; the flames seemed to be the only thing that scared them. Yet they didn't stay down for long. He could only make out slight features in the light.

They were sleek, with lean strong bodies, six legs like seemingly all creatures on this planet, and a face that reminded him of a melted dog. There was a pack of them, at least 12, all hungry and ready to take a big chunk out of his new body. One of them lunged at him and Jake barely managed to dodge the attack before another one of them aimed at his throat. He cursed, losing his footing on the muddy ground; he slipped and fell, his back hitting hard against a tree, knocking the air right out of his lungs.

'Shit this is it,' he thought. 'This is it, this is how I'm going to die. Eaten by dogs of all things.'

They prowled towards him, their purplish skin glowing almost metallic in the firelight. They licked their chops, drool sliding heavily from their mouths; Jake closed his eyes, ready to simply let it all end. It probably would be easier now, last thing he ever wanted was to be able to walk once again, and he got that opportunity. Tommy would be waiting for him on the other side after all, and they had been waiting for each other for so long.

One of the creatures bent down low, ready to lunge at him again, this time aiming for his throat. Jake waited for the pain but it never came. Instead his ear was filled with the sound of amazing howling. He cracked his eyes open and was surprised to see two blurs rushing past him at high speed. Screaming like sirens, waving around long sticks at the dog-like beasts. It took a while for Jake to figure out what these new creatures were; they were the natives the Na'vi. Jake sat up to get a better look.

The first was a female who was crouching down in front of him in a protective stance, hissing out in warning; he couldn't make out much about her since he could only see her back. The second was a male, tall and strong, with such confidence in each of his movement that Jake couldn't help but be transfixed. He waved what looked like a bow around, hitting the creatures away from him one after the other; he moved so swiftly that Jake could hardly keep track. The way he moved, effortlessly clearing a path, taking arrows from his satchel and shooting them off with endless fluidity. He heard a pained yowl as one of them hit the mark; this seemed to set off a chain reaction as the rest of the creatures ran away.

The female one hurried towards the injured creature; she whispered gibberish like a prayer as she slowly stroked down the struggling dog. Swiftly she removed a small knife from the sleeve hanging from her skirt and reached towards the creature as it was struggling to breathe and cut its throat in one quick move. Gently she laid the now dead dog-like creature down, muttering a few more words that sounded almost apologetic.

She sighed, standing up, turning to look at him with a hard stare that held so much hate that he couldn't help but flinch. But he decided to be strong about this, these people saved his life after all; they had just saved him, they weren't about to kill someone whom they just saved…right?

Jake tried to stand up, ready to thank them for saving his life, but suddenly he felt something solid hit against his chest and he was pushed back against the muddy ground. He groaned out in pain, staring in confusion at the large almost ape-like foot that was planted firmly on his chest.

"What…?" he tried to speak only for it to come out like coughing.

"Lu fnu uniltìranyu (Be quiet dreamwalker)," the male growled out, adding more pressure onto his chest.

She whispered something to him, and he didn't think she was telling the Na'vi to go easy on him. Instead she simply turned to stare at him again.

"You caused this," she hissed out in broken English, her voice thick with anger.

"What?" he wheezed out.

"This!" she said, pointing at the scene of the dead dog behind her. "You did this, you were the reason she had to die!" she shouted at him. "She should not have to die for you!"

Jake stared from her to the dead dog, what was she on about? Those things attacked him first, trying to eat him! He was only trying to defend himself. She huffed and turned away from him, and the male followed suit, removing his foot from Jake's chest and went after the female Na'vi. As fast as he could he scrambled to stand up; he picked up his discarded knife and flaming stick and went to follow them. He pushed aside a branch but stopped dead when he had come face to face with the male Na'vi.

"Er…?" he said hesitantly, not sure if this one could speak English, and his Na'vi was nonexistent.

Without a word the creature's long arm reached out, grabbed hold of the baton and pried it away from him. He tried to grab it back but before he knew it the stick was thrown into the river, the fire going out instantly.

"Hey!" he shouted, but the male Na'vi ignored him and continued on his way.

He was panicking, wondering what he was going to do in the dark, he couldn't see a foot in front of him. He stumbled through the dark undergrowth when he noticed something glowing in the darkness in front of him. He reached for it, hoping to use it as a source of light, when he suddenly noticed more and more things starting to glow. Suddenly the surroundings were simply glowing in an almost eerie blues and greens. In stared in fascination as all the plants were emitting their own bioluminescent glow, it was like something out of a fairytale. Jake couldn't help but simply stand there and stare.

He reached out towards one of long leafs, tracing his fingers across the surface, watching mesmerized at a dark trail that followed. Even the fruits glowed like bulbs or fairy lights; Jake was tempted to climb up one of these trees and simply pluck a fruit but restrained himself. If he didn't hurry he was going to lose sight of the two Na'vi.

"Wait!" he called out, running after them.

But what he thought was a path was actually a fallen tree that made a bridge that connected two parts of the terrain. Cautiously he walked along the slippery surface, continuously asking them to wait for him, to slow down just a bit, why they had saved him; soon he lost his footing, expecting to fall to his death, when something grabbed his arm and effortlessly pulled him up.

"Pxel 'eveng, ha meyp (Like a child, so weak)," the male said distastefully. "Oe tspang nga set (I should kill you now)," he said in a low voice. Jake didn't know what he was saying, but he was sure that it wasn't anything good.

"Be quiet!" the female Na'vi hissed, which earned her a glare from the male. "You make too much noise, go back home uniltìranyu."

Now that word sounded familiar, it was one of the words that Norm kept on babbling about, but for the life of him he couldn't figure out what it meant. "Look, I got lost, I don't even know where I am."

The male snorted and let go of his arm. Jake only barely managed to catch himself from falling again. He glared at the male but kept his mouth shut, right now these two aliens were the only ones who could help him get out of this damn forest, maybe they could even show him the way to their home. That was part of his mission after all.

"Look you did just save me, you can't leave me like this."

This only seemed to anger the girl even more. "Nothing but trouble!" she growled out. "Why you even here?"

"I was part of Grace Augustine's group, you know her don't you? She's the one who taught you English right?"

She stared at him for a while but didn't say anything. Then she turned to the male and quickly said a couple of words to him, he growled back in quick succession as if he was shooting down her ideas. Either way he was not happy about whatever she was suggesting to him. Instead he growled and quickly grabbed something from his side, a small knife, thrusting it towards Jake in an attempt to kill him. He jumped back not knowing what brought round this sudden change; he went for his own weapon when the girl suddenly shouted.

"Ftang!(Stop)"

The male Na'vi froze in his step, and Jake was wondering what was going on; his gaze was drawn to something white and glowing floating down towards the male. Coming to land gently on the tip of his blade, it reminded Jake of a mixture between a dandelion seed and jellyfish pictures he had seen when he was younger. But just as suddenly as that one glowing thing came down, a whole load of them started floating down too, all of them gently landing over his body.

Thinking they were some sort of parasitic bug, he tried to wipe them off him, only for the female Na'vi to come forward and slap his arm for doing so. "Ftang, stop!"

"But these things-"

"Don't touch them!" she reprimanded.

So Jake simply stood there watching as an innumerable amount of these things gathered around him, bathing him in a white glow. He was surprised to find how gentle and almost warm they were tickling against his skin, and just as they had landed on him, they started to drift away, dancing in the calm away from him. He watched their departure with rapt attention, not having a clue about the significance of what had just happened. Even the Na'vi seemed stunned at what just happened, and it was obvious that they were having an inner battle with themselves.

"What where they?" he asked.

"Atokirian, a woodsprite. A very pure spirit…" she replied quietly. To Jake however that didn't answer anything.

The female Na'vi stepped away from him and turned to regard her male companion. "Ayoeng ne munge uniltìranyu ne tashik (We have to take the dreamwalker to the our spiritual leader)," the female said.

"Oe omum (I know)," he said with his voice thick. Neytiri knew why, this was twice now that the atokirian came to both Tsu'tey and this dreamwalker. This meant they were connected; how they were connected however was another question, she had to go quickly and consult her mother.

"Come, we have to hurry," she said to the dreamwalker.

Jake felt like he was being tugged from one side to the other by two Ampsuits; one moment they were helping him, then trying to kill him, and then they were back to helping him again. This whole situation made him so nervous and jittery, but he didn't exactly have another choice. At least the two in front of him were an enemy he knew, unlike those that were awaiting him hidden in the forest.

No other choice then to follow.

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