"" Alva shouted and rushed after the aggravated male Na'vi, her smile was shaky and her hands trembled. ""

She carelessly rushed over the ground, letting dirt and grass flow up behind her. Tsu'tey was getting further away but Alva was determined to not let him get away. It was her turn to catch him now, just like it was his before. The game had switched but the stakes were the same. She continued to yell after him, if only to make him remember her presence and eventually stop escaping her. He knew her secret and she had to protect it. Alva had no guarantee that Tsu'tey wouldn't give her up, she was almost 100% sure he was going to. Duty, honor and loyalty demanded it off him.

"" He snarled back at her, his eyes glistening with betrayal and hurt. He had liked the woman he had first met and the realisation that she was a dreamwalker, one of them, hurt him. Tsu'tey was feeling conflicted and needed to get away from Al'va, who he now regarded with a newfound hatred because of her human nature.

She didn't answer him. Alva had a better plan that would without a doubt help her in her quest to get to Tsu'tey before he disappeared into the forest he grew up in, the forest he knew and loved. It felt like her heart was going to beat out of her chest at the rate it was pumping, the thought of Tsu'tey getting away from her brought up a feeling almost akin to...fear.

Alva spun around in a circle and then reached for one of the lower hanging branches of a frail looking tree just a few footsteps to her left. Though the tree looked old and frail the branch looked strong enough to take her weight for the small amount of time she needed to swing herself up to the next branch. She took in her surroundings before grabbing the branch with her left hand and then with the help of her right she begun swinging.

Alva winced when she got a splinter of wood in one of her palms but she was losing valuable time swinging around, and the branch would only hold her a certain amount of time. She made one last swinging motion, making sure to put her whole body weight behind the movement and then when she got in the proper position she let go off the branch and flew towards the other branch she needed to grab. The dreamwalker giggled when she felt the wind caressing her skin as she flew up towards her next branch. With a well practiced grip she pulled herself up on the stable branch of the large tree and she flicked her tail around it to make sure that if her grip failed her she wouldn't fall to the ground. Alva smiled and unraveled her tail from the branch so that she could skip along the length of it until she jumped on to the branch almost connecting to the one she was on.

Once she jumped across the small gap to the other tall tree she could hear the booming footsteps of the runaway. With a renewed speed she jumped, lunged, climbed and leaped across branches, trees and other plants to make her way over to him. Her heart beat loudly inside of her chest and adrenaline rushed through her body like never before. A few leaves and branches slapped her in the face when she jumped down on the forest floor but she swatted them away like one would an annoying fly. Alva rolled once she hit the ground and smoothly got back up on her feet, just like she would when she was younger and climbed in the plastic-like trees in her uncle's backyard.

Her legs pumped her forward and towards where her future teacher was walking away from her, unaware of the fact that she was gaining on him and that she had the advantage now. His many years of experience didn't matter when he had Alva sneaking up behind him, and trees were her forte. She would get him, one way or the other. Her secret couldn't be spread or her place with the Na'vi would be questioned and threatened despite her aunt insisting on being her aunt. Tsu'tey held her future in his scarred, skilled hands and she had to make sure he guarded it like he did his heart.

"I know you know english" She whispered into the breeze that carried her words over to where Tsu'tey stood just a short distance below the branch she was crouched on. As soon as Alva whispered the phrase that made his head snap up to where he thought it came from she was gone, hiding in the upper crown on the tree she had taken refugee in. "More than I know na'vi" She noted and jumped over to the tree on the other side of Tsu'tey, deliberately letting him see how her tail curled around it.

"You demons are not allowed here" His broken english sounded rough on his tongue but got the point across. Alva couldn't see his face from behind the body of the tree but she imagined he was staring up at where he last saw her with a scowl and a glare in his eyes. "Leave"

Alva giggled and leaped down to branch a few meters below her in a different tree. "No. I want you to be my teacher. I've heard you're the best, even Eywa whispers her praises in my ears. "

"Show yourself, demon!" He barked up at her, spinning around in circles as he tried to see where she was at the moment. The speed of her surprised him, she moved in the trees like an ikran did in the air, or like a syaksyuk maneuvered in the trees.

"You asked me to go away" Alva whispered in his ear from where she had used a low hanging liana to get close to him and still be able to climb up it fast enough to disappear before he caught her. Her voice was airy and had retained the dreamy vibe that she had lost earlier during their initial confrontation. The simmering fear had ebbed away.

"Stop this!" He protested and whipped around after he felt her warm breath caressing the vulnerable part of his throat that wasn't protected by his covering. "Get down"

Alva snickered, the sound echoing all around Tsu'tey. Her feet pitter-pattered against the uneven surface of the branches. She was making sounds just to unnerve him and get a reaction out of him. "I don't think so. I like it up here, it's so freeing to just be able to climb and fall"

The dreamwalker walked into his line of vision and grinned at him before leaning backwards until she was falling, making him rush forward to catch her. Before he managed to catch her she wrapped her tail around the branch underneath the one she fell from and let herself with the help of the force of the fall swing up to her feet. She looked down on him with a lopsided smile before cartwheeling out of his line of sight.

She was teasing him, he realised. Alva danced just outside of his sight, and teasing him by showing just parts of her before disappearing again. She had been the one chasing him but now that he was caught she changed the game. His eyes were hard and though he had rushed to her rescue earlier he was still full with hatred for her kind, it didn't matter if she was gifted by Eywa or teasing him in just the right ways. As soon as he spotted that extra finger on her hands his heart had closed off and his body turned angry and hateful. The hate was so ingrained in him that it was instinctual.

"I should kill you" He muttered and drew his bow that he had on his back.

Alva laughed at that and he saw a flash of her black hair in the upper part of one of the shorter trees in the area. "But you won't. Eywa won't let you, me and her are friends"

A part of him bristled at the familiarity and lack of respect she used when she spoke of the goddess but he had felt it too- the odd kind of ethereal feeling that surrounded the dreamwalker and the pull he felt towards her that tried its damndest to vanquish his hate towards her. Tsu'tey was a Na'vi of duty and honor, and that honor and duty prevented him from feeling for the dreamwalker- or at least until she proved himself to the clan. Regardless he never thought he could come to care for her, too much had happened between the humans and Na'vi for him to ever forgive the demons that came to his planet and murdered it.

"Don't test me, bug. I would do Ewya a favor ridding her of your presence" He spat at her but was only rewarded with pearls of light laughter that confused him and angered him. Did the demon not take him seriously? Did she doubt his abilities to kill her with a single arrow?

Alva leaned down in front of him, like she had seen a superhero do in an age old picture she had seen in a museum, and bopped him on the nose. "Pandora is my home, my soul Na'vi, and my deity Eywa. A day may come where your arrow ends me, a day where my presence is no longer needed on Pandora and my soul returned to Eywa, but it is not that day, Tsu'tey" After saying his name she plopped down on the ground and skipped over to a suitable tree that she climbed up on. Her muscles were beginning to tire but she could go on like this for hours if she needed.

"You are not of Omaticaya. You are a demon and is not welcome among the people. Leave or I kill you"

"I don't believe you. You've had your chance to kill me for our entire conversation and yet you've barely raised your bow." Her giggle echoed around him, taunting and mocking him. She was all around him and yet nowhere at the same time. There one second, gone the next.

He hissed at her and crouched, making sure to try and keep track of where she was. "You are a pathetic human, why should I not just walk away and talk to the Olo'eyktan."

"Do it. I would never dream of standing between you and your duty." She leaned against one of the bigger trees to his left and grinned at him. "But I don't think you will. Admit it Tsu'tey, you're intrigued by me."

Tsu'tey scoffed and looked down at her from his nose, even though she technically was above him. "There is not a bone in my body that like you. The Olo'eyktan and Tsahìk will be interested to know that a tawtute has spied on them. Your kind is forbidden here."

"I know" She shot back and danced around on the branch in front of him that stretched all the way to the branch on the tree next to it. "But Jake is here so we can't be that forbidden if you're willing to break the rules." Alva didn't tell him about Jake spying on the Na'vi.

"JakeSully is exception. There was a sign from Eywa and Tsahìk said that he had to learn"

"I know. I was there" There was a knowing glint in her eye as she looked down at the Na'vi she was hoping would teach her, but that looked more and more impossible as time ticked away.

"Then you have spied on us!" He shouted and raised his bow in his direction, threatening her with it. Tsu'tey shook his head and his scowl deepend, his day had started out good with an ample supply of his favorite seeds and now this. Before this morning he would have been happy to have a conversation with Al'va but after realising her true nature he couldn't wait to either kill her or get away from her.

Alva ignored his accusation and walked behind the tree and out of his sight. "Will you teach me?"

"No"

"Why not?" She asked him, her voice louder as she moved further away from him.

He snarled and squared his shoulders. The frustration was rolling off him in waves and if she had been there he didn't know if he would have been able to keep himself from attacking her. "No. I will never teach a demon our ways" Loud hoots and cheers coming from the hometree dragged his attention from the alien and to his home.

"I'll get you to eventually. The time I need is a mere blink in my life. I am patient. I can wait, Eywa will keep me company and the forest will share its wisdom"

Tsu'tey didn't answer the dreamwalker and instead turned on his heel and walked away from her. Alva should have panicked like she did before when she saw him walk away from her without promising not to tell her secret, he had even threatened to do so, but she was sure that he wouldn't. Her gut told her he would keep her secret until it was a good time for it to be revealed. She smiled proudly, Eywa was no liar.

She jumped down on the forest floor and wandered in the opposite direction that Tsu'tey walked in. Alva wanted to explore the forest and all the secrets she could uncover in the time she had until she had to make an appearance in the village again.

Alva walked for about ten minutes before the bush to her right shook and trembled something extreme. A soft sound that was the mix of a purr and growl came from it and Alva perked up at the familiar sound, but she couldn't pinpoint where she had heard it before. Just a hint of a black tail could be seen on the side of the massive bush and when Alva snapped her eyes over to it the growling ceased and was replaced with utter silence.

Just as Alva was going to keep walking a huge black mass jumped out from the bush. It landed with a heavy thud on the ground that made the leaves and dirt around its massive paws jump and fly away. She stared at the creature with her jaw wide open and took a few steps back even though her instincts told her to stay still. The growling came back but this time it was louder and held none of the purring it previously did.