xxviii. the dawn of war, part one
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( tw | death/murder )

WAR was really here now.

The Na'vi people who were situated on their Ikran were flying done from the sky and towards the many planes. The Ikran latched on and many of the warriors used their bows to shot arrows at the glass.

The people flying the planes were attacked. Many of the gunners and pilots were struck with arrows that ended their lives. It sent their planes down towards the ground in a spiral.

Many arrows shot by the people were lodged between the engine fans. It caused them to explode and go up in flames, sending even more planes spiralling towards the ground below.

Odessa bared her teeth and told her Ikran to fly down towards one of the skips. She looked over her shoulder, watching as Toruk and Jake grabbed the tail of a helicopter and began to swing it around, making it lose control and fly into the side of one of the floating mountains and explode.

She sat up on Tessano, raising her bow and shooting an arrow straight into the glass windshield of a aircraft, taking out the pilot and making the aircraft begin to spin towards the ground.

Odessa let out a warrior cry and so did many of the people behind her. Many Ikran's were landing all over the hovering aircrafts, making them lose control and destroying themselves fairly quickly.

The formation of the aircrafts began to break apart and flying after their one target. A smaller aircraft followed  behind Odessa, attempting to shoot at her and her Ikran. Bullets that rained down were nearing her and her Ikran with ever second passing. She swerved, missing bullets that were heading straight towards her. Odessa let out a yip and looked over her shoulder, teasing whoever was chasing after her.

Jake who guided Toruk grabbed another aircraft, the one that had been flying right behind Odessa. He swung it around, tossing it into another aircraft, making the two explode as they collided.

Jake, who was beyond ready to give everything to the people, let out a yell and lifted his gun and began to shoot at another aircraft, taking out the pilot through the glass.

Tessano who held Odessa flew around one of the larger aircrafts well Odessa lifted her bow and aimed at the people who were situated behind the large guns at the opening of the aircraft. She screamed, and let an arrow fly, quickly reloading and letting another arrow fly through the wind. Both arrows went right into the chests of two of the gunners.

Large missiles shot from some of the aircraft's started to soar through the sky and blowing up near the Ikran and the riders — the explosion causing them to be thrown against one of the many floating mountains and causing severe injuries and death.

Odessa watched with wide and tearful eyes as the young man, a brother, who had given her a bow of her own, was thrown into a floating mountain and died. Her heart ached at the sight. "Your spirit goes with Eywa."

Odessa couldn't stop now. If she stopped to mourn the loss of those who died a warriors death, than she too would die along with the people she loved. Seeing some of the aircraft's dive downward and began to shoot missiles towards the warriors on the ground, explosions left and right that rang through her ears, she knew that the ground warriors would have to retreat soon.

"Jake! Odessa! You two copy?" Norm called out through his com, his voice coming through on the ear piece Odessa had. "We're falling back! We're getting hammered!"

"Copy. Get out of there!" Odessa replied, looking down at the fire that spread along the ground.

Odessa looked away from the sight, knowing that the longer she looked at it, the more her heart would ache for Pandora. As she looked up, she saw the largest ship flying around the corner. In her ears, she heard a large roar, which was most definitely from Toruk who held Jake.

Odessa moved, allowing Jake to hover in the air beside her. The two glanced at each other — knowing that the person inside that ship was Quaritch, the person who wanted to kill them the most — and then they both nodded. One headed to the left, and the other headed towards the right.

Quaritch had no choice but to choose the bigger target, Jake and Toruk, and follow after them. That only gave Odessa the chance to come up behind him and attack his aircraft.

And it only did that give Odessa the chance to attack his aircraft, it gave Trudy the chance too.

Trudy, who sat behind the steering system of her own bluely painted helicopter, fired bullets into the aircraft that Quaritch was standing in with a very unhappy face.

The very badass pilot, Trudy, waited a moment and then quickly swerved her helicopter to the side, avoiding the bullets and missiles that began to fly towards her. She chose to use some of the floating mountains as cover, she would move back and forth, side to side, firing her own bullets when she had a clear shot.

Heavy missiles and bullets began firing towards Trudy and she avoided most of them. The bullets began to hit her windshield, cracking it and letting in the air she couldn't breathe. She hurried to put her oxygen mask on and attempted to switch her controls, and as she did so, a missile hit the tail of her helicopter and she began to spiral down like the other enemy aircrafts had done before her.

Odessa watched as the woman she had once had a pillow fight with only weeks ago headed towards the ground. If she went any closer, she would most definitely die. "Your spirit goes with Eywa."

Someone, an unknown sky person who stood in the trees with a gun, raised his said gun towards Neytiri and her Ikran as they swerved through the forest. A bullet lodged itself in the stomach of Neytiris Ikran, letting out a screech in pain, that through the bond made Neytiri cry out too. She wrapped her arms around the neck of her Ikran as they fell to the forest floor. Neytiri screamed out again as she was flung from her Ikrans body, rolling along the dirt.

"Seyzey!" More gunfire rained, and Neytiri was forced to hide behind trees as she attempted to make it back to where her Ikran was.

Odessa could feel everything her mate was feeling in that moment. The rush of her heartbeat, the pain that ached in her body, everything. She knew something was wrong, so moving from the sky, she began to dive downwards.

Trudys ship exploded, Norm was shot in the shoulder by one of the sky people, many of the warriors on the ground were blown up or burnt by the missiles.   The RDA really knew how to cause pain.