*3rd POV*

That night a group of Na'vi warriors took to the previous home of The Tree of Voices. Killing the soldiers that stood in their way, and destroyed the bulldozer. Burning it down to a crisp. The drums of war had officially been played.

Quaritch, Selfridge and other members of the main desk, control room watched on to the live feed on their screens. Lyle walked around with a crew seeing and reporting all the damage that occurred.

"I'll do it with minimal casualties to the indigenous." Quaritch explained gently to Parker as they sat in his office after that meeting.

"I'll drive them out with gas first. Then we can just scoop up the Princess, using her as a bargaining chip to keep them out and away from wherever we need to be. It'll be humane. More or less." He explained as Selfridge sighed.

"All right, let's pull the trigger." He agreed.

Trudy ran through the halls trying to find Jake and Grace. They were sitting in the science lab, Grace was drinking and Jake was sulking.

"They're gonna hate me." Jake sighed looking over Grace's book. 

"This was stupid. I was stupid! This is really how it's done. When people are sitting on shit that they want, you make them you're enemy. Then you're justified in taking it." He threw Grace's book to the ground.

"Quaritch is rolling the gunships." Trudy huffed as she came into the room. "He's gonna hit Home Tree."

"Oh my god." Grace gasped.

Parker watched out the bay window at all the helicopters that were awaiting the flight plan. He seemed nervous, almost regretful about the choice he had made. One of the security guards began shouting as Grace barged her way back in.

"Dr. Augustine! You cannot be up here!" They yelled.

"Back off." She shoved him away and approached Parker. "Parker, wait. Stop. These are people you're about to...I said back off!" She demanded as the security officer tried to grab her once more.

"No, no, no, no." Selfridge shook his head. "They're fly bitten savages that live in a tree! All right? Look around! I don't now about you, but I see a lot of trees! They can move!"

He yelled angrily as Jake approached in his wheelchair. "Can you guys just, please." He pointed to the security teams and then Grace and Jake. 

"There are families in there. There are children. Babies. Are you gonna kill children?" Grace asked him in disbelief.

"You don't want that kind of blood on your hands. Believe me." Jake assured him. "J-Just let me try to talk them out. They trust me." Jake begged.

"Calibrate fast!" Grace yelled after getting the okay from Selfridge. They walked through the link room. "We're going in, right now!"

"Calibrating three and four!" A link tech called out as the pod opened up.

"Run sequence."

"Initiating. Thirty seconds." Max told Grace.

"Listen to me." Parker hovered over Jake's body in the pod.

"You've got one hour. Unless you want your girlfriends and boyfriend in there when the axe comes down, you get them to evacuate. One hour." He demanded harshly. Jake's pod closed and his eyes shut. 

*My POV*

It had been hours without Jake and Neytiri was worried about him. Tsu'tey, Neytiri and I, with the help of some stronger men, lifted Jake and Grace's bodies up Home Tree and towards the bed areas to keep them safe. We didn't leave their sides, waiting for them to wake up.

Down below they were planning their attacks and we knew it, but there was no changing their minds. Not this time. Jake suddenly seemed to stir and Neytiri leaned over him, anxiously.

"Jake?" Neytiri, Tsu'tey and I questioned and his eyes flickered open. "Jake!" The three of us tossed ourselves into his arms and he quickly wrapped himself around us.

"Neytiri, Tsu'tey, Izzy." Jake breathed in relief. He quickly pulled away from us and looked into our eyes. His hand trailed her cheek and behind her ear.

"They're coming. We have to warn them." He said quickly and we nodded, Neytiri and Tsu'tey helping him to his feet.

Grace awoke and the five of us ran down the spiral of Home Tree.

"Mother!" Neytiri called out to her. Mo'at and Eytukan were sitting in a war circle planning our attacks. 

"Eytukan, I have something to say." Jake told them with urgency in his voice.

"Listen." Grace pleaded.

"Speak, Jakesully." Eytukan nodded, granting him permission.

"A great evil is upon us." Jake explained and I felt the pit of my stomach harden. I was right a few weeks ago. This was it. The evil time was coming. "The Sky People are coming...To destroy Home Tree."

The people around us gasped in fear, and the warriors huffed in disbelief.

"Look, tell them they're gonna be here soon." Jake begged the three of us. 

"Eytukan, please. He's telling the truth. The Sky People are coming, and they will be here soon." I explained and looked at Mo'at, having told her about my dreams. She quickly stepped up to Eytukan and looked at him.

"You have to leave, or you're gonna die." Jake pleaded.

"Are you certain of this?" Mo'at demanded. Jake paused for a moment knowing what he said next could destroy everything.

"Look, they sent me here to learn your ways so one day I could bring this message and that you would believe it." Jake explained and Neytiri, Tsu'tey and I felt our hearts clench in our chest. We stepped away from him in disbelief. 

"You knew about this?" Tsu'tey accused him angrily and heartbroken. Jake looked over at him at Neytiri and me, as I wrapped my arms around myself, trying not to panic. Why didn't he tell me...?

"You knew." I whispered and I felt the tears build up in my eyes. "You knew this would happen?" I couldn't look at him. But Jake approached us slowly, and raised his hand to mine and Neytiri's chin to gently force our eyes to meet. I looked up and I could see the sincerity behind his eyes.

"Yes." He said softly.

"You used us?" Neytiri shook her head and tried to pull away, along with me, but Jake grabbed our wrists.

"Look, at first it was just orders, a-and then everything changed. Okay?" He explained desperately. He placed his hands on mine, Tsu'tey, Neytiri's arms and looked into our eyes. I knew he meant every word, but our hearts were broken inside our chests. Anger, betrayal and distrust lingered over my feelings at the moment. His smile he tried to give her for reassurance made her stomach churn. "I fell in love. I fell in love with the forest and with the Omatikaya people. And I fell in love with you, Neytiri, Tsu'tey and Izzy."

"I trusted you." Neytiri and I felt the first of the tears fall from our eyes as we ripped from his grip.

"Neytiri, Tsu'tey and I opened our hearts to you. We gave them to you." I said.

"And I gave you all mine." Jake assured me, trying to grab my arms, that kept deselecting him away from me. 

"I trusted you!" I yelled angrily at him.

"Trust me now, please." Jake begged.

I threw him off of me. "GET AWAY!" I yelled as everyone looked at me shocked.

"You brought this upon us! What else did you tell them?! You will NEVER be of The People!" I shouted with tears. He was the reason; I was in so much pain. "The whole time you snuck off, you were meeting with that Demon?! The one who's destroying my home?!" I had tears streaming down my cheeks.

Neytiri held me close, as she was heartbroken as well. Tsu'tey stood in front of me and Neytiri was an angry, sad and betrayed look on his face. We looked at our mate....heartbroken more than anything.

"I shouldn't have broken your trust." Jake said softly.

My knees felt weak and I felt strong arms wrap around me, holding me steady. Tsu'tey took me from Neytiri as I cried into his chest. 

"We tried to stop them!" Grace said, trying to calm Neytiri and I down.

I glared at Grace, she was once my mother, but now that I knew I was Eywa's daughter, she was only a mother figure, and at the moment, I'm pissed at both her and Jake.

"Neytiri, Tsu'tey, Izzy! No, please! Please!" Jake begged as I sobbed into one of my mates chest and as Neytiri, Tsu'tey and I were angry with him, but also had sadness in us. 

"Bind them." Eytukan growled at mine, Neytiri, and Tsu'tey's heartbreak, taking us into his arms and as Ryan and Skylar charged forward and shoved Jake to the ground.

"You have to go! They're coming!" Grace begged and shouted.

"Silence!" Skylar demanded.

Mo'at, Jasiri and Stitch comforted me, Neytiri and Tsu'tey, and Eytukan raised his bow high into the air, earning war cries from the others. Jake watched from afar, his own heart breaking as Neytiri, Tsu'tey and I wouldn't even look at him. If only he could go back and changed what happened. Because he would do it in a heartbeat.

Hovering over the forests, came a fleet of hovercrafts, ships, helicopters. All things armed with heavy artillery.

"Time on target, one mike." Drago pilot said into his coms.

"Copy. We have a visual." Scorpion piloted replied.

"Roger that. Stay on heading 030." Dragon Pilot stated.

Home Tree was in their sites.

At Home Tree, the people had taken poles and strung Grace and Jake up onto them in punishment. We all turned hearing the hovercrafts.

"Eytukan!" Grace and Jake called out for him.

"Run to the forests!" Jake pleaded. "Run to the forests!"

"They're coming!" Grace yelled.

"They will destroy this place. They will destroy this place!" Jake tried to make them understand.

"Mo'at." I turned to look at her worriedly. She placed a hand on my arm as we looked at the sky's.

"Izzy, Neytiri, Tsu'tey! You must go now!" Grace yelled towards us, as we watched the skies.

A warrior yipped and pointed into the sky seeing the approaching fleet.

"Run to the forest! Run! Neytiri, Izzy, Tsu'tey, please go! Run!" Jake pleaded loudly over the sounds of the aircrafts.

Our people readied ourselves with our bow and arrows.

"Have no fear!" Tsu'tey calmed our people. "Have no fear!" Tsu'tey stayed by me, with us being mates, Neytiri near as well.

The largest of the fleet turned and pointed its nose at Home Tree. It began lowering like it was going to land and the wind from the turbines, blew harshly in our faces.

"No! God damn it, run!" Jake demanded in fear.

"Take the Ikran, attack from above!" Eytukan demanded of Tsu'tey.

Neytiri and I grabbed his arm before he could say anything, and he looked at us. "Please be careful. Please. We can't lose you..." We said fearfully.

Tsu'tey kissed us quickly. "I promise." He said to us, and we put our foreheads on each other. Then we pulled away and we nodded.

"To the Ikran! Go! Go!" Tsu'tey relayed to his warriors as they headed towards the spiral.

"That is one big damn tree." Colonel Miles Quaritch stated, looking out the windshield of the largest ship. He walked over to one of the monitors and smirked, pulling the image up clearer. Seeing Jake and Grace tied up, with knives to their throats. "Well, well, well. I'd say diplomacy has failed. All right people. Let's get this done. I want every gas around you got right in the front door."

"Roger, CS. 40's going hot. Firing."

The machine's weapons on the outside began to move and suddenly large missiles like canisters began to be released into the air. Mo'at, Neytiri, Stitch, Jasiri and I ducked as one bounced right over our heads. A gas began releasing from the container and the Omatikaya people started screaming and then coughing harshly. 

"Go, quickly, this way!" I shouted over the smoke and coughed. Attempting to lead the people out the backside of Home Tree, away from the ships.

I ran back towards the front and stepped outside looking around for Mo'at, Eytukan, and Neytiri.

"Bingo." Quaritch smirked seeing me enter the outside. "Mighty good shooting, Ace."

"Fire!" Eytukan shouted his command.

The warriors around him, alongside Neytiri began raising their bow and arrows to the sky allowing them to fly freely. The arrows bounced off the metal, doing nothing in assault to their fleet.

"Sir, they've open fire." The pilot told Quaritch. Arrow's bouncing off the chip and the windshield.

"You've got to be kidding me." He rolled his eyes. "These dumb bastards ain't getting the message. All right let's turn up the heat. Switch incendiaries!"

"Switching incendiaries." The gunman to the ship responded. "Firing."

I lifted my bow into the air and began firing alongside Neytiri and Eytukan. But even larger missiles began releasing from their machines towards Home Tree. Explosions began occurring, fire billowing out from the boot of Home Tree and I fell to my knees, screaming in pain, feeling the explosions rake through my body. 

My people screamed, weather it was in fear, or they were being blown up.

"Izzy!" Neytiri cried sensing my pain with Jake and Tsu'tey. 

"No!" Jake screamed in horror and sensing my pain.

"NO!!" Tsu'tey shouted for me as he sensed my pain, but he had orders and I didn't need him, Neytiri and Jake worrying about me.

Tsu'tey and his warriors, quickly continued climbing Home Tree's spiral as the flames ignited at the bottom.

"Get every to the forest!" Eytukan commanded. Everyone of our people began to scatter backwards and retreat as commanded.

"And that's how you scatter the roaches." Quaritch grinned seeing them all retreat.

Neytiri helped me to my feet and began leading us away. We quickly stopped and we met the eyes of Jake as he and Grace hung trapped in their spots.

"Neytiri! Izzy" Jake called out to us desperately. It stung our hearts, but we were pulled up and away. Jake watched disappointed, and yet understanding as we were led away from him. "We gotta move! He's gonna blow up the columns!" He explained to Grace and she began fighting her restraints harder. 

"My god!"

Neytiri, Stitch, Jasiri and I ran towards the people and we quickly stopped in front of Eytukan.

"Get the people away! I will stay to defend our Home!" He commanded.

"Father, no!" Neytiri shouted trying to grab his arm. "You'll die, Eytukan! Come!" I cried.

"I love you, my daughter. Izzy, daughter of Eywa my people will protect you till the end. Keep each other safe. Go! Go, now!" His soft voice hardened as he pushed us off him roughly.

Neytiri and I didn't see any other choices and began to run. The fire burning Home Tree, I could feel it in my heart. It burned and scorched, like a wound that would never heal. I wobbled as I ran, and Neytiri stuck by my side, along with Jasiri and Stitch, helping me along.

Mo'at, walked towards Jake and Grace with her dagger in hand. She approached him and placed the dagger on the side of his neck.

"Mo'at, no!" Grace cried out.

"If you are one of us, help us." She begged as tears streamed down her face. This surprised them greatly and she cut them both free.

"All call signs, switch missiles. Give me he's at the base of the west columns." Quaritch called out to his fleet. "Scorpion? Find Isabella."

"Roger that."

"This way!" Jake called out to some of the straggling Omatikaya people. Mo'at nodded and gestured for him to be trusted and they all run towards the forests.

"Rider section. Switch missiles."

"One's good."

"Two's rocks up."

"Three's up."

"Yeah, baby! Get some!" Lyle shouted happily from his post as Gunman on Trudy's side.

"Charlie Oscar, gunrunner standing by."

"Bring it down." Quaritch demanded.

"Cleared. Coming in hot."

Missiles flew through the air hitting the columns of Home Tree, creating even bigger mass explosion's. Grace and Jake fell to the ground due to one of the blasts.

"Come on, Grace. Move!" Jake told her quickly. Helping her over a fallen log. 

Neytiri, Jasiri, Stitch and I were forcibly separated as the blast took place. My body twirled in the air and landed roughly on the ground. I cried out in pain, for I ached all over. 

*3rd POV*

Tsu'tey, Jake and Neytiri froze as they felt Izzy's pain.

*My POV*

"Izzy!" The three coughed.

"Neytiri! Jasiri! Stitch!" I cried for them.

"Eye's on prime target." Scorpion relayed.

"Bring her in." Quaritch commanded.

A stray helicopter descended quickly towards the ground. A group of gunners jumped from the side of the open helicopter, with large guns in their hands. I crawled backwards on the ground and raised my bow quickly. Releasing arrows at them. One of the five fell and the other's began to fire.

I tried to get up and run, but it was no use. I screamed out as something hit my leg and side. I cried out in anger raising my bow again, trying to shoot the men, but my vision became blurry.

"Tsu'tey, Neytiri, Jake." I whimpered as my eyes closed and I fell towards the ground unconscious.

*3rd POV*

"Izzy." Tsu'tey, Neytiri and Jake gasped, feeling a tightening in their chests.

More missiles began to fly through the air. "Get down! Head down! Come on! Come on!" He called to them, sticking them behind the fallen log, as the explosions rained harder.

"Izzy!!" Neytiri, Jasiri and Stitch cried, seeing their best friends/one of their mates bodies being loaded onto the aircraft. They desperately tried to get up, but the winds from the blasts, kept pushing them back down to the ground.

"Solid hits."

"Solid rocks on target."

"The target princess has been acquired. I repeated the target has been acquired."

"Screw this." Trudy grunted hearing all the clatter. She flipped off her targeting switches and began to retreat from the line up of the fleet.

"Hey! What the hell are you doing?" Lyle asked her as the ship began to break away.

"I didn't sign up for this shit!" Trudy yelled at him. 

Piece of wood began blowing around as Home Tree finally began to crack. Eytukan fell to the ground after a blast with a groan of pain. Neytiri climbed up from the ground as the assault seemed to stop. She looked around, but the carrier with one of her mates was gone out of sight. She looked up at Home Tree, smoke filled the air in thick clouds, traveling upwards.

The columns suddenly began to shatter and break apart as if they were mere twigs. The giant Home Tree began to fall forward.

"Go, go, go!" Jake shouted, moving alongside Grace and Mo'at.

Villagers screamed at the site. Ikran's jumped towards their riders, and the ones left without them, jumped from the trees, spiraling towards the ground in means of escape. People began to run and scatter to try and desperately stay away from the falling tree.

"No, no! Get back!" Jake pulled their arms, releasing if they kept running they were going to be squashed.

Neytiri screamed out as she ran, trying to avoid the falling branches. Home Tree crashed into the ground, squashing many of the Omatikaya people underneath her great trunk. The survivors, which were now few in number began screaming in horror at their lost home, family and friends. Mo'at screamed in pain. Grace looked on in horror. Jake watched with anger that filled him.

"That's good work, people. First round's on me tonight." Quaritch complimented his crew. "Let's boogie." He told the pilot. 

Even the people at Hell's Gate base watched on in horror at the screens that showed the damage done. The fleets retreated and began home.

"Father!" Neytiri shouted as she ran through the smoke filled forest and fires trying to find him. Finding his body on the ground she began to cry as she approached him, seeing a large piece of wood through his torso. "No, Father, please wake up. You can't leave me too."

"Daughter." Eytukan groaned.

"They took her, Father. They took Izzy. I failed you. I am sorry." Neytiri cried.

"She is brave...Eywa watches over her. Take...my bow. Protect the people for us." He told his daughter weakly. The last of the words left his lips and Neytiri held the bow in her hands. Eytukan closed his eyes and his hand fell limp to the ground.

"Neytiri!" Jake called out as he ran through the forest. "Neytiri, where are you?!"

He gasped, seeing Neytiri leaning over someone's body. He coughed and ran towards her. Sadness washed over him, seeing the leader, chief of the Omaitkaya people on the ground. But there was also relief. He was glad it wasn't Tsu'tey or Izzy. Neytiri was here mourning herself and that left a pit in his stomach. He has hurt one of his mates really bad.

"Father, I'm sorry." Neytiri cried.

"I'm so sorry, Neytiri." Jake comforted one of his mates. His hand reached for her back and she quickly shot up away from him. 

"GET AWAY!" She cried. "Get away! Izzy is gone! Your people took her! This mess was your fault! I have lost everything, we lost our mate! Get away and never come back!" She shoved his chest and Jake's eyes widen at her words. Her words hurt, they were still mates...

He stood frozen in his tracks terrified for one of his mates. He didn't know where they would take or way. But he needed to save her.

"Pull the plug." Parker said gently to the soldiers that had joined him back at Hell's Gate.

"No, you can't do that!" Norm shouted.

"No!" Max yelled.

"You can't do that!" The woman link operator shouted.

"Calm down! Calm down!" A solier quickly pinned Norm.

"No, please!" He begged. Quickly Norm raised his fist and punched the soldier in the face, releasing his hold. He covered the monitor for the links, but more soldiers surrounded him, pulling him away.

The one he punched moved to the monitor and pressed the big red cancel button, shutting off the pod. Grace's body, who was traveling with the Omatikaya people, fell to the ground. They quickly gathered around her body in worry and pulled her along with them. Jake was walking around aimlessly through the forests.

"I was a warrior who dreamed he could bring peace."

They pressed the cancel button on Jake's pod and his Avatar body fell to the ground. "Sooner or later, though, you always have to wake up."

Jake's eyes opened as the link was cut off, to see soldiers standing around him shouting something at him, but he could not hear. They lifted his limp body out of the bod. Norm fought against the cuffs that held him to the railing. "Put him down!" Norm screamed.

"You murderer!" Grace screamed in their faces as she was restrained.

Neytiri walked alongside her people and her mother, Jasiri and Stitch, stopping for a moment to look back at the destruction of their home. People carried the injured and mourned their head, heading to the one place they had left. The Tree of Souls. Mo'at stopped to her daughter and grabbed her arm, gently tugging her along. Neytiri wanted her mates, feeling their pain.