Ocean Eyes. N.Sully

━ ◦ Chapter One ◦━

On the beautiful island, Awa'atlu, many of the Metkayina people were off doing their own thing. Gone swimming in the clear blue ocean water or gone out hunting to feed their families. Some were even training to be a mighty warrior and the children were learning about the ocean and its ways. But there was one particular girl who was down in the depths of the ocean. She was meant to attend to her spear training duty with her father, but she wanted to take a break and explore the ocean once again. Her name was Te'fiti. Eldest child of the Tsahik and Olo'eyktan of the Metkayina clan. She is a free spirit, runs away from her duties when she can of becoming a future leader. Te'fiti would love to swim around in the water freely, looking at all of the different creatures, admiring them. She would also collect shells when she could. While she was in the water she looked around and see her ilu, Matariki, swimming around her figure gracefully. Te'fiti smiled sweetly when her ilu swam closer to her and nuzzled the side of its head into her cheek. She loved how peaceful it was at this very moment.

Yet the quiet and peacefulness soon vanished when she heard the loud calling of a horn. She knows that horn as well, it being the sound of alerting the others that there are new people arriving. Te'fiti's ears twitched slightly as she looked at her ilu, rubbing its face gently with her wide hands before swimming behind it. Grabbing her queue and connected it with the ilu. Now having the beautiful sea creature swim back home on her command.

Te'fiti was able to arrive and rise above the water with her ilu. She sees how her people were gathering around someone, but when she was able to peak through the small cracks that put a distance between the people, she saw that it wasn't just someone. It was a whole family. The forest people. Te'fiti was getting a closer look on her ilu slowly, until her little sister rose up besides her on her own ilu. Te'fiti turned her head.

"Tsireya, what is going on?" Te'fiti asks in pure curiosity. Her little sister that was named 'Tsireya' only stared back at Te'fiti. "It is the forest people. They have come to us. I do not know the reason, but we should find out!" Tsireya exclaimed as she slips off of her ilu to go under the water again. Te'fiti eyes widens a bit as she was skeptical about all of this.

"Tsireya! We mustn't!- Ugh..!" The young girl groaned, also slipping off of her ilu to dive under the water.

Tsireya was the first to rise up from under the water again, now standing and walking on the shallow water. Her wet hair slightly got in her way of her other eye so she gently pulled the wet strand of hair away and behind her shoulder. Te'fiti following the same actions as well, rising above water to get onto the shore and swaying her wet strands of her out of her face and behind her back. It would be a lie if someone would say the two sisters did not look beautiful by the way they walked. Te'fiti eyes slowly traveled to where the whole center of attention was, which is where the whole family was standing. People from the forest. And she also saw how a certain boy from the family was staring directly at her younger sister. Which made Te'fiti smile lightly when she looked back at Tsireya.

"Seems like you have an admirer from the forest." The elder sibling teased lights, having Tsireya giggle softly under her breath as a response. "I am not the only one who gained a certain someone's attention, look sister." Te'fiti gave her younger sibling a confused glance before her ocean blue eyes looked into vibrant yellow eyes. She felt her heart skip a beat slightly as she continues to stare, still walking with Tsireya towards the crowd and her other sibling.