of roar; she always did it when she wanted to call the pride in for a meeting. Her throat vibrated as the pitch of her sound varied. She raised her front legs high in the air and threw them down harshly onto a hollow log as a loud boom signalled through the meadow. The chatter died down and all attention turned to Eywah. She smiled with an accomplished look on her face.
“Morning Na’vi, as you all know we have had a massive number of cubs born in the pride this year, which is great! The population has sky rocketed and I’m so proud to have the privilege of being your queen through this wonderful era.” Eywah said nobly.
“And I am even prouder to announce that we have two more lions joining our pride thanks to princess Neytiri for finding them.” The pride went crazy shouting and screaming at the mention of Neytiri’s name. She blushed.
“Neera, Neytiri, Jake… please step forward.” Eywah grinned. And as Neytiri came into view for the other lions they went even wilder. Neytiri nodded in recognition to them and then glanced over at her mother to continue.
“Neera and Jake, letting you into the pride may have seemed as easy as anything, but it isn’t.” Eywah went on.
“Neera as you are already a mother and have struggled to find a pride, we only expect you to teach a few classes for younger cubs. But Jake as for you, you are a growing teen and also a male we could use for hunting and providing, we will assign someone who will be your mentor and teach you everything there is to know about our pride, and will help you gain the skills you must acquire to gain the respect in the Na’vi.” Eywah explained.
“I will be Neera’s mentor and I will teach her the requirements and after a long think, I have decided that my own daughter Neytiri is going to teach Jake herself.” Neytiri’s smile faded.
“What!? No fair! I have training of my own,” she cried, but Eywah shook her head.
“Neytiri do not argue Jake’s training will begin immediately. My decision is final.” And with that she strutted away. Neytiri heard chuckles from the crowd and she knew exactly who was laughing at her. The pride all went back to doing their own thing, Neera followed Eywah into the cave and Jake intently followed Neytiri for her next orders.

She ran down the hill only to be greeted by the twins again.
“So you’re stuck with him!” Amku laughed as Jake struggled to keep up. Kuma giggled at his brother’s joke.
“Ha-ha you’re so weak! You don’t belong in this pride like we do.” Kuma cried, they were laughing there heads off.
“Guys it isn’t funny!” Neytiri scowled. She nudged them both to cut it out.
“I bet I could do any challenge you guys could do!” Jake said back.
“They aren’t worth it Jake, lets go.” Neytiri sighed walking away, just as Jake was about to follow he was pulled back by Amku.
“Neytiri’s ours Jake… so back off,” Kuma threatened him.
“Oh I get it now; it’s the girl you like!” Jake grinned. Amku gave him a warning look. “Well mate, I hate to break it to you… but she is already mine.” And with that Jake walked off. He ran to catch up with Neytiri.

“Are you alright?” Neytiri asked when they had reached the bushes at the far end of the field.
“Me? I’m fine… I can kick their buts any day,” Jake laughed. Neytiri grinned at him, for the first time ever; he had actually made her smile. She kind of liked Jake, in a friend sort of way. But there was no way she would admit it.
“Ok, so if you want to work with me there are a few rules you need to obey,” She said, he nodded.
“Shoot.”
“ok well, firstly, you must never bring outsiders to our pride, you cannot go outside the territory without my or my mothers permission, unless of course you’re a hunter then you need to leave the area but you wont be becoming one of those any time soon. Don’t bother the elders too much as they hate annoying teens. There will be a number of lessons I will give you in a day, you must attend all. And last but not least… listen to me at all times.” Neytiri explained, Jake’s mouth dropped open,
“what?” Neytiri asked.
“Well I guess you’re not the carefree kind of lion… oh well.” He joked.
“Are you making fun of my rules?” Neytiri asked.
“No there is just a lot that’s all,” he said. The tension in the air suddenly became awkward.

“Lots or not, you are completing these tasks.” Neytiri walked over to a big boulder covered in green mould, she jumped onto it and sat down, crossing her front paws.
“See that doe out there… go catch it.” She said. He looked at her then the doe then back at her.
“That doe, it’s heaps far away.” Jake said confused.
“Exactly go get it, unless you’re afraid you can’t.” Neytiri exclaimed.
“No way, I can so catch that! You just watch!” Jake said defensively, he jumped to his feet and crouched low in the grass. She could see the muscle tensing in his legs and body. His ears bent slowly down and his big brown eyes, looked so determined at the doe in front of him. He crept closer and closer to the edge of the trees and as he emerged into the open plains his body jerked. He ran with all his might, they does ears pricked up and it looked at him startled before running to the side. Jake tripped on a rock and fell face first into the dust. Neytiri couldn’t help but laugh at him. She trotted over to him, and helped him to his feet.
“You want to last in this pride; you have to do better than that.” She smiled.
“I did better than you would do!” Jake cried Neytiri looked at him with a cocky look on her face. And with that she pelted across the ground after the doe. Her legs over lapping each other because she was going so fast, Jake gasped. He had never seen a female run like she did. She caught the small deer and pounced. Her long front legs reached out and she tackled the doe with great force. Its legs buckled and it fell face first into the dust. Jake caught up and he watched her with confusion as Neytiri whispered to the injured animal.
“Im sorry baby, may you rest in piece.” And with that she sunk her teeth into its neck and the deer went limp.
“Now that’s how you kill a doe, now bring it back to the pride.” Neytiri smiled triumphantly. She knew she was showing off but she couldn’t help but try and impress Jake, she felt that she needed to prove herself in front of him.

They were almost back to the pride and had been chatting non stop for a while until Jake finally asked,
“if you don’t like killing things then why am I dragging a dead deer back to the forest that you killed yourself,” Jake asked,
“we got to eat don’t we?” Neytiri grinned pushing him playfully; he tried to push her back and missed because she ran off ahead of him.
“Hey! You come back here!” he cried sprinting after her. She dodged him and jumped over a dead log in her path, laughing she quickly jumped through the bushes into the meadow. He followed and tackled her, they rolled down the hill and she came out on top, pinning him.
“Ha-ha best you got?” she giggled. They looked into each others eyes for a moment, “Neytiri, we are all waiting for you. Hurry up!” Amku wandered over, frustrated.
“Oh sorry Amku, im coming.” Neytiri replied, she jumped off Jake awkwardly and ran off to where the pride was.
“Remember Jake, she is ours! I see what your doing, trying to get her to love you with all your little flirting! Neytiri is mature and she isn’t going to fall for that crap!” Amku snarled and walked away.

The pride gathered around a big patch of just dirt and no grass, it was piled with about six dead animals waiting to be eaten. The atmosphere was alive with all the talking and laughter.
“Listen up everybody, the feast will begin in a moment, but I just want you all to know just to take only what you need and let the cubs pick first. But of course you are all taught well enough to do that anyway. Let the eating begin!” Eywah smiled at everyone and suddenly all these cubs were running in to get first pick of the food.
“Do you do this every night?” Jake asked watching the cubs happily play fighting over the food.
“No, only ever two weeks, its kind of something my grandmother came up with to keep the pride a happy family.” Neytiri grinned as two cubs stumbled past her and bumped into her. They immediately turned around,
“sorry Neytiri…” they said in unison.
“It’s alright guys, just be careful next time,” she said happily. Lena, the darker cub’s mother walked over,
“Kobee why don’t you ask Neytiri what you were telling me about before?” She nuzzled him softly, Kobee stepped forward,
“excuse me Neytiri, would you be able to train me now before it gets too dark?” He asked her politely. Neytiri looked at Jake hesitantly,
“I’m not hungry anyway, lets go,” Jake grinned and the three snuck off to the far corner of the bushes, they squeezed through and entered a small gap where a bush had died off.
“Ok Kobee, this is Jake, maybe you can teach him a few tricks of your own.” Neytiri said smiling at Kobee.
“Ok! Hi Jake! So here I can teach you how to tackle your prey from behind… and… and, how to run REALLY fast but