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This is my first Avatar fan-fiction so give me a review and tell me what you think so far.
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The first time Tommy, Jake, and I heard about Pandora was when I was six years old and they were eight years old.
Our parents were scientists and they told us about the Na'vi and how they have green lush forests and they would never intentionally hurt their planet like we humans have.
I wasn't the only person who took this information to heart but Tommy as well.
Tommy and Jake were my overprotective older brothers. However I'm closest to Tommy because were so alike while Jake is so different.
This information planted the seed inside Tommy and I. We wanted to go to this place and see it for ourselves. We both set our sights on becoming a scientists and journey there.
We would put our allowances together to buy every book we could about Pandora and the Na'vi and studied them till we could recite them in our sleep.
It was ten years later when tragedy striked. A serious plaque spread through the city where my parents and I contracted it. Tommy and Jake were a hundred miles away during this time. Tommy was at college and Jake in the military academy. Mom and Dad passed away a few days later. I survived but at a terrible price. Due to the disease I was one of the few people who lost their sight. The doctors could fix it but it would cause a ton of money to even get the surgery which I knew we didn't have.
I lied in that empty apartment encased in a never ending darkness for over a month before the quarantine was over. My dreams of going to Pandora were over. No one would invest in me to join the Avatar program.
It was a few days later Tommy and Jake arrived.
Flashback
I awoke to the pounding noise of fists colliding on the door and two very familiar voices calling out my name and Mom and Dad's. Stumbling to my feet I slowly made my way to the door bumping into furniture here and there until I finally reached the door. I unlocked the door to let them in and the door burst open sending flat out on the floor.
"Amber!" my two brothers cried as they helped me off the floor.
I was then asked so many questions at once my head started to hurt. But then the grief I had blocked off all this time finally hit me.
I started crying.
I could tell that they understood why I was crying.
Tommy hugged me while Jake stroked my waist long black hair. They were both silently crying.
Finally the tears stopped and I collected myself and led the way to the living room… only to walk straight into the coffee table.
I clutched my knee in pain.
"Amber…" Tommy and Jake whispered.
I could tell by the sound of their voice that he had figured it out.
"Look at me Amber. Look me in the eye," Tommy said.
I looked in the direction of their voices and smiled sadly.
"I can't." I stated to them.
Later that night
I was shifting in my bed for who knows how long until I finally gave up sleeping. I slowly walked into the living room. I sat down on the sofa and turned my head toward the noise that came from the closed window.
I don't know how long I sat there when I heard a door open. I turned my head toward the noise.
"Amber…" Tommy whispered as he saw me sitting there on the sofa. I heard him walking toward me as he sat down on the sofa.
"What are you doing up?" Tommy asked me.
"Can't sleep. You?"
"Me neither."
We lapsed into an uncomfortable silence.
"What are we going to do now?" I asked him.
"I don't know. But we'll figure it out together."
"What am I supposed to do now?" I whispered my voice heavy with sadness as I remembered I could never follow my dreams now.
"What do you mean," Tommy asked me.
"I can't follow you anymore Tommy. I can't see. I'll never be able to go to Pandora with you now. Who would invest in a blind hopeless girl?"
"Don't start thinking like that!" Tommy exclaimed as he grabbed my arms and turned me towards him.
"Amber you're a genius. You graduated high school in two years. You're already so much farther than any of the other people in the program. They would be stupid not to take you. We will get through this and I promise you that I will try every single idea to get you an investor. So you make me a promise right now. Promise me you'll stop moping around and pursue your dreams without a second thought regardless of your blindness. Promise me." Tommy asked me firmly.
During his speech I could feel that same determination I had felt my entire life rush back into me.
"I promise."
End Flashback
Later that week I left that apartment with Tommy and Jake without looking back.
It got even harder from there on out.
Jake had shipped out to battle later that month leaving Tommy and I behind.
After a month of interviews and meetings with the board of directors at the college we finally made a deal. I would be accepted with a scholarship into the program only if I kept an A+ average in every class I entered in. They were cold-hearted bastards. Later that day I heard them talking among themselves as I passed them.
They were betting on how long I would last in the program. Some bet that I wouldn't even last a week. This only strengthened my resolve even more.
In a little over a year I had skipped all the way to the senior students where I finally caught up with Tommy.
I still remember the day I found out that Tommy and I were the few selected people to become an Avatar driver.
This led another two year of new studies. Tommy and I had already received our Ph. D's and I also took a few diplomacy classes on the side. But we needed more training so we would be prepared for our Avatar's. They took our DNA and set the process to create our one hundred million each Avatar's.
Then once again something bad happened once again. We received word that Jake had been injured in battle and was paralyzed from the waist down.
Jake then came to live with us once he got out of the hospital.
I wondered what he would do now. Jake's dream was to become a great military leader but now that was out of the picture. I was worried.
Tommy and I would ship out at the end of the year and if we chose to come back it would be over a fifteen year mission. What would he do during that time without us.
Then a week before Tommy and I were shipping out he was killed. I still remember that day.
Flashback
Jake and I were just about to enter our apartment building when my walking stick hit something.
"Mr. and Miss. Sully," a familiar voice came in front of me. It was one of Tommy's and I investor.
Before Jake and I knew it we were in the city morgue. I was crying silently as I stood in front of the cardboard box where Tommy's lifeless body laid inside. Jake was rubbing my arm soothingly as they sealed the box.
He was killed simply for the paper in his pocket.
"Your brother represented a significant investment. We'd like to talk to you about taking over his contract. And since your genome is identical to his, you could step into his shoes, so to speak. It'd be a fresh start on a new world. And the pay is good. Very good." One of the investors said with the least bit of sympathy as they rolled Tommy's body inside the incinerator and pressed the button. I could hear the flames attack the box that Tommy was in as he slowly burned to ashes.
Tommy was the scientist not Jake. He hadn't trained for over three years to prepare for this long journey.
"I'll do it." Jake said with confidence in his voice.
I was struck speechless. Jake had accepted their offer.
It wasn't until we got back to the apartment that I was able to talk again.
I whirled around and stood in front of Jake.
"Are you crazy Jake?" I shouted at him.
"No," Jake replied.
"Pandora is one of the most dangerous places known to mankind. I had to study for over three years to even be prepared for this. This isn't some game Jake."
"I know." Jake replied stubbornly.
"Then why are you doing this?" I asked him.
"Because I don't have any other choice."
"What do you mean no other choice!" I shouted at him.
"I know how that contract of Tommy and yours work. If I hadn't agreed then we would have been fined the amount it took to create Tommy's Avatar. And not only that. I know that Pandora is dangerous that's why I'm going. So I can look after you. There's no way I'm going to let you leave for over fifteen years on such a dangerous mission alone. Besides, our family is already torn apart to pieces. We need to stick together."
Hearing those words broke my heart more. We had really lost nearly everything we hold dear and we both were the only ones left. We had to look after each other.
Crying I reached down and hugged Jake. He wrapped his strong arms around me and stroked my hair just as he always did when I was crying.
"You're right. We need to stick together. I don't think I could last fifteen years by myself. So let's go together." I told him.
"Yes. Let's." I could hear the smile in his voice which caused me to laugh.
The Next Day
Jake and I exited the conference room where we had finally signed the last pieces of paper that secured our positions in the Avatar program.
Jake tried to lead me toward the exit but I stopped him.
"No. Follow me. I want to show you something." I told him as I walked down the hallway with him behind me.
We reached a secure door when a panel slipped out. I put my hand on the pad as it scanned my fingerprints then put my face where the iris scanner was then said my name into the voice identification microphone.
The door finally slid open and we walked into the room.
"Sheesh what is this place." Jake asked me.
I turned to him and smiled and I turned on the lights.
I could hear Jake's sudden intake of breath.
"Is that…" Jake asked me.
"Yes this is our Avatar's." I replied to him.
I walked to the tank on the left and rested my hand on it. I heard Jake wheel himself right beside me.
"This is your Avatar now Jake." I told him.
"It's a little small." Jake told me uncertainty in his voice.
"Of course it's small. It's not fully mature yet. They fully mature on the trip over to Pandora."
The Avatar was physically a twelve year old kid.
I walked toward the other door and opened it gesturing for him to follow me. I turned on the light and walked toward the tank in the middle of the room with Jake following me.
"This is my Avatar." I told him.
"It looks like you when you were just a kid." Jake told me.
"I know." I replied.
Five days later
Jake and I finally boarded the shuttle which would take us to Pandora. We were directed to our beds that would be ours for six years as we traveled through space asleep.
The doctor finished strapping Jake and I in. I turned my head toward him.
"See you when I wake up Jake." I told him as the doctor started the IV drip that quickly made me sleepy.
I was almost out when I heard him say.
"See you soon." Jake told me as the bed slided into the compartment.
I smiled then closed my eyes finally giving into the sleep that overcame me.
And I dreamt of an endless jungle as I flew above it filled with the feeling of joy.
First chapter finished.
Tell me what you think of it so far.
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