"Eywa needs all of us"
- Life in danger, attack by a strange Ikran -
(Chapter 1)
Today the day was hot, the forest looked beautiful but in the atmosphere she felt something strange, didn't know, maybe it's because Vanessa was hunting and she was very hot. Then she decided to go to bathe in the lake. She left her bow on the bank and she got into the water. In the transparent blue water swam a fish with orange and turquoise stripes. On the surface of the water, she saw herself like in a mirror. She sat on the bank while the sun warmed her back. She closed her eyes and relaxed, listening to the sound of a waterfall and the singing of birds. She was so relaxed that she fell asleep. Suddenly she heard some strange noises in the distance which suddenly stopped, so she settled down and closed her eyes enjoying the beautiful sounds of the fauna of Pandora.
About twenty minutes later she heard the noises again, but this time they were stronger and she jumped out of the water to get her bow, suddenly, from out of nowhere, a strange brown colored ikran came straight to attack her. She had never seen an angry ikran trying to attack a Na'vi. She said him
" Mawey, ka'oe eko." (Quiet, don't attack me).
Before her she realized that the ikran wasn't slowing down, and seemed even more willing to attack her. She screamed, not knowing if anyone could hear her:
"Srung, srung kin oe!" (Help, I need help!).
The ikran knocked her to the ground and seemed about ready to devour her, but the ikran was distracted by a bird. Vanessa grabbed some dirt and threw it into the ikran's eyes. His eyes stung and he roared. She escaped from his clutches but he quickly realized that she had escaped, running, and even though his eyes were stinging him, he followed, trying to kill her. She screamed desperately:
" Rutxe, eywa, srung oe! Srung oe!" (Eywa, please, help me! Help me!).
Suddenly, the ikran was killed by a Na'vi arrow. Stunned Vanessa fell to the ground. She had never seen such a precise and clean arrow shot. The Na'vi wasn't from her clan. She had never seen that kind of bow or clothing, besides, his eyes were turquoise green. She said him:
"Irayo, tsmukan. Nga siltsan hu tsko. Oe syaw Vanessa sì oe ta Omaticaya olo'." (Thanks brother. You're good with the bow. My name is Vanessa and I'm from the Omaticaya clan).
With a nod, the Na'vi answered her:
"Ke tsa'u. Oe syaw Atan'eko sì oe ta Lio'na olo'. Set oe zene kä oe. Kìyevame." (You're welcome. My name is Atan'eko and I'm from the Lio'na clan. Now I must go. See you soon).
After Atan'eko left she sat thinking:
Clan Lio'na ... somewhere I've heard of this clan, but where? Lately very strange things are happening that I should understand. Atan'eko, that name is familiar to me, but not that Na'vi tute (person), and that strange brown-colored ikran. I never saw one like that before.
Surely Änsìt, Jake, Neytiri or the tsahik Sira's'ka could solve all these doubts. Sira's'ka was the first tsahik of Pandora, according to Neytiri, when they met a year ago, but how could Vanessa find her ?