Author Note: Hey guys this is my first fanfic so yeah…. I hold no rights to Avatar the movie or any of the characters 12/27/10 OK so I'm revising and gonna start updating again! PLS REVIEW
Chapter One: the new world of Pandora
The words Josefina heard whispered kindly into her ear while laying inside the cryo pod. A strong hand gently started tracing a line down her cheek to brush her lips.
"Don't worry, in six years we will see each other again and on the new world, Pandora."
Josefina nodded as she rested her head on the pillow, the straps on her sides were tightened to help steady her while in cryo during the journey. The man from just a second before who had whispered into Josefina's ear raised his hand to stop the technician.
" Not to tight remember she bruises very easily…" He instructed the cryo technician.
" Don't worry so much Kris…go to your own pod and sleep well like you said your self we will see each other in just six years...irayo,ngahu.(( Thank you, Good bye))" The man she called Kris just flashed a smile, he nodded and waved his farewell.
" See ya soon Josefina" Kris called out; closing her eyes, she let her self go into the deep coma like slumber that would have a firm grip on her for six years.
Six years later…
Josefina cracked open her eyes, she herd the loud voice from right above calling to her to wake up. She was waking an hour before everyone else, only she in the crew members who were driving the ISV Venture Stare were awake. A new voice that was familiar called out to her half-asleep state; a soft tapping on her cheek made her wake up.
"Josefina are you with us?" Kris called out as loud as he could with out being to rude.
She nodded her head softly , feeling as if she was the lightest thing ever. "Kris…are we there yet?"
A soft rumbling laughter echoed through the quite room full of pods. Josefina started to unstrap herself from the cryo bed. She gulped, wincing slightly her dry throat hurting as she started to crave a cold glass of water to soothe it.
An hour later, Josefina was in a small shuttle that would take them to hell's gate with Kris next to her holding both of their bags. Josefina had not realized how tiring it would be to make the last leg of the trip to Pandora. Ahead of them a solider called out that it was time to put their bio masks on at last.
Which converted the surrounding atmosphere to be non-lethal to her and the humans alike around her. Kris was not a true solider, but he was strong and had taken many titles on earth on self-defense and martial arts even had a little military training. Kris had made the cut in many ways to help protect one woman, Josefina, who was also his long time friend from harms way. Josefina was supposed to be the next protegee to help Grace (Dr. Augustine) with her work and as well as be an Avatar Driver.
Slipping his bio mask on, Kris pulled on Josefina's bag on his left shoulder and his own on his right. The gate of the shuttle slowly lowered onto the new land the air of Pandora rushing over them. Many people ran forward one young man lingered, but not with out yells to keep moving from the solider that was trying to get them off the shuttle. Josefina slowly stood and stretched her arms wincing as she gripped her shoulder. Why did she have to be so frail that she could barley do a thing herself without bruising or breaking a bone. Josefina cursed at herself under her breath raising her own head to look out and admire the light and as to say an almost untouched land. Josefina's soft gaze fell to rest upon the man who was oddly jogging in place and seemed to be waiting for them, but looked at if he would loose his footing at any moment and fall flat on his face.
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"Hey, you must be Miss Josefina Thomas, My name is Norm Spellman….I never saw you in the Avatar training but your supposed to be amazing…and to have trained under Dr. Augustine her self or from her direct link here obvious." Norm reached a hand out to help her off the ramp, but was stopped by Kris's firm hand on top of Norm's smaller slender hand while Kris pushed forward to keep walking forward.
"She will bruise…don't touch her Norm Spellman…My name is Kris Anderson her as to say body guard" Kris's cold eyes meeting Norm's surprised ones meanwhile Josefina sighed auditably.
"oe pawm Norm, srung fyaw`ıntxu oeng (( I ask Norm, help guide us too))" A soft smile coming across Josefina's lips , the words just flowed out of her mouth as if she spoke it every day of her life.
A lop sided smile came across Norm's face, he thought that she would be a lot of fun in the near future but her friend wasn't the greatest person…Kris if recalled the name right. Kris was someone to watch out for, mental note taken and filled away in Norm's thoughts. Norm watched as some of the marines pulled in the two figures aside to pull them in a new direction it seemed.
Kris looking livid when Josefina whimpered from being pushed to hard from behind. The marine blinked in surprise and held his hands up while Josefina glared at them over her shoulder even if Kris's glare alone was more then enough. Kris and Josefina had been taken from the group as special guests for Grace and shown down a different hall. It had taken a couple minutes of showing paper work and some cursing but Kris managed to get away from the soldiers that were holding him up and caught up to Josefina while they waited in a room.
One person on the way to the small room had mentioned they could take off there mask's Josefina faintly remembered while she pressed the release button on the end of the mask as it let go of her face. The red line faint and vanishing as Kris grumbled the door should be opening in a couple of minutes to reveal someone Josefina could not wait to see...
An older looking woman walked in a cigarette in hand, she wore her lab coat a faint smile coming over Josefina's face "Grace. It's been to long…."
The woman before her smiling, placing the cigarette in her mouth. Dr. Augustine opened her arms and received a hug and gently returned the embrace as she said" So Josefina how are you? Have they narrowed down your illness?" Grace's concern was a real one, she had known Josefina since she was little and they stayed in contact her whole life and always wanted to be part of this Avatar Program. Grace also knew that Josefina was always ill and was as frail as the oldest person she knew and it was a mystery to her and other well-known doctors on earth as well.
"Like I said right before you left Josefina, because of your health problems and the risk of something happening and people not knowing… You have your own two link chambers in your room, you don't have to leave it if you don't want too but in return. We want a lot from you and …him"
Grace's noise wrinkling, Grace turned her head and looked Kris up and down. Josefina giggles could be herd, she was always well knowing of Grace's dislike for the men and woman who were as she had once said' thought only with there guns and what was inside their pants'.
Grace waved at Kris "Your Kris Anderson am I not correct, you were hired on because you applied for the job to be Miss Josefina's body guard and was accepted for your martial arts and even some military training…"
Kris nodded his head as he said" I have and I won't let anything happen to her you have m…"
Grace cut him off with her smart remark about how he better and hugged Josefina's thin frame and exited the room leaving a room key in Josefina's hand.
Walking to there room was difficult, Josefina sighed softly under her breath, none of the people realized who she was or how easily she could be bruised or anything on that matter. Kris was once more stopped by some lab techs wondering why he was carrying two packs on each shoulder and why they could not see his badge. Josefina continued forward knowing Kris would catch up some time soon, but the one thing she wasn't counting on was complete rudeness of the marines running past. Not a warning word or anything was said as Josefina was thrown out of the way as her knees caved under her.
She was bracing her self for the hard impact Josefina had learned very quickly through the years that it was better not to try to stop herself in fearing of breaking another bone like so many times before. Instead of the hard impact Josefina felt two hands, one grabbing her shoulder the other gently holding the back of her head as support wincing and biting lower her lip she looked at the man who had caught her. The pain from his grip on her shoulder was starting to over whelm Josefina, she knew though she would have a bruise to show for what could have happened. She would also be in a lot more pain and Josefina was very thankful for his aid.
"Thanks…" she looked up but was surprised to come face to face with the man that had helped her with such a hard expression but at the same time seemed to be trying to break a smile.
"Careful there…I'm Jake Sully…" the man slowly said his voice deep but held a gentle edge. Josefina nodded quickly while moving her legs, standing up slowly; she touched his hand that had a firm grip on her shoulder to let him know he could release his grip
"I'm Josefina Thomas, I'm an Avatar Driver, you are Tom Sully's brother, sorry about to hear about his death… Its good to see you though," Josefina wouldn't stare she told her self, a man in a wheel chair , at least she knew now she wasn't the only one with a disability to say the least, though she could tell Jake wouldn't let it bother him.
Jake nodded his head as Kris came running down the hall , Kris stopped and took in the scene then taking notice that Josefina was holding her shoulder he said, "What happened…Josefina?"
A slight edge to Kris's voice made Jake raise a brow, Josefina shrugged. "Just some rude people that shoved me aside, but Jake Sully here was kind enough to catch me."
Jake nodded as Kris nodded his head back in response while he said "Come on Josefina lets go to the room and look at your shoulder, it looks like its already bruising" Kris touched her shoulder lightly trying to push her to walk but failed as he watched Josefina open her mouth.
Responding tartly to Kris " Could have been much worse..but no don't thank the man that helped me...of course not." Josefina turned and started walked away from Jake even so and waved.
"Bye Jake, I hope we can meet again," Josefina said softly while she and Kris left Jake in the hall, she herd a voice calling after Jake but kept on walking.
Soon coming to a hall off the main one and some rooms down it as she looked at the key. "Room 138468... There," she pointed to the far right a door with one key panel and a spot were they could slid their card, so she did, amazing a high tech facility and still used cards to open the rooms...to old school she thought.
Letting Kris open the door and slid inside to clear the room before he called out, "Come on,"
Soon after they had adjusted to the room and cleaned them selves up they both said their good nights and slept the night away in their own new beds.
The next morning after Josefina cleaned up once more, she felt great, hair still a little damp and sticking to her shoulders, neck and cheek. Josefina walked out in a robe from the restroom, under it, she wore a tank top and some shorts. With out her shoes she was only a little less than five feet she was rather short to say the least.
Kris knew Josefina almost inside and out, since he had spent most of his whole life with her since early childhood since there parents were friends. Kris had grown up with Josefina and now here they were in a new world together and Kris had his plans and one was trying to make her realize his feelings for her the other to keep her safe at all costs.
"Kris, you OK?" Josefina stared at him from across the room as Kris's gaze was looking off into nothing, gently placing her hand against his cheek.
Coming back from his trance Kris just nodded, "You think it's about time to link, they should have our Avatar's up and going by now or they should just be finishing that guy Norm, right? And Jake."
Josefina nodded and looked at the clock and said, "Lets go, we still have some daylight." Josefina pulled her hair back and put it up in a high ponytail. Kris nodded, he had changed from his dirty clothes, taken a shower and ruffled his dark brown hair, wearing just a simple t-shirt and some sweat pants. She looked to the side as she pressed a button on the wall a screen lighting up as it read 'waiting to connect' a seconded later she saw a familiar face
" Max! How are you?" Josefina smiled while she waved to the doctor who was waving back.
"I have been alright, but you. You look…your shoulder what happened, is that boy roughing you up?" Max laughed as Josefina giggled.
"Of course not you know we aren't like that, all kinky…come on Max," Josefina waved him off faking an sly expression.
" I… well its just my shoulder not to worry, lets go come on, When can we link? Has Jake and Norm finished?" Josefina Quickly added when she got a puzzled expression from Max.
Max shook his head a hand ruffling his curly hair as he said, "Jake…Jake is going to be a handful, just up and ran out of here… You and Kris are going to be hard to manage to you know, Dr. Augustine had a lot of input, pictures and had you and your DNA specially designed. While she just let us handle Kris's Avatar and his DNA." Josefina nodded again as she shed her robe, held it out to Kris, he took it and hung it up waiting to here what Max said and smirked while he listened to the conversation.
Kris called out from behind his shoulder, "You know we will be! I mean look how frail she is now, but when she is in her new body just wait…."
Max laughed a deep rumbling laugh while he said "Give me five minutes, no more or less then y'all can go ahead and connect see ya soon!"
The screen went blank as she turned on her heel and said "Lets get ready!" She was thrilled that she was finally able to go ahead and become a Na'Vi. It was true it was a dream to be able to walk among them, or to walk with out worrying about pain from any movement other then a gentle one.
Kris was more then ready; maybe he would have a little more freedom then watching over Josefina like a hawk since she would be a lot stronger and healthier. Kris got a quick drink of water, he watched Josefina hum softly and move about the room dimming the lights locking the door. Opening the link chamber as she started to tap the screen setting the new settings and waved Kris over and did the same to his.
Josefina knew she was getting the special treatment and that it had cost her dearest friend Grace an arm and leg, who was almost like a mother to her. Josefina knew she would always support Grace rather then the RDA if anything started separating the two. Josefina tried to push the thoughts from her mind and cleared her mind rather quickly getting ready for the link. Josefina climbed into the chamber and pulled the cover over and waited , she had set a timer to link her and Kris…Kris how was he doing she thought? Josefina never questioned his desire to help her, but coming to a new world, giving up his life? The one Kris knew to follow her, Josefina's dream, her own selfish dream.
Climbing into his own link chamber was fine, the lingering fear Kris felt for transferring to his own Avatar body was new, but intriguing. Kris closed his eyes and breathed in and he knew in just a few seconds, Kris would open his new eyes to his new body. Kris saw the flash of many colors, the feeling of being free dawned on him as he slipped into his Avatar body.
Josefina did the same, she saw the flash of color and felt the feeling of being pulling towards her new body, a body that was free from this illness that was left undiagnosed yet.
Josefina felt new hands, voices, opening her new golden yellow eyes slowly to the new sensation of being in her Avatar.
