My first Avatar Fanfic, and, well, my first Fanfic ever. Enjoy! It gets better in later chapters, I promise.
Oh, and by the way, Avater belongs to James Cameroon, not me. Cheerio then. :)
"And that should do it." Ahrim said, brushing the blue and gold paint off of his hands and onto his pants.
"Ohhhkayyy," I said enthusiastically. "This is it right?" I asked, pointing to the strange, but oddly fluent glyphs on the wall.
He admired his handy work. "You betcha'. This is a full gateway to Pandora." He sighed admiringly. "I wonder what it'll be like."
I let him ponder silently as I looked on. What could this strange port-way send me to? Pandora seemed to be what my classmates dreams were made of. With a planet rich in minerals, filled with exotic plant life, and to top it off, intelligent life. The Na'vi.
Classes at school made them sound like brutal, violent, vicious beings. A small course on their anatomy revealed that, well, they weren't all too different from us. Albeit, their skeleton seemed much more feline-like, carbon-fiber bones with muscles to match, and a braid or a queue (extension of the nervous system) at the back of their head. There were other differences too like blue skin and the thing about being ten feet tall.
Well anyway, days passed, and I met Ahrim. Slight, with glasses and kind of dorky, Ahrim was not the most popular, but he shared my passion for learning about the humanoid species. We became what I'd like to call 'friendly allies' but we were buddies all the same. Then Ahrim explained a way to get to Pandora under the radar.
Witchcraft had long since been destroyed and removed from society, and at first, that's what I thought he was talking about. But he then explained that it was unexplored science, like alchemy. And he proved it to me too, when he turned a knife into solid gold. I haven't doubted him since.
Somewhere along the line, he tried to explain how to create a portal that acted like a door. I couldn't understand any of it. Something about strands of light weaving a bridge though space. It didn't matter to him though. I'd go through first, look around, then come back and bring him. We had suitable weaponry. Well, it was more like a shotgun and a samurai sword. But we figured it would be enough. After all, if we found something big and bad, we could just zip back here, make a small adjustment to the glyphs, and end up on the other side of the planet.
"Jarred, you set?" Ahrim asked, busying around the room.
I shrugged, lifting the sword and slinging it over my shoulder, and lifted the shotgun. It was heavy in my hands. "I'm set. How long should I stay there?"
He was still dashing to and fro making sure everything was set and ready. "As long as you think is necessary, and when you get back, tell me everything you saw or felt." He snatched a spiked collar and threw it to me, I caught it narrowly, holding the heavy gun in my other hand. "Put that on." He said.
"What's it for?" I asked setting the gun down to fasten the collar around my neck. On the inside of the collar were some more of the markings.
"It's an alchemy formula. It takes the ammonia, cyanide and methane from the atmosphere and converts it to nitrogen and oxygen. Be aware though, the air might taste weird, and your throat might tickle a little. It's just the alchimec process." He said and settled down.
"Nice," I said fingering the spikes on the collar, "I got everything I need." My green military style jacket, with it's numerous pockets were a great testament to that. The pockets were filled with everything from small hydration capsules to shotgun shells. I bent my knees and scooped up the gun.
"Alright," He said. "Activate the portal."
I brushed one of my brown locks out of my eyes, which widened at what he asked me to do. "Um, ok…" I walked up to the wall, and raised my hands above the glyphs. The cold grey of the concrete wall didn't change. "Uh…" I said, about to ask for help.
"Trust your instincts." He said, his stare intent through his glasses.
I brushed my hand over the markings again, and I felt something there, right in the middle of it all. I pushed my hand there. A sudden shock raised goose bumps on my arm. It was there. Pandora. I could feel it. Dragging my hand down the wall, I saw an intense purple-white, band of energy seep from my fingers and onto the wall, all the way till my hand touched the floor.
"Well done." Ahrim said, with a crooked smile, which vanished for a moment. "Oh, wait. Take this." He handed me a camera. "Take some pictures."
I rolled my eyes and shoved the camera into a pocket that wasn't already full, and turned back to the portal. I gingerly stuck my hand into the band of energy, mildly surprised that I didn't feel the cold, stone hardness of concrete, but something…warm, and humid, just on the tips of my fingers. I stuck my other hand in and pulled the band apart.
Like a curtain, the band parted and what I saw stunned me. Green, purple, brown. Leaves, trees, shrubs, life. My breath caught at the sight of a few small animals swinging through the trees. It was beautiful. So much of what I hadn't seen, but could now. I held the portal open and stepped fully through.
I hope you enjoy it so far, I have big ideas for this but I would love your input. Reviews are welcomed with a warm heart.