This is just a short drabble that started out with a Beatles song (Golden Slumbers) and kinda went from there. I loved the quote "all I ever wanted was a single thing worth fighting for", so I used that, as well as referencing Jake's comment about "my cup is empty". (In reference to his ability to learn the Na'vi ways.)
I made up the constellation names, the Na'vi names are accurate linguistically, táronyu, tìranyu, and pa'li are taken directly from articles on the language, the word for serpent I made, it literally translates as "great worm".
I'm not entirely happy with the flow of this, so I may rewrite it in the future.
Once there was a way
To get back homewards
Once there was a way
To get back home....
Grace and Norm and long since hit the rack as Jake wheeled his wheelchair toward this window. The stars here were so different from at home. Neytiri had taught him the names; from his window he could see táronyu, the hunter, tìranyu, the walker, txangawng, the serpent, and pa'li, the direhorse.
The corporation had had offered him a new life, and he had accepted, eager to leave behind the tangled past that followed him. He'd been ready for anything, but never in his wildest dreams could he've imagined what would come to pass on Pandora. When she first found him, Neytiri had called him a baby, he had said his cup was empty. Now he truely felt that in that wild and terrifying jungle night he had been reborn as one of the Na'vi.
His human body felt foreign and awkward, a poor substitute for the avatar that he thought of more and more as his true form. Here, he was trapped and boxed in, isolated. In the forest, he was free, and he had the whole forest with him.
Suddenly, he realized what he really wanted: to stay among the Na'vi forever, as one of them. The recognition of this fact startled him at first, then settled within him like a comforting weight. This was what he wanted, a single thing worth fighting for, a single thing worth living for: this was it. It would not be easy: going up against Selfritch and the Colonel, but this was his battle. He was ready.