This is my first ever attempt at fan fiction of any kind. I'm a professional writer in a completely different field and style, but have never written any kind of fictional piece or lemon. So bear with me and any feedback in the reviews would certainly be appreciated.
CHAPTER I
Just yesterday he had felt what it was like to have legs again. To feel the dirt between his toes and the ability to stand eye to eye with another man.
The fact that it took an alien body to make Jake Sully feel like a human again, was an irony not lost on the former Marine. Despite his strong build and natural leadership qualities, being in a wheelchair made him feel like a lesser member of society. A usually level-headed person, Jake found himself starting bar fights just to feel what it was like to be someone worth respecting again.
Now Jake was a real person again, albeit in a 10 foot body. While he was disrespected by Grace Augustine on a daily basis for his lack of a scientific background, it felt a whole lot better to him than being disrespected for being a paraplegic. Disdain he could deal with; pity he could not.
There was no pity for Jake today in his first day in the jungles of Pandora. While he was jumpy as the prolemuris swung through the trees there was no fear, only adrenaline. Jake felt alive again for the first time since his accident.
Even 10 minutes later as he was running from a thanator, a tiger-like jungle predator, Jake wouldn't really describe his feelings as fear. Sure he was trying as hard as he could to stay alive, but it wasn't with the fear of death.
It was more like a dream, not a nightmare. A dream in which Jake was very aware that the worst case scenario was that he'd simply wake up. In an odd way, it was invigorating to feel this sense of adrenaline.
When the thanator snapped its powerful jaws down on his backpack and flung Jake through the air, most would have panicked and closed their eyes. Jake simply unlatched the backpack with a calm possessed by very few. Now without a backpack, the chase was back on as Jake hacked through bushes with his arms to get away.
With a cliff just ahead Jake had no choice but to fling his avatar body off towards the water far below. With a plunge into the waters, he was safe...kind of.
While the thanator was finally off his trail, he was now deep in the universe's most dangerous jungle known to man without a single thing to keep him safe.
Armed only with a torch and knife Jake was now faced with the task of holding off a pack of viperwolves that had circled him.
"I don't have all goddamn night!" Jake yelled at the pack just before the first viperwolf attacked him. While he he held off the initial surge, things were getting out of hand as the small wild animals were beginning to overwhelm.
Suddenly out of the trees jumped a female Na'vi, the native, humanoid species of Pandora. Armed with a knife and a bow, this Na'vi saved the life of Jake with the skills of a warrior, as she ended the lives of two of these viperwolves.
Despite expressing his gratitude, this female looked at Jake with disgust.
"I just wanted to say thanks for killin' those things," Jake yelled out as he chased her through the jungle.
Thwack! With a swing of her bow she knocked the former-Marine on his back.
"Aah! Damn!" Jake said.
"Don't thank. You don't thank for this! This is sad. Very sad only."
'So she speaks English,' Jake thought to himself. Although she was very hostile and of an alien species that Jake was entirely unfamiliar with just days prior, he couldn't help but admire he womanly figure and delicate, yet strong features.
"Okay, I'm sorry. Whatever I did I'm sorry." Jake said.
"All this is your fault, they did not need to die," she quickly retorted.
The female native was on the offensive, throwing insult after insult at the jungle intruder for his incapability to handle the situation and environment. It wasn't until he posed a question that caught the female off-guard that she finally slowed her barbs.
"Fine. If you love your little forest friends, why not let them just kill me? What's the thinking?"
"You have a strong heart. No fear," she said, before quickly turning back to the insults. "But stupid! Ignorant like a child."
It seemed as if no progress was going to be made until a small white creature descended upon Jake. Not unlike the seeds of the dandelion back on Earth, the atokirina were the seeds of the sacred tree of Pandora and were supposedly pieces of divinty. Or at least, they were according to the Na'vi.
Annoyed by them at first, Jake allowed one to land on his arm at the urgings of the female. One turned into two which quickly turned into a swarm of these atokirina that enveloped his entire body.
While the experience was certainly interesting, it was the facial expression of the native that really intrigued Jake. A look of pure astonishment and...lust? 'No, I must be interpreting her emotions wrong,' Jake thought.
Just seconds ago she was calling his an ignorant child, now she was eyeing him as though she wanted to jump his bones...no that was impossible.
"What?" Jake said.
"Follow me," she said with a tone that more closely resembled her original self, although a fraction shakier.
He followed closely as she ran through the jungle muttering to herself, glancing over her shoulder every few seconds. While he continued to try to speak with the female and finally find out the natives name, she never acknowledged him until they entered a giant tree that was clearly the home of an entire clan of Na'vi.
A clan that Jake quickly noticed featured very few males. While he couldn't understand the conversation the native that saved his life was having with the Na'vi that was clearly the leader of the clan, he observed the tone of the conversation that quickly shifted from anger to intrigue.
An elderly female descended from the branches of the tree shortly thereafter and approached Jake. As she spoke to the clan, the female that brought Jake to the giant tree explained in whispers that she was the Tsahik, the spiritual leader of the clan.
Jake looked on as the Tsahik spoke with the female and observed as this elderly member of the clan showed the same sway in emotions that he saw earlier in the jungle from the young huntress. The Tsahik looked at him as the situation explained to her, mouth agape, with a stare that Jake couldn't help but associate with horniness, as he would call it back on Earth. Eyes slanting in what seemed to be doubt, she pulled a pin from her beaded necklace and poked Jake in the chest very swiftly.
Slowly the Tsahik licked the blood of the Marine off the pin. Her eyes went wide once again as she realized the signs to be true.
"He. He is...the chosen one," the Tsahik said with bated breath, still slack-jawed.
Instantly every woman in the clan showed the same lusty stare that he had seen from two already this night.
"Chosen for what? What's going on?" Jake asked.
"Come with me," the young huntress said.