Avatar: Pandora's Moonlight
By Andrea L. (NenaLozara)
CHAPTER 1: "The Wrong Song"
She opened her eyes. No-one had ever seen eyes like those. She was breathing heavily, her spine hitting the ground's dark soil from time to time, as the spasms moved her whole body. Her eyes turned from seeing the sky to looking at her observers, entering into a clear panic attack. She screamed and tried to get up, but the weakness of her limbs didn't help at all. She fell again, residing on her weak arms to drag her body away from the strangers. That's when she noticed. She moved her eyes from her observers to her own body. Her eyes opened even more. Her pupils became smaller, showing her strange iris color even more and her heart rate increased. Something was gravely wrong with her. She started to scream as she looked at herself, making the strangers take their hands to their pointy ears.
"We should really call Neytiri and Mo'at." said one of them, in their language.
"I will be so embarrassed." said another.
The strangers left, except for the one that spoke last, and she got nearer to the screaming female on the floor.
"Sh... Sh. Stay, Otay'nit. Don't you recognize me?" the stranger asked in the language she knew both used. "Otay'nit... It's your mother."
The screaming female ceased when an overwhelming warmth took over her whole body. She couldn't understand a word, but whatever the blue woman said, made her feel better.
"I am Rokyti. Dear daughter... Do you remember me?"
She looked up to see the woman, trying to decipher what she said, and at the same time trying to explain what was about her that made her feel so calm.
Suddenly two other tall and blue women appeared in the entrance of the place they were in. Rokyti turned her head like an owl, looking at the newcomers.
"Mo'at, Neytiri... I..."
"Rokyti, what have you done?" asked one of them, with a red ornament on her black hair and red clothing. Rokyti immediately moved to hug and hold on her.
"Please, forgive me Sister." Rokyti said as a couple of tears rolled down her face. "I couldn't take the pain. It was too much sorrow. I had to do something for my child. So young, so young..."
"You played with the unknown." said Neytiri as she looked at her mother embrace the crying other. "You have played with what only a tsah k can control."
"At ease, Neytiri, at ease. She is a mother. We feel pain beyond known sorrows." said Mo'at with a warm tone, as she passed her hand over Rokyti's black hair.
By that time, Otay'nit had already dragged her weak body far, towards a corner, looking at the others with fear. The three blue women walked slowly towards her.
"It's ok, Otay'nit. It's me, Neytiri. Do you see me?"
Otay'nit looked at her, still with fear in her eyes.
"What's wrong? Why won't she speak? Why is she so afraid of her own mother?" asked Rokyti as she approached her daughter, taking her hand near to her legs.
Otay'nit moved her legs, trying to avoid the touch, as she also avoided to see her and the others, turning her face to a side. Mo'at looked closely as that happened, analyzing every movement.
"She is not afraid of her mother. She is afraid of us. Of what we are. I am sorry to say, Rokyti, that you couldn't save your daughter." Mo'at said as she sat in front of Otay'nit, together with Rokyti. "Talk to us, child. Say anything. We will listen to anything."
Neytiri did the same, looking at a pain expression on Otay'nit's face.
"Mother." she said, "there's something wrong. She is hurting."
Otay'nit tried to make herself smaller on the corner, holding her knees with her arms. Her breathing turned heavy again and she showed her teeth, tensing every single muscle of her body.
"She is changing." Neytiri said as she kept looking. "Something is changing her."
Otay'nit seemed to move a little, but she wasn't really moving, it was her body. Her legs became a little shorter, her arms too, together with her whole body. The twitching suddenly stopped and Otay'nit opened her eyes, looking relieved.
"I must consult this with the forest." said Mo'at as she looked Otay'nit's body give up to tiredness. "Something was wrong about your song."
" D nde estoy?" asked Otay'nit, without looking at the other women. " Qui nes son ustedes?"
"She's speaking in another language." said Neytiri as she stood up. "I will go get Jake."
Neytiri ran out the place.
"Can you understand what we are saying?" asked Mo'at as she caressed one of the feet of Otay'nit.
" Qu me pas ? C mo llegu aqu ?" she kept asking, not caring about being touched. She was way too tired, way too weak to react.
"I had never heard that language before..." said Mo'at.
"Child, daughter of mine. Do you know who I am?" Rokyti asked as she approached Otay'nit even more, sitting beside her, towards where her face was looking.
Rokyti took her head with dead weight to try and make her lost eyes see her. "Can you see me?"
Jake and Neytiri entered together with a rush and Jake immediately walked to Otay'nit and her mother, going down to his knees.
"Hello." said Jake in English. "Can you speak again, please? I need to hear you speak."
Otay'nit's eyes reacted, turning them to see Jake, without moving her face from Rokyti's hands.
"Hablas ingl s." she answered, with a little more life in her tone. "Yo hablo espa ol, pero puedo hablar ingl s. I can speak English."
Jake smiled, just like Neytiri and Mo'at. "That is great!"
Rokyti looked at them, not understanding. "What? What happened?"
"She doesn't speak our language, but she speaks english. That is the language that Jake knows and that Neytiri and I learned." answered Mo'at, in their language.
Rokyti smiled as she looked again at her daughter's tired face, a tear of joy falling down her left eye.
"Tell her... I see her." said Rokyti.
"Your mother says she sees you." said Jake with a smile, looking at the encounter in front of him.
Otay'nit made a confused gesture, turning her eyes to see Rokyti.
"She's not my mother." she answered, provoking a change in the others' facial expression. "I don't know what I am doing here..."