AN and Disclaimer:I don't own 'Avatar' – I've just fallen in love with it.

Anyways, ya'll continue to floor me with all the reviews and alerts for this story! Anyways, this chapter and the next one are going to be in first person point of view – this one is told from Miki's POV and next will be Jake's POV. Sometimes I like to change it up to make it more interesting, but I will always tell you when I do that. So enjoy! Plus it is my birthday and reviews will make me happy!!!


Chapter Four: Shock, part one

Miki's POV

Growing up with two older brothers, who were only a few years older than I was, there was little that I wasn't exposed to. And I can list off several idiotic things that they both had done – Jake more so then Tommy ever did.

But after listening to Jake's story about arriving on Pandora, being able to walk again, becoming one of The People, fighting off the RDA to protect his new family and the undergoing some kind of spiritual transfer from his human body into his new Na'vi one, I've come to the conclusion that this takes the cake.

Yet I couldn't be prouder of him, even though it's going to take a little while to get used to having a big brother who was twice as tall as I was with blue skin.

"So you're the Olo'eyktan of Omaticaya clan?" I asked trying to get the entire story correct. Jake and I were sitting in the mess hall after the briefing that he and two other Avatar scientists had given – I think Dr. Patel and Norm Spellman. It was then that I found out that the only humans left on Pandora were the Avatar research team, drivers and other scientists. Well I sat in a chair and he sat on the floor so he could be closer to my height.

Thank goodness.

The last thing that Pandora needed was a bunch of corporate bureaucrats destroying this planet like they had destroyed Earth. It was because of that destruction that I had to come to Pandora. I knew that there was no way that I would be able to find what I needed on Earth.

"Yup. The entire clan thought it best since I was mated with the future Tsahik of the clan."

"That was who was with you outside correct? Neytiri is her name?"

"That's right and I can't wait until you get to take your avatar out so I can show you everything!"

Now there is the Jake Sully I know and love – excited about the littlest things. And I had to admit that I was getting a little bit excited about things as well. Perhaps having an "in" with a Na'vi clan can help in trying to locate what I needed.

But before I could get too excited I was knocked back into reality by the timer on my watch going off.

Damn it.

Had it already been 12 hours since coming out of cryo?

Since I hadn't even gone and gotten my housing assignment yet, my medicine wasn't that far away. I quickly slipped my hand into my sling bag and pulled out an injection needle.

I knew that Jake was watching me the entire time.

Good.

I was about to come clean. I had to tell my brother that I was dying because my blood was turning against my body and attacking it.

"Miki what is that?"

I looked up at my brother as I placed the injection needle against my skin and stabbed it into the other side of my stomach and injected myself. "I'm sick again, Jake."

"Is the cancer back?"

"Kinda."

"Kinda?"

I nodded. "But this time its McAllen's Syndrome."

"You're joking right?"

I shook my head no. "Injections of a radiation and gene therapy cocktail seem to be the only thing that keeps it in check. The prognosis was that I wouldn't make it to my 25th birthday, but I was in cryo for almost 6 years."

"But why are you on Pandora if you're not supposed to live that much longer? Why not go out and have fun on Earth?"

"Because the flora and fauna of Pandora is similar to that of the old Brazilian rainforests, which unfortunately now is nothing but a few acres in the middle of a park. It was Tommy's suggestion that I come to Pandora for research."

"You told him but not me!" he said standing up and towering over me.

Wow. If I thought that Jake was intimidating when he was mad as a human, this is a 100 times worse. He could crush me!

"I'm sorry! But this is the exact reaction that Tommy and I knew that you would have! So why don't you go on back to your clan and let me find a cure so that I can beat this as well!" I said getting up quickly and grabbing my bag off the floor and slinging it over my shoulder. I stormed away from Jake and out of the mess hall. I never turned back to see if he was gone or not.

Tears stung my eyes as I rounded the corner, heading towards the Avatar lab where Dr. Ranta would be. He told me to report there when I was finished talking to Jake because I had to get fitted for an injection pump to make sure that my human body would get its medicine while I was in my Avatar body.

I forcefully wiped the tears away from my cheeks.

Jake could go climb a tree for all I care.

I had better things to do then put up with his bullshit.

I had to beat this.

I had to live.

I'm a Sully and we're fighters.

AN #2: McAllen's Syndrome is not a real disease! I made it up – basically it's a cross of AIDS, Cancer and Diabetes…..I completely made it up!