Any words or sentences that are in italic and bolded, are them speaking nav'i. and i wanted to thank all of you who messaged me, i really appreciated it. I decided to post this new chapter today because of you. before i updated all of my other stories. I do love to hear from you guys and any thoughts that you have on the story.

"hey Char, look over here." Norm said. We were flying over the forest going in the direction of wherever it was that Grace was taking us to get samples.

"Wow, are those Retoral's?" (those are made up, dont try looking them up.) I asked Grace. She nodded her head letting me know that what i saw was correct. We flew over a lake and bird like creatures flew up off the lake. The loud noise must have scared them off and they flew towards us, which was kind of weird. Jake just seemed to be taking in everything around him with a face that said he was in wonder.

We flew for another 10-15 minutes before grace told Trudy to land the plane. Trudy was probably one of the only people that was not in the avatar program that i enjoyed being around and i didn't want to punch the shit out of. Once we landed on the ground, Jake and another guy jumped out of the plane/helicopter thing and looked around with their guns pointed in the air. Grace went up to the front of the copter and motioned with her hand to cut the engine. Trudy cut the engine and Grace went over to the other guy that came with us and pointed at the copter.

"Stay with the plane, one idiot with a gun is enough." i heard the guy mumble something before he jumped back into the copter. Grace grabbed her pack and motioned for Jake, Norm and I to follow her. I did have a backpack, but it was mostly for food. I had a weapon but not a gun. When i was in the Navy, i was not exactly trained professionally with a gun.

Because i was the only girl in my unit, i was always left behind. The military had gone back to their old ways in their belief that a girl was able to help when in the military. There were girls in the military but they were mostly to help in the cleanup and backup in case the first offence didn't work. When i was left, i would train on my own with just hand to hand combat without any weapons until a Captain by the name of Joshua Dodger. When he saw me training by myself he approached me asking where my unit had gone. I told him all about what they thought of me and that they always left me here when they went on missions. he was probably one of the only ones that didn't believe what all the other ones did about women in the military. So he trained me when my unit left me behind in all kinds of things. The things that i did better on than all of the others, was swords and bow and arrows. Those were the weapons that i did a lot better on than all of the ones that i was taught. I did know how to use a gun and knives and a staff and many other things. But because of my background, Grace decided to give me asword that had been specially made so that i could help defend anything that would attack us.

"Norm, bring that over here. We need to go right here." Norm walked over to where Grace was squatting down and took out a couple tools they were going to use to collect the samples they needed. "Charlotte, go watch over your brother and make sure he doesn't get into any trouble" Grace said pointing in the direction that Jake had walked off in. I walked up behind Jake silently and stood behind him.

"What are you looking at?" i asked. Jake spun around pointing his gun at me. I raised my arms with a smile on my face knowing that i scared him.

"Char, i almost killed you." he said putting the gun back down.

"Yes, but the key word in that sentence was almost. which means that you did not shoot me, which i am very grateful for my dear sir." Jake rolled his eyes and turned back around. His hand touched helicoradian and it shrunk. Jake looked at it quizzically before he started to touch all of them that were around. After a little bit, they all closed in on themselves and a hammerhead titanothere stood in front of us. I could tell that he was not very happy and he started to show that this was his territory

"Jake don't shoot." i said calmly kneeling down to show that i wasn't a threat.

"Don't shoot, don't shoot, you'll piss him off." Grace said running over to us but stopping behind a tree so that she wasn't seen.

"He's already pissed off."Jake replied.

"It's a territorial threat display. any movement and he will think that you are a threat and charge. and i don't exactly want to die today." i said. Jake was still pointing his gun at the titanothere btu looking at me. I glared at him and he backed away pointing the gun up.

"So what do you want me to do, dance with it?" he asked.

"Just walk away slowly." i said starting to walk backwards on my knees. But just to my luck, Jake did the exact opposite of what i told him to do. he ran at it yelling and waving his hands in the air like a maniac. The titanothere charged at him but then stopped and its flaps went down. I knew that was a sign that there was a predator here that was able to kill him. He backed up while Jake was telling it to run back home. I looked behind Jake and I and saw a Thanator slowly climbing up over the tree that had fallen down.

"Jake." i said as calmly as i could, but i could tell that there was some fear in my voice because jake turned around.

"Yes….?" he stopped and looked at me then at the Thanator that was about ready to jump over him. Once it did that, it turned around and looked at us.

"What do i do with this one?" he asked. Without hearing what Grace said, i took off running. I'm not sure if Jake followed me or not, but i just ran.

After about 5-ish minutes of running, i climbed under a tree root and hid hoping to the all mother that Jake was okay and that the Thanator had not gotten him. I heard a growl and held my breathe knowing that it was the Thanator coming back to see if i was there. I grabbed some of the mud that was underneath me and smeared it all over my exposed skin so that it would cover my scent. After a little while, the Thanator walked away leaving me to my thoughts of relief. I climbed out from the tree and looked around hoping that it was actually gone. With a sigh of relief, i leaned against the tree that i was hiding under. I heard a slight rustle come from above me and i looked up only to see two yellow eyes looking down at me. With a startle, i jumped back and looked at the Nav'i that was pointing a poison dipped arrow at me. The Nav'i jumped down and walked closer to me. they held a dagger up to my neck and i closed my eyes just waiting for the slice over my neck that would end my life. I started thinking about Tom and that i would be able to see him again, and possibly Jake because he wouldn't last a full night out here. i felt the knife that was on my neck move away. but i still didnt open my eyes, until i heard a voice say, "Who are you?" I opened my eyes and saw a male standing before me. Once i opened my eyes, he seemed a little stunned for a second or two until his face changed back to menacing.

"Why does it matter who i am. you are going to kill me either way." i replied without any thought. He looked a little taken back by my words, and put the knife back up to my neck.

"Give my one good reason why i should spare your life." he asked, not really hearing what i said. Not even 10 seconds later, one of the seeds from the sacred tree floated down and landed on the knife that was on my neck. The guy that was standing in front of me moved the knife and looked at the seed spirit.

"Atokirina" he said looking at the seed. The seed lept off of the knife and over to me, and more soon followed. "how is this possible?" he asked.

"your guess is as good as mine." i simply replied. they had almost completely covered me and i didnt know what to do. They then jumped off of me and floated away. i turned around and looked at them as they floated away.

"come, ts'ahik will want to know about this." he said turning and walking away.

"what is your name? what are you called?" i asked wanting to know.

"They call me, Tsu'rish." he answered. "Enough talk, we must run." he immediately started off in a sprint towards where i'm guessing is the home tree. Once i caught up to him, we ran at that pace for a little while. He kept looking back at me to see if a was still with him. After a little while, he sped up, and i did the same. This kept on going until we were going pretty fast. He slowed down and came to a stop then turned and looked at me. "Stay close to me and don't touch anything." i nodded at his request and followed him into home tree. Many people stood up and watched us walk down the invisible path that was made by Tsu'rish. he came to a sudden halt and i looked infront of him to see the Ts'ahik.

"why have you come?" she asked.

"i found this sky person and brought her here. there was sign from Eywa and i thought you would want to know." he said bowing his head. there was another person standing next to the Ts'ahik, but i could tell that is wasn't the clan leader.

"Come to me." she said motioning for me to come to her. i walked up to her and bowed my head signalling that knew who she was.

"what is your name my child?" she asked. I looked up at her to answer. Her hair was pulled call and had a huge headband like thing that had some string coming down from the sides and was hanging below her face on her neck. She was wearing a red beaded shawl around her shoulders and some type of cloth around the bottom.

"my name is Charlotte. But most people call me char because of the red that always seems to be present in my features." I said motioning to the red that was in my hair.

She nodded at my answer. "do you know why you were brought before me?" she asked. I simply shook my head telling the truth as to why I was there.

"honestly I was expecting to be killed because that is what you do to the sky people. Atleast that is what I have been told. I don't know much about what you people do exactly." the ts'ahik walked around me looking at what I was wearing, and what I looked like.

"you were brought before me because Eywa has decided it." she took a little knife thing out from the piece of jewelry-ish thing hanging down from her neck and poked me with it, drawing some blood. She slid the knife across her tongue and liked my blood off of it. "what is that long stick that is hanging on your neck? It is not what the sky people normally have." she asked standing in front of me again.

"I'm different than most sky people. I do not like the weapons that they use. So I was given this." I took the sword out of its sheath and held it out. "this is a weapon that I was trained to use as a warrior down on my planet. I was given it because I am a lot better at fighting with this and bows than I am with the weapons that the other sky people use."

She nodded her head. "you seem to know our language pretty well, and seem to be very tame and close to the planet than most...I have decided what will become of you. Since Eywa has spoken, you will be trained to become one with the people. Tsu'tey will teach you our ways." she said pointing back at the nav'i behind her. He had a scowl on his face, but did not say anything, which I'm guessing was not normal, but then again, he is in the presence of their matriarch and whatever she says, goes. But I guess I spoke to soon.

"why do I have to be the one to train this sky person. Let someone else do it, I'm more important than she is." he said clearly angry pointing at me.

"it is decided. You will train her, and teach her to see like we do." she said holding up her hand motioning for him to stop talking. He growled lowly but loud enough for me to hear trying to scare me.

"take her up and get her a change of clothes. Then take her to wash up." without another word she left the room.

"come" Tsu'tey said. I follow him out of the room and into another where I was given some clothes to change into that were actual nav'i clothes. He then took me to a tree that had it's leaves up, and told me to wash up then come to the main room after to find him. He left me there because he had somewhere else to be.

After I cleaned up, I walked in the direction that Tsu'tey told me to go in. I got lost a couple times but ended up just following some people and ended up standing behind tons of nav'i who were all standing around listening to someone speak. I pushed through the crowd and was relieved at what I saw. Jake was standing there with cuts all over him. The Ts'ahik that I later learned was named mo'at, was doing almost the same thing that she did to me, but I little more cautious.

"daughter, you will teach him our ways." she said turning to the woman standing beside her.

"why me, it's not fair. Why not Tsu'tey?" she asked frustrated.

"he is already teaching a sky person." her daughter gave a small shout me protest and anger as mo'at turned to Jake.

"my daughter will teach you our ways. And then we will see, if your insanity can be cured. The other one will not be as difficult as you will be." she said I'm very weak English.

"other one, what other one?" Jake asked. Mo'at nodded her head in my direction and as soon as Jake saw me, his face lit up. Everyone dispersed and headed to the place in guessing they were going to eat because a lot of them were talking about the food that they were going to have. Tsu'tey walked over to me and stood in front of me.

"you are now more decent, come you need to eat." if turned around and walked in the direction that all the other people were going. I looked back and waved at Jake who was being lectured before leaving the room.

After we ate, Tsu'tey took me to the place that the Nav'i slept and jumped into a hammock like thing before turning over and going to sleep. I jumped into the hammock, that was a little wobbly at first before laying down and closing my eyes. When I opened my eyes again, Grace was shining a light in my eyes making sure I was registering her presence.

"Charlotte, Charlotte. Come back." I shook my head trying to get the small daze I was in away. "Charlotte, welcome back. Is the avatar safe?" she asked.

"yes, the avatar is safe. It's in I hammock like thing in home tree." I said smiling. She smiled then went over to Jake that was starting to come out. I got out of the link bed and walked to my actual bed, I was going to get some sleep. So that I had energy to do almost absolutely nothing tomorrow with this body. Everyone else was going to go to the cafeteria and get some food.

Hey everybody. Here is the new chapter. I hope it's long enough for you guys. I won't be able to publish for a week or so because I'm going on a week long camping trip with a whole bunch of my friends.