Pandora: A Different Time

Disclaimer: I do not own Avatar or the terms and subjects in the Avatar world, all rights go to James Cameron (The Genius). This is my first Fanfiction ever so bear with me. A big shout out to Florence and the Machine for giving me inspiration, love you Miss Welch

as always reviews are most welcome.


Chapter Nine

Anna woke to find her arms and legs tied to the posters of a bed. The lights were dimmed and candles lit the room. From the air conditioning she could tell that she was naked. She pulled at the restraints crying with frustration as they bit into her wrists and ankles.

"I like spirit." Came the voice from the corner and Anna recoiled. All she could hear was the thunk of boots as he stepped into the light. He wore a silk bed gown and held a glass of wine in his hand.

"Though the chase is fun, you have pushed the limit." The smile he wore fading into an angry scowl. Anna flinched as he poured the wine over her naked body, cringing as he began to lick her skin. His hands bit into her thighs as he nibbled on her nipple. Anna tried to make her mind go blank, remembering the days when her mother had been alive. Tears began to stream down her cheek as the memories assailed her, blocking out the pain of Selfridges teeth puncturing her skin.

I am within.

Anna heard the whisper in her mind and felt her chest swell. Suddenly Selfridge pulled away from her. She looked into his manic eyes and tensed as he punched her in the face.

"Your daddy is calling." Quickly Selfridge donned a pair of jeans and a shirt. Anna sighed in relief as the door slid shut behind him. Praying that her father would do what he should have done a long time and kill the bastard.

...

Ngay'swizav was tempted to kill the human before him and if not for the fact that his hands were full holding Anna, Norman would be dead. As they crept through the back gate Ngay'swizav remembered how quickly the human had come to their aid. The home of the tawtute was highly fortified and Ngay'swizav's patients had been running thin when a familiar looking man approached them. It was the friend of Anna in his true form.

"This is all my fault, I told him where to find her." He had stuttered when he saw them land just outside the fence. Beyral had snarled at Norman threatening a bloody death if he failed them. To his credit the man had only nodded solemnly when many a strong Na'vi would have been frightened of Beyral's threat.

"That is where the Avatar sleep, you should be able to put Anna there." Ngay'swizav followed Norm into a wooden building where many of the Uniltaron slept. Carefully he placed her on the bed cringing as her arm dangled over the edge lifelessly. Though her chest moved Ngay'swizav had felt like he had been holding a corpse.

"What is the plan?" Tsu'tey asked as they sat on the floor of the bunkhouse. Ngay'swizav stroked Anna's queue as they were still connected through tsahaylu. The presence of his child calming him.

"Selfridge has Anna and her father wants blood. Quaritch commands the warriors here. The main thing is getting Mo'at and Anna out before the whole place goes tits-up."

Ngay'swizav wasn't familiar with everything Norman had said but he understood the basics. If there was one thing the Na'vi were masters of it was stealth. The only way they could get into the main building without too much attention drawn to them was when the coup started.

"I know the drivers of the Avatar, if I get them to link now and join the battle it would not be so strange for you guys to be here." Norman said.

Ngay'swizav arched his eyebrow in surprise, he had not thought the human to be so cold hearted in sacrificing others. But when he felt the involuntarily twitch of the dreamwalkers tail on his shoulder he knew that he would do the same thing.

After Norman left Ngay'swizav assessed the clothing he had left for them. He didn't know where to begin as he held a pair of shorts to his chest. Beyral was having similar difficulties her bare breast bouncing as she tried to pull the shirt over her head. Ngay'swizav nudged Tsu'tey in the ribs about to make some kind of joke out of Beyral's predicament but his friends eyes were riveted on Beyral's breasts.

Ngay'swizav smiled as his friend offered to help Beyral, his eyes widening with wonder as his fingers brushed against her nipple. Though nakedness was a natural state amongst the Omatikaya, Ngay'swizav didn't want to see Tsu'tey and Beyral about to mate on the cold floor of the tawtute building. Luckily, before Ngay'swizav was forced to gouge his eyes out, all the slumbering dreamwalkers started to stir. He noticed Norm amongst them.

"Quaritch and his men have seized the building, we have to go now." Norm said throwing the doors to the bunkhouse wide open.

Ngay'swizav ended the tsahaylu but was comforted with the fact that he would soon have the real Anna back. As the perimeter swarmed with hostile humans Ngay'swizav released his arrow yipping as it hit his targets. The sound of bullets ended his celebration as dreamwalkers began falling.

"Shit, come on we have to go." Norm yelled using his body as a shield whilst Tsu'tey fired three arrows at a time. Beyral climbed into the roof of the bunkhouse picking off the men who posed the most danger. Ngay'swizav knocked several men off their feet with his tail, piercing them all with arrows. Suddenly the ground began to shake and the footsteps of a heavy weight machine turned the corner.

"Don't shoot." Norman said as the machine came closer. This is how the humans must feel Ngay'swizav thought as the metal beast dwarfed him.

"Get my daughter out alive and I promise me and my men will leave this godforsaken planet." Ngay'swizav realised it was Quaritch, Anna's father. Quaritch blew a hole in the side of the building smashing through any remaining wall with his bulk. Ngay'swizav sniffed the air trying to locate Anna, but the smell of hundreds of tawtute clung to the air.

"Take Tsu'tey to where my mother is." Ngay'swizav said ignoring Norman's shouts as he ran in the opposite direction, finally picking up Anna's scent.

...

Anna cringed as she heard the wailing of the alarm. The air had taken on a headier musk and Anna had the feeling that there was a leak. If she didn't get out of the handcuffs she was going to die. Taking a deep breath Anna wrenched her hands away from the posts snapping both wrists. Almost blinded by the pain she was able to contort the bone and slip her useless hands out of the cuffs. Luckily her feet had been tied by rope which she easily undid with her teeth. Catching her breath Anna flexed her hand and swore, they were not broken but severely sprained. Hobbling to a cabinet in the wall she used her mouth to pull out the exo-pack.

"You can do this." She breathed using her mashed hands to click it in place.

Slumping to the ground she took deep breaths leaning her head back to stop the tears. Selfridges robe lay on the floor and she slowly fed her arms into the sleeves. The clothing covered up most of her assets though she could not tie the belt. Outside she could hear frantic shouting and screams. She didn't know whether Selfridge was coming back for her and she honestly didn't want to wait and find out. Pressing her head against the cool metal door she collected her thoughts. The only thing she could do was look for Mo'at and try to escape. She would not be death of any more of her people.

Anna edged out of the room and stuck close to the wall as staff rushed past her. She could hear gunshots and the gruff voices of men as she made her way where she had last seen Mo'at. The room was connected to the bio lab, a room where the Avatar rested just before psiolink. She couldn't see anyone in the lab as she quickly ran to the open door. A hand grabbed her and slammed her into an empty gunnery. Pain shot through her body as her body slumped to the floor.

"This is becoming tedious." Selfridge said a gun levelled at Mo'at's head.

Anna, winded, tried to stand only for Selfridge to kick her in the ribs. Mo'at shouted out in Na'vi her hands bound to her feet. The proud woman forced into such a derogatory position. Anna's head swam as Selfridge grabbed her by the back of her neck resting the muzzle of the gun against her head. He pushed her onto the gunnery and ripped the gown in two. Anna's eyes locked with Mo'at and she shook her head as the woman attempted to move.

"I enjoy our games. You've caught me now." Anna said silkily. She could tell that Selfridge was surprised because his grip grew lax. Carefully Anna turned and smiled through the bruises on her face.

"It took you long enough." She whispered, taking of her exo-mask and closing the distance between them.

I am within.

Anna trembled as Selfridge also took of his mask and began kissing her, his teeth ruthlessly chewing at her bottom lip. It was painful and raw but Anna concentrated on taking a deep breath. Something shifted inside of her and she expelled it, filling Selfridge. Staggering back Selfridge grabbed his throat his breaths coming in short and breathless. With shaking hands he aimed the gun at Mo'at and fired.

Ngay'swizav walked down the corridor firing his arrow as a human aimed his gun at him. He was not in the mood for their attacks, he could feel Anna's distress clawing at his skin. The feeling intensified when he rounded the corner into a room that hummed and buzzed with unnatural flashing lights. To his left he could hear his mother's tears and with caution he edged into the room. A human male lay on the floor, his eyes bulging from his head, his skin a clammy colour. As he walked further into the room something soft and warm seeped around his feet and he almost slipped.

"Wake up, wake up." Ngay'swizav turned sharply at his mother's pleas as she rocked back and forth a body in her arms. Ngay'swizav fell to the floor pulling the human into his arms. Clearing the mussed hair from her face he instantly recognized who it was.

"Anna." He choked. A wound in her chest pulsed profusely and as he felt for her heartbeat, lazily it thumped against his fingers.

"We need to go, take her and the body to the tree of souls." Mo'at said her throat cracking with grief. Ngay'swizav nodded numbly gathering the small creature in his arms. As they left the bio lab more men came after them but to his surprise they did not attack. He recognised the one who led them.

"What happened to her!" Quaritch yelled though he was much smaller than the Na'vi he approached Ngay'swizav with menace blazing in his eyes. Behind him Ngay'swizav turned to see Tsu'tey and Norman, though a little battered there was nothing life threatening.

"She saved me." Mo'at whispered running her hand along Anna's body. "We must take her to Eywa." She snapped.

"We have the best doctors here." Quaritch said signalling to his men to aim. Ngay'swizav snarled at the threatening demonstration, he could feel Anna slipping further and further away.

"She must be taken to Eywa." Ngay'swizav stepped back in surprise as Norman pushed through them and picked Quaritch up slamming him into the wall. Though Quaritch fought against him he was no match to an Avatar's superior strength. "If you don't let them take her, your grandkid is going to die!" Norman spat letting Quaritch fall from his grasp.

"Is this true?" Quaritch asked pinning Norman with a gimlet stare.

"It is my child." Ngay'swizav said. "Now will you let us save her?" Quaritch and his men moved aside as Ngay'swizav led the way outside. Around them lay the scattered bodies of both man and Avatar, though Ngay'swizav knew that these were just empty shells he still mourned the loss.

"I was wondering where you were." Beyral huffed picking up Anna's Avatar and slinging it over her shoulder. Ngay'swizav was surprised by Beyral's cooperation but decided that the huntress might not hate Anna as much as she claimed.

"What of you?" Ngay'swizav asked as Norman stepped away from the mounted party.

"I still have work to do here, some rules need to be laid down."

"If Anna doesn't make it…" Ngay'swizav said refusing to believe that she wouldn't.

"Perhaps." Norman said turning from them. Ngay'swizav shook his head in confusion but realised that Norman was doing what was best for everyone. The man was in love with Anna and Anna was his mate. Though Norm had helped them he would rather not see him again.

...

The swell of Na'vi chanting filled the night and they swayed to the chanting of the Tsahik. The roots of the tree of souls glowed, a mass network and through tsahaylu they connected with Eywa. Ngay'swizav cupped the human face of Anna the breath in the exo-mask coming to a halt.

"It is done." Ngay'swizav said and his mother raised her hands. The Na'vi obediently stopped, watching with anticipation. Ngay'swizav removed the mask, stroking the fine hair from her face and leant forward kissing her softly. Swiftly he moved to her Na'vi form kissing her again gently. As he pulled away familiar amber eyes burned into his own.

"Anna." She blinked then opened her eyes again a small smile creeping on her lips. Slowly he lifted her up using his shoulder to support her weight.

"This is your form, forever." Mo'at said. Ngay'swizav tried to gauge Anna's reaction at being a permanent Na'vi but her eyes were vacant her thoughts obviously far away. He carried her far from prying eyes and ears towards a grassy knoll where a stream trickled through. Gently he sat in the ground pulling her with him, her back resting against his chest their tails entwined.

"You are Na'vi now." Ngay'swizav whispered into her ear. It flickered at the sound but that was the only movement Anna made. Ngay'swizav sighed rubbing his hands up and down her arm as if to banish a cold only he could feel.

"Why did you save me?" Anna asked breaking the silence. Ngay'swizav's eyes widened momentarily wondering if now would be the time to tell her that she was pregnant.

"I betrayed the Omatikaya."

"You didn't know when they were coming." Ngay'swizav argued.

"But I knew they were coming. It was stupid of me to think I could convince you to leave Hometree." Ngay'swizav winced as her voice trembled. Pulling her closer into his arms he rubbed his chin on the top of her head, blowing against the tip of her ears.

"Hometree is fine. We will return there tomorrow." Ngay'swizav smiled as Anna gasped in relief, turning in his arms she looked at him her smile shining through her eyes.

"Thank Eywa." She choked settling her lips on his.

Ngay'swizav kissed her back passionately shuddering as she connected their queues together sending waves of love and trust. Ngay'swizav ran his hands through her hair, his tail stroking hers as his tongue laved her neck. His hands ran down her body guiding her to the floor. Anna's whimpering caused him to harden against her, throbbing with the need to be inside her.

"I see you." She moaned as his fingers entered her, slowly rotating within her damp sheath.

His thumb tapped rhythmically against the engorged nub and Anna could barely breathe as she felt his arousal through tsahaylu. Ngay'swizav loved the feel of her juices coating his fingers and he pumped quickly wanting more to flow from her. She was near breaking point, he could tell and so he took pity on her removing his hands. As he drew in a breath Anna tackled him to the ground her rump right by his face as she tugged at the drawstrings on his shorts.

His erection sprung to attention as Anna ran her lips along a protruding vein. Ngay'swizav gripped her tail with his hand moving it out of the way his mouth seeking her hot orifice. Together they licked and stroked racing to see who would crack first. Ngay'swizav thrust his hips as he felt his climax building but he feared hurting her. When Anna momentarily withdrew to catch her breath, Ngay'swizav lifted her hips pushing her further down his body. Anna gasped as Ngay'swizav practically lifted her body and impaled her. She could feel his hand playing with her tail and began to move. Her fingers touched the place where they were one, stroking him as he entered her over and over. Her free hand cupped her breast and squeezed as his grip on her hips tightened with the building climax.

Ngay'swizav marvelled at the way Anna's back rippled with each move. Her body arched and her beads tickled his chest. The patterned dots on her back glowing in the night. Wanting to be closer to her he lifted himself up and cradled her to his chest their hips moving against each to other frantically, each thrust bringing them closer to ecstasy. Light blinded Ngay'swizav as Anna climaxed, her keening cry pushing him over the edge. He roared ramming himself deep within her as he came, the luminous knoll bathing them in a serene after glow. Sweat cooled his body as he laid them both on the ground.

Anna turned in his arms so that they lay face to face her eyes glowing brighter than the plants around them.

"I see you." Ngay'swizav whispered pressing his forehead against hers drinking in her scent.

Her fangs shone as she smiled, kissing him gently on the lips before snuggling against his chest. Ngay'swizav lay awake as Anna slept his hand gently stroking her tail, his fingers touching the unique glowing dots of her body. Now that she was back he never wanted to let her go, especially since she was having his child. Eventually her beating heart lulled him to sleep