For already a few weeks, Norman had left with the survivors the clan the large rock, the news seldom arrived, the range of the radio of Norman was insufficient to contact the clan, information were relayed in Omaticayas by the center. The rare news which arrived was nevertheless good, their installations occurred well, they had even met another clan of modest size which lived in the large plains which were next to their tree-house. They had quickly sympathized.
The winter had put at evil the additional structures of the tree-house, some repairs were essential, quickly made thing.
Trudy always impassioned by the oral tradition of Na' screw also prepared to tell the legends and the stories of Omaticayas, one evening during dining it Community. She ventured for the first time at the narration of history so much appraisal by Omaticayas. She had chosen her own history, especially that which told how she had helped Jake, Grâce and Norman and to escape from Hell' S Gates (the mine). The tradition wanted that the history is told with the third nobody, as if she reported the history of another member of clan.
Jake revived this very intense moment, alas with a fine tragedy for Grace, Omaticayas had included/understood the direction of this history very well. It was beautiful and to tell very well by Trudy, which was worth to him a salvo of applause and congratulation ****
With spring the evenings were stretched, some Omaticayas outside spent a little more time, benefitting from the last sun rays in a soft tepidity.
Jake and Neytiri in company of other members of the clan, reported the last actions of hunting of the young hunters initiated before the winter.
A long moaning crossed the calm surrounding one, a moaning of wounded animal, all left to research this animal. Neytiri the découvri carpet under a bush, it called, everyone considering, a Thanator young person. It was thin and breathed with sorrow, its coasts covered of its thorax, lying on the side, it looked at the hunters, it had hardly the force of grogner, and its growl finished in lugubrious complaint.
Neytiri left its knife, wanting to put an end to the sufferings of the poor animal, Jake stopped its gesture.
- It useless and sad is said Jake, it went to seek some ends of meat and water, being accroupissant beside the animal. It approached to him the mouth a piece of meat, it highly grabbed the meat in spite of its state, fortunately, Jake had good reflexes if not its fingers would have finished with the menu of the Thanator young person. He repeated the operation précautionneusement, he posed a container with water, the animal lapa the contents quickly.
Its breathing was slower and it looked them with mistrust.
Jake warned the watchers of the presence of this animal and with the instruction to leave it quiet. The astonishment of Neytiri was large reaction of Jake, to nourish Thanator was already a rather dangerous thing considering the character of this animal. But after all, Jake had complied with an essential rule, not to kill an animal unnecessarily. And apparently the meat given by Jake had some can repair it. She asked for to him the reason of her interest to the life of this animal.
- I do not know why. Jake acknowledged. But something said to me to save it, and it is not dying, just famished. And which know, a member of its family has can answered calls of Eywa. Mo' At was right at side and listened to the conversation, Jake fixed it with a small half smile.
- I do not have nothing to do there this faith, and do not believe that I will become pilot of misadventure. She says while laughing.
Definitely, its humor became more and more very land and Jake appreciated this set out again by uniting with the Mo laughter' At.
Jake and Neytiri had taken the practice to nourish each day the thanator. That physical condition improved, always thin, however it took again forces gently, grognant less and less with the approach of Jake and Neytiri, even in the passing of the hunters of the clan, it announced his presence while thundering.
In order not to take food intended for the clan, they drove out the evening often later in order to bring back small preys for it.
After some day, the animal was on feet, one morning it left the places, the disappointment of Jake was tall, this animal fascinated it. It returned at the end of a few days. Obviously, it was less thin. As soon as it considering Neytiri, it rubbed its muzzle along its leg, it was well the first time that this animal expressed a feeling. Jake approached and succeeds in without problem cherishing it, but it was seen that its preference went nevertheless in Neytiri.
Since this day, she elected residence near the clan. Omaticayas, reticent at the beginning, ended up being accustomed to its presence, some even giving him remainders of meal. Perhaps as for it, it would finish by all accepting them all, but the only people with being able to touch it were Jake and Neytiri.
It took even the practice to follow hunting Neytiri and Jake. At the beginning, it made flee game, but this animal was to be equipped with a certain intelligence. Through observation, it finishes by comparable the way gifts drives out Na' screw and succeeded has to show itself very discrete even with becoming a very useful auxiliary, folding back game towards the hunters. A gun dog to the Pandora way. This unexpected help upset the traditions na' screw somewhat, but this auxiliary unforeseen had nevertheless good sides, the frightening directions of this animal helped the tracking of game largely.
A message of the clan of the blue tree worried Omaticayas largely. A great number of stingbats approached the grounds of the clan, these animals an small group was not very dangerous, but in great number, they could show very frightening even for Na' screw. In too great number, they impoverish their hunting ground quickly. Constrained to migrate, starve, they attack all that passes to their range.
The guetteurs blew in their horns in order to alert the hunters of an imminent danger. The majority of them were not far from the camping and quickly joined the kelutral, some had further left could not hear the signal. Jake and Neytiri had left further in the mountains with two young beginners in full initiation accompanied by the thanator. Mo' At was very anxious, Neytiri knew well the risks which these animals could cause, but for Jake, it was its first confrontation with its animals, if they were separated, it was likely to be taken for a potential meal by this cloud to starve.
They progressed through the rocks towards a place favourable with hunting. The thanator seemed more nervous than usually, the raised nose, it reniflait unceasingly, grognant nervously, as if she sought something of precis. To more amuse that anxious to see the behavior of the animal, Jake intimated silence to him, but nothing made there. It continued its horse-gear, they were inserted in a timbered place, it refused to follow them, in spite of the calls of Neytiri, it refused to enter the underwoods. They decided to leave it and separated in two groups. Neytiri entered wood in company of the young hunter; they were to fold back game towards Jake and the second hunter, the trees were spaced enough, that made their progressions easy, the bushes made them invisible taking into consideration game, working vis-a-vis the wind not to be betrayed by their odors.
Acute cries coming from the sky made raise the head of Neytiri and she sees the black cloud made up of stingbats which moved in their directions. She highly caught the arm of the hunter and gave him the order to follow it, she was conscious of the danger which approached.
Jake had seen them also approaching to him, unconscious of risk to which it was exposed. It found even that curious, although it already met this kind of animal, it was the first faith which it saw in so great number. That resembled the cloud of bat which one can meet on ground. Jake upright on a rock contemplated the spectacle, which allowed has Neytiri to find it more easily, when she it seen it she howled to go down and run as quickly as possible. With the glance to throw into a panic of Neytiriil, it understood immediately that a danger arrived. Followed hunter, they are reflected to run towards a place or the forest was denser, already a group of four stingbats based on them.
The first passed meadows of the head of Jake, it heard even the jaws claquer above him while a second wounded his claws a hunter. It collapsed, a deep notch in the back and on the scapula, blood ran abundantly and it repressed with one, cry of pain. A third approached the wings to deploy towards the hunter with ground, Jake in a fraction of a second stripped an arrow stopping it Net.
Neytiri would run towards the hunter to wound, another stingbat plunged towards it, at the same time the emerged thanator of a thicket was thrown on it, plating it on the ground. The stingbat released a cry ragor and turned over to the attack, the leaped thanator and caught it at the base of the head, and a cracking of bone was made hear, it had killed it on blow.
The last tried an attack, to stop Net by an arrow of the young hunter, the last stingbat, judging can be too risky went up towards the sky while shouting.
They were not however drawn from business, of numerous stingbats were still present, it was urgent to find a shelter sure to try to look after the young strongly wounded hunter, it lost much blood and the odor attracted them irresistibly. Jake caught as it could the hunter which shouted under the pain and started to run towards a thicket of denser tree which would offer a little respite to them. Neytiri nervously scanned the sky a ready arrow has to leave, the second hunter had decladded its knife, arms which seemed quite ridiculous, but suitably to handle could be frightening. A stingbat emerged from nowhere dark on them, of a fast and sure epic, the young hunter sliced the neck of a precise gesture to him, for a sign of head, Jake thanked it. Neytiri quickly lit a fire and it made burn sheets. Smoke inconvenienced the stingbats, they maintained them to move away, for lack of wood in quantity fire, it will die out quickly, and the little of arrows which remained to them would give that a short advantage. The stingbats had been perched on trees, night hunter par excellence, they waited fallen the night to take again their attacks. Neytiri quickly explains this fact, Jake considered little this situation reassuring. To wedge since a long moment between the trees, without the possibility of fleeing, Jake Jake thought of the way of leaving them this dead end. It could count on no fast help, the clan was too distant and it would have been too dangerous to try an exit to seek of the assistance. The day declined, Neytiri became increasingly nervous, the health condition of the young hunter worsened, it lost little by little its forces and breathed with difficulty. The thanator thundered and launched threatening glances to volatile near, but this demonstration seemed without effect.
Suddenly the stingbats are reflected to shout and flew away in a total disorder, almost taken by a dash of panic. They telescoped in flight, the only thing which could frighten them at this point was of Ikrans. But there was little chance that it is that, because nobody knew precisely where it was, in this mountainous region where the wind strongly blows the smoke of their fire could not be visible by far. However a familiar noise was made hear with far, a noise of helicopter, immediately Jake thought of Trudy and its friend Carlos which had already helped them to find stray hunters. A gust of automatic weapon resounded in the mountain. More no doubt, it acted well of Trudy which made a paperboard on the remaining last stingbats, the machine passed above them in a howl of turbine. The helicopter landed with some meter and of the passengers went down from there to equip with weapon large gauge, Trudy ran, she saw the young hunter extended on the ground and turned over to seek her case of help. It made continuation an anesthetic puncture to put an end to the pain and a bandage of fortune. The thanator did not appreciate war the newcomers, but in front of the calm air of its Masters included/understood that there was no danger and let Trudy deal with Omaticaya, itself not very to reassure by the presence of this animal. Suddenly the thanator leaps above the head of Trudy catching by the neck a stingbat which tried a last attack. Trudy fixed the corpse failing bird while Neytiri shortened its anguish, it understood that without the intervention of this animal, it would have probably died, silently it thanked it even if internally it were always afraid of it.
Wounds was to deposit with the clan of the blue tree, even if Omaticayas preferred their traditional medicine it knew that in the cases of more serious wound land medicine proved more effective.
Of return to the clan, during the Community meal, Trudy told the exploit of young person thanator, history to supplement by the account of Jake and Neytiri.
The days passed and the young person thanator grew, it had almost reached his adult size. Neytiri observed the animal which slept with the foot of a tree, Jake approached it.
- He points out memories to you and you think that could overlap it.
Neytiri was surprised remark of Jake, it is true that it had considered that, but in front of its imposing size, it hesitated.
The last time that it had assembled such an animal, the conditions was disastrous. Rough short sound fights against Quaritch, combat which had cost the life the thanator which had come to its assistance, it had then reconsidered the spot of the combat and had lengthily requested for its spirit and to thank Hewa for its assistance. She remembered how this animal had acted, guided by her care.
She approached gently vis-a-vis the animal. She spoke to him gently with much respect, explaining to him which wanted to make. The thanator with the great surprise of Neytiri seemed to listen to it. It rose and approached it, Neytiri did not know if it were to move back or remain motionless. The animal very placed its muzzle close to its face, it smelled it, it felt its breath lime and its breath in charge of stinking odor. It was controlled avoiding leaving its fear of invading it.
It advanced the hand and cherished imposing it muzzle of the animal which let itself make, it was placed close to its side and caught its ketse.
The thanator, curiously, seemed conscious of what it was going to occur, inclining even the head to facilitate the bond. Neytiri was connected to him, suddenly the spirit of the animal appeared to him, this animal had not come here by chance. The thanator which had come to its assistance was the mother of this one, become orphan, it had survived with difficulty, with end of force and guided by Eywa, it had come towards her.
Neytiri thought of horrifying with the epic which had failed to achieve. Gesture fortunately to stop by Jake.
By this bond, it felt what Thanator tested, which he saw felt…
That had something with the faith of marvellous and of terrifying It enfourcha the animal which pushed a raucous cry. Neytiri made sure that she was well camped on the back of the animal and held with the two appendices of the thanator. Of a majestic good they launched out to the attack of the forest, it was grayed by the speed to which it gallopped, with which agility it avoided the trees. The power which it emanated, its agility and its intelligence was surprising, much more than a ikran, if this one were one of the Masters of sky, the thanator was the uncontested Master of ground. Of overlapped return of this insane, it remained a long moment to connect to the thanator, looking at the bottom of its spirit. It understood that Omaticayas nor even Na' VI would not have to fear it and that it was even ready to protect the clan if the need were felt some.
Why, that Neytiri pus to discover why this such attachment. But it was sure that Eywa was to be there for something and only Mo' At will be able to inform it on this mystery.
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