Unexpected Twist in the Adventure
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Two days had passed, during those two days we grew accustomed to our new bodies. Grace was a little bit pissed off with what I did with my hair, stating, "It's not a typical style with the Omaticaya and you may get ostracised for it." I shrugged it off, I just wanted to see the forest with my own eyes, in those two days I had caught glimpses, but I wanted an up close and personal look. We were currently in Trudy's SA-2 Samson, but she called it her 'baby'. I liked her, compared to the other Sec-ops that looked down on our department she thought that we were on to something. Jake was looking out the door with Norm while Maria and Grace were on the other side. I envied them because I was in the middle and the four of them blocked my view. As soon as we landed, Wainfleet, who also accompanied us jumped out with his gun pointed. "Stay with the plane," Grace ordered, then looked at Jake, "One idiot with a gun is enough."
"You the man doc," he said condescendingly.
Jake currently had his gun pointed at some prolemuris.
"They're just prolemuris," Grace said, "They're harmless. Calm down marine, you're starting to make me nervous."
A chuckle escaped my lips before I could hold it back in.
Jake sighed, "Glad to see you have faith in my abilities to protect you all."
I grabbed my pack and headed out.
"Kiseki, can you stay with marine over there," Grace said, "Make sure he doesn't do anything stupid."
"Okay," I answered, following Jake.
"How do we know if they see us?" Norm asked excitedly.
"Chances are that they already see us," Maria answered calmly, "Hey Norm, come look over here."
Grace, Norm and Maria examined some tree roots and took samples while I "babysat" Jake. Jake was seriously freaked out, and jumpy. "Listen to Grace Jake," I said, "Besides, you have me to tell you what to shoot at."
"I was told to shoot then look later," he scowled.
"Yeah, just shut up and listen to me," I said.
We walked and soon found some plants with red, spiral leaves, they were helicoradians. Jake hesitantly reached out to touch one, and it slipped into the ground quickly.
"Awesome," I said, reaching out to touch one for myself.
I withdrew my hand as the flower shrank into the ground.
Jake smirked, "You thinking what I'm thinking?"
"That depends, does it revolve around analysing and taking samples," I answered.
Jake face-palmed, "Is that all scientists ever think about?"
He proceeded to play with the other flowers.
"Cute," I mumbled, following him.
As soon as all the helicoradians were in the ground I gasped. Hiding behind them was a pack of hammerhead titanotheres. Jake noticed and quickly pulled me behind him.
"Don't shoot," I hissed, "It's armour is too thick, you'll piss it off."
"Listen to her Jake," Grace said; we saw her standing to the side with the others.
"It already looks pissed off," he said, pointing his gun at it. The hammerhead stood on it's hind legs and slammed it's front legs down on the ground, as if to support Jake's opinion.
"It's doing a territorial threat display," I whispered, "If we run it'll stampede. We'll be fine as long as we don't run and hold our ground."
Jake then ran forward and screamed in it's face as the hammerhead growled, then all of a sudden turned back.
"Ha ha! Yeah, come on! Show me what you got! Oh yeah, who's bad? That's right, that's what I'm talking about bitch. That's right; get your punk ass back to mummy. Yeah, you've got nothing. You keep running. Why don't you bring some of your friends, huh?" he gloated.
I felt something behind me, so I turned around slowly and saw...A THANATOR! I slowly backed away and yanked Jake's tail.
"What?" he growled, then his eyes widened when he noticed what was behind us.
"RUN YOU TWO," Grace screamed.
"You heard her!" Jake yelled, grabbing my arm and pulling me with him.
Jake pulled Kiseki along as the thanator charged after them. They hid beneath the roots of a tree. Jake shot at the thanator with his machine gun, which only served to enrage the thanator even further. Jake pulled Kiseki out, but then thanator took Jake's backpack into its mouth.
"JAKE!" she screamed.
"I got this!" he yelled, taking off the backpack then dropping unceremoniously to the ground. They ran until they reached a cliff's edge. "We gotta jump," Jake yelled over the rapids.
"What?" Kiseki yelled, "That's insane."
"Unless you want to be food for that thing we have no choice," he pointed out.
"Fine," she huffed, "On three."
"One."
"Two."
"THREE!" they screamed as they jumped off the edge.
Kiseki felt the splash of water sting against her skin. The rapids were so strong; she could feel the water pushing her down.
'Damn,' she thought, 'I'm not going to make it.'
She saw something coming towards her, but the water in her eyes made it hard to see. Suddenly whatever it was pulled her to the surface.
"Kiseki!" Jake yelled, "Are you alright?"
"Yeah," she said.
The two of them made it to the land.
"Grace," Kiseki said, trying to make contact with her radio, "Do you read me?" There was no response.
"Gyah!" she groaned, "You'd think that they'd waterproof their radios!"
"So what now?" Jake asked.
"For now we'll just stay here," Kiseki answered.
The hours passed by and it was growing dark. Jake tore off his jacket and made a torch, besides Kiseki's warnings that a torch would only attract other creatures or worse to their location.
"If we accidentally get these avatars eaten it's your fault, got it?" Kiseki growled, feeling pissed that Jake didn't believe her explanation on the bioluminescence of the plant life, that or he didn't understand a word of it. She pulled a Grace and went with the latter. 'She's going to kill us if anything happens to the avatars,' she thought.
"I'm gonna have to call it," Trudy said, "The colonel doesn't allow night ops. They'll just have to wait till morning."
"They're not going to make it till morning," Grace said sadly.
"Are you sure?" Norm asked, worried about his friend.
"If they run across the Na'vi Kiseki has the better chance of survival," Grace sighed, "I just hope that jarhead doesn't do anything stupid."
Neytiri watched as the two dreamwalkers paced through the forest. They weren't built like the others that she had seen before. There was a woman and man. The woman had strange hair and seemed to be angry with the male for some reason. No matter, dreamwalkers were not permitted here, she drew out her bow and notched in the arrow, preparing to shoot, she would shoot the male as he seemed to be the stronger of the two then the female. But before she could an atokirina floated down and landed on the arrow. 'Why?' she thought, taking the arrow out as the atokirina floated off, 'Why did Eywa send me that message?' She decided to follow them, to see if she can discern why Eywa prevented her from killing the aliens.
As for Kiseki and Jake, they later found themselves in quite a predicament, being surrounded by viperwolves and all. "Still don't believe me?" Kiseki asked, feeling very pissed off with Jake.
"Okay, I believe you," Jake hissed, "You have any idea how to get out of this situation."
"Well it's hard to think WHEN YOU'RE SURROUNDED!" she screamed, "And I have an idiot who refused to listen!"
"Look, I apologized..." he started but was cut off.
"You did NOT!"
A war cry of sorts came from above them. Jumping down from the trees was a Na'vi woman. She fired an arrow at the largest viperwolf. With her bow she knocked the smaller wolves out of the way. Jake dropped his spear/torch thing in surprise. Kiseki watched in awe the fluidity and elegance of the Na'vi woman's fighting style. 'If I'm not mistaken, this must be Neytiri,' Kiseki thought, thinking back to the pictures of the Omaticaya that Norm had shown her on earth, 'Crap, she's like a princess to the Omaticaya.' Neytiri hissed at the remaining viperwolves, scaring them off. She then walked towards the wounded one, ignoring Jake and Kiseki's presence. She drew out her dagger and ran it through the viperwolf's heart, reciting softly, "Forgive me, my brother. May your spirit run with the Great Mother. Forgive me."
"I am sorry," Kiseki said slowly, hoping that her Na'vi was understandable.
An uncomfortable silence fell over the three as Neytiri sat with the viperwolf. Jake then broke the silence, "Look, I know you probably don't understand, but if you hadn't come along when you did we would've been screwed."
"These sky people," Neytiri sighed.
Kiseki was about to intervene when Jake decided to say, "Thank you."
Neytiri sighed again, then ran off.
"Hey wait!" he called out, following her, "Where are you going? Wait up! Just wait! Hey, slow down! I just wanted to say thanks for killing those things."
She turned around and whacked him on the head with her bow. "Ah, damn," he swore.
"Don't thank," she said angrily, "You don't thank for this. This is sad. Very sad only."
"I am sorry," Kiseki said, "You are right, they did not need to die."
"You know our language," Neytiri said, "Are you here for the same reasons as Grace Augustine?"
"No," she answered, "I came to your planet to see the forest."
"Bah," Neytiri scowled, "How can you see the forest if you are blind?" She turned to Jake, "And you, you are like a baby. Making noise, don't know what to do!"
"Fine," Jake said slowly, "But if you loved your little forest friends why save us? What's the thinking?"
"You have a strong heart," she answered, then turned to Kiseki, "And an open mind. But you are both ignorant. Like children!"
"Well if we are like children perhaps you should teach us," Kiseki pointed out, "We need your help."
"Sky people cannot learn," Neytiri snarled, "You are blind, you cannot see."
"Then teach us to see," Jake said.
"No one can teach you to see," she said, continuing on her path.
"Wai-ah!" Jake started before almost falling off, luckily both Kiseki and Neytiri grabbed onto him before he could fall.
As they made to follow Neytiri she suddenly froze. Kiseki followed Neytiri's gaze to find atokirina floating down to them. Jake made to swat one away but Neytiri held his arm. "Atokirina," she gasped.
"Seeds from the Tree of Souls," Kiseki said in awe as one of them landed in her hand. More floated down, landing on the both of them.
"It is a sign," Neytiri whispered, "Come."
Kiseki and Jake stood on the branch, dumbfounded at what had just happened. "Come!" Neytiri said, louder.
Kiseki and Jake hurried after her, but some rope came out of nowhere and entwined Jake's ankles, causing him to fall to the ground.
"Jake!" she cried out, as another rope came from below to tie her ankles. She fell and almost landed on top of Jake. The two of them stood up to find themselves surrounded by more Na'vi, all of the Na'vis had expressions of hatred, disgust, curiosity in some and fear.
Neytiri jumped down and yelled, "Calm people, calm." She turned to the leader of the group, "What are you doing Tsu'tey?"
'Tsu'tey?' Kiseki thought, 'He's going to be the next Olo'eyktan. If Neytiri is like a princess, then he's like a prince!'
"These demons are forbidden here!" Tsu'tey yelled angrily.
"There had been a sign," Neytiri explained, "This is a matter for the Tsahik."
Tsu'tey turned to some of the other warriors. "Bring them," he ordered, "Let's ride!"
"What's going on?" Jake whispered.
"Silence," Tsu'tey ordered from his direhorse.
Kiseki made a shush motion towards Jake, hoping he would shut up.
They were led to the Kelutral of the Omaticaya, where many Na'vi watched with shock with fearful eyes as the two dreamwalkers. Some reached out to touch them, only to withdraw at the last minute. "Nice to meet you too," Jake muttered under his breath.
"Shh," Kiseki hissed.
Before them stood a male Na'vi dressed more ornately than the others. 'If I'm not mistaken that must be the Olo'eyktan,' Kiseki thought, 'Eytukan.'
"My father, I see you," Neytiri greeted.
The Olo'eyktan frowned, "These creatures, why did you bring them here?"
"I was going to kill them, but there was a sign from Eywa," she answered.
"I have said no dreamwalker must come to this place," he said sternly, then turned to us, "Their alien smell fills my nose."
"What's going on?" Jake asked.
Neytiri's ear flicked then turned to Jake, "My Father is deciding whether or not to kill you too."
"Your Father," Jake said, then walked forward for a handshake, "It's very nice to meet you sir."
Kiseki yanked him back by the ear.
"Ouch!" he yelped. The warriors came forward, holding the both of them back.
"Just speak when you're spoken too," Kiseki hissed.
"Step back," an imposing female voice called from the upper level of the kelutral. Coming down the spiral staircase was an older Na'vi woman, also ornately decorated. 'The Tsahik Mo'at,' Kiseki thought, 'Man, Norm would kill to be here.'
"Step back," the Tsahik ordered again, "I will examine these aliens for myself."
She circled the both of them slowly, examining their queues, tails and features. She tilted Kiseki's face up, looking into her eyes. "Your eyes are tinged with the colour brown," she stated, "Interesting." The Tsahik stood back, "What are your names and why is it that you come here?"
'Crap,' Kiseki thought, 'She's talking to me and I'm tongue-tied, shit!'
"My name is Jake Sully," Jake started slowly, "And I'm a warrior, of the Jarhead Clan."
"A warrior," Tsu'tey said incredulously, "I could kill him easily."
"No!" the Olo'eyktan ordered, holding an arm out in front of Tsu'tey, "This is the very first warrior dreamwalker that we have seen. We may be able to learn from him."
The Tsahik turned to Kiseki, "You know our language, don't you? I can see it in your eyes, there is no confusion."
"Yes," Kiseki said, "My name is Kiseki Stewart. The reason I came to your world was to see the forest, but if I am to truly see I need to learn."
"Your name is strange," the Tsahik noted. She took out a long, knife-like thorn and struck Kiseki's shoulder with it; she took it to her mouth and licked the blood off the tip. She repeated the process with Jake.
"It is decided," she said, then turned to Neytiri, "My daughter will teach you Jakesully." She then beckoned another Na'vi woman forward. She had her hair pinned back with a purple flower for decoration. "And Ninat will teach Kisekistewart."
"Mother, that is not fair," Neytiri protested.
The Tsahik frowned at her, then looked at Jake and Kiseki, "Learn well the both of you. And we will see if your insanity can be cured."
A/N: Gosh, I had to look up so many script sights to get this accurately. I hope I did well enough. And a HUGE thank you to all the kind people who have either faved, alerted or reviewed. I really appreciate the feedback. Thank you all.