"you're a moron Jakesully. Soon your training in our ways will be done and you will be able to take a woman as your mate. Those females were trying o catch your eye so you might choose one of them to be your mate." Jake nodded. "Ok. But why do you seem so mad?" Neytiri stopped walking for a moment, the slowly she turned to Jake trying to put on her most dangerous face. "They chose a bad time to do it. Plus they invaded my alcove." Jake put his hands up as though fending off an attack. Neytiri growled and began dragging Jake again. They needed to get going or they weren't going to make it to the Iknimaya in time.

CHAPTER 3

The trip to the banshee lair was not particularly long but that didn't make it any less difficult for Jake. His legs refused to work the way they were supposed to. And while sometimes they worked other times they simply froze or like before caved out from under him. by the time Jake reached the top of the mountain he was tired, sweating, and felt like crap. His whole body shook and his vision had again started to faultier. So when his feet touched the top of the mountain, Jake found he had to stop and catch his breath. Next to him, Jake felt Neytiri steady him. After several moments Jake's vision cleared and he found his banshee next to him waiting for him to climb on. His mount was shaky and as his banshee prepared to leap off the cliff Jake felt his head pulse with pain. Leaping off the cliff, Jake and his banshee plummeted 30 feet straight down until his banshee's wings filled with air and allowed for flight. Next to his Jake could hear Neytiri and her banshee. Flying next to him Neytiri spoke.

"it will take some time for us to reach Iknimaya." Jake nodded but wished he hadn't as a moment later he pitched sideway and off his banshee. But a moment later Jake felt his banshee back under him as it caught him in a swoop dive. Again he felt Neytiri's hand on his shoulder. "Jakesully, you're ill. Rest while we fly. I'll wake you once we arrive." Jake nodded in thanks and tied himself to his banshee so he wouldn't fall. After a few seconds he was asleep.

15 HOURS LATER

Jake woke with a start. Neytiri was shaking him. "Rise Jakesully we've arrived." Blearily Jake rubbed the sleep out of his eyes and looked around. They had landed. Both his and Neytiri's banshee were off in the distance flying around each other, minding their own business. Off in the distance Jake could make out the outpost grace had been telling about him. Lights and movement inside told Jake that grace had moved in and most likely brought his own body. turning to Neytiri Jake spoke in a shaky voice. "Neytiri this is as far as I can let you go." Neytiri opened her moth but Jake cut her off putting a finger on her lips. "Neytiri………… please." Neytiri froze. Never before had she seen Jake like this. His whole body shuddered, and she could easily feel the coldness of death surrounding him. Neytiri watched as Jake opened his mouth to speak, but no voice came out. Jake's whole body shuddered, his eyes rolled back and his head fell forward. Neytiri caught him with ease cradling his head in her arms.

After several minutes Jake didn't wake, and Neytiri made up her mind. Damn what she had promise, forget what Jake wanted she was going to help him whether he liked it or not. Gathering Jake up Neytiri slung him over her back and slowly made her was the metal sore on the land near them. As she approached 3 sky people exited the metal shell and moved towards her. As they neared her one of them covered in white spoke. "JAKE!" letting the sky people pull Jake off of her, the one in white knelt next to Jake putting her hand on his forehead. Shaking her head the woman in white spoke. "His pulse is heavy and erratic. I'm jerking him from the body. norm have Jake's body prepped for scanning as soon as he's back!" one of the sky people nodded and charged back into the metal structure. The woman in white pulled out a small glowing object and tapped it a few times. A dozen symbols of the sky people's written language scrolled across it before the devise went dark.

In front of her Neytiri watched as Jake's body tensed for a moment, and then fell limp. Somewhere in her mind she knew something was wrong. Grabbing Jake's prone body Neytiri shook him trying to wake, "Jake JAKE!" turning her attention to the women in white she shouted, frantic with panic. "why doesn't he wake?! Does he sleep the sleep of death?!" the women shook her head. "No. he's been pulled from this body and put back in his human one. Right now he's sleeping, getting ready to be scanned for anything that could be causing this.. come I'll need your help." Neytiri cocked her head. "Jake………… he didn't want me to see his h-um-an form. Said he was……… damaged." The women sighed and nodded. "in a way he is. But not to the degree he thinks. Help me put this form." She gestured to Jake's avatar body. "help me put him in a callo tank."

Neytiri did as she was asked and picked Jake's prone body off the ground. The coldness of his skin scared her. Following the women into the metal structure, Neytiri felt her connection with nature diminish as she set foot inside. Following closely behind the women Neytiri followed, passing rooms filled with dancing lights and shining liquid. As they entered a large room, Neytiri eyes fell onto a large tank in the center of the room. The tank itself was filled with a glowing blue liquid, and stretched from the ground to the ceiling. Watching Neytiri the women pushed a few glowing symbols. The tank shuddered and slowly rotated so it lay on its side. A moment later the side opened like a door and hung open. Waiting for Neytiri to drop the seemingly dead Jakesully into it. Neytiri looked to the women, unsure of what to do. The women nodded. "it's be ok. That liquid in the tank is a liquid version of your atmosphere. He'll be able to breathe it just as easily as you can breathe out there. Don't worry." nodding but still unsure Neytiri lowered Jake's body into the liquid.

As Jake settled in the tank several sounds assaulted Neytiri's ears. Flinching and drawing her dagger, Neytiri looked wildly around for the source of the noise. Behind her the women in white spoke. "It's ok. It's just a heart rate monitor. His heart is erratic, almost off the charts. Neytiri I know you don't want to hear this but…… you need to leave." Neytiri turned to the women. "How do you know my name?" the women shrugged and continued to work. "He's talked about you…… A LOT. But you need to respect his wishes. It was his wish that you don't see him in his human form, and while I can't order you to leave I can only ask you to respect his wishes." Neytiri shook her head. "No. I will stay. I need to be with Jakesully right now. I need to know what is wrong. I need to know…………… if it's my fault." The woman shook her head and went back to her work muttering something in the sky people language. As Neytiri turned her attention back to the now vertical tank, a man came running into the room. "DOCTOR AUGUTSINE!!! I NEED HELP!! I CANT STABILIZE JAKE!!!" Neytiri's head whipped around as she heard Jake's name. a man was running towards them from the other side of the corridor.

The women in red wheeled around and followed the man back down the hallway shouting as she did so. Slowly, dumbly like a child Neytiri followed. She was unsure. These sky people were strange. They talked about Jake and yet Jake lay submerged in the tank of blue water, and yet she followed like a ghost behind the 2 running sky people. Slowly the room they were moving to came into view. It was a smaller room but still be enough for her and the 2 sky people to easily fit in. all around her on the walls hung machine that produced like a noise. Every few seconds symbols would scroll across the walls delivering information as it was needed. The man led the women over to a large panel of light on the wall. But Neytiri didn't pay any attention to them. Her attention was drawn to the sky person in the center of the room. The person lay on a bed, every now and then a wave of light would pass over the person's body, from head to toe.

As Neytiri looked closer at the laying man, he had a little hair on his head; most of it was shaved so only a thin lay covered the top, in a slight Mohawk style. His eyes were closed but showed bravery and determination. His skin was pale, like he had been underground and had not seen the light of day for a long time. A strong jaw line told her he was he was stubborn and head strong. Behind her the 2 sky people continued speaking. "I can't figure out why he's not awake. We pulled him the computer says he's back in his body, so why isn't he awake?" slowly Neytiri turned. More symbols flew across the walls, as another wave of light passed over the sky person in front of her. The women shook her head and rapidly tapped a series of symbols on a panel. The man on the table jerked for a moment his chest seizing seeming to pull the man off the table for a moment. A small tube connected to the man began to fill with a strange smelling liquid, and began to drain into the man. A heartbeat later the man's chest relaxed and he sank back down to the table.

The women in white shouted. "GOD DAMNIT JAKE DON'T YOU DARE DIE ON ME! Norm give him a muscle relaxant and then cycle the inhibitors in his chamber. Make sure all traces of his mind are gone." The man looked at her "doc-" the women wheel around grabbed the man by the front and practically threw him away from her shouting "DO IT!" Neytiri watched as the man nodded and left the room sprinting down the hallway and out of sight. The women was talking now. Chanting someone thing, but Neytiri couldn't understand what she was saying. From above her a voice spoke. "Doc you're hunch was right, Jake's mind is still in the chamber. How do I get it out!" the women tapped another symbol and shouted back. "If his mind is still in the machine then it's still in his avatar. You need to sever the link." Again the voice responded. "HOW THE FUCK DO I DO THAT?!?!?!" the women shook her head and wiped her sweating face and spoke. "ummmmmm. You need to knock out Jake's avatar or his mind will stay stuck in it. His mental patterns are degrading, we only a few more seconds or Jake's mind will die and both bodies will be empty.

NORM'S POV

Norm's entire body strained as he racked him mind trying to figure out how to send Jake's avatar into unconsciousness. He could flood the tank with any number of different chemicals that would render the avatar unconscious but those would take too long and Jake only had seconds. Then an idea hit him like a ton of bricks. Pressing a dozen commands norm hurled himself away from the console. As he did so the tank tilted so it was horizontal again. Tearing the drawer from the table norm found what he was looking for, a titanium serrated combat knife. Grabbing the knife as hard as he could norm threw himself at the now horizontal and open tank. He could see the avatar's eyes slowly shifting around. Grabbing it by a small necklace around its neck norm pulled the avatar's head out of the tank. He could see the confusion in its eyes. "Sorry about this Jake."

Drawing his arm back norm slammed the butt of the knife as hard as he could across the avatar's face. A moment later all the alarms stopped and the avatar flouted back to the bottom of the tank now unconscious. Norm felt his iron vise grip on the knife weaken and a moment later the knife dropped to the ground, with a metallic clang. Sliding down the side of the tank norm spoke in a shaking voice. "Doc……………. Did it work? Is jake ok?" after a seemingly endless pause doctor Augustine's voice filter through the com systems. "He's fine. Heart rates healthy, EKG is within normal limits. He's ok, looks like he's going to be out for a while though. We pumped him full of enough sedatives to knock out a Hammerhead Titanothere. My guess, he'll be out for…. 6 to 8 hours. Plenty of time to figure out what happened." Off in the distance norm heard Neytiri moving around.

GENERAL POV

AUGUSTINE'S POV

3HOURS LATER

Augustine rapidly punched in dozens of commands to the computer in front of her. She was frustrated. She had watched for the past few hours as Jake had made his way here. She had seen his physical condition deteriorate and she had watched almost frantic several times when she had thought Jake was going to die. Now Jake lay unconscious in the medical wing of the mobile lab, and even after running dozens of tests she was no closer to finding out what was wrong with him. Sighing grace nodded to norm as he set a cup of coffee in front of her. Behind her he spoke. "Need someone to bounce ideas off of?" grace shrugged and pulled up a 3D hologram of Jake's body. "I can't figure it out. What could be affecting both his human and his avatar body? I've scanned for a dozen things. Fungus, viruses, any kind of pathogen in the environment. Anything that could cause this. I've got nothing." Norm looked up from the hologram. "Why would those affect him?"

Grace shrugged and sipped the coffee. "Well it's like a placebo effect. One of his brains is infected, and while he may not be aware of it, his brain was. So every time we pulled him back into his human body his mind, brought the symptoms with it. While his human body may not be affected in the normal way his mind is making it be affected. So both bodies are showing signs of infection. It messed up I know but it's very possible. Unfortunately I can't find anything, you test. Not one god damn thing." Grace's anger skyrocketed and after a moment she hurled a dozen folder that had been in front of her across the room. As the papers fluttered in the air, norm put his hand on her shoulder. "Doc relax. It'll be ok. You'll figure it out." Grace closed her eyes and sighed willing the stress away. "I hope so. I've never not been able to help, someone. This is new to me." Norm shrugged. "Well mom says when you're unsure about something start from the simplest explanation and work your way up to the most complex. So let's do that. What's the simplest thing it could be?"

2 HOURS LATER

Norm and grace both sighed. They were getting nowhere. After a moment of thought norm stood up and began to pace up and down the room. Jake was still unconscious but that would only last a little while longer. And they had no idea what was happening in his body. Every scan they had done showed that his body was fine. However the scans didn't tell them if he was in pain or not. As norm turned around for the 6th time, he stepped on some papers. A second later norm slipped as the papers flew out from under his foot. Grabbing wildly at anything to stop him from falling, norms hand scratched and grabbed at the wall hitting the light switch as he tried to stop his fall. As his but hit the ground, the lights in the room went out plunging them into darkness, or at least it would have. From his spot on the floor norm hear grace gasp and begin punching commands into the computer's rubbing his back norm looked up and saw what grace had seen. Jake was glowing.

Well not all his body glowed. As he sat there on the ground norm looked at Jake stunned by what he could see. Jake's veins glowed, with an eerie blue light. Pushing himself off the ground norm gazed at the glowing Jake but gasped again as Jake's full body came into view. The entire right side of Jake glowed blue while the entire left side of him glowed the eerie green of the na'vi body paint. "Doc….. What the hell is that?" behind him grace shook her head. "I have……. Absolutely 100% no idea. But I'm gathering some samples now. What happened to Neytiri she might know something about this. Who knows maybe we'll luck out and the na'vi know what this is." Nodding norm left the room and after putting on a mask stepped out of the artificial earth and out onto Pandora. It wasn't hard to find Neytiri; she had left the lab and now sat just outside the door. She had sat down on the ground and looked to be in deep meditation. As norm stepped closer, he watched carefully. He didn't know this na'vi and didn't know how she would react to being disturbed. Of course he found out. As he stepped forward a twig under his foot snapped. The next moment he found himself lifted off the ground and pushed painfully hard against the metal wall of the lab. Gasping for air, norm hung their helpless to anything Neytiri could do to him.

AN;)well folks chapter 3 is done. Hope you all enjoy it.

I'm going to branch out a bit more in the next few chapters. I'm going to do some different POVs(point of views). Like Neytiri, Tsu'Tey, and maybe even Quaritch. Stuff like that. Just to deepen the story a bit. Also if there is anything you don't know. Like the name of something or stuff like that just type 'avatar wiki' into google. the site you want should be the 4th on the list. i found this site and it's perfect for the writer who needs to know what to use in a story.

See you next chapter.