Tears fell unhindered down her cheeks, the area around her pillow soaked through with salty liquid. She tried to breath and slow the furious pacing of her heart as she felt heat creep up her face. She started feeling dizzy, the tears refusing to stop falling. She opened her eyes and saw a flash of blue in the corner, a long tail swishing which morphed into a tall silver haired into. "Sesshomaru-sama." She passed out as the blue to silver faded finally to black.
Sesshomaru looked down at his miko. Her heart was pure, her memory long. She would not forget the pain of feeling her home die. He would do everything he could to help her. His former enemy, his friend, his sister, his lover. She was everything to him. WIthout her Rin would have died along with his heart.
"Kagome, your pain will not last long. The dead Earth has a memory you now have. The history of it's life lies in you." He picked her up and left the room. Never noticing a blue-skinned and tall figure that was watching the both of them, fade. An illusion of what is to come.
An alarm sounded above their heads, yet the figures sleeping in the cryo-spheres never noticed save one. Her green eyes flicked open and she shoved against the door. Not caring or just not aware of the door release button that was by her hip. With the strength of her demon ancestors, she punched the door out. She broke her only means of survival.
Running to the front of the carrier, alarms blaring along the way Kitchi looked in on her family, coming to rest by her father and mother who were asleep in their cryo- spheres. 'Why did they not notice?'
Taking a second to assuage the curiosity known to all kitsunes, she tapped their screens. The systems overrode the sleep cycle settings. Unless the ship's internal systems are rebooted or the cryosphere is dislodged, they will never wake. "I see. So he really did screw us over. Cheh, figures."
The alarms started going off faster and louder. She spared one last look at her parents and took a look at her grandmother, of whom was stirring.
Kagome's eyes jerked opened to see Kitchi on the other side of her up she saw the red lights spinning overhead. The ship's alarms were going off. Kagome pushed herself forward and pressed the release button, opening the sphere door. "Kitchi. What is happening here?"
She stepped out and towards her granddaughter. "The ship is defective. The systems are older than they look. Dad was conned."
Kagome's head flew up. "We're dying?" She walked forward, passed her granddaughter. She raced to the control room. The drive screens were black. The navigation screens were flickering. Heading to the drive seat, Kagome was preparing to sit down when all of a sudden the shipped stalled and they were thrown forward. Kagome into the drive seat and Kitchi on the floor.
She looked up to find her green-eyes granddaughter passed out. Looking back down the hall, Kagome saw Kitchi's sphere door broken. "You were going to die alone?" Slowly sitting up again, Kagome stood and walked over to the little raven-haired teen. Picking her up, Kitchi was heavier than she looked.
Kagome ran to her own cryo-sphere just as Kitchi was coming too. Dropping the teen in, Kagome activated the outside lock, disabling the inside one. "Grandmother? What are you doing?"
Kitchi saw the sadness and resignation in her grandmother's storm blue eyes. "Saving my family, I love you granddaughter. I love you all. Very much."
Kagome pressed the cryo-cycle, promptly knocking out the teen. "More than my own life." Taking the luxury of a few seconds to spare one last glance for her family. Promptly walking forward, Kagome shut the hatch door that separated the rest of the ship from the control room.
She went back to the navigation screens and switched them to single-pilot. Then ship was shaking as an alarm went off. Shifting her gaze to the right, Kagome saw one of the engines had quit and the sub-port for the oxygen filtration systems for the deeper chambers on the ship was damaged.
She struggled to get the engine systems to stay online. "Come on damn it! WORK!" She hit the boards repeatedly, trying to get something to come on. Rocks and space debris were hitting the outer shell of ship. Damaging the hull and starboard. Kagome sighed after checking a monitor behind and seeing how much damage was done to the interior and exterior.
"Not bad for limited flight experience. Kagome raised her eyesbrows. In any other circumstance shoud would have laughed at her own sarcasm, but today was not the day.
We're not going to die just yet." She muttered, rushing to the pilot seat, Kagome looked through one of the minisculely cracked screens and searched out planets. Hospitable ones with an atmosphere convergence similar to how Earth's used to be. Maybe one that has a human presence on it. Setting in parameters for the ship's navigation to pick up any sign of human life. Pulling the ship through the dust of space, the search beacon lit of like a light.
A million miles away, a human navigation transmitter silently beeped. A prolemuris threw the rounded object, when a screen came to life, flashing a beam of light that caused it's eyes to flicker and black starburst to bubble behind it's lids.
It screeched and shot into the trees. 16 miles off from the the new home of the aliens the transmitter still beeped.
Kagome flipped a switch to activate the thrusters and honed what remained of the navigation system onto that beacon. The ship alarms wailed louder with each passing minute. Alerts popped over the screen of the various monitors surrounding Kagome.
The engine thrusters activated finally. Setting them off for Pandora and a new life.
All was not calm any longer and the ship's navigation system failed and she had to steer them safely. Whispering prayers to Amaterasu and any other Kami that would hear her, she followed the set path and tried to fly them to safety. The closer they were, the more dangerous it became. Various debris from the War of Greed.
Feeling a pulsing within Eywa, Mo'at gasped awake from her sleep. "Eywa speaks. Her Child is coming home." A brief image of a human with raven black hair comes to her mind, behind her eyes.
A sense of foreboding flooded Mo'at. She wrapped her arms around herself, yearning for the touch of her mate. "Eytukan, my dearest. May Eywa protect you." She stood, gracefully, upon her branch and moved down. Momentarily pausing to watch her youngest and only surviving daughter curl around her own mate.
Thinking back on the human, she gripped her arms tighter. "May Eywa protect us all." Feet touching the floor, she looked to the sky.
A bright star was shooting through the sky, seeming as if coming towards them. That was so. Mo'at gasped and screeched, running towards the falling object. Fear and curiosity both electrifying her senses.
Neytiri jumped from her sleep, seeing her mother running from the Home Tree. Jakesully doing the same. The spoke to each other wordlessly. Grabbing their weapons they ran down the branches, a few Omaticayan warriors doing the same.
Mo'at was farther ahead than they could reach. The forests of Eywa were quite to the group following the lone runner. Looking up one of the warriors saw what had captivated the shaaman of their clan.
Pointing up, his pace slowed and a few others followed, as they watched a star descend down to them. "Eywa bears us a gift. A star to light our eyes and smiles."
Jakesullly rushes past them, following their gaze he looks again. Slapping the first warrior he saw, Hi'teyan, on the head, "That is not a star. Sky People are falling."
Kagome stood from the pilot's chair, pressing the lever at her foot she pushed the chair forwards, the system would do the rest to steer them down onto ground. The alarms rang louder, warnings flashed on the main left screen, the ship was falling apart on the outside. Their increased speed causing the outer materials to split apart and fall, exposing the highly conductive softer shell to ignite due to friction with the planet's atmosphere. The ship was catching fire quickly.
Running to the pilot deck, Kagome steered the ship to began a sooner descent. The land was getting closer in such a short time. In an effort to stop an explosion, Kagome stood straight, trying to compose herself quickly. Sparing a second she breathed in and out slowly. Closing her eyes, she did something she hasn't done in years.
She began to form a barrier around the ship, starting from the inside out with each individual inside, from child to parent, to push the fire onto the barrier and away from them all. Seconds passed, eyes still closed she didn't even notice that the planet was far closer than it should be. She had forgotten that her body was far more delicate than many of the other individuals onboard.
From the scope of an outsider, or the aliens watching the 'falling star', the star turned pink and then burst into flame.
Mo'at stopped in her tracks to watch like a gawking onlooker at a car accident as the ship first turned pink, then an orange and red flame burst out and the star fell faster and faster.
There was a moment of complete silence as it seemed the planet and even Eywa, held her breath while the star\ship descended and finally. . . hit. A burst of light erupted from the crash site and the world let out a small breath. There was chaos as Mo'at screeched again. The people at the new home base woke with the crash and screams. Not knowing what was going on they all sat up and grabbed their loved ones, holding the children closer.
Neytiri finally caught up to a frozen Mo'at. "Mother." The two stood there. Many feet away from the crash site. Watching as the crater caught fire and there lay out, perfectly in a line, bodies lay side by side. None of them fully human. Some had human heritage.
Deeper in the forest, lay a raven-haired Miko, her body burned in placed and broken in others. She was so still, the viney fingers of Eywa coming to wrap her in healing arms. Within her mind, things were not so still. Not so silent. Screams of pain rent every pervading corner of her thoughts. Fear for the survival of her family, pain wracking her, chaos and then. . . silence 'You are home, Daughter of Earth. Now Daughter of Eywa.' Eywa thrummed with energy to feed and aid in the healing of the Miko.
'Who are you?' Kagome's eyelids fluttered, she was awake, but oh still asleep. Healing. Learning.
'Someone who knows you. I see you, Child of Mine.' The voice had no human-like body, so she took on the form of what is close to Kagome. Her mother. Shifting gently. Eywa moved through and found an image of Kagome's mother, Kun-Loon, in her mind.
Taking a moment, Eywa formed the image and met the mental body of Kagome, helping the Miko stand Eywa stepped back. The two regarded each other. Kagome with caution and sadness as she watched the face of her dead mother. Eywa, through Kun-Loon's eyes, with a love and fondness for the Miko, something not of Pandora.
Jakesully stood in the front of the group with his lifemate, Neytiri. They all watched the group that lay far from the wreckage site, near them. They did not know what to make of the sight.
"Humans?" One of the Omaticaya warriors in the group spat. "They will die!"
"NO!" Jakesully stepped forward, taller than most Na'vi males he was able to quickly push back the warrior. "They may look human, but they are not. They are different."
Kagome stepped back from Eywa. 'You're dying too?' She breathed out, sighing.
Eywa looked sadly at the Miko. 'When the humans came the first time 40 years ago, their technology was poisonous. Their poison seeped into my plants. I have lost many of my people, Na'vi and other.
'As time went by the technology grew obsolete they threw it into the air of my atmosphere, hovering at the edges and that is what you and your people ran through. The last ten years the poison grew stronger with the human population growing. I was not able to sustain, filter and care for my body and people.'
'Your body?' Kagome reeled back in shock. A vision, image of some sort came between them, showing Kagome the planet before she landed. 'You are the planet. Earth never spoke to me, only Goshinboku.'
'The Earth, was a dear friend. It's life was short, not as long as one such as I.' Eywa, in Kun-Loon's body walked to the Miko.
'So what do you want me to do?'
'Heal me, like you tried to do my friend. Humans killed your planet. Do not let them do the same to me.' Eywa engulfed the Miko in her mother's arms.
Neytiri left the group and walked towards them slowly. The closer she got, the more creatures from the forests, viperwolves and thanators, species known to never get along, got close to them as well.
The three groups of species watched each other warily. The viperwolves moved to surround the sleeping group while the thanators stepped forward to protect them. Jakesully, Neytiri and the Omaticaya warriors moved backwards, away from the creatures and foreign invaders.
"What is going on?!" Hi'teyan yelled from somewhere in the center of the group.
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"Survival. They are my family. Not even Eywa would let them harmed." Kagome stepped out from the cover of Eywa's forests. Walking between the wild creatures and the rather impressive and giant blue aliens before her.
"Who are you?" Jakesully tried to walk closer to her at the same time one of the smaller viperwolves came to her side. It hissed, the sound somewhere between a growl and a screech. The sound lost in the general commotion in the group of Omaticaya Na'vi.
"Nothing you've heard of before, Jakesully. I'm human, but not so much." Her gaze looked over all the aliens around her.
Hi'teyan tried to launch forward at the Miko, anger infusing every part of his being. The quick reflexes of Neytiri and many others, grabbed him before he got too far. "Your people are not welcome here! You've killed my people and poisoned my home! You're killing us now!"
The viperwolves bristled, some even coming to surround the miko, the sleek composition of their skin rippling as their manes flared out in defense of her. She placed her hands on the biggest viperwolf, the Alpha. Silencing the pack, Kagome's gazed flickered over them and they stood down.
"I have never been a part of nor will ever be a part of a race that is willfully ignorant and greedy to destroy. I lay no claim to my humanity." She and the Alpha walked closer to the group. "I was a holy person of the humans. Long ago, they forsook magic and healing for science and war. My name is Kagome and I ask that you take in me and my family."
She stood there watching them all, the silence was piercing.
A/N:
If anyone has character names that sound native to Pandora and the Avatar-verse, I will use a few of them and give you a personal shout-out come next chapter. Even send me a small character profile. Warriors, maidens, one or two or even three other village leaders (from the different Na'vi tribes) and village elders for the Omaticaya people, I am looking for.
