Puvomun Ayzìsìt Mawkrr

I hope everyone enjoyed the first chapter. The chapters are probably going to be short for a bit, as I'm not one for throwing a bunch of things at people on chapter. And while I don't own rights to the Avatar world, Winuk and the Na'vi of the Palulukan clan are my creation. (Mostly because James Cameron has only really introduced us to the Omaticaya.)

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Winuk sighed as he lay on a tree branch looking at the sky through the leaves. His eyes blinked slowly as his mind drifted, wondering if he'd ever find a female he could see himself mating with. Though he moved as a blur and had his knife at his perceive assailant before blinking at the young Na'vi standing in front of him, his blade at her neck.



“My apologies, Ngat” Winuk said as he put his blade away.



“I should have said something before I got too close, Winuk” the young girl said. “Olo'ektan wants to speak with you.”



Winuk nodded. “Thank you for telling me” he said as he headed into the Kelutral.



“I See you, Olo'ektan” Winuk said with a gesture as he stood before his clan leader.



“I See you, Winuk” the older Na'vi said in return. His Palulukan growled it's greeting too. “Something strange landed near the lake. Tsahìk says we should be careful. It feels similar to the time of great sorrow, the time of the sixth rider of last shadow, Jakesully.”



“I understand. Do you wish the warriors to just watch and learn or lead a party against them?” Winuk asked.



“Watch for now. No point in causing trouble where there is none.”



“As you say, Olo'ektan” Winuk said.



“Return when the sun fades and tell me what you learn.”



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Jessi sighed as she looked out the window at the small base that was being built. The lab monkeys said the Avatars would be ready for test runs soon but refused to give an exact time, probably fearing that someone would get made it things weren't ready in time.



“Do you think they're out there watching us?” came a voice from behind her.



Jessi didn't ever turn. “I'm pretty sure they are” she said. “If they aren't, Cody, then they aren't worthy of the clan name Palulukan.”



“That's the nearest clan?” the man behind her asked. He had maybe an inch or two on her six foot even height and blond hair in a close cut that showed he'd been a marine on Earth.



“According to the debrief” Jessi said. “They weren't close enough to the clans that booted the RDA off Pandora fifty years ago, so they've had no contact with humans but if what Dr. Augustine postulated from her work, it is very possible they know of the battle and such, all the same.”



“How did you get them to basically put you in charge of this operation anyways?”



Jessi looked over her shoulder at the man that had been at her side since basic training in the marines. “My winning personality, Cody. How else would I have done it?”



“By showing them that you are what some view as the best, and others view as the worst, traits in both the Nordic and Sioux Indian?”



“My winning personality” Jessi said with a grin. “That's why you're here too. I didn't want some pansy ass, paper-pushing, army general telling me how to run my people here. I'll let you hand them.”



“Too bad they didn't let you bring our whole crew” Cody said.



“Ferris and Spaulding were on other assignments” Jessi said. “Graham is out of the military, tryin' his hand at bein' a family man.” They both chuckled at that image.



“Everyone else is here. Randy's in charge of the gate guards, his choice not mine. You have command of the grunts in here and Terry has command of the fly boys, it's what she gets for jumpin' ship to the Air Force in the first place.”



“That it does” Cody said.



“I'm going to go pay the lab monkeys a visit, see if they have any idea as to how soon we can test the links and such.”



“Did you see how big they got?” Cody asked like a kid in a toy store that sees a lot of toys he wants.



“Yes” Jessi said. “It is quite amazing. Like a child being conceived, starts of as something really tiny and nine months later you have something the size of a sack of flour.”



Cody chuckled.

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“Tomorrow or the day after probably” the head lab monkey said. He was an overweight man with salt and pepper hair. “We're working to get them decanted and making sure the link ups are working right. If you stopped pestering us, we'd get it done quicker.”



Jessi scowled. “I've asked three times in the last three days when things would be ready to go. I've been rather patient about it seeing as you're supposedly the expert on this stuff and let you move at your own pace, don't make me change my mind about that.”



“We'll do our best to get things done in the next couple of days at the most.”



Jessi nodded and left, heading for where the Avatar were being stored until the links were set up.





The big blue body twitched in it's water bath. It was some big complex formula that Jessi didn't care about. It basically boiled down to some kind of nutrient bath. Either way, Jessi found it interesting to see her face on one of these big, blue bodies.



Around the room, lay the other Avatars. Most still floated in the containers they'd grown in over the last six years. Cody's and Randy's Avatars lay on either side of her own. She could, as with her own, see their faces, which was also one of the ways that the scientists kept track of who's Avatar was who's.

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