na'vi in the jungle

[Niwantaw]

Na'vi in the jungle
fanfic number two.

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[Niwantaw]

Chapter one – the concrete jungle
I put my jacket on and walked out of my home. It was a rubbish day and I had only just got up. The city was still dark. I hate getting up before dawn but as a Na'vi you're a second class citizen so you get what job you can and hope it isn't too bad. The humans just walk where ever they please and you have to get out of their way. Heh. I remember the old stories still. How the RDA had attacked us two hundred years, and destroyed the tree of souls. At least that's what they say but... A goddess that talks to you through a tree? Sounds like absolute bullsh*t. Anyway work was rubbish. My job is to clean offices all day long... Yeah fun. So this is Pandora now. A few hundred years ago it was a lush jungle with all sorts of life. Now there is still a jungle... but it's a concrete one inhabited by humans, cars and what is left of the na'vi. At work there was a commotion in one of the offices nothing major just a few raised voices arguing about something or other. At noon i got my half hour lunch break so i sat in the corner of the cafe just round the corner and bought a burger and scragged a newspaper. The usual was happening, a few attacks from the Na'vi freedom fighters but they were almost a joke. Fighting a war we've already lost. But some people will never give up I suppose.
I walked down the street back to the offices and got my gear and resumed the cleaning. At least the humans here listened to music I liked. But it was still a boring shift. Six hours later and I finally finished my shift and went home. If you can call a one room flat that you can cross in three steps a home. I sat on my bed and switched on the holoscreen. Nothing new was on the news so I just put on some old film. Funnily enough it was that film about the RDA losing instead of winning. I almost laughed at how hopeless it was. I shoved one of the pre-packed meals into the cooker. While it cooked I watched the film. It was almost pathetic. I switched it off when the food had cooked. The food as per usual tasted of something you couldn't quite identify and you weren't quite sure you wanted to. So I just shovelled it in and switched onto the news again to see if anything had happened. Not much although there was apparently a large number of threats made by the NFF to many major corporations that they will attack them if they didn't start being fairer to their Na'vi employees. So just garbage really. I switched it off and lay down on my bed. Another boring day over. I slept.

[Niwantaw]

Chapter two – Unrest
I woke up late the next day. Not too late but late enough so that I was going to have to eat on the way to work. I shoved some clothes on and grabbed a pre-packed breakfast from the fridge before heading towards the offices where I work. Two streets away I encountered a large group of Na'vi outside of one of the smaller office buildings. "hey" one of them said. "what?" I asked
"you might not want to hang around here, things are about to happen"
"what do you mean?"
"Just remember, If they come for you look for the Ikran, It points the way"
They turned away and headed into the building, leaving me thoroughly confused.
"Well that was different"
I carried on to work thinking about what they had said. What the hell did they mean? If who comes for me? I don't know. Well work was more or less ordinary; the same raised voices but... This time I could make out what they were saying.
"I don't think we can stay working without some form of protection, the NFF are hitting many of the smaller places..."
"They won't attack here because they fear the consequences now stop worrying because you're starting to disturb the other workers"
The voices faded. Now I started thinking. Offices being bombed, large group of na'vi telling me to not hang about. Sh*t.
The explosion tore the office down the street apart. The shockwave smashed through the nearby buildings, shattering windows and throwing people to the ground. I stood my ground as the glass in the room shattered, covering the floor in razor sharp shards of glass.
People were screaming. I walked over towards the window, looking out onto the street. There were bodies everywhere. The police and ambulances were already starting to pour into the street. I hurried down the stairs and got out of the building.
The rest of the staff had gathered just outside and the paramedics were checking over the other employees. They just took one look at me and said "go home, na'vi we don't treat your kind"
I hurried down the street, heading towards my home. I didn't notice the police car tailing me, nor did I notice the other things following.

[Niwantaw]

Chapter three – Knock knock
SMASH!
The door to my house was smashed down. I leapt out of bed as the police started to pour in. "You are under arrest!" One of them shouted, before ramming the barrel of his gun in my face. I held my hands up. Not offering any resistance as they cuffed my hands and led me outside. Then they bundled me into the back of the police car. A few of them laughed at my lack of resistance.
They all got into the other vehicles and the convoy started moving. "You'll love it in prison" the guy in the front said while laughing his head off. We had gone maybe a mile before we entered one of the industrial regions. Here the convoy split with several of the escorts splitting off going elsewhere.
BAM!
The vehicle just ahead of my one exploded as a high powered round smashed into it from somewhere among the buildings. Another shot rang out, smashing through the front of the car, killing the driver and blowing the side of the car away. I screamed as the force of the impact flung the car into the air. It smacked down on the side of the road. I stuck my head out of the gap and looked around. The police who had survived were scattered in whatever cover they could find, blasting away at a distant target.
I didn't hang about. I leapt out of the car and started running. Heading back the way the convoy had come. I ran and I ran, until I could run no further. I was outside a small shop. So I wondered in. Inside I found a collection of odds and ends. With things like light bulbs, small plants and snacks. The shop was run by a Na'vi. "You must be the one all the commotion" he said "quickly come over here" I walked over.
"Look I don't care what you've done or why you've done it but listen" he leant closer "Head two blocks north then follow the signs in the rough direction of the market district, along the way you'll find the Ikran, it points the rest of the way, oh and grab some clothes you can have them for free" I smiled
"Thank you, I'll never forget your kindness"
Half an hour later I left the shop. Now wearing a long coat and a large hat. I hurried but I didn't run. Police cars hurried by but no one bothered me. I saw one of the signs I was looking for and started heading towards the market district. I saw the Ikran. It was a massive painting. Covering the entire wall of the building it was on. It was as if it had just flapped its wings. I looked at it. Stared at it. Trying to work out what they meant by it pointing the way. Then I saw the doorway. The wings ended just above it as if they were pointing at it. I hurried over to it and knocked.
"Come in, we've been expecting you" a voice said
The door opened. I went inside. It was dark. Then the door closed and the end of a gun was rammed into the back of my head. I could just make out a figure in front of me. A bar of light flickered on something that resembles that resembled a pen and the figure swept it over me.
"He's clean" a different voice said
"Good" the first on said
the gun was removed from the back of my head and the lights flickered on
"Welcome to the resistance"

[Niwantaw]

Chapter four – The resistance

"Sorry about the welcome we can't afford to take any chances" the person who had scanned me said "my name's Jane" She said "and he's David" she pointed at the guy who had been pointing the gun at me.
"Hey" he said
"Anyway what's your name?" she asked
"My name is Christian" I said still not entirely sure what was going on.
"Well Christian I'll show you around here then we'll have a crack at teaching you to fight" Jane said
"fight?" I asked
"what else are you going to do?" she said
"you just somewhat unintentionally joined the NFF, not of your own choice but few of us got a choice either, the humans forced us to this" David said
"Now let's go" Jane said and led me over to one of the corners of the room, she moved the carpet over. Revealing a hatch in the floor.
"Trapdoor under the carpet... Bit of an old one" I said smiling.
"Original and best" Jane replied opening the hatch.
The tunnel down was dimly lit and the ladder looked pretty rusty.
"Let's show you around our home then" Jane said climbing down. I climbed down after her and David closed the hatch after me.
The ladder led down into a large cavern. It was dimly lit. It was sectioned off and from what I could see there was a dormitory, a couple of storage rooms, a mess and a firing range. As well as several side tunnels coming off that led elsewhere.
"This place is big" I said when I got to the bottom of the ladder
"Not really" Jane replied "It's the people that count and there's only about a dozen or so of us here at any one time, we're just an outpost"
"How many are here now?" I asked
"Five of us including you and Snuffy"
"Snuffy?"
"you'll see"
"where's are they?"
"Asleep probably"
"We were asleep until you came down" a voice that was blatantly a human said
A human appeared out of the darkness and another smaller shadow stood behind him, just out of the light. "My name's Tim" he said holding out his hand. I shook it
"Christian" I replied and them pointed at the shadow "Who's that" I asked.
"That is Snuffy"
the shadow moved into the light, revealing itself.
"No... It can't be..." I muttered fearfully.
"Yep, Snuffy is a viperwolf" he said with a massive grin.
"Come here Snuffy" Jane called.
Snuffy ran over and knocked Jane to the ground and licked her face. "Calm down boy, I'm happy to see you to" she said with a smile. She got back up to her feet and Snuffy came after me. "Good boy" I said patting Snuffy's back. "Looks like he likes you" Tim said walking over. "I'll show you around the place and then I'll get you a bunk"
There was Tim's workshop in one of the side caverns which was filled with assorted scrap, then a small medical room which was fairly well stocked, a firing range which had a rack of various guns as well as several targets. The final room was where everyone slept. It had been separated into small rooms down the side with a central lounge area. At the back there was a kitchen - Which I was definitely staying away from. Snuffy ran past and flopped down on an old sofa.
"You better get some sleep, we'll be pretty busy soon" Tim said while disappearing into one of the side rooms "you can have the one on the far right for now" he called out
I went into the room. It was empty apart from a bed and an empty box. I sat down on the bed and thought back over what had happened that day. And I asked myself – what have I gotten into?

[Niwantaw]

Chapter five – Violent awakenings

The image on the monitor froze. It showed a Na'vi entering a small building with an Ikran painted on the side. "So we're sure then, this is the outpost of the resistance?" a man sitting in a large black leather chair said after a few moments.
"Yes sir, we've been watching it for a few weeks now and that is the second one of those scum who has run there" A tall man in full uniform– a captain in the PDF – said calmly.
"Okay, I want you to take in two dozen men and kill everyone in that building, Na'vi and human as they will all be resistance fighters" the man who was evidently in charge said
"Of course chairman, with your permission I will leave immediately"
"Dismissed."
The captain saluted and exited the room. Leaving the chairman with his thoughts. He looked again at the frozen image on the monitor. "Why does your face haunt my dreams?"


"WAKE UP!" a voice shouted as someone shook me awake.
"What?" I asked still half asleep.
"they've found us so we're getting out of here before they arrive" Jane said "here take this" she handed me a pistol and a backpack. The backpack was heavy. "What's in here, a bloody tank?" I asked
"I wish" Jane said "There are just the essentials like food, water and some ammo in there"
"Okay, now how are we getting out of here?" I asked as we started towards the central chamber.
"There's another tunnel that leads into the sewers, from there we'll split up and head towards another hideout."
We hurried over to the foot of the ladder. Tim, David and Snuffy were waiting for us. "This is what we will do" Jane said when we reached the others "Me and Christian will head northwards via the sewers as they know his face, meanwhile you two will head westwards via the streets until you reach this place here" she pointed on a map that was spread over one of the tables "where you will turn to the north to reach the safe house here, any questions?"
"What about Snuffy?" Tim asked
"he'll come with us now let's get the hell out of here!"
We all started towards one of the side tunnels. Then we heard a loud smashing noise from somewhere above us.
"RUN!" Jane shouted. We didn't wait for further comments as we all started running down the tunnel. Tim stopped about half way through the tunnel and then planted something on one of the walls.
"Just leaving a little surprise if they try to follow us" he said grinning.
We reached the end of the tunnel where we were going to split up. "I'll see you at the safe house" Tim said before sprinting down one of the sewer pipes. "come on this way" Jane said before heading down a different pipe. Snuffy ran alongside her. I heard the charge go off behind me so I started to run along with them. Well this was a much more interesting way to live.

[Niwantaw]

Chapter six – on the run
We kept going along the pipe for maybe a mile. Then we stopped in a hub were several of the pipes intersected. "We'll wait here until nightfall" Jane said climbing onto a ledge about half way up the wall. I climbed up next to her. "How long will that be?" I asked her. She checked her watch.
"About four hours" She replied
We sat there in silence.
"How did you end up in the resistance?" I asked her after a while.
"Eight years ago my father was imprisoned for assault by the humans. He was attacked by a mob and had to fend them off with a crowbar he had been using in the warehouse. They did not care that it was humans who attacked him first, even though there was camera footage that was from the warehouse security cameras showing that they attacked him, they just claimed it was false and then provided the 'true' footage that was obviously fake but they did not care. He was imprisoned and then executed"
she broke off and looked away.
"Then they came for me, but a friend of my family warned me before they could get to my home. So I fled and hid among my relatives. One of them was part of the operation that keeps the resistance funded so he took me to them. There I trained to fight and also u carried on my career from before because I was one of the few Na'vi who had managed to become a doctor, not that I could get any employment"
"What did you do then if you couldn't find work as a doctor?" I asked
"Odd jobs mostly, I spent a year or so working in a warehouse as a labourer but was sacked when the company went bust" she said "after that I stayed at home, just doing odd jobs every now and then. Anyway you'd better get some rest before we leave here; it's a long way to reach the next safe place"
I leant back and rested my head against the wall behind me. "Good night then... if it's even night"
Three hours later she woke me. "You ready?" she asked me.
"I doubt it"

[Niwantaw]

Chapter seven - On the streets

We climbed up the ladder onto the streets. The sun was just setting. We climbed out then replaced the cover before running down a side street. "We'll have to stay on the move, we can't risk being found by the patrols" Jane said as we paused at the end of the street. "It's clear let's go"
We had gone nearly half way before something went wrong. We were crossing an abandoned factory when a half track pulled up just outside. "Sh*t!" Jane muttered "hide yourself" she vanished into the shadows. I dived into an open crate. Not the most unexpected hiding place but old ones work best. The troops burst into the factory. Lighting the derelict building with their torches.
"Spread out" One of the soldiers – obviously the sergeant – said to the rest of the men. "We're sure that there's an outpost here so let's find it and exterminate the vermin"
"OOH-RAH!" the rest chorused.
They spread out. Obviously searching for an entrance. Not us. I shrank back into the corner of the crate as one of the soldiers drew near. He looked over the pile of crates. I tried not to breathe. He drew closer as if he had spotted something shining his torch in each of the open crates drawing closer to my one.
I lifted the pistol. It had a bulky silencer screwed on the end. I pointed it at where the soldier would appear. I had seen this done hundreds of times in films. Just squeeze the trigger.  The soldier came into view. I pointed it at him. Surprise registered on his face as he saw the gun pointing at him. I squeezed the trigger. There was no recoil from the little 9mm. Just a sound like a wet kiss and the man fell backwards. His face ruined. His finger twitched as he died firing the entire clip into the air in a single long burst.
The other troops started yelling and diving for cover.  I scrambled out of the crate and ran towards some better cover behind an old fork truck.  Bullets pinged off the metal around me but none hit. I raised the pistol again and fired off a few more shots. But they were poorly aimed and done little apart from making a few holes in one of the windows. Then Jane appeared like a ghost among them. With a combat knife in one hand and the pistol in the other she cut them down. First she slit a throat before shooting the one behind her without even looking. Another fell to her blade. Then another. The sergeant drew a long blade with his free hand. Firing his pistol away at her with the other. She simply seemed to move as a blur. An unstoppable angel of death. She kicked another one and used the force of the blow to launch herself onto a stack of crates before leaping up and landing behind the sergeant with the pistol held to the back of his head.
"Give up" she said quietly.
"Never!" the sergeant shouted. Spinning around and smacking the gun away. He stood there with his blade gripped with two hands.
"Have it your way then." She said calmly before throwing her knife into his face. He crumpled.
She walked over and retrieved her knife and pistol.
"Let's get out of here before more of them turn up" she said softly. She grabbed the sword the sergeant had carried. "Here take this" she threw it to me. I caught it. It was a beautiful blade. Not fancy. Simple but yet still beautifully made.
"we must go, Now." She turned and lead the way onwards

[Niwantaw]

Chapter eight – But... You're dead

The monitor froze again. It showed the interior of the warehouse shortly after the fight. It was a mess. Fifteen minutes ago the video was received. Nobody heard from the squad who were sent there for over an hour before the scout team was dispatched. Now this. The chairman sighed "Get me Kain, Now!" he shouted angrily at one of his guards by the door.
"Right away sir!" The guard said calmly before turning and leaving
"Soon this will be over, very soon" he muttered to himself.
I had shoved the sword into my pack. It was pretty heavy but I didn't mind. I guess there must be some reason to hang on to it and my pack wasn't that heavy.
"how did you do that?" I asked her after we had gone a short distance.
"Do what?" she asked calmly while checking a side street "Through here"
"Kill all of the soldiers like that"
"Luck."
I followed her down the street to a small house. It had been abandoned a long while ago and the house was collapsing. Only two of the walls still stood. Inside there were a few craters which had obviously been caused by explosives. "what happened here?" I asked her.
"after the last major attack where the RDA bombed a group of resistance fighters who were holding up a convoy on the other side of the building, Several shells hit this house and destroyed it, The basement of the house was deep however and pretty large so we moved into it and hid the place where the shell had blown open an entrance to the staircase, this makes it pretty hard to get in but harder for them than it is for us." She walked over to a pile of rubble
"Up here"
I climbed on top of the pile of rubble with her. There was a small gap in the top. "Go on in" she said "there's a ladder on the right hand side"
I climbed down into the darkness.
"Finally" A familiar voice said. "We were wondering when you were planning on turning up" A light flickered on. Tim was standing there with Snuffy. So was someone I didn't expect to see again. "You died..." I muttered quietly
"Nope, still standing" My brother said

[Niwantaw]

Chapter nine – Reunion

"It's been a while Matt" I said "Hasn't it"
He laughed "Just a few years"
I thought back to what had happened.
The last time we met was four years ago was. We were out with some friends celebrating his birthday. We were all a little drunk and a group of off duty troops turned up. In the space of thirty seconds they decided that we were causing trouble even though we were the only other people there and the bar owner was talking and joking with us.
They started beating us and herding us away, splitting the group apart. One of them pulled a gun and shot into the other group. My brother fell and we all ran. The other group dragging his body away. I thought they were all dead. I had heard nothing from them and no one saw them alive again.
So I went on with life thinking he was dead. And now it appears he is not... So what about the others? I thought...
"What happened to the others who were with you?" I asked him after a few moments.
"The others... They didn't make it" He said sadly "I'll tell you the whole story"
It was through a fog of pain that I saw the events. They dragged me for a few miles it felt before we reached a hospital that would treat Na'vi. The doctors there treated the wound and our friends stayed with me overnight. In the morning, the soldiers came for us. They cornered us in the ward and carted us off to prison. For life.
They couldn't take it. Slowly they became shadows of their former selves until there was the uprising. I managed to escape but all the other people who tried were killed but somehow I managed to evade the bullets. The resistance picked me up on the edge of town. I had little choice so I joined them and have been fighting with them since.
"Or at least, I've been fighting or planning" he finished
"Why didn't you try to contact us?" I asked him
"I couldn't I was going to but the Resistance told me not to"
"Why?"
"They said it would bring the trouble to you"
"Fat load of good that did" I muttered angrily.
"I did what I could"
"It wasn't enough was it."
I walked on past him
"So where do i sleep?" i asked Jane
"Sleep? You've got training to do!" she replied
"Fun"

[Niwantaw]

Chapter ten – Day of rest

"Can't you do anything right?!"  The chairman was very annoyed. "They were bottled up, trapped , outnumbered, outgunned and one of them has never held a gun in his life and they still managed to kill a patrol and escape!"
"Chairman we..." the captain started
"Are all fired." The chairman cut him off mid sentence. "If you cannot kill two of those dogs then I will find someone who can, now leave before I am forced to call security to remove you."
The captain almost ran from the room.
"Kill him" the chairman said into the comm.
"So you won't die that easily then, still there will be other chances" he said to the empty office

Four hours of constant physical training is bloody tiring. I'm feeling half dead but still the training continues. Running, jumping, climbing and everything else you can think of. How the hell they managed to set up all this stuff down here I will never know.
"Get a move on! Come on you can go faster than that!" Jane shouted from the edge of the cavern.  I pulled myself up the last few meters top the top of the wall. Last bit just got to not lose my balance. Balls. I fell off the walkway and landed in the cold pool beneath it. Jane and everyone else started laughing and waited for me to come back up from the bottom of the pool.
But I didn't. I was exhausted to the point of collapse and I just could not muster the energy to swim to the surface. Several long moments passed and then I felt hands grab me and pull me up to the surface and out of the water. Whoever it was put me down by the edge of the pool on hard ground. I lay there limply.
"You rest there for now, I'll go grab you something dry to put on" Jane said quietly before leaving me on the floor. After a few minutes I pulled myself into a sitting position and shuffled over to the wall which I leant on.
Snuffy came over to me as I sat there and I scratched behind his ears.
"You're a good boy aren't you Snuffy, heh. At least you can go and sleep whenever you want" I said quietly to him. Snuffy made a happy yipping noise the run off. I leant back and rested my head against the cold stone of the wall. Waiting fir Jane to return. I must of fell asleep or something. Because after that I remember waking in a small room.

[Niwantaw]

Chapter eleven – The man in the black suit

The room was dark.  I tried to move but I couldn't. I panicked and tried to scream. No noise came from my mouth. A few moments passed with me like that. Then I heard footsteps approaching.   They grew louder and louder until they echoed around my skull. Then the door opened flooding the small room with white light. I could make out a shadow of a man. A man with a briefcase.
"I have a single question for you" The man said "Do you believe?" I opened my mouth to answer but he held his hand up then gestured at the wall along the side of the room. It was covered in what seemed to be strings of light.
"Each one of these strands represents a possible future, look at them. There are hundreds of thousands of possibilities and this is just for the next few years. Some are becoming impossible even now as we speak, and new possibilities are opening up" as we watched I could see it shift and change. "Some of these are more likely than others, some are almost certain while others are nearly impossible" he turned back to me.
"soon you will have to make a choice between one you love and one you do not know and you must choose carefully as one will lead to your death,  and the other will ruin you. So I would choose well my friend" the man turned and started to leave. He paused at the door.
"Do you believe?" he asked and then left. The room was dark again.

I woke gasping for breath and covered in sweat.
"Jane! He's awake!" someone shouted.
Jane ran over from the other side of the medical cavern where she had been sorting out something.
"Are you feeling alright?" she asked me.
"I've never felt better... what's all the fuss about?" I asked her.
"You've been out for nearly four days" she answered.
"What?!?" I almost shouted
"We found you unconscious where we had left you and we couldn't wake you" she said
"Well I'm fine now so can I go?" I asked
"Fine, but if you feel dizzy or anything just tell me okay?"
"Okay" I answered
I slid off the bed and stood upright. Took one step forwards and collapsed on the floor, smacking my head on the way down. Consciousness fled once again.