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CHAPTER 1
It was not unusual for Spyro to wake up from a black out from using too much of his magic. But something felt off as he woke up, his limbs felt longer, his flesh softer. Spyro opened his eyes slowly, they burned from the light that filtered in. He brought a too long limb to shield from the setting sun.
As he did, he saw that his purple scales were gone and in their place was blue hairless skin that had slightly darker strips. As he looked himself moreover, he looked like Hunter but bluer and a lot less fur. Spyro looked around his surroundings and saw that he was in a crater and was under a purple glowing willow. Not the worst place to wake up from a black out, it was nicer than the pirate jill cell, that was for sure. As he looked more around him, he saw something that looked like him but more female and she had a long thick black braid from the base of her head and stretched to the base of her tail, that had a tuff of black fur. This female must only have been Cynder. She was curled up in a ball, her long tail laying on top of her legs. There were also thin white tendrils covering her body.
Slowly and a bit painfully Spyro crawled his way to her. When he got to her Spyro took his new hand that had three fingers and a thumb, and he softly shook her shoulder trying to wake her up. But Cynder didn’t wake up as he had hoped, she only grunted, and her nose scrunched up. Soon Spyro’s vision was starting to blur. He looked up when he heard footsteps on the rock and moss-covered ground and the only thing, he could make out was three blue blobs.
Not knowing if they were friend or foe, he stretched his arm and shouted at them “Stay away from us!” When he stressed out his hand and a small burst of flames came out of his hand. In shock Spyro slowly lowered his hand and looked at it and looked at the three blue blobs that were now lower to the ground. Spyro then fainted from exhaustion.
12 YEARS LATTER
The day was uneventful for Spyro, he did his chores, went fishing with some of his friends, helped his sempul with his chef duties. It was near eclipse when Cynder told him that she was going on a night patrol with her brother Tsu’tey and his students.
Now it was near dinner time, and he was waiting for the group to come back to Home Tree, and he was making idle shat with his sempul near Toruk’s skull, he had his yellow prolemur, who he named Sparks after he first brother, the prolemur was on Spyro’s shoulder. Sparks’s head pops up looking towards the entries of Home Tree. The lemur hopped from Spyro’s shoulder to Eytukan’s and then to the top of Toruk’s skull he was making nerves cratering noises. It was then that they heard the commotion of many thundering hooves of pa’li. Soon both Tsu’tey and Cynder walked or in Cynder’s case waddled with her six moons pregnant belly, up to the father and son pair.
Tsu’tey went up to Eytukan and started talking to him in whispers, while Cynder went up to her mate Spyro and told him and just like her brother whispers to Spyro. “Your sister has brought back a dreamwalker.” Spyro’s purple eyes widened and looked at her in shock and she only nodded her head and turned around, her green eyes narrowed as she watched as Neytiri and a male dreamwalker came up to the four of them.
The male himself looked nothing special to Spyro and he wore the typical sky people fashion.
Eytukan looked at the male and then turned to Neytiri and asked her “Why do you bring this creature here?” she then replied to him. “I was going to kill him, but there was a sign from Eywa.” Eytukan glowers at her and points at the dreamwalker and says “I have said no dreamwalker will come here, to offend our home! His alien smell fills my nose” the rest of the tripe snickers and laughs at his joke at the male expense. But not Spyro, he knows his little sister very well and she would not do something like this without reason.
“Neytiri, please tell us why you have spared this dreamwalker.” Spyro asked her and Neytiri gave him a thankful look as she told their sempul “Father, many atokirina came to this alien.”
“ What's going on? ” asked the male and Neytiri replied in English to him, “ My father is deciding whether to kill you. ”
The male visibly gulped and said, “ Your father …” he paused and addressed Eytukan as he reached out his hand “it's nice to meet you sir.” The rest of the tripe did not take too kindly to his polite handshake as Neytiri pushed him back and both Tsu’tey and Spyro got in front of Eytukan bows at the ready to protect their olo’eyktan. Then there was a shout from the spiral trunk, it was Mo’at “Step back! I will look at this alien.” Neytiri softly told the dreamwalker “ That is Mother. She is Tsahik -- the one who interprets the will of Eywa .” The male looked to Neytiri and then Mo’at and asked her “ who’s Eywa?”
As Mo’at passed by Toruk’s skull Sparks leapt off the skull and onto Mo’at’s shoulder, as he too wanted a closer look at the dreamwalker.
Mo’at circles slowly around Jake, examining his tail and the end of his queue. Sparks griped a piece of his tattered shirt and let it go as Mo’at walked out of his reach. She then takes her tool and stabs him with it making him slightly flinch. Mo’at then put the tip of the bloody tool on her tongue. Her eyes widened and asked him “ What are you called?” nervously he said to her "Jake Sully.”
“ Why do you come to us?” Jake, still nervous, answers her “ I came to learn.”
“We have tried to teach other Sky People It is hard to fill a cup which is already full.” Jake huffed a laugh the corner of his lips forming a smirk and said to her “ My cup is empty, trust me. Just ask Doctor Augustine. I'm no scientist.”
“What are you?” licking his lips he then told her “ I was a Marine -- uh, a warrior. Of the Jarhead clan.”
“A warrior! I could kill him easily!” shouted Tsu’tey as he tried to step towards Jake ready to kill him. But he was stopped by Eytukan who spoke to the whole clan saying “No! This is the first warrior dreamwalker we have seen. We need to learn more about him.”
Mo’at walked up to Neytiri and gestured for Spyro to join them, Sparks jumped off of Mo’at and onto Spyro’s as he got to the two of them she said to them “Son, Daughter. You both will teach him our way, to speak and walk as we do.”
“What I have other things to do!”
“Why me? That's not fair! I only–”
Both Spyro and Neytiri had said at the same time only to stop mid rant by their sa’nok “It is decided!” both of her children hissed in anger. Spyro glared at his sister and pushed her lightly and whispered at her “You just had to bring the dreamwalker, didn’t you.” Neytiri hissed at him and took her hand and acted as if she was going to claw his eyes out of his head.
Mo’at turned to Jake and looked him in the eye. “ My children will teach you, our ways. Learn well, Jakesully. We will see if your insanity can be cured.” Mo’at said to Jake she then turned back to her squabbling children and told them both “he is the responsibility of the both of you.”
Everyone then started to walk off to dinner. The last to leave was Cynder as she got to Spyro saying to him “better you than me.” Spyro laughs at her joke and says to her “Very funny, so funny in fact you get to feed Sparks.” He then hands her Sparks, putting him on her shoulder. Cynder scrunched up her nose at him. But she smiled at him and then kissed him on the check and followed the clan leaders and her brother to dinner.
Jake looked at the brother sister pair and asked them “ so we all good right? The three of… ” he was cut off by Neytiri “ Do not speak.'' She then grabs him none too gently and moves him to where they store their extra supplies and gives him a piece of clothes and lets him change and then batches him up of his wounds and then the three of them go to dinner.
As they entered the committee fire pit the singing and the idle talking stopped and they all looked at Jake.
Jake laughs and waves to all of them and says, “don’t get up.”
Spyro rolls his eyes. The little joke reminding him of his dragonfly brother. Looking around for his mate he finds her, and he also sees Sparks going from family member to family member asking for handouts. Spyro then turns to his sister and says to her “I’m going to be setting by my mate.” He then leaves her with Jake and makes his way over to Cynder who was sitting next to Mo’at. As he sat down next to her Cynder, Sparks hops his way back to him with a piece of stolen fruit, most likely from Tsu'tey, his favorite to mess with. Cynder then hands him a leaf plate that she had saved for him.
“Thank you ma’cynder.” He thanked her and kissed her on the lips and started to eat. It was then that he then sees that Tsu’tey was glaring at Jake with a look of disdain on his face. Spyro smirks and says to Tsu’tey “Your face will stay like that brother, if you don’t look away.” Tsu’tey turn back to the four of them and says to them “These aliens try to look like our people, but they can't.”
“He seems dim to me. And his eyes are too small.” say Mo’at they all looked at the subject in question and then continued talking “Neytiri will test this "warrior." He may learn nothing -- but we will learn much.” Eytukan snorted and said “You speak the truth. We must understand these Sky People if we are to drive them out.”
Tsu’tey takes one more look at Jake and says to Cynder “I say she will kill him.” Cynder rolled her eyes and said back to him “She will not kill him, castrate him maybe, but never kill.”
They soon finished their meal and made their way up to their sleeping mat. Sparks jumps from Spyro’s shoulder and up to his nest that was in a hole. Spyro and Cynder lay down on their sleeping mat. Spyro then curls around Cynder, an arm under her head, a hand on her swollen stomach feeling their baby kicking. He breathed in her scent and slowly fell asleep to the sounds of the forest and to Cynder’s gentle breathing.
MORNING AT HELLS GATE
It was the next morning and Jake was making his way to the link room with Grace and Norm were following along and as Jake was making his way to the link room to connect to his avatar, but as he was wheeling his way their Dr. Grace Augustine was giving him a pop quiz of who’s who of the clan. She did this by showing him pictures of them that Grace had taken over the years with her time here.
“Mo’at. Dragon lady.” Jake said then her picture was replaced with someone else “Etucan”
“Eytukan.” corrected Grace and then told him about them “He's the clan leader -- but she's the spiritual leader. Like a shaman.” she showed him someone else “Sutey.”
“Tsu’tey.” Grace corrected once more. All of them entered the link room and Jake was shown another picture “Neytiri.” Jake stops his chair and takes a hold of the tablet from Grace’s hands. “He becomes the new clan leader, and she becomes the next Tsahik. Thay become a mated pair.” Grace says and then takes the tablet back and the group makes their way to the link beds. Jake was shown a picture of the purple eyed male Na’vi in the photo with him on his shoulder was what looked like a yellow Prolemur. “Spyro, but what's up with the weird looking monkey on his shoulder?” said and asked Jake.
“That would be Sparks the prolemuris and he has what we would call a melanosis” Grace tells him.
They got to the link bed and Jake hauls himself from his wheelchair to Link. After he was done Grace showed him the last photo, it was the green eyed female Na’vi “Tepifa.”
“Txepiva. But both she and Spyro prefer Cynder. Spyro is adopted by Mo’at and Eytukan, and Cynder is adopted by Ateyo and Artsut, who are also the parents of Tsu’tey. They are a mated pair.” Said Grace
“Got it, So, who’s this Eywa?” Asked Jake as he straightened his legs out. Norm who was silent the whole time spoke up “Who's Eywa? Oh, only their deity. The Great Mother. The goddess made up of all living things. You'd know that if you had any training whatsoever.”
Jake grabbed the tablet back from Grace, put the picture back to Neytiri’s and shows it to Norm and snarked back to Norm saying, “Who's got a date with the chief's daughter, with her brother as a chaperon?” Norm scuffed at him, and Grace yelled over the two of them.
“Knock it off. Jesus, it's like kindergarten around here.” As Jake settles into the soft embrace of the link, Grace inputs commands at the control station. Grace speaks more softly as if remembering a much better time. “Neytiri was my best student. She and her sister Silwanin. Just amazing girls. Cynder and Spyro those two kids, the love they have for each other, the absolute trust. You can only see something like that in movies. The last time I saw Cynder the most tragic thing happened to her and Spyro. She blamed me and the rest of the avatars. I haven't seen her in seven years.”
“I didn’t see Silwanin there with them. But if it makes you feel better Cynder is six months pregnant.” Jake said.
Softly and sadly, Grace said “No, Silwanin is dead, but I'm glad for Cynder. She deserves all the happiness in all of Pandora.” turning back to Jake as she finished putting in the commands “Okay, let's go -- village life starts early.” Grace said simile back to herself.
“Links ready!” Max says from the command center.
Jake lays down in the link bed and Grace leans over him and says to him “Don't do anything unusually stupid.” She then closes the lead of the link bed on a smirking face of Jake.