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Mahea's Story

Originally from the Omaticaya clan, my family was killed in a battle with aliens. My father and 2 brothers were killed while fighting. Just a child, I fled with my mother and younger sister during the battle. We were captured, they were killed. I fought for my life and ran. Here I was lost in the forest far away and found a clan. Alimatan. They have taken me in and showed me only love and understanding. I was blessed 100 times over.

Against my father's wishes I plan to become a warrior to defend my new family. With heartless aliens in my mind every day, my goal is to fight them if they return.

I spoke with the priestess in the forest who believes all is created by Eywa and I disagreed. Heartless aliens cannot be of Eywa. I asked Eywa to help me become a worthy warrior and to please let nothing come in my way of doing so. I think she has answered that I am my worst enemy.

UPDATE:

Now an adult, I am Ikran Makto. Also a mentor. My family came to me in a dream. They are well and is with Eywa. She is real. My father says I should show more respect to the preistess in the forest as I do now. He is proud of me but it is my calling to share the stories that were passed down from his grandfather's grandfather to teach the young respect for the forest and eachother.

The saga of Me 'ly

Prelude: 6 years prior to the beginning of our Timeline on Pandora, rovers were sent from the humans to gather information from the planet and DNA from the na'vi for the Avatars. My story begins at this time.

My name is Me.ly I am the daughter of Me'jo and Me'ju of the "Efotupereyila Clan" (People of the Sea) who dwelled on the golden sands by the Great Water, far toward where the sun goes for the night.

I wear the shirt with the symbols of my clan, the waves, and above that, the "Fko tupe ulte" (One Who Swims and Flies), a large mammal that lives in the sea and can soar just above the waves.

We would tame and ride the Fko tupe ulte much the same as the Tanhi and Alimatan people tame and ride the Ikran and the Ikranay. My father was a hunter and my mother a wise healer and we hunted the deer and pigs of the forest and the fish and Teylu of the sea and lived a joyous life in our small clan of about 27 na'vi. Eywa was with us and we were happy,

In the summer of my 13th season I was one day in the forest pretending to be the great Hunter Le'aan'tok of our legends and I came out on a ledge overlooking the beautiful blue sea and the beach below where the village was and I saw a strange Shining Sky BIrd of a kind I had never seen before.

As I watched, a small shining object fell from the Bird and landed in the water. Soon a bright light came from under the water and then the sea exploded with the fury of a raging Toruk, and a giant wave surged toward the shore.

I screamed but was too far from the beach to be heard and I watched in horror as the wave crashed the beach and destroyed everything that was there. I could hear the screams and yells of the oldest to the youngest of my people and then the wave went back to the sea and it was quiet………

It took some time to make my way back down to the place where the village was and all that remained were some of the bodies that the sea did not take with it and the shattered remains of my home.

I found my father and he was no longer among the living and I held him and my eyes made water. When I looked up after what seemed an eternity, I saw a strange metalic creature come up from the water and I slipped back into the forest and watched.

It went from one to the other of my dead clansmen and touched them with its long boney arms. It looked as though it was sticking them with something sharp and after a while it moved off into the forest and I never saw it again.

I remained for 2 days and nights with my people and at night I built a fire and I danced the dance of passage to the afterworld and sang the songs of glory for my people. On the 3rd day, being to small to bury them all I gathered Atokirina and placed one of the sacred seeds in the mouths of each of my departed clansmen.

Then I left my people to be taken back to Eywa and be once again a part of the world that gave them life.

I wandered alone in the world for the next 5 seasons learning to hunt and fend for myself and was so hardened in my heart at the loss of those I loved that I avoided all contact with any na'vi that I saw.

The forest and the creatures of it became my family. In a dream, the Lone Viperwolf came to me and became my spirit guide. He gave me the courage and cunning to survive alone in the world and grow to adulthood.

One day I had climbed the mountains and was at the floating mountains of the Tanhi and I came across another lone na'vi and saw she was wearing the shirt of the Efotupereyila Clan and even though it had been 5 seasons I recognized a girl I had known who's name was Marali.

We talked and she told me how she had survived the tragedy of our clan and of those few Clansmen who survived and disappeard into the forest before I got back to the village. She also told me of the Alimatan Clan that dwelled in the forest.

We soon became fast friends and decided it was time to join with a clan and start a new life. We asked, and were accepted into the Alimatan. I was planning all my life to be a hunter but when I saw that the Sky People who the Alimatan told me were called hoo mons had settled here, I felt that even though they did not seem to be wanting trouble, the reckless nature of the hoo mons might one day lead to dangerous conflict.

So I asked to become a Warrior and ride the Ikranay as I would have ridden the Fko tupe ulte in the clan of my fathers. I want to be prepared to help protect my new clan if there is fighting with the hoo mons for I could not bear to think of going through the terrible loss of my youth again in this life.

I am very lucky and Eywa smiles on me, for I have found a new happiness dwelling here among the Alimatan and I now call them "family".

That is my story..