Avatar: {Hybrid and Alien]

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When Layontsin was slowly regaining consciousness, she felt herself floating.

There was light all around her as she opened her eyes and adjusted to it. When she fully recovered, she looked around and realized she was actually floating in the air. Some strange objects near her did as well, spotting a drop of water floating near her face like a crystal sphere. Then she looked more around she saw skypeople floating around, which made her freeze. They moved across the air as if they could fly, with nothing to hold them to the floor or ground. Layontsin was awestruck for a moment as she saw them fly around without any sort of wings or any other type of help. Then she tried to reorientate herself but couldn't because she didn't know where to find footing. When she did find it, the anthro thanator latched on to a white railing to hang on there while inspecting her surroundings more. She noticed how the skypeople used their arms and legs to pull their bodies in a direction and then launch themselves slowly to another part of the place. So, seeing that, Layontsin tried to mimic what they were doing to move around. The attempt was successful, though she crashed onto a wall as she didn't plan how fast she would travel and where her arms would latch on. After recovering from the impact and reorienting herself once again, Layontsin examined her surroundings more in detail to see what this new place was.

The whole path was almost hexagonal, with rows and rows of square patterns on the sides. They were lit up by leveled lights that were all around the floor and roof...or sides as every side that she went it was felt that there was no right side up or down. Some skypeople that were floating by, with different types of white thin coats, began to head to each side and walls that laid all around, going and pressing something that made something rise up and out. It was a hidden compartment that...held a skyperson inside of it. The skyperson inside opened its eyes groggily as if it had been sleeping a lot, the ones with coats already outside helping them unstrap a flat thing from their bodies and emerge out from those compartments. Soon there were several of them emerging from the compartments and moving to float around, stretching and trying to get their bearings right. Layontsin continued to observe as each passed by, looking around in search for Asim. When she did spot him, along with his friends, already woken up, she moved to float towards them and follow wherever they went. They were all here, having recently woken up from a slumber that Layontsin didn't know how long it was. After a while, when everyone was talking to each other, there was a clicking sound on the walls that made some turn around in the direction. Layontsin followed their gazes and saw them staring at a gap on one side of the walls, which was starting to slowly open and reveal what was outside. "We are close. Let's go see it." Mikhail said as they went near the gap that was opening, Layontsin doing the same as well as some other skypeople. The gap was protected by another crystal see-through wall, but it showed with clarity what was outside.

What Layontsin saw took her breath away.

Outside there was darkness, but then some light from another place began to light things up to reveal the dark night sky surrounding everything everywhere. The stars here looked more vivid and bright, almost as if they were closer than ever. Further to the side, she saw a great blue sphere floating in the darkness as if it was hung by nothing. In front of the giant sphere floated another sphere, this one being much more smaller and almost dwarfed by the larger blue sphere. The smaller sphere was decorated in many colors; white, green, brown, and some blue. "Wow...that is our new home?" Lily asked as she placed her small hands on the see-through crystal, eyes sparkling similar to how Layontsin was. "That's right. This is our new home. Pandora." Asim said, with a bright smile as he saw the look on his small sister's face. Layontsin couldn't help but smile seeing them together, after what has transpired some time before. Then she began to realize what everyone was looking at. The small sphere in front of the larger blue sphere was named Pandora by the skypeople, which she had heard some na'vi speak about how the skypeople called the entire land. Then the stark realization hit her head when she started to make connections.

The small sphere, which hung in the vast and nearly empty darkness...was her home. The entire home of the na'vi.

This was the first time seeing everything, how it looked like from far into the heavens. Layontsin still couldn't believe that the world that she knew was round when all her life she has been on the ground and in the vast flat forest. Nor did it make sense as she figured that it would be impossible to think like that. However, here she was, witnessing it from the memories of a skyperson who had seen all of it in person. Layontsin continued to observe her homeworld from the crystal opening in awe and wonder when she heard one of Asim's friends talking. When she turned around and blinked, she immediately found herself in yet another memory and place. Here, various skypeople were sitting down upright against the walls of the place, which was duller in color in contrast of the white and bright lighting in the previous one. And now no one, not even Layontsin, were floating anymore. This came to a relief to the anthro thanator, which turned into panic as the feeling of the forward motion came and the shaking of the place made her grab onto whatever there was. What's more, complete sound returned more as she heard that outside there was the rapid rush of wind and a slight roaring noise that was similar to screeching sound. The slight shaking continued until it eased out and Layontsin felt that the place was starting to slow down. It was replaced with the feeling of hovering in a place, before the place shook one more time and the outside noises began to simmer down and stop eventually.

After a moment, an adult wearing forest-colored clothing began to stand up and call out commands, the others sitting down obeying as they placed their clear masks on and stood up from where they were sitting. Layontsin waited for them to move so that she could find Asim and the rest. Then the other end of the confined place began to open up, lowering so that a flat platform was made to exit outside. A hissing noise was heard and new air began to filter in, the air of Layontsin's home as she breathed in and exhaled. The skypeople began to trot out of the place in an almost perfect line, following the lead to the outside. Layontsin walked out from the place, realizing that she was inside the main metal village of the skypeople. The anthro thanator stepped out and looked behind her, noticing that it was one of the rare greater flying beasts she had seen rarely arrive. Outside, on the flat stone-covered ground, several smaller or larger metal beasts that moved on circular things went around while carrying the skypeople on top. Layontsin tensed up when she nearly got run over by a giant metal skyperson, it's hulking body making the ground tremble a slight bit as it walked. It was the same as the skypeople world, but less crowded and...having the same type of gloom to it. Up ahead, a large group of structures laid ahead, with the tall pillars giving off their nasty black smoke as Layontsin had seen before. On the other side, separated by a wall, was the forest that was home to the anthro thanator. She kind of wished she would go back there away from this place, but she remembered once more of Asim and that this was still his memory.

Once she spotted the group again, she followed towards the inside of the skypeople home.