AVATAR: A NEW ENDING

Neytiri’s parents were still opposed to her relationship with Jake; no mixtures were allowed on the Na’vi world. Neytiri and Jake wanted to fight for their love, but they could not find a way to make the rest understand how they were suffering because of their being apart.

One day, they decided to meet secretly at the sacred tree to ask for its help. They talked to the tree hoping that it would listen to their problem. Suddenly, something strange happened: a bright light covered them and a soft voice called their names. They felt something embracing them, like a shield. The voice was from an ancestor answering to their prayers: Neytiri was allowed to turn into a human being and to go to Earth and live freely with her love.

They couldn’t believe what they were listening to! The soft voice disappeared abruptly, together with the lights and the feeling of peace. There was a loud noise, an explosion, and an enormous and blinding white light lifted them up. They could see nothing except from their faces for a couple of seconds, till they felt another explosion and fell to the ground.

They looked at the place, and then at each other. Amazed and confused, they finally understood: they were on Earth! They were humans!

“Cabs never stop in NY,” 

Jake muttered tiredly while Neytiri was struggling with his wheelchair as she tried to cope with the cab drivers who seemed to ignore her signs. The city was crowded as usual: people were running against the clock; men with their suitcases; women in high hills; noisy mobiles; traffic with its red lights, then yellow, green, red again; everything in the right usual place. 

“Everything is so insultingly chaotic!” she regretted.

Suddenly, there was a sound in particular which didn’t seem to fit in all that. It seemed alive, vivid. 

“Where does it come from?” Neytiri asked while taking a look around the place.

 “There it is again!” she yelled in the middle of the street, full of excitement. 

Jake shook his head towards the sound and recognized it at once. It was an elephant’s bellow, and it came from the zoo, just a couple of blocks from there.

He tried to hide what he had found out, but she immediately started asking him about it, staring at him suspiciously. He told her the nature of the sound; he knew he had no choice but to tell her the truth. There were animals living right in the city. She simply said,

“Take me there! I’m not going anywhere else!,” and took the handles of the wheelchair and marched firmly towards the sound that then was heard a third time.

“Conquest and heroism? Is that what you, humans, think to achieve by keeping animals in cages?” Neytiri enquired sadly as she looked how pleasant people stood up in front of every cage. 

She could hardly speak. She was suffering as much as those captured animals, and it seemed ironic how furious she was in the middle of so many happy and excited people. 

“Well, you’ll have to learn how to cope with this if you want us to be together,” Jake said firmly. 

His words made her even more disappointed. Her anger had become so deep by then, that she started shivering. 

“Please,” he said tenderly, “Let’s go”. 

He took her hand and both moved towards the exit.

The night had come; Neytiri was watching the city from Jake’s flat window. 

“All those lights, all those giant skyscrapers, all those people and cars moving like tiny insects, little bugs,” she said to herself. 

Right at that moment, a strange but certain idea came to her mind. The city was a huge zoo for people! She ran towards Jake and explained anxiously what she had discovered. He tried, with no success, to calm her down. 

“Is that what you do when someone has become inconvenient? You just try to calm things down? No fighting?,” she screamed out. 

“We’ll talk about it tomorrow, I promise,” he said patiently as he moved towards the bedroom. 

She felt alone for the very first time in her entire existence.

Neytiri couldn’t sleep a wink. The images from the zoo kept running in her fevered mind. She had to do something about it, and she had to do it quickly. She escaped. She was decided to set the animals free. 

“And then…who knows?” she said silently.

She arrived at the zoo by midnight, when all the animals were slept and there were no people around. She started opening the cages, one by one, with the utmost care, so as not to make the creatures get excited. In spite of her attempts, the animals went wild and she was not able to control them as she would do in Pandora.

All the animals were running away. The elephants’ steps made the ground shake like an earthquake. People were terrified and everything was out of control. The city was in a complete chaos.

Neytiri started feeling frustrated and so she tried to escape home and find help. Suddenly, she ran into a menacing snake which left her petrified. Being face to face, she tried to make a spiritual connection to calm the beast, but it was useless.

The snake bit her and immediately the poison started flowing through her veins. Feeling dizzy and about to faint, she stared at the fierce look of the creature.

She could see nothing else for a while. She was totally blind and only heard the din around her. She didn’t have strength to move or even speak because of the pain. There was no one to help her. She was dying.

Neytiri couldn’t stop thinking of Jake, her great love, the reason for her to come to Earth and leave everything behind. He was at home now, resting peacefully while she was there, in the middle of the chaos she herself had provoked. 

It seemed to her that there was nothing to do, and she was right. Nothing could stop the effect of the poison. She was going to die soon, very soon. The only thing she hoped was that in this new world, the Earth, there was someone like Eywa waiting for her, or at least a place full of energy and peace where she could rest.

Suddenly, she could get out of the darkness where she had been for a moment, and saw a bright light descending from the sky, directly over her. There was no sound, and nothing else around, only that light. The sensation was very pleasant, no more pain. She closed her eyes and still saw the brightness; she was part of it now. All the anguish, terror, and desperation vanished into the air together with her entire body.

All the memories from her life in Pandora and the last moments on Earth with Jake came to her mind and filled her spirit with love.

Neytiri needed and wanted to leave a message, and to teach humans one of the most important things she had learned during her life: to take care of nature, and the world where we, humans, live.

While she was thing of this, she saw hundreds of seeds falling from the sky and then beautiful plants, flowers and trees growing from them. And from among all these, an enormous and leafy tree appeared just where her body had been lying.

She could see everything from up above, and felt satisfied with her legacy. Now people would be able to admire the exquisite scene in the middle of the city, and their moved spirits, in view of such beauty, would feel inclined to take care of it.

Neytiri felt her mission was complete.