Avatar 2 : After the bloody battle....

James Cameron is busy working on the second instalment of Avatar and it is learnt from credible sources that the story appears lacklustre. I took it upon my self to restore the sanctity of the franchise and offer this - my 2 cents to it - as the second instalment of the story. I have sent the manuscript to James and he is yet to come back to me. However, nothing that stops me from sharing this with you.

This story begins after the miraculous victory of Na'avi people over the relentless invading Humans. Some repetition is inevitable about the battle before we move ahead for he sake of those unfamiliar with the Avatar folklore. The battle was started primarily because of depleting mineral and fuel resources of a once blue planet -Earth. Humans started to do what they know best - seek, attack and loot. They ended up on Pandora - the home of the Blue Na'avi who lead a fairly blissful, spiritual (and affluent by their standards) life. In order to plunder the Unobtainium-rich moon of planet Polyphemus, they managed to basically do every evil they can think of - uproot the holy sites (remember the gigantic tree?) of the Na'avi, kill hundreds of Na'avi people, ridicule their religious beliefs, make them homeless on their own land to name a few. Basically, humans brush aside the Na'avi at their will.

In comes our hero - the mighty human Jake Sully. He prefers his Na'avi Avatar to being a human (can't blame him. He is limping as a human, running as a Na'avi) and lead the Na'avi to an unprecedented assault on the humans. Humans - facing such backlash for he first time - don't know what to do. They put up a good fight but fall prey to Pandoran animals who pay heed to the call from Mother Eywa and come running to cull as many humans as they can.  Helped by strange birds neurologically linked with Jake and others in the Omaticaya warrior clan, the entire Pandoran neurological eco-system wins the epic battle. After which, the Na'avi force the survivors amongst humans to return to Earth.

This is where we start narrating what happened after James Cameron left us. Na'avi, although fierce warriors and by now repugnant towards humans, were kind hearted. So much so that when a few humans requested asylum on Pandora, they agreed. The reasons for seeking asylum stretched from escaping criminal cases to lead a happy life away from a struggling starving planet. Some stayed on for scientific purposes too.Thus began a period of peaceful coexistence. 

Humans and Na'avi had a lot to learn from each other. The Na'avi did learn while Humans, belligerent as they are, did not. The humans conveniently ignored the Na'avi way of life - the neural network, the connection with nature, the flow of energy and simplicity. Nothing could win over humans. The Na'avi believed in taking just enough from the nature and returning it too. Life was a cycle. Destruction led to creation, creation was followed by preservation and after preservation came destruction again. Humans, having lived and forgotten Earthen philosophies of similar nature, were yawning at the Na'avi approach. Na'avi on the the other hand were in the awe of human technology. The man-made objects better than the creators themselves. Defence, agriculture, society, transportation equipment - capable of creation, destruction and preservation were looked upon by the Na'avi as Divine. A being less than half the size of Na'avi was able to create an insurmountable mountain of power for itself. Na'avi held humans in a high regard. Na'avi also studied human philosophies in an attempt to better their own society.

Years went by and how. The new generation of the Na'avi started severing the neural links with their fellow Pandoran beings. They were drenched in the new-found humanity. Na'avi allowed human Gods to be worshipped besides their own. Mother Eywa was the only term they knew for God. However, to avoid hurting the sentiments of humans, they stopped calling out to her publicly. In stead, they said every God is the same and happily accepted human traditions. Some Na'avi were apprehensive of the shift. But the majority, kind-hearted, started curbing all such thoughts. The masks humans had to wear on Pandora to avoid CO2 intoxication were made available free. 20% of the land Na'avi lived on was separately reserved for humans. The Na'avi language was changed to accommodate human words. A new Common Tongue was created to the fancy of humans. The clans reserved some of their authoritative positions for humans despite the fact that humans lacked the Na'avi martial and strategic skills. Humans, initially grateful to Na'avi, swore it to be homogeneous with the Na'avi cause.

Though now Pandoran, humans did not show any inclination to abide by Na'avi spirituality and way of life. Humans demanded for social laws pertaining to themselves different from the universal laws of Na'avi. Eventually, the humans were given their own social laws and with it the control over them. Humans increased manifolds in population per their natural traits. The land became scarcer. Hence, the humans cut forests and shifted there to find more land. Although away, humans in the new location were not disconnected from their original clan. And needless to say, some humans did stay back in the original location. Na'avi, again, did not complain.

Na'avi had very strict laws against crime. That was one of the reasons for the peace and stability. But when it came to punish humans, some of them alleged Na'avi of partiality against humans in cases of crime. Thus began the tiny waves of anti-Na'avi protests. The 'human' identity was exploited fruitfully. The protests reached the human colony. There was widespread show of discontent. It turned into violence over the next few days. The clans were ready to apologize. But the protests did not die down. One fine day, the human colony demanded for outright independence from the Na'avi. There was to be a fully human ruled colony of humans on the same very planet away from the 'clutches' of Na'avi rule. Some Na'avi clans were against the separation citing that the planet was theirs first and humans had promised to abide by the rule of the land. Humans didn't budge and there it was. They declared independence which was eventually agreed upon by Na'avi.

Na'avi were requested for patronage again, from the humans who were unhappy over the separation. They wanted to live with the clans and die by them. Na'avi agreed to them as well. Thus creating 2 societies on the same land - one of the humans and the other belonging to Na'avi and humans together. The new nation for humans was named 'Second Earth (SE).'

Na'avi way of life suffered a thousand deaths. Their peaceful abode was converted in to a battle ground again and by humans again. By the very species Na'avi gave shelter to. As they cursed their past, there was still hope of reconciliation. There was still hope that humans find some humanity after all.