Dawn of the forest | Tsu'tey

three. Avatar Bodies

Exiting the meeting room, which was the cafeteria, filled with people, she trembled over a swarm of people, each pushing and shoving one another around.

"Damn it," She stumbled on her words as she struggled to get through the enclosed crowd.

She trembled with anxiety as the tightness engulfed her chest, like the feeling of being in a locked box with no escape. No air, no room to move and pitch darkness surrounded her caging her in. "Shit," she cursed to herself, knowing what was happening and that she needed out.

Marines were shouting at each other to move out of their way; they all sound like a herd of angry elephants; some even started to push people out of the way, rushing to be somewhere else, and the hideous scent of stale sweat mixed with the sickly-sweet aroma of cheap perfume smells like old rotten socks.

As soon as the smell reached Freya's nose, she physically felt sick to her stomach. She grasped her mouth with her right hand, which lay over her nose to block out the smell. 'I have to get out of here," she thought, the aching feeling that developed in her stomach making her want to throw up.

She knew she should have waited for the crowd to ease out, maybe for an opening, but no, she wanted to get over to the lab as soon as possible.

She didn't feel like being crushed today, like some poor, pathetic ant crawling for its life. So she pushed her way through the endless crowd.

She felt dizzy and sick to the core; she didn't know how long she had been pushing her away through the crowd before a hand managed to take hold of her wrist and pull her out and into a room with little people inside.

All she could hear was the sound of buzzing and muffled voices in the background; her vision was blurry, and she felt like she was going to pass out.

"Ed... put- here..." Freya could barely make out what the people around her were saying as she felt her body being placed in a chair while her vision and hearing slowly returned.

"Ah- shit..." Freya said, rubbing her head, "Well, that was a knockout." She continued while sitting up. "Yeah, she's alright," someone says quite close to her. Freya's eyes gazed up at the voice to match the face, and she swore her cheeks were on fire.

There stood a tall female with strawberry-blonde hair and milk chocolate-like skin. "Well, you're hot..." Freya mumbled under her breath. She finally took the chance to stand up. She was in a lab with workers at desks or looking into microscopes.

"You must be Freya" a slightly shorter male came over to her, they were roughly the same height but she won by an inch, "I am Max, and this is Eden; she was just about to leave," he said, looking at the taller female.

"Yeah, I get it," Eden said, rolling her eyes and then walking out of the room.

"If you're wondering how you got here, it was Eden who brought you here" Max explains "It looked like you were on the urge to collapse any moment"

Freya nodded and said "I'll have to thank her lat–" She cut herself off as she spotted something in the corner of her eye. "Is that?  " She hesitated, asking Max, who stood next to her,

"Sure is" he smile as he saw the smile on her face, "You can go take a look if you want" With those words, she ran over to one of the tanks. Inside was a 9'0 female avatar; her face held little white dots across her nose like freckles, and her black hair was swaying in the tank's water.

"Holy shit, she's gorgeous." Freya was stunned at what her avatar looked like. She knew they had her DNA in the avatar, but she knew it would be this.

She heard voices coming from the doorway while she watched her twitch and move in the water. Turning her head to face them, she saw a familiar face.

"Norm!" she yelled in excitement, running over to the tall male and hugging his form "Freya!" he yelped in surprise but returned the hug.

"It's so good to see you"! She said this, stepping back from the hug. "You took the contract!" he said in shock. "I took the contract!" She nodded while smiling.

"What about your mom and your brothers? Are they alright with this?" he asked in confusion knowing how protective her mother is, "I have my ways"

"Oh! Freya, this is Jake; Jake, this is Freya," he starts to introduce her to a male in a wheelchair. It took her a minute to figure out who she was looking at.

"Bad haircut, dude?" she asked questioningly, the guy in the wheelchair rolled his eyes and looked up at her and says, "You said it was nice"

Freya gave a small chuckle as she rolled her eyes and then held her hand out to him. "Freya," she said, introducing herself. "Jake," he said, shaking her hand with his.

"Freya is in the avatar program with us" Norm says with a small grin "She's also going to be our doctor" Jake nodded his head, sending small smiles at the two.

"Thank you Norm but we should get moving" Freya looks up at Norm, smiling. 'Oh yes, let's move," Norm says, walking to the left of the room with Freya and Jake following closely.

"Hey! How are you doing? Norm, avatar driver"

"Uh link, here's the link room right here, this is we're connected to the avatars" As Norm continue his talk, Jake notices something a bit far back in the room, Freya taking notice of his movement followed behind him

What Jake was now seeing was three large tanks filled to the brim with water and inside were 3 large avatars just hovering in the water

"Hey! Welcome!" Max welcomed Jake, shaking his hand as Norm watched one of the avatars in the water.

Freya watched from behind the two, smiling. She stayed back a bit since she had already seen her avatar and wanted to give the two boys their time to see their avatars.

"Hey"

"Welcome to Pandora; it's good to have you," Max says as he and Norm go over to the other tank. Freya finally came over and took her place next to Jake.

"Damn, they got big" Jake chuckled, seeing how much the avatars have grown, "Yeah, they fully mature on the fight out," Norm smiled while watching his avatar. "So the proprioceptive sims worked pretty well"

Freya eyed Jake's avatar; just looking at it made her feel tiny. I mean, who wouldn't, He's like a 9'3 giant. "Yeah, they've got great muscle tone," Max says as he presses a button on the tank, "It'll take us a few hours to get them decanted but you guys can take them out tomorrow"

Freya couldn't help but smile excitedly, but she mentally sighed when she heard she couldn't go out just yet. "Yes!" She whispered to herself, like a child receiving their most desired gift on their birthday. Jake heard this and held a small smirk on his face, glancing back at her. She rolled her eyes, smiled at him, and then chuckled.

"There's yours" Max pointed towards a male avatar as soon as he said that Jake's head turned towards the tank.

She held a small smile as she watched Jake roll over to the tank while Norm and Max introduced themselves to each other. Freya slowly follows behind him as he watches the large body with such enchanted eyes; he's seen nothing like it, and it amazed him to his core.

"It looks like him," Jake says as Norm and Max come up behind the two "No, it looks like you" Norm says as Freya nods her head "This is your avatar now, Jake".

"I agree. I may not have known Tommy much, but I can say that it looks like you," Freya says, watching the avatar's body twitch.