Disclaimer: I don't own Bionicle or the movie this is based off of, only Kit and Darcius.
It was early evening on the island of Mata Nui. Toa Pohatu was escorting Gali and Kit back to Ga-Koro, questions running through their minds. Earlier, Turaga Vakama announced that he was going to share a tale with the Toa the next day, a tale that had something to do with the mysterious island that they discovered about a week ago. "What exactly do you guys think Vakama's story's going to be about?" asked Kit.
"Your guess is as good as ours, Kit," chuckled Pohatu, noticing the girl's excitement. Finally, with the village of water in sight, Gali and Kit waved good-bye to the Toa of Stone.
Weird. That was all Kit could think of to describe her surroundings. Everywhere she looked, there was mist and everything was in a grayish shade, even herself. It felt as if she had found herself in a negative photograph. Instinctively, she started walking, the mist swirling and parting as she walked through it. 'What is this place?' she asked in her head. Then, suddenly, a voice called her name. Startled, she froze and whirled around, seeking whoever it was that spoke. A light blue glow caught her eye and she ran toward it as the voice continued to call to her. As she got closer, she began to recognize some humanoid features in the glow. Finally, she reached it and found a familiar woman clothed in a flowing dress and the lower half of her face hidden by a transparent veil. "Tehreisha?" she asked.
"You must hurry, Kit," the Gate Guardian said urgently. "The fate of this realm rests on your shoulders."
"What's happening? What's wrong?"
"It's Darcius. He's at it again."
"What's he planning now?"
Instead of answering the question, Tehreisha said, "Time is of the essence," and began to drift away into the distance. "Hurry, Kit, and may the power protect you."
"No, wait!" Kit cried as she tried to catch up to her. "Tehreisha, come back! What's Darcius up to?" But, Tehreisha's glow disappeared into the mist, leaving a confused Kit behind. A brief moment passed as the girl stared off into space when she suddenly had a realization that hit her like a ton of bricks.
Bolting up into a sitting position, Kit found herself breathing hard, as if she just ran a marathon. Seeing that she was in her hut, she calmed down. "What a weird dream," she sighed as she placed a hand to her head. Then, something clicked in her mind. "No, it wasn't a dream. It was a message—from Tehreisha." Immediately, she got out of bed, got her shoes on, and was heading for the door, only to remember she almost forgot something. She slipped on her crystal and ran outside, hoping to find Gali. Macku was tending to her canoe when she heard someone call to her. Turning around, she found Kit running toward her.
"Hello, Kit," she greeted.
"Macku, do you know where Gali went?" the girl asked.
"She was heading that way up the beach," the Ga-Matoran pointed. "Why?"
"I have to find her," Kit replied. "Could you do me a favor?"
"Sure," Macku nodded.
"Row to Po-Koro as fast as you can," said Kit, "and tell Toa Pohatu to gather up the other Toa and meet Gali and me by those rocks."
She pointed to a jagged rock formation farther up north.
"Is something wrong?" asked the Matoran.
"I'm afraid so," answered Kit, and she took off.
On the beach, surrounded by huge jagged rocks, Darcius held his hand out in front of him and concentrated. Despite his power, what he was attempting to do was still pretty tricky. Soon, sparks began to fly from his hand and converge in mid-air, as if hitting a target. Concentrating harder, more sparks appeared faster and faster. He had almost accomplished his task when twin jets of water slammed him against one of the rocks. Coughing and sopping wet, he lifted his head to find Toa Gali and Kit, in her Toa armor suit, ready for battle. "Sorry, girls, but I'm not in the mood to play with you right now," he snarled and let loose his purple energy bolts.
Kit and Gali, expecting this, dodged. "Well, that's just too bad, Darcius," said Kit, "because I'm afraid we're going to have to insist."
Then, she launched an energy ball, which Darcius slapped away. However, it was still powerful enough to skid him away a few feet. 'She's obviously been practicing,' he said to himself, realizing that her powers were not quite that strong the last time they fought.
"You will leave now, Darcius," commanded Gali.
"And if I don't?" Darcius challenged with a slight smirk. Whatever in this world made the female think she could tell him what to do?
"We'll make you," a voice answered.
The three looked up to find Tahu and the other Toa, including Takanuva, standing atop a nearby cliff. As a unit, they flipped down and joined in. "And, it will not be pretty on your part," Onua added.
Darcius leered at the new Toa of Light, "I see you've done some growing since we last met."
"I've been through some interesting changes," replied Takanuva, remembering all too well how Darcius tried to kill him.
"We don't know what you're doing here, Darcius," said Kit, "but it's not going to happen."
Darcius simply grinned. "Foolish child, you haven't even begun to comprehend my plan. Before you and your friends know it, this world and everything in it will be warped beyond recognition."
"Watch it!" Kopaka cried, but his warning came too late.
Darcius spread out his arms and unleashed his energy bolts, stunning Kit and the Toa. Then, he quickly resumed what he came for. He concentrated and sparks began to fly from his hand like before. He then became aware of something happening, and he found himself under attack by the Toa. Despite this, he continued what he was doing; he could feel it, he was so close. Because all of his focus had to be on his task, he dared not fight back. Suddenly, a strange warp appeared before him. 'Finally,' he thought to himself, only to feel a heavy pain in his side. Clutching it, he turned to find Kit with energy glowing from her hand. The girl then released an energy beam, but Darcius leaped into the warp to dodge it.
"You're not getting away that easy," Kit declared, and she took off after him.
"Kit, no!" Tahu protested, but she was swallowed up into the shrinking warp, which disappeared right after her.
The Toa tried to make sense of what happened when they heard a voice call to them. It was Turaga Vakama. "What happened?" the Turaga of Ta-Koro asked.
"It's Kit," said Tahu, "she's gone."
The Toa then explained what had happened, although, if they were expecting Vakama to tell them of a way to bring the girl back or follow her, they were disappointed when he simply said, "Go back to your villages for now, Toa."
"But, what about Kit?" asked Lewa.
"I've got a feeling that she'll be fine," the Turaga assured them, although they were not quite sure how reassured they felt.
Cold. She felt so cold she was shivering like crazy. Slight convulsions accompanied the shivering. Frost covered her now faintly white skin and was even in her hair and clothes. Her eyes were open, but she didn't seem aware of what was going on around her. In fact, her eyes appeared to be glazed over. Kit pressed her hands against her head, as if she was holding onto it for dear life, and gasping sounds occasionally escaped from her mouth. Then, suddenly, she became aware of voices.
"What is it?"
"What's wrong with it?"
"It's in shock, give it room."
Then, she began to make out six blurry figures that were gathered around her, one of which knelt down beside her and laid a hand on her shoulder. "Vakama, do you think you can use just enough of your power to warm it up a bit?" the figure asked.
"I'll try," someone replied, and another figure approached her.
It took a firm, yet gentle hold of her upper arms and Kit could feel a warmth spreading from its hands throughout her body. The sudden change in temperature caused her to let out a little gasp, but she soon relaxed; it felt so good and she felt much better. Finally, her senses returned to normal and she sat up, only to look into the red-colored face of something that looked like a robot. She just managed to fight down the urge to back away from it before she caught herself, but her halted action didn't go unnoticed. "It's alright," the robot, whom she suspected was the one referred to as Vakama. "We're not going to hurt you."
'We?' Kit thought and looked over his shoulder.
There, there were four more robots, one brown, one green, one white, and one black. As they all stared at her, she realized that they were not exactly robots for she could see some patches of what appeared to be organic tissue. Feeling a hand on her shoulder, she looked to her right to find yet another one of them, a blue one. Although, it seemed built differently from the others. 'A female?' Kit wondered.
"Are you alright?" it asked.
"I think so," Kit replied, only to hear surprised gasps from the others and cause Vakama and the blue one to snap their hands back.
"It can speak-talk?" the green one blurted out.
"Of course I can talk," snapped Kit as she gave him a slight glare.
"Sorry, we didn't mean to offend you," the black one apologized.
After accepting his apology, she asked, "Who are you? What are you? And where am I?"
"My name's Nokama," the blue one introduced and pointed at the others. "Those are Vakama, Matau, Onewa, Nuju, and Whenua. We are Toa and you're on Metru Nui."
Kit's mind paused for minute; something about those names sounded familiar, as if she had heard them before.
A question from Onewa, however, brought her back to reality. "You gotta name, kid?" asked the Toa of Stone.
"Kit," the girl replied, "and I'm a 'she', not an 'it'."
"Gotcha," Matau confirmed.
"Where're you from, Kit?" asked Whenua with a curious gleam in his eyes. Kit paused, her mind suddenly going blank. For some reason, the name of her place of origin was lost to her. No matter how much she tried, she couldn't bring it up.
"I—I can't remember," she frowned. While the Toa couldn't help but look on with sympathy, Kit asked, "How did I get here?"
"You appeared in a flash of light," answered Vakama.
"Maybe all you need is time," Whenua suggested about the girl's memory, then he turned to Vakama. "Mask-maker, you saw Toa Lhikan last, right?" The Toa Metru of Fire confirmed with a nod of his head.
"What did he say we could expect?" asked Nuju.
"He told me to stop the darkness. That I had to save the heart of Metru Nui," he replied. "Then the Dark Hunters took him away. It was because of me."
'Toa Lhikan? Dark Hunters?' Kit wondered, but before she could ask anyone anything, the Toa of Fire suddenly stiffened up, then he looked like he had seen a ghost. It was as if he was reacting to something they weren't seeing.
Then, all of a sudden, he twisted and turned his body, jumped and ducked like crazy. Finally, he looked as if he had snapped out of whatever was happening. "What's with him?" she asked, but everyone was as clueless as she was.
"All of that smelting must've cooked his head," Onewa suggested.
"I saw it," Vakama said breathlessly and fearfully. "Metru Nui was destroyed! The Great Kanoka disks were heading right for me."
Kit turned to Nuju and Whenua, but both either shrugged or shook their heads. "Thanks for dream-sharing, Vakama," Matau 'thanked'.
"Well," Whenua stepped up, "according to ancient legend, one Great Disk is hidden in each metru."
"And finding them would prove to Turaga Dume that we are worthy Toa," added Vakama.
Onewa, however, couldn't believe it, "So, we go on a scavenger hunt because a fire-spitter stood too long in front of his forge?"
"Visions can be a sign of madness, yes," said Nokama, "or messages from the Great Spirit. But, as Toa, we cannot afford to ignore them." Everyone had to agree with that, including Kit. A plan was then formed that each of the Toa would retrieve the Great Disk native to their own metru, meet the others back at the temple, and they would present both themselves and the disks to Turaga Dume.
Little did any of them know that they were being watched by a hawk-like creature called Nivawk, and he saw and heard everything. Deciding that now would be a good time to leave before he was spotted, he took off without a sound. Meanwhile, the Toa were discussing how to go about finding the Great Disks. "Where do we even start looking?" asked Nuju.
"Hey, guys, over here," Kit called from the Toa Suva. The Toa gathered to see what she found. It appeared to be a map of some kind. "And, there's writing here," the girl pointed to some Matoran letters, "but I can't make it out."
Nokama peered at the writing and translated. "It says here the Great Disks will be found by seeking the unfamiliar within the familiar. The rest seem to be riddles about the locations of the disks." Once the Toa of Water read off the riddles, she turned to Kit. "Kit, I think it's best that you stay here until we get back."
"No problem," the girl shrugged.
"And, be sure to stay out of sight," Onewa added. "Don't let anyone see you."
"Why?"
"One word—Vahki," Whenua answered.
Seeing that the word meant nothing to her, the Toa explained that the Vahki were the order enforcers of Metru Nui. If she were spotted by a Matoran, they would most likely run to the nearest Vahki, who would capture her, and take her to the Archives in Onu-Metru, where, Whenua pointed out, she would be placed in a containment tube and placed into stasis, turned into a living, but asleep, specimen. "Point taken," Kit said with a slight shudder, not at all liking the idea of being asleep forever just to be stared at by the citizens of the city.
"We'll be back as quick as we can," Nokama assured her. Finally, with a better idea on where to look, the Toa departed, leaving Kit to find a seat. For a brief moment, she had a vague feeling that she heard the words Matoran, Toa, Turaga, and Great Spirit before, but she couldn't place them. With a shrug, she got comfortable and waited.
The hours passed, and Nokama surfaced from the water, admiring the Ga-Metru Great Disk in her hand. She almost became somebody's lunch retrieving it. After stashing the disk away, she swam for shore. When she got there, she found Onewa waiting for her. "Any luck?" he asked. To answer his question, she held up her disk with a triumphant smile.
"And you?" she inquired as the Toa of Stone helped her out.
"You tell me," he said, and showed her his disk. "I'm just lucky that when that 'mountain in balance' fell, the hole the disk was lodged in came down on me."
With a slight chuckle at the thought, Nokama led the way back into the temple. However, when they got inside, Kit was nowhere to be seen. "Kit?" Nokama called softly.
"Hey kid, you here?" Onewa asked.
"Guys," Kit answered as she carefully peeked above a slab.
"What are doing over there?" asked Nokama.
"I heard some Matoran coming earlier and I hid," Kit explained, and she joined them.
Soon, Matau arrived with his disk, followed by Nuju and Whenua. All that was left was Vakama, and the group waited, and waited, and waited. Kit sighed impatiently; it had been about two-and-a-half hours since Whenua arrived, and there was still no apparent sign of the Toa of Fire. "I'm telling you guys, something's not right," she said. "Vakama's been gone way too long. Something's wrong."
"Don't tell me you just had a vision of the future too," said Onewa.
"No, just a feeling," replied Kit.
"I agree," spoke up Nokama. "Even if he had some trouble along the way, Vakama should've been back by now, or at least sent word to us on how he was doing. I say we go to Ta-Metru and see if he's alright."
"But even with all five of us, Ta-Metru's still a lot of ground to cover," Nuju pointed out. "That 'root of fire' he's supposed to find his disk at could be anywhere."
"Excuse me, but there are six of us," Kit corrected.
"Sorry, Kit, but you're no Toa," said Whenua.
"One does not need to have the size, armor, weapons, or power of a Toa to save lives," Kit countered. "Besides, I'm not going sit around here any longer while you guys are having all of the fun. From now on, where you all go, I go. I put my foot down on that."
"You can't be serious," Onewa chuckled.
Looking the Stone Toa straight in the eye, she dared, "Try me." There was a slight pause as the Toa gazed upon the young human, then Kit added, "I assure you, if you guys in any way, shape, or form restrained me from leaving this place, I would still find some way to get myself free and catch up to you at Ta-Motru."
"Metru," Nuju corrected.
"Whatever."
The Toa couldn't help but remain speechless as the girl gave them all a steeled gaze. Seeing that she was not going to back down, or be convinced otherwise, Whenua gave in with a sigh and a slight smile. "Alright, you can come, but be careful." Kit nodded in understanding, and followed the group as they departed from the Great Temple.
"And stay near us," Onewa added, and Kit nodded once more. The Toa of Stone then turned to Matau and said under his breath, "Girl's got spirit, I'll give her that."