Romancing the Stone . . . Toa
By Fatala
I finally put up this story! This story has been knawing at me for a long time. After reading most of the Bionicle fanfics I noticed that no one seemed to have written a romance fanfic with Pohatu. So since he is my favorite of the Toa Nuva I decide it was time for that to change. I have never done a romance before, mainly because I was never a fan of the mushy, lovey-dovey stuff, so please bear with me.
I don't own Bionicle or the title "Romacing the Stone", I just decide to borrow it because it seemed so appropiate. I only own Kassy and I'm not making any money for this so please don't sue me.
Chapter 1: So They Meet.
Kassy sighed to herself as she laid on the couch watching tv. It was another sunny July day; her parents had left early that morning, one to a convention, the other on a company retreat. That left her with no car, and nothing to do. She probably would have continued to do nothing if the phone hadn't of rung at that moment. Glancing lazily at the phone she let it ring again before moving to answer it. "Hello?", she asked picking up the phone.
"Hey Kassy. What 'cha doing?", greeted the girl on the other end.
"Nothing much. Why what's up Nickie?", she asked her friend.
"We're going camping. Want to come?"
"I wish I could but i'm stranded here with no car."
"How 'bout I meet you at Darce's? It's not too far is it?" Kassy thought about it. Her house was out in the MON (middle of nowhere) and afew miles from her closes neighbor's house. But that house was Darce's and if she took the short cut through the quarry . . .
"I'll be there in about a hour.", Kassy answered slyfully.
"Great! I'll tell Kim and Genny. Bye!"
"Bye.", she finished hanging up the phone. Jumping of the couch Kassy started packing. Some snacks, drinks, her CD player, a couple of CDs, the essentials, and she was packed. Kassy hoisted the backpack on her back and she was out the door.
It took her about a half an hour to make it to the quarry, just as the guards were leaving for lunch. Kassy glanced at her watch. 12:05. 'Good. It should take me another fifteen minutes to make it to Darce's house. I've got plenty of time.', she thought to herself smiling. The guards soon left leaving the coast clear.
"This is too easy.", she chuckled to herself as she crept out of the woods, following the road down to the bottom. The quarry was just a large area which had been dug into the earth for the purpose of mining the rocks, her father use to take her there before it was closed off to the public. Reaching the bottem she made her way across towards the oppisite exit when she noticed a strange glow amongst the dull grey granite off to her left. "What's that?", Kassy asked herself out loud walking over to where it was. The glow seemed to be coming from a strange stone which was partially buried in a freshly unearthed area. Digging it out she saw it was a crystal of precious opal. The beautiful sky blue crystal was kalidescoped with speckles of red, gree, orange/brown, white, black, and dark blue. Kassy had never seen anything like it before in her life. The hypnotic dance of colors made the crystal glow in an almost unearthly light. Suddenly the ground under her feet began to shake violently. Hearing the sound of crumbling stone she looked up at the top of the cliff, several blouders had been broken lose and were falling down towards her. She shoved the crystal into her bag as she sprinted out of the way just in time. Looking behind her, Kassy saw the boulders crash into the ground right where she hand been standing afew seconds ago. Just then the ground began to quake again, this time stronger than the last. Kassy looked down just as the ground gave way beneath her feet, revealing the black abyss below. She screamed out as she fell, further and further, until her head hit something hard sending her into unconsciousness.
The sun beated down at the dry, sandy desert ground as a warm wind blew threw the air. Standing atop of a tall cliff, Pohatu looked out at his home. He could see the village of Po-Koro in the distance surrounded by the desert plains of the Po-Wahi. Life had somewhat returned to normal after the Toa Nuva's last encounter with the Makuta. Since then the Toa's main task had been the restoration and rebuilding of their island home. 'It feels good to be home.', Pohatu thought happily breathing in the warm air. Pohatu was about to activate his Kanohi Kakama when he heard something that made him stop. 'A Rahi maybe?' It sounded like something breathing, but it was low and shallow; over to his right. Following the sound he soon found it's source. Pohatu stopped and stared at the strangest Rahi he had ever seen, if it was even a Rahi. It looked more like a Toa than a Rahi to him. Whatever it was it was hurt, he could see a small pool of blood near the top of it's head. Kneeling beside it, Pohatu slowly and gently raised it's head to see a bloody yet shallow gash. A groan escaped her lips as Kassy began to regain consciousness. Pohatu noticed it was waking up, a pair of smokey blue eyes stared up at him. Slowly her vision cleared reveiling the idenity of her rescuer which was not what she was expecting. Instead of seeing on of the security guards she found herself staring up at a strange, masked, biomechanical being. Seeing it's shock he tried to make light of the situation.
"You really bumped your head there didn't you.", he said with a smile. In a normal situation Kassy would have remained calm but this situation was far from normal. She quickly struggled out of his arms and tried to run but she didn't get very far as a disabling pain ran through her head causing her to collapse. Pohatu came to her side and gently picked her up into his arms. Kassy tried to force her way free again but this time Pohatu only tightened his grip. "Look, I'm not trying to hurt you. I just want to help." He looked down at her; she was trembling, her eyes having turned grey to relect her fear. Kassy stared up into his warm amber eyes which were obviously filled with concern. For some strange reason something inside told her that she could trust him. Kassy finally forced herself to calm down and after a moment she slowly nodded to him. "Now that's better. See I'm not that scary of a guy.", Pohatu smiled. "My villages is a little ways away. It'll be faster if I run so you might want to hold on.", he said again as he began to gather his energy. Although she didn't understand, Kassy followed his suggestion wrapping her arms around him. Just as she did he took off running. The landscape flew past them as Kassy tried to stay conscious, but it was no use. The gash on her head, and lose of blood, combined with the sudden burst of speed caused her to black out again.
Pohatu ran as fast as he could with his strange find back to Po-Koro. Several Matoran noticed his approach and ran off to tell Turaga Onewa that Pohatu had returned. He slowed down just before reaching Po-Koro's gates. "There we're here. Wasn't that fun?", he said cheerfully looking down at Kassy. Pohatu's grin turned into a look of surprise as he saw that she had blacked out. "I- I guess I went alittle too fast.", he said to himself sheepishly. He then turned his attention to Turaga Onewa who came out to greet him. 'I better not mention this to Onewa. He'd probable smack me in the head with his hammer staff.', Pohatu thought to himself before telling his elder of his find.
To be continued . . .
I hope it's good. I just wanted to thank Whale Shark 7 of giving me the much needed push of encouragement to finally get this story started. The next story I'll be posting a new chapter for is One's Destiny. The Chibi Curse will have to wait a little longer, atleast 'til I have a weekend alone with the two C and S's. I'm not only talking about Chaos and Stupidity but also caffine and sugar! 'Til next time bye.
