Honestly, this might be the hardest chapter to write. Maybe, because it is kind of just filler. But whatever.

A War in the Heart

The cold cliffs, and icy slopes of Ko-Wahi were dangerous to trek through, while the Ko-Matoran were doing well the rest were either shivering in the intense cold, or moving at such slow paces that the Ko-Matoran seemed to think they were idiots. The only matoran who was moving faster than the Ko-Matoran was Kapura, whose ability to 'get places quickly, by moving slowly' was allowing him to press ahead. Hahli cursed him under her breath, which annoyingly turned to mist as she breathed out. She glared at it angrily, before pressing upwards into the icy mountains.

Hahli shivered as she moved, the wet snow she could deal with, she was used to water she was a Ga-matoran after all, she could not deal with the cold, and the way that the air burnt against her skin. That was beyond her ability to cope with. As she moved through the icy sludge she saw what they were moving towards, the well hidden city of Ko-koro. The snow blew up around it, making it hard to spot, along with its pale colors that matched the ice and cold. She had been there before, she had faced off with them in a game of Kohli, the city was filled with unspoken words, it was not silent though, the wind made noises against the stone, creating howling sounds, so it was half a silence, not a full one.

Takanuva examined the walls of Ko-Koro, they were a sign to him, a symbol of his banishment. He stood at a fork, where his path, and those of his friends and allies, both Matoran and Toa, parted. He turned, examining the vast crowd of shivering and downtrodden matoran who were making their way into the city. He sighed, turning, a voice cried out from behind him. "Wait, Takanuva, Toa of Light, wait."

As he turned back he saw Nokama, the elderly Turaga of Ga-Koro standing there, "I have come to tell you. The toa of fire may have banished you, and your allies may seem lost, but there is always hope. The stargazers have seen many things, and this was not one of them. Perhaps your path leads in a separate direction than ours, but I think you shall find aid wherever you go. To many you remain Takua, the Chronicler, Toa Savior, and leader of the Company. There are those who will follow you to war, and they may need to for in these dark days it is only a matter of time before war. So have faith, have strength, and do not fear the waters that would carry you."

Takanuva blinked, a bit confused by the Turaga's words, but he nodded, "I will take your advice as best I can."

"Good. Remember that, it would do you well, also remember that this is not truly your fault." Nokama said, a weary smile on her face.

People kept telling Takanuva that, that what happened wasn't his fault, he was weary of it though, it was his fault in most ways possible. It was his duty to kill Makuta, instead Makuta had only gained more power. That was in every thinkable use of the term, his fault. Blaming someone else was just an excuse for him to avoid the guilt. That was the truth about it, the entire truth. He nodded once more, turning away to leave.

Hahli, Macku, and Hewkii, had taken enough supplies that Hahli had been sure someone would notice. Looking at the sharp blade now hanging across her back she actually felt disappointed that they hadn't noticed. Hewkii had decided to keep with his Kohli Stick as a weapon, which Hahli suspected would end terribly. Macku on the other hand had found some sharper knives to use, the others would be meeting them at the main gates, and when they did the group would head out. They would follow the tracks of Takanuva as far as they could, a group stood a much better chance than anyone, even a toa would alone. "So, how are we going to do this, blow up the gates, or tunnel through the rock to get out?" Macku said, a little too excitedly.

"No, I was thinking we would just open the gates." Hahli replied, raising an eyebrow.

"Oh, sure that works as well." Macku replied.

"Damnit, here comes Hafu. He'll probably have stopped seven times to carve a statue of himself before we even reach the bottom of the snow drifts." Hewkii said looking at Hafu, who was grinning as if he was very proud of himself, with a rope around his chest, a bag hanging off.

"Hafu, what did you do?" Hahli asked looking at the bag.

"Oh nothing much, just stole a lot of Kanohi disks, what have you guys done, what a Sword and A couple Knives, and is Hewkii really still using his Kohli stick?" Hafu said, pointing at Hewkii when he made the last comment.

"I'm almost ninety percent sure you're going to be using your Carving Pickaxe more than any of those disks." Hahli replied.

"Well obviously, the disks are for the others." Hafu responded with a smug grin. Hahli just sighed.

"Speaking of which, that looks like Taipu, and Kopeke." Hewkii said pointing to the two other matoran.

"Great, so we're just waiting on, Kongu, Matoro, Neyma, Nuparu, Kapura, and Tamaru." Hahli replied.

Over the next half hour the matoran gathered, explaining the different tools, and weapons they'd found, most of them were disks, the most common weapons in the matoran world. There were obvious reasons that they were good to use, they had a purpose in being flat and easy to make, they were also exceptionally easy to use. After another twenty minutes of organizing the weapons and assigning one or more to each person the group left, heading out into the snow drifts.

Listen full honesty, this wasn't a fun chapter to write, it probably won't be a fun chapter to read. I apologize for that, but things are slowing down before they speed up. Everything else was a bit rushed, and at this point I realized that the characters need way more time to develop before I continue down the previously planned story route. There will be fun, and interesting stuff ok, just not in this chapter. This is basically a way of moving the story from one point to another, it contains very little of the plot, and I apologize for that. I also may have made my Team of Matoran too big, don't worry it will be smaller later (I'm not saying people will die, and I'm not saying they'll all Live, I'm just saying the story might break the team up a bit so we have more time to focus on each character).