Disclaimer: I don't owe Bionicle, the toys all belong to my brother.
Heroes of the Past
Metru Nui
Pohatu jumped off the boat the moment it hit shore, happy to be back on land.
"Never again!" He said. Behind him, he could hear Lewa laughing. He shot an angry look at him, Lewa had complained far more than him during the journey.
Lewa jumped on shore straight after him and turned to wait for the third Toa sitting in their boat. Gali walked after them a minute later, without saying a word. She had been acting weirdly for the whole journey. At first, Lewa had thought that it was because of his complaints, but then he realized that there was more.
"What's up Gali?" he asked, she merely shrugged.
"I don't know, it's like... how can I explain?" she asked. "Like, when you know there is no danger, but you still feel as if someone was about to attack you every moment. Only, different."
Pohatu frowned, he had no idea of what she was talking about, he hoped that the others would come too, maybe one of them felt the same thing and could explain it better. After a while, Tahu, Onua, Kopaka and Takanuva reached shore, shortly followed by the Turaga. None of them seemed worried, even though they all were silent. They all waited for the Matoran to come, then, the Toa and the Turaga set off for the center of the island.
As they walked towards the center, the Toa could feel everybody staring at them as and more than once Tahu saw Matoran whispering to each other and pointing.
-They probably never saw Toa Nuva before- he thought. He wanted to make sure that nobody got scared, if something happened like the last time with the Turaga... he didn't even want to think about it.
But Gali could see other things too, in the shadows, she could see the glower of Vahki eyes, watching all their movements.
Zadakh, said a voice in her head, not Bordakh, these don't like to chase, they like to fight, be careful, don't show them your strength. Huh? Why should she be careful? She hadn't broken any laws-yet. Still, the voice in her head kept giving her warnings.
They were nearly at the center of the island, when Takanuva started saying that he remembered something, for example the Moburzakh. Nice thing to remember. Some minutes later, the Vahki started to change.
Nuurakh, said the voice these hide behind corners and then jump. Be really careful. Gali wanted to tell the voice to shut up, but then everyone would have thought she was insane or something, so she stayed quite.
Kopaka could see the Vahki too, thanks to his Mask of X-Ray Vision, and he wasn't sure what to think about them, he knew they weren't going to attack him unless he broke some law, but he couldn't help not trusting them. All the other Toa seemed calm, and didn't seem to notice that they were being spied on.
Suddenly, there was a creak coming from the corner in front of them.
Vahki! Over there! Be ready.
-Shut up. Shut up!- thought Gali, this wasn't the right moment to listen to a voice telling her to be ready because of Nuurakh.
They are going to jump at you when you'll get there, you'll have to duck at the right moment.
This was getting really annoying.
Gali watched how her brothers and the Turaga walked on, as they reached the corner, they went on without anything happening.
-See?- she told the voice, then she stepped forwards, in that moment, another creak sounded next to her.
It's about to jump! DUCK! NOW!
This time, Gali didn't try to silence the voice, she just did what it told her, nearly instinctly. Out of the corner of her eye she saw a Vahki fly over her. It landed a bit further and stared down at her, studying her. No Matoran had ever escaped it before. True, this wasn't a Matoran, but it didn't change anything, no one escaped the Vahki.
Gali stood up slowly, her eyes fixed on the Vahki. At the same time, she was listening for creaks behind her back, in case the rest of the group decided to attack her. Her brothers were staring at the scene, ready to come into action if the Vahki attacked again. As soon as she was back on her feet, she started retreating back to the other Toa, until she felt Tahu pull her back. In all this time, her eyes had never left the Vahki.
As soon as she was back with the others, they turned around and walked away quickly.
"Why did it act like that?" asked Tahu to Vakama after some time.
"It didn't know about six Toa Nuva probably," answered Vakama
"Yes," answered Onua. "But why did it attack only Gali then?"
"Probably they had been waiting there for a lawbreaker for hours, they were losing patience." answered Nokama. "Then, when Gali passed, it just decided to attack her and see how she reacted."
"Great," mumbled Gali. "We've just come here and the Vahki already try to catch us."
In the meanwhile the Toa and the Turaga had reached the center of Metru Nui. Vakama knocked on the door of a huge building. After a while, it opened, and another Turaga appeared on the other side.
"Vakama!" it said, surprised.
"Lhikan?" answered Vakama, surprised as well.
"Yes, it's me old friend, come in."
The Turaga walked in followed by the Toa. Before they entered the building, Gali saw once again those eyes, staring after them. Shuddering, she followed the others. Turaga Lhikan led them up some stairs, talking with Vakama all of the time.
"So many things have changed after you went away. Many things, but not the Vahki." said Turaga Lhikan, Vakama had just told him about the weird attack to Gali. "They still attack anyone who breaks the laws, or anyone that they don't know. Especially after she disappeared."
"She?" asked Nokama, frowning.
"Yes, you know who I'm talking about."
Pohatu looked at Onua, who shrugged. The Turaga had many secrets and probably they were never going to find out the whole truth. For the Turaga hadn't told them exactly how they had freed Lhikan and the other Matoran. Tahu had asked them about it for days, even during the boat trip when the Turaga's boat had gotten near enough, but without any result. The Turaga always changed subject, but they had promised to tell them on Metru nui. Onua hoped they would have done this soon.
They had reached a closed room, Lhikan opened the door and led them in. Kopaka was the last to walk through the door and enter an exagonal room with a six windows. One for each of the Metru, he supposed. He looked around in the room, the Turaga were sitting on one side of the room, and on the other side...
He froze, then he blinked five times to make sure he wasn't seeing things. He turned to the others, who looked just as confused as him. On the other side of the room, just in front of them were six tall figures. Those figures were Toa.
