Disclaimer: I don't owe Bionicle but this island is of my invention.
Death Island
The Turaga and the Toa Leehar stared at the empty room. Just five seconds before, the Toa had been standing in there, Uhat was sure about that. What had happened to them? All he knew was that the door had closed, there had been shouts, and then silence. Just this creepy silence, and when they had opened the door, they hadn't found anything. Even the Anjai had disappeared.
"What happened?" whispered Nokama, "Where are the Toa?"
Uhat merely shrugged, but deep inside himself, he knew the answer. That thing was a transporter, and it had transported the Toa to some place.
But where?
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"Toa Tahu!"
Tahu opened his eyes, he was in Ta-Wahi. He looked around and saw his Magma swords lying next to him. He turned around to see who was calling him, it was Jaller.
"Tahu," said Jaller. "We're about to leave for Metru Nui."
Tahu nodded. So the whole thing had been a dream, he was still a Toa, and none of them had been to Metru Nui yet. He smiled, it had been just a dream, that meant no Utahop, no Uhat, no any of the Toa Leehar.
He stood up and walked to the edge of the lava river, it had been just a dream, but a really weird one, it had been so real... and so weird.
He shuddered, the weird things weren't over, he was in the middle of Ta-Wahi, but it felt strangely cold.
He stood up and turned around to get his swords, as he did this, he spotted a Ta-Matoran walking around the place. But the strange thing was, that he had never seen him before.
Frowning, he stepped towards the Ta-Matoran. He was wearing a read Hau, and fiery eyes shone from behind the mask.
"Who are you?" asked Tahu, the Ta-Matoran jumped and spun around, he looked ready for a battle.
"Who are you? I never saw you here." repeated Tahu.
"None of your business," snapped the Ta-Matoran, leaving Tahu opened-mouthed.
"What? It is my business! What's your name?"
The Ta-Matoran stared into Tahu's eyes as if to challenge him. "Leave me alone!" he said. Tahu felt a surge of fury.
"Not until you tell me your name."
"Keep your nose out of my business!"
Tahu shot forwards and grabbed the Ta-Matoran's arm, then he bent down to him so close that their masks nearly touched. "Tell me your name."
The Ta-Matoran stared at him for a second, then, with a movement so quick that Tahu nearly didn't see it, he went for a sword that Tahu hadn't seen noticed and dug it in Tahu's arm.
"Ow! What are you...?"
"Trying to wake you up,"
"Huh?"
Tahu opened his eyes, really this time, and raised his head. He was in an icy cavern, next to him was Kopaka, as a Matoran, who apparently had been prodding him with a sword. Tahu laid back down his head and groaned, first the explosion, then that light, both times he had blacked out. But what was worse, was that if Kopaka was a Matoran, then he was too. It couldn't get worse.
"How are the others?" he asked.
"Don't know."
"What do you mean, don't know?"
"They aren't here."
Tahu changed his mind about the 'couldn't get worse part': he was alone with Kopaka, well, now it couldn't get worse.
"Where are we?" he asked to Kopaka.
"In a cave."
"Ha-ha, very funny. I can see that too."
"Why don't you try and find out where we are?"
Tahu felt something under him, he stood up and looked down, it was the Anjai.
Kopaka stepped over and looked at the golden stone, he hadn't been able to see it well in the room, and was curious to see what it looked like. He felt a deep disappointment. By the way the Toa Leehar described it, he had thought of something like a Kanohi or a Kanoka disk, but this was just...a stone. He could see that Tahu was also disappointed about it. The stone didn't seem to have anything special about it, except that it was golden and that it had a hole to let the leather string pass.
"This is and Ilsao?" asked Tahu. "It isn't even engraved, and it isn't bigger than my hand!"
Kopaka didn't answer, but privately, he thought the same things. He couldn't believe that a rock had just done all this chaos. Grumbling, Tahu put it around his neck.
"I have to bring it to Takua somehow." he explained. Then he looked around the cave, in the middle was the same glowing stone as in the room, and in a corner was a pile of swords. Tahu stepped over to it and picked one, then he set for the exit.
"Where are you going to?" Kopaka asked.
"Where do you think I'm going to, ice-head? I'm going out. I want to find the others, if they are here."
Kopaka shrugged and walked after him, he didn't have much choice anyway.
Outside, a snowstorm was blowing through the mountain, something that didn't improve their moods.
"As if having luck would kill us," thought Kopaka bitterly, everything seemed to have turned against them since they had set foot on Metru Nui. Not that it was something new.
Kopaka stepped out and walked a couple of steps forwards, he had no idea in which direction he should go, and he couldn't see more than a short distance in front of him. After turning around a couple of times, he picked one direction. He had barely gone forwards a few steps, when Tahu stopped him.
"No, we go that way," he said, pointing towards the oppsite direction.
"That way you go upwards."
"Yes, but your way might end up in a cliff."
Kopaka stared at Tahu, "If you want to go that way, then go. I'm going this way."
"Fine!" said Tahu, turning around, but doing this, he slipped and lost his balance, falling on Kopaka. The two rolled in the snow down the mountainside, ending up against a giant rock.
"Watch your step the next time." hissed Kopaka, rubbing his head as he stood up.
"You should have moved out of the way!" answered Tahu, he too pulling himself up.
"If you hadn't started arguing about the way, this wouldn't have happened!"
"Yeah, because our ex-Toa of icicles is always right."
"Could be."
"Then you were right about splitting our team, huh?"
"It was your idea too." said Kopaka, stiffening.
"If you hadn't wanted too much that time, then we wouldn't have reached that point!"
"Look who's talking," mumbled Kopaka, rolling his eyes. "You tried to trap me in a fire cage, remember?"
"That was only a small source of my powers! I could have done much more!" Tahu snapped.
"There's a white Ihar behind you," said Kopaka, ignoring what Tahu had just said.
"Do you really think I fall in such a stupid..." then he stopped. For in that moment, the Ihar behind him started sniffing his shoulder and his head. Tahu just stared, unsure about what to do.
The Ihar was copletely white and grey and he was quite bigger than Kida, Kopaka was sure he was a male. The Ihar sniffed Tahu's back, then he stepped over to Kopaka and started sniffing his chest, then went over to his neck. Kopaka brushed away the Ihar's face with an annoyed gesture. The Ihar backed away and stared down at the two Toa-Matoran, probably trying to decide whether they were good to eat or not.
Tahu quickly drew out his sword and prepared himself for a fight. The Ihar didn't take that as an attack, instead, it stepped forwards and sniffed the sword. Tahu kicked some snow in it's face. The Ihar stared at him with his penetrating, blue eyes. Tahu noticed that he too had a glowing spot on his head.
"We're not to eat!" he growled.
-Yeah, I though that. You don't smell good anyway.- the Ihar answered. Tahu was so shocked that he let his sword fall, and Kopaka's eyes widened.
"You talk?" asked Tahu.
-No-
"How come we hear you then?" asked Tahu.
-I'm not talking, I'm using telepathy, or thought-speak.- answered the Ihar.
"How long have you been spying on us?" asked Kopaka.
-I came here when your friend started talking about ex-Toa of icicles- answered the Ihar.
Neither Kopaka or Tahu said a word, the Ihar stared at them for some time, then he turned around and walked away.
"Wait!" shouted Tahu. "Where are we?"
-On a mountain.-
"Yes, but this island... it isn't Mata Nui or Metru Nui. What island is this?"
The Ihar stopped and turned around, staring straight in his eyes, after a while, he spoke.
-You're on Miko Nui, the death island-
Ouf, just in time, I thought I wasn't going to make it. Instead, here it is. You'll have to wait till the end of next week to find out where the other Toa are.
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Tahnks to all those that reviewed and to those that read this story.
Slythergrl2004: Hehe, anyway, ch5 of CA is up too.
ToaMaster: Sorry, but I can't give you my e-mail adress, you can still communicate to me through the reviews though. I'd love to check out those websites, but I can't see the adresses. Grrrr. Hehe, nice idea, but, is your guardian still a Toa or is he a Matoran too? Yeah, I guess my imagination did take over, or maybe not.
nightbug08: Yes, don't worry, I would use her only if you asked me anyway.
Regrem Erutaerc: Don't worry, It's just that you don't know me. You see, if I say: I might think about it, then it isn't even sure whether I'll think about it. Besides, I'll think about it means something from: I'll think about putting it in the next chapter, to: I'll think about it if I get a writer's block in year 2010, and the only fact that I was joking about what you said means that I think it the same way. I don't think they are related, and I would like to know who brainwashed them. So don't worry, it's all right.
