Turaga Matau: Good or Evil?
Disclaimer: Read the Prologue
Chapter One
Matau awoke in complete and utter darkness. He couldn't see and couldn't move.
"Makuta! What have you done?" Matau noticed his voice was deep and young….as it once was.
"I've done my part in the bargain, Matau. Look at yourself."
A mirror appeared in the darkness and a light shone through, illuminating Matau. He was then released to examine himself.
"Wha-"
He looked just as he did before as a Toa. Only he was wearing a different mask and his armor was black. The mask looked like a cross between Tahu's and Makuta's.
"What mask do I possess?" Matau asked, running his fingers against the grooves of the mask.
"The Kanohi Maktokii, the mask of Darkness. It grants you power to control shadows, but it also gives you power over darkness."
Then he laughed an evil laugh.
Matau then rethought his situation.
"What do you want me to do with this power?"
"Why nothing much, just take care of some problems."
"What problems?"
Matau feared what he was going to hear.
"The Toa Nuva and the Turaga."
"No! Never!"
"Listen, the Toa and Turaga both are and were Toa. They only cared about themselves ever since they awakened my brother. No longer do they care for others. The Toa Nuva live by themselves in their own villages, while other islands need help."
"It's a shame I'd have to strip you of your powers. I was looking forward to you using them for your benefits."
"Benefits?"
"You can use them for whatever you wish, but you will only have a day to do whatever you wish. By then you will need to choose whether or not you will join me."
Matau was no longer enshrouded in darkness, and he was in the cave again as he was before, but no it was nighttime. Matau was left with Makuta's evil laughter trailing in the darkness.
Matau walked out of the cave and looked around in the dark forest. Noises could be heard and Matau saw several glowing eyes staring at him. Matau considered it only night creatures. Matau, for some reason, now felt at home in the dark. He loved it. It made him empowered.
"Turaga? Turaga where are you?" Lewa's voice could be heard calling out to Matau.
Matau's mask began to glow and he turned into shadow and melted into the darkness.
Matau's vision turned bright. He could see in the dark and he saw himself traveling through the ground wherever shadows were. Lewa ran by the shadows and stopped, breathing heavily, searching for the missing Turaga.
"I'm here, Lewa."
Lewa turned and was face to face with shadows.
"Turaga?" Lewa looked on.
Matau stepped out in his Toa form.
"Quickstop. Who are you?" Lewa asked.
Matau suddenly felt that Lewa seemed like an enemy. A power willed itself into Matau's mind. Lewa seemed like a threat. Matau said nothing and his face hardened.
"Who are you?"
"I am a Toahero. A new Toahero, one that sees the way Makuta sees. He knows of your laziness and greed. You care not for our sacred ways of Unity, Duty, and Destiny. You and the others are always lateknowing to the obvious that lies before them. You will be overthrown and I'll take over."
"I'll stop you here." Lewa said, grabbing his Aeroslicers as he said so.
Matau then heard something in his head. It sounded like Makuta's voice. The Matau remembered what he had said.
it gives you power over darkness…
"Let's try it then." Matau said to himself.
Lewa looked on in wonder as Matau's mask lit up again, and darkness surrounded Matau and it leaped off of him and into the ground, where a huge dark spot was in the ground now. Then, from the dark spot, a figure rose from the ground, but it wasn't just any shadowy figure, it was a perfect dark copy of Lewa, except it was all black with glowing yellow eyes. The copy seemed to smirk at Lewa's shock and pulled out a pair of dark aeroslicers, just like Lewa's.
Then it attacked.
End Chapter One
A/N: Well? What do you think? Feedback would be appreciated. Thx.