Land of Ice: Chapter 5
Early Morning
Onewa awoke to the sound of shouting. For a moment he wondered where he was. Then he sat up, and ended up with snow from his 'bed' on top of his head. That brought back the memory of what had happened.
"Holes…why'd it have to be holes?" he thought as he shook the snow off the top of his head.
He looked around and saw Brian running away from Kyle. The 8 year old was screaming at Sapphire that Kyle was trying to give him a 'face-wash'.
"What's so wrong about washing your face?" he wondered.
He soon found out. Kyle picked up Brian, and shoved the younger demon's face into the cold snow, much to Brian's protesting. The Toa of Stone shivered at the thought of getting your face shoved into the snow. He noticed he was the only Toa there, meaning that he'd been the first to wake up.
"Mata-Nui, I can't believe I slept in a hole! A cold, dark hole!" he thought to himself.
"Dude, you're finally awake." Maggie shouted at him from behind a huge block of ice.
"Jeez, do you guys always sleep that long?" Kyle asked, still shoving Brian's face into the snow. "We've been up since first light!"
Onewa shrugged the replied, "I don't usually have a certain time, unless I have to do something important in the morning."
"Hey, are you hungry?" Jesse asked. "I've got some leopard-seal meat over here."
Somehow that didn't sound too good to Onewa, but he shrugged and went over. He may as well try it. He took the piece that Jesse offered him, and put it into his mouth.
"This stuff doesn't taste to bad actually." he thought as he swallowed the meat.
"GAH, THAT'S COLD!" Matau's voice yelped.
Onewa turned and couldn't help but smirk as Matau emerged from his hole covered in snow.
"Good morning, brother." Onewa greeted with a grin on his face.
Matau grumbled something under his breath, and Onewa turned and took some more meat.
"What in Mata-Nui's name are you eating!" Matau asked, looking really grossed-out.
"Leopard-seal meat. Pretty good, actually." he replied, putting some more into his mouth.
Matau looked at his brother like he'd grown two heads, and began walking in another direction. Brian, who had finally escaped his brother's grasp, ran up to the Toa of Air.
"Hey Matau, you wanna play with me?" Brian asked.
"Um…what're you playing?"
"Sledding. We use a piece of wood, than we slide down a hill." Brian explained.
"I'm, uh, kind of busy. I've got Toa-hero things to do." Matau replied and began walking away.
"Aw…we go really, really fast though…" Brian said, sounding disappointed.
Matau stopped dead in his tracks and said, "Did you say fast?"
"Oh yeah, we go really fast! Sometimes we go so fast we fall off! And there are these HUGE jumps that make us go flying into the air!"
"Well, I suppose I could skip-miss my Toa-hero duties today." Matau said, thinking of how high the sled would go if they hit one of these 'jumps'.
Onewa smirked. It seemed Matau would have fun with his new friend. Now all they had to worry about was getting back and rescuing the Matoran…
To be continued…
