Land of Ice: Chapter 6

Similarities

A couple hours after Matau and Onewa woke up, the other 4 Toa awoke. Matau was still sledding with Brian on the hill, while the others conversed with the older demons. Onewa found out that Maggie and Sapphire enjoyed making ice sculptures. Vakama helped Jake craft and sharpen extra weapons. Whenua talked with David about the history of their race, and the types of animals that roamed their homeland. Nokama learned how Kyle was the one, who taught most of his younger siblings how to hunt, read, and anything else they may need to know. Nuju helped Debbie and Jesse predict the weather for the next day. All the Toa seemed to have found at least one demon they could relate to. Meanwhile, Snowball and Shadow nipped at each other in some type of rough game.

"That was awesome!" Brian exclaimed as he and Matau slid to a stop after hitting a huge jump. "You wanna go again?"

"Um, let me think-decide about that for a minute…YES!" Matau replied, picking up the sled as they started back up the hill.

The two slid down the hill again, this time hitting a bump in the snow, which caused them to flip off the sled, and tumble down the hill. Matau was the first to reach the bottom of the hill. He was about to get back up, when he was smashed back down into the snow from behind. He shook his head and looked over his shoulder, only to see Brian had crashed into him while rolling down the hill.

"Sorry Matau." The little demon said, waiting for the little birdies to stop flying in front of his eyes.

"Its okay, kid. Just work on your hard-landing." Matau said with a chuckle.

The two of them just lay in the snow for a few minutes, while their limbs stopped aching, Matau lying on his stomach while Brian, who still hadn't gotten off of the Toa, laid on Matau's back.

After a couple of minutes, Matau asked, "Want to head back?"

When he got no answer, he looked over his shoulder, only to see Brian asleep on his back. The green Toa couldn't help but smile a bit. He then carefully adjusted his body so that he could get up and give the black-haired demon a ride back to the others. He couldn't help but think of how much Brian reminded him of himself.

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"So what are you two carving?" Onewa asked Sapphire and Maggie as he watched the two girls sculpt a large block of ice.

"Orcas…" Sapphire replied. "We saw some jumping out of the ocean a couple days ago, so we decided to start carving an image of them leaping out of the water."

"Yeah, we thought it would be really pretty." Maggie added, chipping away a piece of ice.

"It looks like its going to be a whale." Onewa commented, walking around the ice.

Maggie giggled before saying, "Orcas are whales."

"Actually, they're dolphins!" David called over.

Sapphire rolled her eyes before calling back over, "Whatever know-it-all!"

Onewa looked at Maggie, who seemed to be staring at him for some reason. When she saw that he'd noticed, she quickly went back to chipping away at the ice-block.

Before he could ask her about it, he heard Matau's voice yell, "Hey, someone help me out! The munchkin dropped off!"

Sapphire ran over to Matau, and carefully took her little brother off the Air Toa's back. She then took him over to his hole, and covered it up with snow so that he'd keep warm.

"I think the kid's got the right idea." Kyle said. "It's getting late. I think I'll turn in."

"K, goodnight Kyle!" Debbie called.

"Debbie, get over here!" Jesse called, sounding worried.

Debbie rushed over, and saw her sister staring intently at the clouds.

"What is it?" Nuju asked.

"Look at those cloud patterns. It looks like we're in for a storm tomorrow." Jess said, looking worried.

"We'd better tell everyone." Debbie said.

Jess nodded, and ran off to tell everyone. If she was right, they wouldn't even be able to leave their holes tomorrow…

To be continued…