FFox: Hey, sorry I took so long, major writer's block. Any ways here is anoter chapter of the Warrior's Paw, with Tahu Nuva and Flare Fox. Enjoy!

Disclamer: I don't remember putting this up in the other chapters so this is the only time I'm doing this. All I have to say is: You know it, I know it, end off story.

Chapter 5

Tahu Nuva was surfing on his magma swords in the lava bend thinking about past battles he fought with his brothers and sister. He was thinking about when they fought the bohrak, the bahrag and the bohrak-kal. He was also thinking about what challenges he might face in the future. Heaving a sigh, he continued surfing until he saw something in the corner of his eye. In a small area to his left, a figure was on its back.

"What is that?" He asked himself. Curiosity took over and he decided to see what the creature is. Leaning to his left, he went over for a closer look. As he got off of his blades, he squinted his eyes, looking at it top to bottom. It looks like a rahi, but its one that he's never seen before. It had light brown fur all over its body and an even lighter brown fur on its head. It had a blue cloth on its arms and torso and a black cloth on its legs. Its tail and ears were light brown and at the tip of its tail and inside its ears was a kind of cream color.

Tahu cocked his head to one side and poked it with his sword on its torso. Nothing happened. He tried again, this time getting a reaction. The figure moaned as it put its paw where Tahu poked it. Besides the creature moving, what surprised him most was that it could talk.

"Quit poking me, it hurts." The creature whined. It sat up and rubbed its head as it looking around as Tahu kept a good distance from it.

Flare rubbed her head as she looked around the place she was at. In front of her was a river of lava a few feet from her back paws. Panicked, Flare backed up until she felt something behind her. Turning to see who it was, eyes widened as her mouth dropped.

She stared at him; looking at him top to bottom, not believing what she was seeing. She shook her head, "This has to be a dream!" she shouted, "It has to!"

Tahu gave this creature an odd look, What kind of rahi is this?' he thought, it's a lot different than what I usually see.'

Flare was pacing back and forward, forgetting that Tahu was there.

"You," he called out to her. Flare froze with her hands pulling her ears. He called out to her again, "who or what are you?"

Slowly, Flare turned around; her face showed no fear, but boy, did her eyes show it.

"Answer me!" shouted Tahu. He was starting to get impatient, "who are you?"

Not answering his question, Flare huffed and turned until she saw a flash in the corner of her eye. Looking up, her eyes grew wide. Pulling out her sais, she charged to towards Tahu.

Tahu, not expecting this, charged his magma swords and readied himself for the coming attack, but it never came. What happened was Flare jumped on his shoulders and jumped in the air.

"GET DOWN!" Flare shouted at him. Her Sais soon clashed with a guard dog's blade.

Wait…

Both of them pushed back while fighting in mid-air.

Something's wrong…

Flare notice that the guard dog was different from the ones at home.

The guard dog had fire-red eyes and the sharpest teeth that she had ever seen. She could definitely tell this one wasn't from home.

As they were descending, the mutt made another attack; Flare successfully blocked it, but fell to the ground hard when the dog rammed its head against hers. Soon, the guard dog fell on all fours without hurting itself and stood up, walking closer and closer to Flare.

Groaning, Flare fluttered her eyes open and sat up a bit. She then saw the mutt's paw right by her. Looking up, she saw the dog with its fire-red eyes blazing and its mouth drooling.

The dog couldn't wait to see what her blood would taste like and the master would be so proud of him as well. Him, the only one to kill the leader of the Vixens. The excitement grew in him as he raised his blade, the sharp side down. Flare closed her and covered her face with her arms, bracing herself for the attack. The dog licked its lips as if he could already taste her blood.

Just as he was about to cut her in half, the dog screamed an ear splitting scream as it dropped the sword and burst in to flames. Tahu pulled back his sword and watched it turned to ashes. When the ashes were gone with the breeze, he looked down at Flare.

"You can open your eyes now," he said to her.

Flare, finally noticing that the blade didn't slice her in two, opened her eyes and looked up at Tahu.

"You saved me?" she asked.

Tahu nodded, "But it's only a one time thing. So don't expect me to do it again.

Flare chuckled, "Well, I guess I owe you one," she stood up and dusted herself off and looked at Tahu.

Now that he was looking at her, Tahu found out that her eyes were two different colors. One was green and the other was blue.

"I…guess…I should…apologize…for the way I acted earlier," she said while picking up her Sais and interrupting Tahu's thoughts. Putting her sais away and holding out a paw, she said, "My name is Flare."

Tahu looked at her, then at her paw, then at her again. He let out a long sigh, put his swords away and took her paw, shaking it.

"Tahu Nuva, Toa of Fire."

FFox: Wow! ny first fight scene. I hopethis chapter was ok. Well, your the judge, what should I do? fix or keep? it's your word. Review please.
Oh, before I forget, for all the people who reviewed and help (coughWhalesharkcough) you all get a waffle my treat!