Bionicle: The Zarrak Project.

Chapter Five

Preparation.

Gali was guessing that she wasn't reacting the way Nokama expected her to.
"My friend." Gali said gently, " Please. What is 'Zarrak'?"
Nokama sighed, and said, " Of course. I can't expect any of you-except for Nuju, Vakama, and myself-to know."
"Yes!" Lewa said, " What is this gravedark secret?"
"I willl tell all."
Nokama seated herself, and motoned for the Toa to do the same. The Turaga, however, remained standing.
"We have:Nokama said, " Told you of our past as the Toa Metru, and of The Hordika. Yet here and now I must tell you a tale equally dark, and without the aide of the Amaja Circle. There was once a very twisted Matoran named Mavrah."
"Ah!" Pohatu said, " Was he the cray Loon who talked to Rahi, conducts wild experiments, ran away from Metru Nui, nearly killed you and your brothers, and all that other sruff? Why-we've heard that tale!"
"Brother..."Tahu chided in a low voice.
"Sorry for interutping." The Toa of stone said meekly.
Gali could swear that Nokama was smiling as she continued,
"Yes, tha t was Mavrah. We have told you the basics of his deeds, but he was more...twisted, shall we say. In all his ways he somehow managed to get hold of an otherworldly source known as Iorn. It acts as a sort of trained conductor for energized protodermis. Mavrah created a large ring out of this iron, and made a portal. A portal between this world, and the world of Earth."
There were gasps from the Toa. Even Kopaka found his jaw was hanging open.
"The shadowes realm of humans?" He asked in awe.
As Nokama nodded, Kopaka went over in his head everything that the Matoran had of humans in their legends. You see, humans were not biomechanical. They wore no masks. They were covered in something called Flesh, and most often smelled like seawater. Even though these humans wore no Kanohi masks, they had power. Strange powers. Great Rahi with blazing eyes and curved paws carried them wherever they wished to go. Powers to wield flamesticks. The weapon spits fire, and the target the weapon was pointed out is shot, with no real reason why or why not. And that was not all.
Onua took a deep breath, " Go on, NOkama."
The Turaga od water nodded, and continued.
"As I said before, Mavrah created a portal between the worl of the Bionicle, and Earth. This was not idle play. Mavrah was on orders from a very special someone to steal two humans from the realm of Earth, unfuse them with energized protodermis, and give them to him. Can you guess who it was?"
"Makuta."Lewa said, his face darkened.
Nokama shook her head, "Wrong. The Shadowed one, the leader of the Dark Hunters. Like all others, he had heard of the power of a human, and wanted it to be melded with that of a Toa."
"So,"Tahu said, " In short, the Shadowed One wanted hybrid Toa to add to his Hunter corpse!"
Nokama nodded.
"OI." Gali said,
Kopaka frowned, " The Shadowed One could not possibly have expected creatures so great as humans to bow before him, though!"
Nokama shrugged, "I know not, but allow me to continues."