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."
