Now, before we continue, I'm going to take the time to remind you that this story is called Bionicle Reinvented, this way when you realize how much is changing here, I don't get a whole bunch of angry readers telling me things like "You did Tahu wrong!" or "That doesn't happen!" (basically things I already know) I am fully aware about what happens in Bionicle, and I plan on doing research on the series as much as possible. Any changes in the story are completely intentional. Now, without further ado, let's get started.
Toa
It was nighttime in the village of Ta-Koro. Two young boys were sitting outside the city gates looking at the night sky. One boy looked about nineteen to twenty years old and looked extremely serious. He had short blond hair that went to his shoulders, was wearing a thin red vest, black shirt, black pants, brown boots, and was built lean but strong. The other boy looked a tad younger, either that or just more irresponsible. He had long blue hair that went down his back, and was wearing an outfit similar to his friend, but the vest was actually a long robe like coat, the shirt was yellow, the pants were brown, and the boots were black. Unlike his friend, the blue haired boy was actually kind of skinny.
As they looked up, a shooting star flew by the sky.
"Look Jaller, a shooting star," the blue haired boy said pointing up at the sky, "So, you gonna make a wish?" he asked looking at Jaller, who just snorted lightly.
"Please Takua, you don't seriously believe in that old superstition, do you?" Jaller said looking down smirking.
"Hey, gotta do something to keep the faith, right?" Takua said with a bright smile.
"I suppose, but wishes like that never come true," Jaller stated.
"Well, it's said that if you share you're wish with your closest friend, then it'll come true. Sort of like you're both adding to each other's wishes."
"Is that so...?" Jaller asked looking at Takua suspiciously. He had a tendency to say things like that in order to either A) make people smile, or B) get Jaller to play along with his schemes. Jaller knew that Takua just wanted him to play his little wishing game, so he decided to play along.
"Okay Takua, you got me," Jaller said looking up thinking about something to wish for, "I wish... to find true love," Jaller said making Takua laugh, "What? It was a genuine wish."
"I don't know, you're stiffer than a Gufu Tree throughout the better part of the day, so..." Takua teased, making Jaller shove him playfully.
"Oh, so you could come up with a better wish, huh?"
"As a matter of fact, I can," Takua said playfully, he then looked up with a deep expression on his face, "It's same thing I pray for every night."
"Oh?" Jaller asked, now getting extremely curious.
"I wish, for the Toa to come to the island, and defeat Makuta," Takua said honestly, only to get blown off by his friend.
"Yeah, that has a better chance of coming true," Jaller said sarcastically walking back to the village.
"Well, with that attitude!" Takua shot back at Jaller. He then looked up at the sky again. Contrary to Jaller's wish, Takua was quite honest with what he wanted. He had been praying for this for the longest, and he truly believed that they would come eventually...
Even if he was the only one who did......
Unknown to them, that shooting star wasn't a shooting star. It was actually a pod. In fact, it was one of six pods that were flying to the island. They weren't too big, only big enough for a human to fit inside of. One landed near each of the six villages of Mata-Nui.
One pod landed on the beach near Ta-Koro. For about a minute it just lied there doing nothing. Eventually though, the top part slowly started turning clockwise. Steam came out of the sides, and the top hatch flew open. At the same time someone flew out onto the beach and fell down onto the sand limb. It was a woman with really long red hair and a healthy figure for a beautiful woman. At the moment, the only piece of clothing she was wearing was a fancy red chocker. She slowly opened her eyes, which were bright red.
The woman looked around at her surroundings. She didn't recognize anything around her, nor did she even know her name. Trying to think about everything at once was driving her crazy, and she held her head in frustration. She was groaning in pain, and eventually she screamed out in pain, a large flame surrounding her entire body.
The next day Takua was walking through the forest with a scroll and a quill. Takua's passion was writing. He would journey around the entire island in search of great adventures to write about in his series of scrolls. Unfortunately at the moment, Takua's had hit a dry spell. It wasn't because there wasn't any excitement; with the Rahi attacks there was nothing but excitement. The problem was that with all of the senseless violence there wasn't really a story to tell, just a whole bunch of random monster attacks. What he needed was a hero, someone to follow and to tell the story of.
He needed the Toa.
That wasn't the reason why he wanted the Toa though, part of it, but not ultimately. The real reason was that he knew that they could save the island. He looked up from his scroll, wondering how far he should go from Ta-Koro this time. He then looked forward and saw the woman wearing the red chocker lying on the ground.
"Whoa!" he said running over to her. He didn't know how to feel looking at her, worried because she didn't look well, or shocked by the fact that she was without garments. Thankfully he was a gentleman, so he took off his jacket and covered her with it. He tried to carry her, but he was too weak to carry her bridal style (that would have looked cooler) and had to resort to piggy back style, "Geez, I really need to work out more," he groaned walking back to Ta-Koro.
Soldiers were at the front gate of Ta-Koro keeping watch. They saw Takua staggering over to them and were shocked to see him carrying a woman over his shoulder.
"Takua!" one called out as they both ran up to him.
"She's.... really.... heavy....!" Takua said, actually asking the soldiers to help him. They took the woman off of him and carried her the rest of the way, with great ease actually, shaming Takua, "I really really need to work out more...." he said right before running into the village after them.
"Turaga Vakama!" one of the soldiers called out, "Please come quick!"
An elderly man wearing a red and orange robe, a cane with a torch at the end, short gray hair that went to his shoulders, and a long matching beard slowly walked out of a large red stone building.
"Yes, what is it?" he asked. Jaller walked out as well and stood next to the Turaga.
"Takua brought this woman in from the forest, she looks hurt," the soldier said placing her on the ground carefully. The Turaga slowly walked over to her. He stopped and look at the choker around her neck, and was utterly shocked by what he saw.
"Mata-Nui!" he said in shock, catching everyone's attention.
"What is it Turaga?" Jaller asked walking over to them.
"Get this girl inside my hut immediately! We must take care of her!" the Turaga commanded rushing off somewhere. Jaller was getting confused.
"Why? Who is she?" he asked. The Turaga turned to him and Takua (who had walked up to Jaller as he asked who the girl was) and looked at them with a smile.
"Hope," was all he said before walking as fast as he could to who knows where. Jaller and Takua both looked at the mysterious woman wondering what was going on.
A few hours later, she woke up in a bed. She looked to her side and saw clothes there, obviously for her. The clothes consisted of a short black one piece skirt, red belt, red boots, and red arm length gloves. After putting them on, she looked at herself in the mirror nearby. She was actually really pretty. Pretty face accentuated by her passionate red eyes and full lips, nice figure that wasn't over the top but still really nice. The skirt fit her in a nice and tasteful way, and gave her a sort of dangerous appearance. She looked at the door and saw what looked like a sheath for a really large sword. She assumed that it was for her and took it with her.
The second she walked outside, everyone in the village turned to her and started cheering. The woman was a combination of shocked and annoyed, shown by the expression on her face that no one seemed to notice.
"Huh?!" she said stepping back a bit. The people cleared away for Turaga Vakama to walk through, Jaller and Takua at his sides. The three of them bowed in front of her, annoying her even more, "What the hell?!" she asked, almost angry at this point.
"We have waited a long time for this day. I never thought I would live long enough to see your awakening," the Turaga stated, he then looked up at her with a smile, "Toa Tahu, great spirit of fire," hearing that name made the woman walk over to Vakama slowly.
"Tahu... is that my name...?" she asked.
"Yes my dear, you are Tahu, the Toa of fire," the Turaga said. The woman, now identified as Tahu, just stood there looking around at all of the people cheering, not just for her, but for what her arrival to the village meant.
The Toa had finally arrived....
