Hordika Under the Bed
Vakama lay sprawled out in a loose circle, nose to tail. His eyes were half lidded as he watched the human that was essentially heat leaching against him. Not that the altered Bionicle minded, sometime in night he had found that blanket from before and dropped it over Mic, now it was partly over him too.
Again, Vakama didn't mind at all the closeness. Despite the sometimes madness from the Visorak venom, the true Hordika instinct, the roots of Bionicle and Toa instincts...it was right. Hordika, and thus Bionicle for the most part, were pack orientated creatures with strong family and friendship bonds. Vakama had been away from his brother Toa for what seemed far too long, so he welcomed the snuggles.
Sometime during the movie Mic had fallen asleep, needing it greatly after what had taken place. Sleep had come easily knowing there was a Hordika in the same room, curled around you. The sleeping human shifted slightly, enjoying the warmth coming from Vakama and nuzzled her head against him, sighing in her sleep.
It seemed that Mic was the one knocked out this time.
The Hordika shifted just enough so his forepaws were crossed under his chin as he waited for the human to wake up. Dosing lightly a vague thought came with Vakama wondering if Abby should be let out more than once, but that thought drifted away. It was nice being able to sleep himself out here, yet at the same time... Now that Vakama could think straight, thoughts clear of hunger, exhaustion and fear, he couldn't help but worry about the other Toa Metru.
More minutes passed before the sound of Abby's nails, clicking as she walked by on a course for the human's room, penetrated the girl's mind and she inhaled deeply, cracking open her eyelids. Of course she saw red, as usual. That's right, she had fallen asleep with a Hordika of Fire...
Vakama was breathing steadily, though his glowing eyes were just visible under his inner lid and he tiled his head as if focusing on Mic's face. He rumbled a purr.
"Izitmorning?" she mumbled, mind still father foggy.
Vakama opened his inner lids and blinked, "What?"
The human slowly blinked, having trouble realizing what she had just said as well. Mic dismissed it and just lay there, contently, continuing to heat-leach. It took awhile for her to remember that they had been watching Mask of Light. "Did you watch all the movie?" she asked, sounding a bit more clearer than before.
"Both of them," Vakama said thoughtfully before shifting and rubbing the side of his head against Mic.
Mis smiled at the contact and shifted so that she was more on her back, but still against him. The human reached up and stroked the spot on his head she knew he liked. "What did you think about them?"
"I don't know how much will be true..." Vakama said slowly, managing to purr at the same time as he spoke. "But I had always known there was something different about Takua."
"Is his character in the movie like he is for real?" Mic asked more than wondered, her hand dropping after a time because of the straining muscle. She also realized that her legs were tangled with a part of the blanket, but didn't care at the moment.
"I knew him as a Tool Maker," Vakama said after a moment, "But this was before he was put in one of those slagging pods..." He considered and then added, "But he never really felt like fire inside him, more so after I became a Toa."
"He's an Av-Matoran... from Karda Nui I believe," Mic informed him after a yawn. She rubbed at her eyes and then looked to the Hordika. "Sleep well?"
"Av?" Vakama blinked and then nodded, "Yes, that makes sense, being light based. And yes," he smiled though looked like he wouldn't mind sleeping more.
Mic shifted onto her side, not yet getting up, so that she had a view of the Hordika's tail end. Other than that, she also saw Abby laying across from them, half-dozing half-watching them, and smirked reaching out to fondly give the dog some love behind the ears. Abby moaned and went totally limp.
The mutated Toa yawned widely, his killing fangs unfolding as he stretched out. "I should check around that area to see if I can't get back..." he was slightly hesitant since it wasn't so bad here but... "My brothers need me."
Mic sagged slightly at the news that he would have to go back soon; she had grown very... attached to him, you could say (or maybe it was the other way around at times), Yet she knew it would have to happen at some point. The story couldn't continue without him. Vakama's words suddenly clicked in her mind and she turned onto her stomach, lifting her head from the floor. "What area?"
"The area I woke up in." Vakama said blinking his inner lids and tilting his head. Thinking for a moment he turned his head and used his muzzle in the right direction, "A small grass plane, that way, with small trees in clumps."
Mic had gone quiet as she thought over what he had said, a feeling in the back of her mind growing, trying to tell her something. Then she thought of something and asked, "Were there any multi-colored structures? Sidewalks that go in one large oval?" If she was right than...
The Hordika was quite as his shifted through his hazy memories of the first day and night in this human world before he 'met' Mic. "...yes. I think." Vakama was suddenly sheepish, "I was looking more for something to eat at the time."
"Fauna," Mic said, not paying attention to the Hordika. She slowly sat up, her limbs a bit stiff. "You were at the Fauna Park," she grunted.
"The what park?" Vakama half echoed in confusion.
"I don't come up with the names, but yeah I'm guessing that's most likely where you were; Fauna Park. It's in the middle of the neighborhood." Mic rolled her head to get rid of kinks. "Maybe the same way you got here can take you back... if it's there, that is."
"You can normally go both ways through a doorway." Vakama commented flicking his tail and tilting his head. Unaware that he had just hinted at his own future Turaga self.
Mic caught the hint however and grinned despite herself with a shake of her head. The human the proceeded to untangled herself from the blanket, not remembering how it got there, but did it anyway. What worried her was that this usually happened when she kicked in her sleep. The girl cringed at the thought of kicking the Hordika without knowing it, but said nothing.
The mutated Toa rolled onto his back as he, admittedly, wiggled on the carpet to scratch his spinner patch. Huffing, Vakama rolled back over and debated something before asking, "Now what? I don't think it would be a good idea to go walking out there," he flicked his tail meaning the outside world, "In broad daylight."
Mic sighed, her brow creased in a frown. "Yeah... we'd have to do it in the dark..." Her tone clearly stated that she was not thrilled with this fact as the previous night came back to her mind.
"You know you are safe," Vakama said after tilting his head a little and moved closer to give Mic another Hordika 'kiss' on the cheek.
Though a touch of unease remained in her eyes, she still managed a small smile. "Thanks."
Abby chose that moment to wake up and make a beeline for the screen door, turning her head to look at Mic as if to say 'WELL?'
Vakama rolled his multi-colored eyes at that, snorting since he had already let the dog out, twice. He remained where he was though, and by the time Mic came back she would see that Vakama had figured out the remote to the TV and was blinking at it. The scene was so ludicrous it demanded a picture.
The human snatched up her camera and snuck up on him before taking several shots, getting that fangirly feeling again. But not as bad. Yet. The show on the TV was some weird anime, but she wasn't paying attention, fingers flying, mainly pressing the big button over and over again.
It took a minute or two, and a show that Vakama could use his claws quite delicately to poke the buttons on the remote and change the channel. It didn't startle him, but he did manage to stop on the discovery channel and looked amused at the show (myth busters of all things). Then he noticed Mic and her camera, arching an eye ridge at her in a 'what are you doing?' way.
"Just felt like taking pictures," she said with a smirk. A certain black lab was barking at who-knows-what in the background, most likely a trespassing cat.
The Hordika gave Mic a weird look and shook his head before shaking his head. He yawned again, "What shall we do?"
"Well, there's not anything that has to get done today, for me at least," Mic's voice said; she was now in the kitchen and out of sight fixing a bowl of cereal for herself. Personally she just felt like being lazy. And though it was a nice morning, they couldn't exactly leave the house in the daylight. 'At least there's the backyard,' she thought.
"I don't having any pressing appointments," Vakama's voice drifted after Mic, more than a little amusement coloring his voice. He hadn't really moved still when she came back, but had returned his attention back to discovery channel. The Myth Busters had just blown something up.
The human stood next to him with her cereal, watching the myth busters. "Adam and Jamie... pros at making things go 'boom.'" she remarked.
"Should have seen Lhikan against a part of the Root." Vakama said unexpectedly with a smile. "Everyone in Ta-Metru could see the fireball from that, even Le-Metru too."
The thought of a massive fireball with an explosion made Mic snicker as she ate. After a few moments she glanced at Vakama. "You want anything I can get you?"
"Not at the moment, no thank you." Vakama said even as he rubbed the side of his forearms and then shifted in an inviting way for Mic to sit with him, making a soft trilling sound.
She acknowledged, having finished her breakfast, and sat on the floor once more and took up the remote. "Just let me know if you need anything, yeah?"
The Hordika shifted, very softly nudging his head under the girl's arm as he curled and snuggled close again. Then, in that way that purely came from a fire elemental's innate sense of humor (granted he didn't always show it but it was still there), "Hatchlings." There was a sly glint in his glowing eyes.
Mic turned to look at him, blinking, confused. "Hatchlings? What do you mean...?" She wasn't THAT clueless; she knew what a hatchling was... but why did he just say that-?
It took a lot of will power to make his eyes more green and yellow, though the pupil remained horizontal so his hordika side wasn't truly in full control, "Hatchlings, cubs. It's fun making them too."
If it weren't for the fact that Vakama and Nuju had done something like this with their brothers of stone and earth, the mutated Toa would have been shaking with repressed laughter by now.
The human stared at him with a cross between 'omg, he's a pervert' look and a 'the heck do I do in this situation?' look, not sure if it would be a good idea expressing her thoughts on the matter. But she did scoot a couple inches to the side.
It was so hard to keep a straight face, even if it was more muzzle now, but a somewhat strangled chirping sound got out of Vakama as his eyes wavered in color.
At the weird noises, Mic chanced a glance at Vakama, raising an eyebrow. What was up with his eyes now? The human was uncertain as to what exactly the Hordika was saying, or doing... for that matter. He did have his weird moments after all.
Vakama laughed now, "You take some things far too literally!" he shook his head and flopped down on his side to laugh quietly to himself, sides shaking a little.
The Hordika soon found out what it feels like to be hit with a pillow, which Mic had grabbed from the couch behind them, her voice sounding out, "Dude! You were talking about SEX!" as the pillow made contact with his head.
"Unity passion yes," Vakama shook his head and used his tail to lightly whack Mic back as he snorted in amusement.
The girl's face was red in a blush as she grumbled, but a smirk was playing on her lips as she slapped the tail away. "Oh, so that's what you call it, huh?"
"It is a nice way of saying it instead of the blunt 'mating,'" Vakama snorted as he sat back up, "And it is a unity of body and mind so..." He shrugged.
There were many things she could say in answer to this... Mic had that semi-annoyed look on her face as she concentrated on staring at the TV before saying, "At least you talk about it with some kind of respect..." Remembering the joke he had just done she added slyly, "...for the most part."
"For a people seemingly obsessed with reproduction I don't think you can talk much." Vakama tilted his head at the laptop.
"...where did you hear that?" she sputtered. And if he even dared to think of her in that kind of sense for REAL, she'd do something she'd regret.
"I got bored last night." Vakama said a little sheepishly and pointed at the TV.
Mic's mood changed as she realized what he could have and most likely had scene, if he had been watching the news especially. "N... not obsessed," she said quietly. "...that's not the right word. There's a lot of bad stuff in this world, and that guy last night was only a small part of it."
"I would assume that this world has light and shadows in its own way," The Hordika did his best to make a so-so gesture with a paw like hand, he couldn't and huffed in mild annoyance.
"Yes it does," Mic replied. Then she turned to him. "You got bored last night?" Oh geez, she kicked him in her sleep didn't she?
"I am nocturnal." Vakama smirked, it was the same reason he wasn't getting up or really moving at all.
Mic tapped her index finger on the floor for a second, warily. "What all did you do last night?"
"Mostly investigating," Vakama admitted as he rubbed the side of his head on Mic's shoulder and side in that Hordika way of reassurance, "And hunted, but I mostly stayed here to watch over you."
The human relaxed more, but she still wondered how much investigating he had truly done. Still, Mic was very grateful for him. While the Hordika was close enough, she planted a small grateful kiss on his head. "Thank you."
Vakama blinked, tilting his head at the kiss and gave a hesitant purr as he belatedly remembered what the motion meant by human standers.
Mic asked, "So, are you still tired?" He had been up longer after all. She didn't mind if the Hordika still wanted to sleep.
"Yes and no," The altered Toa said as he put his head down, "I don't mind being awake, but I'll just stay here." He nudged Mic's hand after a moment, tilting his head in a silent request for a scratch again.
He really was like a cat sometimes.
Smirking, Mic scratched at the implied area. "Fine by me," she glanced to her other side as her dog plopped down beside her as well. She seemed to be popular this morning.
Queen's note: XD Hey! Go see the story In The Light did, it's called 'Entertaining Hordika.' It's related to this chapter and funny, go read and review it! Go! Shoo! ...though review here would be nice too. n.n