Chapter 6

That night…

"What do you mean you lossst her?!" said Turahk impatiently

"Let'sss jussst sssay I happened into one of the brat'sss new bodyguardsss and had my assss beaten," muttered Panrahk "She'sss allied with the Toa. And they've grown much ssstronger thessse passst yearsss."

Perfect. Jussst perfect." Said Turahk sarcastically "Exactly what we needed. We go on a sssearch party for sssome punk-assss brat and then the Toa come into the picture."

"But if she just recccently arrived on the island," said Gurahk (the blue rahkshi) "Then the Toa you fought isss mossst likely to take her to introduce her to the othersss; there isss only one placcce on thisss island where Toa are mossst likely to gather."

"Of courssse," said Vorahk (the black Rahkshi) "The Great Temple."

"Then it'sss sssettled," said Turahk "We attack the Great Temple tomorrow morning."

On the same day (though earlier in the afternoon), Lewa gave Sara a grand tour of the city of Le-Metru. After that. There was a huge, vivacious party that was thrown by the Le-Matoran residing there. Their reactions of a human roaming around the island were a mix of surprise, wonder and dumbfounded-ness. Not only only would they not stop following her, but they would also give these curious stares and constantly ask her questions. It all felt a bit awkward but Sara didn't mind.

Sara's reaction on the other hand, to seeing the Matoran was simply picking up one of the Matoran and examining them and stretching them in different directions curiously. These were the following comments from Sara:

"What are you guys? Little toy robots or something? Where are the batteries? Why are you so small?" Sara asked

It took a thorough explanation to make Sara realize that those were the civilians. Once she realized this, she made a long series of apologies to the Matoran.

The next morning, Sara slowly awoke, sat up drowsily and gazed around Lewa's hut. Since she had nowhere to stay for the night, Lewa made her a cot on the floor of his hut. At first she had no idea where she was until she remembered yesterday's events; the kidnapping, the escape, everything. Before she could fall back asleep, Lewa had opened the door and peeked in to see if she was awake or not. When he realized she did, he smiled and walked in.

"Finally, you're open-eyed," said Lewa "Sleep well?"

"Yeah." Said Sara who had one eye opened and the other half closed (due to the fact that she was still tired)

She then changed the conversation.

"You know what's weird?" she asked

"What?" asked Lewa

"How humans are myths to you guys," said Sara "Wouldn't that just be weird if your own race was considered only a legend? I mean how is it that we all know about each other? Did we know each other? Were we aware of each other's existence? No, that couldn't be possible… unless… I'm actually in the future where humans have been long extinct and those people who wiped out the humans are trying to kill me for some unknown reason…"

"Uhhhhhhhhhh…" said Lewa in the middle of Sara's sentence

"But that would defy all things logical… unle-" said Sara who was then interrupted when Lewa crammed a fruit her mouth

"You need to stop deep-thinking so much," chuckled Lewa "Honestly, you're going to give yourself a headache."

Sara took the fruit out of her mouth and made a small embarrassed smile.

"I was talking to myself again, wasn't I?" she asked

"In a way of thin-speaking," he replied "Now come on, we're going to greet my Toa-brothers and sister at the Great Temple."

"You have brothers and a sister?" said Sara who had just swallowed a bite of the fruit Lewa had shoved into her mouth

"Yes, I do," said Lewa "Six Toa-brothers and one Toa-sister."

"Wow, big family." commented Sara

While walking on a long bridge in Ga-Metru with Turaga Matau and Lewa, Sara saw a colossal, dome-shaped structure surrounded by several towers. Her eyes widened and she found herself staring at it with awe. Never before had she seen anything so wondrous and mysterious in all of her short life. It was then that she realized that the building she was staring at was the Great Temple.

When the trio went inside they heard chattering echoing along the temple walls. Following the voices they came across a large sanctum that had several pillars along with thousands of hieroglyphs that were carved on the walls. In the middle of the sanctum was a dome-shaped shrine with six niches in it. By the shrine was a group of people chatting amongst themselves. When they heard the trio walk in, they stopped talking and gave them they're attention. Sara, who didn't like to attract too much attention, smiled feeling a bit embarrassed and shied away but Lewa grabbed her by the shoulder.

"Friends! You will not believe what has arrived in our home-realm! said Lewa who couldn't contain his excitement "Yesterday, as I was-"

"Get to the point, Lewa." said a red armored figure

"Okay, okay," said Lewa "What we found was an actual human!"

When Lewa said "actual human", he picked up Sara by the shoulders and held her out in front of him for everyone to see. Everyone's eyes went wide open along with several gasps. Sara just blankly stared back unaware of what to do or say.

'Today is going to be a long day.' thought Sara