Kino: Yeah! This is to help get you all into the Halloween spirit! Fear me and what I am able to do! Mwahahahahahahahahaha!
Tahu: She's crazy.
Onua: You didn't know that from previous stories?
Tahu: Eh…!
Kino: By the way, most of this story will be in a flashback-ish state, as the parents are watching the film, but I will be talking in present tense, as if it were happening right now. Okay? Okay :D.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bionicle. Trust me, you don't want me to. I'd end up killing every living thing if I did own it. So be happy!
This chapter has slightly suggestive themes in it, as this is targeted more towards a high school age group. The themes aren't mature enough for an 'M' rating, if you consider what's on TV (The Simpsons, Family Guy, That 70's Show). Chobits is fresh in my mind, so it's theme is projected into this chapter. Too bad doesn't have an OT (Older Teen) rating, that would make me so happy.
The Project
By Kino Lady of the Divine
Chapter 2: Dies Unus
Pohatu smirked into the camera and made faces that only he would find amusing. The group of sleepy teens sitting next to him weren't as pleased.
"Why don't you introduce us to the camera?" Lewa snickered.
Pohatu smiled and said into the camera, "Hello, peoples of Tahu's class! My name is Pohatu, I will be the one who films this for you all, in other words, I am the camera operator. Mr. Tamson will be so proud!"
He swung the camera to everyone else as they introduced themselves.
"Hey guys, you, uh, obviously know me, I'm Tahu. For my report, Pohatu suggested that I do a documentary. He willingly said he'd be the camera operator." Tahu said, smiling.
"Kopaka. I was bored." was all he said.
"Hi, I'm Onua. I record all the specific sounds you hear but normally wouldn't hear." He gave a small wave.
"Me next, me next!" Lewa cried. "I'm Lewa, the youngest of the group. I work the second camera that we'll be using."
"Isn't he cute?" Gali asked the camera. "Hi, I'm Gali. I will be the navigator and chronicler for this documentary. Um, I've known Tahu most of my life, and when he asked me to help him with a school assignment, I happily agreed."
"Was that everybody?" Pohatu asked.
"What do you think?" Tahu asked back. "Let's get this show on the road, dudes and dudette."
"So," Pohatu said, "we are on the road. Bored as ever. Gali and Lewa have fallen asleep on Onua, nothing less than what I'd have expected from them. Um, you're probably wondering why we aren't in school right now, for those of you who don't attend our school, I'll explain— "
"Pohatu, who doesn't go to our school that doesn't know that we have school off?" Tahu asked back.
"Well, who knows, this very documentary might be in the library across the nation, or in movie theaters!"
"In your dreams!"
"I can have dreams, can't I?"
"Yeah, yeah, whatever."
"So anyway, Halloween is a big holiday in our town. naturally, we would only be given Halloween week off, but this year, they gave us a month. Pretty sweet, huh? We're quite fortunate, as Halloween is on a Tuesday this year, which means we get Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday off. So basically, a month and three days. Today is Friday, October 13. I know what you're thinking, why go out into the dark, scary woods on a Friday the thirteenth? Because we can."
"You are such a dork." Tahu said.
"I know!" He smiled cheesily to Tahu, who rolled his eyes. "So, with a month off for Tahu to do his assignment, we thought, why not go out into the dark, scary woods two weeks away from Halloween? Again, because we can."
"Man, that is fucked up, P."
"'P'? Since when did I give you permission to call me 'P'?"
"Just now."
"You know what? I fucking hate you."
"And, so we leave Tahu's vehicle behind to venture into the unknown."
"Um, Pohatu, you do know that you're supposed to take the lens off, right?"
"Oops, slipped my mind." The lens was removed and the camera was sent in a frenzy of trying to focus on them walking away from the minivan.
They were all waving and laughing, and pushing each other around.
"I never expected these packs to be so heavy." Gali said, adjusting the straps.
"Well, if you hadn't packed so much."
"I didn't" she snapped. "I packed two spare sets of clothes and pajamas. As well as spare boots and socks and some… ahem… other important things, which isn't, compared to what I could have packed. So, how long we tending to stay out here? I hoping only for a few days, my mom wants to make me a big hearty meal upon our arrival back home."
"'Upon our arrival back home'? Gali, you sound like a character from one of those novels you're always reading." Pohatu said.
"Clamp it, will you?"
"Whatever."
"Hey, guys, when's our first break?" Lewa asked.
"Not for a few hours." Tahu stated. "Tired already, Mr. Bundle of Energy? We just started."
"No, I… I don't think Pohatu can last that long."
"What?! What do mean, Lewa? Stand up and fight me like the man you are!"
"He ain't a man yet, Pohatu. As a matter of fact, neither are you." Tahu said, smirking.
"Yeah, neither are you!"
"I wouldn't be too sure about that." Gali said, a slight chuckle in her voice.
"Gali, tell me you didn't have sex with him." Kopaka begged.
"What? Hell, no! He lost his virginity to Pam Meyers. I heard about it a bazillion times. And let me tell you, I would have rather died. By the way, I'm pure as fresh snow."
"Man, I loved having sex with Pam Meyers." Tahu said. "She was so tight— "
"Virgin ears!" Lewa said, clamping his hands over his ears. The group burst into fits of laughter, amused by Lewa and his virginity.
"Where the fuck are we?" Tahu asked.
"We took the long way around." Gali said, studying the map. "But I know where we're at!"
"Are you sure." It wasn't a question.
"Positive. We just… took a wrong turn somewhere, but we're on track now. I checked."
"How is it even possible that we took a wrong turn?" Kopaka asked his cousin.
"I… I don't know. We just did. But we're on track now."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes, I'm sure! Didn't I just say I was?"
"Alright, alright! Chill, no need to get all PMS-y on us." Tahu said, backing away from her fist swinging space.
"I'm not getting PMS-y! Why don't you guys ever believe me?"
"Gali, relax, it's been a long day of hiking." Onua said, his voice soothing and calm. "We are all testy and tired and hungry. Why don't we take a break?"
"No way, we're only a mile away from Vulture's Beak Rock."
"Gali's right, there's only a mile." Kopaka said, examining the map in her hands. "We can take a break there while Tahu, Pohatu and I do the recording thing."
"Hey, Gali, I was meaning to ask you. Would you mind reading the highlighted sections?" Tahu asked, holding up the old book. She looked at the book and smiled.
"I actually don't. Just, can I have three minutes to brush my hair and get some water?"
"Sure!"
"'The party searched day and night for the missing children.'" Tahu read. "'When they didn't return, they sent a search party after them. They found them at Vulture's Beak Rock.'"
"'They were bound together.'" Gali read. "'Limbs pulled off, decapitated, and intestines spewed everywhere upon the rocks. Symbols were etched into their flesh. With the way the blood was, it was easy to tell that they had been engraved there while they were alive.'"
"'The grotesque scene was too much for the men to take in. They got to the village and gathered the police force, leading them to the Rock. Upon their arrival, the scene that had been before them only hours earlier, had vanished.'"
"'Although the scene was gone and no blood remained, vultures were perched all around. For the fear of their lived, they fled from the Rock. One says he felt the vultures' piercing gazes upon them all the way from the village.'"
Tahu closed the book they had been reading out of. "This is the very spot where this happened. It all happened over thirty-five years ago. It seems so long ago, but it wasn't, when you look at it. No one knows how the bodies got the way they were or how they disappeared, but they knew it happened and that's for sure."
"How much longer until we make the campsite?" Lewa asked.
"Not much longer." Gali answered. "We're almost there."
"You sure?" Tahu asked. His friend glared at him. "I know, I know, you are sure."
Pohatu yelped when an icy drop of rain fell upon the bridge of his nose.
The group hastily pulled out their raingear, and got ready to move on again.
"Well," Pohatu said, "we don't have a fire, but we do have a stick!" Onua smiled at the camera. "Hey, Onua, show them what the stick is for." Onua leaned on the stick. "yep! It's a leaning stick!"
"You guys are dorks." Gali chuckled.
"You know you want one."
"Ew!"
"Pohatu, say anything like that to her again and you will be sorry." Kopaka said to him.
"Fine, fine but she knows she wants one. Ow! Ow! Hey, quit! Don't break the camera!"
Kino: Well, there it is! Lots of bipolar moments and some humor. The horror really hits next chapter, so be sure to check in in a day or so!
Thank you to: Toa Phantom, Magdalan-Saiyan-Toa, Sylla Shadow frost (Yea, it has been a while), TheTwilightMoon, 1PaperFantoSaveThemAll, Saya Moonshadow, and LatayaLuna for reviewing. I didn't think I'd get so many reviews for one chapter! Thank you, again!