Hedak lay on his bed in his room, throwing small spheres of solid sound around the room. He listened to them hum quietly as they traveled through the air and get suddenly louder when they collided with a wall. He wished he could do something more entertaining with his power.
"My element is so boring," he thought to himself, "I can't do anything cool with it. Jakorak can make light shows, Aroda makes instant sculptures from solid rock, Zakita can fly, and all I can do is make noise that doesn't even sound nice. If only I could make noise that sounds good."
As soon as he had thought the word "good," a sudden realization came to him, practically slapping him in the mask. Since he had been transformed into a Toa, most of what he had done with his elemental sonic powers had involved powerful blasts of deafening sound, and that never sounded good. Of course it didn't sound good, it wasn't supposed to. Why would you blast an opponent with a pleasant sound?
Hedak sat up and moved to the edge of his bed. He stuck out his hand, letting it hover parallel to the floor. A column of air between his hand and the floor shimmered as it began to vibrate. He focused on the humming air. Concentrating hard, he cautiously tried to speed up the vibrations. The droning tone began to slowly rise in pitch until it was a high soprano whine. He willed the vibrations to slow down, and the high note dipped to a low bass buzz. He experimentally altered different properties of the vibrations.
A kio-wide grin spread across his mask. If he could change the pitch of sound, then shouldn't he be able to make music? He thought of a quick melody and began to shift the vibrations again. He built on top of the melody, creating a harmony to compliment it. He added background sounds to his melody, expanding the song more and more.
"Wow," somebody whispered. The music ceased as Hedak's attention shifted to the speaker. He saw a white figure standing in his doorway.
"Sorry for interrupting you," Sasi apologized, "but that music was, like, beautiful!"
Hedak smiled at her. "Would you like me to continue?"
"Oh, yes, totally!" she said, eyes brightening.
He stretched out his right hand and the air began to vibrate again. Sasi sat down on the floor with her back against the wall. She watched as his left hand swayed with the slow beat, as if conducting. She stared at the shimmering air and listened to the strange, reverberating music emanating from it. The column of air moved with the music as if it was dancing. When the music swelled, the column swelled along with it. When the music grew quiet, the column grew smaller. It was beautiful, but haunting at the same time. It made her feel warm, but it gave her the chills. It was like nothing she had ever heard before in her life. She closed her eyes and let the music fill her entire being.
Her eyes snapped open when she heard a new sound added to the music. It sounded familiar, but she knew she had never heard it before. It sounded almost… vocal. She looked up at Hedak and she realized that the new sound was the sound of him humming. There were no words, just the sound of his voice moving with the music.
Hedak's left hand made a motion like a conductor halting an orchestra, and immediately the shimmering column of air disappeared, taking the music with it.
"Well, what do you think?" he asked.
"That was, like, um," Sasi struggled to find the words. "It was like, amazing! How did you learn to do that?"
Hedak smiled slyly and shrugged. "Natural talent, I guess."