The Chronicles of Camaot: The Homeless

The Homeless is the first part of The Cronicles of Camaot, it discribes the journey of the Matoran of Xea-nui, after Angraban was destroyed by The Tsunami.

Chapter one: The death of an island
With fear in her eyes, Descic, the astrologist of Ga-Herem, looked up in the sky. She didn’t saw what she wanted to see, but even in her mightiest dreams, she couldn’t change the shape of the stars, even if she wanted it so desperately as she did now. All her thoughts slowly vanished, until only a single one was left to be alone, repeating into the eternity: the Turaga has to know this…

Turaga Nemis, the Turaga of Ga-Herem, was silently meditating in front of her hut. She was thinking. The disaster was about to happen, there wasn’t much time left. She had told the other Turaga months before, and they were prepared. The Turaga didn’t told the Matoran, to avoid panic, that would form a disaster on its own. She knew what was about to happen in the following minutes, she knew that Descic was going to run into her about twenty seconds, and she also knew that this were her last thoughts.

It happened exactly as she foretold, Descic ran into her, and while trying to breath, she shouted her discovery. Turaga Nemis listened to her and waited, after several moments she said: Go looking for an safe place, I will evacuate the island.

Inside his workplace, the Ta-Matoran Ahirim was hammering on an piece of metal. He was so lost in his thoughts about what he was going to make, he didn’t heard what was happening outside of his workplace (his workplace had thick walls). When he finally heard a screaming, he moved himself away from his furnace, to find out who was screaming, and if that person could scream a bit more silent. When he stepped out of his door, he found himself in an total inferno of screaming Matoran, dragging their most important stuff to the shore. After a few minutes, he finally succeeded in stopping a fellow Ta-Matoran and he asked him what was happening. He knew the Ta-Matoran very well, it was Iëk, one of his neighbours. Iëk told him that the island was going to be destructed by an enormous wave within moments, Ahirim couldn’t hold him any longer, and got into his workplace to collect his most important stuff.

Sanay, the Turaga of Le-Herem was making up his mind. He knew this was coming, and he was prepared. A few days ago, he gave his craftsman the order to make an giant ship. It was the only solution, the Le-Matoran would never make it to the shore in time. As soon as he had told the craftsman what to do, and the importance of this action, they started quickly with the building of the ship. It had to be big enough to carry every Le-Matoran in the village, since he didn’t want to leave anyone behind. And now, all their hard work was going to be tested. He was a bit nervous, if he made an mistake, the whole village might not survive.

Finally The Tsunami was coming. Enormous parts of Angraban vanished into the sea, whole deserts, forests, and mountains where covered by the water, nowhere ever to exist but in stories. All the Matoran, Turaga, and Rahi who where still on the island died that day.

An silent wave of fear and disbelieve encountered the Le-Matoran when they found out which destiny the ship was about to fulfil. Shocked, they entered the ship, while the strongest Matoran where dragging everything that they would need on board of the ship. Just when everything was ready, the water struck the front of the ship, almost crushing it. Water started to float over the ships rails, they were too heavy, after plunging every thing they had into the water, they came to the conclusion that someone had to jump into the streaming water, at the end Turaga Sanay jumped into the water himself, to be mentioned as the hero who sacrificed his life for the Matoran. With his death, all the Turaga of Angraban were death, and the knowledge about the history of Angraban was lost forever.

When the water had calmed down, the Matoran floated on the empty ocean of Aqua Magna. Some were crying about what they lost in the past, some were thinking of what was about to come in the future, in their search for an new home.