Serenity

Tripping Weed is a short story set on Mata Nui in the Fragmented Alternate Universe. It explains how the Blacksmith at the beginning of Obscurity got the Power Gem of Water.

It is also an entry to the Spring Writing Contest 2014.

Story
The twin suns shone through the high trees, beautiful, peaceful. One of Mata Nui's wonders. This was Mata Nui, and he was sitting in the trees. He took a sip of his iced water, which was in a stone cup, made by the Po-Matoran. It was a perfect day to just sit in the trees and not have a care in the world.

But that was before the branch next to him snapped in half. He dropped his cup, and it shattered as it hit the hard ground. He looked to the branch, and an arrow came whizzing past his ear. He jumped from the tree, and almost broke his legs.

He started to run through the forest, weeds were grabbing at his ankles. The branches were whipping in his face, there were probably leaving marks all over his mask. Another arrow whizzed past his ear, and hit the bark of a vindigo tree. He jumped over a log, and a rock. Bushes cluttered his path, another arrow whizzed past his head.

His pack was going to fall off his back. Everything was bouncing around in it; his books, some tools, and a new sapphire crystal that he recently unearthed. Another hit only inches from his head. He had to get out, he could see an open field coming up. The dark green grass was welcoming, like it was beckoning him to come and die there.

He blew past the line of trees that separated the forest from the field. He was now in the open, no trees for the arrow to hit, it was just him and his probable killer. He kept on running, he was almost to another forest, but before he could reach it, an arrow came and went through his chest. His bag ripped because of the hole, it had finally slid off his shoulder.

He fell forward on his face into the lush grass, the grass around him was starting to turn dark scarlet. The killer came to his victim, he pulled up the bag, and several books and tools came falling out of the bag. And finally, a sapphire gem came tumbling out onto the grass. He bent down, wrapped his hand around the stone. It was perfectly smooth, there was no flaw in it, completely perfect.

He put his bow across his chest, and tucked the gem into a pouch on his belt, and put the flap over it, so no one would question him about it. He walked away, leaving the limp Matoran to bleed out, even though he was already dead. He went back into the forest, and disappeared in a flash of red light.

He was a Matoran, and he reappeared in a Blacksmith's shop, and he went into a backroom, where his bed and personal belongings were kept. He came to a painting, and removed it to reveal a safe. He entered the six-digit password, and it made a beep, and swung open.

He placed it next to a picture, a craved picture of a being, it was painted black. He closed the safe, and set his bow down next to his desk. He heard the door bell ring, and came into the room, and then he died. His killer came into the backroom, and trashed the place. He then tore down the painted and blasted open the safe. He grabbed the stone and left. He disappeared in a dark alley of Metru Nui.

To be continued in Obscurity.

Characters

 * A Matoran - Deceased
 * A Blacksmith Killer - Deceased
 * The Blacksmith's Killer

Trivia

 * This story is an entry into the Custom BIONICLE Wiki: Spring Writing Contest 2014.