Dark Lightning

Dark Lightning

Chapter 1



Cold, dark, pain. Not the way you want to start your life. My name is Arnax, and I … don’t know what I am. Am I a toa? I wear a kanohii mask of strength, but I have no elemental powers. I have seen what I look like, in the reflection of my sword. I am tall, and thin. My mask is silver, devoid of anything that could label me as a toa. I have a sword that I obtained when I defeated a vorox. I have kept that sword since than. I am much too tall to be a matoran, I look nothing like a skakdi, and I’m definitely not a vortixx.

Alright, enough with the reminiscing. Yes, every day is a fight for survival. But I am a survivor. And now, I will tell you my story.

My first memory is not, in fact, cold, dark, and pain, although pain is a close second. No, my first memory is falling from an unimaginable height with my sister, Xinja. Then I felt pain.

“Ooow.” That’s Xinja. “Are you all right?” I ask. “Well, apart from being dropped from an airship that was thousands of miles up, I’m fine. Just wait until we get our hands on Dracsin!” I stared at her blankly, because I had no idea who this “Dracsin” is. And I told her so. “Hmm”, she says, “that landing must have jarred your brain. What do you remember?”. “Well”, I reply, “nothing except for falling. I remember you, and I remember myself, but nothing recent except falling.” I look around at the area. It’s rocky and grey, and there are no signs of life. “Where are we?” I ask. She just shrugs in reply. Xinja looks at me, and I look right back. She wears a mask of shielding, and its silver, like mine. She is the same height as me, and a strange crackling is coming from her, like static electricity. ”Alright,” she says after a pause, “we can deal with your amnesia later. Right now, the important thing is to-“. She never gets to finish, because out of nowhere, there’s a loud screech, and a sandy colored creature holding a sword appears and attacks her. It lunges at her, but it hits the ground. There’s a zapping noise, like a bolt of lightning, and Xinja is on a nearby rock. “How did you do that?” I ask her. “No time for explanations!” she cries. “Just do what I do!” Then the creature attacked me and I dodged out of the way. I feel a peculiar sensation, as though my entire body was turning into a bolt of lightning, which, In fact, it was. Then I was beside Xinja. “Well, that was….” “Frightening?” she asks, her eyes still on the creature. “No,” I reply, “amazing” “yep, that’s Arnax.”  She says it with a smile. The creature, after looking around for us, catches our scent. It wheels around and jumps at us. “NOW!” Xinja yells. Instinctively, I know what she means, and I concentrate on the creature. I feel that peculiar melting feeling again, and the next thing I know, the monster is a charred husk. “What..what happened?” I asked. Xinja pauses for a moment. “Alright,” she says.” “Crash course in family history. You me, and a few others were part of an experiment by an organization called the League of Nhorz. Our organic parts were all replaced by shadow imbued lighting. That’s how we were able to barbeque the Vorox. Anyway, during testing, we were a little too unruly for their tastes, so they decided to split us up and drop us off in undisclosed locations. We tried to fight back, but there were too many of them. During the fight, you got hit pretty hard by Dracsin, and you went unconscious.”  I replied, “And we come back to this Dracsin. Who is he?”  “ He was the scientist who oversaw the experiment. He tricked our older brother, Solzen, into going to the lab, and bringing us along. Now come on”, she says, suddenly changing the subject “we need to get to high ground to find out our location. You should probably take that sword.” She adds, after a moment’s thought, and so, we set off.



<span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family: "Arial","sans-serif"">“The important thing,” says Solzen “is to find Xinja and Arnax.” “Alright” agrees Tulii, “but how do you propose to do that? Even with your mask of flight and my mask of sonar, we have no way to find them quickly.” Solzen looks straight into Tulii’s eyes. Tulii shudders. He always feels as though Solzen was staring into his soul. “Fine,” Solzen says “But the moment we have a more optimal mode of transportation, we look for them.”  “Don’t you worry, Arnax has Xinja with him. She knows what to do.” Now let’s figure out where we are.”

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