Storm Warning

Storm Warning is a short story written by Matoro58 as an entry for Vorred's Writing contest

It revolves around Toa Khyae in a first person perspective as she tries to get her revenge

Chapter 1: Ambushed
Life isn't fair.

Those words still ring in my ears when I run, when I eat, when I sleep, and when I dream. If it were my choice I would change everything that's ever happened to my life and live peacefully.

Yet I'm still lucky to have made it this far. It brings me faith that I can still make it, even though my life was never fair.

My name is Toa Khyae.

I'm a Toa of fire, but unlike others, I was made as a female Ta-Matoran.

Now that kind of stunk, because whenever I worked, all the other Ta-Matoran got really offensive and made me do all their work. I was teased, offended, and one time I was whipped. With a real whip. Wow, were they racist. I hated my life as a matoran, because another thing I disliked was that I wore a Kanohi Kaukau, an odd traitr towards a Ta-Matoran because they usually despised getting wet.

And then one day, I was given a Toa stone by Toa Articulus, a male Toa of Water. He respectively transformed into a Turaga while me and five others transformed into Toa. They were:

Dimitrus- Male Miru-wearing Toa of Water

Sacal- Male Akaku-wearing Toa of Stone

Reskai- Male Kakama-wearing Toa of Air

Arston- Male Pakari-wearing Toa of Ice

Gizrod- Male Hau-wearing Toa of Earth

We were summoned with me to the village suva, where we became toa using the power in our Toa stones. We then were given a briefing and started our training. What we didn't know was that our time was about to enter into an age of fear and darkness.

This is my story.

I hope you'll survive to tell this tale.

***

It all started when we were in a training session.

Our training session was to retrieve the silver Huna from the top of a mountain. In other words: we had to scale mountain with lots of avalanches that could send us brutally down to the ground. We were supposed to get to the top using our wits and strength. So far, it wasn't going good. We were hardly halfway up when another avalanche struck. "More avalanches. Great." Dimitrus muttered sarcastically. I didn't bother knowing him; he detests Toa of fire and Ta-Matoran. And he hates females. He was a racist and an idiot. "Meaningless squabbles waste time. Time is a valuable thing that shouldn't be wasted." Sacal murmured. I shot a grateful glance at him. Sacal was probably the wisest toa on this team. He often spoke in riddles and always meditated, something that was an unusual trait for a Toa of stone or Po-Matoran, who were often known to be stubborn and impatient. "He means we should spend more time trying to work as a team, or die arguing over useless things." Arston grunted. He was cold and distant, but interpreted Sacal's sayings. The other two members, Reskai and Gizrod, didn't speak. I didn't care. They hardly spoke, because Reskai was always nervous, and Gizrod was a creep. A large rock then came falling down, and stopped when Reskai kicked it with one of his feet additions. However, it was sent at Gizrod, but he stabbed it and it broke. He glared at Reskai, who nervously gulped. "Why did you kick that at me?" Gizrod's voice was dangerously quiet. "Um...um...because I wasn't focused at where I was kicking it?" Reskai stuttered.

"And why?"

"Um...because I would've been crushed."

"And why?"

"Because we were arguing."

"And if we weren't-" Gizrod was cut off by Dimitrus. "Well,I personally think that if you fell, it wouldn't have done us any favors because if you weren't paying attention, we'd have to find your body-well whatever would be left of it, any-AARRRGGHH!!" Dimitrus screamed as Gizrod stabbed in the chest and stuck his blade into the ground, causing some of the ground to fall benaeth Sacal's feet. He didn't scream, but gave me a sad smile on his face. "Death doesn't await me; I await death." Were his last words I heard him say. "Why?! We'll all die now!" Reskai screamed. "Not me. Only you." The Toa of Earth smiled maniacally as he removed his Hau, revealing another one behind it. This could only mean one thing. "You're one of those forgotten warriors we were told about. But, those are just myths!" I exclaimed. Gizrod's eyes glowed with insanity as he stepped forwards. "No. They are real. My lord, Nuva, is planning to use the corpses of dead bodies to conquer the universe." He said. Then I thought about my second day as a Toa. "You were found unconscious in front of the gates. We thought you were injured, but you were actually dead!" I exclaimed. He smiled evilly. "You got that right. They placed a fake Hau above my infected one." He said. "Infected?" I asked. "There is a virus. When it spreads, it takes over the corpses, taking control over their inactive minds. They start out like before, then go through an evolution, and at last they become mindless slaves." Gizrod's eyes gleamed, but then a blur of green crashed into him. I realized it was Reskai, who had overcome his fear. However, he didn't last long; he was stabbed just as I told the others to leave. Gizrod then threw Reskai's corpse over the cliff, never to be seen again. I then lunged at him, hooks first, and unleashed a ball of fire at him. He screamed as he was scorched and burned. He then hit me so hard that I shot away from the mountain. Then I landed on the grounded and slipped into unconsciousness.

Chapter 2: Outcast
To be written

Chapter 3: Stakeout
To be written

Chapter 4: Confrontation
To be written

Chapter 5: Unstoppable
To be written