Tears of the Deceased

Tears of the Deceased is a prequel story set in the G2 Origins Timeline. Meant to also fit in the official timeline, it follows Rira and Amaru in their final days.

Prologue
The night rain fell softly in the City of the Mask Makers.

Peace and tranquility was now the term for normalcy, and the threat of anything attacking the island of Okoto was far from happening. Still, Rira was left to ponder over what was going to happen in the rest of his lifetime. Yes, the Skadki Marauders were defeated. Yes, the Elemental Masks were secure, so there was no chance of the island losing its stability anytime soon. And it wasn’t like the Elemental Creatures would simply die…

What was to become of the Toa? Were they really the islands guardians, or were they becoming mere citizens like the rest of the Okotoans? Rira was constantly in thought over this concept, wondering what his purpose truly was in the world—no, this universe—remembering that he apparently came from space.

He tried to find kill time to kill, working as a gladiator. He enjoyed his job, but it often conflicted him that he was a mere piece of entertainment for the common folk. It wasn’t that he felt above the others; it just particularly hurt that he was left to do this after the Mask Makers themselves explicitly stated that it “wasn’t necessary to protect them anymore”(which, in his eye, was just a nicer way of saying he was fired). After so many years of protecting others that couldn’t protect themselves, he simply felt useless doing something that wasn’t meant for Toa…

Even his new job was puzzling to him. It was his idea to have Amaru join the gladiator arena, yes; but somehow Amaru felt more at home there than he did. Amaru loved his job.

Rira quit thinking about it. He always gave himself a headache whenever he thought about these things.

"What time is it?" He said, realizing he had lost track of time. Amaru would kill him if he was late to the show. Retracing his footsteps, Rira rushed through the woods to get to the arena in time, hoping it wasn't already too late.

To be continued

Characters

 * Amaru
 * Rira
 * Kulta
 * Unnamed Toa of Fire
 * Unnamed Toa of Water
 * Unnamed Toa of Ice
 * Unnamed Toa of Stone
 * Ekimu
 * Makuta
 * Several Elemental Creatures

Trivia

 * Mercatorprojection chose to write this story to give somewhat of a history for the Skull Warriors. This was particularly because the official timeline stated little about who Skull Basher and Skull Slicer actually were. As such, their story is in correspondence with their Skull forms.