Spirit Shadows: Dawn

Dawn is the prologue to Stormjay Rider's Generation 2 story, Spirit Shadows.

Story
Standing from the top of Erkelon's highest mountain in the black before the dawn, Emekal waited.

He remembered when he had first climbed this mountain. It had scarcely been a few years after he and hundreds of other Matoran fled their war-torn homeland and arrived on this island. As the only Toa among the group, he accompanied the newly chosen Protectors as they set out to find homes for the six elemental tribes. When they came across this mountain and ascended for the first time, they found a view of nearly all of the island -- the only things Emekal couldn't see were the southern bay, which the Ga-Matoran called home, and the extent of the Ethian desert.

It had been eighty years since that day -- eighty years of prosperity and growth. But from his aerial view of Erkelon, not much had changed. Some of the ruins left on the island from past civilizations had been torn down in order to build homes, the Le-Matoran had overseen the growth of a massive jungle in the southwest. Eighty years in which he had been waiting.

As the confidante of the Protectors, Emekal had learned what exactly he was waiting for. The prophesied new order of Toa. The Toa Vihagu. The ones who were to bring the battle back to their homeland and rescue all the Matoran that had fallen.

The sun was rising now, silhouetting the other mountains far to the east. He was needed at those mountains by the time the sun was above his head, and Erkelon, for all its beauty, was a difficult land to cross.

He drew his hand across the hilt of a sword, which he had planted in the ground when he had arrived here. It was not his own sword, but he carried it as a reminder of its original owner, his brother-in-arms, who had sacrificed himself during the war. He saw he had got the sword a bit dirty, so he pulled it into his hands, feeling for the trigger. Once he had found it, he sent a small charge of elemental energy into it. The Blade lit up with golden light, and he saw the dirt melt away into oblivion.

Emekal pulled the sword and locked it into the clip on his back. Then he began his descent back into the world that he now called his home.

Trivia

 * Dawn was written for Emekal's MOCpages post, as a teaser for the world of Spirit Shadows.