Love, Hate, and War~CH2

Lhikan stood in front of the semicircle of matoran, a few curious looks pointed towards him and the collection of stones in his arms. "Toa stones?" Whenua scratched his Kanohi. Vakama's eyes widened, "you don't really mean..." He felt like he was about to faint, was Lhikan thinking what he thought he was thinking? "Yes, Vakama, that is what I mean," Lhikan gave a smile, Vakama never gave himself enough credit. "Toa-hero powers, woohoo!" Matau jumped, thrusting a hand into the air.

Lhikan walked over to the suva and placed the stones according to the markings that were carved onto the surface; each representing one of the six elements of the metrus. "Step in front of your metru's symbol." The matoran followed their Toa's instructions, not entirely sure of what to do. "And fear not, the Great Spirit shall guide you in ways you could not imagine," almost as if Lhikan's words were the cue, the stones began to glow, beams of energy stretching out to engulf the matoran. There were gasps as their body's were filled with power, growing taller, masks changing slightly. When it was over, they looked at each other in awe. "We're … Toa?" clear excitement in Onewa's voice.

"Yes, yes you are," Lhikan smiled broadly, "now all you need are these," and he pulled out the side of the suva to reveal a cash of Toa tools. The new Toa Metru all chose their new tools. "Nice Kanoka launcher, fire-spitter," the new toa of air scoffed. What is this? Nokama thought while rummaging in the suva to pull out her pair of hydro blades, A seventh tool?"Now then," Lhikan said to get their attention, "I see no harm in allowing you to spend the rest of the day off on your own, just be at the Ta-Kini in the morning for a little training." "Yes, Toa," a few said in unison. Lhikan chuckled, "we are all toa here, I would be honored if you called me brother; until the morning," The elder toa said, giving a wave goodbye.

The toa had begun to talk amongst themselves or had started to leave. Matau, being the showoff that he was, had decided to try and impress the new toa of water with the handling of his new toa tools. Half way through an especially complicated maneuver, Matau had lost his grip on one of his aero slicers from surprise, narrowly missing Nokama. "Hey, watch it!" she cried as the blade buried itself into the wall beside her. She looked at the emerald toa, about to tell him off, when she looked at what was capturing her brother's attention. A shaft of light was coming from the top of the suva, slowly forming into the shape of a bipedal organic figure, color slowly seeping into the being. Then as soon as the light had appeared it was gone, leaving a petite human girl. She began to fall from the 'not so very short' suva, exhausted, to be caught by the Toa of ice.