User blog:Keplers/Unfinished Work 1: Chronicles of Tanon

Gordax can steal this and finish it for me.

This is where I left off from the story posted on the MBs.

Just when the team thought that they were alone in the bunker, a tool flew at straight at Ghanus's Kakama and knocked the Toa of Air unconscious. To everyone's surprise, it was a Matoran that walked out from the shadows. He apologized for striking Ghanus and thanked the Zya for rescuing him. It was another successful mission.

When they got back to Daxia, however, they had no praise at all from Helryx. Instead she looked up from her desk, said, "Good work," and handed them a tablet containing the next assignment. Tera marched straight out of the office, down two flights of stairs, and out of the building to the courtyard. She walked down the path due east, where statues of all the Toa that are, were, and will be stand. She looked up and the one of herself in frustration. Why couldn't she do something that pleased Helryx? Had she grown used to the Zya always completing missions and just expected it from them? What if the Zya failed a mission? It irritated Tera. She walked back to her team and dismissed them for the day. ''Our sharp and fearless leader seems off-edge. I wonder what troubles her. She won't even let Ferrum talk to her. She'll get over it. Ehlrys and I sparred today. As usual, my Ice Greatswords and Kualsi bested his Axe and Huna. But he is improving. Today, my concentration slipped and he was able to push me back with fire. I honestly thought I was better at elemental sparring than that. Here comes Ghanus. I hope this isn't another prank. "Tanon, where is your record book?" "Why?" "Because it's not where it usually is. I think I saw Ferrum take it, but still, it could've be-- hey, stop!" Tanon jumped up, did a front flip, and tackled Ghanus. They playfully tussled for a while before stopping. "Alright, I hid it in Ehlrys's tent. You can get it later." Ghanus walked off, smiling to himself.

Part Three

''So we are to stop a band of six Rahi said to be marching across a plain. How hard can this be? Judging from Tera's face, really bad. What type of Rahi could really be able to stop us? ''Of course, Tahtorak. It was as if Helryx knew we wouldn't be able to stop six rampaging Tahtorak and sent us there. Well Helryx was about to learn that the Toa Zya are unstoppable as a team. Elemental power flew everywhere as the special team tried to subdue the Tahtorak without bringing it harm. So far Tanon had managed to flash-freeze one, but he was deeply against doing such a thing to a living creature and did not do the same to the other five. Ferrum was confused. His steel net was shattered by the Tahtorak as if it were string and his disk launcher had absolutely no place here. Or did it. . .? 'MWhat happened next is debated between the other Zya, so I shall tell it my way. Ferrum loaded his launcher with a reduce strength Kanoka, and fired it at one Tahtorak. He fired a Shrink Kanoka at the same one. He alternated between shrink and reduce strength until the creature was the size of a Mahi and couldn't stand. After that, he snared the Rahi in a net, proud that he was able to achieve now what he couldn't do just a short while ago. This left the other Tahtorak in a panic, as their companion had just disappeared form view, and, when visible again, was caught in an iron trap. One of them stepped forward. "I have had enough!" its gruff, booming voice made even Tera wince. "What do you think we are doing? Because you pitiful two-legs cannot comprehend that we must needs eat whilst we migrate north, you capture us, shrink us, and tie us in nets? What and who are you to deny us our right of safe travel?" ''Tera and Ghanus were quite taken aback at the Tahtorak's sudden speech, and I turned to Ehlrys to talk with him on the subject. He apparently already knew that the Tahtorak were sentient beings, but kept quiet the whole time. If he had spoken up, perhaps we could have debated with the Tahtorak to begin with. Well, he has his reasons. ''Tera finished her conversation with the leader of the Tahtorak and turned back to us. The Tahtorak were to continue their migration undisturbed, so long as they do not completely destroy the fields they feast on. We went back towards Daxia to tell Helryx.

Part Four

!NHelryx was not pleased with our mission. Why has she been sending us on these mundane, boring quests? We are the best! If you want something from us, send us somewhere exciting! The Toa Zya are meant to destroy fortresses, as I've mentioned before! Yet we work with pack animals? Helryx glanced at the scratched and battle-worn warriors before him. They all really gleamed in their color. She examined them. A highly polished navy blue with metallic silver, a dark gray Toa with hints of self-added chrome showing through and a bronze Kanohi, yellow-green with lime plating, burning crimson, shining like embers in a fire, and then that white. That gleaming, magnificent white. Helryx wondered how Tanon managed to make it shine, just briefly, before she addressed them. "Toa Zya." She nodded her head slightly, a brief tilt indicating that she recognized them. "Toa Helryx," the team said in unison. "You have failed." Tera took it well. She said, "Understood, Toa Helryx." "You will know that I cannot allow all my teams to fail their jobs." "They do not, Toa Helryx," Tera replied, caution in her voice. "Those Tahtorak were intending to destroy a Matoran camp that they thought intrusive. You should have been able to figure this out and negotiate with them, or destroy them if necessary." Tera would have said "I'm not a Toa of Psionics, how was I supposed to know?" to anyone else, but this time, it was Helryx, and she would remain silent. "Therefore," Helryx said, continuing, "I have decided to disband the Toa Zya." Everyone's mouths dropped down in shock. Dissolve the Zya? Why? Because they failed a single mission? ''Little surprise we failed, although I do see that we are lacking in wisdom. We should well have known that the Tahtorak were intelligent creatures and probably had a motive. Nay, we completely ignored the fact that they would not be migrating and let them go on their way. How could we have been so foolish? Helryx went on. "Toa of Lightning, you, the Toa of Air, and the Toa of Iron will go and stop the beasts before it is too late. Toa of Fire, Toa of Ice, begone. Find somewhere else to be, and never mention this island or your experiences on it to anyone, ever."

The Toa spoke as one. "As you wish, Toa Helryx."

Part Five

''So we lost the Tahtorak. We failed once and lost our purpose. I do not know why I am still chronicling, but anyone who is interested ought to have some sort of history to look at when these times are long past.

Tanon examined his work. Who would be interested in the Toa Zya? No one knew they existed. But these tablets might be found one day, long from now. Or he would die and the chronicles with him, completely unread. He put the tablet aside.

"Ehlrys!" Tanon called out. "Have you figured out which island we're on?" The had come upon a small island with no inhabitants, and neither one of them knew where it was or if anyone would be found for kio.

"No," Ehlrys shouted back, "but there's some shelter here, at least."

"Good. We can camp there for the night," Tanon replied, noticing the fading light.

''So then we went off in a random direction, hoping we would come across something. Soon we'll be bound to find someone, it isn't as if the whole southern part of the universe is uninhabited, right? Or so I hope. I have heard that there are monstrosities deep in the southern islands, mistakes and failures of the Great Beings, creatures that make Spiriah shake his head at the error. ''I hope we go north. We have no way to propel ourselves, and we're letting the current take us everywhere.