While the six mighty Toa roam the island of Mata Nui in search of
the Kanohi Masks of power, and prepare themselves to drive the evil Makuta
and his creatures from the dark places in the land, the leaders of the six
known surviving native Tohunga tribes meet in the sacred place.
Each of these leaders, or Turaga, is guardian of one part of the legend of
Mata Nui, and as they relate their tales to each other in the sand of the
sacred place with rocks and twigs as is their way, they discover that some
ancient lore is emerging as they combine all the legends they know. It is
hovering on the edge of their consciousness, and they delve further and
further into the past to the time when Mata Nui was still a paradise,
before Makuta followed his brother, and the dark places appeared.
It is then that the Turaga
Vakama, holder of the Great Firestaff and eldest among them, remembers the
destruction of the ancient Rongo-Tablets Mata Nui had given to them which
foretold the coming of the Toa from the skies, and showed the
constellations by which they would know their time of waiting had come to
an end. Over time the Tablets had been pieced back together from the
fragments scattered all over the Island, and the finest craftsmen among
the Tohunga carved new Rongo-Tablets into stone. Alas not all pieces could
be found, and some had crumbled into dust, so they filled in the
missing pieces under the guidance of the Turaga of that time.
The new Rongo-Tablets where affixed to
the base of the crystal telescope through which the keepers of the legend
watched the skies for the red star to reach its foretold place among the
constellations. Yet Vakama and the other Turaga grew more troubled as
they considered the missing pieces of information that had to be recreated
during their restoration. In the gaps thus left in the legend a more
ancient malevolent shadow than even Makuta was hiding from their knowledge
and perception. Through the night and well into the next day the
Turaga
brooded over their legend and while they told and retold the ancient tales
they slowly started to draw a new Rongo-Tablet into the sand. In all their
memories pieces of this legend were interwoven as an undercurrent, and they
slowly fell into place.
As the rediscovered Tablet started to take on
form, Turuga Whenua, protector of Onua's legend, recognized the symbol as
something he had once seen in the rock quarry as a faded pattern left on
the ground. But who was that new Toa, which they for now named 'the
Seventh'? What powers did it possess? And where would this discovery
lead to? ...
High above Mata Nui the ancient space station, that the
Tohunga perceive as the red star, slowly rotates
about its axis in orbit. After what seemed like an eternity of silence the
internal machinery had restarted, triggered by a signal placed deep within
the heart of Mata Nui underneath the great volcano, long long ago. The now
busy humming of gears and pistons was only interrupted by a sharp
explosion and the scraping of metal while the cylindrical projectiles where
launched towards the island as the space stations rotation laboriously
brought each launch tube into the correct position. Six cylinders,
containing the disjointed elements of a Toa each, had already been fired,
and the Toa which thus awakened from their troubled dreams were returned
to the land of Mata Nui to fulfill their destiny!
Yet one tube had not
yet launched and many moons would pass before the station would be in the
correct position again. In it the purple, black, and gray parts of
the Seventh Toa lay, whose spirit was stirring restlessly, waiting to
awaken like its brethren. To be recombined into the most powerful hero
yet: The 7th Toa, the Toa of energy!
While the six mighty Toa roam the island of Mata Nui in search of
the Kanohi Masks of power, and prepare themselves to drive the evil Makuta
and his creatures from the dark places in the land, the leaders of the six
known surviving native Tohunga tribes meet in the sacred place.
Each of these leaders, or Turaga, is guardian of one part of the legend of
Mata Nui, and as they relate their tales to each other in the sand of the
sacred place with rocks and twigs as is their way, they discover that some
ancient lore is emerging as they combine all the legends they know. It is
hovering on the edge of their consciousness, and they delve further and
further into the past to the time when Mata Nui was still a paradise,
before Makuta followed his brother, and the dark places appeared.
