This plot bunny has been buggin' me for months. This is sort of based on an idea I got once, which was like, "What if humans co-existed with the Matoran and Toa?" and then I got another idea: "What if the Toa Nuva encountered the Visorak?" and they merged into this. Enjoy.
Disclaimer: I don't own Bionicle, but I do own the humans in this story.
It was the kind of day no one expected anything bad to happen. The sun shone brightly in the blue cloudless sky, while the birds sang and the children laughed in their play. The food and water issues were finally fully dealt with, and trading routes had been established, so the inhabitants of the human settlement could rest easy and toss their cares aside.
All but a few.
Anali sat alone, like she usually did, with a tablet recently imported from Metru Nui resting in her lap. However, unlike always, she stared up at the beautiful clear sky intently, appearing to forget all about everything else. Something…wasn't right. In spite of the bright sunlight and happy dispositions of everyone else in the village, there still seemed to be this small, but sinister shadow that lurked in the corner of her mind.
They're coming…we're coming…
She focused harder on the sky, as if staring at the sky could drive this feeling away. She wanted to tell someone about this, but most of the people already thought of her as some kind of antisocial gloomy-guts. So she wore darker colors and preferred to be alone. None of them knew her.
"Do you feel it?"
Anali turned sharply, her dark brown ponytail whipping her cheek. A young girl who couldn't be more than eight years old looked up at her solemnly.
"You're Quila, aren't you?" Anali asked. "Feel what?"
Quila nodded. "I feel like…something bad's going to happen. Do you feel it?"
"…Yeah. I didn't think anyone else would."
"So what do you think is going to happen?"
"I…I don't know. We could both be wrong, you know."
Quila shook her head. "No. Something will happen, I know it. I think we should leave."
Anali blinked. "W-What?"
"We should leave the island," Quila repeated with total certainty. "It's not safe here now. Something terrible is coming."
Anali furrowed her brow. Now that Quila mentioned it, that was exactly what she herself was feeling. Something was coming, and the humans' only hope was to flee.
Her mouth quirked up in a sardonic, bleak smirk. Yeah, we're doomed. The settlement had just been fully established. To tell everyone to run away and leave all this would be like telling a Ko-Metru Matoran to throw his telescope out the window.
"Well, why don't you go talk to your parents? Maybe they'll listen." Quila nodded and ran off. Anali looked down at the tablet in her hands. Reading some of the words inscribed on it, Anali felt a strange chill. She tried to shake it off and keep reading, but the shadow in her mind seemed to grow.
You are reading about them…. You should be fleeing from them…
Anali shook her head. We're not going to flee. Besides, if I know about them, maybe we can fight them.
You cannot fight them…you can only run from them…
Shut UP!
A scream of terror shattered her thoughts and she jumped to her feet, clutching the tablet fearfully. Several young men and women rushed into town frantically, crying out incoherently. Still hanging onto the tablet, Anali rushed to the side of one of them, her older brother.
"Rynux, it's me. What is it? What's going on?"
"It's—We saw—them!"
"Who? What?"
"The…the…Visorak!"
Visorak…Visorak…Visorak…
They have come.
The tablet slipped from her shaking fingers and shattered at her feet. She never even noticed as she ran, somewhere, anywhere, just as long as it was away from those monsters, even as her brother fell behind her, screaming.
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