Chapter 3 The Encounterment It is another day for Nami, and everything that just happened the previous day felt more like a dream. As she got up she then looked at herself from the mirror and then saw the same amulet that she got the day before when Rin and her were fighting that huge monster. After seeing that, she finally woke up from just staring at the amulet. That was when her door slammed open, which surprised her. Peeking their head out was her little sister Yuri, which was surprising why she was up early. "Morning Sis!" yelled Yuri, as she leapt into the room joyfully. "I see you are awake! So what's for breakfast today? Huh huh???" Scratching her and and thinking Nami replied saying, "Hmmm... maybe we will have waffles today." "Oh goody!" squealed Yuri as she joyfully left the room skipping away and heading to her brother's room. The family got themselves ready and began eating their breakfast before they had to go to school, but as they sat there eating their breakfast, Nami's brother Gin stared at her cautiously as he chewed on his food. This sort of irritated Nami as she tried to ignore him by reading her textbook. "I'm just curious..." interjected Gin as he tried to get Nami's attention. "Was that really your boyfriend or just an aquaintance, because I never seen you bring home a friend that is a boy usually?" "I told you for the 100th time, that was not my boyfriend, and stop asking me!" replied Nami frustrated and caused her to get up and packed her books in her bag. "Now excuse me, I'm heading off." "Now just hold on a second..." said her brother trying to stop her, but she quickly got out and headed off for school. "Drats... I really need to find out who this Rin guy is...?" As Nami headed off on to the road for her school, waiting out there was Rin who was just leaning on a wall. "Were you waiting for me?" asked Nami confused. "Yes, so let's get going..." said Rin starting to walk off. "Now just hold on a second, why were you waiting for me? This is the first time you ever did this and y'know we never really talk much before until yesterday," asked Nami a bit confused. "Well, I am here to protect you, as a Toa I was told I must protect you and from that I am just following orders, okay?" replied Rin still walking. As Nami tried to keep up with Rin, the ground began to shake, which caused her to lose balance. As they both tried to regain their ground, from behind... the ground opened up revealing a huge scorpion-like creature with 2 masks on its arms instead of pincers. "Watch it... Nui Jaga...." warned Rin as he got in front of Nami transforming into Toa. "A Nui wha-??" questioned Nami, but was interrupted as the stinger from the tail of the Nui Jaga tried to smash them. "WHOA!!!" "I told you to watch it..." said Rin as he drew his sword slashing at its tail, but did nothing. Nami tried to step away, but the Nui Jaga chased after her instead. Rin noticed this and used his elemental powers to freeze the creature, but his energy bolts kept missing. As the creature cornered Nami, it felt like it was all over for her, until another being similar to Rin, but had brown armor jumped in and kicked the creature away. "Now to finish you off..." said the being in brown armor. He then took out a cube and tossed it at the creature which reacted. As the cube hit the Nui Jaga, it bounced off and opened up a huge dimensional portal which sucked up the creature into it and closing off once it sucked in the Nui Jaga. "Whoa... what just happened?" asked Nami as she sat on the concrete in a daze. The other being came to her and held out his hands trying to help her out, as he asked her saying, "Are you okay?" She grabbed his hand and quickly stood up. As she was up, she brushed off the dust on her school uniform and just smiled and thanked the Toa. Rin walked up to them and just stared at the other Toa. "I am suppose to be the one protecting her..." said Rin. "Well you didn't do a good job at it," replied the other Toa jokingly. "I am sorry to not introduce myself, but my name is Manny Aburai." "Oh shoot!!!" yelled Nami looking at her watch. "Rin, we got to head to school now or else we will be late!!!! Sorry Manny, but we have to go now!" "It's fine, I'll see you guys soon then!" he replied as he also rushed off. The two then ran to school as fast they could, and also getting themselves back to normal before they head inside the school. They were just lucky enough to just make it inside on time, with deep breaths they celebrated that they made it on time, but Rin insisted that he would go off first since he knows that Nami usually does her own thing before she heads to class. As she parted ways with Rin, she quixkly headed to her shoe locker where her friend Saya was waiting. "You didn't walk with me today..." said Saya sadly. "I'm sooo sorry, forgive me... I uhhh woke up late," replied Nami trying not to reveal she was late due to a battle against a huge scorpion. "Oh wait... you were late because you walked with your new boyfriend! RIGHT?? I should have called you last night to find out how's it go!" said Saya excitedly. "Nooo it isn't that.... Geez Saya..." said Nami finally putting on her school shoes, but then she realized that the school had no sign of damages from yesterday, and it was all fixed up which confused her. "Is something wrong?" asked Saya, noticing how Nami looked lost for a moment. "Ohhh... it's nothing, let's go to class," replied Nami walking off with Saya to class. "I wonder today will be an interesting day also..." "You said something?" asked Saya. "Oh nothing... just mumbling to myself," replied Nami looking out the windows seeing the track field where the students were running off and having fun doing there Track practices.