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    Steal the Mask 2

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    The mask began to quiver, then became scalding hot, burning Drakmanka's hands and causing him to drop the Kanohi with a cry.

     

    A low rumble spread from the mask's resting place. In a brilliant flash of light, the Ignika's guardian Toa appeared, pearl Kualsi glinting, black armour glossy, tectonic spear glowing dangerously. Green eyes shone sage and steady, a determination slicing through the air and settling on his target.

     

    Beginning to get used to sudden interruptions in his day-to-day life, the Toa of Earth positioned his spear just short of Drakmanka's throat.

     

    "I am Tohzak. What is your business with the Ignika?"

    Steal the Mask 2

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    Tohzak's deep green eyes flickered from behind his pearly mask as consciousness returned. Running his hands over the ground, he began to restore feeling to his body. Stretching and pushing himself from the floor, he looked around the room.

     

    Again, the Mask had left chaos.

     

    Scraps of metal and splintered timber lay around the room. There were no signs of other in the room, but Tohzak couldn't be sure. A huge wooden club lay off by the doorway in a puddle of water. The lave rumbled and hissed under the platform. And at the edge, it lay and glinted.

     

    Ignika.

     

    Tohzak walked cautiously towards it; he spun and scanned the room again, but no occupants made themselves known. Looking down at the mask, he knelt and retrieved the Kanohi.

     

    *Mask is under Tohzak's care*

    Steal the Mask 2

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    Tohzak was befuddled.

     

    Mere moments ago, he had stood beside Toa Helryx. He had handed her the Kanohi Ignika. She had opened her mouth, eyes filled with worry.

     

    And then it stopped.

     

    Not just Helryx. Not just him.

     

    Everything.

     

    Nothing moved and nothing was.

     

    Spinning in the nothingness, the Toa became more disoriented. He turned his head to face where he presumed there to be ground - to say he looked at the ground would be a lie, yet Tohzak could certainly feel an existence below him. The nothingness around him was vacant of features, yet he could stand. Vacant of breeze, yet he could breathe. Vacant of light, yet he could see himself. Vacant of meaning. Yes. At least, no meaning the Toa could yet fathom.

     

    A low hum began to come from the walls of absence around Tohzak, a violent, angry vibration in the nothingness. Tohzak felt himself begin to buzz, an ache deep in his body, a pain spreading through him. He grasped his mask, closed his eyes.

     

    Ignika.

     

    And then it stopped.

     

    Not just the pain. Not just the noise.

     

    Everything.

     

     

     

     

    Tohzak opened his eyes. Smooth, grey, stone walls formed a natural corridor, the stone sloping below towards a cavern, a heated glow. Waves of warmth flowed from the room beyond, a beckoning heat. The hissing, burning, broiling of volcanic molten rock.

     

    A figure in the doorframe, facing towards the orange light.

     

    A whisper.

     

    "My Mask."

     

     

     

     

    Tohzak checked himself once over and hefted his spear. He concentrated on the corridor around him and the room ahead. No Earth. Wood, stone, lava, the faintest trace of stifled air, but no element to lend its power to him.

     

    He ran one hand down his own mask; still intact. Tohzak may have been out of his elements, but he still had his Kualsi.

     

    Focussing on the platform ahead, he activated the Kanohi. A blink later, and he stood in the room, facing the figure. And between them, lying cold on a pedestal, was the Mask.

     

    Ignika, Tohzak thought.

     

    Fishers, it replied.

     

    With a start, the Toa looked up. He swept his green eyes over the figure opposite him.

     

    "Feeshers," Tohzak attempted. "The Ignika."

     

    The shadow in the doorway tilted its head. Tohzak couldn't make out much of it, but it was Toa-shaped.

     

    He went on: "The Ignika is a curse. I have been summoned to each place where it is fought over. I do not know why. I can only surmise that I should return it home. It blessed my people and left. I owe it its peace."

     

    Still silence.

     

    Shuffling backwards, Tohzak lowered his staff to the ground, pearly tip reflecting the heat. He raised himself from the ground, stretched his palms before him, and waited.

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