Bionicle: Equestrian Saga
Chapter 1
Load Full Story Next ChapterOh! Hello there, I suspect you're wanting to know my story, young one. You're not the first, and I doubt you'll be the last. all these tens of decades later and people still want to know my story first hand. Well, you better order yourself a few drinks, this will take a while.
I suppose the best place to start my story would be at the beginning. I had just gotten off of a bus and was walking home, I hear an almighty bang and my vision is filled with light. Then I woke up in… a forest, my first conscious thought was ‘great, I’m in Sherwood-bloody-Forest, not going to be getting home on time am ?’.
I stood up and started to look around, I decided to pick a direction and walk in said direction, there were trees everywhere but it wasn’t exactly claustrophobic. In the distance I heard the faint trickling of a stream, I stopped to try and pinpoint the direction of the sound. It seemed to be coming from the left of me, as I walked in the direction of the stream I found myself at the top of a shallow gully. I made my way down to the water and froze when I saw my reflection, staring right back at me was… a robot‽
I probably stood there for a good five minutes just staring at my reflection, although it was somewhat distorted by the flowing water I could still get a good idea of what I looked like now.
My torso was silver with a red chest plate, the chest plate itself was circular with what looked like a hinging dish-shaped panel with a dull green glow emanating from it (the sort of effect you get from shining a torch behind opaque glass), as well as smaller square shaped panel at the bottom of the chest plate. My upper arms were covered in red plating as well as silver panels on top (these also looked like upturned versions of the ‘chest panel’). My lower arms weren’t covered by any thick armour plating but they were covered in ‘scale-mail’ (armour that looks like scales), on my hands were red metal gauntlets. My legs just had plain red armour as did my ‘boots’. I was wearing a gold(!) mask and my eyes were now green (they were originally brown) and glowing.
it was then that I suddenly realised I had been walking around for god knows how long and I didn’t notice my new… form, I also noticed that I had some sort of H.U.D. displaying things like health, a compass and… shielding‽ (though was displaying 0% at the time).
I looked back at my reflection and noticed that I had something on my back in addition to my rucksack (I’m still trying to figure out how that was still there). I grabbed hold of what felt like a handle and pulled the object off of my back, it came away as if it wasn’t actually attached. I brought the object in front of me to reveal it to be… a fucking huge sword, seriously the blade was huge, it had to be at least 4 or 5 feet long and about a foot wide and yet it didn’t feel that heavy. It wasn’t exactly weightless, but it wasn’t as heavy as it should be, I gave it couple of experimental swings before staying it on my back, it felt really well balanced. I wasn’t what you would call an expert at sword fighting, although I’ve had a couple hours’ worth of experience in fencing so I knew roughly how to handle a blade (just not one as big as this) meaning if push came to shove I could defend myself, although I very much doubted I would actually need to use it.
SNAP!
I looked around to try and find the source of the sound but I couldn’t see anything out of place ‘hmm, must have been my imagination’
GRR!
I barely had time to react as a wolf charged at me from seemingly nowhere and bit down on my left arm, really hard.
‘AH, YOU BITCH!’ I screamed, I may have had armour, but it still bloody hurt. I saw my health go down slightly, thinking quickly I punched it hard on its nose. It yelped but didn’t let go and started shaking my arm like a chew toy, I started punching it repeatedly until I could feel its hold on me loosen. I started twisting my left arm to try and get it free, in the distance I could hear the howling of more wolves.
“Oh, screw this!” I grabbed the sword on my back and in one swift movement I swung it in an ark aiming for the wolf’s neck, Instead of cleanly slicing through the wolf’s neck the whole animal disintegrated into a pile of sticks.
“What the hell‽” I didn’t have much time to dwell on what just happened as more of the wolves appeared, from where they were standing I could see that they were actually made out of wood. I started backing away slowly when I saw the pile of sticks from the first wolf start to levitate enveloped in a lime-green glow and reform back into the wolf, its (and the other wolves) eyes glowing the same shade of green.
“Oh hell no” I muttered under my breath. “That’s not fair”
The wolves started growling and hissing at me as I backed away at a slightly quicker pace. the wolves started walking towards me, matching my pace.
‘I’m starting to think this might not be Sherwood Forest, yeah… they definitely don’t have wolves made of wood running around in Nottinghamshire’ I thought whilst trying to plan my way out of this mess ‘Can’t outrun them, even if they are made of wood they are no-doubt faster than me, don’t want to risk climbing up a tree in case they’re Dendrokenetic. I don’t want to get mauled to death by a bunch of walking shrubs, my brother would never let me forget that, guess I should try to fight my way out’
l lifted my sword up into a defensive position and prepared myself for the coming fight
‘well, if I’m going to fight these things then I’m going to try and enjoy it’
“OY, WANKERS!” I exclaimed whilst pointing my sword at them, trying to provoke them “YOUR MOTHER IS A KITTEN AND YOUR FATHER SMELLS OF ELDERBERY”
That seemed to get their attention, the one that bit my arm seemed to get really pissed off and charged at me, ‘Really? You’re attacking one at a time?’ I thought.
As it jumped up at me I swung my sword to try and make it disintegrate again but all I succeeded in doing was scratching its right eye before it knocked me to the ground. My sword got knocked out of my hand and when I got over my temporary disorientation I found the wolf standing with its front paws on my chest and staring down at me with its scratch glowing the same colour as its eyes, it puffed out green smoke at me before barring its teeth and growling.
‘Well scheißer, hardly been here for half an hour and I’m already about to be mauled to death by a walking shrub, my brother will never let me live this one down’ I thought whilst sighing and rolling my eyes