*POV 3rd person*

Ruby walked amongst the Spherus Magnans, casting the occasional wary glance towards the odd Bone Hunter or Skakdi that saw her. Every one that saw her gave her a look that sent shivers down her spine, and not in a good way. She soon found Garnet and Thel talking with a…Turaga if she remembered correctly. This one was blue and spoke in a soft female voice, she also were a rather plain mask. Ruby walked over and cleared her throat.

“Umm, Garnet, Thel?” Ruby said, Thel scowled.

“Oh, what do you want?” Thel said.

“I’m…I’m sorry” Ruby said “for earlier, what I said was wrong and I shouldn’t have said it, if it wasn’t for me, you wouldn’t have gotten captured by those things, can you forgive me?” Ruby looked at the Atquean with a hopeful expression on her face, after a few moments the Atquean smiled.

“How about we start over?” Thel said.

“I’d like that” Ruby said, Turaga Nokama gestured for the female Kirin to sit near them.

“Why don’t you come join us, young one?” she asked “I was just starting to tell the tale of how I became a Toa”

“I think I’d like that” Ruby said, before glancing behind her “besides, those Bone Hunters and Skakdi just creep me out” Turaga Nokama took note of this and glared at a small group that was eyeing up the young female Kirin, the group quickly dispersed and so Turaga Nokama began to tell the tale of her adventures with the Toa Metru.

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*POV 1st person* Vuur Koning.

I was stood talking with Ackaar about The Art of War by Sun Tzu whilst we waited for everyone to finish preparing.

“I’ve got an audio recording of it on the ship” I said “so whilst we are searching for the Toa you can have a listen”

“I’ll consider it” Ackaar said nodding.

“Hey boys” Autumn said, walking over.

“Who’s this?” Ackaar asked.

“Autumn Skies, Pegasus and deputy of my team” I said, before adding “and significant other of yours truly” at this point Turaga Vakama walked over.

“I would keep an eye on the Skakdi and Bone Hunters” he said “Nokama has told me that they have taken an interest in your child; Ruby”

“I’ll tear them apart if they go anywhere near her!” I said, loud enough for a group of them to start edging away from me “honestly, if they weren’t such good fighters I’d leave them here”

“What about that thing?” Gresh said, pointing at Discord, who was currently following Roodaka.

“He breaks up the monotony” I said, shrugging “but seriously, he’s going to be sticking around keeping the ones like Roodaka in line, if they’re too busy trying to deal with him, they won’t have time to think about double crossing us, and if they do he can simply use discorded touch on them”

“What?” Ackaar asked

“It completely inverts their personality” I said “so a double crossing Vortix like Roodaka would become incredibly loyal, but it works both ways, so you have to be careful” I went to inspect one of my grenades, only to find it missing. I saw a blue foot disappear around a tree and sighed in exasperation, I then crossed my arms.

“I hope they don’t press the big red button!” I said loudly, five seconds later there was a loud bang and Berix exclaimed as he was flung across the beach. When he landed in the sand he was smoking slightly, I walked over and crossed my arms “you should really learn to stop taking things, or you might find that this happens a lot more often” Berix didn’t say anything, he just groaned before falling back into the sand. I rolled my eyes before walking back over to the planning table.

“What was that?” Gresh asked.

“A grenade” I said, picking one up “I was going to demonstrate but that little blue shit did it for me, press the button and throw it as far away as you can, five seconds later you get a big boom”

“How does it work?” the Jungle tribe Glatorian asked, picking one up and examining it.

“Changeling crap” I said, Gresh put the grenade back on the table and took a few steps back.

“Okay” he said “that’s just disgusting”

“It brings a whole new meaning to the term ‘explosive diarrhoea’” Minion said, myself, Vapaa and Natrix burst out laughing, the Glatorians just looked ill.

“You’ll find we have a very dark sense of humour” I said.

“Oh great” Kina said, rolling her eyes, I smirked and Minion saw the look I was giving.

“Oh no you don’t” he said, cupping his hand over my mouth. I stuck my tongue out and he groaned in disgust before pulling his hand away.

“Roses are red, my mind is twisted” I said, Vapaa and Natrix face palmed, waiting for the inevitable “Bend over bitch, you’re about to get fisted!” Kina responded by punching me in the face, knocking me off my feet and braking my nose, the other Toa burst out laughing.

“You really deserved that” Vapaa said.

“Still worth it” I said, standing up and blocking my nose to stop the blood “err, does anyone have a tissue?” the Glatorians just stared at me, slack jawed.

“I cannot believe you just said that” Gresh said.

“Fick dich, ich tue, was ich will” I said, grabbing a tissue off of Minion. The Glatorians just looked at me, confused. I gave Vapaa a look and he smirked, getting the same idea as me.

“Ich weiß nicht, was das Problem ist” Vapaa said, shrugging “wir reden, wie wir normalerweise tun”

“Sie wahrscheinlich zu alt und altersschwach sind” I replied, the Glatorians were just looking at us, getting more and more confused with every sentence.

“What are they saying?” Kina asked, looking at Minion, who just shrugged.

“Hell if I know” he said “I don’t speak German”

“Alright” I said “we’re just messing with you”

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*later that day*

We were all stood at the entrance to the cave, several thousand individuals that could fight were there out of the 70’000 individuals that made up the combined numbers of the crew of the ship plus the Spherus Magnans (that’s right, we rescued close to 20’000 Spherus Magnans from that hell hole). I was stood at the front of the group alongside Celestia, Luna and Ackaar, who had sort of become the leader of the Spherus Magnans.

“Are you sure you want to do this?” Celestia asked, both me and Ackaar deadpanned and Celestia soon took the hint “right, shall we?” I nodded and drew my power-sword before sending a column of fire into the sky. This was the signal everyone was waiting for and they all cheered, we then began to descend into the mouth of the cave. After a few minute we reached the fork and I pointed to turn right.

“They should be through there” I said. At that moment one appeared from nowhere and jumped at Celestia, who promptly incinerated it with a beam of focused sunlight, lighting up the cave in the process and revealing the right hand corridor to be swarming with them, I paled slightly “oh, shit”

“Quite” Luna said, looking down the corridor wide eyed, I turned to Celestia.

“Ladies first?” I asked, gesturing down the corridor, she rolled her eyes before charging up magic on her horn for several minutes, she the reared up.

“BE GONE!!!”

She then stomped her fore-hooves on the ground and released all of the charged up magic in one, concentrated beam of sunlight. Eradicating all of the Rahkshi in the corridor from existence, Ackaar gave a low whistle as he stared at the now smooth and smoking corridor.

“Where can I learn to do that?” he asked, gesturing to his sword, Celestia snorted.

“If you tried to there would be nothing left of you but ash and dust, and that would before you could even think about firing the spell” she said, giving him a pointed look. We soon began to descend the corridor, which was still really hot.

“Exactly how much power did you put into that, Cellestia?” I asked.

“Enough to make the ground completely sterile” she said, shrugging and increasing her pace slightly. After several minutes of walking we reached the end of the corridor and entered an absolutely massive cavern, filled with ‘Xeno-Rahkshi’. It soon dissolved into total chaos, with countless battles raging around. I had just slain one when another jumped on me and pinned me down, it went to attack me with its jawed tongue but I grabbed it with my hand. A few seconds later a gold beam hit the Xeno-Rahkshi and left nothing except for the tongue which I was still holding. I looked other to see Celestia, one of the Xeno-Rahkshi went to attack her from behind but she spun her staff at a very high speed and obliterated the creature in a shower of green blood.

“Thanks” I said, getting up. I noticed a doorway off to one side and nodded to Celestia, she followed after me as I walked into the cavern. It seemed to be mostly empty, and nothing was showing up on any of the masks, I rounded a corner and pulled Celestia back very quickly.

“What?” she asked, I motioned for her to be quiet and wait before slowly walking towards the corner. Pacing back and forth was a huge therapod-form xenomorph, about 70 feet long.

“Shit” I muttered, I turned to Celestia “you better start charging up that spell…what?” I asked, noticing that she had frozen in fear. I felt some kind of liquid splashing on my armour, I looked up to see the Xenomorph ‘looking’ straight down at me.

“Err, Vuur Koning?” Celestia said, panic riddling her voice.

“Run!” I shouted, bolting for the doorway, Celestia flew through it and I followed through soon after, most of the Xeno-Rahkshi were now destroyed. The Xeno-rex crashed through the wall, making everyone stop and stare. The Xeno-Rahkshi were now starting to climb up the walls of the cavern and out of the way “EVERYONE OUT, NOW!” they didn’t need telling twice and began running up the corridor. Celestia and Luna were at the back, sending offensive blasts of light. But it didn’t seem to affect the Xeno-rex as it charged up the corridor after us. We rushed back to the beach and a few moments later the Xeno-rex stumbled onto the sand, causing people to go running for their lives. I teleported onto the bridge.

“What in Tartarus is that!?” Blazewing asked, looking out the window

“I don’t care!” I said “fire all the guns, give it everything we’ve got. I don’t want anything left of it, you hear me!” Blazewing nodded and began sending orders, a few moments later all of the guns began firing on the beast. The rail gun sluggishly began to aim at the Xeno-rex and fired, hitting the Xeno-rex square on the forehead and causing its head to explode in a shower of blood and gore. The carcass fell to the ground with a loud thud and everyone began cheering as I sighed with relief.

“Thank god, it’s over” I said, leaning over the control panels. I turned to Blazewing “aim the rail gun at their nest and keep firing” the fire drake nodded and barked out orders to the crew, the rail gun re aimed towards the nest and began firing with a slow *bang*…*bang*…*bang*…*bang*.after several minutes I ordered for them to stop and send out a search party, who confirmed that the nest had been destroyed.

“May I ask why you were so eager to destroy the nest?” Blazewing asked.

“If you’d seen the things I saw you’d understand” I said, the night we celebrated. Not only for the eradication of the nest, but also for the discovery of the Spherus Magnans.

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