The Turahk walked closer, at a deliberately slow pace to try and drag this out as long as possible. He wanted to prolong this for as long as possible, to draw as much fear from her as possible. He eventually reached her and crouched down, placing the knife on her left cheek.

“Tell me child” he said, idly spinning the blade around on its point “do you fear death?” Ruby’s eyes widened, she nodded and whimpered, tears started to flow from her eyes. The Turahk sneered and began applying pressure on the knife, in one swift motion he drew the knife upward. Blinding her in one eye and leaving a long scar along the left side of her face, she screamed out in pain.

“Ahh!!!” she screamed “Please, don’t” she pleaded, blood flowed out of her left eye.

“Shh” the Turahk said, wiping the blood away with a clawed hand and then licking it off his hand “it’ll soon be over, know that this is nothing personal, everything need sustenance. It just so happens that I need fe..” he never got to finish his sentence as an energy disk slammed into him, sending him crashing into the wall.

“You leave pretty Ruby alone!” Skohka thundered, Ruby looked over with her good eye to see him with his disk launcher out and aimed at the Turahk. The Steltian began to struggle against his restraints, which started to groan and creak. Eventually they broke with a rending crack and he began to stomp towards the Turahk, his disk launcher charging up as he did so.

“I thought you would know better than to attack a Turahk” the Turahk said, and his hand began to glow. The glow faded after a few seconds and the Turahk looked surprised “What!? How!?”

“We Steltians are very stubborn” Skohka said, before firing the disk launcher at the Turahk several times until there was nothing left but a bloody mess. Skohka then stomped on the Turahk’s head for good measure, before walking towards Ruby and breaking her restraints “is pretty Ruby gonna be okay?” the Kirin laughed weakly.

“If Garnet can get over a severed arm, then I can get over losing an eye” she said, Skohka helped the Kirin up, who walked over to the remains of the Turahk and burning it in dragon fire, before walking towards the door next to Skohka.

*just outside the door*
Two Turahk stood outside the door, they heard two loud thuds before an explosion sent then flying into the opposite wall. Skohka stepped through the remains of the doorway and stomped towards the two Turahk with Ruby walking close behind.

“Exit” he growled “WHERE!?” the two Turahk whimpered before pointing to the left.

“Thank you” Ruby said, an innocent smile on her face. This quickly changed to a snarl and she promptly roasted them in her hottest dragon fire, reducing them to molten protodermis and carbonised flesh in a few seconds. They both began walking down the corridor and soon came across a large room filled with Turahk. Ruby walked forward before clearing her throat “I would just like to say…I HOPE YOU LIKE YOUR MEAT WELL DONE!!!” she then proceeded to unleash a torrent of fire and Skohka began firing his disk launcher at any Turahk that decided to try and attack Ruby.

*1st person Vuur Koning”

We busted through the door to the Rahkshi lair and were surprised to see it seemingly deserted.

“What?” I muttered, cautiously walking forward, the other Neu-Toa following slowly behind. The glow from the burning Rahkshi outside slowly dying down as we walked through the corridors, we soon came to a large hall at were surprised to see Ruby and Skohka sitting back to back on a pile of smouldering Rahkshi. I noticed that Skohka had a bottle of some form of drink “Ruby!?” the Kirin turned to me and my stomach dropped, she was missing her left eye and there was a long scar stretching the entire left side of her face. Both me and Autumn ran over and Ruby met us half way.

“Oh my Gods” Autumn said, holding the Kirins head and inspecting the injury “What happened?”

“Nasty Turahk” Skohka said, before taking a swig “big knife, Turahk is nothing but ash now” the realisation hit me and I smiled at Ruby.

“That’s my girl” I said, tussling her mane, I then switched to the mask of healing but it refused to heal the injury “why the hell won’t this work” I smacked the side of the mask as I said this.

“I don’t think it works on nerve damage either” Autumn said, I sighed.

“Great, the one time I actually need this to work it won’t” I said “alright, let’s get her back to medical bay, Skohka too” I looked at his damaged skull plate and eye as I said this, the Steltian simply nodded before taking another swig.

*Later that day*

“Will you please hold still?” Balta said the Ruby, I’d had him make a robotic eye. Now he was trying to turn it on, although Ruby was making that rather difficult.

“But it feels weird” Ruby said, jerking her head away

“Ruby dear” I said, placing a hand on her shoulder “please hold still for Balta” the Kirin huffed and resisted moving away.

“Why do I have to be awake for this bit?” this asked, crossing her arms and huffing “you put me to sleep when you fitted it”

“Because we need you to tell us when it’s working” Balta said, slowly adjusting something with a screwdriver “almost…there! Can you see anything?” the aperture on the robotic eye opened and closed a couple of times and the lens began hunting for focus.

“Ahh!” Ruby exclaimed, covering the lens with a hand “that’s really bright” Balta got out a tinted lens filter and screwed it onto the end.

“How about now?” he asked, Ruby gasped.

“Wow!” she exclaimed “I can actually see better than before”

“See” I said “was that so hard?” she rolled her good eye and the aperture did likewise.

“Wait…” she said, trailing off “why are there loads of weird symbols?” I groaned and face palmed.

“For god’s sake, Balta” I said, the Ta-Matoran chuckled nervously and he retrieved something from the side. It looked like an S.D. card.

“It’s just switched off!” Ruby exclaimed.

“Just a moment” Balta said, before walking to a set of trays filled with mechanical parts, he then retrieved an identical S.D. card and placed it in the lens “what can you see now?”

“That’s better, now I can read what it says” she said, the aperture then clicked and I saw the lens turn red “whoa! Thermal vision!?”

“Don’t activate the night vision just yet” Balta said “you’ll destroy the sensor if you do”

We were now back on the ground, exploring whilst Frostfang was lazing on the ground with the ship moored to him. He was keeping an eye on the kids with Skohka whilst my team of six explored a network of caves nearby.

“Do you really think we’ll find anything” Vinyl said sceptically “all I see is a bunch of rocks and…hold the phone”

“What can you see?” Minion asked, we all looked in her direction and soon found out “well…slap me thrice and hand me to my mother” laying in a corner was a large, red, biomechanical dragon with a fire staff laying on the ground near him.

“Is that who I think it is?” I said, walking closer

“Who do you think it is?” Scar asked.

“Makuta Miserix” I said, two things happened at that moment. One, the Makuta’s eyes snapped open and focused on me. Two, the other Toa pointed their weapons at Miserix.

“Who dares disturb my slumber” Miserix said in a baritone voice, narrowing his eyes at me as he grabbed his staff and sat up.

“Guys, don’t attack!” I said, they warily lowered their weapons and I walked forward “Miserix, my name is Toa Vuur Koning…” he cut me off with a laugh.

“Toa?” he asked, walking closer and scrutinising us “you look nothing like Toa, or have they started letting anyone become a Toa?”

“Things have changed in the last 400’000’000 years” I said with a shrug, his eyes widened.

“Have I truly slept that long?” he asked.

“Why don’t you come with us and see for yourself” I offered “we are part of a team that’s exploring the world, looking for the original Toa” he seemed to consider this for a few moments.

“Very well, ‘Toa’” he said, we lead him outside the cave and his eyes widened when he saw the ship and the 200 ft. long ice-drake attached to it, he looked at me and I shrugged.

“Told you so” I said, Garnet and Ruby flew over and their eyes widened.

“Err, Dad?” Garnet said “who’s the dragon with the staff?” Miserix chuckled.

“Curious looking one” Miserix said “I am no mere dragon, I…” he was interrupted by Frostfang, who snorted a jet of mist.

“YOU SAY THAT LIKE BEING A DRAGON MAKES US INFERIOR” Frostfang said, standing up to his full height, Miserix actually looked ever so slightly intimidated looking up at the colossal ice dragon for a few seconds “I COULD FREEZE YOU WHERE YOU STAND BECAUSE OF YOUR INSOLENCE, FIRE-DRAKE”

“My apologies” Miserix said, before turning back to Garnet “as I was saying, I am Makuta Miserix, original ruler of the brotherhood and last of the true Makuta” both Garnet and Ruby got into defensive stances and Garnet changed his arm into a Midak Sky Blaster.

“Now, now, children” I said “no need for hostilities, he’s a friend”

“But, he’s a Makuta” Garnet said.

“That is correct, young ones, however, I do not have dreams of universal domination, unlike someone else I could mention, I do not mean you harm” he said, he then leaned right in and a some dark red flames seeped out of his mouth, causing the two Kirin the start backing away in fear “but act like that again, and children or not, I will kill you where you stand” I scowled.

“Mind how you talk to my son and daughter” I said “I just so happen to be the captain of that vessel, and it is within the Neu-Toa code for me to blast you to Tartarus with every single gun on that ship for threatening my children” Miserix humphed before backing off.

“When do we move on?” he asked.

“Now” I said.

I was stood on the deck of the ship, watching Miserix fly alongside Frostfang.

“I don’t understand why you let him come with us” Natrix said “He’s a Makuta and I don’t trust him”

“What if we come across more Rahkshi?” I asked, looking at Natrix “like it or not, because he’s a Makuta that means he can control Rahkshi”

“Seems you have something against me” Miserix said, startling us both, he was now flying really close to where we were stood “I may be old, but a Makuta’s hearing doesn’t fade with age, plus you talk rather loudly”

“Uh…” Natrix said.

“You mentioned Rahkshi?” Miserix said.

“Yes” I said “we recently came across some rather nasty Turahk”

“Do tell” Miserix said.

“They were evolved to a high level of intelligence, and extremely sadistic towards my daughter. They’re the reason she has a robotic eye”

“If so then how do you know that they will obey me?” he asked.

“I’m an optimist” I said, shrugging “it’s human to hope” he raised an eyebrow.

“Human?” Miserix asked, I took off my Kenohi Hau “You’re organic”

“So are about 60 thousand or so of the crew” I said “as I said, a lot has changed” he nodded before scowling

“Know this, ‘Human’” he said, pointing a clawed finger at me “I am no one’s pawn, and I will not be used like some chess piece, least of all by a lowly organic like you”

“Am I truly lowly?” I asked “read my mind, see the things my kind has done, all without elemental powers” I began to feel a presence in my mind, sifting through my knowledge. After a few minutes the presence left

“Interesting” he said, smirking “seems I’ve found a species that is worse than Skakdi or Vortixx, no other species I’ve come across is so bent on self-destruction”

“We could also destroy you in an instant” I said “I’m sure you now know about the nuclear bomb now”

“But you don’t have any with you” he said, chuckling before flying out a couple hundred meters and following us from there.

for those that were wondering, Yes, the Turahk was supposed to have the voice of the guy that played Davie Jones in PotC 2/3, his voice just seems to suite a Turahk.

Either that or Sombra, both seem like the type of characters he would play.

as for Miserix, imagine him speaking with Vin Diesels voice (now imagine Miserix performing Death by Teacup )

I should probably make a list of voices that would suit the characters