“Ok, we’ve made it. Do we have everything?” Said a man in a Vezon costume, named Goge, to himself. I think so, let's rock this party! His mind responded. Sometimes having an alternate personality was good, like organization.

As Goge entered the costume party he passed his friend and rival who was in a Toa Ignika costume. “Hey! you made it! So Vezon this time? Ironic don't you think? I mean I’m The mask of life and your its former guardian. what a coincidence!” He laughed.

“Well, I was feeling a little crazy this Halloween, so I decided to go as one of the craziest guys in Bionicle! Plus, he's  awesome.” Goge replied heartily, gripping the staff in his hand cheerfully. “So, what about you Arthur? What made you go all Life Guy?”

“Meh, something in the back of my mind kept telling me to dress up as my favorite toa, so I dressed up as one of the coolest of the toa to ever exist!” Arthur replied. “After all, what other toa is a sentient mask of power that can create a body for itself!?” He added.

“Yeah, but Vezon gets to be insane and fuse random stuff whenever he gets bored. Plus, he does what he wants, like standing on a giant spider demon for all eternity.” Goge shrugged, glancing around.

        “Oh, by the way. some guy in a blue robe came by and left a package for you and me. I don't know what it is so I decided to wait for you before opening it.” Arthur said while leading Goge into the Livingroom where the halloween party was going on.

         “Alright! So, should we first party, or open up the present?” Goge asked looking around. He grabbed some food from one of the tables, and began chewing on some chips, while drinking some soda. He somehow managed to expertly get both snacks through his mask, and enjoyed every tasty morsel as he examined the party.

        “Let's finish the party first,” Arthur said before adding, “After all, I have a feeling we might want to have some fun before opening the package.”

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        “Ok, now that everyone has left let me go grab the package.” Arthur said before walking into another room.

         Goge shrugged, before following Arthur into the other room.

        As they walked into what looked like an office area Arthur pulled out a box that was half the size of a shoe box. “Alright, here it is.” he said before setting the Package down on a coffee table.

           “So, let's crack it open!” Goge said eagerly.

        Arthur pulled out a pair of scissors before using them to cut the box open revealing two letters inside, one labeled for Arthur the other labeled for Goge.

        “Well, it's not quite what I was expecting, but hey, you can't get everything you want. Let's take a look at these.” Goge said, picking up his letter.

        Arthur picked up his letter and opened it revealing some kind of ticket. “Ok… this is just getting stranger and stranger…” He said while reading what the ticket said. Goge did the same.

        Hello there,

 

            If you are reading this you have been chosen to be sent to another land where your actions will either help or destroy those you find there.

                                                                                Good luck!

    Goge reread it. “What, is this some sort of promotional thing for a video game?” He asked, looking over at Arthur.

        “I don't know, sounds interesting though. If it's real though I would gladly accept, I honestly don't care for my current life much except for having you as my friend. everything else is too strenuous.” Arthur said while pinching the bridge of his nose.

            “Yeah, this world is worse than most of the video games about nuclear war. So, I guess I'd  accept as well.” I replied, and my alternate personality silently agreed.

        At hearing the two accept, the tickets began to glow.

            “Um, what is happening?” Goge asked, staring at the ticket and gripping his staff tighter.

        “I think the tickets reacted to us accepting somehow!” Arthur shouted before the glow engulfed the two costumed friends.

           The last thing Goge said on planet Earth was as such:

            “That doesn't make any sense!”

           And then they vanished in a flash of light.

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        ‘Urgh… my head… what happened? and why can't I feel any…’ Arthur thought before his thoughts were interrupted as he ‘opened’ his ‘eyes’ to find himself in orbit around a planet. ‘WHAT THE FUCK!?’ he thought before he started to descend through the atmosphere.  

        When Arthur landed he made a crater the size of a small house, but surprisingly he felt no pain. He then noticed his position, for some reason he landed in a position where he would have been standing but when he looked down he saw no body underneath his mask. ‘Wait, my mask? first of all, how did I survive that fall? and second, how come I see the mask I was wearing before that flash of light and... not… my… body?’ He thought before freezing in shock. ‘Did that ticket do what I think it did?’ he wondered before movement in the corner of his vision broke him from his thoughts.

        “What was that, a fallen star?” Said a voice that seemed to be approaching the edge of the crater, but do to the smoke Arthur couldn't see what was speaking and neither could the voice see him.

        ‘Is someone there? If so, I wonder if they can help me?’ Arthur thought trying to do something to get the individual's attention before somehow making the mask glow a bit. ‘How did I do that?’ he thought before noticing what he heard come through the smoke, only to stare in shock to see an anthro zebra.

        “Now what do we have here? A mask dropped from the heavens? and to appear during the festival to the circle of life no less! It must be a sign from the great spirits!” The zebra said before picking up Arthur.

        As Arthur looked into the zebra’s HUGE eyes he noticed his reflection only to find his fears confirmed. ‘Great, I’m now the mask of life…’ he thought as the zebra carried him off.

        “I can even sense magic radiating from it, I must bring it to the tribe elders!” The zebra said before beginning to sprint in the direction of a small village.

        ‘I hope this goes better than I think it will.’ Arthur thought as he was carried into the village and brought to a large tent.

        “I wish to speak to the elders, it is related to the falling star that was seen during the festival!” The zebra said, to what looked like to zebras holding spears and wearing draconic masks.

        “You may pass.” Said one of the guards as they both held the tent entrance open for the zebra who was holding me.

        As we entered the tent I noticed there was a fire with three elderly looking zebras sitting around it in the middle of the tent.

        -300 years later-

        “As a sign of our acceptance of this peace treaty we give you, Princess Celestia and Princess Luna, our most sacred treasure. Ignika, the Mask of Life.” Said the zebra chieftain presenting the mask to the princesses of the sun and moon.

        “This is an honor! you humble us chieftain.” Celestia said as she accepted the silver mask from the zebra.

        “Think nothing of it, for the mask finds you worthy to wield its power.” the chieftain said as the mask began to glow.

        Celestia and Luna looked at the mask in astonishment, they had never thought the legends around the artifact to be true but were now being shown solid evidence that they were real. “We thank you and shall not abuse it.” They replied in unison before both parties left.

        As the Princesses returned to canterlot they told their guard to send Starswirl to meet them in the throne room alone before going there themselves.

        “You called your majesty's?” Starswirl asked as he entered the throne room.

        “Yes, we have received a gift from the zebras when we made the peace treaty. Have you ever heard of the Ignika?” Celestia said to the young unicorn.

        Starswirl's eyes went wide, “The legendary mask that fell from the heavens and is believed to be the embodiment of life!? its real!?” he stammered looking at the princesses with an astonished expression.

        The princesses giggled at his reaction before levitating the mask over to him, Its glow increasing the closer it got to Starswirl and he took it in his hands before the glow faded away. “Fascinating…” All three of them said before Starswirl looked expectantly at the princesses.

        “We wish you to take this mask and study it. learn what you can, but make sure we can use it whenever it is needed.” Celestia said before sending Starswirl away.

        After starswirl left Luna looked to her sister. “Are you sure this is a good idea? If the legends are to be believed, the Great Beings will not be happy with us tampering with the mask.” She said worry evident in her voice.

        “Don't worry sister, we won't do anything that would be disapproved of by the Great Beings. We will only try and learn more about it, we won't try anything dangerous.” celestia replied with a gentle smile.

        To be continued...

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