My Little Toa: Quest for the Masks

Many months had passed since the Protectors had laid Celestia to rest. Sunset had locked herself in her room not being able to take the pain that Celestia was gone. Her heart was broken from the pain of losing someone. However… she soon begun to wonder just what exactly had caused Celestia to go into her endless sleep, and just what exactly had happened to Luna “I must find Luna. Maybe she will know what happened to Celestia” Sunset said as she grabbed her fire claws and went out the door.

Sunset began the long journey back towards the sacred land of the Mask Makers. A few hours later she walked up towards the hut and opened the door. “Hmm… It doesn’t look like there was a struggle of any kind… so what exactly happened here?” she said walking over to Luna’s forge. She noticed right away that Luna’s forge was covered with pieces of metal. Usually forges are cleaned before a new project was worked on, so Sunset knew it had to of been a more recent project. She then noticed that each of the pieces of metal were that of all the elements, Fire, Jungle, Water, Ice, Stone, and Earth.

“Oh No… She didn’t, did she?” Sunset asked to herself. Sunset then ran outside towards the hole where Celestia was found and looked around for where she could have been launched from to have her land there. She then noticed a mountain in the distance, looking like it had been split down the middle. Sunset began moving towards the mountain to inspect why exactly it was split down the middle. Apon reaching the other side, she soon found out why. There, on the other side of the mountain, was another crater. Inside that hole… Was Luna. However, something seemed off about her. No longer was her armor blue, silver, but pitch black with a dark shade of blue and blood red. For some reason as well, dark shadows were leaching off of her, trying to escape to the world.

Sunset gasped at the sight before her. “Luna… What happened to you?” She asked herself as she walked down the crater towards the lifeless body. Sunset noticed that Luna’s mask was missing as well. “Where did yours and Celestia’s mask go?” She asked herself. As soon as the question left her mouth, the ground began shaking. Sunset turned towards Luna who was shaking the most. Suddenly Luna’s body began to float into the air with a thin blanket of pure darkness underneath her. She then disappeared into thin air, leaving Sunset alone with her thoughts, worried and scared.

Luna awoke deep underground inside a massive cave and gave a look around. “Luna? HA! Luna is DEAD thanks to that worthless Wretch that I called my ‘Sister’. No… Now and forever… I am… NIGHTMARE MOON!!! MUHAHAHAHAHA”, She said to herself, “I shall teach them ALL for praising my Sisters work. I shall create monsters of my own imagination, They will destroy those villagers, find the Mask of Ultimate Power, and bring it back to me so that I may rule over Okoto. And NOTHING can stop me!” Nightmare Moon waved her hand as dark magic leapt from it, landing on the ground as legs suddenly sprang out, followed by fangs, and eyes of pure evil, glowing a sinister red. “Arise my creation. You shall lead my army onto the surface and obey my every whim. Do you understand?” Nightmare Moon said to the monstrosity as it nodded in agreement.

“Hehe good…” Nightmare Moon chuckled before walking to a larger part of the cave and waved her other hand as more magic sprang from her, covering the entire room. Soon, hundreds of THOUSANDS of smaller versions of Nightmare Moons original creation sprang to life. “Hehe… Now then my Skull Spiders… Seek out the Mask of Ultimate Power, return it to me, and terrorize ANYONE who stands in your way!” Nightmare Moon commanded as the Skull Spiders all screeched a yes and began crawling towards the surface. Nightmare Moon smirked as she turned towards the Lord of Skull Spiders speaking one more command to it. “Go my son… Use the shadows… and keep my sister… Asleep…”

It has been a month since Sunset found Luna, and ever since thing life on Okoto had become worse. Strange spiders have begun appearing outta nowhere recently, terrorizing the villages while destroying homes and property. Worse, rumor had it that these spiders would knock masks off of some villager’s faces, then latch onto them, instantly taking over their body, earning them the nickname ‘Skull Spiders’. Sunset frowned that all of this was happening around them, and they could do nothing to stop them. Suddenly one of her villagers, Babeseed, ran into her hut, shivering in fear.

“Child, what is it?” Sunset asked Babeseed, to which she responded with, “Sunset… the Skull Spiders… they are overrunning everything! What are we gonna do?”

Sunset sighed and turned away. “I… I have no idea… without Celestia… I fear we are doomed… “ Sunset looked down at her fire claws only to suddenly remember Celestia’s last words.

“When Times A Dark, and All Hope Seems Lost, the Protectors must Unite, One from each Tribe. Evoke the Power of both Past and Future, and Look to the Skies for an Answer. When the Stars Align, Six Comets will Bring Timeless Heroes to Claim the Masks of Power, And Find the Mask Maker. United, The Elements Hold the Power to Defeat Evil. United, But not One.”

Sunset knew what she had to do then. She turned to Babeseed saying, “I will be gone for awhile. I must get the other protectors to the Temple of Time!” Babeseed nodded as Sunset grabbed her weapons and ran out the door towards the Jungle.

The sun was setting as the six protectors walked towards the Temple of Time. “Are you sure this will work?” Bulk asked as they entered its doors.

“It has to. It just has to.” Sunset said as she placed her weapon down in her spot in the temple. The other protectors nodded and placed their weapons in their spots as well. They then grabbed each other’s hands and began to recite the Prophesy of Heroes. A few seconds after they finished, a giant beam of light blasted out of the center of the temple, up towards the heavens, and beyond. Sunset looked up, smiling for the first time in months. “Now… We wait…”