Bionicle Legend of the Masks

Chapter 1: Chronicle's vision

Prologue:

Gathered friends, Listen again to our story...of the Bionicle. In the time before time...many worlds were forged but one was special. Spherus Magna was our home. From the Heavens came a powerful being through his mask he was able to create life itself and forged powerful masks that could give the wearer abilities unlike any other. Sharing his wisdom, we learned the 3 sacred virtues Unity, Duty, & Destiny. And so we named our island home after him, Mata Nui. But alas our peace would not last. For the Great Spirit has a brother, the Makuta. Born from the darkness, his hatred and jealousy of his brother's power compelled him to strike. In desperation Mata Nui uses his remaining power to sacrifice himself in driving his brother back. His pieces scattered to the astral winds, seated on many forgotten worlds. And so we wait for the ones who will protect us. Who will fight the great shadow and restore the Great Spirit. For if the Makuta learns of his Mask of Life's true location...all will be lost. But there is hope our mighty Toa seeks now to find this mask and we have learned that help can come in the unlikeliest of places.

Chapter 1: Chronicle's vision

Takua is an odd Ta-Matoran, he is unlike anything the entire island of Mata Nui has ever seen. While most fire Ta-matoran are red, yellow, & orange in their colors with the rare black or gray, Takua has a Pakari Mask that is a cerulean blue almost like a Ga-Matoran of the water village. He had the redish body & yellow feet of a Ta-Matoran but his blue mask just never seemed fit just right. While most matoran were content fulfilling their roles in their villages, Ta-Koro in his case, Takua felt...compelled to travel, to just wander and explore what hidden things this island home has to offer. Now in fairness it wasn't as if he was entirely irresponsible. He used to be both a guardsman, a lava surfer, & a harvester of molten rock. He did his job well but found it boring. He was good friends with Jaller, Captain of the Guard because of that. And it's not as if it was forbidden to travel, as visits & trade among the other villages rarely happened. Jaller had a yellow Hau mask with red body & yellow feet, a much more common looking Ta-Matoran.

However...there was a brief time he was banished...well outcast from his home due to their superstitious nature, the Ta-Matorans feared his curious and adventurous nature would spell bad things for them. That he might unintentionally lure the savage rahi beasts into his home because he got into too much trouble.

Heartbroken that he was considered a stranger in his own former home, he traveled to the other villages. He made quite a few friends with the ladies of Ga-Koro. Most of the Matoran in the water village were all girls, he noted. A bit unusual because it's almost the reverse everywhere else. Mostly males with the few and far between girls. No one is quite sure why that is, but there it was.

Eventually thanks to some of his quick actions, he actually saved his village elder Turaga Vakama both his mask, his fire staff, and his life, from a Rahi attack. When asked how he managed to pull off such an elaborate trap using vines and sand pits, Takua explained he got them from the Le & Po Matorans from the Jungle & Desert lands respectively. Vakama upon inspecting Takua's journal he had kept, the Turaga of Fire discovered quite an impressive detail of his adventures and what he learned from it...Takua was then given a new title that befitted his nature. He was named the Chronicler, his duty was to travel the land and record events as he witnessed them to add to their Wall of History.

There was one other peculiar thing as a bit of a strange habit...he collected masks. All matoran wear energized masks to keep their biomechanical bodies active during the day. If they don't have a mask on within a certain amount of time, they would shut down and basically be in a coma-like state until a mask is put on them again. And yes he had quite a few in various colors from the different villages. Not entirely strange, there was a hope he could find the one mask that would suit him best as a replacement. Masks hold a lot of significance to everyone here, so for Takua to have a bunch as a collection it was weird but not unheard of. Though there has been a case of mistaken identity at times because there are Matoran who wear similar masks or have changed masks once or twice because their old one got damaged or lost.