Chapter 7
“You have gotten better since the last time we sparred” commended Lhikan wiping his head.
“With all due respect, Toa Lhikan, you are one to talk” Seihu also wiping his head and putting his sword back.
“Seihu, you’re a Toa now, just call me ‘brother’” said Lhikan putting his swords back.
Seihu was taken aback and honestly asked, “Really? But how did I earn such a privilege, especially today?”
“You have demonstrated, even as a Matoran, that you would grow to carry that name one day”, said Lhikan.
Seihu placed rested his right fist on his chest, “I will carry that title with honor”, Seihu gathering the confidence called Lhikan, “Brother Lhikan”.
Lhikan placed his hand on Seihu’s shoulder, “I’m glad to hear that, brother Seihu”.
Lhikan and Seihu both took two steps back and bowed to each other.
“Keep in touch, Seihu”, Lhikan instructed, “and mind your environments at all times”
“Yes, brother Lhikan”, Seihu promised.
They went their separate ways.
Seihu walked through the bright but steamy environment of Ta-Metru.
“Okay, so now what?” Seihu asked himself while walking back to his home in Ga-Metru.
The next day, Seihu went to the Fountains of Wisdom to train.
The serene environment made it ideal for Seihu’s training. From there, he did his forms in his signature calm but focused manner.
Just as he was through training and headed back to his home, he saw a group of Ga-Matoran running, in fear. Seihu stopped one of the Ga-Matoran, “What are you running from?”
The Ga-Matoran shook in fear as she uttered, “Doom Viper”.
“Where is it,” Seihu asked.
“At the Harbor” the Ga-Matoran pointed while shaking.
Doom Viper came up at the harbor, attacking some Ga-Matoran. The six-headed beast has already destroyed many of the Matoran. However, Seihu was not going to stand by and watch this anymore.
Seihu arrived at the scene where the Doom Viper was and saw it terrorizing.
Outside of finding its next victim, The Doom Viper was not so thrilled to see Seihu.
The Doom Viper fired its poisonous breath at Seihu, only for Seihu to tumble away vigorously. One of the heads then charged at Seihu, but Seihu jumped on its head and kicked the other one’s head away. The other Doom Viper head fired its breath at Seihu, only for Seihu to jump away, grab onto the other Doom Vipers neck with both hands and flip off of it. As he landed, the Doom Viper kept on charging at Seihu while he kept on dodging.
Seihu needed to find a way to distract the beast and knock it out. But how? That is when he noticed a crate above the six-headed beast, but the beast blocked an opportunity to get a decent shot.
Before the Doom Viper could fire its breath again on Seihu; two of the mouths of the Doom Viper with were tangled with vines, and the other two of the Doom Viper’s mouths were rinsed with water.
Seihu looked to the side to see who it was.
It was Verkiji, The Toa Mangai of the Green; and Naho, Toa Mangai of Water.
Naho looked at Seihu and ran to help him up, “Seihu?”
Seihu nodded.
Verkiji sidestepped to Seihu’s direction while controlling the plant life, “Are you okay, brother?”
“Yes, thanks,” Seihu said while slowly standing up.
Seihu finally got up and when he saw that he had a clear shot, he threw one of his boomerangs at one of the ropes holding a long box of cargo from the ceiling of the warehouse and the crate fell on the Doom Viper, rendering it out cold.
The three Toa walked up to the defeated Doom Viper to make sure it was asleep.
“Alright, so what do we do about this one?” Seihu asked.
“We must take it to the Archives” Naho suggested, “where it will not do any more damage.”
Verkiji added, “Agreed”.
Seihu nodded.
They shipped the defeated Doom Viper to the Archives and got a worker there to keep in a stasis tube.
While the Toa were walking, they were also talking,
“Turaga Dume told us about you,” Verkiji said to Seihu. “I never thought I would see you like this”
“It’s a long and kind of weird story” Seihu replied. “Let’s just say that a small Rahkshi fight set me up for this".
“We know.” Naho said, “But, now that you are a Toa, Metru Nui needs more help now than ever”.
“Especially now that the other two Toa betrayed us” Verkiji reminded.
Seihu nodded grimly at that reality, “Yeah, it would have happened to me back in those arena days before I figured out whom Burosa and Sterok were”.
Naho and Verkiji nodded as well.
Naho reassured, “But it didn’t Seihu, and we should be thankful”.
They arrived at Seihu’s home.
Seihu turned to them, “Anyways, thanks for the help.”
“It’s our duty, Seihu.” Verkiji told him, "Great job on responding and holding your own with that Doom Viper.”
Seihu gave a light smile.
“Keep in touch, Seihu” Naho told him.
“Likewise,” Seihu responded with a bow.
All three of them went their separate ways.