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Curses and Witches: The Witches from Asticassia

Summary:

And so the threads of fate spin once more. Light battles the Darkness, and heroes struggle to complete their destiny.

But the Darkness fights back. It always fights back. It is a never ending struggle, the battle between the dark and the light. For if you look away for even a moment, the darkness surges twice, thrice, and more with each blink of the eye.

You don't know what it is you're fighting for, do you, little heroes?

Notes:

Welcome to Curses and Witches: The Witches from Asticassia. The next installment of this major crossover fic.

I'll admit, I'm probably jumping the gun a little bit on posting this considering I think I might need to rewrite some things in light of Witch from Mercury's final episode, but, eh. When hasn't a series finale thrown folks for a loop?

So here's a short prologue to kick things off. Fair warning, my chapters are probably going to be.... *bulky* in length. I've found that my wordcount tends to balloon chapters to mini-novel length when I write something until it feels complete. I don't really like cutting things off mid-sequence, it seems. I'm going to try to rectify that by cutting things into smaller chunks as I post so that way I'm not, uhhh... infodumping massive chapters? On folks???

Someone please poke me in the comments section if I'm posting way too much in one go.

Chapter 1: PROLOGUE.

Summary:

A young matoran dreams of things that could be, and prays they will not.

Notes:

(See the end of the chapter for notes.)

Chapter Text

Somewhere in the edge of the Pegasus Galaxy, there was a planet known as Bara Magna, it had two moons. One, covered in water, held islands, and a large mountain.

Our camera focuses in towards one of those islands, known as Mata Nui.

"And so the threads of fate spin once more. Light battles the Darkness, and heroes struggle to complete their destiny." A booming voice echoed, without a speaker.

The camera pushed through the underground maze of tunnels, before arriving in a large catacomb like chamber where a battle was transpiring.

"But the Darkness fights back. It always fights back."

Several Mobile Suits dodged eachother, maneuvoring in the cramped-for-their-size space, trying to take each other out without bringing the cavern down ontop of them.

Meanwhile, a teal colored Dilanza discarded her beam rifles and drew forth her scissor broadsword, lashing forwards to snap its sharpened blades at a creature of similar size, but was not a Mobile Suit.

She was large, blue and white, and vaguely dragonoid- her mouth had many gnashing teeth, and her green eyes blazed with anger as crimson and yellow streaks flared across her frame. Wings of glimmering, crystalline energy speared forth from her back.

"It is a never ending struggle, the battle between the dark and the light. For if you look away for even a moment, the darkness surges twice, thrice, and more with each blink of the eye."

Meanwhile, six colored heroes of red, white, blue, brown, black, and green armor fired off elemental energy blasts at a white armored mobile suit, corralling it backwards towards a sealed pit.


"You don't know what it is you're fighting for, do you, little heroes?"


A pair of twin girls thrust their arms forwards then, and spun eachother in a circle, completing a magical spell circle that they then thrust forwards towards the sealed pit, shattering the stone, and causing the white armored Mobile Suit to colapse into the container of silver energy underneath.


A blinding white light filled the room, obscuring everything from sight as the voice proudly intoned.


"I DO."


And then inside his little snow blind cave in Ko-Wahi, somewhere far above and many years before when that battle would happen, a young Ko-Matoran named Matoro awoke with a gasp. Though it was only thirteen years ago to the day that he had been given life, it had been but a mere five since the visions had started plaguing the boy.

"..." he breathed in and out for several long moments, letting the heat of his breath fog up the telescoping lenses of his pale-blue Akaku, the Mask of X-ray Vision. "I'm really starting to hate these visions," he muttered. "Why, Mata Nui, couldn't you give them to someone else? Maybe Turaga Vakama?"

Silence, save for the howling of wind outside of his cave, met Matoro as his answer. Accompanying the sound was the feeling of what felt like a stern gaze from the Great Spirit looking down on him and saying... Matoro wasn't sure what, but it felt like something poignant and probably very profound, but his brain was tired, and he didn't feel like putting the feeling to words.

"...Okay," he said quietly, in acceptance of that feeling, whatever it was. "...Okay."

They were just visions, after all. It wasn't like he was seeing his actual future unfold before him or anything.

"Everything is fine. Everything will be fine."

Spoiler alert, but everything would not be fine.

Notes:

So, in The Fall of Metru Nui, Vakama was not having visions. It seems, instead, those visions have fallen onto Matoro.

This chapter takes place 15 years before EARTH YEAR: A.S. 121- that is to say, A.S. 106. Matoro is 13. For those keeping track of the math from other installments of this fic... Ericht is 9, it is 5 years after the Vanadis incident in "The Witch from Atlantis." Matoro would be 8 during that part of the story.

I have a not insignificant list of ages and birth years written out to keep the timeline of this fic's chronology in order. We've jumped about time so much in this story already that I have had to keep track of it. It started as just trying to keep track of everyone's school year vs their age. It is LONG, and the list of characters I have to keep track of balloons the further forwards you go. I'm probably going to post that all as its own chapter at some point, as like, an informational guide.

Maybe tomorrow. Not tonight atleast.

ANYWAYS, enjoy your cryptic ominous foreshadowing prophecy vision thing, Matoro!