Vakama

Vakama was the former Toa Metru of fire and current Turaga of Ta-Metru.

Matoran
Vakama was a Mask Maker before becoming a Toa. His teacher was Nuhrii, who dreamed of finding a Great Disk and making the ultimate Kanohi. Vakama became more skilled than him, and Turaga Dume requested that Vakama make a special mask for him, which was the Kiril. Vakama was also charged with the task of making the Vahi.

One day, Toa Lhikan showed up at his forge and gave him a Toa Stone. Suddenly, Nidhiki and Krekka appeared and attacked Lhikan. Nidhiki held Vakama over the pipe that lead to the lava river, and Krekka was holding Lhikan down. At the last moment possible, Lhikan slipped his Lava Board to under Vakama. Vakama dropped and rode down the lava flow and into the basement in his forge. There he witnessed Lhikan being taking away.

Vakama managed to get back into his forge and was visited by Turaga Dume. Dume was there to check progress on the Vahi. After a conversation, Vakama slipped out and headed to the Great Temple.

It was there he met Nuju, Nokama, Onewa, Whenua, and Matau. They all placed the stones into the Toa Suva. When all of them were placed, an image of Toa Lhikan appeared. He told him that a shadow threatens the heart of Metru Nui. And with that, a blinding flash appeared, and where 6 Matoran once stood, now stood 6 mighty Toa Metru.

Toa Metru
Without warning, Vakama had a vision of Metru Nui falling at the hands of the Morbuzahk. Then the six great disks combinded to defeat the great vine. It was clear that the Toa Metru had to find the six Great Disks, but only six Matoran knew where they were: Nuhrii, Vhisola, Ahkmou, Orkham, Ehrye, and Tehutti.

The search for Nuhrii
Vakama set off to Ta-Metru. He started by searching Nuhrii's home. There he found a broken tablet, and he discovered it was a plauqe of a flawed mask Nuhrii had made.

He then went to Nuhrii's forge where he saw Nuhrii's co-worker, Brander. At first, he didn't really beleave it was Vakama, so he gave him a test. Pick the perfect Kanohi from the pile. Vakama picked the right one. So Brander gave him the information: The mask he made was indeed flawed, and he metnioned somthing about being a better mask maker than Vakama. But then Brander said Nuhrii got a message from Ko-Metru saying that the mask was perfect and should not be recast. So Nuhrii went off to the Protodermis recreation yard to save it.

When Vakama arrived, he discovered it was under attack by the Morbuzahk! Vakama dived into the Lava and rose on one of the containers that held the lava. He then appeared in the Vat Control Room. He then discovered someone had sabotoged the controls. Vakama then fixed the controls. After they were fixed, Kapura came to meet him. He told him Nuhrii had gone to the Protodermis Reclamation Yard to find his mask.

Vakama went just there. He found the mask Nuhrii made, and was then met by Kalama. The mask was indeed flawed, and a Nuhrii found a note to come to the abandoned Mask Maker's home. There Nuhrii would learn how to make the greatest mask ever. Vakama looked at the adress of the note and went to that location.

When Vakama got there, he heard Nuhrii calling for help. He was pinned to the wall by rubble. Vakama removed the rubble and rescued Nuhrii.

Search for the disks
When Vakama and Nuhrii arrived back at the Great Temple, the Toa flipped a disk to see who would go with who. It was bad luck that Vakama wound up with Onewa and Ahkmou.

First, they went to Ta-Metru. Nuhrii stated the Great Disk was hidden in the Fire Pits. The bad news was, the fire pits were always gaurded by a heavy force of Vahki. So they created a distraction. Onewa threw a rock some where, and all the Vahki went to that Location. Vakama and Nuhrii then snuck in. They jumped into a pit and found the Great Disk of Ta Metru. It was just their luck when a Morbuzahk vine showed up. Vakama got out a Reconstuct at Random disk and fired it at the vine. That bought enough time for them to escape. When they did that, they saw the vine had been turned into a horned montster.

Then, it was off to Po-Metru. It was a long walk to the sculpture feilds. They finaly came across a large tower. At the very top of it was a great disk. Onewa used his tools to climb it up. Vakama stayed below. If Onewa didn't make it, there needed to be another Toa to get it.

Onewa had to use both hands to grab the disk. Luckaly, he made it. But to Vakama's horror, Onewa was falling backwards. Vakama heated up the air to slow him down, and Onewa made a safe landing.

Return to Metru Nui
After a thousand years on the island of Mata nui, he and the other five Turaga, the Matoran and Toa Nuva finally returned to Metru Nui.