Stone Torch

== History ==
The origin of The Stone Torch
Once, in the fire 
mountain, there lived an old woman/goddess/witch named Mahuika who 
possessed fingers of flame.  Mahuika's grandson, Maui was curious to a 
fault and wondered as to the source of her flame.  One night he 
extinguished all the fires of the village so he would have reason to 
visit Mahuika and beseech the fire of her.  Mahuika was pleased to have a
 visitor after all this time, especially family, and granted him one of 
her fingernails to reignite the village flames.
But Maui's 
curiosity overcame him.  He wondered, if Mahuika ran out of flames, 
*then* where would fire came from.  So he extinguished the fingernail in
 the stream and returned to Mahuika for another, crying accident.
At 
first Mahuika was patient, gifting him more of her fingernails and even 
toenails but eventually suspicion and anger kindled within her as she 
realised she had been tricked.  She threw her last flaming toenail at 
Maui but missed, the toenail flying into the trees.  The trees cherished
 this fire as a gift and held it within themselves for the villagers to 
bring out when needed.
In this way Maui brought fire to the world.
Note: Here endeth actual Samoan myth
Following
 the theft of her fire, Mahuika was despondent.  Eventually one of 
Maui's descendents, whose name has been lost to time, took pity on her 
and brought her fire to reignite her flames.  Mahuika was so delighted 
to be whole again that she granted the man a boon.  If ever he, or his 
family, were under threat then she would come to their aid.  She gave 
the man a sacred necklace of whale tooth and obsidian to seal the pact.
Many
 centuries later in a land called “USA”, there lived a thoroughly modern
 young boy called Mika, (though he called himself Mikey to the world). 
 Sometimes he dreamed of being a superhero but he believed not in the 
myth and superstition of his ancestors.  Nonetheless, he was descendent 
of Maui, and he possessed the necklace.  So when muggers tried to take 
his life, Mahuika honoured her boon and responded to his need.
Mahuika
 found herself unable to appear in the world so far from home but would 
not forsake her boon and found a way that had not been tried before. 
 She manifested through the body of Mikey who was 
shocked to find his body transformed into that of an eight foot tall 
stone fire goddess - Mahuika.  The irate goddess made short work of the 
muggers while a stunned Mikey looked on from within.
But her 
unprecedented action of manifesting through Mikey had unexpected side 
effects, establishing a permanent link between them.  Mikey and 
Mahuika's minds shared her body - a situation the goddess found very 
distasteful.  Although Mikey reverted to his own body, the link between 
them remained.  And whenever he chose, Mikey could invoke her by 
touching the necklace and chanting her name, triggering the 
transformation into her powerful form.
And so an ancient goddess with
 little interest in the modern world and an idealistic young man 
combined to form the strange hero the world came to know as the Stone 
Torch.
== Powers ==
P ability to become a 6 foot being made of ancient
fire and rock,  can create fire from their hands, and magma, can create shields of rock.
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Category:Yet-to-appear Hero