Rock Warriors

Many years ago, before the Maori explorers found the beautiful wonderful lakes of Rotorua. There were other people who lived there they were called the patupaiarehe. The Patupaiarehe were the small people of rotorua, they had a fierce enemy who wanted all the goods for themselves. They were called the Kaimai. The Kaimai were huge ugly ferocious monsters.

One day the Watchguard saw some tree shaking and felt the ground rumbling. He knew the wind wasn't shaking the tree because the wind was so calm. The watchguard knew the Kaimai were coming to pillage  goods and take their land. The watchguard called some of the small birds to smell and scout the area for any Kaimai. The Birds came back and and communicated in a strange way with the watchguard all watch guards communicate with their mentors in strange language. The watchguard ran to the village and told the village leader “that the kaimai are coming”, the village leader name is  Tipau. Tipau is not a man who likes to kill. But he offered his magic to help save the village.

Tipau took a hike up to the highest peak in rotorua. Tipau saw the Kaimais heading in the village direction he used his magic to turn the Kaimai into stone. Many years later the stones still stand there. There are five huge stones so that means there were five kaimai. Today they still stand there marking the mountain where the Patupaiarehe lived.