Lewa was first awakened on the island of Artahka along with the rest of his Toa team. Helryx soon confronted them and explained their duty as Mata Nui's guardians. To be trained, the Toa were sent to Daxia. Hydraxon, who was an Order of Mata Nui member, was hired to train them. He did this by making the Toa combat an Energy Hound named Spinax, and by teaching them the importance of working together by taking their Kanohi and putting them in places that were hard for them to reach. Lewa was the Toa who figured out that if he helped his friends then they would help him by helping to retrieve Gali's Kanohi Kaukau from a tree.