Description:
One of each Bohrok Type Awaken and find out two things.
One: They are the first one of each of their respective types to emerge
Two: They don't need Kranas...

If you perchance don't like the concept, run while you still can. If you still are curious, the go ahead and read on.

I'd also like to add that this is my actual first post thing here. So.... On with the Story!

Edit: eheh, I've been making a few changes here and there...and..uh...I'm adding chapter titles.

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Chapter 1: It begins...
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A Matoran with a Blue Pakari, Red arms and Yellow feet walked across the Desert of Po-wahi, In hopes of reaching the city of Po-Koro before nightfall. Little did he know, far below the ground he was standing on, deep under the earth, even underneath the great underground city of Onu-Koro, there was a small, spherical chamber. It was so far down, there was no light whatsoever. Not even from the Onu-Koro miners. Because, you see, this chamber was never made for Matoran in the first place. So the lack of Light wasn't much of a problem for the chamber's occupants. Little did anyone know, think, or suspect, the small chamber would be the beginning for a breakthrough bigger than the Bohrok swarms themselves…

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Two roughly oval shaped lights suddenly pierced the suffocating darkness. The owner of these 'light's, was a rather confused Nuhvok.

'What happened? Where am I? What is that weird little Green thing underneath me?'

The Nuhvok struggled against the walls around it, until he managed to break a hole in the one of the sides of his confinement. He immediately bolted out of the hole he made and into the 'open' of the chamber. All he could hear was the sound of his own heaving breaths. The questions he asked before, plus more, ran through his head again, this time even more confusing to him.

'Where am I? Where, rather what is this place? What happened? What was that green thing underneath me? Who, rather, what am I?'

The last question echoed in his head as his eyes adjusted to the darkness. 'Scenes' and 'Information' seemed to flash non-stop around in his head. It had started the moment he had made contact with the green blob, otherwise known as a 'Krana', in his confinement, or also know as a 'Bohrok Pod'. That also answered another one of his questions.

'What am I? A Bohrok. But...' Information siphoned from the Krana flashed through his mind.'...What kind?'

As he searched his mind for the answer to his most recent question, he studied his surroundings. The 'Walls' of the room were covered in 'Bohrok Pods'. All, except one single passage, or 'Tunnel' as it was more commonly know. The Nuhvok decided to head down there, being as it was the only 'Exit'. As he 'Walked' over to the 'Exit' he went through his thoughts and Information.

'What kind of Bohrok? Nuhvok. Where am I? Some kind of..."Underground Chamber". Alright then, is this the only “Exit” outta here? If its not, then where does this “Tunnel” go? Is it even an “Exit”?’ The Nuhvok shook his head sadly. 'Yeesh, I'm not making any sense at all! I'm "Annoying" myself! Arg! I'm doing it again!'

The Nuhvok rounded yet another corner in the 'Tunnel' that was slowly angling upwards. He didn't even notice the soft glow until he walked into the chamber which it was radiating from.

"CHICKIT!"
{AAAGH!}
'AAAGH! It burns!!! '

Obviously, the sudden exposure to light, even though it was dim compared to natural sunlight, hurt the Nuhvok's eyes. As he waited for his eyes to adjust yet again, he entertained himself by going over what happened when he shouted out.

After thinking over it for a few minutes He figured out the 'Basics of Speech'.
There was thought: ' ',
Bohrok speech: { },
And the sound that Bohrok emit when speaking: " ".

Nuhvok stopped there and, yet again, thought to himself.
'...What the? How does that make any more sense than it did before? If you want my "Opinion"(The Nuhvok mentally kicked himself for using Quotation marks before continuing his thoughts) this makes even less sense than..........than something that doesn't make sense!'

Nuhvok stopped and shook his head 'Yeesh, I'm confusing myself now! I'm glad I don't talk to myself, otherwise I would've bored myself to death with my pointless blabbering!'

At this point Nuhvok stopped to take a good laugh at himself before advancing on another thought
'Waaaaiit, I need a...name.' the word 'name' was forced since he was trying to say, rather think it without using quotation marks.
'Hold on.....what's this?'
Upon the mention of the 'name' something came up from the back of his mind. It seemed like something from long ago...Not from the Krana's memory...but his own? This didn't make any sense to him, like many of the things he already went through, but didn't try to stop whatever was coming out. Hey, he needed a name, anything would do.
'Nuvatt?  That's lame. Well, a name's a name, and that’s the game.' Nuvatt paused for a moment before adding 'Trying to rhyme all this is a pain.'

By now, our little Bohrok friend had explored most of his little chamber. It was box-like in shape, at one end was the tunnel he came out of, and the other end was a wall with the swarm emblem and two small holes. Nuvatt decided he might as well inspect that door, it was the only thing interesting to do.
After a good five minutes, Nuvatt became inpatient and decided to rely on the information from the Krana.

'Ok, lets see, two little slots in the middle of the door I don't see any slots! Unless it means those two holes....Okay, what’s next? stick my claws into the 'slots'? What the? Okay, whatever, I don't know what that's going to-GAH!'
The last part was said as Nuvatt did exactly what the Krana's information said to do. In the next second-and a-half upon sticking his claws into the holes, two things happened:
One: The Tunnel behind him closed.
Two: The wall in front of him disappeared.

The Krana really was right; the wall was an entrance/exit leading to Ga-Koro.
The catch was that the entrance was underwater!
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Well, pretty good so far, don't you think?  Eheh, don't tell me now, tell me

Here

right. Sooooooo.....

This post has been edited by Koolsnowball: Sep 2 2004, 09:15 AM

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Chapter 2: Boy meets Girl, Girl hurts Boy, and mysterious person shows up...
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The Krana was really right; the wall was an entrance/exit leading to Ga-Koro.
The catch: It was underwater.....

If Nuvatt had followed his first reaction, screaming, he would’ve drowned faster than an ant in a sewer. The Krana didn't offer any helpful advice, since its information only applied to the inanimate Nuhvok. But something, perhaps from the same place Nuvatt got his name from, told him to 'hold his breath'
Nuvatt sucked in as much air as he could before the chamber filled up with water. Next thing he needed to know was how to get out of the chamber...
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It took awhile for Nuvatt to learn how to 'swim' out of the chamber, and still he wasn't good at it.
'Nuhvok obviously weren't made to swim. Really, who was the stupid one who built this….this tunnel thing underwater?!’
It was at this point when something occurred to him. Where was he going? Where was he going to go? Nuvatt paused for a moment considering those two questions. He seemed to be ‘automatically’ going in one direction. While he was floating and pondering those questions, he felt that the direction was facing was the ‘right’ direction to go. Nuvatt decided to experiment with the ‘compass feature’. He turned a little to the right. The ‘right’ direction was the same way it was before. Well, he decided to go the ‘right’ way. Hey, chances are if something was telling him to go that way, then there probably was a good reason for it.

‘Amazing’ Nuvatt thought. ‘All this time I thought it was gas…’
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After a few hours of swimming, he reached yet another underground cave. The ‘compass feature’ told him to go into the cave. Nuvatt went in, thinking to himself ‘There’d better be an air pocket in here, or I’m going to scream.’ Failing to realize the Irony in this statement, being that if he’d scream, he’d die anyways.
Um, anyways,
Nuvatt went into the cave, and eventually ended up in a chamber very much like his own. Including Bohrok pods. Except, the whole place was, obviously, was underwater, save a ‘glorious’ air pocket at the top of the chamber. The ‘Compass Feature’ pointed up there.
Well, what else was Nuvatt going to do? He swam up to the pod where the ‘Compass’ was pointing. Not knowing what else to do, he poked the lid-thing of the Bohrok pod.

{Uhh, hello? Is anyone in there? Hellooooooooo?} Nuvatt said (remember, he was in the Air pocket). He kept at that, when unexpectedly, he found himself staring at a pair of Orange eyes. Before Nuvatt had time to react, the owner of the pair of eyes burst through the Pod and landed behind him.

{Gah!}
The Gahlok surfaced with a confused look on its face.
{Wha? Who are you? Where am I? And why did you wake me up?! I was having a nice dream too!}

Nuvatt stared at the Gahlok. It obviously was a girl, judging by the tone of her voice. Then, he noticed she had a Krana. That made things moderately easier, unless of course, the Krana woke.

{Um, lets see, how do I put this? Uh, do you know what that thing in your head is?} Nuvatt started.
{What thing?} Gahlok replied, cocking her head in a confused manner.

Nuvatt sighed. This might be harder than he thought. {Uh, look, just focus on information. Just think}
{Er, Ok…} The Gahlok paused for a few minutes, before:
{WHOA!} She shouted.
{Gah! Not so loud! Do you want to wake up that Krana? Or worse, wake up all these guys?} Nuvatt said whilst swinging his arm around, indicating the rest of the Gahlok.

{Ugh. Get real! Those guys aren’t gonna wake up for some time! Maybe in another day or two, but certainly not now!} The Gahlok said to him like it was obvious. Nuvatt was taken back at her amount of knowledge. ‘That was fast!’ he thought. Then he said to Gahlok:
{Uh, did you get a name?}
{No...But I did get a lot of stuff, and counting! Woo, this is so COOL!}
As Gahlok finished the last part, it echoed around the air pocket.
{Shhh! Not so loud!}
{Look, I’m not gonna wake any of those guys!}
{It’s not ‘those guys’ that I’m worried about! It's you!}
{Wha? What do you mean?}

Nuvatt sighed.
{Look, don’t take this personally, but…}
{What are you talking abou-AH!} Gahlok was cut off as Nuvatt punched her in the face, activating the Head opening mechanism.

{What the?! What was that for?!} Gahlok shouted indignantly, as she flipped her head-shield back in place. Nuvatt sighed and held up the Krana.
{This.}
{Eeeee! That was in my head?!}
{Yes. Had it awakened, it would’ve controlled you, possibly waking the rest of this swarm, and perhaps even make you destroy Ga-Koro.} Nuvatt explained. As an afterthought, he added:
{And not so loud!}
{Eep, that thing can do that?}
{Yup. Now how ‘bout a name?}
{Oh, right, lets see…} Gahlok paused for a moment before saying:
{Gahti.}
{Gahti? Well that’s slightly better than mine!}
{Really? What’s yours?}
{Nuvatt.}

Gahti laughed manaically.
Needless to say, Nuvatt wasn't happy with the Gahlok's reaction.

{Hey! What's so funny?} Nuvatt asked.
{Oh, gahwd, it's you stupid name! So original! A Nuhvok called Nuvatt!} Gahti burst into laughter again. Now, Nuvatt was a tiny bit more than annoyed with Gahti.

{Look, my name isn’t that dumb!}
{Yes it is! AH-hahahahahahaaaa!}
{Well, at least I’m not 'Gahti the Gahlok'!} Nuvatt said with an obvious mocking tone in his voice.
{Are you mocking my name?!}
{Well, you’re allowed to mock mine!}
{Only ‘cause your name is stupid, and my name is better!}

Gahti dunked Nuvatt under the water. Nuvatt came back up, looking a liiiitle bit more angry at Gahti then before.

{My name is stupid? Oh come on! At least mine doesn't sound girly!!! 'Gahti'! Somehow reminds me of frilly pink ribbons and bows, and daisys!!} Nuvatt shouted at the Gahlok as he punched her a second time.

{Waaaiit...} Nuvatt added as an afterthought{what are frilly pink ribbons and bows? And what on Mata-Nui is a daisy?}

Nuvatt didn't have time to think that over before He found himself flying into a wall. It took him about five seconds before he realized what hit him before the cause of his flight was on top of him.

{Don't! Ever! Call! My! Name! Girly!} Gahti said between punches. Nuvatt was surprized she could hit that hard. He'd have to be more careful around her.

{And. Don't. Ever. Acco.Ciate. Me. With. Pink. Ribbons. And. Bows. And. Dais-} Gahti had seemed to calm down, since she wasn't shouting every syllable. Nuvatt had taken that oproutunity and kicked his assailant away.

{You keep you fins off me, you poor excuse for a pile of scrap metal!}

{Oh, and so its okay for a big blundering idiot with a dumb name to hit back? Like heck no!} Gahti said as she lunged at Nuvatt.

{Yeesh! What is it with you and the name?! What have you got against the name?! Just leave the name out of this!} Nuvatt shouted back at his opponent as he lunged to meet her.
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The fight continued on like that, and they eventually got tired and stopped after about twenty minutes.

{Well. Smarty butt. What are we. Going to do now?} Nuvatt asked Gahti, panting
{Idaknow. How ‘bout. We go to. Ga-Koro?}
{Hmmm, I don’t know…}
{It’s closer than. Anywhere else. From here.}
{Lets go!}
{But you still have to take. A deep breath before. Leaving here. Sorry.}

Nuvatt sighed.
{No problem.}
They dived underwater and left the underwater cave.
Ten minutes after they left the cave, a pair of glowing oranged eyes opened in one of the submerged pods...
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Walk. Walk, walk, walk, walk. Man, this was boring. All there was to see was a whole bunch of  fuzzy, whitish blob-like things running around. She couldn’t even do anything she wanted, something prevented her. All she was ‘allowed’ to do was: walk, walk, walk, walk. It seemed like days until something interesting happened. They ran into a fuzzy blue-white-blue shape. Its head was blue, its body and arms seemed white, and the feet were blue as well.

<<Back off, this one is mine!>>  a voice in her head shouted.
Before she knew what was happening, her head shot forwards and ‘opened’, shooting out a blue blob. By now, she was close enough to see that the thing in front of her had a pack with a flag in it, had really only one eye visible, with three little lenses, one glowing, where it was missing the other eye. It was holding a literal Ice Pick in It's hand, poised to attack.
‘Poor thing.’ She thought as the blue blob left the region of her head. ‘I don’t want it to end up like me…’
She suddenly got angry. ‘On second thought,’ Her teeth changed from the grotesque ‘upwards’ position it was before, to a treating ‘fanged’ position.  ‘I won’t allow it!’
The voice rang through her head again.

<<What’s this?!?!>> shouted the voice. But it was too late. She had already acted, using the motion of the head snapping forwards to hook the blue blob on her fangs before it reached the blue-and-white figure. She then pitched the blob to one side. She was then close enough to the other white things to realize:
She had just recklessly tossed the second-in-command, the squad leader. And by doing that, she got the entire herd of white things really, really mad
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This post has been edited by Koolsnowball: Jan 3 2003, 06:39 PM

Chapter 3: Creature see, Creature do...
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This chapter is dedicated to my favourite Green anole I’ve had so far, Jack. You were a vital part in many of my story gags.
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The voice rang through her head again.

<<What’s this?!?!>> It said. But it was too late. She had already acted, using the motion of the head snapping forwards to hook the blue blob on her fangs before it reached the blue-and-white figure. She then pitched the blob to one side. She was then close enough to the other white things to realize:
She just got the entire herd really, really mad.

Thinking quickly, she leaped at the blurry blue and white…creature, grabbing it with her ‘hand’ and tucking the creature under her arm, she somehow automatically curled into a ball and basically rolled off the cliff ledge the herd of things had cornered the creature on. As she rolled down the mountain side, she got one last static-littered transmission from the blue blob in her head:

<<Thi….sn’t…..ove….et…..ave! I’ll…ome back ...or you….nd ….ur…..ttle….oran pet…..>>*
She could barely make out what the message said, but she still could tell that it was a valid threat…
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After what seemed like hours, but could’ve very well been minutes, they both reached flat even ground. It was only a few feet worth, but she still managed to pull the brakes just in time. She uncurled from the ball she made and let the little creature go, letting herself lie in the snow as the dizziness collected from the trip down the hill faded. Apparently, the creature had less resistance to a ride like that, since he leaned over the ledge and promptly barfed.
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Matoro had just been minding his own business when he was suddenly face-to-fangs with that large swarm of creatures! He didn’t know what the one he had thought to be the leader was doing when it shot that blue thing at him, but he could’ve guessed it wasn’t a good thing. Then, before he knew it, the blue thing was gone and the weird creature that shot it had leaped at him, grabbed him and then they were rolling down the hill for Mata-Nui knows how long!

Matoro slowly sat up. He was now feeling slightly better after the roll down the hill. He looked at where they had landed.
Conveniently, they had landed on the same ledge that Ko-Koro was on. Matoro looked at the odd creature that was lying in the snow.

‘Poor thing,’ he thought ‘I guess that probably was its brain or something that it shot out. That ‘leap’ must’ve been a death-spasm or something…’

Matoro turned around and started walking towards his village. After a few steps, he had the odd feeling of being followed. Matoro slowly turned around. The creature was standing there, a few paces away from him.

‘Well, that was odd.’ Matoro thought as he turned back towards the village and began walking again. Now he could’ve sworn he heard footsteps behind him. Matoro quickly turned around. The creature was standing the same distance away, although Matoro had moved at least a few feet.

“Hmmmm” Matoro said to himself as he turned to walk towards his village. He hadn’t even taken a step when he, without warning, turned around and faced the creature. Once again, he came face-to-fangs with the creature again.

“Gyaah!” Matoro screamed as he jumped backwards.
The creature had extended its neck to full length, so its face was right in Matoro’s.
Matoro sat up as the creature pulled its head back.

“Woah, that was unexpected…” Matoro said to himself as he stood up.

“Um, hello? Thing? Creature? Uh, you can go now! Go on, run free! I beg of you!” he said to the creature. As it cocked its head, Matoro’s voice showed the nervousness he was feeling very clearly.

“Er, I don’t think I can take you in to my village, see? That one over there! So I’m letting you go! Go home! Run free! Just leave me alone!” Matoro said pleadingly. The creature had a blank look on its face.

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She was staring intently at the weird little thing. It was talking to her in a weird language.

“Um, hello? Thing? Creature? Uh, you can go now! Go on, run free! I beg of you!”

She couldn’t understand a word it said.

He started talking frantically and pointing in the direction of a big grey fuzzy shape in the distance.
‘Oooh! Now I get it! He’s inviting me to go with him! Over to that big….pile….of grey….Ah well, I can’t be rude, can I?’

{Sure I’ll come with you, little creature!}
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“Chick, clickit, click chik” The creature said to Matoro. He didn’t have a clue as to what the creature said, but he didn’t really care, since after this, he was going to sprint to Ko-Koro and hope they close the doors on the creature.

“Um, that’s good! I uh, guess I will be going now!” with that last word, he sprinted off towards the gates to Ko-Koro.
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Hold up! That strange little creature was speeding off towards that pile of grey! This didn’t make sense!

‘Must’ve said something wrong. But dang, I’ve got to follow him. I don’t know anywhere else to go! But how….’ She thought to herself as she tried to figure out away to catch up to him. Then it hit her. Rolling! She curled into a ball and started off after the little creature.
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Matoro thought he was home free until he heard it. He had learned to run really fast. He needed to be able to, in order to hunt rahi! But then he heard an familiar sound. It was like a Muaka when they were speeding after prey. Matoro risked a look behind him, to see a white ball come after him. Just great! Now that, that thing was catching up to him fast! He looked back towards the village to see that he was almost at the gates.

“HEY! UP THERE! CLOSE THE GATES! CLOSE THE DARN GATES!!!!” Matoro shouted at the watch tower guards as he ran towards the entrance. One of the guards saw his frantic waving. Mistaking it for a greeting, the guard waved back.

“Dangit, of all the times to have idiot trainee’s on guard…” Matoro thought to himself as he tried to run faster. He tried shouting again.

“HELP! SOMETHING’S CHASING ME! CLOSE THE GATES!!!!! CLOSE THE GOSH DARN GATES!!!!!!!” Matoro shouted, not necessarily using ‘Gosh Darn’ but the same point got across.
The guard got the message, needless to say, and began turning the crank that would close the large stone gate doors. The door was almost closed when Matoro reached it. Just managing to leap through the space between the two doors, landing face-first on the snow-covered, uh, ground.
Pushing himself up and shaking the snow off of his mask, he sat up and looked at the closed gates.

“Yes.” Matoro said to himself.
“I did it. I escaped that thing. I did it! I really did! Its gone! Its out of my hair! Uh-huh! Bou-yah!”
He lost all dignity he had as he did a childish victory dance, before noticing the crowd he was drawing.

“Eheh...” He said, stopping in mid-dance pose before standing straight.

“Sir!” A voice said from behind him. Matoro nearly jumped five feet into the air. Wheeling around to the side, he saw that it was one of the guards in the towers.

“Yes?” Matoro said to the guard.

“Are you ok? Why did you need the gates closed? And, uh, if you don’t mind me asking, what is that?”

The guard said back to him, and pointed behind Matoro, the one place he hadn’t looked since he flew into Ko-Koro. Slowly, he turned around, only to see what had really drawn the crowd…
(a/n: buh buh buuuuuh!)
The Creature!
It was looking at him as innocently as a creature with over-sized fangs could.

“YAARRRGH!” Matoro screamed as he proceeded to pound his head on a nearby lamppost.
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Ok, I don't care if they don't have any lampposts in Ko-Koro! they do now!
And as I said before, I dedicate this to my dearly departed lizard. Go ahead. Laugh. But at least you probably haven't ever watched your pet die before and be absolutely helpless. Ok, some of you may have, but as for the rest of you...

Oh, and from now on, I’ll post all stuff like this at the top post, thing. Please send me a message or review this in my discussion topic, All questions will be answered there, please and thank you!
*This is what the Krana said: <<This isn't over yet, slave! I'll come back for you, and your little Matoran pet!>>

This post has been edited by Koolsnowball: Mar 9 2003, 09:43 PM

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Chapter 4: Copying Kohrok, Mistaken Gahlok...
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Recap:

Slowly, he turned around, only to see what had really drawn the crowd…
(a/n: buh buh buuuuuh!)
The Creature!
It was looking at him as innocently as a creature with over-sized fangs could.
“YAARRRGH!” Matoro screamed as he proceeded to pound his head on a nearby pole.
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Nuju was reading the inscriptions on the temple walls. Actually, more like re-reading it, considering how he wrote half of the inscriptions in the first place. Reading the stuff and making sense of it was kinda like a test he set up for the Turaga-wannabes out front. The next bit of passing the Turaga test was to at least make a little sense of what he says when he speaks in his ‘legend language’, which is actually what they spoke at the other side of the mountain in his day. The fact that he was related to Matoro was probably the reason he knew that language off by heart. But from what Nuju knew now, that village was destroyed.

Anyways,
Nuju was reading the inscriptions on the temple walls when a loud crash was heard from out front. Everybody, even Nuju, though he knew who the person was, looked up front to see Matoro stomp in. Needless to say, he looked fairly ticked. As soon as he fully got into the door, the cause of his strife followed him in. Nuju’s eyes widened considerably. It was a Kohrak! ‘Where did that thing com from?!’ Nuju thought to himself as Matoro trudged into Nuju’s chamber. As Matoro approached Nuju, he opened his mouth as if to say something, but Nuju cut him off. “Meeting room.” Nuju said. Matoro nodded and made a sharp turn for a nearby door. The Kohrak had copied his movement and followed him in to the Meeting room. Nuju did the same. As Nuju closed the door, he looked at the Kohrak. He noted that it didn’t have a Krana, and it was that feature that seemed to trigger something in his old memory. Nuju then turned to face Matoro. “Sit down Matoro,” he began “I have a story to tell.”
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Nuvatt didn’t know how much he could go on with his last bit of air. If he didn’t surface soon-
{RAAAAAAHRR!!!!!!}

{GAH!!!} Nuvatt shouted out, releasing what little air he had left. As he inhaled water he figured it was all over, so he did the first thing his oxygen-deprived mind told him to do. He curled into a ball.

{Aw, c’mon Nuvatt, You’re pathetic. Stand up; you don’t need to hold your breath.}

Nuvatt stood up and sheepishly looked around.

{Uh, you sure about that Gahti?}
{Hey, you’re alive, and so am I.}
{Well, I thought you had gills!}
{Hm. I don’t think it matters. Oh, and since it seems our Krana-storage thingiemabober is sorta empty, then I guess we can breathe from there and-}
{Yeesh, so many ‘I thinks’ and not enough ‘I knows’.}
{Well I don’t see you thinking of anything!}
{…}
{I rest my c-}

Gahti didn’t get a chance to finish her sentence, for right then, something large swam over them, the after-current causing Gahti to spin around in the water before steadying herself, and Nuvatt to get pulled head over heels before sinking and landing with oh-so-much dignity on his butt.

{What the heck was that?} Nuvatt asked as he got up whilst rubbing his backside and looking up at Gahti. Gahti’s eyes were wide.

{Uhhh, Nuvatt, I think the correct wording to your question would be: ‘What the heck were those?’. And unfortunately, I think I know.}

{Well then spit it out! What was that, err, those?!}

{Those,} Gahti started, weather pausing for effect, lack of brainpower or she really was that scared, Nuvatt didn’t know. But rather than make a witty comment, he waited patiently.

{Were a small swarm of Gahlok. Heading in the general direction of Ga-Koro.} Gahti said, the worry in her voice as clear as the water they were in.

Nuvatt’s insides went cold as he stared at Gahti, letting the information sink in. All that changed to anger in a few seconds when he had made sense out of what happened.

{You…} he said, glaring at Gahti
{Its your fault! You were the one who woke all those Gahlok! I told you to be quiet! But did you listen to me? Noooo! I warned you that you’d wake up that swarm with your continuous chatter!}

Gahti wasn’t looking at Nuvatt. Her eyes looked like they were watering up, but of course, it would be hard to tell, considering their location. Though Nuvatt was glaring at Gahti, he didn’t seem to be paying attention to anything Gahti was doing. He continued what he was saying, speaking with a mocking tone while quoting Gahti.

{But did you listen to me? No! ‘Those guys aren’t going to be waking up for another day or so’! But guess what? You shoud’ve listened to me! You really should’ve! ‘Cause now, the whole city of Ga-Koro will be destroyed! Sunk! Eliminated off the face of Mata-Nui! And you know why? ‘Cause you couldn’t listen to me for one freaking minute! ‘Don’t worry! They’re still asleep! They’re not gonna wake up for awhile!’ Well guess what? You were WRONG! They are awake, and they are heading for Ga-Koro, and they are going to destroy it! And guess who all the Ga-Koroian survivors are going to thank? Yeah, that’s right, it will be ‘Gahti, the wonderfully stupid Bohrok wh-’}

Nuvatt was sent flying (or would that be floating?)through the water by a hit to the jaw. As he rubbed said injury, he looked up to the source of the shot. It was Gahti.

{Yes! I get the point Mr. Hot-shot Nuhvok. I screwed up! I am the cause of the potential demise of Ga-Koro! Whoop-de flippin’ day! Well guess what? You could just-just kiss my gears!} Gahti said as she turned around.

Nuvatt was stunned from Gahti’s reaction for a moment. Then he swam up to Gahti and put-well, tried to put- a claw on her shoulder, before being sent tumbling through the waters. Nuvatt was stunned from Gahti’s reaction for a second time. Not only did the other side of his Jaw hurt, but in the short time he was near Gahti he felt two hot currents of water near her head. She was doing something totally uncharacteristic. She was crying.
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I think I’ll leave my story here. Remember to send your questions, comments and ideas to the discussion topic mentioned in the first post. Please! I wanna know what you think!

This post has been edited by Koolsnowball: Aug 29 2003, 04:20 PM

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Chapter 5: Convincing, Communicating, Complicating...
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Nuvatt was stunned from Gahti’s reaction for a moment. Then he swam up to Gahti and put-well, tried to put- a claw on her shoulder, before being sent tumbling through the waters. Nuvatt was stunned from Gahti’s reaction for a second time. Not only did the other side of his Jaw hurt, but in the short time he was near Gahti he felt two hot currents of water near her head. She was doing something totally uncharacteristic. She was crying…

{Gahti-} Nuvatt began, before getting cut off by Gahti.

{Look, could you please just leave me alone?!} Gahti shouted.

{But Gahti, I-}

{Didn’t you hear me? Can’t you just butt outta my life for five minutes you little pipsqueak?!} Gahti shouted back to Nuvatt once again.

{HEY-llooooo!!! I’ve technically only been alive for about an hour, and you’ve technically only been alive for about fifteen minutes! So therefore-you’re life isn’t quite easy to butt out of, and, I’m older than you! So you can’t call me a ‘little Bohrok’!}

{You moron! I only meant little in the way of the fact, that you’re puny! I could tuck you under my arm and carry you halfway around the Island!}

{What?! I’m the same size as you!}

{….leave me alone….}

{What the? Talk about mood swings! One minute we’re having fun insulting each other, the next you’re griping again! What’s with you?!}

{….}

{Oh, this is about the whole potential destruction of Ga-Koro….well, I’m sure they’ll forgive you…eventually}

Nuvatt just stared at Gahti for a moment before saying:

{Err, well, lets get going, we might make it in time-}

{In time?! In time for what?! Being witnesses to the destruction of Ga-Koro?! Oh that would be an opportunity I wouldn’t want to miss!} Gahti pretty much shrieked, adding sarcasm to her last sentence.

{-to do something.} Nuvatt ended in a slightly depressed sounding voice.

{To do something? Yes, let’s go face a swarm of Gahlok in their natural element were we’d get the floor wiped with our own butts! Yes, that does sound like a good idea!}

Nuvatt glared at Gahti while said Gahlok continued her rant.

{Well ya know what? You could go get trounced by yourself, ‘cause I’m not leaving this spot!}

Nuvatt sighed.

{Well, we should. I mean, It’s only fair.}

{Fair?}

{Yeah, I mean, technically, we brought this upon the Ga-Koronans, so we should help fight against them. And besides, we kinda have an advantage…}

{Advantage?} Gahti said, raising an eyebrow.

{Yeah, I mean, as long as I can fight on land, and you can fight in the water, we have a pretty good edge over them.}

{Really? You think that just ‘cause you’re on our team you think you’re invincible?}

{No, I was just taking in the consideration that we’re both probably smarter than that whole swarm of Gahlok combined!}

{Uh-huh.}

{And we may have a better chance if we get there before them, or just after they start their attack, we can wipe the floor with them!}

Gahti paused for a moment, thinking over her options.

{Oh well, I guess I can have all the fun to myself…}

Oh, that was it.

{Fine. Lets go kick some gears!}

Nuvatt grinned as he watched Gahti swim off to Ga-Koro.

‘Knew that would get her.’ He thought to himself as he swam off after her…
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Man, this was Boring. Talk, talk, talk, talk! So she did the most reasonable thing one would do when they were bored. She fell asleep.

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She was running. She didn’t know who or what she was running from, but she knew she had to get away from something before it caught her and….something happened. She was running through a small town, much like the one she was in earlier this story, except everything seemed a bit bigger…and clearer...
Anyways, she figured that running around the city wasn’t a very good option, as to the fact that whatever she was running from had blocked all exits. So she did the most reasonable thing at the time. She bolted into a nearby hut. She looked around. There was the main room she was in, and a hall up ahead, to her right, and to her left. She didn’t have much time; the force behind her was nearing. She immediately bolted forward, rounding the corner there. Now there rooms on both sides of her, two to her left, one to her right, and one right ahead of her. She took the far left door and found herself in another room. The room’s walls were white with pink spots; the bed in the room had light pink covers and beside that was a light pink bedside table with a lightstone lamp. Toys covered the floor like a rug. That was all she noticed before she heard the steps of whatever was chasing her near. She closed the door as quietly as she could before diving under the bed. It was dark under there. She then heard the footsteps get closer, but they didn’t sound like the steps that belonged to the enemy…instead they sounded like something else. Whatever was there pushed open the door before-
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She awoke to something poking her. Dang, right when her dream was getting interesting.

“Yo, Kohrok thing, wake up!” said the Blue and white creature from before. Of course, she couldn’t understand a word he just said. But she decided that if creatures were poking her, then that probably means she has to get up. As she un-curled herself, she listened to what the tall thing and the blue and white thing were saying. She couldn’t understand what the blue thing was saying, but…somehow she managed to pick up a word of two of what the tall guy was saying

{……....going………Ta-Koro…………Toa……….careful…}

Waitaminute… He wasn’t talking in complete sentences! Hmm.

{Hello? What are you saying? You’re not talking in complete sentences!}

The tall guy stopped. He turned around to face her.

{What? Sentences?} She paused. There was a pattern here, she just had to find it…
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Nuju stopped. He could of sworn he had heard the Kohrok speak…
{Hello? What…saying?.............sentences!} Of course! The clicks in his speech overlapped with the clicks of Bohok speech! That limited conversation to an extent, but might as well try.

Making sure to talk only in clicks, Nuju spoke to the Kohrok.

{What? Sentances?} The Kohrok paused. It was trying to figure out the pattern. Or so Nuju thought…If that was true, then the Kohrok was smart for her species-

{Click! ….Course! ………understand Clicks, Yes?} the Kohrok said, talking in mostly clicks.

{Yes, I understand Clicks.} Nuju responded.

{YES! Oh……I……I…..Genius! Uh, what saying about Ta-Koro?}
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{Click! Of course! Er, You understand Clicks, Yes?} She said. She knew she was using horrible grammar, but talking in ‘clicks’ was the only way to communicate…

{Yes, I understand Clicks.} The tall guy said.

{YES! Oh yea! I’m so smart! I’m a Genius! Uh, what saying about Ta-Koro?} She asked. Somehow, the name ‘Ta-Koro’ had clicked something. It sounded like a hot place…
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Nuvatt and Gahti swam as fast as they could to Ga-Koro. They managed to get there just after the Gahlok started their attack, by using a shortcut. Already, things didn’t look good. Ahead of them was a sunken hut. A Gahlok was attacking a wall, but then swam off. Gahti and Nuvatt, being the ever-curious Bohrok, went over to have a look.

{You go.}

{No! You’re the smarty-gears who dragged me here! You go check it out!}

{Well, you know the saying, ‘Ladies first.’ But then again, the term ‘Lady’ doesn’t really apply to you…}

{WHAT?!} Gahti whacked Nuvatt with her claw, before swimming off to look at the hut. Well, the Gahlok was attacking the side of the hut, and made a hole in the side of said lily pad structure. Now what happens when a hollow thing with a hole gets submerged in water? Yes, it fills up with said liquid. In this case, the water was rushing into the hut fast enough to drag Gahti towards the hole.

{Uh, Nuvatt? HEEEEEEEL-} Gahti was trying to say help, but before she could finish, she got dragged into the hole. Well, actually her head got dragged into the hole, effectively plugging it. Nuvatt tried hard not to smile, but what he saw was a comical sight. There was the ever tough Gahti, with her head stuck in a hole and her arms and legs flailing madly…

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Eheh, this took too long. Anyways, If you have any questions or comments, post them
right here.

I hope that worked...

Oh, and bear in mind that the 'dots' in between words during the conversation between Nuju and the Kohrok represent pieces of dialougue in thier own respesctive languages. Yeah.

This post has been edited by Koolsnowball: Aug 29 2003, 04:24 PM

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Chapter 6: Right when you thought it couldn't get any worse...
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{Uh, Nuvatt? HEEEEEEEL-} Gahti was trying to say help, but before she could finish, she got dragged into the hole. Well, actually her head got dragged into the hole, effectively plugging it. Nuvatt tried hard not to smile, but what he saw was a comical sight. There was the ever tough Gahti, with her head stuck in a hole and her arms and legs flailing madly.

{G-Gahti?} Nuvatt said, trying his hardest not to laugh, but failing miserably as he began laughing his head off.

{YES I AM FINE, THANK YOU FOR ASKING! Now, GET ME OUTTA HERE!}

Nuvatt managed to stop laughing long enough to watch Gahti as she angrily flailed her arms and legs. He was about to shout out a witty retort, but stopped. He had the oddest feeling that he was being watched. He suddenly spun around in the water, only to come face-to-face with not one…

{GAH!}

…But at least a dozen Gahlok!

{Oh, this isn’t good…} Nuvatt muttered as the leader swam up. Nuvatt cleared his throat and decided to ‘negotiate’. Gahti obviously didn’t know what was going on, since she was still screaming threats and stuff from inside the hut.

Nuvatt began the conversation with the wittiest comment he could think of: {Uh, sooo…Er, what brings you here? Eheheh…}

{NUVATT! Don’t just stand there and rust! HELP ME!!}

The leader just glared at Nuvatt. Nuvatt decided to try again.

{Um, may I ask why you are attacking Ga-Koro?}

The leader was still glaring, but this time, he answered.

{Well traitor, unlike you, we’re doing what our Queens have commanded us to do.}

{NUVATT!! If you don’t do something in five seconds, I’m gonna-} Nuvatt fought the urge to kick Gahti, but failed miserably.

{Shut up! I’m a little busy right now. I’ll get back to you later!} Nuvatt hissed at Gahti before going back to the Gahlok leader.

{Uh, so where were we?} Nuvatt asked.

{Unlike you, we’re doing what our Queens have commanded us to do.}

{And that is?}
{Destroy anything that stands in our way. This includes ‘Ga-Koro’, and you.} The Gahlok glanced at Gahti as she tried to free herself.

{Both of you.} The Gahlok finished. Nuvatt swallowed.

{Er, Gahti, I-uh, we kinda have a problem out here...uh, just hold on, I’ll be right back!} Nuvatt informed Gahti in a shaky voice loud enough for said Gahlok to hear. He ended up finishing the last part real fast, his voice higher than he intended it to be, due to the fact that the Gahlok swarm had chosen then to start swimming towards Nuvatt.

Gahti sounded rather angry as she started yelling more death threats.

{PROBLEMS?! PROBLEMS?!!?! MY FOOT YOU’RE HAVING PROBLEMS! I BET YOU’RE JUST MAKING THAT JUST SO YOU CAN DITCH ME YOU TWO-TIMING, DOUBLE-CROSSING LITTLE WORM!!! WHEN I GET OUTTA HERE I’M GONNA PUMMEL YOU INTO OBLIVION YOU LOUSY EXCUSE FOR A COCKROACH!!!}
Gahti shouted as she flailed her limbs angrily once again. Eventually, she just gave up. She decided to take a look at where she was. For the first time she noticed that the ‘room’ she was in was filled with a bunch of blue creatures! Gahti guessed that the tallest one was the leader.

{Uh….Hi! Uh. Sorry?} Gahti nervously said…

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Nuvatt swam as fast as he can, but even that wasn’t fast enough. Somehow he had managed to jump out of the water and land on something. As he looked around, he saw that he was on a giant lily pad that had cute little paths that went to other lily pads with huts on them. Nuvatt really didn’t have that much time to admire the scenery, since at that moment, the swarm of Gahlok leaped out of the water.

{GYAAAAH!!!}

Nuvatt barely had any time to move out of the way before the Gahlok landed right where he was. Somehow managing to roll to a standing position, he turned around to face the leader Gahlok.

{Do you really think that you can beat all of us?} The Gahlok said whilst smirking amusedly.

{Actually, no, I don’t. I’m just running like heck and hoping I’m going the right way.}
There was an awkward pause.
{Uhhh…} The Leader was caught off guard by Nuvatt’s answer. For once in his life, (all 90 minutes of it) Nuvatt realized opportunity when he saw it, and well, ran like heck. There was a pause of about three seconds before the Gahlok leader realized that his prey was getting away.

{Well? What are you waiting for?! Get him!}
With that, the group of Gahlok ran in the general direction that Nuvatt went in.

But let’s go back to Gahti.
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I believe when we last left her; she found that the hut she was stuck in had some...occupants.

Uh….Hi! Uh. Sorry?} Gahti nervously said. The tallest stepped in front of Gahti

{Who, or what, are you?} The tall creature asked in a feminine voice.

{Uh…lets see, I’m Gahti the Gahlok.} Gahti replied awkwardly, before adding

{I could ask you the same thing! What are you?!}

The creature nodded at Gahti’s less than polite approach to the situation before answering

{Nokoma, Turga of Ga-Koro.}

{Mmmn} Gahti said as she nodded. {I have no clue what you’re talking about.}

Nokoma sighed. This could take awhile…

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Nuvatt raced through the city of Ga-Koro. He had a head start in the race to get the heck away from the Gahlok, but they were catching up quick. He had to find a hiding spot-fast! Hearing the footsteps of some Gahlok coming closer, Nuvatt dived into a nearby hut and jumped out of the doorway. After the sounds of footsteps faded, Nuvatt ran out of the hut. But he never bothered to check if there was anything inside…

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Maku blinked. She was trying to hide from the creatures that were attacking Ga-Koro. But just as she thought she was safe, one of the creatures had jumped into her hut. Maku was startled at the sight of the creature.

‘Oh no! I’ve been found!’ Maku had thought to herself. But just as quickly as it came, it left.

Maku blinked again, and shook her head, and tried to remember exactly what happened. It just didn’t make sense! The creature just jumped in, and then…then some of the Blue Creatures walked by! And…the creature that jumped into her hut was Black! It must’ve been hiding from those…blue things... But that doesn’t make any sense! Maku had thought that it was a leader or something…unless…unless it was a trick! Maku knew that whatever that thing was, she couldn’t let her guard down! She would need to form a plan of attack if any of those creatures showed their ugly mugs again! As she thought this, she spotted movement outside the hut. Not again! As she caught a glimpse of a leg, she reached behind her, trying to find some kind of thing she could use for a weapon. Her hand fell on a handle of something. Maku didn’t even have to look at the thing to tell that it was her trusty frying pan. Ah well, at least its something. As the full leg of the creature came into view, she could see that it was black. That was good enough for her! She counted to three before leaping up and charging at the leg shouting

“GET OUT OF GA-KORO YOU DEFORMED COCKROACH SCUM!!” and with a loud “Pa-KANG” Maku brought her pan down, straight on the kneecap of whatever that creature was…

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Did Maku actually bring the pan down on Nuvatt? Or was something else? Well, the Post Icon is a hint...sorta...*cough*

Anyways, I figure this is a good spot to end this chapter. Sorry if it is a little short...but...uh....er....look over there! *randomly points and runs away*

Arientioth(I'll mention this now, Ari is my 'other personality....or muse. *cough* Social exclusion does that to ya.): Ok, since genius ran off, I'm just gonna finish this for her. Please, oh please, tell us what you think of this story in the reveiw topic. A link was posted in the previous chapter, so, if you read this story, click on the link and leave a post telling Ks what you think! (please)

This post has been edited by Koolsnowball: Oct 5 2003, 07:19 PM

That had to be one of the best epics I've read! It was really good!

Yay! I finally got the next chapter up!

Oh, er, Pohatu Nuva, please post in my review topic, though your positive remarks are welcome and appreciated.

By the way, if you haven’t noticed, I shook off that evil plague known as ‘Writer’s Block’. Yup. I’m even starting on the next Chapter, most likely … er… well, before you read this technically… since I decided to hold onto this until a ‘rush-hour time’ and… well, let’s just say I’ve started the next chapter already! ;

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Chapter 7: The Plot Twists…
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“GET OUT OF GA-KORO YOU DEFORMED COCKROACH SCUM!” and with a loud ‘Pa-KANG’ Maku brought her pan down, straight on the kneecap of the creature. Maku smiled with satisfaction, until she realized what she just hit.

“OW! Owowowowowowow!” Onua hopped on the spot, clutching his injured leg.

Maku gasped as she clapped her hands over her mouth, dropping her kitchen utensil. She had just hit the Toa of Earth with her frying pan! Gali and Kopaka were there too. Gali was trying not to laugh, while the Toa of Ice just smirked.

“Omygosh! I’m so sorry!” Maku shouted “Are you alright?!”

“I’m fine…I just can’t…feel my lower…leg region!” Onua grunted, filtering words through his teeth.

“So, what’s wrong with Ga-Koro?” Kopaka changed the subject.

“Well, we all were minding our business, when out of the water jumped out these overgrown-” As if on cue, three of the Blue creatures jumped out of the water three pads away from them. All of their heads immediately swerved to face them, but only Gali’s eyes narrowed in recognition. With a cry, she pounced on the creatures, and before they realized what was happening, their numbers were down to two. The other Toa and the Ga-Koronan watched as Gali battled with an unearthly fury. She turned and shot a jet of water at the other two creatures, but this time, the creatures were ready. They both raised their flipper-like hands and deflected the water. As soon as the water stopped, the one on the right dropped its claws and launched something orange at the spot where Gali was. Was. The right-hand creature dropped to the ground, like the orange thing. The left-hand creature lowered its claws and looked around for Gali, but didn’t have long before it fell forward. Gali stood behind it, having jumped behind it after using her water attack. The creature curled up into a ball and rolled to a standing position. It turned to face Gali, and to everybody’s surprise, shot its own blast of water at her. Gali just managed to counter the attack with another jet of water, but was taken aback all the same. Simultaneously, they both stopped their jets and leapt at each other. Gali did a flip and landed a kick on the creature’s head. With a sickening ‘crack’, the creature dropped to the ground like a rock, its head split open, oozing an orange substance. Gali landed a few feet away, panting.

“What was that?” Onua asked, a shocked look on his face.

“52 seconds, exactly.” Replied Kopaka. The Toa of Earth shot an odd look at Kopaka.

“No! What was with that enraged outburst?” Onua corrected, as Gali approached the small group.
“Honestly, I don’t know. For some reason, the sight of those creatures just struck something inside of me, a memory or something. I don’t know what, or why, but I was horribly angered. But we can think this over later. Let’s work on saving Ga-Koro.” The others nodded. Wandering around the village, they came to a dead end.

“Hey, didn’t there used to be a Hut or two here?” Asked Onua slowly. Before anyone could answer, several things happened at once. A hut bobbed to the surface, its door bursting open, and its occupants, most of Ga-Koro’s inhabitants, Nokama and another blue creature, running out. About ten more blue creatures jumped out of the water, landing on the pad, almost between the Ga-Koronans, the Toa and Maku. A dark shape jumped over out of the water and over new creatures, landing in front of them. This new shape stood, revealing it as being a black version of the creatures, a sickly green thing glowing in it’s head!

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Nuvatt hit the side of the hut painfully, his eyes watering. What a time to get jumped. Right when you’re close to escape, some small, but powerful, group of bullies come out and attack you. How do you like that? The black Bohrok got up and shook his head. This wasn’t fair, he was facing two Gahlok, in their natural environment! But, unfortunately, controlled Krana don’t like to listen to reason, no matter how much the situation calls for it.
{Why don’t you just give yourself up, Traitor?}

Ah yes, then there was that arrogant, stuck up, split-fanged son of a Husi. Also known as the leader of this small Gahlok swarm. Well, maybe not really the leader, but… He still was giving orders and-

Nuvatt just barely ducked the swipe by one of the two Gahlok. The other now shot water at him.

{Oh, for the love of-} Nuvatt shielded his face with his claws. The water harmlessly splashed off, not harming him in the least. The jet of water stopped suddenly, and the independent Nuhvok barely had time to move his claws to intercept those of the other Gahlok. Pushing the Gahlok away, Nuvatt rolled backwards into a standing position.
{Mental note: Nuhvok claws make good shields} He muttered before the same Gahlok lunged at him. Nuvatt moved his left claw in front of his face, and his right out, claws facing the Gahlok. The Bohrok of water connected head-shield first with the sharp points of Nuvatt’s claws, and with a sharp ‘Crak!’ it’s head spit open, Krana impaled. Nuvatt muttered to himself again as he shook the Gahlok off his claw, {Mental note: Nuhvok claws also make good weapons!}

At this point, the other Gahlok lunged at him. Nuvatt ducked, only to have the Gahlok grab him by his head-shield as it passed, pulling him to the ground. The Gahlok quickly got up and went to attack Nuvatt while he was still down. Nuvatt just managed to raise his claws to intercept the Gahlok’s fins as they came down on him.
{Oh…no you… don’t} Nuvatt grunted as they grappled. Then, without warning, the Gahlok struck out with it’s head, hitting Nuvatt’s head-opening mechanism. Nuvatt exclaimed in surprise, before letting go of one of the Gahlok’s fin-claws and poking it in the eye, activating it’s head-opening mechanism. The Krana flew out, and the Gahlok suddenly went limp, and fell on top of Nuvatt’s body.
{Argh!} Nuvatt tried to push the body off of him, but quickly realized that he was pinned. Then again, the fact that the Gahlok leader had walked over from where he used to be leaning against a hut and now had one foot on the downed Gahlok and Nuvatt could have something to do with not being able to get up.

{This was almost too easy.} He chittered. Nuvatt glared at the Gahlok.

{Oh, that’s it! The moment I get out from under here, you’re Ruki bait!} The Gahlok laughed.
{You seem to be forgetting something my Krana-less friend.} Nuvatt cautiously raised an eyebrow

{Oh? And what would that be?} The Gahlok smirked and looked down at Nuvatt and said,
{Hey Traitor, your head-shield’s open.}

Nuvatt quickly figured out what that meant, but the Gahlok had already launched his Krana at the vulnerable Nuhvok before he could do anything. Nuvatt screamed as the Krana took hold of him. Nuvatt, now controlled by the Gahlok’s Krana, pushed the two Bohrok bodies off of him, and looked out to the water, before diving in.

<<All Gahlok regroup at quadrant 623-541 immediately!>> The Krana commanded what Nuvatt could guess to be the rest of that Gahlok swarm.

‘Another fine mess I’ve gotten myself into’ Nuvatt thought bitterly as he swam to quadrant something-or-another…

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A silence had settled in the hut as Gahti tried to think of a way to get these ‘Ga-Koronans’ back to the surface. She didn’t have the strength to push the hut up, she couldn’t back out and get Nuvatt, lest the water pour in and drown the poor ‘Ga-Koronan Tohunga’. Whatever she chose to do, she had to quickly, before they ran out of air- Wait, that’s it! Air! If she could somehow manage to turn the hut so that the hole was on the bottom, the air pressure would keep the water out, so she could then get out of the hole she was blocking, and perhaps… pull the hut out or something! Genius!

{Hey! Nokama!} The Gahlok chittered, grabbing the tall creature’s attention. The ‘Turaga of Ga-Koro’ walked over to the stuck Bohrok.

{Yes Gahti? What is it?}

{I think I have an idea. I’m going to try to turn this hut so that this hole is at the bottom, and then pull myself out. The air in the hut should keep the water from pouring in, and then I’ll try to pull this hut up. Or something. But it should work!}

Nokama blinked, thought over the Gahlok’s idea, before smirking slightly, turning to her villagers and talking to them in their language, presumably telling them about Gahti’s plan. When Nokama had finished speaking, Gahti continued with her plan. Using all of her strength, she clung to the outside of the hut with claws, and attempted to move it around using a ‘throwing motion’. To make a long story short, after a few shots, she did it. Now looking up at the other side of the hut, she pulled herself in, and looked around. Or, at least tried, before she found herself being thrown to the ground by some unknown force. The hut suddenly started rising, really fast. It was only a matter of seconds before the hut reached the surface, door bursting open as the destination was reached. Gahti, as well as the Ga-Koronans, rushed out of the hut and into the open, only to come across three large creatures with another Ga-Koronan. Before Gahti could brace herself for battle, a group of splashes caught her attention. Out of the water sprang about ten or so Gahlok, soon joined by-

{HOLY KAL!} Gahti exclaimed upon seeing the new form. For that form, was that of her former companion an hour and forty-five minutes ago,

Nuvatt.

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Cliffhanger! Not-So Disappointing Battle Sequence coming up at the beginning of ze next chapter! Read and Review please!

This post has been edited by Koolsnowball: May 31 2005, 06:58 PM

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Chapter 8: The Not-So Disappointing Battle Sequence… As well as some… other stuff…
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Gahti stared in shock at what had just jumped in front of her. It was Nuvatt! With a Krana! How could this happen!?!

{HOLY KAL!} She found herself exclaiming. As soon as those words left her mouth, she realized that they didn’t make any sense. I mean, what the heck is ‘Kal’? A verb or a noun? Is it even a real… thing? Gahti didn’t have much time to ponder that, before the now-Kranaed Nuvatt spoke, his voice the same, but dripping with a sinister-ness that didn’t quite fit the bumbling Bohrok.

{Well, well, I finally get to meet the other Traitor.}

{Ga-buh-ah--Nuvatt?!} She stammered intelligently. The Evil-Nuvatt smirked.

{Hm. I suppose it’s only natural that a traitor such as yourself should have as much intellect as a common Hoto bug. Anyways, let’s get down to business. The Great Queens aren’t pleased with your sudden switching of sides, and to be honest, neither are we. So, here I have a little offer to make. You return to us, and the rule of the Great Queens,} As Evil-Nuvatt said this, the Gahlok to his right slowly opened its head-shield {or, die a most horrible and painful death. Your choi-akk!} Evil-Nuvatt suddenly stopped as some unknown force cut him off. The ‘force’ soon became clear, as Nuvatt spoke again, this time in a wavering, scared voice, his eyes now gleaming with the worry and cowardance that Gahti had come to know.

{Gahti! Quick, get out of here! Don’t listen to anything this Kranaed me tells you! He’s controlling my body! Hurry and go before he makes me do som-} Nuvatt got cut off again as the Krana took over, unnatural malice and hatred returned to his eyes, and as he spoke again, Gahti could hear the sinister-ness clearly.

{That was annoying. I can’t wait until his mind breaks and I can gain full control. Now then, where were we? Ah, don’t tell me, the end of my ‘Join Or Die’ speech. Right, so, its your choice. Join, and live, or resist, and die. Take your pick.}

There was a pause, as Gahti looked deep into Nuvatt’s eyes, trying to find the bit of him that she knew was still there. Somewhere, somewhere in that cluttered head, the old Nuvatt was still there, She knew it! Nuvatt was able to resist before, he had to try again. Maybe he could break free from the Krana on his own, without Gahti trying to help. Nuvatt suddenly spoke out again, back in his scared-voice.

{Gahti! Just go! Leave me here, and get the others out! You’re gunna get killed otherwise!}

The last thing Gahti wanted to do was to accidentally hurt Nuvatt just to get that Krana out… What if she accidentally ended up killing him?! No, she couldn’t risk that…

{Gahti! Get outta here!} The Krana took over, as Nuvatt’s voice changed again. {Stupid… Anyway, have we reached our decision? Or must I remind you of our terms again? Join us and live, Don’t and--}

{Beat the gears out of you. I’m not joining with you, nor am I just going to let you overpower me like that.} As she finished her statement, she snapped her fin. Evil-Nuvatt sighed.

{Fine, have it your way.} Nuvatt regained control. {Gahti… Run! Run like the wind! Get out of here before this Krana makes me do something! Gahti! Please, listen to me!}

Gahti glared into Nuvatt’s eyes, as she began her own speech.

{No, Nuvatt, you listen to me: You can fight that thing! You’ve already broken through at least twice! You can resist that hunk-a-slime! ‘Cmon Nuvatt! I know you’re a moron, but you can do it! Fight it Nuvatt! Fight it!}

No sooner had she finished her little rant, Gahti found herself flying into the wall of the damaged hut.

{Touching as that was, Traitor, I have a job to do, and nothing, not even an ‘independent Bohrok’ is going to stand in my way. Now, if you don’t mind, I have to destroy you now.} The Krana had regained control, and now Evil-Nuvatt stepped closer to Gahti, before throwing another punch at her. Gahti ducked under it, and rolled up, both of her claws meeting those of Nuvatt’s.

{Nuvatt! Resist the thing, darnit! You can do it!} She grunted as she grappled with the Nuhvok.

{I’m sorry dear, but you’re sadly mistaken!} Evil-Nuvatt threw Gahti off, and into the wall of the hut again, before Nuvatt regained control.

{Gahti! The… the stupid Krana is right! I can’t resist that thing that easily! Gahti, get out of here! I don’t know what this thing is going to do with me, but I can’t control myself!}

Gahti pulled herself up, looking up at Nuvatt as he said this, his body walking forward. Gahti crouched down, before pushing herself up into the air and flipping over Nuvatt. Her claws met with Nuvatt’s with a ‘clang’ as he whirled around to block her attack.

{Nu-va-att!} She grunted, grappling with said Bohrok. {Yo-ou can do this!}

{No-o, I can’t! Leave while-you ca-an!}

{Nuvatt you cowardly lazy bum! Beat that darn Krana at its own game! I don’t want to hurt you!} The Gahlok shouted at the Nuhvok she was fighting with, edging slightly to the side.

{But this Krana wants to hurt you! AGH!} As soon as Nuvatt said this, Gahti found herself flying towards the old hut again, this time though, with a rip and a loud crashing noise, she flew right on through the wall.

She was vaguely aware of the other Gahlok’s chittering laughter, as Evil-Nuvatt spoke, his voice seemingly distant.

{Well, this was almost too easy. But what could I expect from a girl?}

Gahti’s mind seemed to distantly process the dull pain from being beaten so badly, the sensation of a hot liquid running down the side of her cheek where Nuvatt’s claw had met flesh, and the warm moisture leaking from her eyes. But one thing Gahti was processing, was thoughts.

How could she have let herself be beaten so easily? Why couldn’t Nuvatt win? How was she going to remove the Krana without hurting him? And… wait… did he just insult all girls?! And had she actually let him hit her?!

Almost mechanically, Gahti sat up, and glared at the Nuhvok in front of her. He paused in his laughing and gloating to look back at her.

{Oh, ready for more, are we?}

But now, Gahti couldn’t distinguish the difference between ‘Evil-Nuvatt’ and ‘Nuvatt’. She was looking at the Nuhvok, and rather than spotting the different looks on his face, she could only see one thing that mattered. The face of Nuvatt. The same Nuvatt that had called her name girly. The same Nuvatt who had yelled at her with no thoughts about her emotion. The same Nuvatt who had fought with her in the Gahlok caverns. The same Nuvatt that left her stuck in the side of that hut. The same Nuvatt that made her investigate that hut in the first place. And now, the same Nuvatt who had hit her, and, above all else, insulted the female species.

Vaguely, she felt her fangs shift from pointing upwards, to pointing downwards, but that did not matter to her now. What did matter, however, was kicking Nuvatt’s gears in the most effective and humiliating way possible.

{Alright then, I guess I-}The Nuhvok was cut off as he suddenly found himself flying into a hut. He looked up, startled at Gahti. Perhaps, behind the startled glance was the real Nuvatt… Or perhaps it was the Krana, surprised at Gahti’s retaliation. But, as mentioned before, that didn’t matter to the Gahlok, of who was now rushing towards the downed Bohrok, her primal instincts now fully taken over.

Nuvatt rolled to one side, trying to dodge Gahti’s attack. Well, it partially worked, as Gahti’s fin smashed into the hut wall where his head had been, but as soon as her fist connected to the structure, her foot wheeled around, and hit Nuvatt squarely in the side of the face. Nuvatt went sliding across the lily pad. He stopped around the middle, and tried to push himself up, but soon was forced down as Gahti landed on top of him, and began beating him ruthlessly with her claws.

{You-stupid-Nuhvok! You’ll-pay-for-everything! I’ll-beat-you-to-a-pulp-you-worthless-hunk-of-scrap-metal!!} Gahti screamed between blows and random obscenities. Evil-Nuvatt was now recovering from the initial shock of Gahti’s surprise counter-attack, and showed this by suddenly pushing himself up, catapulting Gahti over the hut he had been thrown into before.

Gahti scratched at the roof of the hut, trying to gain purchase on its passing surface, but failing, as she fell over the side. The form of Nuvatt appeared on the top of the hut, looking for Gahti. Said Gahlok was ready for him. As soon as he landed on the hut, Gahti shot a blast of water at him. Nuvatt leaped up, and pointed his claws at Gahti. However, nothing happened.

{Oh, right. No Gahlok, no water. How could I forget?} He muttered bitterly, before the flying form of Gahti connected with him. They both fell down towards the roof of the hut below them, and due to their weight, and the weakened leaves as a result of Gahti’s scratching, they both fell through, fighting all the way down. Nuvatt looked at Gahti as they both picked themselves off of the floor.

{Well, that’s a lot better, Traitor. It’s a pity I’ll have to destroy you, you’d really make a great addition t-} he was cut off as Gahti charged into him, her claws beating at his face. Then, Gahti could slightly feel her head lunge at Nuvatt, go over his head, her fangs hooking on to the edge of his head shield, the feeling of his shield snapping out, while her head snapping back, and finally, her head snapping out again, fangs impaling the Krana with a ‘spliss’ sound. The blob of gel-like substance faded into the Gahlok’s traditional shade of orange, though noticeably duller. Though this all took place in a matter of seconds, Gahti’s fists continued to pummel the sitting form of Nuvatt.

{Ow! Oww! Gahti! The Krana’s out! You can stop! You can stop! Ow!}

{I know! I know!} She hit Nuvatt a few more times, before stopping. There was a pause, before Nuvatt looked down.

{Gahti, I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean for any of that to happen! I-just-couldn’t control myself! All I could do was just watch! You don’t know what it’s like Gahti! Your body’s moving against your will! You’re doing things you don’t want to and its just-just-} Nuvatt sounded as though he was on the verge of tears. Gahti listened to his blubbering, with a flat expression, before punching him on the side of the face, hard.

{Get a hold of yourself, man!} She exclaimed in disgust. Nuvatt froze in his ‘post-punch’ position, before returning to normal and looking back at Gahti sheepishly.

{Eheh, sorry about that…}

{eh, its okay, I know you’re a wuss. So, what are we going to do about the rest of the Gahlok?}

{Um…} Nuvatt said, straining his mind for an answer or better yet, a plan. The two soon discovered that it was unnecessary as a Gahlok flew through the side of the hut, narrowly missing Nuvatt and Gahti, and colliding with the wall behind them. Nuvatt looked with wide eyes at the blue Bohrok as it slowly slid down the wall, orange stuff leaking out of its head-region as Gahti looked out of the hole that it had made.

{Hey, Nuvatt, I don’t think we’ll have to worry about that swarm anymore.} She said with a smile as Nuvatt walked up to join Gahti in looking out the hole in the hut.

Through the hole, the two Krana-less Bohrok could see three tall creatures, one blue, one black and one white, blasting and slashing the Gahlok down with various elemental powers and weapons.

{Eeehm, well, that’s nice Gahti, but how’dya know they’re not gonna do the same to us?}

{Um… Well, they saw me fight you, so-}

{Okay, so they know you’re probably on their side, but what about me?! According to them, Nuvatt is a bad person!}

{Nuvatt, for the love of…. Something, please never refer to yourself in third person again. And second, well, I have a negotiator…}

{Oh really. Who- GAH!} This last part was said as the tall figures finished off the last of the Gahlok, turned to Nuvatt and Gahti, and started to advance on them. The blue one was the closest, and looked like it was about strike when suddenly a smaller blue creature ran up in front of the taller and spoke in some language that neither Nuvatt or Gahti could understand.

{Phew, well, there we go, Nuvatt. There’s our negotiator.}

{Gahti, one problem: Its only a negotiator if they can understand what we’re saying too.}

{Gahti, is that black Bohrok with you?} Gahti’s ‘negotiator’ said, earning a ‘Gah’ from Nuvatt.

{Yeah, he’s okay, now that he doesn’t have a Krana.}

{It speaks our language?!}

{‘It’ is Turaga Nokama, Nuvatt, leader of the village, and also a girl. And if I guessed right, the tall blue thing behind her is Gali, Toa of Water and also, a girl.}

Nuvatt shook his head.

{Geez, no wonder you guys are all from GAH-Koro…}

There was a pause as Nokama smiled slightly, and Gahti looked at Nuvatt with disgust, before whacking him over the head.

{Ouch! Eheh, I guess I kinda deserved that, didn’t I?} Said the Nuhvok sheepishly. Gahti rolled her eyes, and walked over to the Gah-erm, I mean, Ga-Koronan Turaga.
Nuvatt sighed. 2 hours into his life, and already he’s had to go through all this? He shook his head and looked up at the sky. 2 hours. 2 hours already felt like a long time for him. Nuvatt sighed again, and looked over to Nokama and Gahti, who was waving for him to come over. Nuvatt went without question…

~*Later*~

Komali was sick and tired of this. He hated how his parents seemed to not care about him at all. They even forgot that his birthday was today! It was decided: Tonight, he would run away. He swung his seaweed pack over one shoulder, and pushed open his door a crack.
It was late at night in Ga-Koro. The celebration of the defeat of those creatures and the gaining of two allies was technically over, and his parents went to bed an hour ago. The blue Miru-wearing Matoran looked peeked around. The coast was clear. Shrugging his bag strap further up his shoulder, he slowly crept out of his room and down the stairs, barely making a sound. Carefully, he opened the front door of the hut, and slipped out into the night. Sighing with relief, he ran out, down the causeway, and onto the beach, smiling. Success!
He turned to walk out into the forest, towards a merchant’s path to Po-Koro. Maybe now, he could go on an adventure, and save the world or something, and become famous! Then his parents would be sorry about forgetting about him!
A glint of light from the branches of a tree in front of him caught his eye. Looking up, he saw what appeared to be a creature, much like the ones that had attacked Ga-Koro, ‘cept without the thing in its head, and it was all yellow. Even from where he was, he could clearly see the reflection of the night sky on its hand-claws, which were round, and looked like the tines of a spork, except razor sharp. Its lavender eyes seemed to glow softly as it looked up into the night sky.
“Er…” Komali murmured, backing up a bit. When the thing didn’t answer, he shrugged to himself and kept on walking.

“Where are you going on a night like this?” a cool, female voice asked. Komali felt a shiver as he turned around slowly. Other than the lonely-looking creature, there was no one behind him that could have talked. Slowly, he looked up, to see the lavender eyes fixed on him, the moon reflected on its head-plate.

“Uh...” He said into the silence, before gathering up his courage. A real adventurer wouldn’t be afraid in this situation! “I’m running away from my home! No one really cares about me, so I won’t be missed. I’m going to become famous, and make them sorry!”

The creature nodded slowly, before looking up and muttering.

“Home…”

It looked back down at Komali.

“And what is your name?” the voice was definitely female, and was definitely coming from the creature.

“Er, my name is Komali! What, may I ask, is your name?” said the little Matoran bravely.

“My name is unimportant, and it soon won’t matter, anyway. Is there a specific reason you’re running away?”

“Well... Generally my parents don’t seem to pay much attention… and they forgot that my birthday was today! So I figure if they want to just totally forget about me, I’ll make their job easier.”

The creature nodded sagely. “How do you know they forgot? Perhaps they were just planning something else… like a grand surprise party? I think it would very much disappoint them if you weren’t there for your own birthday celebration.”

Komali was about to respond, but then he stopped and thought a moment. This creature had a point… It would be kind of embarrassing if he left before his own party...

He looked back at the creature, who had gone back to staring at the sky, an aura of sadness around her. He was about to say more, when a blink of light from the corner of his eye drew his attention away. It had come from the branches of a tree beside the one with the creature, but instead of another bug-like thing, there was a—
Komali gasped, his eyes widening.

“Mira!” The new figure said. “I thought I told you to stay where you were, and not interact with anyone here!”

The creature, or ‘Mira’ as called by this newcomer, stayed silent for a moment, before answering.

“Sorry mistress.”

The new being sighed.

“Wait a minute! Who are you!” Komali said, pointing at the figure in the trees.

“In a moment, it won’t matter.” There was another flash of light, and…

…Komali was sick and tired of this. He hated how his parents seemed to not care about him at all. They even forgot that his birthday was today! It was decided: Tonight, he would run away. He swung his seaweed pack over one shoulder, and pushed open his door a crack.
It was late at night in Ga-Koro. The celebration of the defeat of those creatures and the gaining of two allies was technically over, and his parents went to bed an hour ago. The blue Miru-wearing Matoran looked peeked around. The coast was clear. Shrugging his bag strap further up his shoulder, he slowly crept out of his room, but stopped as he thought he saw a glint of light… like it was reflected from somewhere behind him. He turned around. Nothing. Strangely enough, the reflected light reminded him of something… What exactly, he couldn’t remember, but whatever it was somehow made him feel… better…
Suddenly, there was a cough from his Parents room, and he jumped, knocking over a hall table. The table clattered loudly, gaining an exclamation from the main bedroom, and he was forced to dash back to his room, before he was caught. Throwing his bag in one corner, he dove into bed and closed his eyes to fake sleep as he heard footsteps in the hall. Any time now, they’d return to their room, and Komali would be able to escape. Yep. Any time now… Any… time… Komali’s thoughts were slowed as he drifted off.

The next day, Komali was thrown a surprise party, much to his surprise, and he had a great time with his friends and family, and realized that he had been mistaken in thinking that his parents didn’t care about him, when in fact, they very much did, especially to have taken this much time and effort for him.

From shore, hidden from view in the bushes, one of two figures nodded. A job well done…
~*~*~*~

Finally! Another chapter! Credit goes to my Dad for telling me what tines are, and to Kendarath for giving me a randomly picked mask, and to my loyal reviewers (You are loyal, right?)
Oh, yes, and free points given to the one who tells me where a certain character name is from in this chapter! Oh, and whoever can tell me what problem the Kohrok has can win a non-existent cookie too… I guess…

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This post has been edited by Koolsnowball: May 31 2005, 05:59 PM