The Past of the Toa

The Past of the Toa is a fan fiction story of the Toa Mata's past before going into Toa Canisters. It was written by Toatapio Nuva on Bzpower many years ago, somewhere around 2005. By the time it was written, the author was younger and not very skilled in writing so there may be a few spelling mistakes. But nevertheless, enjoy!

Prologue
Toa Nuva had their past... as Toa. Toa Metru had their past... as Matoran. But even Toa (olda) have their past! But what is their past? Were they Matoran? Were did they came from? How did they end to the canisters? If you're interested... read!

And don't only thank me for the story! Takutanuva reincartament and Jade Warrior (members of Bzpower at the time) have helped me in making this story with brilliant ideas!

Chapter 1
Long time ago... at the time before time... when the was new...  were new... ... and the. Toa Metru, a mysterious word, by any means, but an even greater meaning, Toa Metru, a word to strike fear into evils heart... But in Metru-Nui the Toa Metrus were Matoran changed by s! Even ... But how about the ?

At the same time when Metru-Nui was born... the great spirit thought of six new Toa. He went to work them. He found the greatest and noblest pieces he could find... and gave each one of them elemental powers. Fire, water, earth, stone, ice and air. "May Tahu protect the Matoran from beasts!" the great spirit said. "And he shall be like fire in his personality! May Gali heal the Matoran with her water powers! Her personality shall be like water... and girl! May Onua protect the Matoran from earthquakes and other problems with earth! His personality shall be like earth itself! May Pohatu protect the Matoran from collapsing things! His personality shall be like a stone! May Kopaka protect the Matoran from avalanches! His personality shall be like the ice! May Lewa protec the Matoran from wind and flying beasts! His personality shall be as the air!" The great spirit had made six more Toa... and they were born to be Toa. They didn't started being Matoran! They were very skilled. But great spirit left out their masks and tools. The Toa should find them themselves!

Chapter 2
The great spirit woked six new Toa. The Toa woke up. "You are Toa", the great spirit said. "The ones who will gather fear to evils heart with only when your name is called. The ones who shall do anything that the light and hapiness will stay." "But... who are we?" asked. "I told you", the great spirit said. "But you must find your own... and united way yourself!" Tahu was mixed up. He didn't understand what the great spirit meant. But then his thoughts changed. He saw 5 other Toa waking up. was strait away starting to speak and discuss where they came from but Tahu didn't listen. Then the great spirit spoke again. "But you aren't warriors without skills, tools, masks... and first of all... . These you shall learn! You will have to find them! Your first task is to find your masks! . You will have to search the island of masks, Kanohi-Nui and gather all six." Then the great spirit vanished and a huge doorway opened.

"This maybe leads to the Kanohi-Nui island" Gali said. "I wont go anywhere until I know who you and I are!" Tahu started to argue but stopped him. "The great spirit said that we must find and learn these things by owrselves. Let's just call us by our colours until that." Tahu was again about to shout but it was 5 againts 1 so Tahu realized it was no use. The new Toa went throught the door and saw the beautiful Kanohi-Nui. There were 6 districts. "I think that in each of the district there's a mask", said and others agreed. Toa went down and started to talk. "Where do we start kanohisearching?" asked. "Let's do it in order" said. Again everyone agreed. This place is first of all full of statues and stones", Gali said. The Toa started to search. They went throught the statues and peeked from every hole. "Nothing", Kopaka sighed. Then something started to happen.

The earth started to crack and out peeked baddies heads. The monsters were giant rats. "Brothers! Prepare for your first fight!" Gali shouted. "But we don't have our masks, tools or anything else yet!" Kopaka shouted. Giant Rats attacked. Their tales were covered in spikes and their teeth were marmor. Tahu was glad to show his skills. He jumped on one of the rats but it hit Tahu with it's tail and Tahu fell of. Others now became to fight. But it seemed impossible. The rats were really strong. Then Gali remembered something. Unity!

"With unity we can fight these beasts!" Gali shouted. "Or maybe just hush them away!" "Yes of course! Even we don't have our powers we still can hush them away!" Pohatu shouted. The 6 Toa went ina row and started to run towards the rats. Rats were scared of so big army (well, they thought 6 were much) and ran away. "It worked!" Onua shouted. "But we still haven't found our masks yet", Kopaka said. "Then we must continue our search!"

Chapter 3
The Toa were searching a Kanohi mask from a place on the island Kanohi-Nui were there were lots of statues and stone every where. On some places there were also sand. Gali being only girl was worried of her appearance without a mask to cover her ugly face. Tahu wasn't interested of finding masks or tools. He was thinking about other Toa all the time and wasn't sure to trust them or not. The one who searched the most was Onua. He could easily pick up the statues and other substances of the way to look if mask was hidden under statues. Lewa was worried of his treespeak. He feared others would leave him when a danger was near because of that. But the Toa didn't know themselves very well. It easily brought that kinds of thoughts into their mind. Still they continued the search.

Suddenly Pohatu heard something and whispered to other Toa "Someone or something is walking on the top of that statue." "What could it be?" Gali asked nervously. "Mabe someone is just cliffbounded there", Lewa said. "I go and look", Gali said. She was able to climb better that others because of her blue claws. But suddenly something smashed the statue and Gali fell down. "Sister!" Kopaka shouted as the statues pieces fell over helpless Gali. Kopaka charged to help his sister but then suddenly a Toa jumped down.

However it wasn't a Toa of their group. The Toa was Toa of Jealousy. Suddenly the Toa just stood up and ran to Tahu. Before Tahu could react the Toa said "Hey, isn't it bad that Onua has those cool claws but you havn't." Tahu suddenly started to become so jealous of Onua claws that he ran and tried to take them from Onua. They started to fight and the Toa just continued. "Hey, hasn't Pohatu got so cool feet. You should have something like that too" the Toa whispered on Kopakas ear. Soon the Toa of ice was battling with Pohatu. Now the Toa was charging towards Lewa. Suddenly a strong wind came and it unabled the Toa to get any more close to Lewa. then the wind came stronger and stronger until it took the Toa of jealously and threw smashed him onto a statue. Of that smash the statues front wall crashed and inside there was a grey mask. "I-I can rule the air... and the wind!" said Lewa. "And can I... no. Im still treebound." The fighting Toa suddenly stopped fighting. "W-What were I doing?" Kopaka wondered. "We are brothers!" "Hey brothers, I'm the Toa of air!" Lewa shouted happily. "And look!" Onua shouted. "Theres a mask!"

The Toa charged to the mask. Gali, who had got from the pile of pieces picked it up. "But... who shall take this mask?" she asked. On the statue there was text. The Toa read it. "Kanohi Pakari, the great mask of strength." "Could I take it?" Onua asked. "I would want to... get... more strength." "Ok, here you go", Gali said and handed the mask to Onua. Tahu was angry. He thought the mask of power would belong to him. "Look!" Pohatu shouted. "Theres an odd door." The Toa saw a doorway leading toa swampy place with lots of trees and insects. The Toa went through the door hoping another mask to be there. Suddenly they saw a ... and a mask was stuck on it's tail!

Chapter 4
Comeon Toa!" Lewa shouted. "Lets quickcatch that monkeycreature and get that mask!" Toa started to run after Brakas but the vines and trees along with lush bushes and swamps slowed them too much. Soon the Brakas was gone. "Ow, how can we now get the next mask?" Pohatu moaned. Onua was just looking at his mask proudly. "We must find that creature again", Kopaka said. "It's our only hope to succeed in quest 2." Toa began to crawl under the roots and other plants. But then Tahu went away. No one didn't recognize it because of the lush jungle. Tahu started then to run. He didn't know why but maybe he didn't trust to others. He wanted to catch the creature before them so he would be safe from them. But suddenly roots that weren't in the ground began to wobble. Trees suddenly started to fall! Tahu ran for his life. It seemed as the nature would be againts him. Soon the vines started to move and tried to grab Tahu. Tahu dodged. All the plants and trees suddenly tried to get Tahu. Tahu was terrified. Then, a big hole appeared to the ground and the poor Tahu fell in. He bumbed his head and fainted.

Meanwhile, other Toa had terrible time trying to get forward. "This doesn't work!" Pohatu shouted. "And even if we could find that creature, we'll never able to catch it!" "We have to find a way", Gali said. Suddenly they felt the ground shaking. "W-What's this?" Kopaka wondered. Soon the trees started to crack and collapse. Then the grass turned into spikes and bushes started to move towards the Toa. Vines came alive too and trees continued falling. "Look out brothers!" Gali shouted and jumped to a tree that hadn't fallen yet. "I will airblow these creatures away!" Lewa shouted. He summoned the wind and the bushes were out of the game. But his wind didn't work for vines, trees or spikes. All the Toa jumped to the tree. But then Gali slipped and fell. "Sister!" Kopaka shouted. Suddenly the earth began to shake again and the spikes sank into the ground. Gali fell on soft moss. Onua had just discovered his powers. "How lucky you are, you have mask and elemental power already", Pohatu said. "Phiuf! That was close!" Gali said. "But... wheres Tahu!?" But before they could even think about it the vines continued with trees.

Chapter 5
The whole forest was againts Toa. And soon the tree where all the Toa except Gali were, threw the Toa (except Gali) far away. "Brothers!" Gali shouted. She was now alone in a forest of living trees and vines... and she even didn't have any powers of her yet. However Gali was flexible and could jump great distances and her defence was great along with dodging. But she couldn't hide or escape the vines and trees. She would have to fight until death. The vines attacked. But then Gali took hold of one of them with her hook and cut it. Then she started to climb a tree that hadn't fell yet. That was her worst mistake so far. Tree started to shake and slammed Gali to the ground.

"W-Where am I?" Tahu wondered. "What has happened?" All was dark around him. He couldn't see anything. Suddenly two lights shut on. Tahu saw two altars. In other one there was one of his Toa fellows... made of rock, and that statue showed Toa fellow to be in danger. At the other altar there was a mask... golden mask! Suddenly two paths appeared, one going to the other altar and one to the other. Then the statue of helpless Toa... came alive! And suddenly also a Rahi appeared and it fought the Toa fellow. Tahu didn't know however that it was really a hologram shown by the great spirit. "Well, I guess I have to save him even I don't know how he got here", Tahu said. "But first I guickly take the mask..." Tahu ran to the altar where the golden mask was. Suddenly when Tahu touched to the mask, the floor began to shake. Then glowing eyes appeared in the darkness and they came towards him. Then even more eyes appeared... the had came!

Meanwhile other Toa had flew into a strange place. "Look!" Kopaka shouted when they had all awaken. He showed his fellows an intresting window. That was a strange gateway to their next island after Kanohi-Nui... Toatool-Nui. "Toa- tool- Nui" Onua read from a sign written over the window. "Strange name." "How do we get there?" Lewa asked. "Maybe we must first collect all the masks from different reagons from this island", Pohatu said. "Yes, of course!" Onua said. "But where's Gali... and Tahu had disappeared too", Kopaka asked in wonder. But soon they heard crackle from the bushes. "Look!" Lewa shouted. "It's the monkeybrakas!"

Chapter 6
"Brothers, don't let it escape!" Pohatu shouted. The Toa ran after Brakas. It continued deeper into the forest and soon the plants and trees blocked the sun so it became extremely dark. "Wh-Where did it go?" Kopaka asked. "Wait!" Onua said. "I-I see in the dark. It's dark even then but still..." "Well, where did that sillymonkeyBrakas go then?" Lewa asked. "There!" Onua shouted. All the Toa (exept Onua who went flat when the Toa rushed over him) ran after Brakas. But then suddenly a cage banged over them. Then the cage started to sink into the ground. Soon it was gone... as well as the other Toa. "Brothers!" Onua shouted being only one on the surfice. "NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!".

Meanwhile Gali awoke and then wished to be in dream again. She was stuck snd couldn't move. "W-What is this?" she asked. Then she realized that she was in a cocoon. The cocoon was tightly closed and Gali was inside. She felt pain and tried to get off but she couldn't do anything. Suddenly she saw spider like creatures in the trees. "W-What are those?" Gali wondered. Then Gali saw something else coming. It was the Brakas! And it still had the Kanohi mask on it's tail. Suddenly the spiders started to throw spinners at it. Brakas screamed and dodged every single spinner. Then it rushed deep into the forest with speed of lightning. Spiders followed. Suddenly Gali fell to the ground. One of the spinners had broke it and now Gali was free. "I have to find that monkey! Those spiders might hurt it and get the mask. I think that they really want it", Gali said and rushed to the woods.

Meanwhile other Toa were captured in a jail. It was dark around them, and rats were only living beings after Toa. "How can we get out? We don't have our masks even yet", Pohatu sighed. "I have my wind powers, don't forget!" Lewa shouted. "They will not help us here", Kopaka said. Suddenly they heard someone coming. "Who might that be?" Pohatu asked. They soon found out. "Tahu!" all Toa shouted in amazement. "W-What do you have on your face?" "You foolish little Toa shall die!" Tahu shouted. Other Toa were amazed. "Hey, please what is this?" Pohatu became nervous. "Nothing, just some killing..." Tahu answered. "Hey be good and let us out of here!" Kopaka said. "Good? Im now a part of the swarm, we will destroy anything on our path! And no-one will remain!" Tahu shouted. Then all colours of eyes appeared in the darkness and they came closer and closer until the Toa could see them. "And in that jail you don't have a place to hide or to escape!" Tahu shoutede and started to laugh. "Beware brothers!" Lewa shouted. The Bohrok started to shoot their powers at Toa in the jail. They didn't have a place to hide but enough room to dodge. The Toa dodged Bohroks elements but became tired soon. However they then got hope of surviving. One Lehvak accidently shot acid on bars. They smelted and the Toa quickly ran. They did a huge jump over the swarms and ran towards a place with light. "There must be an exit!" Pohatu shouted. "We'll soon be out!" But the whole swarm was after them, and Tahu was leading the way. The Toa got out in time! But then something hit Pohatu and he fell to the ground with the thing that had crashed to him. Brakas!

Chapter 7
"Brakas! Capture it!" shouted Kopaka. Pohatu grabbed Brakas and pulled the mask of it's tail. But suddenly they head Tahu again "Bohrok! Capture them!" The brakas got scared and ran away. However, Pohatu had tooken the mask of it and was ready to put it on, when a Nuhvok made an earthquake. Pohatu dropped the mask, and Bohrok were trying to get it! But then Kopaka took it and put it on. This one is now my mask! Kopaka soon realized how the mask worked. He could see closer, and through things. He suddenly realized that there were little odd things inside Bohroks faceplates. "What could those be? Hey, I know! The Bohrok use them to control others! A same kind of a thing is on Tahus head too! If I only could get it off..." But soon Kopaka heard other Toa shouting in horror. The Tahnok had putten the forest on fire! And it had surrounded all the Toa, even Kopaka himself! Lewa tried to blow the fire away with his great air powers but they just feeded the fire. But suddenly a huge wave of water splashed on the fire and the burning stopped. "Gali!" Kopaka shouted. "Yes, I have the power of water..." Gali said. " I was following that Brakas but I lost it. And then I saw you in trouble and realized my powers, so I saved you. "We got that stupidmonkey already and Kopaka has that hardtogetmask." "I can zoom with it and see through things", Kopaka said proudly. But then Tahu came with the swarm of Bohrok. "You fools stopped the mighty fire but lets see whos the winner in the end..." "Tahu, you can't destroy your friends. You just can't do it." Gali broke Tahus speech. "You maybe have that strange thing on your face and have changed into a baddie but you are still Toa in your heart. And that heart is behing that spooky thing." With these words Kopaka jumped on Tahu and ripped the Krana off. Tahu soon became to his senses. While that, the Toa fought the Bohrok, and with Galis wave and Lewas wind, the Bohrok lost and disappeared from the place. "Well, we've found the mask and fought out enemies", Kopaka said. Now it's time to get to another place. Suddenly a door appeared in front of them. Meanwhile, another door appeared in front of the Onua who was far away from others. All the Toa went through a door and met in another place, full of volcanoes and lava. Then, those spider like creatures appeared in Galis mind. Now she knew why they wanted the Brakas. Because of the mask of course. But will they appear again, searching for their masks? And what if they would get one or more?

Chapter 8
"Well, where are we now?" asked Kopaka. "I don't know but this place is pulling me like a magnet", Tahu said. Toa had went through two parts of the island named Kanohi-ui to search for their masks. They had faced many adventures and collected two Kanohi from the parts they had visited. Now Lewa was maskeless but had found his elemental powers, sane with Gali, Onua had both his mask and elemental owers, Pohatu had nothing, Kopaka had his mask and Tahu had nothing. Now they were on a place with lots of volcanoes and lava.

The 6 Toa started walking and searching for the mask. "Ooh, it's too hot in here!" moaned Kopaka. "Same thing here!" Gali said. She was splashing herself with water but the heat was too great for her. And even he doesn't know it, Kopaka is the Toa of ice so he was feeling quite bad also. "Don't sadworry, I'll cool you with some coldair!" Lewa said and made little wind for the two egsosted (I don't know how to write this, sorry) Toa. But it didn't help. Gali and Kopaka fainted and fell. "Oh dear, oh dear!" Lewa shouted. Onua and Pohatu ran and took Gali and Kopaka to their arms. "Oh no, this heat is too much for them!" shouted Onua. "Tahu, do you know how to heal them? Tahu? TAHU?" Onuas shouting did nothing. Tahu was far away, leading hiomself into dangers.

Tahu was jumping faaaaaaaar away from the other, in the forest of volcanoes. In the place where he jumped happily was a LARGE llava lake and little lava rivers surrended the area, Tahu was jumping in. He had jumped over the lakes. And he had discovered, he loves lava and fire! "I don't know why but here I feel great!" he shouted to himself. "I could LIVE here!" Tahu started to climb happily onto one volcanoe, next to the place he was jumping in. When he was at the top, he looked down into the crator. "Wow, this is so great... it's just... beautiful... I... Would like to... live there... jump... there... stay forever..." Suddenly Tahu tripped on a little stone under his leg and fell into the crator! "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!"

Meanwhile Lewa, Onua and Pohatu tried to wake Kopaka and Gali. Lewas cooling wind didn't work for them and Onua and Pohatu didn't know how to wake them. Suddenly Pohatu got an idea. "Hmm, heat made them faint didn't it?" Pohatu said. "Well, yes", Onua said. "Lets take them to the jungle place where we visited few minutes ago. They might wake there", Pohatu said. "Goodwell idea brother! I lovelike that place!" Lewa shouted. The Toa step through the door again and where in the jungle again. But now everyone came to the place where Onua had got to th other part. The Toa now started to awake the two fainted Toa but the jungle area didn't seem to help much. They needed water somewhere and quickly! But they weren't in the water place yet and it was hard to find a pond in a jungle! The Toa were in serious trouble. The two fainted Toas heartlights started to lose their light, reaaaally slowly, but still it was dangerous. They were had to be awaken or...

The two Toa were in danger, Others didn't know what to do, and Tahu was falling towards his doom! What will happen to the Toa? Read the next chapter when it appears!

Chapter 9
"Why does this happen to me? Did they made me only that I could die? Is this my destiny?" Tahu thought sadly and horrified. He was falling towards lava. He was very close, he would soon absorb to lava... "JYSKIS!" Tahu slolely opened his eyes. Something had stopped him falling. Tahu elt pain in his back. He opened his eyes and realized that he was sitting on a rock in the middle of the lava lake in the volcano. "Th-thanks great spirit", said Tahu.

Tahu didn't panic anymore but Onua and Pohatu... and Lewa had to. Kopakas and galis heartlights were getting darker and the 3 standing Toa could do nothing. "Oh no, we soon have to say goodbye to Gali and Kopaka..." Onua said sadly. But suddely lights flashed on Gali and Kopaka from the skyes. Soon it became extremely bright and Toa could see only white light everywhere. Then the great spirit came before them and said: "I'll give you only a one chance. This is the last thing I help you with. Now on you'll have to survive on your own." Suddenly the great spirit vanished, and the two fainted Toa started to wake up. Their heartlights were glowing bright again. "Uhh, what happened?" Gali asked weakly. "The great spirit... helped us", Pohatu said. "But remember what he said Pohatu! We shall be careful, we now don't have the great spirits protection. We must survive on our own", Onua said. "Let's go back to that hotplace and quick-find Tahu", Lewa said and was heading towards the gate that led to the volcano place. "NO!" Kopaka shouted. "I'll never go to that place again!" "But we must", said Gali. "I'll cool us with my elemental powers and do my best to stay consisuos." "Well, then we have to go...", said Kopaka disappointed. He hated the place with volcanoes and lava.

Meanwhile Tahu had realized that the rock was floating on the lava. And it had brought him into a dark cave with lava. He still couldn't get off and was headed deeper still. Tahu wasn't quite pleased with that. " " He was now very deep, but saw something. It was a mask! It looked like a laughing face, but it was still a mask! Tahu was interested. He could now get a mask on his face. But how could he get it? The mask was on a wall of the cave, Tahu couldn't sail there and he was going deeper, soon go beside of the mask and lost it. Tahu was a fire tempered and still is. And his courage amount is large. Tahu decided to take a risk. He would jump fro the rock, pull the mask quickly from the wall and trust to his luck. He did so when he was just beside the mask. He quickly grabbed on the mask, that made him stay on the wall. Now he was pulling it hard. Tahu soon got the mask off, and quickly placed the maskon his face. "Uhh, ohh..." said Tahu when he started to fall again to the lava but something stopped him. It wasn't a rock this time. Tahu realized that he was floating in the air! (You propably know that the mask of levitation belonged to Lewa when the Toa arrived. Don't let it confuse you, you'll find out how the mask changed wearer) "This is great!" Tahu shouted. Luck had really been with him. But when he thought about if the mask wouldn't be the mask of levittion... ohh! It wouldn't have been so healthy to him. But he was now floating in the air! But how could he get off?

Chapter 10
“Uh, what can I do?” thought Tahu horrified. He was floating above lava with Miru in a lava cave which had only the lava stream and walls along with roof. Tahu couldn’t grab anything. He was of course save when floating above the deadly lava but he couldn’t do anything else. He was trapped there.

Meanwhile other Toa had returned to the lava place and were searching for Tahu. Gali cooled herself and Kopaka with her water powers in every two minutes so they wouldn’t collapse. “Taahuu!” all the Toa shouted together. “Where could he have gone?” asked Gali. “I dunno”, Lewa said. “He just quick-went on adventures of his own while we explored…” The Toa continued searching for Tahu. But in the shadows a pair of eyes… or millions of pairs of eyes watched them as they went.

Tahu was giving up hope. “So this is my doom…” he talked to himself. But suddenly he saw his chance. Another rock was passing by him. Tahu didn’t think for too long, he quickly inactivated his Miru and landed on the rock. But Tahus troubles weren’t over. The rock moved deeper and deeper to the cave. And the deeper it went the faster it went too. Soon the speed was really great! Suddenly Tahu saw a pillar on the front of him! The rock and him smashed on the pillar. Pillar broke into pieces but Tahu and the rock remaind. The pieces of the pillar however fell on Tahus head and he fainted. He was now going so fast that it was his luck to be unconsisuous. The rock went faster and faster and faster and faster and faster… until it slowed down and stopped. It had flowed to a large lake of lava inside a crater. Tahu was still unconsisuous. Soon the volcano started to shake and thunder. The volcano was errupting! The lava lake grew bigger and Tahu, lying on the rock was going up… KAPOOOOOOOOOOOOOMMMMMM!!!!!!!!!! The volcano errupted and send Tahu far away from the volcano and others.

Other Toa saw the erruption too but didn’t realize Tahu flying away. But the eyes in the shadows who had followed the Toa saw it and changed their pray. They ran and started to find Tahu. The other Toa saw them. “Those spiders!!!!!!!” Gali shouted. And more she couldn’t say cause the Visorak ran over them! It made the others unconsisuous too.

Chapter 11
The Toa woke up in the field of volcanoes. “W-What happened?” asked Gali. “Those spiders ran over us”, Kopaka explained. “But they didn’t have any interest to us.” “AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” Toa suddenly heard. “Th-That was Tahus voice!” Onua shouted. “Lets go!” Pohatu shouted. The 5 Toa ran towards the sound. Suddenly they found Tahu, he was wearing a mask and looked like he would laugh. But he wasn’t. He was battling the Visorak. “He has already quick-find that mask!” Lewa shouted. “But why hadn’t doors opened?” Gali thought. Suddenly Onua got an idea how to win the Visorak. He digged down to the Earth. He went below one big volcano and started to shake the ground. Soon the volcano errupt exploding. “Beware brothers!” Pohatu shouted. All the Toa jumped away from the lava but Visorak just stared and soon they were burried in lava. “Huh, that was good quick-thinking Onua”, Lewa said. Suddenly the door to next district opened. “Well, you have found a mask then”, Gali said. “And I’ll never go away on my own”, Tahu said sadly. “I found out that together we are strong.” “That’s good!” Gali said happily to her brother.

Chapter 12
The Toa stepped through the door to the water place. They were on a beach. The beach was long, same kind as Ga-Koros and ahead the Toa, there was the great sea. Althought there were some little islands as well, and some big water-lillys where the Toa could stand on. The place looked quite lifeless on the land and up. “Where could the mask be here?” Tahu asked mixed up. “This is just a dead land with sand and water.” “Hmm, how about underwater?” thought Gali. She dipped her head into the water and looked amazed. The dry land seemed to be lifeless but underwater things were different. It buzzed with life. Millions of fish species swam there, the great plants with grew in the water like seaweed blocked some little caves that were inside stones, and there lived more and more fish species… Gali couldn’t breath! Of course she was now underwater without any waterbreathing mask but the underwaterworld was the thing that made her breathless even on dry land. “Brothers, the sea is full of life!” Gali shouted to her brothers. “Then, maybe the mask should be somewhere there!” Pohatu shouted but felt some sort of sickness too. “Hmm, I don’t know if I like that stuff a lot…” Tahu said and felt some sort of sickness too. “Oh, come on! Let’s swim and find that mask!” Gali tried. In the end Gali, Kopaka, Lewa and Onua went swimming and Pohatu stayed on th beach with Tahu. They decided to search there.

Gali was the best swimmer of 6 Toa. She realized how quickly she could go through the waters and felt like her home. She had already seeked her elemental power and that helped her in her search. Suddenly she saw many glowing eyes far away in the water but couldn’t see who’s eyes were they. But suddenly she felt she wouldn’t even want to know. A Gahlok swarm was heading towards her. Gali got scared and swam for her life. But the Gahlok were fast in the water. They were soon on Gali and tried to attach a Krana to her. But Gali put all her powers and fought againts the mighty Bohrok. Gali tried to open their faceplates cause she know that the Krana were the powersource of the Bohrok. She had find this out in the jungle place were Tahu had got one on his face. But the headplates were too tightly locked. Suddenly she accidently hit on one Bohroks eye, the faceplate went open and Krana flew out! Now Gali knew Bohroks most vulnerabity part. With her hooks, she easily smacked on Bohroks eyes, causing the Krana to sink into the deepest parts of the sea. But suddenly Gali felt sickness too. She couldn’t breath! She tried to swim up but the remaining Bohrok took hold of her legs. And the air was running out!

Onua was diving to very bottom of the sea, but felt something hard. The waterpressure was so high that Onua couldn’t swim any deeper. He continued swimming in the level of deepness he was now, trying to look for a mask. But he was son encountered by a fearsome sea monster, the Tarakava. Onua already had his mask and Tarakava tried to smash it off with it’s fists. But Onua was a powerful Toa of Earth with his mask, elemental powers and claws. He took hold of Tarakavas fist and pulled it with all his might. Tarakava tried to swam away and one of it’s hands ripped of. The Tarakava screamed in pain but hit Onua with his another fist. Onua also shouted in pain. But Onua was a bold Toa and continued fighting. He saw a mask on the Tarakava and swam to it. He took and ripped the mask off. Tarakava suddenly calmed and swam away.