Bionicle: Legends of Earth
Prologue
Matoro couldn't believe it.
Here he floated, drifting in the poisonous waters of the pit, having fought tooth and nail to save the fabled Kanohi Ignika from the Piraka, Brutaka, the Barraki, Hydraxon, Makuta; who now posessed an ancient robot guard called Maxilos, and countless other creatures that had been guarding it, only to find that all of it, all that he had struggled against and worked for, was now resting in his arms; dull, grey, and crumbling from the poison of the Pit.
The Kanohi Ignika was destroyed.
Mata Nui was dead.
Matoro didn't hear the other Toa Mahri as they swam up to him, asking him why he had left them behind. He didn't notice the deadly silence that had fallen over the group as they realized why he wasn't answering them. He didn't even notice that in their mourning, The Barraki, the warlords that first attempted to usurp the great spirit Mata Nui, had caught up to them. And they wanted the Kanohi Ignika more than they had wanted anything in their long, thousand-year lifetimes.
Then, just when things couldn't get any worse; as the Toa Mahri, sans Matoro, prepared to fight off the ancient warlords, something amazing happened.
The Kanohi Ignika began to glow once more.
It quickly captured the attention of the Toa and the Barraki, the glow increasing in brightness and quickly climbing to blinding levels. All who saw it turned away, so as to not lose their eyesight from its brilliance. All except Matoro, who couldn't tear his eyes away from the white light no matter how hard he tried.
Eventually, the sheer power behind the light that the mask released overwhelmed them all; and one by one, they fell into a deep slumber, falling to the seafloor, and sinking into the soft sand.
When the light faded, the sea was as empty and as bleak as it had been before the Toa and Barraki had arrived.