This is something I've had on my imaginary to-do pile for almost a year now. It features the Toa Nuva as the main characters, only their human and have (mostly) all got married and have had/are having kids now. I've spent ages thinking of family relations and everything, so I hope I get to give them all a mention. If it gets too confusing then I'll put the list up, heh heh.

Anyway, *ahem*.

It has been five years since Makuta was defeated by his brother, Mata Nui, and Spherus Magna is enjoying a time of peace and happiness. Can this peace last forever? Or will ancient evil find its way back?

Prologue

"Come on, Gali, one last push!" Tahu cried excitedly as he clutched his wife's hand. He'd waited nine months for this, and hell, had it been a bad pregnancy for poor Gali.

"I can't do it, Tahu," Gali whimpered, her long brown hair was plastered to her face with sweat. She was pale and obviously very ill.

"Don't be silly, of course you can. Come on now," Tahu soothed, stroking hair out of his wife's eyes.

"Mrs Pyro, one last push and your baby will be here," the Ga-Matoran midwife said.

"I'm not going to make it, Tahu," Gali moaned.

"Um, shouldn't we be at the hospital with Tahu and Gali right now?" Onua asked, tentatively. Pohatu huffed as he put down a heavy box of his sports trophies.

"It's not my fault that Gali decided to go into labour at the same time as I planned to move into the new apartment!" the Toa of Stone joked to his older brother. "Don't worry, Onua. We'll just bring in the last few boxes and then head down right away."

Kopaka stepped in with a box of trainers and football shoes. "Tahu doesn't deserve the life he has. That massive house, a baby… Gali…" The last part he said too quietly for his cousins to hear.

"That dog he has ain't so bad, either," Pohatu laughed, only to be served one evil glare by Kopaka.

"I'm not going to make it, Tahu."

"Yes you are, our baby's nearly here now," Tahu told her, not truly listening to what she was saying.

"I know, I mean that I-I… AAAAARGH!" Gali screamed in pain as the baby finally arrived.

"Congratulations, Toa Tahu, it's a girl," the midwife said, cleaning the baby before wrapping it in a blanket and handing it to the father.

"That's the last box," Pohatu said, dusting off his hands. "Let's go, quickly, or we'll miss the exciting bit!"

"Pohatu, you're too squeamish to stand in a room where a woman's giving birth! You run when Onua has a nosebleed," Kopaka snarled, not trying to be funny in the least.

"I haven't had a nosebleed in years!" the Earth Toa moaned.

"Not since he looked through that sports magazine I showed him when we were teenagers," Pohatu chuckled to Kopaka, who just sighed and looked out of the window.

"It's raining now," he said emotionlessly.

"Yuck," Pohatu moaned, reaching for an umbrella sticking out of a nearby box.

"She's beautiful! Gali, look at her, our little baby girl," he cooed, showing her to Gali.

"Varita…" Gali whispered, closing her eyes.

"Gali? GALI!" Tahu screamed. The heart rate monitor went blank.

"I'm sorry, sir, but… your wife has died."

"No…"

This was, perhaps, the worst time for the three youngest males in the Albus family to step in. Upon seeing the pale, dead form of Gali, Pohatu, Onua and Kopaka rushed forth and began bustling around the hospital bed, yelling and shouting, demanding to know what had happened. A bunch of Ga-Matoran nurses rushed in and tried to calm the three Toa. Kopaka allowed himself to be pulled away with ease, which only allowed Onua and Pohatu more room to cry and yell whilst bent over the dead woman. The Ice Toa heard a soft sniffling behind him – Tahu. He turned and back handed the Fire Toa, who was thrown across the room.

"This is your fucking fault!" he yelled, running forward to kick the Fire Toa in the gut. Tahu refused to defend himself, and Kopaka my well have seriously hurt him if his cousins didn't pull him off the weeping Toa of Fire.

"Get Doctors Calder and Pyro immediately!" the midwife called to two of the nurses. They were off in a shot and back before long, the two senior doctors close behind them.

Doctor Calder, who just so happened to be Gali's mother, Tyra Calder, saw the scene and burst into tears. The other doctor, Nokama Pyro, rushed to her son and hefted him off the floor. Tahu buried his face into her shoulder and continued to cry, shoulders shaking violently, the baby still clutched tightly in his arms.

"Hand her to me, Tahu, I don't want her to get hurt," she said soothingly to her son as she gently eased her granddaughter out of his arms. Kopaka looked ready to strike Tahu again, lurching forwards. He managed to hold himself back, however, when he saw the little girl.

And when his eyes met hers, he knew a part of Gali was still with them, however small it was.

Well, there ya have it, the prologue of my new story - reviesed already, despite only having been written for the first time just yesterday, heh heh...

Please review, the plot bunnies are looking bored to the point of attacking me...