Author's Note/Disclaimer: This is my own little story, called Tahu's Journal. It will be written in sort of the same format of Gali's Blog on .com, but most of what is in here is based on canon Bionicle information, and the only things I would imagine to be of my own creation are locations and possibly minor, as I used to always say (not here, on the internet) vague, background characters, like filler Agori and or Matoran. Also, important to remember, is that I'm going to be using Mistika Tahu as opposed the Stars version of Tahu. Why? Because he's better, obviously. And because it wouldn't make sense for his whole team to still have their adaptive armor, and not him. That is all I have to say.

Bionicle's characters, locations, etc. all belong to LEGO, excluding any of said things that I create, which belong to me.

Tahu's Journal

Prologue

My name is Toa Tahu, leader of the Toa Nuva. Many months ago, my team and me achieved what we thought was our destiny. We awakened the Great Spirit, Mata Nui, who'd been asleep for a thousand years… at least, we thought we had… My team and I returned to our home, Metru Nui, believing we had accomplished what we'd been created to do. We were greeted as heroes… but we soon learned the truth to the lie we believed. Makuta Teridax, the one who'd put the curse on Mata Nui in the first place, had been planning from the beginning on this moment.

His plan, the complicated and twisted idea it was, was to become the Great Spirit himself. He'd manipulated us into thinking we were doing what we were meant to, but it had all led up to us awakening the Great Spirit, with him in control. We had thought that Mata Nui had watched us from somewhere, far from us. But we learned from Makuta, after he took power, that Metru Nui, the Matoran, our whole universe was inside of him; a gargantuan "robot." He claimed to have banished Mata Nui from the body, the robot he'd taken, to some unknown world beyond the planet outside that we'd once lived on. We could only hope that at some point, Mata Nui would find Makuta, or Makuta would find Mata Nui. He had the Mask of Life, which would be able to hopefully deal a good bit of damage to Makuta, if we could find him and get him to help.

For much of the time has passed since his rule began, we fought him in any way we could. If we could disable any of the systems throughout our world, it could have some sort of effect we could use against him. And finally, after even more time passed, we arrived on a new planet. This world turned out to be where Mata Nui was. My teammate, Takanuva, and I, escaped from the universe we once called home. We were unfortunate enough to have an army of Rahkshi follow us. On the outside, we met one of this new world's inhabitants. He went by the name, Gresh. He told us what he could about this desert planet, which he called Bara Magna. Gresh left us, to go and continue the fight. It was then that I had a strange vision; the Kanohi Ignika, which I referred to earlier as the Mask of Life, appeared before me. It transformed me, back into one of my previous forms; the one that I'd originally fought Makuta's shadow as. Shocked, I asked the Ignika why it had done this.

It ignored the question.

It then gave me some armor, made of gold, that it claimed could defeat the Rahkshi that had followed me and Takanuva. I of course wondered how simple armor could have such power. But I had learned in the past, things aren't always what they seem. Besides, when I did ask, it ignored me again. Then, as quickly as the encounter had began, it had ended. Takanuva and I attempted to use the armor, but it was blasted away, and scattered through the desert around us before we could. It didn't take us long for us to find it, but we still worried about the possibility of losing it again. As quickly as I could, I donned the armor, and I could feel the energy pulsing through me. In one swipe, I leveled Makuta's entire Rahkshi army. As I learned after the battle, this cost him. In the skies above, Mata Nui and Makuta were battling one another; Makuta in the "universe" we once lived in, and Mata Nui in one from here on Bara Magna.

The loss of his army distracted Makuta, who had used his powers over gravity to pull Bara Magna's two moons toward the planet from which they'd been separated from in a war millennia ago. Mata Nui seized the momentary window of time, and pushed Makuta into the path of one. It collided with his "head," ending his life and our universe.

The battle had ended.

I was happy to learn that, although the robot body had suffered so much damage from the collision, many of the inhabitants inside had left Metru Nui long ago, headed for the southern areas that were his "feet." There had of course been a great quake when the body struck the ground, much like, or even perhaps the same as, the Great Cataclysm the Turaga had told me about. With that, Mata Nui transformed the desert world into a green paradise, that reminded me of the island Mata Nui that me and my team defended only a year or two ago. He transformed me back as well, and with that, he was gone.

His reasoning was that our new society needed to progress without him there. We all, of course, decided to honor that wish. He had saved both of our worlds, so we owed him that much. But we all felt that it wouldn't be enough to repay him. All we can do now is make our new land the best we can, for the day when Mata Nui makes the choice to return.

Stay tuned to ToaChristor on deviantArt or Toa Christor on this site for the continuation of Tahu's Journal!

And yes, I realize this chapter is long, but would you want a summary of the past few months of the Bionicle story in a boring, five word sentence?