SPOILER ALERT: If you haven't seen Bionicle: The Legend Reborn, I suggest you turn back now. If you have or just don't care if you see it or not and just want to read, that's fine.
Okay people, it's me, Fangs D. Snakeman with another story. I know what your thinking, 'Why is Fangs writing another story when he hasn't made the second chapters for his two other ones.' To answer that, I am working on the both the The Dark Future and The Fight Begins Again, but now that I am going to school for junior year, I'm going to be pretty busy and now enough time to work on the stories.
Well, on to the story.
Disclaimer: I do not own Bionicle, Lego does, but I do own some Bionicle sets.
Mata Nui and Ackar Vs. Stronius and Branar
A week has passed since the Glatorians and the Agori united and defeated the Skrall and Bone Hunters with the help of the mysterious other-worlder, Mata Nui as well as unveiling of the traitor Metus, who was promptly transformed into what he truly was by Mata Nui, a snake. A celebration had been erected after the villages of Bara Magna became united in which Agori and Glatorians from all over Bara Magna had joined in. While at the festivities it had been announced that Ackar, the First Glatorian of Vulcanus, was made the leader of the united villages and he as well as Mata Nui, Kiina, Gresh, and even Berix were awarded for their bravery in helping to defeat the Skrall.
But not everyone on Bara Magna was in high spirits. The Skrall and Bone Hunters, after being driven out of Roxtus, began fighting amongst each other as they had been before Metus made the decision of the two tribes joining forces. Without the guidance of a leader, the Skrall were left competing with one another to claim the title as leader while continuously confronting the Bone Hunters on most things, such as rights to food, water, or just anything either side wanted. In other words, things were chaotic and disruptive among the Skrall now that Tuma was comatose, having been sent offline in his fight against the outsider Mata Nui, the first Glatorian in Bara Magna history to have ever defeated a Skrall in one-on-one combat.
Right now another fight between the Skrall had erupted, this one between several Special Forces Skrall who fighting over a piece of shoulder armor. "I claimed this armor piece before any you did." One of the Skrall snarled.
"You may have found it but I want the piece for myself, now hand it over." Growled another as he threateningly readied his Thorned Club.
"Back off! If anyone's getting that piece, it's gonna be me!" Yet another Special Forces Skrall proclaimed as he stood arrogantly.
"Oh, yeah?!" Another Skrall challenged.
"Yeah!" Soon bodies of the four Skrall were now entangled with each other as they punched and kicked each other, all over a simple piece of shoulder armor. Only one Special Forces Skrall that was present and not joining in the fight was Stronius, leader of the Special Forces and was once Tuma's second-in-command of the Skrall. He was well known for his discovery of the Battera being nothing more than machines and was granted the name Stronius by Tuma for this discovery. Now he was here, hiding in the ruins with the rest of his people of some unknown city that was once on the surface of Spherus Magna.
He sighed as continued to watch over the fight between the Special Forces before he heard some footsteps approaching. He turned around and came face-to-face with Branar, leader of the warrior-class Skrall. He walked up to the Special Forces leader and asked, "Another fight?"
Stronius growled in frustration. "Yes. This makes the twelfth fight this week, and it's only the third day." He looked over at the four Skrall fighting and groaned when he saw them still fighting. "And all for a piece of armor."
Branar nodded in agreement. "The Skrall are losing their minds now that Tuma isn't leading. Without him, we are left with nothing to do but fight one another."
Stronius sighed. "I can't believe this is happening." A rock that was tossed by one of the fighting Special Forces Skrall, flew and hit Stronius in the head. Stronius growled angrily and began walking towards the four idiotic Skrall. "Would you all knock if off?!" The four Skrall stopped fighting when they heard Stronius, each of them entangled in a weird position. "You four are acting like a couple of newborns fighting for a broken toy."
"I found the armor piece first," the first Skrall reasoned. "Therefore, it is mine and mine alone."
"You are unworthy for such armor," one of the other Skrall snarled. "I should be the one to get it." Soon all four Skrall were arguing again before they resumed fighting again. Stronius snarled in frustration before he saw the armor piece the Skrall were fighting for. He walked over it, drew his out his Thorned Club. "ENOUGH!!!" Stronius brought his club down on the armor, smashing it to pieces. The Skrall who were fighting stopped once more and soon looked in horror of the state of their prize.
"The armor!" One Skrall shouted. He then snarled angrily at Stronius, followed by the others. "What you do that for?!" The other three voiced their agreements and complaints.
"So that you morons would stop acting like idiots." Stronius said, placing his club on his back. "Now since none of you have anymore reason to fight, I suggest you all return to posts and check on the other Skrall." The Special Forces Skrall growled at Stronius before they walked away and did as they were told. None of them were willing to take on their leader, especially since he could take them all on and beat them down within an inch of their life and not break a sweat! He wasn't the second-in-command for nothing.
Stronius sighed as he sat down a flat surface rock, raising a hand to his forehead to ease the headache he received. Branar walked over and sat down next to him on the dirt. "Things are becoming worse each passing day for the Skrall." Branar stated. Stronius wearily nodded in agreement.
"And it's all thanks to that that stranger, Mata Nui."
The two Skrall jumped at the sound of the unfamiliar voice. Stronius took out his club while Branar took out his sword and shield. "Who is that?" Stronius shouted. "Show yourself!" He soon got his answer when a white snake slithered down on the wall above before it dropped down on the ground before them. The two Skrall readied their weapons on the creature, ready if it decided to attack.
What they didn't expect was that the creature could talk. "What's the matter? Don't you recognize me?" The serpent asked them. Stronius and Branar looked at each other, confused. When had either of them met this…thing in front of them? They looked at the creature once more and found that his head did look familiar. The snake rolled his eyes and hissed a sigh. "It's me, you idiots! Metus!"
The two Skrall widened their eyes. "The Agori from the Ice Tribe?" Both Stronius and Branar asked simultaneously. Branar spoke next, saying, "How did you become this way?"
"Not that it doesn't suit you." Stronius muttered, not caring if Metus heard him or not.
Metus hissed his reply; "I got turned this way by that Glatorian, Mata Nui. He turned me this way so that everyone will now see me for what I am."
"Like I said, it suits you."
Metus hissed angrily and slowly started slithering away. "Fine, be that way. But now I want tell you about my plan to get even with Mata Nui."
"Wait." Metus turned around at the sound of Branar's voice. "What do you have in mind?"
Metus chuckled as he replied, "It's quite simple really. Fight Mata Nui in the arena."
"And why would we do that exactly?" Stronius questioned. "What would be the point?"
"My, my, Stronius, I would think you of all beings would understand tradition when you see it." Metus mocked. The bulky Skrall gave the snake a death glare. Metus sighed. "Isn't it part of Skrall tradition that when the Leader of the Skrall is defeated, the victor becomes the new leader?"
"No!" Metus quickly slithered away as Stronius' Thorned Club nearly came close to crushing him. "Tuma has been, and always will be the Leader of the Skrall! Not some lucky newcomer."
"But are all the Skrall in agreement with this?" Metus asked him. "I been here for quite a while now and I've been overhearing that some of the Skrall wish to join to Mata Nui, to live with the Glatorians and the Agori."
"What?!" Stronious exclaimed. "Those filthy traitors! Have they forgotten the guidance we received from Tuma?!"
"Oh, they still remember. But that is mostly the reason why they want to join Mata Nui, cause if Tuma lost to him, then perhaps Tuma wasn't the great leader they thought he was." Stronius snarled as he raised his club, ready to smash the snake into the dirt for disrespecting the Skrall leader when Metus held out his tail to stop him. "Which were my plan comes into play. If you were to battle Mata Nui and win, then the Skrall will see you as their leader and you will be able to cease these pointless squabbles. See where I'm getting with this?"
Stronius lowered his weapon as he thought Metus' plan over. It actually seemed like a pretty sound plan. Then again, the Skrall forming an alliance with the Bone Hunters against the Agori and the Glatorians was a sound plan as well and look how that turned out. "Hmm…how can we trust you if your last plan didn't work?"
"Cause last time we weren't expecting any outsider with some mysterious power to come along and unite the villages." Metus responded. "And this time you'll be ready to face since you now know his tactics."
The two Skrall thought the idea over before nodding their heads in agreement. Branar said, "It sounds like a good plan."
"Of course it is," Metus boasted, raising his head high. "I thought it up myself. And I was also thinking in having a Skrall challenging Ackar as well."
"Why?" Stronius asked with a brow raised as he crossed his arms.
"Because I have recently learned that Mata Nui placed Ackar in charge of the united villages. If you were challenge him to a match for leadership of the villages…"
"Then if the Skrall wins he would be the new leader of the villages. The Skrall would rule all the Agori and Glatorian with a single battle." Stronius finished.
"Exactly."
"I'll do it." Branar announced. "I have a little score to settle with Ackar anyways."
"Then we are in agreed." Metus said. "Once you two defeat those two Glatorians, all of Bara Magna would belong to us, and I will – uh…I mean we will have our revenge on the Glatorians and Agori!" The three beings smiled at the thought of revenge against their enemies.
Well I hope you all like that for a prologue chapter. I had always wanted to a Bionicle story on the Glatorians for a long time now, but I couldn't find the opportunity to do it since I didn't know where to start. But after sawing Bionicle: The Legend Reborn, I saw an opportunity to make, not a long multi-chapter story like my other two stories are going to be, but a short multi-chapter story, like maybe ten or eleven chapters, something like that.
Oh, and here's my thoughts on The Legend Reborn. It wasn't really great. I mean sure, Mata Nui's in it and there's a lot more fighting in the movie unlike the other three Bionicle films, but it wasn't like the other ones. For one thing it seemed more a CGI cartoon than a CGI fantasy film like the other ones. Sound affects weren't great at all, since most of them were pretty much what you would here in most cartoon shows nowadays. My major disappointment was in the Skrall though. They seemed too animalistic in the fact that nearly all of the sounds they make are screeches and clicks and Tuma's voice wasn't what I was expecting. His voice didn't fit him, it was too high-pitched and crackly unlike the deep voice you would expect him to have. Strakk's voice was sort of the same as well. The fight between Mata Nui and Tuma wasn't great both in that the fight was brief and simple and Tuma was defeated too easily in my opinion. I mean it says in his bio that he is an expert swordsman while in the movie he was fighting with simple sword swipes and slashes, though this may attribute to his arrogance since he was showing off a lot to the crowd and in that he didn't think Mata Nui was too much of a threat.
We also didn't see too much of the Skrall until like near the end of the movie. The Skrall also didn't get any screen time for themselves since the movie mostly focused on Mata Nui and the Glatorian traveling through Bara Magna and trying to fight off the Skrall.
There were some ups though. I liked the way the characters looked in the fact that their armor looked are dirty, scratchy, and worn out. There definitely some funny parts in the movie, especially with the interactions of Kiina and Berix. Like I said in the second paragraph, there was a lot of fighting in the movie and they, minus Mata Nui and Tuma's fight, were pretty good and the end of the movie was definitely surprising.
All in all, it was an okay movie, not the best of the Bionicle films, but still okay. I hope the 2010 and 2011 films will be better.
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