Queen's Notes- Okay, this is the last chapter of this story that I have, but hopefully sometime Light will return! Enjoy the cuteness.

I might put up another story that we did together, a cross over of her old Universals Saga and my Kora Saga.


Cubs On The Bed

Whenua opened his eyes, blinking in the light he made a soft sound before shifting enough to poke his nose into the space between Mic's body and arm to block out the glare of the sun. "Miifft," he 'said,' more expressing his dislike for it rather than truly saying anything.

Mic glanced down at him with a raised eyebrow. Currently they were siting on a large towel in the sand in front of a ten-foot 'wall' of packed sand and small shells, the beach out before them as well as the water.

The black and gray striped cub muttered as he curled closer to her, content to stay and cuddle as well as nap while his brothers and sister explored around. To one side sand was flying up into the air as Onewa worked at digging up and oddly shaped rock that was bigger than him, but he had seen little crabs scuttle under. Matau was perched on top of the rock, trilling encouragement- mostly because he wanted the crabs too.

Mic watched them before some sand fell down from above. Matt was scaling the top of the mini 'cliff' looking for anything people might have left behind, already holding a coin in his hands.

Nokama hopped into sight, bounding though the shallow waves, Vakama in hot pursuit. The latter kept darting in and out, wanting to fallow closer but not wanting to get wet. Nuju was nowhere to be seen, having vanished not long ago.

Mic smiled, watching the blue and red cubs, though wondering where Nuju might have gone. She bent forward and picked up a pointed shell, tracing it in the sand. Whenua stayed close to the girl, at one point he got annoyed that she was moving around more and nosed his muzzle under the front of her shirt to keep the light off. Matau and Onewa started that trilling laugh as they looked over.

"Er," Looking down at where the black cub's muzzle had gone, Mic smiled and giggled faintly. "If only we had some shades for you..." she said, patting his back.

Vakama let out a started yelp as he ran into a rock, since his inner lids were closed and he was squinting into the sun (tracking a bug), then yelped again as a wave splashed over him.

"Hey, you okay?" Mic called to the red hordika, trying not to laugh. Already she could hear Matt snickering up above.

The red and striped cub yawled at both humans, scolding them as he climbed up on to the rock he ran into, getting out of the sea water. Vakama shifted his attention and started to chatter and argue with Matau next.

There was a 'THUMP' and some sand sprayed up as the male human landed on the lower ground, and tipped onto his knees in the process, making a grunt at a shell one of his kneecaps collided with. He looked at the two cubs for a moment and smirked. "Yeah, wish we could understand what they're sayin'..."

As Onewa joined into the argument, the tone he had suggested it maybe a good idea the two humans didn't understand the hordika. Whenua gave a soft snort and muttered, "Baso' nutters..."

"Nutters?" Matt repeated with a whacky look, his sister staring down at where the cub's 'face' was currently hiding under her shirt. The male blinked. "Like nutter butters?"

Mic shot him a look that said he was nuts. The Bionicle didn't know about that after all...

Whenua gargled at Matt, but didn't move other than to nuzzle in closer to Mic for attention. Nokama was still sporting in the waves as Vakama made a brake for higher on on the beach once he had the chance. The cub racing up onto Matau's rock where he pushed the green cub off. Something like 'King of the Hill' broke out between them as the tan cub watched for a minute, and then pushed both off as he was bigger.

Mic broke into a grin and chuckled as she watched the three cubs and the rock, moving a hand to trail down Whenua's spine for a moment. "Onewa'll claim any rock I suppose..."

A long slightly faint warble sounded from out of sight, making the cubs all pause what they where doing. Onewa mid-motion of batting Matau on his non injured side.

"What was that?" Matt blinked, rising from the sand. Mic frowned. "I think it's Nuju..." Knowing that they should probably go investigate, she moved and picked Whenua up in her arms, standing to her feet.

Nokama's delicate sounding voice lifted into the air as she called back to the missing cub, hopping lightly out of the sea water. Matau gimped after Mic as Vakama and Onewa ran ahead of the group with their own warbles.

Matt glanced ahead as he started walking as well. "They seem excited," he said, mostly to himself.

The two 'scouts' vanished out of sight quickly, they gave started yelps that echoed slightly. The other three cubs exchanged confused looks.

The two humans exchanged glances as well before Mic sped up faster, in the direction of where the other two cubs had been heard, worriedly calling out their names.

There was no hint, no tail, stripe or spot of them to be seen. Whenua squirmed and hopped down, joining the limping Matau and Nokama in searching by scent where their brother's had gone.

"...I have a ba feeling about this." Mic muttered, following the cubs. A snort from the male behind her. "You and the rest of the universe..."

"They could be hurt, Matthew!" the female snapped.

Nokama and Matau fallowed after Whenua who seemed to have caught the smell of the other Hordika first. The three stopped and peered into a five foot...hole in the bluff? Nokama muttered, probably saying something like, 'was this here before?'

"Oh... ah, geez..." Mic crouched down just beside the edge, warily looking in the hole. "Don't tell me..."

Matt sent her a look. "What?" Why was she acting like she had seen something like this before?

The blue hordika took a careful step into the almost but not-cave, looking all around. She lifted her muzzle to sniff as Whenua prowled in ahead of her, his dark coloring letting him vanish into the darkness. Matau gave a protesting chirp and bounded after, Nokama glanced back at the humans with a clear 'well?' look before fallowing.

The two humans traded glances before they both seemed to decide at the same moment, and followed after Nokama and the other cubs. Matt mumbled about 'this never being here before' as they went.

The cubs gave surprised yelps, and in a moment the humans would find out why as all the light seemed to vanish. Not giving them time to get used to or panic, the 'floor' dropped out from under the siblings and they would dropped what felt like ten feet before crashing down. Six yips of protest from the cubs sounded as the little Hordika scrambled not to get landed on.

Both humans cried out when they did hit the 'ground' one face down and the other on their back. Mic blinked, trying to see where they were and figure out what had happened, whilst Matt made an 'ouch' noise, his face in the ground.

Two sets of red eyes peered into Mic's face, Matau and Vakama looked at each other before chirping a question at her. Probably asking if she's was okay. At the same time Nokama was patting Matt's head with a careful paw, checking on him as well.

The female moaned out, "That huuurt... ow..." Carefully she sat up, rubbing the back of her head and swaying slightly, dizzily. "Oy.. Matt?"

In answer was a muffled "I'm here." came from the boy.

Whenua murmured as he walked over to sit between the two humans, Nuju hopping lightly into Mic's lap and then up to her shoulders. At the same time Onewa hopped up onto Matt's back with a light growl, swatting at the back of his head in a 'hurry up!' way.

An "Ey!" sounded from the boy and he promptly jerked up from the ground and turned, attempting to throw Onewa off.

Mic paid no attention and instead turned to look at Nuju. "Oh... there you are." The pale cub looped his tail around her neck to stay in place, nuzzling against her cheek and purring lightly. Vakama gave a piercing yell at Onewa and Matt, sounding like he was telling them to knock it off.

Mic lightly stroked the white cub's head as she looked around again, her brother grumbling under his breath. "Okay, just what just happened?" he asked.

A crash sounded to one side, Matau looking over sheepishly from his spot on a low shelf. But what he had knocked over was a canister, it had popped open spilling out a couple small light stones. Those lit up the relatively small storage room the group was in.

Both humans blinked at the sight of the shining stones, the boy tipping his head. "Are those... like... light stones?"

Mic snorted softly. "Really? What gave you the idea..." She then turned her attention to looking around the room they and the cubs were in.

Onewa yawned and shook himself as Nokama found the door, her delicate voice rising up to announce it. Mic got to her feet, followed by her brother and they walked over to it, the boy picking up one of the light stones as they went and looking it over.

Matau paused long enough to pick up a shard in his jaws, fallowing after with muffled chirps. The other cubs stayed close to the bigger humans, Vakama and Whenua were up front. On reaching the door, Mic pushed it open along with her brother's help and it swung open.

The two nocturnal hordika poked their heads out first, scanning around and sniffing before stepping out before the others. They stayed a little low before chirping back at the group that it was clear.

Matt frowned, thinking that if something 'bad' were to happen then all they had to protect them were a bunch of tiny cubs. "Where are we?"

"I... think we're in their world actually." Mic replied.

Nuju chirped softly from Mic's shoulder, looking around and hummed softly. The pale cub grabbed a mouthful of her hair and tugged, pointing to the right where Nokama was heading with one forepaw. The human grunted quietly before nodding and gesturing, Matt coming closer and following as they headed after Nokama. Best to stay together after all.

A muffled, indigent demand came from behind as Matau and Vakama squabbled over the light stone shard. The former Toa of air dart on ahead of the group even with his shard of light he soon vanished into the darkness.

So much for staying together. "Matau!" Mic called, quickening her speed. "Crazy little airhead..."

A surprised yelp came from ahead, enough to have the other cubs racing off to the help with startled sounds. Vakama, Onewa and Whenua let out challenges that, had they been full size it would have been terrifying three fold in this tunnel like hall, but as cubs it was like kittens mewing to a lion. The female human would have made some sort of cute remark had the current situation not been so grim, Mic jogging after the cubs, her brother already passing her, used to running due to too much basketball in the past.

A hunched form stood up as the humans rounded a corner. Easily just under six feet the being would have been taller if not for the hump in his back. Dark red armor gleamed faintly and then more as the light-stone came into view. The Biomechanical being chuckled, looking down at something in his arms before looking up.

Mic squinted in the dark, still getting used to it even with the help of the light stone near this dark red being. She blinked when her brother held his stone up higher, beside her face as he peered at the being too. "What the..."

Trills came from the Hordika as they bounded forward, their manors shifter from possibly biting someone's ankles to death, to sudden joy. The tall form hummed softly and knelt down with his free hand extended, balancing a staff on his shoulder, "Toa- ki Matoran?" He chuckled stroking Vakama's back and scratching around the back of his head.

The two humans stepped a little closer, Mic smiling at the scene before them. "It's Norik," she said to her brother, whose eyes were doubled in size at the moment.

The Rahaga looked up at his name, blinked and stood with Matau still cradled in the crook of his arm, and Vakama now up on his shoulders. The Bionicle thumped his staff on the grown, and the end lit up brightly in a soft yellow light. Instantly the Hordika stared at it and in a few moments it took Norik to walk over they seemed to be hypnotized by it.

"Mic?"

The older teen nodded with a smile and, not caring that the Rahaga would not understand most of her language, greeted, "Yes. Hello Norik." By now Matt was looking even more confused, fumbling with the light stone in his hands.

"Well hello to you too," Norik said unexpectedly, carefully walking over so not to step on the cubs.

Blinking first before grinning faintly, Mic said, "Well, I can honestly say I didn't expect to see you again... or the hordika for that matter."

"It was an unexpected reaction here too," The elder Rahaga said and tilted his wedged shaped head at Matt.

"This is my brother," Mic touched her brother's shoulder. "Matthew, otherwise known as Matt."

"I am the Rahaga Norik," The dark red being said as he place a hand over his heart-light, dipping his head in greeting, "A good thing the Visorak are gone now."

"...hi." was all the boy got out at the moment, glancing sideways at his sister. Despite the fact they had a two year age difference, he was almost past her in height.

"Norik," Mic asked. "What happened to the hordika? What did... this?" she gestured at the cubs.

The elder looked down at the cubs, waving his staff and watching them fallow it with their heads turning like watching a tennis match. He sighed, "Ketongu it seems, is a bit... ah, rusty."

The girl's brows went up. "Wh-what...? He's behind this?" She glanced at Nuju on her shoulder, Matt watching the cubs watching the staff with amusement.

"He has been in hibernation for over ten thousand years." Norik pointed out as he moved forward, gently herding the humans ahead of him and out of the room he had been in. The cubs fallowing after.

Mic hummed a little as they left the room. "Well, how long will they be, ah... cubs, do you know?"

"Until Ketongu can reverse it." Norik chuckled softly as Nuju chirped. Mic smiled and reached up to lightly scratch Nuju's head. The cub was rubbing against him.