This chappy was so frustrating, and yet so fun! Frustraiting, cause - Wait, I won't spoil that for ya. =P Anyways, I decided to change this fic's rating to T, just cause of the earlier battles. ^^ The only reason I waited so GOSH DARN LONG is because: 1) I was to lazy to bother. 2) Instead of updating the fic without putting up any chappies doesn't sound very fun! D:

Also! *Stammers to remember your name* Light something... *Looks up in reviews* Aha! Inthelight! Sorry I forgot your name. ^^' Anyways, you did something that no one else has ever done before! Successfully guessed the word of origin of Enmalian! It's Animal! I just ADORE stumping people with my making up words! ^_^ I almost stumped ya, but ya got it last minute. =P


Chapter 11

"There!" Unity said happily, "Aren't you glad that you told everyone on your team how you lost miserably to a girl?"

She looked at Matau, her smile in a large grin, showing off her canine teeth. Doing several cartwheels, she found herself back at the side of her two original friends, Alena and Amber. "Time for you guys to head off!" She called to them, eagerness in her voice. "And Onewa! The torture will never end for you! You can't get off that easily!" She addressed Onewa, her voice alone indicating that she would never leave him alone.

Once the Toa were gone, Alena turned to her. "Did he do something to irk you?"

Unity smiled at Alena, and replied, "Nope. Remember? I love irritating everyone!"

Alena nodded her head, turning her head back to Amber, who was perched on one of the higher platforms in the Temples area, looking out the window, crouching to avoid being seen. "Any plans on what to do?"

Amber turned her gaze to Alena, and grinned. "Well of course. You get to infiltrate the Turaga's coliseum. Unity, your creative, right?"

She let Unity nod happily, "Examine the Vahki. Infiltrate one of their Hives, and see what you can do to knock it out. It'd be nice to have less enemies to worry about. As for me…"

Amber looked back out of the window, grinning. "While Alena explores the Coliseum, I'll be talking to Turaga Dume."

Alena crawled on her hands and feet, stealthily towards the coliseum. She was grinning, glad to finally exert some more of her skills. Despite being a feline training to become a medicine-Enmalian, any one of her kind adored using their skills to their maximum capability, and also getting into fights.

She was right behind Amber, who was leading the way, cautiously looking in front as they moved from one hiding spot to another, quickly finding their way across the area. Alena paused, watching Amber twitch the tip of her tail back and forth, a sign of caution.

They both paused, watching the steps of Vahki walk past their hiding place, unknowingly passing them up. Alena grinned, whispering softly enough that only Ambers ears could pick up her voice.

"This is too easy."

"Don't get to cocky. Remember what happens in fights. You can start causing ruckus in the Coliseum once your inside. Distract all the Vahki and Matoran, so that I can talk to Dume in private."

Alena nodded. Turning her gaze back towards the Coliseum, she saw a large gateway open, letting something in. "Think we can get in without them noticing from here?"

She saw Amber look up ahead, nodding her head. "I can, but can you ensure your body doesn't stiffen up?"

"Long as I don't run nearly as fast as you." Alena replied, both of them whispering just loud enough to hear the other.

Keeping her eyes up, she saw Ambers form stiffen, then turn translucent. Then, a gust of wind blew by, destroying the quickly fading image of where Amber had originally been. Grinning, she crawled up to where she had originally been, knowing that Amber had run inside fast enough, and was well away from the entrance.

Picking herself off the ground, she waited for an opening to appear, that was just enough for her to dash through the entrance too. Several minutes later, she saw her opening, and ran through the entrance too, going fast enough to avoid notice, but slow enough her body didn't stiffen from the intense running.

Alena got through without error, and spotted Amber, sitting up above one of the many little platforms used to hold items. Seeing Amber wave at her to come up, Alena jumped from the ground, to the miniature platform, covering the hundred foot distance with ease.

Crouching next to Amber, Alena saw her take a claw out, and carve a message into the stone slowly, making no noise as the claw silently cut through steel with ease. Looking over Ambers shoulder to read the message, Alena grinned.

'We split up here. Make sure to cause plenty of mayhem once I've reached Turaga Dume.'

Alena put her own claw on the steel, and made her own message. 'Will do. I'll explore till you get to him. Just give some sort of signal to tell me you found him.'

Amber read the message, frowning, then wrote her own message onto the steel again. 'Won't your hearing be enough?'

'Yes, but isn't it more fun to just give a signal?' Alena wrote, giving Amber a mischievous grin.

Sighing, Amber nodded her head, then jumped off the platform faster then the normal eye could follow, her image a blur that would make only the most well-trained of eyes look back. Alena followed, after giving Amber a ten-second head start, with a speed close to the Hybrids speed.

Racing down the hallways, Alena saw an occasional video camera, but ignored them. She knew that, even if they succeeded in capturing her image, by the time whoever catches one to their plan finds out, the plan will have been long done and over with. Grinning silently to herself, she took a turn that, through instinct and feel, she knew would take her even deeper into the Coliseum. Seeing a door at the end of the hall, and Vahki coming out, she ran slightly faster, jumping over the squad and through the high doorway with ease.

Once her feet connected with the ground, she ran towards one of the many stacks, hiding behind it until the doors were shut. Hearing the door shut, Alena looked around for the tiny blue lights that were video cameras. Seeing none, she jumped to the ground, and pulled one of the many pods out.

"How strange," Alena mumbled to herself, "It's Matoran-sized." Finding a latch in the system that allowed her to open it, she pulled it open, peering inside, its innards becoming sharper as the small glass door in front of it came away. Frowning, she noticed the way the pod was shaped, as if to accommodate a real Matoran, and to give him or her more comfort.

However, before she had more time to think, an alarm sounded. Her head instantly looking towards the exit, she saw it open, as an angry horde of Vahki appeared, each of them armed with their usual staffs. Alena jumped away from the pod, the pair of gloves that Amber always wore on her hands.

"Careful Vahki," Alena started, confidence ringing in her voice, "Or else you will end up as melted shrapnel. Trust me. Vahki shrapnel doesn't look as pretty as one might think."

Getting into a fighting position, Alena willed her gloves to increase to an intense heat, the inner layer of the gloves cooling down to protect her hands from the searing heat. Baring teeth, Alena waited there, feeling the stone where her hands rested heat up, and slowly melt. The Vahki had stopped their advance, and were aiming their staffs at her.

Waiting carefully, Alena quickly did a headcount of the enemy line. Her smile turned into a frown as she noted how there were at least fifty Vahki down there. Aiming their staffs at her, Alena waited until the moment she heard the staffs shooting their elemental powers at her. Within seconds, the first row of ten Vahki feel uselessly to the ground, their necks having been melted, and their mechanical heads hitting the floor with an eerie clatter.

The rest of the Vahki looked around, their movements appearing to make them seem panicked. However, their mechanical minds were truly searching for their target, with a cold, calculating eye. Alena looked down at them, before attracting their attention. "Up here!" She yelled.

The first ten Vahki to look her way had their bodies cut off from their waists, mechanical parts searing hot from being cut with an intense heat. Alena heard wiring sizzle as it was quickly disconnected from its counterpart, hot also, from use and gloves increasing their temperature, with the heat of the gloves sent to slice through their bodies with ease. Alena was on the other side, once again yelling for their attention. This time, she let the Vahki attack, dodging their attacks with ease.

Jumping to the floor, she raced out of the room, this time at normal speed. Going down on her hands and feet, she ran quickly, the sound of the Vahki's attacks allowing her to dodge them with ease. Rounding a corner, she dashed past multiple startled Matoran, who were staring at the 'strange new Rahi,' and pointing her out to the other Matoran.

Her claws extended, she saw them digging shallow, but long marks in the hall floor with ease. The heated gloves on her hands slightly melting the stone, but unable to do any real damage.

Turning around to look down the hallway, she sniffed the air, sensing that while she couldn't see them, they were still closer then one would think behind her. Looking around for something to throw at them, she sighed in exasperation at the lack of throwing objects in the building. Looking at the ceiling, she closed her eyes, trying to concentrate on locating Amber through sound.

After several moments of it, she dropped her head. Her gaze turning back on the hallway, she saw that the Vahki had finally caught up to her. Grinning wide enough that her feline teeth could be seen from a distance, she ran down the hallway once again. This time, she had started running on just her two feet, once again leaving the Vahki behind.

Amber looked at the small figure in front of her, curious of who it was. Seeing him turn around to face her, her eyes narrowed. She hadn't made a single sound in breaking in.

"I see there's more of your kind." He said in an old, wizened voice, sounding as if he were attempting to not sound evil.

"Yes," Amber started, "And we're more powerful then one would think."

"More powerful? Or just more arrogant?" The small figure questioned her, as if he were eager to upset her. "After all, you two stalked into the Coliseum without any heed for the Vahki."

Glaring at him, Amber spoke again, her voice hissing, "More powerful. And do not mix arrogance with power. Especially since we use our abilities for the safety of others."

"Safety of others?" The Turaga choked out, "Power is meant to be used to crush others. Not save others! Only the strong will survive! The weak are our slaves, working hard for us so that we can live in luxury."

Ambers upper lip curled, showing her teeth, "Trust me. If we viewed power that way, you'd have been dead long ago. Very few can stand up to us and survive. Especially an army of us."

The Turaga glanced at her curiously, "There's enough to form an army of your kind?" He asked, sounding as if a plan were forming.

Amber looked at his seemingly frail form. Despite the weakness of it, he was far more powerful then one would think. One of the Toa had told her that they have only their mask powers left as a Turaga, and even though this was her first meeting a Turaga, he seemed far more powerful then one would think. Curling her claws, she looked at him warily.

He turned around, staring at multiple small screens that showed every hallway in the Coliseum. Many screens showed Alena going past many of them, with Vahki close behind. She was still distracting them. Occasionally finding something to throw at them, puncturing a Vahki's staff and head, making it fall to the ground.

Amber smirked. The feline had begged her to use the gloves, and at the moment, they were off. Despite the grainy screen, it could easily be seen that the gloves were at their normal, non-active power. Not heated up or cooled down.

"Your species power is amazing. Intriguing. I would like to study your species… And then absorb them into my system." The Turaga said, turning back to Amber, red eyes a menacing color.

Reaching up, he pulled off the mask, to reveal a black mask, pulsing a sickly green color, with corrosion seen all around the mask. The removal of this mask released a tremendous amount of power. Looking over to the screen, she saw that even Alena had paused in her irritating the Vahki, curiously looking at the ceiling, wondering where the power came from.

Looking at the Turaga, she saw small bolts of black energy whirling around his hand, forming a miniature dark hole. Growling, Amber studied the room quickly, determining her best escape points. She didn't worry about Alena. Her instincts, sense of smell, and hearing would tell her something was wrong.

Amber had instructed her to immediately evacuate the building if the dull sense of power radiating around the city suddenly increased for a moment, or Amber had given her some sort of sign. She still hoped the feline wouldn't stay behind, regardless of the energy.

Turning her attention back towards the being, she flexed her claws, the sharp tips grazing her hands slightly, and yet causing minor bleeding. Tensing her whole body, she prepared for the eventual blow the 'Turaga' would soon send her. Seeing the shadows attack, she rolled to the left, sensing the energy follow her movements.


Anyways! This chapter ain't my favorite, just cause the arguement between Amber and Dume stumped me on what two very intelligent beings would say. - That and Alena coulda had a better battle scene. ^^' I can NEVER get the battlescenes my head pictures on virtual paper! D= It sucks, but I'm hoping it helps to show these characters abilities more clearly. ^^ Alena was playing with the first batch of Vahki, right up until they beat her. Let's just say she kinda has a grudge on them... ^^ Thus why her intense fighting with these guys. =P That and Vahki just aren't my favorite character. ^^' To cold and ruthless. D: Course, if they were living and had LIVE brains... Not mechanical ones... The situation might change...

Anyways... Peanut, my cat, has an announcement! *Holds up tortoise colored cat*

Peanut: *In squeaky, scared voice reading from paper written by me* I have permission from Alena to pee in the bedrooms of any person who reads this story and doesn't review.

Me: She's my whizzing kittie. ^_^ She'll pee right next to your head, and you won't smell a THING until you almost touch it!

Peanut: Can I go now, Master?

Me: Nope. You stay here and pee in the beds of anyone who doesn't reply but DOES read. ^_^

Peanut: Yes Master. -