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Chapter 4: Illusions?

When Matoro and Ko-Kohilii were safely back inside their huts, he made his way back to his own hut. Thinking to himself as he walked, and not exactly watching where he was walking when CRASH! He suddenly found himself sprawled on the snow and ice covered ground in a heap. He looked around for what he crashed into, and just noticed a heavy fog floating inches above the ground. And standing amongst the cloud, was one of the "matoran". It was hot pink and staring at him through a mask of mind control. It started to walk away. Kopaka lept to his feet, grabbed his ice blade and raced after it.

"Wait!" he cried. The matoran paused and looked at Kopaka as he walked closer. "Who are you?" he asked cautiously. Still gripping his ice blade tightly in his hand. The matoran looked him in the eye.

"You will soon know," the matoran said in a high, girlish voice. Obviously it was a girl. And she handed Kopaka a stone card, of which one word was engraved. "THE" it said. The matoran started to walk away.

"Wait! What does it mean?" Kopaka grabbed the matoran on the arm.

"You will soon know," she repeated. She looked into Kopaka's light, ice blue sorrowful eyes and vanished. Vaporized and floated away with the cloud. As soon as the matoran disappeared, so did the fog.

Strange, Kopaka thought. This isn't any dream because I am holding the stone card she gave me, Kopaka thought as he put his ice blade away and wandered back towards his hut. Still clutching the stone tightly in his hand.

Toa Tahu scowled as he entered the gates of Ta-Koro, followed closely by the Captain of the Guard. Walking through the heavy smog of the volcano, and standing infront of the pair was violet and hot pink matoran with a mask of translation, who wrote something on a slab of stone and then admired it.

"Captain of the Guard," Tahu whispered to Jaller who looked at Toa Tahu at the mention of his title. "Do you see that?" Tahu asked curiously. Jaller looked at what Tahu was talking about. Yes, Jaller saw it. Just like he could see the back of his hand. Jaller nodded. "Is it a Ta-Matoran?" Jaller shook his head. Just then the matoran noticed them. It dropped the slab and started to walk away.

"Stop! I command you to stop!" Tahu shouted after it. The matoran stopped in their tracks. Tahu and Jaller raced to catch up to it. "Who are you and to which village do you belong?" Tahu questioned. Jaller gripped his small, foldable spear tightly in his hand... just in case. From behind the mask of translation came a girls voice.

"You will soon know," she told him.

"What is this you were writing?" Tahu asked bending over to pick up the stone slab she was writing on, without bothering to look at it.

"You will soon know," she repeated and then vanished, as if nothing had happened. Jaller stared at the spot where the matoran stood just seconds before. Toa Tahu, on the other hand, was looking at the stone slab, which had one word on it: "TOA". Tahu clutched it tightly in his hand.

"Captain of the Guard..." Jaller turned back to Toa Tahu. "Resume your post." As Jaller hurried back to his duties, Tahu stared at the slab, which was held tightly in his fiery hands.

Gali sat at the edge of the dock thinking about what she had seen: A female Ko-matoran. Were the Turaga right about the beginning of a new era? Gali jumped her lower body into the water. She grabbed the edge of the dock so everything below her lower chest armor was swallowed by water. A curious Ruki fish nibbled at her foot. Gali shooed it away with a wave of her hand.

Gali went all the way underwater and then surfaced after wetting herself. Gali leapt back up onto the dock once again. She thought about what Tahu had said earlier that day. His voice echoed through her head.

"Unity!? Ha! Never! If the eighth Toa did exist he could never bring unity between us two!"

Gali sighed. Was Tahu right? Would him and Kopaka ever be united? It was getting late so Gali sat down and let the moonlight fall upon her shoulders. She took a deep breath and let herself relax. She felt herself rise slowly off the ground. She was relaxed enough to meditate. Gali could feel herself drifting away. Going deeper and deeper into her dreams. Falling into the blackness, walking into the shadows.

"I have them all..." a voice said.

"Huh?" she heard herself say.

"All six of them..." the voice laughed. Gali felt herself walking. "You will be next," It whispered. A pair of large, almond shaped eyes appeared infront of her.

"Makuta!" She gasped.

"I have them all," he repeated. "All six of them...And you will be next!" he laughed and he reached out a long, black hand and grabbed her shoulder. Gali awoke with a start, breathing hard.

"I'm sorry. Did I disturb you Toa Gali?" said a boy's voice from behind her. Toa Gali stood up and turned around.

"Yes, you did. But it was a good thing that you did wake me. I was having the most horrific dream." She looked at the matoran. He was red and pink with purple hands. He was wearing a mask of speed.

"Are you a Ta-matoran?" she asked.

"No. Not a Ta-matoran." He answered.

"Then which village do you come from?"

"You will soon know," he said in a monotone voice.

"Okay then. Why have you come to Ga-Koro?"

"You will soon know," he told her again, and handed her a stone slab with a single word on it. "EIGHTH" was inscribed in the stone.

"What does it mean?" she asked him.

"Read it again," he said to her.

"EIGHTH," she read aloud. She looked at the matoran who nodded. "Yes, I know it says 'EIGHTH' , but that's all it says. What does it mean?" she asked again.

"You will soon know," he repeated once more. He walked off the dock and hovered there for a moment. He looked back at Gali and then vanished, becoming one with the mist that rose off of Gali's Bay. She looked at the stone that was a gift from a matoran that might as well be an illusion.

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