Nightbug08: Don't forget Takanuva…Keep reading and you'll find out.

Feline Freak: Yeah, good idea to take a chill pill…otherwise, you could review chapter 10 anyway. I don't know what I think about Bionicle…if my brother and his friends are still obsessed with them (which they are (that's all they talk about) Then I guess that it is still kinda popular but not really a fad anymore…

Regrem Erutaerc: I'll keep what you said in mind but that doesn't change my story plot. Or the next…

Chapter 12: Nowhere to be Found

In the process of searching for the other Toa, everyone was silent. Except for the occasional snicker from Tahu. Eli turned to face Tahu behind her. She caught his eye. His red eyes had a glint in them that told her that he was silently mocking her. Eli kept on walking, ignoring him, even though it made him uncomfortable to feel his eyes on her back, constantly being watched. She breathed a sigh of relief when she felt their piercing feeling cease. But she could not hear his footsteps anymore and so Eli turned around and Tahu was no longer behind her.

"No. Not you too," Eli said with a frown. "Come on, Kopaka. We've got six Toa and six Turaga to find."

"What do you mean, 'we've got six Toa' to find? Tahu is right behind us," Kopaka said. He turned but said nothing when he saw that she was right.

"So was Onua and the others," she said quietly. Eli began to search for Tahu and the others, retracing her steps. Kopaka close at her heels.

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"Tahu, where have you been?" Eli asked, her tone sounding harsher and more cold than usual.

"I guess I wandered off by accident," Tahu shrugged. In the dim light of Eli's arrow, she and Kopaka's expressions were barely visible. Their colors seemed darker than normal, shadowed by the cave, more mysterious. Eli began to walk. "Where are we going?" Tahu asked. "I mean, Cold Breezes here already lost the other Toa."

"Watch yourself there, Tahu…don't want your words to send you tumbling into an endless abyss," Kopaka sneered. Eli and Kopaka suddenly stopped. Tahu braked to avoid a collision.

"Eli would never do that," Tahu stated.

"Don't be so sure," Kopaka said with a look that Tahu had never seen on a Toa's face. Eli wore the same expression. Those looks frightened him and he didn't want to admit it, even to himself.

"Tahu, come here," Eli said sharply. He obediently did so. He suddenly felt Kopaka's hands grasp his arms and pull them behind his back. Then he felt a force bind them together. It was a laser bind. Tahu struggled to free his hands. No luck. He tried his elemental energy. No luck there either. A few seconds later, he felt Eli's hands searching his back for something. She yanked on something and it landed on the ground with a clank.

"What are you doing?" Tahu asked, starting to become even more frightened than he already was. This is not typical, he thought.

"Shut up, Tahu," came Kopaka's voice from behind him. Eli picked up what she had pulled from his back.

"I want my magma swords back," Tahu demanded.

"You won't be needing them," Kopaka sneered. Once again, he could feel Eli tracing his back, but she stopped.

"What's this, Tahu?" Eli asked plucking something else off his back.

What am I? A fruit tree? Tahu thought bitterly. Eli dangled something in front of his face. Kopaka's hands still gripped his arms. "It doesn't matter…" he said, acting more courageous than he really felt.

"Oh, yes it does. Very much…Kopaka." Kopaka picked up a stone from beside Tahu and he tossed it a few feet in front of Tahu. He waited for a clunk from the stone. It came about a minute and a half later…very faintly.

"See? It does matter," Kopaka said. Tahu tried to swallow that lump in his throat, but it refused to budge.

"I'll never tell!" Tahu cried.

"That's okay. You don't have to tell because we already know what it is," Eli said. Kopaka's hands released him.

Stall for time! Tahu thought frantically.

"Stalling for time won't work, Tahu," Eli said with false sympathy, as if reading his mind. "It never works in real life, anyway."

A hard blow made Tahu stumble a few feet. Regaining balance, he stood up only a few inches away from the edge of the deep abyss. Eli's voice rang through his head,

"If you don't stop, I'll throw you into an endless abyss…"

"I didn't say anything!" Tahu cried in plea.

"Too late," Eli said and gave him a hard push, sending him into the darkness. She threw his swords in after him.

"Should we wait?" Kopaka asked hopefully.

"Nah. We have to be somewhere…"

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Tahu felt the fear creep upon him, just as he felt the poison creep upon him when he took a scratch by Lerahk on his mask. There was no way to stop himself from falling…no way to slow down. There wasn't even a way to tell where the floor was, or what was on the bottom. He prayed to Mata Nui that it wasn't spikes. He closed his eyes and waited for his world to end.