Wow...we made it to the review goal! Thanks to everyone who reviewed. And to answer your question snow246, yes she is normal (if you want to call crazy in the head normal) and she does have fox ears. She's a fox. Think anthro. Anyways i have finally finished chapter three and i am now working on chapter 4. i should be done by next week, hopefully, i will try to upload it a.q.a.p. (for those who haven't seen the movie The Producers, as quick as possible). untill then, please read and enjoy.


Chapter 3

"In the Time before Time?"

"Takua, I feel like a total idiot!" Jason said after a half an hour of thinking of where to begin the mystery of the ill fallen kolhii champion. She looks at him, "We need to go to the champ, what's his name by the way?"

"Hewkii, but we can't, he's infected by something we could catch it," he informed her.

"Maybe so, but it's worth the risk if we can help him get his game back." Takua thought about that. He truly wants to help his friend, but whatever that sickness was he didn't want.

"You're right, Jason, lets get this investigation started." She smiles and nods.

Standing up, she dusts herself off and turns to him, "You know this place better than I do, where does he sleep?" Takua gets up and leads her to his hut. Inside, a villager, a matoran Jason corrected herself, was lying on his bed with flies buzzing around him; Jason couldn't help but hold her nose.

"I'm sorry," he croaked, I've been in here for so long, I—"

"We understand" said Takua, "we just need to ask you something," he looks at Jason then back at Hewkii, "do you know where you got your koli ball at?"

Hewkii looked at him strangely, "yes, down at the bazaar, that's where I got it."

"Mind telling us where the vender got them." Jason asked looking in at him. Hewkii sat up and panicked, "What is that thing? Some sort of rahi?"

"Okay Takua tell me again, what is a rahi?"

"Never mind that, Hewkii, this is really important right now, we need to know where that vender got those koli balls."

"I...I don't remember…its all fuzzy like."

"Can we borrow your ball, Champ, we kind of need it." Jason asked.

All of a sudden, Hewkii's eyes fired up with rage, "No! It's my ball! I got it first!"

"Dude, you okay? We only need it for a minute?"

"I said no! Get out!"

Takua and Jason didn't need to be told twice. They flew from his door to the village square. "Well, that went well, didn't it?" Takua gasped

"The good thing is we got a new lead," Jason said looking at him, "we need to find that vender and ask him where he got those balls and if we're lucky he can let us borrow one."

"I know where the stand is, I'll show you," he takes her hand and leads her to the bazaar once again. All around Jason were many vendors selling many things. Her head went from side to side looking at all the stands. She soon spotted a stand that caught her interest. Letting go of Takua's hand, she walks over to it. On it was different colored stones and statues. Jason's eyes started to sparkle as she smiled. Artifacts like these astounded her.

"Afternoon there, rahi," Jason looks up at the brown masked matoran, "found something that you like?"

"It's Jason, sir, and I'm just looking." She looks at the statues again. There were six of them total, each having a different pose and color.

"Excuse me," the vendor looks at her, "Who are these people?" the vendor looks at them then back at her and smiles.

"These, my good friend, are the legendary Toa. They are the guardians of our home." He points to the red figure first, "This is Tahu, Toa of Fire; Gali, Toa of Water; Lewa, Toa of Air; Kopaka, Toa of Ice; Onua, Toa of Earth; and Pohatu, Toa of Stone; he's the guardian of our village," he informed her with pride.

Jason tilts her head, "Guardians? What are they suppose to protect you from?"

"Now that's where this figure comes in," he said looking at the colored stones. "This here tells about the legend of Mata-Nui, our Creator." He points to the grey stone, "he made everything, from the island to the Matoran. Then all of a sudden, his brother," he pointed to the onyx stone, "the Makuta wanted to destroy it. He sent out evil rahi to demolish our homes. Then, when we all thought all hope was lost, the Toa came to the rescue."

Jason nods and smiles, "Maybe one day this Makuta person will finally be defeated."

The vendor nods, "I like you, and for being such a good rahi, I'll let you have one of these figures, free of charge."

She blinks, "Sir, there's no need for that—

"No, no, I insist. Go ahead and pick one."

She sighed, knowing that she wasn't going to with this argument, "All right, I'll take this one," she points to the stone figures. He nods and hands it to her. She thanks him and puts it in her pack.

"Jason, what are you doing?" asked Takua walking up to her. She turns to him,

"Just getting a souvenir and a history lesson," she smiles, "it sounds like your average middle age story: Brother One makes some thing superior; Brother Two gets jealous and tries to rid of Brother One; and the heroes come and save him. How I love it so."

Takua looks at her confused, "What are you talking about?"

She laughs, "It's nothing, now to the kolhii vendor."

At the stand, the vendor was smiling and waving at the passing Matoran, he then sees the blue masked Matoran and…a rahi? He couldn't help but raise an eyebrow to this; this rahi was different from the one he's seen before; a new breed perhaps? He put the thought aside and grinned again.

"Good afternoon friends," he said as they came closer, "are you looking for a new kolhii ball? This is the place to look."

"We're not here to buy," said Takua, "we just have some questions to ask."

The vendor tilts his head, but nods, "Okay, what do you need to know?"

"Where'd you get your balls?" asked Jason.

The Vendor's eyes widen, "It speaks!"

"I can sing and dance too," she said grinning. The vendor stares at her.

"Sir?"

He looks back at Takua, "where did you get them?"

The vendor cleared his throat, "I'm sorry, but that's classified, I can't give away my product's secret."

Jason narrowed her eyes, clearly that wasn't the right answer she was looking for. "When did you start selling them then?"

"A few weeks ago; look, whatever's going on here it has nothing to do with my product. I'm sorry but I must ask you to leave."

"That's all right," said Takua, "thank you for your time, we'll leave you be."

"Takua?" she looks at him questionably.

"Come on Jason, we caused enough trouble," he pushes her away. The vender watches them leave with narrow eyes. That was too close, he thought, I can't let the secret of my special kolhii balls get lose. The Master wouldn't approve.

"What's up Takua?" asked Jason, "why did you stop my interrogation?"

"I found this," he holds up a stone carved object.

"What is that?"

"It looks like a key of some sort," he turns it over and sees a symbol on the front.

"What does this stand for?" she asked.

"Water," he answers. He stares at the object, "if it was a key, then where's the door?" He starts walking towards the kolhii field. Jason follows him, sighing. She has only been her for a few hours and she doesn't know how to help him. At the field, she sits on one of the stands and thinks. She watches Takua pace back and forward until something caught her attention.

"A kolhii ball?" She gets up and walks to it. It was about the size of a soccer ball. She smiles, some one must have accidentally left it. She was about to pick it up then suddenly stops. Something was moving…on the rock. She blinks, wondering if it was a trick of the sun then it does it again. She gasps and steps back. "Takua!" she cries, "Takua come look at this!"

Takua glances up and goes to her. He sees the ball by her feet and looks at her, "It's a kolhii ball."

"No, look at what's on it!" she points at it.

He looks at her then at the ball again, and then squints. Something was crawling on it. "It looks like it's…infected or something."

"What should we do?" Jason asked looking at Takua.

"I think we should take this to Turaga Onewa," he answers looking up at her, "this is big, this may be the cause of Hewkii's illness."

"Well what are we waiting for? Lets go!" she grabs his hand and ran for the elder's hut.


you know, while i was writing this, i realized that Jason was going by the online game than the books. I'm not saying that its a bad thing, i just wasn't expecting it to go in that direction. By the time this one is done, I should be going by the books. and another thing i realized was that i messed up the timeline as well, if you refer to the beginnings of the bionicle the Matoran were first called Tounga(i think thats how you spell it.) and i misspelled Hewkii's name as well, (im too lazy to go back and fix it, [bad me!]). anyway, sorry for the rant, i just wanted to point that out just because. i hoped you liked the chapter and how the story is going so far. Tell me what you think. R&R Plz!!!
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