Disclaimer: Do you really think that if I owned bionicle that I would have it branch into other teams? Sadly enough, the answer is no, I like the Toa Nuva way to much. So obviously, I don't own any part of bionicle.
P.S. There is a quote in this chapter that comes from the fourth bionicle chronicle entitled Tales of the Masks, just thought it might be a good idea to state that for copyright reasons.
Here is the second chapter , I was going to make you all wait till Wednesday for it, but then you all changed my mind with your wonderful reviews. Onto the story.
I was talking, or rather listening to, Pohatu give a heated, one-sided argument about the pros and cons of each koro's team, and who was obviously the best team, to a bored and indifferent Kopaka.
"The onu-koro team is great if you look at their endurance, but they tend to be awfully slow, don't you think?"
"…"
"The ga-koro team, no offense to you water sister, favors speed over all other abilities, but they tire quickly with no endurance whatsoever!" he shook his head sadly as if this was one of the worst crimes ever committed in the history of strategies.
"…" was Kopaka's 'lively' reply.
I tuned out of the conversation, wondering how long exactly it would take for Pohatu's enthusiasm of Kolhi to realize that Kopaka really had no interest whatsoever in this conversation.
Kopaka was probably interested more in retaliating against Tahu for some misdeed or humiliation that had occurred earlier. It was painfully obvious that he was itching to go hurt Tahu, as Kopaka was throwing shifty glances at Tahu now and then along side with some murderous glares thrown into the mix.
Idly wondering, and seriously considering if I should suggest to Tahu to run far, far, far away for his life at this moment or if he just wouldn't listen to me and pick a fight with Kopaka, I heard something that made my stomach clench painfully as it churned, and the rest of me freeze in place.
"We all know the strength of the element in question always relies on the wielder. For instance, water is clearly outmatched in this equation. Gali is not relatively strong at all. She specializes more in intelligence and acrobatics than strength, and when she calls to water to aid her in combat, the force of her element is lulled with, well, her absence of strength." Tahu was calmly explaining this to Lewa, as if this was common sense to anyone to say that I was a weakling. I have to admit though, I am not very strong, that area is more Onua and Pohatu's field of specialty, but I could hold my own in battle, so to suggest that I was a liability to the team was the stupidest thing I had ever heard.
"Would you like to say that again Tahu?" I asked loudly enough for Tahu to hear me, with more than a mere trace of coolness behind my words.
There was a considerable silence as the atmosphere tensed. Lewa was looking uncomfortable to be so near the idiot the who had insulted water and myself, as if my own rage at Tahu might also transfer to him, and quickly shifted away from the perpetrator of my anger. Onua who had been watching the rest of us mingle and chat in a content manner as he relaxingly leaned against a wall, tensed and came forward, glancing between us, calculating the situation to see if he was needed to step in. Pohatu who had ceased talking, was now edgily glancing between Tahu and I, as if watching a fast-paced and tense kolhi match. Kopaka's face however, held no change, as he was being Kopaka, and Kopaka doesn't show emotion.
"Well?" I asked in as level a voice as I could manage, all the while glaring at Tahu, as if to challenge him to say one more thing that contradicted me.
He however, to my immense satisfaction, looked a tad uneasy. "Gali…" he began, "I really didn't mean it that way, I just meant that-"
"That you don't think of water or myself as an equal." I cut him off, finishing for him, severely ticked off with him now.
"Well, if you really want to know what I think, yeah, I don't think water will ever be as fierce, strong, or forceful as the elements fire, air, earth, stone, or ice." He growled at me, firing up at once (a/n: no pun intended) at once, "Water." he spat, as if it were a curse; "it soothes, and calms, and lulls the spirit to sleep. You cannot understand what true power demands."
In response to this bold and insulting statement, Pohatu and Onua frowned, Lewa looked disapprovingly at Tahu, and Kopaka, was still being, well, Kopaka (a/n: must I say more?)
"Remember when I offered to show you the true power of water?!" I hissed at him venomously, my temper more than matching his now (and that was saying something.)
"No, I don't remember, but how exactly are you going to show me this 'true power of water'? Are you going to make it rain on me?" he asked scathingly, with an arrogant smile on his face to perfectly match his tone.
"Oh no, I can do much more than that, so much more. Some of the things I have the ability to do would blow away your pathetic little mind!" I was practically screaming at him now, that arrogant bastard!
I took no notice of anything else in the vicinity, focusing only on pouring my anger out at Tahu. I didn't even notice Onua's grim expression as he advanced to break up the argument, nor his signal to an impassive Kopaka, a worried Pohatu, and an incredulous Lewa, as obvious as it was.
"Then prove it!" he roared at me, his magma swords glowing dangerously in his anger, "Prove to me that you're something other than a pathetic girl and liability to this team!" As he snarled this insult at me, a smirk rearranged his features into the sinfully mocking smile that I knew so well. He continued on, pleased at my outraged expression, "Meet me at 5AM tomorrow at the kini-nui, and prove you're actually worth something, other than a hindrance of course."
With those searing parting words, he was gone, leaving me to angry to do anything of than shake with rage, and leaving the others in varying states of disgust at his behavior.
R&R please, you might just guilt me into posting the next chapter earlier than planned if you actually still like the story after this chapter.