Sorry for the lack of updates --; I was up to my neck in midterms and couldn't reach the computer.

Disclaimer: I don't own bionicle…

As the early morning stars winked down on me, the cool early morning breeze driftng by lazily, and I continued my climb up the steep hill with Lewa and Pohatu trying to futilely delay me, I visualized every move in me head that was required to make Tahu regret that he had said anything, so preoccupied was I by this that I almost didn't notice that I had arrived at my destination.

I just barely noticed the rest of the toa standing aside, looking on with grim acceptance as I glared across at him through the wide empty space that spanned between us. That arrogant annoying, egotistic fire toa!

"Let us begin." Tahu merely stated, with an infuriatingly mocking smirk on his face that suggested that he was confident of his victory.

"Your move Gali, after all, ladies first."

I shot forward, throwing a well aimed kick at his torso. He parried, and I was pleased to see a look of surprise cross his face before he recovered and thrust his magma swords at me. I blocked the swords, but not with considerable effort. Taking advantage of my preoccupation, he used his free hand to ignite a few glowing balls of fire. This was not good news. As the hilt of his sword came crashing into my middle, as I flew backwards and hit a stone pillar, as the fire flew to greet me, as it impacted into my chest; its flame burning me with fury, I was suddenly aware of voices.

"Tahu this is completely out of line!"

"What do you think you were doing?!"

These comments awakened me just enough to summon water to quench the flames that were biting at me. Standing up and ready to kill Tahu, I felt a steady hand fall on my shoulder.

"Stop Gali."

Headlessly, I didn't listen the slightest as I started forward, only to feel a stunning hit to my neck, see the ground tilt upwards to greet me, feel a pair of strong arms catch me as I fell, and then, as I drifted into murky darkness, I knew no more.

So sorry about the short chapter, but my shoulder is trying to commit murder on the rest of me, so, no more typing.

I've been getting comments that Tahu is a bit OOC…yeah I see that, and I see that in a lot of other stories where Tahu gets a bad rap, but guess what!!! He won't always be like this here. Sorry for the OOC Tahu though…

R&R please!