Chapter 4

Sara felt the heat and light of the sun beating against her eyelids. The rays were so bright that it made her open her eyes slowly. She realized that someone was holding her by the hood of her jade green short-sleeved jacket. She found herself staring into a pair of bright yellow eyes. Sara cried out with surprise as did the yellow-eyed individual. Sara then fell flat on her bottom on the lush green grass. She looked up and saw that the yellow-eyed individual was a seven foot tall being with silver armor and was wearing an emerald green mask.

"Where am I? Who are you? And where's that one dude with the big orange eyes?!" asked Sara in a very frenzied manner

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, slow down there stranger," said the armored being "For a small-fry you sure talk ever-quick. Let me introduce myself. I-"

Suddenly, out of nowhere, a huge animal came out of nowhere and roared at Sara as if she was an enemy. Sara screamed thinking that this creature was going to maul her. The armored figure laughed patting the animal on the head. The animal closely resembled a bio-mechanical light orange bear. In fact, it was a light orange bio-mechanical bear.

"Aw, don't fright-worry," said the armored figure "Ash bear won't hurt-harm you. She's just protecting her home-realm."

But then he burst into an uncontrollable fit of laughter.

"But," laughed the armored figure "The look-expression on your face! It was priceless!"

Sara smiled sheepishly and her face started to turn pink-ish red. She had to admit that her reaction was a little humorous but she was still pretty embarrassed. She rubbed the back of her head meekly as if to say "Uh, sure… it was nothing; no problem." The armored figure then stopped laughing and cleared his throat.

"So, what's your name?" he asked "I can't just call you 'stranger' forever you know."

"It's Sara," she replied "And you are…"

"Toa Lewa Nuva; mystery-king of know-nothingness… that's me!" said the armored figure

"Uh, so… which part's your name?" asked Sara

"Lewa. 'Toa' and 'Nuva' are just my job-title." said Lewa

"I see," said Sara "So, since I'm a student, would I address myself as 'Student-Sara'."

"Uh, no." said Lewa "You'd just be Sara. I know it's ever-baffling."

He then changed the conversation.

"Now, if you don't mind me asking, what exactly are you? Because you're definitely not a Matoran… or a Turaga… or a Toa-hero… hmmm… what are you?"

"I'm a human." said Sara

"A human huh?" said Lewa "Now where have I heard that word before? Ah, yes! Turaga Matau used to tell story-legends about them! Heard they were a race of organic being-spirits who have lived in our home-world since the time before time. Until, that is, they all quick-spread."

"Quick-spread?" asked Sara "You mean like… gone?"

"Exactly. Gone-vanished without a trace," said Lewa "Word is deep-wood, that they all became extinct."

"Extinct?" said Sara "My people? But… where I live there's over millions of humans."

"Strange-odd indeed," said Lewa "But we'll deep-think about that later. Right now I've got to quick-spread the word that I just found a human! No, I've got to quick-show them!"

Alohalani couldn't see anything at all. Either he was in a very, very dark room or the BoM members have put something over his head. One moment ago he was fighting and the next moment he finds himself as a prisoner of war along with about seven or eight of his fellow agents. He felt a violent shove against his body thrusting him face first into the ground. He also heard signs of people softly (yet violently) landing on the ground beside him. Those were most likely his allies.

Alohalani was then pulled up aggressively to his knees and felt a smooth yet thick surface move over his face. As he thought it was indeed a bag. The bag revealed that he, along with his other allies, were bounded tightly by rough bunches of rope. The rest of his allies were also on their knees without any bags over their faces. They looked around their surroundings only to find that all of the BoM members were around them muttering bitterly at them. That could only mean one thing: things were about to get very ugly.

A familiar face had then stepped to the front of the crowd and approached the eight cloaked warriors. All of the warriors' cloaks were then pulled back revealing their true identities. Alohalani, who wore a gold colored mask, smirked when he saw who it was who was about to interrogate them.

"If it isn't Roodaka," he said "I should've known they would make you leader after he di-"

SMACK!! Roodaka had punched straight across the face. Alohalani had a small line of blood dripping from his mouth and a huge lavender bruise forming on his left cheek. Alohalani gave Roodaka a menacing glance even though his efforts of intimidating her were obviously in vain.

"Where is she?" she demanded

"Who?" asked Alohalani

"You know of whom I speak. The human girl who we've been keeping prisoner. Several guards claim that two of you were saw escaping with her. Now where is she?"

"Alohalani, what's going on?" asked a female ally of Alohalani

"I'll explain later." he whispered

"Answer the question, dammit!" shouted one BoM member who hit Alohalani on the back of his head with a club

Alohalani spat out some blood from his mouth and glared at Roodaka again. Before he could make some smart-aleck remark (which of course would result in another blow to the head. Perhaps worse) Kale, who was wearing a vermillion red Nuva version of the Kanohi Kualsi (Mask of Quick-Travel), spoke up in Alohalani's defense.

"How the hell would we know where she is?" said Kale hotly "Maybe one of your guards let her get away!"

BAM! One of the BoM members had brutally kicked Kale in the diaphragm causing the wind to be knocked out of him. Kale gave out a slight moan of agony and started to pant heavily. A female ally of his called his name in concern. Kale tried to tell them he was alright but he couldn't say the word since he couldn't breathe.

"Oh… yeah… sure…" panted Kale "Hit… him… on… the head… and… knock the… wind… out of… me…"

"I don't have time for this," muttered Roodaka "Take them to the dungeon. Have them be tortured later while you're at it."

The guards dragged away the Alohalani and his companions to the dungeon followed by most of the BoM members. However, Roodaka, her personal assistant and several Rahkshi stayed behind to discuss a plan. Roodaka pulled out a large, golden, Kanohi Olmak (Mask of Dimensional Gates) with several distinctive features that made it look more powerful and unique than the other Kanohi Olmak's out there.

"One massacre," she said "Over a simple mask? How foolish."

She then turned to her assistant (the assassin from chapter 2) who just so happened to know how to "get answers without even forcing them out" if you know what I mean.

"What did you find out?"

"According to their thoughts, the two fools who made the outbursts teleported her to Metru-Nui."

"Hmph. Somehow I am not surprised."

She then turned to the Rahkshi.

"I believe this calls for a blast from the past," she said handing over the mask to Turahk (red Rahkshi) "Find the girl and bring her back. If you find any Toa, eliminate them."

"It's the leassst we can do for you reviving us and giving us the ability to speak." replied Turahk impishly

Turahk then put on the mask and he mask opened up a static blue and white portal. All of the Rahkshi walked through it determined to get revenge on the very Toa who made them a laughing stock: the Toa Nuva.

"So that's how you got here," said Lewa "A mask that can quick-travel huh?"

"Mask?" asked Sara "I didn't see any masks. They were wearing these cloaks so I couldn't see their faces."

Lewa carefully explained how some people have certain mask with their own power. At first, Sara didn't quite understand what he was talking about but it eventually made a little more sense once she thought about it. Sara could not believe how different her world was from this one… wherever this world was.

Lewa immediately stopped and glance around his surroundings. Judging by the wind currents, he could immediately tell that something was wrong. Sara looked behind her shoulder and stopped as well curious to know why Lewa had stop in the first place. For a moment there was an uncomfortable silence as a powerful wind quickly blew by.

"What is it?" asked Sara

"Something's bad-wrong…" said Lewa "I can feel-sense it in the air patterns."

Apparently, he was right; unfortunately, it was right when the two realized that something was wrong that the trouble had already started for them. For little did they know that someone was watching from the shadows. A small twig had cracked behind them. They both turned around to see who or what was there only to find that nothing was there.

There was shaking in the branches of the trees. Both of them had stood their ground and waited for any sign of movement. But when all seemed calm, Lewa heard some more movement in the trees. The noise then changed from movement to the sound of a weapon charging up with energy.

"Low-duck!" said Lewa who grabbed Sara and threw both Sara and himself onto the ground to get out of the way of the attack

BOOM! The energy of the attack made a hostile impact on the ground leaving a small crater and ashes in its wake. The one who had initiated the attack had leapt out from his hiding place to see if his attack was accurate enough; fortunately for our heroes, it wasn't.

"Shit! I misssed!" snapped the shooter

Lewa and Sara immediately got up and faced their attacker. It was none other than Panrahk (brown Rahkshi) himself; the Rahkshi who had control over fragmentation. Lewa was surprised that he was still alive. Last time Lewa had seen Panrahk and the rest of the Rahkshi was four years ago back on the island of Mata Nui. The question of how he escaped was ringing in his mind.

"You are still alive?!" asked Lewa "And since when could you think-talk?!"

"That'sss right," said Panrahk who didn't bother answering the second question "But your brother, Takanuva, isss none of my concccern now. Thisss time it'sss your little friend over there that I'm looking for."

Panrahk then turned his attention to Sara.

"Now then, come with me little girl," he said "I'm sure your parentsss are worried sssick about you."

Sara shot a cold glare and took a step back which of course means no. Panrahk smirked at this and pulled out his staff as Lewa pulled out his dual katana. After a moment of deleterious silence, Panrahk shot out three energy blasts one at a time. Lewa swung his right katana causing a strong gust of wind to appear and pushing the first blast off target. He did the same with the second blast but instead of using his right katana he used his left. Just as the last one was about to hit him, he swung both of his katana and a huge gust of wind knocked the last blast back at Panrahk which knocked him down on his back. But since this was a sample of Panrahk own "element", the attack didn't leave a single scratch.

Panrahk quickly sprang back up and both warriors lunged at each other. Just as Panrahk tried to stab his staff into him, Lewa jumped on the staff and did a front flip over Panrahk and landed behind him but not without kicking Panrahk in the back of the head. Lewa then quickly tried to slash at Panrahk's right leg but Panrahk quickly turned around and blocked the attack.

"It ssseemsss you've gotten ssstronger the lassst time I fought you." said Panrahk

"Oh?" asked Lewa "Are you sure it isn't that you've gotten bog-foot at battle-fighting?"

Panrahk then attempted to stab Lewa where he was on the ground. But Lewa quickly did a somersault backwards just in the nick of time. Panrahk then quickly shot several blasts of fragmentation at him but Lewa avoided that also by rolling off to the side and into the bushes. Panrahk of course quickly followed. He found Lewa standing there waiting for him to make his move. Taking the advantage, Panrahk charged head first at Lewa. But Lewa used one of his katana and his element of air to make another strong gust of wind bringing the dirt with it. The dirt immediately got into Panrahk's eyes and blinded him.

Once he quickly got the dirt out of his eyes, Panrahk quickly looked around only to find that Lewa was gone. Panrahk growled and looked about his surroundings to see if he was hiding anywhere. But there was still no sign of him. Panrahk scowled in frustration but still kept looking.

"Where are you?" he shouted "Show yourssself!"

"I'm up-tree!" said a voice

Panrahk looked above him only to find that Lewa was about to land right on top of him. But instead of landing on him, Lewa punched Panrahk face flat into the ground. After that, he took a couple steps back to see if Panrahk had given up. Lewa smiled cheerfully thinking that he did. But Lewa hadn't realized that he had let his guard down. Panrahk swung his staff upward hitting Lewa in the chin. Then he went for several quick melee blows to Lewa's rib cage, stomach, chest and shoulder, and then kicked Lewa sending him flying against a tree.

Panrahk shot another blast of fragmentation at Lewa but Lewa jumped up to a higher branch in order to dodge the attack. Panrahk then jumped up and swung overhead but Lewa jumped much higher letting Panrahk hit the branch instead. Lewa was then floating above the trees (thanks to his Kanohi Miru Nuva) waiting for Panrahk to follow him which obviously he did. Panrahk started to fly straight at Lewa who was deep in thought trying to form a strategy.

'Wait! I've just think-thought of a happy-plan!' thought Lewa as Panrahk came soaring straight at him 'No, no, I'd probably turn out Rahkshi-bones if I did try to do it. But then again…'

But as Panrahk was about ten feet away from him Lewa had made up his mind.

'Ah, why not?' thought Lewa

Just as Panrahk was about to ram straight into Lewa, Lewa quickly floated to the side and grabbed Panrahk by the staff causing him to stop suddenly in startlement. Lewa then took Panrahk's arms and folded them into very painful positions. Then the two of them went spiraling down the ground at full speed. The moment the two adversaries made impact with the ground, a sudden large cloud of dirt rose twelve feet high in the air along with a devastating BOOM!

Sara ran over to see if Lewa had survived through the crash. She quickly followed the cloud of dirt through the jungle and found Lewa and Panrahk battling each other to the death along with a small crater not too far away. The battle finally ended with Panrahk on his knees covered in cuts and bruises panting. Lewa stood his ground waiting for him to make his next move. If he kept this up, he would surely be dead before he knew it. He had no choice but to retreat.

"You may have won the battle, Toa," spat Panrahk "But you have not won the war. You and the othersss will pay for thisss along with your little human friend over there too."

Panrahk then took off to the skies and flew away.

"Well… that was a lot ever-easier than I'd expected," said Lewa who then turned to Sara "You alright?"

"Yeah." said Sara

"That's good to think-hear," said Lewa "Now, we'd better get to sing-song Le-Metru before crazy-one over there decides to quick-return. Otherwise, your current bad-situation will be bad-worse."

"Point taken." said Sara

"But we are definitely not foot-walking." said Lewa

"And how do suppose we get there?" asked Sara

"Simple-easy," said Lewa with a grin "Air-flying."

"Well that sou- air-flying? As in fly flying?"

"Yes."

"You mean you can actually fly?"

"Yes."

"Okay… could you show me?"

"Don't need to. Here, grab on."

Sara put her arms around Lewa's neck.

"Grip-tight." said Lewa

"Wait, are you sure this is- WHOA!" said Sara as Lewa took off into the air

(If I am speaking Treespeak wrong can someone please tell me how I am messing up and give me the correct phrase because I'm still learning myself. Also, Happy Easter everyone!)