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I do not own either lego bionicle or this plot they both are owned by the lego company and this story plots Author Biohazard Technologies all the right's go to their respective partys i own nothing sadly

Chapter Seventeen:
Desert Battleground

Gali couldn't help but sing quietly to herself as she used her power over water to remove the flood from Po-Koro.

The Toa all had decided that they should stay for awhile and help clean things up.

She danced a bit and spun her upraised finger in a circle, causing the water to spiral as it headed out to the sea.

She sang a bit louder and smiled as she watched the water glisten in the sunlight.

Once she had finished with the water, she turned around and gazed at Po-Koro.

The village was strangely beautiful in it's damaged state.

Gali stood on a small cliff over looking the town. She smiled down at the village.

"It's bout as bad as it could be. Seems like everybody's buggin' me. Like nothing wants to go my way-yeah, it just ain't been my day. Nothin's comin' easily." She sang. "even my skin is acting weird. I wish that I could grow a beard then I could cover up my spots- not play connect the dots I just wanna disappear."

She could tell that the tohunga down in the village could hear her. She knew they were all trying to spot her up on the cliffs. She heard someone give a shout meaning that they had spotted her.

The tohunga all gathered to watch the amazing spectacle.

Gali smiled down at them and jumped off the cliff, skidding down the cliff side on her feet and landing gracefully at the bottom.

"up-up-up can only go up from here. Up-up-up where the clouds gonna clear. Up-up-up there's no way but up from here." She sang happily.

She made her way through the working tohunga with a smile on her face and a bounce in her step. Wherever she went, tohunga cheered and sang along.

"Even something as simple as forgetting to fill up on gas. There ain't no explanation why- things like that can make you cry just gotta learn to have a laugh"

She made her way down to the still soaked Koli field, several tohunga following her.

"up-up-up can only go up from here. Up-up-up where the clouds gonna clear. Up-up-up there's no way but up from here."

Lewa poked his head out from behind one of the huts when he heard Gali singing.

He looked after her and the tohunga for a minute before running off to find the others.

'They won't want to miss this.' He thought.

Gali stood in the middle of the Koli field, the tohunga all sitting in the stands or dancing.

"when everything's going wrong, don't worry, it won't last for long. Yeah, it's all gonna come around don't go let it get you down you gotta keep holding on." She sang.

The Toa all followed Lewa to the Koli field in confusion. That was when they heard the singing.

They broke into a run towards the Koli field.

The Toa came upon a most amazing sight.

Gali was dancing around in the middle of the field and singing. She looked like a diva.

The tohunga seemed to be having the time of their lives as they danced and sang along. The poor tohunga were not going to let this happiness fade away after their horrible ordeal.

"It's bout as bad as it could be. Seems like everybody's buggin' me. Like nothing wants to go my way-yeah, it just ain't been my day. Nothin's comin' easily."

Gali winked up at them from the field as if to say 'watch this'

She picked up the beat and clapped her hands to the music. The tohunga followed her example.

"up-up-up can only go up from here. Up-up-up where the clouds gonna clear. Up-up-up there's no way but up from here."

The song ended and the stands erupted with cheers.

Gali smiled at them then made her way up to the others as the crowd dispersed.

As soon as she joined the others she was hit with a barrage of questions.

"Guys guys. Please." She said. "if you must know. I just felt like singing."

"When you should be working?" Tahu asked.

Gali rolled her eyes.

"We all needed the break Tahu you know that."

Tahu blushed slightly and scratched the back of his head.

"Yeah, I guess we did."

"Well," Lewa said suddenly. "I say we have lunch."

The Toa all nodded and made their way back to the inn.

~*~

They all sat around a table in the tavern part of the inn. The Toa talked happily amongst themselves.

Gali ate more than she had the past few days and talked excitedly to the others, her current problems and worries forgotten.

'I ought to have some fun.' She thought.

She opened up completely to the conversation, cracking jokes every now and then.

Gali hardly noticed their surroundings as she got lost in the joyous conversation.

She didn't even notice Kopaka watching her.

The Toa of Ice watched her carefully.

Never had he seen her so animated and happy. Gali was always the one to step back from the conversation and spend her time alone. She was also the one who was usually hiding behind a mask of indifference that was devoid of emotion, but for some reason, she wasn't wearing that mask as of current.

She looked so vibrant and beautiful as she smiled and laughed with the others that Kopaka wanted to-

What did he want?

He was so confused.

This Leyna form had so many strange things about it. His emotions were stronger no matter how hard he tried to suppress them they were always there.

Kopaka hated being confused.

He tried to pull his attention away from the interesting young woman but couldn't.

He couldn't have timed what happened next better even if he tried.

A massive explosion suddenly rocked the ground.

Bits and pieces of buildings began to rain down outside.

The Toa were all thrown painfully to the floor.

Kopaka heard several screams from the tohunga outside but one scream rang out above them all.

Gali's.

He blearily opened his eyes to find himself laying on his side on the floor. His whole body hurt.

No, places on his whole body hurt.

He vaguely registered that the roof had collapsed and had come down on top of them.

He saw the others laying on the ground in much the same condition as he was but he couldn't find Gali.

"Hey Kopaka," he heard Tahu say weakly. "Ya dead?"

"No man." Kopaka replied.

"Good." Tahu said as he got up onto his hands and knees.

"Toa!" He said. "Status report."

The table was suddenly over turned, revealing Pohatu and Lewa beneath it.

"We're a little beat up but we're ok." Pohatu said.

"Where are Gali and Onua?" Tahu asked.

"Here."

A large part of the fallen roof suddenly shook then lifted up revealing Onua and Gali.

Onua held up the roof and Gali sat on her knees at his feet. They were smiling at each other.

"Status report." Tahu said.

"A few scrapes and bruises but we're fine." Onua said as he threw the chunk of roofing aside.

Kopaka crawled to his feet, wincing in mild pain.

"Toa Leyna" yelled a male voice from outside the village. "Come out and face us!"

The Toa looked at each other before running outside.

The village was in near ruins.

They made their way out of the village only to find themselves standing only a few meters away from the Dark Lords.

"Ah, so you survived." Linnex said, acknowledging Gali.

"What do you want?" Lewa demanded.

"We've come to fight." Trice said snottily.

"Yeah, Well you got one!" Lewa yelled at him. "I'll kill you for what you did you dirty little…"

Lewa swore so viciously here that the others looked at him in shock.

"Lewa, "Kopaka growled. "Watch you language."

Lewa hung his head for a moment before glaring at the Dark Lords.

"Why did you attack my village?" Pohatu suddenly cut in angrily.

"Because it was so weak that we couldn't resist attacking." Nirvana laughed.

Gali clenched her fists tightly at that last comment.

"Take it back." She growled low in her throat.

"What did you say oh, flat chested one?" Nirvana asked mockingly.

"I said. TAKE IT BACK!"

Gali suddenly charged at Nirvana and swung her right fist at her.

The right hook landed squarely with the side of Nirvana's face, knocking the Dark Lord back a bit.

Everyone looked on in shock as Nirvana righted herself and put a finger to the side of her mouth here a small rivulet of blood was trickling.

"You'll pay for that wench!" Nirvana cried.

Gali yanked out her glaive and got into a fighting stance. She put her hand out and beckoned Nirvana forward.

"Come on then." She growled.

Then blitzkrieg broke loose.

~*~

Blasts of different energies raged across the battle field as the fighting grew more and more intense.

Kopaka and Jareth had been locked in a sword fight for some time now.

"When I'm done with you." Jareth said to Kopaka. "I'm going to take that little blue beauty home with me and.."

Jareth said something then that made something in Kopaka's mind snap.

Kopaka threw his sword tho the side and delivered a heavy punch to Jareth's stomach. This punch was followed by several others to different parts of the Dark Lord's body.

"If you even think about laying a hand on Gali." Kopaka growled in between punches. "I swear I will rip you limb from limb slowly leaving you in utter agony then scatter what's left of you all across Mata Nui. Leaving the pieces for the rahi to eat and digest slowly in their bellies."

All the while he was driving Jareth backwards with the force of his punches.

He landed one final blow to the side of Jareth's head, which knocked the Dark Lord unconscious.

Kopaka flexed his fingers and grabbed his sword before turning to help Lewa.

His eyes came upon a fearsome sight.

Lewa had his white knives in his hands and was attacking Trice without mercy. The Toa of Air hardly noticed the wounds he kept receiving from Trice's spear.

His blades flashed about in a flurry of light as he whirled to parry a thrust of Trice's spear. He growled and kicked upwards, forcefully knocking the spear from it's user's grip.

Lewa used his power over air to summon up a great blast of wind that sent Trice flying, the Dark Lord was unconscious before he even hit the ground.

Pohatu, Tahu, and Onua had finished their battles and ran over to join them.

"Where's Gali?" Tahu asked.

"She must still be fighting." Onua said.

They were suddenly knocked off balance by what felt like an earth quake. This was followed by a scream of rage.

The Toa got to their feet and ran up to the top of a sand dune.

Below them at the base of the dune, were Gali and Nirvana. Both were bleeding from several wounds and both were very angry.

The ground around them was completely soaked.

They watched in awe as Gali's glaive clashed against Nirvana's arcane staff and gave off a loud pinging noise.

"Die!" Nirvana screamed as she force Gali backwards.

"You first." Gali growled.

She kicked Nirvana's legs out from under her. Nirvana fell back onto the sand and glared at her.

Gali stood over her and put a hand out, palm facing down at the Dark Lord.

"Kiss this"

The ground began to shake and the sky darkened a bit as Gali's hand began to glow with a cool blue light. The pupils faded from her eyes as a strange new force took over.

"Chaos Control." Gali said calmly and quietly.

Nirvana screamed as rods of energy shot out of Gali's hand and lanced through her.

Nirvana soon passed out from pain.

Nirvana's unconscious form vanished in a glow of red light.

Suddenly a strange and evil laughter rang out across the sky.

"You may have one this battle but not the war." It said. "Here's a parting gift."

"MAKUTA!" Tahu yelled as the ground began to shake violently.

Gali returned to normal just as the ground beneath her began to heave upward. She screamed and jumped out of the way.

A loud roar rang out across the sky as a fifty foot tall creature heaved it'self up from the ground.

It was bloody red and resembled a bull with fangs and really big horns.

"PETRADON!" Pohatu cried.

The Toa barely managed to jump out of the way as a massive cloven hoof came down where they had just been standing.

"Why is he sending demons after us?" Onua called over the din as the Petradon roared again.

"It's the only thing he can do." Tahu called back.

"How do we kill this thing?" Kopaka asked

"By working together!" Gali replied.

She began to summon up a tsunami.

Following her example, the others began to summon up the strongest natural disasters for their element that they could think of.

They threw all of their attacks at the Petradon at once.

The demon screamed as the attacks hit it. It turned it's head towards them and sent a wave of fire from it's mouth at them.

Gali quenched the fire with a wave.

"Die monster!" she yelled.

She pointed her glaive at the beast, its' blade glowing a cool blue.

Her eyes became pupiless again.

"Chaos Control."

A massive beam of blue light shot out from the blade at the Petradon and hit it squarely in the forehead.

The monster screamed in agony and fell on to the ground. It's body began to rot right before their eyes.

It's skin peeled away from it's bones and the bones disintegrated and blew away with the wind.

The Toa first gazed in shock at where the Petradon had been then they looked at Gali.

The Toa of water suddenly gave a quiet cry and began to fall.

Kopaka caught the unconscious girl just before she hit the ground.

"Is she alright?" Onua asked

"She passed out." Kopaka replied.

"Let's head back to Po-Koro." Tahu said. "We all could use some medical attention."

The Toa nodded before following him back to Po-Koro.