BC1 - VS Shadow Gali

Tahu’s mysterious opponent leaped off its rock and surfed across the bubbling lava. Its smile broadened. “Come, give in to the flame,” it whispered. “Let it consume you and all you hold dear - I know you can feel it burning deep inside.”

Tahu gasped, startled out of his own anger. What sort of enemy was this? He looked around for help and saw that five more attackers had suddenly appeared, as if out of the shadows themselves, each moving in on a different Toa….


Nearby, Gali struggled against another mysterious attacker. The stranger’s form mirrored her own, but rather than the clean blue of the open sea, its body was the muted, sickly brownish-black of an oil slick.

“Who are you?” Gali gasped as she released a raging flood of water toward her attacker.

A chuckle poured out of the attacker, who seemed unaffected by the flood. “Who am I?” it said. “Is wise, all-seeing Gali really so blind? I am – you!”


Pohatu jumped atop an enormous boulder just in time to avoid being swept away by Gali’s flood. “Hey!” he cried, his usual good nature overwhelmed by near panic. “Gali, take care not to fight your friends as well as your enemy!”

His opponent smirked. “So much for the teamwork,” it said in its gravelly voice. “This is how your friends repay your loyalty. Makes one wonder why one should bother with friends at all, doesn't it?”

“Not at all.” Pohatu leaped to the ground and immediately swung his weapon at the boulder. It shattered into hundreds of flying shards, ricocheting off the walls toward the mysterious attacker.

The stranger laughed as he dodged the rocks. “Too bad, Pohatu,” it taunted. “Good thing you expect nothing in return for your loyalty to your friends. Because now that the chips are down, it seems they've left you to fight me all alone.”


It was getting hard for Lewa to concentrate on his own battle. First he'd nearly backflipped into the pool of lava that had suddenly appeared to cover half the cave. Then a flood of water had washed through.

“AI-AI-AI-AI-AI!” he yodeled, flipping himself up and over his attacker’s weapons and out of the boulder’s path.

CRRRRAAAAAACK!

The cavern shuddered as the boulder struck the wall. Lewa glanced hopefully back toward it, wondering if his opponent might be trapped behind it.

[...]

It hadn’t taken Kopaka long to realize what was happening - Makuta had created these shadowy versions of the Toa to challenge them where the Manas and all the other creatures had failed.

And so far, the plan seemed to be working.



- BIONICLE Chronicles 1: Tale of the Toa, Chapter 15