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Okoto
The eight found themselves in the
middle of a primitive group of shelters housing villagers. Maruahi felt a being
searching his thoughts and those of the other Toa. He used his Suletu ability to block the other
being out of his own mind and the minds of his fellow Toa. Then the being paused everything but Maruahi
and told him that as a new resident he and his companions must be
examined. Maruahi resisted and said that
he had been given no reason to trust the voice of a being he could not see. The being told him that it was called Okoto, this was the island of
Okoto and the island was part of a giant robot. The being wanted peace and happiness for its
inhabitants new and old. To do that it
believed that a balance of elemental users must be maintained. Yet, it also wanted its inhabitants to be
free and not inflict changes on them at will but rather in the most extreme of
circumstances or when new beings came from other universes. Maruahi asked if other beings from other
universes had shown up earlier. Okoto
replied that they had not but it was aware of other universes’ existence and it
had certain protocols in place in case beings from other universes showed
up. Maruahi said that Okoto still had
not given him proof that it meant him and his companions no harm and his mental
blocking would not cease. Okoto asked if
Maruahi or his companions meant any harm.
Maruahi said that they meant no harm and if anything, they would rather
go back to their own universe. Okoto
read the truth in his words and told Maruahi that the ability to teleport from
universe to universe was not an ability that Okoto could create or had seen
before. Teleporting within the Okoto
universe was possible with help from Okoto or if Okoto provided the necessary
information to those wishing to make a teleportation device. Then Okoto sighed and accepted that it would
not get to learn everything it wanted from the new beings but it could still
make similar beings to keep its elemental balance.
Then two beings came out of the
ground; Umarak, whom Okoto called “the Master of
Shadow” and Teniki, whom Okoto called “the Ice Wraith”. Umarak was similar to Takanuva but his
element was Shadow instead of Light while Teniki
was supposed to be modeled after Maruahi.
Maruahi could sense that Umarak had not been copied properly and his
abilities were too great in some aspects and too weak in others. Then he began examining Teniki and found that
Teniki was dying because Okoto had not understood Maruahi’s essence. Teniki was weak and his essence was
unstable. Teniki doubled over with
pain. Okoto un-paused the rest of the
Toa and told them to please help Taniki survive. Maruahi, Umarak, Takanuva, and Kopaka tried to help him by fueling him with
their elements but he burst and the elements returned to their originators and
Taniki was gone. Okoto began assaulting
Maruahi’s mind and the two fought telepathically. While trying to gain the upper hand mentally,
Okoto said that Teniki had died because Maruahi let him die. Maruahi insisted that it was because Okoto
had tried to make a copy of Maruahi without asking for directions. Okoto said that if he had been able to
examine Maruahi’s mind then he could have gotten it right. Maruahi said that Okoto should have waited
and asked if Maruahi would consent to help make a being to mirror him. Okoto won the upper hand in the telepathic
dual and began to destroy Maruahi’s sentient capabilities and revert him to a
being of pure instinct. Then Okoto gave
Maruahi a memory that Umarak and the other Toa had hurt him and were going to
continue hurting him unless he fought back.
Maruahi began attacking the other Toa and successfully killed them
all. Okoto then decided that Maruahi was
too powerful to let live and tried to kill Maruahi with lightning and with
mental attacks. Maruahi absorbed the
lightning and then everything paused.
Okoto did not understand, he had not paused anything. Maruahi told Okoto that by giving him the
upper hand he had been able to distract and trick him. While Okoto saw a scenario that Maruahi
played out for him Maruahi examined the mind of Okoto and got to know his
weaknesses, the ins and outs of the giant robot and the abilities Okoto
had. Maruahi told Okoto that he had been
in multiple telepathic duels before, while Okoto had never met a being with
telepathic abilities other than itself till this point.
Maruahi said that he could have killed
Okoto and the inhabitants of the giant robot would not have known the
difference. Especially since Okoto wiped
the minds of those who found out that there was a higher power than their
village protectors and elders. Maruahi
said that he took no joy in killing but he would kill if Okoto again threatened
his mind or the minds of the other Toa.
Okoto promised that as long as Maruahi and the other Toa did not attack
his inhabitants he would not use telepathy in an attacking manner anymore. Maruahi said that if he or the other Toa felt
threatened then they would defend themselves and if need be they would kill
their attackers, no matter who they were.
Okoto saw that he could not be swayed and consented. Okoto asked how Maruahi had gained the
ability to pause the universe as Okoto could.
Maruahi told him that as long as a being knew how to take control of the
universe it could do so and with control of the universe the being would then
have all of the abilities Okoto currently had.
He also told Okoto that he had learned that Okoto was not the intended
end user of the giant robot and that the giant robot was supposed to be
exploring other planets and other universes once the true end user took control
of the universe. Maruahi relinquished
control of the universe and mentally took them back to the other Toa and then
he saw Teniki.
Teniki had not actually died but his
physical body had burst and then disintegrated.
His spirit was still alive and had found the strength to make its
presence known to Maruahi and Okoto.
Teniki blamed Okoto for defectively creating him and all the pain that
had he had experienced while his physical body died. Teniki then attacked. Okoto had never had a spirit attack it before
and begged Maruahi to help him. Maruahi
tried to use his telepathic, telekinetic, and elemental abilities to stop
Teniki but he could not affect the spirit.
Maruahi then took control of the universe again and began fighting
Teniki spirit to spirit. Okoto asked why
Maruahi did not just kill Teniki.
Maruahi said that he saw determination and defiance in Teniki and he
never killed anything with true determination unless there was no other
choice. He tried to reason with Teniki
and get him to understand that killing was not right answer for making a
mistake. He said that if Okoto had known
Teniki would go through that pain and if Okoto had known that Teniki would die
then Okoto would not have made him.
Teniki would not be swayed and broke free from Maruahi and began
fighting Okoto again. Okoto was losing
and began to fade. Maruahi wrenched
Teniki off of Okoto and threatened to kill him if he kept attacking. Teniki shot a spirit icicle from his arm at
Okoto’s head killing him. Teniki then
wriggled free and said Maruahi should work on his spirit fighting skills. Maruahi started a spirit fire in Teniki’s
head but it did not kill him instantly allowing Teniki to flee and survive. Maruahi then began destroying all the systems
of the giant robot. With Okoto dead, no
knowledge of the intended end user of the giant robot and with Teniki running
free Maruahi saw no other way to keep the inhabitants of the universe safe
except stopping anyone from gaining control of the universe. Maruahi was never big on being having
universe control in the first place. He
transferred all of the necessary requirements for an Okoto universe
teleportation device and a device that could turn him into a spirit and then
continued to destroy the giant robot’s inner workings. He teleported all of the inhabitants to the
island of Okoto, the only habitable place in the universe once the giant robot
was shut down. Maruahi was glad that the
Mata Nui robot had a better design than this one. Since no other place in the universe was
habitable he destroyed them and left only the island of Okoto and the giant
robot head. If he destroyed the head
with the systems available to him he would severely damage the island and
possibly get some villagers killed. He
then initiated the final self-destruct protocol, un-paused the universe, and
teleported himself to the island of Okoto.
Teniki was hiding on the island growing in strength and studying the
inhabitants to see if he could find a way to communicate or physically interact
with them so as to gain some allies to help him fight against Maruahi.
Maruahi now in his own body told the
other Toa to work with the villagers to make the island habitable while he,
Umarak and Takanuva came up with a plan to defeat Teniki. The other Toa began forming the island
regions after the regions of the Island of Mata Nui. As the regions were formed Elemental Creatures
were formed and united with the Toa to enhance their work. Then Agil, Creature of Light and Nobrahi,
Creature of Shadow united with Takanuva and Umarak respectively. They then helped imbue villagers with
elemental traits as the other six had once they united with their
creatures. Maruahi heard a voice. He realized that Okoto was still alive.
Okoto wanted to make a creature for
him to unite with so as to balance out the elemental users. Maruahi agreed to aid in the creation
of Drahkir only if he got to pick some of its attributes. The island agreed. Maruahi saw that the other creatures
increased the elemental abilities of their Toa and added a new capability or
asset to the Toa, such as flight, armor, weapon, etc. Maruahi wanted his creature to provide all
three of these things. The island did
not want to give him such an advantage over the other Toa so it declared that
the creature’s elemental contributions would decrease as the Toa used multiple
assets. If the uniting Toa used both
assets and the flight ability, then the creature would not contribute any
elemental contributions and if the Toa used two of the additions then the
elemental creature would contribute half of the elemental power other creatures
could contribute. The island also did
not want the creature to tap into its Shadow or Light abilities without the
help of its uniting Toa. Maruahi said he
would agree only if he could teach Drahkir to tap into its Shadow and Light
abilities over time and if he could also teach the creature to detach from him
while still providing him with a shield or sword or both. The island agreed and used Maruahi’s help to
form Drahkir.
Maruahi then asked Okoto how he had
survived. Okoto said that he had merely
hidden himself because as a spirit Teniki could only cause pain but not death and
likewise while in spirit form Okoto could be hurt but not killed. Due to his wounds, he had not been able to
stop Maruahi from destroying the giant robot, minus the head and the island
itself. Maruahi worked with Okoto to install
protocols that would trap Teniki if he ever tried to take over the island. Then the two started discussing a way to safely
get rid of the head of the giant robot that was no longer of any use.
Maruahi worked with Okoto to
disconnect the head of the giant robot and sunk it to the bottom of the
ocean. Maruahi found that the only mask
he had was his Protosteel Rode Nuva all the others were lost in the transition
to Okoto because in the Okoto dimension a being could only wear one mask at a
time. He had not noticed earlier because
things had begun happening quickly once he and the other Toa arrived on the
island. Maruahi used his telekinetic
abilities to draw in air that he could breathe on his way down to the bottom of
the ocean. Using his Hau Nuva shield
abilities he put a shield around himself and the air pocket. He telekinetically propelled himself through
the water to the giant head and melted it down.
As he was coming back up he saw that the head had flattened a cave and
round masses were rising to the surface.
The masses began washing ashore on different parts of the island. The beaches were covered with the masses. Maruahi went up to one of the masses and
tapped it. Then they all began to open
at once and out came giant spiders. They
were spider eggs for giant spiders with gills and mouths so that they could
breathe under water and on land.
The spiders were all over the island
within a matter of hours and began attacking the villagers. Others returned to the bottom of the ocean
and brought up their queen, her guards, and the rest of the spiders. They had been content underground but now
with their cave destroyed and with so many new mouths to feed they wanted to
use the island as a base for their food supply.
Maruahi enlisted the help of the other Toa to defeat them. The eight fought off the queen of the giant
spiders and her hordes that plagued the island.
Maruahi, Takanuva and Umarak were fending off the queen’s guards and the
horde while the other six combined their elemental abilities to destroy the
queen. They did not know that Okoto’s
safety protocol against beings combining their elemental abilities was still
active. While in the Mata Nui universe
the combining six elements created a Toa Seal, so that only the repeated combining of elements would free those
trapped in the Toa seal. On Okoto
combining more than three elements opened a doorway into another dimension.
If all eight elements are combined, then a
mirror dimension would open up. If six
are combined, then the users of the combined elements lose their bodies to
another dimension and their souls would be sent into the sky and those hit with
the combined elements were disintegrated.
The other dimensions are still part of the greater Okoto dimension but
the smaller dimensions trap those who combined their elements so that they
cannot become too powerful and enslave the inhabitants of the Okoto
universe. After defeating the queen the
six were sent up into the night sky and became stars and they lost their masks
and their memories. They could only
return when summoned by the protectors at the Temple of Time. After the fall of their queen the giant
spiders fell into disarray and started fighting and killing each other trying
to replace the queen as ruler of the horde.
The horde destroyed itself to the point where there were only two
survivors and those survivors hid from Maruahi and Takanuva. These survivors would later become known as
the Lord of Skull Spiders and the Baroness of Skull Spiders.
Maruahi and Takanuva aided the
villagers with the first Okotan elemental masks and masks of power. The villagers and Protectors saw Maruahi as
the more experienced and wiser of the two and yet they liked Takanuva better
because Maruahi continued to seek out threats and his tact had not
improved. The villagers and Protectors
were happy with the masks, crystal armor, crystal weapons, and the elemental
lessons they received from Maruahi but saw him as a trouble maker and a herald
of woe; just as the villagers and Protectors in the Mata Nui dimension.
Takanuva was sent to the stars before
the prophecy of the coming of the six Toa was foretold and before the fall of
Makuta. He sacrificed himself fighting
Nobrahi. The villagers of light and the
villagers of shadow used to live in peace with each other and the rest of the
island. Nobrahi and Umarak became corrupted by shadow and
wished to engulf Okoto with shadow and turn all of its inhabitants into shadow
users. They started with the light
villagers but instead of changing or adding to their elemental abilities they
accidentally killed their first experiments.
Rather than stopping they kept trying even when the light villagers
started attacking and killing shadow villagers in retaliation. This conflict killed off all but one of the
light villagers and all but one of the shadow villagers. Agil, Creature of Light sustained too many
injuries to survive but Maruahi was able to use the Rangahau to shrink Agil to
save the creature’s life. However, the
change in size prevented Agil from uniting with Takanuva. Maruahi further used Rangahau to ensure Agil
could unite one last time if the need was dire but this would cause Agil to
sacrifice itself. Maruahi was distracted
and very far away fighting Umarak when Takanuva defeated Nobrahi but lost his
life in the process. Takanuva sent up a
signal to alert Maruahi of his danger before finishing off Nobrahi. Maruahi used the signal to teleport himself
via light to get back to Takanuva. Upon
rematerializing Maruahi realized that Takanuva had signaled too late and
Maruahi could do nothing to aid him without the Rangahau. Maruahi teleported back to the Rangahau, put
it on and sped as fast as light to Takanuva.
Maruahi made it in time to save Takanuva’s soul but could not save his
body. He sent Takanuva’s soul to the
stars to be with the other six. The two
survivors of each village had survived because Takanuva spared Makuta, last villager
of shadow and Maruahi was able to save Ekimu, last villager of light from
Umarak. Maruahi brought the two together
and had them swear a blood oath of brotherhood so as to keep their two elements
alive on the island. He could not reason
with Umarak because of the loss of Nobrahi.
Umarak turned on all other Elemental Creatures trying to capture them
and force them to give him their power or bind them in shadows. This made the villagers refer to him as “the
Hunter”. During the struggle between Maruahi
and Umarak, Maruahi destroyed Umarak’s shadow hammer, cut off his legs at the
knees and Maruahi combined with Uxar to unleash a jungle elemental attack that
weakened and morphed Umarak. Takanuva
could not return with the other six when being called by the Protectors because
his death was more violent and more recent so his essence was still healing and
could not generate a body as the other six did.
Maruahi stayed behind and continued to find and expose threats.
