BL10 - Avoid Shot

Gorast landed in the mud and raced toward the fallen Toa. Dazed, Gali still managed to throw a water sphere around Gorast’s head, cutting off the Makuta’s air. Gorast tried to shake it off, but the sphere held fast.

Gali glanced at her weapon, finding it had morphed into a virtual duplicate of what Gorast carried. She banished the water sphere even as she fired, sending chains of energy coiling around Gorast like snakes.

“Surrender. Or would you rather go for another swim on dry land, Makuta?” Gali said. “That is what you are, isn’t it? Another Makuta?”

“Gorast,” said her captive. “Makuta of the Tren Krom peninsula, mistress of the acid falls, conqueror of the Visorak horde — and you are Gali Nuva, Toa of Raindrops.”

With a seemingly effortless shrug, Gorast snapped the chains that bound her. “And Makuta do not surrender… for the same reasons Toa do not kill.”

Gorast fired her Nynrah blaster. Gali dove, narrowly avoiding the shot, and fired quick bursts of water even as she slid through the mud. Gorast batted away the projectiles with her four arms and advanced. Thinking quickly, Gali increased the moisture in the mud beneath Gorast’s feet. The Makuta began to sink into the ground, weighed down by her armor. She tried to fly out, but the mud clung to her as if it were alive and hungry.

“You Makuta think we’re weak because we don’t kill our enemies,” Gali said, rising and walking to where Gorast struggled to be free. “But sometimes, killing can be a mercy. Sometimes the worst thing you can do to an enemy is let her live.”


- BIONICLE Legends 10: Swamp of Shadows, Chapter 2