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Disclaimer: I do not own Bionicle, this is merely a fanfiction. Aura belongs to Gringat the Repugnant on MOCPages, Kriigen belongs to Alpha Al on MOCPages, and Halreci belongs to Hank Hansen on Mocpages.

Killers in the Dark

Prologue

The sun was starting to go down, but the torch fires around the arena still lit it as much as daylight. Kryote, was starting to become tired, but wasn’t sure why he was here. He leaned on a rail and watched the two fighters, one a skakdi and the other a vortixx. For days it seemed, they had been still going at it, slashing, hacking at each other with their swords, but now they had stuck to fighting without their weapons. The skakdi brought its sword down onto the fallen vortixx, who blocked it with his own blade and rolled aside, suddenly delivering a kick into the skakdi's side. It grunted and grabbed the vortixx's leg with its free hand, throwing him across the arena. The vortixx quickly leaped up again and charged, and the melee continued.

Stelt was more violent than home. Arenas were everywhere. Apparently Bizgul and Aruka were accomplished combatants, although I did not know which was which. Steltians were all around me, cheering and booing at the fighters. A lot of them were carrying drink, which Kryote had wisely avoided.

Kryote let go of the rail and started walking around. A few moments later he saw the back of a girl. Her blue and gold armor seemed to glow from the light.

"V, Valeria?" He asked her.

"Excuse me?" the girl then responded.

"I, I'm sorry, you just reminded me of an old friend. My name is Kryote by the way, yours?" He said. “She’s never coming back” He then thought, mentally punching myself in the gut.

"Aura," She replied.

As the two then started talking, they were unaware of Kriigen’s approach.

Part One: The Capture.

Kriigen strode around the outer rings of the arena, looking for his prey. He already had the scent and trail of his victim, for lead was not common around here, but it was somewhat difficult to distinguish faces, armor, and color in this sea of intermingled races. This is where being a good 2 feet taller than most of the species present came in handy.

Kriigen blocked the distractions out from his mind, and re-focused on the task at hand. Find Toa Aura and bring her to the Shadowed One. He continued towards the arena the crowd parting before him like grass before a predator. People were rarely hindered by civilians when they were a very tall figure that carried a large sword.

Kriigen had sighted his prey almost immediately upon entering the innermost ring of the arena. The Toa of Gold was talking to another toa. They both appeared to be beneath himself in combat, and would be an easy catch. This was like how he hunted in the deep woods, stalking the prey until the right moment, making his movements silent with his sonic powers.

He continued to advance, easily knocking down a group of rowdy skadiki that were hindering him, which caused a slight bit of noise as they crashed into a salesperson, spilling most of his wares. He winced, knowing that this may have alerted his prey, and continued all the more quickly.

Kryote heard a noise with his extremely sensitive ears, but in that arena, it happened very often there. He disregarded it, until a chakarm whizzed past his head. He looked far away, and saw a large, bug-like creature going at a fast pace towards him.

"Aura, move, something is probably going to kill you!" He told her.

Even though that attack with a chakarm, Aura didn't respond. Kryote then remembered why he was there: to protect Aura.