Ancient Sea Behemoth

The AncientAncientAncient is a dark blue and gold operative who served as both an agent of the Order of Mata Nui and a member of the Dark Hunters, armed with Kanoka and a Rhotuka. Sea Behemoth is an enormous sea creature from the Great Sea of Spherus MagnaSpherus MagnaA desert world of ancient conflict that became the merger point of the Matoran Universe and Bionicle's true endpoint.. It had been hibernating beneath the black waters for thousands of years until Toa MahriToa Mahri: The Toa Who Saved the UniverseThe Toa Mahri were the water breathing form of the sixth Toa team, transformed by the Mask of Life on the way down to the drowned city of Mahri Nui. They fought the Barraki for the mask and recovered it at the cost of one of their own. KonguKonguKongu captained Le-Koro's Gukko Force before lightning from the red star turned him into a Toa of Air, who later served among the Toa Mahri. called it up with his Kanohi ZatthZatthGreat Kanohi mask of Summoning, allowing its wearer to call a random local animal for aid without control over which creature responded or its actions.. Once awake, it fought the Toa Mahri twice before being stunned and beaten near the CordThe CordThe stone Cord linking Voya Nui to the sunken peninsula of Mahri Nui, the tunnel the Toa Mahri descended, and the lifeline severed to revive Mata Nui.. (BIONICLE Ignition 9: Battle in the Deep!; BIONICLE Legends 7: Prisoners of the Pit; BIONICLE Legends 8: Downfall)

A sleeper of the Great Sea#

When Kongu first saw it, the behemoth was a grotesque creature easily two hundred feet long, like a cross between a whale and the clawed slime-worms that Onu-Matoran miners had run into. It was nothing that had ever swum the seas of Metru Nui, a relic of an age so old that it was probably dwarfed by its fellow creatures back then. (BIONICLE Legends 7: Prisoners of the Pit)

It had been hibernating beneath the black waters for thousands of years when the Toa Mahri arrived. (BIONICLE Legends 7: Prisoners of the Pit)

Summoning by the Zatth#

The behemoth woke during a fight between the Toa Mahri and the BarrakiThe BarrakiSix warlords who built an empire spanning most of the Matoran Universe, fell to a Brotherhood strike, and spent millennia imprisoned in the Pit. KalmahKalmahA red-and-black Barraki warlord of the League of Six Kingdoms, imprisoned in the Pit and mutated into permanent aquatic form. and CaraparCaraparOne of six Barraki warlords imprisoned for 80,000 years, Carapar sought the Mask of Life and became expendable muscle for a final, fatal mission.. Kongu, who had been reluctant to use his new Mask of Summoning, activated it, and the behemoth answered. (BIONICLE Ignition 9: Battle in the Deep!)

It immediately locked into combat with the 300-foot Venom Eel300-foot Venom EelA Venom Eel mutated to colossal size by the defensive reaction of the Ignika, active in the waters around Mahri Nui during the search for the Mask of Life., the venom eel the Ignika had swollen to giant size. The Barraki retreated, and the Toa managed to beat both creatures. (BIONICLE Legends 7: Prisoners of the Pit)

The convergence and HahliHahliA Ga-Matoran scholar who rose to become Chronicler of Mata Nui, then Toa Inika, then Toa Mahri of Water during the final crises of the Matoran Universe.'s FaxonFaxonThe Kanohi Faxon, Mask of Kindred, allowed its wearer to mimic the powers of Rahi that shared their environment. trick#

The behemoth didn't stay beaten. It made peace with the giant eel, and the two joined an enlarged GadunkaGadunka (Species)Inch-long sea Rahi from the waters around the Pit, one of which was mutated to enormous size by exposure to the Mask of Life.. The three monsters caught up with the Toa Mahri at the Cord and attacked all six of them. (BIONICLE Legends 8: Downfall)

Kongu tried to summon another creature to fight the behemoth but conjured only a swarm of small glowing fish, which the behemoth found irresistible and ate. (BIONICLE Legends 8: Downfall)

HahliHahliA Ga-Matoran scholar who rose to become Chronicler of Mata Nui, then Toa Inika, then Toa Mahri of Water during the final crises of the Matoran Universe. turned that to her advantage. Her Kanohi FaxonKanohi Faxon, the Mask of KindredThe Kanohi Faxon, or Mask of Kindred, let its wearer mimic the powers of Rahi sharing their environment. It was worn by Toa Mahri Hahli and by Lesovikk, the Toa of Air who once led the Toa Cordak. let her copy the abilities of creatures nearby, so she took on the fish's glow, and the behemoth went after her, hoping to eat her too. Then Kongu set off a sudden explosion of rocks that stunned the creature, and it was beaten. (BIONICLE Legends 8: Downfall)

Behaviour and threat profile#

The behemoth acted on instinct. It fought what was in front of it, ate what it could catch, and showed no sign of a plan. Its appetite for glowing prey was the weakness the Toa used to beat it. (BIONICLE Legends 7: Prisoners of the Pit; BIONICLE Legends 8: Downfall)

Significance in the Mahri NuiMahri NuiA matoran settlement that sank, survived, and was ultimately crushed beneath Voya Nui, leaving behind one of Bionicle's most poignant lost civilizations. chronicles#

Unlike the Barraki, the behemoth had no history with the Toa or the Pit. It was dragged into the story by accident, through Kongu's reluctant use of a mask he hadn't yet learned to control, and twice the Toa Mahri had to deal with it on top of everything else. (BIONICLE Legends 7: Prisoners of the Pit; BIONICLE Legends 8: Downfall)

It wasn't killed. After the fight at the Cord the story moves on, and the behemoth is left alive somewhere in the seas of Aqua MagnaAqua MagnaThe endless ocean where the Matoran Universe found refuge and Mata Nui made his final stand.. (BIONICLE Legends 8: Downfall)