Chapter 385

## Unravel

Unravel (解く Hodoku) is the 385th chapter of the Bionicle Circulation manga. It is proceeded by chapter 384 and succeeded by chapter 386.

## Summary

Takua asks Garva if it is true that she is Gorast and if she was lying to him all this time. Garva starts to say something but then stops then Takua tells her to tell him the truth as he hopes that everyone is wrong about her. Garva hesitates before confirming that all of it is true, and that she is in fact Gorast. Takua takes this in before saying he knew it was too good to be true and he can't believe he let her fool him like this, Garva says he is wrong and that she was the real fool.

Garva explains that in her family the role of Gorast has been passed down from mother to daughter for generations. She continues by saying that her family has served Makuta for centuries. In a flashback a younger Garva is shown holding a cat, as Garva explains that she was taught to be cruel from a young age, Garva smiles as she holds a bloody knife after having presumably killed the cat. Garva continues by saying that she was taught that the Brotherhood was above all others and everyone else besides Makuta was weak. Garva said she enjoyed inflicting cruelty on others and was ready to take up the mantle of Gorast.

But then Takua came along, in another flashback Garva trips a younger Takua as he walks with Hahli. As Garva and her friends laugh, Takua gets up and says he's fine to a concerned Hahli. Garva says that back then Takua was just another person to mess with, but he never cried or fought back, and he didn't get angry when she pushed him. Garva said she used to think something was wrong with him back then as she kept at it but he didn't budge, until one day.

Garva stands over a younger Kai who is looking down at her broken model boat in despair. Garva scoffs at how much Kai cared for the boat and tells her she sucks at making friends. Takua asks Garva what she's doing and she uncaring acknowledges his presence, Takua angrily asks her if she has anything better to do than mess with other people's hobbies. Grava leaves both of them as Takua hurries over to Kai to help salvage the model boat. As her younger self looks back at them Garva says that it was the first time that she had seen Takua angry and it wasn't because of anything that happened to him. She continues by saying that she thought about that day a lot afterwards.

The flashback jumps forward to Takua's first battle with Krika right when he saved the civilian from Krika's charged up attack. As Garva watches a news report on Takanuva on a old TV, Garva says that soon enough that Takua became Takanuva and while she was training to fight and hurt him one day, he was helping others. Garva's younger self blushes a little while watching Takanuva as Garva continues by saying that she wondered what it was like to be one of the people Takua helped. Garva goes on to say that she still trained to become his enemy and became Gorast and soon she was tasked with a mission by Makuta.

The flashback moves Garva's meeting with Makuta in Soul Space as it continues with Makuta telling Garva to seduce Takua and then break his heart in two. Garva says it was a simple mission and should have been easy. As the flashback moves to when Garva confessed to Takua, Gavra wonders why it was so hard to say those words. Garva continues by wondering why telling him made her feel the way it did, she wondered why she was sad about Takua's anger, and why she liked being with him more than her duty to Makuta. The flashback shifts rapidly from moments the two of them shared from the cultural festival, to when Takua was burnt out from stress, to the first snow of last year to their aquarium date. Garva wonders why she felt happy as the flashback stops at Garva resting her head on Takua's shoulder on the bench under the tree on the outskirts of Altero.

The flashback ends as Garva says she thought about herself and how she was cruel, and how despite Takua having every reason to reject her he didn't. Garva says he gave her a second chance and that she was dreading this day, the day when Takua would figure out who she really was and stop giving her that second chance. Garva's holds back tears as she grabs onto her left arm and then looks up at Takua saying she knows now that she was right to be scared since she isn't a good person. Garva goes on to say that she doesn't deserve second chances as she summons her claws and says that she now knows Takua is like the rest of them, hating her for what she is. As she summons her Kanohi Takua tells her not to do anything she will regret, Garva says she has many regrets but her biggest was ever loving him. Garva says she rejects her humanity as she puts on her Kanohi as Takua prepares to transform he tells Garva that she can go to hell. The blast from both their transformations counteracts each other in a explosion of light and shadow, Takua and Garva both in their Toa forms now stare each other down.

## Characters

* Takua Ichimura
* Garva Kutsuki
* Garva's Mother (*Mentioned)*
* Hahli Arakawa *(Flashback)*
* Kai Hitomi *(Flashback)*
* Krika *(Flashback)*
* Makuta Kagome *(Flashback)*