The Secrets of the Creator

Hi everyone, this is my new story.

It is being done for the Demi-God challenge. And because I am a judge, I can write one story for inspiration and my enjoyment. But Do read Merry the Great's, Vaiana, Demi-Goddess of the Ocean and Water. It's a very good story. She and I were born with a problem which meant we were not right, which affected everything we wanted to do, but that's all fixed now!

Follow the link to have a look and the Challenge/Competition:

myforums/Merry-the-great/8754742/

Also, I am trying a slightly deferent way of writing for this story, I don't know if it will work though. Note: I am scrapping it.

Song: Where You Are

Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN ZELDA OR MOANA!

Prologue

Once upon a time, there was an island near the edge of Hawaii, which had a thriving village on it. They lived very happily and peacefully for years and years. Ever since the Goddesses were around.

The Current Chief was called Tui, and he had a wife called Singa. They lived with Tui's parents, Tala, and Ian in the biggest house in the village. This was a tradition which had happened for eons and eons.

Four years ago, a lot happened. Four years ago, Tui and Singa had a daughter, Arika. Four years ago, Tui changed. Most the villagers did not see it, but Tala did, and she feared the future because of it.

Day of Arika's revealing four years ago…

It was a tradition for the Chief's child to be revealed to the people one week after birth, and sometimes, that was their Christening too. All the villagers gathered up in the town square to see their new future leader. Tui, Singa, Ian, Tala and Arika all were standing on a platform in the middle.

When everyone was there, Tui said, smiling warmly, "Thanks for coming every one: and now, I would like to introduce you all to your future Chief: Arika!"

And right then, Singa stepped forward with Arika and held her up to the crowd. Arika was special, they all could feel that: she looked it too. She had ruby red hair, green/blue eyes, and was quite lightly built. Tala knew Arika had some blessing from the Gods to look different, which meant she knew that Arika would one day leave the island to fulfil her destiny. This saddened her, but by then she would be old and dying, and then Tala could stay with Arika, forever.

The Crowd roared upon seeing Arika, "long live Princess Arika!"

Being a baby, Arika didn't understand what was going on, she did love all the attention they were giving her, though. After that, all the children came to meet Arika, the Adults came up and gave her gifts. But, the most special gift of all, was the one her grandmother gave her.

"Now, here's my gift to the Princess," said Tala, revealing a necklace with a beautiful purple shell on it.

"Tala, is that a Soul Shell?" asked Singa.

Ian said coming up next to Tala, "it defiantly is, it looks exactly the same, as the one Tui had."

"Funny how that happens… you would have thought it would be slightly different," said Tui looking up at one of the mountains.

Present time…

Arika and Tala were walking home from the beach at the end of a long day. Today was Arika's birthday, and she had done a lot because of it.

Earlier, Ian had taken her fishing, while Singa took her to play with the other children, while Tui started showing her, her future duties, much to Singa's dismay.

Singa had said at the time, "Tui! She's still a child, she doesn't need to see that stuff yet!"

"It's never too early to start learning what you're going to do," Tui had just said.

After that, Tala had taken Arika to the beach, to play in the water. Tala said to Arika as they walked in the shallows, "Now, I am going to take you somewhere special, but don't tell your father."

"Why?" asked Arika.

Tala said, "He can't know; it's our little secret. Okay?"
"Okay!" said Arika excitedly, her eyes sparkling.

And Arika had enjoyed every moment of it. Tala had taken her to where their ancestor's boats were kept. You see, long ago, they used to sail everywhere, but eventually, the chief stopped it when his wife died out at sea. But, the boats were not destroyed, they were sealed away. But, Tala was going teaching Arika, and 9 others how to use them: for one day, when they would leave the island.

Tala sighed sadly; she was self-taught to sail the boats, and she was sure she had recreated the sailing method their ancestors used, and she was sure she could leave. However, she never had the guts. Now, she was waiting until she died; then she could leave. Until then, she would have to stay Tala, the liked but crazy village lady.

Arika loved her lessons, and couldn't wait for more. She did want to tell her mummy and daddy all about it, but she understood why they couldn't know.

As they approached the house, Tala heard raised voices, so she pulled Arika into the bushes. When Arika asked why Tala just told her to listen:

"Tui! What's the matter with you?! How can you say that!" said Ian's voice, Arika and Tala moved to a position where they could see what was going on.

"This Island has allowed the ruler to choose their partner for ages! And it's worked wonders, why do you want to change it!?" asked Singa's voice.

Tui said, "To help the village."

"Well we cannot allow that, and Tala won't either. Anyway, we are doing fine," said Ian pompously.

Tui said grinning evilly, "Well she won't know if you can't tell her, will she?"

"And what makes you think you can stop me?" asked Ian, then Singa gasped as Tui grabbed a spear, and sent it straight through Ian. Singa tried to make a run for it, but he grabbed her and did the same to her. By this stage, Tala was pulling a crying Arika away from the house.

Tala said as she ran away, "for as long as I live, I will protect you, Arika. But when I'm gone, you will have to leave,"

"Okay, I will. But, why did he do it? why did he hurt Muma and Grandpa?" asked the crying four-year-old.

Tala said, "Who knows? Let's go down to the dinner in town, and you try to forget about it alright? It's your birthday. I will sort everything out."

Arika nodded, but she was still crying, then she and Tala went to the town centre. By the time they got there, Arika had stopped crying but just looked miserable.

When a villager saw them, she said, "Tala! Arika! Nice to see you! Where's everyone else?"
"Coming most likely, Arika and I spent so long at the beach: we decided to come straight here," said Tala.

But right then, Tui came running down crying, "Help! Some madman has come in and killed Singa and Ian!"
"What!?" everyone cried. Arika started crying once more. Tala looked at her son with pure hate, she was going to try and foil his plans for as long as possible. After all, he couldn't do anything with her still around, and he knew that, which meant she suspected he would try and get rid of her some way.

The Secrets of the Creator!

Yep, that's the opening, the true story starts in the next chapter.

And am going to make up that Arika means something special in the language these islanders used to speak, haven't decided what yet. Sorry for the slight gore in this chapter!