Things Change
It was a normal day in Moana's paradise home. The sun was half way over the horizon and Moana watched from the shore as her people's fleet of fishing boats left for the day. It had been three years since her adventures with the demi-god Maui and many things had changed.
She was no longer the next chief for her people as her mother gave birth to her little brother a year ago relieving her of one burden. She now finds herself the master wayfinder of her people and the teacher for other wayfinder.
Her people are no longer on a single island but now have villages on two other islands to the east each with one of her cousins families to govern over them.
But the greatest change was her people's belief in gods and legends again. No longer viewed as just stores but as facts. Her mother Sina had taken over the duty of village story teller and it was well known her favorite story was the restoring of the heart of Te Fiti. Moana had to tease her mother claiming she only like the story because she herself was in it. Sina always would laugh and claim it was because it had her little minnow in it. Her brave little girl and a great Demi-god who loved to visit.
That was true every two months or so Maui would fly in as a great hawk much to the delight of the village children. But it now had been four months since he was least seen and that had Moana worried for not only did she miss her best friend but she had a few suitors that needed to be scared off. So she stood on the beach looking to the east for her salvation.
The sun was at its height point in the sky when Tui found his daughter staring out into the ocean as intently as the sun itself. Laughing to himself her walked to her carrying two coconut and warm Taro that was just cooked. "Planning your next voyage or bird watching" Moana snaps back into reality "sorry Dad what?" Moana asked who was clearly not listening to whats around. Tui laughed out loud now and re-asked his question as he handed over lunch. This caused Moana to pout now, which causes Tui to laugh harder. "It's not funny" Moana hissed at her father " It's been four months and not a sign of him, its not like him"
Well Tui knows and approves of the friendship between his daughter and Maui he suspects that missing her friend is not the only reason that has kept the energetic women in one spot for so long. "So my daughter which young man should I send to our sister island?" "It's not.." but Moana never got to finish before her father spoke again " Moana you seek Maui more when one of your many unwanted suitors have gone to far." This got Moana to sigh "It's not that I am not flattered but none of want me for me. They want the Heroine that restored Te Fiti. The best friend of the great Maui... none just want Moana"
The two of them sat in silence as the finished lunch looking out to the great expanse before them. Without warning the sea reverses so far that coral reef was easy to see. Tui and Moana where on their feet with in seconds. Moana start to race down the beach she shouted over her shoulder " go warn the village I'll go to the fishermen" Tui raised his hands to shout something back but his words where lost in the roar of the largest wave Moana had ever seen.