Prologue:

Long ago, after the great Moana restored the heart of Te Fiti, and after bringing back voyaging to her village, she set sail and her clan began to explore the currents of the sea. Using their hearts and the stars above to guide them. Maui protected them from high above insuring that the monsters below let them be. But, that was her story which has already been told. It was time for new tales and new heroes to be discovered...

This, is the story of Haukea.

One day, as the sun had begun to set as it had done every evening, a cry could be heard from the sea. It started as soft as the tickle of a waterfall, but then grew into the roars of a storm. Moana, who was now in her late thirties, investigated to find the source of this distress. She peered over the edge of her voyager ship and gasped at the sight below.

A baby, floating in a fruit box, was seen gently hitting the boat.

"A child!" Moana screamed as she pointed to the babe below.

She instructed her fellow villagers to stop and rescue the child.

Instead, Maui swooped down and gently enclosed the child baring fruit box with his talons. He brung her aboard the ship to the care of Moana, who quickly knelt beside the basket. As she looked at the child, she grew very confused. When she lifted her, the villagers gasped.

One spoke out "Her flesh is as white as snow!"

Moana looked at this child. She knew that there had to be other people out there. She felt it in her heart, and after her journey, she began to listen to it fully. She looked out into the horizon where she saw smoke filling the air. It was a ship wreck...

Debris floated past her ship and she glanced at the child again.

"You poor thing!" She cooed before hugging her to her chest.

"Maui, check for survivors". The demigod swooped into the sky and disappeared behind the dark smoke.

Soon after, he returned revealing news that there were no survivors.

"What will we do with this snow skinned kid?" Asked a villager.

Moana felt in her heart that the ocean had yet again directed her in the path she needed to go. How else who this child be in her arms, sleeping and breathing softly? If not for her friend, the sea, the child would surely be dead along with her fellow passengers.

"I will take this child in as my own." She firmly replied.

Not long after she wedded her husband, she had realized that she couldn't produce children. It was a very difficult time to get through, but Maui, the village, her husband, and the sea were all there for her in this time of need. Yet again, she felt that the sea had given her a gift.

Maui smiled and touched the babes cheek. "What will you name her?"

"Haukea, since her skin is as white as snow". She replied. The baby began to giggle.

"You like that name?" Moana said laughing. Her husband joined her side and she explained how she couldn't just abandon Haukea. "I will treat her as my own!" He said cradling her in his arms.

They began to set sail again, all the while Moana cared for Haukea. "Grrrr..." growled the baby's stomach. "You must be hungry, the only milk we have is that of which we make from coconuts". Moana then wondered over to their storage of food and cracked open a coconut that looked ripe. She then added some sugar to it to try and sweeten it up. It wasn't exactly milk, but it was close enough.

"Here you go little one." She beemed as she held the coconut to Haukea's tiny mouth. The baby giggled and grabbed the cup. What happened next caused everyone to pause in their tracks. As the baby grabbed the coconut, it began to turn into gold.

As the coconut fully transformed, Moana dropped it from its weight. Upon further inspection, she concluded that it was indeed real! Maui landed and grabbed the coconut.

"Is she a demigoddess?!" Moana screamed.

"Heck if I know!" Maui responded "I saw a lot of gold in the wrecks of that ship, but never would it have occurred to me that it would come from this pipsqueak!"

Both of them looked at Haukea with surprise. They handed her another coconut to see if the same thing would happen. Nothing.

"She must be able to control it." Maui concurred. Moana set the baby down and began to think. Why would the ocean give her this kid?

"Uhhh...Moana." Maui began.

"Give me a second to think Maui." She replied.

"Well unless you want this kid to fly off and burn down some forest, I think you should get her!"

"What!" Moana said. She looked to find that Haukea was now transformed into a baby...peacock?! Only instead of the usual vibrant blue feather, they were flaming ones of orange, gold, white, and red.

"What kind of kid is this?!"

Maui laughed "Probably some goddesses daughter".

Haukea flapped but couldn't go anywhere. However, like Hei Hei, she somehow managed to work her way to the edge of the boat.

"No!" Moana screamed. Her scream was followed by the villagers gasp. In the blink of an eye, she had caught the child. You'd think that her hands would burn considering she just caught a flaming peacock, but instead the flames just wrapped around her hand. There was no pain or anything. These were some kind of magic flames!

Next thing she knew, Haukea had transformed back into her original self. Her light blue eyes swelled with tears. Moana noticed a little trickle of blood flowing from a splinter in the baby's hand.

"She isn't the daughter of a god or goddess since she is bleeding red."

"Then she is a demigoddes and ya know what that means" Maui started "In order for her to be doing all of this, she must have something to hold her power, ya know like my Makau."

What Maui was saying made sense, but Haukea didn't seem like she had anything. Wait! Something shiny caught Moana's eye from the babies neck. It was a golden sun necklace with golden seashells. That must be it.

"We should probably take that until she is older. Taking it won't affect her gold making skills, but it will keep her from transforming." Maui added.

"Why won't it stop her from turning stuff to gold?" Moana asked.

"Well, it's like my tattoo's. They don't appear by the hook, they are just something that naturally forms from when I use it to accomplish something. Of course then without it they won't form-ya know what just trust me."

And with that, was the start of a whole new adventure...

Meanwhile

Off in the realm of monsters, a crab gazed at himself in awe. However, he was getting tired of being a crab. He wanted to find the riches of the world, but couldn't because of his current state. Tamatoa knew he wouldn't fit in with the humans above...unless! What if he were human? What if he had the ability to transform from human to crab as many times as he desired? He would then be able to look at all the riches of the world and collect more shiny things.

The real question was of how? Actually it wasn't really how, it was more of how could he convince a God/Goddess to help him? The only one he could think of, that wouldn't kill him, was Te Fiti. She was a generous Goddess. It wasn't like he would use his skills for evil. Or at least he wouldn't let her know that.

He lept high enough to just barely reach the ocean from his mountain. After he left the monster realm, it was off to Te Fiti.

It had taken him literally forever to get there (at least that's what he believed), but he had finally made it to Te Fiti.

"Babe!" Tamatoa yelled. He started knocking on the ground of the Goddesses island, but nothing awoke her.

"Oh Come On!"

Then the ground began to shake and the little island turned into the beautiful Goddess. She scooped him up and allowed him to reciprocate his plan of action. At first, she eyed him wearily.

"Please, ma'am, I just want to see more of the world. I've honestly changed from the crab I used to be. I don't want to be alone anymore..." he begged.

The Goddess couldn't find it in her beating heart to just let him suffer. So, after much more begging occurred, she touched the crabs head and cloud of light surrounded the crab. Tamatoa looked at himself.

"Uhhhh, I don't feel any different..." Not long after saying that however, he noticed that a golden tattoo had formed on the bottom half of his shell. He then laughed, remembering how Maui could lose his power at anytime, but he on the other hand, wouldn't loose his unless they burned his tattoo off.

It was time for him to enact his adventurous plans! He thanked her and watched as she returned to her sleeping position.

"Guess I could test this out now, but what about all my gold?!" He though for a moment and realized it would be better to return it to his home in the monster realm.

After returning 'home' he dumped all of his gold in his cave and surprised himself after he dropped all of that weight. Then he stood and pressed the spot where his tattoo was. It glowed gold and next thing he knew, he was shorter than the cave. Tamatoa ran to his mirror and gawked at the sight before him.

He had long black hair and he was actually muscular! His tattoo stood directly in the middle of his human chest. The only thing was that he was completely naked and he was missing half of his right leg (thanks to that idiot Maui). It was strange because he had never seen what a human actually 'looked' like, but it was definitely very interesting! He was amazed at how balanced he was, but knew it would be harder to walk since he only had one and a half legs now. So, he created himself a cane out of some rocks in his cave.

Tamatoa smiled in the mirror and pictured all the wonders he would be able to see in the world. He also pictured how he could unlesh some wrath on that Moana girl and the stupid demigod for leaving him on his back. He could have died! If it wasn't for his awesome muscles that is.

Either way, this was going to be interesting...

Sooooo, for all those that follow me and have seen my post about waiting until school ended. I also said that I had to at least create two stories prologue's so the ideas wouldn't be taken. Welp this is one of them! For all of you guys who believe you know where this is headed, keep in mind I'm not going to make this like over the top weird! And no this isn't going to be a love story between Tamatoa and Haukea despite how it appears to be! Ok that's all hope you enjoyed and expect another chapter sometime when school is over 3