"Moana? Moana?" A voice floated over the island the voice of her mother jolting her from her thoughts.
Moana had been up on the hill top sitting behind the stone pile just watching the water rise and fall thinking about the adventure she had come home from only three years ago.
The journey to restore the heart of Te Fiti had not been a very easy one. But ever since she had been just a little girl of no more than three she had been drawn to the beauty that was the ocean.
She had been chosen by the sea that day to be the one who would sail across the sea, find Maui and restore the heart of Te Fiti.
Moana had gone against her father's wishes and had gone out passed the reef on that fateful journey to find Maui.
She smiled as she recalled the moment they first met the way he had screamed at the sight of her and vice versa, and even for a Demigod he was egotistical and very conceited, and he was also extremely annoying.
From the first time they met he had locked her in a cave with a giant rock, thrown her off the boat, several times in fact, doubted her at every turn and tried to make her feel like she was nothing at all. Which to him she had been just a child.
Together they had fought Kakamora which were pirates that looked just like evil coconuts, Tamatoe a giant treasure loving crab that had tried to eat them, and then finally at last they had faced Ta Ka. She and Maui had fought, and argued a lot up to this point but after she had made an error in judgement they had the worst fight they ever had over it, and Moana had been forced to take on Ta Ka alone and try to restore the heart by herself.
At the very last minute when Ta Ka was about to strike her Maui had swooped in and saved her and no longer was she doing it alone.
When it was over Te Fiti had given him a new Hook to replace the broken one and Moana had been given a new boat.
She had tried to talk him into coming home with her but sadly he had only smiled told her she was the master Wayfinder and had taken off into the sky in his Giant hawk shape.
Moana hadn't seen hide or hair of Maui since that day and that had been three years ago.
Sometimes she was begged by the village kids to tell them the story of Maui and she would oblige but her heart was saddened because for some reason she felt like something was missing that she just couldn't put her finger on.
"Moana!" The hollered yell from her mother quickly reminded her that her attention was needed at that moment.
"Yes Mother, you called me?" She asked.
"Moana your father and I have some things to discuss with you." She explained.
Moana easily climbed down from the hill following her mother back to the rest of the village and to their sleeping quarters.
Her father sat sternly by the fire on a rug waiting for them.
Spotting them he indicated the other two rugs by the fire.
"Come Take a seat it is time Moana that you knew the truth that was kept from you for so long." Tui started.
Moana sat down as Tui started unraveling a story.
A long time ago almost eighteen years ago in fact, there was a storm, dark and stormy.
It was raining like I'd never seen before the thunder and lightning so intense our people feared for the coconuts as well as the rest of the crops.
We we're all out there in the heavy winds trying to collect as many coconuts and harvest as many vegetables as we could carry into our food stores.
I was out there watching and overseeing everything making sure nobody was hurt, we thought we had every one but you see just as your mother and were about to head back inside, I saw your mother run faster than I've ever heard her run before and to my amazement when I followed her I found her waist deep in the water pulling a tiny raft toward her.
I watched her remove the tiniest bundle from the middle of the raft.
It was screaming and crying, but most of all it was alone it's mother and father nowhere to be found, one thing was for certain she did not belong to a of our villagers.
We took one look at this baby girl and we took her in, we raised her as our own daughter.
Moana that child we found on that raft alone in the sea was you, to this day we have no idea where you came from or why you were alone on that raft all we know is you are a very special young lady Moana."
Finished with his story Tui sat quietly hugging his wife waiting for Moana to be angry instead she just stared at her hands and stood up.
"I don't care where you found me but you will always be my parents you will always be my mother and father." She told them carefully.
The three of them hug but she cuts them off.
"But I do want to find out who I am and where I came from I want to know why." She admitted.
"Of course Moana but do me a favor Moana?" Her mother requested.
"What is that?" Moana asked carefully.
"If you're determined to go on a self discovery adventure back to the sea please find and take Maui with you, it's just I would feel better if he traveled with you." She begged.
Moana just nodded agreeing.
"Actually that is not a bad idea, I miss that old Demigod anyway."
Moana raced off to prepare for her journey.