There was a meeting in the village with the people who had all sorts of complaints and concerns.
"The coconuts are turning black."
"What about the fish?"
"It happens all over the island."
"Please. Please," Chief Tui told his people. "Settle down."
Moana and the others soon rushed in. Drell glanced over while the emergency meeting was going on.
"We'll find a way," Chief Tui told his people. "We-"
"Can stop the darkness!" Moana called out as she rushed in. "Save our island. This cave has boats. Huge canoes. We can take them to find Maui. Make him restore the heart. We were voyagers. We can voyage again!"
"She's right." Drell said.
Chief Tui looked a bit angered.
"You told me to help our people," Moana told her father as he began to storm off. "This is how we can help our people."
"And I'm not going to let you burn down those boats." Drell told Tui as he started blocking the chief's path.
"Just try and stop me, you may be a visitor, but I know what is best for my people." Chief Tui glared to him.
"Oh, trust me; I can and will stop you." Drell told Tui.
Chief Tui glared and Drell just glared right back, nearly growling, though it didn't last long. A horn was soon blown which made everyone look over.
"Chief! It's your mother!" A villager warned as he rushed over with a torch.
"You better go to her." Drell told Tui.
"I'm not through with you." Chief Tui told Drell before he soon went to go and see his mother.
"Of course he's not." Drell sighed.
Moana and the others soon followed after Chief Tui to go and see his mother.
Sina frowned as she was seen kneeling beside her mother-in-law and they were surrounded by lit candles. Drell already knew what that meant.
"No... Don't tell me..." Katara said with an aching heart.
"I'm so sorry." Drell whispered as he showed sorrow for Moana.
Momo and Appa soon did their best to comfort Moana. Moana looked to them and appreciated the comfort as she trusted them now that she got to spend more time with them. They all soon gathered around Tala as she was dying. Toph knew what it was like to lose a grandparent.
"Mother..." Chief Tui whispered softly.
"Gramma..." Moana whispered sadly as the villagers felt it was hopeless to help Tala.
Momo frowned, feeling sad about Tala's fate.
"I'm very sorry," Toph said. "I feel your pain."
"Um, thank you, Toph." Moana sighed as she was very emotional right now like her family.
Tala soon took her granddaughter's hand. "Go..." she soon said, a bit weakly.
"Grandma..." Moana frowned before getting closer to hear Tala.
"Go." Tala told her granddaughter.
"Not now. I can't." Moana frowned.
"You must," Tala urged her. "The ocean chose you. Follow the fish hook."
"Grandma." Moana frowned, trying not to cry.
"And when you find Maui, you grab him by the ear," Tala said as she took off her necklace to put the stone inside of it for safe-keeping. "You say... I am Moana of Motunui. You will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Te Fiti."
"I-I can't leave you." Moana frowned, strying not to cry.
"There is nowhere you could go that I won't be with you. Go." Tala smiled softly as she comforted and motivated her granddaughter.
Drell nodded as that was true.
Moana came over to the others. "Will you guys come with me?" she then asked Team Avatar.
"Are you sure we should?" Katara asked.
"I might need some help... I really trust you guys." Moana replied.
"Then of course we'll come." Katara smiled.
Moana looked to the print that represented Maui, she felt nervous at first, but she knew what she had to do and she soon ran off with her new friends to begin a whole new adventure, but first, they had to pack for the journey.
"It's no Fire Nation trip, but this might be a breath of fresh air." Sokka said.
"Are you coming with us?" Aang asked Drell.
"Well, I dunno honestly," Drell replied. "It's sometimes best if I come along to make sure you don't get hurt or anything like that."
"So then you are?" Toph asked.
"I'm not sure what I can really do, but I might as well," Drell replied. "I'm cursed to helping teenagers for 100 years, I bet."
"Who knows?" Aang shrugged.
"Just stay out of my way, and we'll get along just fine." Drell warned.
"You think he could hurt us?" Aang asked Katara, Sokka, and Toph.
"I wouldn't wanna risk it." Sokka shivered.
"We better not anger him then." Katara said.
"Yeah, Sokka, try not to do anything stupid." Toph remarked.
"Hey!" Sokka glared.
They soon began to pack. Eventually Sina came over to see them as something had happened while they were gone, and it was not positive in the slightest. Katara and Moana hoped she wouldn't try to talk them out of it. Sina just felt emotional about Moana's grandmother. Katara frowned and soon hugged the woman as this was a sad day in the village. Tala had died while they were gone. Just then, a spirit of a manta ray seemed to swim by them.
"That must be Tala..." Aang whispered with a guess since Tala wanted to be reborn as a manta ray.
"It is her." Drell nodded.
"How much do you know?" Aang asked.
"Just about everything there is to know." Drell replied ominously.
"Everything?" Toph asked.
"Every. Thing." Drell replied dramatically.
"Why did you reply like that?" Toph asked.
"Because, you need to listen to me." Drell informed.
"Um, okay?" Toph blinked.
"I outrank Iroh, so you listen to me, and only me!" Drell replied. "Rule #1: Don't bug me while I'm on vacation."
Momo frowned as he didn't like how Drell was acting right now.
"What's rule# 2?" Toph asked.
"Follow rule #1." Drell replied as he went to get himself ready.
Moana soon lit a torch to bring them back into the cave that Tala showed them so that they could begin their voyage.
"Here we go." Aang said.
"This is it, kiddies," Drell told them. "Hold onto your butts."
"What?" Sokka asked.
"Just get on the boat." Drell narrowed his eyes.
They soon got onto the boat which began their voyage out to sea to meet the demigod known as Maui, and where they would have a long journey ahead. They took one last look at the village as they soon sailed off that very night. The ocean glowed as the manta ray soon swam under the water as Moana sailed them off to begin a new adventure.
"And away we go." Drell said.
It was a long night, but before they knew it, it was now daytime.
"I am Moana of Motunui," Moana began to rehearse to herself. "You will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Te Fiti."
"The wind's changing." Sokka said.
Moana saw that and tried to fix the sail as she practiced what she was going to tell Maui once they would find him.
It seemed to be going well until they heard some thumping from somewhere which proved to be distracting.
"What's making that thumping sound?" Katara asked.
"I'm not sure..." Aang replied.
"Whatever it is, it better not bug me." Drell smirked as he tried to get a tan while relaxing like he was trying to do before Team Avatar ruined his scheduled vacation.
Sokka soon went to where the thumping was coming from.
"Careful, Sokka." Aang warned.
"I'll be fine..." Sokka said and he soon came closer and opened a hatch to see what looked like a coconut shell at first. "Uh, it's a coconut head...?"
"Oh, no..." Drell said.
Moana soon lifted up the coconut shell before putting it back on in shock. "Hei-Hei?!"
Sokka soon brought the chicken out and took off the coconut shell as the chicken clucked and looked around. And where just after Drell put on ear plugs, Hei-Hei panicked. Moana soon put the coconut shell back on which seemed to make Hei-Hei stop freaking out.
"Whew." Sokka sighed.
Moana removed the shell and every time she did, Hei-Hei kept freaking out and Drell smirked because he couldn't hear it.
"So, can we cook the chicken now?" Drell asked.
"It's okay. You're alright," Moana said as she tried to calm the chicken down as she took off the coconut shell and put her hand in the water. "Yes... See. There we go. Nice water. The ocean is a friend of mine."
"Yeah." Katara smiled.
Hei-Hei soon walked off the boat and ended up in the water.
"Quick! Wind, pick up!" Drell called out.
"Hei-Hei? Hei-Hei!" Moana soon panicked and went into the water to save the chicken.
Katara quickly used her water-bending to try and get both Moana and Hei-Hei back on the boat.
"Wow... Thanks, Katara." Moana gasped a little as she held onto Hei-Hei.
"Strange, I wonder why my water-bending didn't work last time?" Katara wondered.
"I'm not sure myself, but I'm glad it did when it did." Moana replied to her new friend.
"Dang it." Drell pouted as this meant the chicken would have to come with them.
Moana tried to prepare the sail, but she had to make sure Hei-Hei wouldn't wander off into the water.
"Come here," Aang said, putting the chicken in the hatch like before. "You stay here with Momo."
Momo was seen in the hatch like a good pet.
"Okay. Next stop, Maui." Moana said out of determination once she fixed the sail.
"Nothing can stop us now." Sokka said.
Drell just glared to Hei-Hei who tilted his head back at the warlock.
Night soon fell as Moana kept practicing what she was going to tell Maui as they had a rather long journey ahead of themselves. Unfortunately, they were soon getting off course. Drell seemed to roll his eyes as all he wanted to do was relax. Hei-Hei and Momo were being slanted back and forth in the hatch from the rocking of the boat.
Later on, Moana began to sound tired like she was going to fall asleep. Katara soon water-bent water into Moana's face. That woke Moana up as she suddenly was on the edge from the cold water splash. Katara then yawned herself and Drell was already fast asleep, drooling off of the end of the boat while snoring rather loudly.
"Make it stop... Please..." Sokka groaned as he felt unfortunate.
"Uh, Moana, I'm sorry to tell you this, but I think we might be going the wrong way." Katara said.
"Wait, what?" Moana asked before seeing that the water-bender was right.
Katara looked nervous while Moana felt frustrated by that fact. Moana soon turned the boat around so that they could get back on the right track, but overdid it, and they soon ended up in the water which freaked Drell out as that woke him up and he seemed to be overreacting, but he had a good reason.
"Everyone okay?" Katara asked.
"He seems not to be." Aang said about Drell.
"SOMEONE HELP ME!" Drell panicked.
"Can't you swim?!" Toph asked him.
"No! I never learned how!" Drell replied.
"What?!" Team Avatar gasped.
"Help me, will ya?!" Drell complained. "Help me before I turn all of you into snails and I take you to France!"
"Okay! Okay!" Sokka said.
Drell yelled out as he acted like the world was ending before they soon helped him up so that they could continue their voyage.
"Well, at least it can't get worse." Sokka said.
"You better hope not, Suka." Drell replied.
"MY NAME IS SOKKA!" Sokka complained to that.
"Yeah, yeah." Drell said.
Suddenly, there was a big storm. Drell glared at Sokka who looked nervous as thunder rumbled and lightning flashed and a big wave came over them.
"No!" Katara cried out and tried to stop the wave, but unfortunately, the wave continued.
"Katara, now would be a good time to stop that thing." Sokka said to his sister.
"I'M TRYING!" Katara cried out.
The wave soon hit. Everyone soon screamed out as the wave splashed them and it seemed like they were doomed.
"Mother Nature, leave me alone!" Drell cried out, thinking Mother Nature had done this.