Chapter 6

I Am Katniss

It took a lot of persuading, but Katniss finally convinced Maui to continue with their mission, but his attitude has completely changed. He's sarcastic again, and more closed off than ever. He doesn't believe in himself. Katniss knew it had something to do with that tattoo Tamatoa used to taunt him. The one of the woman throwing the baby into the ocean.

"How do you get your tattoos?" Katniss asked him.

"They show up when I earn them."

"How'd you get that one?" She asked pointing at the one causing him pain. "What's that?"

"You need to stop asking so many questions."

Katniss frowned. "Is it why your hook's not working?"

"Back off!" He shouted throwing her off the boat ad into the ocean. The water lifted her back onto the boat.

Katniss sighed. She was really getting tired of Maui. "You don't want to talk, don't talk. You want to throw me off the boat, throw me off. You wanna tell me I don't know what I'm doing, I know I don't. I have no idea why the ocean chose me. You're right." She looked away from Maui. "But my island is dying. So I'm here. It's just me and you, and I want to help. But I can't if you don't let me."

"My real name's not Maui," He admitted.

"What?"

"My real name's not Maui." He turned to face her. "My real name is Haymitch... I wasn't born a demigod. I had normal parents. They uh... they decided they didn't want me, threw me in the sea like... I was nothing. Somehow I was found by the gods. They gave me my hook, they made me Maui. And back to the humans I went," He laughed. "I gave them islands, fire, coconuts, anything they could ever want."

"You took the heart for them," Katniss realized. "You did everything for them."

"It was... never enough."

Katniss sat down next to him. "Maybe the gods found you for a reason. Maybe the ocean brought you to them because it saw someone worthy of being saved. But the gods aren't the one's who made you Maui, you are." She said. "I lied when I said you were no one's hero. You... you were my hero growing up."

"I was?" Maui smiled.

"Yeah," She laughed. "I would run around my island pretending to be you... I always wanted to sail the seas, but I wasn't allowed to. We weren't allowed to cross the reef."

"But you did it to restore the heart," He said. "Maybe... maybe some practice with my hook would help." So Maui practiced, and practiced, and practiced until he could shapeshift into anything again.

"I knew you could do it!" Katniss hugged him.

"I've been thinking," Maui said. "Maybe you wouldn't' be that bad of a wayfinder. Maybe I can show you how."

"Really?" Katniss pulled away. "You would do that?"

"Yeah." So Maui taught Katniss everything he knew about way finding.

"I figured it out," He said days later. "You know the ocean used to love it when I pulled up islands because your ancestors would sail her seas to find them. All those new lands and villages, and the ocean connected them all. And if I were the ocean, I think I'd be looking for a stubborn non-princess to start that again."

"That is literally the nicest thing you've ever said to me," Katniss said. "You probably should've saved that for Te Feti."

"It's time," She took the heart out of her necklace and handed it to Maui. He turned into a hawk and flew toward the island. In the distance Katniss could see Te Ka stirring. Te Ka was everything she feared she would be. When Maui got closer, Te Ka threw a fireball at him, causing him to drop the heart into the ocean, Maui dove for it. Getting worried, Katniss began to sail toward Te Ka, maybe she could help. Somehow. Te Ka reached into the water for Maui and the heart, but quickly pulled her hand out of the ocean, screeching in pain. That's when Katniss noticed the gap in the rocks, she knew if they could make it through the gap, they could make it to Te Feti. She began to sail toward it. Maui came back to the boat.

"What are you doing?" He asked. "We'll never make it!"

"We can do it,"

Te Ka swiped her arm out, ready to attack, when Maui held his hook up to protect them. Katniss was knocked unconscious as the waves carried the boat far away from Te Feti.

When Katniss awoke, she noticed Maui sitting with his back turned to her, his hook was damaged. "Maui,"

"I told you to turn back."

"I thought we could make it... I thought I could make it, we... we can fix your hook."

"It was made by the gods." He snarled. "You can't fix it."

"Next time, we'll be more careful." Katniss said. "Te Ka is stuck on the barrier islands, she's lava-"

"I'm not going back."

"But..." Katniss said. "We still have to restore the heart."

"Without my hook I am nothing."

"That's not true." She insisted.

"Without my hook I am nothing!" He dropped the heart of Te Feti at Katniss' feet.

"We are only here because you stole the heart in the first place!" She shouted, picking the heart back up and curling her fingers tight around it.

"No," Maui said in a frighteningly calm voice. "We're here because the ocean told you you were special and you believed it."

This hurt Katniss more than she'd ever admit. "I am Katniss of Motinui," Katniss sniffed. "You will board my boat,"

"Goodbye Katniss."

"Sail across the sea,"

"I'm not killing myself so you can prove you're something that you're not."

"And restore the heart of Te Feti," Her voice cracked. "The ocean chose me!"

"It chose wrong." Maui struggled to shape shift into a hawk and flew away.

Katniss scowled at the ocean. "Why did you chose me to do this? I can't do this! Chose someone else!" Katniss angrily chucked the heart into the ocean. "Please." She wept.

"You're a long ways past the reef," Katniss heard her grandmother say. She turned around and found Gramma Sae sitting on the boat.

"Gramma." Katniss ran into her arms. "What... How did you get here? I thought... I thought..."

"I told you there was no where you could go that I wouldn't be with you."

"I tried Gramma, I tried to get the heart to Te Feti... But I couldn't do it."

"It's not your fault." She said. "I never should've put so much on your shoulders. If you're ready to go home, I will be with you." Katniss pulled away from her and picked up the oar but hesitated. "Why do you hesitate?"

"I don't know,"

Sae looked at her granddaughter and started singing.

"I know a girl from an island

She stands apart from the crowd

She loves the sea and her people

She makes her whole family proud

Sometimes the world seems against you

The journey may leave a scar

But scars can heal and reveal just

Where you are"

Sae stood up and took Katniss' other hand.

"The people you love will change you

The things you have learned will guide you

And nothing on earth can silence

The quiet voice still inside you

And when that voice starts to whisper

'Katniss you've come so far'

Katniss listen do you know who you are?"

"Who am I?" Katniss asked and began to sing.

"I'm a girl who loves my island

And the girl who loves the sea, it calls me

I am the daughter of the village chief

We are descended from voyagers

Who found their ways across the world

They call me"

Katniss remembered the vision of her voyaging ancestors. She would call on their strength and knowledge.

"I've delivered us to where we are

I have journeyed farther

I am everything I've learned and more

Still it calls me"

Katniss looked at the sea and realized the ocean was never calling her to it. Something inside of her was.

"And the call isn't out there at all

It's inside me

It's like the tide

Always falling and rising"

She looked back to her grandmother and knew she wasn't really there. Her gramma died days ago, but her memory will always live in Katniss.

"I will carry you here in my heart

You'll remind me

That come what may

I know the way

I am Katniss!"

Katniss dove into the water and didn't come back up until she had the heart of Te Feti back. Quickly she fixed the damages Te Ka made to her boat, and started sailing back toward Te Feti. She was going to do this with or without Maui. "I am Katniss of Motinui," She said. "I will sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Te Feti." She looked across the ocean and tried to see Te Feti in her mind. She started singing again.

"There's a line where the sky meets the sea and it calls me

But no one knows, how far it goes

All the time wondering where I need to be is behind me

I'm on my own, to the unknown"

She knew she would have to face Te Ka alone but she had to try. Her island was counting on her. She couldn't let the fear of not being good enough shut her down.

"Every turn I take, every trail I track

Is a choice I make, now I can't turn back

From the great unknown where I go alone

Where I long to be"

The waves were suddenly lit up by a giant glowing manta swimming underneath the boat. Katniss knew this was her gramma.

"See her lie with the night in the sea, she calls me

And now I know that I can go

There's a moon in the sky and the wind is behind me

Soon I'll know how far I'll go"

Did any of you guess that Maui would be Haymitch? If you did please tell me in the reviews, or you could tell me if you thought Maui would've been someone else. I thought about making him Finnick, but it made more sense to me if he was Haymitch. The songs I used for this chapter were I Am Moana and How Far I'll Go (Reprise). I would again like to say that I absolutely do not own any of the songs I used in this story, they were written by Lin Manuel Miranda for Moana. There is only one more chapter left. I already have it typed up I just need to edit it, the more reviews I get, the sooner I'll post the last one.