It was late night on the island and while her dad was sleeping, Lani was sneaking out and was using her growing powers to transform into a little bird form which looked cute, impressing her that she could do it ike her dad wishing he could see she'd done this, grinning like her dad when he did mischief, or helped others like her aunt told her.
I wish my dad can see me now, as we were working on my powers, but I kept messing up in front of my dad so how come I can do it now?
She was flying around the island enjoying the nigjt breeze through her feathers, but as the sun came up, she landed outside Moana's hit, yawning making Moana wonder what she was doing here, unaware that Lani had tapped into her magic letting her inside so hoped that Maui knew that Lani was here, guessing he did not so was getting her coconut milk.
"I was practising demigod stuff, and I was able to do it, and turned into a little bird, so why can't I do it in front of my dad?" Lani said while yawning making Moana get it, since she had seen how Maui had did it, and Lani felt major pressure letting the girl figure it out for herself.
While Lani was sleeping, Maui was searching for Lani after waking up, finding that she'd snuck out, going to Moana relieved, that Lani was there, hearing Moana tell him, that Lani had been up all night practising, which surprised him getting that he had put pressure on her, so would ease up going on his own for a while, making her guess he was going to a certain island, unaware he was taking quite a different approach to helping Lani learn, to use her powers.
He knew that Lani liked games, especially hide and seek or extreme hide and seek, which Moana had recently taught her along with her friends at school, now they'd gotten to know Lani, so was using this to help Lani tap into her powers, knowing this would be more fun.
"Yeah, but hope Moana doesn't spill the coconuts, about this." he muttered, transforming into his lizard form so he could find a good place, to hide where Lani could not find him, so she could try, to use all her forms of transformation of she could but if she could only do a few, it was no big deal as she was a kid first but a demigoddess second.
After a long while, Lani began to stir realising she'd slept most of the day, wondering where her dad was, tempted to tap into her powers and transform so she could go find him, since to her it was like hide and seek or extreme hide and seek, which Moana along with some of her new friends had taught her, but right now, she was hungry and before she could tap into her powers, she had to eat something.
"Aha, pineapples, those will work for a power snack, and then to find daddy." Lani told herself, getting the pineapples from the nearby tree, unaware Moana was watching impressed, by the five year old's skills just like when she'd been little saving that baby sea turtle, impressing the ocean letting Lani be.
"Mmmm super good, plus now I feel better, enough to try transforming." Lani said, focusing, transforming into her bird form, taking off into the blue skies overhead making sure nobody mistook her for her dad, screeching in joy at what she had managed to accomplish, using her bird eyes to look all around from up there, seeing Te Fiti, guessing he might have went there needing to get a better look.
She then focused turning into a shark, going into the water, swimming towards the mother island of Oceania, and after setting foot on the island transformed back into herself, feeling the sand beneath her toes hoping her dad was here, calling for him but no answer worrying her, taking a deep breath.
"Maybe he's in trouble and needs help, which is what we do, or what daddy does." Lani said, realising if she turned into something smaller, she might cover more ground, transforming into a lizard looking at her scaly paws, grinning going off to find her dad searching but not finding him, making her anxiety increase, trying to stay calm spotting a cave, making her nervous, in case a monster or some other God or goddess lived in there, but she had to try.
She was humming something that her dad sang to her aunt, about the many things he'd earnt the tattoos on his body for hearing noises, which startled her, transforming back into herself, realising it was her dad relieving her, wondering why he would pick somewhere like a cave, to hide in.
"I'm very impressed that you transformed which is amazing." Maui told her, hearing her tell him how she'd transformed into a bird and a shark to get here by herself, making him impressed wondering, if she could do it again making her unsure willing to try.
She then focused transforming into her bird form flying off, making her dad very proud doing the same, knowing this approach was working, hoping Lani was alright seeing back on the island they called home