I apologize for the gap between chapters, I just started college and I haven't had a whole lot of time to watch Moana and write the story. There will be gaps in updating a few of my stories so please be patient. I hope you all enjoy this new chapter
With a shocked face, Mini Maui creates a scoreboard on Maui's chest and gives a point to Moana.
This furthers the laughter from the audience.
Maui makes a disgruntled face as he does this. He turns around huffing.
MAUI:
I'm not going on a suicide mission with some… mortal!
He states in a-matter-of-factly way as he pulls out a banana from the hull. Moana glares at him.
MAUI:
You can't restore the heart without me, and me says no.
Hei-Hei falls into the opened hull of the boat behind him with a caw. Maui walks behind Moana to the back of the boat.
MAUI:
I need my hook, end of discussion.
"Okay why does everyone talk to me like that?" Moana exclaims, "I'm not a child!" Maui rolls his eyes.
"Ya pretty much are."
"I'm sixteen years old! That does not constitute as a child." Huihana and Pania speak up.
"Yeah it doesn't."
"By my time, it does." Cricket silence.
"You're a DEMI-GOD!" Someone shouts.
"You're over a thousand years old!"
"Everyone calm down!" Tui's voice booms to calm the villagers, they are rightly annoyed by Maui, but Tui wants to see how Moana will navigate this issue with an arrogant demi-god.
Moana groans in frustration, before she takes a look at Maui's tattoos, especially a particular one of people praising him.
Just as Maui is about to take a bite, Moana speaks up.
MOANA:
You'd be a hero!
Maui looks up.
MOANA:
That's what you're all about, right?
Maui takes a bite and speaks through chewing.
MAUI:
Little girl, I AM a hero!
MOANA:
Maybe you were, but now, now you're just the guy who stole the heart of Te Fiti, the guy who cursed the world!
Moana grabs the banana and takes a bite.
A few give her a very weird look for that, she shrugs it off
MOANA:
You're no one's hero.
MAUI:
*scoffing* No one.
Moana looks to him and shakes her head, the ocean gives its opinion, and Hei-Hei squawks.
Maui looks around at the audience, all of whom give him disapproving looks. Keoni and Huihana make the exact face of "Nah dude". And Pania, Moana's cousin, just gives him an annoyed once-over. Yeah, no one's hero.
Maui sits there, ego severely bruised now.
MOANA:
But, put this back, save the world, you'd be everyone's hero!
Mini-Maui demonstrates on his chest, earning a praising reaction from the crowd of tattoos. Maui then looks back to hear Moana chanting his name.
MOANA:
Maui! Maui! Maui! You're so amazing!
With a groan, Maui stands up.
MAUI:
We'd never make it without my hook. Not past Te Ka.
Moana eagerly follows him, knowing she got under his skin.
MOANA:
Then we get your hook! We get your hook, take out Te Ka, restore the heart! Unless you… don't want to be, Maui: Demi-God of the wind and sea, hero toall?
Moana holds out her hand for a handshake, Maui turns and looks at her in the eye. Mini-Maui holds out his hand in encouragement.
MAUI:
First, we get my hook!
MOANA:
Then save the world! Deal?
MAUI:
Deal.
After the handshake, Maui promptly throws her overboard again, and the ocean dumps her back on the boat.
"What the heck?" Moana exclaims. "Tell me that's the last time you do that!" Maui just snickered.
MAUI:
*shrugging* Worth a shot.
Maui turns to go to the back of the boat to begin steering it.
MAUI:
Okay! Go east, to the lair of Tamatoa!
Maui holds his hand up to the sky, measuring the stars, and then dips his hand into the water to feel the current.
"I saw my ancestor do that!" Moana exclaimed
MAUI:
If anyone has my hook, it's that beady-eyed bottom feeder.
Moana carefully observes his movements as Maui directs the boat with the oar.
A graceful shot of the boat bounding over the ocean, with a gorgeous sunset in that background.
"And this is where the adventure really begins!" Isabel pipes up excitedly. Moana grins, sharing her excitement, and Keoni watches the screen with curiosity.
Moana watches as Maui ties knots and puts them around the boat, securing the sails. Excited, Moana gets right in his face.
MOANA:
Teach me to sail!
Maui scoffs.
MOANA:
My job is to deliver Maui across the great ocean!
Moana tries to lean on a rope but stumbles and loses her balance.
MOANA:
I should- huhwa! I, should be sailing!
Maui rolls his eyes at her.
MAUI:
It's called wayfinding, princess.
He climbs up the mast to observe.
MAUI:
And it's not just sails and knots, it's seeing where you're going in your mind! Knowing where you are, by knowing where you've been.
"It's all ocean, it looks the same, how would you know where you're going if everything around you looks the same and is constantly changing?" Keoni asked. Many villagers voiced their agreement.
"Look to the stars kid, the sky guides you, both during the day and during the night. Think about the ancestor's song; "We read the wind and the sky; at night we name every star"," Maui replies, understanding that the kid wouldn't understand, "That's the basic gist of it. By the looks of it, I'm going to be teaching it to Curly over here."
Maui leaps back down to the deck of the boat.
MOANA:
Okay first, I'm not a princess, I'm the daughter of the chief.
MAUI:
Same difference.
"Are you seriously having that conversation?" Pania asks exasperatedly. Moana holds her hands up.
"Hey, gotta clear the air!"
MOANA:
No!
MAUI:
If you wear a dress, have an animal sidekick, you're a princess!
Maui picks Moana up, and sits her in the hull of the boat with Hei-Hei and goes to the back of the boat again.
MAUI:
You're not a Qayfinder, you will never be a Wayfinder, you will never be a way-!
Behind him, the ocean plucks out a stray Kakamora dart from the boat and sticks it into Maui's behind, causing him to freeze and fall on his face.
MAUI:
Really? Blowdart in my buttcheek?
The ocean gives Moana her oar back and high-fives her. She rolls Maui over.
MAUI:
You, are a bad person.
MOANA:
You can talk, you can teach.
Moana tries to twirl her oar in her hand, fails and hits herself in the face with it.
MOANA:
Euh! Wayfinding, lesson 1: hit it!
Mini-Maui gestures to Maui, clearly indicating he's on her side. Maui groans and rolls his eyes.
MAUI:
Pull the sheet.
Moana runs to the mast, ready to pull a rope.
MAUI:
Not the sheet.
She holds her hand out to another rope, and another, and another.
MAUI:
Nope, nope, nope.
Moana scurries all over the boat trying to figure out what to do, Mini-Maui facepalms. The boat moves all over the place.
MAUI:
Tried that one already.
The scene transitions to nighttime, and Moana is trying to mimic the hand movement from before.
MAUI:
You're measuring the stars, not giving the sky a high-five.
Keoni snorts at that line, giving Maui a laugh too, and an annoyed glare from Moana. Tui and Sina silently encourage Moana to keep going.
Another transition.
MAUI:
If the current's warm, you're going the right way.
Moana sticks her hand in the water, feeling around for the change in temperature.
MOANA:
It's cold, wait! It's getting warme-
She makes a disgusted horrified face whereas Maui's looking relaxed.
MOANA:
UGH! That is disgusting! What is wrong with you!
"OH MY GOD!" Someone cries.
"Ugh!"
Maui chuckles indifferently.
"O-KAY! Did not need that scene!" Pania exclaims. Maui doesn't pay attention to the crows of disgust from the audience. Keoni makes a face but doesn't say a word.