Maui was up on the mast of the boat, holding onto it as he looked straight ahead or around for any danger. The ocean seemed calm, so he figured no threats were coming his way. He glanced around, trying to see if there were any enemy boats he had to steer clear of. He then jumped down from the mast and felt the water to see if he was near any other islands that were hidden in the ocean after seeing the coast was clear.

He grinned as he felt warm water before taking his hand out and shaking the water off. Soon, there would be a new island for people to wayfind to. As he grabbed his hook, he looked down at the ocean, hoping for it to tell him where to throw it so he could snag the island, and that it did.

He saw the ocean rise up and point down a few inches in front of his boat. He looked at where it was pointing and threw his hook down, hoping he would snag it the first time, though he knew he hadn't done it in years since his theft of Te Fiti's Heart and being stuck on an island for a thousand years.

Here we go... He thought as he took a deep breath, My first time pulling up islands in years.

He tightly gripped his hook as he felt it finally snag something. As he began to pull on his hook, he started to focus on how heavy the island was and how much force he'd need to use in order to pull it up. And yup, this island was pretty heavy.

He clenched his eyes shut and his teeth as he pulled with all his strength, even tightening his muscles so he could pull the island up without his hook slipping from his grip.

C'mon... He thought, still pulling back on his hook, Get up here!

He then had a feeling the rope on his hook could snap due to how big the island was and how thin his hook was compared to an island so he started pulling up instead of back. As he pulled up, however, he noticed the pressure on his back, so he moved as close to the boat's edge as possible so he could pull up without bending his back too much.

After a few minutes, as he squinted an eye open and looked at the water, he could finally see the top of the island slowly moving up. Right now he would get excited at his feat and how he was still able to pull it off after so many years, but he decided to contain his excitement as he continued to pull the island up.

There's a time to get excited and a time to remain serious. He thought to himself, Right now, I'd rather not disappoint mortals by letting my excitement get the best of me and losing the island.

Thirty minutes had gone by and Maui had finally pulled up the island. As he looked at it, he noticed it had a mountain just like Motonui did, but the mountain looked almost as big as Lalotai itself.

Whoa... He thought, just staring at the island, his mouth hanging open, That is HUGE!!

A grin then crept its way onto his face as he held his hands out towards the island and shouted, "That is HUGE!! I've never seen an island that big before!"

The ocean then came up and nodded as Maui just stood there, staring at the island he'd just found and bouncing up and down from excitement, his feet not leaving the floor of the boat.

"This is AMAZING!!" He continued to shout, no longer bouncing up and down, "Wait until I tell Moana about the size of this island! She's gonna be SO proud!"

As he got ready to turn his boat around, the ocean soaked him to get his attention. Moving his wet hair out of his face, he turned around to glare at the ocean.

"What was that for?!" He asked it, clearly not too happy about getting soaked. As the ocean made a gesture towards the other open spaces of water, Maui rolled his eyes. "Can't that wait for after I tell Moana about the island I just pulled up?"

The ocean then did a motion as if it was rolling invisible eyes before going back down into the water. Maui smiled at this.

There, that's better. He thought, feeling a bit satisfied about the ocean finally leaving him alone, Now, off to find Moana.

As he started to sail off, however, the ocean made a big wave to capsize his boat, sending him straight into the water as his boat flipped upside-down.

Oh, come on! He thought, feeling annoyed as he glared up at the surface of the water before swimming up to it before getting a breath of air.

"What are you trying to do?! Kill me?!" He asked the ocean as he grabbed onto his boat and flipped it back upright before climbing onto it, now completely soaking wet as water dripped off of him. The ocean just stayed silent as Maui squeezed the water out of his hair.

"Alright, so you don't want me to see Moana." He said, looking down at the huge puddle of water beneath him, "And I'm guessing it's because you want me to pull up another island, don't you?"

The ocean just came up and nodded, causing Maui to roll his eyes.

"Okay, just one more island, alright?" He asked, crossing his arms, "After that, I go to see Moana since pulling up islands takes a lot of strength."

Mini-Maui heard this and pretended to pull up an island before pretending to be tired from it in order to tease Maui.

"Hey! Don't even go there, Tiny." He told his tattooed counterpart, "I am still strong enough to pull up an island or two. It's just that after a few islands I need a rest, since pulling them up requires me to use my muscles and all my strength."

Mini-Maui just crossed his arms and rolled his eyes as if saying, "Yeah right."

Maui just sighed as he flicked his tiny counterpart to his back and started to sail towards another open body of water.

Okay, I'm sure that there has to be an island nearby, but far enough away to have to be sailed to from the one I just pulled up. He thought to himself, The islands we already have are far enough away from each other to require sailing so...it should be the same with islands we have to pull up.

As he had finished his thought, he saw something like black smoke that was coming from far into the distance. He quickly jumped onto the mast and hung on, using his hand to shade his eyes from the sun. He squinted his eyes and he could see what looked like a tiny island, but he assumed it would be as big as a normal island from close up.

Wait why is there smoke coming from an island?! Maui thought, his eyes wide with shock, Is it...on fire?!

He then quickly jumped down from the mast of the boat, got behind it and quickly pulled the string to straighten the sheet, using his powers to control the wind so he could get there faster, the speed he was now going causing the wind to rush through his hair.

"WOOHOO!!!" He shouted, a big smile on his face before he suddenly remembered the island that was in trouble and shaking his head. "Uh, I mean...CHE-HOO!!!" He then corrected before putting a serious expression on his face.

As he began to get closer to the island, his eyes began to water a little from the thick black smoke. He began to look around at everything he could see so far, but nothing seemed to be causing the smoke. In fact, that part of the island seemed just fine!

The sky! He thought before looking up, seeing the thick cloud of smoke billowing from above the trees, Of course! The smoke has to be coming from somewhere deep within the island!

He narrowed his eyes as he grabbed his hook firmly in his hands, looking straight ahead at the island again thinking, Giant hawk, go!

With a swing of his hook, he transformed into a hawk and flew up into the sky. As he did, however, he breathed in the smoky air, causing him to cough and fly away from where the smoke was.

As he looked around, he spotted the smoke billowing up from a spot with lots of trees. As he flew as close as possible but so as to not inhale any of the smoke, he saw some orange flames through the leaves in the trees and the thick smoke.

Forest fires... Maui thought, wondering what could have caused the fire in the first place knowing the weather wasn't bad at all earlier in the day nor in the past few days, plus he knew a fire that hadn't already spread and burned up the entire forest yet had to have happened not too long ago.

Though as a realization struck him, he froze, almost forgetting for a split second that he was still in the air in his hawk form. Luckily his reflexes quickly saved him after he had just started to fall, causing him to start flapping his wings again.

The people of this island... Maui thought, having not seen a single villager on the island yet, Where are they? Did they make it out safe?! A chill ran down his spine causing him to shiver.

What if the villagers didn't make it out alive and everyone just perished in the flames? He began to feel even more worried now. But his worry quickly vanished as something clicked in his head. How would the villagers perish if the fire wasn't widespread and engulfing the whole forest?

Okay, there's nothing to worry about. He thought to himself as he took a deep breath to calm himself, The villagers are just fine and out safe in their boats. Now, all I need to do is find a way to put this fire out. The ocean can't help so that's a 'no'. But what else can help me?

It didn't take long before the idea of weaving a basket made of leaves came to his mind. He smiled and flew over to one of the trees that were not burning, plucked a few leaves from it using his beak and flew to the shore of the island where his boat was still floating.

It only took him a few minutes to weave the basket but after he was finished, he went closer to the shore, held the basket out and the ocean seemed to splash some water into the basket.

"Thank you!" Maui called to it as he turned into his hawk form, flew up with the basket and flew towards the fire.

As he got close to the smoke but not close enough to breathe in the fumes, he held his breath before flying above it and dumping the water from the basket over the flames.

Thirty minutes had gone by since Maui started to dump water onto the fire, and he was quite proud with his progress. The fire was now reduced to a medium-sized fire, but still a little bit bigger than a campfire.

A few more baskets and this fire will be out. He thought, smiling to himself, Then maybe the gods will give me a new tattoo to add to my list of accomplishments.

After he flew back over to the ocean, he landed and changed to his human form.

"Okay, Ocean," he said as he once again held the basket out, "more water plea-" Before he could finish, the ocean decided to splash some water into his mouth like it did after he had tried to escape Moana's boat as they were sailing to restore Te Fiti's Heart.

Maui spit the water out, not looking too happy with the ocean as he opened his eyes before asking in an annoyed tone, "Seriously?"

The ocean didn't reply as it splashed water into the basket he was holding.

"Thank you..." Maui said, the annoyed tone not leaving his voice. The ocean just nodded a "You're welcome" in reply.

As Maui changed back to his hawk form, he flew back to where the last of the fire was.

Well, that oughtta take care of it! Maui thought 10 minutes later as he looked down at where the fire used to be, Now if these mortals decide to come back, they know who to thank! And if not...

Maui grabbed a sharp rock up off the ground, then pressed it into the trunk of the tree and began to carve what looked like his fish hook into it.

There! He thought as he finished, throwing the rock aside with a smile, That should let them know that the great demigod Maui was here, and possibly get them to believe in me if they don't already. Or maybe one of them knows about me and could tell the others about me.

He once again changed into his hawk form and flew into the sky, shouting, "CHE-HOO!!!" before flying towards his boat. As he did, he wondered if he could try to find the villagers who had fled the island.

He then shook his head upon remembering that the ocean had wanted him to pull up another island before he even noticed the smoke that had risen from the island he was currently at. He then decided that the mortals would just come back later possibly to see if their island was saved by the gods.

In fact, he didn't know exactly why he had come to the island in the first place once he noticed there was smoke coming from it. He felt it was just his natural instinct to be a hero, since in his title were the words, "Hero of Men and Women", or "Hero to All", to put it shortly.

As he landed on his boat, he shapeshifted back to his human form, looking around at the different parts of his body that he could see before spotting it: a tattoo of him splashing water onto a fire using a basket.

Yup, I am a hero. He thought to himself with a smile, A hero to men, women, and most importantly a hero to all, even if Moana once said I was not her hero when we first met. He chuckled at the memory, knowing now - or at least believing - that their journey to restore the Heart of Te Fiti had changed her mind, especially when he had distracted Te Kā with one of his hakas so she could restore the Heart.

He remembered it fondly: He was looking death in the face, knowing that his life would end if one of Te Kā's fireballs had hit him due to the heat being hot enough to not leave traces of a body behind, thus turning whoever was hit by them to either ash or nothing. But he still did his haka as a way of challenging her, showing no fear even at the risk of his own life.

He then started to sail across the ocean again after the memory, hoping to find another island to pull up. Though thinking about the island he'd pulled up earlier before seeing the island he was just at in flames, he still couldn't help but feel excited about telling Moana about it.

Okay so in the beginning of it I had no ideas for a story so I just started to write whatever came to my mind, which then came to this.