Both abandoned by their parents and found by the gods, April and Maui were the best of friends. They did nearly everything together, never leaving the other's side. They became a demigod and a demigoddess, Maui getting his fish hook and her getting her own staff which looked like a spear, both made from the same thing. They were both pretty much unstoppable as a team, the two of them being very much alike but different in some ways.

Maui was brave, she got scared by certain things easily. He was unsure why his parents had abandoned him, feeling he was unwanted. She felt there had to be a reason for their parents just abandoning them like that, having the feeling that some parents just couldn't take care of their children. Though sometimes they couldn't help but wonder if the other was right.

Their friendship lasted until that fateful day when Maui and the huge crab monster, Tamatoa had their big fight since both were after the Heart of Te Fiti. Maui wanted it for the humans while Tamatoa had wanted it only for himself. Out of his own rage, Maui took the giant crab monster's leg. Hearing the crab's cry of pain, April winced at the sight of his leg being removed before glaring at Maui, feeling it was wrong to remove the crab's leg.

When he left to steal the Heart, she refused to go along. She didn't know what stealing the Heart could do, but she had a bad feeling about it. But she did follow him for her own amusement, just for if he failed. She had hoped he would and that his whole idea would blow up in his face, hoping it'd shatter his ego a bit. She believed he needed it, since his feats seemed to have gotten to his head.

After following him for some time as a hawk, she watched him stop in the middle of the ocean before flying up to the island. She followed but at a safe distance so as to not be seen. As she watched him disappear into the island of Te Fiti, it took only a few minutes before she saw him exit, running as fast as he could to make his escape with the ground shaking. She made sure to stay out of his sight as he fled the island, smirking at the thought of something bad happening as she watched.

Sure enough, a giant lava monster - known as Te Kā - rose from the large rocks sticking up from the ocean, ready to attack. April saw him readying his hook, the blue light emitting from it.

This'll be fun. She thought as she watched him jump into the air and swing his hook at Te Kā just as she started to swing her fiery hand at him. The attack from the lava monster was brutal enough to send Maui flying towards an island with nothing but rocks and a sandy beach on it, his hook and the Heart being knocked from his grip and dropped into the ocean.

As she flew overhead, she considered whether or not to make her presence known. She then smirked as she decided to stay and perch herself on one of the rocks, watching as the demigod slowly but weakly moved his hands to his sides to push himself up, but began to feel a bit concerned as he failed and fell face-first back into the sand.

"Don't have such a big ego now, do ya big guy?" April asked with a smirk as she flew down a few feet beside him and shapeshifted back to her human form, her wavy brown hair in front of her shoulders before she pushed it back behind her. Maui just glared at her, a look of pain in his eyes as he did.

She liked seeing him this vulnerable after what he had done to Tamatoa about a few days before, but she couldn't help but worry about him at the same time. She could see how much pain he was in just by looking into his eyes and it made her wince. That blow from Te Kā must've hurt badly.

"Shut up..." She heard him mutter weakly in response to her teasing, "If you had come with me, none of this would've happened." April glared at him, clutching her staff in her hand.

"Excuse me?!" She asked, her staff held tightly in her grip, "For your information, I had a bad feeling about stealing the Heart, and I did come with you! I just kept myself hidden because I didn't want you to see me and wonder why I was there! And I'm actually happy this whole 'stealing the Heart of Te Fiti' thing blew up in your face! You needed it with how big your ego is due to all your so-called 'great' feats! Like that one!" She used her staff to jab at the tattoo he earned from his big fight with Tamatoa, causing him to let out a short grunt due to the huge amount of pain he still felt from crashing hard onto the island.

"Will you please not touch me right now?" He managed to ask out of frustration despite the pain, his teeth clenched, "It freaking hurts!"

"Oh, I'm sorry!" April apologized in a sort of teasing way, poking his side a bit lighter than she did to his back, causing him to let out a smaller grunt of pain, "Didn't know it'd hurt!"

"Well it DID!!" He suddenly snapped, moving suddenly to get up before collapsing back down on the sand as his back hurt and stung even from bending it, the injured demigod letting out a small yelp as he collapsed. April, despite wanting to teach him a lesson, winced at the sound of his yelp.

She looked closely to see if there was anything wrong, but she didn't see anything. She then remembered that demigods didn't bruise nor get cuts, though one thing she failed to notice for some unknown reason was the slightly black coloring on his skin, especially the spot where Te Kā's hand had smacked into him.

Burns... She thought, subconsciously running a finger very lightly over the burn marks.

"What are you doing?" Maui asked sounding annoyed, not even wincing at the pain from feeling the body heat from her fingers touching his burned flesh since he barely felt it.

Realizing what she was doing upon hearing him she quickly withdrew her fingers from his skin and said, "Nothing! I was just curious as to what was wrong and why you couldn't get up. It turns out there are burns on your skin."

"Well no shit..." Maui muttered with a roll of his eyes, "Why do you care, anyway?"

"Obviously, I don't." April spat, glaring at him, knowing that what she had just said wasn't true, "I don't care about you because of what you had done to Tamatoa–"

"If you care about that giant, beady-eyed bottomfeeder so much, why don't you...go live with him or something?" Maui interrupted, secretly hating himself for not being able to come up with a better comeback.

"Maybe I will." April said as she turned her back to him, "And maybe if losing me as a friend isn't enough to teach you a lesson, maybe you being left here alone will!"

"Is this why you're treating me like crap?!" Maui yelled to her as she started to leave, a hint of anger in his voice, "I've told you that that beady-eyed bottomfeeder only wanted the Heart to himself!"

Well you could've agreed to give it to the humans then give it to him after the humans were done with it, instead of taking his leg. April thought with a roll of her eyes, I mean, even if the theft was successful, it wouldn't hurt... Then again, he did mention wanting the Heart for the power of creation, so he may have wanted it in order to make his own army.

"So you're gonna leave me?!" She heard Maui yell as she continued walking, "Yeah, some friend you are if you're leaving me alone and helpless and in PAIN!" April stopped suddenly upon hearing this before spinning around suddenly to face him, shooting him a glare.

"Yeah? Well it's nice you still think we're friends, because we're not." April said quietly enough for him to hear, anger showing in her voice. Or was it hate? She wasn't too sure. But she decided she'd let the gods know where she was going before she went to visit Tamatoa in his lair.

After letting the gods know where she was going and what had happened, April gathered supplies in a boat they had given her and she set sail for Lalotai. But first, she had to bring some food to Maui, just so he could survive on the island he was stuck on.

As she sailed, she noticed the sea acting up a bit. She had a feeling it had something to do with the Heart being stolen, but she wasn't going to let that stop her since she and Maui were trained Wayfinders. She then began to think about how they were trained side-by-side on a boat, both of them taking turns with being at the sail or being in control of the oar. She was almost so deep in her memories that she almost didn't notice a big wave in front of her.

She rushed to the sail and pulled the rope to straighten it, just to make the ride over the wave easier so the boat wouldn't tip or fall. After she got over the wave, she looked around before feeling the current. It was warm, so she smirked before pulling the sail and speeding towards the island.

After pulling up to the island Maui was stranded on, she made sure the boat was on the sand in very shallow water so it couldn't go anywhere. She then hopped off, seeing Maui make another failed attempt at getting up, his grunt telling her he was still in a fair amount of pain, but less than before.

"Hey, big boy." She said with a smirk, "I brought'cha some food. And yes, before you ask, the gods had me bring it. Also I told them what happened with you stealing the Heart of Te Fiti and they aren't pleased."

"I was doing it for the humans." Maui muttered as April plopped the food down beside him, "You know, just so they could have the power to create life itself. But now I realize...it's cursed." April rolled her eyes.

"Pfft, cursed?!" She questioned, "Um, I believe in curses but honestly, you were asking for it. And I did tell you I had a bad feeling about stealing it, didn't I?" Maui rolled his eyes.

"Look, I didn't expect you to come here just so you can nag me." He told her, slightly glaring at her, "And besides, weren't you leaving to go check on that giant crab cake?"

"Um, duh... But first I had to tell the gods what had happened and where I was going." April said matter-of-factly, "And you're lucky they had me bring food to you so you wouldn't starve, because I wouldn't mind seeing you suffer for a few days or more." Maui sighed, rolling his eyes at her before an idea came to him and he smirked.

"Well I'm glad you actually care about me, despite the fact you said you didn't earlier." He told her, still smirking at her. April just rolled her eyes at him.

"Ugh, like I care!" She shouted, her arms crossed as she looked at him with a slight glare, "You are a terrible demigod...and friend!" She could see the look of hurt on Maui's face before it turned to a glare, but she continued, "Heck, Tamatoa was your best friend and you removed his freaking leg. How good does that make you look? And wait until I tell all the humans you love so much about how you took his leg! Wouldn't be so good for your image now, would it? Oh, and when you can finally get up, you're not going to hurt me either, are you?"

"What?!" Maui questioned, "Don't be ridiculous! Tamatoa is a giant crab monster, okay? Like, what if he created an army using the Heart of Te Fiti? Would you still be on his side?!"

"Mmm, no." April said matter-of-factly, "But I don't think there's a way he could've gotten out of Lalotai faster if he wanted to try to beat you to it. Besides, isn't a boat faster than a giant, fifty foot coconut crab?"

"Believe me, he's sneaky." Maui said with a roll of his eyes, "Besides, he can't get out of Lalotai because it's below the ocean and there is no way out, except probably going through a large amount of water since the ocean is so big. And if there's one thing I know, crabs can't stay under water for too long because they need air to survive. No air equals no survival, the same for us air breathers. So you can thank me for taking his leg because he also could've died trying to travel out of Lalotai to get the Heart."

"Well you" — she jabbed her staff into his side and smirked as he let out a groan from the pain — "could've gone with him, and possibly said something about not using the Heart to create an army once you were done with it. Like you could've made him promise. But nooo, instead you just take his leg and leave him for dead!" Maui let out a huff at this, clearly not in the mood and knowing he was still too weak to grab her and possibly throw her into the water. But he tried to grab her anyway, and April swiftly dodged his hand flying out to grab her.

"Look, I'm not in the mood to be criticized right now!" He shouted at her, unable to do anything but glare, "And you're just lucky I can't grab my hook–"

"Your hook isn't with you, it's in the ocean!" April spat, glaring at him, "And if you try to grab at me again, your hook isn't going to be the only thing you lost. You got that?" As she poked at his side again not-so-gently with her staff, and honestly a bit harder than she had done the past few times, she saw him jump slightly, his eyes shut tight and his teeth clenched as he sucked air in through them as he tried not to yelp or make any other sounds from the pain he was in.

Though after that as he opened his eyes to look at her, his expression didn't show frustration. It showed pain and...fear? No, he didn't seem to fear anything so maybe she was misreading his expression, but his eyebrows were curled up as if he were sad but his mouth was open a bit as if he were kind of shocked at what she had done. This made her feel kind of bad for him again, but to hide it she just turned her back to him and sighed.

"Now I'm going to visit Tamatoa..." She said, a bit calmer now and trying to hide the fact that she felt bad before slowly walking to her boat in case Maui wanted to ask her something, "Since I'm sure the gods wouldn't want me to leave you here without asking if you need anything–"

"I'm fine." Maui said quietly enough for her to hear, interrupting her, "Just...go." April just nodded and went on her way.