The night was cool and quiet, Moana and her parents were settled down in their fale for the night, all three sound asleep. The only sounds were that of nocturnal creatures, lizards skittering on the ground and up and around other fales and buildings.
Moana did not have a dreamless sleep, in fact, the one she was currently experiencing took a strange turn.
A luminous white figure was saying something to her, but she couldn't make out the words, it was female. She wore a long flowing white dress, and her tattoos and eyes were white. A stark contrast to her dark skin. In her hands, the stars twinkled, and they were telling Moana a story.
A broken family, all torn apart in different ways. The father drowned, the boy was thrown off a boat, the mother dying of a sickness in the mind, and the girl living in a foreign village unsure of where to go or what to do.
Dream Moana felt deeply for the family. But the focus of the dream remained on the boy. There were no features, but she could tell he needed help, he was all alone, and he could die…
"Save him…" The figure whispered.
Moana jerked awake at the dream ending. How bizarre… yet it seemed like a vision of some kind. Needing to clear her head, Moana got up, wrapping her blanket tightly around her as she made her way through the village.
"What troubles you?" A familiar voice came. Moana didn't need to look to know who it was. Tala smiled at her granddaughter.
"Just… had a weird dream, that's all."
"Would you like to talk about it?" Tala inquired. Moana shrugged.
"I dunno, just… this woman dressed in white, with white tattoos and eyes used the stars to tell me about a broken family, and that the boy needed help or somethin'. It was weird, but I felt sorry for the boy, despite having no idea who he is or anything."
"That woman in white is the Goddess of the Stars, her name is Fetia."
"No way, really? A goddess spoke to me in a dream?"
"It seems so."
"Why me though?"
"Well, you were the Chosen one, restore the Heart of Te Fiti after all. Maybe your destiny is incomplete." Moana shook her head and made her way to the shore to watch the sunrise.
"But my life is complete, I restored the heart, I'm chief, I've taught my people how to wayfind, I've been to other villages, what more in my-" Moana stopped.
"I swear…" She sighed. Tala looked at her confused.
"What is it?"
"In the council meeting yesterday, they were discussing that I should start considering on courting soon. And then Maui joked about having the gods bestow a man for me. It was really weird." Tala raised an eyebrow.
"Perhaps it's a coincidence?"
"With Maui, nothing is ever a coincidence."
"Don't overthink it, Moana. Perhaps there really is just a boy who needs to be saved, and you're the one to do it, that has nothing to do with you getting married." Moana bit her lip in thought.
"I guess…" Moana took Tala's advice and tried not to overthink the dream, she even told her mother about it in the morning, who agreed to not overthink it.
"Don't worry about finding someone Moana, you're still young, you don't need to get married now, you know that right? I didn't marry your father until my mid 20's, and you weren't born for another three years." Moana knew that.
She shook off the dream, just the gods messing with her, she told herself, and on top of that, she was still ignoring the new pull to the sea. That didn't mean she didn't lounge on a boat every once in a while.
But Moana had the same dream, over and over again, but with each time, the goddess would open up more about her connection to these people, it became more and more specific, finally, Moana had enough of it.
"Alright! I'll go!" She exclaimed, sitting up, startling her parents one night.
"Are you alright?" Sina asked, understandably alarmed. Moana nodded.
"I'm fine, but that darn dream, I need to make it stop, so I'm going to go and find this boy, whoever he might be."