Sooo i'm back for a little while :P My back hurts like hell when i sit and editering the chapters... so i will take some time to just sit/lay or how ever i can be to write the other chapters in mine ohone... Yep writing them in note and mail them to myself... I KNOW! i'm a genius xD
Anywho Have Fun with the short chapter... i promise it will stop... just wanted to tease you ;)
"Moana?"
A voice so small it almost scared him. She looked up. The smile she had suddenly dropped when their eyes locked. A thought ran over and over in his head.
'It can't be. She's dead.'
He had come to that conclusion after some time. He had tried to look for her in the years after, finding no trace of her what so ever. The light brown colour in her face was pale as white snow. Moana stood glued to the place. They stood in place for some time before either of them dared to move. Taih'i watched the show being played right in front of him. He looked over at Maui then over to Moana then back to Maui.
Maui couldn't believe it. He took a step.
"Moana? Is it really you?"
Now here she stood, the woman who had vanished right before his eyes. Looking back at him if he was some sort of a ghost. He took a couple more steps to her until he stood right in front of her. Eyes never leaving one and other. Oh, how he had missed those golden-brown eyes of hers. They held so much fire in them and he could see it was still there. Still very much lit.
Shakenly, he picked up Moana and crashed her to his chest, giving her one of the biggest hugs she had ever got from the demigod. He buried his nose in her hair and inhaled the same flavor he had come to care for all those years ago. The smell of ocean was the only thing he could think of when he did that. 'It like coming up for air.' It had been like that back then and now it was like breathing for the very first time. Never thought he would be doing that again.
"It's really you! Isn't it?"
Moana hung limp his arms like a paralyzed animal. 'It can't be real. Must have fallen asleep somewhere.' Slowly she took her hands up to feel if the man before her really was the man from her dreams and adventures. When she traced her finger tips over Maui's arms, she felt how he let out a hitched breath in to the crock of her neck and how he shock a little.
"Maui?"
He tightens his grip around her a bit more.
"Is this real?" She felt how the demigod loosened the death grip a bit. He backed away a bit, so he could see her eyes once again.
"Yeah Curly. It's real." The sound of her old nickname rolling over the lips of her best friend made her burst into tears. She hadn't told anyone that. So how could it not be real? Bringing her arms up around his thick neck and returned the hug with the same amount of affection. He let her hands get tangled into his mane. Not bothered to care if she messed his silky hair. Silently she cried of joy.
Taih'i and Julia stood shocked and what happen and watched how the pair sank down to the floor. Still embracing, no words was said for a long time until Julia looked back at him.
"Maybe we should? I mean the food is getting cold."
Taih'i nodded back and stepped forward. He was about to say something when Maui pulled back and looked over Moana once again.
"But how? I watched how ya despaired right before me!" Moana whipped her eyes and snorted.
"Yeah I know. When I lost the sight of you I was pulled into something. I have no idea of what it was. But if I must explain it. It looked like the way down to Lolatai. Beautiful colors were around me but minus the water."
She looked over to her new friends that stood very still and watched them.
"The next thing I remember is waking up here on the beach. Trying to find out where I was."
A shaken voice interrupted the pair still sitting on the floor.
"Y-your Maui!"
Maui turned to look up at Taih'i and smiled.
"T-the demigod of t-the wind s-sea." He winked at the shaken man before him.
"Tadaa." He sat and held his arms out, proud.
"The one and only."
He stood up and offered Moana a hand witch she gladly took.
"Moana, you never told me he was this handsome."
Julia winked at her when she had come over the same shock. Moana turned crimson red.
"I wanted to keep him safe. So that's why I never said anything about his looks."
"Orw little miss princess is still looking out for good old me? Auch."
Maui received a smack on his shoulder. He rubbed the place she had hit and pouted like it had hurt a lot more than it actually had.
"Orw come on Maui. That didn't hurt."
Maui glanced over to the couple beside them and dropped the little act.
"Nah. Hurt a lot less than the right hook you have me at Tamatoa."
"I would love to hear THAT story over dinner."
Taih'i couldn't keep his eyes from the broad man before him. All his life (before Moana had come into it) he had heard the tales of the reckless demigod. Now here he was. Standing beside the very same woman who had restored the heart of Te Fiti and he couldn't tell anybody about it. Well to be honest it was fine by him. He had kept Moana's secret and he sure as hell could keep that he had met the trickster.
"Go and sit. I'm starving."
He went to the kitchen to get the bird out.
"Mmmmm. Smell good." Maui's mouth was watering.
"What is the menu?" The table was just across the kitchen, so Maui got all the delicious smell.
"For starter its coconuts with shrimps in. Moana's choice when she heard you were from the same parts as she was. Never tried it before myself so I'm looking forward to it. And the main is chicken."
He pulled out the chair for Moana and help her sit.
"Curly. You told them that I liked drumsticks?" Taih'i had placed the bird down and wrapped it in folio and a towel so it kept it's warm and juice.
"Drumstick?"
"Yeah. Thank you, Maui."
She had just placed herself down when she realized her mistake.
"No wait. I take it ba..."
"Your welcome." Rolled over his lips in a tone.
Maui was now laughing when he placed himself beside her.
"C'mon princess. Ya knew that one was coming."
Moana grumbled some curses and shot daggers at him.
"As I was saying. Yeah, I had a pet chicken when I was back at Motunui, called Heihei."
Maui sat and enjoyed the way Moana talked. He had missed her voice.
"He had joined me on the quest for finding Maui. Let me tell you. You will never find a more suicidal bird than him."
She had put a finger up to prove her point. Taih'i looked over at the two of them when he put down the starter in front of them.
"How come? He couldn't have been that bad. I mean it was a chicken"
The look Moana and Maui send him told him otherwise.
"Oh." Was all he said when he turned to get the other two for him and Julia.
"So, did you have other pets then... Ehm..."
"Heihei."
"Right. Heihei."
"Yeah a small pig named Pua." Julia came and sat down and placed the wine unto the table.
"What a cute name." Moana smiled to Julia and nodded.
"Yeah. He was the kind of pet who would follow me anywhere I went. Even when I tried to sail out on my own for the first time. That ended in that the boat got wracked and Pua got SCARED of water."
Moana looked down to her plate.
"Should never had headed out in the first place in that boat."
Taih'i had by now come too to sit and was about to say that he was sorry when she looked back up with a determent expression.
"That reminds me. Are there other boat shops here in town?"
"Have you tried the one in town?"
"Yeah I was there earlier today. Looked at a small boat but it had an engine on and no sail. Maui why are you looking at me like that?"
Maui looked a bit pale and panicked from what she just had said. He quickly looked away.
"No reason. Go on." 'I can't be her. It can't be her standing there bending so her fine ass...'
Julia had just placed down his glass of wine when Maui quickly took it and gulped half of it down. Moana had seen this before. Him acting like that. It meant that he knew something he wouldn't tell her. Squinting she watched him closely. Maui could feel how her stare was boring holes at him.
"Ahaha well shall we begin? Would be a shame to let this food go to waste with us talking all the time. We can do that LATER."
"Whatever you say big boy." Moana decided to let it rest for now and just enjoy him being back in her life once again. She had really missed him. Julia dug in and moaned in bliss.
"This is sooo good."
"Yeah. It tasted just like how you used to make it." Maui nudged Moana in her ribs and she blush a little.
"I must admit Moana. This. *pointing at the food* This is really good."
Taih'i had his mouth full when he praised her for the it.
"T-thanks."
"It sure beats the salted fish on the trips."
Moana had come over her blush and had taking a bite. She hummed at the statement Maui had made.
The evening went on and the dessert had been one of Moana's favorites. Roasted mango which in fact was one of Maui's too so just from the taste of it he had been send to heaven. They had decided to move over to sit in couch in the living room.
"So, tell me. What have you been doing?" Maui had a good feeling of where she was headed with that question, but he wanted to tell her in private and when the time came for it.
"To be honest Curly." He ran a hand through his hair and sighed.
"Nothing. I pulled up some more island before I decided to take a step back. And being awesome like me *flexes* can be tiresome." Maui dropped his arms again.
"I made sure that ya island was well provided before I did."
Maui made sure to have eye contact with his friend.
"And what do we say for that?" He took his big hand up behind his ear so he would irritate his long friend just a tiny bit more, he waited for those two little words he knew she had a hard time of saying after she had met the demigod. Moana huffed and crossed her arm and tried to be stubborn. She knew that at some point she had to say it. She looked out the windows and saw how the sun was half down into the ocean.
Closing her eyes, she said just what Maui wanted to hear, but in a low voice. Preparing herself for the over gloating
"Your Welcome" sentence, but it never came. She looked back at him and could see how his eyes held a warmth that she had never seen before. He smiled and nodded.
"No problem Princess. It was the least thing I could do when ya best friend with the handsome demigod himself." He winked at her and earned a laugh that made his inside do a flip flop. He laughed with her and enjoyed hearing her laugh once again. Even if he had a bad day back then she could always cheer him up just by teasing her or the other way around.
"Remember the island I pulled up for you when you turned twenty?" Nodding back at him he went on.
"Well I sorta made a home there and lived there for some centuries. Te Fiti made sure to keep me busy for a while but that too died out after some time. So, when I got tired of rock climbing. Let me tell ya. It can get boring, so I tried to do it with one hand and then the other only. Tried to do cannonballs in waterfall and as a hawk can only be so fun for so long." Maui scratched his head.
"So, like I said. After some centuries had passed I came here. Still haven't figure out why I headed all this way out. But I think there was a reason to."
He looked back over at Moana, but she never met his eyes. She was taking a sip with closed eyes.
"How long have you been here?" Julia asked. Maui thought about it for some time.
"Twenty-three years I think."
"Would it be too much to ask of one of your stories? Taih'i busted in. He had heard all off the powerful demigod as a child but to hear the actually story from himself would be like chocolate over vanilla ice on a warm sunny day.
"You only rubbing his ego Taih'i." Moana gave back.
"Give the man a break Curly. Not all have had the luxury of being in one of them."
Maui winked over to her, she couldn't help the smile that came up when she looked back at him.
"Guess you're right. I'll give you some space. Going over and get the kitchen clean while you boys are having fun."
She stood up and to a few steps.
"Oh, and Maui."
He looked up still smiling. She had turned her head, so she looked over her shoulder.
"If I hear you a making it more dramatic than it really was I will punch you."
She could see how a little drop of sweat made its way over the side of his forehead. But he got himself back together and smirked back. Felling a bit proud of have proven her point she went back on her way to the kitchen.
"She's really something right?" Taih'i whispered to the man beside her as he watched her going to her destination.
"She sure is." Taih'i looked back at the broad man and a devilish smirk crept on his face when he noticed how the demigod looked after her. Maui didn't see it in time when he finally tore his eyes away from Moana.
"So what story do ya want to hear buddy?" Clapping his hands in front of himself. "From the mighty demigod himself?"
Moana could hear how Maui told of how he had tricked the fire from the goddess to bring it to the humans, so they didn't freeze at night while she cleaned.
"He's not as bad as the stories say he is." Julia had been trying to get much info on Moana's heritage. Even the gods and goddesses. When Moana had been sharing her wisdom of her "teachings" she had always shown respect to the gods.
"No, he isn't. He can be childish at times, but that just the way he is."
Julia looked over at her friend. She paid no interest in what she was doing when her focus was somewhere else.
"He is a good man. I can tell just of how he had reacted in the bar."
"He is." Moana remembered how he had stood up for her when time needed. Always had her back.
"He is handsome too." Moana hummed in agreement. She had been washing the same plate for a good while now.
"You really like him, don't you?"
"Yeah... wait..." Moana blinked and looked over to Julia. Squinting her eyes.
"What are you up too?"
"Orw c'mon Moana. You have been washing the same plate for some time now and you stand here and drooling over him." She nodded her head over to Maui's direction.
"You said it yourself on the beach the other day. Now here's your chance." Moana dropped what she had been cleaning and starred at her friend.
"You gotta be kidding." Julia stared back at her with an expressing that told her that she did mean it and she couldn't see anything wrong with it. Moana blow out a long sigh and looked back over at Maui. He stood up and waved his arms out while telling his story. If she looked hard she could see the mini tattoo peaking up from the collar of his shirt and watched how the eager man took it all in.
Maui must have sensed that Moana was looking because he turned and flexed so his shirt was on the brink of ripping and send her a wink on the way. Taih'i laughed and clapped his hands. He was acting like a little child, but he didn't care. He really enjoyed the show the demigod was doing.
She stared quick back down and could feel how her face slowly began to heat up. "Oh, if I hadn't been so into my man I would have thrown myself all over him already. So, I can't see why you haven't done that yet."
Julia was leaning over the counter. Leaning the face in her hands she stood and wiggled her rear like a happy dog would. Looking back over to the men Maui was showing with one arm how the waves had been when he had come back up.
"He is immortal. There can't be no us there. And second." She turned back to Julia.
"He is my best friend. I can't risk it. Haven't seen him for over three years and now that he has come back I need to learn about him all over again. He hasn't seen me for over three thousand years remember." She placed the plate to dry and went for a glass.
"Beside I don't think he has ever been into me that that. He once told me that I was the annoying little sister he never had. He only had brothers, you see." Julia had brought herself up from the counter and now stood, studying Moana.
"B-U-L-L shit Moana. You didn't see the face on him when he first saw you entering the room." Moana was taking back at how Julia barked at her.
"You didn't see how pale he got as if he had seen a ghost. And then when he walked over to you to really see if it was you. His eyes lit up like a freaking Christmas tree. I'm almost sure that I saw a tear or two coming down."
She stood with her mouth hanging open but then shook it off. Glaring down in the sink filled with water and soap she snapped out of it by clearing her throat.
"It doesn't matter. He will live, and I will at some point leave him behind to the world once again. I have no idea how he has been the last centuries. And by how he reacted on how his hook almost got destroyed be course of me. Then I won't think off how he had been when he saw me disappear in front of him." Moana place the glass up next to the plate so the water could run off it.
"He is not as easy as he seems. He has been through alot long before I met him." Grapping the cutlery next.
"He seems to do fine by Taih'i." Moana looked once again over to them and saw how they laughed at one of Maui's many pranks he had done in the past. He wasn't the trickster for nothing.
"That's just him enjoying the attention again from a fan." She tried to concentrate on her doing again.
"How do you know that is true?" Moana sighed.
"Is he showing his tattoos?" She didn't even need to look up, but she see out of the corner of her eye that Julia looked over towards them. Just as she did Maui had rolled one of his sleeves up so Taih'i could see how he has harnessed the breeze. Julia looked back at Moana a bit awestruck of how she knew without looking.
"I told. I have known him since I was sixteen. That is how Maui is when he is with people who admires him. So, he do what he does best. Brag about himself."
"Well maybe he just enjoying it once again." Moana couldn't hold back the snort from escaping.
"It's Maui we are talking about remember. The demigod of the wind and sea. Back at Motunui people would gather around him before I had a chance to great him. Children Begging him to tell his stories. He always did. Twenty or more would sit and listening to his tales and suck it up like a sponge. Telling them of how he had slowed down the sun or how he had raised the sky, so they didn't need to go bending over all the time."
Julia shrugged. "Maybe he grew up? You did say that He had over three decades alone."
Wiping her wet hands off in a towel Moana turned and pointed at the broad man.
"He had made a six-foot-tall statue of himself on that island he had been stuck on for thousand years. It surprises me that none in this town is following him hot everywhere he goes."
"A statue you say? Is it still there to see?" Moana was suddenly very quiet. So were the men in the other room. They had silently made their way over to them without the curly haired woman's notice.
"I kinda knocked it over and wrecked it to get out of the cave he had locked me in."
"Ya did WHAT?"
Palling Moana's head spun fast to the side where the sound had come from and saw Maui standing with a very much surprise face, looking right at her.
"I-i Ehm... L-look."
"Princess please don't tell me that ya have destroyed my statue." Maui moved closer to her and his once warm eyes had been turned to two cold ones. He was so close that he towered over her. She could smell him. If it had been on another occasion she would secretly bathe herself in that scent of that musk smell. She had truly missed it. But now she wished she had looked over before opening her mouth.
"I-it was y-your own f-fault Maui. You lock m-me in the c-cave."
Her voice dropped the more Maui was towering over her. Letting her feel very small all off the sudden.
"C-can't you m-make another o-one?" She whispered just load enough for the demigod to hear.
"Make another one?" Maui had dropped his arms to the side and looked dumbfounded.
"Make another ONE?" Maui said the last bit a bit loud to prove his point.
"Curly it took me over two hundred years to perfect ma skills to make it like that."
"Maui look. I didn't mean... I wasn't... What?" She looked behind her. "The ocean is calling me so I gotta." Waving her hands, the same way she had been when she had eaten pork in front of Pua.
"Bye!"
Moana ducked under the arm reaching out for her and ran out of the house, down the balcony and made her way down to the ocean.
"Oh no ya don't." Maui stormed after her. Jumping from the balcony and landed on the grass he too ran in the same direction.
"What just happen?" Taih'i asked as he stood and looked how Moana tried to run as fast as she could away from the obvious much faster demigod.
"Come back here Moana!"
"I don't know. One minute we stood and talked. And it all changed with that statue."
Taih'i shrugged. "Let just stay out of it."
"Yeah your right."
Minutes later they head a woman screaming.
ORW poor Moana! ;)
Nope not sorry :P
hoped you liked it :D
Until next time... ALL THA LOVE FROM DENMARK! :D