"Ah!" I turned my head towards the scream. Tala! Han hopped out of my backpack and took off running. I followed behind him. We stopped in our path as more Powerwilds appeared.

"Bark! bark!" Han yipped. I jumped up in the air, flicking my keyblade,

"Thundara!" I sent out waves of thunderbolts, electrocuting each of the heartless. The Powerwilds danced around, trying to avoid the flashes. As I landed, I leaped forward and slashed at the monsters. I defeated the group of heartless and Han, and I continued forward, it was hard to see where we were going now due to the time being night. Han however, seemed to know what he was doing. I just ran wherever he did, letting my eyes slowly adjust to the darkness. Eventually, we found Tala; she was lying on the ground, being attacked by an Ogre! It raised its sword and gave a swift swipe at her,

*CLANK*

I parried the attack. I gave a strong push and shoved the ogre back.

"Leaf..." Tala whimpered. I kept my attention on the monster. The ogre let out a loud roar- two Invisible's appeared behind it. Han gave a low growl at them. I held up my keyblade,

"Dark Missiles!" I slung my keyblade in a circle, shooting out dark energy, hitting the group of heartless. Han jumped up on my head; I raised my keyblade once more, "Ignito Raid!" I charged forward, igniting my keyblade in flames, I stabbed through one of the Invisible's. It fell in defeat. The other Invisible flew at me, striking me with his blade! "Erk!" I felt the blade cut my face. Then the ogre dashed at me, grabbing me by my neck and throwing me across the floor. As I got up, it charged forward with its blade pointing straight at my chest! "Ah!" I barely managed to jump out of the way.

"Cura!" I raised my keyblade, healing myself. All better. I sprinted towards the other Invisible, I jumped up and struck it. I performed a combo, finishing it off.

"Bark!" Han yelped, I turned my head to see the ogre flying at me.

"Hurrah!" I parried the attack, then in an instant struck back out. The ogre stumbled back, it raised its blade up and chopped at me. I held up my keyblade with both hands, holding up against the attack. "Errr!" I was barely holding up against it, "Ha!" I gave one final push and the ogre back off. I raised my keyblade, "Fira!" I blasted the heartless with fire. It blocked my attack, swiping off the flames. The ogre lowered itself, then darted forward at me! It hit me, but only with its body! Han and I tumbled over, but we quickly got back up. Han jumped back up on my head, I lept up in the air, "Seven blades!" I cast. The heartless was hit with blades of light, it was pinned to the ground and disappeared. I ran over to Tala, who was lying on the ground, she was gasping for air. She has a few wounds on her; I lifted my keyblade, "Cura!" The wounds began to heal instantaneously.

"T-Thank you Leaf..." She said, "But... I'm afraid... there is no healing the old... from their age..." My eyes widened as I realized what she meant,

"You're..." I began.

"Please... take me back, I have to speak to Moana... one more time" I nodded. I picked up Tala, I wasn't the strongest, but I was able to hold her and make a reasonable pace back to town. I brought her to the Chief's home. People gathered around as I walked through. Two men ran up to take her; they looked at each other with worried faces. They didn't even say a word to me; they just carried her to what I believed was the Medical Hut. I followed them; they sat Tala down in her bed. Sina was tending to her, making sure she was okay. It wasn't long before Moana and Tui ran in, both gasping at Tala's condition.

"Mother," Tui said. He and Moana ran over to her. Moana held Tala's hands, she was barely conscious, breathing hard. Chief Tui and Sina both got up and turned to whisper amongst a group of other people, discussing what happened. I noticed Tala grab Moana's hand, Moana looked down at her. Tala's lips began to shake,

"Go..." she said.

"Grandma?" Moana leaned forward, to hear what she said,

"Go... n-" I couldn't hear the rest.

"I can't... not now," Moana said, shaking her head.

"You must... the ocean chose, you... follow the fish hook-" She gasped, "And when you find Maui, you grab him by the ear, and you say, 'I am Moana, of Montui, you will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Te Fiti" Moana just looked at her, sniffling,

"I can't leave you" Tala held Moana's head, and pulled her close,

"There is no way, that you could go that I won't be with you" The two embraced for a moment, before two, I think doctors, began tending to Tala again. Moana stood back; She realized what was happening, she held Tala's necklace in her hands, shaking. "Go" Tala gasped one final time. Moana put on the necklace, giving Tala one last look of goodbye. She turned towards me; I knew what she was thinking. I nodded, we ran out.

"We'll head to my home first, get some supplies," Moana told me. We ran to her home; she quickly began packing just mainly food. I noticed a shadow standing in the doorway; It was Sina. Moana saw her, gasping, Sina looked down at Moana's sack of food. She sighed, and bent down, putting more food in the bag. She handed it to her, Moana's eyes teared up, she smiled. The two stood up, and hugged each other, "Goodbye mother."

"Moana, come back to us..." Sina said.

"I will" They held each other for just a while longer. Before Moana picked up her bag, and we ran off. Sina, waving goodbye to us. Moana and I made our way back to the cave. We examined all the boats. "Which, should we take?" Moana asked.

"I'm not sure..." I replied. Moana held the green stone up, she looked up at one of the boats, near the water. It was one of, if not, the smallest one there.

"That one" She pointed. She stuffed her supplies in a hatch, she showed me how to put up the sail, and we pushed it into the water. We went through the waterfall with ease. We were now sailing out the ocean. Leaving behind Montui. Moana straightened out the sail and handed me an oar. We began pushing to increase our speed. There were huge waves incoming! We embraced ourselves, and pushed right over the first wave! The second was larger, but we sailed up and over it, making it officially out to sea. "We... we did it" Moana gasped. We were both drenched in water; I was just glad the water was warmish. We kept paddling, making our way towards the fish hook.

The night seemed endless, just Moana and I paddling over and over again. We took shifts in guiding the boat and just sleeping, or at least trying to. Very hard to sleep on a wooden raft on water. Eventually daytime hit, we were just going to try and stay going straight. As I steered the stern, she guided the sail.

"I, am Moana" she was practicing her confrontational greeting, "Of Montui. You will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Tu Fiti! How was that?"

"Not bad, need to sound more upfront about it though. You know, be more confident" I replied.

"Alright..." she cleared her throat, "Ahem, I, AM Moana of Montui. And you will board my boat, sail across the sea, and restore the heart of Tu Fiti!"

"Close enough."

"I'm just... nervous... and a bit tired. I'm sure once we find him we'll-"

*Thump*

Moana and I looked at each other,

*Thump*

We both looked down where the noise was coming from.

*Thump*

It was coming from the hatch. Moana looked down into it,

"Ah!" She screamed as something poked it's head out. Was it a coconut? Moana lifted it up, there was a rooster underneath, "Heihei?"She picked him up and set him on the deck. It was a scrawny rooster that was a bit lazy eyed.

"Bok bok" It looked around, "Bok... bok?" It looked as if it had just realized something, "Bokcuaaaa!" He screamed.

"Bark bark!" Han jumped out of my backpack, began chasing after Heihei.

"Bok! Bok! Bokcua!" The two ran around in a frantic chase.

"Han! No!" I grabbed him; I held up, "Bad spirit! That's not food" Heihei jumped into Moana's lap,

"Bokcuaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" It began screaming again. Moana put the coconut back on his head, he stopped.

"It's okay Heihei, see" She slowly lifted the coconut off his head, he looked around. This time he didn't seem so scared. Han had calmed down too and just watched the rooster. "See? The water is my friend, our friend!" Moana leaned over and let her hand waft through the water. Heihei watched, and then walked to the edge... and off the boat... for some reason?

*Ploop*

"Heihei?!" Moana called. We all saw his feet pop off from the water, "Heihei!" Moana jumped in!" She grabbed him but realized what she did. The boat was sailing away from her, "Leaf!" I snapped to realize the problem as well. I reached steer the sail, Wait! No, we can't lose our path. Instead, I just took it down. Moana was able to swim back over; I reached out my hand, she grabbed it and climbed up. She set Heihei down and just stared at him with annoyance. She shook her head and turned to reach for her paddle,

"Bok bok" He was already walking off the boat, again,

"No!" We both grabbed for him. Moana got him first, and stood up, "Excuse me" she pushed passed me. She walked over and sat him down in the hatch. He began just walking around in the small square. Han let out a whimper, watching the rooster.

"Be nice?" I said I sat him down. He trodded over and sniffed at Heihei. Then sat down and looked up at me.

The day passed by slowly, the sun beat down on my skin, I had never been out in the sun for this long. I would dip my head in the water, keeping myself cooled off. I also kept my eyes out for anything moving in the water. Thalassophobia was a little thing I had. Not necessarily afraid of the water, just what's in the water. And knowing that the darkness has created large monsters in this world, that seems to be almost nothing but water; this was practically the worst possible place for me to be.

"So Leaf," Moana asked. I looked at her, "What's... your yellow... branch?" Yellow branch?

"You mean my keyblade?" I summoned Starlight, holding it up to show.

"Yeah, that!"

"This is just what I use to beat the monsters with"

"Can I...?"

"Err that's probably not for the best. It only stays in its owners grasp."

"Oh... So just... what are you?"

"Pardon?"

"Well, you're obviously some sort of demigod or something right?" Moana asked. I laughed,

"No. I am just a regular, 'mortal' like you."

"Come on; you're not normal."

"That hurts" Moana began laughing,

"You know what I mean."

"Yeah, I do. Alright, well, I'm from a distant place is al-"

"Yeah, but not from this world right?"

"What?"

"You're from the sky right?"

"Even further actually."

"Even further!" Her eyes widened, "There's more out there?!"

"Yeah, a lot more."

"That... that's how?" I shrugged,

"It's complicated; I don't even know."

"So why are you here?" Moana asked.

"I'm here to make sure; the darkness is gone. Or at least, that this world is safe" I said.

"So... you are on the same journey as me."

"Yeah? We're on the same boat, to the same location."

"Yes but, you are here because you want to save the world, not just protect me."

"Pretty much."

"Do you save worlds often?"

"I've traveled to many different ones. Can't say I've officially saved any. The darkness is always running amok in our homes. It's always being formed everywhere. For now, it is just impossible to ever get rid of it. All we can do is make sure it can't destroy the world."

"I see... so even if we return the heart; monsters will still roam the seas?" Moana looked at the stone.

"I'm not sure, Tala said that the monsters didn't roam the overworld until the heart was stolen. Maybe they'll go back down if we restore it" I tried suggesting.

"That's right! Then we have to do whatever we can to return the heart to Tu Fiti."

"Right" I began to fan myself with my hat. I was getting a little too hot again. I scooched over to the edge of the boat and leaned over to dunk my head. I froze as I saw something large moving towards me, "Wah!" I jumped back. A figure of some sort moved around the boat! Moana stood up, holding her paddle in her hands. I got up too, readying my keyblade. I actually felt scared, something I hadn't felt in some time. The monster rose out of the water; it was an enormous serpent! Its scales were the color of lavender, its eyes were clouded, and dark. It stuck it's tongue out, taunting that it found us. It wasn't a heartless; it was a real monster! It hissed, and then darted down at us.

"Ah!" Moana screamed, I stepped forward,

"Yah!" I smacked it back away. It strayed back, looking directly at me. It was getting a little closer; I raised my keyblade, "Blizzard!" I cast. The serpent was hit by the icicle. It shook its head in irritation, then lunged forward at me. I quickly raised Starlight, blocking the bite. "Blizzard!" I cast once more, the creature's head snapped back as the icicle hit it hard. It dove in the water.

"Is it..." Moana asked.

"I... I don't know" I replied. We stood there, waiting for something to happen. Han gave an aggressive growl.

*Fwoosh*

"Ah!" Moana and I both screamed. The serpent had attacked from underneath our boat, throwing us up over! I fell into the water, I could see it! It was swimming after me! My blood ran cold. I swam up, but the thing wrapped around my leg! It began pulling me down I was unable to do anything. I kept trying to shake myself free; I started getting cold as we went deeper below.

"Mmfh!" I have a strong jerk, and got my arm out! I raised my keyblade, "Thundara!" I cast. Everything was being shocked, including me! "Grra!" I screamed, the serpent let out a cry of pain as well. It let go of me! I quickly kicked my feet, going up. I could still see the sunlight... my vision became dark... I was running out of the air... I was so far! I felt unwell from the shock.

Not again... I slowly blacked out once more.

It's not your time... Not yet... Keep going...

My vision flashed white.

"Bark!" Han barked. I opened my eyes, sitting up and throwing up water. I was breathing heavily, Did I just... I looked at Han,

"Did you revive me?" I asked. I had taught Han a couple different spells, but I never knew if he could actually resurrect something for real.

"Yip yip!" He said. I rubbed his head,

"Good boy" Then I remembered something, "Moana!" My head jerked up; I looked around. I just realized I was on an island. I saw the boat, flipped over in the distance. I got up and ran over to it. Moana was nowhere to be seen; I saw Heihei though. He was walking around aimlessly. I looked around; I saw an unnatural mound of sand.

"Mmfh!" something in the sand said. I froze, listening. Suddenly Moana sat up from the sand, "Blah!" She coughed up the sand. She was just lined with sand.

"Moana!" I yelled. She looked over and saw me,

"Leaf!" She stood up, dusting herself off. She ran over and hugged me, "I thought we were a goner!"

"Yeah" I laughed, "Me too" She began looking around,

"Where are we?" She asked.

"I'm not sure; I just woke up myself" Moana turned towards the boat, it was in a rather bad spot. There'd be no way we could move it back. "I think the boats ruined," I said sadly.

"Ugh! This is all your fault!" She turned towards the ocean, stomping forward.

"Oh, Moana I'm so-"

"Not you Leaf, You!" She pointed to the ocean, "Why didn't you help us! That monster could've killed us! And now our boats crashed! How are we suppose to get off now?!" Heihei was walking around, Han began chasing after him.

"Han! No!" I yelled. Han stopped in his tracks, staring off after the rooster. Moana just looked down at her feet in the water,

"What do we do now?" She asked.

"Well, no use in hurrying" I turned towards the boat, "We have no sense of direction as to which the hook is now. We got all day to try and get this back in the water."

"Alright, yeah, let's try I guess-" Moana stopped. She just stared at me.

"What?"

"The rocks!" She pointed. I looked, there was a wall of rocks standing around, there were markings on them. In the shape of hooks? Moana walked up to me, "Leaf, look" She whispered to me. There was a shadow of something moving, behind the rocks. "Maui," she said. I summoned my keyblade, Starlight. Moana quietly grabbed an oar from the boat. We snuck our way up to the rocks; I could see the figure was moving towards as well!

"Psst, Hey!" I called, Moana looked at me. I waved over to hide behind the boat. She saw and nodded, she grabbed Heihei, and we all moved to cover.

"I... am Moana-" She began reciting to herself quietly. I watched as a large man, with curly hair, wearing nothing but the traditional grass skirt and tattoo's covering his entire body, walk around the corner towards us. Maui.