"You're a monster from Lalotai." He realized with a snarl, grabbing his fish hook.

"What's it to ya, mughead?" The creature snickered. The crab had heard about humans before, but this was his first time seeing one up-close; he knew that mortals were just meatsacks with no extraordinary powers, so he wasn't hesitant to get a little cheeky with this one.

But the crab stopped laughing immediately at the flash of blue that came next, and let out an alarmed squeak as the demigod pinned him down in the form of a hawk.

Oh shit. This wasn't a mortal.

The crab squeezed his eyes shut and tried to shield his face with his claws, expecting to get torn apart by his attacker. Instead, Maui shapeshifted back into his humanesque form, picking the crab up by one of his legs. "Not much of a monster yet, are you?" He noted aloud as he looked over the tiny crab.

"H-Hey…!" The creature protested, flailing helplessly in the air. "I-If you're going to kill me, just get it over with already…!"

"Oh no, I'm not going to kill you." Maui said with a smirk. "You're going to tell me how and where you and all those other monsters got up here, you little pest."

With a snap of his claws, he growled in response, "I don't know! All these dumb islands look the same to me! I can't remember which one I landed on! I'll ch-chop your fingers off if you don't put me down, you—you- not-human thing…!"

"Demigod," Maui corrected, tossing the decapod up into the air and catching him by a different leg. "and you really don't want to do that, crab."

The crustacean, dizzied by the toss, shook his head and tried to focus his eyes on Maui again.

"So." Maui continued, dangling the crab carelessly. "You say you can't remember where you arrived at from the surface. Would you be able to remember where in Lalotai you got up here?"

"So what if I could?!" The crab spat irritatedly. "I wouldn't help you for anything in the world!"

"Oh, really?" The deity questioned, dropping the crab on his back. Before the crustacean could try and get back to his feet, Maui pressed the edge of his hook on the thing's chest. "Not even your life? Can't leave you around here to grow up and start terrorizing people, after all."

The crab let out a sharp yelp, the sudden pressure on his chest startling and paining him. "Okay, okay…!" He begged, "I-I'll show you where to go in Lalotai…!"

With a smirk, Maui said smugly, "Good choice." before picking up the creature again.

"Now what are you doing?!" The crab growled, annoyed at being thrown around so much.

Maui brought him over to his sailboat, opening a hatch in the hull and sticking the crab in. "Can't have you running off while I sleep." Maui explained. "Rest up, crab cake. We leave in the morning."

"It's Tamatoa!" The creature snarled, clicking his claws together again. "Not 'crab cake'!"

Maui gave him a disinterested shrug. "Whatever, crab cake. We leave in the morning, so rest up while you can."

With that, he closed the hatch to make sure Tamatoa couldn't crawl out, then went back to his fire.