Sorry I'm a week late with this chapter, I blame by boyfriend distracting me during the weekend and my dad deciding to have a day to spend as a family in the out door fishing so I was away from the laptop and wifi for the whole day. Eh it was fun to be outside where there was some nice scenery around, and I did get to go to Goliad and see that there's a lot of come and take it flags.
Welp , here's chapter 5. Warning , a bit of blood and gore. You have been warned.
it took 3 weeks before Maui was able to face the monster that was heading towards the islands. At first he was helping out villagers around the island , helping to break ground for farming , coconut harvesting , telling stories to all three island's children and flying around to keep a hawk's eve view out for trouble; but after the first week it petered out until by the last 4 days he was just flying petrol ,and sometimes resting to keep up his strength for the coming fight , too tense to try and help out any other way. Everyone , except Moana, in the village was a bit nervous since Maui was acting nervous and restless like that.
Moana was near the water helping the fishermen repair one of the deeper sea nets, that would be used on the larger boats during long voyages, when the Ocean stood up; Since the Ocean doesn't normally do that when anyone besides Maui are around she dropped everything and ran up knowing that it was important.
"Ocean? What is is? Is something wrong? Is it the monster that Maui has been on the look out for perhaps?"
the Ocean brought her some recently broken wood , flat wood that looked familiar, like it might have come from a canoe.
" Moana! The Ocean told me to come, " said Maui as he landed and transformed " here let me see it." Maui said as he took the wood from her hands.
" this came from a canoe." he confirmed " Moana! Look! " one of the fishermen said pointing out just beyond the nearest part of the reef... there was the bloody remains of a man , possibly protected from being eaten by sharks and other predators by the Ocean to be carried there.
"Keep the children and as many of the villagers away from the beaches. And don't go beyond the reef today. A Horomatangi is near by." Maui said about to turn into his giant hawk form.
At Moana's nod to back him up the fishermen ran to warn the village with a couple of " yes Maui"s
" be careful Maui , I don't want to have to go out there to defeat it and rescue you like I did with Tamatoa in his lair. " she weakly joked still slightly shook up at seeing the dead man who the Ocean had carried over the reef and placed in the sand a little ways away to await burial.
" Don't worry Princess, it's me after all." he reassured her before he gave her a hug, she saw his eyes before he backed away to transform and fly to meet the coming monster. The thought of her being anywhere near the monster frightened him and he wanted her to stay on the island, she saw this as he took off.
The Ocean made a swirl in part of the open sea to give him a spot to look for the water lizard before it decided to stay out of the fight.
The Horomatangi was a giant lizard that was 4 or 5 times bigger than Maui when it jumped out of the water and was able to stand on the surface of the water as if it was solid. Maui used many of the same tricks he used to fight Te Ka except he was trying to do as much damage as he could, instead of stalling and protecting Moana he was protecting multiple islands to protect from the water lizard that would destroy their boats and kill the sailors by either slashing at them with its claws or drowning or a combination of both.
Moana felt like her heart was pounding like a drum as she saw Maui's fish hook get knocked out of his grip leaving him to cling to the lizard and beat it with his large fists. By now both were beaten and bruised. Maui was a bit bloody from where he got cuts from the claws and a couple of teeth , where the lizard was even more so considering it had one eye closed and ruined with blood dripping down like tears. The Horomatangi was on the edge of death with cuts and rips in its scaly hide when it managed to send Maui flying out of sight.
"Maui!" Moana screamed as she took off running to her boat , just managing to remember to grab a near by water skin and a basket of fruit in case it took it took her more than a day to find where Maui fell to.
She was already nearly past the reef when most of the village men and some of the women saw her sailing in the water , Maui nowhere to be seen and the monster hanging onto life.
The men created several parties that took a few of the medium boats and several bundles of spears with them to protect Moana so she can get safely passed and finished off the lizard.
Ok , so 5 points if anyone knows what Goliad is famous in history for, 5 points for what the Come and take it flag is known for.
I'll get to work on typing up the next chapter. Just a heads up , there's a time skip up ahead. I had to find something to get my muses to come back from vacation , i'll be mentioning what got them back.
what do you think with me having Maui have some authority in the village?
reviews help motivate me to type up the next chapter.
oops forgot to post this the night before, sorry.