"Wow, so Family Day is when your parents come visit?" Lani said.

"Yeah, meaning your dad can visit, as you must be homesick." Mal said.

"Yeah, you could say that, I can't just go there, from here." Lani pointed out.

It was nearly Family Day at Auradon Prep, so everybody was getting ready for it, including Mal and her friends, even though their parents could not attend, hoping Lani's dad could, even thought the demigoddess was acting like it wasn't a big deal, guessing she thought her dad would not show up, since the island they lived on was pretty far from Auradon, plus she knew her dad was busy, doing demigod stuff so did not want to bother him.

Plus a lot of the projects they were doing were involving Family Day, so she was zoning out a lot mentally, making her friends get it, plus after school let out, saw her transform into her giant bird form flying off for a bit, making them guess that something bothered the fun loving demigoddess in training, guessing it was to do with Family Day.

"We should let her be, unless she wants to talk about it, you know?" Jay said, seeing Evie shake her head, going to do homework.


Lani grinned, arriving at her island home where she, her dad and her aunt Moana lived, as Auradon was great and all, but to her it wasn't home, hoping her dad would not be angry with her just because she got homesick and ran away, seeing people on the beach curious seeing her transform back into her normal self, making her grin at their reactions.

"I thought you were at school, Lani, does your dad know what you did?" Lani heard her aunt ask, making her gulp.

"Nope, but I felt like coming home, alright, it's not like I cursed the world!" Lani said making Moana get it.

She knew that Lani was going through puberty, and with that came trying to figure out who you are, or meant to be, the only difference was that Lani had not gone on an epic quest to know who she was, going to her hut.

"Let me guess, my dad's doing his usual antics, right?" Lani asked drinking coconut milk.

"He's on Te Fiti, as they kind of became friends." Moana said, seeing Lani make a face, making Moana chuckle.

She was listening to Lani tell her about things, guessing she was homesick, and not sure of herself, despite having better control of her powers, remembering when she was little, making messes trying to use her powers, knowing her dad was proud of her, making a weird feeling bubble inside of Lani, making Moana get it, guessing everybody was expecting her to take over, knowing zMaui would not want that for Lani, but for her to choose her own path.

"Woah, Lani what're you doing here?" they heard Maui ask.

"She was homesick, alright, because of some holiday at school, to do with family." Moana said.

Lani was just letting her aunt explain it to her dad, she was better at it sometimes than she could articulate, without getting fired up emotionally, transforming into a shark, going swimming for a bit to clear her head because there was a lot of stuff up there from being bummed out by Family Day, along with what she and her aunt had been talking about, unaware Tamatoa still had a score to settle.

"Aloha ocean, just relaxing, not bugging you, like my dad does." Lani said, as the ocean liked her and Moana, it still didn't trust her dad despite him putting the heart of Ye Fiti back, but swimming relaxed her, after a while swimming up to the surface, transforming into her bird form, after saying goodbye to the ocean, making Moana smile at her niece, seeing Maui shake his head, at the two of them, making Lani giggle.