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- ShadowMoon2430

Chapter 4

Lahela watched the waves roll in one after the other as the sun slowly rose in the sky. The goddess had claimed a spot at what she was currently referring to, as the top. It was hard to say considering that it was tipped over on its side.

With the night over, Lahela was ready to move on. It was just a matter of waiting for Moana to wake up. She glanced down to the pile of sand the girl was currently buried under. No doubt that she would have some choice words for the goddess once she woke up.

A groan from the sand caught her attention then. She looked down to see Moana burst from the pile of sand, Heihei right behind her as he plopped down from another pile. She stood, trying to brush off what sand she could though it looked like she was getting nowhere with it. That was when she looked over and realized the state of her boat.

"What?" She asked in confusion before turning to the ocean, stomping down to the ocean . "I said help me. And wrecking my boat? Not helping!"

She snapped as she turned around then, pointing at Lahela. "And you! You tried to kill me!"

Lahela shook her head, not very concerned about Moana's annoyance at her. "No, just tested you. It's not like you're dead."

Moana let her arm drop but still looked at her with disdain. "Did I pass your stupid test then?"

"Well…" Lahela started as she jumped down. "Not exactly, but you didn't give up either. I suppose that wave was a bit unfair as well. Honestly, I expected the ocean to help you more."

The look of shock expressed Moana's thoughts clearly to the goddess. "Honestly, I said I would help you, not kill you. And if I let you die in the ocean, then it would be mad at me. I don't need that. I gave you my word though. You have my help from here on out."

"You still didn't need to go that far," Moana pouted before walking off.

Lahela laughed lightly at her antics. "I suppose there could be worse reactions." She followed Moana further onto the island to see what was there.

She had taken a short walk earlier before the sun had risen but not much stood out to her at the time. It seemed there was much she missed though. Both women looked over the stones that were spread throughout the island. The part that caught their attention were all the images carved into them.

Moana paused in front of one that was marked by a dozen images of what appeared to be Maui's fishhook. "Maui?" She looked at the goddess for validation.

Lahela however had her eyes fixed on the markings as she clenched her hands. She took a deep breath as she tried to release some tension, ignoring her company for the moment. She would save her anger for Maui. Lahela slide her eyes over all the carvings before she looked back at Moana and smirked. "I think we are in the right place." She looked at Moana with a knowing look then. "Think you might need to apologize to the ocean. Looks like we did get some help."

Instead of replying however, Moana opened her mouth before pausing and shut it again. She turned around then and went back to her well-rehearsed words. "Maui… Maui, demigod of the wind and sea, I am Moana of Motunui. You will board my boat."

Lahela kept her comments to herself as Moana continued with the same words, changing what she emphasized as she went. There were other things on Lahela's mind. If Maui truly was here on this island, then they needed to get him to come with them. She wasn't sure how helpful she would truly be though. Just the idea of him being within reach of her was getting her worked up. It was surprisingly easy to forget how she really felt while around Moana, but that couldn't erase the last thousand years.

This continued all the way back to the boat.

Moana cut her words short when the sound of someone heading in their direction caught her attention. Then the panic set in. She quickly grabbed Heihei as she darted around the boat to hide. Lahela was unsure what happened to the confident girl she had been rehearsing to be, but clearly she wasn't available at the moment.

Lahela looked over towards the rocks a short distance away. She could already see a shadow passing through them. She considered letting Moana handle it completely for the time being, but chose to stand with her and the rooster at the last second. "He's all yours," she whispered to Moana as she stared back in alarm with her grip tightening on her oar.

"Boat! A boat!" A voice exclaimed, suddenly very close. "The Gods have given me a…"

Next thing they knew, the voice was screaming as Maui lifted up the boat with one hand, only to see the girls behind it. A panicked scream escaped him as he dropped the boat and jumped back. Lahela quickly jumped back to avoid being hit, though Moana and Heihei found themselves beneath it instead.

"Was that really necessary?" Lahela snapped as she gestured towards the currently unseen girl.

Maui shot her a skeptical look but still moved the boat, though continued to hold it from that point rather than put it down.

A second later, Moana sat up through the sand she had been buried beneath. In one swift movement, she was standing with the oar in hand and staring down the demigod. "Maui, shapeshifter, demigod of the wind and sea. I am Moana…"

"Hero of Man," Maui cut in.

Moana blinked in confusion. "Wh..What?"

"It's actually Maui, shapeshifter, demigod of the wind and sea, hero of man," he corrected before gesturing to Moana again for her to continue. "I interrupted, from the top, hero of man. Go."

Lahela walked slowly to Moana's side as she looked at Maui in disbelief. This guy couldn't possibly be him, though the ego was enough to tell her otherwise. He was even worse than she thought.

Moana tried again. "I am Mo..."
Yet again, Maui cut her off. "Sorry, Sorry, Sorry, Sorry. And women. Men and women. Both. All. Not a guy-girl thing. Ah, you know, Maui is a hero to all. You're doing great."

"How conceited could you possibly be?" Lahela spat out. If he kept this up, she might just have to strike him with lightning. She was starting to think his attitude was even worse than some of the gods.

"What?" Moana questioned weakly, looking at Maui before shooting Lahela a warning look. "Don't you start," she cried. This is not how she imagined this conversation going. Goddess or not, she was not letting her make it worse.

Trying to correct the situation, she looked back at Maui and held out the oar as if threatening him with it. "No, I came here to..."

As if taking that as a cue, Maui jumped right to his own conclusions and set the boat down before grabbing the oar from her hand."Oh, of course, of course. Yes, yes, yes, yes," he continued as he grabbed Heihei from the sand. "Maui always has time for his fans." He then proceeded to write on her oar while using Heihei as a utensil. "When you use a bird to write with, it's called tweeting."

He grinned as he finished and presented it back to Moana. She could only stare at it, wondering how this had happened. "I know, not every day you get a chance to meet your hero," he smiled at her in reply.

As all the events unfolded, Lahela stood to the side with her arms crossed. If the grip she had on her arms was anything to go by, Moana was lucky she hadn't conjured up a storm yet.

Moana was done. She slammed the oar into Maui's gut before grabbing his ear to drag him down to her level. "You are not my hero. And I'm not here so you can sign my oar. I'm here because you stole the heart of Te Fiti and you will board my boat, sail across the sea, and put it back," she finished with a firm look.

"I don't know how you could be anyone's hero at this point," Lahela interjected as she stared at Maui.

Those were not words he was expecting, or accepting. "Yeah... It almost sounds like both of you don't like me." He pulled away from Moana to give her a doubtful look before glancing at Lahela. That one, he couldn't figure out what was up with the anger coming from her. Ignoring her, he continued. "Which is impossible because I got stuck here for a thousand years, trying to get the heart as a gift for you mortals so you could have the power to create life itself. Yeah. So what I believe you were trying to say is thank you."
"Thank you?" Moana reiterated.
"You're welcome," Maui said proudly.

"Now you listen here," Lahela snapped as she stepped up to Maui who raised an eyebrow as he waited for her to continue. She was done keeping herself in check. Already, the wind was picking up. "If you'd quit being so…"

Moana cut her off as she pulled her back and slapped her hand over her mouth. Her eyes were still on Maui though. She wasn't thankful and he really needed to understand why they were there. "Wait, no, no, no. I-I didn't... I wasn't... why would I ever say..."

Maui smirked as he stepped back and held up his hands. "Okay, okay. I see what's happening here. You're face-to-face with greatness and it's strange."

"I can't do this!" Lahela exclaimed as she threw up her hands, clouds already starting to darken the sky. "You're on your own, Moana. Come get me when you're done." She stormed away from the human and demigod, not waiting for a reply, as she kicked up sand as she walked down the beach.

Why had she agreed to this? She had even told her she would help get Maui to come with them! There was no way. She would kill him before that happened. How could he be so completely clueless to what was around him? "He practically destroyed the world and thinks people should thank him?" she yelled out at the ocean. "You actually think I could help Moana in any form while having to deal with him? I'll end up sinking up because of how annoyed I will be. Oh, just wait until I give him a piece of my mind."

She stomped away to get her frustration out before she settled in the sand, legs stretched out as the waves that rolled in would occasionally brush against her feet. Some distance away, she could still see Maui and Moana talking, though it appeared very one sided. At least she would know when it was time to go. Ignoring them for the moment, she entertained herself by trying to calm down and throwing sand into the ocean.

A few minutes later, Lahela spotted Maui walking back but Moana was nowhere in sight. All calm thoughts were washed away. "Maui!" she snarled before she snapped her fingers and reappeared in front of him through a bolt of lightning.

If she were in any other mood, she would have found the scream he emitted to be priceless. "Where. Is. Moana?"

"Who?" He looked around in confusion. "And you're…" He paused as he ran through all the names he knew in his mind that could match the redhead with an affinity for lightning. "Lahela, right?"

"I don't know what you're up to, but it's not happening," she said as she pointed a finger to his chest and looked up at him. "Where is Moana?"

"You mean the girl?" He shrugged as he ignored her threatening tone before he gestured to the rest of the island. "She's getting a better feel of the island. And she was nice enough to give me her boat." He grinned as he finished.

Lahela just looked at him in disbelief. "You're not going anywhere," she said simply as she started to make the wind pickup, knowing it would at least slow him down if he didn't have the wind aiding him. "And you're certainly not leaving with that boat unless we're with you. And even then…"

Maui didn't give her a chance to finish as he grabbed her and tossed her farther inland. He had no intention of dealing with a goddess when he finally had a way off that island. "Ain't happening." He said before he went to grab the boat.

Lahela quickly caught herself as she pushed her hands off a rock and landed a short distance away. She couldn't believe the nerve of him. She looked back towards the shore as she shook out her hands, letting the scrapes from her brief collision heal. "Come on, that was hardly necessary," she mumbled before zapping herself back to the shore.

Maui was just pushing off into the water when Lahela ran up to the boat, jumping on it with him. "Maui!" she yelled as she went to punch though he easily grabbed her arm and twisted it behind her back.

"Well, aren't you persistent."

"Stop!" The goddess and demigod both looked up from the boat as they spotted Moana at the top of a cliff, right before she jumped in hopes of landing on the boat with them. When she hit the water however, Maui turned his attention back to Lahela and pushed her into the water.

A moment later, Maui turned around to see Moana dropped onto the boat, curtesy of the water. "Did not see that coming," he said as he eyed the girl. Behind him, Lahela swam back up to the boat and climbed back onboard.

Soaking wet but determined, Moana pushed her hair out of her face before stomping as she made her point. "I am Moana of Motunui. This is my canoe and you will journey to…"

Her sentenced ended when Maui tossed her back into the water.

"Maui, you are fixing your mess!" Lahela yelled as she walked back up to him, trying to ignore the water dripping off her.

"Not a chance."

Lahela screamed in frustration as she clenched her fists. "Enough!" She focused on the wind, hoping to push him over. If she weren't concerned about destroying the boat, she'd strike him in an instant. She deeply hated wood sometimes. Though the wind didn't do much, it did keep them from going much farther.

Just then, Moana was put back onto the boat with a splash.

"And she's back."

He pulled the lever to adjust the sails then, jerking the boat as it flung Moana off. The sound of water behind him caused Maui to turn around yet again to see Moana standing there. With one before him and one behind him, he finally gave up for the moment.

"It was Moana, right?" He asked with reluctance.

"Yes," Moana agreed before she reached for her necklace and pulled out the heart, holding it out for emphasis. "And you will restore the heart."

With the opportunity in front of him, Maui grabbed the heart and threw it far into the ocean.

All Moana could do was stare into the distance as it disappeared, lost on what to do. Lahela had a different reaction though.

"What is wrong with you?" She yelled as she slapped her hand against his chest. "Now we can't..." A sudden streak of green crossed her eyes then as the heart flew past her and slammed right into Maui's face, knocking him over.

A fight against a mortal, goddess and the ocean was a losing battle. Maui might have been better off on that island by himself. "Alright, I'm out." And just like that, he jumped off the boat and began to swim away. Thanks to the pull of the water though, he then found himself sprawled out on the boat. "Oh, come on!" he yelled out at the ocean.

Before he could go on, Moana stepped forward, heart in hand. "What is your problem?"

Unexpectedly, Maui stepped back from the heart.

Both girls stared at him in surprise before a knowing look crossed their faces. "Are you afraid of it?" Moana asked as she stepped closer.

"Not the great Maui, why would such a little thing scare you?" Lahela teased as she placed her hands on her hips.

Maui shook his head quickly. "No. No," he laughed nervously. "I'm not afraid." He stepped forward to clarify what he meant. "That is not a heart. It was a curse the second I took it."

"Please!" Lahela cried out and gestured to the heart in Moana's hand. "The heart isn't a curse. You're just guilty of cursing the rest of us. And you're too weak to own up to it."

Maui wasn't listening to her words. "The second I took it, I got blasted out of the sky and lost my hook." He pushed Moana's hand away. "Get it away from me."

Moana smirked as she held it closer to his face. "Get this away?"

"Hey… Hey…" he stepped back as he pushed her hand away. "I'm a demigod, okay? Stop that, I will smite you. You wanna get smote?"

Lahela laughed as she looked at Moana. "As if he would."

"Listen, that thing doesn't give you power to create life. It's a homing beacon of death. If you don't put it away, bad things will come for it."

"No, you listen." Lahela stepped up. Every time he opened his mouth, she wanted to slap him. He had a thousand years to get past that. "It's been sitting in the ocean for a thousand years. No creature of death has sprouted from the sea to destroy us all. Stop being dramatic."

"How about I handle this," Moana stepped in as she placed a hand on Lahela's arm. The goddess in reply held up her hands and stepped back, closer to the edge of the boat.

Moana turned her attention back on Maui. "So you think something… Will come for this? The heart?" She continued in a mocking tone as she held the heart up even higher. "You mean this heart right here." Her eyes looked around for a moment. "Come and get it!" She spun around a bit, waving it about, doubtful of Maui's words.

"You are going to get us killed," Maui warned, hoping to get the heart put away.

"No, I'm going to get us to Te Fiti," Moana pointed to Maui with the heart in hand, "so you can put it back."

That's when something came whizzing past them and thudded against the boat. All eyes turned to see what appeared to be a small spear stuck into it, just inches away from where Heihei had been standing the whole time.

Lahela gazed out at the sea, an exhausted look on her face. "Why now?"

Moana looked at the goddess in confusion then out at the sea.

"Kakamora," Maui clarified as he looked to where Lahela was looking.

That was not a name Moana connected to anything. "Kaka… what?"
"They're pirates, and they won't mind killing us," Lahela said.

To add fuel to the fire, Maui narrowed his eyes on Moana and the heart. "Wonder what they're here for?"

To be continued! Oh, what a start for Lahela and Maui... Things will get better though, I promise. Just gotta have a little heart to heart time. That's assuming they make it through next chapter in one piece. Let me know what you think and we'll see where we get to next time!