Moana - Warrior's Journey (AU after the first film)

Chapter 20: Giant Eel vs Giant Hawk

A/N: This chapter may be even more violent compared to other chapters as there are much more description with blood and cuts. I apologize in advance.

"You let go of Pua and Heihei right now!" Moana demanded furiously. The giant eel shrieked to intimidate her. But she made a warrior face to intimidate the giant eel. It did flinch, but it still didn't let go of Pua and Heihei. 

Maui proudly looked at Moana making warrior face at the giant eel. He then transformed into a giant hawk and pecked the tail so that it can let go of Pua and Heihei. Pua was still squealing for help. Heihei was just there, trapped, just cluelessly looking around. The giant eel tried to bit Maui, but he is much faster than giant eel. Maui stuck its hawk tongue out to taunt and insult the giant eel. 

Moana wondered how to attack the giant eel now that her spear is gone. She looked around the boat to see which one she can use as a weapon. She found the oar that Maui signed, and she used all the time. I gotta try, at least for Pua and Heihei! She quickly grabbed the oar and struck its body with full force. Since the wood was so sturdy, it didn't break, thankfully. It hurt the eel, but not enough to make the eel furious. 

Maui was still trying to get its attention by pecking around it. He even smashed its head with his wings. But, the giant eel doesn't seem to be too affected by their attacks. Moana heavily panted after repeatedly hitting the giant eel with her oar. Maui transformed back into a human form as he landed next to Moana. "Moana, is that thing part of those... charms?"

"Oh shoot, forgot to check," Moana quickly skimmed through the charms. "No... it's not one of them."

"Well, I think I recognize that thing somewhere," Maui said. "Wait... hey! You are that other monster who was after Te Fiti's heart, aren't you?!" Maui demanded to the eel. The giant eel hissed angrily at Maui. "So you are... kid, that thing knows that I once stole Te Fiti's heart."

"Oh, it should have some weak spots!" Moana said. The giant eel hissed at Moana, Moana roared at the giant eel with the warrior face. It flinched again. She quickly went to the tail to get Pua and Heihei, but it decided to make it harder for Moana and dip its part of the tail that trapped Pua and Heihei. Moana jumped into the water to save Pua and Heihei. The giant eel even dived in even deeper. Moana held her breath in and swam deeper to try saving her animal friends. 

Moana was able to reach its tail and tried to pull out Pua and Heihei together. Thankfully, Heihei was able to slip out easily and be free from the grasp, and float to the surface with its feet sticking out, making it easier for Maui to catch him. However, Pua was still there, trapped by the giant eel's tight grasp. While Maui picked up Heihei and brought him back to the boat, Moana and Pua were still struggling to free from the tail. Moana bit the tail part, which made the giant eel squirm in pain as her bite was deep enough to make a mark and creating a wound with her teeth, which eventually made the eel loosen up and let go of Pua. Moana quickly grabbed Pua and started to swim up, and saw Maui, who also dived in to look for her. 

Moana came up to the surface as she let out a deep breath and placed Pua in a boat. She panted heavily to try to catch her breath after holding it for more than twenty seconds. 

"Kid, that was too dangerous," Maui said as he listened to her breathing pattern. "You should take it easy."

"Well, I gotta do what I gotta do," Moana said. "They could've died without me." 

As she was trying to catch her breath, the tail wrapped around Moana, making her gasp out a lot of air out of her lungs, and dived in much deeper than it did with Pua and Heihei. "Moana!" Maui yelped in surprise as he dived in after the giant eel and Moana. Moana struggled to free from it, but then the tail tightened harder, making Moana open her mouth and letting the last bubble of air out of her lungs. She was no longer able to hold her breath. Water started to rush into her lungs. She started to lose her conscious as she was not able to breathe. Her arms stretched out to the surface of the water where the rays of sunlight peeked through, and her eyes started to close as there was a large, black silhouette that was coming closer to her, covering many rays of sunlight that entered the ocean.