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

Chapter 35 - The Resurrection

Maui flew over Maui island, expecting volcanic ash everywhere. But he found it strange, extremely strange, that everything was back to way it was when they came into the island. How is this possible? Maui thought. As he thought about how strange this could be, white zombies freaked him out. What in the world are those??!! He thought as he flew over them. The white zombies did not seem to mind a beetle flying over them, so it made his job easier. Oh, Moana, where in the world are you?

It was really hot in the cave. Her sweat made her whole body feel sticky, drop of sweat dropped down from her chin, and her neck felt moist. "Well, well, well, chief of Motunui. Feeling gross by the sweat you're taking a shower with?"

"What are your intentions...?" Moana asked.

"I want to show you what it looks like when people start obeying you when they never did," Nana said.

"Just because they never obeyed you, that does not give you the right-"

Before Moana was about to finish what she wanted to say, Nana cut her off and said, "Look, chief of Motunui. You don't know how it feels like to receive no respect from your villagers no matter how much you try or sacrifice yourself." Nana's eyes started to be all teary. "They even called me pathetic those-" then something was stuck in her throat that she could not finish her sentence.

Moana, for some reason, started to feel massive sympathy towards her. She wanted to let Nana finish ranting about her life as a new chief.

"They never understood," Nana continued. "They never understood how it feels like to receive sudden and a lot of responsibilities. My father never let me do anything because my older brother was going to be a chief. But then he passed by unknown disease. So I've been trying to learn how to be a perfect chief. Just like how my father was."

"Nana, you don't have to be perfect," Moana said as her voice was no longer filled with grudge. Her voice was rather, trying to soothe Nana.

"That's easy for you to say," Nana said. "You learned how to satisfy people and their needs. But I never did. And some people never, ever, tried to give me a chance to just look over me. They never bothered to look at what I was doing. They already knew that I was not going to be a great chief. Well, how can I if no one is willing to listen to me?"

Moana was quiet.

"I'm going to start over, by forcing people to listen to my orders," Nana said. "Then I'm going to rebuild this island! This is going to be perfect! Everyone listening to their chief's orders, doing what they're supposed to do, feed the village, and welcome visitors."

"Nana, please..." Moana pleaded. "You have to think of another way. This way is too corrupt..."

"You keep still, chief of Motunui," Nana said.

"Yeah... our plan's going perfect, don't destroy it for Nana," the voice said.

Before Moana was able to question the voice, Nana said, "That voice? My new friend named Rangibi. I'll never let you capture this one. Now if you'll excuse me, I have some chief duties that I must fulfill." Nana walked away as she chuckled. 

When Nana exited the cave, inside of the cave was much cooler. It's probably the aura from Rangibi, Moana thought as her sweat cooled down. 

Meanwhile, Maui got closer to the entrance of the cave. He saw Nana coming out of the cave along with a lava creature behind her back. He quickly hid behind the leaves. She walked around as the zombies were fishing, and trying to replant other plants to make up for the damage of the volcano eruption. When she was far away from the cave, Maui entered the cave to look for Moana. He saw her wrists tied up. He transformed back into a human in front of Moana. Moana was too exhausted to be surprised.