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

Chapter 42: "Internal" Pain

Moana and Maui sailed even with the stinging burn pain were still left on their skin. But bearable now, Moana dunk her self into the ocean to relieve the pain for a moment. While she put her whole body except face in the ocean, some of the dead skin started to fall off her. Moana was disgusted by her dead skin that floated away from her boat.

"Kid, that's gross!" Maui said as he watched the dead skin peel off of her. 

"I would like to tell you 'be quiet' in the ruder way," Moana said. "But I won't." Maui blew a raspberry to Moana. "Put that tongue back in. Before I chop it off..." Moana said cruelly.

"Geez, chief, so cruel," Maui said, sulking once more. Mini Maui gave another point for Moana. 

"Plus, the reason why I have these dead skin was to save you from the scald by Pumanu," Moana snapped. "You need to thank me. You're welcome~"

"I didn't even thank you, yet," Maui said. 

"So I said you're welcome in advance," Moana said. "By the way, why isn't your skin dead? Or why don't you have dead skin? Or... how should I word it?"

"I'm a demigod," Maui said as he showed his arm and chest muscles. "My skin is hard as steel."

"But your mind is not," Moana said with a peal of slight laughter and pulled herself up from the water. "So, are we almost there?" Moana asked as she squeezed her skirt and hair to get the water off of them. 

"We should be there in a moment," Maui said.

"Boy, am I hungry," Moana said as she picked up the apple and bit into it.

"Need something to drink?" Maui said as he cracked the coconut open with his head. Moana watched him with her eyes wide open. 

"How do you do that?" Moana asked as she received the other half of the coconut shell.

"I'm a demigod," Maui answered as he showed off his arm and chest muscles. 

"Guess I'll be hearing that for a while now," Moana said as she pretended to hate it. "Muscle-up, Buttercup, we're here! Kautangi!" Moana said as the island was caught in her sight. Then she snickered and said, "Get it? Muscle-up?"

"Okay, I deserve the point because that was a bad joke," Maui said to both Moana and Mini Maui. Mini Maui shook his head. "What? Oh, come on!" 

"All right, let's get ready for this," Moana said. "I don't know what awaits us, but it has to be quick."

"It will be quick when we find him or her as early as possible," Maui said as he jumped out of the boat with Pua in his right arm and Heihei in his left arm. "Let's go, buddies."

Moana cracked her hands, back, and ankles to loosen up her muscles after a long time of wayfinding. "Let's get this thing started all right."

"Dang, kid, you're getting so spicy," Maui said as he raised his fishhook after he transferred Heihei to his right arm. 

"Things will get spicy when we find the one we need to find," Moana said as she raised her oar. 

Just like they did on previous islands, they walked around to search for the next target. Despite the large sound of roaring waves, they heard a sniffling sound. Moana and Maui faced each other, thinking that the sniffling sound came from another.

"Kid, were you crying?" Maui asked.

"No, I thought it was you," Moana said.

"So, there's gotta be someone else on this island," Maui said.

"Let's follow that sound," Moana suggested. Maui agreed and followed the sniffling sound. The weird thing was that the close they went near that sound, more they did not want to hear the crying sound.