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

Chapter 45: Shocking Conflict

Their boat thrived through the waves of the ocean. Moana happily held up the jewel charms that were once paper, all red, and progressively turned green, and all green charms coming together to create one jewel that stores every single monster they fought and captured. She never knew that the necklace she obtained at Whakamehara would come in handy. She didn't feel like putting it back in the necklace that her grandmother gave her. "You've been looking at that all day, Moana," Maui called as he climbed down the pole.

"I'm just... proud," Moana replied. "I really can't believe we captured every single forbidden creature that Kapu'uila asked us to catch. I think this is going to be a bigger accomplishment than restoring the heart of Te Fiti. Or else many more islands would've been uninhabitable because of the monsters, and some ocean would be dangerous to travel through when the monsters are still roaming around."

Maui chuckled. "I guess you could be proud of that, princess. By the way, I navigated further out the sea and analyzed the map, and it seems that Kapu'uila is over there on that island."

Moana looked where Maui pointed. The island was pretty flat. No mountains. No hills. Several trees, at least in her vision. "The island looks pretty bland. Even after Te Fiti's heart was restored, there are still islands that looks like it does not have any life in it."

"What about Waomoku?" Maui asked.

"Well, that too," Moana said. "But wouldn't it still have some palm trees and oasis leftover after Ladaimonio is in here?" Moana held up the necklace that contained every forbidden creature. "By the way, I'm going to make sure the Kapu'uila pay for them... just thinking about how much these people suffered over time makes me even angrier and more determined to teach him a lesson." Moana cracked her knuckles.

"Well, don't get too aggressive, kid," Maui said. He was sometimes afraid of Moana's aggressiveness and outgoing personality.

"By the way, kid," Maui said. "You need to know one thing."

"What is it?" Moana asked.

"I know that Kapu'uila guy," Maui said. "Well, not personally. But I still know how powerful he is. If you let your guard down, he can easily kill you. He may kill me easily too. Promise me that you won't be reckless like you did when we were facing Te Kā."

"I promise," Moana sheepishly promised as she felt guilty about not listening to him when they should've turned back. Although their problems have been solved, Moana still felt guilty to this day.

"Aw chief, don't be so guilty," Maui felt bad and tried to soothe her as he sat next to her and gently rubbed her back. "You helped me get my hook back, you restored the heart of Te Fiti, you got the chief position, and you helped me restore my fame again. I'm always thankful for that."

Moana smirked. Maui knew that when she smirks like that, she is thanking him. Maui smiled back and puckered up. "Not now, Maui," she said as she placed her hand on his puckered lips. "After the mission, we'll do it."

"Sounds fair," he muffled behind her hand and his covered lips. 

"We're here now..." Moana said as she faced the bundle of five tiny islands, tinier than any islands that they have encountered. One was grassy, one was deserted, one was a complete stone, one was icy, and the last one was covered with lava. "Well, we definitely cannot step on two islands," Moana said as she indicated the lava one and icy one. 

"The deserted one and the grassy one?" Maui teased. Moana smirked and gently slapped his stomach with her knuckles. She docked on the deserted one and started to walk around with Heihei in her arms and her oar on her back. Maui hopped out of the boat with Pua in his right arm and his fishhook on his left arm. "Now we just have to know how to make Kapu'uila come to us. We'll have to confront him if we have to."