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Prologue (Moana) - Mark Mancina

Disclaimer:

The movie 'Moana' is Copyrighted by Walt Disney Animation Studios (released by Walt Disney Pictures), directed by Ron Clements and John Musker; co-directed by Don Hall and Chris Williams.

I only claim copyright to the characters I created and some of the elements of the story which I created myself.

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Chapter 2

In the beginning, there was only an ocean.

A tapestry-like image of an open ocean and islands was splayed out before my eyes as I hovered in the air in a ghostly, see-through body.

The ocean was in motion, but not in the way normal water would continuously move.

Then an image of a large green lady appeared on an island in the middle of the tapestry. Her very body appeared to be made of the land itself! Of flora, trees and clusters of flowers!

'' No she must be a deity,'' I gasped out just as she waved her arms, creating a flurry of green sparkling energy that fell over the surrounding islands. Her eyes were closed and her expression was one of sereneness and tranquillity.

Until a 'Mother Island' emerged.

Te Fiti.

Her heart had the greatest power ever known.

It could create life itself.

And Te Fiti shared it with the world.

The green goddess slowly settled back down to sleep, her body practically morphing into a part of the island.

The glowing swirl on her chest continued to pulse with energy.

But in time, some began to seek Te Fiti's heart.

Monsters appeared from the waves; the first being a humongous crab who was snapping its claws ferociously.

Then a monstrous eel with a long, coiled, writhing body and lashing tongue rose from the ocean.

They believed if they could possess it, the great power of creation would be theirs.

A boat appeared from the corner of the tapestry and a man standing on the deck suddenly transformed into a giant hawk that took flight across the ocean towards the lush green island where the 'Green goddess' slumbered peacefully.

As I watched his flight, I noticed that the landscape had suddenly turned from a portrait-like image to a normal landscape.

And the painted hawk had turned into a very real looking creature.

And one day...

The most daring of them all...

Voyaged across the vast ocean to take it.

As the bird reached the canopy it changed into a large iguana-like lizard that seemed to drop-glide towards the tree-line below.

After it had nimbly landed it started stealthily slithering across the long, wide tree branch towards a wall of stone with a teeny tiny opening.

He was a Demigod of the Wind and Sea

He was a warrior ...

A trickster.

A shapeshifter who could change form with the power of his magical fish hook.

ZAP

A lime- green and blue beetle was seen scuttling towards the opening, where it squeezed through the tiny opening that was partially covered in vegetation.

ZAP

The small bug was suddenly transformed into a burly demigod.

And his name was Maui.

Maui's face was set in a determined frown as he swirled the handle of his hook in his palm before making for the stone wall where the heart of Te Fiti was glowing in a faint light sphere.

Easing the sharp tip of the hook into the crevice beside the heart, Maui pulled the green- stone  free off the wall.

It plopped into his hand with a light tingling sound, and the demigod raised it to the level of his eyes with a triumphant grin to his lips.

CRACK,CRACK,CRACK

The sound of stone crackling and popping made Maui snap his head up to look around at the wall of stone as it began to crumble around him.

But without her heart.

Te Fiti began to crumble.

ZAP

Not wasting another moment he took off running, charging towards the still existing opening in the wall in the form of the tiny beetle.

Maui squeezed through the opening and the vegetation.

BOOMMM

But even as Maui got out something exploded behind him like a volcano blowing its top. Everything around him was crumbling into black dust as he sprinted towards the coastline.

Giving birth to a terrible darkness.

Maui jumped over a rise in the earth and smashed his hook against a falling boulder in his path; it split in half and enabled him to continue on his way towards the cliffside as fast as he possibly could run even as the billowing cloud of the eruption stayed hot on his heels.

It was like a smouldering- hot pyroclastic flow nipping at his ankles.

Maui leapt off the cliff just in time, turning into the form of the giant hawk and sweeping across the sky towards a small boat bobbing on the surface of the water, where he'd left it earlier.

He landed heavily on the gunwale and glanced down at the green stone heart with a triumphant laugh before quickly unfurling the sail,

The boat jumped into motion.

Maui tried to escape.

But was confronted by another, who sought the heart.

BANG

Another violent eruption rented the air and huge plumes of volcanic ash billowed up into the atmosphere.

Fire burst forth from whatever unseen, opened vent as a screech split the air, mixing with the sudden burst of thunder and lightning.

Maui looked up sharply with his brows furrowed.

A towering figure of Earth, Fire, and Lava burst out of the opened vent in a flurry of billowing volcanic smoke.

Te Ka, a demon born of Earth and Fire.

Maui's hook began to glow a bright luminescent blue colour as he tightened his grip on the handle.

The carvings strewn on the surface of the magical artefact became more noticeable as the demigod called upon its power.

Then, with a loud battle cry, he launched himself off the boat and transformed back into the hawk form.

He swooped straight towards the towering mountain-sized demon and formed back into his demigod form with his hook raised for the crushing blow he was ready to deal upon his opponent.

But alas, the creature born of earth, fire, and lava had seen his attack coming and was ready to defend itself.

It flung its lava-covered fist at Maui's approaching form.

BANGGGGG, EEEEEE....

Maui was STRUCK from the sky!  

An immensely bright, blue-red light split the air and the noise was like a magnified thunder-clap as the two opponents collided...

Maui was immediately flung from the sky by the immense strength of his opponent's counter-attack.

From where I was hovering in my ghostly body, I couldn't see where the likely very wounded demigod landed. Wherever it was, it was somewhere beyond where I could see.

The magical fish hook splashed into the sea along with the green stone heart.

And his magical fish hook and the heart of Te Fiti were lost to the sea.

I watched as the hook and stone still glowed with their luminescent light as they sunk under the surface and were dragged in separate directions by the strong ocean currents.

There, somewhere in the depths of the ocean, the magical artefact and the still faintly glowing, jade green coloured heart of the Mother Island and Goddess of Life, finally struck the seafloor.

And there, down in the dark depths the monsters now knew that somewhere that very precious stone was in for the taking, and whoever found it first would have the ability to use the power of creation.

And so the long search began for those who willingly and ardently sought that power. But mercifully for those innocent humans living their everyday lives in the created world, Te Fiti's heart remained unfound.

It remained untainted by those with impure hearts and tainted souls; down somewhere at the bottom of the ocean floor where it had been plunged after being forced from Maui's hand.

Where even now, a thousand years later, Te Ka and the demons of the deep still hunt for the heart; hiding in the darkness that will continue to spread...

Chasing away our fish! Draining the life from one island after island!

Until every one of us... Is devoured by the bloodthirsty jaws OF INESCAPABLE DEATH!

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That final sentence seemed to break the disturbing dream holding a tall, tanned skinned human woman hostage as she'd slept.

Until now she had been squirming and flailing around in her hammock, inside a cave in the middle of a drab little island stripped of any sort of vegetation.

Now she was suddenly tossed into the waking world with a sharp gasp and she sat up in her hammock. Her bright hazel coloured eye were widened and staring. Her face had turned several shades paler.

But unfortunately, her movements had been made clumsy by her sleep-addled brain. 

The poor woman found herself tumbling unceremoniously towards the hard ground of the sun-lighted cave interior.

End of Chapter 2

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Author Note:

I've decided to write this story mostly from my own character's point of view to make it (at least to me) more sensible and interesting.