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

Chapter 14: Tentacle Trauma

"All right! Now everyone's filled up," Moana announced as she stood up energetically. "Let's capture two more creatures that are left in this island and go to the other island to capture some more to save the world!"

"That meat must've gotten her energetic," Maui whispered to Pua. Pua snickered.

"Now that's taken care of," Moana announced. "I'll get Heihei so that we can all go together! I don't want to lose anyone else again after all!" She walked inside the cottage with deliberation to get Heihei. After she got out of the cottage with Heihei, she placed him next to Pua and announced, "All right, Maui. Let's go capture those forbidden creatures!"

"Yes, chief of Motunui," he replied with somewhat big excitement. Moana became too energetic for Maui to catch up to her energy level.

Moana examined around the area as she advanced forward with a spear in her hands. Pua followed behind her, Heihei following Pua, and Maui following Heihei. "Hmm, where can they be?" Moana asked herself under her breath as she looked around. She looked at the charms once again. Two more creatures. Both have tentacles. One looks natural. The other looks deformed.

She looked around again. "Hey Maui," she called. "What do you think what happened to people in this island? Do you think they've all been attacked or captured by the forbidden creatures?"

"I'm honestly not sure," Maui replied as he looked inside the woods and out to the ocean.

"I hope nothing happened to anyone in this island," Moana nervously looked around and thought to herself And I hope that nothing just wraps around my body and-... something wrapped around her waist. -there we go again. It pulled her away from Pua, Heihei, and Maui.

"Moana!" Maui called and ran towards Moana as she was being dragged by the tentacle.

Moana tried to stab the tentacle with her spear but it didn't seem to hurt the creature. She tried to get out of it, but the grip of the tentacle was even more firm than the unknown creature earlier this morning. She thought for a second and tried to cut the tentacle off with her spear. "Come on!" She grunted as she tried to slice the tentacle, but the spear couldn't make even a single scratch on the tentacle.

"CHEEEEE-HOOOOOO!" Maui did it for her with his fishhook.

"Thanks, Maui," she said.

"You're welcome," Maui smirked. Then the tentacle that Maui just attacked slapped him on the head, causing his head to be sucked into the suction cup. Moana quickly took out both of the charm and placed in on the tentacle, and waited for it to be sucked in.

"Wh-what?" Moana was confused. Neither of them worked. "What is wrong with the charms?" The tentacle rapidly withdrew with Maui still stuck on its suction cup. "Maui!" She exclaimed.

"I'll be fine, Moana!" Maui called. He managed to stay calm even though he left his fishhook behind. He tried to jerk himself off of the suction cup. "Darn it it's too strong!" He grunted as he tried to push his head off of the tentacle. As he grunted and pushed even harder, he finally fell off the tentacle, with a suction cup still stuck on his head.

"Maui!" Moana finally caught up to him. "Are you o- whoaahah!" She saw Maui's head covered with pink hat that covered up to his forehead.

"Can you... help me get this off?" Maui asked. Moana used her spear to carefully slice the suction cup. Steadily and carefully, she cut the suction cup out of Maui's head. "That was close. Ooh, my head."

"Let's go chase that thing," Moana said. "There's something wrong. I'm pretty sure that thing is a forbidden creature, but when I put both of the charms on it, it didn't work. And he still has the charm and we need to retrieve them."