Hello readers. This is an idea I had after watching Moana. I wasn't planning on writing a story for it, or even being inspired by it - but it was wonderful. Let alone Maui, whose face I went between finding disturbing and strangely cute.
My character Vahi'a, is mine alone. I took the words for woman - vahi and fish - i'a to create fish woman - Vahi'a. She will have her own journey to finding herself as she travels with Moana, which I found so powerful in the movie and only hope to achieve half it's wonderful-ness. Thank you for reading, and I hope you enjoy.

Maui was struck from the sky, never to be seen again. And his magical fishhook and the Heart of Te Fiti were lost to the sea. Where, even now, a thousand years later, Te Ka and the demons of the deep still hunt for the Heart. Hiding in a darkness that will continue to spread.

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Long ago a young water spirit lived in a cave off the shore of Te Fiti. Her skin was the color of the wet sand she used to walk, her hair the color of the setting sun she used to watch from mountaintops, her eyes the color of the grass she used to run through. Her legs were taken from her and replaced with the tail of fish, and she was flung into the ocean to live apart from the land she had loved. Her sorrow spanned eternity.

About her many things were said. Flowers had been her favorite: one was given at the start of a journey asking for safe sailing, and at the end to say thank you and they had arrived safely. For hungry fishermen she would coax fish into their nets to feed a great many, and in return she would drag the strongest man to the bottom of the sea to feed her lonely spirit. Rivers were the tracks she had made trying to return to the land. Lakes were made from her tears. Some thought her cruel and viciously jealous, drowning men and women, and children, because she wanted their legs. She was a siren, a sea witch. The daughter of Tangaroa god of the sea.

Her name was Vahi'a.

She was there when Maui stole the heart of Te Fiti. It shook the walls around her as Te Fiti crumbled turning to ash. Vahi'a swam as darkness spread around her. But she was not fast enough. Darkness had reached for her catching the end of her tail staining it black.