Baby Moana grew under the tender love of her adopted parents. She was never told she was adopted instead was accepted as their daughter as if she were born to them.

But Moana's best friend of all was her Grandma Tala. To the villagers she was the village crazy lady but Moana loved her.

She was three as she walked out toward the water.

There in front of her was a sea shell.

She waddled closer to get it but then she spotted a tiny turtle hiding from a bunch of birds.

Pulling off a leaf she helped the turtle find its way to the water.

The water gave her the shell back she went to retrieve it the water parts as she collects more shells.

The water tousles her hair up making it all wet standing up and it played with her.

And then Moana saw something green and round. She reached in and got it.

The water had already recognized it's goddess as soon as she had saved the turtle.

But at a sound from Tui the water quickly fixed Moana's hair and put her back on the land.

Tui arrived and sbatched her up making her drop her shells and the green stone on the beach. She wanted to go back and get it but she was carried away by her father.

"You are needed here, you are going to be the be the future village chief." Tui shared with her.

Sina took her from him insisting she'll do great things.

Over the course of the next several years Moana learned all about the ways of the Villagers.

But still no matter how hard Tui tried Moana's heart was drawn back to the sea frustrating Tui.

But his real fear was she would find out where she came from and leave them all behind.

But now Moana was a woman of eighteen and the yearning for the sea was still very prominent.

Her best friend was her grandma and her advice was usual similar they usually met by the water:

"I like to dance with the water, The undertow and the waves, The water is mischievous, ha! I like how it misbehaves, The village may think I'm crazy, Or say that I drift too far, But once you know what you like, well, there you are , You are not an ordinary child Moana, but soon you will find with Stubbornness and pride just who you are, Mind what your father says but remember, You may hear a voice inside you, And if the voice starts to whisper, To follow the farthest star, Moana, that voice inside is who you are."

But now Moana was being trained to be the new village chief.

First a group showed her coconuts that were diseased.

But then when that happened they got a message saying the fish were gone.

She suggested going beyond the reef for the fish but Tui grew angry and reinstated that no one goes beyond the reef.

Moana still determined to find fish took a boat and oar and tries to sail past the reef anyway.

But due to inexperience she tipped the boat and nearly drowned due to a barnacle that held her foot.

Prying herself lose with a rock she and her pig pua got deposited back onto the beach.

Moana surveyed her foot and tried to hide it when her grandmother came up.

But she looked anyway and Moana hung her head and mutters.

"Dad was right it's dangerous it's time for me to put my stone on the mountain."

She started to walk off.

Her Grandma just shrugged "well ok."

Moana stopped confused "Why aren't you trying to stop me?"

Tala smiled.

"It's what you said you wanted." she shrugged.

"It is."

"When I die, I'm going to come back this one of these. Or I chose the wrong tattoo." Tala informs her as she plays in the water with a school of Manta Rays just like the tattoo on her back

"Why are you acting so weird?" moana asked suspiciously.

"I'm the village crazy lady it's my job." she responded.

"If there's something you want to tell me, just tell me. Is there something you want to tell me?" she asked.

"Is there something you want to hear?" Tala asked grinning. You've been told all our people's stories but one.

Tala took her to a blocked up cave, and showed her..

Inside Moana banged the drum as instructed and found to her amazement that her villagers were once Voyagers.

She came out shouting it.

"We were voyagers. We were voyagers! We were voyagers! We were voyagers! We were voyagers! Why'd we stop?" Moana asked.

Gramma Tala just sighed,

"Maui. When he stole from the Mother Island, darkness fell. Te Ka awoke.

And the Great God Of The sea Tangaroa was slaughtered and killed over the heart by Ta Ka.

Now Monsters lurked and boats stopped coming back.

To protect our people, the ancient chiefs forbid voyaging.

And now we have forgotten who we are.

And the darkness has continue to spread, the death of Tangaroa has made the fish disappear and now the darkness drains the life out of Island after Island."

"Our Island?" Moana whispered understanding.

"But one day, someone will journey beyond our reef, find Maui, deliver him across the great ocean to restore the heart of Te Fiti and save us all. I was there the day you were chosen.

Moana believed at first she meant the time she had saved the turtle.

"I thought it was a dream." she whispered softly.

''Nope. Now listen closely our ancestors believed that Maui lies there beneath his hook follow it and there you will find him" Tala instructed.

"But... Why was I chosen? I don't even know how to make it past the reef. But I know who does." the last part came out as she broke into a run.