Daughter of Twahirimatea: Chapter One

“No!” Claire groaned. “They had to follow us!”

“Chill out,” Tyrel commanded. “It’ll be fine. They’re just…” He stared at the coconut men. “Little coconut guys.. With hats. They’re cute right?”

Claire gave him an annoyed look. “They’re going to kill us!”

Phoenix and Marcus stopped arguing and stared at the approaching ships. “What the hell are those?”

Phoenix sighed. “Monster things, ok!”

“So we’re running?” Marcus asked, looking disgusted.

“No! They have the stone!”

“So we’re fighting coconuts for a rock?”

Phoenix let out an angry frustrated noise. “Twahiri wants it delivered to Motonui, we have to get it back.”

Marcus laughed. “You seriously improved your death wish Phoenix!”

She raised an eyebrow. “You’re afraid of a pile of coconuts?”

“Nah, I’m just not really sure why we’re stopping for a pile of coconuts.”

“Guys…”  I noticed Claire wasn’t watching the mainsheet, and the sailboat was headed straight for the Kakamora.

[“Kakamora” Moana Soundtrack by Mark Mancina]

“What!” They responded at the same time, glaring at each other. They turned and watched the Kakamora clonk their coconut heads together. “Just great.” Marcus muttered. “Alright c’mon! Let’s go, move it!” He yanked the mainsheet ropes out of Claire’s hand and wrapped them around the boom. “You want your rock?”

I nodded. “We have to get it back.”

“Let’s make this quick then.”

Tyrel nodded, Phoenix reached for her weapons and Claire looked like she was going to throw up again. “Claire, why don’t you stay here?” I suggested. “Tyrel and I got this.”

“I’ll go.” Phoenix decided.

“You stay here,” Marcus shook his head. “If she passes out we need someone to man the ropes. Plus demigods are built for this, mortals, eh, not so much.”

She looked pissed, but she stayed with Claire. “So what’s the plan?” Tyrel grinned.

“Get in, get the stone, get out.” I nodded.

“Sounds good.” Marcus agreed.

Then the three of us split up. It was pretty easy to get aboard their ships, since they’d pretty much rammed into the hull of our sailboat. I jumped onto their boat and ran through a few rows of Kakamora, smashing them out of my way with a neon orange life vest.

I glanced over my shoulder to see Tyrel leaping over the short Kakamora while they uselessly tried to climb onto Marcus, who annoyedly ripped them off his shoulders and tossed them into the sea.

While I watched them, a few coconut guys snuck up behind me and I felt a sharp pain in my ankle. One of their mini spears was embedded in my foot. I screamed, and kicked the little coconut off the edge, and then plowed on.

After climbing to the top of their ship, I caught up with Marcus who already had the lead Kakamora pinned and was squeezing him inside his coconut armor. He slipped the stone out of the Kakamora’s hand and tossed it over to me without a glance.

“There’s your rock. Let’s get out of here.”

"We might have to wait..." I sighed as the three Kakamora ships surrounded our small sailboat.

''But how did we get here? Well... it started simply.''