Maui and the North Island

                                   Maui and the North Island

Maui stood behind the door listening to his four foster brothers talking about going fishing and maui not coming with them. He listened to them give details about what time they were planning on leaving. Early in the morning Maui snuck into their canoe and waited for his brothers. An hour later Maui heard his brothers hop into the canoe. Maui could here them talking about how they had just tricked Maui, but they really hadn't because Maui was still in the canoe. Slowly Maui felt the boat stop but Maui didn’t want to stop here so he pounced out of his hiding place and gave his brothers the fright of their life. “Keep going keep paddling,” commanded maui. The brothers followed his orders and kept paddling all through the night, finally Maui told the brothers to stop paddling because he wanted to fish here. The brothers listened to his commands and stop paddling but the brothers refused to give Maui bait as revenge for him hiding in the canoe. So Maui struck himself on the nose as and smeared the blood on his magic jawbone and launched it into the water. It made a splash and sunk deeply into the water. Then Maui felt his jawbone get stuck in something. Maui thought that it was just a fish but it was really a carving from a marae. He pulled and pulled but the carving put up a fight and didn’t want to come out of the water.. The carving was strong but not as strong as Maui's will Maui said his karakia and the carving came out of the water. “I need to find my jawbone said Maui,” he told his brothers not to do anything to his catch. When Maui was out of sight the brothers started to get there share because they did help with the paddling. When Maui got back the brothers had made valleys on the carving. You might of traveled to this carving because it is the north island of New Zealand.  looks kind of like a beaten stingray don't you think?