By PaulP
Gather around me friends, and I will tell you the tale of Maui andthe Taniwha.
You should know that there was a time when our people knew thatthere were many strange beings in the world. These beings shared ourworld, but we became foolish with the arrival of the white men and we nolonger accepted the others and by our ignorance, they disappeared fromour knowledge. This tale is from the times when the other people ofAotearoa still moved among us, although somewhat apart. You should alsoknow that Maui was still among the living, for it was before he tried toconquer the goddess of death and was killed when the fantail laughed. Asyou all know that tale, I will tell you another of Maui's adventures.
A long time ago there was a man called Maui who was very fond ofinanga. One could find him most days down by the river tending his eeltraps and planning ways in which he could catch more and more inanga. Hewas a very handsome youth and he would often be spied on by the girlsfrom the pa, looking at his smooth brown body, and imagining themselvesas his wife. However Maui didn't look at the girls as he was moreinterested in the creatures that swam in the mighty Waikato.
One day, Maui walked down to the river in the early morning,thinking he would have a swim as it was very warm and he was very dusty.He came to the bank and took off his kilt. He stood for a moment on thebank looking at the smooth swirls in the river, and the sight of himstanding there was enough to steal the heart of any girl that might havebeen spying on him. Maui was about 18 years old and his body had filledout into a fine man. His arms were smooth and shaped from the musclesthat his constant fishing had developed. His chest curved out below hisneck, with two small nipples showing his relationship with Rangi, theearth-Mother. His waist narrowed to his manly hips. Below his waist andbetween his legs, hung his well formed cock, only just shadowed withhair, drooping down in front of his scrotum. His good sized balls showedhis descendence from Papa, the sky-Father. They contained the cream thatcould bring forth many children from his wife-yet-to-be.
Maui breathed deeply of the warm morning air and then dived into theriver. His smooth brown body plunged into the water, and sent a splashover the surface.
Just at this time, a taniwha was travelling up the river, lookingfor a mate to help her produce her children, the inanga. She heard thesplash and hurriedly hid herself while she scanned to see what hadcaused the noise.
"Ah," she thought, "he is a handsome man, and very well developed.He would be a good father to my children."
She watched Maui for a long time as he swam strongly in the river.Maui eventually tired of swimming and he pulled himself out of thecurrent, and lay down on the bank to let the sun dry him. As he lay inthe warm sun, with drops of water glistening on his skin, he started tohear a strange and disquieting sound. It was the sound of the taniwhasinging. She was casting a spell on Maui, to make him her husband.
Maui didn't know that the sound was a taniwha. In his mind he couldsee an image of his best friend, Tama. Tama was a little younger thanMaui, not yet as strong as him, but Maui was strongly attracted to him.He liked his face, with the broad nose and the dark brown eyes. He likedhis chest, so smooth and brown and the nipples that stuck out when herubbed his fingers over them. He liked his back, with the dip betweenhis shoulders. He liked his bum, with the smooth crack and the curve outfrom his back that he would run his hands over, letting his fingers worktheir way into the valley between. He specially liked his cock, with theskin covering the pink tip, that would draw back as it stiffened.
When Tama and Maui were younger, they would often go off into theforest together to play. Many times they would play at being warriors,fighting and wrestling each other until Maui would eventually overpowerTama and make him his slave. Tama didn't mind this, as he loved Maui andwould let him do anything to him. Sometimes Maui would let Tama wintheir matches as he also loved Tama. Many other times they would justexplore, as boys do. It was on one of these trips into the bush thatthey realised their love for each other.
As was common for Maori boys, they wore no clothing when it waswarm, and perhaps a flax cloak if it was cool or raining. That way itdidn't matter if they got dirty or wet as they pushed their way throughthe bush. When they came to a clearing they both flopped down on thegrass and lay on their backs, looking up at the sky.
Looking over at his friend, Tama asked Maui what he was thinkingabout.
"I'm thinking of you, Tama", replied Maui. "I...I really like you".Tama could see that Maui's cock was growing larger and starting to risefrom between his legs. Tama blushed a little, although you couldn't tellbecause of his brown skin.
"I like you too, Maui" said Tama.
"No," said Maui, "I mean that I love you Tama. I want to hold you inmy arms and rub your body and get really close to you and do things..."Maui trailed off, unsure how Tama would take this. He was confused abouthis feelings for Tama and didn't know if Tama would run off now that hehad said those things.
"Oh, Maui. I love you too."
He rolled over and wrapped his arms around Maui and buried his headin Maui's chest. The boys smiled at each other and drew close together,rubbing each other's body with his. Both Maui and Tama felt thatsomething wonderful had happened. As they hugged and felt each other'sbody against their own, they became aroused.
The two youths played with each other's bodies, and eventually, thatwhich often happens when boys who are just at the beginning of manhoodplay in that manner, happened, first to Tama, for he was rathersensitive, and then to Maui. Their seed spurted out and dribbled overtheir bodies.
The boys giggled and wiped themselves clean and then raced off toswim in the river.
As Maui and Tama grew into manhood, their love for each other in noway diminished, but remained as strong as Tane Mahuta, the god of theforests, who holds up the sky above his children, the mighty kauri tree,the tall kahikatea and all the other trees that cover our land.
For the sake of their people, Maui knew that one day he would haveto take a wife. His heart was heavy because he knew that then he couldno longer go into the bush with Tama as they did as they were younger.
Tama and Maui still lived close and from time to time they wouldreturn to the forest to take their pleasures with each other.
The day that the taniwha sang her magic to bring Maui to her as herhusband, he and Tama decided to go and snare some birds from the puriritrees, where the fat wood pigeons came to eat the bright red berries.They caught many pigeons and were both pleased with what they had got.
As they returned to their village, Maui called to Tama to rest awhile in a small clearing.
They lay beside each other, and soon Tama's hand brushed Maui'sthigh and pushed aside his kilt. He softly ran his hand over Maui's legand into the gap between his thighs. Maui closed his eyes and smiledwith pleasure when he felt Tama's touch. His manhood responded to Tama'sgentle stroking as it always had. The two enjoyed their play and afterthe climax they lay back and rested.
After a while Tama again brushed his hand over Maui's body. Mauirolled over to Tama and returned the touch. He saw Tama's kilt part andthe pink tip come into view. Now they were both running their hands overeach other. Tama's hand ran down over Maui's chest and made a path tothe joining of body and legs. Maui felt aroused, but strangely did notfeel the familiar hardening. Suddenly Tama sat up and gasped.
"Maui, you have lost your manhood!" he cried. "You are bare betweenyour legs."
Maui sat bolt upright and looked at the fork of his body inamazement. His penis and balls had disappeared. Where they had been wasindeed only a slit in his flesh. How could this be? There was no signthat he had ever sported that part which had given him and Tama so muchpleasure. For a start his mind was swimming and confused, but thenawareness came over him as he felt the song of the taniwha echoingthrough his body.
"Tama," he said "I can feel what has caused this. Somewhere in theriver is a taniwha who wants me for her husband."
Tama gasped at Maui's words. He recognised the truth of them, for heknew that Maui was knowledgeable about many things that Tama didn'tunderstand. He still cried out at the thought that his friend, his love,was being taken away from him.
Maui however knew the ways of the fish in the river and in the sea.He said, "Don't despair Tama. She will only keep me for a short time,only long enough to ensure the birth of her children, the inanga, asthat is all that she needs."
Tama still wept but quietly now. He looked between Maui's legs againand was still scared by the way Maui had changed. Maui embraced Tama andhugged him close. As Maui's touch soothed him, his fears left him. Thetwo then continued their walk back to their village.
They had gone about half of the distance when Maui, who was infront, cried out in annoyance.
"Stop hitting my thighs with your hand Tama!"
"But I'm not Maui. I am several steps behind you."
Maui stopped and looked over his shoulder to see that Tama wasright. What was brushing down the back of his legs then? He twistedaround and pulled his kilt to the side. Oh, his backside was droopingdown in a cruel mimicry of his vanished penis. There was a tail of fleshhanging behind and between his legs. As he and Tama looked at Maui's newtail they could see that it was getting fatter and longer. It now hungdown to Maui's knees and was starting to force his legs apart as itdemanded more room.
"Quickly Tama. I must get to the river before I am unable to walk,and must flop along the ground like the inanga."
As they made their way towards the river, Maui's legs became thinnerand shorter and soon his tail which was still growing, started draggingalong the ground. Tama called for him to stop and he would carry Maui.
Maui clasped his arms around Tama's shoulders and Tama held his bodyclose to him as they continued on.
Soon, Maui's legs had shrunk so much that they looked like flippers,sticking out from his eel-shaped lower body. His tail had grown a finnedfringe. Tama could see that the change was slowly moving up Maui's body.What had been between his legs was now a small hole on the front of asmooth trunk with no sign of any hair. From just below Maui's arms tothe end of his tail he looked just like a very large eel.
At last they came to the bank of the river, flowing smooth andgreen. Tama lowered Maui to the grass where he lay, his body flexing andbending smoothly back and forth.
"Are you in pain Maui?" asked Tama.
"No, oh no. I feel very ... turned on." Maui was rubbing his fronton the ground.
Tama lay beside him and hugged his lover. He didn't want to give upMaui to the monster in the river, but he was unable to stop what washappening to Maui.
Maui's movements were causing Tama to become aroused. His kilt waspushed aside as his penis hardened and poked into Maui's body. Tamaundid the kilt and pressed his body against Maui. Maui's tail flexed andpushed between his legs as Maui was stimulated by their closeness.Although he no longer showed his arousal, he could feel a sexual tensionbuilding. Tama and Maui embraced and kissed. Tama pushed against Maui, asmooth thrusting of his hips, as Maui's tail twined around Tama. Tamacried out his release and sent his seed spurting over his friend'sfront.
The pressure inside Maui continued building as his tail was nowflexing from side to side. With a cry of pleasure, Maui shot out astream of semen from the hole on his belly. It was followed by severalmore spurts, thoroughly wetting Tama with the powerful jets against hisfront.
The two lay quietly, resting from their lovemaking. As thoughenergised by Maui's arousal and climax, the changes now continued up hisbody. His arms shrank and pulled into his sides, becoming fins. Slitsopened in his neck as it swelled to smoothly join his shoulders. Hishead elongated and slowly rotated to lie in line with his smooth eelbody.
As Maui felt these last changes, he started to struggle to breath.He knew that he must now slip into the river, or face death. He could nolonger talk to bid Tama goodbye, but his eyes retained enough of theirexpression to cast a farewell as a wriggle of his body pushed himsmoothly into the cool green water of the Waikato river and the waitingcourtship of the taniwha.
The story of Maui with the taniwha is another tale, but it isinteresting that after Maui returned the village, although he knew allof the taniwha's secrets of changing from man to fish and to many othercreatures besides, his favourite change was to become a pigeon or someother bird. He didn't give up his eel traps either, or his fondness forinanga.