Rapa Nui Page #3

- I guess.

No more guessing! If you win,

Make dies. Accept that.

Believe me, he has.

Your future.

From now on, wear it whenever you

Climb or swim.

It mustn't break, no matter what.

If it does

You lose.

Now get back in the water.

Why'd you change your mind?

I saw something...

...I think.

Ready?

Let's go.

Ready?

One...

...two...

...three,

Push!

One, two three, push!

One, two three, push!

One, two three,

Push!

Come on! Reach up! Up on the

left there! Above you!

Faster... and stop crossing your feet.

Pull!

Ready!

Pull!

Pull!

No resting!

You plan to rest in the race?

Don't fight the surge-you'll lose.

When it's not pulling, you swim!

Good. Now get back out there.

Make,

We're running out of logs.

The weight grinds them to dust.

- Grease them.

- With what? Nothing's left.

Use these.

Cut the ration.

Nothing else matters.

Soon we'll have nothing to

eat but each other.

Protect the egg. Come on.

Wake up.

Jump. Jump. Jump.

They might do it. I've never seen

them work like this.

Good.

Yes, it is.

But it also means the Short

Ear might compete.

This Make is very driven.

They say he never sleeps.

- Noroinia will win.

- Of course.

But what if something

happens and he doesn't?

What if no Long Ear wins?

Imagine what would happen if a

Short Ear became Birdman.

Noroinia not win?

Why, that's like saying these great moai

Are nothing but big rocks.

What are they fighting over? -Food, I

I don't want to hear anymore.

I think you place too much

confidence in him.

Noroinia?

Win or lose, he is the

next Miru chief

But, forgive me, sire

He is not cut from the same

stone as yourself.

He needs a strong hand, someone

trusted, like myself

To guide him in strange times

like these or, even

To replace him should

he suffer,

Say, some untimely tragic death.

Death?

Tell me I won't be

Just another skull under the ahu.

Tell me you won't be making

fishhooks from my thighbones.

The White Canoe

That's my destiny,

Isn't it?

- The signs are certainly there.

- Signs everywhere!

You said so yourself!

That ring around the last moon.

That strange taste in my mouth.

And now, I have told no one this

But each time I pee,

There is blood.

What can it possibly mean?

Wondrous things, Ariki-mau.

Coming soon, I'm sure.

Don't worry, long-eared boy.

We've come for the tree.

Are you crazy?

This is the last one!

Someone will cut it down.

Why not us?

Just leave it! Just one!

Haoa,

Why did my father leave?

Was he as crazy as people say?

You've seen where the craziness is.

Where did he sail?

There's no place to go.

All the other lands have sunk.

He had to see for himself.

Even if it killed him?

Your father was restless.

When your mother died having you,

Life here stopped making sense to him.

Then one day,

In a tidepool,

He found this.

Is it made by the gods?

Or some sort of men.

It has to be from the sunken

lands, doesn't it?

Doesn't it?

Ramana, I'm here.

Ramana?

Noro?

Let me sleep, love.

Don't make me wake to this.

You must eat.

Here.

I was dreaming you'd won

when you woke me.

Yeah

And of you and I walking in the sun.

And just lying together, under our tree.

How wonderful.

Where do you come from?

Where do you go?

Finished?

Yes.

Where is it? White Canoe.

Not enough, I guess.

But you may compete.

Wear this for luck.

It was your father's

Were you friends?

You and my father?

Brothers, really.

Why didn't you go with him?

I was afraid..

Good. Good.

More babies.

More everything.

That's what we need.

Isn't it?

Competitors, prepare yourselves to

Descend these heights, swim to

Motu Nui, and find

The first manutara egg,

Them swim back carry the egg.

Up the cliffs

And present it, unbroken, to

your Birdman candidate

That is what you

Must do to win, to be God's representative

On this Navel of the World

To hold sway

Over all other clans.

And for two of you,

there's also this.

Matua Tane.

If I win, you retire.

It's time for a new Ariki-mau.

Say, "go. "

Go!

The Short Ear, Make

He's swimming strong.

What did we promise him?

The girl in the cave.

Shave your head, Ataranga!

Ataranga!

I have

The egg!

Ah, Ngaara!

Shark. Shark!

Three left! Red, yellow, black!

This should be interesting.

And what happens if the Short Ear loses?

He dies!

Help me!

Help me! Hit him!

Help me!

Hit him!

Hit him!

Make, Make!

I won.

- Noro.

- Yes.

The White Canoe

The White Canoe!

The White Canoe!

Come on.

Ramana's sick, Matua Tane.

I can't leave her.

Priest?

All my life, I've waited

for just this day

But someone must guide the new

Ariki-mau until you

Send

For us.

What did you think salvation

would look like?

Bye!

Farewell!

Remember me!

Bye!

Had to be the hats.

Farewell!

Bye!

You didn't tell me

Make swam, too.

And that he's to die.

You didn't tell me about the child.

He was right, the Ariki-mau.

He knew the gods' will.

Will Makemake descend on us?

I saw the moai on the ahu and

they were breathing!

- Another Long Ear trick.

- Stop it!

There!

There!

What are you doing here?

He lost. I've come

for his head. And to discuss

The new moai.

We start tomorrow.

New moai?

We're through with all that.

We've just begun.

You saw what happened.

The gods kept their promise.

The Long Ear mana

Proved its power.

We will build bigger

And bigger moai

Until the gods

Favor us again.

But with one difference.

From now on

All moai will have

Beards.

Are you with me?

He's a priest!

They are Long Ears!

Not anymore.

What was that?

What was that?

Something in the village.

- Fighting?

- I'll go see.

- Don't.

- I must. I'm the Ariki-mau.

Take me.

You can't see. I'll return for

you as soon as I can.

I'll be back.

Die!

Not yet.

Watch how people die,

Ariki-paka.

- Watch.

- Don't turn away.

Watch them burn.

Watch them.

Kill him, Riro.

Kill him!

You've become what you

sought to destroy.

We were friends once.

I'll let you live.

But we rule now!

Suffer, Ariki-paka!

Ramana?

Ramana?

Ramana!

Have you seen Ramana?

Atta! Have you seen Ramana?

Ramana?

I've looked every...

What are you doing?

Filling our bellies.

You can't do this.

That's not who we are.

Who's going to stop us?

Haoa!

Your daughter.

I thought I'd lost you.

I thought that's what you wanted.

We were both wrong.

I know why my father left, Haoa.

I understand.

Then you're ready for this.

Your wedding gift.

Come with us.

No.

If I'd been braver, I would have

gone with your father.

Now I'm too old to go with you.

Hurry.

Don't look back.

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