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JB3 1: Running With The Wolves

BAGHEERA: "Remember the story of Mowgli? The man cub who was raised by wolves in the Jungle and had to leave because Shere Khan the tiger was threatning his life? Fortunantly, he defeated the tiger and went to live in the man village in (1967), where he was raised by it's people. Then, in (1968), Mowgli ran away from the village and was returned to the Jungle, where he later re-encountered Shere Khan. After battling and defeating the tiger a second time, Mowgli returned to the village. But do you think that was his last encounter with the tiger? Let me tell you what happend in (1969) when Mowgli and Shere Khan crossed paths a third time."

The Jungle Of India.

February 28, (1969)

In the beautiful Jungle of India, (1969), 12 year old Mowgli ran through the forest as fast as his legs could carry him, leeping over rocks as he did, never slowling down. When he reached the end of a small clift, with a dry streem, and saw that the path continued on the other side, he grabbed onto a branch and swung himself over to the other side and continued running. He looked across the Jungle to his left and saw a wolf catching up with him and another to the right side of him.

A pack of wolves ran ahead of Mowgli, leaving him behind.

Then vicious growling was heard, and Mowgli looked back and saw that the growling was coming from inside the trees and glanced at the rustlling branches, making the 12 year old boy speed up his running. Something large and unseen was crashing through the trees behind him.

Mowgli rushed up a large tree with a thick trunk, reaching the top of it, and on he scampered with the agility of a squerl, jumping from tree to tree. He then jumped onto the lemb of a large tree, with countless holes in it, and ran up to one of the holes and climbed inside the tree. He exited on the other side and ran across the other branch that snapped under his feet, causing him to fall to the soft Jungle floor. Mowgli got to his feet and resumed running, but a snarling black panther pounced out of the bushes and tackled him to the ground on his back.

The black panther snarled at the boy as it beared it's sharp teeth. "You must be the very worst wolf i've ever seen."

"Yeah," Mowgli began. "But if the branch didn't break, i would've made it."

The panther then got off of Mowgli, allowing the boy to get to his feet. "Crossing upwind, breaking from your numbers. If you can't learn to run with the pack, one of these days, you'll be someone's dinner."

"How'd we do?" Asked Baloo as he, 11 year old Shanti, 5 year old Ranjan and five of the other wolves caught up with Mowgli and Bagheera.

"Not Mowgli again." Said Ranjan.

"He's never gonna make the council." Said a female wolf.

"Lala, never say never." Said Bagheera.

"Why not? It's true." Said the female wolf known as Lala.

"Let's go!" Said a brown wolf before he and Lala ran off.

"Hey, wait for me." Said a yellow wolf running after the other two. He stopped in his tracks and turned and looked back at Mowgli. "See ya around, red draws." The wolf then ran off the join Lala and the brown wolf. "Race you to the top!"

Mowgli's face developped a sad expression.

"Ah, pay no attention to them, Mowgli." Said a brown wolf.

"Akru's right, Mowgli. They're just jealous, that's all." Added a grey wolf.

(The scene freezes)

BAGHEERA: "The wolves you just saw were Lala, Patriot and Dink. She was the grandaughter of the pack's alpha wolf, Akela. While she may have been related to the wolves' leader, she was nothing like him at all, as you can see. The yellow and brown wolves were Patriot and Dink. They were members of Akela's pack as well. And they, along with Lala, loved to pick at Mowgli every chance they got. More-so Lala than any of them. Patriot and Dink just picked on Mowgli because Lala was doing it. The two wolves who are with me, Mowgli and the others are Akru and Saru. They were his brothers, as well as the sons of Rama and Raksha. Like every family, they had all lived and grown up together. That is...until it was time for Mowgli to leave the pack, as well as the Jungle, to go live with man."

(The scene un-freezes)

Mowgli and the gang walked through the Jungle.

"It was higher ground." Said Mowgli.

"Wolves don't climb in trees." Said Bagheera.

"I can't keep up with them, Bagheera. And besides, i just picked the wrong tree, that's all." Said Mowgli.

"It was a dead tree." Said Bagheera.

"How was i suppose to know it was dead?" Asked Mowgli.

"It had a fig vine. Any tree gridled by a creeper is either dead of close to it. These are things a wolf must know. Than again, you're not a wolf." Said Bagheera.

"Yeah, but if the branch didn't break, i would've made it." Said Mowgli.

"I realize you weren't born a wolf, but, could you at least act like one?" Said Bagheera.

The gang then walked passed a river that had a water fall.

BAGHEERA: "When i found him...many years ago...he was just and infant abandoned in the woods. If he was going to survive...i knew he needed a people. A people to protect him. That's why i entrusted him to the wolves."

The gang soon arrived at council rock, where all of the wolves lived.

"Look well, wolves!" Came a voice.

Mowgli and the gang looked and saw Akela, the alpha wolf, standing on top of council rock, with the other wolves standing around him. Among them were his grandaughter, Lala and Patriot and Dink, as well as Rama and Akru and Saru.

BAGHEERA: "Akela was a just and noble leader. He allowed Mowgli to dwell among them all those years."

Bagheera jumped onto the lemb of a tree and rested on it, with Baloo leaned up against the tree, while Mowgli and Shanti and Ranjan went over to a cave where a female wolf and her cubs were.

BAGHEERA: "The trouble was, wolves grew so fast...and Mowgli...well...let's just say he liked to take his time."

Mowgli sat down on a rock next to the grey wolf known as Raksha and Shanti and Ranjan sat next to him.

"Mowgli, pick me up high!" Said one of the wolf cubs.

"My turn! (Laughs)." Said another cub.

"Stop. Not now." Said Mowgli while making a long piece of grass out of something.

BAGHEERA: "It was Raksha who raised him. She was the only mother he ever knew."

"Come on, let's play!" Said a grey wolf.

"I don't feel like playing, Gray." Said Mowgli.

"Come on, you're my brother. You have to play with me. Let's go chase some mice. (Laughs)." Said the little gray wolf cub known as Gray.

"How did it go?" Raksha asked.

"He caught me again." Said Mowgli.

"If it's meant to be...it will be." Said Raksha.

"Let me hear the Law." Said Akela.

"This is the Law of the Jungle...as old and as true as the sky.."

"The Wolf that keeps it will prosper...but the wolf that breaks it will di. Like the creeper that girdles the tree trunk...the Law runneth over and back. For the strength of the pack is the wolf...and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack." Mowgli and Ranjan joined in.

All of the wolves then started howling and Mowgli and Ranjan howled with them.

Shanti then looked at the sky and noticed that the sun was starting to set. "Oh my, look at the time. It's time for us to head back to the village, you guys."

"Yeah, we gotta go back." Said Mowgli. He turned to Raksha. "Same time tomorrow?"

"I'll be here." Said Raksha.

"Okay, bye." Mowgli waved at the bear and the panther. "Goodbye, Bagheera, bye, Baloo!"" Said Mowgli before he, Shanti and Ranjan then ran off, heading back to the village.

"Goodbye!" Said Bagheera.

"Bye!" Added Baloo.

Bagheera and Baloo watched as the three children left.

BAGHEERA: "Mowgli was just about the most popular cub in the man village and the Jungle in (1969). He had everything a cub could ever want. A home, a loving family, freedom to go into the Jungle and play with his friends. I lived in the Jungle back then, and i can honostly tell you that every animal cub and man cub wanted to be him. And insecure animals were jealous of him. But that year...something awful happened. Something so horrifying that no one would ever be jealous of Mowgli ever again."

(Scene cuts to black)