Title: to become a man
Fandom: The Jungle Book—Disney's version
Disclaimer: not my characters; just for fun.
Warnings: spoilers for the movie; I know nothing of the sequel
Pairings: none
Rating: PG
Wordcount: 100
Point of view: third
Mowgli returned with fire. Bagheera watched him come, grown old and slow with age; the panther did not try to run. He would not get far, and he was tired.
The wolves, Mowgli's one-time family, howled for their brother to stop his actions. But the man-cub had become a man—he did not listen. Bagheera wondered if he remembered how to speak any tongue but man's.
Baloo screamed for his cub, the boy he had known; Mowgli's spear flew true. The animals ran, flame in their wake.
Bagheera knew, as he had known then, that Sher Kahn should have feasted.
