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.