CHAPTER ONE: The Return.

"That's kinda creepy," said the Jinjo, staring up at the head.

Peace reigned in the quaint town of Jinjo Village. Half a decade ago, an evil witch named Grunty and her sisters had broken the peace of the village, but a fantastic duo had kept the sportsmanship and livelihood of the place intact. Shortly after Grunty's defeat, tales of Banjo and Kazooie defeating the mischief-maker would be told almost religiously every night from then on. Grunty would become the symbol for the destruction of good.

The two young Jinjos looked up at Grunty's decapitated head. "What happened to her body?" one of them wondered.

"Don't you know?" asked the other. "She was blasted to bits when one of her spells was bounced back by the King."

"Bounced back?" said the first Jinjo. "I thought she dropped the spell."

"Oh, come on. How can someone be stupid enough to drop their own spell?"

"Yeah, you must be right."

Yes, five years have passed, and Grunty's head was perched on a pole outside Jingaling's Throne Room, in the center of the village. The witch begins her plan to get revenge. Carefully, she removes her remaining left eye as it rolls down the path. The two fail to notice the dried-out eye as it bounces down the grass, travelling to its destination.

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Elsewhere, Banjo, Kazooie, Tooty, and Brentilda are high in the stands watching the Jinjo kickball semifinals against the moles.

"Go, Squinty!" Shouts Banjo as they watch Bottles' nephew run up the field. "You can do it! Guh-Huh!"

"Where's Bottles?" asks Kazooie. She peers down at the bench. "Ol' Thick Eyes flushing his coolants?"

"Kazooie!"

Down at the locker room, Bottles is tending to Goggles' wounded knee.

"Stay still boy," he says, "It's just a little rubbing alcohol."

"But it hurts!" says the young mole, "OWWWWWW!"

Little did they notice the movement of an eye rolling passed them.

Back at the stands, Banjo is being pelted by Jinjos, at his love for the Moles.

"Hey!" says Banjo, "stop it! I saved you all in the last two games...!"

"Not by yourself you didn't!" says Kazooie, and begins to chuck several McJiggy Big Micks at Banjo. "Breeeeee!"

Banjo throws his backpack over him in order to shield himself, and it is then that he is zapped by an overhead light fixture.

"DOH!!!!!!" he yells, and falls down the stands onto the field. Several Jinjo fans kick him repeatedly.

"BANJO!" cries Kazooie half seriously. She begins to giggle uncontrollably, but soon grasps the seriousness of the situation. "I've got to save that poor bear..." She glides down the field.

Just then, a huge spark rips through the bleachers toward Kazooie. Several onlookers scream and trample each other to avoid the blast. Kazooie turns to the crowd as the surge of electricity quickly crawls over to her.

"AHH! AHH!" Kazooie cries as she meets certain doom.

Kazooie Flip Flaps just in time to avoid the blast, but the Spark Without a Cause still reaches its intended target with little problems -- Banjo.

Banjo wails as the backpack that had concealed him expands, twists and erupts into a humongous ball of fire!

All the Jinjos become silent. The stadium becomes filled with murmur as they see the splattered remains of their lost bear.

Kazooie snatches a bit of fur and blue cloth, and runs to the locker room.

"Bottles! Bottles!" shouts the Breegull as she approaches the friendly mole. "Banjo is Dead!"

Outside, the Jinjos and Moles argue over whose fault it was.

"Hey, you kicked him!"

"No I didn't!"

"Yeah, you did. I saw you!"

Suddenly the screeching hiss of microphone feedback fills the air. The groans and screaming from the crowd could be heard for miles.

But it is then that a very, VERY familiar piercing cackle could be heard throughout the stadium. The Big O' Vision video screen installed high above the stadium dims and brightens very quickly, and the most recognizable face in all of Jinjo Village appears.

"Hello my pretties!" says Klungo, or at least it looked like Klungo at first glance. For at closer examination, it could be seen that it was Gruntilda Winkybunion's face on Klungo's body.

"You may call me... KLUNTILDA!"

The crowds couldn't believe what they were seeing.

"You see, my little traitor helped me perform a re-capitation spell. He was too dumb to think that I'd use his body for my return to power! HA! HA! HA!"

One could see Klunty pushing several buttons out of view. "And now you will all be my slaves, including Banjo and Kazooie!"

The cackles could be heard all the way out of the Isle O' Hags.