Yeah, I'm back with the next story, forever later. It may be a little rough around the edges because I planned parts of it, but am not exactly sure of the details. But when am I ever? So I think it'll turn out fine.
I don't own Jackie Chan Adventures. Just the thought is laughable.
"Guy's, this jungle is never ending. We'll never get out." Jade Chan complained to the others. They had indeed been wandering around the jungle for a few hours ever since Frank had teleported them there. All of them were hot, tired, and very, very irritated with each other.
"Would you stop your whining already?" Seymour snaps at her, "It's not helping."
"No, what would really be helpful was if Frank could actually get us to where we actually need to go, rather than in the middle of nowhere." Jade says as she sends a glare in Frank's direction.
"This is not my fault," Frank says for the tenth time, "Teleportation is harder than it looks. Especially if it's to some random place I've never even heard of before."
"Guy's, shut up." Sparrow says harshly, "Who knows what kind of danger's live in these jungles, and with all the noise you're making, they'll all know where we are."
"Please, there's nothing dangerous going on here." Seymour says. A second later a dart came whizzing in front of his face, missing him by only a few inches. Instead of hitting him, the dart rushed into the trees and they could all hear an animal's cry of pain when the dart hit it."
"Well, I stand corrected." Seymour says after they had all been silent in shock for a minute.
"Am I the only one wondering what the heck just happened?" Jade asks. "Where did that dart come from?"
"That came from us." A heavily accented voice says from the direction that the dart had come from. Out of the trees came a group of men. The kids could tell that these men were native to wherever the heck they were, just by the way they looked.
"Alright, well, where did you come from?" Sparrow asks.
"From our village." The man who had spoken says. "Me and my brother's came hunting for the jaguar, as Gauna told us to."
"Who's Gauna?" Frank asks.
"He is god of fate and death." The man says respectfully.
"So, a god told you to come out to the jungle to hunt for a jaguar?" Jade asks.
"Yes," The man answers, "If you do not believe me, you can come with us back to the village and meet him yourselves." Now the kids were shocked. They didn't think that someone who claimed to be Gauna was actually involved in this.
"Yeah, going to your village would be great." Deseray says. The man nods to his fellow hunters and they go into the trees that the dart had gone through. A few moments later they returned with what looked like a cross between a leopard and a house cat.
"Follow us." The man says. He leads the way through the jungle, with The kids close at his heels.
"Thank you so much for doing this…" Sparrow says to the man, but she trails off.
"Xolani," The man says. "My name is Xolani."
"Well then, Xolani, thank you." Sparrow says, "We were really lost badly out there."
"Just how did you end up in this jungles?" Xolani asks, "Not many people come this way."
"We're not really sure," Jade says, "I think we started out lost, then just wandered around for a few hours. It wasn't really fun at all."
"I imagine not." Xolani says.
"Where in the world are we anyways?" Frank asks.
"The jungles of Southern Africa." Xolani answers.
"Africa, huh." Jade says, "Sounds like a fun place to begin. So, what do we do once we get to the village?"
"I for one would like to see this Gauna," Deseray says. "Just when did he come to your village anyways?"
"A few weeks ago." Xolani says, "He just appeared one day and proclaimed who he was. Some of my people didn't believe that he was really Guana, but over these past few weeks he now has everyone convinced of his divinity."
"Yeah, I thought so." Deseray says, a stern look on her face.
"What are you thinking?" Seymour whispers to her.
"I think this Guana is just one of my brothers, posing as a god." Deseray says.
"Well, this is going to be easy." Jade says.
"Yeah, we've already found the demon," Frank says, "Now we just gotta talk to him."
"Somehow I don't think it's going to be as simple as that." Seymour mutters. When they got to the village the hunters took the dead jaguar to somewhere else in the village. Xolani meanwhile lead the kids to the center of the village to where a group was gathered. In the center of the group there was a man who just by looking at him they could tell that he was the one they were looking for.
He didn't look african like everybody else, yet he seemed to be the center of everyone's attention. This man also looked like he could certainly play the part of a god. He just had an air around him, an air that said that he was better than anyone else, and everyone knew it. They could tell he was one of Deseray's siblings, because of the sign on his forehead. The sign was a black cross, same as the one that Deseray had.
"So this is Gauna?" Jade asks Xolani.
"Of course he's not the god of death, this guy's a fake." Frank says quite loudly. Everybody hears his comment and looks at him. His friends look exasperated, the natives look concerned and scared. The so called Gauna though also heard the comment, and he was not amused in the least bit.
"I would be careful if I were you, boy." Gauna says. "But I'm willing to forgive your insolence, as long as you learn that a child should speak more respectfully towards their betters."
"Betters?" Frank was angry now. He hated when people spoke down to him, and this guy wasn't even being discreet about it. "You think I need to show more respect? I'm starting to think you're the one who needs to learn a thing or two about respect to your betters."
"Frank, shut up." Seymour chides. "Do you have any idea who you're talking to?"
"I know who I'm not talking to." Frank replies, "Tell me, Gauna, does your father have any idea what you're doing, because I don't think he'll be very happy with it."
"Enough!" Gauna yells. He glares at Frank and says "put him up with the others." Two men came forward and dragged Frank off. The other's watched him go, but didn't do anything to help him.
"Is Frank going to be okay?" Sparrow asks.
"I'm sure Frank'll be fine." Jade says.
"This may be for the best." Deseray says. "It will be easier to talk to my brother without someone mouthing off to him."
"Speaking of mouthing off," Seymour says, "Jade, I thought for sure that if any of us would get in trouble for not shutting up, it would've been you."
"Yeah, I thought it would've been me too." Jade admits.
"Well, if that's the case, Jade, maybe it would be best if you didn't join us in talking to my brother." Deseray says. "I don't think insulting him would be the best way to go about doing this."
Jade gaped at Deseray, she was about to object to not being allowed to go with them, but changed her mind and decided to just go with it.
"Fine." Jade says hardly and she stomps away angrily.
"Now that we can do this without interference," Deseray mutters, then, out loud she addresses Gauna. "Brother, I apologize about Frank, he's a bit of a hot-head from what I can gather."
Gauna's expression quickly softened as he caught sight of Deseray. "My dear sister, what brings you to my village? And who are your companions?"
"This is Seymour and Sparrow," Deseray says, "Jade just left, and you've already had the pleasure of meeting Frank."
"Yes, unfortunately." Gauna says. Eyeing Sparrow and Seymour he continues, "Well, at least some demon's know how to behave around me. Come, sister, allow me to show you around my village."
Oh my gosh, this was so annoying to write, for the simple yet annoying reason that my internet kept going down so I couldn't work on it for more than five minutes at a time. The internet should get better in a about a week, so I'll be able to write just fine then.