It has been two days since Banjo and Kazooie beat Grunty for the second (or was it third?) time. Banjo, Mumbo, Jamjars, and Humba Wumba had just finished another game of Kick Around, which was basically kicking Grunty's one-eyed skull in a circle for a couple of hours, and were heading home, laughing. Grunty, however, was anything but happy.
"Stupid bear and bird! If I had my body, I'd show them! But to get my body, I'd need to find something with a lot of magical power…" Grunty thinks, and remembers something that was mentioned in the travel brochure for the Isle o' Hags, which she says out loud to herself. " 'The Crystal Jiggy, located in Jiggywiggy's Temple in Wooded Hollow, is an object of infinite power!' Heeyahaha! Soon, I'll be more powerful than ever before!" Grunty's skull hops over to the elevator.
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Five years later, Grunty finally makes it to Jiggywiggy's Temple. There are cracks in her skull from when the moles and Jinjos decided to use her as a kickball in their annual kickball game, but other than that, she was unharmed. She hops behind a bush as she sees Master Jiggywiggy walking out.
"I'm going to have lunch at McJiggy's," he shouts to his disciples, "so guard this place with your lives!" Master Jiggywiggy walks away, and four of his disciples walk out, holding spears.
"Thos is going to be tougher than I thought…" Grunty hops towards the entrance, trying to get in undetected, but one of Jiggywiggy's newest disciples picks up Grunty's head.
"Look, brothers! Somebody left this bizarre-looking kickball out here! We should put it inside the temple until we find its owner!" The disciple walks into the temple and places Grunty's head by the Crystal Jiggy.
"That was too easy!" Grunty's head hops towards the giant Jiggy.
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Outside, it is very boring for the disciples. One of them is beginning to fall asleep, another of them is eating a chocolate bar, and a third one is playing video games. Only the fourth, Jiggywiggy's oldest disciple, is paying attention. Suddenly, the roof bursts open, showering pieces of golden-painted bricks on the disciples. They look up, now totally aware, and are horrified at what they see.
Only Gruntilida's head remained skeletal from the power of the Crystal Jiggy. Her new body looks similar to her former one, only made entirely out of crystal. There are crystalline wings sprouting out of her back, which fold into her body as she lands. One of her hands is normal, while the other has claws a foot long, and a large elbow blade. The Crystal Jiggy even gave her a new eye!
"G-Get back! Or…or we'll stab you!" The four disciples point their spears at the witch. She cackles, puts her claw hand to the ground, and pillars of fire form beneath the Jiggy-headed men, burning them to ashes.
"This power… It's amazing! I can do anything now!" Gruntilda conjures up a small army of enemies. "Go! Kill everything in your path!" Grunty creates images of Banjo, Kazooie, Mumbo, Klungo, Humba Wumba, and Bottles. "If you find these freaks, however, bring them to me! I'll deal with them personally." Her new minions fly, run, or dig away.
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Somewhere in Click Clock Woods, a giant anthropomorphic pig is stomping around, lifting up trees at random. He sees a Zubba, one of the bee-like inhabitants, and decides to talk to it while he continues his search.
"Hello, foolish creature! I am Wizpig, future conqueror of this land. Have you, by chance, seen a bear with a blue backpack and yellow shorts named Banjo? I swore vengeance against him and a few other animals about seven years ago, but I just came up with a plan for it recently." The Zubba buzzes. "What was that? I can't understand —" Unfortunately for Wizpig, one of Grunty's mole-like minions was tunnelling by, Bugs Bunny-style. While walking, Wizpig trips over the small mound of dirt, falls, breaks his neck, and dies. The Zubba shrugs and flies away.
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In Cloud Cuckooland, a minion of Grunty's that resembles a UFO with eyes flies by a humanoid bird named Canary Mary. The bird calls to the UFO.
"Hey! Do you want to race me? If you win, I'll give you a Jiggy!" The UFO's eyes widen as it thinks about the promotions it could get if it got a Jiggy for Grunty. The UFO turns around and nods enthusiastically.
22 consecutive losses to Mary later, the UFO is frustrated beyond all belief. Mary finally remembers something. "I forgot! That bear and bird took my Jiggy five years ago! Um… Do you accept IOUs?"
The UFO gets so angry, it self-destructs, which rips the section that Mary is standing on off of Cloud Cuckooland. Without anything holding it up, the section falls to the earth below. Mary screams in fear, then realizes that she's a bird, so she can just fly back to Cloud Cuckooland! A loose rock hits her on the head, knocking her unconscious. Eventually, her fall comes to an end as she lands in the volcano on the lava side of Hailfire Peaks. A rat walks up, puts a sign into the ground labelled 'Fried Canary: $5', and stands there, waiting for someone to show up.
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In Spiral Mountain, Banjo, Kazooie, Mumbo, and Klungo are having lunch outside of Banjo's house. Bottles walks out, carrying sandwiches. He places them on the table, then stops and looks at it.
"Banjo, why is there one extra chair here?"
"In case Tooty decides to come home!" Kazooie sticks her head out of the bear's backpack and sighs.
"Banjo, your sister hasn't been home for seven years! We woke up the day after we beat Grunty the first time, and she was gone!"
"Oh, yeah!" Klungo starts laughing.
"Hur hur hur… Bear issss sssso sssstupid! Can't even remember hissss own ssssisssster dissssappearing! Hur hur hur…" Banjo throws his glass of water at Klungo. Mumbo turns to laugh at Klungo, then stops and notices something.
"Look! Smoke in distance! Something wrong in Isle o' Hags!" Bottles takes a bite of his sandwich.
"Why do—" Bottles coughs, spits out the sandwich, and continues. "Why do you care about what happens in that place? I have a family there, but what's your excuse?"
"Mumbo has many houses there. Also, Isle o' Hags have good spots for Mumbo to find Glowbos or getting bear and bird to find them for me."
"What are we waiting for then?" Kazooie pecks Banjo on the head. "To the Isle of Hags!" Banjo sighs.
"I have a feeling there's gonna be another adventure… At least Bottles didn't die again!" The four heroes run towards the entrance to the Isle o' Hags, with Kazooie pecking Banjo to make him go faster.
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