Chapter One: Young Boy
Mowgli looked around at the Man-village he ended up at. There were a lot of things. Not like rocks and sticks and trees-there were some of those-but there were things Mowgli had never seen before.
Like a rock that had something Mowgli wasn't sure he had ever seen before. There were pieces of something on a rock in certain formations and spaces. The humans around probably would know what it was. Only how would he learn what it said? Would anyone tell him? Humans all around him were making sound at each other and at things they held up to their ears, but he was not able to understand it.
Meanwhile, outside, Koda was looking in a tree when he saw something. Actually, Someone. It was a young boy with short black hair wearing red loincloth, who didn't seem to know where he was. Koda decided to approach the boy by walking up to him to not surprise him. Koda walked up to him and went down to the boy's height. Not sure if the boy knew English, Koda waved at him gently.
Mowgli saw a man wearing blue cloth around his chest and back and long black loincloth. He had longer hair than Mowgli and was much taller. He came over to Mowgli slowly to let him know he was not going to harm the boy. He put up his hand and moved it back and forth as a sign of greeting. Mowgli did it back to him. The man signaled for Mowgli to stay where he was. Mowgli nodded, and the man left.
Koda went into the base to find Kendall. When he found her, she was looking on her computer. "Kendall," he got her attention. "There….young boy….like me," he said. "Like you?" Kendall repeated. Koda nodded. "He not frozen. He outside. Is waiting for me. You come," Koda explained. Kendall logged off her computer and followed Koda outside.
Mowgli saw the man come back with a woman. Her hair was behind her head being held there somehow. She had an item in front of her eyes and had multiple cloths on her. She had a long piece of cloth on her that was dark in colour but not black. She had a white cloth on her chest and a black cloth over the white one. She had things on her feet.
Kendall smiled at the boy, to show that she meant no harm. He waved at her. She turned to Koda. "Does he know English?" Koda shook his head. "I do not know," he told her. "Okay," she said, tuning back to the boy. She waved at him and then put her hand out for him to take, to just see what he would do. If he took it, she would take him into the base.
Mowgli saw the woman turn to the man and say something Mowgli didn't understand. She reached a hand out for some reason. He was unsure of what to do, and put his hand carefully on hers.
Kendall was glad the boy took her hand, even if it took him a moment to know what to do. This reminded her of back when she and Chase first unthawed Koda and he didn't know anything about the new world. Only this was different, somehow. She led him to the base entrance, and Koda followed them.
Koda went to the base entrance with Kendall and the boy. "Show him," Kendall said to Koda, gesturing to the dinosaur head. Koda went and turned the tooth and went down the slide. Kendall led the boy up the boxes and he climbed them. Kendall got him onto the trapdoor part of the dinosaur's mouth and pointed to the tooth to get him into the base. The boy was scared from this.
Mowgli watched the man climb the boxes and go in the dinosaur mouth as the woman said something that Mowgli wasn't too sure what it was she said. The man touched something and the man disappeared. This freaked Mowgli out since he didn't know of the building below. The woman got him onto the dinosaur mouth and she pointed to the tooth. Mowgli wasn't sure if it had been from that one exact tooth that the man disappeared into the dinosaur mouth or just that general area. He shook his head and got off the dinosaur head and went down the boxes.
Kendall sighed as the boy went off the dinosaur head and down the boxes. Kendall gently grabbed his arm, not wanting him to leave. On the solid ground, she waved again and pointed to herself. "Kendall," she said her name. She pointed to the boy. "Name?" she asked him for his name.
Mowgli felt the woman grab him by the arm, but not violently. It was more like she just wanted him to stay still. She waved again and pointed to herself, saying "Kendall." Thinking the woman was introducing herself to him, Mowgli figured he should probably do the same. "M…Mowgli," he said after a moment. "Kendall," he pointed at the woman. She nodded. "Mowgli," Kendall said back. He nodded.
Kendall found out the boy's name-Mowgli. She had to think about how to do this. She needed to get him down to the base now-it was hot out and while the boy was probably fine, Kendall wasn't. She needed to cool off. She also needed to get the boy inside before he became a public attraction that distracted people from the museum. She thought about this for a minute and then spoke carefully and slowly. "Mowgli. You go on board. Turn tooth. Go into cave," she told him. Well, the base looks like a cave.
Mowgli listened to Kendall. She said something about a cave. He knew what a cave was. Normally you don't turn a tooth to go into cave. He went onto the board again and turned the tooth nervously. He went down a piece of metal and was in…not a cave. It was like a cave, but it had things in it. The man was also in the cave.
Kendall came down after Mowgli went down. She pointed to Koda. "Koda," she introduced him. "Koda," Mowgli repeated, pointing at Koda. She nodded and smiled, to tell him he was right. "Koda," she got Koda's attention. "Mowgli," she gestured to the boy. "Mowgli," Koda repeated. Kendall nodded. With the boys now acquainted, Kendall wasn't sure what to do. "Koda. Can you try to teach him to talk? Simple words. I'll run a scan for Energems but I don't think he has one. I'll stay here," she said. Here meaning the base. Koda nodded so Kendall went to her computer.