Jumanji's Creed: Welcome to the Jungle
Season 1
Episode 2 The Present
30 September 2055
Ruins of Arendelle
Assassin safehouse
Ten am
It had been over a month and a half since he buried the former queen of Arendelle. and almost two months since he fought her, and killed her, and almost a month since he met his daughter. In a short week, Mark's world had come crashing down around his ears. He was married to Talak, his first love that his mother Snowfeatrer and aunt Blackmane had tried to get him to break up with. It failed, fate had him meet her in the first place back in Egypt when he was a boy.
He was to himself, gone from Arendelle for only twelve weeks. But to everyone else in Arendele it was twelve years. Getting that wrapped arounsd his head didnt work as well as he had hoped. He remembered scant things about the past, the destruction of Arko, the losses he suffered in Sacremento before...
Before marrying Talak, then known as Vitas Warmmon. His first true love. Mark was at a loss of what to do, how to react, how to... do anything really at that point. He watched from the window as another hovertruck was loaded with stuff from a crumbling house.
Anna didnt want to become queen, she didnt want to be a leader. Mark didnt blame her. But he trusted her decision. Which was to simply destroy Arendelle, destroy was tyranny had built.
So that was what they did, house by house. They helped the people pack up and move out, moving to London or to Gilja to rebuild their history in new cities was one thing entirely. So calm and quiet he was watching the house qacross the way get emptied while the house next to it was getting demolished, wood ripped from the walls, and roof stacked neatly in a cargo version of a hovertruck when he heard it.
Footsteps were nearing his door, turning he flinched at the sudden CLONK of Spike's forehead nailing the doorframe briefly follwed by her wings getting jarred in the frame. "Good morning Spike" Mark said seeing the woman, normally dressed in dark sea blue and grass green dresses, Mark was confused at seeing her in almost a dhinese style outfit of pale white, gold and black. With a swan pattern on it. "Trying out a new outfit ?" He asked her
She nodded, Mark saw the design of the outfit was something of a hip hugging thing, showed off her already ample endowments. If she didnt have her wings, Spike would have been a dreamgirl at a victorias secret stage event. But since her wings were infact natural and magically triggered, Spike would have been taken for a freak of nature. The dress was a nice soft silk and spandex like cloth that Mark could see, nice and form fitting like a glove.
Infact if Mark didnt know better that it was Spike he might have stared if he wasnt married. But since he was married, things worked out for the better. Spike herself was happy being single and doing jobs for Talak and Mark like she always had done growing up with the Warmoon girl. Seeing him staring Spike smirked and posed "Do the stockings and heels make my butt look big ?"
Mark simply raised an eyebrow at her and hoped it was a joke and didnt say anything, Spike was deadly with those wings. Similar to how Sazhori once used her own feathers as weapons. Infact it was the first time Mark noticed the black leather boots and very richly patterned black leather stockings on her feet and legs.
At that moment if Mark wasnt married, he'd go for Spike in a heartbeat, Spike was rather pretty at that moment. Little did he know said beauty was infact quite deadly. He rasied a hand and opened his mouth to answer her question. At first nothing was said, he tried again, he brain was working he was sure of that much. Again more nothing. Finally both his brain and mouth worked together and he said "I'd say yes, but then you'd kill me for it, then Talak would kill you for killing me" he said.
Spike just gave him a dirty look as Mark gave her a goofy look. She rolled her eyes "Have you seen Talak ?" she asked him.
"Not since breakfast" He replied.
"Damn" Spike swore softly "Another house is being emptied, the residents are wondering where to go, they want to go to places familiar. So we're sending many on this road to Gilja or to Slitu" Spike recounted what she knew. The house across the street was a massive structure. Emptying it would be no small feat in and of itself. Mark knew it was going to take some time to empty that building, a massive family lived within it.
"Let me guess" Mark spoke up as he got back to packing his own suitcase, it wasnt much at the time. "you want me to find Diamond or my cousin or my mom or aunt, to help empty that house ?"
"Not entirely. What I need is someone to find Miao" Spike explained.
Mark raised an eyebrow as he briefly halted in his packing. "Find my cousin ? Shouldnt she be with my sister, Diamond ?"
Spike nodded "That is just it, we cant find either of them." she said.
Mark smirked as he took a look out the window. "Found them" He said, pointing at the street below. Miao and Diamond were emerging from the house, Miao carried something along with her ever present source of caffine, in this case, talak had provided Miao that morning with a proper caffiene shot at Marks aunts request, anything to keep Miao from guzzling Coke or Pepsi constantly. The only draw back was that the caffiene would wear off after twelve hours.
He didnt have to look to see that Spike had left the room, taking the frame clean off as she left with her hands, they were going to demolish the houses, destroy the kingdom, and rebuild elsewhere.
But for now, Mark mused, they still had a roof over their head. He then smirked. Spike never told him why she sought his cousin, or his sister. He figured their stregnth, about as strong if not stronger than himself, was good enough.
About an hour before
just after breakfast
"Ok so this house has a huge basement, what are the odds that we're under the street or even our house ?" Miao complained, she wanted a Coke, but Talak had already given her a caffiene shot at request of her mother. Twenty six years of catching up to do inside a month. And Miao still wasnt used to the fact that her mother was very much alive.
When Miao was a child she had long given up hope of ever seeing her mother or father ever again. But somehow, the woman in Gilja, who had run away from her before meeting up again in Slitu less than a week later had Miao reunited with only a fraction of her family as a whole as her father, known by her mother as Galen Hawkthorne, was missing
Thankfully Mark had found and rescued with the help of Fuiu, three men and a woman. Okoye and her brothers were safely returned to the land of the living. Okoye had recognised Fuiu and asked how a demon now worked with mortals so well. Which then caused the two, demon and Tigris, to have a debate the night before.
"The odds of finding anything useful in this place are slim and none" Diamond replied when they first started work on getting everything out of the house so the house could be destroyed rather than simply burnt only made things slightly more different, also worse off for the group as a whole. When they found the basement, whole manner of weird crap came out of it, from ancient artefacts to dragon touched gold and clothing, to weapons forged by Yaeko Wolfe herself ages before!
"What was that about not finding anything of value ?" Miao snickered to her cousin, Diamond rolled her eyes and entered the massive cavern. Looking down a row of shelves and weapons racks Diadem couldnt see how far away everything was. Horizon dropoff, she mused then using her magic to quickly cast a bright spell to see around them.
Row upon row, shelf upon shelf, rack upon rack. All they could see around them was weapons. "I think this will take more than a single hovertruck or hoverbus to get this stuff out of here." Diamond said.
Miao reached for a heavily jeweled dagger hilt that had a swirling pattern of purple, pink and white metal. As she did so a low drumming sounded off. Turning to where she thought she heard it, her ears twitched slightly, shifting only just so in order to hear better, her ears more pronounced to be that of a tiger than a human she moved forwards towards the source of the drumming.
Seeing her cousins movements Diamond at first watched the girl before asking "What is it ?"
Miao held up a hand asking for quiet, the drumming kicked in again "You hear that ?"
Diamond listened for a moment, then shook her head "I dont hear anything, why ?" It was then the drumming got louder, loud enough for Diamond to also hear. "wait" Diamond said "Do you hear drums ?" Miao nodded. If they told anyone, they'd be looked at as if crazy. So for that moment, Diamond chose to ignore it. "I have an idea, lets get the men down here to empty this cavern out. Its going to take a few trips for sure just to clear out one rack or so" Diamond said
Miao nodded "I agree, if we hear the drumming again though, or if one of the men hear it, what do we do ?"
"We will worry about that when or if we find the source of the drums" Diamond replied.
It took them an hour to get a dent into the cavern before they heard the drumming again, much louder than before as Miao tripped over a item packed in loose cloth and dirt. When she picked it up the sounds of drums went off again, the closer she held the big cement rock to her ear the stronger and louder the drums. "Diamond! I think I found it!"
Miao tripped again, dropping the large rock, it slammed into the marble and stone floor, breaking apart and revealing a cloth wrapped item within the stonework. "Ow!" Miao chirped out as she faceplanted against the floor. She felt her nose briefly and pulled back her hand to look at it. A thin trail of blood leaked from her nose. Ow indeed.
Diamond picked up the gem, as she did so it started drumming again. "Odd, this seems to be the source of the drums." she said
Miao got to her feet, "Should we show Mark ?" Diamond nodded, something felt off about the stone, and naturally Miao wanted to carry it as she had at that moment transformed part way so her hands were larger and more paw like.
Stepping outside the two women were surprised to find Spike waiting for them on the street "I've been looking for you two for the last hour" the winged woman said Diamond had to wonder why she was wanted by the winged supermodel like woman dressed in a very form fitting China styled dress of green and lavender.
"What for ?" Miao asked
"What she said" Diamond jerked a thumb at her cousin.
Spike didnt smirk but said "Talak and I found something, we cant move it on our own and Talak doesnt want to try using her magic to make it lighter or smaller, fears whats inside might get destroyed in doing so. And as far as we know, you're the only one with the brute strength enough to help move it" Spike gave a pointed look at Miao who crossed her arms
"What's that supposed to mean ?" She asked. Spike just smirked as Mark stepped into view with a suitcase or four to put into the hovertruck. The massive rig was already half full of their gear as it was really a means to transport belongings and boxed up items to the staging area which then was loaded into the flying aircraft carriers that Talak had contacted to help empty the kingdom properly. There were six total FACs hovering over the former palace complex courtyard where construction equipment was kept.
"What is so important about this rock ?" Spike then asked seeing how Diamond held it, it made no sounds whatsoever. And Spike was ready to toss it into a suitcase to put on a hovertruck for transport.
"It made drumming noises" Miao said. Spike just looked at her confused. "It was sealed in cement, then weird wrapping like what the food stores were sealed in, then packed with dirt, but its really just this stone. Looks new too."
"So someone wanted it hidden, why ?" Spike said with a confused tone to her voice
"No idea, but it made the sounds of drumming noises." Miao replied, Spike looked to Diamond who simply nodded, confirming her cousins repoirt of the drumming, if the Silver Dragon princess heard the drumming too then it wasnt just a normal stone.
"Alright fine, pack it up for now, we have a house to demolish next door and we need you both for it." Spike said, the two women nodded and went to find a suitcase to put the stone in. They had a house to destroy, piece by piece Arendelle was getting cleaned off the map of the world. House by house, soon nothing would be left.
But there was still something haunting Mark as he loaded the hover truck, Spyder gave in to death hadnt she ? So where did her body go ? Did she go to Arcadia as she had hoped to ? It didnt make sense to the man, Spyder was dead, there was no other worry, her body was gone, she was a demoness and natuirally Mark assumed such thing meant the body rapidly faded away into nothing whatsoever.
So it was a helpful thing he hoped, as he stacked suitcases in the hovertruck. The hovertruck was to be emptied at the landing site to load the flying aircraft carriers later that day. After stacking the suitcases into the hovertruck Mark went back into the house to help move furntiure
Six hours later and the deconstruction was almost completed, the house was sans roof and the second floor, walls were getting ripped out and wood was being saved as much as possible while stone and broken cement was being tossed into the street and into random piles. Mark surveyed the prograss, since burying Elsa with her parents, it had been a month, and in that time, almost a third of Arendelle had been destroyed, its people moving to other cities to start anew.
As much as Mark hated doing it, it had to be done. The hardest part of the destruction of the kingdom, was destroying Elsas pyramid palace structure itself. During their fight they managed to demolish most of it. But a lot of it still stood, rather imposing and Mark knew it was going to take more than a day to entirely destroy the place.
Mark smashed out a window his boot, Spike used a sledge hammer to demo a bath tub while Miao was simply ripping out a wall rather easily. Diamond was helping move furniture, In all the four were hard at work.
Noon passed as they took a lunch break before heading back at it. The plan was one house a day. The streets were tilled up, ripped apart and flung everywhere as houses were destroyed the stonework was flung at random from the site. Most of it into the sreets and yards.
The afternoon passed and as dinner neared the remains of the house were strewen in the street or the wood saved for later use on a hovretruck. Diamond closed the back of the truck as the last of the saveable wood was loaded on. Looking to the driver she hammered on the door, it was cleaed for exiting.
Mark stepped from the remains of the house, the foundation was rapidly torn apart by Miao in her frenzy to get at a laserdot again as the house was left with nothing in its place save for overturned dirt and busted stonework Mark spoke "That's the last of that house. The next house on the list is across the street. Tomorrow." He said
Diamond nodded "unless something comes up tonight." Then she saw his distracted look "What is it ?"
Mark took a deep breath then let it out "When Spyder died her body didnt just rot away or get buried it just... faded away in bright light"
"You think she is still alive somewhere ?" Diamond asked
"A possiblity I do not want to turn away" Mark replied
"We have a house to finish destruction, soon as that is done, we have dinner then we worry about things later." Diamond said
"The house is done, ours is next, are you packed ?" Mark replied
"Yeah, since last night I've been staying with Nara on a Hovervan" Diamond replied
"What are you two standing around for and letting me do all the work ?" Miao asked her cousins as she stepped from the ruins of the house they had just demolished caked in dust, dirt and mud. "Agh, I need a bathe" Miao grumbled dusting off her hands
Mark smirked slightly "Shall I get the hose or do you want to go swimming in the Pond district ?" From what he had been told, the Pod District had been created by a dragon, there was no way of changing that area of Arendelle as it had been magically made.
"If you mean dont use the stuff in our house because we destroy it tomorrow, then yeah I will swim in one of the fountains in the Pond District" Miao replied, Diamond snickered. "Oh shove it." Miao smirked
Mark barked out a laugh, for once his cousin wasnt just the comedy relief he needed, it was his own sister too, the two womens antics were hilariously comical and it made him smile. For once relieved of his burdens. "Alright, you, go take a swim, and you let mom know we're done" Mark said first pointing at their cousin, then to his sister
"What are you gonna do ?" Miao asked her cousin
"I'm gonna find my wife" Mark replied, Diamond smirked, Miao snickered and stumbled away. Sometimes her cousin was hilarious. Other times not so much. But from what Miao could remember, Mark was, in his own way, a good man.
But that didnt mean he couldnt have fun once in a while. As Miao stumbled away an explosion rocked the ground and sent her sprawling in to the dirt as Mark looked towards the sound "Ah, so they decided to blow it up ?" He said meaning Elsas old palace. Rock and stone blew apart in the air.
Miao got to her feet and grumbled, Stumbling off she headed for the pond district fountain, nobody minded if a tiger bathed themselves there did they ? Serena saw her stumbling off and somehow ended up walking with her, keeping the white tiger steady on her feet. "Miao ?"
Miao turned and blinked, almost drunkenly in her actions and focused on Serenas worried face "Serena ?" Serena nodded "I'm alright, just tired, I need to bathe before changing clothes" Miao said.
"So where are you going ?"
"The house is getting demolished tomorrow, so Im heading for a fountain in the Pond District, whats left of it" The pond district, as stated previously, was magically made no man made technologies could destroy it. So the people of Arendelle chose instead to simply make the Pond District the new core of the old city. As Serena helped Miao to a fountain the attention of the others around them were to packing their belongings to move from the kingdom or into the Pond district, with Arendelle in shambles, only the Pond District still stood beautiful. It could be renamed to Pond.
Which was useful.
Mark surmised that those who did not want to leave the place they calld home for so long, they could move to Pond. Which for a long time, was the most densely populated district of Arendelle ever since the Fountains and hot springs were created!
So it made sense for those that did not want to move from the old kingdom to remain in their homes and their propery and be part of Pond. Which was find for Mark because it made sense to not have that many houses to demolish in a single day.
But he was still lost on what happened to Spyder, and where her body went. It just faded into sparks of light on the wind. That in and of itself was not normal whatsoever. So was Spyder really dead ? And if she was dead, where did her body go ? Or was it normal for a demons body to just... disappear ?
Mark laid in bed, his wife curling up next to him as he stared at the ceiling as sleep took him, Little did he know that breakfast was going to be a fun one for sure. Ontop of that, it would be interesting to see how things go in certain circles. He knew their house was next in line to get demolished, hence all the packing done that day save for one suitcase.
Everything in the house was removed, as far as Mark was aware they were sleeping on a magically created bed. Something that felt like a cloud to sleep on in fact.
So as Mark drifted off to sleep, someone else couldnt sleep. Spike paced in the living room, devoid of furnishings or even a TV that Blackmane had installed years before to watch the news or keep up with events or plan stuff against Elsa. That stone. It was impossible. But no, it drummed when in the suitcase. "It is annoying!" Spike grumbled. She shivered, her wings stretched out and flexed rapidly with each movement
"What do you want me to do ?" Diamond asked, she and Spike only had scant moments during the liberation of Arendelle from Elsa to get to know one another, so now was a good chance, right before bed.
"Shut it off ?" Spike offered, they looked at the quietly drumming gemstone. No larger than Spikes own head
"How ?" Diamond asked
"How what ?" Spike looked at her
"How do I shut it off ?" Diamond said, Spike looked at the stone, the Dragon Princess had a point. Spike grumbled something, this wasnt good.
"Great, just when I hoped it was simply a childrens book..." Spike grumbled
"Hoped what was a chuildrens book ?" Diamond asked
Spike set her hands on the counter edge and stared at the stone. She spoke one word "Jumanji"
