It was just another day in the Valley. Of course, you already know something screwy's gonna happen as soon as I say that. Well, it did.
It started with a stream of fire coming out of the Flaming Crater of Mount Firefang. Suddenly, a gigantic wooden seemingly-alive tower rose out of it plus multiple lava rocks came down as well. However, all the animals were too busy doing their own thing to notice. But that didn't last long. As the rocks came down, they broke apart, revealing…tikis?
The weird-looking tikis came down and spread across the Valley. One of them, an odd-looking half-red, half-blue tiki with opposite colored eyelids, black arrow markings where its nose should be, wooden sticks on its head bound with a headband, two skinny, three-fingered twig-like arms, and what looked like teeth jutting out from the bottom, landed near some Ninja Monkeys as they were training, hovering a few feet off the ground.
Of course, they had never seen anything like this before, and they were confused, curious, and slightly scared. The tiki closed its eyes and when it opened them again, they were constantly changing between black and white. Its head sticks and wooden "teeth" started vibrating. Music started playing and a wave of red-and-blue light also emanated from it with red and blue musical notes, clefs, and number signs (#) appearing. All the while the tiki waving its arms in and out.
The Ninja Monkeys were entranced…literally! Their eyes suddenly became white with a black swirl. Across the Valley, most of the other tikis were doing the same thing to the other Monkeys. The hypnotized Monkeys started climbing trees and picking bananas. They started moving toward the tower.
A few minutes later, Skunk was walking near the Bamboo Forest. He had been tasked with watering every flower in the Valley…again.
"This is stupid! Why can't Fox or one of the other girls do this?"
He saw a patch of daisies growing near some hedges and watered them. "There! That should be the last of them!"
Suddenly, over the hedge, he noticed some Ninja Monkeys walking. Skunk hid. He watched them, and noticed that each one was carrying a bunch of bananas and they seemed to be following a floating, wooden tiki. This tiki was brown, had skinny arms that ended in black balls, and what looked like a gong perched above its head. The gong was yellow with a red seven-rayed sun pattern. Its eyes were changing between black and white and the Monkeys were following it.
"What the…" Suddenly, the red and blue tiki stopped at his side and shoved him to the ground by zooming up in his face. The tiki went into the same hypnotizing mode it did with the Monkeys. However, it seemed to have absolutely no effect on Skunk.
"Um…was that supposed to do something?"
The tiki looked confused and its eyes shifted nervously. It played its music again. When it was done, Skunk said, "You know, something about you seems awfully familiar…wait, I've got it! You're the Tiki Tak Tribe, aren't you! My master told me about you! You play that music to…to…"
The tiki looked even more nervous. Skunk looked back at the monkeys led by the gong tiki and noticed their swirling eyes.
He looked back at his tiki and said, "To entertain us!"
The tiki looked relieved.
"Yeah, I really liked that music! Was that kalimba?" The tiki nodded its head (which was all of it) proudly.
"Anyway, would you mind carrying a message for me? You can just tell all your tiki friends THIS IS WHAT I THINK!" Skunk punched the tiki in the head, plowed it into the ground, did some more fancy moves on it, and with a final kung fu kick, sent it flying into the nearby bamboo.
"That'll teach those stupid tikis to try to hypnotize me! Skunk picked up his watering can and started walking away proudly. Suddenly, he froze, his eyes went wide, and he dropped the watering can.
"The Tiki Tak Tribe? Here? Hypnotizing Monkeys…tried to hypnotize me…YAAH! I gotta go tell Master Panda and the others about this!" Skunk ran off.
Okay, okay, okay. Before you leave a nasty comment, I know my culture. Skunk Fu! is Chinese and the Tiki Tak Tribe is African. I get that. I just thought it would be fun to put these awesome tikis in this even more awesome show! Got it? Okay, see you next chapter!
