Chapter 2: Meeting with the Chief
As the missionary group waited for the Chief of the Pupununu village to arrive, Grim was quite angry at Billy for still getting him into trouble with Judge Spleen back at the trial.
"Darn it Billy" said Grim as his face grew quite red, "I should just reap you right here on the stop for forcing me to work with those two Catholic priests to be some sense of a religion to these natives."
"But being in contempt is fun" said Billy, "just look at how Jimmy and his friends are handling things."
"No, no, no more science" said Jimmy as he began to shiver.
"No, no, no more music" said Libby as she also began to shiver.
"And no more Ultralord!" cried Sheen then he points to Jimmy, "This is all your fault! If it hadn't been for you meddling into the Reaper's affairs than I could be with my Ultralord collection by now."
"Yea, same here with my music" added Libby.
"Well, if it weren't for you Sheen or Carl I wouldn't be here to begin with, you two were the ones who begged me to do unnatural things that only the Grim Reaper could do and even admitted in court!" shouted Jimmy.
"What's all this yelling about?" asked the Chief of the Pupununu village as he came into the scene followed by Lok, "I have heard that you folks are under punishment to work with these priests to exchange ideas of our culture with yours."
"Look Chief, I'll be honest with you, it's not my fault it's this big nosed idiot's fault" said Grim as he pointed to Billy.
"Well, since you folks are going to be missionaries you are going to have to be part of the Pupununu tribe" said the Chief.
"Are there going to be horrible rituals that we'll have to be involved with?" asked Billy.
"Shut up!" shouted Mandy as she slapped Billy's back knocking off Billy's big nose, as she really didn't want to go through any of these rituals.
"Does that always happen to him?" asked the Chief as he noticed Billy without a nose.
"Unfortunately yes" replied Grim.
"Well, I have assignments for all of you folks" said the Chief as he continued, "since you are going to be honored guests of the Pupununu tribe, you're going to have to make your own huts."
"You're kidding?" asked Cindy.
"The Chief never kids" added Lok.
"Now you'll be split into two groups to gather wood for your huts" said the Chief, "two groups would include one priest, the first group shall consist of the Reaper, his two friends-forever-masters, along with the boy with the strange hair-do and the blonde girl. The other group shall include the boy who speaks of this Ultralord, along with the chubby boy with the girl who whines about losing this music of her's."
"And what would I do Chief?" asked Lok.
"You fetch Tak and order him to protect the group that includes the Reaper" replied the Chief, "we don't want his powerful scythe ending up in the wrong hands do we?"
"You got it Chief" replied Lok as he saluted to the Chief and went off.
"So what was that again about you felling something familiar about this place Grim?" asked Mandy.
"I can't put my finger on it" replied Grim, "I remember reading about this village when I was back in college. Something about dealing with juju magic, along with being very unlucky and all things like that."
"Just what the heck is juju magic anyway?" asked Cindy.
"It's very powerful magic that the shaman of this part of the world know how to wield" replied Grim, "if one has a juju staff, it's even more powerful than me scythe."
"It's that powerful?" asked Mandy as she was quite astonished even for herself.
"Okay Lok, just what the heck do I have to do?" asked Tak as he came into the scene followed closely by Lok beside him.
"The Chief wants you to help these outsiders build their own huts" replied Lok,, "but the Chief believes your juju staff can protect the Grim Reaper's scythe from falling into the wrong hands or something similar like that."
"It's about time you brought Tak here" said the Chief as Tak came into the scene, "Tak, you are going to help lead the group I have assigned that includes the Grim Reaper into the jungle to gather wood so that they can build their own huts. Lok'll do the same for the other group."
"You got it Chief" said both Lok and Tak.
"Well, come on already" said Tak as he led the group which included Grim.
"So, I have noticed you have a juju staff" said Grim as the group was led throughout the brushes of the jungle as he noticed that Tak was carrying the staff.
"Look Reaper, all I am assigned to do is to make sure your scythe doesn't fall into the wrong hands" said Tak, "and with my nifty juju powers, I am pretty sure I can handle it."
"Oh please" said Cindy, "your so-called magic probably works just as how Jimmy's so-called genius work got us in trouble with meddling into the Grim Reaper's affairs."
"Please, we shouldn't be fighting" said Billy as he began to pick up various pieces of wood that was on the ground, "we should be working together so that we can build our huts and be accepted into the Pooponunu tribe."
"Yea, I guess you're right Billy, well at least this time you are" said Grim as everybody began picking up various pieces of wood, "besides, someone who wants me scythe is likely miles and miles away from here. Probably not even in this region of the world."
"I wouldn't count on that" said Tak.
The scene then switches to a darker part of the jungle, where the likes of Tlaloc in his dark temple, was attempting to craft up another scheme against the likes of Tak.
"All my plans to take control of the Pupununu village has failed and it's all because of Tak" said Tlaloc as he began to stir up some potions in a bowl, "if I only had the power of the Grim Reaper's scythe and combined with the power of juju, perhaps I'll have a fighting chance at last."
Then suddenly he senses something as he takes a look at a scope he had created and peaked out the window of the dark temple. He zoomed in on the area where there was thought to be some sort of a disturbance.
"Can it be, the Grim Reaper in this part of the world?" asked Tlaloc, "That scythe is my ticket on getting my ultimate revenge on Tak and all of his friends. It may certainly be that I am going to have to do some reconnaissance on some members of this group the Reaper is with. Perhaps that big nosed kid might just do the trick."