Meanwhile, Shanti was on her way to the river to collect some water to bring back home. She soon heard something and looked out into the jungle. She then shook her head and collected some water.

"Hey, Shanti." Mowgli smiled as he hung upside down as she stood up.

This startled her as she jumped back slightly.

"What're you doing here?" Mowgli asked as he hopped down and balanced onto a stone pallet in the water while holding himself upside down.'

"Getting water?" Shanti replied like it was obvious. "What're you doing here?"

"Oh, I'm on the look-out for danger." Mowgli turned himself right side up and smirked as he searched into the jungle.

"Danger?" Shanti scoffed. "There's no danger around here."

"Uh..." Mowgli soon rushed after her before whispering. "Just keep this between us? Yesterday, I saw tiger tracks."

"Tiger tracks?" Shanti asked before rolling her eyes. "Right..."

'Is he actually going to scare her?' Mo thought to herself as she and the others had arrived at the water.

"Shere Khan..." Mowgli continued toward Shanti. "I hear he's around, seeking his bloodthirsty revenge. So, keep your ears open, and always watch your back, the last thing you'll ever hear is-"

Rajan soon came out of the bushes and roared like a tiger. Shanti soon screamed as she was scared. She was so scared that she fell back into the water with her pot. This made Mowgli and Rajan laugh and cheer at her misfortune.

"That was mean!" Darla glared.

Atticus, Mo, Cherry, and Darla all soon went to help Shanti out of the water while Patch went to teach Mowgli and Rajan a lesson as he barked at them. Mowgli and Rajan yelped as Patch had very loud barking for a rather small dog for his size.

"Are you okay, Shanti?" Mo asked the fallen girl.

"Yeah, I just got scared when Rajan came out roaring like a tiger." Shanti frowned as they helped her up.

"You guys, that wasn't funny!" Darla scolded Mowgli and Rajan.

"Darla's right!" Atticus added. "That wasn't funny at all!"

"You're horrible!" Shanti was just as angry since she was the victim. "You horrible, stinky boys!"

Patch had now scared both boys into a tree that was the center of the village.

"Good boy..." Atticus smiled down to Patch and pet him before giving him a biscuit as a reward.

"Thanks." Patch muffled as he carried the biscuit in his mouth before eating it right up.

"Patch is one amazing dog." Darla smiled.

"He sure is." Atticus agreed as he hugged his pet.

"Come on, Rajan," Shanti said firmly as she took the younger boy's hand and walked off with him away from Mowgli. "He's a bad influence."

"But Shanti, don't you get your fruit from this tree?" Mo asked.

"Before anything though... Rajan, don't move," Shanti said to the young boy before kneeling down to his height and licked her thumb to wash off the markings on his face to make like tiger whiskers. "That wasn't very nice, you know."

Rajan quietly roared in response to that.

"Stop that," Mo scolded him. "You're not a wild animal."

"Or a jungle boy." Shanti added as she then decided to collect fruit in her basket.

"Why are you so afraid of the jungle?" Rajan asked Shanti.

"Because it's dangerous." Shanti replied as she picked fruit from the tree.

"Dangerous? But Mowgli said-" Rajan started.

"You shouldn't listen to everything Mowgli says." Shanti cut him off firmly.

"I thought you liked Mowgli?" Cherry smirked.

Shanti seemed to blush from the way Cherry said that, but she tried to hide it. "Well, I do, I like Mowgli," she then tried to explain. "But, I-Oh!"

Mowgli was there as if on cue with Shanti's water pot as he stood in between Rajan and the others.

"Oh, please continue." Cherry smirked.

Mowgli smiled as he held out Shanti's pot. "Uh, you left this by the river." he then told her.

Shanti sighed and face-palmed before swiping the water pot. "Thank you!"

"She's in a bad mood." Atticus whispered.

Rajan nodded in agreement.

"Can't really blame her." Mo commented about earlier.

"Hey, Rajan, you wanna see a little trick I learned in the jungle?" Mowgli smirked boastfully.

"Oh, brother, is he about to do what I think he's going to do?" Cherry groaned.

"What else would he do?" Patch shrugged to her.

"What?" Darla asked. "What's he gonna do?"

Mowgli bumped against a tree which sent down a banana and he squeezed it out of the peel right into Rajan's mouth.

"That." Cherry said.

"That's a very good trick!" Rajan beamed as he ate the banana.

"That was so cool!" Darla smiled to Mowgli.

"I bet Shanti has a better trick." Mo said.

"You bet." Shanti nodded.

"Oh, is that right?" Atticus asked.

"I learned it right here at home." Shanti nodded before spinning a fruit on her fingertip and tossed it in the air and the tree branch seemed to peel the skin off while in the air before landing back in her hand and she then gave it to Rajan.

"Wow!" Rajan beamed as he took the fruit before eating it. "That's a neater trick!"

"It sure is." Patch said.

"Like I said, Rajan," Shanti smirked toward Mowgli. "Don't listen to him."

"Right, Rajan, don't listen to me," Mowgli smirked back as he knelt down by the younger boy. "Listen to the jungle... Can ya hear it?"

'What is he up to now?' Mo thought to herself.

Rajan seemed to smirk with Mowgli which worried Darla. "Yeah... The jungle!"

"Why do I have a bad feeling about this?" Darla asked.

"I do too and I don't think it's this heat." Cherry agreed.

"Should we go do something else?" Mo asked.

"You hear that rhythm?" Mowgli smirked to Rajan. "You get a crazy feeling inside."

"Mowgli, don't." Cherry warned.

"Please don't." Atticus begged.

"That morning sun peeks over the mountains, And all the rhinos rub their eyes, When they hear~" Mowgli began to sing to Rajan.

"Here we go." Mo sighed.

"Hear what?" Rajan asked.

"Hear the jungle rhythm~" Mowgli replied. "Those birds are tap-tap-tappin' the tree trunks, The busy bee hums as he flies, Loud and clear, To the jungle rhythm~"

'We might as well join in.' Mo thought to herself shrugged.

Cherry didn't like how this was going as she felt like Mowgli had something planned. Shanti eventually joined in with Mowgli and Rajan as well as the other village kids as they seemed excited about the jungle, though they were told to never go through there by their parents, but especially by Ritesh since he was the leader and all, and where everyone soon dressed up as animals. Cherry seemed to panic as the kids were getting closer to the jungle and went to tell the adults before anything dangerous could happen.

"STOP!" Atticus and Shanti shouted as they saw where Mowgli was leading them.

Cherry soon rushed over with Ritesh.

"Shanti, what is it?" Ritesh rushed over before he then saw what was happening which made Mowgli's eyes widen. "Children, come inside this instant!"

The village kids soon turned themselves around and came into the village fence.

"That was close." Mo sighed.

Mowgli seemed frozen on the spot.

"Mowgli, that includes you." Ritesh said firmly to his adoptive son.

Darla walked up to Cherry with a slight glare. "Did you tell on us?"

"I did what I could..." Cherry replied nervously.

"Besides, Shere Khan is still out there." Atticus said.

"Yeah, he has to be..." Cherry added as she hid behind Atticus to avoid Darla's glare which looked kind of scary up close.

"I thought you guys defeated him though?" Darla asked her big brother.

"Nope, he's still alive." Atticus said.

"Yeah, you heard your brother." Cherry added, folding her arms, trying to look brave.

"If you say so." Darla said.

"I am very disappointed in you," Ritesh firmly told Mowgli. "You put everyone in danger. You know you're not allowed to cross the river, yet you disobeyed me."

"But-" Mowgli tried.

"No, Mowgli," Ritesh stopped him. "The jungle is a dangerous place... I should know..." he then rolled up his sleeve to show scars from an injury he received from the jungle.

"Oh, my..." Mo gasped.

"You are confined to your room without dinner," Ritesh firmly told Mowgli while rolling his sleeve back up. "That should give you plenty of time to think about what you've done." he then stood up and went back home with the others.

'If only there was a way to show everyone the beauty of the jungle instead of the danger.' Darla thought to herself.

Mowgli glared to Shanti on his way back home.

"She was just trying to help." Patch said.

Mowgli simply glared in silence before he kept going.

"I wish there was a way that people could see the jungle as a good thing and not fearing it..." Darla said as she sat on the guest bed she slept in last night. She soon remembered about Mo's power. "Mo, you can help!" she then beamed.

"I can?" Mo asked as she sat next to Atticus on their bed.

"Yeah, use your power on the forces of nature to help everyone see the beauty of the jungle." Darla smiled.

"Oh, I don't know... I could try..." Mo smiled back.

"I think it would be good for everyone..." Darla encouraged her brother's girlfriend. "Plus, I think Mowgli seems homesick."

"Can't really blame him," Patch agreed. "He might be human like everyone else here, but he's always been more of a wild child with Baloo, Bagheera, and everyone else like the wolves who raised him."

"He has a point." Atticus said.

"Well... I suppose I could try something..." Mo replied. "We'd have to get closer to the jungle though without Ritesh and Messau knowing."

"Yeah, Cherry." Darla glared.

"I didn't do anything!" Cherry glared back.

"Then don't tell." Darla said.

"I didn't do anything..." Cherry replied.

"You kinda told Ritesh..." Atticus reminded her.

"You guys could've been killed!" Cherry retorted.

"There were no dangerous animals close by." Mo said.

"I know, but you were close in the jungle, so I did the right thing by asking for help." Cherry replied smugly.

"Just keep your mouth shut this time, okay?" Patch asked.

Cherry pouted and folded her arms.

They then snuck out of the fence as dinner was being made. Mo cracked her knuckles, but not as fierce as Atticus and took a deep breath as she began to use her nature powers in the jungle, and where plants and vines started to grow into the village. The others smiled as Mo helped with her special powers.

"This has to be my best idea yet." Darla smiled.

"Don't get go on an ego trip, Dimples." Cherry teased.

"I won't." Darla said.

"Oh, Mo, these trees are amazing..." Patch said. "I've never seen anything like them..."

"They look like Dr. Seuss trees." Cherry commented from how colorful the trees were.

"I wanted to be creative." Mo said.

"I know, I'm just saying..." Cherry shrugged. "Dr. Seuss decor if you ask me."

"I guess she has a point," Mo said as she felt the tree tops. "They are soft as silk and they smell like butterfly milk."

"You're rhyming." Darla said.

"Have you never read a Dr. Seuss book in your life?" Cherry deadpanned to Darla.

"I have." Darla said.

"Then you would know about the rhyming..." Cherry replied.

"My favorite's the Lorax." Mo smiled as she continued to beautify the jungle.

Patch turned his head as he thought he heard someone singing from afar. "What was that?" He asked.

"You hear something, boy?" Atticus asked.

"It sounded like singing..." Patch replied before going toward the direction which lured everyone to follow him.