Jungle Journey

Dannie's P.O.V.

A journey to find 2 keys to the lost city is just amazing, and best of all I'm doing it with Raph. He's more fun to hang out with, as long as he doesn't get angry. After we split up with Crane and Viper, we were on our way to the jungle and boy a jungle it was. We're off to get the left half of the key in Monkey Kingdom.

"Talk about a dense jungle"

"Ah, no worries. I'll just cut our way through and we'll be there in no time"

"Well that's great news and-"

RUSTLE

"WHOA"

"AAH"

Then we tumbled and rolled through the entrance and then when we got back on our feet, thunder came out of nowhere. But it wasn't even raining. Then we heard laughing

"Ah ha ha ha ha ha"

Me: "What's that?"

Then a howler monkey came out on a vine right in front of us. Then he introduced himself. "I am Vasco de Bongo, King of the Monquistadors"

Raph: "A monkey king, be serious"

Then I bumped him in the arm

"He is serious"

"Oh yeah"

"Listen, i'll be monkey owla king if you can't help us. Mathra is on the loose. He's eating pumas and parrots, and pretty soon he'll be creaming a monkey milkshake. Unless"

Raph: "Unless?"

"Unless you 2 furless chimpanzees find the 2 keys to the Lost City"

"That's just what we're after, do you know where we can find one?"

"I know how you can find one of them. Just take either path across my monkey kingdom and then, cross the 5 rings of volcanic fire."

Me: "Volcanic fire?"

"I'd cross the rings of fire myself, but I uh... sprained my tail"

That was just an excuse

"Naturally you'll need sneezeberries though. My fellow Monquistadors will gladly give them to you, but you may need to do them some little favors in return."

"Hold up, hold up. What the heck are sneezeberries?"

"Little berries of many colors: blue, green, red, purple, and gold. The ancient Numerians planted these berries bushes long ago."

Raph: "Listen bingo"

"Bongo"

Me: "Bongo?"

"Bingo"

Raph: "We don't have time for berry picking, we're-"

"Without these berries, you'll never make it across the rings of fire"

Then I my stomach dropped a little on the inside. Without these 'sneezeberries', we can't get across and that didn't sit well with me or Raph. When we looked at each other, just then thunder crashed again. Then I said, "Heard the man, I mean monkey. Lets go get some of those sneezeberries."

Then we left and met one of the fellow Monquistadors Bongo was talking about and there was a purple sneezeberry bush. But like Bongo said, we had to do him a favor first before we could get the sneezeberries.

"Ah, furless chimpanzees. I bet you're looking for some sneezeberries, help me out and i'll give you some. That noisy Mathra keeps flying over here and knocking down my address stones. I've got room in my doorway for 4 stones, place the stones to give me the greatest possible number. Only the biggest number you can make will do"

Me: "That shouldn't be too hard"

Raph: "Nope"

So we helped fix his address stones so that it had the #3211."Up top, bro" Then the purple plant sneezed up some sneezeberries and it was disgusting to touch them. Luckily, I brought a bag to carry them in. Then the monkey offered us another chance. "If you want some more sneezeberries, you could place these new address stones I found"

The second time: #7531. After that we told him we had plenty of sneezeberries and thanked him for the berries. We then left to go find more colors, we might need all of them for the rings of volcanic fire.

Me: "Raph look at that"

Raph: "What?"

We saw a monkey holding a can and it poured out oil on his face. Then he saw us and quickly put the can back on the pedestal stand.

Me: "What's that?"

(In a deep voice): "Stand back, furless ones. This is a relic dropped from the sky by Mathra."

"Let's have a look then, shall we?"

So I walked up to it and picked it up, and it read on the cover 'Aviatron Engine oil'. That's weird

"Raph, this says 'Aviatron Engine Oil', that's weird"

"What do you mean by 'weird'?"

"Donnie taught me that any form of aviation means to fly. What the heck would a flying beast being doing with a can of engine oil?"

"Don't know, but we're gonna find out come on"

So then I put the can back on the stand, and we then went up and saw a ravine that went for miles and it was blocking us from the other side. That wasn't the worst of it. There were tons of snakes in the pit along with a stone with a face carved on it and it spoke to us.

"Who goes there? Be gone. All bridges across this ravine have long since been destroyed. Go back where you came from."

Raph: "No ravine is going to stop me, I can get across no problem"

So Raph tried to jump across the ravine, but a giant snake emerged from the pit and was about to eat him alive. So I grabbed his shell and pulled him back just in time. Phew.

"There's a better way than that Raph. Maybe if we move 2 rocks with the same weight as the big rock, on to the other side of this tree limb"

Raph: "It will make a level bridge. Alright, let's move"

"Hmm, perhaps you will cross after all"

So the big rock weighed 29 kg and there was a pair of 2 rocks with the weights: 14 kg and 15 kg. We put them on the tree limb and it made a level bridge for us to cross.

"The tree limb is level, we can cross"

Raph: "Good bye snakes. Come on Dannie, we've got more sneezeberries and a key half to get."

So we crossed the tree limb and what did we see? The 5 rings of volcanic fire. No wonder it got hotter after we crossed the tree limb.

"Wow, now that's what i call hot"

"The center of the rings must where the Numerians placed the key, but we don't have sneezeberries for all the bridges"

"Well then, let's get the rest then"

So we went to go get more sneezeberries and we saw a monkey near a big treasure chest, but it looked like he was in trouble.

"Some guard i am. While putting King Vasco's money away, my tail got caught. To get my tail out, ouch eech oh, i need to put the right amount of money in the slot. But i can't reach it. Help me out, and i'll give you some sneezeberries in return. Ouch ouch"

So we put the right amount of money that the chest had written on it, and when the chest opened up the monkey got his tail out in time before it closed up.

"Thank you very much, and here are your sneezeberries"

Then the green plant sneezed up some sneezeberries. We took some and kept moving and saw Bongo again with a few other monkeys as well. But just then, we saw a mini black version of Mathra flying over us. Me and Raph ducked our heads inside our shells and the others ducked as well.

"What was that?"

Raph: "If that was a monster, i'm not afraid of it"

Me: "I don't believe in monsters"

"Don't believe, you gotta believe and you gotta stop him too. Let me tell you why"

Raph: "We already know why"

The monkeys grabbed the instruments beside them and began to sing.

Long ago there lived a monster
who rose up from the deep
He terrorized the jungle
Allowed Numerian no sleep

He attacked the jungle animals
picked up mother cubs to weep
So the numerians took action
Set out to trap the creep

Do you believe in monsters?
From ancient history
Do you believe that we were sitting pretty
Till he rose from the lost city

Do you believe in monsters
flying from the sky
Do you believe that you'll that puma-atic
With a little mathematics you'll oblige

Me: "Now i understand from the monkeys why Mathra is such a big worry"

Raph: "Well he won't be once we get through with him"

"We better hurry then, or else we'll be on the menu after everybody else"

So then we went to get red sneeze berries from another monkey. But he fell in a pit of goo of some kind, and when he came out we saw disgusting it was.

Me: "Yuck, oh, what is that stuff?"

"You don't want to know. Help me rope up this pit, on the stones they sow you how long the sides of the pit are. Give me a vine that's long enough to rope the entire pit. If you help me, i'll give some sneezeberries for your noble cause"

So we gave him some a vine that was 24 ft, just right for an 8-by-3 ft pit. So he roped it off and it was done.

"Here are your sneezeberries" So the red plant sneezed up some red berries. Then we went to get some gold and blue sneezeberries, (but i'll save the trouble of talking about it and shorten the story). Lets just say for the gold ones, we had to help a monkey queen figure out when her pet monkey, (which was giant) figure out when the monkey's next feeding day is. For the blue ones, help a monkey put a number plate back on a plaque about the Monkey Kingdom's history. When we felt we collected enough of each color by constantly helping the monkeys, we decided to head to rings of volcanic fire.

Raph: "Ready to cross those hot rings, Dannie?"

"Ready, we're so close to getting the left half of the key"

Raph: "Let's hope Crane and Viper are as close to their half of the split key as we are"

"Let's hope"

So then we walked down to the rings of fire. Things are going to get a little intense around here.