Chapter 2: Jealousy of Tak
Tak was getting quite jealous that a certain George of the Jungle, who was really the King of the Jungle was receiving all the attention from all members of the Pupununu tribe. It was quite difficult for Tak, during his study with Jibolba on controlling his Juju powers.
"Pay attention Tak!" cried Jibolba in his hut as he gave Tak another study guide book for him to study, "You need to concentrate on mastering the Juju powers."
"Well I can't obviously be able to do it if I have the so-called great King of the Jungle, George having all the glory" sighed Tak as he was carrying quite a load of books.
"Look Tak, you pay attention to your own duties and ignore this King George" replied Jibolba, "I do not want you to run into any trouble this time. Come on, let's get to the training grounds, I'll take your Juju staff since you have quite a heavy load to carry."
"Gee, thanks" sighed Tak as he was struggling to carry the load of books.
Meanwhile back in the village center, the Chief of the Pupununu tribe wanted to see what George could do as being the King of the Jungle.
"I'm just so curious to how you became king of the jungle, that surrounds our fair village" said the Chief as he turned to George.
"Oh that's easy, George was raised by apes, whom then proclaimed George to be king" replied George.
"Hmm, I can certainly see that, is your friend Ape, over here responsible for your well being?" asked the Chief.
"Of course I am, George and I grew up together" replied Ape.
"You can also summon some of your animal friends, may we see some of them up close?" asked the Chief.
"Oh George can do just that, with George's call" replied George.
As George was about to initiate his big summoning cry, poor Tak was carefully following Jibolba to the Juju training grounds. After George made his summoning cry, Tak nor Jibolba couldn't imagine what sort of creature made that cry.
"What the heck was that, it hurts my ear drums!" cried Tak as he was about to drop the books on the floor.
"You're telling me kid" replied Jibolba, "and I got hearing problems at my old age, just what the heck was that and what was it for?"
Suddenly as the two looked at the ground, they noticed that the small rocks began to shake as if there were a mini earthquake.
"Is it an earthquake or something?" asked Tak.
"No, elephant!" cried Jibolba as he noticed that George's pet Shep was coming in at quite a fast speed.
Jibolba raced to grab Tak right out of Shep's way, leaving the poor books Jibolba was going to take scattered across the jungle ground. The elephant not knowing what was there, headed for that direction and accidently stomped on all of them. Jibolba nearly dodged the stampeding elephant with Tak in a nearby bushes. After the elephant left, Jibolba was in mourning for his study books.
"Oh why, I had all of these books for all my entire life!" cried Jibolba as he was sobbing over the Juju magic books, "That's just great now I have to borrow a few from my brother!"
"Well, at least I won't have to do any Juju training today" replied Tak in a happy mood as he took his Juju staff.
While Jibolba was mourning over his crushed Juju books on the jungle ground, Tak wanted to see where that elephant was heading. A few seconds later, it led Tak to the village center where this George, King of the Jungle was there with his friends along with the Chief, along with several villagers.
"Oh great, another idiot I have to deal with" sighed Tak to himself as he began to sneak around the crowd of villagers.
The villagers were too concern in paying attention to the many tricks George was showing the villagers of his pet elephant Shep.
"So you're saying that you have a pet elephant, and this is he?" asked the Chief to George.
"Yep, George can show you all the tricks Shep can do" replied George.
"Just what are these tricks you have taught your pet to do?" asked the Chief.
"Watch this" replied George to which he then noticed Tak's Juju staff, "can George borrow this?"
"No, this is my Juju staff" protested Tak.
"Please, can George borrow your stick to show these people what tricks Shep can do?" continued George.
"And I keep on telling you, this is my Juju staff, not a wooden stick!" cried Tak.
"Give it up Tak" said Lok as he came into the scene, "since the higher authority is an honored guess in our fair village, the Lok demands you hand over your staff for the King of the Jungle's pet."
"No!" protested Tak.
The villagers gathering at the vent gasp in shock, as Tak would disobey a direct order into not surrendering his Juju staff.
"Slob will help" said Slob as she came into the scene and immediately managed to wrestle the Juju staff away from poor Tak, "here you go my Lok."
"Thank you very much Slob" replied Lok as he was given Tak's Juju staff.
"George, I really think you shouldn't do this" whispered Ape, "I don't want to take sides, but I'm taking the side of a protector of the Juju that you should find something else to give to Shep to play fetch with."
"Nonsense Ape, the villagers are giving George a stick to be used to play with Shep" replied George who ignored Ape's concerns.
Lok then handed George Tak's Juju staff, to which Tak was being held by two other villagers to prevent him from acquiring his staff.
"Okay Shep" said George as he was showing his pet elephant Tak's Juju staff, "you want to play fetch the stick, for these nice villagers?"
The elephant then sat on its behind, and began to act like a dog would and let out a trumpet cry through its long trunk as a yes.
"Okay, go fetch!" cried George.
Yet what George didn't know, after he threw poor Tak's Juju staff, was that the staff was heading straight toward where poor Jibolba was still trying to salvage his Juju study books that were crushed by Shep. The Juju staff landed right behind the old man who was quite unaware of what was going on.
"Hmm, what the heck is Tak's Juju staff doing behind me, oh well, I'll give it back to him when I see him again" said Jibolba.
"Look out behind you!" cried Dr. Scott who noticed that Shep wasn't going to stop in retrieving the Juju staff from Jibolba's pocket.
"What the, oh no, not again!" cried Jibolba.
The old man now once again, found himself face to face with George's pet elephant. He did not know what to expect, this time of what was the elephant after.