Beware of what you play
Jumanji
A game for those who seek to find, a way to leave their world behind. You roll the dice to move your token, doubles gets another turn, the first player to reach the end wins.
Adventurers beware; do not begin, unless you intend to finish. The exciting consequences of the game, will vanish only when a player has reached Jumanji and called out its name…
All righty, I'm back, thanks everybody for the reviews, loved them. I apologize for the short and somewhat lame chapters before and the uh, out of character -ness of our heroes, but without them, i don't think the story would be as funny right? ... Well, let's get get back to the story...
Disclaimer: If i ever owned naruto or jumanji, i would be lounging on an island beach of my resort instead of here, typing away...
and uh, just a note, the things that are spoken by the cannibals are some things which don't really exist, well, as far as i'm concerned. but they do belong to Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest. So if there is some meaning in those words in any of the languages spoken elsewhere, i apologise for the inconvience caused.
Chapter 4: Doubles's turn
What they saw for themselves below among the trees sent shivers down their spines. There standing among the trees are people, wrapped in animal skins and leaves, with weird drawings on their bodies. They held spears in their hands and some carrying feathered scepters.
All of them were circling around a fire, dancing and prancing, as if in a trance. And there, in the middle of the circle, was dear Shikamaru, all bundled up and tied to a wooden rod.
"They are going to eat him?" Chouji said, disgusted.
"How do you know?" Kiba turned and asked him.
"Well, they are cannibals! And they are going to roast Shikamaru and eat him." Chouji said. "They'll start to roast him alive when the drumming stops."
Kiba and Naruto can't help but wonder if Chouji has done something similar before… Never mind about that…
"Then we can't just sit and wait, can we?" Naruto said, taking out his weapons.
"What are you going to do?" Kiba turned to him quickly and asked, hopefully to get a wind of the reckless ninja's plan and stop him if necessary.
"I'm going to free him." Naruto stood up in the tree. Kiba sigh and slapped his forehead. But before he could say anything, the branch Naruto was standing snapped, and down Naruto went…
"AHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!"
CRASH
The drumming stopped and everyone in the forest turned to look at the intruder. Naruto sat up and rubbed his head, thinking this is the second time he fell from somewhere high. Then he looked up to see the cannibals looking at him intently…
"Let go of Shikamaru!" Naruto got up and pointed at the tied-up ninja. Up in the trees, Kiba and Chouji sigh what seems like the longest sigh ever in history…
The cannibals tilted their heads, wondering what this intruder is talking about. Then some of them turned to look at a particular cannibal, who was sitting in a tent holding the grandest scepter of all.
"Ah ni ki. Bon li ki li ki." The dark man in the tent said. Then one of his guards, the one holding a spear beside the tent echoed his words. Then the whole clan of cannibals repeated the foreign phrase and raised their spears.
Naruto turned and looked at the herd of aggressive cannibals.
"What's 'bon liki liki'?" He asked innocently. Then when the cannibals approached with their raised spears, he got his answer.
"Well, should have ran when we had the chance…" Kiba said bitterly; as he picked up the game and hopped down to join Naruto. Chouji snapped out of his daze and follow suit.
The cannibals saw two other intruders and it took them by surprise. They backed away a little, not until the chief of their clan stood up abruptly and raised his scepter.
"Baboogi! Bon li ki li ki!" he shouted the foreign words and everyone echoed his words with enthusiasm. Then as if on cue, they started running and hence began the cat and mouse game.
The ninjas ran as the herd of cannibals chased them. Well, they are ninjas; after all, being chased by faster and swifter enemies are as common as eating ice cream, the cannibals are no match at all. But they are forgetting their main motive…
"Hey!" Naruto shouted after running for a while. "We forgot Shikamaru!"
Oh, right. Shikamaru…
"Well, I think we've got them far away enough, let's go back." Kiba shouted. Then, they leaped up a tree and disappeared. The cannibals stopped dead in their tracks, shocked to see that their prey has disappeared into thin air. They looked frantically around, shouting things to each other and it took them quite a while, and to realize what really happened…
…before they turned on their heels to run back to their camp site…
When Naruto, Kiba and Chouji returned to the barbecue site where just some time not too long ago Shikamaru was going to be turned into a feast, they found the named ninja still bundled up, in a trance.
"Oy, Shikamaru!" Naruto shook the genius furiously. Akamaru bit off the rope that was tying Shikamaru, but even after he was released, he was still in his trance, with eyes blank like gemstones and drooling like an old dog… No matter how hard Naruto and Kiba shouted in his ear, they can't seem to be able to break their friend from the spell compelling him.
Then, Chouji reached into his pouch and took out a packet of potato chips.
"Oy, how can you be eating in a time like this!" Kiba shouted, but Chouji ignored him.
"OY!" Naruto cried in desperation. Then the master of food began stuffing his mouth with chips at an incredible speed.
Naruto blinked.
Kiba hung his mouth.
Akamaru barked.
Then once he devoured the packet of chips, he blew into it to make a balloon, then with a quick movement, he slammed the make-shift balloon with the palm of his other hand.
BAM!
Shikamaru blinked. Blinked twice.
"Shikamaru!" Naruto and Kiba called out simultaneously.
"What happened?" He asked lazily. "Ok, never mind…"
He cast a look at his surroundings and the rope that was lying beside him and figured it out easily.
"Ok, let's get away from here." Naruto said, standing up and helped Shikamaru onto his feet.
"ARF!" Akamaru barked.
"Uh, guys?" Kiba's voice sounded. The three ninjas looked down at him to read his expression. Kiba raised a finger and pointed ahead.
There was a shuffle of leaves of the undergrowth behind them. Naruto turned around slowly…
"BON LI KI LI KI!"
"ARGH!!!!!"
Naruto cried out in fright as the cannibals returned and surrounded them, with spears and expressions of kill.
"Why didn't you detect them earlier Kiba!" Naruto shouted.
"Shut up! They don't have a scent that I could follow!" Kiba shouted back in defense. Akamaru barked in agreement.
"In la la, ee si pi…" Someone in the cannibal clan said.
"La e sho sho, la e sho sho, e la kam kam si si." Someone else said.
"What are they saying?" Naruto pondered. The others wondered too, and also more importantly, how to get out of this.
"They are discussing how to cook us." Chouji said simply. The ninjas and the dog turned to him with raised eyebrows. "The first one said to boil us alive… the second one…"
Chouji continued to translate whatever the cannibals are saying as the foreign language sprouted one after another. Naruto hung his mouth opened while Kiba frowned and made a face. Akamaru had the expression of pain, and Shikamaru's eye twitched. They can't help wondering if Chouji was making them up, or did he participate in a similar event, in which they did not know about.
"Pa se ko, ka li ka li ten da da." A deeper voice sounded. Then the ninjas saw the group parted to form a pathway in which the chief took to near them.
"Se se lum shup shup sa ma ne," the chief said ominiously. "Bon li ki li ki."
"Oh… it's that 'bon li ki li ki' again…" Naruto said sourly and backed towards his friends. The cannibals closed in…
Shikamaru always has a plan, and in situations like this, no doubt he has one. But as usual, for the plan to work, it would take tremendous amount of collaboration, coordination and cooperation. And that is very troublesome, as of now. So there's a simple yet risky plan.
He took the board, which was still resting in Kiba's hands, opened it and took the dices. Without hesitation, he rolled.
A one and a two…
The black monkey advanced three spaces…
Smoke began to stir in the black glass, and a message appeared…
"They snap, they bite, they grab, they run. They are hungry even when done…"
There was again shuffling of the undergrowth, and a steady thumping of the ground. The cannibals froze in the midst of their 'bon li ki li ki', and turned around furiously.
"Lam pi ki pi ki!" Someone shouted. Then the rest echoed in fright and ran away from the site.
The ninjas stared at the retreating cannibals. Shikamaru sighed, his plan worked… up till now.
The shuffling and the thumping grew louder and louder… the ninjas stood up and backed each other…
Then, from the bushes, Shikamaru saw why the cannibals ran away in such hurry and fright…
Ok, that's all for this round, hope to see more responses and reviews coming my way for this. and uh, just a note, the things that are spoken by the cannibals are some things which don't really exist, well, as far as i'm concerned. but they do belong to Pirates of the Caribbean Dead Man's Chest. So if there is some meaning in those words in any of the languages spoken elsewhere, i apologise for the inconvience caused.