"Baloo, stop right there!" Mo glared.

Baloo soon turned over and accidentally dropped Mowgli. "There's wild animals in here!" he then told her.

"YES! YOU!" Mo replied.

"You can't just kidnap Mowgli like that!" Patch barked.

"I didn't kidnap him!" Baloo frowned. "You guys know he's my little buddy."

"Yes, but he lives in the village now with his adoptive family." Atticus said.

"But, I-" Baloo pouted.

"Bring him back to the village now before everybody gets a heart attack about him!" Mo said like a firm mother.

"Besides, it's where he belongs." Patch added.

"I think Baloo's right, guys," Mowgli replied. "I don't fit in in the village like I did in the jungle."

Atticus and Patch both soon came up with an idea. Mo looked to them and then back at Baloo and Mowgli.

"Is it always like that?" Baloo asked.

"You don't know the half of it." Mowgli replied.

"Okay, Mowgli, how's about we make a deal?" Atticus asked.

Mo glanced at him slightly.

"What kind of a deal?" Mowgli asked Atticus.

"If by some chance, you start missing the village, including Shanti, then you come back to the village with us." Atticus said.

"But if you don't miss the village or Shanti, then you can stay here in the jungle." Patch added.

"Deal?" Atticus and Patch both asked Mowgli.

"She got you into trouble for that?" Baloo asked Mowgli. "Man, if that's what the village is like, I can't imagine the city where you others came from could be like."

"Well, it's just safe to follow the rules and laws." Atticus said.

"As long as they aren't crazy." Mo mumbled since her grandmother had strict rules which made her run away from home with Angel in the first place.

"Shanti thinks the jungle is a scary place." Mowgli scoffed.

"And where she's right about some of the jungle." Atticus said.

A certain snake smirked once he saw Mowgli and the others from a tall tree.

"Such as Kaa since he nearly ate you and one of us the last time we were here." Mo said.

Patch shook chills all around his body. "I never did like Kaa."

"I wonder where that snake is right now?" Atticus wondered.

"Not sure if I wanna know," Mo grunted. "I hate snakes."

"Then you might not like who I brought with me." Patch smiled nervously as his pet snake came out.

Mo let out a screech until Atticus covered her mouth.

"You still have that thing?!" Atticus asked. "Man, I thought I had bed bugs the last time we slept in my room."

"Nope, this little guy's my pet, don't you remember?" Patch asked.

"You could've told me that before we went to bed," Atticus laughed. "He slithered in my sheets."

"Bad snake!" Patch looked up with a glare to his pet he earned from his spy quest with Atticus, Tom, Jerry, and Robyn.

The cobra snake looked rather sad and apologetic.

"Aw, I can't stay mad at you..." Patch smiled.

"What'd you name him anyway?" Mo asked.

"I think I'll name him Cobra." Patch said.

"That's a perfect name," Atticus smiled. "Just remember to keep him away from Mom, she hates snakes."

"I'll be sure he knows." Patch said.

"It's you and me now, kid," Baloo told Mowgli. "Forget that girl, you're better off without her, you've got everything you need right here."

'This will be a bit of a challenge.' Mo thought to herself.

Soon enough, Mowgli and Baloo shared the Bare Necessities together for the first time which felt like years and years ago. Atticus, Mo, Patch, and Cobra soon saw Kaa and decided to join in. Kaa kept trying to bite at Mowgli, but kept missing.

Cobra bit Kaa as he didn't like him. Kaa whimpered and whined before glaring at Cobra. Cobra just glared right back and hissed menacingly. Kaa soon heard quiet growling. Mo, Atticus, and Patch made sure that Kaa wouldn't come anywhere near them as Mowgli and Baloo reunited, and where this made Kaa nervous.

"See ya, Kaa~" Patch smirked as Cobra slithered back onto his head.

Cobra even hissed out of teasing.

"Good boy." Patch chuckled to his snake.

Cobra smiled back at him.

Darla kept following after Shanti which made Cherry follow her as she was worried of any danger the young girl would get into.

"Shanti, slow down." Darla panted.

Shanti looked back to her. "You should be back in the village, it's not safe for little girls." She then told the girl.

"I don't care, I'm doing this, whatever it takes." Darla replied sharply.

"Alright, but stay close." Shanti said.

"I will." Darla promised.

Cherry sighed as she followed closer toward Shanti and Darla.

"Mowgli?" Shanti asked as she thought she saw a shadow in the distance before coming closer toward it. "Is that you?"

"I hope so." Darla gulped.

However, it was not Mowgli, it was a hooting owl.

"He's gotta be here somewhere along with the others." Darla whimpered nervously.

"We should keep looking." Shanti said before she got her skirt caught at first and panicked, but soon relaxed as she held her lit torch to keep an eye out for anything or anybody.

Darla checked the bushes, but yelped and fell backwards as a bird squawked and flew out of the bushes. "Whew!" she sighed out of relief. "It's just a bird."

"Cool bats." Cherry smirked.

The bats woke up and squeaked after flying away since Shanti had scared them awake.

"Again," Cherry said. "Cool bats."

Shanti and Darla screamed however and ran away from the bats.

"Guys, come back!" Cherry called out to them.

Kaa was seen trying to get some prickly things off him. Shanti and Darla kept running before they had to stop and catch their breaths.

"Oh, where could they be?" Shanti frowned before raising the torch, accidentally touching Kaa with the flames since he was above right where they were.

Kaa soon smelled something cooking, not knowing that it was him. Shanti and Darla soon kept going on with the torch to find Mowgli and the others. Cherry rushed over, accidentally tangling against Kaa's coils. Kaa began to find this annoying.

"Kaa!" Cherry yelped.

"Well, hello there..." Kaa smirked and wrapped around her body.

"Someone please help!" Cherry yelped.

Kaa chuckled and was about to trick her.

Cherry soon grabbed him and flopped him around in defense on the ground over and over. "Get away from me, get away!"

"Ow!" Kaa yelped.

"Get it away from me!" Cherry then ran blindly after tormenting Kaa.

"I'll get her for that." Kaa said before seeing Darla and Shanti.

Shanti and Darla yelped as they heard a hissing sound.

"W-Who's there?" Darla gulped.

"Excuuuuse me..." Kaa smirked as he came in front of the girls and began to hypnotize them.

"Y-Y-You're Kaa." Darla gulped.

"What a smart delicious little morsel you are." Kaa smirked to Darla.

Darla began to get nervous about this. Kaa smirked as he soon hypnotized the girls so he could eat them. Shanti dropped her torch on the ground and the flames quickly died out.

"Oh, dear..." Darla gulped.

Shanti was instantly entranced as she looked into the snake's eyes. Darla kept her eyes closed from looking into Kaa's eyes. Shanti was not exempt though as she had looked right into his eyes. Cherry soon came behind Darla with sunglasses and came to take her away from Kaa, and where Rajan was going to do the same thing besides the sunglasses.

"You okay, Dimples?" Cherry asked.

"Oh, Cherry, I'm so glad to see you!" Darla hugged the older girl.

"I'll take that as a yes." Cherry said.

"You're just glad I'm okay so Atticus doesn't hurt you." Darla pouted.

"No, no, no, I do care about you," Cherry replied. "Though... That kinda is true, but you're my friend's sister, so we're family in our own way."

"Aw!" Darla smiled before giggling as Kaa missed Shanti and got his mouth stuck on the rock.

Cherry looked over and even cupped her mouth with a snicker.

"You're not getting away that easy!" Rajan smirked to Kaa.

"I think he's been punished enough." Cherry snickered.

"Rajan, what are you doing?" Shanti asked the young boy. "You're not supposed to be here! We have to get you home right now."

"No!" Rajan glared. "Mowgli's in trouble and we're gonna find him!" he then plopped himself on the ground and sniffed around like a true jungle predator.

"What are you doing?" Darla asked.

"I can smell him," Rajan replied before he continued to sniff out for Mowgli and came over a log. "He's this way!"

"How can you tell?" Cherry asked.

"I know 'cuz I'm a wild boy just like him." Rajan smirked.

"You are a village boy with dreams, but I'll take your word for it since it's the best we got without Patch." Cherry replied as Darla nodded.

Shanti just hoped they wouldn't run into any other animals on the way.

"I hope the others are alright." Darla said.

"I just know that they're doing better than Kaa." Cherry replied as she took Darla's hand since Shanti took Rajan's hand.

"Yeah," Darla giggled. "He now has a rock in his stomach."

Cherry chuckled quietly to that.

Meanwhile with Atticus and the others...

Atticus yawned as he was feeling tired. "Come on, Mowgli, let's go back to the village."

"No way, we have a deal." Mowgli reminded him.

"Alright, then where can we sleep?" Atticus yawned.

"Come with me." Baloo led them to where he used to sleep and have Mowgli over when they first met after he outgrew the wolf pack.

"Alright." Mo said.

Patch yawned and stretched as he followed the others to get some sleep and Cobra was lying down in his head. They soon got tp the spot.

Patch spun in circles a few times before lying down. "Oh, this is actually pretty comfortable." he then smiled once he got comfortable.

Cobra nodded in agreement with a tired smile. Mo lay down next to Atticus, tilting her bandanna over her eyes and snuggled with him in her sleep. Atticus soon held Mo with his right arm. Mo blushed as she soon got to sleep. Atticus soon fell asleep. It was a good and peaceful night for them, but it wasn't so much for the village since Mowgli and the others had gone missing.