Chapter 7

Mowgli was starting to wake up, as he there was some light trying to reach through his eyes. When he was fully woken up he was under some big trees which were covering most of the sun light. Mowgli was very puzzled because he did remember what happened earlier but he didn't remember how he got into the jungle now. Mowgli looked around the area he's in to see where are the men, or Kitty but he couldn't find, and that he felt fine from the fighting he had with Shere Khan like he wasn't hurt at all.

Till there was a small flower with the colour of light orange and red, it was the only flower on a bush. Mowgli didn't know what he was doing but he reached his hand over to touch the flower. It felt so soft, then it felt like warmth and suddenly it burned his hand, it was the "Red Flower".

The petals started to burn as the flames of the red flower were flying away then out of nowhere the red flower quickly set flames on the jungle. It was dark like day change into night, bright red was the only light Mowgli can see. While running as fast as he can away from the red flower, Mowgli look on right and saw his wolf family. He stopped and run towards them, suddenly they all disappeared as the red flower touched them as they became fallen dust.

"Ami!" Mowgli stopped and shouted for his family, while turning around in circles and looking for them, "Ami! Grey!"

Unknown to Mowgli there was large arm that was straighten as a huge tree, the sounds of the arm lifting made Mowgli turning around slowly and saw the arm with the dark orange fur and he realised who that was.

"Louie?" Mowgli whispered to himself as he looked up and saw the gigantopithecus face.

"Well, man-cub, I do have to thank you for showing me the red flower" Louie said as Mowgli nodded his head side to side for he couldn't believe that Louie is alive, "Now you will show me on how to use so I can this entre jungle!"

Louie jumped right at Mowgli and the man-cub started to run away, Mowgli could hear the stumps of the gigantopithecus chasing the man-cub. Mowgli kept running in different ways so Louie could lose him, as the man-cub jumped off a small cliff and Louie couldn't see the man-cub underneath the small trees with the red flower on them.

Mowgli finally got away from Louie and now he's looking Baloo and Bagheera as he rushed on the path which leads to Baloo's cave. When he got there however, Mowgli couldn't see them at all, even the red flower had gotten inside of the cave from the flames touching the honeys. Mowgli looked around him and saw nothing but darkness and the red flower's light had started to fade out. Mowgli didn't know what was happening as he kneed down and he realise that there was paw print filled with water, it was on the floor next to him.

"Baloo" Mowgli whispered in sadness, as he gazed into the water. Suddenly he saw a branch in the reflection but part of the branch's skin was moving and then he heard an eerie voice which slithered from the trees.

"Looking for sssomeone man-cub?" Mowgli look up and saw a large snake slithering in the tree and was moving closer towards the man-cub.

"Kaa?" Mowgli said as he moves back away from the snake.

"Don't worry man-cub" Kaa lower herself down while staring at Mowgli with a creepy smile, "I keep you sssafe."

Mowgli again nodded side to side and just for that second Kaa made an attack and dashed out to wrap the man-cub around with her coils. But, Mowgli did a quick move by jumping out from the attack and started to run again from anther chase. Kaa was slithering in the trees so Mowgli wouldn't know where exactly she would be, he kept on running and he hears Kaa hissing in the trees which made run even faster.

While Mowgli running and looking up to see where Kaa was, there was a narrow path up ahead. He then tripped over and rolled over down the narrow path. After seconds of rolling down he finally stopped and raised up to find himself in the fields when Shere Khan first ambush him and Bagheera. Mowgli still didn't understand what was happening, but he decided to walk through the fields so he could get away from the red flower. Mowgli felt a bit safe for walking away from the red flower, but for some reason he felt like danger was alrighty close to him.

Clod winds blow the dark, yellow grass in the field, Mowgli was still walking while he looked behind and saw one other colour that blended with the darkness. The creature that was crawling in the field had the colours of black and orange, Mowgli realised what that creature was, a tiger which made Mowgli walk quicker, next he started to run. Running faster than the wind blows, Mowgli soon notice that up head over the field there's the jungle again but with the red flower all over the trees. Mowgli decided to run up on a huge rock so that he could see where the creature was in the fields. The tiger was circling around the boy, as the tiger move around the trace made line of the red flower touching the grass.

"A man-cub has finally become a man" the tiger said but Mowgli didn't know where it was coming from, "As you should have."

"They are all the same, they hurt for sport for the fun of it, even you will do the same" the tiger said while circling around the boy.

"For you are a man-cub, creating a blind eye to every animal so you are welcome to my jungle" Mowgli stop because he thinks he has spotted the creature, it continued, "But, now you will never see the light of day ever again!"

Out of nowhere, the tiger jumped out from behind the boy, it's eerie roar made Mowgli turn around unprepared for the attack. Mowgli moved back but he was on the edge on the rock, he suddenly slipped and fell into the grass covered with the red flower. Screaming with terror he could the warmth of the red flower getting hotter, and hotter as he was getting closer to it. As the flames came up above the boy like nearly covering him as he fallen, before he thinks this is the end Mowgli blinked and he woke up reality.

Mowgli rose up with his eyes wide open fully awake, he realises that it was all a bad nightmare because he saw the scars on his leg and that back hurts a bit. He was breathing deeply from the horror he has seen from his nightmare, but pleased that it wasn't real. After calming down, Mowgli looked around from where he was staying there was no trees, he was in some sort of cave, like the ones in the man village.

Hope you enjoyed this chapter and understood what was happening, I wrote this chapter just because I think it would made a great scene in a film version. Please leaves some reviews on what you think and I will be writing more soon.