Here is the final part of The Jungle Book World! Will Karen and Kaa stop Brutus and what has happened with King Louie? Why did he call Bagheera and the rest traitors? Read and find out!
(Karen's P.O.V.)
Kaa and I reached Louie's palace after a couple of hours of trekking and slithering across the deep dark vasts of the jungle. We looked up at the ruins with silent awe, it was old but...it was still majestic looking.
Then we heard loud laughter and music and familiar shouting.
"What do you suppose that was?" I asked feeling curious.
Kaa wasn't all too suprised to hear the sounds. "Ah Louie'ssssss probably having another one of hissssss partiesssssss. SSSSSince he and the other monkiessssss are gonna be busy dancing and playing mussssssic, we'll jussssst have to climb our way in."
"Aw maaaaaan..."
I scaled up the wall monkey style (which is ironic since Im a monkey in this world) while Kaa slithered his way up by using the loose bricks.
As we reached to the top we saw Bagheera, Mowgli, and Shere Khan trapped in a cage while Hades and Hathi (to my suprise that he would be in their company instead of his troops) tied to the stone floor with dark vines.
We watched in horror as our friends were being tortured and taunted by Louie's monkey henchmen. Bagheera shouted over to Louie who was sitting in his throne beside the same creature that tried to kill us! As I got a good look at him, I gasped silently when I recognized him, it was Baloo! (Which the readers already knew of course.)
"Kaa, did you see who I thought I saw?" I whispered.
He nodded with a worried glance. "Yessssssss... he'sssss become different ssssssomehow! Why'sssss that?"
"I don't know...but I believe I have an idea that will help him go back to his normal self. We just gotta free the others first."
Bagheera shouted at Louie again, so we both listened in to see what was going on.
(Bagheera's P.O.V.)
"Louie! I don't understand! How are we traitors? Why are you doing this to us?"
Louie remained seated munching on a banana, ignoring my words. "Why should I tell you?"
"Because I deserve to know, that's why!"
Louie's eyes glared at me as he picked up a rock and threw it at me, luckily it hit one of the wooden bars.
"DESERVE? YOU THINK YOU DESERVED TO KNOW AFTER EVERYTHING YOU ALL DID TO ME?"
"LOUIE! ENOUGH WITH YOUR NONSENSE AND RELEASE US YOU TRAITOR!" Hathi shouted.
Louie smashed a coconut on the floor. "ENOUGH! Brutus was right about you...you chased poor Baloo away..."
"Are you crazy? Baloo's right next to you!" Mowgli pointed.
"He's not Baloo anymore..."
"What?"
Louie once again covered his face with his hand."You see... Bagheera, Kaa, Shere Khan, Hathi, Baloo, and I used to be good friends...best friends...but times had to change and we became bitter enemies... what happened to us? Why did we have to hate each other? What reason do we have to be against one another?"
"Louie..." Bagheera spoke, looking suprised . "I never knew this was bothering you...why didn't you tell us? We could've help you!"
"No you won't! You along with the others would've scoffed me! Laughed at me! As if I were nothing! But all that's gonna change... as soon as you all are dead, I will finally have my revenge... and Brutus and I will finally remake the jungle as a true paradise. No one will fight or hate each other anymore...all we need to do... is to control all of the animals and man with fear...they'll be so scared...no one would dare lay a finger or paw or claw on each other! There will be smiles everywhere that'll last an eternity! This is what Baloo would've wanted..."
The evil Baloo smirked at the orangutain king. "Well said your majesty..."
Kaa, our imprisoned friends, and I looked at Louie, looking and feeling speechless. The way that he said it... it was...madness...
We finally heard Shere Khan spoke for the first time after a long moment of silence.
"You're insane."
Louie looked at him dangerously. "What did you say?"
"You heard me. Not only did you allow your anger to mess with your head, allowed a deranged bear to be your right hand animal, but to force both man and beast to do what you say with fear as your weapon! You are abusing your authority as king of the jungle!"
Louie said nothing then turned away from his prisoners. He placed his hand on Brutus's arm giving him the word.
"Kill them."
Brutus smiled wickedly. "With pleasure..."
Brutus stomps his way to the cage and ripped it to shreds, forcing the prisoners to run out quickly.
He ran after them, while summoning a dark evil looking ball of power. He threw it at them and in a quick second it exploded, scattering them all around the stony palace floor. (Don't worry folks they're not dead)
"NO!" Both Hades and Hathi shouted, Brutus laughed cruelly at the injured Bagheera, Mowgli, and Shere Khan.
Shere Khan groaned in pain as he was struggling to get up.
Kaa was panicking at the sight. "We got to do ssssssssomething! He'ssssss gonna kill them all!"
I on the other hand was feeling strange...it felt like anger but it felt so much more... I was angry at Brutus, and this anger burned even more when he approached the wounded Shere Khan.
He laughed again and raised his foot to crush the proud tiger's head. I leaped off the high wall to stop him.
"Karen! Wait! What are you doing?" Kaa shouted with fear.
"BRUTUS!" I shouted.
Before getting his chance to crush Shere Khan, Brutus turned his head to face me, I glowed with the power that I had when I was fighting Ixis, and with that, I transformed from little monkey to my human form and punched him in the face, making him fall to the ground.
"KAREN!" Hades, Mowgli, and Bagheera cheered with glee.
Shere Khan looked at me with intense suprise, it was probably the fact that I was human all along. Now it was an ironic coincidence...his whole tiger clan got murdered by man, and now he was saved by a member of man.
I held out my glowing hand and the power healed up Shere Khan, Mowgli, and Bagheera, and set both Hades and Hathi free.
"WHAT? HOW? I THOUGHT BRUTUS KILLED YOU!" Louie snarled angerily.
"You thought wrong! Kaa and I survived the whole time! Didn't we Kaa?"
Kaa slithered down the ruined wall of Louie's palace. "Yesssssss we did!"
I looked back to Louie. "Louie...its not to late to turn back...I understand how much you're hurting right now, but you got to believe me, there were terrible consequences happening to the others, its had nothing to do with you or Baloo!"
Louie growled as he viciously gripped on to the stone handles of his royal throne chair, then suddenly...he began to cry. "You don't understand...they abandoned me...they abandoned Baloo...we tried to keep the gang together...but...they were all against it. Kaa turned into a selfish hungry predetor...Bagheera thought we're just stupid to hang out with anymore...Hathi wanted to be with other elephants and put them under his command, Shere Khan was blind with revenge and never wanted to let go until he..."
Bagheera walked up to Louie. "Louie...I never thought of you and Baloo as idiots. Misguided yes, but never idiots. You two are still my best friends..."
Kaa added himself in. "I know that I have been ssssselfish all thesssssse yearssssss, but I wassssss only trying to feed mysssself y'know? If I knew that I wassssss down on my luck when it comessssss to finding food, I would've came to vissssit to not only jussssst eat but to sssssee how you were doing. Im sssssorry Louie..."
Hathi cleared his throat. "I have been too busy with my soldiers too much haven't I? Im terribly sorry Louie... I along with my son and wife should've visted you more often."
Shere Khan looked away for a minute or two until Bagheera walked over and nudged him. "Alright alright... Louie...we've...been friends for years... more then you could ever know... I was too angry and too focused on man and revenge that I have...forgotten how much that our friendship was important...Im...sorry Louie..."
"You...really mean it guys...?"
Bagheera smiled. "I don't see why it isn't the truth. If we lied, we wouldn't be here long."
Louie began to relax a little, then he began to break down even more as he realized how much his own selfishness was hurting those around him.
"Im such an idiot!" Louie cried.
"Louie..." I spoke sympathetically.
"I...hurt them! I hurt them all! Baloo never wanted this! He never did! But I just had to get angry! I just had to make them all pay! I've been so obsessed with hurting others and getting revenge that I never even thought of just doing what Baloo would've wanted! Im a terrible king and a terrible friend! Oh Baloo...Im so sorry!"
Then just as Louie said those words, it felt like a heavy curse just lifted, his dark monkey guards returned to normal as soon as the evil power left them and the remains of the dark vines burned into a black fire until it became nothing more.
Mowgli turned from Louie to see the lying Brutus on the stony floor and took a few steps towards him, Brutus began to twitch.
"B-Baloo?" Mowgli stuttered.
Instead of getting the reply he was hoping for, Brutus quickly rose up and was about to slash the boy into two, until Shere Khan leaps up and pushes Brutus away.
"Shere Khan...you saved me?" Mowgli asked looking confused.
"Don't get used to the idea man-cub, I still don't like you or your kind."
"Brutus! Stop attacking! Their not our enemies anymore!" Louie shouted while looking tense.
Brutus smirked. "Foolish king...did you really think I would follow your orders on who I should kill or not? I had to win your trust to help me trap my targets..."
"So you used me?"
"Yes... you were too sad to even acknowledge on what's going on around you. It was the perfect time to manipulate you into thinking that your old friends turned their backs on you and that weakling Baloo!"
Louie looked down in a defeated manner, he just couldn't believe that he was used all this time.
Still feeling angry towards Brutus, I ran at him and started punching him in the gut but it only did a little damage.
"Hahahahahahaha! It may burn a little but your not gonna make any progress by just punching me in the stomach!"
He knocked me over, then Hades ran at him and attacks him with his glowing trunk and tusks.
"Take that furball!" Hades hissed.
"RAAAAAAAAAGH!"
Brutus was busy struggling to take down Hades, so both Hathi and Bagheera decided to attack when he wasn't looking. Unfortunatly Brutus threw dust in Hades's eyes then grabs Bagheera by the neck and Hathi by one of his tusks then, as if he suddenly acquired full strength he spun them around and threw them across the ruined room. I quickly got up and tried to take him out again but Brutus slapped me across the face with his clawed hand, leaving some scratch marks.
Kaa sprung into action by suddenly wrapping himself around Brutus's neck, Brutus slowed down, then landed on his knees.
"Kaa don't kill him! He's Baloo, remember?" Mowgli shouted.
"I know that! Im trying to get him to ssssstop sssso that I can hypnotize him to ssssssleep!"
Kaa used his hypnotic power to put Brutus to sleep, unfortuantly however, Brutus was resistant! He suddenly grabbed Kaa's coiled body and tore him off of his neck then threw him away.
"!" Kaa screamed as he hit the wall.
I gasped with worry. "KAA!"
Despite the impact, Kaa suddenly got up looking pretty banged up. "I-Im ok! I can ssssstill fight."
He slithered to us, while Brutus laughed in a cocky way.
"What's the matter? Im sure you knuckleheads can do better then that!"
Mowgli was about to rush at Brutus in anger but both Shere Khan and I stopped him.
"We'll handle this...don't worry. Baloo will come back soon." I promised.
"Just stay out of it man-cub..." Shere Khan added.
Hades managed to walk over to us despite still having dirt in his eyes, Louie was sulking near his throne, still upset about being used, this was pretty much a frusterating day for us...
Shere Khan growled then whispered to me. "That bear is getting on my last nerve, how do we kill him without hurting Baloo?"
"Deep inside of him, Baloo is still in there, probably being forced to listen in on what's going on...no doubt he's feeling guilt about his darker doppleganger tricking Louie into trapping you guys and not doing anything about it..." I whispered back. "You and Kaa got to confront Baloo and get him to weaken Brutus."
"Well how are we going to do that?" Kaa asked.
"Do what you two did to Louie...apologize...or you can just...I don't know do something that Baloo likes to do and that'll probably get him to overpower that big lummox!"
Shere Khan looked at me with an undignified horrid look. "I'd rather apologize!"
"Then by all means, go for it! Im gonna clear Hades's eyes while you two wake up the real Baloo, we'll be right there to assist you as soon as Brutus gets weaker!"
Shere Khan not liking to do this tilted his head while looking at Kaa. "Come along Kaa...lets get this over with..."
As soon as the two went to keep Brutus busy, I went over to Hades and helped cleaned the dirt out of his eyes.
"Y'know... I don't recall Hercules..."waking up" when I apologized." Hades said. "Just so you know."
My eyes widened at my sudden mistake. "Oh...snap..."
(Shere Khan's P.O.V.)
Of all the stupid bloody things I have to do this has GOT to be the most stupidest! I, Shere Khan, having to apologize...AGAIN! Why do I have to apologize to others when I can just continue being the hardened tiger I was born to be? -sigh- Well it can't be helped...
Kaa and I readied ourselves as the hulking brute of a bear was keeping his creepy purple eyes on us, getting ready to strike. The monkies all cheered for us to go against the corrupted bear, as much as I pride myself in being the ultimate hunter, I will have to say that this is my toughest opponent yet...although I can't really kill him... darn...
"Baloo..." I began, "If you can hear me then you'd probably know who it is... like I said to Louie, we have been good friends for years...and... my hatred for mankind has caused me to distance myself from you and the others...and...I know how much you care for that man-cub Mowgli, you have to understand, his species killed my clan, that's why I vowed to destroy them all! Me seeking vengeance really had blinded me for so long that I have forgotten about our friendship and I made it strain even more for trying to kill the very thing you considered...your own cub. And for that Im sorry..."
"Me too." Kaa added. "Ive been a bad friend for trying to eat Mowgli... Im really sorry, Baloo."
Brutus said nothing at first, he just stood looking confused then he bursted out with laughter.
"You really are stupid, aren't you? Apologizing to someone who probably doesn't exist anymore! Too bad I can't leave you two alive, you would've been good entertainment!"
He held out is claws at us and dark energy began to build up, I turned to Karen, giving her a hilarious glare.
"Way to go female man-cub, now we're all going to die!"
"Sorry, I forgot!"
Then he blasted us, although much to our suprise, it didn't hurt both Kaa and I suddenly glowed brighter then the sun!
"Wh-What's this?"
"We're glowing!" Kaa said looking amazed.
"Guys! The light is your weapon! Use it on him!" Hades shouted while still struggling to see.
Brutus tried to attack us with the dark power again but we both dodged and attacked, Kaa wrapped himself around both Brutus's legs trying to trip him, Brutus roared in pain as the light burned the corrupted evil on his fur and skin. I was amazed, but it didn't stop me from slashing my glowing paws all over the evil bear.
Each attack the corrupted fur and skin seemed to turn back to Baloo's original body, we're getting close to returning him back to normal!
Brutus growled a dangerous growl, he suddenly grabbed Kaa despite the light burning his paw and threw him at me.
"OOF!"
"I won't die... I wont die! Not after coming so far!"
He then gathered all his strength to create a big evil energy ball. "There is no way you can stop my shadow bomb! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!"
My ears lowered with fear. "Oh no..."
He threw the bomb at us. Kaa instinctly shields his face with his body. This was it...we're all going to die... just when things were going so smoothly...
Then a light began to shine from behind us, a blue...man with dark clothing and blue fire on his head quickly ran in front of us with Karen and held out their glowing hands pushing the shadow bomb away. The blue man peered over to us with a struggling glare.
"Hey you two gonna help us out or what?"
Kaa and I both looked at him with awe.
"Hadessssssss?"
"The one and only! Now quit your gawking and help us out here! We can't do this alone!"
We quickly got up and helped the two push, we all struggled at first but we eventually overpowered it, purify it, turning it into our own light bomb, then pushed it back to Brutus.
"No...No...NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Brutus screamed as he was engulfed by the light. "M-Master...f-forgive me!"
The light bomb exploded, all of us quickly took cover, as the light covered the whole entire area, then the light cleared away, revealing Baloo, back to his old self, lying there motionless. My blood ran cold as I saw him, what if he's dead? Did the bomb killed him? Did I kill him? I really couldn't tell...
The man-cub who was hiding with Bagheera, Hathi and Louie saw Baloo and ran to him crying.
"Baloo!" Mowgli cried.
Bagheera and Hathi followed him while Louie just stood there with tears running down his cheeks. The fe-... Karen walked over to check to see if Baloo was alive. Hades and Kaa followed her. But I... I just stood there, like Louie I didn't even want to know if he was dead.
(Karen's P.O.V.)
I walked over to the motionless Baloo, Mowgli was crying, burying his face on his best friend's chest. Bagheera and Hathi just watched with sadness.
"Baloo...Im sorry..." Mowgli shook with sorrow.
I walked to the other side and pressed my ear to hear a heartbeat, then checked his pulse. I could feel it. It was faint...yet it was strong. Baloo's alive.
This could be a similar case just like in Athens... since Hercules is still alive and comatose...then Baloo might be in the same spot.
Mowgli looked up to me. "Is he alive?"
I nodded. "Yes he is. He's gonna be fine. Mowgli, do you know what comatose is?"
Mowgli shook his head thoughtfully.
"Comatose is when someone who is alive that got injured from either inside, or out or both...they go into a deep sleep. Its...not like death or anything, whatever got Baloo in the first place still has control over him so it'll be a while. Could you and the others take care of him until then?"
Mowgli nodded.
Bagheera placed his paw on the boy's shoulder. "We will all take care of Baloo...together."
Hathi started walking away. "I'll go bring my troops here."
"Hey Louie how's about you get your-" Bagheera was going to say but there was no sign of the monkey king.
Kaa looked around. "Where did he go?"
I rubbed the back of my neck. "It seems he needs some time alone to think. After being tricked, I suppose he's been feeling guilty right now."
Mowgli rubbed his eyes. "Poor Louie..."
Hades puts his hand on my head. "Its time for us to go kid."
I nodded, then turned to both Kaa and Shere Khan. "Thanks for helping us restore Baloo. We really appreciate it. Farewell."
Both Hades and I left Louie's ruined palace to see if we can find a way out of this world.
(Kaa's P.O.V.)
Both Shere Khan and I watched the two walked away into the jungle, I wasssss pleassssed about the fact that I did my part on ssssssaving Baloo, but...there wasssss ssssstill her brother that needssssss to be found. I remembered hearing Karen crying sssssssilently to ssssssleep, ssssssobbing her brother'sssss name and begging him to come back home.
I sssssssniffed sssssssadly assssss I looked at Shere Khan. He gave me an annoyed look.
"What?"
"Oh can't we jusssssst go with them and help them? They sssssaved our livesssss you know."
"Forget it." Shere Khan sneered. "I would rather take out my spine and jump rope with it in a crocodile's lagoon then helping a she cub and a man covered in fire."
I sighed. He'sssssss not going to ssssstop hating mankind issssss he? "SSSSSSSSuit yourssssself... but jussssssst ssssssso you know, the girl cub didn't even try to kill you when she firsssst met you. And at leasssssst she treated you with resssssspect. You can't jusssst hate man forever."
"Bah!"
I slithered away to catch up with Karen and Hadessssssss hoping that they arent gone yet.
(Normal Narration)
Shere Khan just sat by himself feeling angry. Mowgli and the others were too busy preparing to fulfill Baloo's needs to even notice.
"Not hating man forever? Hah! That's what HE thinks! If he expects me to kiss up after what mankind did to my family, he's got another thing coming!" Shere Khan thought angerily.
Although...now that he thinks of it...both he and Karen aren't that much different...he lost his family, and she lost her brother. He's probably...maybe... might of...no...even he wasn't that cruel to even suggest that thought to her...maybe to Mowgli but not her... she did act very kind to him...she didn't even run away whenever she was near him, sure she flinched a bit a few times, but since last night...when she cried...it was like fear maybe have left her. She didn't flinch at him anymore, its like she got used to him already!
His angry expression turned to sad as he turned around and looked at the direction where Hades, Karen and Kaa disappeared to. Perhaps...perhaps maybe...man isn't all that bad, if there were more of them like her then...he guess that they aren't as evil as he thought. Shere Khan sighed to himself then gets up and runs after the three, he's still feeling uncomfortable about traveling with Hades but as long as he just stays on the girl's side, he'll be fine.
(Karen's P.O.V.)
Hades and I have been walking in the jungle for a few minutes, we almost got caught in quicksand but luckily Hades managed to identify it after he stopped me. After a few minutes of silence Hades finally asked me a question.
"You know I've been wondering..."
"Hm?"
"How come you didn't ask those two to come along? They could probably help us find your brother."
I scratched my head thoughtfully. "I know... but...I just can't bother others. They got they're own lives to lead, I can't stop them and just ask them to come with me. Besides its their decision anyway."
Hades was into deep thought for a second then smiled at me and patted me on the back. "I suppose your right kid."
Then we saw a portal opening up near a big bush.
"Well that was fast." Hades smiled.
"Yeah. I guess it just randomly pops up when there's nobody else around 'cept us."
Suddenly we heard a couple of voices. "WAIIIIIIIIIIT!"
We turned around and saw Kaa and Shere Khan running and slithering towards us.
Hades crossed his arms. "Well if isnt the troublemaking duo of the jungle, what brings you two here?"
"Very funny blue man, both Kaa and I decided that we're coming with you two." Shere Khan snarled at Hades.
I tilted my head. "How come?"
"Becausssse you sssssaved our livesssss that'ssss why! You helped usssss and now we'll help you! Can we come and help find your brother? Pleassssse? Pleassssse? ?" Kaa pleaded.
I laughed cheerfully, then nodded. "Sure why not? The more the merrier."
Hades the pointed to the portal with his thumb. "Well now that's settled, let's go!"
We all entered the portal...all but Shere Khan who was afraid of it at first but Hades REALLY convinced him to come inside, otherwise he'd burn his coat off...something tells me that both Hades and Shere Khan isn't going to get along well on our journey...
YAY! Now I can finally update! Well it looks like the Jungle Book World has been saved and Kaa and Shere Khan have joined Hades and Karen on their quest to find Leo.
As for the votes we have a tie between The Lion King and Sleeping Beauty! Who's going to come next in the next chapter? Please vote when you have the time!
Hunchback of Notre Dame-5
Beauty and The Beast-1
Great Mouse Detective-3
Sleeping Beauty-6
Lion King-6
Little Mermaid-4
Aladdin-2
Mulan-1
Robin Hood-1
Peter Pan-2
Nightmare Before Christmas-1
Pocahontas-0
Alice In Wonderland-2
Tarzan-1
Princess And The Frog-0
Pirates Of Carribean-1
And a quick little message to DoktorK: thank you for the suggestion, but the villains who died have been given a second chance in life when Karen's powers awakened. You'll see but once again thank you very much for the suggestion.
