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The three of them set off to another world in search of Gingka's friends, the King, and now Alice too. Although, they weren't really searching for her as hard as they were the others. It was more like they wanted to bump into her somewhere and discover she was alright.

That was what they were thinking about when they reached the next world. When they arrived outside a world covered in mossy green, trees and wildlife, the first thing that was said was Yu saying,

"Masamoomoo, maybe King is down there."

Masamune's response was something like, "What could he find down there? No, I don't think so. Let's move on."

Fearing the multiple monsters within the world, although he wouldn't mind being around the nature in the world. Plus, he really didn't think the king would look or find anything down there related to his quest, and he wanted to stay on track.

Gingka had other ideas, "Hold on. Leo and Madoka might be down there. Let's just check it out."

"Forget it Gingka! We're on an important mission!" Masamune told him sternly.

"Just land!" Gingka shouted at him.

"No!"

"Come on!"

"Aw...!"

"We're landing!" Gingka shouted, and he grabbed the wheel and started turning it.

The ship started rocking around violently.

"No! Don't touch that! Nooo!" Masamune yelled, as the ship started spiraling rapidly towards the world. It was moving so out of control that they had to beam out of it, afterwards the ship regained composure and stopped itself from crashing. Although, the three of them got transported to different places in the world, Gingka wasn't even

transported to someplace on land, and ended up falling to the ground.

Luckily, there was a house in the tree he landed in, that caught his fall. After Gingka crash landed, he sat up rubbing his head. "Oww...my head..." he said obviously, after that he looked around searching for his friends he got separated from, calling out "Masamune? Yu?" no one heard him though...except for a leopard in the rafters. Percy turned to the sound of movement, and gasped in shock as the leopard pounced at him.

Gingka stood up and summoned Pegasus, before stepping back from where the leopard landed. The leopard hit the wooden floor and swiped at Gingka with its massive claws. It managed to knock him back into the wall, managing him to hit his head again. The leopard advanced slowly towards Gingka as he rubbed his head.

Gingka stood up again and readied himself while the leopard let out a massive roar.

They began to fight. The leopard jumped and slashed, while Gingka jumped and slashed. Gingka finally over powered it when he knocked the leopard against the wall of the house. Gingka caught his breath as he looked over to the unconscious leopard lying on the floor.

Gingka slowly walked over to the leopard to see if it really was unconscious... or worse, when the leopard jumped up, ready to fight again. Gingka was already tired from the last fight, and wasn't sure if he had enough strength to make it through another one. So Gingka stumbled and fell, and the leopard roared. The leopard pounced, and Gingka held up his sword as a defense against the leopard.

Then, a man jumped down from the rafters and in front of Gingka. The strange man in a loincloth blocked the leopard by the bar of the stick in the leopard's mouth. He pushed the leopard off of him and a few feet away, turning his spear so the sharp stone faced the cat's face. The cat crouched down, somewhat intimidated, before running and jumping out the window, shattering the glass and landing on the forest floor below.

Gingka stood to face the man, who was now crouched over. The man said to him in a rough voice, "Sabor, danger." The man had long brown hair in hanging from his head in thick strands. He was well toned, but not built. He was probably very fit without trying hard, like it was part of his ordinary routine. He wore a single brown loincloth and carried a spear-which he most probably made himself-made from a sharpened rock, a long stick, and some vines.

"Um...thank you." said Gingka, who was quite unsure what to make of this strange man with his appearance, actions, and way of speech being so strange.

"Thank you." said the strange man slowly, like he was trying to understand what Gingka said. The Pegasus blader was quite confused by this response and decided to change the topic. "Huh? Uh, what is this place?"

"This place, this place." repeated the man,

"Okaaay... Where did the others go?" he asked hoping to get a reply. When the man stared at him blankly he continued to explain, "Look, I got separated from my friends. Have you seen them?" he asked the last part a little slower, hoping to get through to him. The man moved his head around as to examine Gingka, so Gingka tried again, "Friends..." he said, slowly sounding out each syllable.

The man repeated after him, "Friends!" putting his hands to his chest like Gingka did to stress a word. Gingka got excited with his response and started to speak quickly again, "Right, my friends!" he leaned in and said loudly, counting off on his fingers, "There's two of 'em. The loud one's Masa—" then Gingka stopped himself, remembering what had happened on the ship.

The man mumbled 'Masa?' quizzically, but Gingka shook his head and said, "You know what? Never mind." He decided to get back to his original objective, "I'm looking for my friends, Leo and Madoka."

The man repeated him, "Look for Leo, friends?" trying to understand.

"Right!" Gingka nodded, and as he did, he thought he saw something in the corner of his eye. He leaned over to look around the strange man, and standing in the sunlight behind the man was Madoka. The man said, "Madoka, friends?"

Gingka turned back to him, a little bit confused and said, "Uh...right..."

Gingka turned back to look at Madoka again, and she turned and walked away without a sound.

"Friends here." said the man.

Gingka turned back to him in shock and said, "Really!?"

"Ee oo oo oo ah." said the man.

Huh? That was Gingka's first thought.

"Ee oo oo oo ah." The man repeated, before adding, "Friends here."

"Not sure I understand, but show me!" Gingka replied, "Take me to Leo and

Madoka!"

The man sat up a little and pointed both hands to himself, and said, "Tarzan."

There was a short silence before he added, "Tarzan, go."

Gingka smiled and said, "And I'm...Gingka." He pointed to himself also.

"Tarzan go, Gingka go go!" Saying Gingka's name in a Gingko way but with an a at the end, Tarzan bounded out the two wooden doors and onto a balcony that looked over all the trees, before leaping off that balcony onto the netting and down into the forest. Gingka followed him out and looked at the view. Wow, we're deep in a jungle.

Meanwhile, somewhere else in the jungle, Masamune and Yu landed on a rock covered with moss. Yu was up first, and asked, "Where are we?" He looked towards the sky and added, "I hope Gingkie's okay."

Masamune got up at that, and said, "Aw, who needs him? We can find the king without him." He reached down to pick up his unicorn staff that he dropped in the fall, only to come across a furry head. He looked down to come face to face with a Gorilla. They both screamed at the surprise.

A rustling could be heard in the background, and the Gorilla bounded away. As it did, it dropped something. Masamune and Yu looked over to see what it dropped and became quite surprised. The rustling behind them continued however, and they both gulped for their impending doom as a hunter walked out of the thick brush, wearing yellow and red with brown bands across his wrists, his grey hair being brushed finely away from his bald spot and his mustache groomed, a gun lying in his arms.

~X~

Gingka and Tarzan ran through the jungle and surfed through the trees, Tarzan leading the way and showing him where to go. Eventually the two of them made it to a campsite. The campsite was full of boxes and tents, and tables with chemistry sets on them. It seemed to be the only settled land for miles-except for the tree house of course. Tarzan made his way up to a yellow tent and pushed his way through the cloth door. Gingka followed him pushing the blanket aside.

Inside the tent was a woman wearing a white top and a red skirt fixing a projector so her back was turned, "Jane!" Tarzan called out, and the woman turned around.

The woman called Jane had brown hair that was a shade lighter than Tarzan's, with blue eyes and skin much softer than Tarzan's. Gingka was wondering how these two even knew each other.

"Tarzan." She said as she turned around, before she noticed Gingka and said, "Oh, and who's this?"

"Uh...hi there. I'm-" Gingka started to say, before he was interrupted by Jane, "Oh, you speak English! So, then, obviously, you're not related to Tarzan..."

Gingka turned to look at Tarzan, wondering more about him. Jane finished her statement by

asking, "Are you here to study the gorillas?"

"Highly doubtful." Said a deep voice behind them, they all turned to look at the door. Walking into the room was a man holding a gun and following him in was...

"Gingkie!" shouted Yu, for that one moment Percy forget his anger with them and ran over to them shouting with glee, "Masamune! Yu!" he gave Masmaune a big hug when the unicorn blader returned, then they remembered their fight, and turned away crossing their arms. The hunter shook his head, and said, "A circus of clowns. Not much use for hunting gorillas." The hunter waved his hand angrily as he exited the tent. Jane put her hands on her hips before saying, "Mister Clayton, we're studying them, not hunting them. This is research." As she walked towards the exit of the tent. Then she composed herself, and turned around and smiled at them saying, "Well, the more the merrier. Do make yourselves at home."

Gingka and Masamune however were still not looking at each other, their arms crossed.

"Well anyway..." Gingka said, still not looking at them, "I'm staying." He was surprised to hear Masamune say the same thing. He turned to look at Masamune, who still was looking away and said, "Huh?"

Yu turned to Gingka to show him the block they had found, "Gingkie, look what we found. Look at this."

"What's that?" Gingka asked, it looked similar to the one they saw in the world before.

"It's a gummi block. It's the same stuff used to fuel our ship." Yu answered.

"So that means...?" Gingka asked, this time Masamune answered.

"The king could be here." He said, "We've got to work together to look for him."

He looked at Gingka before adding, "For now."

"Fine. I'll let you tag along." Gingka said, before looking at Masmaune and adding, "For now."

Gingka went over to talk to Jane, in hopes she would know what Tarzan meant,

"Apparently, Tarzan was raised in the jungle by gorillas. Communicating with him still isn't easy, but he's learning."

"So he was speaking in 'gorilla' back there..." He said to himself, Jane heard him and responded, saying, "Ah, that's right. You're looking for your friends?"

Gingka told her, "He said Leo and Madoka are here. And one word I couldn't understand..."

"Why don't we try this?" offered Jane, pointing at the photo projector. "We'll show Tarzan some slides and see if any of them match that word." She looked around before muttering, "Oh, what happened to those slides?"

Gingka left the tent and went around the camp to look for the slides. They were in a bunch of weird places, but eventually he found all six, and returned to the tent. He gave the slides to Jane and she put them in the projector.

The first slide came up, and it was a castle. Gingka stared at it in stunned silence.

"What's wrong, Gingka?" Masamune asked, he could read Gingka's emotions and tell he was feeling...weird. Gingka almost hadn't heard him, "What? Um...Nothing." he replied quickly.

This place... it just looks so familiar. He thought. But how? I've never been off my island.

The next few slides showed, and Gingka didn't feel the same about any of them as he did the first slide. There was a man kneeling giving a women flowers, a baby sitting on a tree root, a gorilla, a ship, and two men sword fighting. They all made him think of different things, like Madoka, the Gummiship, and him and Leo back home, but he never got the same feeling as before.

Jane turned to Tarzan and asked, "Well, Tarzan?" Tarzan turned from looking at Jane, to looking at Gingka who asked him, "Where are my friends, Leo and Madoka?"

They all looked at Tarzan in anticipation, but he just shook his head.

"Hey, I thought-" Gingka started to say, but he was interrupted by Mr. Clayton who came in behind him saying, "That leaves just one place."

Gingka turned to look at Clayton as he walked to the front of the room saying as he walked, "Young man, we've been in this jungle for some time now. But we have yet to encounter these friends of yours." Clayton looked at Masamune and Yu saying, "I'd wager they're with the gorillas. But Tarzan refuses to take us to them."

Jane tried to defend Tarzan.

She said, "Really, Mr. Clayton. Tarzan wouldn't hide-…" but Clayton interrupted her, saying, "Then take us there! Take us to the Gorillas! Go-ril-las!" he said standing in front of Tarzan. Tarzan turned to look at Gingka, and nodded.

"Tarzan... are you sure?" Jane asked him.

Tarzan turned to her and said, "Tarzan go see Kerchek."

"Kerchek?" Jane asked,

"He must be the leader." Clayton suggested. "Perfect. I'll go along as an escort. After all, the jungle is a dangerous place." Clayton said as his face contorted into a large grin.

So the four of them made the trek through the jungle together. Soon as they made it part way Clayton seemed to have vanished from the group, but they didn't get too caught up about it because they were focused on the task at hand. Plus, no one really liked Clayton anyway and they were kind of happy when he disappeared.

They ran through the bamboo thickets and the long grasses. They ran through the trees and hopped over the streams on hippos (hey it's true), until they finally made it to a deep part of the jungle.

There were two gorillas waiting for them in the tree above. Tarzan started talking to the gorillas in fluent...well, gorilla, so the two of them could understand him.

Unfortunately, that meant the other two.

Gingka, Masamune and Yu couldn't understand him.

What he heard Tarzan say to the gorillas was:

"Kerchak, Please listen to me. I know the nesting grounds are secret, but I trust them." He gestured an arm to point back at the other three, "You see, I want to help them because...because...well, they need us." The smaller female gorilla looked over at the bigger one who Tarzan was talking to, most likely Kerchak, as if to ask him a question, but said nothing the others could hear.

"You know what he says?" Yu asked Gingka,

"No Yu," Gingka said shaking his head, while Masamune smiled at being in the know.

"Kerchak."

Kerchak just looked upwards, and walked away his mate following behind him. "Kerchak..." but the gorillas were already gone, and Tarzan slumped down in shame for his failure. Masamune thought to himself, Kerchak seemed kind of distracted by something. Was he looking towards the tree house?

They shared this information with Tarzan and he immediately started grabbing vines and swinging from them to get to the tree house. Gingka and the others, although a little hesitant at this gesture, followed him by swinging from the trees and jumping through the treetops.

Finally, they managed to make it to the tree house. Inside the tree house was the female gorilla Masamune had run into before, and she was playing with a globe on the floor. She was spinning it around, to see how it worked. Kneeling in the door way was Clayton. So that's where he went was thought by all the members of the group.

Clayton had his gun sitting steadily in his hands and his finger on the trigger. His gun was aimed right at the gorilla.

Masamune ran up to him and screamed in his ear, Clayton was so startled that he raised his gun and fired. Masamune's scream was enough to warn the gorilla to run before the bullet hit the spot where she had been standing. She jumped up into the rafters next to Kerchak, who had seen everything.

"What's the big idea!" Masamune shouted at him, the one thing he hated was when people hunted other animals. Gingka and Yu glared down at Clayton, while Tarzan looked up at Kerchak.

"Wait, Kerchak. Please!" Tarzan shouted up at him, but the Gorillas just turned and walked away. The smaller gorilla gave Masamune a sad look before leaving with Kerchak. Tarzan looked back at Clayton angrily. Clayton raised his hands defensively, waving them back and forth saying, "You don't understand. I was only trying to..." he trailed off as he tried to think of a good excuse, before he said, "Ah. A snake slithered by, you see. I saved that poor gorilla's life." Still, Tarzan continued to glare at him, not buying his lies. He lowered his head and shook it with his disappointment.

So the group made their way back to camp, this time Clayton joined them. When they made it back they told Jane what had happened. She was absolutely furious with Clayton.

"How could you do such a thing!" she shouted at Clayton, again Clayton tried to defend himself, "Now, Miss Porter," he said, "as I told you, I was not aiming at the gorilla." But Jane would not buy his lies either. She went right up to him and pointed her finger right up in his face and said, "You are not to go near the gorillas again!" she finished placing her hands on her hips, Clayton started laughing nervously.

"All because of one mishap? Come now..." he started to say, but he became too intimidated by everyone (Gingka, Yu, Masmaune, Tarzan, and Jane) glaring at him. So, he just left. He backed away laughing nervously, but as soon as he turned around he began to glare.

"What am I doing with these imbeciles?" he asked himself angrily, "Blasted gorillas! I'll hunt down every last one of them! I'll track them down somehow." He took out his pipe for a smoke, before adding, "I'll stake my life on it."

He brought the pipe up to his mouth but before he could take a smoke he heard rustling overhead. His eyes widened with fear as he searched the sky frantically to find what was making that noise. The rustling moved to the bottom of the bamboo plants, and he raised his gun to shoot at them, no longer afraid, but determined. He fired, and the sound was heard from all around, even inside the tent. The group exited the tent quickly to see what was going on. As soon as they made it outside, they saw a group of strange blue monkeys with yellow eyes and heart emblems with X's on them circling a gorilla. "Heartless!" Gingka yelled, and the heartless turned towards him at the sound. Within a second, both teams turned to each other and attacked.

Stay tuned for part 2 of Deep Jungle!

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