Mowgli's hands and feet were sore. He never imagined he would have spent an entire day doing nothing but washing and scrubbing on countless rooms. The buildings that made up most of the ancient ruins were certainly far bigger on the inside than he first imagined.

It was late in the afternoon before the one who oversaw him, Beretta had received word from one of the guards that, King Louie requested that the man cub be taken back to the throne room for the upcoming celebration. When she finally said that, Mowgli could stop he collapsed he was very exhausted.

Beretta did allow the poor boy any break. She worked him to the where he could barely stand. His knee's ached from being on them so much from scrubbing floors. His hands were wrinkly from being using wet rags to wash the floor and his feet were very sore from walking on the hard floors never having a chance to sit down for, Beretta would not let him.

The Right Hand of the royal's took great pleasure in making sure, Mowgli stayed on his task. She would yell at him even if he was doing his work. After she had frightened him by threatening to hit him when she claimed he made a complaint about his work, Mowgli was more than motivated to stay on task and, Beretta enjoyed watching the fear in, Mowgli's eyes.

To see a child of man whimper and cower under her was delightful. She wished she could have had the same with the wolf girl, Karina who was with, Queen Abra. She hoped that perhaps after this day is done that the royals would give, Karina to her as well and make her feel weak and cowardly like the mancub.

However, she made do with, Mowgli who at the moment was laying on his back taking heavy breaths as the work had tired him out greatly. She had to answer to the orders of her, King.

"Breaks over, mancub!" She snarled down at him as she stood at his side with her hands on her hips. Though she maintained a firm look her mouth smiled slightly at the sight of, Mowgli. She gave him no food or drink all day. A small taste of what it was like for her and her kind when they had to loot and scavenge just to survive. "Get up, now! The King wants you!"

Mowgli shivered at the cold words of, Beretta. When she had threatened him, he tried his very best not to agitate her even though he never did complain openly about what he was being forced to do. He was hungry, tired and at a loss. He now really came to an understanding what his fate was. He could only hope there would be a way of this. But he had to obey or, Beretta would hit him for sure and he didn't want to be hurt.

The Mancub tried to stand back up as fast as he could but it wasn't fast enough as, Beretta grabbed his left arm and pulled him up to his feet. "Come, boy! Time for the, King to see you!" She yanked, Mowgli along pulling him out of the latest room he was cleaning before she received word of, King Louie's orders.

"Ow! Your hurting me!" Mowgli whined as; Beretta pulled him along not even letting him get in step with her.

"Well, maybe you shouldn't slow down and perhaps I won't have to bother with pulling you, would I?" Beretta snarled. "Now, shut up and walk!" Beretta let go of, Mowgli as he almost dropped to the floor but caught himself putting his right foot forward. Not wanting to be dragged again he walked close by, Beretta as she led him out of one of the ruined buildings and back into the palace where, King Louie was awaiting in the throne room.

Mowgli had a hard time keeping up with, Beretta. All she did all day was watch him and at times would yell orders and push and pull him into another room to clean she wasn't even remotely tired, but he didn't want to be dragged again he did his best.

After entering the ruined palace and climbing up a level of stairs they came upon the throne room where the entrance to it was decorated and colorful drapes hung down from it. Two guards at the entrance opened the drapes letting, Beretta and, Mowgli through it.

Inside the throne room, it was much different than before. There were a couple of tables filled with golden plates of fruit upon them. Jeweled cups stood by the plates with pitchers that diamonds implanted within them. Caldrons filled with jewels and trinkets of gold laid at each base side of the tables.

There were some monkeys busy putting more food on the tables and at the far end of the throne room sat, King Louie who was being served by two skinny female monkeys that were wearing ragged outfits. One was wearing a badly torn two-piece while the other had a full outfit that covered her chest down her knees.

The Two serving monkeys both giggled as King Louie stroked their heads with an arm and even his foot as one gave him a peeled banana and the other was massaging his other foot. He was enjoying the food and the attention he was getting from the thin monkeys he had called on for servitude as he relaxed upon his throne as the King he was until his eyes caught sight of, Beretta with a tired, Mowgli by her side.

"Well, now." King Louie hummed as he put up a hand informing the two servant girls to cease and step away as, Beretta came up to, the King and bowed and when she noticed, Mowgli wasn't bowing she put a hand behind his head and forced him to bow below, King Louie's gaze.

King Louie as, Mowgli looked like he was about fall over himself as, Beretta made him bow very low as he tried to maintain balance and just before he lost himself, Beretta rose back up and, Mowgli did the same when she let go of him.

"I do trust that the mancub wasn't any trouble at all?" He asked looking upon, Mowgli's tired look. It was easy to tell that, Beretta made him work very hard whether he did it without being simply told to do so or not.

Beretta looked at, Mowgli as he looked up to her with a fearful look as she smiled darkly before looking back at her, King. "No, my King. The mancub wasn't any trouble at all. He cleaned many rooms at a good pace. A pace which was…" Beretta put a cold hand around, Mowgli's shoulders making him shiver in her cold grip. "…properly motivated."

King Louie watched, Mowgli shake in fear of, Beretta's touch getting the idea of what she meant making him laugh. "Well that's wonderful to hear, my dear. Very good. I am most pleased."

"Thank you, my King." Beretta bowed as she let go of, Mowgli who wrapped his arms around himself and rubbed sides in worry.

"You may take your leave now, Beretta. I have a celebration to begin and some entertainment to watch." He waved her off as she bowed again before turning around to walk out but not before she looked at, Mowgli and made a quick flinch at him that made him step back from her fearfully making, King Louie chuckle.

"Come here, mancub." King Louie gestured for, Mowgli to come forward. Mowgli slowly walked up to, the King standing by the throne. King Louie put an arm around, Mowgli but his was more comforting than, Beretta's but, Mowgli was anything but comforted.

"I am also rather pleased with you as well, Mowgli." King Louie told the mancub who just looked at him with a sad look. "When you work hard you will earn a reward as I am a generous King. And if the entertainment we shall both soon see is just as well then both you and the wolf girl will be rewarded together."

However, Mowgli figured whatever reward this was it would not be his or, Karina's freedom but he had to speak up. "Please…whatever reward you want to give us. Keep it, I and Karina just want to go home." He begged but, King Louie only grinned.

"This is your home now, Mancub. Always remember that." He said but gripped, Mowgli's shoulders slightly more firmly. "And always remember my generosity and patience only goes so far. You don't get to make demands and requests only can come for when I deem it so." He warned as his face turned strict as, Mowgli nodded in understanding.

The King smiled again glad to see his slave understood his position. He could see that he was in need of a drink and perhaps a meal. Knowing his right hand, she made sure, Mowgli would stay on task no matter what. "Now that we have made our point, why don't you go eat and drink and try to be merry. The Celebration will soon start, mancub." He offered to the table nearby filled with food and drink.

Mowgli didn't have to be told to eat for he was starving as well as he was in dire need of something to drink. Without hesitation, he ran for the nearest table and immediately filled up a cup with what looked to be purple liquid. Taking a careful sip, he immediately realized it was grape juice and drank a bigger sip.

Soon enough he had a plateful of fruits and three cups of grape juice all finished within minutes. He had a long day and was in need of sustenance which was humorous to, King Louie as, Mowgli did not behave in any form of etiquette. He just chowed down and drank without care much like a primate. Perhaps there was some truth that maybe man and primates were related in some ways but in all cases he now had a mancub to serve him and a wolf girl which he looked forward to seeing as his, Queen was teaching her how to dance for the celebration all day.

King Louie watched as the drapes to the entrance of the throne room opened to see it was a group of monkeys with flutes and bongo drums that headed for an empty corner of the room. This excited the King for it meant the entertainment would soon come which meant he better inform his subjects.

"Guard!" He called for one of his guards from the entrance to come forth.

"Yes, my King?" The Guard answered the call asked.

"Go fetch what shall be the attending audience. The Celebration will soon begin." King Louie ordered.

"At once, my King!" The Guard immediately left the throne room to gather those that had the privilege to join in the throne room to celebrate together. Mowgli ate his last apple and was filled up having ended his hunger with the general allowance of, King Louie.

King Louie noticed that, Mowgli was finished eating. "Come back to my side, mancub." He called. "Soon enough we shall both see the glory that is my lovely, Queen Abra showcase her teachings upon that wolf girl and be amazed."

Mowgli sighed as he truly did not want to see what the Queen of the primates did with, Karina. But he had no choice. He could only hope that her day wasn't as terrible as his was. He went back to the side of, King Louie's throne and waited.

A couple of minutes passed before the drapes to the entrance opened and a couple dozen primates came through. It was a mix of males and female monkeys that had the chance of a lifetime to be allowed into the throne room to share with the royals in celebration.

Many of them eyed, Mowgli at the side of, King Louie's throne some of them laughed and pointed at the mancub making him embarrassed. They laughed as they mocked upon his stature. His hairless form and how his status made him next to nothing. The only glory now that the mancub had was to serve their king. Mowgli tried to shut out the mockery but covering his ears and shutting his eyes but all it had done was make the crowd laugh at him more.

Though King Louie too was humored by the audience in the throne room he put a hand to silence them. "Welcome all, welcome!" He greeted as he stood up from his throne. "Thank you all for coming. I hope you enjoy the food. And allow me to start our little celebration to welcome my new slaves!"

The Crowd cheered and howled as, Mowgli tried to make a brave face as he stood next to, King Louie all it reminded him of was his place as what he was and it humiliated him as well as it did anger him.

King Louie clapped his hands in rhythm and the monkeys with the instruments in the corner began to play a soft melody to begin filling the room with a gentle tone. The crowd gathered at the tables all collecting whatever food and drink they wanted. They did it fast for they knew what would soon come as they gathered what they wanted and headed back to the sides of the room quickly munching down on the food and slurping up their drinks without a single care to the disgust of, Mowgli as the primates showed how much they lacked in manners and what he was taught about them certainly was true.

King Louie marveled at the couple dozen attendees in the throne room. It was thrilling to see his subjects having a great time and the entertainment was yet to arrive. As a King he had to see over his people and when they were happy so was, he especially if he would treat them and show why its his right to be the ruler over them.

One of the guards entered the throne room going up to, King Louie before whispering in his ear and he was delighted to hear it as a big grin came on his face and, Mowgli got concerned when the guard left.

"Alright, everyone! Time to get swinging!" King Louie beamed excitingly. "Time for the event you all been waiting for!" The crowd of monkeys cheered raising their arms and drinks in their hands. King Louie pointed to the band playing showing it was their cue.

They switched their music from soft melodies to a beating rhythm. The Crowd shook with anticipation as the jazzy music the band played with the loud beating of their drums and the tunes from the flutes. Coming out from behind the curtain where three female monkeys wearing long thin green pants with veils attached to them with green sashes around their chests with short veils hanging from their heads as they began to dance.

The three dancers all began to shimmy and move to the center of the room bucking out their hips in fast movements showing off their bodies to the crowd and, the King, and mancub. They danced together moving in a circle staying close in sync with each other as they maintained their fluid forms having practiced for this occasion for a good while.

Mowgli watched with the rest of the primates for he had no choice, but he was not impressed at all. The three dancers were nowhere close to how good the dancers were back in the Wolf Kingdom. He could see that they had no sense of true style. All they were doing was waving their arms around and just twirling with hardly any grace. Even if they did practice for this celebration, they were hardly any good, but it didn't matter to the crowd or, King Louie as they were enjoying the sight of the three monkeys dancing for their entertainment.

The Three Dancers then lined up at the front of the drape at the entrance as they bucked their hips and waved their arms about as they stood in front of each other. The one farthest from the drape twirled to right and the one behind her twirled to the left while the last one curled into a ball and rolled backwards through the drapes.

The other two dancers stood in pose at each side of the entrance ready to present as, Queen Abra burst through the drapes in a sharp and exotic pose as the crowd went wild at the sight of their queen. King Louie drooled at the sight of his beloved as she moved forward waving her arms about shooting some loving looks at some of the attendees in the crowd.

She then twirled backward and gestured with her right index finger for someone to step through the drape. Reluctantly stepping through the drape was, Karina with hands on her hips as she began to buck about moving up to the queen as the crowd again cheered at the sight of the slave girl. King Louie was just as excited though, Mowgli was concerned for his friend. Her face was aflame trying to keep a smile but it was easy to tell she was not happy about any of this as she made it up to, Queen Abra who then grabbed the wolf girl's hands and began to dance with her.

Queen Abra and Karina danced with their hands interlocked. Karina was trying so hard not take, the Queen's hands snap her wrists but knowing the consequences that could happen if she did, she maintained herself and dance with her following her as they had practiced all day for.

Karina would twirl around when she was pushed forward then back again by, Queen Abra. Once the Queen let go of her they danced side by side and backside on numerous occasions. They stayed close to each as they practiced for this very moment all day and it had to be perfect.

King Louie and the crowd in the throne room were in awe of the dancing pair. Their fluid movements together were something to behold. Mowgli couldn't help but be somewhat amazed. How could someone like, Queen Abra be able to move so elegantly despite her size and figure? Karina too was remarkable as despite the concealed infuriated look on her face she was dancing quite gracefully but, Mowgli knew for her it was natural as, Karina was without a doubt the best in form when it came to it.

The Primate Queen and Karina continued to dance about staying close to each other as they moved from one part of the throne room to the next getting close to each side where those attending could be within arm's reach.

Queen Abra when she and, Karina would come close would reach out and stroke a few of the monkeys giving them a rare honor of being stroked by their queen. Karina was utterly disgusted by the show as before when she was taken to the room where she had to practice dancing all day, the Queen and possibly, King Louie took no true pride in their union. They would act and do things upon others that only should be for their mate. The Primates were indeed completely uncivilized and lacked most customs it still surprised her to see how they even had leaders to guide them.

They both continued to dance about as they went back to back standing on one leg placing together their feet and hands posing directly in front of the throne as, King Louie laughed at the sight quite entertained as, Mowgli looked upon the display with some sadness noticing on, Karina was now starting to show her upset look.

It pained the mancub to see that, Karina was being forced to do something she used to love but now she was despising it. He understood why but one should not every hate what they were passionate about. The Primates were taking away everything that was a joy. Even something that would be fun like dancing could not be so joyful as their captors were forcing them to do what they pleased. Humiliating them and even going as far as threatening to hurt them if they disobey. He and Karina just had to find a way out of this madness.

The Crowd and King Louie kept cheering for the amazing performance that they were watching. Both Queen Abra, and Karina were a true sight to behold. One could not guess which one they favored the most as their dancing routines and their elegant forms were worth having jaws dropped from mouths. No one wanted to even blink to miss a single second of the show.

Karina hoped this wasn't going to last any longer for she was dancing for so long now that she lost track of time. She believed that, she and, the Queen had danced the same moves and routines at least three times by now.

Queen Abra was having far too much fun as she was performing for both her, King and her subjects it was not too often she would get to do this and she noticed that, Karina was starting to get rather tired from all the dancing. She recalled right before they started it was still light outside but the sun was already halfway down when she looked out one of the open windows she believed it was time to wrap this celebration up with something big and seeing how a table with a good amount of food and pitchers of water and juice was nearby with, Karina close to it she knew just how.

Again just as they practiced they finished the same routine for the possible third time as they were about to bump their hips into each other and would strike a pose with one of their arms pointing out diagonally but, Queen Abra thrusted her hip so hard that she smacked into the side of, Karina so hard she lost her balance and went launching straight into the table.

Karina could not catch herself from the sudden smack in her side and crashing into the table as she fell down toppling the table and most of the fruits went flying into the air and any of the remaining water juice spilled all over and unfortunately, one jug of grape juice fell on top of, Karina spilling all over her head and upper body and some of the fruits that were launched fell down on her.

This was met by an uproar of laughter by everyone in the room all except for, Mowgli that could not stand by the throne anymore as, Queen Abra stood in a striking pose earning cheers, howls, and whistles along with pointing laughter at, Karina who tried to wipe the juice out of her eyes as, Mowgli dashed over to her running past some of the monkeys kneeling at her side.

"Karina, are you okay?" He asked putting his hands on her arms seeing how she was very upset as well as wet from the juice that fell on her. He grabbed a rag that fell from the table and handed it over to her. She saw the rag through the tiny opening of her eyes and snatched it and wiped her face off.

Once she was able to reopen her eyes fully, she saw that, Queen Abra was standing where she still was before looking at her with a very mischievous grin on her face.

"You did that purpose!" Karina pointed out sharply her face flame not even bothering to acknowledge, Mowgli next to her.

Queen Abra giggled at, Karina's anger as well as her juiced covered fur as she gave a playful innocent look. "Well…maybe I did." She laughed as the crowd laughed with her along with, King Louie.

Mowgli was just as angry as well as, Karina. How dare they humiliate his friend like that! She had no right to do what she had done. Karina was now drenched in sticky juice and she was made a mockery of. However, his and, Karina's angry looks only added to the laughter of every primate in the room.

King Louie clapped his hands standing up and walked over to his, Queen embracing her in a tight loving hug. Without even taking a moment he immediately planting his large lips upon his, Queen's lips and began to kiss upon her as she returned the favor earning more cheers from their surrounding subjects as, Karina and Mowgli just looked away in disgust.

Karina tried her best to clean herself off but the rag, Mowgli gave her only lasted till it was too wet to be useful and her hair and face and part of her upper body were still well soaked and sticky from the spilled juice. She looked at, Mowgli giving him a thankful look for coming to her aid. He truly was of a kind nature. To be trapped in this domain of primates was a fate she would not wish on anyone. She just had to figure a way out of this both herself and, Mowgli she didn't how much longer she could take it especially after that cheap blow made her the laughingstock of the throne room.

After a couple of minutes, the Primate Royals finally ceased their messy form of kissing and looked down upon the two slaves who finally stood up next to the toppled table. "I want to say you both did quite a remarkable job this day. You have pleased me."

"And me." Queen Abra added as she had the most fun, she had in a long time giving her two slaves a wink as she held onto her mate lovingly.

"For this, I shall reward you both." King Louie decreed.

Karina put her arms protectively around, Mowgli as she put him to her side. "We want nothing from you!" She retorted.

King Louie smiled. "Oh no, you shall be rewarded. Hard-working and well-performing slaves do deserve a little something." He replied coming up the angry wolf girl as she held onto, Mowgli tightly as, the mancub tried to be brave as well.

"Besides, what I have in mind for you would give you the opportunity to wash that pretty face of yours, my dear." King Louie chuckled pointing a finger on her face and moved it down feeling her sticky fur upon it. "And perhaps cleanout that mouth of yours. All that yelling could get you into trouble. I really hope you don't have to force me to resort to very unpleasant ways to see that you treat me with proper respect."

Karina only snorted at him. It doesn't matter what he would give her or, Mowgli nothing will take away all that he and his kind had done to her and, Mowgli. She will have retribution for this somehow, someway.

"Take them to the spring room for the rest of the night." King Louie called out to some of the guards that came to answer their, King's call. "See it to it that the room is filled with food and drink and to make sure its properly locked so they cannot leave it till morning. Right away."

"At once, your majesty!" One of the guards obeyed and gestured for two more guards to come into the throne room as the crowd of monkeys began to leave as the festivities were over. They had plentiful food and drink and were treated a very entertaining show. It was already sunset and soon enough it would be time to retire.

"I hope you enjoy it as much as we do." Queen Abra chirped before she grabbed her mate's face and began to kiss him again while two guards grabbed both, Karina and Mowgli and started to take them away.

Karina hoped that whatever this room is that it would at least give them some privacy she was humiliated and so angry by what had happened she needed a place to calm down and was glad that, Mowgli would be joining her she and him had been separated all day and from how tired he looked he had a busy day as well and figured he too had some built-up emotions that needed to be expressed. Wherever they were going at least they would finally be together in it and for a time be away from their captors and try calms themselves and possibly learn more that could add in their hopes of escaping.