A/N: I don't own Grimm Fairy Tales Presents: The Jungle Book.

Chapter 8

Character ages:

Mowglii: 13 Bomani: 14 Akili: 13 Dewan: 13

As the tigers approached Mowglii, Bomani suddenly stood in her defense. Mowglii just looked at the boy in shock.

"She is wounded, father, and believes I killed her family. Tell her I did not do it! Tell her!" the naked boy pleaded only for the white tiger to scratch his face with his claws.

"Stop your sniveling!" Shere Khan roared before turning his attention back to Mowglii. "Bomani is right though. It was I, king of this jungle you dare tread upon, that killed your tribe."

"What do you have to say to that, dog?" he sneered, only for Mowglii to hit the white tiger hard with her knee. Bomani and the tigers watched in awe as the two began to fight fiercely and viciously as they went on to a cliff. The sun was slowly setting down as the waves below crashed against the rocks. The two fighters, however, did not notice that while the tigers began roaring for their leader as the duel continued. Shere Khan leaped at Mowglii, but the naked girl quickly dodged the tiger's snout and jumped on his back, wrapping her arms around his neck. Shere Khan roared in pain and wraith.

"Why?! Why would you kill them?" Mowglii cried as she continued to choke him.

"You and that mange-covered mother of yours were too busy teasing our borders. Leaping through the jungle together." Shere Khan snarled in answer. "Laughing and telling stories of lies. Flaunting yourselves across the entire jungle as if it were all yours while I am left without my mate and an oafish disgrace of a son."

Despite being superior in size and strength, Shere Khan was struggling to get the naked girl off his back. Seeing this, the tigers tried to leap in aid to their king, but were stopped by Bomani.

"No! Surely one wounded cub is not a challenge for the great Shere Khan." Bomani told the tigers bitterly. At the same time, Shere Khan finally managed to push Mowglii off and the naked girl was standing on her fours right in front of the tiger, panting heavily and hungry for blood.

"The rightful king of the jungle had to put you in your place, you arrogant runt." Shere Khan continued. "You have your mother's spirit, cub. I will give you that. Your death will linger my tongue as did hers. A fitting trophy signaling the death of your tribe. I will be savoring your taste my tooth and claw for days to come."

"GNAAARRGH!" Mowglii cried out as she jumped at the tiger, hitting his chest. Despite being smaller and weaker than the tiger, Mowglii managed to push Shere Khan with such force that both were tossed off the cliff, falling to their demise.

"Father!" Bomani cried.

"Mowglii!" both Baloo and Akili cried just as they arrived onto the scene. Their cries were answered with silence, only the wind blowing and the waves crashing against the reefs and the rocky cliff. Bomani stood there as tears streamed down, crying for his father, while Baloo, Akili and Tobaqui mourned the naked wolf-girl. Just then, a hand appeared grabbing the edge of the cliff and everyone gasped in shock as Mowglii climbed up. With her naked body covered in blood, bruises, cuts, scratches and scars, Mowglii nevertheless barely stood tall, breathing heavily.

"Alright," she finally gathered the strength to speak. "who's next?"

Baloo, Tobaqui and Akili immediately cheered, seeing her alive, with Akili saying that she thinks she is in love, only for Tobaqui to look at the naked dirty-blonde girl in disapproval. The tigers, however, weren't that genuine to see her. Knowing that their streak leader perished, the tigers roared in wraith. Seeing that the girl has weakened, one of the tigers decided to attack her, only for Bagheera, jumping out of nowhere, attack him and knock him down, savagely breaking the tiger's throat. After she finished with him, the black panther turned to the horrified Bomani.

"You have already lost your king!" Bagheera snarled at the naked boy. "I will make sure more fall if your tribe advances!"

"It is to this entire island's misfortune that today's quarrel made by this foolish cub will carry far into the tomorrows." Bagheera continued as she jested towards Mowglii. "Take your wounded and mend. Be satisfied to know the blood shed today will most definitely not be the last."

Moaning from pain and exhaustion, Mowglii suddenly collapsed, only for Akili to catch the naked wolf-girl and put her on Baloo's back.

"You disappoint me, Baloo. She was to be protected. The tribes were not to mix." Bagheera reprimanded the bear. "This cub's death will be on you. As will be the coming war."

"We did our best, Bagheera. These cubs have grown bigger than their borders." Baloo excused.

"We would have found each other anyway. This is an island, you know. Only so many places to go." Akili added, only for Bagheera to snarl at her, with Tobaqui growling at the panther in Akili's defense.

"Take your underling and go, cub! Enough harm has been done here!" she ordered, though Akili just ignored her I will be .

"Take care of her, Baloo. When she awakes, tell her if and when this war comes, she has an ally in Akili and Tribe Tavi." The naked dirty-blonde girl told the bear before she and the silver fox left, telling him that the panther makes her nose itch.

"With the fall of the borders, so falls the peace. Nothing good will come of this." Bagheera spoke before turning to Baloo. "Take the cub. If she survives, she will need to be ready for what she has unleashed today, not even I will be able to protect her from what is to come."

Meanwhile, Bomani watched in anger and despise as the bear and panther left off with the girl. Once they left, he approached the edge of the cliff from which his father fell to his doom. Using the claws from his paw-glove, he made scars on his chest, blood streaming down with the tigers roaring, accepting their new king as the naked boy looked out to the sea.

The sun was setting as Mowglii sat at the edge, watching it. Her injuries were already tended, but still she was advised to rest for now. However, she immediately tensed once she heard someone walking through the bushes. Only to relax when she saw that it was Baloo.

"No need to attack this time, cub." Baloo slightly chucked. "How fares the healing?"

"I started something out there, Baloo. I can feel it. The jungle is offset." Mowglii answered, with guilt and sadness in her voice.

"Yes, little cub. It is." Baloo agreed as he sat beside the naked girl.

"You warned me. Mother Wolf warned me. But I did not listen." Mowglii told him. "I was so caught up in finding the tigers and avenging Mother Wolf's death. Now that boy, that tiger boy, he is just like me. He has lost his parent too."

"You forget, cub, it was Khan who attacked the pack. He started this." Baloo reminded her.

"Khan was full of vengeance, Baloo. It was his downfall." The naked girl objected. "I am no better than those tigers. All I accomplished was starting the Great Animal Battle all over again."

Baloo sighed as he looked at the girl's face filled with emotions such as pain, guilt and sadness. He knew that Mowglii was hiding something from her. He was right. Since she defeated Shere Khan, Mowglii was also filled with mixed thoughts about Bomani raping her and her no longer being a virgin. While it hurt, in the end, she enjoyed it, much to her shock.

"This jungle has seen war and peace and war again, cub." Baloo then added. "If a battle is coming, then all we can do is be ready."

The naked girl nodded as she stood up. The two began heading back to their new den, somewhere near the wolf graveyard as it was getting darker.

"Do not trouble yourself with nagging afterwards, cub." Baloo comforted the girl. "It is not the way of the jungle. Besides, you have a tribe to watch over now."

"Yes," the naked girl agreed as they pushed some bushes aside and right in front of them were Grey Brother and Won Tolla, lying on the ground with a litter of wolf cubs playing around. "The two wolves seem to have been busy during our jungle adventure."

"Mowglii! Mowglii!" the wolf cubs cried out once they saw the naked girl, running towards her, begging her to tell them the story.

"Again? But I told you that story before!" Mowglii exclaimed, giggling as she patted the cubs.

"Tell us again, please!"

"Okay, okay, little ones. Gather around." Mowglii told them as she soon was surrounded by the cubs, their parents and Baloo before starting to tell them the story. "The jungle was angry, the jungle was wild…"

TO BE CONTINUED