Mike looked around with the other girls as they traveled through the jungle at night.
"Bagheera, I'm getting a little sleepy," Mowgli said, tiredly. "Shouldn't we start back home?"
"Mowgli, this time we're not going back," Bagheera told the boy. "I'm taking you to a man-village."
"But, why?" Mowgli asked.
"Because, Shere Khan has returned to this part of the jungle, and he has sworn to kill you." Bagheera told him.
"Kill me? But why would he wanna do that?" Mowgli asked.
"He hates men," Bagheera told him. "And Shere Khan is not going to allow you to grow up to become a man; just another hunter with a gun."
"Uhh, we'll just explain him that I'd never do a thing like that." Mowgli shrugged with a smile as he came off of the panther's back.
"Nonsense! No one explains anything to Shere Khan!" Bagheera told him.
"Well, maybe so. But I'm not afraid. And besides I-" Mowgli defended.
"Now that's enough," Bagheera told Mowgli. "We'll spend a night here. Things will look better in the morning."
Mowgli looked very upset about leaving his wolf family as he looked back to home.
"Poor kid." Mike frowned for the feral boy.
"Man Cub? Man Cub!" Bagheera called to Mowgli to get him to keep following after. "Now come on, up this tree. It's safer up there."
"Uh, I don't want to go back to the man-village." Mowgli said to the panther.
"Go on," Bagheera told the feral boy. "Up you go."
"That limb way up there?" Mowgli asked.
"Try." Bagheera told him.
Mowgli tried to climb the tree-trunk, but couldn't.
"Here, kid, lemme help ya out." Mike offered.
"Thank you." Mowgli said.
"What're friends for?" Mike replied as she began to help out Mowgli.
"There we are, no harm done," Bagheera said, soon leaping up to the branch after Mowgli. "Now, get some sleep. We've got a long journey ahead of us tomorrow."
"I wanna stay in the jungle." Mowgli pouted.
"Huh? heh, you wouldn't last one day." Bagheera replied.
"I am not afraid," Mowgli huffed. "I can look after myself."
"Kids today." Mike muttered to herself.
Mike and the others began to set up a campsite for themselves on the ground that night.
"Might as well get some sleep," Courtney said. "We've all had a long day."
"She's right," Cindy yawned. "I'm tired anyway."
The others soon came into their sleeping bags while Mowgli and Bagheera would sleep in the tree as they all had a long day, especially with the accident on the cruise ship.
A snake soon slithered out from the tree and smirked towards Mowgli. "Sssssay now. What have we here? Mmm hmm hmm hmm hmm hmm. It'ssss a Man-Cub! A delicioussss, delectable Man-Cub!" He then looked over to the girls as well. "Oh, look... More humanssssss... Musssssst be my lucky day."
"Oh, go away and leave us alone." Mowgli complained, shoving against the snake.
"Oh, that's just what I should do, but I'm not," Bagheera told Mowgli, overhearing that and thinking that the boy was talking about him. "Now, please, go to sleep, Man Cub."
"Yesssss, Man-cub. Pleassssse...Go to sssssleeeep!~" The snake smirked as he had hypnotic rings in his eyes around Mowgli.
"Please keep it down," Courtney grunted. "We're trying to sleep."
Mowgli saw the rings in the snake's eyes, and started looking dazed, with his eyes widening with the same rings appearing in them also. It was obvious the snake was hypnotizing him, as the boy's arms went limp and dropped down and he couldn't look away. During this time, the snake wrapped his tail around him.
"Pleasssse go to sssssleeeep! Ssssssleep, little Man Cub~" The snake sang while entrancing the boy. "Ressssst in peacccce! Ssssleep! Ssssleep~ Your new friends will join you later, I assure you. Heheheh..." The snake's tail was up to the boy's neck, and the latter tried to stay up, but was failing. "He won't be here in the morning~"
"Huh? Oh, yes, he will..." Bagheera said in his sleep, but then woke up to see the snake moving Mowgli into his mouth before hitting the snake. "KAA!"
"Oooh! My ssssssinussss!" Kaa glared at the panther and decided to advance in on him. "You have jusssst made a sssserious missstake. A very sssssstupid-"
"Now, now, now, Kaa, I was-" Bagheera smiled nervously to the snake.
"Mistake!" Kaa continued to glare at the panther. "Look me in the eye when I'm speaking to you."
"P-Please, Kaa-" Bagheera shuddered.
"Both eyes if you please," Kaa glowered. "You have just ss-sealed your doom."
Bagheera got fully hypnotyzed and sat still. Mowgli, meanwhile, was pushing Kaa's coils off the branch.
The others were still asleep during all of this, though Courtney woke up and looked around and gasped. "Kaa!"
Kaa was about to eat the panther until his coils fell off of the branch, taking the snake with them while hitting his head on a few branches in the process. He then fell down on the ground hard, being surrounded in his own coils.
"Mowgli, are you okay?" Courtney asked the boy.
"Yeah, I'm fine, I'm fine." Mowgli told her after he got free from Kaa.
"Look, Bagheera! Heh-heh, look, Bagheera?" Mowgli laughed before hitting the panther's cheeks. "Wake up, Bagheera."
"Kaa used to give me nightmares as a kid... I mean... Just thinking about him..." Courtney said before shuddering in memories of her father's bedtime stories.
"Huh? What?" Bagheera blinked, snapping out of his trance.
"Just you wait 'til I get you in my coils." Kaa glared in misfortune.
"Guys, he's got a knot in his tail!" Mowgli laughed at the snake.
"Ooh, this is gonna slow down my slithering!" Kaa complained.
Mowgli laughed at the snake's misfortune.
"So you can look out for yourself, can you?" Bagheera asked Mowgli. "So, you want to stay in the jungle, do you?"
"Yes, I want to stay in the jungle." Mowgli told the panther.
"Of course he does." Courtney remarked.
"Now for the last time, go to sleep!" Bagheera soon told Mowgli.
Mowgli pouted and went to go to sleep in the tree as Kaa got away, a bit miserable from his dilemma.
"Stubborn little Man Cub..." Bagheera grumbled to himself as he soon went to get some sleep.
"Don't worry, Mowgli, it's gonna get better, I promise." Courtney whispered as she soon went to go back to sleep with the others.
Ellody soon looked up to the night sky as she was worried about her friends and her boyfriend with a sigh, "Please be all right."
Meanwhile, the others soon found land that night, not aware that Mike and the others were there.
"Land!" Eddy beamed, running out and kissing the ground in relief. "Sweet land!"
"Sweet mother of relief!" Scott added.
"I'm hungry." Ed said.
"So, uh, Smart Guys, where are we?" Lightning asked.
"Hmm... According to this tracker we made, we're in India." Og said as he looked at the device he made with Double D, Maxwell, Otto, and Dexter.
"See, guys? I told you that-" Eddy replied until he caught what the island native boy said. "Did you say India?"
"Yes." Og nodded.
"Well, we definitely are further away from home than I thought we would be." Maxwell remarked.
"Oh, great!" Eddy groaned. "That means no food!"
"Eddy..." June said.
"No water!" Eddy continued. "We'll die of dehydration!"
"Eddy!" Double D called out.
"Then that means we'll have to eat Chicken to survive!" Eddy continued.
"Is that supposed to be a joke?" Chicken asked.
"Well, yeah?" Eddy replied.
"It's not really funny." Chicken rolled his eyes.
"EDDY!" The others called out.
"Okay, I know that wasn't very funny, but I'm desperate!" Eddy said.
Ed then slapped him across the face.
"Thanks, Ed, I needed that." Eddy then said, calming down.
"Besides, look," Double D said, turning Eddy's head. "There's a village here. I'm sure someone around here can help us out."
"That's a good idea, Double D." June agreed with her boyfriend.
"They better have some food." Lu glared.
They soon wandered into the village which was called Seeonee. There were children who were playing together while women did chores such as laundry, cooking, or cleaning before they looked over to see that they had some company. A boy who was around the age of four in a blue loincloth ran by and looked over at them.
"Reminds me of your mom's history books in the old days before Mike even came to the island." Lu said to Og.
"Hmm..." Og blinked.
"Hey! Hello?! We're lost!" Eddy called out.
The boy looked at them, backing up a bit.
"Hey, I'm not gonna hurt ya, I wanna talk to ya." Eddy told him.
The boy soon ran off at first.
"Well, that went fabulously." Eddy rolled his eyes.
Eventually, the boy soon came back with his father who was Sanjay.
"May I... Help you?" Sanjay asked the group.
"Forgive us, sir, but we're lost." Double D told him.
"And hungry!" Lu added.
"What's your WiFi password?" Eddy asked.
The others glanced at him.
"I am sorry, this is not a hotel, but you can possibly stay with me and my wife Meshua and our son, Ranjan." Sanjay said to them.
"It's better than nothing, I guess." Chicken shrugged.
"Please, follow me." Sanjay told them.
The others followed the village leader. A young girl was shown to be with her mother with long black hair tied with hair ribbons in low pigtails and golden hooped earrings, in a pink dress, looking over.
"Good day, Sanjay." The girl's mother greeted.
"Good day, Zahara." Sanjay greeted the woman.
"Who are these strange characters?" Zahara asked.
"They appear to be lost travelers." Sanjay said to her.
"I hope you have room for them, if not, then Shanti, Ritesh, and I wouldn't mind some extra room." Zahara told him.
"Thank you, Zahara, Meshua and I will see what we can do... Especially since we have a free extra room..." Sanjay said softly about having an extra bedroom in his house.
Zahara nodded as she went inside with her daughter as Sanjay brought Eddy and the others into his and Meshua's home along with their young son Ranjan who stared at them since he didn't know them. Meshua looked to her husband.
"Meshua, we have visitors who are in need of shelter." Sanjay told his wife.
"Very well, I will make some food for our visitors." Zahara decided.
"Thank you." Sanjay nodded.
The group soon came inside and looked all around.
"I'm very sorry if it is not fancy, but I can tell you come from the big city." Sanjay said to the group.
"Yeah, we're looking for our friends," Eddy said. "A girl with ginger head that dresses in mostly red, a little girl in glasses who usually has her pet possum with her, a punk girl, a Hispanic nerdy teenage girl, and another teenage girl that has purple eyes."
"Sorry, I can't say that we've seen them." Sanjay replied.
"Dang... They must be further away..." Eddy said.
"You should all stay for the night," Meshua invited. "You look very hungry and tired."
"Ya don't know the have of it." Chicken said.
"Then I'll prepare dinner for you all," Meshua told them. "Please, make yourselves comfortable."
Everyone soon came to get settled into the home which was the biggest home in the village since Sanjay was the leader.
"Thank you for your hospitality," Double D said. "I just hope that we can find our friends."
"I hope you do too since they seem important to you." Meshua smiled.
"They are." Jade nodded.
"I miss them so much!" Dee Dee cried out.
"It's going to be okay, Dee Dee," Ed said to his girlfriend. "No matter what happens or what anybody says, I'll be sure that we find them, no matter what it takes!"
"Wow, Ed, that's sweet." Dee Dee smiled to him.
Ed smiled back and hugged his girlfriend.
"Are you guys warriors?" Ranjan soon spoke up.
"Hey, that kid talked." Eddy said.
"Sorry... My parents say to never talk to people I don't know." Ranjan said to them.
"My mom says the same thing too." Dee Dee replied.
"I'm gonna be a brave and strong leader like my dad someday!" Ranjan smiled.
"I'm sure ya will, partner." Jade giggled.
"I can't wait!" Ranjan smiled.
Jade giggled to him with a smile back.
Eventually, everyone had some dinner which was okay, but not as good as home cooking back home, and they were soon going to sleep that night.
"I hope we can find Mike and the others." Ed frowned.
"Me too!" Dee Dee cried.
"We will, you guys, I can promise you that." June replied.
"Just try to get some sleep and not worry about it too much," Maxwell said. "My gramps says that worrying can make you sick and keep you up all night. He has some wise moments some of the times."
Dee Dee and Ed looked at each other and soon fell asleep.
Maxwell gave a small smile, though he took out something he had kept hidden from the others and showed that it was a locket with pictures of himself and Cindy to give to the girl later. "Soon, Cindy, we'll be back together again, I'm sure, and I'm going to show you how much I love you." he then whispered to himself.
Lightning was soon crying since he missed Ellody. The group in the village did their best to get some sleep while Mike and the others with her did their best to sleep in the jungle that night.