Eventually, the next morning came for everyone. Everyone was fast asleep until the ground began to shake a little and some chanting was heard.

There was a group of elephants who were marching together. "Hup! Two! Three! Four! Keep it up! Two! Three! Four! Hup! Two! Three! Four! Keep it up! Two! Three! Four!" they then chanted together.

Mowgli soon woke up to see what was going on. "A parade!"

"Oh, no..." Bagheera groaned. "The Dawn Patrol again."

Mowgli gets down on the ground to get a closer look.

"Dawn Patrol...?" Mike mumbled, a bit sleepily.

Mowgli soon swung down with a vine onto the ground, running to see the elephants up close.

"It's too early to get up." Cindy groaned.

"I'm sorry, I should've warned you all," Bagheera said to them. "The Dawn Patrol does this all the time with Colonel Hathi."

"Who's that?" Mike asked groggily.

"The leader of the elephant pack." Bagheera told her.

"Company, sound off!" Colonel Hathi announced.

"Oh the aim of our patrol, Is a question rather dull!, For to march and drill over field and hill~" The elephants continued to sing as they marched along the jungle.

"Is a military goal!"

"Is a military goal~"

Mowgli looked closely enough to see the elephants passing by him, then he saw a small elephant with what looked like a tuft of brown hair, following the other elephants. He was Colonel Hathi's young son, Junior. The boy then rushed up to the young elephant, coming beside him.

"Hello, what are you doing?" Mowgli asked the elephant calf.

"Shh, drilling." Junior told him quietly.

"Can I do it too?" Mowgli asked.

"Sure, just do what I do, but no talking in ranks," Junior told him. "It's against regulations."

The boy nodded as he got behind the elephant calf on all fours and began marching as well. Mowgli walked after Junior in the rear of the file.

"To the rear... March!" Colonel Hathi commanded.

As they walked to the rear, Junior and Mowgli collided.

"The other way," Junior told Mowgli. "Turn around."

"Hup, two, three, four~" Colonel Hathi chanted.

"Well, this sure brings back memories..." Mike said, watching the elephants.

"Oh, yeah?" Courtney asked. "Like what?"

"Well, there was that one time when Lu wanted an elephant to ride on and then we made like a car wash for the elephants to go through." Mike began.

"What happened after that?" Courtney asked.

"Chaos happened," Mike sighed a bit. "The islanders were pretty upset, the elephants loved being dirty, so we left them alone after that."

"Gosh..." Courtney replied.

"Then there was that time with Abelard." Mike then said.

"And who's Abelard?" Courtney asked.

"He's another elephant," Mike said. "I had to win this croquet/polo game up against Lu to win The Lady Smythe Trophy from the island in a competition. They call it 'The Big Game'."

"Sounds like you've had some crazy adventures on that island." Courtney replied.

"You have no idea." Mike told her.

"To the rear... March!" Colonel Hathi told his elephant army.

Just then, the elephants turn around, making Junior collide into Mowgli, who pushed him forward.

"The other way, turn around." Junior told Mowgli.

The feral boy nodded as he turned around to copy his new friend.

"That means 'stop'." Junior told Mowgli.

"Company... Left face!" Colonel Hathi called out.

"March, march, march," A female elephant grumbled. "My feet are killing me."

"I am putting in for a transfer to another herd." Another elephant said to her.

"Silence in the ranks!" Colonel Hathi commanded as he then walked along in the group.

That silenced all the other elephants, before he went behind them.

"Dress up that line. Pull it in, Winifred Inspection... Arms!" Colonel Hathi told his army.

The elephants stood up straight while raising their rears, but Winifred was the only one who didn't, so the lead elephant smacks her on the butt with his twig, making her yelp in alarm and annoyance as she straighten immediately.

"Who's the lady elephant?" Mike asked.

"Colonel Hathi's mate, Winifred." Bagheera told her.

"I see." Mike then nodded.

The other elephants all stuck their trunks up, except of course for Mowgli.

"Stick your nose out." Junior told Mowgli.

"Like this?" Mowgli asked, trying to stick his nose out.

"That's right." Junior told him.

Mike chuckled a little as she watched this with Courtney.

"Tsk-tsk-tsk. Dusty muzzle," Colonel Hathi tutted to one elephant. "Soldier, remember in battle that trunk can save your life. Take good care of it, my man."

"Yes, sir!" The elephant replied with a salute.

"Very good, carry on. Ahem. Hmm..." Colonel Hathi said as he came up to another elephant who appeared to be eating something and he soon made him stop. "Let's have a little more spit and polish on those bayonets."

"Yes, sir!" The elephant replied with a gulp.

"Esprit de Corps!" Colonel Hathi continued. "That's the way I earned my commission in the Maharajah's pachyderm parade. Back in '88, it was, or was it '87?"

"Here we go again... The Victoria-Cross bit." Winifred sighed to herself.

"It was then I received the Victorian Cross for bravery above and beyond." Colonel Hathi reminisced.

Winifred looked quite annoyed with her mate as he droned on for a while. The elephant was leaning on his bamboo baton while saying this, but then it broke in half, making him almost fall over in the progress. Mike snickered a little quietly as she continued to watch.

"Oh.. Where was I? Oh, yes. Inspection," Colonel Hathi then said before looking to the other elephants. "Well, very good. Wipe off that silly grin, soldier. This is the army. Ahem. Eyes front. Tsk-tsk-tsk. Lieutenant, that haircut is not regulation. Rather on the gaudy side, don't you think?" he then cut his hair using his bamboo stick. "There. That's better. And as for you-" he then looked down to the see the elephant calf next who was his child which made him chuckle. "Oh, there you are, son. Heh. Let's keep those heels together, shall we?"

"Okay, Pop!" Junior replied. "...Sir!"

"That's better," Colonel Hathi approved before going over to Mowgli. "Well, new recruit, eh? Ha-ha-ha... I say, what happened to your trunk?" he then pushed Mowgli's face with his stick.

"Hey, stop that!" Mowgli complained.

The elephant yelped in alarm and disbelief, recognizing what creature Mowgli really was. "A Man Cub?! This is treason! Sabotage! I'll have no man cub in my jungle!"

"It's not YOUR jungle." Mowgli retorted.

"Hold it! Hold it, I can explain, Hathi!" Bagheera arrived quickly into the scene.

"Colonel Hathi, if you please, sir." The lead elephant replied.

"Oh, yes, yes. Colonel Hathi," Bagheera said to him. "The Man Cub is with me. I'm taking him back to the Man Village."

"To stay?" Colonel Hathi asked.

"You have the word of Bagheera." The black panther promised.

"Good. And remember, an elephant never forgets," Colonel Hathi replied before he turned around to leave. "Hmph! I don't know what the army's coming to. These young whippersnappers, who do they think they are?"

"Rude, much?" Courtney huffed.

"I wouldn't get involved unless you wanna become a pancake," Mike told Courtney. "So, you don't like it when someone bosses you around and takes change and advantage of their power because of their status like it's the most important thing in the world?"

"Yeah! How can anyone live with that?" Courtney complained.

"Why don't you ask Leshawna's friend Jasmine Banks from the last school play when Ms. Honeydew let you become assistant director?" Mike crossed her arms to teach Courtney a lesson.

"Well, I, um, just wanted the play to be perfect?" Courtney replied nervously.

"By yelling at the littlest mistakes just because you were jealous that Jasmine got the lead that time and you didn't since you were competing?" Mike replied.

"Well, I, um-" Courtney stammered.

"Oh, I know," Mike then said. "How about that time you made Cindy be your slave because you knew her secret?"

"Was I really that horrible?" Courtney asked.

"Yes, and I'm not just talking about those times when you and Sugar would team up to steal Lightning and Scott away from Ellody and Jade." Mike nodded firmly.

"Well, Ellody can have that dumb jock." Courtney shrugged.

"Oh, and how about this?" Mike then said. "When you tried to steal Justin from Jayna and tried to tell everyone her secret identity?"

"Okay. Okay. I was a horrible person." Courtney gave in.

Mike then put her hands on her hips.

"You win." Courtney sighed.

"I almost always do," Mike replied. "Come on, let's go to the others. We should probably keep moving anyway."

The two girls soon woke up the other girls so they could get a move on.

"I didn't do it!" Ashlyn yelped as she woke up. "Oh. Hey, gang."

"I think now would be a good time to get back on track with Bagheera." Mike suggested.

"Hmm... All right..." Ashlyn said, rubbing her eyes as she got up with the other girls.

Cindy yawned as she stretched, cracking her back.

"What happened?" Ellody asked.

"Eh, you didn't miss much." Mike shrugged.

Jayna stood up, stretching as she put on her glasses.

"Hey, an elephant march." Ellody observed.

"I still think of Lu wanting to ride on an elephant's back after she got tired with Lancelot once," Mike sighed. "Those were simple times."

"Oh, yeah, I've heard stories about that." Cindy replied.

"I never noticed." Courtney said.

"Well, you never wanted to be OUR friends." Mike reminded.

"Yeah... I guess that's a good point..." Courtney said, rubbing her arm.

"You were really a nice girl, Courtney, we would really like the old you back." Jayna said.

"I know, I'm trying to get back to my old self, but I keep having these visions about Duncan cheating on me," Courtney sighed. "It makes me really upset."

"Well, you can't let that stand in your way," Cindy said. "Yeah, Duncan cheated on you. No offense, but I could never see you two being together forever, like maybe as a one year thing. I know that's not helpful, but you'll find someone new in your life who will make you feel like a real Princess in your own fairy tale, and you'll get back on your feet someday, and we'll be sure to tell the others once we get back home in the city so you can start over by taking the next step in your new life."

"Yeah," Mike added in agreement. "If May, Marie, Nazz, and Jimmy can change, so can you."

"I can try." Courtney shrugged.

"Trying is the first step." Cindy said.

"Cindy, that was all so beautiful, who told you all of that?" Ellody asked.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you." Cindy shrugged.

"Was it your grandmother?" Mike guessed.

Cindy shook her head.

"Was it your uncle?" Mike then asked.

Cindy then nodded.

"No way!" Mike replied. "HE said THAT?!"

"I told you that you wouldn't believe me." Cindy laughed, but it was true.

"Come on, Cin, you gotta be kidding." Mike told her.

"I wish I was, Mike." Cindy still laughed.

The elephants soon rammed into each other before turning around. Cindy snickered from that before laughing with the others as it looked pretty funny.

"Hey, what're they doing?" Ellody asked.

"Ooh, I think I know." Cindy said as she saw Junior talking with Mowgli.

"When I grow up, I'm gonna be a colonel," Junior smiled to the feral boy. "Just like my-" he was then cut off as he was suddenly picked up by his father's trunk.

"If I told you once, I've told you a thousand times-" Colonel Hathi scolded his calf.

Junior soon saw the other elephants still marching against his father. "Pop! Look out!"

The elephants soon crashed into each other.

"Gee, Pop," Junior smiled to his father. "You forgot to say 'halt'."

"He's so adorable." Ellody smiled to the elephant calf.

"Yeah, he is." Courtney had to agree with her step-sister.

The two soon looked to each other as it seemed like they actually agreed on something for the first time.

Mowgli was soon laughing to Bagheera and the others. "He said an elephant never forgets."

Bagheera gave him a look which made him stop laughing before he talked again, "It's not funny. Let's get out of here quick before anything else happens." he then said before running off into the forest with him and the others to keep going to the Man Village.

"Bagheera, where are we going?" Mowgli asked the panther.

"You're going back to the Man Village right now, along with these girls." Bagheera replied.

"I am not going." Mowgli argued.

"Oh, yes you are." Bagheera argued back.

"I am staying right here!" Mowgli protested.

"You're going if I have to drag you every step away!" Bagheera glared as he stalked towards the feral boy.

"Come on, kid, don't make this harder than it has to be," Mike said. "It'll be safer for you in the village."

"I don't care!" Mowgli glared as he hugged onto a small tree.

Bagheera soon bit onto Mowgli's loincloth to pull him off of the tree. "Let go, you-" he then muffled.

"You, let go of me!" Mowgli complained, kicking the panther's face.

Bagheera then let go, fell into water and while getting up, hit his head against a log.

"Ooh... Um... You okay, Bagheera?" Cindy asked the panther.

"Oh, that does it! I've had it, Man Cub," Bagheera glared to Mowgli. "From now on, you're on your own. Alone, and these girls are staying with you!"

"Don't worry about us!" Mowgli replied.

"Wait, what?!" Ashlyn asked.

"H-Hey! You can't leave us!" Cindy cried out. "We have to get home!"

"He's your responsibility now, I'm finished with him!" Bagheera said as he stormed off.

"No, wait, come back!" Courtney cried out.

Bagheera just ignored them and continued to walk away from them. "Foolish Man Cub." he then mumbled to himself.

"Mike, go get that panther!" Ashlyn said.

"Maybe this will Mowgli will learn something." Mike replied, not going after Bagheera.

"What?!" Ashlyn replied. "But he's the only one who knows where the Man Village is!"

"Well, who says we won't be able to find it?" Mike shrugged. "I'm sure maybe some other animals know the way."

"I'm not going back to the Man Village," Mowgli replied. "I'm staying right here."

"What about Shere Khan?" Cindy asked.

"I'm not scared of him," Mowgli said. "I can take care of myself."

"Yeah, let's see how long that lasts." Mike mumbled to herself.

"Maybe YOU guys are the ones scared of Shere Khan." Mowgli huffed.

"I've seen worse things in Ed's room." Mike replied.

"Don't be like this, Mowgli, we'll help you." Courtney told the feral boy.

Mowgli sat down near some rocks with his head low until he heard a sound from the nearby bushes.

"I can't say I blame him for feeling like this," Mike said to the other girls. "I mean, Bagheera just took him away from the only home he's ever known."

"I'm just surprised he's not meat hungry crazy like you get all the time and you have some human moments despite having a wolf for a mother." Ashlyn smirked a bit, crossing her arms at the tomboy.

Mike rolled her eyes a bit from that.