Chapter 5
The next day was bright enough to start a morning, the birds started twitting their little lovely songs in the sky as it echoes down to the surface of the jungle. Mowgli was walking back to the man-village with Baloo and Grey by his side, Mowgli was riding on Baloo's soft back.
Mowgli was walking back to the village with Grey by his side, Mowgli asked, "Why are you, Grey coming with us again?"
"I want to see how creepy this new stranger in the village is like" Grey answered, "He can't be worse than Shere Khan. Can he?"
"Well, he may be the same actually" Baloo commented, "He's a man and he knows how to use the red flower."
"Okay, then are you coming?" curiously Grey asked sarcastically.
"I want to see Kitty Cat, that's all."
"You want to eat the peaches there" Mowgli answered out fully for Baloo.
Baloo passed for a second and answered, "Yeah that's true" made Mowgli and Grey laughed a bit.
The area where the sun light was shining around the surfaces on the leaves on the trees, the long, green grasses and the river was sparkly as crystal waters. Mowgli stare the edge of the village, and he could feel something blissful just happened. He jumped off from Baloo's back and walked fast to Sahana's house to see Kitty, while Baloo and Grey waited for them to return. Mowgli enters the house and first saw Kitty wearing a white blend with pink shirt, with dark blue shorts. Mowgli could see that Kitty was smiling while wide reading a letter in her hands.
Kitty noticed Mowgli from the corner of her eye, she stood up quickly and happily said, "Morning Mowgli."
Mowgli smiled from Kitty's positive tone from her lovely voice, he asked, "What's that?"
"It's a letter from my dad, and he's coming over to stay for the summer. There's going to be a dinner party tonight at a palace, would you like to come?"
Mowgli was surprised to hear that Kitty would invite him to come and visit her dad. He did feel really nervous about this because he doesn't know how her dad might think of him who wasn't raised in the human society.
"Yeah" Mowgli suddenly said it straight away without thinking it through, however he felt like he has to.
"Great" Kitty smiled, because she would like to show her dad who Mowgli is and he he's like.
Baloo and Grey laid down on the soft ground, Baloo was resting his entire, however suddenly picked up his ears and slowly raised his heard. His gently twisted his head around like an owl, scanning around the area nothing but silence and peace. Yet his paws pushed hard against the ground and feeling a deep, steady, hard beat.
Baloo notice Grey's awareness look on his face, and asked, "Grey, if you keep doing that, you'll probably be stuck like that, like an owl."
"No, I could feel something" Grey said.
"You're peckish?"
"No."
"You're flees? No wait, we all get flees."
"No Baloo, it's like I could feel something close in the area, something not good" Grey's explanation made his eyes troubled by looking around the area.
Back in the village, there was sounds of deep breathing in and out in seconds from outside of Sahana's house, rushing up to the door entrance. Kitty turn around and Mowgli stare at the entrance to see who it was, and it was Shanti breathing hard and was staring at Mowgli in terrier.
"Mowgli! You got to see this!" Shanti said loud as there was a huge warning she wants them to know.
Mowgli and Kitty looked at each other with confusion look on their faces, their turn back to Shanti while wondered what she meant. They ran out of the house and followed Shanti down the village, there was a small crowd with a few of the adults including Shanti's parents and Sahana, noticed that Buldeo and his mate were there too. Shanti walked fast to see what has happened, Mowgli and Kitty were walking a bit slower. The closer they were walking to the quieter they could hear and could feel something. Mowgli reached up and at that moment a horrible shock hit Mowgli like everywhere on his body, while Kitty reached her hands over mouth. Mowgli's eyes were in deep water of depression like deeply drowning into it. Shanti was gripping tight on her mum, Meshua's dress in depression as Meshua was holding her tight with her arm around Shanti's back. Kamya was close to the hunters as he looked down in disappointment. Buldeo was at the front eerily smiling as his mates behind were holding a strong, tight, black net over a small innocent creature of the jungle. The small creature of the jungle with light grey skin, creating the saddest noise he could make through it's truck, was in fact the son of the creatures of the jungle.
"This is what we get for good hunting!" Buldeo cheerfully shouted, "It's what prices are made!"
The range growing hard and strong inside of Mowgli, he couldn't keep it in, he just couldn't. At that moment as fast as lighting, Mowgli ranged out like an animal jumping on it's prey, with a loud, angry growl rushed right out from his mouth. Buldeo and the hunters took a long step back from Mowgli reaction, but Buldeo grin eerily.
"How could you?!" Mowgli roared as he strokes gently on the baby elephants, "He's only a child!"
"Child or not they are dangerous creatures" Buldeo answered, "Some even destroyed a village years ago. So, why should we not hurt this if it's kind can kill others?"
"But, you said it was going a short hurt not an elephant hurt!" Kitty shouted.
"Well, sometimes there can be a change of plan, sweetie" Buldeo said with an eerie smile, Kitty response with her eye-brows low.
"You can't do this, elephants created this jungle, they made the trees, the rivers everything, without them we would have none of that!" Mowgli shouted.
Buldeo stopped and looked at his mates for a second of silence, till the silence was broken by their huge, cruel laugher. The others stood in silence and felt shame for the hunter's reaction, Kitty was shaking her head of disappointment.
"Now, that I've heard everything!" Buldeo laughed.
Mowgli look at everyone and seriously wondered why isn't anyone standing up for it and why they are allowing them to laugh about it. Mowgli didn't understand any of it, what was so funny from what he said.
"Right let get's this creature in the stables and tie it up!" Buldeo instructed his friends, with a long, black wipe in his right hand.
Mowgli had that ranging anger desperately wanted to roar and he broke the binding, he rushed up in fury to Buldo and pushed him away from the baby elephant. Buldeo nearly fall but he got his balance, then his face went hard and stare at Mowgli. He pulled out his rifle and pointed directly at Mowgli, however Mowgli wasn't shaking in fear nor his face didn't show that he was afraid. Just in that second, Sanjay jumped in between them and faced Buldeo with confidence.
"Buldeo, Buldeo calm down, he didn't mean" Sanjay reached his innocent hands, "Alright, I'll talk to him and you could take the elephant into the stables."
Buldeo stare at Sanjay then stare at Mowgli still with his unafraid look on his face. He look back at Snajay and quickly dropped his rifle pointing it down, Buldeo looked at his mates and moved his hand meaning for them to move the elephant to the stables. When leave the area with the elephant and soon Sahana, Meshua and Shanti decided to leave, however Kitty staid behind but moved away a bit for Mowgli to have some space.
"Mowgli, you can't just do that in front of people, it's embarrassing and could scare people!" Sanjay said in an angry tone.
"But what if I…" Mowgli tried to explain.
"No Mowgli!" Sanjay's voice was getting louder, his face was hard and looked serious, making Mowgli feel shame, "You can't just get things in own way through range."
Then Sanjay looked more calmed in the second, he kneeled as he looked at Mowgli with his troubled eyes.
"I should know" Sanjay lifted a long sleeve from his left arm, and it quickly revealed three huge scars. The scars were really long like they were reaching for each other from around the arm. Mowgli's face was in shocked from he never seen those huge scars before.
"Much like from that leg" Sanjay said, reminded Mowgli of his scars on his right leg from the one of those he had against Shere Khan. Mowgli look upon his scars and he could feel the pain and suffering he had back then, and promised that he would never let any creature have that same pain from vengeances.
Sanjay stood up and made his serious face once again, he demanded, "You are confirmed to your room without any meals, and not a foot in that jungle till tomorrow."
"What? You can't..." Mowgli was mad from what Sanjay said for his punishment.
"That's final! It will give you plenty of time to think about what you have done" Sanjay's eyes were down and hard looking upon the boy, he turns around and walk off.
Mowgli had never seen Sanjay acted so mad at him, he did felt shame for his reaction, but he knew it was right, so why was he getting told off he wondered. Kitty waited till Sanjay fully left the sort, so she could talk to Mowgli about what just happened. However, Mowgli went into deeply silent as he walks along back to Sahana's house.
"Mowgli, please understand" Kitty begged.
"What's the point if no one will even do the right things" Mowgli commented back in a moody tone, he walked faster back into the house.
Kitty stopped knowing that Mowgli couldn't quite understand how these works of how sometimes people don't quite believe in some beliefs. She felt sad for Mowgli getting into trouble for doing something that was right, and deeply shame for Buldeo. In the corner of her eye, she noticed a small creature hiding in the long, green bushes but it could still revel its full identity. It was Grey, the young wolf cub and moving his heading as it means for Kitty to come up to him. Kitty looked around for if others might see Grey, she was wonder whether or not she should get Mowgli, then decided to go off and then she can talk about it. Kitty met up with Grey and Baloo and she told them everything that has just happened.
"I don't get it?" asked Grey, "What was so wrong about what Mowgli did?"
"It's not like he's wrong, Grey" Kitty tried to explain, she was laying against a tree with her right hand resting on the side of her stressful head. "It's just…"
"It's just what?" Mowgli appeared from behind looking so annoyed, he walked to sat by Baloo as the bear laid down on the ground.
"Well Mowgli, you can't expect everyone to believe what you think, so you?" Kitty said to prove her point.
"But you believe it, do you?" Mowgli asked.
"Yeah, I do, but sometimes people have beliefs and you can't change that" Kitty answered.
"How come if there's no proof?" Mowgli asked.
"That could be the same for the elephants" Kitty pointed out, "I mean not everyone had seen what the elephants have done so could they believe it?"
"That's true" Grey agreed, "Like where does snow from the mountains come from, we say it's part of the weather, the monkeys thought that it drops down from the moon."
"It doesn't drop down from the moon?" Baloo asked with a saddened, then Grey shook his head side to side unbelievably from what Baloo just asked.
"No, I get it, but I couldn't just let them get away with it."
"No, but kid you could have keep it cool" Baloo commented, "You letting that man getting into your head, just forgot about him he's nothing."
Mowgli's eye went low as he understood what they were trying to say and realised what he had done. However, he was still very troubled by Buldeo's behaver towards the baby elephant.
"Alright, come on Baloo you got a lesson to teach" Grey reminded.
"Okay" Baloo raised up while stretching from his legs out wide.
Mowgli got up and started to walk with them, till Kitty called out, "Mowgli, aren't you meant to be your room?" Kitty crossed her arms and her eyes stare in distrustful.
"I just wanted to ask Baloo something that's all" Mowgli answered but Kitty responded with one of her eye-brows high, Mowgli added, "In private."
Kitty sign quietly and left them to go on as she walks back into the man-village, while the others continued walking slowly for they wanted to hear what Mowgli wanted to ask.
"So, what's up, kid? You looked like you're desperate" Baloo said.
"Baloo, say like you really someone, and that someone asked you to meet up with their father tonight. What do you do?"
"Go with it" Baloo answered straight away.
"What?" Mowgli looked confused to what Baloo meant by that, "But, wouldn't you be, I don't know, a bit worried."
"Well if the guy doesn't like you, so what, it isn't going to change Kitty's thoughts about you" Baloo explained while hiding his cheeky smile, made Mowgli smiled a little.
"Yeah, you're the same about thinking about Kitty, a lot" Grey commented. With a cheeky smile.
Mowgli smiled a bit then quickly realised what Grey just said, he lied, "I don't."
"Oh please, you even sometimes mumbled her name in your sleep" Grey added, Mowgli felt really embarrassed about that and Baloo giggled.
"But you'll be fine" Baloo said calming Mowgli down, suddenly changed the feeling, "But mostly the father doesn't like the male from his daughter."
"Okay, I just going to go with it, just like what you just said" Mowgli said to calm himself.
Mowgli tried to calm himself down a bit and decided now to walk back to the man-village, while Baloo and Grey continued walking together.
"Why did you think that snow came from the moon?" Grey asked just to figured out where that ridiculous idea came from.
"They said that the moon was white, and the snow is white…" Baloo started his answered.
"That still doesn't explain, I mean clouds are white, so are some flowers, and Raksha's fur."
"Yeah, but snow falls from the sky, and the moon is up in the sky" Baloo explained.
"Baloo, you are probably the most craziest, slothful bear I have ever met" Grey said.
"Good, so that makes me the one and only in this jungle" Baloo smiled.
Back at the village in silent, Mowgli was laying in his dark green hammock while swinging it side to side. Resting his head against the soft fabric as his eyes look up straight at the ceiling thinking a lot about Buldeo, the baby elephant, and what Sanjay shouted him at for. He slowly got up off from his hammock and walked towards his window which gives him a great view of the jungle. Mowgli stare right at the jungle and sign gently for what something is troubling him, and he doesn't know what.
