Pocahontas and John soon started talking. As they got to know each other they became friendly not only towards each other but also the non-humans and I as well. At one point, Pocahontas looked at her reflection in John's helmet.
"It's called a helmet." John explained.
Flit suspiciously tapped the helmet and looked at his reflection...until he soon got at an angle where his face looked enlarged and threatening. That scared him, and he flew away in fright.
"So what river is this?" John asked, indicating the river in front of us.
"Quiyoughcohannock." Pocahontas answered, trying on John's helmet.
"You have the most unusual names here," John said. "Chicahominy, que...Quiyoughcohannock, Pocahontas."
"You have the most unusual name too," Pocahontas said. "'John Smith'."
John suddenly noticed Meeko in his pouch eating his biscuits.
"Hey! Is this bottomless pit a friend of yours?" He asked, pulling Meeko out of his pouch.
"Meeko." Pocahontas introduced, taking Meeko.
"Well, how do you do Meeko?" John said, holding out his hand for a handshake.
Meeko looked excited about something, but when he searched John's hands, he ended up disappointed. It was obvious that he was looking for food.
"It's all right," John said. "It's just a handshake."
He held out his hand to Pocahontas, but Pocahontas only looked at it. There was a pause.
"Nothing's happening." Pocahontas pointed out.
"No, I need your hand first." John explained.
Pocahontas put her hand in his, and they shook hands.
"It's how we say hello." John explained.
Meeko looked at his paw, then he grabbed Flit's beak and shook it. This caused Flit to go up and down very quickly.
"This is how we say hello," Pocahontas said. "Wing-gap-o." She said, waving her arm in an arch above her head and then waving it in front of her as if she was showing a long display.
"Wing-gap-o." John repeated.
"And how we say good-bye: ana." Pocahontas said, waving her hand as if she were slowly swatting a fly – which actually fits.
"I like 'hello' better." John said, holding her hand.
Flit didn't seem happy about that, he went over and separated their hands. Then he yelled angrily in John's face.
"Yeah, I remember you." John said seriously.
Flit flew to Pocahontas's finger.
"Flit just doesn't like strangers." Pocahontas explained.
"Well I'm not a stranger anymore." John pointed out, offering his hand in a friendly gesture.
Flit wasn't going to give in that easily, he poked John's finger with his beak.
"Stubborn little fellow, isn't he?" John said, checking his finger for a wound: no wound.
"Very stubborn." Pocahontas agreed as Flit gave John a raspberry.
Flit grinned sheepishly to Pocahontas.
Meeko ended up in John's pouch again, but this time what he had wasn't a biscuit.
"Hey!" John said.
Meeko scampered away.
"Meeko come back here!" Pocahontas said.
"Don't worry, he can't hurt it." John said.
Meeko then started banging what he had on a rock.
"Hey!" John cried, making a leap for Meeko. "What are you doing?"
John missed Meeko, and Meeko climbed a large tree nearby.
"Meeko bring that back!" Pocahontas ordered.
"No, it's all right, he can keep it." John said, lying on the ground. "Call it a gift!"
Meeko banged his 'gift' on the tree this time.
"What was that?" Pocahontas asked.
"My compass." John said.
"Compass?"
"It tells you how to find your way when you get lost," John explained. "But it's all right, I'll get another one in London."
"London?" Pocahontas said. "Is that your village?"
"Yes, it's a very big village."
"What's it like?" Pocahontas asked.
"Well, it's got streets, carriages, and bridges over the rivers, and buildings as tall as trees."
"I'd like to see those things." Pocahontas said.
"You will." John said.
"How?"
"We're going to build them here." John said, swinging from a low tree branch. "We'll show your people how to use this land properly, how to make the most of it."
"Make the most of it?" Pocahontas repeated.
"Yes, we'll build roads, and houses, and..."
"Our houses are fine." Pocahontas said almost sternly.
"You think that, only because you don't know any better."
Insulted, Pocahontas, Kaya, and I ran away to the canoe.
"Wait a minute, don't take it that way! Hey wait!" John called, running ahead of us and held the front of the canoe so we couldn't move.
"There's so much we can teach you," John said. "We've changed the lives of savages all over the world..."
"Savages?" Pocahontas, Kaya, and I cried angrily.
"Not that you're savages..."
"Just my people!" Pocahontas said angrily as Kaya and I glared.
"No! Listen, that's not what I meant...let me explain..."
"Let go!" Pocahontas and I ordered angrily.
"No, I'm not going to let you leave." John replied.
Pocahontas and I climbed onto a large branch and started climbing the large tree. Kaya ran through the water back to our friends. Kirsten put her arm around Kaya and frowned at John.
"Look, don't do this," John said, following us up the tree. "Savage is just a word, you know, a term. People who are uncivilized..."
"Like me?" Pocahontas said.
"Well, when I say uncivilized, I mean is...is..." John said, grabbing a branch.
Suddenly, the branch broke off in his hand and he fell to the ground. His helmet fell onto his head, causing the team and other Superwolves to wince.
"Oo that had to hurt." Sheegwa said sympathetically.
The rest of the team and other Superwolves nodded in agreement. Even Kaya, who still looked insulted, agreed.
Pocahontas and I jumped onto the ground without getting hurt.
"What you mean is, 'not like you'." Pocahontas finished.
POCAHONTAS AND I:
You think that I'm an ignorant savage
And you've been so many places
I guess it must be so
But still I cannot see
If the savage one is me
How can there be so much that you don't know?
You don't know...
You think you own whatever you land on
The earth is just a dead thing you can claim
But I know ev'ry rock and tree and creature
Has a life, has a spirit, has a name
Pocahontas and I led John and the others to a cliff that overlooked the settlers' settlement, where Kaya disapprovingly saw that some of the trees had been cut down. We then led them to an area with a thick patch of small trees. Pocahontas rested her hands on a solo tree and a rock that were nearby. I rested my muzzle into the patch of trees. At 'has a name', I threw my muzzle out of the forest, causing a bird to fly off it and into the air. The bird didn't mind though, to him I was only giving him a boost into the air. A whole flock of butterflies also flew out of the patch of trees, and turned our attention to a bear on the cliff-like hill next to us.
You think the only people who are people
Are the people who look and think like you
But if you walk the footsteps (paw-prints) of a stranger
You'll learn things you never knew you never knew
John aimed his gun at the bear – which surprised the bear – but Pocahontas pushed the gun down. At the third line, I actually did 'follow the bear's paw-prints' as the bear led us to his den…er, make that 'her', the bear was a mom. Pocahontas picked up one of the cubs and put him into John's arms, the bear playfully swiped at John's helmet.
Have you ever heard the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
Or asked the grinning bobcat why he grinned?
Can you sing with all the voices of the mountain?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Can you paint with all the colors of the wind?
Instead of singing I howled during the first two lines. The team and other Superwolves actually have been amazed about how well I howl for a human, but that is only because I practice howling.
I then rejoined Pocahontas in singing. At the last two lines, my friends noticed that all of our colors were melting into the wind! The wind picked us up and swirled us around, causing us to leap off the cliff! The wind held us up and made us fly instead of fall fortunately, but surprisingly the wind then acquired the shapes of deers! The deer-wind led us to a cliff, and we uncontrollably leapt down. Fortunately we landed safely, though the team and other Superwolves were quite startled.
Come run the hidden pine trails of the forest
Come taste the sun-sweet berries of the earth
Come roll in all the riches all around you
And for once, never wonder what they're worth
John, Pocahontas, and the team and I ran the pine trails with a stag and doe running beside us. We then leapt off a small hill and rolled on the grass. That excluded the Eds though, they tripped, tumbled, and landed in a nearby sunflower patch instead.
The rainstorm and the river are my brothers
The heron and the otter are my friends
And we are all connected to each other
In a circle, a hoop that never ends
Pocahontas, John, and us four Superwolves, ended up in a lake – the team watched from the shore – and we swam to the surface. Six eagles watched us too, especially after we got back onto land.
Camera pulled a cool shot so that it looked as if we were inside an eagle's eye while we were lying down on the ground, and then pulled away to reveal that we were holding the eagles. John and Pocahontas held two of the eagles with their arms, and the four of us held four others with our muzzles.
How high does the sycamore grow?
If you cut it down, then you'll never know
We gently tossed the eagles into the air, and the eagles flew to the tops of the sycamore trees. The light coming from the sun behind the trees caused a neat glow on us.
And you'll never hear the wolf cry to the blue corn moon
For whether we are white or copper-skinned
We need to sing with all the voices of the mountain
We need to paint with all the colors of the wind
You can own the earth and still
All you'll own is earth until
You can paint with all the colors of the wind
We ended up back near the river, and the multi-colored leaf wind came back. It blew past John and surrounded our friends. One leaf in particular caught their eyes, because it was weirdly shaped. It in fact looked like a rake with a really thick handle and triangle prongs, but there was one detail, which Snap suddenly noticed, that made the leaf even stranger.
"It's a chalk leaf!" He gasped.
Everyone couldn't believe it at first, until the leaf blew onto a rock and water dripping down from a tree erased it. Everyone suddenly freaked out, because they noticed that right above the rock were two glowing blue eyes! The eyes winked, and disappeared.
Suddenly we all heard drumbeats, which startled the team even more until they recognized the sound.
"What is it?" John asked Pocahontas.
"The drums," Pocahontas explained. "They mean trouble, I shouldn't be here."
"I want to see you again."
"I can't." Pocahontas said, almost reluctantly.
"Please don't leave." John pleaded.
"I'm sorry, I have to go."
The team and other Superwolves and I separated again, and Camera followed John and his 'crew' back to camp.