JB3 2: THE RED FIRE.
Red smoke filled the air as it's blood red fire spread throughout the Jungle, consuming everything in it's path as animals fled for their lives, trying to get to safety, with the whole jungle being blood red from the fire and the smoke. Mowgli slowly opened his brown eyes and discovered that he was traveling a whole lot faster than his body would permit him to. No living thing could run as fast as he was running. But something didn't quite add up. If he was running, then...why didn't he feel his legs moving? The little boy looked up at his legs and saw that they weren't moving. Wait a second. Up? That couldn't have been right. Last he had check, when a person looked at their legs, they usually looked down to see them. You looked up when you wanted to see the...sky. It was true. When the child had looked up, he saw, not only his legs and feet...but the sky, itself. He then looked down and saw that he was very high up from land. Then, he suddenly realized something. It hit him like a ton a bricks. He was falling out of the sky...up-side-down. The boy closed his eyes, passing out.
"I've been having these weird dreams lately. Like, is any of this for real or not?"
Mowgli continued to fall from the sky, slightly unconscious. As he fell, the scent of fire, smoke and brimstone entered his nostrils, and the sound of panicing animals and screaming people entered his eargate. The child continued plumitting until a flash of red light. The boy's brown eyes shot opened and he looked at his surroundings and saw that the whole village was red and in flames, as well as giving off red smoke, as all of it's people fled, screaming in terror.
"What in the world is going on?" Mowgli asked.
He then looked in front of him and saw the back of Shanti standing in the river outside the red, burnning village.
"Shanti!" Mowgli ran out of the village and stopped at the river. "Shanti, is that you? Are you alright?"
Shanti, then slowly turned around and faced the boy, revealing herself. "Mowgli." She extended a hand, ussering for the boy, known as Mowgli, to come out into the river with her.
"Shanti!" Said Mowgli before he rushed out into the river, making his way up to her and then embracing her with a hug. "Where did all this fire come from? What's going on?"
Rather than answer his question, Shanti pushed Mowgli off of her and tackled him down into the pond, holding the boy under water.
Under water, Mowgli held his breath as he looked at the relection of Shanti that was on the surface. As he looked at her, he realized that he was going deeper and deeper under water. The boy attempted to swim back up to the surface, but the under water curant proved to be too strong for him and carried him ferther down under the water. The area then changed and Mowgli surfaced, gasping for air. He looked around and saw that he was standing in the river between the burnning jungle and the burnning village.
"Mowgli!" Came four voices.
Mowgli looked to his right and saw Shanti, Ranjan, the village leader and his wife, Messua, standing outside the burnning village near the river. "Shanti! Ranjan! Mom, Pop!"
"Mowgli!" Came other voices.
"Huh?" Mowgli looked to his left and saw his Jungle animal friends, Baloo, the bear, and Bagheera, the black panther, standing outside the burnning jungle. "Baloo! Bagheera!"
"Mowgli, look out!" Said Messua, pointing to the sky.
Mowgli looked up into the sky and saw blood red fire balls fall down on the Jungle and the village, each of them exploding everytime they landed.
"Meteors!" Said Ranjan, pointing at the sky.
As Mowgli continued to look at the sky and see more fire balls fall, he saw something else. Something very strange. He saw...himself? Yes. As crazy as it appeared, it was true. Falling out of the sky, along with the red fire balls, was none other than Mowgli himself. The young boy watched in shock as he saw himself fall out of the sky.
The second unconscious Mowgli landed on his conscious self and they both made a splash landing in the river. Underneath the surface, Having apparently merged into one being, Mowgli could see the reflections of his human family and his two animal friends as the curant carried him ferther under water. Mowgli soon reached the bottom of the river, standing on his feet. In a bright red flash of light, the area changed scenes, and Mowgli looked around and saw that he was no longer standing at the bottom of the river, but was now standing on dry land. Dry, blood red burnning, land. Everywhere he looked, something was either on fire of red from the red fire and smoke. Mowgli turned and looked down from the clift and saw all of the red fire at the bottom, with red smoke coming from it. He then looked across the Jungle and saw that the whole forest was being consumed by the red fire. The red smoke then shapped itself into a red dragon above the jungle. the dragon shapped, red smoke creature turned it's attention to Mowgli and looked at him with it's red glowing eyes.
"Mowgli." Said the dragon in a distorted voice.
Mowgli's eyes widened at the sight of this. But suddenly, he felt the land getting hot beneath his feet. The boy looked down at his feet and then looked back and saw that the red fire was consuming the land he stood upon. The edge of the clift then gave way and Mowgli fell, plummitting down to the bottom, but was able to stop himself from falling by grabbing onto the rocky land of the clift. But was barely hanging on by his fingernails as he slowly started to lose his grip, leaving scrach marks on the clift. While trying his best to hang on, Mowgli looked down at the bottom and saw the burnning red fire lifting up red smoke.
"Mowgli!" Came some voices.
Mowgli looked up and saw Shanti, Ranjan, Baloo, Bagheera, Akela, the wolves and the village leader and his wife, Messua, falling out of the red sky. "Guys!"
"Mowgli!" They all screamed as they all fell past Mowgli.
"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" Mowgli screamed as he looked down and watched as all of his dear loved ones fell to their deaths in the red sea of fire at the bottom. Mowgli tried his best to hang on, but it was no use. The soon lost his grip and continued falling until he landed into the lake of fire that was burnning just below him.