Hatya limped into the jungle, leaving a trail of blood as she said "come out, mancub! Face me!" before her nose twitched at Mowgli and Bahan's scents, seeing the mancub and the tiger running up to the ruins of the Red Flower Temple.

Mowgli carried Bahan up the steps into the dark, open temple. The insides of the temple surrounded a large arena space, while a large monkey statue stood on the side of a ravine of lava. On each corner of the walls was a large stone gong.

Mowgli brought Bahan her behind one of the gongs, where she held his hand to keep him from going. He said "Bahan, stay here, and don't make a sound. Don't worry, I'll come back."

Mowgli hid inside behind another gong, as Hatya entered.

"SO!" she shouted. "A game of hide and seek? Give up, boy. No matter how fast you run... no matter where you hide, I will find you."

Kaa lead Baloo, Bagheera and the other small animals to the outside of the temple, where she said "they're in there. You musssst be careful!"

Bagheera and Baloo climbed up the stairs and entered the arena. They saw Hatya prowling around the front, Bagheera motioning them into one of the walls. "What do we do, Baggy?" Baloo whispered.

"We find them before she does. You go that way. I'll go this way!"

Baloo arrived at one of the gongs as Bagheera arrived at the last one. Ikki and the other small animals arrived in the arena and ran into the walls, arriving at the first gong where Bahan was hiding. The cub smiled as she saw them, Ikki saying "come on, stripes, we're getting you outta here!"

"Ssh! She's coming!" the pygmy hog whispered as they saw Hatya prowling towards the gong. Baloo saw this and looked at the gong he was hiding behind. He used his paws to slam against the gong, making a loud BONG! BONG! that caught Hatya's attention.

Mowgli looked from behind his gong to see Hatya approaching Baloo's, before seeing two sticks on the ground. He picked up the sticks and beat his gong, making a BA-BA-BONG! BA-BA-BONG! sound.

Bagheera saw this and began beating his gong, which went BANG-BANG-BANG-BONG! BANG-BANG-BANG-BONG! as Hatya growled and ran towards it. Bahan saw this and whispered "Baag-ee." before she and the other small animals threw themselves against their gong, going BANG! BONG! BUNG! BING!

Hatya began to pant with exhaustion as she ran around the arena, being distracted by the multiple gongs that played.

BONG! BONG!

BA-BA-BONG!

BANG-BANG-BANG-BONG!

BANG! BONG! BUNG! BING!

BONG! BONG! BA-BA-BONG! BANG-BANG-BANG-BONG! BANG! BONG! BUNG! BING!

"ENOUGH!" Hatya shouted, the echoing of her voice causing the chains on Mowgli's gong to break, falling to the ground and exposing the mancub. The gong beating stopped as Baloo and Bagheera watched Hatya saying "well, out of hiding at last. So, tell me, Mowgli. Where's your little stripy friend, eh?"

Mowgli threw one of the sticks at Hatya, which she caught in her teeth and snapped in two with her jaws, before adding "pathetic. Well, I'm going to count to three. That should make this more interesting. For me, anyway."

Bahan saw this as the pangolin held her back and said "no, you can't go. She'll kill you."

"One..."

Bahan kicked the pangolin off of her and ran out of the gong.

"Two... thr..." Hatya said, before a small growl was heard. Bagheera saw this and said "Bahan!"

Hatya turned to the cub and smiled, saying "there you are... right on schedule!"

Bahan growled again to appear threatening, before Hatya laughed and casually said "boo!" frightening the cub into backing against the gong.

To Hatya's surprise, the pygmy hog stepped forward and stood before Bahan. "What are you up to, honey ham?" Hatya said. "Get out of the way so you won't get hurt."

"NO!" the hog said, before adding "Bahan doesn't have to be afraid of you! And neither do we!"

The other small animals joined the hog, Ikki releasing his quills as Hatya said "well, it's all in a day's work!" as she charged. Mowgli shouted "no!" as he tackled Hatya, Bagheera shouting "Bahan, run! To the stairs!"

Hatya pinned Mowgli down and prepared to kill, before Baloo grabbed the dhole and threw her aside, saying to Mowgli and Bagheera "go! We'll hold her off!"

Bahan ran up the steps, Mowgli shouting "Bahan no!" as he grabbed the tiger to stop her from falling into the lava.

Baloo and the smaller animals fought Hatya, who threw the squirrel into the pangolin and swatted the pygmy hog out of her way as she ran up the stairs. Bahan hissed as she saw the dhole, before Bagheera stepped before her. Hatya groaned and said "you know, I'm just about fed up of everyone trying to save these beasts from me!"

Bagheera turned to face Bahan, who said "Baag-ee."

Bagheera used his claw to draw a line before the cub. He smiled, whispering "do you remember this game?"

Bahan nodded, before Bagheera turned back to Hatya and said "and as for you. If so so much as harm a hair on that cub, you'll have me to answer to..."

"Why you... traitor! I've had enough! I see Raksha isn't a prime enough example, so maybe you just need a little reminder of what happens when you face me!"

Hatya pounced on Bagheera, before the panther stuck his claws in her side and threw her on the ground. Hatya snapped her jaws as she as Bagheera swung his paw and swatted her down again, before she jumped up and bit the panther's neck. Bahan squealed as she saw this, before noticing the end of the line.

Hatya threw Bagheera down the stairs. She said "it's time we put an end to this!" before a voice said "rrraarrrgggh!" as Bahan jumped on her back. Baloo said "would you look at that!" as Bahan clawed and bit Hatya's body, much to the agony of the dhole.

Bahan crawled up to Hatya's neck and stuck her claws onto her snout, pulling them to her cheeks. Hatya swung her head to throw Bahan from her shoulders, the cub gripping Hatya's left ear in her teeth. Everyone stared in shock as a TTTTRRRRIIIIPPP! sound tore through the screams of Hatya as Bahan landed with the dhole's bloodied ear in her mouth.

Hatya exhaled heavily, tears of pain in her eyes as she pressed her paw to the bleeding place on her head where her ear once was, turning to see Bahan and saying "you little brat! I'll tear you apart!"

The dhole ran towards Bahan bloodthirstily, before Mowgli tackled her and pushed her up the stairs to the monkey head statue, both of them struggling inches away from the ravine of lava. Bahan and Bagheera ran up the stairs where Mowgli and Hatya fought.

Hatya saw the cub, throwing Mowgli to the ground as Bahan leaped at her. Hatya gripped the cub's neck in her paws and held her near to the ravine, stopping Bagheera in his tracks as he said "NO!"

The pygmy hog saw this, turning to the others and saying "come on! I've got a plan!"

Mowgli said "Hatya, stop! This is between you and me! Let Bahan go!"

"NEVER! You took something I loved when you came into this jungle, mancub! I'm simply returning the favor! And then it's your turn!"

Bagheera watched hopelessly as Hatya said "go ahead, Bagheera. Comfort her... tell her everything is going to be okay... LIE! Just like I had to!"

The panther sighed and said to the cub "Bahan, dear. You're fine... everything is going to be alright..."

"YEEEOWW!" Hatya shrieked as Bahan sank her teeth into the dholes front leg. Hatya's pain caused her to release Bahan, who ran into Mowgli's arms as Hatya stepped back looking at her wound. To her surprise, her foot slipped over the edge of the ravine.

She dug her claws into the statue to keep herself from falling into the lava. "Mowgli. We must go now!" Bagheera said, Mowgli picking up Bahan and saying "we're right behind you!"

"NO!" Hatya screamed as she gripped Mowgli's leg and she started to fall in, pulling him and Bahan off of the statue.

"If I'm going, you're both coming with me!" Hatya hissed, blood and drool dribbling from her mouth as a blood-red gaze filled her eyes. Mowgli kicked her in the face, causing her to lose her grip as she hit the foot of the statue.

The statue began to crumble as Mowgli and Bahan tried to jump off, before Bahan fell from Mowgli's arms and landed on the statue.

"BAHAN!" Bagheera shouted as he grabbed the cub. The dhole, tiger and panther all fell with the statue, Bagheera wrapping Bahan into a tight embrace as they fell.

To their surprise, something grabbed Bagheera's leg. He and Bahan looked up, to see that they had been caught by a chain made from Mowgli, Ikki, the squirrel, pangolin, pygmy hog and Kaa.

"That was a close one, huh?" Mowgli laughed as Baloo hoisted them all onto the edge. As they were lifted up, Bahan looked down to see the statue floating on the lava, with Hatya climbing on top of it.

"This is not over, mancub!" Hatya shouted, adding "I'll be back! Uh oh!" before seeing the lava falls that stood before her. "No. No-no. NO! This isn't how it's supposed to end! NNNAAAOOOWWW!"

Bagheera turned Bahan away, not letting her look at Hatya's fall. As they landed on the edge, Bahan and Bagheera were wrapped into a tight embrace of all the group. Hatya had been defeated, and now Bahan and Mowgli were safe again.

"Come... it'sss besst we leave now." Kaa said as the animals left, Baloo talking with the pygmy hog as he said "that was some guts you had there."

"I just couldn't her let hurt that little girl." the hog simply answered. As they left, Mowgli looked once more at the river of lava, before joining the rest of the group as they left the temple.