Song: Jungle Rhythm
From: Jungle Book 2
Start song at (1)
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"That was so cool Jack!" Max exclaimed. "I didn't know you to bring ice to life."
"Well I don't actually bring ice and frost to life." Jack explained. "It's more like I create intricate puppets and my powers move them like invisible strings."
"Amazing!" Candace said. "What else can you do?"
Jack thought about that. "Let's see. I can-"
"Can you dance?" Timmy interrupted. That caused everyone to giggle but Timmy paid them no mind as he focused on Jack.
"Oh, I can dance. In fact I know a dance that I'm sure none of you have seen yet." Jack turned back to the window. "I was once in India-"
"India? But isn't really hot there?" Timmy interrupted again.
Jack turned back. "Yes, at this very moment it is in fact 81°F, that's 27°C, with the humidity of 85%."
The adults looked skeptical until one of Jamie's uncles shouted: "he's right!" And showed his phone screen that displayed the current temperature in Mumbi India.
"How did you do that?" Grandpa Bennett asked, eyeing Jack as if the white haired boy he may have a hidden phone of his own.
"Part of being a spirit with ties to nature." Jack explained as he used his staff to lean and recline against. "I know the weather conditions all over the planet."
"But if India is hot, how can you have spent time there?"
"I can control the temp around me so I stay comfortable in just about any climate, though if I fly over an active volcano I have a very hard time compensating."
"So you don't stick with winter all the time?"
"I bounce around, and every so often I get a request to help other spirits with the weather. However mostly I stick to winter."
"Requests to help with the weather?" Jamie asked curious.
By this time Timmy had crossed his arms and was starting to pout. Completely forgetting that he was the one who had asked about India's temperature, Timmy thought the conversation had fallen far, far away from his original question about Jack's dance moves.
This did not go unnoticed by Jack who decided to answer Jamie's question and at the same time bring the conversation full circle. "Yep, In fact, it was one such request that brought me to India in the first place." He looked at the window again and a great idea struck him. "Hey, want to help me make some more Frost drawings?" Soon every window was being used as a canvas as clouds, trees, rain, and wind pictures were drawn to help Jack illustrate. "Great job everyone." The spirit noticed the rapt attention everyone, young and old, were giving him. He brought the drawings out of the glass and made them 3-D.
"A rain spirit had asked me to help make one major downpour over the jungle." Jack started his story; he moved the creations in front of him and adding miniature versions of himself and the rain spirit. "I added the cold front that would be big enough to cause the right conditions and together the needed rain fell. It was after the rain stopped that I heard the sounds of the jungle below." The windows were frosted again and the family of Bennett's joined Jack in making various animals.
(1) "As the sun came out I heard the animals awake and their sounds began to merge into a kind of rhythm. The rhinos grants of pleasure in the cool air, the birds calls and tapping as they shook the trees, the bees buzzing in their search for nectar. When I looked to the rain spirit they started to swing and shake their arms to the sounds.
'It's the jungle rhythm." They told me when they saw my questioning face. "Don't fight it, just let the freedom of the music movie you.'
I took their advice and was soon dancing right along with the spirit and animals. They stomped their paws, flap their wings, trumpeted, cawed, chattered, bayed, honked, and howled. I saw monkey swinging through the trees. A pack of wolves howling with the harmony, and even more. It moved to me with its feelings of freedom, craziness, and just plain fun!"
With each word and description the images on the window started dancing to life. Small bees buzzed around, wolves ran and chased in circles, and monkeys swung from the ceiling and scampered on the ground. Rhinos, elephants, and large cats lifted kids and adults alike onto their backs. The living room became a combination dance floor and circus seen. Everyone was clapping, trumpeting, chattering, or singing. The Bennett family became a jungle of animals. Jack truly doubted anyone would soon forget this, not with all of them experiencing it at the same time.