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Peter, Judy and Oscar where we left off were sucked into a board game.
Kookaburras laughed and monkeys hooted and chattered as I awoke in a jungle in what appeared to be the middle of the night as the Amazonian forest was pitch black, with only faint, blue moon light to see by. Oscar squinted at the darkness.
Peter and Judy shivered and huddled frightened by this strange new world.
"Get a room you two..." Oscar sighed.
"Wh-wh-where are we Jude?" Peter asked.
"Well I'll say one thing Peabody. We're not in Kansas anymore..." said Judy.
Oscar chuckled.
Suddenly they heard a beast growling.
"Uh..." Peter saw some eyes... and sharp fangs...
Judy sweated.
A huge goat-like beast that had a hircine head with devilish horns, A beastly corruption of a man's body but coated in shaggy fur and hooves instead of feet lunged at them.
The kids screamed.
However a burly, hairy man tackled the monster and subdued it by swiftly snapping its neck. The man then turned to the three kids.
"Uh mister..." said Peter.
"Jumanji..." said the scruffy, bearded man in a creepy low voice.
Peter gagged and held his nose. the man stank too.
However the man did not get to say any more as a bullet whizzed past. The man fled.
Peter shrugged.
Then another man arrived. However he was taller and thinner. The man looked as if he had stepped out of one of Judy's school history books about the colonial times. The man was dressed in yellow safari clothes for game hunting with an old timey pith helmet. In his arms the grey haired older man held a musket rifle.
"You bloody fools! What are you doing out here in the middle of the night?!" He snarled.
Peter, Judy and Oscar were lost for words.
"Nevermind... Follow me." said the man.
...
Elsewhere the shaggier man with a beard like Robinson Crusoe fled into the night. Flowers spat venomous darts at him but missed.
He bumped into a cartoon yellow sponge wearing pants and a tie.
"Patrick what did you find?" The sponge asked.
"I am no longer Patrick. I am Alan Parrish..." said Alan.
"Okay..." said the sponge.
...
Back to the old fashioned game hunter and three kids, Peter, Judy and Oscar.
They came to a stream with a large boulder in the middle. The old victorian hunter hopped across swiftly.
"Hurry up!" He snapped.
Peter hopped on the boulder but it woke up... The boulder was actually a sleeping hippopotamus.
Peter stumbled off of the beast landing in the stream on his backside.
The Hippopotamus roared.
Peter screamed.
"Hungry hungry hippos!" Oscar screamed.
Judy gawked at him.
The huntsman fired his gun. The hippo retreated.
"Come on!" the hunter snapped.
...
Alan watched them leave. "Oh jeepers! I must rescue those kids from that vile huntsman Van Pelt. The poor youngsters don't know who they're dealing with.
Then he saw a discarded, sopping wet map of Europe on the leafy ground. He was drawn to one country on the map in particular. Finland.
"FINLAAAAAAND!" He yelled startling some birds.
...
The huntsman now named Van Pelt was cutting through some vines with a machete. After Peter, the straggler of the group passed the shredded pieces of tendrils. The green vines reassembled themselves and slithered about.
The four came to a wooden lodge. they had company. There were monkeys everywhere.
Oscar grinned.
There were free monkeys in particular. A large, dimwitted one, however he was also bad tempered as a much smaller one with messy morning hair fired a crossbow bolt at him, it just missed.
The young, wild haired monkey laughed. however his merriment annoyed another monkey who was blind in one eye. his damaged eye white with a cataract and a bloody scar from a fight hooted annoyed and poked the young simian's butt with a crossbow bolt.
"Clear off!" Van Pelt roared firing at the monkeys. They left.
Van Pelt led the three kids inside. The lodge had a lit fire burning. There was a lion pelt lying on the floor and animal heads on the wall. The man was a professional but bloodthirsty trophy hunter.
Peter glanced at the mounted heads. He swore he saw human heads...
"Now children..." Van Pelt lit a pipe. "Tell me, what were you doing in the jungle during the night with that accursed Parrish?"
"This place stinks like an elephant's butt..." Peter said rudely.
"Peter..." said Judy.
"Well it does..." said Peter.
"Answer the question!" Van Pelt shouted in a thunderous tone.
"We were playing a board game called Jumanji and we somehow ended up here." said Judy. "The game transported us here."
"The game?" Van Pelt asked.
"Yes we rolled some dice and a clue came up."
"Clue? I didn't see any clue!" Peter argued.
"Well that's because you don't pay attention! You just wanted to play with the freaky game!" Judy yelled.
The siblings squabble. Oscar noticed Van Pelt loading his gun with cartridges.
"Uh guys..." Oscar stammered.
Peter and Judy were still arguing.
"Smelly head..." said Peter.
"SILENCE!" Van Pelt shot at them but they had vanished.
And this is where the cartoon gets ridiculous... They were on the roof...
"How did we get up here?!" Judy asked.
"I pulled you guys up the chimney! I'm Alan by the way." said Alan Parrish.
"You grabbed us and pulled us up a narrow chimney that you certainly can't fit your wide load down and pulled us through searing hot flames..." said Oscar.
"Look you're safe now... I mean you no harm..." said Alan.
...
They barely got their bearings when Van Pelt shot through the roof. A bullet grazed Judy's leg, which the cart completely ignores! Judy hissed in pain.
The roof then collapsed. They landed on Van Pelt.
"Get off!" The mad huntsman yelled.
There is a ridiculous scuffle where all of Van Pelt's shots completely miss! The kids flee but at the door are lots of crossbow wilding monkeys! The monkeys are ticked off for some reason.
"Uh..." said Peter.
Then Alan manages to dash with the three youngsters past the monkeys and they escape unharmed... Seriously the deus ex machinas the cartoon pulls...
Later the three kids and Alan are far away.
"That guy was nuts..." Peter panted.
"Yes Van Pelt is nuts. He is very dangerous so keep away from him." said Alan.
"We will..." said Judy.
"Well I'm Alan, this horrible place is Jumanji and oh that's a venomous green snake..." said Alan grabbing a snake that was about bite Peter and threw it away somewhere.
"Well I'm-" Peter replied but Judy gagged him with a hand over his mouth.
"We're Bonnie and Clyde..." said Judy.
Oscar laughed.
Peter unable to speak muffled and frowned.
"No actually they're Peter and Judy Shepherd..." said Oscar.
Judy frowned. "Great now a complete stranger knows everything about us..."
"I trust this guy more than that half baked gun toting maniac back in that lodge..." said Oscar.
Judy scoffed.
"Oh and you really need that leg cleaned and bandaged before it turns septic..." said Oscar noticing she hurt her leg from a stray bullet.
"No! Nope! I'm just gonna ignore that ever happened!" said a cartoonist off camera in a film studio.
"Well, it's not safe out here, especially at night. Follow me." said Alan softly.
...
They walked about the dark jungle with Alan explaining things. "Everything here wants to kill you. literally everything..."
"That's real nice..." said Oscar sarcastically.
They came to some monstrous looking plants with teeth and mouths. the toothsome blooms were sleeping.
They passed by the plants with Alan yakking.
What weird flowers... Judy thought. Suddenly a flower grabbed Peter and ate him!
Peter cried out as he was chomped on by the plant.
"HOLY CRUD!" Oscar yelled.
Then the other flowers wake up and sing a broadway way musical number!
"Feed me Seymour!"
Oscar winced.
Alan fights the plant that ate Peter and chokes it, it spat out Peter along with purple gunk.
"Eeeeeugh!" Peter groaned.
"Peter are you alright?" Judy asked.
"That thing tried to kill me!" said Peter.
Alan tied up the plant and fled with the three kids.
"Day time ones are poisonous, night time ones are just bad..." said Alan.
They continued walking with Peter groaning in disgust as he tried to wipe the purple slime off of his clothes.
Then they arrived at a rope bridge. "We need to cross this. I hope we don't come across a panther or something..." said Alan.
They cross the rope bridge. However vines grow along it and ensnare them, then small monstrous maw flowers hiss at them.
"Bad flowers..." said Alan annoyed. He cuts the rope bridge and they fall into the river below.
"Hack! Kack! I can't swim!" Peter whined. Alan keeps him afloat and they swim to safety.
On the river bank they squeeze out their sopping wet hair and clothes.
"Did we need to do that..." Judy sighed. She squeezed water from her pigtails.
"Yeah, I think some panthers were waiting for us. we'll have to make a detour..." said Alan.
Eventually they arrive where he i tended them to go, the foot of a tall cliff.
"A cliff? How are we supposed to climb it?" Peter asked.
A fold up lift unfolded i to a box around then and ascended.
"Neato!" said Oscar.
"Going up!" said Alan joking around. "Any questions?"
"Whats the ax for?" Peter noticed a tiny ax.
"You don't wanna find out.." Alan shivered.
Suddenly a huge vulture swooped at them squawking.
"Aaaaaagh! kill it! kill it!" Oscar screamed.
Alan threw the ax at it. The bird was concussed and fell.
"That's what the ax is for..." said Alan.
...
They soon arrived in a cave.
"Whoooooaaaa!" said the three kids.
"This is home. well it's not the ritz but still.
"So we're safe here?" Judy asked.
"I've been safe hiding in here for um twenty five years or so... Just hope we don't have a monsoon..." said Alan.
Peter, Oscar and Judy looked around.
"It's not much but it my home." said Alan. "Well I can't go back home..."
"Alan, how did you get here?" Judy asked.
"Rolled Jumanji's dice and..."
"Got brought here..." Judy finished his sentence. "Did you get s riddle or clue?"
"Uh no my mom was calling me down for dinner... I've been trapped here since..." said Alan.
Judy sighed.
Peter saw some toys.
"Those yours?"
"Some. Some are from other kids... They weren't so fortunate..." He said glumly.
Peter gulped.
Then whoever wrote this show decided they need to figure out their clue to get out of the deadly jungle dimension inside Jumanji.
"What was your clue?" Alan asked.
"Clear as ice, but worth the price." said Judy.
"Sounds like we should head north towards the Jumanji glaciers." said Alan.
"Okay hold up! I'm not that cruel..." boomed a voice similar to Tony Jay's.
The four friends looked about baffled.
"I am the voice of Jumanji!" said the voice. "You have done well to survive so far..."
"Why are you doing this you mad man?!" Alan yelled.
The voice ignored him. "I shall give you a further hint. What you seek is in this very cave..."
"Well that makes things easier." said Judy.
...
They looked about the cave.
"Well I know my cave like the back of my hand, there's nothing I haven't seen before, well except what's on the other side of this small tunnel. I can't fit you see." said Alan.
"I could." said Peter.
"You are not going in there alone," Judy nagged.
"Jude we need to get out of here..." Oscar frowned.
"Fine..." Judy sulked.
Peter crawled in the tunnel.
"He'll be fine..." said Alan.
Peter emerged in a smaller chamber. There was a box on stilts in there.
"Peabody..." Judy called.
"I'm fine. There's a box in here." said Peter.
"Look inside." said Alan.
Peter did so. There was a jade monkey head puzzle. He took it. "Looks like one of those annoying Rubix Cubes you have Judy."
Judy sighed.
A message appeared within the depths of the box. SOLVE THE PUZZLE. GO HOME.
"Ugh... Looks like I have to solve the puzzle..." said Peter.
"Bring it out here and we'll solve it together." said Judy.
Peter went to but a force field appeared barring the way. He touched the green energy wall. "Ow!" it zapped him. "I can't get out! Jumanji won't let me!"
Judy seethed. "Let my brother go!"
Peter sat down and worked with the puzzle. It was extremely hard as annoying slide puzzles are.
However Jumanji decided to make things even more dangerous and annoying...
A hiss curdled Judy's blood making her shiver. There suddenly was a giant black widow spider in the cave.
Judy screamed.
"HOLY EIGHT LEGS!" Oscar yelled.
The spider hissed.
"Uh Peter... could you hurry up and solve that thing?" Alan stammered.
Peter was trying to solve the puzzle. Jumanji decided to make things difficult for him too. Lots of spiders crawled in, tiny spiders this time.
Peter shivered as they crawled about.
In the main chamber Judy, Oscar and Alan were staring up at an angry and possibly hungry giant spider.
To be continued!