After this there's one more chapter to do for the Jungle Loud. Then I'll do more next year, and there's gonna be a time skip.
In the Loud family's treehouse Lynn SR and Rita gathers the family and discuss about the recent events.
Soon all the Loud siblings were in the living room, they all sat down some on the floor a few in the furniture.
Rita says to her children: "Ok, as you know we've heard about the 'incident' with Kerchek." She started, Lynn SR adds: "Yeah, that's guy had it out for me for years! I mean, I have always respected and followed the rules." Rita speaks again: "True, and Lincoln you were only doing it to impress a girl." She spoke in an understanding tone. "But this doesn't excuse what you did with Kerchek."
Lori speaks up in her brother's defense: "True. But that guy, he literally been hating us and Dad for years! Nothing we do regardless being good is enough!" Lynn JR speaks in agreement: "Yeah, even my rhino dad's more tolerable than Kerchek." The eldest and the athletic sisters spoke for their brother.
But as for Lincoln he still felt guilty and he betrayed his adopted grandmother and his father's adopted gorilla family. Lynn SR says to his son gaining his attention: "Lincoln? Son?" He turns to his father: "Hu? What?" Rita says to him: "We were talking about Kerchek's outbursts and what you did." She explains to him.
Then the white haired boy says to everyone: "Listen, I've been thinking. I love Ronnie Anne, and I just can't live without her." He started to his family. "That's why I've decided to leave." Which shocked everyone.
Luna questions her little brother: "Dude, why are you tellin' us this bro?" To which he answers the wolf sister with musical talent: "Ronnie Anne and her family came to visit, I saved Ronnie Anne from some baboons. I'm in love with her, and I lead them to the gorillas and when Kerchek notice, he went mad at me and said I betrayed them all both the apes and my animal Forster family." He spoke feeling sad.
Rita and Lynn SR exclaims: "What?!" They spoke in total shock.
Then Lincoln's friends came in overhearing the conversation, Stella enters through the window and says: "Everyhing he's telling you is the truth Mr and Mrs Loud." Then Liam the honey badger speaks with his southern accent: "Yeah, and judgin' the way her acted and sound he was vury angry to say the least." He spoke of Kerchek's rage.
Rita heavily sighs then says to her whole family: "Kids, it's time to tell you. From my side I was born in America, as for your father he was born in Africa, as for his parents they were in Scotland." She explains his origin, "The only reason why he doesn't have Scottish accent is because of me, teaching him English." She continues to explains his origin.
The white haired boy thinks for a moment, regarding his parents' words, then Lincoln says openly: "So it's true. And maybe…maybe I didn't belong here in the first place." He spoke feeling remorse in his words, but Lana says to him: "Lincoln you know that's not true." She tries to convince him.
But he replies to his young sister as he place his hand on her right shoulder: " It is true, Lana. It's over, I'm leaving the jungle. And now you, Lola, Lucy, and Lily will have to continue your journeys without me." He said to his other younger sisters.
Lily sniffing as she sheds teary eyes: "Why?" She was sad for her elder brother, "Why can't you stay here?" Lincoln kneels down and says to her: "Lily, I'm proud of being your brother. But now Lucy and the others job to take care of you. Any I must go with the other humans." He said as he looks through his grandfather's trunk and takes a suit his size and enters a private room.
In half an hour Lincoln emerges from the room wearing the suit. Rita and Lynn SR were said even tearing up. He walks to them and says to his family: "No matter where I go, you will always be with me." To which Lori replies to her brother: "And you will in our hearts." They hug him and he hugs them back.
Lily questions her parents given her mother's country of origin and her father's parents' origins as well: "Will we go with them too?"
Lynn SR says to his youngest daughter: "No Lily." Rita adds to the conversation: "We're staying here. Because it's where we belong." They all settled on in agreement, minus Lynn JR. Lincoln says to them: "I guess this is goodbye."
Lynn JR stops him by standing in front of the door, Lincoln questions his sister: "Lynn? What are you…?" Before he can finish his sentence his athletic sister says to him: "It's not true! You're abandoning us for your selfishness!"
Lincoln replies to her: "I have to! I betrayed everyone and everything in the jungle. It's my own fault for letting Ronnie Anne and the others there." He said still feeling remorseful.
So Lincoln pushes her aside gentle, but before he can go down the rope latter, Lynn JR stops him still tries to stop him from leave. "You don't get it, Lynn! I can't stay, I can't abandon Ronnie Anne. I have to go to America with her. If I can't go with her and her family tomorrow, the boat will leave for America without me." He explains to her and what he must do.
Luna says regarding the situation: "Wow dude, the rough bro." Lynn Jr walks up to her brother and says to him: "Lincoln stop this nonsense, and just stay here. Besides there are other human women like the local natives." But the white haired boy replies to his older and athletic sister: "Lynn, I can't. True there's native girls but…none of them are like Ronnie Anne. If I don't go with her, I'll regret it for the rest of my life." He explains his personal pain and of he chooses to stay it will haunt him for the rest of his life.
But Lynn JR still tries to convince him to stay: "Linky, listen to yourself, you're not a civilized person, you're a wild kid. You are a lion-man!" She exclaims to which he replies: "For how much longer?! If Kertchek sees me then I'm done for! Then what will I do then, Lynn?! You tell me!" They argued like a lion and a rhino.
Lynn promotes the true self of Lincoln: "Somewhere under that suit, is a boy who lived his whole life in the jungle, growing up with a foster family of lions, just like the rest of his sisters who grew up with other animals, and he lived his life free and cared for this jungle and it's creatures. And I came all this way here so you can stay Stinkoln. Because I love hiking as my brother." She said to him reassuring and reminding him. Lincoln still being stubborn says: "Well you waisted your time." He crosses his arms and turns around.
All the Loud family saw this and felt sad, Lincoln and Lynn have had their arguments in the past but never like this. Lynn sees this is a lost cause so she gives up. Lynn says to her sisters: "Let's go everybody." Luan questions her: "But what about Lincoln?" To which the athletic sister says: "He's leaving us." She simply answers.
The Loud sisters all exit the treehouse all different ways, some swinging on vines and few climbing on tree limbs. Lily and Lucy look back one last time before leaving into the darkness.
Lincoln looks at Lynn one last time as well and says to her: "I don't have a choice, sis. This is my only chance." To which Lynn JR questions him: "To do what Lincoln? To live life as a civilized man and never know your family's love again or the jungle's freedom again? Some life." She leaves by climbing down the rope latter. He felt sad by her words, but Rita walks up to him and places her hand on his shoulder, kneeling down and says to him: "Don't Worry honey. One day they'll understand your decision to leave. This is your life, live it as you want." She ensures him and that his fate is his own for better or for worse.
In the jungle at night, Haiku was rushing faster trying to reach the Loud family, she reaches their territory but while her spirit was willing to go but her body needed to rest underneath a tree and wait till morning.
The next morning Lincoln is on a small boat rowing to the ship, in the jungle Clyde, Stella, Rusty, Liam, Lana, Lola, Lucy, Lily and his foster lion family rushes through trying to reach the beach. Clyde exclaims as he spirals: "Lincoln! Where do we go?!" Rusty answers: "Go left!" To which the elephant, runs to the left, running towards the beach. Liam says in disbelief: "I don't believe it! He's leaving us!" Stella points out from last night: "Well it's because of the whole betrayal last night." Liam speaks up: "Oh right. And when Kerchek chase us for a couple of hours. I forgot how fit he is." But then they reach the beachhead but again its too late by he was already gone.
They watched as he was already half way to the boat, Clyde says in sorrow: "We didn't get a chance to say goodbye." He sits on his rear end. While the other sisters all sat down too, everyone was so sad, Liam was angry and sad he yells at Lincoln even though he's too far to hear: "Yeah, well, good riddance I say! Alright?" He started throwing sand and small rocks at Lincoln's direction. "Go ahead, get outter here, ya white haired boy! You ingrate! You white haired ingrate! Go ahead and rot, for'll I care!" He was so said he stops throwing rocks.
Lana says with tears running down her cheeks: "By Linky." Lola adds also sad: "We're gonna miss you." Lucy speaks in a dark poetic form: "Gone are the days of my brother's jungle life, now a slave to the civilized light." She drowned in sorrow more than usual Lily began to cry louder. Then coming out of the jungle is Haiku, they all turn to see the Japanese girl looking exhausted her clothes ripped and covered in scratches and mosquito bites.
Lucy questions her fellow gothic friend: "Haiku, what are you doing here?" To which the Japanese girl who's a shaman in training answers: "I came to stop Lincoln." Lola bluntly says: "Well you're a little late." Lana also speaks as she points to the ship: "He's heading for the ship for America." Haiku replies to them: "Ho no, I'm too late!" Lucy questions her friend: "Why? You didn't get to say goodbye?" Haiku explains: "No. You see I had a vision of the Heart of the Jungle being stolen. And you and the rest of your family were killed and the animals enslaved." This shocked the girls and the animals, they realize their friend and brother was in danger.
On the small boat next to ship's side, as the Casagrandes climbs the rope latter, Ronnie Anne says to Lincoln: "Oh, Lincoln, you can't imagine what's in store for you. You'll see the whole world, my friends back home are just gonna love you." Carlos says to the young boy: "And there's interesting schools you'll make new friends there." He said as he climbs the ladder leaving Ronnie Anne and Lincoln alone.
Ronnie Anne continues to speak: "Well like my uncle said, you'll love it." Lincoln replies to her: "And I'll be with Ronnie Anne." This was a bit of a shocker to her and she nervously says to him: "Uh-huh. Yes, will be with me." She laughs as he tries to grab the rope latter but misses. "Ooh! Slippery." She gets a grip and starts to climb the rope latter. Lincoln looks back at jungle one last time, then he starts climbing.
When he reaches the deck, but to his surprise and confusion seeing Morag's own personal men taking the crew, Angus and Ronnie and her family hostage, they struggle but to no avail, Ronnie Anne bites down on one of the thug's hands causing him some pain and allowing to free her mouth, she yells: "LINCOLN!"
Lincoln turns from her to the thugs who tries to capture him, but his agility and quickness he dodges them and tries to escape them. He tries to get to her but there's too many so he climbs one of the funnel of the ship, he sees her again, Ronnie Anne exclaims: "LINCOLN!" He yells back at her also worried: "RONNIE ANNE!" He jumps to the next funnel of the ship. But he can't get a grip, and the shoes didn't help him gain a grip either. Soon he fall and could died but some crates breaks his fall.
He groans in pain as the thugs hold him down and tie his hands behind his back. Then a gun shot is made, it came from Morag's gun who exclaims: "What's going on here?!"
Lincoln beseeched her: "Morag! Morag help us!" Morag playing coy asks Lincoln: "Have we met before?" She recognizes him. "Ah, Lincoln Loud the lion-boy. I hardly recognize you without your savage appearance." Lincoln in rage yells to her: "Morag! You…you…TRAITOR! You jackal!" But then she hits him in the stomach with the butt of her rifle.
Morag hollowly apologies: "Sorry about the rude welcome boyo. But I couldn't have you making a scene until we put your lil furry friends in their cages." She explains herself to him, Lincoln questions her motives: "Why? Kerchek was right about you. I should've listened to him and the others animals, instead of betraying them!" The Scottish woman answers: "I'll tell you why. For three hundred pounds sterling a head for the gorillas, lions, and rhinoceros. If anything they're worth their wait in gold. But on a personal note is to finish what my ancestor started. You see, my ancestor banished yours by controlling your family dragon and hid it in this journal." She held the same book, and adds to it. "And like her I'll use the Heart of the Jungle, I'll have the animals turn against your family. Can you taste the irony in it?" Lincoln was a mixture of emotions angry, shocked and betrayal unlike anything. "Lock him up with the others." The thugs do as told, "NNNNNNOOOOOOOO!" Lincoln yells.
On the beach head, Lucy, Lana, Lola, Lily, Haiku, Clyde, Stella, Liam, Zach and Rusty heard his yell all the way to their location. Lana says regarding the yell: "That's Lincoln! He must be in trouble." Clyde speaks of experience: "He must be in over his head." Lola finishes: "Thank you what are we waiting for?! An invitation?! Let's go!" With that, all mount on Clyde who charges through the dense and thick tree limbs and leaves but they didn't know Clyde could swim. The humans and animals were soaking wet and Lucy and Haiku's black makeup was washing off.
Clyde exclaims: "I've never felt so alive in years!" Zach says to him dripping wet: "Good! Cause I'm gonna kill you afterwards!" With that Lincoln's sisters and friends all swam under water holding their breath and hanging on as Morag and some of her men on a steam boat sails back to the shore.
On the ship in brig, Lincoln is bouncing off the walls like a caged wild animal, and all the crew, Agnus, Casagrandes can only do is watch, some in horror feel a bit frightened by this. Angus says openly: "I can't believe this. I feel like such a fool." Carl speaks in agreement: "Yeah. But if we're mad, look at Lincoln, he's really angry."
Ronnie says to Lincoln: "Lincoln stop! It's no use!" She walks to her stops jumping but still feral, when Ronnie Anne touches him, he turns but growls at her. But in a moment he has a moment of weakness and simply speaks: "Morag." The Latino girl says to him: "Yes, Morag. Morag betrayed us all. I'm so very sorry, Lincoln." But the white haired boy feels the responsibility: "No. I did this. I betrayed my families. Kerckek was right. Lynn was right too. I should've stayed with them but I didn't listen." He curls up into the corner feeling the shame and guilt over his head.
Maria speaks to the boy: "Lincoln, you made a mistake, that means you're only human. If only we could get out of here, we contact the united nations for help. But we can't since we in the brig, imprisoned by those thugs." She spoke angrily in the end of her sentence.
Carlos gets up speaks his mind regarding what Morag's plan on doing: "Yes, trapped like rats. I can't imagine the fate that waits the magnificent animals, shivering in cages, put on display in some zoo or sold to the highest bidder, or some of them under Morag's spell, forced against their will. What is this world, coming to?!" He exclaims as he bangs on the wall, this causes the ship to tilt and everyone slides down hitting the wall on impact.
Carlota questions her own father: "Wow dad, did you do that?" Carlos answers just as shocked: "I may be strong, even though I go out to the gym. I may have the perfect combination of brains and bronze, but I'm not that strong." Outside Clyde and the others climb on to the ship tilting to even level, but the people in the brig slides to the center.
Carls openly asks: "What was that? And can we do it again?" Rosa openly speaks and asks: "Where did I get such a grandson?"
On the deck of the ship, Clyde, Stella, Rusty all fought the thugs throwing them around like rag dolls, in the end Clyde triumphant bellows his trunk, the bashes through the cage floor his foot over Hector just as he gets up. Hector says regarding the sound: "Hu, everyone call me crazy but I could've sworn I heard an elephant."
Lincoln with a smile says as he sees his friend: "Clyde!" The elephant is also happy and lifts Lincoln out of the brig, Lincoln sees his younger sisters, and his friends who are all happy to see him. Even Haiku who says to him: "As touching as this is, we don't have much time." Lincoln says to them: "She's right, Morag's got the…" Lucy finishes: "The Heart of the Jungle." Lana adds to it: "And she plans to control the animals to hurt our family." Lincoln speaks to them: "Wow, you know much as I. Did you know she plans to sell the animals as well." Lana says: "To be honest we didn't." Lincoln says to them: "You guys free the crew and Casagrandes, I'm going home." With that he jumps off the ship and dived into the ocean.
Ok, this is the second to last chapter. After this on June 10, I'm going on vacation to Gettysburg with my parents. When I return I'll finish this story and go back to Dragons and Transformers stories.