Cherry, Atticus, and Mo and the others were getting ready to visit the jungle village where Mowgli now lived in after defeating Shere Khan and meeting Shanti.

"So, you guys have been to this jungle before?" Darla asked her big brother and his friends.

"Yep." Atticus nodded.

"That must've been amazing..." Darla replied.

"I'll tell you the story some time, but I believe it's time we get going," Atticus smiled to her. "Mom and Dad will watch you."

"No, we can't, we have to meet in the Netherworld." Patrick replied.

"I can stay here home alone." Darla offered.

"Yeah, then Atticus will get paranoid and just come right back." Cherry teased about the time Apple Bloom stayed home alone and Applejack had a freak out.

"You're going with Atticus." Emily said.

"Aw, come on, I'm not a baby..." Darla pouted.

"You're not old enough to be left home alone." Patrick said.

"Aw, come on, yes I can..." Darla replied.

"You're going and that's final." Emily told her.

Darla soon sighed. "All right, I'll go..."

"Alright." Cherry shrugged.

"We just have to get going," Atticus said. "We might get there by dark."

Soon enough, everyone went their separate ways and where he was right about getting there by dark.

"What's that chirping sound?" Darla asked. "Sounds too loud to be crickets."

"It's probably tree frogs, they like warm climates." Cherry replied.

"Yeah." Atticus said.

"I'm just glad the scorching sun isn't out anymore," Patch said as he panted slightly. "I felt like my spots were gonna melt off my fur."

"I'm sure it'll be cooler tomorrow." Mo said.

Cherry looked around until she tripped and rolled down a hill.

"CHERRY!" The others panicked.

Cherry grunted and gasped as she kept falling and soon landed into the village. "Oh, sure, why not?" She groaned.

Atticus soon slid down swiftly and easily with Mo beside him while Darla was coming down safely with Patch. "You okay, Cherry?" he asked.

Cherry glared up in deadpan. "I'm just dandy! I love falling down and humiliating myself like Charlie Brown!"

"I'll take it you're not fine." Atticus said.

Cherry soon stood up and dusted herself clean.

Darla looked over in the distance and she saw what looked like a puppet show by a fire. "Ooh." She smiled.

"Darla, don't wander off too far!" Patch warned as he and the others came to join her.

"I won't." Darla said.

They soon caught up and they came further into the village to see what was going on. It was indeed a puppet show. It started out with a panther with a bouncing baby boy on its back.

"This is me and Bagheera," Mowgli's voice narrated. "The panther who found me in the jungle. He's a good friend of mine, but my best friend of all was good old Papa Bear." he then showed a puppet which was a large bear which of course was Baloo.

'Aw!' Darla thought to herself.

"We had some crazy times together," Mowgli continued. "Though the most craziest time of all had to be when we met those kids who could talk to animals, the first time I've seen other humans."

"He's talking about you guys." Darla whispered to Atticus, Mo, and Cherry.

"Thank you, I couldn't tell." Cherry deadpanned.

Darla simply smiled bashfully.

"And when the monkeys grabbed me," Mowgli continued his story. "Things got really crazy!"

'It sure did.' Mo thought to herself.

"Monkeys!" A young voice cheered.

"Who said that?" Darla asked as she looked around.

Cherry, Atticus, Mo, and Patch moved closer into the village to see that Mowgli appeared to be with Shanti which wasn't a surprise, but he seemed to be with a different family. Perhaps the human family who took him in after he left the jungle.

'That sort of answers my question.' Darla thought to herself.

Mowgli got to the part about the tiger known as Shere Khan which made a young boy try to fight him for threatening Mowgli, Cherry, Atticus, and Mo. Darla giggled as she found what young boy was doing funny.

"You stay away from Mowgli, you mean old tiger!" The young boy glared at the screen. "Or I'll tie some fire to your tail and burn your butt!" he then tackled the screen as he took the puppet play a little too seriously and where this was very entertaining for everyone.

Mowgli hid a smirk as he saw the young boy playing with the screen which made everyone laugh. He soon went to the young boy to pull the screen off him after a few laughs.

"I got him, Mowgli," The young boy smiled. "Did you see? I got him!"

"You sure did, Rajan, but it's gonna be kinda hard to finish the story now." Mowgli replied.

'Oh, I bet Rajan already knows how the story ends.' Patch thought to himself.

"But we all know how it ends," Rajan told Mowgli before he wrapped the sheet around him to look like a girl before balancing a pot on his head. "Shanti blinks her big, beautiful, brown eyes at you and you follow her into our village."

"I did not!" Shanti giggled as she took the pot from the younger boy.

"Did so." Mowgli smirked as he blinked his eyes at her.

"Something was in my eye!" Shanti defended.

"Come on, Shanti, we all know that story." Patch's voice said.

Everyone then turned to see Cherry, Atticus, Mo, and Patch had come back into the village though they had Darla with them this time.

"Hi." Darla greeted.

"Oh, hey, guys," Mowgli smiled. "What a surprise, and who's this?"

"She's pretty..." Rajan smiled shyly to Darla.

"This is my little sister, Darla." Atticus introduced.

"It's nice to finally meet you." Darla smiled to Mowgli.

"Hi there," Mowgli smiled back to Darla. "Oh, your skin's so soft."

"Not as soft as Shanti's~" Rajan teased like a little brother.

"Rajan!" Shanti blushed.

"Besides, something was in both your eyes, Shanti?" Patch teased.

"Well, Mowgli was so ugly that it made my eyes water!" Shanti replied.

"Sure." Patch smirked with an eye roll.

"Now, now, we give thanks for Shanti's beautiful brown eyes," The adult man smiled as he came between Mowgli and Shanti. "Without him, Mowgli would never have found the way into our lives," he then came to his wife as she folded up the sheet. "Come to think of it, you used the same trick on me."

"And you still fall for it." His wife teased as she curled her finger in his beard.

This caused the kids to laugh.

"Thank you for a wonderful story, Mowgli." Shanti's mother smiled before putting her arm around her daughter so they could go home.

'I wonder where we'll stay?' Darla thought to herself.

"So, you're the ones who helped Mowgli against Shere Khan," Mowgli's adoptive father said. "It's so nice to meet you."

"Sorry we didn't have the pleasure before, but we had to get going," Cherry replied. "And sorry we're a bit late, we did what we could to get here."

"Well, it's nice to meet you and you are free to be guests in our village," Mowgli's adoptive mother smiled. "We have spare rooms if you'd like to stay with us, my husband is the leader after all."

"Thank you, ma'am." Atticus smiled.

"Good night, Mowgli~" Shanti smirked and batted her eyelashes to the former feral boy as she went home with her mother.

"Good night, Shanti; watch out for Shere Khan on your way home." Mowgli smirked.

Shanti gasped slightly before glancing back at him. "You and your stories," she then shook her head. "Everyone knows that tigers don't come into the village."

Rajan soon snarled and became menacing against her. "Tigers go wherever they want!"

This caused Shanti to back up into her mother.

"Good night, boys." Shanti's mother told Mowgli and Rajan as she took Shanti back to their home.

Mowgli chuckled. "Tomorrow's gonna be so great."

"And what happens tomorrow?" Mowgli's adoptive mother smirked.

"Um... Nothing!" Mowgli and Rajan smiled sheepishly.

Cherry, Atticus, Mo, Patch, and Darla hid looks on their faces knowing that had to be something.

"Uh-huh, sure." Atticus smirked.

"Uh-huh," Mowgli's adoptive mother agreed. "Well, you'll need plenty of rest for doing nothing tomorrow. Off to bed."

"Aw... We never get to stay up late!" Rajan pouted and folded his arms while yawning.

"Oh, but even wild beasts need their rest." Mo smirked playfully.

"Oh, she's very right," Mowgli's adoptive father agreed as he picked up Rajan before he acted like a wild animal and wiggled around. "Oh, help, ferocious tiger!"

Mowgli smiled to his adoptive family softly as it made him wonder about his biological human family before he was found in the jungle.

"Good night, my little wild thing." Mowgli's adoptive mother soothed as she held Rajan to help him fall asleep.

'He sure is a little wild.' Mo thought to herself.

"Good night, Mowgli, happy dreams." Mowgli's adoptive father hugged the boy.

"Um... Good night... Sir." Mowgli replied.

'Sir?' Atticus thought to himself. 'Why didn't he call him 'Dad'?'

"Why do you call him 'sir'?" Rajan asked Mowgli as he took his hand on their way to bed as he seemed to be thinking the same thing Atticus was thinking. "His name's Pop."

"This is where you all will stay, I trust it's enough room." Mowgli's adoptive mother smiled to the guests as she showed a large room with guest beds and a hammock by the window.

"Thank you... Um..." Cherry was about to say.'

"Messua." The woman gave her name.

"Thank you, Messua." Cherry said.

"Of course, you all have a good night now and we'll see you in the morning." Messua smiled.

They all then quickly unpacked and got settled into their guest beds. Patch climbed into the hammock to try it out while Atticus and Mo decided to share a bed together while Cherry was given her own since she liked her privacy. Darla was given her own bed as well.

'You sure you wanna sleep in the hammock, boy?" Atticus asked his dog since he usually slept at the foot of the bed.

"Just wanna try it out," Patch smiled as he adjusted himself in the hammock. "I'll be in shortly if anything changes."

"Okay." Atticus said.

Patch soon yawned and stretched as he fell asleep in the hammock.

It was easy for everyone to fall asleep since they had a long travel. And where Atticus was going to be sleeping shirtless. Mo snuggled up against Atticus in her sleep with a big smile on her face. Darla hugged her pillow in her sleep.

Cherry had a little bit of trouble sleeping since it was a bit too warm for her tastes as she tossed and turned. Her dream-bending powers soon made the temperature around her colder. "Ah..." she then smiled as she buried herself under the covers and luckily, the temperature didn't affect anyone else so they would be freezing while sleeping.

Everyone slept so good that the next morning seemed to come faster than expected and where Mowgli was going to get a rude awakening. Cherry yawned as she woke up a bit earlier than expected. Since there was more room on her bed, she woke up with a yelp to see that Patch was sleeping on the foot of her bed as she wasn't used to having that happen.

"Uh, Patch?" Cherry asked.

Patch yawned and woke up before turning to her. "Oh, Cherry, I thought this was Darla's bed... I couldn't see you with your head under the covers."

"What're you doing on my bed?!" Cherry asked.

"Oh, I always sleep at the foot of the bed," Patch replied. "I would've slept on Atticus and Mo's bed, but it was too short for me to reach and not sit on their feet."

"Mind getting off then?" Cherry asked.

Patch smiled sheepishly and then moved.

"Now back to bed..." Cherry said, about to go back to sleep.

"It's morning!" Rajan ran into their room and jumped onto her stomach.

Cherry grunted and her eyes widened. "Seriously, Rajan?!" she groaned.

"It's morning, come on, let's go see Mowgli!" Rajan smiled up to her.

Cherry groaned and her head flopped back against her pillow. Rajan soon left her room and went to the next room. The others then suddenly groaned to see what was going on for today.

"What do you suppose Mowgli and Rajan have planned?" Patch asked Atticus as he woke up before blushing to see that Mo was snuggling into his chest.

"Uh... I dunno..." Atticus stammered.

Mo soon woke up to see she was snuggled up to Atticus's chest. Atticus and Mo blushed together.

Cherry shuddered slightly. "Well, if you guys don't mind, I guess we better meet Mowgli and Rajan."

"Ooooohhh..." Darla called out to her big brother. "I'm gonna tell Mom and Dad..."

"Uh, w-we don't need to tell them about this." Atticus smiled nervously.

"Please, Darla..." Mo added.

"Oh, okay..." Darla replied as they decided to see the boys. "So, um, Atticus, why weren't you wearing a shirt when sleeping with Mo?"

"It's hot..." Atticus told her. "I usually sleep without clothes on if I'm too warm."

"Ohh." Darla said.

Atticus and Mo blushed to each other as they were on the way into where Mowgli slept.

Rajan soon roared like a tiger and tackled the hammock, only to fall into Mowgli's blanket to see that he was not sleeping in his hammock. "Hmm..." He hummed in thought.

"Mowgli's not in his hammock..." Darla pouted.

"Found him." Patch said as he looking up.

"Where?" Rajan asked.

Patch pointed up to see Mowgli was sleeping on top of the loft above his hammock like sleeping in a tree in the jungle. Rajan then smirked as he used Mowgli's hammock like a slingshot and flung himself up toward the older boy which made them both fall onto the floor.

"Morning." Darla giggled.

"Come on, Mowgli, wake up, it's morning!" Rajan told the older boy. "You said we were going-"

"Rajan!" Mowgli hissed, covering his mouth. "Rajan, you wanna wake up the whole village?! When does the tiger roar?" he then asked rhetorically.

"I don't know." Rajan muffled while shaking his head.

"After he catches his prey." Mowgli smirked.

"What is he up to?" Mo whispered.

"His prey..." Rajan repeated with a smirk. "Let's go get our prey!"

"Come on, guys, but be quiet." Mowgli told the others.

"Alright." Patch said.

Mowgli and Rajan snuck downstairs on all fours like Patch was since he was a dog. Messua was already awake and beginning to make breakfast, but she didn't notice anything suspicious yet. They were then close to the door, until...

"Boys?" Messua called. "Where are you going so early?"

"Uh, to do our chores?" Mowgli smiled nervously.

"Yeah!" Rajan added.

"Not without breakfast you aren't." Messau smiled back softly.

"Morning." Atticus yawned.

"Put your eyeballs back in your head..." Cherry teased.

"Okay, okay." Mo said.

"You'll never see me do that..." Cherry rolled her eyes as she put her hands in her jacket pocket.

"We better go after those two." Patch said.

"Stay safe." Messau told her guests.

They nodded and soon went off. Darla patted her dress down on the way to get the wrinkles out.

"Boys, where are you going?!" Messau's husband called out to Mowgli and Rajan as they seemed to be in a rush this morning.

"Doing our chores!" Mowgli called out.

"Bye, Pop, see ya later!" Rajan added.

"Remember, don't cross the river!" Messau's husband reminded.

Messau came by his side as he then sighed to the boys, though mostly toward Mowgli.

"You can take the boy out of the jungle." Messau's husband started to his wife.

"But you can't take the jungle out of the boy." Messau finished out of amusement.

"Yes...That's what worries me." Messau's husband frowned.

"Oh, Ritesh, they'll be fine..." Messau told her husband.

"Maybe you're right, Messau." Ritech sighed.

Messau smiled up to her husband and soon went inside with him to have some breakfast. "Come on, let's have some breakfast."

Ritesh nodded as he then joined his wife inside their hut.