A group of mongoose stood on a cliff top, listening to the message a cobra was giving to them. The leader, a turquoise mongoose stood with his back to the messenger Cobra. The blue crystal star hung around his neck, pulsating with blue light, in sync with his heartbeat. After finishing his message, the olive green reptile smiled smugly as he looked around at the angered mongoose around him, feeling completely safe in spite of the fact that he was standing in the middle of a group of his natural enemies. He chuckled and looked over at the turquoise mongoose who still stood with his back to him.
"Sssssso. . ." the green cobra hissed, "I gave you Delilah'ssssss messsssssssssage. Sssssssso what isssssss your anssssssswer, Pantantra?"
Pantantra replied by suddenly whirled around and reaching out with his fore paws, grabbing the messenger cobra by the neck.
The cobra gasped, or would have if Pantantra hadn't grabbed his neck so tightly. "Rabid!" he managed to gasp out, "You're rabid!"
"No, I'm not rabid," Pantantra replied as he held the cobra tightly in his grip, "But where you're going will be full of 'rabids', if you know what I mean."
"No beassst, cobra or mongoosssse, threatensss a messssenger!" the cobra gasped out with a pained expression on his face.
Pantantra growled, "You come to my lands to declare war upon us and make insane demands for the only thing that protects us from your queen. . .you insult my mate. . .you threaten my species with slavery and death." Still holding the cobra, the mongoose stepped towards the edge of the cliff they were on. "I've always chosen my words carefully when dealing with your kind, cobra. Perhaps you would've done the same."
"Thiss iss blassshpemy! Thiss iss madnesssss!" the cobra choked out as his eyes drifted towards the glowing Star of Dharma around Pantantra's neck.
Pantantra closed his eyes and chuckled.
"Madness?" the mongoose said.
He opened is golden eyes and looked at the cobra in front of him and shouted at the top of his lungs:
"THIS!"
"IS!"
"INDIA!"
(Cue Keaton Monger's "300 This Is Sparta Remix" Music)
Pantantra then tossed the cobra off the side of the cliff.
A large army of cobra slithered forth and stopped when a commanding officer of some short held up his tail for them to halt.
A group of mongoose, holding sharpened sticks at the ready, stood in a line and readied themselves.
THIS! IS! INDIA!
THIS! IS! INDIA!
THIS! IS! INDIA!
THIS! IS! INDIA!
THIS! IS! INDIA!
THIS! IS! INDIA!
The mongoose forces pushed up against a group of cobras, forcing them off of a cliff side.
More cobras slithered over a hill and charged down towards the mongoose.
The mongoose were clearly outnumbered, but they charged towards the approaching cobras anyway. Both groups clashed quickly.
Pantantra shouted, and his fellow mongoose took up the battle cry. Everyone banged their stick on the ground rhythmically.
The mongoose ran forward, swinging their sharpened sticks at the attacking cobras, quickly mowing them down.
Madness. . .
The messenger cobra spun in free fall, his eyes looking up at turquoise mongoose above him.
Madnesssss!
Pantantra looked up at the blazing Sun.
Madness. . .
The emerald green Indian Monitor Lizard sat on her throne, the Bell of Obedience hanging around her neck.
Madnesssss!
Cobras hung tangled up in a thorny tree.
Madness. . .
Mongoose were led like zombies by the ringing of the Bell of Obedience.
Madnesssss!
Pantantra stood in front of a a group of mongoose, ready to fight.
Madness. . .
Pantantra embraced his mate.
Madnesssss!
Pantantra threw himself into a group of cobras, the Star of Dharma shining brightly.
Madness. . .
Madnesssss!
Madness. . .
Madnesssss!
THIS! IS! INDIA!
Pantantra ran through the battle, stopping only the knock down any cobra that got in his way. He jumped and kicked one in the face, and then grabbed it's tail and threw into a couple more to the side. He ran by another cobra, catching it in the neck with his sharpened stick. He then sent a magical blast from the Star into a pair of cobras that were headed straight for him, knocking them far off.
The mongoose army chanted, raising their sticks as they saluted their leader. Pantantra stood out in front, eyeing the cobra forces as the mongoose behind him chanted with their sticks raised.
THIS! IS! INDIA!
THIS! IS! INDIA!
Delilah's elite cobra guard sprang at the mongoose. It was an all out brawl as the mongoose slashed at the snakes with their claws as the enemy tried to squeeze them all within their scaly coils.
Delilah pounced upon Pantantra with a snarl. Pantantra unleashed a mighty flash from the Star of Dharma, blinding Delilah and causing her to stumble backwards.
Pantantra ran forward with his army behind him.
He stood proudly, the Star of Dharma shining brightly.
Pantantra jumped high over Delilah, the light from the Star overpowering the dark magic of the Bell. He took the Star in his paws and formed a ball of light magic, and fell towards the Bis-Cobra as he held the attack out in front of him.
"THIS! IS! INDIA!"
Pantantra then tossed the cobra off the side of the cliff.
(End of song)
CRASH!
Krishna felt himself land painfully into a foul smelling heap. L-zard and his crew all cried out in pain and disgust as they splashed down into piles of trash.
Krishna lay on top of the pile of garbage for a bit, thrown into shock from the sudden vision. What truly shocked him wasn't how much the cobra resembled him. What truly rocked him to the core was how much the great hero Pantantra resembled the mongoose in that pet shop.
"What could it mean?" Krishna thought to himself as he stared up at the blue sky in shock.
"Uh. . .K-man? You alright?" came L-zard's voice.
Krishna hissed lowly and lifted his head up. He looked around the air, and concluded that they were in the Downtown City Dump.
"How dare that mongoosssssse throw usssss out in the garbage!" Krishna hissed angrily.
Skink was frantically digging through the trash with a nervous expression on his face. "Ah-ahhh! Where's my pop! Where's my lollipop!"
Fish Sauce spat out a candy wrapped and wiped at his tounge with his hands. "Ugggh! Forget about your lollipop! Even if you found it, it'd be covered in trash! Blech!"
"Ugh! My beard is full o' filth!" Bearded Lady moaned.
"Whoa, whoa, whoa! Everyone, chillax, now!" L-zard said with a nervous smile, "Everything's gonna be alright, right?"
Krishna slithered down the trash pile and said venomously, "We are going to kill every ssssingle one of thossssse pets!"
"Double whoa, whoa, whoa!" L-zard said a little more forcefully, "K-man, listen up. I don't like the blue dude any more than you do, but Vinnie's cool! And a guy like that has got have pretty cool friends, right? Come on, give the pet shop crew a break."
Krishna's eyes burned with fury as the two star shards around his neck started to glow. "Oh, we'll give them a break. First we'll break their armsss. Then we'll break their legssss. And then-."
L-zard clapped Krishna's mouth shut with both hands and gave the cobra a serious look. "Listen man," he said in a serious tone, "I would've been okay with just grabbing the star from them and running, but right now I'm in hot water with my homeboy Vinnie, and now you're talking about killing and stuff? No way Jose!"
Krishna jerked back and glared at L-zard. "How do you expect usssss to get the cccccenter Ssssstar piecccce then?"
L-zard gulped nervously and said, "Uh. . .maybe. . .we trade it for something."
"You FOOL!" Krishna shouted suddenly, causing L-zard to fall flat on his back in fear, "The mongoosssse knowssss how valuable the Star of Dharma isssss! He will never give it up! We have to take it by forccccce!"
L-zard looked up at Krishna, blinking his eyes a few time. Then, he hung his head low, and sighed, "Well then. . . I don't want it."
Everyone was dead silent.
"What?" Krishna said flatly.
L-zard stood up and held his head high, "I ain't gonna hurt my bro Vinnie, or his pals! You got it? We was all happy up in Hollywood till you came along with promises of big stuff and rich guy stuff and. . .stuff! Well, stuff you get from hurting people ain't good stuff! It's bad stuff! And stuff! Yeah!"
Krishna cocked his head at L-zard and said in a frustrated tone, "Are you ssssaying that you're going to betray me?"
L-zard noticed the slight twitch in Krishna's left eye. L-zard licked his lips, doing his best not to look nervous, or give Krishna any emotional cues at all. He put on a convincing smile and chuckled. "Heh-heh! Well, no way, K-man. I was just saying- BEAT IT Y'ALL!"
And with that, L-zard and his entire crew cartoonishly ran off in different directions and out of sight, leaving only puffs of smoke behind them.
Krishna blinked his widened pink eyes as he stood stunned for a moment. Then his face twisted into rage as he thrashed his tail around and shouted as loud as he could, "Tuma bakavāsa kē ṭukaṛē!"
Suddenly, a part of the pile of trash was pushed out as a grey furred rat with a brown hairpiece and an eye patch over his right eye walked out looking upset. "Hey! What's going on? What's with all the yell-?" The rat froze solid as the vicious cobra turned to face him. The rat squeaked in fear as he turned to run, only to be caught by the insanely fast strike of the snake.
"I could really ussssse a ssssnack," Krishna hissed as he wrapped his body around the one eyed rat
"N-n-no! Please! Don't eat me! I taste terrible! Look around, I live in a dump! I taste like garbage! SOMEONE HELP ME!" the rat cried out.
Suddenly, two more rats popped out of the trash. One rat was rather large; he had a black Elvis-looking hairpiece and a yellow and blue shirt. The other was thinner and had a light brown hairpiece.
"OMG! Pete!" the thin rat shouted in horror.
"BOSS!" the large one shouted.
Krishna looked over at the other two rats, and then turned back to the one caught within his coils. A plan quickly formed within the snake's evil brain. He laughed in bone chilling laugh and said, "Alright you three. . .I'll tell you what. If you agree to help me with a little project, then I won't eat you." Krishna then laughed maniacally, his hissing laughter echoing throughout the dump.
Meanwhile, a tiny little fly flew above the scene, and then flew off as fast as his wings could take him.
A/N: The song was Keaton Monger's This is Sparta, first uploaded to AlbinoBlackSheep in February 2007.