Run, Luna, Run

The barrage didn't stop.It only got worse.

First came the vines—snapping like whipcords across Jimmy's coat. Then the stones—sharp ones, round ones, even one shaped suspiciously like a butt.

"Was that… a carved butt rock?" Jimmy muttered.

SMACK!A flying banana exploded across his face before he could even process it.

Then the real chaos began.

Monkey Whisps—dozens—maybe forty or more—came leaping down like chaos goblins.Some were screeching war cries like "Rik-rik-rik!" while others chanted a weird rhythm like "BAKA-BOOOOY!"

One especially hairy Whisp made direct eye contact with Jimmy…And mooned him.Deliberately.Before hurling a glob of glowing green Dung Slap directly at his boots.

"Okay, rude," Jimmy wheezed, deflecting it with the stick he was now wielding like a deranged forest mage. "You're monkeys, not goblins!"

A branch cracked overhead.

THWACK.Another leafy vine slapped his face so hard he almost swallowed his own whistle stone.

Luna, meanwhile, was in warrior-goddess mode. She zipped through the underbrush, soaking some monkeys with Bubble Beam, shocking others with Thunder Mist, and occasionally spinning mid-air to tail-slap them with the grace of a ballerina and the fury of a blender.

One monkey lunged toward her—teeth bared, arms wide.

Luna didn't hesitate.

ICE BLAST!The monkey froze into a spiralling ice cube… and mid-air crashed into three of his buddies like bowling pins.

BONK-BONK-BOINK.

All four collapsed into a pile.And their friends?Started kicking the frozen one yelling:

"STUPID FROSTY!""WE TOLD YOU NOT TO SHOW OFF!""WHY YOUR BUTT ALWAYS SHINY?!"

Meanwhile—

Jimmy dodged a thrown coconut…Only to get hit by a flying sandal.

"…How did they even have sandals?" he muttered.

He turned just in time to see one monkey flashing a rude hand sign—while chewing a leaf like a smug rebel. Another stood dramatically on a tree branch, waving a stick like a baton and conducting the chaos.

And then—BAM!

Jimmy tripped.

A hidden vine snapped his ankle and yanked him sideways into the dirt.

"OOF—Not again—!"

Three smaller monkey Whisps immediately jumped on him like gremlins at a buffet.

"AAARGH—personal space! This is not a spa!!"

Luna snarled like thunder.She sprinted back, slammed one monkey aside with an Aqua Tackle, froze another's tail mid-slap, and bit the third one's pants off.

"Get. Off. My. Trainer!" she roared.

Jimmy, now partially covered in leaf-mud and monkey saliva, groaned, "I owe you… so much fish later…"

Suddenly—

ROOOOAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRR!

The forest behind them split apart as a massive tree went flying.Literally airborne.Branches shattered. Birds screamed. The ground quaked.

Luna grabbed Jimmy's collar with her teeth again.

"Don't look back."

She nodded and dragged him like luggage through a vine-strewn battlefield.

They burst through the last thicket.

Next,

Jimmy saw vines to the left.Traps in the right.But monkeys were catching up.Fast.And some had started catapulting themselves using trees.

One got mid-air—only for Luna's clone to pop out of a bush and smack it with a rock-stuffed bubble.

BOING-SPLASH.Into a mud pit it went.

"HEEEELP! MY TAIL'S IN MY EARS!" the monkey screamed.

Another tried to copy him, but slipped on a banana peel left by his own teammate and smashed straight into a wasp bush.

The monkeys screeched to a halt behind them. Then…

THUUUUUUUUMMMMMM

The jungle behind them shook.Trees bent. Leaves flew.A colossal shape moved behind the canopy.

The real King was coming.

One monkey peed.

Another ran.

The rest screamed and started forming a panic conga line, shaking each other and flailing into the bushes yelling things like:

"MOTHER OF MOSS!""IT'S HIM! IT'S HIM!""I ATE HIS BANANA LAST TIME, HE NEVER FORGIVES!"

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The true King of the Monkey Whisps had entered the hunt. (Wild Card Entry)

Jimmy didn't dare look back—but he didn't need to.

The roar shook the marrow in his bones. Birds scattered. The canopy cracked open as trees launched like spears. The very ground beneath them split with each bellowing tremor.

"Luna! Aqua Jet—now!" Jimmy barked.

Luna snarled, sprang upward, and spun mid-air—SPLASH–CRACK!A spiralling arc of water shot forward, slamming a massive airborne tree trunk away from their path just in time.

Jimmy didn't hesitate. He leapt onto her back, gripping her tightly at the nape. "Use clones to shield and strike! I'll hang on!"

"Too many vines ahead!" Luna growled, eyes flicking between twisting terrain.

"Don't worry. Just go as far as you can!"

With every corner turned, Luna split her form—five clones racing ahead like blurry mirages. Each one mimicked her real body, zigzagging and baiting ambushes from both sides.

The Monkey Whisps tried to pounce. They got tail-slapped, Bubble Blasted, or zapped with Thunder Shocks before hitting the dirt.

Luna's barrage didn't stop:

Ice Blast

Thunder Shock

Aqua Tackle

Water Gun

Electric Net

Bubble Beam

Blizzard

Aqua & Volt Tackle combo

Jimmy coughed through the vines, face scratched, hair in wild tangles, but holding tight.

"You're doing great! I'm just—losing internal organs back here!"

And then, despite the chaos around them—

Jimmy sang.

A ridiculous, gasping, half-wheezed battle anthem.

"Branches slap me in the face,

Monkeys screamin' like a chase.

Tripped on vines and ate some dirt,

Luna's fast, but my lungs hurt!"

A vine whipped past. Jimmy ducked.A monkey leapt and missed by inches.

"Frogs are flying, trees just hissed,

Pretty sure that rock just missed.

This ain't stealth—it's chaos fun,

So hold your butt—Run, Luna, run!"

Luna snorted. "Are you singing right now?!"

"It's this or screaming!"

"Run, Luna, run, don't trip on a root!

If you fall now, they'll steal your loot!

Bounce like a fish, roll like a bun,

Why we still here? Just run, Luna, run!"

A monkey hurled a banana bomb—yes, it exploded.It whistled like a kettle.

"One monkey threw a banana bomb,

It whistled like your Uncle Tom.

Another screamed 'Surprise, attack!

'I think it just licked my back?!"

Luna kicked a Whisp sideways with her hind leg. Three monkeys went tumbling like pins.

Jimmy clung tighter.

"I yelled 'Retreat!'—Luna spun,

Kicked three monkeys with her bum.

I ride her like a stolen cart,

This jungle's dumb, let's just depart."

Monkeys swung in with Leaf Dart, Mud Spit, and Bark Burst. One even fired nuts out of his nose.

Luna shouted: "They've lost their minds!"

Jimmy shouted back: "We're just appetizers now!"

"Run, Luna, run, this ain't a parade!

Every bush here throws a grenade.

My socks are wet, my hair's undone,

We fighting' trees now? Run, Luna, run!"

Suddenly, Luna skidded past a camouflaged monkey Whisp with a painted face—he blew a fart-powered dart at Jimmy, missed, and hit his own teammate.

"YOU FOOL, THAT WAS MY EAR!"

The monkeys began tripping over each other, screaming, slapping, swearing in monkey language as one slid on dung and landed face-first into a pinecone trap.

Jimmy choked out a laugh:

"That one's going to feel it in his tailbone…"

"The vines are singing, the logs are cursed,

I'm not a snack—I got here first.

The monkeys dance, their king looks mad…

Why is this jungle so dang bad?"

Suddenly—a crackling flash from behind.

Another roar. The earth cracked. Trees were being uprooted and thrown.

Luna charged forward, screaming through her nose.

Jimmy fed her a power-restoring jungle berry—a rare one he'd grabbed from the canopy earlier:"Miraburst Fruit", known to supercharge Whisps with hydration and focus.

"Just hold on—almost there!" Jimmy shouted.

"Run, Luna, run, before I scream,

This was supposed to be a dream!

The river's near, our job ain't done,

Forget your pride—JUST RUN, LUNA, RUN!!"

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A vast stretch of glittering silver water opened before them—wide, winding, and endless.

Mossy cliffs rose like tired elbows from the jungle's grasp, the trees breaking away as if nature itself didn't dare follow. Stones cracked beneath Jimmy's boots as he and Luna burst through the final vines and skidded to a halt on the riverbank.

And behind them?

The Monkey Whisps stopped.

Not because they were tired.

Not because they were beaten.

But because something in their monkey brains screamed:

"NOPE. Not that water."

They gathered at the tree line—tails twitching, fangs bared, but not a single step forward. Some even started chanting and drawing signs in the dirt, as if trying to ward off evil.

Jimmy glanced back at the trembling army of angry, poop-throwing primates.

"Why'd they stop?"

Luna snorted. "Maybe they hate baths."

Then a thought crossed his mind.

"No… they're afraid of what's in there."

He stared across the slow-moving water. Wide. Calm. Too calm.

The kind of calm that kills quietly.

The river shimmered like a sleeping god—peaceful above, deadly below. Its soft lapping masked currents strong enough to suck a boulder under.

To swim it? 45 minutes. Minimum.

The bridge? Thirty minutes east. Through the jungle again.

With monkeys.

And King Monkey Ultra Death Screamer 9000™.

Jimmy exhaled. "We cross. Here. Now."

Luna glanced downriver. "I can Aqua Charge… but not forever. That current's got attitude."

Jimmy reached into his satchel and pulled out the Jungleblossom Fruit—a vibrant pink bulb with glowing yellow veins, pulsing faintly like a heartbeat.

"Eat this. Recharge."

Luna sniffed it, took a dainty bite—then devoured the whole thing in one snap.

"Mmmm. Spicy mango vibes."

Energy sparked across her coat. Her mane shimmered blue-white, hooves sparking lightly.

Then she looked at Jimmy and without warning, healed them both with a soft Healing Ray—a glowing pulse that wiped mud from Jimmy's face, soothed scrapes, and even gave him a better hairstyle for some reason.

Jimmy blinked. "Did you just fix my hair?"

"You're welcome. Now climb on, human bean."

Jimmy backed into the water, boots sinking slightly in the mud. Luna stepped up to the bank—hind legs on the ledge, forelegs in the river.

He mounted her back, arms around her neck like a kid on a comet.

"Can you really hold tight?" she asked.

"Luna," Jimmy said, tightening his grip, "If I fall, it's not the current that kills me—it's your sarcasm."

She grinned. "Fair."

............

And then:

"GO!"

Luna leapt.

AQUA CHARGE ACTIVATED.

A glowing spiral erupted beneath her hooves, water parting like a myth—WHOOSH!—as they blasted forward like a living torpedo.

Spray flew. Jimmy's coat snapped like a flag. A fish slapped him in the face mid-run.

"ARGH! I GOT TROUTED!"

#I just made it funny, Hope you all enjoyed it.