The pendant-logo splits and zooms away, the camera itself zooms out from an ancient-looking animal ribcage, and then we fade to Kirk and the two teams.
?Welcome back to Legends,? says Kirk, standing in front of The Jungle Crevice with the two remaining teams. ?Now the glory goes to the fastest and the strongest? so before we get started, let?s meet our teams. On the Green Monkeys, we?ve got Olivia. You like to collect pens, right??
?Yes, I?ve got about two hundred,? replies the girl with long, flowing dark hair and tanned skin.
?Two?woah, two hundred pens?? Kirk replies in surprise. ?That?s a lot?do you have a favorite one??
?Yeah, it?s one from Japan,? Olivia says. ?It?s got about eight colors all in one pen.?
?That sounds like a cool pen,? comments Kirk, as he moves onto Olivia?s slightly shorter partner, a boy with red hair and freckles. ?And also, we have Carl. I understand you want to be an architect???
?Yeah,? responds Carl. ?I wanna major in that for college and stuff.?
?What kind of buildings do you wanna design?? Kirk then asks.
?Probably like museums or skyscrapers, they?re all pretty cool,? says Carl.
?Okay, sounds good,? says Kirk. ?Let?s hear it for the Green Monkeys!? The audience applauds for the team while they cheer as well. Kirk then turns to the first player on the Purple Parrots, a boy with fairly long black hair.
?And on the Purple Parrots,? continues Kirk, ?we?ve got Jonathan. It says here that you like baseball.?
?Uh, yeah, that?s right,? says Jonathan. ?I?ve been playing for six years and I really like watching it on TV.?
?All right,? Kirk says in response. ?And also, we have Jessica?she wants to be a movie producer? why??
?Uh? I don?t know,? shrugs the tall girl with the long blond hair.
?Well, what kind of mew?movies do you want to make?? asks Kirk.
?Umm, maybe action movies or comedies,? replies Jessica.
?Oh, alright then,? says Kirk. ?Let?s hear it for the Purple Parrots!? Once again, the audience applauds, this time for the Purple Parrots.
?Why don?t you guys go get ready for your games,? continues, ?while I?ll explain what?s gonna happen here?? The players walk off-screen, and then Kirk continues his narration.
?In the temple games, teams are competing for pendants of life?? Kirk grabs a pendant out of his pouch and holds it up to the camera. ?The winning team will need those pendants to protect themselves from the dreaded temple guards, as they make their way through the temple. There are three temple games, and Olmec?s gonna tell us about Temple Game #1.
Olmec explains:
?Wu Wei painted a picture of four cows, but luckily for you, you don?t have to do much painting. When Kirk gives the signal, dip your hands in paint, and?without your hands touching?slide down the slippery footpath as far as you can. Once you put your hands on the footpath, the spotter will place a marker beside it and you can try again. The player with the farthest mark at the end of 60 seconds wins.?
?I really wish I could play this game too,? Kirk remarks as he backs away to get a clear view. ?Let?s put 60 seconds? on the clock!?
The clock slams down into the corner of the screen. ?On your marks, get set... GO!? Immediately, the two girls scramble to dip their hands in their color paint and then jump onto the slippery footpaths. ?It?s a game of momentum,? Kirk explains, ?and about how far they can slide before they make their mark with the paint.? As he says this, the Green Monkeys stop about halfway down their path, while the Purple Parrots come up about two feet shorter. [0:44] ?Oh, Jessica didn?t quite make it to where Olivia did,? commentates Kirk, ?but there?s still plenty of time left.? Trying again, Olivia extends her record only by a few inches, but Jessica manages to slide all the way to the halfway point on the track. ?Now the Purple Parrots are getting there,? says Kirk as Jessica gets off the path after making her handprints on it and begins to run back to the start. Olivia has already started sliding a third time, but doesn?t get any further. ?Oh, it?s getting to be closer and closer!? comments Kirk as Jessica overtakes Olivia?but only by about half a foot. [0:15] With little time left, Olivia regains her lead with a massive slide, getting her about ? of the way down the path. ?Woah, nice move by the Green Monkeys!? exclaims Kirk as the seconds count down. ?The Purple Parrots are gonna have a hard time catching up now, I think?? He is right?the game ends about five seconds later as the clock explodes.
Kirk runs over to the slippery footpaths, where the players, now with towels to dry their hands off, are waiting for him. ?All right, nice job, girls!? praises Kirk as he catches his own breath. ?Well, let?s check out the results?the markers have been placed by our spotters, here? And the Green Monkeys made the furthest mark, so they get the half-a-pendant of life!? The audience claps and cheers briefly before Kirk continues.
?The Purple Parrots can catch up in the next game, though,? says Kirk. ?It?s also worth a half-pendant?let?s check it out! Olmec, tell us about Temple Game #2.?
Olmec narrates:
?Paints, even the ones that Wu Wei used, come in all sorts of colors. Before you stands a gigantic net and a trampoline. When Kirk gives the signal, run forward, bounce off the trampoline, and climb to the top. Then smash open one of the cubby-holes. If it?s empty, move on to another one, but if you find a bottle of paint, make your way back down and put it in the box of the same color. The first team to find all seven bottles of paint?and they are in their correct boxes?or the team that?s furthest along at the end of 60 seconds? wins.?
?Let?s collect Wu Wei?s paints,? comments Kirk. ?And let?s put 60 seconds on the clock!?
The clock appears in the corner of the screen with a bang. ?On your marks, get set? GO!? Carl and Jonathan spring forward on this last word and catapult themselves up onto the net without much trouble. ?It?s neck-and-neck so far,? commentates Kirk, ?but now we?re gonna see what?ll happen, as our players climb their way to the top?? Indeed, Carl seems to have more trouble climbing up the net?which waves around in the air like a flag as Carl struggles his way up?and Jonathan takes the lead, smashing open the covers of two holes before he finds his first paint bottle?orange?which he returns to the orange-colored box at the base of the net. ?Nice move by the Purple Parrots!? comments Kirk as they climb back up for another bottle. ?Remember, they need this game to tie up the scores. With 30 seconds left, the score is 4-2 Purple, and the Green Monkeys are still having trouble climbing. Jonathan has some trouble finding another paint bottle, having to smash through two holes before finally finding the violet bottle. [0:18] ?Green Monkeys have to really scramble if they want this one!? declares Kirk as time ticks down. Carl manages to find a third bottle, dropping down onto the trampoline after climbing down the net for awhile. [0:06] ?Just a few seconds left?? says Kirk as the audience counts the final seconds down. ?And that?s it!? The clock finally hits zero and explodes into segments that slide all over the screen and disappear.
?All right, come on over here?? says Kirk as he runs over to the base of the nets. ?Let?s check out the scores?? We switch to an overhead shot of the colored boxes to show which are filled. ?The Green Monkeys got yellow, blue, and green?that?s three, and the Purple Parrots got? red, orange, green, blue, and violet? The Purple Parrots get the half pendant of life!? There is some applause before Kirk continues.
?So now the Green Monkeys have a half-pendant,? Kirk says, ?and the Purple Parrots also have a half? We?re going to our third and final game?it?s worth a full pendant. Olmec, tell us about it.?
Olmec continues:
?In the Ching Dynasty, farms covered a large area of China, and today, there still are many farms of all sorts. Before you is Wu Wei?s father?s farm, and the cows on the farm need to be milked. When Kirk gives the signal, grab a bucket?because the udders of the cows will start to release milk. Catch as much as you can, and then walk across the teeter-totter to the other side and hand it to your partner, who will fill your container. Then go back and do it again! The first team to fill their container past the line with milk, or the team that has the most milk in their container at the end of 60 seconds? wins.?
?Wu Wei forgot to milk the cows again?? mutters Kirk. ?Oh, man, our players?ve got to do all the work? Let?s put 60 seconds on the clock!?
The clock slams down into the corner of the screen. ?On your marks, get set? GO!? After about a second of delay, the ?cows? begin to spurt out milk in torrential amounts. ?Woah!? exclaims Kirk as the liquid begins to pour all over the stage. The girls collect as much milk as they can?Jessica already setting out before her bucket is full, managing to cross the teeter-totter without mishap. ?They can fill it up however they choose,? explains Kirk, ?but they?ve got to be careful not to spill any on the way over the seesaw!? Jonathan fills the Purple Parrots? container about a fifth of the way up to the line with 45 seconds left on the clock. Meanwhile, Olivia has filled her bucket to the brim, but has to walk slowly across the teeter-totter, some milk sloshing out as she tries to keep her balance. ?You don?t wanna fall now,? Kirk says, ?or you?ll lose lots of time?? Olivia and Carl fill a quarter of their container by the time Olivia goes back for another round, but the Purple Parrots fill theirs up a third on their second trip. [0:29] Milk still spewing out everywhere; Olivia fills the bucket ? of the way up before she takes it across the teeter-totter, and Jessica only fills hers halfway. Either way, both teams are just at about the same level, with the Green Monkeys barely holding on to the lead. ?It?s gonna be close!? declares Kirk as both girls head back for another bucketful at about the same time, with 15 seconds remaining. ?It?s gonna come down to the wire?who?s going to Olmec?s temple today?? Kirk asks rhetorically as a crane cam flies past both girls, who are filling their buckets. Olivia makes a dash for it with eight seconds remaining, spilling quite a bit of the milk on her way across, but Jessica waits two seconds more before making her move. The audience begins to count the last seconds down. ?Five? four? three?? With barely any time left, Carl dumps a few more milliliters of milk into the container?but TIME IS UP!
?Okay, time?s up,? announces Kirk. ?Come on Olivia, Jessica?? The girls follow Kirk over to their partners, standing by their containers. We switch to a split-screen shot of both containers? ??and it looks like the Green Monkeys have done it?they got more milk in their container at the end! They get the full pendant! That gives them one-and-a-half pendants; the Purple Parrots had a half? The Green Monkeys are going to the temple!? The audience roars as the Green Monkeys celebrate, hugging and high-fiving each other.
?Great job by both teams!? continues Kirk. ?The Purple Parrots fought hard?it all came down to those few seconds there in the third game?and they?re not gonna go away empty-handed. We?ve got a nice gift for ?em, and here?s what it is??
Dee reads the prize:
?It?s a gift certificate from? Nerds brand candy! The tiny, tangy, crunchy candy with INTENSE fruit flavors. Taste the magic, from the Willy Wonka Candy Factory!?
We now see Kirk with the Green Monkeys. ?The Green Monkeys have made it to Olmec?s temple,? he says, ?but can they retrieve the Incorrect Painting of the Ching Dynasty? We?ll find out?right after this!? We fly over the Moat, swooping past the audience, before we cut to a view of the temple?s top floor. The camera stops near the Incorrect Painting, and the titlecard appears: the two halves of a pendant crash together, finally fading to commercial.
Topic: Wild Jungle EP: The Incorrect Painting of the Ching Dynasty (Read 1006 times)