Monkey Man by Ben and Charlie G.

One hot summer day a monkey was taking his morning walk around the jungle that he lived in, called “Zonama Jungle”. But this monkey was no ordinary monkey this monkey had amazing superpowers and his name was Jay.
Jay wasn’t the biggest monkey in the jungle. He had a lot of curly hair and big brown eyes. He was skinny and short but that didn’t stop him from having superpowers.
Jay got a banana belt for his birthday from his parents, who unfortunately were dragged away by tiger when he was young. He remembered the merciless eyes of the tiger and his parents screaming with terror,”Use the belt, use the belt!!” He didn’t know how to use it back then, but over time he learned. Jay never remembered them much because he was so young but he just thought of them as dead. Jay got lonely when he was little but he managed to raise himself.
This banana belt came with magical bananas. When the bananas where put in the it they turned magical, and when you ate them you will get a certain superpower. But he had never told anyone in his life about it because he didn’t want anyone to steal it and he didn’t use it very often. Most animals that Jay knew just thought it was a silly tool belt.
These are his bananas that gave him superpowers. The green banana gives you super speed, the red banana gives you super strength, the yellow banana gives you the power to fly, and the brown banana gives you the power to be invisible.
So as Jay was walking around on that hot day in Zonama Jungle he listened to the sounds of the birds chirping, the leaves rustling, and the little animals scurrying around in the dirt. He looked up at the trees and saw all the colors of the parrots, toucans, and the thousands of smooth green leaves all over. He felt sweat trickle down his face and his furry body.
“BOO!!!” screamed the monkey who popped out in front of Jay. “Hey Boris” greeted Jay. Boris was a plump, pudgy monkey who never left his tree. He was Jay’s best friend. “What’s up?” asked Boris. “Nothing much”, Jay replied, “I was just taking my morning walk around the jungle.” “I really need to go”, said Jay, “because I’m visiting my uncle’s tree for his birthday.” “Okay, replied Boris, “see yah”.
So Jay continued walking, this time in a different direction heading, towards his uncle’s tree, daydreaming. Time passed, and he stopped and looked around but nothing seemed familiar. An icy feeling gripped his heart, HE WAS LOST!! He had never been lost before; he thought he knew all of the Zonama Jungle, but maybe this wasn’t the Zonama Jungle. He heard a rustling in the bushes and turned. He thought he saw some black fur but he must have been hallucinating. Then before he could do anything a blur of black surrounded him and next thing he knew he was tangled in a net. Then he saw a huge creature billowing over him. It was a gorilla!!!
“I have finally caught you”, bellowed the gorilla,”I have seen that banana belt of yours and I know it possesses superpowers so I plan to take it from you”. “Is that okay”, said the gorilla in a mocking tone, “well to bad cause there is nothing you can do about it!” Jay was so frightened he couldn’t speak. Nobody had ever payed attention to his banana belt and this guy wanted to take it! A wave of anger washed over him, he knew what he had to do!
He snuck his hand down to the red banana (the super strength one) and nibbled it. He felt a force of strength and ripped of the net but right after he did, the gorilla punched him in the head and Jay fell to the ground. The gorilla brought his arm back to strike him in the face but Jay was quicker, he dodged it and took a bite out of the brown banana and turned invisible. The gorilla looked so confused Jay held back a laugh. But soon the invisibility would be wearing off so he decided to take a munch out of the green banana and he soon got super speed. Then he crept up behind him and punched him in the back so rapidly his arms were a blur. The gorilla fell down groaning. So to finish him Jay took a bite out of the yellow and got the power of flight so he wrapped the net around the moaning gorilla and flew up into the sky holding the very heavy animal. Jay flew up just high enough so when he dropped the gorilla he wouldn’t mess with him again! Then Jay dropped the gorilla that landed with a “UUMMPHH”. And as Jay was flying back to his tree he heard the gorilla in the distance, “You’ll be sorry you ever did that to me Monkey Man!!”
“Monkey Man”, thought Jay, “what a peculiar name maybe that should be my undercover name”. Jay said the name over and over in his head and came to like it. And then he said to himself “well if he calls me Monkey Man, I’ll call him Gorilla Guy.” He noticed it was getting late so he should get home.
Weeks passed and Jay never heard from Gorilla Guy. But he did start to notice some pretty suspicious things like Boris not being home lately even though he never leaves his tree. And his uncle not being home when Jay went for his birthday party. And lastly the forest seemed unusually quiet, you could still hear the birds, the wind, and the scurrying, but you couldn’t hear other animals in the distance. It seemed like a giant just turned down the volume in Zonama Jungle.
The next day when Jay was taking his morning walk he heard a rumbling in the distance. As it got louder Jay got more scared. Pretty soon it was deafening. The first thought that came into his mind was “STAMPEED!!” Jay started to scramble out of the way, but a familiar voice said in a booming tone “Halt!” Jay stopped in his tracks and what he saw still frightens him to this day. He saw Gorilla Guy and mostly all the animals in Zonama Jungle including Boris and his uncle surrounding Gorilla Guy all glaring at Jay! There were animals from anteaters to elephants. But that wasn’t what surprised him the most. But what did was Jay saw his parents chained up in the back of Gorilla Guy’s cart, held up by his servants! Also all his animals were wearing headsets and had a glazed look in their eyes, kind of what someone looks like when they are daydreaming.
Then a thought washed over Jay, Gorilla Guy was mind controlling all of these innocent animals!! But strangely his parents didn’t have the headsets on and weren’t being mind-controlled. “Yeah that’s right”, Gorilla Guy boomed,”tremble in terror as I take over this jungle. This jungle will pay for what it has done to me. I am the only gorilla in this jungle and just because I’m different the other animals kicked me out. But not anymore will they tease or laugh at me when I am their new leader!!” Gorilla Guy continued “I bet you’re wondering where I got your helpless little parents?” “Yes I am”, Jay managed to squeak. “I found them in a tiger’s cave being kept as servants!! Now where was I, oh yeah taking over this puny jungle. Any last words Monkey Man?” Anger built up inside him starting with Gorilla Guy calling his parents helpless and calling this jungle puny. He looked into the terrified eyes of his parents and the mind-controlled eyes of the other animals and that put him over the top.
Jay stood up and said heroically “I’m going to save this jungle or die trying!!” “Well then get ready to die” said Gorilla Guy menacingly. “Charge!!” yelled Gorilla Guy to his mind-controlled animals. Jay’s goal was first to knock off all the animal’s headsets so they won’t be mind-controlled anymore, then free his parents, and lastly if Gorilla Guy hasn’t fled yet defeat him once and for all! The first wave of animals were the smallest of the group so Jay took a nibble of the brown banana and turned invisible and since they were so dumb, the animals looked around confused as he knocked off all of their headsets and as soon as the animals regained their senses they scampered away into the underbrush cowardly. As the next wave came a little bigger than the first Gorilla Guy yelled “use your sense of smell you idiots!” So that foiled the invisibility idea. Next he took a bite out of the green banana and ran around them with super speed kicking up dirt and dust so the animals couldn’t see. Then grabbed some stones, took a chomp out of the yellow banana, and hovered about seven feet off the ground carefully throwing rocks at the headsets and knocking them off. Also just the same as the first wave the animals ran off into the bushes. Gorilla Guy got more frustrated with every headset that got knocked off and cursed under his breath The next wave was bigger than Jay and looked meaner and tougher which meant a little more action and it also meant he might have to knock them unconscious before taking the headset off which he didn’t want to do. As they charged Jay took a bite out of the red banana and immediately got super strength. He banged two fully grown lion heads together and kicked their headsets off. Then gave a menacing punch in the side of a zebra which flew into another and they both lay knocked out on the ground. “Would somebody get him already?!” Gorilla Guy shouted angrily. Jay wasn’t sure what they would do after they “got” him but he didn’t want to find out so he kept fighting. He picked up an alligator and threw it into the legs of a lion who both got knocked over and lay there dazed. Next two tigers were charging at him in opposite directions, Jay ducked hastily and both tigers smashed heads breaking their headsets. By now he had knocked out pretty much all the animals and kicked of their headsets, but all of them still lay there either unconscious or dazed and groaning. Jay stood there in the middle of the battlefield triumphantly. “You think you have won, eh”, Gorilla Guy bellowed, “Well wait until you say hello to your last opponent named Tigrero.” Jay’s jaw dropped when he saw this tiger not only because in double the size of other full-grown tigers or that its teeth glistened like ice, but because this tiger was the one who took his parents. Same cruel eyes, same bright fur, and same growl and he wasn’t even being mind-controlled. “I chose not to mind-control this one was because he was already evil and hated you.” Jay took one glance at his in pain, desperate mother and father who were once Tigrero’s slaves and he knew he had to destroy him once and for all!
Tigrero came at his with amazing speed and Jay barely had time to dodge it, but when Tigrero sprinted by he managed to rake his claws down Jay’s side. Jay staggered backward and grabbed his side, but when he pulled his hand back it was drenched in blood. He grabbed a bite of the red banana (the super strength one) and just as quickly as it started, the tiger came at again and Jay had just enough time to duck and as Tigrero hurtled over him he punched so powerfully at his belly that he flew up into the air. He came down hard on his back and groaned in pain, and Jay thought he had won. But he thought wrong because Tigrero got up limping “You haven’t won yet Monkey Man!” All this time, out of the corner of his eye Jay saw Gorilla Guy inching toward the jungle to escape. Jay quickly took advantage of his enemy’s pain, and nibbled the green banana (the super speed one), and ran, ducked, then barreled into Tigrero’s legs, flipping him over. Next, he took a munch of the red banana and swung Tigrero around again and again and again, then let go and Tigrero flew into Gorilla Guy. They both toppled over into a mound of dirt. Tigrero amazingly managed to use his front legs and drag him toward a pile of stones and beamed them with exact accuracy. The first rock hit Jay in the stomach. Hastily Jay recovered and did something he had never done before in his life! He took a bite out of two bananas! Jay grabbed some of the yellow and brown banana and threw it into his mouth. He flew up to the sky as he was invisible, and Tigrero was so confused he lobbed rocks aimlessly into the sky. Jay easily sneaked up behind Tigrero as Jay’s invisibility was wearing out and took a bite of the brown banana and dashed towards Gorilla Guy’s cart found a rope, ran back, and tied up Tigrero’s arms and legs in less than two seconds. Jay stood over the tiger under him very triumphantly, but that happiness was crushed when he remembered Gorilla Guy. He turned around but he was nowhere to be seen. “I’m so stupid”, Jay scolded himself. Jay figured he might have a chance to find him if he flies over the jungle and searches. But he would do that later; first he needed to free his parents.
As soon as he got over to where they were captured they praised him. “You were so amazing honey”, said his mom and she gave him a big kiss. “Nice job son”, said his dad,”now can you free us.” “Oh yeah sorry”, said Jay. He snapped the chains with his super strength. “I never thought I would see you again”, mustered Jay on the verge of tears. Then his family had a big group hug. “Now if you’ll excuse me I’m going to go find the evil gorilla”, said Jay. “Okay but be careful”, said his mom as Jay left.
Jay flew over the trees for hours but found nothing and it was getting dark. So he decided to turn around get back together with his parents, see his best friend, get praised by the citizens of the jungle, and take care of Tigrero!