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own and gave him the name "Mowgli".
Mowgli was raised as one of the wolves and the new cubs came to think
of him as just another wolf, albeit an odd looking one, and his scent
was added to the scent of wolves of the pack. Mowgli, not recalling
anything of his human parents, accepted the wolves as his brethren and
tried his best to live up to the needs of the pack.
Since he was not a wolf, he couldn't run as fast, leap as far or bite
as hard as his wolf-brothers, but he ran hard and didn't tire easily.
He could do things they could not: he could climb trees, pick things up
in his paws and change them in subtle ways. He could build things and he
seemed much more clever when it came to finding or seeing things hidden.
As he grew older, the pack came to rely on him for solutions to complex
problems which were above the rest of them and most knew than in time,
Mowgli would become the pack leader.
He had developed a special bond with Lala, a beautiful red furred wolf.
Nana's father had been beaten in the competition for pack leader when
Akela had taken the position. Nana Yanagisawa had blamed Akela for Nana's father's
departure from the pack and passed that blame to Mowgli when he became
the favourite of Akela.
Nana Yanagisawa had made his life miserable until one day when he had saved Nana's from
Shere Khan using a thr
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