Deep in the heart of Africa, a couple and their baby lived in a small house in the middle of the Jungle. The couple were scientists who worked in France until they were sent to live in Africa for a few months to study some of the animal life. Unfortunately Africa was filled with deadly diseases and the young couple were struck down with a fatal illness. The wife died first, the husband spent the last few days of his life making his son immune before he passed.

Meanwhile somewhere else in Jungle there lived a black panther called Plagg and a spotted leopard called Tikki. The two of them were getting a drink at the watering hole when they heard an unfamiliar sound.

"What was that?" Tikki asked.

"I don't know." Plagg said.

They followed the strange noise which led them to a tree house. They climbed up and looked around at the strange things inside. One of the things was a small portrait of a man dressed in a suit, next to him was a beautiful young woman with blonde hair and green eyes, and in her hands was a baby. Then they stumbled on to two dead bodies. They recognized them from the picture, they were both lying on the floor with their arms wrapped around each other. Plagg sniffed them.

"They're humans!" Tikki gasped.

"They're dead." Plagg said.

Suddenly they heard the strange noise again, it was coming from a cradle. Something inside of it was wiggling around in the blankets. Tikki pulled it off to reveal a tiny, baby boy wearing a diaper. It squirmed and cried until it saw the two animals looking at him.

"What is that thing?" Plagg said.

"I think it's another human." Tikki said.

"A little small to be a human."

"Must be a cub." She nuzzled the infant's stomach. The baby giggled and smiled. "Those two humans over there must have been his family."

"Poor thing. Looks like it's all alone now."

"Plagg, you don't suppose we could-"

"No! Absolutely not! It's a human."

"But look at it. It's so helpless."

"Yeah right now but someday he'll grow up and you know what grown humans do to us. Best we pretend we never laid eyes on this thing."

"And leave it to die?" She stuck her head into the cradle, using her mouth, she grabbed the baby by his diaper, pulled him out, and laid him between her paws. She nuzzled the baby as it cooed.

"Don't get attached to it." Plagg said. "Besides we don't even know how to raise human cubs."

"We could use those things." She said pointing her tail to a pile of books.

"What are they?"

"Wayzz says they're called books and that humans read them for knowledge. We could learn how to raise him by using those."

"Tikki that still doesn't change the fact that he could be a danger to us in the future."

"Does he look dangerous to you?" She picked him up and walked over to Plagg.

"What are you doing?" He asked. She laid the baby between his paws. "No...Tikki..I know what you're thinking and it won't work." The baby yawned and nuzzled closer to Plagg. "No matter how adorable this is." Then the tiered infant fell asleep. "Ohhhh...alright. We'll keep it."

"Wonderful! I've always wanted a cub."

"Now how do we tell if it's male or female?"

They sniffed and searched around him. Then Tikki got a glimpse of the front area in his diaper. "He's male." She said.

Reading the books they learned how to properly raise humans and how to speak English like humans. They also became highly intelligent. With their new knowledge they raised the human child as their own and after reading the embroidery on his blanket they named him Adrien.

Eighteen years later Adrien grew into a strong young man with sun blonde hair and green eyes. He wore no clothes except for a black loincloth with a belt that contained a knife and a panther tooth necklace. Adrien was raised in the ways of animals and followed jungle law. His closest friends other than Plagg and Tikki were Wayzz an ape and Nooroo a macaw. All his life he lived with the animals never coming in contact with any humans until one day...

While hanging from the trees he spotted something coming, it moved awfully fast. It didn't look like an animal in the least. It was going out to where the natives lived. Now it was against jungle law to go where the natives lived but his curiosity got the better of him.

"Where are you going?" Nooroo squawked.

"Too find out what that thing is."

"But it goes out to where the natives are and you know the law."

"Relax what the other animals don't know can't hurt them."

He swung after the odd thing until it stopped. He then watched as things started stepping out of it. One of them looked like a native but he had never seen him before behind him were two younger men who he recognized as local natives. A guide called Otis (That was the Animan guy by the way) and his assistants Nino and Max. Next out was a man who was about the size of a bear and he looked nothing like the natives. Much too big and burly, the natives were all so scrawny and frail.

"What on earth is that?" He thought.

"Marinette." The man called Tom said. "We're here."

"Coming Papa." A high voice said.

"So they can speak like me." He thought. Then his stomach dropped and his heart stopped when he saw the most beautiful creature emerge from the thing. It was a young woman with midnight hair tied into pigtails and bluebelle eyes, wearing a white blouse and a red skirt with tennis shoes.

"Thanks again for guiding us Mr. Cesaire." Tom said.

"No trouble at all, anything for my daughter's best friend and her father. But tell me why take this expendition?"

"Saving animal lives my friend." Tom answered. "As a professor of biology and animal study it is my duty to find ways to help promote the lives of wild life."

"And enjoying a few more days of freedom." Marinette said.

Marinette's mother had passed away when she was a child and her father had his older sister move in to play the motherly role. But her aunt had been more controlling than motherly. She was also desperate for money and was planning on marrying Marinette off to the wealthy Nathaniel Krutzberg.

Back in France he had proposed to her several times and she still hadn't been able to answer. She needed some time to herself to think it over. Unfortunately that wouldn't happen due to him showing up unexpectedly.

"Nathaniel?" She gasped when she saw the red haired man carrying a gun. "What are you doing here?"

"Why I'm here to protect the woman I love." He said. "The Jungle is a dangerous place you know."

"Oh would have anything to do with you trying to convince Marinette to marry you?" Nino asked suspiciously.

"What?! No! I just didn't want anything to happen to her. Because you know wild animals and those diseases."

"How do you find me?" She asked.

"I hired these guys." Nathaniel said. "Meet Simon and Mr. Pidgeon."

Little did they know that those two were actually poachers who were seeking to steal animals for wealth.

"Well we might as well set up camp." Marinette said.

"Great! Now where are my bags?" Nathaniel said.

Marinette sighed. "Dad remind me again, why am I marrying this guy?"

"Technically Darling you haven't said yes yet."

"Well why am I considering him for marriage?"

"Well he's rich, handsome, sophisticated."

"But we have nothing in common. But if I don't accept Aunt Angelique will never forgive me."

"Don't worry sweetheart, I'm sure he cares about you deeply and in time you might learn to love him."

Adrien watched her every move with the uttermost fascination. He had seen many lovely animals in the jungle but they didn't compare to this creature. He had never seen anything so beautiful in his life. What was this animal? Was she a native? No she was much too pale. Suddenly he heard Plagg roar, telling him that he and Tikki found out he had left and it was time to go back.