Before this adventure begins keep this simple fact in mind. Sometimes when you go in search of legends they find you.
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No one knew how the story began. All anyone could agree on was it had appeared somewhere on the internet and caught fire. Soon everyone was talking about her. Eventually the story became accepted as an urban legend. The Jungle Woman of Kauai. That's what they called her. Not that anyone had ever actually even seen her.
Most thought she was nothing more than the creation of some juvenile sex obsessed male mind. After all the story told of a scantily clad buxom brunette straight out of central casting living in the Hawaiian rainforest does seem pretty far fetched. Of course with all legends there are the true believers.
That was the case with Rick Columbus. Of course his fanatical obsession for the story came less from hard belief and more from a deep seated need to have his youthful fetish have a chance of coming true. Ever since seeing Jennifer O'Dell in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's The Lost World on TV he harbored a deep and abiding attraction to the wild woman trope. Now here was this story from his home state of a real wild woman just waiting to be found. So that was what he was going to do.
The same could not be said for Gordon Yates. Did he really believe in a jungle girl in Hawaii? No, it was ridiculous to say the least. Though watching his friend Rick blunder through the jungle trying to find her would make a pretty good viral video. On the off chance his friend was right, well then he'd have video of her to entertain himself with for years to come. So all in all it was a win-win proposition.
"I found another print!" Rick called racing to a muddy patch of ground ahead of them.
"For the last time that's your footprint," Gordon snapped at him from behind the camera, "we've been walking in circles for hours."
Ok, ok, this had not been as much fun as Gordon had anticipated. He had nothing to eat for the last three hours. His skin was covered in bug bites. There was a drizzling rain. His legs were killing him. He was one bite away from calling it quits. Zzpt. Oh, and there it was.
"That's it I'm going home," Gordon snapped.
"No, please, we can still find her."
"No, no we can't. And do you know why?"
"Because we're not trying hard enough?"
"No you idiot, because she's not real."
SNAP.
"What was that?"
They crept a few feet hiding behind a tree. Carefully they peeked around the corner. Holy shit, there she was. And she was a sight to behold.
The stories on the internet didn't do her justice. She was at least a head taller than the two of them with the longest, smoothest, most perfectly tanned legs either of them had ever seen. These were attached to thick, womanly, powerful hips covered in a short leopard printed skirt frayed at the bottom. A flat stomach was augmented by defined abs and other muscles from a years of physical labor. Her chest was covered by a low cut leopard print top frayed around the edges as well. Powerful arms were being used to help her scale one of the trees. Long wavy black hair framed a beautiful full face full of fierce determination. On top of her head was a crown of beautiful tropical flowers.
"Who's the idiot now?" Rick asked.
"Still you."