Ni Hao, Kai-Lan - Ferocious Rintoo (A Retold Tale of Rintoo’s Rampage)

== Disclaimer ==
This was originally made back in somewhere around May or June of 2023, but I edited half of the story to make it seem accurate. So please enjoy reading this thread of a rewrite.
== The Story ==
I really had no idea what I just encountered…
But whatever that VHS contains, it’s traumatizing will catch me.
I’ve been watching Ni Hao, Kai-Lan since 2008. I loved watching it as a child, it reminded me of summer 2008 without any networks and internet. It is about a little girl who lives with her grandfather, and has her animal friends with her, where they go on adventures and learn valuable life lessons. My sister is highly obsessed with the show and often tunes in the Nick Jr channel and watches that show 24/7 on a daily basis. She has almost all of their DVD collections she got from eBay. However, I’ve heard of an episode that wasn’t supposed to be released to the public, and trust me, it is as fine as burnt popcorn. NOT. It has to be, if not one of the most disturbing episodes of the series. It was meant to be the finale of the show, but was replaced with the other one.
I was at Goodwill in the DVD section. I was looking for Ni Hao, Kai-Lan DVDs for my daughter. Until a red vhs case caught my eyes, it was, of course, Ni Hao, Kai-Lan related media. The case was written in a black marker, “NHKI UNRELEASED FINALE, FEROCIOUS RINTOO. DO NOT RELEASE TO THE PUBLIC.” Thinking it looked interesting I bought it with my things. Went to the counter to purchase my things. When I handed the VHS tape, the cashier backed up.
Cashier: P-please.. Whatever you do.. DON’T. WATCH THAT THING. 
Confused, I purchased my things and left the store without saying a thing to the cashier. I drove back home and got up my vhs player, which was in perfect condition. Luckily my sister never saw this episode, and never in her life she will. I won’t let her obsession down on her. I popped it into the VHS player. Turned on my TV, and the FBI warning screen was seen before playing the Paramount logo shown on screen. The logo was somehow tinted red with a black background. The Nickelodeon fish ident popped up on screen, which felt unusual for me. It thankfully was normal. It then played 2 episodes. There episodes went through the following; Kai Lan’s Big Surprise and Ferocious Rintoo.
I’m sorry, “ferocious?” This had to be a sick joke. After the first episode, the second episode begins with a warning. It read the following:
“This episode was meant to be the series finale of Ni Hao, Kai-Lan. However the episode was immediately scrapped during production as it contains numerous scenes of violence, blood and gore. Therefore this episode is not for the faint-hearted and young viewers under 18 years. Viewer discretion is advised.” I didn’t say a word about the warning. 
== The Episode ==
The theme song played as usual, but there were minor changes. All of the characters, including Kai Lan, had no pupils, just a white void in their eyes. Alongside with white tears oozing their empty sockets. Almost immediately after the theme ended, something popped up for a split second. It was a creepy ass photo of Rintoo, however he had red eyes, and they were stretched out. Purple foam can be seen oozing out his mouth. I ignored it as a joke and continued with the episode.
The episode began without the title name for the episode, it faded to a shot of Rintoo standing there motionless. His face slowly grew into an angry expression as a distorted noise started playing in the background. He then said the following:
“Why does this reality of life always upset me?
                               “My friends don't even care about me.”
   “Everyone doesn’t wanna be my friend anymore.”
            “AND I’LL MAKE THEM GO UNDER THE TERRIBLE MISERY THAT IVE HAD VERY SOON.”
                                                                                                 “just watch me go into insanity…”
                                                                                       “I'm better off without my friends anyway.”
It then faded to black, as it cut to Kai Lan greeting the viewer as usual, until she heard roaring from a near distance. She looks the other way and sees Rintoo on all fours running towards Kai Lan. She lets out a shriek and starts running towards her house. She bursted in her door and locked it, while making a run towards her room. She then hid under her bed to hide herself from Rintoo. But it was no use, Rintoo broke into her room, grabbed Kai Lan in the arm and hung her with his paw. She asked him why he looked mad as hell. He then proceeded to make various roaring noises while opening Kai Lan’s face brutally. Her skull can be seen during the process. An image of a realistic now deceased Kai Lan laying down covered with Rintoo’s foam with Rintoo standing in behind of the body, while flashing on and on for about 20 seconds. 
He then proceeds to climb to Tolee’s treehouse. Immediately before he can ask a question, Rintoo brutally mauled him to death. Static bursted on the screen after viewing a shot of Tolee’s dead body. The next scenes then showed the following characters who were affected by the incident.
Hoho had his body ripped like a laundry bag. Tolee was burnt to a crisp during Rintoo mauling him to death. He had his head torned apart with bones sticking off him. Some of the ants were eaten and ripped apart. YeYe had every part of his bone broken. And LuLu had her balloon tied around her neck, suffocating her in the process. About every body had Rintoo’s foam on them during the killings.
Rintoo then changed back into his normal self. He looked around 
realizing that he'd killed everyone.
“What have I done?!”
“I’ve killed everyone.. MY FRIENDS!!!!”
He then collapsed down to the ground as he began transforming into an unrecognizable beast. I could hear bones cracking and twitching during the process. The screen then cuts to black, the credits start playing. But the credits weren’t just the usual upbeating music. Instead it was the music, “The Dawn Is Your Enemy”, playing in the background. Not to mention the credits were tinted blood red, as I can see blood splatters across the screen. It seemed so realistic, it felt like it was coming out from the TV screen itself. I was super creeped out, and it gave me the shivers too. Before the credits could even end, a text popped up and said this:
“What you saw was the very last sighting of Rintoo, a vicious tiger that continues to kill innocent people everyday and night. 
If by any means you see him. RUN.”
Once it said “RUN”, the text turns into a tint of dark red, and the screen shook to the point where it got me so dizzy. I paused the tape to rest my head for a while before resuming the last bits of the episode. The ending logos played. However, MUCH things were different from the regular ones. 
The HarringToons logo played out, everything seemed perfectly normal at first sight. That was until the moment it got so dark that I couldn’t see the logo. After around 5 seconds, a text rolled on screen:
“RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN RUN”
It zoomed in on the face as loud screaming could be heard, a flash of white and red flashed on screen for a few seconds before returning to normal. Once it went back to normal, the screaming stopped. But the eyes were much larger, in fact, it felt like an empty void. He had dark, red, large realistic pupils, and it had a large grin on its face. It stayed like that for about 4 seconds before fading to black.
The Nick Jr. The Productions logo was normal, until the father grabbed the son in the neck and threw him in the puddle. Blood was slightly noticeable on screen. The productions logo faded on screen, until that is, the scene grew darker as Nick turned into an unrecognizable beast, and a blurred image of a figure that looked like Kirk Odd from the noedolekciN Archives faded in the screen before cutting to black.
Another Nick Jr logo played, but it was the moon and star variant. The logo was dark tinted and was drenched in blood, and was accompanied by a jingle, referencing the Nick Jr jingle logo from 1993. It stayed on for about 13 seconds before fading to black. And what showed next haunted me for who knows how long.
The Nickelodeon logo played, however it had Kai-Lan and her friends (except Rintoo) all dead. The splat was red, Rintoo was standing from the back. The Nickelodeon was spelled backwards, spelling “noedolekciN”, with a jingle worse than the previous one I heard before. Not to mention that a huge splat, resembling a giant face with grinning teeth was seen behind Rintoo. The copyright date was so altered to make it seem scary and frightening. It was so gruesome and disgusting, especially the corpses of the main characters except Rintoo. Very much so that I paused the tape and ran to the bathroom and puked my hardest. After that I went back to the TV to resume the tape. 
It showed the Paramount logo, but the stars were replaced with hand prints, and I mean bloodified hand prints. The font had an unnerving look as everything was tinted dark crimson red. It fades to black. 
Thinking that the tape finished, I was about to eject the tape when the screen brusts to static for a few seconds before it faded to red slowly. Then it displayed something that will still scare me to this day. It was a highly detailed and realistic photo of Rintoo, his face looked barely unrecognizable, he still had the purple foam in his mouth. He lunged at the screen while loud roaring & screaming noises could be heard. I fell down so hard I think I broke my back from falling. After the jumpscare ended, a black screen came up before a test color bar card came up. The tape suddenly ejected by itself. I couldn’t get up at this point, I just sat there motionless for around 5 minutes before grabbing the VHS and storing it into my closet instead of destroying it. 
== Aftermath ==
I went downstairs to play some Minecraft, but I couldn’t stop thinking about the episode. I wasn't able to get to sleep last night. I had a dream where Rintoo was tearing every part of my body apart (totally not a sonic exe reference!!1!!). My sister still watches it to this day, but every time I see Rintoo, I think of the episode, the forbidden one to be exact.
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Category:Ni Hao, Kai-Lan
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