Here's my next Lion King Fanfic!
I kind of got the inspiration from a few episodes of Timon and Pumbaa. The one where Timon turns into a bug and Pumbaa eats him, the one when they think Simba went carnivore, and the opening of this story was inspired by the one where I think they got kidnapped by aliens. Not saying anymore though!
Hope you all liked the last fanfic. and I hope you all like this one!
"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" came a yell across the plains as a certain meerkat was smacked back and forth between two pairs of hyenas.
The youngest one among them, a female, swung her paw at the meerkat, who felt the very breath knocked out of him on impact. Then he was sent back to the other two hyenas, who missed him, and he was sent sliding on his stomach against the dirt, feeling the pain of the gravel beneath him.
"YES!" T shouted after she and Ed scored another point against Shenzi and Banzai.
"Next in line for hall of fame of meerkat volleyball: T and Ed!" she said. Ed laughed hysterically.
"Yeah, yeah, yeah." Banzai said.
"Best two outta three." Shenzi said as she grabbed Timon with her paw.
"No! No! No best two outta-!" but Timon was cut off when Shenzi served up and he went flying towards Ed and T again, screaming.
He squeezed his eyes shut, waiting for the painful impact of one of them to knock him back to the other side. He didn't know what was worse; when the two teams were dead-locked in sending him back and forth across the vine the four were using as a net, or when one of the teams missed and he was sent sprawling into the dirt. Either way it was pretty painful.
Shenzi and Banzai scored a point when T missed a hit at him and Timon was sent rolling a few feet before finally ending up flat on his back, exhausted. He breathed heavily as he saw T and Ed walk up to him, knowing only so they could practically break his spine in their tight grip and send him flying once again.
Timon looked at the two hyenas that were now towering above him.
"Please. I'm beggin' ya." he pleaded.
T and Ed meerly ignored his pleas for mercy. T reached her paw down to grab him but she and Ed perked their ears up when they heard a noise, it sounded like an angry warthog. Timon eye's widened as he recognized the sound.
Suddenly, he saw Pumbaa barge out of some shrubbery, then ram into T and Ed with his tusks, sending the two hyenas straight into Shenzi and Banzai. Timon watched as Ed and T crashed into them and all four hyenas ended up smacking into a tree trunk from the impact.
Then Timon saw Simba come from out of nowhere. Simba gave out a loud roar which scared all hyenas but T, as the trio instinctively got out of his way.
Then Timon saw Pumbaa run up to him, looking worried.
"Timon! Are you ok?!" Pumbaa said.
"What were you doing?!" Timon saw Simba yell at the hyenas.
"Aw c'mon kingy, we're allowed ta have a little fun ain't we?" Shenzi said.
"Yeah, we weren't hurtin' 'im or anything." T said.
"I let you three come into the pridelands and this is how you thank me?" Simba said.
"Maybe I should rethink that law." Simba finished.
At this, the trio looked nervous. Seeing that he was being taken seriously now, Simba calmed down and reluctantly gave the hyenas another chance.
"No more meerkat volleyball. Got it?" he said. The four hyenas nodded.
"Good." Simba said, then turned to Timon and Pumbaa.
"Let's go home guys." he said.
Back at Priderock...
"Timon, are you ok?" Pumbaa said again, more worried than before.
"Aww I'm fine." Timon said with a wave of his hand.
"A little R an' R and I'll be good as new." he finished, dusting himself off.
"...Maybe letting the hyenas in the pridelands was a mistake." Simba quietly said.
"Now don't go beatin' yourself up." Timon said.
"Look how's about me an' Pumbaa come visit you tomorrow, and we'll all go catch a few juicy bugs for lunch?" he said to Simba.
Simba calmed down and smiled.
"I think it's a great idea." he said.
"Good." Timon said, then got on Pumbaa's back.
"See ya tomorrow buddy!" he finished as he and Pumbaa rode off.
Simba watched them leave with a small smile on his face, but it disappeared when Timon and Pumbaa were out of view. Simba let out a sigh and walked into the den belonging to him and Nala.
In the outlands...
"We won." T said as the four made it back to their cave.
"No way! It was your guys' turn ta serve when the game ended so technically, we won by forfeit." Banzai said.
"Right." T said sarcastically.
"It don't matter anyway. Thanks ta King Buzzkill, we can't play it anymore." Shenzi said.
"So how 'bout everybody just forgets about it, and tomorrow we'll go find some big fat game for breakfast." she finished.
"Alright." T said with a shrug of her shoulders and the four went into their cave as the sun disappeared from the horizon.
Later that same evening...
"I don't know what to do with them." Simba said as he talked to Rafiki, who was busy grinding some berries in a turtle shell.
"Nala likes T so I can't kick 'em back into the graveyard. Plus those hyenas outnumber us by the dozens so we can't punish their leaders." he finished.
"What is dere to be punishing for?" Rafiki asked him as he stirred the concoction with a stick.
"Pumbaa and I caught the four of 'em using Timon as a volleyball." Simba answered.
"De meerkat?" Rafiki said.
"Yeah." Simba replied. Then he got to his feet.
"Well, thanks for listenin' Rafiki. Nala's probably waiting for me." Simba said as he turned to go back to Priderock.
"Anytime you wish my king." Rafiki said. Then Simba walked back to his home.
Rafiki rubbed his chin, he wondered how the hyenas could learn and obey the rules and laws Simba and the kings before him had made (excluding Scar of course!).
He thought as hard as he could until it finally hit him: From his point of view, there was only one way to learn and know about anything.
And that was, a first-hand experience.
Rafiki laughed to himself as he began working on another potion.
That night...
The four hyenas slept soundly in their cave. By this time the sky was completely dark blue, and the only thing that could be heard was the crickets chirping away, and the nocturnal animals.
Ed laughed faintly in his sleep, along with his snoring. Banzai was completely wiped out and was snoring as well. Shenzi and T were both quietly sleeping but turned Banzai and Ed over when the two males started snoring.
The four were so deep in sleep, they failed to notice a peculiar wind blowing into the cave. It blew soft, so as not to wake them up, but had a strange tint to it. Some thin waves of red could be seen along with the breeze, which blew its way right past T and Ed and onto Shenzi and Banzai.
Then just as quickly as it came, it stopped. But the hyenas continued to sleep, hardly recognizing anything at all.
The Next Day...
Shenzi and Banzai yawned as they woke up the next morning.
"Banzai, you an' Ed were snorin' again." Shenzi said without looking at him.
"Ya never complained about it before." he said to her, without making so much as a glance at her.
Then the two sleepily walked over to a puddle of water in the cave, dripping from a stalagtite hanging on the roof. They splashed the water on their faces to wake themselves up.
Then they yawned again and finally looked at each other.
And were shocked at what they saw.
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