Adventures of a Warthog

by vayetze

Come with Pumbaa as he befriends a meerkat and raises a lion cub and finally acts as an uncle to a lioness. . Lion King One , One and a Half and Two from the viewpoint of our favorite warthog. How does Pumbaa react when Simba chastises him for being naive? And why does Simba always seem to talk to Timon? My take on the family dynamic of these three

1. Chapter 1

Chapter One On My Way and Meeting with Rafiki

Mom was not too happy with me. The head of the monkeys told her that I had farted around the waterhole again and half of his group fell out of the trees. Last week I had made a herd of elephants faint. Mom was sick of the animals coming to her. She told me it was time to leave the sounder(Group of warthogs)that I grew up in.

"Pumbaa, I love you but you are making things bad for your sisters, " she told me. "I cannot find mates for Penelope, Precious, and Princess because some of the male warthogs think they have the same problem with gas that you have. You are older now so you need to go out on your own. Most male warthogs do."

"But Mom" I said. "I want to protect you and the sounder. There are lots of male warthogs that want to take over." I am very protective of my mother and my sisters.

"Don't worry, Pumbaa. I am going to marry Ralph. He will protect our sounder." Ralph was the large male warthog who lived near our grasslands. He wanted to annex our territory to his.

"All right , Mom But I would still like to stay."

All right , Mom But I would still like to stay."

"You can't stay Pumbaa. Ralph does not want you here. You are a grown male. And he does not like your gas problem and neither do your sisters. Your sisters want to marry some of the young males in Ralph's sounder but that will not happen if you don't leave. And your sisters complain that you are overprotective. With your attitude and your smell, you are making sure that they do not have any marriage partners. This has to stop."

"And what if I don't decide to leave, Mom?" I asked.

"Then I will have Ralph force you to leave." I am shocked and tears start to form in my eyes. Ralph is a huge warthog with massive tusks. All of the males in our sounder are afraid of him. If I have to fight with Ralph I know that I am on the losing end. "All right, Mom. I will leave." I reluctantly agree. Then I start crying. Mom just stands there and lets me cry. She makes no attempt to comfort me. When I am finished crying she tells me to go ahead and leave. If I don't, Ralph will arrive shortly to challenge me.

It is the middle of the day and I journey out of the grasslands. I say goodbye to my sisters but they do not pay attention. Only Mom says goodbye and I know that she is relieved that I am gone.

I wonder what my purpose in life is and I hope to meet up with someone who can tell me this. I decide to go to see the baboon Rafiki. He is the shaman of the Pridelands but sometimes he spends part of the year wandering other areas around the Pridleands and treating other animals. I know that he will leave tomorrow. Before I leave the grasslands, I decide to see him. The shaman is mediatating on a rock facing the waterhole. I say hello and ask him to tell me my future now that I am thrown out of my sounder.

Rafiki pulls out some tufts of my hair and mixes them with fruit juice and red powder inside a turtle shell. Then he looks at me and sighs. "I do not tell futures, Pumbaa. But I can give you advice. You have a good heart and you carry wisdom in your soul. You do not always know the motives of people on the surface because you are too good hearted and too trusting. You should take up with a friend who is tougher and more jungle wise than you. But you have the capacity to be a loyal and dear friend to anyone. You will travel paths that no warthog has ever traveled and you will make many friends that are different than you. And one other thing. You must live by the philosophy of hakuna matata. It means no worries. These two words will solve all of your problems."

"But Rafiki, what about my smell?It drives other animals away."

Rafiki hits me on the head with his stick. "What was that for?" I ask in bewilderment.

"One you just went against the philosophy of hakuna matata. You worried about your smell. And two, even though I hit you just once you still want to talk to me right?"

"Well, yes Rafiki. I trust your wisdom."

"It is the same with your gas problem. It only happens once in a while. It is not enough to drive all animals away. You will find true friends who will like you in spite of it. Now you had better go on your way. Ralph is coming to see me soon."

"Thank you Rafiki." I continue on my journey.