Chapter 10: Ma
Hello everybody! We have reached the tenth chapter and I really can't believe how popular its become. Thanks to everyone who has stuck with me this entire time with this story. We're beginning to reach the end of this story, but its been a good run with you guys. Tell you what, if we reach over 60 reviews I'll add an extra treat to the story, okay?
The remaining four votes are: Vitani, Rafiki, Banzai, and Ed. Remember that you can vote up to two choices per chapter review and you can give your suggestions for how you want your voted character to be dunked with ice water.
Warning: Real sweet, emotional stuff in this chapter. Do not read if you get cavities really easily from reading sweet things. You have been warned.
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"NNNOOOOOO," cried out Timon, latching onto the director's leg. "No, no, no, no, no! Anything but that! Let me do it, not her!"
"Timon calm down, relax, and let go of my leg," the director said. He was clearly annoyed. He had called in Timon to his office in order to tell him who was going to be next in the ice bucket challenge nominee list. His Ma had apparently gotten the most votes and Timon was not to happy about it, wait, oh heck, he was totally freaked out by it. So which brings us to our current scenario where Timon is clutching the director's leg, begging him to spare his Ma this time, while the director tries to pry him off.
"But.. but... can you let her go next," Timon asked.
"No. If I let her pass a turn when she gets the most votes then it will be unfair to the other contestants that have gone and will be going soon," the director replied.
"But she's my Ma! Doesn't that want you make you want to spare her," Timon asked. The director sighed and finally managed to pry Timon off of his leg.
"Timon, if I could I would let your Ma go some other time, but I can't. It's the rules that whoever gets the most votes has to do the ice bucket challenge. If there is a tie in the votes then two participants can do the challenge at the time, but Ma has the superior number of the votes right now. So I'm asking you not only as your boss and manager, but as a friend to allow us to let your Ma go through with this."
"But..but," Timon stuttered, before sighing. "Fine, I'll be the one to tell Ma the news."
"Thank you," the director said softly, patting Timon on the shoulders. "I believe I saw your Ma go into the beauty salon. "I'll leave you to be the one to tell her."
"Okay," Timon said quietly.
At the beauty salon
Ma and the other females of the Lion King movies were having their regular girl's-day-out. Ma, Sarafina, Nala, and Vitani were sitting/laying in the salon chairs in bathrobes while they soaked their toes in warm, scented, bubbling water. Sarabi, Zira, Shenzi, and Kiara were at some tables while some salon artists worked on their nails, er claws. They were all very relaxed and very comfortable at this moment.
Meanwhile Timon was standing right out the beauty salon door, staring up at it. Pumbaa, Uncle Max, Simba, and Kovu stood outside with him. Simba came up to Timon and tapped his shoulder.
"Are you sure you want to go through this," he asked. Timon took Simba's paw off his shoulder and looked up at him.
"I am about to go where no meerkat has gone before. I may not may it out alive, so if I don't... you guys get first dibs on my stuff," he replied. Kovu cheered before realizing everyone was staring at him, so he cleared his throat. "Hmm, well if that happens we'll sure gonna miss you," he quickly said.
"Wish me luck friends. I'm going in," Timon says, taking a few steps backwards before charging for the door. Unfortunately for him, Nala, Sarabi, Zira, and Kiara stepped out and opened the door, causing Timon to rush onto the room before smacking straight into a lounge chair. The Lion King characters cringed as Timon fell on his back with little, yellow birds circling his head. A meerkat from on top the chair looked down at the near unconscious Timon.
"Timon darling! What are you doing down there" Ma asked. Timon groaned as he sat up, shaking his head and getting rid of the small, yellow birds, who immediately flew off and went over to a full tub of water and began to use it as a birdbath.
"H-hey Ma. I-I got some news for you," Timon stuttered as he got to his feet, swaying a bit before gaining balance again. "Uh the director told me to tell you that your doing the ice bucket challenge today."
"Really," Ma exclaimed. "I know, I know. It's quite a shocker. I was surprised to, but let's just calm down.." Timon trailed off.
"I'm going to do the ice bucket challenge just like my son," Ma yelled happily. A few massage ladies put up their fingers to the mouths and shushed Ma as the went back to their work.
"What," Timon said shocked.
"I'm going to do the ice bucket challenge, just like you Timmy," Ma said, embracing her son in a hug, to which he awkwardly returned. "I finally get to do it. Oh this is so exciting. I've been anticipating this ever since you did it awhile ago"
"You have," Timon asked.
"Yes, and now I get to do it. Good thing I asked for a waterproof nail polish," Ma said, holding up her hand to Timon. Her nails had been painted, what a shocker, a shiny dark brown. They shone with a glossy sheen.
"Ooh, I gotta get ready. I'll meet you there, Timmy. Thanks for telling me the news," Ma said. Heading into another room in the salon, just leaving Timon standing there, all by himself. He finally shuffled out the door to where his friends we're talking. They all looked as he came out.
"So, uh, Timon. How did it go," Simba asked. Timon looked up at him.
"Well, apparently better than I expected. Ma was very excited about doing it and so I will be supporting her when she goes through with it," Timon replied. The others smiled at him.
"Well its nice to know your being a good sport about your Mom going through with it," Kiara said.
"And we'll be there to support her with you," Pumbaa said. Timon smiled warmly at them.
"Thanks guys, I knew I could count on you."
"I seriously can't believe I'm doing this," Ma said. She was under the ice water dumping spot with her swim cap and goggles firmly stuck on to her head. The monkeys chattered above her, trying to decide which monkey would be the lead one to pour the ice water down on Ma. Timon had paid them with bananas to carefully pour the ice water down on his Ma.
"I'm so excited. I'm all set for it," Ma said excitedly. Timon then came up to her.
"Hey Ma. I just came over to say that no matter what happens out there we'll always be there to support you." Ma paused and stared at him for a moment, then took his face into her hands and kissed his forehead.
"Aww Timmy, thank you so much for you and your friends being supportive of me, but I'll be fine. Wish me luck," Ma said.
"Good luck," Timon muttered quietly before walking away from the target spot. The director then came up to Ma.
"Are you ready, Ma," he asked. Ma re-adjusted her goggles and gave him the thumbs up. "Okay then. Pour it down boys," the director said.
Timon watched in a slow-motion type view as the monkeys gently tipped the bucket over and started pouring water on Ma. Timon watched as the shapes of the falling ice waterfall descended slowly through the air. Drops menacingly floated down, right before they were going to hit Ma. It became too much for Timon and so he stumbled and staggered a few times before falling to his knees and onto his face om the pavement. The last thing he heard before he blacked out was the sound of water hitting the concrete, his Ma's shriek in surprise as the water hit her, and his name being called by his friends as they ran over to him.
Later
Timon woke up groggily on a lounge chair, a flashlight being shone in his face. The paramedic turned off the flashlight and moved away as Ma came over to him.
"Ma," Timon called out weakly to her. Ma sighed, took his hand into hers and squeezed it gently.
"The director told me everything about what happened earlier," Ma explained. Timon exhaled loudly and shut his eyes tightly before moving to a sitting position. "What I want to know is why you fainted, Timmy." Timon opened his eyes again and looked at her's.
"I don't know. I guess I was just worried that you would get hurt or something and maybe I could do something to prevent it from happening, but after you said and showed how excited you were about doing it I kept thinking to myself of how I could be so insensitive to what my Ma wants to do," Timon confessed. Ma was silent for a few moments before lifting up Timon's chin with her finger.
"Now Timmy, I understand why you were afraid to admit it, but why didn't you say anything earlier to me," Ma asked.
"Because your my mom! And your one of the last things I have. If you're gone then who else do I have. Your really the only family I have left, well aside from Uncle Max, but still," Timon replied. Ma stared at him for a few moments longer before embracing him in a tight hug. Timon returned it too, squeezing her tightly.
"Oh Timmy. Nothing bad is going to happen to me. I'm sorry if I worried you. I'll always be here for you sweetie. I love you," Ma said.
"I love you too, Ma," Timon said, beginning to cry. Ma let him sob on her shoulder until he was ready to go on. She wiped a few stray tears away from his face, gathering at the tip of his nose.
"Feel better," she asked him. He sniffed and nodded. "Good, now let's go check and see how the others are doing," she suggested. Timon nodded again and walked out of the room with his arm linked with his Ma's. When the got outside the room they were immediately swarmed with question-asking characters, the main question on everyone's minds being...
"Are you okay Timon," everyone asked at once. Ma waved her hands to settle them down.
"Quiet! Quiet down everyone. Timon is fine. See," Ma said.
"Then why did he faint earlier," Uncle Max asked.
"Just a little trauma from experiencing me do the ice bucket challenge. Nothing to worry about now. Now if you'll excuse us we have some mother-son time to get to," Ma said, moving past everyone with Timon. They all watched as they left.
"So what do we do now," Kiara asked, breaking the silence.
"I don't know. How about we go out for pizza," Kovu suggested. Everyone cheered and started going to the nearby pizza place for dinner. Meanwhile in the distance, shadowed by the sunset's light was the silhouettes of two meerkats holding hands as they walked into the light.
Hope you enjoyed this chapter. I wanted some mother-son time with Timon and Ma, so I decided what better when to do it then it was Ma's turn to do the challenge and Timon is worried about losing his mother. I'm not exactly sure what might cause this type of fear for Timon, I just needed a conflict in this chapter and it turned out alright at the end. So thanks for reading, please send me your votes, let's try to get past the 60 review mark, and stay tuned till the next chapter. Sincerely, v.t.7