I'm back with chappy 2!! Thankyou to all who reviewed and you will be glad to know that I have fixed my commas (thankyou for pointing that out)!!
"Is it dead?" whispered a young female meerkat pup with amber eyes and light fur.
" I don't think so, dead things are suppose to smell," replied a male pup of about the same age with dark eyes and a slightly darker complexion.
" I don't know about that Makalo, you're kinda smelly, and you're not dead," the female teased.
"Shut up Kande!!!" retorted Makalo, giving her a slight push.
The two pups just stared at their discovery, unsure what to do. Neither of them had seen a bird such as this before and, nor did they know any form of first aid. Finally after much consideration Makalo thought of an idea.
"Lets poke it with a stick!" and with that scanned the nearby area for a nice sized poking stick.
" I don't know if this is such a good idea Makalo, what if it wakes up and tries to peck at our heads or something?" said a very concerned Kande.
"Come on it will be fun, plus that bird don't look like it's going anywhere, we could outrun that old bird any day."
"Ok if you're sure."
"Sure I'm sure, now stop being such a big chicken," after saying this he quickly grabbed the nearest good sized stick and before Kande could change her mind he had already given Zazu a few prods.
Zazu was until this time in an almost coma like state. A few light pokes in the area of his feathery stomach began to make him slowly regain consciousness. When he was finally awake he was a little frightened about were he was and what was touching him so he chose to keep his eyes shut so that maybe it would think he was dead then go away. Suddenly he felt another something poking his armpit (or in his case wingpit). Unfortunately for Zazu, Makalo and Kande this second poke had caught him off guard.
"AAAKK," Zazu squawked suddenly in fright jumping quickly yet unsteadily to his feet.
"AHHHHHHHH!!!!" squealed the Pups at the same time then they quickly scurried off of cover in some near by foliage.
Zazu after quite a bit of flapping around finally settled down and tried to get a glimpse of his supposed attackers. After looking around for a while he noticed a large pile of leaves shivering and two little meerkat tails sticking out from underneath.
'Meerkats?' he thought to himself, momentarily forgetting where he was. He looked around once more then remembering where he was and why he was there he focused he attention back to the still shivering pile of leaves. As he was unable to fly due to an injured wing that he had unfortunately landed on he though the meerkats may be able to lead him to wherever Timon and Pumbaa where, or at least to somewhere with water. He clumsily made his way over to the leaves and grabbing the end of one of the tails with his right talon he pulled the animal out of it's cover.
"Please don't peck my brains out!!" screamed Kande as she was forced out from under her hiding place. "Here," she said while pulling out her brother by the tail, "attack Makalo first it was his idea to poke you!"
To Zazu's surprise both pups simultaneously curled up into the foetal position and continued to cry. This was not at all amusing for Zazu as he stood there rolling his eyes at the pair.
"I do not have to slightest intention to attack either one of you," Zazu finally said.
"Really?" asked Makalo
"Positively," clarified Zazu.
"Oh ok, then," said Makalo and both pups jumped to their feet.
"Are you ok, Mr Bird sir? It looks like you fell a long way," asked Kande.
"I have seen better days but I would appreciate it if you two could take me somewhere to rest."
"Sure thing Mr Bird sir," said Makalo.
The Pups then seeing as Zazu was unsteady supported him on one side each under his wings and began to lead him to the main meerkat colony in the centre of the Oasis.
Zazu quite enjoyed the walk surprisingly even though his current company were forever badgering him with questions such as where he came form and even things he felt were quite private such as how old he was. Finally when they were nearing the colony it was his turn to ask a question.
" Would either of you happen to know a meerkat by the name of Timon and a Warthog that goes by the name of Pumbaa?'
"Yep we know them," began Kande, "but there over at the waterfall today and that's at the other side of the oasis. You can just rest with the colony today because your kinda heavy Mister and I'm getting tired. Hmmm just how much do you weight Sir?"
"I really don't think that's any of your business young Pup."
"That means he weighs a lot," giggled Makalo.
Zazu just rolled his eyes at this choosing to ignore the comment. Once at the colony the Pups greeted a few fellow meerkats and then decided to seat Zazu down on a small log while they went to fetch someone who could possibly offer more helpful assistance to Zazu. After a fair while they returned with a rather plumb looking meerkat female who for some reason looked oddly familiar to Zazu.
"You said you were looking for Timon, so we thought we'd bring you his Ma," said Kande cheerfully before scampering off to play with Makalo.
" Hi you're looking for my Timmy?" asked Ma.
'Timmy?' thought Zazu. "Oh you must mean Timon," he said after thing it through. "Yes I am looking for him I have an important message for him from his Royal Highness. My names…."
"Zazu," Ma butted in. "Timmy said that a blue pompous…I mean err sophisticated bird worked at Pride rock, you are him right?".
"Indeed I am," said Zazu who had fortunately missed the pompous remark.
"Well Timmy won't be back for some time… My whatever happened to you?? Just look at your wing. That's it, before you go about your important errand you coming with me."
" Really madam that's hardly necessary," argued Zazu, "It's only a sprained wing and a bit of a headache, I can just wait here."
"Oh no, no, no, it no trouble, no trouble at all. I'll be the judge if you ok or not. I know how you men are trying to look brave and saying everything's okay when it clearly isn't. My home is just a few feet away come on lets go." With that Ma grabbed onto his good wing and half pulled, half carried Zazu into her home which was inside a nearby hollowed out tree stump.
Thankyou to all those who read chapter one I really appreciate the support. I hope you like the story so far and my new characters.
Makalo: means wondering
Kande: means first born daughter
I also read somewhere that Zazu means stupid and Pumbaa means Dusty One (correct me if I'm wrong with this). They have corrected me and I'm wrong!! Zazu doesn't mean anything ,which is good because stupid isn't a nice thing to call someone, and Pumbaa means simpleton .