Yay Chapter five is here for everyone to enjoy! Time to thank the reviewers.
Nala5: Thanks for both of those reviews; I hope you can find that song because it is really good; hell all of Tom Petty's songs are good, especially American Girl. And like Zazu said in the first chapter, his father was killed by a hunter. You can use your imagination on what kind of hunter since I thought that was kind of a good idea. So it could have been a human hunter, a leopard hunter, a hawk, who knows.
Katibu: I'm glad you liked the lyrics, are you a Tom Petty fan too, if not try to find one of his cds and listen to it, they are so good. Sule was okay after that incident but the next time he might not be so lucky.
MorpheusDreamer: Thank you so much for putting me in your favorite authors list! I'm so happy. I'm glad you liked the grandfather; I have a nice little speech for him to make to Zazu before he leaves for good, which will be in the next chapter. And you're missing out on a good movie, Dragonheart is one of those stories you never get tired of especially since Sean Connery does the voice of the dragon.
Sunrise19: Thanks for the review; I think Zazu is going to meet Mufasa in the 8th or 9th chapter, not totally sure though.
Now on to my happy chapter.
Sometimes it's hard to relive terrible memories of your past, especially when it involves a member of the family. I can almost remember like it was yesterday. It had been a week since we had learned to fly and since we could almost fly like any pro, our mother let us explore the world around us, just as long as we did not go too far or get lost.
One the first two days of flying around the savanna, we did not get into too much trouble. I got into a fight with Azizi after he called me "Banana Beak," I still have no idea why everyone thinks my beak looks like a banana, it looks like any other hornbill beak. Any way, we rolled in the mud for a few minutes, pecking at each other and calling each other different names that I would never want to repeat again. Luckily our grandfather stopped the tussle when he saw us as he flew overhead to see how we were doing.
On the third day we spent a few hours following the migrating Zebra through the savanna until they came to a watering hole. We watched them for a few hours before we decided to fly over to a large mound that had grown out of the earth from erosion and perch from there, just so we could see the savanna from an interesting angle.
"Wow it's so beautiful isn't it!" said Sule, it was actually his idea too.
"Yeah I like how you can see the whole savanna and how the watering hole looks all sparkly," said Kalifa.
"And you can see that there is a storm coming our way," I said
"Hey that's neat, we have never flown through a storm before," said Sule
"But do you think it's safe to do so?" I asked.
"Don't be a chicken, it's only a storm, all you have to worry about is big raindrops and some lighting which I don't think will hit us, they only hit trees any way," said Azizi who sounded all proud about the idea.
I looked at Sule and Kalifa to see if they objected but both seemed like they were into it as well.
"Don't worry Zazu, I bet it will only be a rain shower any way and those aren't that bad," said Kalifa.
"Plus, we'll be beside each other, nothing could go wrong with that right?" asked Sule.
"Yeah I guess you're right," I said in a worried voice.
For about an hour we perched in a nearby tree and watched as the rains began to arrive. At first it only looked like a small rain shower, but the clouds grew bigger, and they were bigger than the ones we had seen before. That was when I knew it would be a dangerous storm.
"Don't you think we should start heading back now," I cried as the winds began to howl.
"Just a few more minutes," yelled Sule.
I looked at the rain nervously, I saw lighting flashing in front of us and I knew our mother was worried about us, but my siblings seemed to not care about the problem, they wanted to have an adventure.
Finally when I was about to fly back to the nest on my own, Sule jumped off the tree and began to fly back to the nest, we quickly followed.
I quickly learned that flying through your first rainstorm can be very tiring on the wings, and we were chicks who had not mastered the art of flying yet so it was quite difficult. The rain stung our eyes, and the wind blew us back a few times, which is not very fun since it felt like you were being dragged by an unknown force.
I looked at my siblings and both seemed to be having a hard time as well but of course Sule and Azizi did not show it.
"This is fun, I feel like we are trying to get somewhere special to find something important," said Sule in an adventurous voice.
"Yeah this is not so bad, what do you think of this Zazu?" asked Azizi.
"I don't like it one bit, I just want to be with mom right now," I said nervously.
"That's because you are a chicken," said Azizi who then began to make chicken noises at me. In case you all a wondering how we know about chickens, well all us birds know about our species even if we have never seen them before. Yes it is quite strange but that's because different species think that way. Any way, back to the story.
"Stop that," I said while trying my hardest to fly against the wind.
"Make me," said Azizi.
I was about to fly over to him and give him a piece of my mind when lighting suddenly flashed just inches from us. It did not hit us, but it caused us all to back away in fright.
"My goodness that was close," said Kalifa once she was finished holding her breath.
"Yeah we could have been killed," I said.
"Help!" cried Sule.
We all turned in the direction he was crying for help and saw him being whisked away by a heavy wind and he could not escape it.
"Come on guys we need to help him," I said as I began to fly toward my brother.
Kalifa and Azizi tried to follow but the rain began to fall down harder and lighting flashed all around us making it difficult to see.
"Help me please!" cried Sule.
I tried to reach him but the closer I got, the farther he seemed to move farther from me. I tried to flap my beginners wings the best I could but I soon realized that the storm was winning and a few minutes later, Sule was lost in the storm.
I hovered in the air for a few minutes as tears mixed with the rain that fell around me.
"Sule come back," I cried. "Sule!"
But every time I cried out his name, the thunder drowned me out. I knew I had to give up when Kalifa and Azizi flew to me.
"We need to get home, hopefully Sule will be okay and he will be home by morning," said Kalifa.
I nodded in agreement with her and together we braved the elements as we flew back to the nest.
When we finally returned to the nest, the rain had eased a little and the wind was not as strong. Our mother was standing on a nearby branch looking very worried while our grandfather tried to comfort her. The three of us flew over to tell us we were all right and to give her the bad news.
"Mother we made it home," I said.
My mother turned to us and her grim face turned to joy when she noticed we came back safe and gave us a tight hug.
"You had me worried sick, don't ever do that again," she said.
"It was Sule's idea, he wanted to try and fly in the storm, and now he's…he's…" said Azizi who then began to cry.
"You mean he's gone?" asked my mother in shock.
"We're not sure, we lost him in the storm," I said.
"Oh dear, Dad go find him while I warm these three up," said my mother who then scooted us over to the nest where we lay under the warmth of her feathers.
"I'm sorry about this Mom," I said sadly.
"We will talk about this in the morning, once we learn about Azizi, now get some sleep," she said.
The three of us said nothing and quickly fell asleep under the warmth of our mother's fur and hoping that Sule was alright.
A/N: I guess I will stop here for now and let you wonder what happened to Sule. I hope you liked the chapter and I hope it did not suck, and don't forget to review. To those who are going to see Revenge of the Sith this weekend I hope you have fun waiting in line, I'm gonna wait two weeks before I see it. And how many of you think that this movie will beat Titanic, I think it will for some reason. Well have a great weekend.