Look at that another chapter! Wow! This may be celebrated by some of you and dreaded by others ha ha. But anyway thanks to all who reviewed. I have been using Morpheus's idea of emailing people to say thankyou for reviews so if you don't have an email on display you may not have received a thank you but hopefully you all know I appreciate you anyway ;)

Ok let's make this easy.

I don't own any of the original lion King characters, they are all copy write Disney.

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The next day seemed to come very quickly for the royal couple who had been quite nervous of the idea of finding a replacement for Zazu who had been the advisor to the pride for their entire lives.

As planned, just after sunrise, the King and Queen walked outside of the cave to find afair sized gathering of birds of a variely of colours shapes and sizes,sitting just outside the main entrance of the den. Some were quite nervous looking as meeting lions face to face was not something they were accustomed to, but others however seemed more excited than nervous.

"Thankyou all for coming, we shall interview you in the order in which you came," announced Simba.

Nala had expected the birds to argue over who was first to arrive but to her surprise after very little flapping about, a pair of nearly identical female pink flamingos stepped forward.

"Ok we must insist on only seeing you one at a time.."began Nala to the two birds.

"Oh, we know that," cut in theslightly plumper of the two otherwise identical birds, "I'm just coming to support my sister."

"Very well then," said Simba and led them into the den.

The flamingos were led into a quiet part of the cave; very few lions were about as many had left before dawn, as they did not wish to be present to hear all the squawking outside. Kiara and Kovu were there though looking after the three young cubs while the royal couple conducted the interviews. Both Kiara and Kovu also felt that they had the right to witness the interviews as if the new advisor stayed as long as Zazu had, it was probable that this would be one day their personal Major Domo.

"Well," began the flamingo who had spoken before, "This is my sister Panyin, and she would very much like to be the new Major Domo of Pride Rock."

Panyin nodded and smiled in agreement.

"Well, Panyin," spoke Nala softly, trying not to be intimidating as Panyin looked nervous. "Do you feel you have sufficient flying skills?"

"Oh yes, yes!" cut in the original flamingo once again, "She is an excellent flyer, one of the best actually."

"That's nice," nodded Nala, thinking it strange that the applicant did not respond herself.

"Are you a good listener?" inquired Simba. "As one of the most important tasks of a Major Domo is to listen to the problems of all animals in the lands in order to report them to myself or Nala."

Panyin smiled and nodded.

"She is a brilliant listener, one of the best," commented Panyin's sister once again in a cheery voice. "In fact I can't think of a better listener in the whole Pride lands."

The Royal couple were finding Panyin's sister a bit annoying at this point.

"Ok just one more thing we'd like to ask the applicant," continued Nala emphasising the last two words, "is why do you want this job."

"Oh, she wants it for many reasons," Panyin's sister once again blurted out, "Firstly she feels a need to be more independant, secondly she..."

"Umm excuse me but what's your name?" interrupted Nala.

"Oh mine," repeated the bird, "Why my name is Kanoni"

"Well, Kanoni," began Nala trying hard to sound polite, "The King and I would really appreciate it if you would allow Panyin to answer the questions herself."

"Oh," uttered Kanoni, "I would, really I would but you see Panyin is unfortunately mute."

Simba looked at Nala, Nala looked at Simba, neither werereally sure of how to respond to the situation.

"A mute…" repeated the Queen slowly, "so she can't speak?"

"Well, no" answered Kanoni, adding in a whisper "She's a bit sensitive about it."

"Oh…ok," said a surprised Simba, not quite sure how to respond to the situation.

Kiara could be heard trying to suppress giggles in the corner of the cave.

"Well, that may make it a little difficult for you to preform duties such as the daily reports and offering advice…so umm don't summon us we'll summon you," said Simba with a trying too hard smile.

"Humph" snorted Kanoni, sounding insulted as she and her sister excited the cave.

"Don't summon us, we'll summon you?" repeated Nala with an eyebrow raised once the flamingos had gone.

"Well…" began Simba, knowing that wasn't his greatest moment.

"Ahhh, you've been hanging around that meerkat too much," commented Nala rolling her eyes. "Come on, let's go get the next one."

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That was the first interview; hope you all received some level of enjoyment out of that. I will not restrict all chapters to a single interview, but I just liked where this one finished and thought it would give readers a taste of what is to come. Incase your interested the name Panyin means "Older twin" and the name Kanoni means "Little bird", and yes I am aware Flamingos are not the littlest of birds but they aren't the largest either so there!

Oh and just would like to make it clear I have nothing against mute people, so I hope I didn't insult anybody. I only thought it would be funny for a mute to apply for a job which main;y involves mainlyverbal communication, which would be kind of like if I whoam very short applied for a job as an air hostess as I could reach the overhead compartments.