The Lion Guard: Bongo the Slyest: The Return of the Roar Chapter 3: P3: What's Zuka Zama?, a lion guard fanfic

THE LION GUARD: BONGO THE SLYEST
RETURN OF THE ROAR P3.

WHAT'S ZUKA ZAMA?

Kion then wandered off the Pride Rock and stopped to the bank of the Watering Hole and looked at his reflection from the water surface. The cub was still shocked over the revelation of his newest role... and excited about it.

"Wow! Me! Leader of the Lion Guard... Protectors of the Pride Lands and the defenders of the Circle of Life!" Kion said confidently.

"Exciting, isn't it, Kion?" Bongo said as he walked next to Kion after finally catching up with him.

"Yeah! Though also kinda scary..." Kion confessed, lowering his ears. "Almost feels like all of this came just too fast."

"Yep. Taking all of this in in a short time must be a nerve-wracking." Bongo said sympathetically. "But I believe you'll be a great leader."

Kion looked at the wild dog with raised eyebrow. "You really think so?"

"Yeah. Have I ever lied to you, Kion? Have I? Have I? Have I?" Bongo said, teasingly nudging the prince three times in the left shoulder with his right paw, making Kion laugh.

"Stop it!" Kion chuckled, waving Bongo's paw off. "And no... you haven't."

"See? I seriously mean it, Kion. After all, you're my best friend. And I'll always be there for you whenever you need me. That's what the friends are for, right?" Bongo said with the supportive smile.

"Right." Kion said with warm smile. "Thanks, Bongo."

"Anytime. And besides! Best of all in this will be that this will leave Moto to lick his paws for a long time when he realizes how wrong he was about you back there." Bongo reminded. "No matter what he said, you were destined to become something great."

"Yeah." Kion agreed. "I actually never believed I would be. Now I do."

"HEY KION! BONGO!" Bunga called out for the two as he slid past them right into the Watering Hole, splashing water on both of them.

"Ergh! Bunga! You silly honey badger!" Bongo groaned.

"Ready to start assembling the Lion Guard? Huh? Now? Yeah? Huh?" Bunga asked excitedly, jumping repeatedly in the shallow water and splashing more of it onto the lion prince and wild dog pup.

"Yes, yes, yes! Augh!" Kion answered with the groan, before shaking his head dry. "Just stop splashing on us, okay?!"

"Splashing?" Bunga questioned, before he looked his two friends over and saw that they were both soaking wet, with water dripping from their chins and wet droppy years.

"Yeah. Stop splashing if you please?" Bongo added with the glare, before the pup shook himself dry.

Realizing what he had done, Bunga gave a sheepish chuckle. "Sorry, guys."

"Hakuna matata, Bunga." Kion said.

Bongo, however, smiled slyly and dipped his paw into the water, before he splashed some water on the honey badger, catching him by surprise and leaving him now soaking wet.

"Hey!" Bunga groaned.

"Small payback, Bunga." Bongo chuckled slyly, giving him the wink with his eye.

Kion and Bongo then ran off from the Watering Hole. "Now c'mon! Time to assemble the Lion Guard!" Kion declared before he kept running off, followed close behind by Bongo and Bunga.

Unbeknownst to three friends, Moto, Mafu and Konda were spying on them from behind of some hill. Moto had overheard of Moto bragging about him licking his paws for being wrong about Kion, that he will never be anything great... and it caused him to let the growl escape through his teeth.

"Licking my paws, eh?" he almost exclaimed, irritably. "We'll see about that!"

"That half-eared mutt really does have a bad taste of humor, doesn't he?" Mafu asked, until the overweight lion cub felt his stomach growling like the thunder. "Speaking of taste... I'm hungry, Moto. Can't we just go eat something?"

"Can that bottomless hole of yours low, Mafu! My revenge first, then food." Moto chited, nudging Mafu's big stomach with his paw to shut him up. "When I'm done, Kion will be the one licking his paws with realization that he'll never be anything great. Ever! That's the promise." the mean cub swore.

"Well, you better do something quick, Moto." Konda reminded. "Kion's already looking for the members for this new Lion Guard-thingy."

"So what are you planning to do, Moto?" Mafu asked. "Are you going to stall him from finding the members of the Lion Guard?"

"Nah! Too easy." Moto said to his friends. "I'll come up with something. Let's just keep an eye on them and see what we can do."

Moto and his friends and went after Kion, Bongo and Bunga from different route.

However, unbeknownst to them, Moto, Mafu and Konda were being watched by the vulture with very dark blue feathers, thick white ruff of feathers around his neck, red-tipped beak and a smooth and blue crest in the back of his head, who was perched on the branch of the tree. The vulture, Mzingo by name, had overheard the trio's conversation about Kion, Bongo and Bunga... especially them metioning "the Lion Guard".

"Lion Guard?" Mzingo muttered, before he took off after the trio to find Kion and his friends to hear more.

A little further away, Kion turned to his friends as they catched up with him. "Okay. Dad said that along with the fiercest, the Lion Guard needs the Pride Lands' Uh... what they were again?"

"The Pride Lands' bravest, slyest, strongest, fastest, and keenest of sight." Bongo reminded.

"Right." Kion said, nodding in gratitude. "So I think I'll go ask the bravest animal in the Pride Lands first."

"And who could that be, Kion?" Bongo asked.

"Kion, wait!" Bunga called as he jumping in front of Kion and Bongo, cutting their path. "Before you go asking whoever you think is the bravest, think about this... I might not be the biggest honey badger. But I know what's in my heart. And I'm not afraid of anything, or anyone!"

"I know, Bunga." Kion replied.

"You sure don't, Bunga." Bongo agreed with the raised brow and knowing smile.

"And that's why..."

However, Bunga interrupted him as he kepty talking, almost with the reasoning and even begging tone. "I'll help the Lion Guard to fight off stinky hyenas. Or stupid jackals! Or brutish crocodiles! Or repulsive vultures!"

From the tree branch where Mzingo had perched on to listen, the vulture felt offended what Bunga had just said. "Repulsive vultures?" Mzingo repeated.

Down below, Bunga kept ranting, unable to stop himself. "Or great big rock slides or wild fires or floods! I will stand with the Lion Guard! I'll never give up! I'll, I'll..."

Bongo was quick to lift his paw over Bunga's mouth to shut him up. "Okay, okay, okay, Bunga! That's enough! You're making my ears to ring non-stop if you don't stop talking."

"Yeah. Otherwise I cannot ask you to join the Lion Guard if you keep interrupting me like that." Kion said.

"Say WHAT?!" Bunga questioned, unsure if he had heard him right.

"Come on, Bunga! You're the bravest animal I know!" Kion reasoned.

"Yeah. Whenever you go where others don't like to go, or do something others don't like to do, you just go and do it without the question or hesitation." Bongo told his friend. "Come on, we've seen that happening way more before than just once or twice."

"Yes. And that's why I want you to be the first to join the new Lion Guard." Kion told him.

"And that wasn't the joke... but an actual request." Bongo added.

The wide grin spread across the honey badger's face. "ZUKA ZAMA!" he cheered as he jumped up in the air and hit the air with his fist.

From the tree branch, Mzingo smiled deviously as he found this information interesting. "Zuka zama, indeed, young honey badger."

"You couldn't have made a better choice." Bunga thanked with elation. "We're gonna make a great team. I can't wait to tell Uncle Timon and Uncle Pumbaa.

Suddenly, the three friends heard the panicked scream in distance. "HELP! A LITTLE HELP PLEASE!" a straining voice called.

"Kion? Bongo? Did you heard that?" Bunga asked.

"Sounds like Kiara's friend, Zuri." Kion replied, rolling his eyes. "And she needs help."

"Ugh! What is it this time? Paw stuck in the hole? Landing face-first into pool of mud? Sitting on the ant nest?" Bongo listed in annoyance.

"Hey." Bunga said, as the realization dawned to him. "If she needs help, that could only mean our help. That's our first adventure! Lion Guard to the rescue!" the honey badger declared as he ran off to find Zuri to help her.

"Lion Guard to the rescue?" Kion and Bongo repeated at the same time with raised brows.

"Hey, Bunga! Wait up!" Kion called as he ran after Bunga.

"Bunga! Remember, you silly honey badger, that the Lion Guard isn't even ready yet!" Bongo called as he followed Kion and Bunga.

On the tree branch, Mzingo, having heard enough, chuckled deviously. "Good to know, Bongo. I wonder if Janja knows about the Lion Guard." the vulture wondered, before he took off and flew towards the Outlands to find the hyena in question to deliver the news.

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A little further away, Kiara was with her two friends, Tiifu, a small lioness from the pride with cream fur, small tuft of fur sticking up from her head, pink speckles on each cheek and olive green eyes, and Zuri, a tawny-orange lioness from the pride with a small tuft of fur on her head, a pale oval-shaped markings on each ear, distinct blue eyes and a small markings underneath each of her eyes.

And right now, Zuri, who was standing on the log across the small pit below, had found herself from the trouble... if one could call it a serious trouble.

"Hold still, Zuri. Tamu will be back soon with the help." Tiifu told to her friend, who was whining and complaining loudly on the tree log.

"Where you think I'm gonna go, Tiifu? I'm stuck!" Zuri whined, revealing that she had got her claws stuck to the log.

Kiara let out the sigh. "You wouldn't be stuck if you didn't keep stopping to sharpen your claws on every other tree." she clarified.

"But Kiara, if I don't keep them sharp, they don't stay shiny!" Zuri said, unsheathing her "shiny" claws and looked at them with admiring smile.

At this moment, the help arrived when Tamu arrived. She was a young and slender female wild dog with the reddish-brown pelt, tawny-orange underbelly, face and snout with the bordering white lines, white-lined dark spots in the back and in the legs and dark stripe over her head and bridge of her snout, bushy tail with light tawny tip and light tawly legs, reddish eye circles, red nose, crystal blue eyes, bushy cheeks and rounded ears.

"I found the help, Kiara." Tamu said and nodded her head over her shoulder, revealing to the lion girls that she had brought Kiara's dad's old childhood friends, Timon the meerkat and Pumbaa the warthog, with the latter carrying a long branch in his mouth. "They said they know how to help Zuri."

"That's right. Don't worry, ladies. Me and Pumbaa have everything under control." Timon assured, as he hopped down and took the branch from Pumbaa's mouth.

"Timon's right. We used to help Simba get his claws out of logs all the time." Pumbaa said proudly.

Kiara watched nervously as Timon put the branch under Zuri's paw. "And you're sure about this?"

"Sure, I'm sure, Kiara. If it weren't for us, your dad would still be stuck to a tree somewhere." Timon said.

"Does it hurt?" Zuri asked worriedly.

"No fear, Zuri. You won't feel a thing." Pumbaa promised, though Zuri didn't look convinced.

"Okay. Let's get this done." Timon said, giving Pumbaa the branch. "Ready, Pumbaa?"

"Ready!" Pumbaa confirmed.

"Okay, on three. One... Two..." Timon counted, as Kiara, Tiifu and Tamu looked on and Zuri braced herself, closing her eyes. However, before Timon could've counted three, a voice stopped him.

"Stand back, Pride Landers! Bunga of the Lion Guard is here!" Bunga declared as he made his dramatic appearance by swinging to the other end of the log by the vine.

"The WHAT?!" Kiara exclaimed with raised brow.

"Bunga?" Pumbaa said as he turned to Bunga, but the warthog accidentally bumped into Zuri, pushing her forward and making her to break her claw.

"AGH! OW, MY CLAW!" Zuri moaned in pain, just before she slipped off the log and landed with the loud crash inside of another log lying in the bottom of the pit, making everybody cringe at the crashing sound.

"Ouch." Tamu cringed as she peered over the log.

"Sorry." Pumbaa apologized sheepishly.

Zuri, who was now partially inside the log, waved her hind legs in panicked manner as she struggled to get out of the log.

"EWW! CREEPLY CRAWLING BUGS!" Zuri screamed as she finally managed to get herself loose from the log, covered by bugs that crawled on her fur and out of the log. "Ew!"

Both Timon and Pumbaa looked on this with great delight.

"Zuri! You hit the jackpot!" Timon said, licking his chops.

"It's smorgasbord!" Pumbaa declared.

Everybody looked on with dumbfounded looks on their faces as both Timon and Pumbaa hopped off the log and dived head-first into the bug-crawling log, eating the insects inside. And while his uncles were busy in filling their bellies, Bunga dashed in middle of the log.

"Hang on, Zuri! I'll save you!" Bunga called, but was quickly held back by Kiara.

" Okay, Bunga. I think you did enough saving for one day." Kiara admonished before she hopped down.

Tamu then walked next to Bunga. "Bunga? What are you even doing here?"

Before Bunga could've answered, Kion and Bongo showed up to the other side of the pit. Both of them were baffled by the sight in front of them: Pumbaa's tail sticking out from the log crawling with insects, Kiara and Tiifu looking over Zuri in the bottom of the pit, where the tawny lion was moaning in pain while keeping her left paw off te ground, and Bunga and Tamu standing on top of the log, peering down at them.

Tamu then looked at Kion and Bongo, and the reddish-brown wild dog was delighted to see Bongo, who fell silent, went wide-eyed and lowered his ears down against the back of his head the moment he saw Tamu looking directly at him.

"Oh. Hello, Kion." Tamu said, before she blinked her blue eyes flirtingly at Bongo. "Hello, Bongo."

Bongo gulped nervously, before the wild dog lowered his head in between of his raised shoulders and looked shyly to the other way, blushing slightly. "Uh... eh, heh... Hello Tamu. Didn't expect to see you in here." Bongo said awkwardly.

"Neither did I." Tamu replied, softly shaking her head, making the fur in her cheeks wave and the tips of her ears flap in the air.

"Ooohhh!" Bongo groaned, trying to resist the urge to look at her, even if he was looking at her with sideways glance. "Why does she have to do that?!" Bongo muttered.

Kion gave Bongo a knowing smirk, before the cub turned back to the matter at hand. "What's going on?" the lion cub asked as he jumped down in the pit, followed by Bongo.

"Oh! I broke a claw! It hurts!" Zuri whined.

"There, there, Zuri. You're gonna be just fine." Tiifu said as she nuzzled Zuri's head with her own, trying to soothe her.

Kion then turned to his older sister. "Oh, hey, Kiara. How'd the gazelle tracking go?" the prince asked.

The princess sighed heavily, resisting the urge to roll her eyes. "We never got to the gazelles. Zuri got her claws stuck in a tree." she said, deadpanned.

"Kiara sent me to fetch some help, so I brought Timon and Pumba here as they claimed having experience about getting the king's claws out of the logs." Tamu added as she hopped down from the log, landing in between of Kion and Kiara. "That was before Bunga showed up, distracting Pumbaa and getting Zuri fall face first into the log."

"She got her claws stuck in the log and then fell into another log?" Bongo questioned, scoffing with the laughter he just barely managed to hold back. "PFFT! Boy, trees really must hate her for sharpening her claws into them all of time."

Both Kion and Kiara gave Bongo a narrowed look for his tasteless joke, though Bongo just shrugged his shoulders innocently. At this moment, Timon and Pumba poked their heads out of the log, both the meerkat's and warthog's mouths filled with the bugs that some even slipped out.

"Well, there's a blessing in disguise. Because the log she fell face first is full of bugs! Mmm, mmm, mmm!" Pumbaa muffled, savouring the taste of the bugs in his mouth.

Tiifu, Zuri, Kiara, Tamu, Kion and Bongo grimaced in disgust at the sight. "Bugs are so... gross!" Zuri stuck his tongue out in disgust.

Timon then hopped off the log, swallowing one beetle more. "And so delicious. Oh, look!" Timon gasped as he ran up to Tiifu and climbed onto his head, before he plucked a green beetle out of Zuri's ear. "Another one!" he said, before swallowing it.

Seeing Timon pulling the beetle out of her ear, Zuri flew into panic. "AHH! AHH! AHH! GET IT, GET IT AWAY!" Zuri kept screaming and waving her paws at it, until she lost her balance and almost fell over, only to brace herself with her injured paw. "Ow, my paw!" the lioness sobbed, bursting into tears.

Bongo had to sit down and put his paws over his ears, because Zuri's high-pitched whining and sobbing was going to give him some headache. "Really? Whining over one broken claw as if it is the Pride Lands's end?!" the wild dog groaned, annoyed.

"Show at least some sympathy, will you, Bongo?" Tamu chided calmly and softly.

"Hey, everyone! Everyone! Listen to this!" Bunga called out, getting everybody's attention as he came over. "Simba just put Kion in charge of the new Lion Guard!"

"Lion Guard?" Kiara questioned with raised brow, turning to Kion. "What's the Lion Guard?"

"I've never heard of that either?" Tamu confessed. "What is it?"

"Dad just told me about it. The Lion Guard is the team that protects the Pride Lands and defends the Circle of Life!" Kion answered, standing proudly. "And I'm it's new leader!"

"Precisely!" Bongo confirmed.

"I'm gonna be on the Lion Guard, too! It's un-Bunga-lievable!" Bunga added, jumping up and down.

Kiara's cheeks bulged before she bursted out into laughter. "Wait. You and Bunga? Protecting the Pride Lands? Does Dad know about this?" she questioned, turning to face Kion.

"Dad" told me to assemble the Pride Lands' best." Kion

"Well, King Simba told Kion to assemble the Pride Lands' best." Bongo informed wth the shrug.

"And I'm the best! Just ask me!" Bunga gloated, pointing himself with his claw.

Little did they know, that this conversation had been listened by Moto and his friends, Mafu and Konda, who were hiding in nearby bushes. Moto grinned deviously when he heard Bunga declaring himself to be part of the Lion Guard, as well as Kiara questioning it whether or not Simba was aware of this. Hatching the plan, Moto decided to make his presence known, nodding his friends to follow him to the edge of the pit.

"By my mane! Did I hear that correctly or were my ears just deceiving me? You, Kion, new leader of the new Lion Guard?" Moto said with the sneer as he stepped out of the bush, trying to sound oblivious, though there was a hint of arrogance in his voice.

Almost everybody groaned at Moto's unexpected and unwelcomed arrival to the scene.

"What is this poor excuse of the lion doing here?" Bongo groaned.

"Ugh! Hello, Moto." Kiara said with the frown, irked by Moto's presence.

"Hello, your majesty." Moto greeted with pleasant manner, standing proud. "I didn't expect to see your royal graciousness here with these lees." the cub added with the flirting wide tooth-bearing smirk and the pair clicks of his tongue, making Kiara to turn her face away from him with disgusted frown.

"What do you want now, Moto?" Kion questioned, equally

Moto and his friends then hopped down to the bottom of the pit. But while Moto's friends remained where they were, Moto himself walked forward.

"Nothing really." Moto shrugged his shoulders, faging innocence, before he turned to face Kion. "Me and my friends were just hanging out there casually, until I happened to overhear Kion bragging so "arrogantly" of being the leader of this Lion Guard-thingy."

"What about it?" Kion questioned with narrowed look.

"Well, you are the second-born son of the king and queen and the brother of our future queen, and we all happen to know who exactly our current king's predecessor's brother was, don't we?" Moto explained.

"You're talking about Scar?" Tamu said in wide-eyed horror.

Timon, Pumbaa, Tiifu, Zuri, Kiara and Tamu and even Mafu and Konda shivered at the mention of that disgraceful lion's name. Only Kion and Bongo stood firm and strong, even though the mention of Scar's name made narrow their eyes into glares.

"Why'd you bring him in this, Moto? What are you after?" Bongo questioned defiantly.

"Well, because I might be a little worried that our new leader of the Lion Guard might be in big hurry to live up to Scar's infamous reputation." Bongo said with the sneer, mockingly rubbing the top of Kion's head with his paw. "So what say you, Scar-junior? Tell us. Are you going to live up to his reputation instead of the king's expectations?"

"Yeah, Scar-junior!" Mafu sneered. "Though this one's without the black mane" the fat cub pointed out.

"And the scar across his eye." Konda added, touching his left eye with his paw.

Annoyed to the border of his self-control, Kion shook Moto's paw away and glared up at him with narrowed eyed, raising his voice. "I am not like Scar! And I'll never be like him!"

"Moto!" Kiara called out, trying to sound authoritative. "I don't know what you're talking about, but you better leave my brother alone!"

"Sure, your grace." Moto responded, turning to Kiara and circled around her slowly, looking her over with admire. "I see that you're one friend less because of this little incident. Mind if I tag along you and Tiifu to your tracking the gazelles, to keep you a special company?" he offered, wagging his tail.

"Yuck. No, thank you." Kiara quickly denied, barely able to hide her disgust with Bongo.

"Hey, Moto! Leave the princess alone!" Bongo snarled, stepping forward.

"Oh, I almost forgot about you!" Moto said, feigening surprised as he turned to Bongo. "A half-eared mutt who cries for his lost mommy every night."

Kion bared his teeth and growled at Moto for bring up the subject that was highly sensitive to Bongo, and Bunga narrowed his eyes as well. Bongo bared his teeth at Bongo and growled angrily after Moto mentioned his mother so brazenly in front of his face. Even Tamu bared her own teeth and growled softly at the mean cub.

The wild dog cub, however, quickly restrained himself from doing anything rash when he peeked a little between the legs of the bigger lion cub in front of him and noticed the log with the hole, which was still full of bugs that Timon and Pumbaa hadn't eaten yet.

Knowing Moto's level of arrogance compared to the critical level of his intelligence and cunning, which he always likes to brag about being better than others, Bongo decided to use it as his advantage and quickly hatched a clever payback plan for this mean cub

Bongo then feigened surprised and he looked over Moto's shoulder and up to the edge of the pit behind the cub. "Say, Moto? Is that your mother up there?"

"Huh? Mother?" Moto gasped, falling to Bongo's trick as he turned around to look up to the edge of the pit.

However, soon as he did so, Bongo turned around and donkey-kicked Moto in the rear end by using his both hind legs. Moto yelped in surprise as he stumbled forward while trying to regain his balance, until Bongo kicked the branch Timon and Pumba had brought with them into Moto's legs, causing him to get tripped and crash face first inside the log, making everyone cringe again.

Moto let out the muffled strained groans as he struggled fiercely to get his head loose as it was stuck in the log... while the bugs crawled over his head and fur.

"HEY! LEMME OUT! LEMME OUT!" his muffled voice demanded from inside the log.

Moto then walked to the other end of the log and yelled inside from the top of his lungs.

"NEXT TIME I'LL BITE YOUR TAIL OFF SHALL YOU EVER MENTION MY MOTHER AGAIN, YOU STINKING CREEP!" Moto barked, causing his inside of the log echoing voice ring in humiliated Moto's ears and give him a headache.

With that, Bongo walked back to his friends, leaving Moto trapped in the log as his friends rushed up to him. Back with Bongo's friends, Tamu yipped in delight and admiration of Bongo and his clever stunt. "Bongo! That was the wittiest thing you've ever done!" the reddish-brown female wild dog squealed.

"Yeah! Way to go, Bongo!" Bunga cheered with wide grin.

Bongo smugly bowed his head down to his friends before he looked up at them. "Now where were we? Oh, yeah! Talking about Kion's new role as the leader of the Lion Guard." the wild dog pup said, resuming their interrupted conversation.

"Oh, yeah!" Tamu said, before she turned to Kion with full confidence on her face similar to Bongo's. "By the way, congratulations for your new role, Kion. If Bongo has a faith in you, then I have a faith that you'll do just fine."

"Thanks, Tamu. But if you ask me, I'm honestly pretty nervous about this." Kion admitted, digging his claws into the dirst anxiously. "It's a big responsibility."

"Well, if you ask me..." Pumbaa said, getting everybody's attentions. "... This whole Lion Guard thing sounds like it might be dangerous." the warthog admitted with the parental worry.

"It's worse than that, Pumbaa." Timon told his warthog friend. "Didn't you hear that word? "The responsibility"? It sounds awfuly lot like work."

"Yeah! It's both dangerous and work!" Bunga told his adoptive uncles.

Timon cringed. "Eek... Danger! Work!"

"Gee, Bunga. I dunno..." Pumbaa debated on whether it was both safe or good for Bunga to join the Lion Guard or not.

"Uncle Pumbaa, Uncle Timon, please?!" Bunga begged, dropping on his knees before his uncles.

"Work? Danger? Definitely not." Timon said sternly. "Have you forgotten our problem-free philosophy? It means no worries..."

"I know it's not Hakuna matata, Uncle Timon." Bunga cut him off. "It's, it's... Zuka Zama!"

"Zuka Zama?" Kiara questioned with raised eyebrow, while Kion and Bongo looked on with smiles.

Timon immediately got in front of the lions and wild dogs' faces. "Don't ask!" he warned with deep voice.

"What's Zuka Zama?" Tiifu questioned.

"Yeah, mind to enlight us, Bunga?" Tamu requested, "What's Zuka Zama?"

"What's Zuka Zama? What's Zuka Zama?!" Bunga repeated, beaming with glee. The honey badger then run off into the nearby jungle, making the pair of cartwheels before landing on the flat rock. "Come with me and I'll tell you all about Zuka Zama!"

Timon facepalmed with the groan. "Ugh! You guys had to ask?" he bemoaned to Kiara, Tiifu and Tamu.

A marimbic beat filled the air as the five cubs, two pups, warthog and reluctant meerkat gathered around the honey badger, who started to dance on the rock as the red monkeys, blue turacos and green bee-eaters appeared from the trees to serve as Bunga's number's choir crew.

Monkey and bird choir

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga

"Life's exciting, life is fun"

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga is seen riding on top of an elepahnt.

Bunga

"A big adventure for everyone"

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga curls into a ball of blue and white fur and rolls down the elephant's trunk and lands in water with flamingos.

Bunga

Life's a party and it's filled with thrills

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

A hippo raises lazily up from the water, with Bunga standing on its back.

Bunga

"Don't worry about the scrapes and spills"

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga jumps out from behind the rock, chasing a butterfly.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga pops up out of a monkey hole along with the monkeys.

Bunga

"Pop up, pop up..."

Monkeys

"Zuka Zuka"

Bunga

"Dive in, dive in"

"Zama Zama"

Bunga

"Go, go, go"

"Zom zom zom"

Bunga uses a narrow but stretchable tree to slingshot himself high over the trees.

Bunga

"Flyin' through the trees like busy, busy bee going"

Bunga walks casually on a log above a a deep ravine.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga is seen jumping ropes on two elephants' trunks

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga pops out of the big leaves and smiles at us.

Bunga

"Now you know my little motto for life"

Bunga kicks a bee hive at the tree, causing the swarm of bees to come out.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga walks carefreely on a croocidle mouth, who crowls in annoyance before snapping its mouth close.

Bunga

"Enjoy the chaos Ignore the strife"

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga is seen hanging upside down from the narrow branch like a bat along with the other bats.

Bunga

"When life throws you a crazy curve"

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga is sliding down a sleeping python's long lithe body, waking the large serpent.

Bunga

"Go Zuka Zama Don't lose your nerve"

Bunga rolls on a baobab fruit across the savannah's hills.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga and monkeys pop out of tree holes.

Bunga

"Pop up, pop up..."

Monkeys

"Zuka Zuka"

Bunga jumps down along the tree trunks.

Bunga

"Dive in, dive in"

"Zama Zama"

Bunga

"Go, go, go"

"Zom zom zom"

Bunga swings on vines, as the flock of bee-eaters fly alongside him.

Bunga

"Flyin' through the trees like busy, busy bee going"

Bunga hops on the rocks befoee diving in the water.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga comes out and spit the water out of his mouth, as the swarm of fish surrounds him and spits water out in the air like the fountain sprayers.

Bunga rides on a galloping rhino's horn, and then plays drums on the animal bones.

Bunga pops on a tree log along with the monkeys.

Bunga

"Pop up, pop up..."

Monkeys

"Zuka Zuka"

Bunga hangs on the tree log as it drifts towards the waterfall.

Bunga

"Dive in, dive in"

"Zama Zama"

Bunga falls down the waterfall

Bunga

"Go, go, go"

"Zom zom zom"

Bunga swings on a tree branch, before sliding along the tree roots.

Bunga

"Flyin' through the trees like busy, busy bee going"

Bunga jumps in front of Kiara, Tiifu and Zuri, who all smile down to the honey badger

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga jumps onto Pumbaa's tusk. And while Pumbaa smiles happily, Timon merely rolls his eyes.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga cartwheels past Bongo and Tamu as they look at the honey badger with hilarious smiles.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga even bounced along Konda's head, still in the tree log trapped Moto's raised rear end and Mafu's head, as the two are still trying to help Moto to pull his head out of the log.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga jumps and spins in front of Kion

Then everyone but Timon walks in a parade, first Bunga, who swings his hands in the air, then Kion, Bongo, Tamu, Pumbaa, Kiara, Tiifu and Zuri, who swing their heads along with the rythm.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

Bunga gives Kion and Bongo a high fives, before jumping up to stand atop of Kion's and Bongo's heads.

(Zuka Zama Zom zom zom!)

(Music ends)

"Meh. Zuka palooka." Timon scoffed, folding his arms over his chest. "I still don't think Bunga should be signing up for some jungle patrol."

"Lion Guard!" Bunga corrected, jumping down from Kion and Bongo's heads.

"Whatever you call it." Timon said.

Kion then walked up to his dad's best friends, trying to reason with the reluctant warthog and meerkat. "Timon, Pumbaa, please. I really do need Bunga on the Lion Guard. He's the bravest animal I know."

Timon's eyes widened in awe at Kion's comment of their adoptive nephew. "Bravest animal you know?"

"Oh, yeah!" Bongo confirmed as he walked up next to kion. "If I know Bunga, he scoffs at the danger. He is the brave."

"He's brave, all right. Brave bordering on stupid." Kiara said with light sarcasm to her friends, but Bunga didn't mind.

Bongo then leaned backwards and closer of Kiara's right ear and put his left paw over his muzzle. "Don't tell Bunga, but that's exactly what I think sometimes." he whispered.

"Well, when you put it that way..." Pumbaa said, starting to sound convinced.

"Congratulations, Bunga!" Timon cut him off, shaking his adoptive nephew's hand. "We always knew you had it in you!"

"Oh, brother." Kiara sighed, rolling her eyes. "Kion's gonna wreck the Pride Lands before I even get to be Queen.

"Oh, Bunga! I'm so proud of you, I could..." Pumbaa began to say, until he suddenly ended up to break the wind, making everybody tense with cringed faces and hold their breaths. "Oops. Sorry." the warthog apologized awkwardly.

Everybody just stared at him for a moment, until Kiara broke the silence. "Zuri, let's get you back to Pride Rock, shall we?" she said with awkward smile.

"Yeah, we're outta here!" Zuri agreed.

As the girls turned around to escort their injured friend back to the Pride Rock, Bongo turned to his friends. "Kion? Bunga? Maybe it's time for us to move on. Right? After all, we still got the Guard to assemble." the wild dog suggested, giving Pumbaa a nervous and toothy grin.

"Right. We better go assemble the rest of my team." Kion said, excusing himself before taking off along with Bongo.

"If you don't mind, I'll tag along you guys for a moment." Tamu excused herself, before taking off after Kion and Bongo.

"Later, Uncle Timon. Later Uncle Pumbaa." sais awkwardly to his uncles, before he took off after his friends. "Kion! Bongo! Wait! The Lion Guard needs to stick together! Remember?"

Timon and Pumbaa were left to watch as everybody scrambled away. "Was it something I said?" the warthog questioned, though Timon just shrugged.

After Kion, Bunga, Bongo and Tamu had gotten far enough, Tamu suddenly remembered wanting to ask something from Kion and stepped in front of the trio, halting them in their path. "Kion? How many members you're still out?"

Looking at Tamu, Kion quickly recalled the number of the members and titles of the Lion Guard before responding.

"Well, for now there is the fiercest, which is me..." Kion said, holding his paw over his chest to refer himself, before he put his paw in Bunga's pack. "... and Bunga, the bravest. Now I need to find the Pride Lands' slyest, fastest, strongest and keenest of sight."

"Oohhh!" Tamu said in awe. Soon the mention of the title "Slyest" piqued her interest and she began to ponder it for a moment in her head, until his eyes landed on Bongo. Remembering Bongo's cunning trick he pulled on Moto and knowing that Kion needed the Pride Land's slyest animal to join his Lion Guard to fill up the role of slyest, Tamu came up with the perfect proposal for the smartest animal she knew. "Hey, I know! Could Bongo be your Lion Guard's slyest?"

"Yeah! Why not?" Bongo said, nodding his head, until his eyes went wide when he realized that Tamu was actually referring him. "Wait? What?! Me?!" he questioned, blinking his hazel-brown eyes.

"Yeah" Tamu said. "After all, that was a pretty clever trick you pulled on Moto when he went too far with his words." she reasoned.

"And actually, I was thinking the same thing as Tamu, Bongo. After all, all these years we've known each other, I've noticed that you got the quickest thinking to come up with all kinds of solutions, schemes, and tricks to get us out of tight spots and outsmart the others when needed, just like you outwitted Moto here just now." Kion reasoned. "And that's why I want you as the Lion Guard's slyest."

"Bongo the slyest!" Bunga repeated with the big smile, proud of his friend.

"Me? Slyest?" Bongo repeated, still shocked.

"Yeah. I really can't think of anyone else as cunning, clever and witty as you, Bongo." Kion added.

"Wow. I... I... Wow! I-I-I can't believe this. This-this-this is... is... is really... great! I-I don't... know... know what to say." Bongo stuttered in astonishment, finding it hard to find right words to tell his feelings about this.

"So, what do you say? Are you in?" Kion asked, looking at his friend hopefully.

Bongo blinked his eyes as he went through in his mind everything both Tamu and Kion had just told him, making him to rub his other foreleg with his paw in thought.

Suddenly, his face dropped into the apparent deeply dejected and conflicted look. "I... I don't know, Kion. If I'm honest, I don't even know if I can join the Lion Guard. Sorry Kion." he said with the low and regretful voice, as if there was something that prevented him from accepting Kion's offer.

Kion looked dismayed and even disappointed. So did Bunga, and also and especially Tamu.

"Bongo?" she questioned in wide-eyed and slack-jawed shock. She out of all had the highest expectations of Bongo for that matter, which rivaled Kion's own.

Bongo lowered his head down in shame and unable bare the look in his friends eyes after letting them down like this.

"Bongo, please. I really need you in the Lion Guard. The Pride Lands needs you. You even told me a moment ago that you would always be there for me as my friend." Kion pleaded. "Can't you at least reconsider my offer?"

"Please, Bongo! Please! You gotta join the Lion Guard! The friends stick together, right?!" Bunga begged on his knees. "What even prevents you from joining the Lion Guard?"

Bong lifted his gaze slowly up and looked up at Kion, Bunga and Tamu right in the eyes dejectedly, hating to do this to his best friends. The wild dog then drifted his gaze to his right, before lifting his paw up as to point at something. "That does." he said, as if answering to Bunga's question.

Kion, Bunga and Tamu turned to look in the direction where Bongo was pointing his paw, but they saw there nothing that could've prevented Bongo from joining the Lion Guard.

"Wha...? But there's nothing there?" Bunga pointed out, confused.

Raising his brow in confusion, Kion turned back to Bongo along with Bunga and Tamu, only for the three animals to blink their eyes in surprise when they noticed that the spot where Bongo had been standing was left empty.

"Bongo?" Kion muttered, looking around to see where he had gone.

"Where did Bongo go?" Tamu questioned, quirking her brow in confusion.

"He just vanished!" Bunga gasped in awe.

As Kion continued to look around for Bongo, he failed to notice a pair of paws that stealthily appeared from behind his back until they went over his eyes, covering them and blocking Kion's sight.

"Hey!" Kion gasped in surprise, waving his head left and right, trying to regain his sight and see who blocked his sight.

"Guess who!" Bongo's voice said teasingly, as the wild dog came from behind Kion's back and removed his paws from his eyes. "Gotcha, guys!" he cackled hilariously.

"Bongo!" Tamu and Bunga exclaimed as they saw the said wild dog appearing from behind Kion, while Kion merely scoffed in amusement and knowing smile, realizing that Bongo had just tricked him, Bunga and Tamu into believing what he wanted by pretending that he couldn't join the Lion Guard... although only, if he knew better, to demonstrate his cunning.

"Hah! Clever move, Bongo." Kion chuckled.

"And you guys fell for it... too easily that what I expected." Bongo admitted.

"See, Kion? What did I told you?" Tamu said, walking over to Kion and nudging him in the right shoulder with her left elbow. "Now that's the slyest animal in the Pride Lands I know will make a great addition to your team."

"Yeah, I'm convinced." Kion agreed, before turning back to Bongo. "So what do you say, Bongo? You with the team?"

"You bet I am, Kion!" Bongo responded quickly and eagerly, before he closed his eyes, stood tall and proud and put his right paw over his chest, making a dramatic performance. "Meet me, Bongo, the member of the Lion Guard and the slyest in the Pride Lands! At your service, Mr. fiercest."

"Oh, come now!" Kion chuckled bashfully, waving his paw at Bongo to cut it out.

"Yeah! Bongo's in the Lion Guard! Un-bunga-lievable!" Bunga cheered.

"Oh, Bongo! I'm so proud of you!" Tamu cheered as she pounced on Bongo and wrapped her fore legs around his neck, hugging him tightly. "You're the best! You're the bestest! You'll be great! You'll be a hero! You're my hero!" Tamu ranted, before she caught Bongo off guard by suddenly giving him a big smooch (long lick) in the right side of his face.

"EWWWW! YUCK! EWW! EWW! EWW! EWW! Guys, help! Tamu's killing me with her smooches!" Bongo pleaded, trying to gently push Tamu off him, but her grip on his neck was too tight, leaving Bongo at the mercy of Tamu's constant smooches.

Kion and Bunga couldn't help but laugh at Bongo's awkward and discomfortable situation.

###

Meanwhile, after everyone, even Timon and Pumbaa were gone, Mafu and Konda finally managed to get Moto out of the log, although he was left with a piece of broken wood from the log around his neck like a collar.

"There! We got him out!" Mafu cheered.

"Uh, yeah. Mostly though." Konda replied, nodding his head at the wood-collar around Moto's neck. "But how are we supposed to get that thing off him now?"

Moto had a wide-eyed and frowning look on his face while bugs crawled around his head and face. Some worms, beetles and caterpillars were sticking out of the lion's mouth, while one beetle was stuck in his left nostrils and the caterpillar wiggled in his right ear.

Seeing this, utterly disgusted Moto spat the bugs out of his mouth and shook fiercely his head to get every worm, beetle and caterpillar off his face, head and mane.

"Argh! Ugh! Yuck! Eww" Eww! Eww! Disgusting! Blah!" Moto coughed and puked. And after shaking the bugs off, Moto turned his attention to his "collar". "Get this thing off me!" he demanded, clawing frantically the wood of his collar with his claws and rolled in the ground to get it loose, but in vain.

Finally giving up, for now, Moto looked around and noticed that everybody were gone. "Uh... where is everybody?" he asked, before he sniffed the air, puked and covered his nose with his paws. "Ugh! By my mane! What is that horrible smell?!"

Moto turned to his friends, both of them holding their noses with their paws.

"If you really want to know, Moto, everyone else left the scene in different ways right after that warthog broke the wind." Konda replied with muffled voice.

The look of deep disgust visited on Moto's face before he returned to the matter in hand. "Ugh, gross! But what about Kion and Kiara? Where did they go?"

"Kiara and her friends left for the Pride Rock, while Kion and his companions moved off to the savannah... and then that meerkat and warthog left who knows where." Mafu responded, pointing his right paw to the Pride Rock's direction and then to the savannah.

"Kion and his friends got a head start but they cannot have gone far. Should we try to track them down again?" Konda asked, wondering if Moto still wanted to trail them.

Resisting the urge to puke because of the befouled air, Moto angrily slammed his paws down and dug his claws deep into the dirt, growling in ire as the wooden collar around his neck reminded him of the bloody humiliation Kion, Bunga and Bongo had just pulled on him.

Because of them embarrassing him like this in front of everyone, as well as the kicking thought of ending up to lick his paws for being wrong about Kion, Moto's desire to get back all three of them only intensified.

But as much as he wanted to follow Kion, Bunga, and Bongo to physically give them a piece of his mind... Moto decided against the idea as he recalled what Kion and Kiara had talked about about this Lion Guard thingy: like how Kion had appointed Bunga as a member of the Lion Guard, and Kiara questioning if the king knew about this, which also made him remember what Rafiki had told Simba about Kion finding the pride's best "lions" for the Lion Guard... And Bunga wasn't lion, yet Kion had appointed him to the Lion Guard even if logically that was against the tradition.

Moto quickly came up with an idea, which made him snicker maliciously. "Yes, but I think I need to talk to Kiara, and I need to catch her before she can escort Zuri back to the Pride Rock and then go back to track the gazelles.

Moto then turned back to his friends. "You two! Go after Kion, Bunga, and Bongo and keep an eye on them while I talk to Kiara. And Konda? Tell me now where to find them next. Go!" Moto ordered and left to go after Kiara and her friends.

"Sure thing, Moto." Mafu replied and left to find Kion, Bunga and Bongo for Moto.

"Anything to just to get out of here for the fresher air! Blah!" Konda gagged as he followed after Mafu.

It didn't take long for Moto to find Kiara and her friends, as after running over a few hills Moto saw her a short distance away, escorting limping Zuri – who just couldn't stop whining and complaining about her injured paw she held off the ground - with Tifu towards Pride Rock seen on the horizon.

"Just hang in there, Zuri. We're almost home." Kiara said encouragingly.

"Ah! Ow! Ow! Ah! Pumbaa said that it wouldn't hurt! Ohh! But it does!" Zuri whined. "Should've known better than to trust to their help."

"Well, technically, Timon and Pumbaa actually didn't do anything, Zuri." Kiara reminded. "And surely Pumbaa didn't mean to bump into you and break your claw."

"Quite right, your highness." Moto's voice called all of the sudden, making Kiara jump slightly, before the princess closed her eyes and let out the muffled groan when she realized that it was Moto. "Zuri wouldn't have broken her claw if it wasn't that honey badger coming to disturb Timon and Pumbaa's work."

Rolling her eyes, Kiara turned to Moto, who was casually walking towards them. "What do you still want, Moto?" the princess asked irritably.

"Nothing really." Moto responded with the shrug. "Except that I just want to talk with you. That's all."

"Why are you wearing that piece of wood around your neck?" Tiifu asked.

Zuri, however, sniffed the air and shivered in disgust. "Ugh! And why do you still smell like a warthog? Just go away and clean yourself up!"

Moto rolled his eyes at the girls' questions, while looking irritably at his wooden collar, and smelling the smell of warthog in his fur, before muttering under his breath that thanks to Kion and Bongo, this will be remembered by many for a long time.

Moto, however, shook this off as he returned to the matter. "Okay, but wouldn't you girls mind if I speak with Kiara two alone." Moto said, before he turned to Kiara. "I promise you, Kiara, this won't take long. And if it pleases you, I can keep a little distance so that your grace won't get the same kind of awful smell in your own charming coat as I have."

Kiara thought about it for a moment. She wasn't really in the mood or interested to hear what Moto had to say, but she believed that he wouldn't leave him alone if she didn't. She just wanted to get Zuri to Pride Rock to recover so that she and Tiifu could continue tracking the gazelles. Besides, if Moto was really true to his words that this wouldn't take long and that he promised to keep his distance because of his awful smell - which Kiara smelled too, much to her slight disgust - Kiara thought a moment wouldn't hurt.

"Tiifu?" Kiara said, turning to her friends. "Go ahead and get Zuri to the Pride Rock. I'll catch up with you guys."

"Okay, Kiara." Tiifu said as she and Zuri continued their slow pace towards the Pride Rock, leaving Kiara alone with Moto.

"Okay, Moto. What do you have to say to me?" Kiara asked with narrowed look. "And spare me from your flattery, please. After that drama you pulled out there, I'm barely interested to even hear you out."

"Very well." Moto nodded before getting down to business. "I just wanted to ask you that what do you think about Kion and this Lion Guard thingy?"

"What do you care about it?" Kiara questioned with the raised eyebow as she eyed Moto warily. "It's not even your business."

"Well, he did sound back there quite cocky about the whole thing to me. Didn't he?" Moto said simply with the shrug.

Recalling her conversation with Kion about the matter, Kiara let out the deep sigh with the eyeroll.

"(Sigh) You could say that again. My little brother does have a tendency to get his head way over some things. And now that my dad has told him about this Lion Guard and appointed him as its new leader, Kion has already let it go into his head." Kiara said as she turned away from Moto, as if she was going to go after her friends and leave Moto behind.

"I couldn't agree more, Kiara." Moto agreed wholeheartedly, quickly halting Kiara in her tracks. "Kion's a way over his head with this whole thing."

Kiara peered at him over her shoulder with raised brow. "What are you after with this, Moto."

"I'll admit it, Kiara, that I might have let myself and my tongue get out of the paws back there, but it was only for Kion's own good, even if it may have not sounded like that. I know that me and Kion may have our differences, but I'm afraid that if he doesn't take his new role and his new responsibilities seriously, that could mean the end of the Pride Lands." Moto explained.

"Care to explain?" Kiara said, turning back to Moto.

"Well, Kion's taking this matter over-confidently. For example, doesn't even the whole name "the Lion Guard" give you a hint of that?" Moto said.

"And that is?" Kiara inquired.

Moto then took a couple-few steps towards Kiara despite his promise to keep the distance. But Kiara had become so intrigued of Moto's explanation of his viewpoint of the matter that she failed to notice that.

"Think of it, Kiara." Moto said. "Kion just asked Bunga to join the Lion Guard, a honey badger, even though the Lion Guard is obviously supposed to be made of lions only."

Kiara pondered Moto's point for a moment before nodding her head. "Hmm... yes. I guess that makes sense, Moto."

"It does, Kiara." Moto agreed. "The sad truth is that Kion not only follows a tradition, but goes to choose the honey badger out of random as the member of the Lion Guard behind the king's back. After all, Kion never admitted it when you asked him if your dad knew about this."

"Well, that's true." Kiara said with the nod, remembering that Kion never said anything about that. "So what are you suggesting?"

"In order for Kion to learn to take his responsibilities as seriously as you always do, he should be informed that he is doing everything in the wrong way. And since Kion won't listen to me, and I slightly doubt he'll listen to you either, I think we should turn to someone who actually does."

Kiara cocked her head as the realization dawned to her. "You're suggesting we should tell my dad of what Kion's been up to?"

"It's not really a suggestion or advice, but rather what we should do." Moto clarified. "Otherwise under Kion's leadership, there won't be the Pride Lands before you even become the queen."

With that, Kiara nodded her head. "Very well, Moto. I'll tell dad about this." she said before she turned her back to Moto. "And while I' doing that, you should do something with that piece of wood around your neck... as well with your smell. No offense, though."

"Oh, none taken, Kiara." Moto scoffed.

Of course, Moto didn't take Kiara's words as an insult, and for good reason. Now that Kiara's back was turned on him, a devious grin appeared on Moto's muzzle. The cub was pleased that everything had gone as he had planned. He had cleverly managed to convince Kiara to do exactly what he wanted her to do: tell her dad what Kion was up to with his new duty. Moto knew Simba wouldn't be happy to hear that Kion had picked Bunga, the non-lion, as the member of the Lion Guard and would most likely castigate Kion for it, giving a hard blow into Kion's confidence and making him feel bad about himself and see himself as a failure.

With that, he would get two flies with one swat of his paw. One: he'll have Kion humiliated in public as revenge for him and his friends humiliating him. And two: he won't be proven wrong about Kion never being anything great, so that he does not need to lick his paws over it.

However, Moto couldn't resist the temptation to push Kiara into it a little further.

"And by the way, Kiara..." Moto said before Kiara could have gone too far, causing the princess to turn to him to see what else he had to say. "I also overheard Kion say something about you."

"What?" Kiara said, as the curiosity got best of her. "What exactly."

"Well..." Moto said with the shrug and eye-roll. "I heard Kion bragging aloud about himself becoming the Pride Lands' bestest role model, that would suppress critically the whole importance of the so-called queenly sister of his, who cannot see beyond of her own ambitiousness."

Kiara's eyes went wide, taking all of this in like the stab in the back. "Kion said WHAT?"

"Oh, yes." Moto added with barely held back laughter. "He even bragged that he'll make you lick your paws on your royal throne while the pridelanders praise and idolize him and his Lion Guard over you, and then he'll happily brag right into your face how he has become something even greater instead of you."

Kiara narrowed her eyes into a glare in ire for Kion "supposedly" saying arrogantly such of things about her, before a determined look appeared on her face.

"I'll show him. I'm gonna make him pay! He'll see how wrong he's been about everything." Kiara promised. "And when I'm queen of Pride Rock, I'll brag into his face about who's greater than who, and I'll enjoy leaving him to lick his own paws."

Without even saying goodbyes to Moto, Kiara took off running towards Pride Rock to tell her dad about Kion and his affairs.

The devious grin didn't fade away from Moto's face as he watched Kiara go... pleased that his plan was in motion.

"Oh, I bet you are, Kiara." Moto chuckled. "So do I, my queen. So do I." he added.

Then, Moto turned around to fetch his friends and then find Kion and his so called "Lion Guard", all too eager to see the show with his own eyes.

TO BE CONTINUED...